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Thirty-two-year-old Jesse Rains was taken into custody following the early Tuesday morning blaze in the second floor of a strip mall.
Rains is charged in Lincoln County with four counts, including manufacturing and possession of a controlled substance.
Authorities tell the Sioux Falls Argus Leader that chemicals in the apartment were similar to those used to make methamphetamine. Lab components were also seized from the apartment.
Rains was released on a promise to appear in court. The next hearing is scheduled April 10.
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CAIRO — The battle between allies and foes of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak entered a second day Thursday when supporters of the beleaguered leader opened fire on anti-government protesters in Tahrir Square, killing at least one, witnesses said.
The heavy gunfire came hours after Mubarak supporters charged into Cairo's central square on horses and camels brandishing whips while others rained firebombs from rooftops. It appeared to be an orchestrated assault against protesters trying to topple Egypt's leader of 30 years. At least three people died and more than 600 were injured on Wednesday.
The protesters accused Mubarak's regime of unleashing a force of paid thugs and plainclothes police to crush their unprecedented nine-day-old movement, a day after the 82-year-old president refused to step down. They showed off police ID badges they said were wrested from their attackers. Some government workers said their employers ordered them into the streets.
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A doctor quoted on Al Arabiya television said that Mubarak supporters opened fire early Thursday in Tahrir Square, killing at least one person. Protest organizer Mustafa al-Naggar said he had seen three bodies.
NBC News' Brian Williams and Richard Engel, reporting live on msnbc's "The Rachel Maddow Show" early Thursday from a balcony overlooking Tahrir Square, described frequent gunfire around the square and the smell of tear gas.
Army tanks laid down smoke screens between the sides.
One protester was caught in a firebomb and rolled in an attempt to put out the flames. It was unclear whose side the person was on.
As they watched, a man was dragged from a passing truck and severely beaten. The two sides battled for an overpass overlooking the square with rocks and firebombs.
Williams described tracer rounds being fired into a nearby building.
Mustafa el-Fiqqi, a top official from the ruling National Democratic Party, told The Associated Press that businessmen connected to the ruling party were responsible for the clashes earlier in the day. But Egypt's Interior Ministry earlier denied accusations by anti-government protesters that plainclothes police were involved.
The notion that the state may have coordinated violence against protesters, who had kept a peaceful vigil in Tahrir Square for five days, prompted a sharp rebuke from the Obama administration.
"If any of the violence is instigated by the government, it should stop immediately," said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
The clashes marked a dangerous new phase in Egypt's upheaval: the first significant violence between government supporters and opponents. The crisis took a sharp turn for the worse almost immediately after Mubarak rejected the calls for him to give up power or leave the country, stubbornly proclaiming he would die on Egyptian soil.
"After our revolution, they want to send people here to ruin it for us," said Ahmed Abdullah, a 47-year-old lawyer in the square. "Why do they want us to be at each other's throats, with the whole world watching us?"
Dr. Mona Mina, a physician at an emergency clinic set up at the scene, told Reuters more than 1,500 people were injured.
Dr. Hatem Aly, with the Gamaet Ein al-Shams hospital in Cairo, said the majority of the wounded were anti-Mubarak protesters. He said the injuries ranged from minor cuts and bruises to serious, life-threatening wounds. Some suffered burns from exploding Molotov cocktails; others were stabbed by knives or swords used by pro-Mubarak protesters, he said.
Several foreign journalists were among the wounded, according to media reports.
The scenes of mayhem were certain to add to the fear that is already running high in this capital of 18 million people after a weekend of looting and lawlessness and the escape of thousands of prisoners from jails in the chaos.
The military, which has stayed on the sidelines during a week of mostly peaceful protests, repeatedly broadcast a message on state television Wednesday night warning people to evacuate, saying that "violent groups" intended to burn down the square, Al-Jazeera English reported.
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Egypt's newly appointed vice president, former intelligence chief and army officer Omar Suleiman, urged protesters on both sides to go home.
"The participants in these demonstrations had conveyed their message, both those demanding reform and those who came out in support of President Hosni Mubarak," he said, according to the MENA state news agency.
