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The Leeds Piano Competition (or 'The Leeds' as it would now prefer to be known) is a big ole' thing.
The renowned piano competition started life in 1963 at the behest of Dame Fanny Waterman. The biennial award has helped build the careers of many of the big names in the classical music world since.
This year The Leeds is reaching a little further. It's first round (featuring 68 hopefuls) kicks off in Berlin in April. Twenty four musicians will then convene on Leeds in early September, stay in accommodation provided by The University of Leeds, and each will have access to their own Steinway piano during their stay. That's a considerable number of Steinways.
The entire competition will also be streamed live via Medici.TV too, adding an important now international classical music competition to the live-streaming calendar.
Most importantly for the University of Leeds, this also gives an institution in the north-east of the UK a valuable platform from where it can project a vital international image.
Tickets are available from 12 March. Very much looking forward to it.


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The source code is an integral part of the software as a product. It describes the operations that the software must do, the business requirements and business rules that software must adhere to. Since it has a great impact on the final product, analyzing and examining it is an important task. The information collected during the analysis of object-oriented source code – beside providing the possibility of defining derived metrics regarding the quality of the code – makes searching for and discovering complex software patterns in the code possible.
Such complex software patterns are the object-oriented design patterns. Ever since their first documented appearance [1] they have been widely used in the software industry. They enhance the maintainability and the extensibility of the code and they promote the core engineering concept of using documented and proven solutions. They describe the solutions in a programming language agnostic way, so they can be applied in every object-oriented programming language.
Analyzing design patterns in the source of a software helps understand the purpose of a given code snippet and can shed some light on the decisions behind the implementation details. On the other hand, the manual analysis (performed by a software developer) of the code is a time consuming and complicated task.
With the release of the .NET Compiler Platform [2] (formerly Roslyn) the language and compilation services of the C# and Visual Basic programming languages have become directly available to developers. I have used this new tool to implement a framework to automatically detect design patterns in source code written in C#.
To implement the recognition of design patterns I have analyzed concrete patterns. I realized the recognition as a flexible criteria-checking system in C#. I have validated my results by running the solution on the source code of open source libraries and compared the results with analysis done on Java based libraries.
As the literature has mainly been focusing on the Java language in this domain, my work is an important step in analyzing C# language source code. In the long run the recognition of other complex software patterns (S.O.L.I.D. principle violations, anti-patterns) can also be implemented with my framework.
[1] E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson és J. Vlissides, Design patterns: Elements of reusable object-oriented software, Pearson Education, 1994.
[2] ".NET compiler platform," [Online]. Available: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/roslyn.aspx. [Accessed: 29. April 2015.].

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Small Hopes
A soft grey rain flecked the glass between the cheap plastic venetian blinds.
'I'm no Casanova. I don't mean to suggest I am. But I have lived my life. I have. And every woman I've ever known. Intimately, I mean. Do you get me? They make up parts of me. They've left little traces through their memory and are part of me now. And that'll never change. Even when I'm old and decrepit. They will still be part of the person I have become.'
There was a brief pause while his small black swivel chair creaked a rhythm from beneath the strain as he leaned back to rest his feet on the edge of his desk, assuming the full philosophical position. The white tails of his work coat hung free behind him, dusting the floor as he spoke. The week had almost run out but it seemed that Stephen was just getting warmed up.
'Do you not wonder at that sort of thing?' he said. 'They could be anywhere in the world. Right now. Doing anything. Anything at all. And yet there's a tiny bit of them still tucked away in this little corner of Dublin. They could be dead, some of them. Imagine that? What about that?'
I could tell by the groan and squeal that emitted from his chair that he had turned to me. I looked up from the small collection of report forms in front of me. I had been trying to get them finished before the day was out and the week was up. Stephen didn't seem to much care about that. He had his hands clasped behind his head which caused his elbows to create a halo around his face, and his mouth was ajar in expectance of my response. I fumbled for something to say.
'Well… By that rationale, I suppose there must be a small part of you that is still with all those woman too,' I replied. 'And I don't mean that in a vulgar way, mind you.'
'That's it!' he said, swinging his legs off the desk so he could face me properly, one hand arching around to slap his thigh in order to exclaim the point even further. 'That's it exactly. Who knows what versions of me reside within them? Was I drunken? Was I charming? Was I kind?'
He paused briefly and glanced out the window while he pondered the other facsimiles of himself that were at large in the world beyond.
'Who knows how they speak to themselves about our encounter? Or encounters, as the case may be,' he said.
I flicked my pen on top of the report forms. They were not getting finished today. I pressed the lock button on my phone from where it lay at the right-hand side of my desk. It blossomed into life, but there was no word yet. In spite of myself I tried my computer too, shaking the mouse to breathe light back into the monitor so I could check my email. No word there either. But that was good at least. I knew that anything other than a phone call would mean bad news. It was almost half past four. It seemed unlikely now I'd hear anything before the weekend.
I took my glasses off and rubbed my eyes with thumb and fore-finger as Stephen rambled on.
'And I'm not being crass,' he said.
'And I'm not trying to pry.'
'But isn't it a fascinating notion that for all those people we have known, we really have very little say over what part of us that they will remember. What small bit of us that they will take away and keep with them. It could be as small and meaningless as a having hair out of place, or a stain you didn't notice that was on your shirt. I could be the stained shirt guy to somebody out there.'
