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2012-09-18 00:00 - The following is the fourth of eight installments where bassist/vocalist/lyricist Grutle Kjellson and rhythm guitarist/songwriter/lyricist Ivar Bjørnson of the Norwegian progressive extreme metal band ENSLAVED offer insight on the tracks to their twelfth studio album, RIITIIR, due out in Europe on September 28th and in North America on October 9th.
Kjellson on RIITIIR Track #4, "Roots Of The Mountain":
"One of our greatest friends in The States tends to use the term 'Epic as f**k' to describe something grandiose and this is the closest I get to describe this song. Yes, it sounds pompous, but I´ve always said that our goal is to make our own favorite music, so why be sober or moderate in the descriptions? I remember that Ivar came to the rehearsal place and put on the demo for me and Cato [Bekkevold, drummer], and we got totally blown away! In the middle of the second listening, Herbrand [Larsen, keyboards & clean vocals] appeared, looking genuinely confused, and I thought: This is a good sign!!! He is usually the Rock-structure alibi in the band, so to see that he was a bit worried really satisfied the rest of us. Of course, he also ended up loving the song after digging into the matter and started working on the arrangements. This song has everything one can ask for in an ENSLAVED song: aggressive and old-school metal riffs, a pompous chorus, and progressive passages. It also includes my favorite guitar solo on the album and shows [lead guitarist] Ice [Dale]´s talent for transforming almost FM-rock solos into a monstrous extreme metal inferno!! I love it! I can even find inspiration from our good old countryman Ronni LeTekrø from TNT here - one of the bands me and Ice tend to listen to on our days-off on the tour bus if we have been drinking one or two barrels too much. The lyrics are, again, inspired by different mythologies/philosophical systems around the world with mutual ways of approaching the search for the ultimate answers. When you seek truths and answers, you rarely find them where they would logically appear. It is sometimes important to go with the flow and accept the reality as-is, and thus find the truths in the end. The roots of the mountain will appear for you if you use the eyes of the eagle in the sky…well, maybe it will."
Bjørnson on "Roots Of The Mountain":
"This is probably the most strange and diversified songwriting I've done in terms of the surrounding circumstances. The main themes came crashing down on me at the most impossible times for me, beginning with being in transit for ENSLAVED concerts in late 2011 with no instruments available and utilizing rather primitive programming on a Smartphone. I had no choice but to put the ideas down somehow (I'll see if I can include a sample of the horrible MIDI-sounds on the behind-the-scenes DVD accompanying the release), ending with writing in the home studio in the hours before the most important night in my life [when Ivar's first child was born. –Ed.]. Dramatic stuff that resulted in dramatic music! At some point in the song, I can hear myself drawing influence from newer King Crimson and then Von within the same minute - that's got to be slightly unusual. The ending turned out quite epic. Co-producer Iver [Sandøy] played a vital role in shaping the final production for that part of the song; I will always be thankful for his introduction of both the Taurus bass pedals and SH-1 mono-synth-line on this track! Finally, I love how Grutle's mythological lyrics for this song play out in a very filmic language - particularly when the singers do their 'duet' on the end part. It turns out you can sing about eagles in the sky without any traces of cheesiness, as long as you actually know what you are talking about - which no doubt Grutle does."
Read past commentaries on "Thoughts Like Hammers," "Death In The Eyes Of Dawn," and "Veilburner" on the ENSLAVED Facebook page.
RIITIIR was recorded in Bergen, Norway at Duper Studios, Earshot Studios, Solslottet Studios, and Peersonal Sound. At Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, Jens Bogren handled mixing duties while Tony Lindgren handled the mastering. The team of producers includes ENSLAVED's very own Ivar Bjørnson, Grutle Kjellson & Herbrand Larsen, plus Iver Sandøy.
All editions of RIITIIR are now available for pre-order from the Nuclear Blast USA Webshop. Bundles include an exclusive album artwork t-shirt + an exclusive 1-inch pin.
RIITIIR's standard edition track listing is:
01. Thoughts Like Hammers
02. Death In The Eyes Of Dawn
03. Veilburner
04. Roots Of The Mountain
05. Riitiir
06. Materal
07. Storm Of Memories
08. Forsaken
The deluxe digi-pak edition includes a bonus DVD featuring: The Making of RIITIIR, The Band, The Studios, The Artwork.
The track listing for RIITIIR's North American 2 LP bone & charcoal splatter vinyl double-gatefold – which is limited to 1,000 copies and can be pre-ordered starting October 9th - is:
Side A: 01. Thoughts Like Hammers // 02. Death In The Eyes Of Dawn
Side B: 03. Veilburner // 04. Roots Of The Mountain
Side C: 05. Riitiir // 06. Materal
Side D: 07. Storm Of Memories // 08. Forsaken
ENSLAVED's RIITIIR is the follow-up to Axioma Ethica Odini, which debuted in North America at #16 on the Billboard Heatseekers (New Artists) chart. Axioma Ethica Odini also won the 2010 Spellemann Award (the Norwegian equivalent of a U.S. Grammy Award) in the category "Best Metal Album," won Terrorizer Magazine's Reader's Poll for "Best Album of 2010," ranked #5 in Decibel Magazine's "Top 40 Extreme Albums of 2010" list, and appeared on over 65 "Best Albums of 2010" lists in North America, repeatedly ranking in the Top 10. In Germany, Metal Hammer Magazine awarded ENSLAVED the "Album Of The Year" title; Dutch magazine Aardschok ranked Axioma Ethica Odini at #9.
