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The disclosure is directed to a sensor device including processing circuitry, at least one sensor coupled to the processing circuitry, a serial data interface coupled to the processing circuitry and memory responsive to the processing circuitry. The memory includes a static unique identification number. The serial data interface provides access to retrieve the static unique identification number and sensed data measured with the at least one sensor from the memory.
This application is a continuation of prior U.S. application Ser. No. 10/824,650 filed Apr. 14, 2004, which is incorporated by reference in its entirety, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/462,853, filed Apr. 14, 2003, entitled "USB-CONNECTED DEVICE," naming inventors Ryan Joy Michael R. Primm, and Ronald Graczyk, which application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present application claims priority from U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/462,851, filed Apr. 14, 2003, entitled "METHOD AND APPARATUS. FOR CONNECTING PERIPHERAL DEVICES. TO. A BASE STATION," naming inventors David K. Smith, Michael R. Primm, Ronald Graczyk, and Boyd E. Slate, which application is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.FIELD OF THE DISCLOSURE
This disclosure relates generally to a serial interface connected device for environmental monitoring.BACKGROUND
Typical environmental monitoring devices tend to be either stand-alone network attached appliances or simple, proprietary add-on sensors connected to such appliances. These typical environmental monitoring devices generally have high power consumption rates and are expensive. In addition, these typical environmental monitoring devices are often large and difficult to install.
Environmental monitoring systems are often used to measure moving fluid mass. HVAC, irrigation, fuel distribution, ventilation and cooling are some of the applications in which it is desirable to measure mass flow rate. Typical flow rate sensors use calibration or rely on precision components to maintain accuracy from unit to unit. These sensors typically consume a great deal of power and are expensive. Many such sensors lack sensitivity to low mass flow.
Accordingly, an improved environmental monitoring device would be desirable.SUMMARY
In a particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a sensor pod including a housing, a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, an airflow sensor, an external sensor interface, a processing circuitry located within the housing, a memory responsive to the processing circuitry, and a universal serial bus (USB) interface coupled to the processing circuitry. The temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the airflow sensor, and the external sensor interface are responsive to the processing circuitry. The memory includes a static identification number. The USB interface is configured to provide access to measured data associated with the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the airflow sensor, and the external sensor interface. The measured data is associated with the static identification number.
In another embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a computer-implemented method of determining airflow including measuring a reference temperature, measuring a heater temperature associated with a heating element, determining a temperature difference between the reference temperature and the heater temperature, heating the heating element until the temperature difference reaches a first specified value and determining a cooling time period for the temperature difference to reach a second specified value.
In a further exemplary embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a sensor device including processing circuitry, at least one sensor coupled to the processing circuitry, a serial data interface coupled to the processing circuitry and memory responsive to the processing circuitry. The memory includes a static unique identification number. The serial data interface provides access to retrieve the static unique identification number and sensed data measured with the at least one sensor from the memory.
In an exemplary method, the disclosure is directed to a method of providing data including receiving a data request from a host device via a serial data interface, retrieving sensor data associated with at least one sensor, associating a static unique identification with the retrieved sensor data and providing the retrieved sensor data and the static unique identification to the host device via the serial data interface.
In another exemplary embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a method of providing notification of a sensor condition including requesting sensor data associated with at least one sensor from a peripheral device via a serial data interface, receiving the sensor data via the serial data interface, interpreting the sensor data associated with the at least one sensor and a static unique identification number to produce a condition result and sending a notification in response to the condition result. The sensor data comprising the static unique identification number to uniquely identify the peripheral device.
In a further embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a sensor device including a temperature sensor, a humidity sensor, an airflow sensor, processing circuitry responsive to the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor and the airflow sensor and a serial data interface coupled to the processing circuitry.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The present disclosure relates to a device with integrated environmental sensors that measure temperature, relative humidity, airflow, and audio. The device may also include external expansion ports for connecting additional environmental sensors and general purpose sensors. The device generally collects data from its integrated sensors and external ports and delivers this data to a host device when requested by the host device via a serial data interface, such as a universal serial bus (USB) interface. Once this data is delivered to the host device, the host can display current environmental conditions to a user, display historical values of one or more sensors in a graphical display, archive the data, and/or notify the user when conditions violate user-specified conditions.
The sensor device 112 may include a plurality of sensors, such as the illustrated sensors 114, 116, and 118. The sensors may, for example, include temperature sensors, humidity sensors, airflow sensors, audio sensors, and various external sensors such as door sensors and moisture sensors.
In addition, the sensor pod 112 may include a static unique identification number that may be stored and included with sensor data. In one particular embodiment, each sensor device receives a unique static identification at the time of manufacture. In another embodiment, a user may set the unique static identification. The unique static identification may be used to maintain data integrity. For example, labels, sensor value thresholds, and sensor value history associated with a given sensor device may be "re-associated" with the device when the device is disconnected, and a USB hub or USB extender cable is inserted before reconnecting to a host device. The unique static identification number may be included both on a label on the physical device and as the default label used for the device within a host or user application software, providing the end-user with a simple mechanism for correlating a device in the host or user application with a physical device. Software associated with this embodiment also supports "hot plugging" the device. When the device is detected by the USB subsystem, the host application automatically configures the device, generates default sensor thresholds and begins collecting and recording sensor data. The host system software may assume that the device should not be removed without user approval once connected, and may be optionally configured to generate both visual status and notifications in the form of SNMP trap, e-mail, HTTP Posts, FTP, and audio output to report the failure of the device, such as through a lost connection.
The sensor pod 112 may also include a display and audio speaker system. The sensor pod 112 may use the display or audio speaker system to indicate errors, failures, or threshold violating measurements.
In another exemplary embodiment, the host device, such as the environmental management system 126 may connect with other environmental management systems via wired and wireless communication methods. More than one sensor device may be coupled to a host device.
The other environmental management systems may associate sensor data with previous measurements based on the static unique identification number.
The processing circuitry 222 may interact with the sensors and provide data to a network environmental management system through the interface 224. The circuitry 222 and sensors 202, 206, 210, 214, and 218 may also be powered from electricity supplied through the interface 224. The circuitry 222 may associate a static unique identification number 228 that may be stored separately or together with the retrieved sensor data. If, for example, the USB address of the sensor device 200 were to change or the sensor device 200 were to be connected to a different USB host, the data may be correlated with previous data collected by the sensor unit 200.
In addition to the integrated environmental sensors and expansion ports, a particular embodiment includes a display 226 such as status LEDs to indicate when an environmental condition has exceeded the user-specified threshold or when an error condition is detected. The embodiment may also include an audio transducer to generate an audible alert under programmatic control. The status LEDs implement a cycling "blink pattern", using the combination of 4 sensor-type-specific LEDs ("Temp", "Humidity", "Airflow", "Audio") and an external sensor indicator LED. ("External") to provide a simple summary of error conditions associated with the device. In one exemplary embodiment, the summary may show appropriate sensor-type LED for a short period of time, for example 1 second, combined with the "External" LED when the error refers to an attached sensor as opposed to an integrated sensor. In one particular embodiment, the LEDs may be turned off for a short time (½ second), and the next error condition in the cycle is shown. When the last condition has been shown, the cycle returns to the first condition. When no errors are being reported, the LEDs may be off.
A particular implementation may support using distinctive audio tone and beep patterns to enable audio notification of alert conditions, including sensitivity to the severity of the problem being reported. For example, a "warning" level condition may blink the LEDs, an "error" level may provide a short, attention-grabbing BEEP, and a "failure" may provide a very urgent and annoying high pitched whistle. An exemplary display is illustrated by
In a particular embodiment, the temperature sensor includes an integrated digital temperature sensor and an integrated analog temperature sensor. The device reads the temperature value from the digital temperature sensor via a digital serial interface. The device determines the temperature value from the analog temperature sensor by sampling the output voltage of the analog temperature sensor with, for example, a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter. The analog temperature sensor may be mounted on the outside surface of the device and the digital temperature sensor may be mounted inside the device. Multiple readings from each of the temperature sensors are taken and averaged to produce an averaged digital temperature reading and an averaged analog temperature reading. When a host requests environmental data, the recent average values of the digital temperature sensor and the analog temperature sensor are sent to the host. Software on the host device may manipulate these average values to provide temperature readings in degrees Fahrenheit and degrees Celsius. A particular embodiment, which operates with a peak power consumption of under 100 mA at 5V and typical power use, measures temperature accurately while reducing thermal contamination of the reading.