I blinked the stars away from my eyes and slipped my glasses back on. Stephen was in full flow now and I really didn't have the energy. I needed to get up and move. I needed the leave this place and stop his words pounding on my head like shrapnel. Sometimes his Friday afternoon thoughts of the week were a pleasant way of winding things down into our days away, but I didn't have the energy to feign politeness or interest at the moment. I had to be wary though. If I timed things poorly Stephen would merely follow me around and resume pouring his words into my ear, continuing long after the overlow. The verbal torrent would then simply cascade onto the floor and crunch beneath our feet as we shuffled around the halls of this museum that they called an archive. If I wanted peace I would have to wait it out and choose my moment carefully.
'Look at this place for instance', he said. 'Those little comments in the submission ledgers. Have you ever read one of them and wondered about the person who wrote it? Wondered who they were, what they looked like. They would have been sat somewhere scribbling out their submission sixty, seventy, eighty years ago. More even. But in that moment as you read their writing those two points in time are connected. It doesn't matter if they are dead and gone. For that little while they are alive and vital within you.'
I rolled the dice.
'Funny you should mention the ledgers', I said.
'Oh yeah? Why?' he replied as he leaned forward to examine my thoughts.
'I was going through some submissions from the fifties and whoever it was had penciled in a note along one of the margins that had nothing to do with any specimen or anything like that. It said, "Mulligans. Poolbeg St. 4.30pm. Green Dress." I thought it was some archival assistant jotting down the details of a blind date. I could see him happy but nervous, already thinking ahead to the possibility of it, distracted enough that they had scrawled the note into the ledger without thinking. I've no idea who he was or what happened. But I got such a strong picture of him. Canvas trousers, white shirt, hair parted at the side and smelling of Bay Rum. It was strange. I could almost see him in the flesh."
I stopped and a few moments of silence drew out while the ghost of that young man strode through our office and into Stephen's ruminations. Eventually he drew breath and slapped his thigh again.
'You see!' he said.
'This is exactly what I'm talking about.'
He swiveled away and swung his legs back onto the desk and his arms into the philosophical position.
'You got that little relic and that person became real. Who knows what they were really like? Who cares? They are alive in you now. Just a little bit, but alive in you all the same.'
Now was the time. I had to hope that he would be too comfortable exploring the ramifications of my titbit to bother following me out of the office. I stood up.
'I have to pop back into the stores', I said.
Stephen turned his head to me. 'Now? Why?'
'I can't read my own notes and I want to double check some specimen numbers while I still have them in mind.'
I gambled.
'Want to come?' I asked.
Stephen considered his current position. 'Where?' he shot back.
'Mammals and Avian,' I replied. That was upstairs and a longer journey from the office.
'No. No. I'll stay here I think.'
'Suit yourself.'
I gathered my pen and report forms, making sure to stuff my phone into my lab-coat pocket before I left. No one was going to call this late, but I still didn't want to leave the chance that someone else might answer it, leaving me with a number of difficult questions that I'd prefer not to answer.
I stepped out into the great bunker-style stone corridor that ran the length of the building. You would just as easily have expected this place to be a wine-cellar or a catacomb rather than a museum archive, but here it was, literally crammed with millions of years of history currently deemed surplus to the requirements of the main museum collection. After so many years in this building the unusual charm of the place had ceased to leave much of an impression on me, but I felt a parting of ways was occurring and as I strode down the hall, my footsteps tracing a muffled echo against the walls, I began to look at my surroundings with fresh eyes.
Seven days previously I had sat down in a well-lit modern board room in a glass building halfway across town. I had a new shirt and polished shoes for the occasion. I looked smart but not over-dressed as I faced the three people tasked with selecting the suitable candidate. You want to come across as quiet but confident rather than over-eager in those situations.
As far as work was concerned I had taken the Friday afternoon off for a doctor's appointment. I was rarely sick so this carried enough weight to forestall any awkward questioning. I didn't want to spin out a long and complicated lie, I just wanted to be able to focus on the interview without fear of discovery. The interview board was made up of two women and one man, all older than me, but with that serious air of polite scrutiny. I talked for over forty minutes. I answered all their questions. I kept my body-language relaxed and open without being overly comfortable. They scribbled down their notes and afterwards we all shook hands warmly. I'd nailed it. I was sure of that. I knew then if I didn't get the job it was not for lack of quality on my part. So I treated myself by forking out for a hardback edition of a new book I had really been waiting to get in paperback, and taking the rest of my stolen afternoon to a small, snug café where I indulged myself in the glow of a job well-done and the vast range of new life possibilities that spread out before me.
I felt for my phone in my pocket and checked it quickly as I used my shoulder to roll through one of the heavy doors that partitioned the archive. Still no word. The room was crowded with tall wooden cupboards that were painted red, each with a large number, stencilled in white, adorning the middle of the door. Every cupboard contained shelves, trays and drawers of thousands and thousands of geological specimens, a huge number of which I had examined, labelled and catalogued in the course of this digital overhaul of the museum's stock system. I had once sat down and tried to calculate the number of hours I had spent in this very room, peering over rocks from different epochs and eras. I had to stop when the number became depressingly large comparative to me, but meaninglessly tiny when compared to a stone the size of my knuckle. I moved on through the room and out into the next.
On Monday morning the phone had rung. I almost had to swallow my heart back down again, it gave such a jump. I was lucky in so far as the store room I had been working in at that moment was empty of other people, filled instead only with the ghosts of stuffed mammals that stared down from behind glass cabinets or stacks on the wall. I fumbled to answer my phone while maintaining a calm in my voice that I did not feel. It was one of the female interviewers. She apologised for the short notice, but wanted to check my availability for a second interview on the coming Wednesday. I accepted as a strange mixture of excitement, disappointment and determination settled around my stomach, and I reeled my plans for the future in from a few years ahead back to just a few days.