Suleiman urged "all citizens to return to their homes and abide by the curfew to boost the authorities' efforts in restoring calm and stability and limit the damage and losses the demonstrations had caused Egypt since they erupted last week."
After dark the protesters barricaded the square against groups of pro-Mubarak supporters who appeared to be trying to penetrate the makeshift cordon. There was sporadic gunfire, with blazes caused by firebombs, and the atmosphere was tense.
Fires were burning near the famed Egyptian Museum and at a residential building, and NBC's Engel said he saw "flaming bombs" being dropped from buildings.
The clashes erupted the day after Mubarak went on national television and said he would not seek another term but rejected protesters' demands he step down immediately.
Some of the worst street battles raged near the famed Egyptian Museum at the edge of the square. Pro-government rioters blanketed the rooftops of nearby buildings and hurled bricks and firebombs onto the crowd below — in the process setting a tree ablaze inside the museum grounds. Plainclothes police at the building entrances prevented anti-Mubarak protesters from storming up to stop them.
The two sides pummeled each other with chunks of concrete and bottles at each of the six entrances to the sprawling plaza, where the 10,000 anti-Mubarak protesters tried to fend off the more than 3,000 attackers who besieged them. Some on the pro-government side waved machetes, while the square's defenders filled the air with a ringing battlefield din by banging metal fences with sticks.
In one almost medieval scene, a contingent of pro-Mubarak forces on horseback and camels rushed into the anti-Mubarak crowds, trampling several and swinging whips and sticks. Protesters dragged some from their mounts, throwing them to the ground and beating their faces bloody. The horses and camels appeared to be ones used by the many promoters around Cairo who sell rides for tourists.
Dozens of men and women pried up the pieces of the pavement with bars and ferried the piles of ammunition in canvas sheets to their allies at the front. Others directed fighters to streets needing reinforcements. Entrances to a subway station under the square were turned into impromptu prisons, with seized attackers tied up and held at the bottom of the stairs.
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Some protesters wept and prayed in the square where only a day before they had held a joyous, peaceful rally of a quarter-million, the largest demonstration so far.
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"We saw rocks flying in all directions … it was total mayhem," an Al-Jazeera correspondent in the area of Tahrir Square told the TV station. She said there was a "complete stampede" and that she saw people being trampled.
Another Al-Jazeera correspondent in the square said the "crazed cavalry charge" had entered the square alongside pro-Mubarak protesters and ran "straight at a wall of people." A cameraman was trampled, he said. Live video showed protesters on top of the buildings bordering Tahrir Square throwing debris.
Al Arabiya, a Dubai-based Arabic-language TV news channel, reported one of its correspondents was missing after being confronted by pro-Mubarak reporters.
CNN's Anderson Cooper said he and his production crew were kicked and punched by pro-Mubarak demonstrators. Cooper said no one was seriously hurt.
Why does Egypt matter?
Egypt, the most populous Arab country, with 80 million people, has been a key ally of the United States in the Middle East. Since the uprising began, however, the U.S. has indicated that it is time for change in Egypt.
Security: Egypt signed peace treaty with Israel in 1979 — the first between an Arab government with the Israelis. The relationship has been key to political stability in the region. Egyptian support was important to the U.S. in the two Gulf wars. Without smuggling across Egyptian border, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip would be in even more dire economic straits. Egypt has played mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and in disputes between Arab nations.
Economy: Egypt governs the Suez Canal, a key shipping route between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. With its wealth of antiquities, it is a major destination for tourists.
Politics: Revolution against the British began in 1952 and a republic was declared in 1953, led by Gamal Abdel Nasser. Anwar Sadat succeeded Nasser and was assassinated in 1981; Hosni Mubarak then took power.
The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet said two of its reporters were attacked and held for several hours by Egyptian soldiers who accused them of being spies for Israel.
The public emergence of Mubarak loyalists, whether ordinary citizens or police, thrust a new dynamic into the momentous events in this most populous Arab nation of 80 million people.
The anti-government uprising broke out Jan. 25 as public frustration with corruption, oppression and economic hardship under Mubarak boiled over.
Rep. Sen. John McCain said Mubarak should go. "Regrettably the time has come 4 Pres. Mubarak 2 step down & relinquish power. It's in the best interest of Egypt, its people & its mility," he tweeted.