The device may include an integrated digital humidity sensor. Alternate variations of the device may have an analog humidity sensor in place of the digital humidity sensor. The device reads the humidity value from the digital humidity sensor via a digital serial interface. In one exemplary embodiment, the humidity sensor is mounted inside the device. Multiple readings from the humidity sensor may be taken and averaged to produce an averaged humidity reading.
In one particular embodiment, when the host requests the environmental data, the recent average values for the humidity reading, digital temperature sensor reading, and analog sensor reading are sent to the host. Software on the host device may manipulate the humidity reading, the digital temperature reading and the analog temperature reading to determine a relative humidity reading corresponding to the vapor pressure density of the air outside the device. The relative humidity value and the temperature values may also be used to calculate the current dew point value.
The dew point "sensor" may be a synthesized sensor using readings of the humidity sensor and a digital temperature sensor. Relative humidity is a function of both temperature and the amount of the water present, so a shift in relative humidity can result from adding or removing water in the environment, shifting temperature, or a combination of both. Dew point eliminates temperature-sensitivity of the measurement. A change in dew point implies a change in the amount of water present in the environment. In some situations, such as environmentally controlled spaces, raised equipment floors or manufacturing facilities, specific detection of a change in the mass of water vapor present is preferred over relative humidity measurement. An increase in dew point may indicate a water leak or a possible failure of part of the cooling system, such as a blocked condensation drain.
Accurate measurement of the temperature and humidity at the same location within the device, combined with an external temperature sensor, allows relative humidity of the air outside the device to be accurately measured without directly exposing the humidity sensor to the outside environment and without a forced airflow or other solution to assure that the humidity reading is not compromised by the self-heating of the device. The outside environment is subject to both mechanical stresses due to device handling or dropping, dust, contaminants, and other potentially damaging stresses.
The reference temperature sensor 406 is used in calculating a difference between the reference and the temperature sensor 402 coupled to the heater 404. The converter 410 changes the format of the temperature sensors so the processing element 412 can access it. The physical layout of the components determines their thermal interaction. The reference sensor 406 is isolated or separated from the temperature sensor 402 associated with the heater 404. The thermal association 418 of the temperature sensor 402 and the heater 404 through, for example, copper and the isolation of the heater 404 from the reference temperature sensor 406 form the basis of the thermal system.
As the mass flows across the physical components, some of the heat added by the process is removed. The reference temperature sensor 406 provides a baseline temperature of the mass so that the process can add an appropriate amount of heat for the measurement.
The mass flow sensor utilizes the consistent thermal mass, size and shape of the components and circuit by measuring the amount of time the components take to cool from a preset high temperature to a low temperature. The small geometries and low thermal mass make for a quick reacting sensor with low energy consumption to produce a temperature difference. Lower cost, less accurate components can be used in this mass flow sensor. The system has a high accuracy due to the ability of the processing element to calculate and save the difference between the temperature sensors prior to any airflow measurements.
One particular implementation is shown in
Energy is removed and the temperature difference is monitored until a lower temperature difference is reached. To allow for the thermal inertia of the system, the point in time when the difference (minus any stored correction offsets) reaches this low temperature difference is the base time for the processing element to reference when deciding the time period for cooling.
The processing element, using the time reference, tracks the amount of time between crossing the last temperature threshold and when the temperature difference reaches a lower temperature threshold, as shown at step 610. This time is empirically correlated to mass flow, as shown at step 612. The relationship is stored in the parameters and code store element and referenced by the processing element for reporting the mass flow value. This process is done again as needed to measure a continuum of mass flows.
The temperature decays exponentially, as shown in
Because the heater is turned off for the measurement period, the circuit is insensitive to heater voltage and component tolerances. The granularity of the readings is expanded towards the low end, providing greater sensitivity for lower mass flow measurements.
The zero mass flow point can be established to avoid factory calibration. When components used are consistent (not high tolerance, but same components), the cost of production is reduced because the calibration step is removed. The illustrated mass flow sensor uses lower power in low airflow, is easy to produce and has low sensitivity to power supply and other component tolerances. The sensor uses a low level of average power due to the exponential nature of cooling has greater sensitivity at low airflow. It facilitates removal of offsets due to component tolerances and only consumes power when reading mass flow rates. The sensor is also quick reacting.
In a particular embodiment, when a USB host requests environmental data, the most recent airflow reading is sent to the USB host. Software on the USB host device manipulates this value to provide airflow readings in feet per minute and meters per minute.
A particular embodiment includes an integrated audio sensor to measure audio level in the vicinity of the USB device. The audio sensor includes a microphone, analog filtering and amplification, an analog-to-digital converter and software-based digital filtering. The resulting data generated for the audio sensor is a relative measurement of the peak amount of high-frequency (1-2 KHz or higher) audio energy currently found in the environment. In most environments, sound levels in these frequency ranges are relatively low unless an audio alarm is present, such as a fire alarm, or the alarm "beeps". of a UPS, cooling system, or other electronic device, is present. High frequency detection provides an effective mechanism for detecting such alarms, while not intruding on the privacy of any persons present, since the audio samples do not exit the device.
A particular embodiment includes four expansion ports for the purpose of connecting additional environmental sensors, general purpose analog sensors, general purpose digital sensors, analog measurement devices, digital measurement devices, dry-contact inputs, and dry-contact outputs.
Each of the expansion connectors may include a bi-directional digital serial interface, 5V power, 3.3V power, an analog input, and a ground reference. A particular embodiment implements this connector using an 8-pin DIN connector.
The voltage of an exemplary analog input on each expansion port is sampled via an analog-to-digital converter. These samples are accumulated and used to determine an average DC reading and an average RMS AC reading. When the USB host requests the expansion port data, the most recent average DC reading and the most recent average AC reading are sent to the USB host. Software on the USB host device may manipulate these values according to the type of sensor or measurement device connected to the port to provide a more meaningful interpretation of the data to a user.
The digital serial interface on each expansion port is used for digital input and output between a device and the sensor or monitoring device connected to the external port. When a USB host requests the expansion port data from the device, the most recent digital value from the expansion port is sent to the USB host. The digital interface on the expansion port may also allow the USB host to control the state of an output device such as a dry-contact connected to the expansion port of the device.
A particular embodiment of the device utilizes a Cypress EZ-USB FX processor. This processor includes an on-chip USB interface. This embodiment also utilizes a 128 Kbyte static RAM for program and data storage and a 128 Kbit EEPROM for non-volatile program and data storage.
In one particular embodiment, the device may be attached to a host device or be detached and located remotely from the host device.
The device includes a USB connector 1106, such as a USB Type-B connector for connecting the device to the USB host or USB hubs via standard USB cables. The embodiment draws its power from the USB interface, allowing the device to operate with a single cable attachment. The embodiment includes docking hardware 1104 and a card-edge connector 1108 for use as an alternate USB interface connection and allowing the device to be docked to a proprietary data collection instrument. When the device is docked in this manner, the USB Type-B connector is not accessible, ensuring that only one of the two connections is used at any time.
In addition, the host unit 1202 may include a sliding mechanism or docking pin retainer 1210. Docking pins may be inserted into the docking pin retainer 1210. The retainer may then be adjusted by, for example, using a screw to lock the docking pins in place. The docking pins may be released by re-adjusting the docking pin retainer 1210.
A host unit may permit the connection of more than one device. In this example, two devices may be connected. Two pin access points 1310 and a card-edge connector 1318 is provided for each device.
When the peripheral devices are disconnected, a wire may be run from a USB connector on the base unit to a USB connector on the peripheral device. The peripheral device may, for example, also have a Type B USB connector. Wires may be provided with various connectors such as USB Type A or USB Type B to connect with connectors on the peripheral device.
The peripheral devices may have two connectors. In the exemplary embodiment shown in
Docking pins are located on the same side as the USB port and card-edge connector and are used for the mechanical coupling of the peripheral and base unit. This location of the docking pins prevents the user from incorrectly configuring the system by incorrectly connecting a USB cable to the device while docked, and protects the connector from contamination when no cable is present.
The USB type B connector may be used for tethered operation using a standard USB Cable. When pods are provided separately, an overlay, such as a label, may cover the card-edge fingers and may leave the USB type B connector uncovered. As the connector is recessed behind the plane of the metal enclosure, an end-user can also be supplied with a label for covering the connector when using the docked pod in a tethered configuration.
Because the USB type B and card-edge connectors are located on the docking side of the device, only one of the connections may be used at a time. If the USB connectors are coupled in parallel when connecting with the circuitry of the peripheral device, USB signals go to both connectors on the pod.
