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Kinematics and Robot Design
The KINEMATICS AND ROBOT DESIGN group carries out fundamental research on design, construction, and motion analysis of complex mechanisms and structures. These devices are parallel manipulators, multi-fingered hands, reconfigurable mechanisms, or cooperating robots, to name a few, but they appear in other domains too, as mechanistic models of locomotive organisms, molecular compounds, or nano-structures.
Head of line: Josep Maria Porta Pleite
Research areas
>> Robot design and construction
>> Position analysis of multi-loop linkages
>> Motion planning
>> Singularity analysis
Tech. transfer
Our activity finds applications in several fields through collaboration with our technological partners
Research projects
We carry out projects from national and international research programmes.
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Robot design and construction
The group designs and constructs innovative mechatronic devices mainly based on parallel architectures. Our developments include the "Wrenchpad" (a six-axis tactile pad), an original air-pumped positioning table, several tensegrity-based robots, a pentaglide, several variations of the Gough-Stewart platform kinematically equivalent the octahedral manipulator, and a twelve degree-of-freedom ameba-like robot.
Position analysis of multi-loop linkages
The group develops techniques for linkage position analysis, i.e., for computing all possible configurations that a linkage can adopt, while respecting the kinematic constraints imposed by its joints. The problem finds applications to robotics (direct and inverse kinematics of serial/parallel robots, cooperative manipulation, and closed-chain motion planning), structural biology (conformational analysis of biomolecules), multibody dynamics (initial position and finite displacement problems), and computer-aided design (variational CAD and assembly positioning). The group works essentially along two different approaches, one based on relaxation techniques (see the CUIK project), and the other based on the deduction of characteristic polynomials using Distance Geometry.
Motion planning
The group also develops methods for closed-chain motion planning. In Robotics, for instance, this problem appears in motion planning for parallel manipulators, in object manipulation with anthropomorphic hands, in constraint-based object positioning, or in surgery or humanoid robots. The problem also appears in Biochemistry, when searching for low-energy paths between different molecular conformations. In all cases, a number of loop-closure constraints give rise to a configuration space of a complex structure on which standard algorithms for motion planning cannot be directly applied. The group addresses this problem using higher-dimensional continuation methods that allow characterizing the configuration space in an incremental way.
Singularity analysis
Singularities play a prominent role on understanding of a robot's configuration space. Depending on their nature, singularities give rise to dexterity or controllability losses and thus are to be avoided during the normal operation of a robot. They may, however, give rise to mechanical advantage too - i.e., to the transformation of small joint torques into large end-effector forces - which may be beneficial on specific applications. Also, output singularities provide the boundary of the workspace, which is a useful information for the robot designer. As a consequence, the group is developing new geometric tools that allow characterizing and computing the various singularity loci of a manipulator, either for classes of parallel mechanisms, or for general multi-body systems.
These are the latest research projects of the Kinematics and Robot Design research line:
MEQUIRP: Mechatronic equipment for a rapid-prototyping lab
National Project
Start Date: 01/01/2018
RobCab: Control strategies for cable-driven robot for low-gravity simulation
National Project
Start Date: 01/01/2015
CUIK++: An Extension of Branch-and-Prune Techniques for Motion Analysis and Synthesis of Complex Robotic Systems
National Project
Start Date: 01/01/2011
PROSURF: Superfícies programables
National Project
Start Date: 20/12/2011
CUIK+: Analysis and motion planning of complex robotic systems
National Project
Start Date: 01/10/2007
CUIK: Planificador de trayectorias para sistemas robotizados de arquitectura arbitraria
National Project
Start Date: 13/12/2005
TenSeBot: Estudio de estructuras tensegrity para el desarrollo de sensores manipuladores y robots móviles
National Project
Start Date: 01/10/2006
SIRVENT: Sistema reconfigurable para la navegación basada en visión de robots caminantes y rodantes en entornos naturales.
National Project
Start Date: 01/12/2003
DIST: Design and implementation of efficient parallelizable algorithms with applications to robotics and proteomics
National Project
Start Date: 01/12/2003
ARGOS: Navegación autónoma de robots guiados por objetivos visuales
National Project
Start Date: 28/12/2000
RESOL: Resolución de sistemas de ecuaciones cinemáticas para la simulación de mecanismos, posicionado interactivo de objetos y conformación de moléculas
National Project
Start Date: 28/12/2000
NAVEGA: Navegación basada en visión de robots autónomos en entornos no estructurados.
National Project
Start Date: 01/08/1997
CUIK-IT: Un sistema modular para el análisis cinemático y la construcción de manipuladores planares
CSIC Project
Start Date: 01/01/2012
SPLAM: Desarrollo de algoritmos de SPLAM para robótica móvil
CSIC Project
Start Date: 01/08/2007
WRENCHPAD: Plataforma torsométrica basada en estructuras de tensigridad
CSIC Project
Start Date: 01/07/2006
AMOBIO: Reconstrucció i anàlisi del moviment de grans estructures robòtiques i bioquímiques.
Regional Project
Start Date: 01/01/2007
XARTAP: Estació de muntatge universal
Regional Project
Start Date: 01/01/2006
CERTAP: Estació de treball multibraç
Regional Project
Start Date: 01/04/2002
SICOSOL: Sistemas de Seguimiento y Concentración de Energía Solar
Technology Transfer Contract
Start Date: 20/06/2014
IDAHO: Kinematic synthesis for scalable finger/thumb exoskeleton robot
Technology Transfer Contract
Start Date: 12/03/2010
MANIPTENS: Estudio y diseño de manipulador mecánico sobreactuado basado en estructuras tensigrity
National Project
Start Date: 13/07/2007
VALTEC: Sistema de muntatge de robots paral.lels
Regional Project
Start Date: 30/10/2008
These are the most recent publications (2019 - 2018) of the Kinematics and Robot Design
S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. A survey on the computation of quaternions from rotation matrices. Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, 11(2): 021006, 2019.
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P. Grosch and F. Thomas. Parallel Robots With Unconventional Joints. Kinematics and Motion Planning. Volume of Parallel Robots: Theory and Applications. Springer, 2019.
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E. Celaya. Solution intervals for variables in spatial RCRCR linkages. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 133: 481-492, 2019.
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F. Simao, F. Martínez-Jerónimo, V. Blasco, F. Moreno-Noguer, J.M. Porta, J. Pestana, A. Soarez, D. Raldúa and C. Barata. Using a new high-throughput video-tracking platform to assess behavioural changes in Daphnia magna exposed to neuro-active drugs. Science of the Total Environment, 662: 160-167, 2019.
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S. Sarabandi, A. Perez and F. Thomas. On Cayley's factorization with an application to the orthonormalization of noisy rotation matrices. Advances in Applied Clifford Algebras, 29: 49, 2019.
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A. Shabani, S. Sarabandi, J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. A fast branch-and-prune algorithm for the position analysis of spherical mechanisms, 15th IFToMM World Congress on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2019, Krakow, Poland, in Advances in Mechanism and Machine Science, Vol 73 of Mechanism and Machine Science, pp. 549-558, Springer.