In his 10-minute speech Tuesday night, Mubarak insisted that even if the protests had not broken out, he would not have sought a sixth term in September. But he did not accede to protesters' demand that he step down immediately.
Mubarak, who has ruled Egypt for nearly three decades, said he would serve out the rest of his term working "to accomplish the necessary steps for the peaceful transfer of power." He said he will carry out amendments to rules on presidential elections.
Egypt's stock exchange and many of its banks and businesses have been closed due to the turmoil, and thousands of foreigners have been evacuated from the county.
NBC News, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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text: Le Monday, 10 February 2003 14:24, Nicholas Webb a écrit: > At the University of Idaho we are preparing to order a new beowulf cluster > and a vendor seemed to be shocked that we wanted UPSs attached to ALL of > the nodes. He stated that most people only use UPSs on the Master Node, > unless the cluster was used for some kind of mission critical purpose. > So the question, do you use UPSs on your slave nodes? Arguments for not > using UPSs on slave nodes (and vice versa)? We have a small cluster (16), yet we have put all nodes, the myri and eth switches and the KVM on UPSs, because: a) we fear brief power spikes that can bring down days worth of computation (we have a fair load of such spikes - sometimes up to 4/month); b) we want to condition the circuits (we had first hand accounts of tens of power supplies to be changed because they only worked correctly on an adequately sized UPS, but never on the direct power line, because of what was discussed on this list about recent power supplies). -- Cristian Tibirna (1-418-) 656-2131 / 4340 Université Laval - Québec, CAN ... http://www.giref.ulaval.ca/~ctibirna Professionnel de recherche GIREF ... ctibirna at giref.ulaval.ca Étudiant PhD Génie Chimique ... tibirna at gch.ulaval.ca


text: Mark Hahn wrote: >>What is the ideal way to manage memory consumption in HPC applications? > > > run the right jobs on the right machines. > But because memory is scarce one needs to have a good memory consumption strategy. And memory is scarce otherwise out-of-core solvers (like for instance used in NASTRAN) would not be necessary. > >>For HPC applications, performance is everything. Next we all know about >>the famous performance-memory tradeoff which says that performance can >>be improved by consuming more memory and vice versa. Therefore HPC >>applications want to consume all available memory. > > > this is simply untrue. the HPC apps I deal with most fall into > two broad categories: > > - montecarlo-type stuff, which tends to be incredibly small, > even cache-resident, and which certainly does NOT want or need > more memory. > > - physically-based simulations (cosmology, condensed matter, > materials, etc), which has a very clear memory requirement based > on the model being sumulated. > > MC-class stuff is almost insignificant in memory use and scales linearly. > physically-based simulations tend to be limited by work, not space - yes, > you need enough memory, but world-class problems will be pushing the > boundaries of cpu/interconnect speed, not so much memory size. direct solvers treating 1 million dofs (and a decent bandwith of course) need a _lot_ of memory. Thus: out-of-core solvers are necessary. > it's useful to state up-front what sizes we're talking about. I say that > 1GB per cpu is the lower bound of what's reasonable today - just in terms > of packaging (2x512M dimms per cpu). admittedly, Intel's approach might > get by with less. > > but my biggest users are reasonably happy with 4GB/p today, maybe a little > eager for 8GB/p tomorrow. that's reasonably congruent with where the market > is (4x1G dimms per opteron, for instance.) MC people with very simple models > are around 4MB/p (that's mega), and people with larger models (MC or not) > are at around 400 MB/p. > I'm assuming at least 1G also. But most have 4G per node and up. But again this is for direct solvers of big systems. > >>But the performance-memory tradeoff as mentioned above supposes infinite >>memory and infinite memory bandwith. Because memory if finite, consuming >>more memory as physically available will result in swapping by the OS > > > swapping in HPC is a non-fatal error condition. note that I also didn't > mention "old-fashioned" applications which use tons of disk space to > cache partial results. I would argue that the "old-fashioned" jeer is > at least partially justified by the assumption of disk-intensive apps > that they can't scale NCPUS. yes, you can dress these apps up as > "out-of-core", but I'm not so sure they really make sense today. > The question is just: any out-of-core uses blocking and treats block per block. But how big should blocks ideally be. Can I take a block-size that is almost equal to my physical memory and thus relying on the rest of the app being swapped out (taking into account that bigger block size improves performance)? > >>Knowing this we could say that HPC