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If you hear or read the term "mid-level provider," please note that the term is not the preferred, current terminology to describe certain medical professionals. However, in case you do hear this terminology used somewhere, and have landed here after looking up the word, below is a brief definition of what type of healthcare professionals used to be, and sometimes still may erroneously be referred to as a "mid-level provider." It's not that these healthcare professionals do not like their professional role in healthcare. Many feel that the term "mid-level provider" is a misleading, impersonal term that does not accurately describe their profession(s).

The term "mid-level provider", sometimes referred to simply as a "mid-level", is a term sometimes used to describe NPs, PAs, and CRNAs as a group or category of healthcare professionals. The healthcare professionals who often get (reluctantly) lumped into this category of medical professionals are typically a masters-prepared, (or higher) clinical medical professional who provides advanced, direct patient care, sometimes under the supervision of a physician. These advanced clinicians can examine patients, diagnose them, and provide some treatments, independently in many states, but in some states, they may have to practice in collaboration with a licensed physician. In addition to the care being provided by physicians, this type of advanced patient care is provided in almost any practice setting today, from hospitals to medical offices, by nurse practitioners (NP), physician assistants (PA), and CRNAs.

The phrase "mid-level provider" probably was intended to give a name to the group of clinicians who are not physicians, and in a professional sense, practice at a level of clinical authority somewhat "in between" that of physicians and some other types of nurses, techs, and allied professionals, based on licensing, certifications, education, and clinical authority. Essentially, advanced practice clinicians are those who are more advanced (educationally, and clinically), and have a broader scope of practice than some other types of nurses and clinicians. However since NPs, PAs, and CRNAs all have at least a master's level of education, and are not an MD/DO, they often get categorized as a group of "mid-level providers" or "advanced practice clinicians" or non-physician providers, especially when discussing staffing plans or recruiting strategies, for example. However, none of those terms is, understandably, very well-loved by any of the medical professionals.

Therefore, whenever possible, use precise titles when referring to clinicians, addressing as PAs or NPs specifically, as opposed to a generalized term.

Also Known As: advanced practice clinicians, advanced practice providers, physician extenders (also not particularly preferred terms)


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It's been fun finding out the proper words for panelled artworks – this week I've done a pentaptych (it's all Greek to me… which is why when I looked up quintaptych it wasn't a word). Any hoo – back to the point! The new stamps from Creative Expressions are perfect for arranging in panels, and with a little snipping away of the border the centre panel fits beautifully, all on a 6″ card. Add colour with Distress Markers and a simply effective card results.
You will need:
Creative Expressions Singles Stamps: Sunflower Delight / Anemone Planter
Cosmic Shimmer Specialist Acrylic Glue
Foundations A4 Card: Coconut White / Dark Ground Coffee
Ranger Distress Markers:
Vintage Photo / Frayed Burlap
Tumbled Glass / Stormy Sky
Worn Lipstick / Wild Honey
Peeled Paint
Ranger Tim Holtz Waterbrush: Fine
Ranger Archival Ink Pad: Jet Black
- Print the stamps onto the Coconut White card using the Jet Black Archival Ink. Dry briefly with a heat tool to ensure it's dry and waterproof. Archival Ink won't run when using water based media over the top.
- Colour the images with the Distress Markers. For the leaves, use Peeled Paint.
- For the blue background, colour Tumbled Glass round the flowers using the dots as a guide. Drag the colour out with the waterbrush to blend the edges. Edge the flowers with Stormy Sky.
- For the petals, colour with Worn Lipstick around the centre and then drag the colour out with the waterbrush to the rest of the petal.
- For the flower centres, colour with Wild Honey, adding fine line Vintage Photo to the centre image where the cross hatching is on the centre area. Dot more round the stamens on the outer panel flowers.
- Colour areas of the box borders with the Vintage Photo and then colour over that, and the rest, with the Frayed Burlap.
- Cut out each image and mount on a 6″ square card using foam pads. For the centrepiece, cut off the borders and mat on a 2″ square piece of Dark Ground Coffee card with the Cosmic Shimmer Glue before mounting on the card with foam pads.