In one example, turning a screw 1414 moves the slider position to lock peripherals 1404 and 1406 into place, thereby preventing an accidental disconnection of the devices and providing a secure connection for the electrical and data signals. The screw 1414 may have a retainer ring on the inside to protect against the screw being removed from the chassis. Since the screw's position cannot move, the slider is forced to move as the screw is turned, allowing enough force to be used so the docked peripherals are rigidly attached, and reducing vibration that may loosen the docked pods.
In one particular embodiment of the system depicted in
The system design also allows for a large single peripheral device to be implemented (a single device utilizing the full height of the unit, and either of the USB interface or the card-edge connector). Since both peripheral devices in the exemplary utilization shown in
In one embodiment, when a sensor device or peripheral device is connected to a host, the host is able to retrieve identifying information from the device. The host transfers program code into the device and the device begins execution of the program code. This programming function allows the host to update the program code inside the sensor device.
The above disclosed subject matter is to be considered illustrative, and not restrictive, and the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications, enhancements, and other embodiments which fall within the true spirit and scope of the present invention. Thus, to the maximum extent allowed by law, the scope of the present invention is to be determined by the broadest permissible interpretation of the following claims and their equivalents, and shall not be restricted or limited by the foregoing detailed description.
1. A sensor pod comprising:
- a housing;
- a temperature sensor;
- a humidity sensor;
- an airflow sensor;
- an external sensor interface;
- a processing circuitry located within the housing; the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the airflow sensor, and the external sensor interface being responsive to the processing circuitry;
- a memory responsive to the processing circuitry and including a static identification number; and
- a universal serial bus (USB) interface coupled to the processing circuitry, the USB interface configured to provide access to measured data associated with the temperature sensor, the humidity sensor, the airflow sensor, and the external sensor interface, the measured data associated with the static identification number.
2. The sensor pod of claim 1, further comprising a second temperature sensor located external to the housing, and wherein the temperature sensor and the humidity sensor are located internal to the housing.
3. The sensor pod of claim 1, further comprising an audio sensor.
4. The sensor pod of claim 1, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to determine a dew point.
Type: Application
Filed: Nov 6, 2006
Publication Date: Apr 19, 2007
Patent Grant number: 7456733
Inventors: Ryan Joy (Austin, TX), Michael Primm (Austin, TX), Ronald Graczyk (Cedar Park, TX), David Smith (Georgetown, TX), Boyd Slade (Austin, TX)
Application Number: 11/556,929
International Classification: G08B 1/08 (20060101); G08B 1/00 (20060101);


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AMERICUS - Georgia Southwestern came up just short in a pair of games against No. 3 USC Aiken at Hurricane Stadium on Friday afternoon. The Hurricanes lost Game 1, 3-2 in 11 innings, and dropped a 4-3 decision in the nightcap.
Southwestern falls to 15-30 overall and 5-21 in the Peach Belt. USC Aiken improved to 40-9 overall and clinched the PBC regular-season title with a 23-6 mark in conference play.
The series wraps up Saturday at noon.
GAME 1: GSW 2, USC AIKEN 3 (11 innings)
There was no question that he "left it all on the field" in his final collegiate start as GSW senior pitcher Frank Ambrosino came up one out short of an upset in Game 1. Ambrosino, the Hurricanes starter, turned in a nine-inning effort, but with two outs in the ninth and a 2-1 lead, USCA's Tyler Moore tripled to left center and scored moments later on a Sean Miller single.
Ambrosino faced the minimum on three occasions after allowing a run in the first inning.
Southwestern grabbed the lead in the sixth after John Duran and Randall Sheffield opened the frame with back-to-back singles. Both players eventually scored on a Stephen Eldridge single through the left side.
Moore struck again for USCA in the 11th when he ripped a solo home run down the left-field line. It was his first home run of the season.
Duran, Sheffield, Eldridge and Coffey all finished with two hits apiece for GSW.
Moore, Miller and Branden Millhouse each had three hits for USCA.
Ambrosino finished with two walks and four strikeouts. Bray Bishop (3-3) pitched the final two innings for the Hurricanes.
Danny Wissman (4-0) picked up the win in two innings of relief. Taylor Grover earned his 11th save with a scoreless 11th inning for the Pacers.
The Hurricanes came up on the losing end in Game 2 despite holding USCA to only four hits. But it was the fact that the Pacers had scored four runs while collecting only one hit that was even more perplexing for GSW fans.
USCA scored a run in the first without a hit, added two runs in the fourth after a leadoff double and pushed across its final run in the sixth without a hit.
Eldridge tied the ballgame at 1-1 in the second inning when he singled to center to score Sheffield. Eldridge tallied another RBI in the sixth with a single that plated Josh Sanders. Jarrod Taylor brought around the Hurricanes' final run moments later with a RBI single that scored Sheffield.
Sheffield led all batters with a 3-for-4 performance in the nightcap that included a double. Eldridge added two hits and a pair of RBIs.
The Pacers did not have a batter with multiple hits.
Matthew Suggs (4-7) pitched eight innings before making way for Drew Cataldo. Suggs allowed four runs - two earned - and three hits while walking one. A pair of wild pitches and a passed ball proved costly. Cataldo tossed a scoreless ninth.
USCA starter Wyatt Brown (6-3) threw six innings, allowed three runs and eight hits while walking one and striking out five. Zach Hayden, Jake Padgett and Caleb Smith each threw a scoreless frame with Smith earning his first save.

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GlobalFoundries: Will Upstate New York Be The Next Silicon Valley?
As I visited the GlobalFoundries facility in Saratoga County, New York, one of the questions I had was why the company chose upstate New York.
Location is obviously important, and GlobalFoundries GM Norm Armour explained that the new location is very close to Albany Nanotech and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, schools that perform lots of research on cutting-edge technology; and not too far away from IBM facilities in East Fishkill, New York and Burlington, Vermont. GlobalFoundries is part of IBM's Technology Alliance (sometimes called a "fab club"), and a lot of the basic research into advanced chip making takes part in those facilities.
In addition, the location offered a good source of access to water and very stable power, with Armour talking about having four sources of power coming into the facility.
Of course, the state of New York has helped out with tax incentives for building in the location, and indeed in building the whole Luther Forest Technology Campus.
Michael Relyea, president of the group that runs the campus, explained that New York state is trying to create a cluster of high-tech companies that reinforce each other, citing the Silicon Valley, North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, and Israel as examples. He noted that the state provided incentives to AMD (before the spinoff of GlobalFoundries), and worked on providing the infrastructure for things such as roads, water, electricity to the technology campus.
Relyea explained that the campus will need 3 to 9 million gallons of water per day, and 60 to 180 megawatts of power to start. The campus is building a new water system and a power grid capable of handling 400 megawatts. In total, Relyea said the state, federal, and local governments were spending about $200 million on the infrastructure of the campus.
GlobalFoundries is the "anchor tenant" in the facility, taking about 222 acres of the 1,400-acre site, but the facility has room for two more big facilities and a host of smaller companies. For instance, Relyea expects that some of the companies selected to provide equipment and materials to GlobalFoundries will set up locations within the park. (GlobalFoundries has yet to name its suppliers, and indeed had a big meeting with potential suppliers the day before I visited).
60 percent of the land will be left as "green space," with things like hiking trails and an amphitheater, in the hope that it will allow employees on the campus to better interact with each other. Next door to the GlobalFoundries facility, Hudson Valley Community College is building a facility called Tech Smart where it plans to build a mock fab and to train many of the technicians who will eventually run the fab.
In many ways, the history of the Luther Forest site reflects the changes in the country over the past hundred years. Originally a pig farm, it was converted into a 5,000-acre logging forest. Then, following World War II, it became a munitions facility, with much of the space was used to test rocket fuel. (You can still see lookouts for the munitions testing from the GlobalFoundries facility). That testing included a 1-mile easement around the center where there was no activity, so when that business closed, it left an ideal location for the current technology campus, Relyea said.
Will upstate New York become the next Silicon Valley? Probably not. But it could well attract more companies, and that would be good for the area. Relyea said he expected that there would eventually be 8,000 to 10,000 jobs on campus.


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The announce of Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet last week was not yet another tablet launch in this already crowded market. This tablet came with a new way of browsing the Web using limited mobile devices, leveraging the power of the cloud in term of network connectivity, processing power and storage capabilities.
The most exciting part of Kindle Fire isn't its hardware but its Silk browser and the cloud browsing infrastructure it leverages to achieve what they call split browsing.