Leaving the tall red sentinels in the room behind I entered into a small corridor that pulsed with the dull light from outside. To my right was a solid stone staircase that arced its way upwards, while to my left stood a great cream coloured fire-safe, within which the old submission ledgers lived.
It was in there that I had found the scribbled note, "Mulligans. Poolbeg St. 4.30pm. Green Dress." I had lied to Stephen when I'd told him that I'd come across it the week previously. In actual fact in had been well over a year ago on a sunny, spring Tuesday morning as a shaft of light angled through the window above the fire-escape and my cotton glove glided over the page to feel the words beneath. I must have stared at that note for over ten minutes before I went back to the office to retrieve my phone so I could snap a quick picture. That picture now resided on a printed canvas in my apartment. I loved it. Sometimes this place could be the cold-edge of wonder, with human life naught but a smudge against the massive backdrop of geological upheaval and the long line of species that came before. But at that moment, it felt like accidental life had snuck in and recorded itself for the ages. Not cold and great, but small, trivial and bursting with warmth.
I looked at the safe briefly and considered opening it up to find the note, but instead turned right and continued on my path upstairs to nowhere in particular.
Wednesday morning had necessitated a sick-day from work. It couldn't be helped. I'd spent the doctor excuse and like I said, I was rarely truly absent so I could get away with it. The interview board had been reduced to just two of the people from the first time, now the man and one of the women. The questions were different but the same, the same polite scrutiny, the same intense earnestness, another forty minutes and more glad handshakes to end. I felt good leaving. I had done well, if not quite so sure-footed as the first time around. They'd asked me where I saw myself in five years, and despite its routine nature within the interview process, I had somehow neglected to prepare for it. I'd spent plenty of time dreaming about the future without putting a name on exactly what that future was. I knew I didn't want to simply say, still here, and I was acutely aware that progression within the job would be contingent on one of the two people sat across from me finding employment elsewhere, be that upwards or beyond. I'd stumbled and garbled some unconvincing reply, but it had been a minor blip on an otherwise assured performance. That's all those things really are. Performances to a tune someone else is calling.
And now I found myself stood in my favourite room in the entire store waiting for their call. They had said a decision would be made by the end of the week, but that was looking unlikely now. I'd have to sit with this for the entire weekend and try to pretend to myself that I wasn't anxious. The room was called the Aviary. Birds collected and stuffed into various different poses of fight, flight and repose filled the room. A lot of people didn't like it, the open-beaked swooping posture of so many of the specimens could give an intimidating air of violence. Some people said they could almost hear the screeches of birds on the hunt or in aerial combat. I liked it though. At least it showed these animals as they once were, alive and full of instinct.
So much of my life had passed through these halls, and I'd enjoyed it mostly. When I'd first started here I had felt a little of the same excitement that had drawn me towards the profession in the first place, when as a child I would steal my father's hat to play Indiana Jones, always preferring the exploration side of things to the swashbuckling finales. But recently I'd begun to wonder what impression could I possibly leave here in this vastness, surrounded by the collection of millennia? I had nothing to add to this mass of artefacts and I wanted badly to change that, if even only for myself. This building could have the strange effect of seeming outside of history while all the time history coursed through its very veins and arteries. I wanted to leave my mark, even if it was only less than a smudge.
I checked my watch. It read 5.15pm. Unattended, it was likely Stephen had snuck off early, so I made my way back through the halls to our small office in the heart of the archive.
When I poked my head around the door the office was empty. Stephen's lab-coat lay draped over his chair. The soft grey rain still pattered against the window. I moved in and sat back at my desk. I took out my phone. Still nothing. I laid it on the desk and stared at the blank computer screen. I would check. Just in case. I would check my emails and then go home for the weekend.
I moved the mouse and the screen flicked on. I logged on to my personal email and my pulse quickened when I saw a reply nestled within. I opened it up and scanned the letter quickly to pick out the words I had hoped not to read, 'unfortunately', 'unsuccessful', 'all the best'.
I sat back in my chair, it's squeak dropping into the silent room like a ripple in a pond. I looked over Stephen's desk, out the window to Dublin beyond and began to prepare for the week of work ahead.
Written by Adam O'Keeffe ©2015
Illustrations by Sinead Fox ©2015
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How to make relationship resolutions in the new year
New Year's resolutions are a great way to help improve your important relationships this year. Rachel Sussman, relationship expert and couples therapist, shows you how to use resolutions to renew your commitments and get a fresh start.
- New Year's resolutions are a great things because they make us stop and think about our lives - who we are, where we're going, how we're doing.
- Relationship resolutions are good for couples (and individuals, and families!) because New Year's serves as a marking point, a new beginning to the timeline for the upcoming year, and can be a effective way to deepen communication about intimate and important topics.
- Remember that relationship resolutions for couples are not a wish list; and they shouldn't be trivial - they must reflect the important things that you can achieve as couples, and must reflect the things that both of you want to achieve together. For example, you will get engaged next year? Married? Have children? Move? Find other jobs?
- The best way to start making your New Year's resolutions is to develop a list of the things that you want to accomplish in the new year. Things like:
--Discussing finances more openly, completely and honestly
--Spending more time together - especially quality time and fun activities
--Reducing time spent talking at each other, and work to both speak and be heard on important issues.
--Examining your sex life to see if other factors such as old resentments, schedules or anger is getting in the way of healthy, spontaneous expressions of affection you feel towards each other.
- It's important to be non-judgemental in your resolutions, and recognize that you are looking for formulate resolutions that will help you improve as a couple. New Year's relationship resolution's are a great way to begin the new year and can help renew your relationship and give you a fresh start.