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R. Bordalba, L. Ros and J.M. Porta. A randomized kinodynamic planner for closed-chain robotic systems. Technical Report IRI-TR-19-02, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, 2019.
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A. Bazaga, M.R. , C.B. , C.J. and J.M. Porta. A convolutional neural network for the automatic diagnosis of collagen VI-related muscular dystrophies. Applied Soft Computing, 85: 105772, 2019.
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R. Bordalba, L. Ros and J.M. Porta. Randomized kinodynamic planning for constrained systems, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 7079-7086.
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R. Bordalba, J.M. Porta and L. Ros. A singularity-robust LQR controller for parallel robots, 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018, Madrid, pp. 270-276.
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R. Bordalba, L. Ros and J.M. Porta. Randomized planning of dynamic motions avoiding forward singularities, 16th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2018, Bologna, Italy, in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2018, Vol 8 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 170-178, 2019.
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S. Sarabandi, A. Perez-Gracia and F. Thomas. Singularity-free computation of quaternions from rotation matrices in E4 and E3, 7th Conference on Applied Geometric Algebras in Computer Science and Engineering, 2018, Campinas, Brazil, to appear.
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J.M. Porta, S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. Angle-bound smoothing with applications in kinematics, 5th IFToMM Asian Conference on Mechanism and Machine Science, 2018, Bengaluru, India, to appear.
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A. Makhal, F. Thomas and A. Perez. Grasping unknown objects in clutter by superquadric representation, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, 2018, Laguna Hills, United States, pp. 292-299, IEEE.
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J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. The forward kinematics of doubly-planar Gough-Stewart platforms and the position analysis of strips of tetrahedra, 16th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2018, Bologna, Italy, in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2018, Vol 8 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 124-132, 2019.
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J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. Yet another approach to the Gough-Stewart platform forward kinematics, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018, Brisbane, Australia, pp. 974-980.
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J.M. Porta, N. Rojas and F. Thomas. Distance geometry in active structures. In Mechatronics for Cultural Heritage and Civil Engineering, 115-136. Springer, 2018.
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S. Sarabandi and F. Thomas. Accurate computation of quaternions from rotation matrices, 16th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics, 2018, Bologna, Italy, in Advances in Robot Kinematics 2018, Vol 8 of Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, pp. 39-46, 2019.
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S. Sarabandi, P. Grosch, J.M. Porta and F. Thomas. A reconfigurable asymmetric 3-UPU parallel robot , 4th International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots, 2018, Delft, Netherlands, pp. 1-8.
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Kinematic and Robot Design Laboratory
The Kinematics and Robot Design Laboratory was created thanks to the financial support of the VALTEC program, co-financed with FEDER funds, of the Autonomous Goverment of Catalonia. It was initially created to validate the practical interest of our parallel robot designs, but it has rapidly derived into an active lab where the prototypes designed by the researchers of the Group of Kinematics and Robot Design are implemented as proofs of concept.
Celaya Llover, Enric
celaya (at) iri.upc.edu
Porta Pleite, Josep Maria
porta (at) iri.upc.edu
Ros Giralt, Lluís
ros (at) iri.upc.edu
Ruiz de Angulo García, Vicente
ruiz (at) iri.upc.edu
Thomas, Federico
thomas (at) iri.upc.edu
PhD Students
Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard
rbordalba (at) iri.upc.edu
Moreno Martín, Siro
smorenom (at) iri.upc.edu
Sarabandi, Soheil
ssarabandi (at) iri.upc.edu
Shabani, Arya
ashabani (at) iri.upc.edu
Urra González, Fernando Patricio
furra (at) iri.upc.edu
Master Students
Marchi, Tommaso
tmarchi (at) iri.upc.edu
Moreno Caireta, Iñigo
imoreno (at) iri.upc.edu
Tarragó Sanchis, Esteve
etarrago (at) iri.upc.edu


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"Appellant submitted the case upon its merits. And some merit it does possess."
It's hard to decide whether to laugh or cry when reading United States v. Adams, 74 M.J. 589, No. 20140377 (A. Ct. Crim. App. Jan. 26, 2015) (link to slip op.). But the case is a novelty for sure.
The appellant twice absented himself from his unit, one time for about 3 months and the other time for about 3 years. For these absences he was charged with desertion; an offense that requires intent to remain away permanently. But the appellant maintained that he always intended to return, and at a general court-martial composed of a military judge alone he pleaded not guilty to the charged desertions, but guilty to the lesser included offense of unauthorized absence.
The Government then proceeded to trial on the greater offense of desertion for both absences. Yet the trial counsel gave no opening statement, presented no evidence, and immediately rested. The Defense case consisted solely of the appellant testifying in his own defense, mainly by asserting that "he never entertained the intent to remain away permanently." Slip op. at 3. The Defense then rested, and the Government presented no case in rebuttal.
The judge deliberated for 12 minutes before convicting the appellant of desertion for both absences. The adjudged sentence was confinement for 140 days, reduction to E-1, and a bad-conduct discharge.
The case was submitted to the Army CCA pro forma, or "on the merits," meaning that the appellant submitted the case without any assignment of error and made no request for relief. Nevertheless, in a decision authored by Judge Krauss, the Army CCA reverses the desertion convictions.
Judge Krauss' opinion focuses on two issues: RCM 917, and the appropriateness of basing a conviction solely on a judgment of an accused's credibility.
For RCM 917, Judge Krauss notes that the Rule requires a finding of not guilty (on motion or sua sponte) if the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction. He then explains:
If ever there were a case for the judge to sua sponte address the propriety of a finding of not guilty under R.C.M. 917, this is it. To begin with, it is important to recognize that while an accused's plea to a lesser-included offense may establish the elements it shares with a greater contested offense, the accused's providence inquiry to that lesser-included offense, as the judge properly advised, cannot be used to prove any additional element required to establish the greater offense charged. Therefore, where the government immediately rested without introducing any evidence, there could be no more plain or obvious a scenario where a motion for a finding of not guilty should have been made. Instead, the judge invited defense counsel to call witnesses, and the defense counsel then called appellant to testify in his own defense.
Slip op. at 4-5 (citations omitted).
As for basing the desertion convictions on appellant's credibility (or lack thereof) while testifying in his own defense:
Of course, an accused testifies at his own peril and his denials under oath may be rejected by the finder of fact and used against him when resolving his guilt. United States v. Pleasant, 71 M.J. 709, 712-14 (Army Ct. Crim. App. 2012), pet. denied, 72 M.J. 385 (C.A.A.F. 2013). However, an accused cannot be convicted on his testimony alone.
Slip op. at 5 (citations omitted). The crucial point is the Government's burden to actually prove guilt. Judge Krauss explains that "at a minimum, where an accused's testimony is used as evidence that he committed a charged offense, the government must introduce some evidence corroborative of the alleged offense before the fact finder is permitted to consider whether, in light of all the evidence, the government has proven an accused's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt." Slip op. at 5-6 (citations omitted).
And so Judge Krauss concludes:
Though the judge apparently rejected appellant's denials at trial, assessed appellant's self-interested testimony as incredible, and used the same to find the opposite of appellant's denials true, it was a violation of the minimum guarantees of due process to convict appellant of the contested charge of desertion on the assessment of his credibility alone.