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Nothing spoils a vacation more than coming home to find someone else has been there—uninvited. And if you think thieves share your holiday spirit and will just sit around and roast chestnuts before they leave, think again. According to the FBI, in 2015 there were an estimated 7,993,631 property crime offenses in the nation that resulted in losses estimated at $14.3 billion, and burglaries of residential properties accounted for 71.6 percent of all property crime offenses. How can you prevent yourself from being a statistic? How can you make sure that when your home is uninhabited, it stays that way until you return? The best defense is offense, and you can stay on the offensive by keeping your home secure with a few simple products.
Most people are satisfied with the basics: front-of-house surveillance that includes a vandal- and weather-proof camera or two, networking capability, and possibly extras like night vision and motion detection. For peace of mind, most homeowners want some type of notification that someone is entering the property, as well. So, here are a couple of pointers for home surveillance systems, especially for beginners. You want to make sure that your system is expandable, meaning that you can add cameras to the network, and you want to make sure that you can hide or camouflage the cameras inconspicuously—which is why we also prefer wireless systems, because fewer cords on the outside mean lower visibility—and savvy thieves know where to look for home-surveillance cameras, so you want to place them where they can't be seen or accessed. However, you also have to be careful concerning the range and resolution of the camera; if you place it too high up on your property, you won't get a good view of the perpetrators, and if you place it so that it's too accessible, you run the risk of having it vandalized. And finally, try to find weatherproof cameras—what good is the camera if it melts in the rain?
A system like the Arlo Pro Smart Security System is easily set up and hidden. The 720p camera that comes with the system is fully wireless and is IP65-rated for all-weather use. It is battery operated and only records if motion or sound is detected, providing up to 6 months of use on a single charge. Wi-Fi connectivity and the included mounting bracket allow you to place it anywhere and move it as needed. Add more cameras to the Base Station for even more security and easily view live video streams of up to 5 connected cameras right from your smartphone or tablet via the Arlo mobile app for iOS and Android. But is outside security enough for you? Let's take a look at the other parts of the house.
Let's start with your front door. This is the gateway to your castle, the first defense for most homes. When you're away on vacation, this is the area that will be trafficked the most, and the first place burglars test to see if anyone is home. So let's start with touchscreen deadbolts.
The benefits of touch-key deadbolts are two-fold. For one, they're a great deterrent for would-be burglars, who might think twice about entering a home with a sophisticated entry—the reasoning being that if the homeowner is going to spend the money to install an expensive deadbolt like this, then the inside of the home must be pretty secure, as well. Yale makes a great series of electronic deadbolts, some of which are keyless and some of which are keypad/key combos. The second benefit of these, for the keypad-only versions, is that they can't be picked like a traditional lock.
After that, we move up to door monitors. If you're on vacation, a door monitor won't really help you, but if you have a house-sitter for the holidays, a door monitor is an extra level of security that will deter would-be miscreants from entering your humble (or mansion-like) abode. Some basic sets like the Swann SWHOM-DP875C Doorphone Video Intercom come with a 4.3" LCD color monitor with limited night-vision capability, a doorbell with an integrated camera, and two-way audio. This starter set is a good place to start, but you can increase your options with something like the Optex iVision+ Wireless Intercom System, which allows you to carry the monitor around like a smartphone for greater flexibility. This set even takes pictures of missed visitors so you can see who came knocking while you were away.
The next rooms in your house that could benefit from some home security are the Living Room, Dining Room, or Kitchen. What could you possibly use in these rooms to secure them? Door and window sensors and alarms. Some are simple and include magnetic catches that are triggered when the door or window is opened. Others, like the iSmartAlarm Preferred Package Home Security System, include wireless home and remote access monitoring, and extras like RF device monitoring. Some systems like these need a central hub to operate, and interact with other devices in your home. This kit includes two door and window contact sensors and a motion-detection sensor with a 110dB siren that can also alert you via smartphone or tablet when there is movement in the house or a door or window is opened. When you download the app you can get push notifications, SMS alerts, or even a phone call. You can also customize your system by creating custom modes, rules, zones, and even adjust volumes and countdowns. The system is upgradeable, too—you can add more contact sensors, motion sensors, or even a smart switch to control appliances, as well as an iCamera for streaming video.
What possible protection could you need in the bedroom to thwart would-be thieves? Believe it or not, thieves are easily discouraged when they believe someone else is on the property, and what better way to give that illusion than with a Smart Switch? A Smart Switch can control lights and appliances remotely, giving the appearance that your home is occupied. Unlike automated timers of the past, you can even control the times the lights turn on and off, and stagger them so that a smart thief who thinks the lights are on a timer can be fooled into thinking someone is manually and randomly turning lights and appliances on (having the TV turn on randomly is also a good trick to keeping burglars on their toes). All the major players in Home Automation have smart switches, including Piper, iSmart, and TP-Link. If you already have a hub in place for any of these systems, buy the corresponding Smart Switch for them, if necessary.