DENISE: Hello, there, I'm Denise Richardson from howdini, and we're talking about New Year's resolutions and relationships. Does it sound like an oxymoron? Not really. We have a relationship expert, Rachel Sussman, who is going to let us know whether we should make resolutions or not, and how to do it as a couple in a healthy way. Thank you so much for being with us.
RACHEL: Thank you Denise, for having me here.
DENISE: Okay, I'm going to sound like a naysayer ... resolutions, should they be out the window?
RACHEL: You know, resolutions are actually a pretty good thing, because it makes us stop and wonder and think about our life. Where are we today, where are we going ... and of course if we're not sitting and saying, "I want to win the lottery in 2008," making a resolution can be a very healthy thing for an individual and for a couple, or even a family.
DENISE: You see all kinds of couples. Do you encourage couples to make resolutions?
RACHEL: It actually is a good thing. New Year's is really a timeline. People ask themselves, "Where have I gone? Where am I going?" And sometimes even single people or someone who is in a relationship — they're dating but not engaged to be married. They'll use New Year's to say to themselves, "Where is this relationship going? Does this relationship have legs? Are we going to be engaged next year? When are we going to have children?" So it's a really good barometer in many different ways.
DENISE: I can hear some women saying, "Okay, here's my New Year's resolution: he's going to give me a ring by March!"
RACHEL: Well, I don't think that is a New Year's resolution. I think that's a wish list, and it's a personal wish list, it's not necessarily a couple's wish list.
DENISE: How do you assess what's the best resolution that will take you to the next level?
RACHEL: Well when couples come in to see me, I often ask them, "Why are you here and what are you trying to accomplish?" And couples come in for all different things, some for basic and fundamental reasons, they'll come in for financial reasons ... one person is a spender, one person is a saver ... communication problems; couples can't coordinate their schedules in this busy day and age. One person works too hard, one person is complaining about that. So a really nice New Year's resolution is spending more time together, or spending more quality time together, or spending more fun time together. So something a couple may come with is having a weekly date night.
DENISE: So this is also a real time to communicate, because oftentimes couples stop talking to each other when they feel their needs aren't being met.
RACHEL: Absolutely, they feel that they are feeling like they are talking to a brick wall. So I'll often help those couples communicate in what I call the best definition of healthy communication is, speaking and being heard.
DENISE: Being heard on both parts?
RACHEL: Absolutely.
DENISE: And not only financial information or alone time, but even "let's have more sex this year."
RACHEL: Well that is something a lot of couples do come in to see me also, and you'll find that couples come in and complain they are not having enough sex. They think they're coming in for a sex problem. But after digging and getting to know them, you'll realize that it's not really a sex problem, they are not communicating properly, someone's angry at someone, they're not communicating properly, someone's too busy, they're not spending time connecting, being intimate with each other. But if a couple that comes in and they're willing to work hard and uncover these issues, we can really get them into some great schedules.
DENISE: You know it's been said that maybe couples should write each other a letter talking about what's going on with them. And then exchange those letters and not be judgmental in the relationship. How do you work that, if it works for you, how do you work that with resolutions?
RACHEL: I actually think that sounds like a beautiful idea and I give couples homework. I'll say come in and by the session next week, tell me what it is you're both looking for, for each other. And you can also do that around the holidays. How would you like to improve your relationship over the next year? Could there be a wish list of things you could do for each other to help each other together as a couple that really could make you this super intact, communicative, wonderful couple?
DENISE: My girlfriend says it's a new day and a new opportunity to do better than you did the day before.
RACHEL: Absolutely.
DENISE: Rachel Sussman, thank you so much for being with us. I'm Denise Richardson for howdini.
Rachel Sussman LCSW Marriage and Family Therapist Rachel Sussman, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and marriage/family therapist. She has helped people improve their emotional well being, enhance their ability to engage in interpersonal relationships, and take control of their lives. more about this expert »


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Real Couple // Fun and Flirty Amusement Park Engagement Session in San Diego: Angela + Jamie/
Jamie is good at everything he does, even if he just learned it. He is the calm, cool, collected one. He's friendly and very family oriented. He is a regular at the gym, lover of sushi & In 'n' Out, gamer, and the best doggy daddy!
Angela is a tiny cuddle bear with a very loving and kind-hearted personality. She likes to do calligraphy, read books, watch movies, travel, and hike. Her favorite movies are Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory and the Harry Potter movie series.
Jamie's cousin, Glenn, told me to come to his housewarming. I really didn't want to go because I was already in my pajamas and I knew Glenn didn't have a new place. Our friend Jesus ended up picking me up so I had no other choice. It turned out to be Jamie's housewarming—I met Jamie and thought he was cute and shy. Later after I left, Jamie asked Glenn about me and the rest is history.
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NYSE Outage Caused by Software Update – Really?
I just got off the phone with Joyce Wells the managing editor of Database Trends and Applications discussing the recent outage of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) which was caused by a software upgrade. This was confirmed in The Wall Street Journal article NYSE Says Wednesday Outage Caused by Software Update.
The first thought that came to my mind was a quote from Allan Hirt (Twitter: @SQLHA) in an online? discussion we had yesterday on United Airlines. To quote Allan "You will die by incompetence well before hackers get in".
In the technology field we have all heard the expression "People, Process and Technology". If the New York Stock Exchange is telling the truth then the NYSE Outage was not a technology issue. Even though technology was involved, to me this was a people and process issue.