Slip op. at 7.
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Let's say I don't fault the trial counsel for phoning it in…let's say I don't fault the defense counsel for not jumping on the 917 motion…
How on earth do the Chief of Justice and SJA not advise the CA to disapprove those findings?
I don't know all the facts, but a 3-year absence (ending in apprehension?) and an accused who chooses to testify, but is not believed by the fact-finder, seems to be a formula for "guilty."
" How on earth do the Chief of Justice and SJA not advise the CA to disapprove those findings?" As a community, we overlook how many weak attorneys are promoted on their strengths as officers.
That's probably not fair. Although I certainly have my issues with how promotions are done, I don't believe it's necessarily a case of "weak attorneys-strong officers." I do think the emphasis on "well-rounded" makes it a negative to have too much criminal law experience if you want to get promoted, which can mean that COJs and SJAs may not have the MJ experience we'd like them to have.
That doesn't make them "weak attorneys." I put the fault on the MJ first, the TC second (which means the entire government supervisory chain), and the DC third. Each made pretty basic errors.
Perhaps it's Monday morning quarterbacking, but this looks embarrassing all around. So many questions…
1) Why would TC go forward on the greater offense, but present no evidence?
Setting aside the burden of proof issue, what exactly was the point of that exercise?
2) In the absence of TC not presenting anything, why would DC elect to put the accused on the stand, vice moving for a finding of not guilty?
Okay – your guy's pleaded not guilty to desertion and the gov't puts on no case. Um, red flag, anyone? Why aren't you thinking 917 right away?? ACCA is right – if ever there was a case for a 917 motion, this was it. Moreover, never hurts to just throw it out there and see what happens – see US v. Fosler.
3) Why would the MJ convict on the greater offense?
Assuming TC/DC are young CPTs, maybe they're young and inexperienced. But your honor, c'mon. No evidence from the gov't…and you still convict? Why? Even if you don't feel like doing a 917 sua sponte motion, you just invited an appellate issue…and 12 minutes doesn't help the fact pattern too much, either. At least go get lunch or something first.
4) Why would DAD not raise the issue on appeal?
As a former app defense guy, yeah, we know the sentence is going to get reassessed to…oila!…the same sentence, but at least put up a fight for the guy. I mean, if I can remove the label of deserter from my client's criminal record, that's something to the client's benefit, right?
5) What happened here?
Was this just a sinister attempt to see if CCA judges actually read the ROTs of cases submitted on the merits??
McLaughlin — it would be, except that the prosecution should have introduced evidence of his long absences. As a matter of law, his guilty plea could not be used to establish the additional element for desertion…those facts could be used, but they had to be proved with additional evidence. That was the prosecution's mistake.
If they'd negotiated a deal on a mixed plea, they could've agreed that the stipulation was usable for findings, or had a separate stip for findings (I did that once, to the mutual benefit of all concerned). But maybe their positions were too far apart to try that.
Nathan — Well, to your #2, the defense might be worried that the judge will take the opportunity to invite the prosecution to reopen their case and present some evidence. If they took the hint…they might look clumsy as hell, but I bet they could get evidence of his long absence in jig time, since the case was being tried stateside at the post he was missing from. I don't know Judge Lippert at all, but I've known some judges who would give the TC a friendly nudge in that direction.
A "well-rounded" attorney has been the standard since the Civil War; however, the law has become vastly more complicated in the interim. Because "well-rounded" is the coin of the realm, "pretty basic errors" occur. I have seen them occur with frightening regularity. Unfortunately, that means we are ignoring our professional obligations by tolerating them.
This case is emblematic of systemic failures.
Am I off base in guessing that nobody's head will roll for this debacle?
Nathan — Well, to your #2, the defense might be worried that the judge will take the opportunity to invite the prosecution to reopen their case and present some evidence. If they took the hint…they might look clumsy as hell, but I bet they could get evidence of his long absence in jig time, since the case was being tried stateside at the post he was missing from. I don't know Judge Lippert at all, but I've known some judges who would give the TC a friendly nudge in that direction.
@JW, point taken on the 917 having the MJ permit reopening, but what really makes me scratch my head (well one of the things) is the DC putting the accused on the stand after the government presented nothing.
I'm not sure that I like that the accused gets to choose to take the stand and, no matter how incredible his statements, the MJ can't call BS and find him guilty of the greater charge (esp when the D(IA)C walks him through each element), but that is really on the G for not putting on something (anything!) in findings in which case this probably is fine and thus this is insufficiently likely to be repeated that I guess it isn't something to be concerned about.
Truth really is stranger then fiction sometimes.
Tbeckett, well from my POV you can say "we won't tolerate folks with limited experience making basic errors" when the system you set up discourages folks from spending enough time in criminal law to build up the experience to avoid making "basic errors."
From my time in, we've seemed to veer back and forth and back again between "no specializing" to "it's ok if it's crim law because we need it" to "no specializing."
The participant I can't figure out in all this is appellate defense counsel. Don't they begin with the rebuttable presumption that if the accused is convicted of something to which he pleaded not guilty, they will challenge the conviction on appeal? And then when you see that the Government presented no evidence at trial, the path on appeal seems clear.
I agree with those who suggest that if the DC moved under 917 the MJ probably would have let the Government reopen its case. I mean, all the Government had to do was put in evidence on the length of absence and I think that would be sufficient to support an inference of intent to remain away permanently.
It seems like only in the MJ system do you get a bizarre case like this. Who but the most cynical supervisor (CoJ) lets a TC prove up a desertion charge with NO evidence and NO case? On procedural grounds alone that should be a non-starter. That's a borderline violation of prosecutorial ethics and PR rules because the gov't prosecuted a charge for which they planned to prevent no evidence. But since we all know how CMs go, that CoJ and TC thought this was a viable (maybe even smarmy/cheeky) idea. If it wasn't a cynical decision, then it was sheer laziness or ineptitude. But this being the Army, it could be all of the above. Arrogance and indignation piled on top of ignorance and laziness. Broadly skilled JA indeed.
Glad to see that decision to stand up the 7th ID solely to cut down on I Corps' UCMJ case load is working out so well.
afjagapt — One possibility is that they were hoping for an acquittal right then instead of just "a really great appellate issue"…since appeals courts themselves can do head-scratchy things to keep a conviction alive.
There are some older cases (from the 50's if I remember) where a person testified he left the Army to "work the family farm" or take care of some kind of personal business, but intended to come back afterwards…and ultimately got relief for it since their accounts were not contradicted. That is one defense advantage in AWOL cases…the prosecution is probably not going to chase down the accused's associates to find out what he was doing and saying off on the other side of the country (or the ocean), so his own account is likely to be uncontroverted.
I don't know if that was the defense's reasoning or not, but it could make sense.
Re: the 917, something tells me the MJ could've let the TC re-open the case, but I don't think they were prepared to put on evidence. My sneaking suspicion is TC thought a res ipsa theory of 3 years = equals desertion would speak for itself without having to actually present in their case in chief the three year absence which already came out through the Care inquiry. In other words, the element of 3 years having been pleaded to, no more work needed. Still, what's the point? Did they think they were going to get a greater sentence? I would hazard to say TC's sentencing evidence was unaffected by whether the conviction was for desertion or AWOL.