The backyard and property facing away from your house is probably the most open and vulnerable area of your home. Even in areas where conjoined properties abut each other, entering a home from the rear is the preferred ingress of professional home burglars. You should take as much care with the rear of the house as the front and, for that, you're going to want to add cameras to the front-facing surveillance system, or invest in another surveillance system like the Lorex by FLIR 4-Channel 720p DVR with 4 720p Outdoor Cameras. This four-channel system includes a dedicated DVR with a 1TB HDD to record continuously while you're away, and the resolution is high: 1280 x 720 (720p) at 30 fps per channel. It also includes four cameras, so you can place them with greater flexibility, and cover more area. You can control the cameras remotely via the app, and receive instant email alerts with snapshot attachments. Lorex also has a cloud service that allows you access to your system without configuring through your home network.
The last access point to your house that could use some surveillance is your garage. Getting into a home through the attached garage is second only to entering from the backyard—especially for homes with attached garages. With the Asante Garage Door Opener with Camera Kit, you receive a camera and home extender (that connects to your router) so that you can access, control, and monitor your garage door remotely from your iOS/Android tablet or smartphone. Paired with the Asante Garage Door Opener sensor (available separately), you can even receive email or SMS text messages when your garage door is opened or closed.
Lastly, one of the nightmares homeowners face when coming back from vacation is a leak that went undetected, and now requires that you gather two of every animal into an ark. Believe it or not, there's a sensor for that: the INSTEON Leak Sensor. It requires an INSTEON ecosystem and needs to be connected to your INSTEON network. If you have such a system, you'll appreciate this handy leak sensor, which detects water leaking from toilets, sinks, dishwashers, refrigerators, and more. The included Lithium-Ion battery offers up to 10 years of battery life, and it's a simple plug-and-play device; just set it on the floor, no drilling or wiring required. When using an INSTEON computer controller like HouseLinc, you can configure the software to send an email or text message upon an alert from the sensor. You can also link the sensor manually or via software to control a whole-house shutoff valve so it can automatically turn off all water to your home, or program your INSTEON sensor to communicate with INSTEON-connected lights to be visually alerted to leaks with flashing lights. Nifty. And property-saving, as well.
So, there you have it. No need to spend your whole vacation wondering if someone is spending their holiday in your home. With these products (and many others sold at B&H), you can keep your property safe and secure, and treat yourself to a little peace of mind.
If you're thinking of installing a home security monitoring system in your home and have questions, please post them in the Comments section, below.
Planing to update my security system next spring, & i have remote building and was wondering what is the distance for the wi-fi cameras or can they be equipted with a tele lens...
Hi Chief -
The working distance of Wi-Fi cameras is largely dependent upon the reach and coverage of your existing Wi-Fi network's signal. Most wireless systems employ a built-in lens that is not removeable or interchangeable. Please send us an e-mail detailing your specific project needs ad approximate budget range to: email@example.com


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One of our favorite fall/winter meals is a simple stuffed squash. It's also grain-free (although, it would be in a later stage of GAPS if you include the apple). Since squash and apples keep well in a cool basement, garage, or pantry for months, they're a great stockpile food to rely on for stretching the grocery budget!
You could substitute another type of squash, if you prefer, such as butternut or delicata. (Use more or fewer squashes, depending on their size.) We often serve a green vegetable alongside this meal (such as kale), as well. If you do want a grain with this meal, it is good with some rice or a loaf of crusty bread.
Make sure to use organic apples and celery when possible, for best health benefits, since they're usually right at the top of the "Dirty Dozen."
Sausage & Apple-Stuffed Acorn Squash
- 1 large or 2 small Acorn Squash, cut in half & seeds removed
- Approximately 3/4 – 1 lb. Homemade Breakfast Sausage, uncooked (egg can be omitted, if desired)
- 1 small Apple, diced
- 1/2 Cup chopped Sweet Onion (if you have not already added this to the sausage mixture)
- 1 clove Garlic, minced
- 1/2 Cup diced Celery
- 2 Tbl. Coconut Oil or Butter
Place acorn squash halves in a large baking dish (with the "insides" facing down), along with about an inch of water poured into the pan. Bake at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes, until soft enough to poke in a fork through the peel, but not too mushy.
Near the end of the squash's baking time, heat a saute pan on the stove. Melt the oil or butter, and saute the onions, garlic, and apples for a few minutes. Add the uncooked sausage mixture, and cook through.
Remove cooked squash from the oven, and discard any remaining water from the baking dish. Flip the squash over, so the "insides" are now facing up. Fill the squash halves with the cooked sausage/apple mixture. Return to the hot oven, and heat through about 5-10 minutes. Serves about 4.
Variations: Optional additions can include dried cranberries and sliced almonds, hazelnuts, or pecans.


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CELTIC and West Brom were still at war over Tony Mowbray as the Baggies lined up Alan Irvine as his replacement.
No-nonsense Albion chief Jeremy Peace is refusing to budge from his hardline stance — with Celts' rival Peter Lawwell also not for backing down.
But at the same time the Midlands club are so sure Mogga is on his way that they have already made plans for his successor, sounding out Preston's Scots boss Irvine to take over.