This radical change in the way we might browse the mobile Web tomorrow, is the result of combining the traditional caching Web proxies used in large organizations to save their bandwidth, with the capabilities of Amazon cloud infrastructure.
The goal is to provide a faster browsing experience by adjusting web content (such as scaling down images) to the capabilities of the devices and offering better network latency thanks Amazon data centers connectivity and caching capabilities (think about using AWS S3 and CloudFront).
The final radical change that they made and which triggered this blog post, is the usage by the Silk browser of the SPDY protocol created by Google as a potential replacement for HTTP, already supported in the Chrome browser.
Can this become the beginning of the end of HTTP ?
HTTP history so far…
As you know, HyperText Transfer Protocol was early on a key stone in the Web building. It started as notes written by Tim Berners Lee in 1991. After an IETF standardization effort, the first standard HTTP/1.0 version (RFC 1945) was published by Tim Berners Lee, Roy T. Fielding and Henrik Frystyk in 1996.
With the exponential growth of the Web, it became quickly urgent to improve this protocol and address scalability, performance and interoperability issues observed in the field.
This led to the definition of HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616), and the formalization of REST, the architecture style of the Web, with major contributions made by Roy T. Fielding.
The version 1.1 of HTTP is now used by the vast majority of web sites, web APIs and web clients today, but there are still questions regarding the interpretation of its now aging and monolithic specification.
In 2007, an IETF working group was launch to revise HTTP/1.1 and address those issues, but without actually changing the protocol.
Refactoring with HTTP/1.1 bis
This HTTP/1.1 bis initiative led by Mark Nottingham and involving Julian Resche, Roy Fielding, Yves Lafon and a few others is now well advanced and we can hope this work to be complete soon, maybe next year. This rewrite of RFC 2616 splits the specification in 7 parts as illustrated below.
At the bottom, we find the Messaging part which deals with the HTTP connections management, raw message syntax and HTTP(S) URI schemes.
The layers above describe the semantics of HTTP and the major features offered such as caching, authentication, conditional requests and ranged requests. Those layers are exactly what the Restlet API exposes using Java as detailed in this mapping table.
The timing is perfect because pressure to bypass the limitations, real or perceived, of HTTP/1.1 is increasing.
The rise of alternatives
To overcome limitations of HTTP, especially for near real-time client updates, techniques such as Comet have emerged, pushing HTTP into its limits.
To overcome those limits, the HTML 5 WG has initiated a new WebSocket protocol that allows bidirectional exchanges between a browser and a server, only using HTTP for the initial handshake.
This protocol has been taken over at IETF in a bidirectional or server-initiated HTTP working group but it is unlikely at this point that this protocol will attempt to respect REST constraints (see this blog post).
Server-Sent Events
This is really the signal that those shortcomings of HTTP need to be addressed in a better way. One simple yet promising alternative is the W3C"s led Server-Sent Event specifications which cleanly leverage HTTP and JavaScript by proposing a special event-oriented media type.
The problem with all those techniques and new protocols is that they require your browser to open and maintain several HTTP connections to the same remote server, increasing the scalability issues.
Even if usage of non-blocking IO can help deal with those issues (as supported by the Restlet Framework), this makes things more complex than they should be, at least from a network TCP/IP point of view.
This is were the SPDY protocol offers an innovative solution by multiplexing several HTTP streams over a single connections. Those streams can go in both directions and be initiated by either the client or the server side.
In addition, SPDY proposes an alternative messaging layer to HTTP/1.1 but intents to stay compatible with all other HTTP layers above as described by HTTP/1.1 bis!
Better than a threat, SPDY design qualities and its growing support and usage by key players such as Google and Amazon is probably more a chance HTTP to see a version 2.0 defined and getting enough interest to succeed.
This new version could replace the existing messaging part of HTTP/1.1 by a fully multiplexed and compact alternative based on SPDY (see Wikipedia page) and other alternatives such as Roy T. Fielding's own Waka or HTTP-MPLEX.
If you think this is just a wishful dream and that things so fundamental to the Web can't change … then read this blog post from Mark Nottingham about SPDY (ex-FLIP) written back in 2009 and talking about a potential HTTP/2.0.
For sure, we are going to experiment with SPDY in next 2.2 version of the Restlet Framework and explore the future of HTTP!
Update 1: Mozilla – Firefox 11 is adding support for SPDY, the ball is rolling!
Update 2: ReadWriteWeb – Is Microsoft challenging Google on HTTP 2.0 with WebSocket?
Update 3: Jean Paoli (Microsoft) – Speed and Mobility: An Approach for HTTP 2.0 to Make Mobile Apps and the Web Faster
Update 4: Mark Nottingham (Yahoo!) – What's next for HTTP?


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Bergsonism with knobs on.
Bergsonism with knobs on.
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Tyler Durden: Did you know that if you mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate you can make napalm?
Narrator: No, I did not know that; is that true?
Tyler Durden: That's right... One could make all kinds of explosives, using simple household items.
Narrator: Really...?
Tyler Durden: If one were so inclined.
Narrator: Tyler, you are by far the most interesting single-serving friend I've ever met... see I have this thing: everything on a plane is single-serving...
Tyler Durden: Oh I get it, it's very clever.
Narrator: Thank you.
Tyler Durden: How's that working out for you?
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Tyler Durden: Keep it up then... Right up.
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Tyler Durden: Now a question of etiquette; as I pass, do I give you the ass or the crotch...?
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How did Deleuze stock fall so low?
The bewitchments of Zizek and Badiou is one factor... Their politics is more simple then his, more authoritarian, more macho, and ultimately less demanding. They encourage people to continue to be intellectuals, and they privilege the status of intellectuals... which Deleuze doesn't do. They are sources of hope for a new generation of academics looking to displace the incumbents, and they shore-up the claims of the radical academy to constitute the headquarters of militant politics - a status which had been contested by people like Deleuze and Lyotard. And Guattari, whose stock outside the academy intriguingly continues to rise.
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That makes a lot of sense, I must say. Though I do agree with Zizek when he said that Guattari was a terrible influence on Deleuze...
I cannot agree. Guattari was a beautiful man. After he died, the patients of the experimental clinic La Borde, where he worked, maintained a night of silence in honour of a man who had been a friend to them. Guattari also said:
Yes I believe that there is a multiple people, a people of mutants, a people of potentialities that appears and disappears, that is embodied in social events, literary events, and musical events. I'm often accused of being exaggeratedly, stupidly, stubbornly optimistic, and of not seeing people's wretchedness... I can see it, but... I don't know, perhaps I'm raving, but I think that we're in a period of productivity, proliferation, creation, utterly fabulous revolutions from the viewpoint of this emergence of a people. That's molecular revolution: it isn't a slogan or a program, it's something that I feel, that I live, in meetings, in institutions, in affects, and also through some reflections.
I can see why all those nutcases where so fond of him. Cheers Felix!
I always thought there was a slight Felix and Oscar side to Deleuze and Guattari.
Have you read this book, by the way? Has anyone?
I have, I thought it was superb.
Very good chapter on Guattari and the anti-psychiatry clinic he was involved in...
It does look pretty good.
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i'm curious, craner, as to why you (and zizek, although zizek less so) think guattari was a bad influence on deleuze?
(a blog post of today, x-posted here as it seems relevant)
Ive never come away from any of Deleuzes texts feeling that I understood any more (about) mathematics than I did when I started. Theres enough in Deleuze about differential calculus, Riemannian manifolds and so on to make you think that there ought, at some point, to be a settling of accounts with mathematical formalization; but the settlement never arrives, and the reader who undertakes (like Manuel DeLanda) to put things in some sort of scientific order must wrestle with the fact that Deleuzes texts frequently resist such organization through a combination of willed incoherence and masterful pronouncements about the nomadic untameability of the matter at hand. They do so with the fine, pleasant and anti-dogmatic intention of evoking a virtual, problematic field behind every conceptual solution or actualization, so that the reader might not be enslaved by a system or held captive by an image of truth. But what is sacrificed by this approach is any experience of what Lacan called the impasse of formalization (Valéry: Une difficulté est une lumière. / Une difficulté insurmountable est un soleil.). It would be illuminating for example to be shown just why the arborescent cannot fully comprehend the rhizomatic, by means of a demonstration of the exact limit of its ability to do so. As it is, one is sometimes left feeling that some of the most stirring passages of Capitalism and Schizophrenia amount to little more than the varied and passionate affirmation of an emotional commitment to untidiness.