The technology exists today to make sure we don't have outages like this. In fact we have so many different ways to implement high availability that at Ntirety we have a whole team of high-availability experts.? To me the NYSE outage was caused by a lack of proper process during the upgrade. What kind of testing did NYSE do before the upgrade? What kind of redundancy and business continuity plans were in place at the New York Stock Exchange? The only silver lining here was that the New York Stock Exchange had backups that worked.
Was NYSE Another Firm Sticking Their Head Under the Sand?
At Ntirety if we performed a database upgrade and took the client out of business for close to four hours we would be out of business. Too many companies hide their heads under the sands. We have a free industry report at Ntirety titled The Disruption Epidemic Report focused on the results of the many audits of Microsoft SQL Server databases we have performed. Here are a few of the key findings from The Disruption Epidemic Report:
- 90% of SQL Server instances failed the Disaster Recovery Review
- 88% of SQL Server instances failed the SQL Server Configuration Review
- 40% of SQL Server instances failed the Security Review
- 39% of SQL Server instances failed the Database Backup Review
The bigger question to be asked is, are companies just putting their heads in the sand?. What is clear to me there is a ticking time bomb inside a lot of companies. 40% of the companies are at risk for a database security breach. It's not if you will have a database security breach, its just a matter of when the database security breach will happen.
3rd Party Audit of Internal Processes a Must
A number of years ago at Ntirety we took a hard look at ourselves. We asked are we doing everything possible to make sure we are providing the highest possible quality service to our clients. We set a high standard for ourselves and then more importantly we are living up to that standard.
Just as auditors review a company?s financials to determine if they are a going concern, I feel all companies should have outside technology audits on an annual basis to look at process, security, internal controls and a number of other objectives.?
To ensure we live up to the standards we have at Ntirety a number of 3rd party audits of our People, Process and Technology happen every year. A good example of this is the MSPAlliance MSP/Cloud Verify Program. We were one of the first companies to adopt the MSPAlliance standards.
MSPAlliance MSP/Cloud Verify Program
The MSPAlliance MSP/Cloud Verify Program is a globally recognized certification program. The MSPAlliance Unified Certification Standard, is the world?s oldest and most respected certification standard for the cloud computing and managed services industry.
To quote the MSPAlliance site:
The Unified Certification Standard (UCS) for Cloud & Managed Service Providers is based on 10 core principles of how a IT service organization should operate. These principles, or control objectives as they are called in the auditing world, provide the basis of the UCS and make it the best model for evaluating cloud and MSP companies. Each of the 10 control objectives in the UCS is supported by individual controls that are used when the?company?goes through the certification process. Furthermore, when the company successfully completes the certification process, they will receive a UCS audit report, that precisely details how the company implements those controls and control objectives.
Quality Services Require Quality Process, People & Technology
An independent 3rd party audit is a lot of work but it worth it if you are serious about quality. Get your head out of the sand and begin to make quality part of your company DNA. By preparing for and letting a 3rd party take a look under the covers you will be a better company for it. Anyone running a SQL Server Database should get a copy of? The Disruption Epidemic Report. The report is free, full of useful data and will help you figure out if your organization has a ticking time bomb you don't know about. If it can happen to the New York Stock Exchange, Amazon Web Service (See Article AWS Outage Takes Out Netflix, Experian, Yelp..) or United Airlines, it can happen to anyone.
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The archdiocese of Montreal is implementing a plan that would forbid priests and church volunteers from being alone with children.
Final details of the plan are still being worked out as the Catholic Church looks for ten parishes in and around the city to implement the pilot project later this year.
Canon Francois Sarrazin said that given the scandals that have rocked the Catholic Church, the plan makes sense.
"There is a time for everything," he said, pointing out the idea has been in the works for several years.
"The diocese of Montreal has been working on a plan to 'filter' volunteers, to investigate parish staff, and not just the priests, but all people who are involved in the parish."
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Following Part 1 of this work, which discussed the theory behind the design of an Enhanced Quality Evaluation System (EQES), Part 2 addresses the construction of the rule base which classifies how the transfer function of the process has changed and also details the least squares algorithms used to estimate the magnitude and time of occurrence of the change. An example showing how EQES could be used to improve the quality of a turning process is given. Also shown are results of a physical experiment which used EQES to monitor changes in force signals from an end milling process.
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Research Division of Multiscale Interfacial Thermofluid Dynamics
|Masahiro Motosuke; Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
|Research Content
|Interfacial thermofluid dynamics from nanoscopic to macroscopic point of view and its application.
|Our research group focuses on thermofluid dynamics which involves interfacial transport phenomena in multiscale and on development of interdisciplinary and interactive activities.
Research Division of Multiscale Interfacial Thermofluid Dynamics,The Research Highlight,2018
This research division (nicknamed as 'I2plus') was established in the Research Institution for Science and Technology (RIST), Tokyo University of Science, in April 2017, as a subsequent organization of" International Research Division of Interfacial Thermo-Fluid Dynamics (2012-2016)". The aim of I2plus is to expand our knowledge of thermofluid dynamics involving interfacial transport phenomena toward realizing highly efficient heat and mass transfer technologies with low energy consumption and low contamination of environments. According to the activities of the previous division, this division consists of young researchers from Europe, the United States and our university, Tokyo University of Science (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1 Important factors of phenomena associating interface within a phase or between/among phases and its scale and relevant research members of this research division (I2plus).
Our division will focus its activities on interfacial thermofluid dynamics in which multiscale physical and chemical processes are involved. In the previous division, we investigated microscopic dynamics of the fluid in the vicinity of the solid-liquid-gas three-phase boundary and to apply it to engineering technologies. This division has been launched as a successive division of the previous one to expand our understanding and technologies to more complicated systems in multiscale and tovarious application fields, especially following topics.