West Brom are asking £2million in compensation for Mogga plus his No2 Mark Venus and Peter Grant but it's clear Celtic have no intention of paying that amount for the ex-Hibs gaffer.
They could pick him up for less than that on July 1 when West Brom become a Championship club and wages are slashed.
But Celts have already let three weeks pass without a boss since Gordon Strachan quit.
They will want their man in this month as they gear up for a crucial Euro campaign.
Celtic have already identified Mowbray as their man after losing out on Owen Coyle and Roberto Martinez.
It's understood they'll immediately switch attention back to Burnley boss Coyle IF the bid for Mowbray collapses. Martinez, meanwhile, will be unveiled as new Wigan boss at a press conference later today.
Latics chairman Dave Whelan said: "I am very excited about securing the services of Roberto Martinez.
"I hold him in the highest regard."
Celtic want to bring an end to the saga as soon as possible. But Albion are determined they won't be railroaded into making any decision on their sought after boss.
And last night the Hawthorns club seemed intent on holding out for all they can get.
Celtic will first have to meet their compensation demands before they can begin talks with Mowbray.
A West Brom source last night said: "The situation is, if Celtic want Tony Mowbray they will have to pay for Tony Mowbray.
"The ball is in Celtic's court and they must pay the full amount of compensation."


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A car which brings the best out of all your family journeys: the new Vauxhall Meriva sports a design revolving around family comfort, innovatively engineered to make driving enjoyable, exciting and economical. We've packed the new Meriva with smart solutions for storage and space, creating a cabin environment which sits your passengers in capacious luxury with room for all their belongings.
From the wraparound instrument panel with over 32 storage options, to the intelligent FlexDoors® which open to a 90-degree angle to take the hassle out of loading, we've ensured the Meriva supports you and your family from the moment you leave your house to the moment you reach your destination.
Yet practical family driving no longer has to equate to a compromise in style: avant-garde design work incorporates sleek curves surrounding distinctive almond headlights and a unique grille, with rear light clusters as an added extra to make for a head-turning drive. It's finished off with a panoramic sunroof which lets the sunlight shine over back and front seats, with an electric sunshade for when you want to keep cool. The Meriva is available in an amazingly versatile palette of 11 different colours, whilst a plethora of interior customisation options are on offer to allow you to drive away in a car that reflects the personality of you and your family.
We're aware that family cars transport your most precious cargo on a day to day basis: so we've taken the time to create a car that offers an industry-leading standard of safety. Awarded the prestigious five-star Euro NCAP safety aware in its most recent testing, the Meriva comes with anti-lock braking system (ABS) combined with electronic stability programme (ESP) which incorporates traction manipulation offering the highest possible level of control at all times. Other safety features include side-impact airbags, automatic door locks when travelling over 2mph and electrical component 'doubling up', a feature similar to that used on aircrafts to prevent technical failure.
We've finished off the new Vauxhall Meriva with handfuls of the latest pioneering technology for comfort and driving enjoyment. The following features are available across all specification levels, some being standard items and others optional extras:
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Mention children and the phrase gender identity in the same sentence and you have one of the most emotive subjects known to man. The mere utterance of children with gender identity issues evokes compassion and sympathy on the one hand and outrage and fury that a parent should even consider or countenance a change of gender for their child.
A recent article in Canada's Globe and Mail stirred the pot again.
They turned to Ken Zucker a well known clinician in the field.
But for kids, especially younger ones, the issue is much more problematic. Gender confusion is often temporary. About three-quarters of little kids who have issues with their gender – boys who want to be princesses, girls who throw their dresses in the garbage – will be comfortable with it by adolescence, according to Dr. Zucker. (Many of them will grow up to be gay or bi.) Gender confusion can also be a handy label for whatever ails a child (or her family). That's why Dr. Zucker takes a watch-and-wait approach. He even advises parents of princessy six-year-olds to say, "You're not a girl. You're a boy."
Ken Zucker is well known for his opposition to any form of treatment other than wait and see. Is it that simple? Well the article goes on to share a counter view
And in the hotly politicized world of gender politics, that makes him, in many people's eyes, a dangerous reactionary. They argue that a child's identity must be honoured, and that treatment should start sooner rather than later. They equate the watch-and-wait approach with the widely discredited practice of reparative therapy, which was a failed effort to turn gay kids straight. With the advent of powerful new drugs that delay puberty, the stakes in this debate are even higher. Start them early on puberty-blocking drugs, and their eventual transition will be easier. But which kids? What if you're pushing them on a path they don't need to go down? At what point do you start taking life-altering decisions for a child that will have enormous physical, social and emotional consequences?
Where do I stand? Well firstly I would never ever recommend a course of action based upon a parent who was 'Pushing them on a path' as the article puts it. I would agree that a child should never be pushed but then I have yet too experience a situation where a child changed gender role because the parents thought it was a good idea. In my experience the only children I have worked with and who changed their gender role at school are those who were totally determined and convinced they couldn't live in the gender role assigned at birth from their earliest memory. Furthermore a change of gender role does not necessarily mean medical intervention and certainly not surgery.