There is, nevertheless, something still troubling about Deleuzes faintly hauntological harping on about old mathematical problematics curtly obsoleted by the inhabitants of Cantors paradise. Rather than a scientifically normalizing move, DeLandas projection of Deleuzes concerns into the (now not quite so especially) brave new world of chaos and complexity theory can be seen as an attempt to show how science at its very frontiers remains receptive to the Event, continually developing abnormal concepts in response to the perennial problems of change, flux and turbulence. Badious account of the (recent, European) history of mathematics is one in which the generation of mathematical novelty occurs through a series of formal impasses resolved by the setting of new foundations: the heroes of this history are the geniuses (collective as may be) who boldly posit new axioms and faithfully elaborate the systems of thought that unfold from them. But the beginnings of chaos theory, as narrated in James Gleicks tremendously readable Chaos, were to be found in a new assemblage of heterogeneous mathematical techniques, advances in computer technology, problems thrown up by natural science and somewhat maverick metaphorical thinking (e.g. Mandelbrots How long is the coastline of Britain?). One cannot without distortion represent this development as a militant truth procedure faithful to the vanished trace of an ontological infraction; it seems much closer to Deleuzes minor science, an abnormal enterprise, attending to the little embarrassments of normal theory, that only later submits to regulation by the royal science of axiomatics.
Im reminded here of Lyotards suggestion, in The Postmodern Condition, that postmodernity precedes modernity, as the generating matrix of new modernisms. Every modernism is a new foundationalism, albeit often in the guise of a radical undermining of existing foundations; but the postmodern moment is that in which thought and language drift or err away from foundations, forsaking correctness as a criterion in favour of productivity or what Lyotard called legitimation through paralogy. It seems that even Badiou, in his call for an experimental politics pending the next great foundational upheaval, acknowledges the role of the postmodern moment or modality in the gestation of new modernisms; but for him the role of that moment is precisely to act as a fils conducteur leading towards the revolutionary instant. Deleuzes lines of flight, for better or worse, seem to lead nowhere of the sort.
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poetix, this might sound like a cop out, but i'd suggest that it's not necessarily helpful to read D&G as philosophy per se... it seems like most of the qualms with D&G (and, apparently, especially guattari) revolve around their inability to eventually actualize some kind of coherent scientific or philosophical system (more or less craving an oedipal daddy to assure, no?)
well, i think kodwo eshun has it right when he argues that D&G are more about concept manufacture, 'circuit diagrams of the present.'
kind of an aside, where i went to school there was a half-serious feud between the philosophy dept. and the rhetoric dept (in which much D&G was taught), the rhet. kids basically being seen as too promiscuous, and the philosophy students too moral and imponderable.
Deleuze and Guattari teach people how to think for themselves.
Badiou teaches people how to obey, unthinkingly, the fatal seductions of intellectual authority. Which is why so many Badiouvians sound like robots.


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Particularly in Southwest Florida, how the recovery is going depends on whom you ask.
Editor's note: This is the first of two parts.
For Realtors selling million-dollar homes and wealth managers who control seven-figure nest eggs in Southwest Florida, the recession that began in 2007 was more of a bother than a crisis.
Navigating the Great Recession, at least for the uber-rich and those who make handsome livings catering to them, provided as many opportunities as problems.
"For those that are wealthy, things are great," said PNC Financial Services economist Mekael Teshome.
Amid a gradually recovering national economy, the top 10 percent of the nation's wage earners, especially, have benefitted from a rising stock market and exploding home sales.
At the depth of the Great Recession, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sunk to around 6,500. Today, it has eclipsed 15,000 for a new record high, creating new wealth for many investors savvy enough — and financially able — to take advantage of the downturn.
At the same time, home prices suffered percentage drops not seen in Florida since the 1930s in the afterglow of the mid-2000s real estate boom. That, too, created superb buying opportunities for well-heeled investors.
As a result, a scant six years after one of the greatest price plunges in Southwest Florida history, residential values are soaring again — up by more than 30 percent in some cases — and inventory has shrunk to lows not seen in a decade.
But many Floridians contend that the downturn never ended:
• Good, steady, full-time jobs with benefits are hard to come by, living expenses for food and transportation are skyrocketing and countless people still struggle with the ravages of foreclosure and its impact.
• The disparity between the haves and have-nots isn't just a Florida phenomenon, either. Nationwide, the gap in unemployment rates between wealthy Americans and those earning less than $20,000 annually is at its highest level on record.
• Unemployment rates for poor Americans, meanwhile, are at levels not seen since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.
• At the same time, the gap between the wealthiest Americans and the rest of the nation is at its widest point since the 1920s.
The top 10 percent of American wage earners in 2012 brought in a record 48 percent of all the income and earnings generated, according to a recent study by the University of California.
While that is good for some segments of Southwest Florida — and high-end Realtors like Coldwell Banker's Roger Pettingell and wealth managers like SunTrust's Matthew Otto — the trend has profound ramifications for future economic stability.
"Sarasota, Naples, Miami tend to attract more-affluent retirees," said Sean Snaith, a University of Central Florida economist.
Their decisions, Snaith said, are driven not by paychecks but by the financial asset values — the value of stocks, bonds, real estate and commodities.
"And they have recovered at a very rapid pace," the economist said. "For those folks, the recovery has been rapid. But for workers, regular wage and salary earners, that is not the way the recovery has been. It has been a slow, long slog."
'A really deep hole'
In the Sarasota metropolitan area, the peak-to-trough decline in payroll jobs was a whopping 16 percent compared with a national peak-to-trough decline of 6.5 percent, Teshome said.
"So relatively speaking, we've got a really deep hole to climb out of," the economist said. "That is the thing to keep in mind here."
But for Pettingell, Otto, their clients and others, there is no hole.
"It was a hugely busy summer," said Pettingell, who focuses primarily on upscale homes on Longboat Key and who is consistently among the top-performing real estate agents in the region.
Pettingell, in fact, recently sewed up the title as the agent with the highest sales dollar volume of any Sarasota Realtor for the third year in a row.
So far, 2013 looks to be another banner year. Pettingell already has sold $61 million worth of homes this year. His previous high was $54 million — for an entire year.
Otto runs SunTrust Wealth Management — The Otto Group from the SunTrust building on Main Street. His clientele is so exclusive that he will not even consider managing a portfolio of less than $1 million.
In all, he and his team manage about $400 million, on behalf of 160 families. Most have been with him since before the stock market's plunge in 2007.
Today, through careful planning, diversification, investments in alternative assets and other strategies, virtually all of his clients are better off than they were at the end of 2009, the official end to the Great Recession.
"We have some clients who didn't lose anything," Otto said, adding that even well-to-do clients were shaken by the stock market's implosion during the recession.
"Everybody was scared," he said. "That was there for everybody, no matter how well they did. But the sense of 'I am going to lose money' was not there."
For tourism, a record pace
If recent visitor counts are any gauge, there will be a lot more wealthy residents in the years to come, and more services available to them.
After falling precipitously during the recession, tourism has made a strong comeback, and is on pace to set a record in 2013.
Nearly 900,000 visitors traveled to Sarasota County in 2012, up 19 percent from 2009, when families and those able to travel extensively were still holding back.
Last year's visitors spent more freely, too. The $706 million in direct visitor spending was up 27 percent from the 2009 level, according to Visit Sarasota, the county's tourism group.
This year's numbers are slated to be even better, based on data for the first eight months of 2013.
That's also potentially good news for the local housing industry, as Visit Sarasota data shows visitors often end up being at least part-time residents.
Teshome considers the pickup in tourism a generator of "significant momentum."
"When things are good, that industry will be going great," he said. "When things are bad, that industry will be doing probably terrible."
That is because discretionary spending — even for the wealthy — tends to be the first thing cut in tough economic times.
"People cannot cut their their mortgage or car payment or grocery bill, but they can cut that vacation they planned to take in Florida," Teshome said.
Pettingell's clients rarely have to skip vacations. Nor do they have to skimp on their home purchases. Most of his clients, he knows, look at downturns as a chance to upgrade their living quarters by taking advantage of depressed markets.
To that extent, values have remained down. In the mid-2000s, Pettingell's clients' average purchase was about $1.8 million. Today, it's about $1.2 million, he says.
"It is mostly all waterfront," said Pettingell, 51.
He also sees the dual nature of the region's 2013 economy every day.
"Depending on whom you speak to, they totally see things as if it were two different worlds," Pettingell said. "A lot of the people I speak to see the world as getting better and better, and probably have blocked out 2009."