applications generally want to eat >>all available memory but not more. All available memory here means all > > > I don't believe this is a useful generalization. applications have a > "natural" size. applications which are blindly scaled up in data > (without corresponding scaling of NCPUS) are highly suspect, IMO. > > >>basic services because we suppose that HPC applications do not share >>their processor with other applications (to have the whole cache for >>itself). > > > don't freak out about caches! a cache flush is only a millisecond or so, > which means that it's entirely reasonable to timeslice applications > on a fairly coarse granularity (theoretically, even just a few seconds > would be enough to amortize the flush.) admittedly, I'm ignoring the > difference between a cache's worth of isolated fetches and a (streaming) > flush, but back-of-envelope numbers indicate this is not a big problem. > > the real issue is that tight-coupled apps need gang scheduling. > true. Although sequential batch-jobs are also queued. > >>Well this is true for single-processor machines. On multi-proc >>machines (smp,numa) only a part of the physical memory can be consumed. > > > depends on the machine. even on an altix with 9M caches, flushing > would take ~2ms, so if you do it every 100 seconds, no one will notice. but a typical timeslice is much shorter than 100 seconds. Additionally you're not taking into account the time you loose the time you need to rebuild your cache. > > consider an opteron with 1M cache and 3 GB/s easily sustainable BW > and 50 ns latency. .3 ms for a streaming flush and .8 ms line-by-line. > > >>loops (e.g. in the solver)? In the latter case, can we rely on the OS >>swapping out the inactive parts of our application to make space for the >>solver or would it be better that the application puts all >>data-structures that are not used in the solver on disk to make sure? > > > the OS has mediocre insight into which pages you really should have > resident vs on disk. you probably *can* arrange your access patterns > to be very simple (a single window moving through a large span of memory) > which the VM will approximate. but you're probably better off doing > it yourself. OK, thanks. This was one of my main questions. So as you said before: the OS swapping an HPC app is a non-fatal error. > > I question whether this approach makes that much sense, though, > since CPUs are *not* all that expensive, relative to large amounts > of ram, and especially when considering the speed of disk. It's about: how much effort must I do to put all my data, that is not used in the solver, on disk. If the OS does a very good job: why bother? (of course I keep using an out-of-core solver, I'm only talking about the data in the rest of the app such as data on the mesh etc.) > > >>OTOH if we want to limit the total memory consumption to 7.5GB, would it >>be best to allocate a memory-pool of 7.5GB and if the pool is full abort >>the application (after running for days)? > > > depends on how effectively the VM can approximate the working set. > I say kill the application when its %CPU drops too low due to thrashing. > and go talk to the job's owner to figure out a better way/place to run it. > > regards, mark hahn. thanks for the very interesting response! toon -- Check out our training program on acoustics and register on-line at http://www.fft.be/?id=35


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There are three major international shocks currently shaping geopolitical decisions across the globe, according to former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — all of which are putting a squeeze on global economic growth as well.
As the opening keynote speaker at this year's Global Financial Leadership Conference, Rice outlined the three shocks as the following:
1. September 11, which continues to impact the U.S. diplomatic and military role in the Middle East.
2. The Global economic downturn
3. The improving politics and economies in emerging countries like India, Brazil and China.
Rice regularly speaks on the U.S. foreign policy role throughout the globe, but not as often in the context of how it relates to the global economic situation. She stressed to the GFLC audience that relieving economic stresses in the United States and Europe will help ease political tensions across the globe.
"The thing that Europe needs most right now, and in fact the United States needs most right now, is global growth. If you could put on the agenda of the President of the United States a plan for global growth, so that this shrinking pie doesn't exacerbate all of the political tensions out there, Europe would be helped, Japan would be helped, the United States would be helped. And it starts with reinvigorating the trade agenda… global growth through a robust trade agenda would help everybody."
Rice argued that the U.S. has no trade agenda now — only three free-trade agreements have been ratified in the last four years, all of them signed under the Bush administration — and that China has a thriving trade agenda, having signed 15 trade agreements, and are negotiating 18 more.