@John O'Connor – I wouldn't say there's a rebuttable presumption that you challenge litigated convictions on appeal . When you get the ROT and see there are litigated specs, you look carefully at what evidence the gov't presented to prove them up, plus all the other things the gov't can do to mess up in a litigated case. If I saw that the gov't presented no evidence, I would've been salivating. You don't win too many on appeal on the defense side, so never pass up a chance to win anything – especially if it gets your name on the back of the Honey Badger mat outside Dwight Sullivan's office. But seriously, I do think removing the deserter label is meaningful relief for the client. As far as military specific offenses go, civilians know what being a deserter means and I could foresee that carrying a stigma for the client in various economic or social settings.
I do not see how this case could have provided any other result, but what gets me is that it went through the TC, Chief of MJ, Dep SJA/SJA, CA, GAD, and DAD before an appellate judge pretty much caught this sua sponte.
I have also wondered about cases where CCA grants relieve and knocks off six months of time off the sentence of a guy who has already served his entire sentence. There ought to be a rule that they get something meaningful to make up for this time, but they all seem OK with it and even here, I am sure the guy did all the time, so CCA prevents the "injustice" by reassessing the sentence as the same.
Despite that, it is extremely valuable to not be a deserter. A lot of good soldiers from back in the day have some AWOL time and lost time. I have seen it when reviewing ERBs of senior NCOs with low GT scores (their rank goes E1, E2, E3, E2, E3, E4, E3, E4, and on up and they have a couple periods of lost time). I suppose that is just life experience for an old soldier. You haven't lived unless you have absented yourself a couple of times without leave. It shows you are brave and not scared to stand up to "the man." In any case, they always come back. Being a deserter means that they left to go hang out in China and Russia with Jane Fonda and help make IEDs for the Viet Kong.
Many years ago I had the exact same thing happen in a Wrongful Appropriation case. Client plead. Government wanted to prove up the larceny. No opening, no evidence. Government rests. Before I could stand up the military judge said "accused and counsel please rise." Client was acquitted of the larceny. Still didn't beat the deal as I recall, but a good lesson in how to properly manage such a situation.

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text: So my dad picked up a ps2 slim from a garage sale for a buck, the guy who sold it to him claimed it worked sometimes, but not all the time. I put in the power cords and tested it and this was pretty much the case, the game would start to load and even got to the menu screen, but it took a long time and it skipped a little bit and was slow, and the disc makes this noise while in the drive, like it starts to speed up, then kind of stops, then starts to speed up again. So I took it apart to try and see if there was anything wrong with it. Aside from a dead spider who made it's nest around the cooler (which I cleaned off), there doesn't seem to be much wrong with it that's apparent, it's fairly clean. Anyways, I tried the little trick where you hold both of the clips to get the drive to spin while the cover (the entire top part) is off, while the ps2 is opened, and it started booting the game, though I only hold my hands there for about a minute until I saw the screen show the "square enix" logo of the demo disc I was testing, it was clear it was about to boot up, so I'm pretty sure it's not the laser (though I have cleaned the lens with a q-tip and rubbing alcohol), but as I said, I pretty much only let it go to the logo. I'm kind of stuck here, so I'm asking you guys for help. And the little gold motor spinny thing is in place, it hasn't fallen out of it's bearing, been looking at articles and youtube videos on how to fix it, been at it for about 2 hours but still no luck. It's almost as if there's something about the top plastic case itself that's causing a problem, but I can't be certain. So what do you guys think is wrong, and can it be fixed? edit: Also, I was the first to break the warranty seal, so this hasn't been tampered with prior to me opening it. And when I kept the disc in there for a little while, I can hear a high pitched sound a few times.


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A winner was selected from 144 designs submitted by 49 freelance designers.
We will sell customized name labels and posters to parents (moms). The target market is moms from 25-38 years old. (Example of an other company that does this: https://www.tinyme.com.au)
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Cha'kor is new emerging brand. The brand is owned by Sidra Iftekhar & Rabia Sami. ESSI apparels is engaged in the manufacturing retail sales and the marketing of clothing ethnic women's designer as well as wear Western or Eastern.Stoles kurties, Tees jeans and many other products.
Cha'kor has recently launched their spring summer 2013 women's collection. Collection Cha'kor 2013 is a perfect casual clothing for women. Elegant and stylish long shirts are included in this collection. You can wear these shirts with jeans tights pajamas churidaar & jeans. All shirts are adorned with various embellishments such as embroidery buttons and beads. Garments may be worn on all official events and bring together the functions also.


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Getting a product to the market isn't always an easy process, and any mistakes that you make along the way could impact your finances for years to come. Without the proper research, you could find yourself dealing with a wide variety of issues ranging from manufacturing delays to unsatisfied customers. In some cases, you might even face a lawsuit from other companies or entrepreneurs. Here is a quick look at the steps you need to take to turn your basic idea into a viable product.
Conduct Market Research
If you want your product to be successful, then you need to spend plenty of time on your market research. During this stage, you are going to study competing products, competing manufacturers, the state of the industry, and the viability of your product. Once you have done that, you will then need to apply for the preliminary patents and trademarks in order to legally protect your ideas. All of the information that you gather during your research will need to be turned into an official business plan if you are going to require outside investments at a later time.
Test and Prototype
This step is heavily dependent on what type of product you plan on selling. Entrepreneurs who are designing electronics will need to work with an experienced manufacturer who uses printed circuit boards, like those from streamline Circuits, and can help them design and produce whatever item they are looking to make. This is another important step if you need outside financial support, and many investors won't even consider offering a loan until they see a well-designed prototype. The information that you gather while prototyping must be included in the official business plan as well.
Explore Your Financing Options
There are dozens of different ways to finance a new product or company. Most entrepreneurs should consider applying for a business loan through a traditional bank or credit union. With a business loan, you will have almost full control over the product and the direction of your company. Those who don't qualify for a business loan might need to explore additional options like crowdfunding or working directly with investors. Once you have the finances squared away, you then need to show your product to the world.
Start Marketing
Marketing is more affordable than ever, but it can also be quite difficult if you are unsure of where to start. The most inexpensive way to market is to conduct an online campaign with a website and through social media. More traditional advertising mediums such as billboards and radio spots can be very effective, but they are also expensive. No matter what type of marketing you choose, you should start as early as possible and stay consistent.
During this process, entrepreneurs and inventors need to remember that there are potential pitfalls around every corner. Spending more time the on market research and testing will minimize your risks and increase your chances of success.


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The Mattlures Meat head is 8 inches long and weighs about 4.5 oz. They come in 3 different sink rates. Waking, Shallow diving, and deep diving. The waking version is a true wake bait in that it wants to stay on top. You can wake this bait faster then typical wake baits without it diving. The shallow diver can be waked slowly with your rod tip up or it can be cranked down a few feet. It will dive 1-3 feet depending upon the retrieve and line used. The deep diver can be cranked down to 10 feet depending upon the retrieve and line used. All the Meat heads have an aggressively smooth natural action with a lot of thumping feed back.