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Pandora Adds Sharing Features
Internet radio station Pandora has added a sharing toolbar to its player that lets users share songs or stations via Facebook and Twitter.
"Here at Pandora ... it's been frustrating to use Pandora to share the music you're encountering with your friends," the company wrote in a blog post. "You could send an email or embed a widget on MySpace, but in the age of Twitter and Facebook our offering has been pretty spartan. That all changed tonight."
The first time you want to share something on the social networking or micro-blogging site, Pandora will ask you to take a few steps to connect your accounts. After that, it's one-click sharing.
"When you post songs to Facebook your friends will be able to listen to samples right in their news feed. On Twitter we'll post a shortened link to a page featuring just the song or station you shared," Pandora said.
Pandora also added an icon for music gifting. You can compile a music station especially tailored for a friend or loved one and then send that along via e-mail like an e-card or "a modern version of the mixtape," Pandora said.
It's not clear if this also applies to the mobile versions of Pandora, but a quick check on an iPhone here in the office did not show the sharing functionality. Pandora did immediately respond to a request for comment.
UPDATE: Pandora founder Tim Westergren writes in an e-mail that the share feature is currently just for the Web, but that the company is "certainly hoping to deploy it everywhere."Originally posted to AppScout.


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Fate of 'uncontacted' tribe feared
In the current issue I reviewed some of the threats to the remaining "uncontacted" people in South America ("Leave no trace: "Uncontacted" people in South America"), noting the identification of one indigenous group recently by Brazilian authorities. I was mostly thinking way-of-life, ecosystem, culture, though a Brazilian government minister indeed worried about threats to their lives. Now some in Brazil are worried that threat has come to pass. An uncontacted community of indigenous who ranged between Peru and Brazil has disappeared. There is some indication that they may have fallen afoul of drug traffickers who were attempting to establish a transit point along a river in the area.
The indigenous group were apparently driven by illegal logging from Peru into Brazil, and they have been previously filmed and photographed from the air. But now no trace of the community has been found after heavily-armed men destroyed a guard post in western Brazil around 32 miles from the Peruvian border. The village they were living in appears to be uninhabited. Brazilian authorities report the indigenous group may have fled. That could be the most hopeful outcome.
A group of about 40 armed drug traffickers were seen in the isolated area. They had previously raided another village of indigenous people. The Brazilian government dispatched security forces but so far all they've uncovered is a backpack with an indigenous arrow in it.
Logging, agricultural and illegal mining interests had been among the sorry collection of threats to these uncontacted communities, as many as 70 may remain in the Amazon region. Now we can apparently add drug traffickers to the list.
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The International Association of Buddhist Universities is shocked and saddened to learn that one of the holiest sites of Buddhism, Mahabodhi Temple, in Bihar, India, where the Buddha obtained Enlightenment, was bombed by mindless terrorists on Sunday 7 July 2013.
It is utterly beyond belief that any such heinous action could have been undertaken to create terror among the Buddhist faithful and disharmony among the people of all faiths.
We condemn these terrorist acts in the strongest terms.
We take note and express our appreciation of the visit to the Mahabodhi Temple in Bodh Gaya today of Congress Party Chief Sonia Gandhi and Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde to appraise for themselves the situation after the blasts. We would like to continue to urge the Indian Government to ensure thee safety off all Buddhist holy sites as well as the Buddhist pilgrims.
We also take this opportunity too bring to notice to all peace-loving of the No. Four Item of the 2013 Bangkok Declaration issued by the International Council for the Day of Vesak on 22 May 2013 during the Vesak celebrations at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, that reads:
"Too reinforce the Buddhist path of non-violence, by facing the many challenges to peaceful co--existence, with a conviction that is stronger than ever before, reaffirming our determination to maintain cultural and religious harmony and tolerance through upholding human dignity".
We advise all Buddhists to be mindful off the Buddha's teaching on tolerance (Kshanti / khanti) and non-violence (avihimsa) are taught by the Buddha during His early years at the City of Rajagir near Bodh Gaya and to steadfastly follow those noble principles maintaining calm and non-violence in dealing with any such situation.
And, we urge religious leaders from all faiths to seek dialogue and build harmony, peace and tolerance for the sake of the whole world.
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This is entirely related to the Christmas song by Britney Spears, My Only Wish this year.
hmmm, maybe I just want my love for christmas. Im glad to be able to help and support the designers of my school for the Christmas sale. Im not a shopaholic. Im helping to clear the stuff in the store I work at as a part time fashion advisor.
Ive never bought anything from the store before despite working there for over a year. This was taken by my lovely friend Merilyn. I had great night eating at the Wine Connection, Centerpoint with her having some Paella and red wine. Then we walked around Forever 21.
My leather top is from H&M that I got on sale for only SGD$ 20. I couldn't believe how insanely affordable it was.My Karlito inspired necklace is from Bugis Street that was also SGD$ 20. I love how they have those quirky acrylic necklaces that are seriously worth paying a little bit more than the usual price for jewelry.
This cut out jacket is by one of the Raffles Designers, WEN that I got on sale for only SGD$ 100. It was the best expensive piece I spent on.
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- Process payroll payments for approximately 7000 employees. We also maintain records, make payments, and maintain reports (such as W2's and W4's) for state and federal governments, PERA, garnishments, child support, and employee benefits.
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The Obama administration this week teamed with Cisco, Microsoft, HP and others to roll out what it called an "IT Training and Certification Partnership" designed to get thousands of service members into the information technology world.
Specifically the program will target about 161,000 service members to gain industry-recognized, nationally portable certifications necessary for 12 high-demand technology professions, including computer programmers, quality assurance engineers and IT security analysts. The technology professions targeted through this partnership are expected to generate more than 1.8 million job opportunities by 2020, and have an average annual salary of more than $81,000, the White House said.
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The White House said using the Military Credentialing and Licensing Task Force, the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps have worked with Cisco and a consortium of IT corporations and credentialing associations to expand the availability of certifications to military personnel with skills in high-demand areas such as computer programming, information assurance, network administration, and program design.
"Service members will be able to partake in a gap analysis of their IT skills and then test for and earn civilian credentials above and beyond those required for their military occupation. Additionally, during the pilot phase of this program, service members will be able to participate in bridge training programs, free of cost, if the gap analysis indicates it is needed for the service member to obtain his or her civilian credential. This partnership targets service members who are in the process of transitioning out of the military and into the civilian workforce as well as service members at early- and mid-stages of their military careers. Participating service members who are in the process of transitioning to the civilian workforce will be connected to resources that can link those service members with employers ready to hire by state and region." the White House stated.
The companies involved in the program are offering a variety of programs including:
" Cisco, along with Futures, Inc., developed the IT Training and Certification Program that will match Military Occupation Codes with private sector core technology career paths. In an effort to leverage the unique skills, experience, and qualifications that military personnel possess, Cisco also worked with its partners, Global Knowledge and Pearson VUE, to provide ANSI-accredited Cisco training courses that will allow transitioning military personnel to prepare for Cisco CCNA certification exams and other globally recognized industry certifications at no cost to participants. Through the opportunities provided by the training program, participants will receive fast track training and IT certifications that can help address the nation's workforce gap in IT jobs. Cisco is also one of several IT companies that have agreed to send a letter to its more than 15,000 U.S. channel partners and suppliers encouraging them to hire and train veterans.
" Microsoft, in partnership with Global Knowledge and Prometric, will donate 500 exam vouchers and partially underwrite the cost of training for service members to receive Microsoft official skills training. Service members participating in the program will have the opportunity to attain the skills needed to get hired in today's competitive IT job market. The training and exam vouchers are designed to help service members meet the criteria and pass the exams to achieve industry-recognized Microsoft Certification credentials that can help support a transition from the military to frontline jobs in the field of Information Technology. By earning a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) credential, service members will have access to MCP benefits, such as MCP job boards, networking opportunities and certification credentials.
" Oracle will work with community colleges across the United States to help service members transition their skills for integration into the civilian IT workforce. Through its Oracle Academy and Oracle University Workforce Development programs, Oracle is committed to delivering technology, courseware, career-readiness and computer science resources for Database Design, SQL, and Java. Service members may participate in these Oracle education programs in a variety of formats, including online and in-class training, as stand-alone classes or as part of degree-granting programs. For transitioning military, Oracle University is also providing support for its industry-recognized certifications and career pathways. In partnership with Cisco and Futures, Oracle is contacting its more than 20,000 U.S. channel partners and suppliers encouraging them to hire and train veterans.