In addition to the United States getting back on its feet economically and matching Chinese aspirations on trade, Rice stressed that the right kind of relationship with China is critical, too. She cited the over-concern of some to China's launch of an aircraft carrier at a time when it is at odds with some of its neighbors over the Senkaku islands.
If we take on Asia as a military challenge, we are going to embolden the Chinese who want this to be about militarism and security. The right strategy in Asia is one that is an economic strategy. Recasting what we're doing in Asia is another urgent point on the President's to do list.
Finally, Rice framed the current global situation in terms of doing the things from a policy perspective that will be well-regarded by history, even if not in the current discussion.
"Reconstructing the world that has been blown up by the 3 shocks, the best thing to do is to trust history's judgement."


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Author Notes: Cucina Povera – Italian cuisine embraces 'waste not, want not'. Probably the precursor to 'nose-to-tail' cooking and eating. A way of life, with delicious results. As most things Italian are.
And this stuffed bread, a perfect addition to the picnic basket is no exception. A stuffed ring of baked dough, filled with humble and simple ingredients that all nonnas and mammas would have to hand in the days by gone.
Cheese and salumi, all bear-hugged in yeasted bread dough.
Traditionally made at Easter, Casatiello Napoletano is rustic and savoury. When made any other time of year, it goes by the appellation Tortano, which doesn't have boiled eggs on the ingredients list, unlike CN. So I've gone for CN, even if its not Easter. Thinking of which, does it really matter?
Take the cheese - provolone dolce, a mild pasta filata (pulled cheese). And imagine mozzarella but with wings. Soft, lightly salted and creamy with a buttery flavour. And originally the cheese of the poor as a little piece gave a lot of flavour.
Whatever you do, make it a day ahead - it tastes better.
—Kitchen Butterfly
Makes: 1 loaf
Casatiello Napoletano - Stuffed Italian Bread
1 quantity bread dough
150g provolone dolce, cubed
50g pecorino, freshly grated
125g ham, chopped (I used york ham)
250g bacon bits, pan fried (but not till crisp)
4 hard boiled eggs, peeled and quartered
50 - 75g pitted black olives, sliced into rings
2 finely crushed whole dried red chillies
1/2 a teaspoon dried oregano
Sprinkly of freshly crushed black pepper
Olive oil
Bread Dough
350ml lukewarm water
15g fresh yeast
1 tablespoon caster sugar
400g strong white bread flour
100g semolina (or strong white bread flour)
½ - 1 teaspoon fine seasalt
Extra flour, for dusting
- MAKE THE BREAD DOUGH: In a bowl, combine the water, fresh yeast and sugar, stirring/mixing till the yeast is dissolved. Combine the flours with the salt then using a dough whisk or a wooden spoon, gently add the bread-salt mix to the yeasty water, stirring till the flour is all used up. Carefully shape the dough into a ball and place in bowl. Gently oil the top of the dough and cover lightly, or with greased clingfilm (oiled side down). Allow dough rise for a couple of hours, then gently turn out onto a lightly floured surface. Alternatively, place dough in the fridge and use later. If using after refrigeration, allow dough rest out of the fridge for 10 - 20 minutes before use
- MIX THE FILLING: In a bowl, combine the provolone, pecorino, ham, bacon, boiled eggs, olives and crushed dried chillies and oregano.
- MAKE CASATIELLO NAPOLETANO:Oil a large bundt pan/angel food tin with some olive oil. Then lightly flour a surface and roll out the dough into a rectangle 1/2 cm thick. Place the filling in the centre of the rectangle, lengthways and sprinkle some black pepper over to the top.
- You will need to roll the dough into a sausage or cigar so pull one side in over the top, holding both ends of the dough and bringing in. Then grab the centre of the other side (and not the ends) and bring over the top to seal (and form a crown). Pinch the ends to seal and bring them together to form a coil.
- Gently lift dough and place in greased bundt pan. If you don't have one, place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Leave to rise at room temperature for 30 minutes to 1 hour, or until risen.