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Planet Parent
The World's Best Ways to Bring Up Your Children
By Mark Woods
Pages: 272
The core challenges facing parents are the same everywhere, but how each country tackles them is very different. In Planet Parent, Mark Woods meets tiger mothers, stay-at-home dads, hover parents and boomerang babies, pulling together the very best parenting advice in the world.
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From Mark Woods, international best selling author of Pregnancy for Men and Babies and Toddlers for Men, comes Planet Parent.
A unique and entertaining journey to gather together the best parenting techniques from across the globe, Planet Parent takes you through the highs and lows of raising children with the world itself as your wise guide.
From morning sickness and fussy eaters to iPad addicts, education dilemmas and tumultuously tricky teenagers, the core challenges facing parents are strikingly similar the world over – but the way in which each country and culture deals with them is often astonishingly different.
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Pregnancy for Men
Pregnancy for Men takes you through each month of pregnancy, offering advice, information and anecdotes to the proud father-to be; from how your baby grows month-by-month to how to best support your partner, and be a great dad.
Babies and Toddlers for Men
A brilliantly witty guide that gives modern fathers the information and advice they need to look after their baby or toddler, to support the mother and to remain sane in their new role as dad. Covering the first three years of a child's life, this survival guide is a must-have for new and old dads.
The Supermum Myth
Empowers mums to stop feeling like they're not good enough, as they strive to be 'Supermum' – and start having confidence in their parenting. Uses CBT, mindfulness and narrative therapies to dismiss negative thoughts, learn to stop comparing yourself to others and to be a happier mum.
Mum Hacks
Using tried-and-tested advice, author and working mum Tanith Carey offers everyday shortcuts to allow busy mums plenty of quality time with their children, partner and even themselves! This book is for anyone who is trying to spend less time tidying, cleaning and washing and more time enjoying every day.


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I love Tuesdays! Why? They give you a sneak peek at my fictional friends!
Fictional characters, non-fictional feelings
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Where romance is waiting around every corner.
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Dubbed as the "Crown City of Karnataka", Bidar got its name from the word, Bidiru which means bamboo. Bidar is famous for its fort by the same name, which is inspired by Persian architecture. Besides the fort, this ancient city is also home to several other historical monuments and architecture dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries. Some of the major attractions it boasts of are Solah Khamba Mosque, Gagan Mahal, Rangin Mahal and Zenana Palace.
Budget Hotels in Bidar
There are good budget hotels in Bidar. Some of them are Sai palace lodge (Tariff – Rs.1000), Sana Hotel (Tariff – Rs.1,000), Shivanand Hotel (Tariff – Rs.500) and Sangemeshwar Hotel (Tariff –1000).
The official language Bidar is Kannada. The other languages spoken includeTelugu and Hindi.
Events in Bidar
The Important Festivals of Bidar is Panguni Chithirai (March) and Navarathri (October).
Places to See in Bidar
There are several places of tourist attraction in Bidar. Some of the places include Prasanna Vinayagar Temple ( 10 kms from Bidar) , Narasimha Jhira Cave Temple 7 kms from Bidar), Maniknagar ( 6 km from Bidar) Bidar Fort ( 9 kms from Bidar) Kaadambaarai dam ( (16 kms from Udumalpet).
How to Get There
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Hyderabad which is about 151 km from Bidar is the nearest airport to this city.
Bidar is wll connected with all the major districts of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka by its railway station.
There are regular buses available from Bidar to other major destinations of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Some of the best bus operators that offer good experience for passengers are Pavit Travels, VRL Travels, SRM Transports India Private Limited. Discounted bus tickets are available on a number of travel websites like TicketGoose.com.
The coastal town of Bhatkal in Karnataka has endless attractions to offer its tourists from beaches to hill stations and waterfalls. Its capital city, Bangalore, is based at a distance of 491 km from here. Murdeshwara Temple, Kannigundi falls, Kadvinkattu dam, Jali beach, Bandar beach, Gandhi falls and Marukere Hill Station are some of the major attractions in and around the town. Do the miss the mouth-watering Bhatkali Biriyani when you are visiting this town.
Budget Hotels in Bhatkal
Hotel Kwality is one of the most convenient places to stay in Bhatkal. The other popular lodges are Kola Paradise followed by Central Lodge.
Kannada is the official language of this area.
Events in Bhatkal
Some of the important festivals of Bhatkal are Pongal (January), Ganesh Chaturthi (August) and Diwali (November).
Places to See in Bhatkal
Bhatkal is popular for its Vijayanagar carvings. The beautifully built mosques are Sultani Masjid Mosque followed by the Noor Masjid and the famous Khalifa Masjid. Besides the holy places this town is also well known for its educational institutions like Anjuma Hami-e-Muslimeen. It was founded in 1919. The most popular temple is the Kethapayya Narayan temple. This temple is known for its cultural significance.
How to Get There
The Mangalore International airport is located very close to it. One can select any flight that takes off to various destinations from here.
The railway station that is nearest is the Bhatkal station. There are trains that run to Mangalore as well as Mumbai.
There are numerous buses that ply to and fro from here. They lie on the National Highway 17. The people have the option to choose from luxury to sleeper buses. The payment can be made either through the ATMs or through the bank account. Booking bus tickets through ticketgoose.com is a hassle-free experience.


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Advanced classes
Using the same old tangles??
Once you have some tangling under your belt and have taken the Tangled Library- Original tangles series this class takes you to the next level. In each class you will learn 6 – 8 tangles developed by CZT's, make a step out reference for your self, and finally create a reference piece that includes all new tangles. I will be reminding you of key tangling elements while you draw, design and shade your piece. Pre requisite is the Tangled Library- original tangles series.
Step out book, bijou reference tile and the paper for your reference piece is included in the class. Bring your mini kit of basic supplies from the introduction to Zentangle class.
This 9 class series has three sets of three, 2.5 hour classes
each set is $150.00 and includes supplies For upcoming dates click here.
Set A October/Nov 2015, Fall 2016
Set B February /March 2016
Set C May 2016
These classes can be taken in any sequence. Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com if you want to join the class.
Class size minimum 3 students in order to run
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About Amalie
SHORT BIO: AMALIE HOWARD is the bestselling, award-winning author of several young adult novels critically acclaimed by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, VOYA, School Library Journal, and Booklist, including Waterfell, The Almost Girl, and Alpha Goddess, a Kid's INDIE NEXT selection highlighting East Indian mythology. She is a national IPPY silver medalist and Children's Moonbeam Award winner. She is also the co-author of the #1 bestsellers in regency romance and historical fiction, My Rogue, My Ruin and My Hellion, My Heart, in the Lords of Essex historical romance series. Of Indian and Middle Eastern descent, she grew up in the Caribbean but currently resides in Colorado with her husband and three children.
LONG BIO: AMALIE HOWARD grew up in Trinidad & Tobago where she spent most of her childhood with her nose buried in a book or running around barefoot, shimmying up mango trees, and dreaming of adventure. 25 countries, surfing with sharks, and several tattoos later, she has traded in bungee jumping in China for writing the adventures she imagines instead. She isn't entirely convinced which takes more guts.