(A) Elucidation of" dynamics wetting" with three-phase contact line interacting withsmall objects
Establish a novel heat and mass transfer theory associated with three-phase contact line and its dynamics from nano/micro/meso/macroscopic description including interaction with small objects
(B) Advanced handling technologies of droplets and particles with the use of fluid flow induced by physicochemical properties distribution or gradient
Develop sophisticated droplet/particle manipulation technologies by means of gradient of gas-liquid or liquid-liquid interfacial tension that is externally induced
(C) Dynamics of association and dissociation of cell and protein with flow
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The macroscopic pictures of above topics are basically governed by multiple scales from nanometer to meter scales as in Fig. 1. Therefore, this division will tackle these problems by interdisciplinary, intersectional and interactive collaboration with the members without any border.
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Networking is always significantly important especially when we study challenging issues. This research division, I2plus, promotes international collaboration not only within the division but also all over the world to have fruitful discussion and inspiration for achieving our goals. About 40% of division members belong to
overseas universities or institutes, and there are other research collaborators in foreign countries who are not so far I2plus members. Mutual collaborations in their researches among the members and researchers with all the relevant disciplines are highly encouraged. Our international collaboration network now ranges over more
than 10 countries; US, UK, Canada, France, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, India, Taiwan, China and so on.
In parallel with the research activities, this division organizes several workshops (I2plus Workshop ) and seminars (I2plus Seminar ) that are open to the public in a year. In the I2plus Workshop , students and faculty members make active discussion through presentations of their latest results. In order to accelerate cross-disciplinary interaction, students are actively encouraged to join the poster sessions. In the I2plus Seminar , we will invite researchers from all over the world who are experts of various relevant fields. Also, according to the activities of the previous division, the international symposium (I2plus International Symposium on Interfacial Thermofluid Dynamics ) will be held. In the first semester of 2017, we hosted a kick-off symposium, two I2plus seminar , one I2plus Workshop and one I2plus International Symposium on Interfacial Thermofluid Dynamics . In the I2plus 4th International Symposium on Interfacial Thermofluid Dynamics , we have invited speakers from Université de Lille 1 (Lille University, France), Université Paris-Sud XI (Paris-Sud University, France), Osaka University (Japan) and Tokyo University of Science (Japan). We had fruitful discussion and exchanged ideas with speakers and participants.
We also make strong efforts to realize mutual exchange of students between overseas universities in order to accelerate interdisciplinary collaborations, and to provide international environments for researches and daily lives for young students as well as faculty members. In 2017, a faculty member stayed at Université Lille 1
(France) to promote the launch of new collaborative research project. Also in the same year, we are planning to send several faculty members and students to foreign universities for different collaboration studies. Also, we are very keen to accept researchers and students from all over the world to enforce our researches. In 2017,
several faculty members from Université Lille 1 (France) and Université Paris-Sud XI (France) stayed in Japan and had active discussion about results from our collaborative research and students from the other European country are planning to stay in Japan to participate the other collaborative work.
Future Development Goals
Final goal of our research division is to establish a leading-edge research group which deals with various interfacial thermofluid dynamics by creating mutual researcher network.
This research division has been started in April 2017 as a subsequent organization of "International Research
Division of Interfacial Thermo-Fluid Dynamics". The aim of the group is to expand the spatial scale of
concern from micro/nanoscale to multiple scale and the associate application fields through the international
activities on research and education.
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This has not been a good week for Obamacare.
In what will likely result in less competition (and more upward pressure on healthcare costs) insurance giant Aetna joined United Healthcare and Humana this week by announcing it was "vastly reducing" its presence on the individual Obamacare exchanges in 2017 and ceasing to offer policies in 11 of the 15 states where it currently operates.
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Brexit - Warnings that New Zealand is in for a bumpy ride as Brexit plays havoc on financial markets are being dismissed by two major banks as fear mongering.
Berl chief economist Ganesh Nana has warned the country is not well prepared for the turmoil being unleashed by Brexit and the road ahead would be "hair-raising."
But ANZ and ASB bank economists say the extent of the financial upheaval is not yet clear and New Zealand is well placed to withstand turmoil.
Dr Nana said New Zealand's relatively high interest rates would make the New Zealand dollar even more attractive to investors seeking a safe haven. That would will push up the exchange rate making exporters less competitive.
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Earlier this month the Reserve Bank warned the exchange rate was already too high and the weak global economy was at risk of sliding further south.
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While Brexit had the potential to tip the world into upheaval it was too soon to make that call, ANZ chief economist Cameron Bagrie said.
"The global economy is very clearly vulnerable. Now whether Brexit et al sets off a chain of events that involves a bit of a world correction is the million dollar question.
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ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said the current volatility could not be compared to other major global financial shocks.
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Does music get a little help from drugs?
Musicians have seemingly had a part in the drug and alcohol scene throughout their careers, with legends like Whitney Houston, Kurt Cobain, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, and many others having met their demise due to overconsumption or overdosing on various substances. As far back as 1830, substance abuse played a part in the music culture with Hector Berlioz, a French romantic composer who used opium while he wrote "Symphonie Fantastique," according to PBS documentary "Keeping Score."
"Drugs and music, I mean it's been in the music culture for so many years that it is now the normal for me to hear lyrics about drug within today's music," said Santa Monica College music theory student Ashton McCreight.
Drug use can be found in many of the music industry's top artists. With Rihanna rolling a joint on top of her security guard's head at last year's Coachella, or Lil Wayne having a seizure from drinking too much of a promethazine-codeine cough syrup nicknamed "purple drank," overindulgence of substances seems to be prevalent today.