- While the dough is resting, preheat the oven to 230° C. Brush the casatiello with olive oil and bake it for 10 minutes at 230 °C, then lower the temperature to 200 °C and cook for another 30-40 minutes. The casatiello should be cooked through and golden, though testing it will be toguh as the melted cheesy centre won't give the dry response you seek.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool down for about 10 minutes in the pan. Then remove and let cool on a rack. When cold, tuck in and enjoy some soft, warm melted cheese. If like me, midnight saw this fresh out of the oven with work the following day, allow it to rest overnight in a paper (not plastic) bag, or wrapped with paper.
- On the day, pack your basket. Place the bread in an oven on 180°C and let warm through. Then grab some pesto or chimichurri...if you wish, maybe jars of green salad, wine glasses and a bottle of prosecco with flowers in your hair.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Road Trip Snack
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Holiday Breakfast II
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Picnic Dish
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Michael Robinson apparently won't be making the Seattle Seahawks' 53-man roster.
Robinson, a fullback who has been with the Seahawks the last three seasons and played in all 16 games with six starts last year, wrote a goodbye message to Seattle on Twitter on Friday, just under 24 hours before the 6 p.m. Eastern Saturday deadline for teams to get down to 53 players.
Been real #12thMan will always have love for ya—
Michael Robinson (@RealMikeRob) August 31, 2013
The 30-year-old Robinson signed with the Seahawks in 2010 and was a Pro Bowler in 2011. He played his first four seasons with the 49ers and will now become a free agent at a time when he still has something to contribute, but when few NFL teams are looking for fullbacks.


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INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is being released.
Paula Cooper's death sentence at such a young age drew international protests and a plea for clemency from Pope John Paul II. Now at age 43, Cooper is set to be freed Monday.
She was 15 on May 14, 1985, when she and two other teenage girls entered 78-year-old Ruth Pelke's home in Gary by telling her they were interested in Bible lessons. Once inside, Cooper stabbed Pelke 33 times before the girls ransacked the house.
The Indiana Supreme Court set Cooper's death sentence aside in 1988 and ordered her to serve 60 years in prison after state legislators raised the minimum age limit for execution from 10 to 16.


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Today is the feast of St John the Evangelist, the patron of my church. The Fathers of the Church believed John the Evangelist was the author of the Gospel, three Epistles, and the Book of Revelation, and the same person as John the Apostle and John of Patmos. Later scholars suggest rather that a disciple of John the Apostle wrote the Gospel and three Epistles and that John of Patmos was a different person, because the writing style of the Book of Revelation is too different from the Gospel and Epistles.
Pictured above is the stained glass window at St. John's Episcopal Church in Thibodaux. If you click on the picture, you see (somewhat blurred) the detail in the glass which shows a snake coming out of the goblet in John's hand. According to legend, the emperor Domitian offered poisoned wine to John, but he blessed the wine and the poison came out of the goblet in the form of a snake. A painting by El Greco illustrates the same legend.
Collect of the day
Shed upon your Church, O Lord, the brightness of your light; that we, being illumined by the teaching of your apostle and evangelist John, may so walk in the light of your truth, that at length we may attain to the fullness of eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (Book of Common Prayer)Archdruid Eileen posted a lovely poem (hers I assume, since there is no citation) in honor of the feast day.


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The Stepmother
Anyone in need of a reminder of just how much feminism has achieved over the last century should see this play, written by Githa Sowerby in 1924.
Sowerby's own experiences as a female playwright were grist to her mill. Her best-known play, 'Rutherford & Son' – currently being performed in her native Newcastle – proved a hit for a writer known only as KG Sowerby: once the secret got out that she was female, some critics changed their minds retrospectively about the merits of her play.
'The Stepmother', written two decades after 'Rutherford & Son', was only ever given one performance at a private theatre club during Sowerby's lifetime – a fact that now seems astonishing. In its examination of the relationship between a young orphaned woman, Lois Relph (Katie McGuinness), the feckless man she marries, and his two stepdaughters, the play recalls the claustrophobia and straitjacketing social mores of Ibsen and Chekhov. And its indictment of a society in which a wife can be left entirely at the financial mercy of her husband feels startlingly ahead of its time.