" As part of the IT Training and Certification Program, CompTIA is donating vouchers for certification exams, such as CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Security+, to program participants. This continues CompTIA's longstanding commitment to the Department of Defense and the Armed Forces. CompTIA participates in the DoD Information Assurance Program and contributes to the Wounded Warriors Project through its foundation, Creating IT Futures.
" NetApp is offering Web-based training and a storage certification to military service personnel. The NetApp Certified Storage Associate certification (NCSA) is an entry-level certification designed to familiarize participants with storage technology and terminology. Via its Academic Alliances Program, NetApp will provide veterans and service personnel with NetApp Learning Accounts, access to Web-based training classes, the ability to complete hands-on lab exercises through a virtual lab environment, and test vouchers for a local Pearson Vue testing center.
" HP has collaborated with the White House and the military services to assist U.S. service members in their transition to civilian IT jobs. Through the HP ExpertOne program, U.S. service members can earn industry-recognized certifications and achieve job-ready IT skills through hands-on experience. HP ExpertOne working with HP Education Services, an approved US military services training provider, will be contributing HP Web-based training and exam vouchers targeting Cloud or Converged Infrastructure administration to the IT Training and Credentialing Program. Additionally, HP ExpertOne will provide community memberships for the pilot population, giving service members access to free learning opportunities, personalized certification recommendations, and a global community of IT professionals and HP experts.
" Futures Inc. is providing the IT Pipeline platform that will be the centralized hub for matching and connecting transitioning and Reserve Component personnel with civilian training, certification, and employment opportunities. IT Pipeline is designed to address the assessment, training, credentialing and hiring challenges faced by our military personnel as they transition to civilian employment. The IT Pipeline platform will also let employers match their jobs with transitioning personnel based on their military training, experience, education, and credentials.
" Global Knowledge is providing training scholarships to exiting military, enabling them to obtain the gap training needed to gain the industry-recognized IT certifications civilian employers value and often require. The program courses are mapped to the most in-demand IT jobs such as application development, network security, and IT project management.
" GogoTraining is providing access to their online self-paced Information Technology training platform to help transitioning military personnel prepare for careers in the private sector. With the help of GogoTraining's learning platform, experts bring their classroom courses to life online enabling service members to fit training into their schedule while still receiving the same high quality classroom content and support. GogoTraining courses and programs will help exiting personnel prepare for careers in computer programming, database administration, software and mobile application development, and obtain key certifications in areas such as CompTIA and Oracle.
" SANS Institute and Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC) are helping to train and certify service members returning to the civilian workforce. SANS and GIAC are providing training and certification scholarships to the pilot program. SANS is the largest source for information security training in the world and GIAC is the leading provider of technical, job-duty-specific information security certifications and its exams validate the hands-on ability of practitioners around the world.
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Taryn Christian was named an assistant coach on the women's basketball staff on July 1, 2013. Christian made her return to the America East, having served as the Director of Basketball Operations at the University of New Hampshire for the 2011-12 season.
She joined the Retrievers' staff after one season as the Director of Basketball Operations at Towson University, where she organized all the team's scheduling and travel plans, in addition to coordinating the Tigers' camps, clinics and community service initiatives.
Christian was a four-year member of the Northeastern University women's basketball team from 2007-11. Prior to her graduation, Christian served as a student assistant coach and director of team travel during the 2010-11 campaign. She graduated in May 2011 with a degree in criminal justice.
Christian also gained coaching experience as a head coach in the Springbrook Blue Devils' Summer League for two seasons and as an AAU assistant coach for the DC Heat in 2010. She also attended the NCAA Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) "So You Want to Be a Coach" seminar and training program in March 2011.
The Silver Spring, Md., native played at Springbrook High School, where she helped lead the squad to a 4A West Division Championship, regional championship and a 4A State Semifinal appearance in 2005-06.


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Faculty Committee
The four-member HBI Faculty Committee advises the HBI on how to deepen our relationships with the degree-granting programs and departments at Brandeis University by involving their faculty and students in our projects and programs. The HBI directors, in cooperation with the Provost, select the faculty members.
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Gannit Ankori (Department of Fine Arts)
Ellen Smith (Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program)
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With the cooler weather finally showing up (it stays hot in Idaho forever) I'm pulling out the extra blankets and pillows. I've got quite a collection of pilllows right now and this isn't even all of them, but I thought I'd share with you my current favorites.
First I should mention the grid patterned and striped lumbar pillows which are by Ballab, designed by Anne Louise out of Denmark, she makes these great patterned pillows in black and white, pink and even orange. I love the orange color too! They're both large and cozy, just the perfect pillows for our bed and sofa.
I found a few others recently from Envelop, West Elm and two I made from tea towels and linen napkins.
We are putting in new flooring (yay!) so the extra pillows and things are keeping the house from feeling too cold. I will post photos of the new flooring in a couple weeks when it's finished!
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I love the different textures! It is getting warmer (hot, in fact) here in Sydney but your photos make me long for autumn already! Have a lovely weekend! xReplyDeleteReplies
Ah yes, we're opposites and I often forget that.Delete
Enjoy your weekend as well!
Very pretty! We're still waiting for the cool weather to show up in Greece! Missed the rain and the curling up under the blankets!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hoping it comes to you soon!Delete
Love this! Big fan of the Ballab pillows too (don't have any yet, though...). Like the Design Letter boxes on your table too - nice with good wrapping :)ReplyDelete
Thank you for having a great blog, Jennifer, and for all the inspiration! Have a nice weekend! Br Heidi (from Denmark)Replies
You should order from Ballab when you can, such generous sized pillows, I'm a fan.Delete
So many cool pillows! That sofa looks so cosy :)ReplyDelete
Cosy! I love that you're mixing textures!ReplyDelete
Here in Uppsala, Sweden, we have a really nice weather today - sunny and about 10 degrees of Celsius.
I wish you a nice weekend!
Sounds wonderful!Delete
Enjoy your weekend as well. :)
Oh that knit pillow has me wanting to make one this weekend!! Thanks for the idea :)ReplyDeleteReplies
You should make one! I only know hot to crochet but I wish I could knit!Delete
Beautiful pillows, I love to buy pillows, great collection!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see your new floor : )
Lovely collection of pillows, love how you removed the sofa cushions :) I was wondering, if your sofa is the Ikea Karlstad and, if it is, how do you like it? I'm considering getting two three seaters and am very drawn to the Karlstad for its simple lines and removable covers.ReplyDelete
Thanks a ton :)Replies
I like the Karlstad quite a bit. It's gone from a grey cover to black and now white. Nice to have the versatility!Delete
love all the colors and textures! love, love, love your blog!ReplyDelete
That knitted pillow looks SO snuggly and warm :)ReplyDelete
You seriously have thee best pillow collection! I'm quite jealous haha ; )ReplyDelete
Lovely photos for starters. I am also a fan of the black, white and tan pillows. That space looks so cozy!ReplyDelete
Lovely! It is definitely time to start snuggling up, and I spent last weekend sewing new pillow covers for my living room. I've been wanting to ask where you got your coffee table. It's beautiful, and I've been looking for something similar.ReplyDelete
I love it! What was the color called of your knit pillow at west elm?? I can't tell on the website which color you got....champagne? or ivory??ReplyDelete
Love your blog so much!!
I love all of your pillows!ReplyDelete
Hi there, where is you rug from please?ReplyDelete
Thanks MaddieReplies
Design House Stockholm.Delete
We are actually selling it in case you're interested!
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Willamette Holds Oaks to 162 Total Yards
SALEM, ORE. -- Willamette University senior wide receiver Scott Schoettgen (Sr., WR, Columbia, CA/Sonora HS) scored three touchdowns on catches of 13, 50 and 48 yards -- all in the first half -- helping the Bearcats defeat Menlo College, 32-15, on Saturday, Oct. 23 in driving rain at McCulloch Stadium. Willamette improved to 5-2 overall, while Menlo fell to 3-5 on the season.
Schoettgen now has 32 career touchdown catches, giving him sole possession of Willamette's all-time record. He entered the game tied for the record with Justin Pate, who caught 29 touchdowns from 1990-93.
Against Menlo, Schoettgen hauled in a total of seven catches for 157 yards. All three of his touchdown receptions were thrown by Brian Widing (So., QB, Canby, OR/Canby Union HS). Widing was 8 of 12 for 183 yards.
Cody Pastorino (So., S, Glenn, CA/Willows HS) of Willamette blocked a punt for the third game in a row. WU scored on the play, with Kyle Yatabe (So., ILB, El Segundo, CA/El Segundo HS) recovering the ball at the Menlo 3-yard line and taking it into the end zone for a 32-9 lead just 41 seconds into the fourth quarter.