An aspiring writer from a young age, Amalie's poem "The Candle," written at age twelve, was published by the University of Warwick press. At fifteen, she was a recipient of a Royal Commonwealth Society Essay Award. A Colby College graduate, she completed dual Honors Theses in both French and International Studies, and graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. At Colby, she was cited for her research contribution to Raffael Scheck's article, "German Conservatism and Female Political Activism in the Early Weimar Republic," and his subsequent book, Mothers of the Nation. She also received distinctions in English Literature, French, and General Paper (University of Cambridge A-levels) as well as a postgraduate certificate in French Literature from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Traveling the globe, she has worked as a research assistant, account executive, branch manager, and global channel sales director for Fortune 500 companies.
She is the award-winning author of several young adult novels critically acclaimed by Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, VOYA, and Booklist, including Waterfell, The Almost Girl, and Alpha Goddess, a Kid's INDIE NEXT title. Her debut novel, Bloodspell, was a #1 Amazon bestseller, and the sequel, Bloodcraft, was a national silver IPPY medalist and a silver Moonbeam award winner. She is also the co-author of the adult historical romance series, THE LORDS OF ESSEX. As an author of color and a proud supporter of diversity in fiction, her articles on multicultural fiction have appeared in The Portland Book Review and on the popular Diversity in YA blog. She currently resides in Colorado with her husband and three children.
1. She has traveled to 179 cities in 25 countries.
2. She did ballet, piano, soccer, cricket, swimming, netball, field hockey, choir, and the steel pan orchestra in high school all while maintaining an A average.
3. She bungee-jumped 765 feet off of the Macau Tower in China.
4. She's a Padi-certified deep-water scuba diver.
5. She entered and won a beauty pageant when she was 16.
6. She attended a Halloween Party at the Playboy Mansion.
7. She jumped out of a plane at 12,500 feet.
8. She once surfed near Phillip Island, Australia, and a 20-foot great white shark was spotted in the exact same area the next day.
9. She fenced competitively in college.
10. She rides a Harley Davidson "Nightster" motorcycle.
BLOODSPELL (The Cruentus Curse series), Langdon Street Press, June 2011
WATERFELL (The Aquarathi), Harlequin TEEN, October, 2013
THE ALMOST GIRL, originally published by Strange Chemistry, January, 2014
ALPHA GODDESS, Sky Pony Press, March, 2014
OCEANBORN (The Aquarathi), Harlequin TEEN, August 2014
SEAMONSTER: an Aquarathi novella (The Aquarathi), RAH Media Press, June 2014
BLOODCRAFT (The Cruentus Curse series, Book 2), RAH Media Press, December 2015
THE ALMOST GIRL (The Riven Chronicles), 2nd edition, Sky Pony Press, March, 2016
THE FALLEN PRINCE (The Riven Chronicles, Book 2), Sky Pony Press, April 2016
DARK GODDESS (Alpha Goddess, Book 2), Sky Pony Press, Spring 2018
MY ROGUE, MY RUIN, Entangled Publishing, October 2016
MY DARLING, MY DISASTER, Entangled Publishing, Spring 2017
MY HELLION, MY HEART, Entangled Publishing, Summer 2017
MY SCOT, MY SURRENDER, Entangled Publishing, Fall 2017
SWEET HOME HIGHLANDER, Entangled Publishing, Spring 2018
A LORD FOR THE LASS, Entangled Publishing, Fall 2018
Readers can expect multi-layered stories that will introduce them to completely different worlds, whether that's across an ocean or beneath it, or in a different universe, or in a different lifetime. In my novels, my characters face a range of conflicts like fitting in and being true to who you are, like love, loss, and fighting for what you believe in. My books have a number of relevant themes that most readers will identify with–whether it's changing your stars or loving someone from a different class or not giving up when life breaks you down. Most of all, I hope that my stories make my readers feel something or make them look at things in a different way. Sometimes a minute shift in perspective can make all the difference.
Like my children, I love them all equally. Truth.
I grew up in Trinidad – an area of the world full of folklore and mysticism … talk about a great foundation for dreaming, reading and writing fantasy! My background is Indian, Middle Eastern, Chinese, and French. On a side note, I married an Australian man who is three quarters Scot and one quarter English so our kids are French, Middle Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Scottish, English, Trinidadian, Australian Americans! Holy salad dish, Batman.
Yes, you can find me on both! Click on the "Connect With Me" icons on the right side of this page. I love to meet new people via social media.
I wanted to travel, which I did. And I wanted to write, which I'm doing.
I read, and I indulge my love for good food. I also enjoy ocean surfing or any outdoor sports, and I'm addicted to movies. I also like spending time with my family.
Ghosts and clowns. They freak me out. If a ghost-clown haunted me, I would probably pee my pants.
Check out my Events page and see if I'll be visiting a town near you! I'm also happy to mail signed bookplates to anyone who owns a hardcopy of any of my books. Click here to send me a message with your name, personalization details, and mailing address.
I'm happy to do interviews as long as I am not on a deadline! Thank you for thinking of me. Check the Press Page for details on how to contact me with requests.
The best way to query any agent is to submit a well-written query letter, following all applicable agency guidelines, which are posted on most agency websites. If you are a debut author, having a completed, polished manuscript is a must. Be sure to check out my blog posts on querying for advice and suggestions:
Write a killer query letter: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Query submission to literary agents
Querying literary agents – do not give up
Best of luck!
Of course, I love to hear feedback from readers! You can reach me at firstname.lastname@example.com or here to send me a message via this site. I'll try to respond when I can, but I may not be able to respond to every message I receive.
I wish I could but can't for legal reasons. However, I do wish you all the success in the world with your writing! Here are some helpful links that got me going in the right direction:
So your WIP is done, what's next?
Editing your manuscript – suggested reading
Make your literary agent list
Write a killer query letter: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Query submission to literary agents
Querying literary agents – do not give up
Selecting an agent
What a Literary Agent Does and Why It Matters
The truth about writer's conferences
Literary Publicity & Promotion
A Crash Course on Rejection
I loved being able to create other worlds with interesting characters and being able to redefine myself in those characters. It was and still is a form of escapism for me.
I am capable of writing with a house full of screaming children.
Music, hands down. I create playlists as I'm writing each novel, which really helps to get the energy flowing.
A well-wrought combination of voice, plot, world building, pacing, relatable characters, and a killer hook.
Letting go of my characters at the end of the book. It's like a relationship, really.
I cried like a baby. I threw some cushions. I ate some cupcakes. I felt better. And then I submitted five more queries (after, of course, incorporating any constructive feedback). Never give up, never surrender. Galaxy Quest, if you're wondering.
Believe in yourself and your work, and never give up. Don't take no for an answer, and when all else fails, carve your own path. Someone else doesn't get to decide whether you're good enough … you do.
A Few Do's and Don'ts:
Do polish your manuscript until you can't polish anymore. Then do it again.
Do read Self-Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Browne and Dave King.
Do join a critique group (your local SCBWI chapter is a great place to find one).