Whilst the number of children in the UK who have a serious mental conflict is significant it is certainly not a common everyday occurrence. Furthermore, a change of gender role is not an irreversible choice particularly when no cross hormones or surgical procedures are allowed in the UK. I'll be exploring this issue in more detail in my next blog. see article


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Rackspace announced the OpenStack, open source cloud computing operating system Monday. Rackspace is donating the code behind the Cloud Files and Cloud Servers to the project, which has attracted the attention of some major partners, including NASA.
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Fort Collins, Colorado
Steven Fletcher received his B.Sc.(HONS) in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom (1998), his M.Sc. in Numerical Solutions to Differential Equations again from the University of Reading (1999), (Advisor: Prof. Nancy Nichols) and his Ph.D. in Data Assimilation also from the Mathematics department at the University of Reading (2004), (Advisors: Prof. Nancy Nichols and Prof. Ian Roulstone, Met Office/U. Surrey). His areas of interest are numerical weather prediction and modeling, data assimilation, control theory, calculus of variation, control variable transforms and preconditioning for large scale nonlinear inverse problems and non-Gaussian probability models for data assimilation.
From 2004 to 2006, he worked as a post doctoral fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) under a National Science Foundation grant into the use of control theory in Numerical weather prediction. During this time he published the first non-Gaussian three-dimensional variational data assimilation system for lognormally distributed observational errors. Besides this he also published the first paper to combine Gaussian and lognormal errors together to allow for the simultaneous assimilation of different observational error types. He has also worked with the Maximum Likelihood Ensemble Filter (MLEF) with Dr. Milija Zupanski and Prof. Mike Navon of Florida State University exploring the size of the ensemble and the dynamics in the shallow water equations.
From 2006 to 2010 Dr. Fletcher was a research scientist at the Center for Geosciences/Atmospheric Research (CG/AR) in CIRA. During this time he developed a Bayesian based probability model for 4DVAR to enable any distribution to be used. In particular he derived the 4DVAR equivalent for the mixed lognormal-Gaussian distribution. As part of the review process for the Fletcher (2010) Tellus paper Dr. Fletcher derived and coded into the Lorenz 1963 model, the equations for a mixed distribution constant model error term. Also during this time Dr. Fletcher worked on detecting important dynamical properties of the MLEF with respect to Lyapunov and Bred vectors. He has also worked with the DA group at the National Center for Atmospheric Research on their preconditioner for the Weather, Research and Forecasting model's 4D VAR system for the US Air Force.
During 2008 to 2011, Dr. Fletcher worked on techniques associated with how to assimilate both binary MODIS 500m snow cover observations with coarse AMSR-E 25km snow water equivalence into the snow evolution model SnowModel. There were four different schemes developed from simple nudging to a rule based iterative direct insertion technique as well as combination of the two to optimize the data available. This work was tested over two different spacial domains; the first in south-eastern Colorado and the second over a region of the tri-state are of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska, during the winter season of 2006-2007. This was work done in collaboration with Drs. Glen Liston, Christopher Hiemstra and Steven Miller.
Between 2012 and 2014 Dr. Fletcher worked with the data assimilation scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA, on the Navy's numerical weather prediction system investigating updating the background error covariance model as well as non-Gaussian possibilities inside of the observation space based DA system. Also during this period Dr. Fletcher was awarded an NSF grant to investigate the non-Gaussian effects inside of Gaussian data assimilation systems. Part of this research lead to the first ever non-additive incremental based 3D and 4D VAR systems.
Fletcher, S. J. and A. S. Jones, 2014: Multiplicative and Additive Incremental Variational Data Assimilation for Mixed Lognormal-Gaussian Errors. Mon. Wea. Rev., 142, 2521--2544.
Dr. Fletcher has organized a session at the Annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) since 2010 on different aspects of DA, data fusion, predictability and uncertainty quantification in the Nonlinear Geophysics (NG) Focus Group of AGU. Since 2013 Dr. Fletcher has been part of the program committee of the AGU Annual Fall Meeting representing Nonlinear Geophysics where he oversees the scientific program for NG for the meeting in San Francisco.
Currently Dr. Fletcher is still working on the NSF project supervising the postdoctoral fellow - Dr. Anton Kliewer. He is also working on a new project with NRL in Monterey with NAVGEM as well as teaching as part of the data assimilation internship program at CIRA - Variational DA theory.
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CIAA 2018 : 23rd International Conference on Implementation and Application of Automata
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23rd International Conference on Implementation and Application of
Automata -- CIAA 2018
23rd International Conference on Implementation and Application of
Automata (CIAA 2018)
July 30 -- August 2, 2018, University of Prince Edward Island (Canada)
* Aims:
The CIAA conference series, which was started in 1996, covers all
aspects of implementation, application, and theory of automata and
related structures. It aims to attract contributions from both
classical automata theory and applications.