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"I feel that it's good that artist use drugs; it lets them truly express themselves," said SMC student Trayvon Gordon. "Drugs help artist explore another realm which they can't access while being sober. I feel that can be one reason why drug usage is so common among artist of all ages."
SMC music department chair James Martin feels that if a musician truly feels that their creativity is enhanced by doing drugs, there is not much that can be done to stop their behavior.
"Some of the music was created by drugs in the '60s and '70s, and a creative mood is a tough mood to leave once an artist finds out how to get there," said James Martin, music department chair at Santa Monica College. "If an artist thinks smoking a couple joints or sniffing a line is going to get you there, an artist is going to do it again."
Musicians Institute professor Daniel Gilbert believes that the careers of artists such as Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix would be different if they had not ever done drugs.
"Look what happened in the '60s," said Gilbert. "Would that have happened without drugs? I'm not advocating drug usage, but if Morrison or Hendrix stopped using drugs, I would have to say there is a possibility that they would not be as iconic as they are now."
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SMC student, rapper and producer Alex Crawford said he has been smoking marijuana since he was 16, using it to sometimes to "kind of release any anxiety I might have so I can perform my best."
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Crawford is not unique when it comes to smoking cannabis. Since 2010, marijuana use is up 22 percent, with four in 10 teens smoking the narcotic. One in 10 teens now uses ecstasy and in the last three years, ecstasy use among teenagers has jumped 67 percent, according to drugfree.org, a website that provides information and support for parents of teen drug users.
While there are many artists who openly do drugs and drink alcohol to potentially enhance their creativity, release anxiety or put on a better performance, there are those who have had long, successful careers without the aid of drugs or alcohol.
Bruce Springsteen, multiple Grammy winner and a 1999 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, has reportedly never done drugs. This was confirmed by musician Steven Van Zandt, who has performed with Springsteen, in a 2012 interview with "Rolling Stone."
"He's the opposite of a drug-created monster," Van Zandt said in the interview. "He's in good shape by not doing drugs."
Tim McGraw, three-time Grammy Award-winning country singer, did an interview with "US Magazine" in 2011 about going to rehab because he would text his wife while drunk. Now he is three years sober and preparing for another tour.
Unfortunately, drugs have still cast a shadow for several famous artists of the 27 Club, artists who have died at 27 because of some sort of substance abuse. Those musicians include Morrison, Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and most recently Amy Winehouse.
Whether an artist decides to indulge in drugs or alcohol or stay sober, Marin said music will keep "reflecting artist feelings."


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The Kentucky Weslyan thread and the USI thread have had great participation since Silky was banned. Now all the good posters are disappearing again from the USI thread again. ...sorry to bother you with this....thanks
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Samantha Novacek and 'Patty the Pittsburgh Planker' Impress 'American Idol' Judges With Faith Hill Song
Samantha Novacek and Patricia Bell both scored golden tickets to Hollywood on Thursday night's episode of 'American Idol,' but only one of them sang a song. Bell, who says people know her as 'Patty the Pittsburgh Planker,' laid on her belly in a yoga pose (known as planking) as her 19-year-old sister belted out Faith Hill's 'Like We Never Loved at All.'
"She sings better when I plank," the 23-year-old told viewers before both women entered the audition room to face the judges. Steven Tyler seemed more than unamused by the good luck gimmick, but came around once Novacek began to sing. Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez agreed that the server from Sutersville, Penn. had what it takes to move on.
"I felt like there was some guts behind the voice," Lopez said.
"Very pure kind of sound that you got going on. Reminds me of Faith Hill, a little Carpenter-ish," added Jackson. Both women came running out of the audition room with golden tickets, meaning both are going to Hollywood. It will be interesting to see how other contestants take to the Pittsburgh Planker lying at their feet while they fight for a spot in the Top 12.
"I'm just planking her to Hollywood," Bell said. She can check that off the bucket list.
Watch Samantha Novacek Sing Faith Hill's 'Like We Never Loved at All' With Patty the Planker


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Dad is Mad #2 -_- (archived by John)
04-08-2012, 05:23 AM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2012 06:29 AM by MayheM.)
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Dad is Mad #2 -_- (archived by John)
Some of you should really reconsider being a member of this clan. Rules are being broken all over the place in all servers. Not just by new members who aren't aware of the rules, but by members who should know better and on all levels. I have seen screenshots of level 999 members breaking rules that they are expected to uphold.
I don't know if you guys and girls see what I see or hear what I hear, but from what I see and hear, TWC is becoming the joke of ET.
Guests are finding other servers to play in. Supremes and owners from other clans don't want TWC members to play in their servers. I get more outside and inside complaints against members than ever before in the history of TWC.
Members disrespecting one another more than ever and on a bigger scale. Going further than just chat to harass or embarrass someone. Starting false rumors, making up lies to get someone in trouble.
I see Supremes breaking several rules, while expecting lower level members and guests to follow them. Supremes having childish arguments with members.
I see the same with other high level admin in the servers as well.
How can we expect people to follow the rules if our own members and especially our high admin break them?
Most of you were given your level because you worked hard to earn them, some were just handed to you. (Which is another problem that will be dealt with) In either case, if you can't follow the rules, then you have no place being a high admin of TWC.
Until now I have over looked a lot of the smaller complaints, but now the small complaints are adding up and now the larger complaints against you are coming in to me.
Do you think I should just let them go now? Let you and other members ruin the reputation TWC held before some of you came here? Because that is what you people are doing. You are making TWC the laughing stock of ET. We once were respected as one of the best clans of ET. Now look at us.