Do research and understand the nitty-gritty of submissions in your genre (word count, format, query letters, proposals, cover letters, etiquette, etc.)
Do get a good agent with a track record in your genre.
Do create a social media platform and build your brand (website, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+).
Don't get discouraged by rejections—they're a part of the process. Keep your head up, use constructive feedback and submit again.
Don't give up. If this is what you love to do, stay your course. IT WILL HAPPEN.
Everything you can imagine is real, Pablo Picasso. Fear is the mind-killer, Frank Herbert, Dune. Never give up. Never surrender, Commander Taggart, Galaxy Quest
Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Avatar, The Fifth Element, Aliens, Harry Potter, Fight Club, Spaceballs, Dogma, Dracula, Gladiator
Grimm's Fairy Tales, Anne of Green Gables, Chronicles of Narnia, Lord of the Rings, The Sword of Shannara, Go Ask Alice, Tuesdays with Morrie, Queen of the Damned, Wide Sargasso Sea, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pride and Prejudice, Girl Interrupted, Harry Potter, Fire, Hunger Games
Anne Rice, J.K. Rowling, Kristin Cashore, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lee Child, Judith McNaught, Julie Garwood, Lisa Kleypas, George R.R. Martin
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, Self Pity by D.H. Lawrence
Meeting some of my authorly inspirations and pop culture idols!


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The Ferris State Cheer team is currently a Ferris State Athletics game day sideline squad. Ferris Cheer is also starting their first STUNT Games competitive team this year. Cheer team members cheer at all home Ferris State football games as well as men's and women's basketball games.
Female Cheer Requirements:
Standing back handspring (or working toward this)
Toe touch back handspring
Double toe touch
Running pass with multiple skills
Single/double twist from lib or heel stretch (Other positions must be able to back and base these)
Flyer flexibility
Be able to stunt in multiple positions
Be ready to learn and perform a short chant AND dance
Standing back tuck (preferred)
Male Cheer Requirements:
Toe touch
Be ready to learn and perform a short chant
Standing back hand spring or tuck (preferred)
Stunting and coed experience (preferred)
If you are interested in joining the team now or in the future please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or contact our coaches. Also follow us on social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for more current information and updates.
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09 Jun Hanover Mansion/Vien's School – Interior
I wrote about the Hanover Mansion that's now the Vien's Girls School a few weeks ago. I was looking for pictures of the interior, and yesterday, I was lucky enough to be allowed in to take a few. The students all seemed to know that the significance of the building is its history as the "Rothschild Mansion". I told them that it used to be a club, but I wasn't sure how to explain that.


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Chaos Never Dies Day – November 9th #ChaosNeverDiesDay
Chaos Never Dies Day November 9th History and Photo #ChaosNeverDiesDay – Happy Chaos Never Dies Day Images and Download Pictures Free. Chaos Never Dies Day recognizes the turmoil in modern, everyday life. Are things a little crazy at home? Is school a little on the wild side? Is your work place hectic and disorderly? We thought so.
Just when things seem to calm down at work and home, along comes something to disrupt your life. Yes, disorder is everywhere. Hectic schedules, changes to plans, unexpected tasks and chores, the list goes on and on and on…….
Today is designed for you. It's a day to recognize the chaos in your life. You can best celebrate this day, by recognizing that chaos never dies. Rather, its a way of life. You can partake in this special day, by putting just a little order back into your life. You can start, by picking one thing that is really disrupting your life, and change it…for the good.
Origin of Chaos Never Dies Day:
This day is well recognized on Internet calendar and Ecard sites. Online and offline, we found no documentation about the creation of this day. Most likely, the creator's life was so chaotic, that he failed to document it.


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According to a 2015 outlook report from Deloitte, the capital markets segment of the financial services sector was "preparing for takeoff;" in the wake of recent restructuring – that is, reinventing itself to do business better given today's economic circumstances and regulatory demands.
But two years later, capital markets firms are still struggling to do that.
Outdated processes and technology, compounded by regulatory constraints, mean capital market firms face major stumbling blocks in revenue growth—in particular, with onboarding.
So let's explore exactly why this burden of institutional onboarding in the financial industry is so tough to overcome – and why automated solutions are revealing themselves as being key to enabling capital markets to catch up with other industries.
Virtually every profession has its own set of fundamental ground rules a potential partner has to check off before they're vetted as being OK to do business with. If you're setting up an IT vendor relationship, you go through a process of due diligence to determine if the solution is reputable. If you're partnering with a marketing firm, you review their portfolio to determine you'll be represented correctly. But in some areas of business such necessary vetting processes are far more formal and involved.
Such is definitely the case with capital markets, where regulatory guidelines demand that in order to trade with any entity, that entity has to be determined as "ready-to-trade" through a very specific process. The following scenarios demand onboarding before any trading is carried out:
And these are cases that arise frequently. So much so that financial firms in the space have paid $18 billion in fines and litigation associated with improper onboarding.
But it's not just onboarding incorrectly that's costing capital markets big money. It's inefficiency in attempting to do it at all. It can take six to 12 weeks to onboard an institution – even one that's already a client and needs to be onboarded for the purposes of a new financial product. And so companies report losing $150 million per day when stuck in a holding pattern due to the necessity of onboarding.
So why are companies failing to properly onboard when the stakes are so high? And what's taking so long when firms are trying to get it right?
One answer is that getting through the process has grown much more involved -- and managing the burden using the old tools of the office is easier said than done.
In light of that, let's explore five ways to correctly approach institutional onboarding.
Many firms that deal in capital markets are stuck using old tools to try to meet new regulatory demands. Handling complex communications between their office and the onboardee through emails and even phone calls, keeping critical information in spreadsheets and the like leads to a lot of wasted time – and money.
But there are a few critical steps institutions can take to retool their institutional onboarding process – turning it from a leaky boat into a tightly-run ship.
Like any initiative, effective institutional onboarding requires buy-in from everyone who might be called upon to take on a workflow-related task as part of their job. Given the importance of successful onboarding, and the cost of doing it poorly or not at all, co-heads of business lines, operational leadership and global technology leaders should all be brought in. Senior executive sponsors can be leveraged to make the importance of the endeavor known. Onboarding isn't just one department's job. For firms in this space, onboarding touches everyone from sales to trading to risk management to back office, so everyone must understand its importance and what they need to do to make it happen.
Doing onboarding correctly isn't about identifying objectives in-house and foisting them on a client. It's about working with the client to make an intelligible, user-friendly experience that uses onboarding as an introduction to a productive, long-term trading relationship. A smooth, client-friendly onboarding process that works with them to make sure all the boxes are checked sets up not just the necessary legal framework to trade with a client, it gets the relationship off on the right foot by showing them that your firm is organized and conscientious.
The tendency to want to keep onboarding within a single silo is one that inevitably leads to information getting lost in the shuffle, overlooked or left to sit on a desk when it should be moving through a workflow. Implementing technology that allows people across departments to do their part in the onboarding process and monitor where things are in a given workflow can set up a firm for success.