* Venue:
CIAA 2018 will take place at the University of Prince Edward Island,
in Charlottetown, the capital city of "the smallest and the greenest province of Canada".
Prince Edward Island (PEI) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, connected to the mainland
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The campus is located on Trans-Canada Highway, 6.2 km from the Charlottetown airport, and
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* Topics:
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: algorithms on
automata, automata and logic, bioinformatics, complexity of automata
operations, compilers, computer-aided verification, concurrency, data
structure design for automata, data and image compression, design and
architecture of automata software, digital libraries,
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presentations of papers selected by the international program
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A Best Paper Awards (named after one of the conference founders, the
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* Invited speakers:
Anne Condon (University of British Columbia, Vancouver/British Columbia, Canada)
Stavros Konstantinidis (St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada)
Andreas Malcher (Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany)
* Program Committee:
Francine Blanchet-Sadri (University of North Carolina, USA)
Cezar Câmpeanu (University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, Chair)
Arnaud Carayol (Université Paris-Est, France) (co-chair)
Jean-Marc Champarnaud (Université de Rouen, France)
Salimur Choudhury (Lakehead University, Canada)
Jan Daciuk (Gdańsk University of Technology, Poland)
Dora Giammarresi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)
Markus Holzer (Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany)
Oscar Ibarra (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Galina Jirásková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic)
Juhani Karhumäki (University of Turku, Finland)
Sylvain Lombardy (Bordeaux Institute of Technology, France)
Carlo Mereghetti (University of Milano, Italy)
František Mráz (Univerzita Karlova, Czech Republic)
Cyril Nicaud (Université Paris-Est, France)
Alexander Okhotin (University of St Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Giovanni Pighizzini (University of Milano, Italy)
Daniel Reidenbach (Loughborough University, United Kingdom)
Rogério Reis (University of Porto, Portugal)
Kai T. Salomaa (Queen's University, Kingston/Ontario, Canada)
Shinnosuke Seki (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Klaus Sutner (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Mikhail Volkov (Ural Federal University, Russian Federation)
Abuzer Yakaryilmaz (National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil)
Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
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Submission deadline: March 11, 2018
Author notification: April 20, 2018
Camera-ready version: May 6, 2018
Conference: July 30 -- August 2, 2018
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Are you being cheated on?
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When we try to learn a new fact or start to indulge in a new topic, we are a lot of times naive about this new subject. We realize that we do not know that much about it but what we do not realize is who to listen to and who not to listen to. We just do not know enough about the topic yet to be able to make that distinction. So we tend to listen to everything that we hear. This leads to us listening to both good and bad advice. It is not until we get better at our new found craft that we know whose information was crap and who actually knew what they were talking about.
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Please join me for a look back at the history of Von Steuben High School as one of Chicago's famed "Jewish high schools." I'll be retelling some of the fabulous stories I've heard from you — readers of this blog — and the photographs you've shared.
Starting with the opening of the school as a junior high school in 1930, I will share my research into how Von became a predominantly Jewish school, take a look at student activities over the years, and revisit many popular student hangouts of the day.
I am thrilled former Von basketball star, former athletic director and founder of the Von Steuben Alumni Association, Rich Wiener (Class of January '64), will join me to present great moments in Von Steuben's sports history. Plus, you'll hear from a panel of Von experts — alums from the '40s, '50s and '60s — including one of this blog's many great storytellers, Howard Glantz (Class of June '55). See Howard's recollection of Ned Singer's sporting goods store in my post, "Everyone knew his name."
Following the program, we'll have time to schmooze and enjoy refreshments.
It should be a blast from the past and I hope to see you there.
Date: Sunday, August 28
Time: 2 pm
Location: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 Dempster Avenue, Skokie
Fee: Free for Chicago Jewish Historical Society and TBI members; $10 for non-members.
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Meads ward councillors agreed to give £6,599 from their devolved budget towards re-planting and re-turfing the stretch of land between the centre of the car parking bays.
Residents in Lower Meads, members of the town centre neighbourhood panels and councillors called for improvements to the area, which has been worn down by heavy footfall and dry weather conditions.
Cllr Nigel Goodyear said, "We are extremely pleased with the final result which has greatly improved the eroded site.
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Hello everyone,
I have begun working on a DataFlash diagnostic toolbox for fixed-wing aircraft, the mavlink-inspector.
Log analysis has always been interesting to me. Being able to watch someone's flight at the ease of your desk and be able to resolve the causes of a crash or point out tuning deficiencies sounds exciting and borderline magical. Leveraging the value of stored information to identify the weak points of a real-world system is invaluable.
Log visualization tools such as MAVExplorer provides handy plotting of log message data series, facilitating log analysis.
Tools such as ardupilot's LogAnalyzer and Dronekit's Log Analyzer are also a step to the direction of diagnosis and have truly helped many users pick out sensor gone bad and power failures.