Abusive and controling admin, players acting the fool in other clan servers while wearing TWC tags. Members disrespecting each other and guests. Members on all levels breaking the very rules they are expected to enforce.
This has to and will stop.
No one will be safe. If complaints keep coming into me either from inside or outside the clan, you will be dealt with. Starting with demotions and hopefully not but always will be an option, kicked out of TWC.
No one will be allowed to darken the TWC name any further.
TWC is to me an elite and fun clan, but now it is starting to resemble one of the other large clans. The same one you all make fun of. I am now getting the same complaints that you all laugh about with that other clan.
Seems to me that you guys know who you are and that I don't have to post screenshots. So here it is, either straighten up, repsect the tags you wear, follow and enforce the rules, present your self in a respectable manner at all times or get the fuck out. Before I have to do something I would rather not.
So please guys and girls. I am asking you from the bottom of my heart, to help rather than hinder TWC get back to where it once was. If you don't want to help with that, then yes please leave to another clan and ruin their reputation, not ours.
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04-08-2012, 09:50 AM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2012 09:51 AM by Sun.)
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RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
Well , This was one of the things my eyes felt on
I really see admin(Supremes,High Admins and Just Members) breaking the rules , having stupid conservations (which are sometime so ridiculous).
(04-08-2012 05:23 AM)MayheM Wrote: Let you and other members ruin the reputation TWC held before some of you came here? Because that is what you people are doing. You are making TWC the laughing stock of ET. We once were respected as one of the best clans of ET. Now look at us.
True , I joined this clan because it was in that time on of the most respected and best clans of ET
But when I see this I don't think we deserve that anymore....
But I would love to work on that reputation to get TWC again to the top of ET and to get it one of the most respected clans again.
Post: #3
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
You can't give somebody the second, third or more opportunities, because every time these opportunities will be destroyed. This makes no sense, when you give someone a chance, and he/she is shamelessly uses and expects the next. In these times, politeness won't solve anything. These people get punished once or twice until finally benefit from the choice - gtfo or stay and be polite. All lie all the time, on any topic, only to justify. Here everything is and will be unfair.
Post: #4
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
I joined this clan because i saw on the server chat a real group of friends but if i see now most of the time i see things like **** always with * its like we can't talk in another way with eachother. I hope their aren't any complains about me because i don't go much on other servers than TWC and i don't insult people. Because when you insult has high admin or supremes low members will think if they can do it why don't we can do it?
I also hope this will stop because this isn't the TWC i joined 10 months ago
thanks Chasin!!!
"Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
04-08-2012, 11:58 AM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2012 12:00 PM by Manzz.)
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RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
(04-08-2012 11:13 AM)BadAngel/Llama Wrote: You can't give somebody the second, third or more opportunities, because every time these opportunities will be destroyed. This makes no sense, when you give someone a chance, and he/she is shamelessly uses and expects the next. In these times, politeness won't solve anything. These people get punished once or twice until finally benefit from the choice - gtfo or stay and be polite. All lie all the time, on any topic, only to justify. Here everything is and will be unfair.
Yes, there are a lot of times when people wont learn from their mistakes but i can swear you that there are some people who change and learn from their mistakes.
But as much as i've seen not only members who have got another change break the rules. This has gone way over the line to stop it unless the higher admins start to set some example for members. But now i've seen even supremes acting childish and breaking the rules.
04-08-2012, 12:01 PM (This post was last modified: 04-08-2012 12:05 PM by Kokok.)
Post: #6
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
You are right Death, also me , when I joined, TWC was really friendly clan , really polite, helpfull
and Nice. Now I see that some of Members swear, Don't care of consequences, and We should
start Demote, even Kick, if this immature theater won't stop -.-
Post: #7
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
When I joined here first time (2-3 years ago) this clan was really known clan in ET. There were times when the server was full every week, and times when the server was full of BOTs and few players. There were times when higher admins were polite to each other (respecting the memories of ProfiDJIN, KRYPTONITE<3) and times when new admins came and they didnt be very polite which is maybe the cause of server's player lost.
Swearing, noobcalling...... And even if admins said that to other players/members with humor, they might not understand it as humor and their playing desires will go towards 0%.
I think this is just what MayheM meant. Be polite to each others, respect rules, have fun!
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Post: #8
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
as people know i changed some censor settings in ND maybe its also good to put them in the other servers.
This has really need to stop cause i see guests staying out in ND which is not good.
ill start in ND with harder punishment to quit this redicilous and childish way of handling >.<
Post: #9
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
(04-08-2012 02:47 PM)Chuck Wrote: as people know i changed some censor settings in ND maybe its also good to put them in the other servers.
Well, when im in ND i rarely see ppl abusing and stuff, and for my opinion the censor is already too high, i know it has its limits but this is far from the limits... But thats just my opinion.
And so far about childish ways of handling, most members are 14-21 so yeah we are kids but most of them are mature enough to just follow the rules.
Self im 17 if u wanna ask, but im mature enough when i should keep my mouth shut and when i need to open it. That mostly depends on the way you learn, i guess some kids still need to learn about their power in admin.
Post: #10
RE: Dad is Mad #2 -_-
this clan isnt like 3-4 years ago, everything change in wrong way and that dont gonna change... I left cuz there were no any thinking & warm person. I can see here some childrish & even stupid Supremes (sorry for words but they are needed for thruth)...
(04-08-2012 02:47 PM)Chuck Wrote: ill start in ND with harder punishment to quit this redicilous and childish way of handling >.<Dear Chuck look on ur hands (u know what I mean)
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