Institutional onboarding is a process with a lot of distinct moving parts. Every relationship with every firm is different in subtle ways, and often requires building out custom workflows to make sure that everyone's needs are met, communication occurs seamlessly and everything is reviewed and signed off on in a timely fashion. Implementing the right cloud-based tools is crucial to build a system, within the office and between offices, that brings information automatically to those who need it, so they can take action and pass it along to the next point person until the process is complete.
One of the most important features of today's cloud-based tools is that they offer businesses the ability to monitor what is going on through a process. So once you implement tools to streamline your onboarding process, make sure you're using all the data that the tools collect to see where you can make things even more efficient.
In the backdrop of the onboarding problem, scattered around on servers and stuffed in filing cabinets, are disorganized documents. Each onboarding relationship requires a mountain of official documents to be drafted, edited or signed off on. And document and contract management is one space where automated, cloud-based solutions have been continually been proving their value.
Having the right contract management solution in place is one crucial part of the overall onboarding automation picture. And it's yielding demonstrably successful results for firms in the space.
So as you begin to think about onboarding correctly as being synonymous with bringing order to the process with tools that streamline bulky tasks, don't forget to take a look at where your documents reside, how they're managed and how the right contract management solution can make your system work better.
You've seen the numbers on what it's costing capital markets when they fall short on onboarding. So it's easy to see how achieving a streamlined onboarding process will yield the opposite. Onboarding correctly leads to increased revenue, decreased OPEX and a drastically reduced risk of non-compliance with legislation.
And using the right next-gen office tools to streamline the processes is critical to all of this. Once the tools are in place to build the workflows around, laborious and costly tasks and confused, frantic client company communications become easily-managed, pleasant customer interactions.
So streamline and get down to the real work – trading with your onboarded clients.
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MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 has been released
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 13:26:33 -0700
- From: Hery Ramilison <hery.ramilison@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 has been released
Hello all, MySQL Connector Java 5.1.39, a maintenance release of the production 5.1 branch, has been released. Connector/J is a Type-IV pure-Java JDBC driver for MySQL, supporting the JDBC 4.2 API. It is suitable for use with MySQL server versions 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7. MySQL Connector Java is available in source and binary form from the Connector/J download page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/5.1.html MySQL Connector Java (Commercial) is available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) website. This release will be available on eDelivery (OSDC) in next month's upload cycle. As always, we recommend that you check the "CHANGES" file in the download archive to be aware of changes in behavior that might affect your application. MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 includes the following general bug fixes and improvements, also available in more detail on http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/connector-j/en/news-5-1-39.html : Changes in MySQL Connector/J 5.1.39 (2016-05-09) Functionality Added or Changed * For MySQL server 5.7.5 and later, the EOF packet in the MySQL server/client protocol has been deprecated and replaced by the OK packet. The change is now supported by Connector/J. (Bug #23212347) Bugs Fixed * Connector/J hung, returned a NullPointerException, or returned an incorrect exception when using result sets with the properties TYPE_FORWARD_ONLY and CONCUR_UPDATABLE. It was due to an inaccurate check for the cursor for the result set. This fix makes sure Connector/J checks accurately on whether a cursor has been requested, both when executing a statement and fetching its results. (Bug #23201930) * When using server-side prepared statements with profileSQL=true and useInformationSchema=true, an SQLException (" ResultSet is from UPDATE. No Data") occurred when the client tried to advance to the next row in the result set. This was due to a failure of an internal query for metadata, which is now prevented by this fix. (Bug #23188498) * LoadBalanceConnectionGroupManager.removeHost() was not removing hosts as expected. This fix tries to ensure that host removals will be successful under different situations. (Bug #22848249) References: See also: Bug #22678872. * For connections with useCursorFetch=true and fetch size set with defaultFetchSize or setFetchSize, if data from a TIME and a BLOB data column was selected together, corrupted value for the TIME data was returned. (Bug #22833410, Bug #80522) * For a load-balanced connection, an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException was thrown when ConnectionGroupManager.removeHost() was called. 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(Bug #22598938) * The OSGi manifest file in the Connector/J JAR file did not expose the MySQL Fabric packages, so the Fabric-related classes could not be resolved even though they were present in the JAR file. (Bug #22385172) * With some Tomcat web applications, when Connector/J connects to the server with useLegacyDatetimeCode=false without setting serverTimeZone, a NullPointerException was returned. This was because the timezone property file for Connector/J was loaded by the bootstrap class loader, which did not know the location of the property file and thus failed to load it. This fix avoids the problem by making Connector/J use the same class loader for both the property file and the Connector/J classes. (Bug #22353759, Bug #79343) * When using JDBC 4.2 and with the connection property cachePrepStmts set to "true," after a prepared statement had been cached, rerunning the SQL statement resulted in a pre-JDBC 4.2 PreparedStatement object being instantiated. This fix prevents the problem by having the PreparedStatement instantiated by a factory instead of a constructor method. (Bug #22352812, Bug #79598) * At every connection, Connector/J got the sql_mode variable from the server and tried to parse it as a number; because sql_mode is not a number (except for very old versions of MySQL), an NumberFormatException was always thrown and then caught by the code. This fix refactored the code to avoid the unnecessary throwing and catching of the error. (Bug #21181466, Bug #77171) * When inserting multiple timestamp values into a table with useLegacyDatetimeCode=false and useCursorFetch=true, after a null value had been inserted, further inserts could not change a timestamp's value. This fix makes sure the binding of the value is reset before a new insert takes place. (Bug #20685487, Bug #75956) * The exception message in CallableStatement() for incorrect output parameter registration gave little detail and the wrong error code. 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When officers arrived at the North Avenue home, they saw two men fighting in the yard. They also heard screams from an elderly woman inside.
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Police did not recall prior calls to the home, but neighbors said they called 911 last month to report fighting at the home.
"I don't have any words for that. I don't understand it. I don't want him walking the streets of Athens," Dilbeck said.
The elderly woman's condition is unclear tonight.
Walton's bond has been set at $150,000. Part of the conditions include staying away from his uncle, grandmother, and the home.
A McMinn County court clerk told Channel 3 Walton has been in trouble with several misdemeanors dating back to 2011.
They included domestic assault and disorderly conduct. The clerk said Walton pleaded guilty to all of them.
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ORIGINAL STORY: Tysheen Walton has been charged with attempted murder after reportedly setting a woman on fire at her Athens, TN house.
Officers arrived at 1012 North Avenue Thursday just after noon. In a release, police said they found Walton fighting another man in the front yard of the residence.
Inside the house, officers reportedly heard a woman screaming for help.
While Officer Gonzalez maintained custody of Mr. Walton, Officers Holmes and Roberts ran into the house.
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They were able to get the elderly woman to safety away from the burning house.
Later, police believe the man fighting Mr. Walton had been attempting to defend the female in the house.
Emergency Medical Personnel were called for the woman. Athens Fire Department responded to combat the fire in the house.
The woman was airlifted to the hospital for treatment.
Tysheen Walton was booked into the McMinn County Jail on charges of Attempted First Degree Murder, Aggravated Arson, Vandalism Over $1,000, and Aggravated Domestic Assault.
The investigation into this incident is ongoing.


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