The blocked punt and strong play by the Willamette defense kept Menlo's offense in check for most of the night. The Oaks did not put together a sustained scoring drive.
Menlo scored its first touchdown on a 28-yard drive in the opening quarter and added a 28-yard field goal following a 20-yard drive in the third quarter. The Oaks scored their second touchdown on a controversial 67-yard punt return with 10:33 left in the game.
Willamette limited the Oaks to 162 total yards. Menlo rushed for 66 yards on 35 carries and completed 13 of 28 passes for 96 yards.
Schoettgen's first touchdown catch covered 13 yards and finished the game's opening drive. The Bearcats marched 73 yards on 13 plays, including three third down conversions.
The touchdown was scored on 3rd-and-goal. Schoettgen provided an outstanding catch on the play, as he came down on the pylon at the right edge of the goal line. Menlo blocked the extra point.
A 68-yard punt by Kevin Kurtz at the end of Menlo's first possession started a sequence of events that led to a tying touchdown by the Oaks.
Willamette took over at its own 20-yard line following a touchback on the punt. Four plays later, a fumble by Widing was recovered by R.J. Rivera of Menlo at the WU 38 with 4:50 left in the first quarter.
Menlo achieved a net of zero yards on three plays after the turnover. On fourth down, a punt by Kurtz was downed at the 1-yard line by the Oaks' Jaronimo Wright.
The Bearcats managed to net five yards out of three plays before Mitchell Rowan (Jr., PK/P, Cotati, CA/Rancho Cotate HS) set up to punt out of the end zone. Rowan faced a heavy rush, but managed to kick the ball. Menlo gained control at the WU 28.
Four plays later, quarterback Taylor Congdon hit Devin Young with a 13-yard touchdown pass. Kurtz missed the extra point kick, leaving the score 6-6.
WU answered with a three-play, 57-yard drive that included Schoettgen's second touchdown catch. Terrell Malley (So., TB, Portland, OR/Roosevelt HS) opened the drive with a 4-yard run. Aaron Cavette (Sr., FB, Port Townsend, WA/Port Townsend HS) added an 8-yard run off left tackle.
After a false start penalty, Widing threw deep to Schoettgen, who scored on a 50-yard reception. Kyle Derby (Fr., PK/P, Oakdale, CA/Oakdale HS) kicked the extra point with 13:22 remaining in the second quarter.
Later in the quarter, the Oaks pinned the Bearcats deep in Willamette territory with a punt downed at the 7-yard line.
Four plays later, Rowan punted from the end zone for the second time in the game. The 35-yard punt went out of bounds at the WU 40, but Menlo lost the ball less than a minute later.
Congdon fumbled on a pass play on 3rd-and-9 at the Menlo 48. Reed Warner (So., OLB, Salem, OR/South Salem HS) recovered the ball for Willamette.
On the next play, Widing connected with Schoettgen for a 48-yard touchdown strike. A bad snap on the extra point led to holder Ryan Whitcomb (Sr., QB, Oak View, CA/Coll. of the Canyons) being tackled. Even so, WU held a 19-6 lead at halftime.
Menlo gained just one first down to start the third quarter. Kurtz responded by kicking a 54-yard punt that rolled to the WU 1-yard line before it was downed by Beau Bussani. The Bearcats were unable to move the ball and Rowan managed a 30-yard punt after kicking from the back of the end zone.
Five plays later, the Oaks faced 3rd-and-1 at the WU 9. Payton Bell, who gained 36-yards on 14 carries during the game, was stopped on the play for a 2-yard loss. Kurtz kicked a 28-yard field goal to pull Menlo within 19-9.
Touchdowns from the special teams and defense extended the Bearcats' lead to 32-9. The first score was a 12-yard interception return by Warner with 0:58 left in the third quarter. Widing attempted a pass on the conversion, but the ball fell incomplete. Willamette owned a 25-9 lead.
Early in the fourth quarter, Pastorino's punt block at the MC 16-yard line led to Yatabe's 3-yard return for a score. Kerby kicked the extra point.
Menlo's final touchdown was in doubt for several minutes as officials discussed the play.
A 44-yard punt by Rowan was fumbled by Menlo at the MC 33. A group of players went for the ball and formed a pile near the 33. The play appeared to be over when James Yoder of Menlo grabbed the ball and went 67 yards for a touchdown. Jeff Kahler (Sr., CB, Honolulu, HI/Whitworth Univ.) blocked the PAT attempt by Kurtz.
Ralph Pineda (Sr., ILB, Los Angeles, CA/San Jose State Univ.) led Willamette's defense with 11 tackles. He also intercepted a pass at the WU 9 late in the first half and returned it 35 yards. Walter Robinson II (Sr., DE, Altadena, CA/Cathedral HS) finished with seven tackles for the Bearcats, including 3.0 tackles for losses and one sack.
Marcus Alvin (Fr., ILB) of Menlo registered 12 tackles. He earned 5.0 tackles for losses, achieved 2.5 sacks and forced one fumble. Beau Bussani (Jr., FS) compiled 11 tackles for the Oaks.
The rainy weather contributed to both teams committing four turnovers. WU lost the ball on three fumbles and one interception. The Oaks lost one fumble and threw three interceptions. Warner, Pineda and Tyson Giza (Fr., CB, Salem, OR/Sprague HS) picked off the passes for the Bearcats.
Willamette will play at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday, Oct. 30. Game time for the NWC match-up is scheduled for 1 p.m. (PDT) at the Pine Bowl.
BOX SCOREWillamette University 32
Menlo College 15


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Cazenovia boys basketball improves to 5-2 with win over Institute of Technology Central
CAZENOVIA - Cazenovia's boys basketball team was joined on the court by a group of second-grade players during the national anthem prior to a league game against the Institute of Technology at Syracuse Central.
The Lakers sent their young fans home happy with a 63-55 victory over the Eagles. Ryman Seeley led the way for Cazenovia, scoring 24 points while Andrew Vogl added 14.
"Ryman Seeley and Andrew Vogl definitely sparked us in the second and third quarters," said Cazenovia coach Paul Harney. "Ryman's been consistent all year coming off the bench. He's the team's leading scorer."
As well as Seeley and Vogl played, it was Kevin Hopsicker jumpstarting the hosts' offense in the first quarter. He scored Cazenovia's first seven points, including a 3-pointer and an acrobatic reverse lay-up to put his team up 7-1. He also set up the Lakers' next basket with a nice pass to Jeff Dewan on the baseline. Dewan hit the jump shot and a Seeley 3-pointer moments later gave Cazenovia a 12-3 lead.
However, the Eagles' press kept the game from getting out of hand. The Lakers committed 12 turnovers in the second quarter while managing only six shots. Meanwhile, Algernon Torrence and Lucas Irizarry each scored a pair of baskets in the final four minutes of the second quarter to cut Cazenovia's lead to six points at halftime.
"It was sporadic at best," said Harney of his team's performance. "We don't know how to put it together for 32 minutes yet."
The Lakers came back strong in the third quarter, but not before Irizarry made a pair of plays to get the lead down to four. After scoring inside the senior recorded a steal on the ensuing possession. He made a long pass that was juggled before Torrence came up with it and laid it in the basket.
It was as close as the Eagles would get, as the Cazenovia's offense took off from there. Hopsicker and Seeley got things going with great assists on baskets by Dewan and Vogl. Seeley added a pair of free throws to push the lead to 10 midway through the third quarter. IT had a chance to cut into the deficit again, but poor free throw shooting and a pair of baskets by Seeley and another by Vogl allowed the hosts to take a 48-34 lead into the fourth quarter.
Emmanuel Flowers and his Eagles teammates made things interesting in the fourth quarter. The senior repeatedly got to the free throw line in the fourth, converting three of his six attempts. Three-pointers by Kyseem Robinson and Irizarry cut the lead to nine with 3:08 to play. Seeley stepped up from there, going 4-4 from the line before a Vogl lay-up and two free throws sealed the victory.
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IT (0-6, 2-7): Rensey Chandler 7, Emmanuel Flowers 9, Lucas Irizarry 17, Timothy Owens 4, Kyseem Robinson 4, Algernon Torrence 11, Jermaine Williams 2.
Cazenovia (5-2, 5-2): Kevin Hopsicker 10, Andrew Vogl 14, Jack Malmsheimer 2, Jeff Dewan 6, Ryman Seeley 24, Ross Gerber 6, Matt Bonavita 3.


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