However, these tools are mostly targeted for multirotors and provide static tests on a couple of variables at a time. On the contrary, I am mostly interested on fixed-wing airframes and want to delve a little deeper on diagnostic tests which span as much message information as possible.As a result, I have started the mavlink-inspector software project, to purse that goal.
mavlink-inspector is a collection of MATLAB scripts and functions which allow for DataFlash (currently) and MAVLink (in the future) log parsing and diagnosing. MAVLink is a popular telemetry protocol but the information is passes along can be used for much more than simple visualization. Still, I wanted to give myself an easier time by starting with ArduPlane DataFlash logs, which carry more diagnostic information.
Some people might have negative feelings against the MATLAB software suite, and from a programming perspective I agree with them. But as a controls engineer and am very familiar with it and, by all accounts, is the fastest algorithm prototyping tool I know.
The mavlink-inspector code can be cloned into any directory and used with a MATLAB Linux installation. Git is also required, to ensure that test results are up-to-date with the current checking code.
Currently, Mission Planner is used to extract the transcript of a Dataflash .BIN log into a cleartext .LOG file with the same structure. From there on, a log parser script converts it into separate arrays for each message type which appears in the log file.With the log contents in MATLAB format, it is now possible to utilize the full spectrum of MATLAB's functionality.
The toolbox is based off of a few basic class definitions:
A test object can be given the log data and parse them, to perform its dedicated test. It can then be queried for the result printout or even stored.
So far, overview checks have been created for an ArduPlane DataFlash log, checking, among others,
A typical output of the overview checks can be seen below:
gitBuild: Short git hash of the current branch
The git hash of the mavlink-inspector test suite is ecc3ce0bb1572ee10ec1ec831372ac4e43d69f93
isUpdatedMat: Check if the .mat file is up to date
The stored .mat file is up-to-date with the current log2mat function.
logName: Name of the current log
Examining log 68.BIN
parseDate: Date when this result was extracted
Current date and time is 07-Nov-2016 22:32:47 UTC
logDate: Date when the log was recorded
The log was recorded on 05-Oct-2016 08:33:08 UTC
logSize: Name of the current log
Log file size is 60304 kilobytes
logDuration: Duration between first and last timestamp
The duration of the log file, based on CPU timestamps is 1472.45 seconds
fwStats: Firmware related statistics
Platform: ArduPlane
Version: V3.5.2
Git hash: dc9d87fd
msgStats: Statistics on parsed messages
Log contains 47 different message types
ardupilot Log Analyzer port
The checking functions of ardupilot's Log Analyzer, which are applicable to fixed-wing aircraft have also been ported. These functions include:
An example output of this family of checks can be seen below:
TestBrownout: Test for a log that has been truncated in flight - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
No brownout detected | Warning: This check is discouraged - barometer drift may affect results
TestEmpty: Test for empty or near-empty logs - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
PASSED: Throttle maximum value is 68
TestGPSGlitch: Test for GPS glitch reporting or bad GPS data (satellite count, hdop) - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
PASSED: Min Satellites: 8 | Max HDop: 1.21
TestVCC: Test for VCC within recommendations, or abrupt end to log in flight - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
WARNING: Vcc min/max difference is 0.43V with threshold 0.3V
TestCompass: Test for compass offsets and throttle interference - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
PASSED: Compass checks successful
TestDupeLogData: Test for duplicated data in log, which has been happening on PX4/Pixhawk - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
PASSED: No duplicate data found
TestIMUMatch: Test compatibility between IMU1 and IMU2 - Ported from ArduPilot LogAnalyzer
PASSED: Mismatch: 0.605451, WARN: 0.75, FAIL: 1.5
A few words, documenting the current release can be found at the related Github Page.
What is to come
Dronekit-LA functionality is next to be ported onto mavlink-inspector.
After the baseline tests from Log Analyzer and Dronekit-LA have been ported, new functionality will be added. The main focus will be on:
In all, I hope this toolbox will prove useful to anyone interested in taking the fixed-wing UAV log analysis into a MATLB context.
Thanks for reading!
This looks really interesting. Even to be able to automatically diagnose simple causes (e.g brownout) is a great move, but I guess trying to develop algorithms to diagnose more complex issues is the real goal. Look forward to seeing how it develops. Would be great if you could upload your logs and get an instant diagnosis
@skyscraper, thanks!
That last part, on uploading logs and getting a reply sounds neat indeed but I have a serious allergy on anything web-related and server-hosted. Maybe I should see a doctor someday about it.
For now and while the demand is low to non-existent, I could very well receive logs on demand and post the result, in case someone can't have access to the toolchain.
Hi, @Georacer,I have a problem http://discuss.ardupilot.org/t/quadpane-qrtl-error-strongly-shaking/12664/3 ,I think you can try my bin. Hoping your result helping me.
@farstein, I'm not confident I will be able to help you. As I said in the first post, this tool is developed with fixed-wing airframes currently. I don't have the necessary experience with quadplanes to call myself knowledgeable about them.
I'll take a look at your log, but I doubt I'll be able to spot anything.


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