This production, directed by Sam Walters, is beautifully staged: Katy Mills's set neatly evokes the upper-middle-class echelons of Edwardian and '20s England. The cast, too, are excellent – particularly McGuinness, whose understated, naturalistic performance makes Lois's predicament all the more compelling. Christopher Ravenscroft also convinces as Lois's husband Eustace, a man so unremittingly awful you want to shout boo every time he appears on stage. Laura Barnett
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BC: to be continued...
FC: Jessica & Christian | O U R S T O R Y
2: about us | Christian Lewis | October 5th | Blue | Soccer | Adventurous | Artist | Logical | Atlas Shrugged | Someday - Nickleback | The Matrix
3: Jessica Winston | June 18th | Pink | Volunteering | Extrovert | Risk Taker | Dog Enthusiast | Love in the Time of Cholera | Hometown Glory - Adel | Pride and Prejudice
4: H O W W E M E T | We met June 8th 2017 at a mutual friends wedding. Christian asked me to dance and I accepted. We had instant chemistry, something I had never felt before. I knew this guy was special and was hoping he felt the same. He waited two weeks to finally call me and I was so excited to finally get to spend more time with him. | June 20th 2017 Christian asked if I would like to join him at a summer concert in San Francisco. I accepted but I didn't know it was a date and thought other people would be joining us. I soon found out it wasn't a group outing and it was meant to be a date. We had a fabulous time and the rest is history. | O U R F I R S T D A T E
5: O U R F I R S T K I S S | We were at the beach in Santa Barbara, Ca for the 4th of July in 2017. We were soaking up some sun and feel asleep under a cabana. When I woke up Christian was laying there gazing at me. He leaned in to give me a kiss and I kissed him right back. He took my breath away. That was the first of many lovely kisses from my Sweet Christian. | On our 5th date, July 25th 2017 Christian took me sailing on Lake Tahoe. He hired a chef to prepare a wonderful meal for us to eat out on the water. I was very impressed. After dinner we stood at the bow of the boat and as the sun was setting he held me close and whispered those three precious words...I love you. I said it back of course. I'll always remember that special moment. | F I R S T I L O V E Y O U
6: We had so much fun in Colorado this summer.We went hiking and whitewater rafting and stayed the week at a friends cabin. It was so romantic. Our little outdoor adventure is one of my favorite memories we've shared together. I look forward to many more adventures to come.
9: I love that we can be silly together...We're so fortunate to have the friendship we have as well as the love we share. I am so blessed to have found my true love and my best friend. We have such a good time together. I love you my sweet teddy bear.
10: We threw Christian a surprise party and managed to pull it off without him finding out. It took a lot of planning but we pulled it off and he was pleasantly surprised to see all of his family and friends there to celebrate his 28th Birthday. | Christian's 28th Birthday | .............................................. | O C T O B E R 5 T H 2 0 1 8
11: Christian and his best friends from college were sent on a scavenger hunt. Christian and James made it back first with Jim and Andy coming in second.
12: Our first New Years together was one I'll never forget. Christian surprised me with a trip to New York so we could watch the ball drop in Time Square. WOW what an experience! I have never seen so many people in one place cheering together as the count down began. It was so much fun!
13: New Years Eve | ........................................... | 12. 31. 2018 | When we arrived in New York we first went ice skating at the famous ice rink in Rockefeller Center. Then we went to a Broadway show, and ate at Per Se, It was fabulous!
14: Santa Barbara, Ca | ......................................... | J U N E 8 T H 2 0 1 9
15: Christian surprised my for our 1 year anniversary by taking me to the place we first met, The Four Season's in Santa Barbara. We had a lovely time reliving our first moments together and enjoyed all of the delicious food the city has to offer. This place will always have a special place in our hearts.
16: favorite places | We love the restaurants, shops and the beach life in Carmel. The town has so much to offer and is also the place that Christian and I shared our first date. This city will always be special to us. | We love the restaurants, shops and the beach life in San Diego. The town has so much to offer and is also the place that Christian and I shared our first kiss. This city will always be special to us. | SAN DIEGO, CA | CARMEL, CA
17: We love the restaurants, shops and the outdoor life in Boulder. The town has so much to offer and is also the place that Christian said I Love You for the first time. This city will always be special to us. | We love the restaurants, shops and the beach life in Miami. The town has so much to offer and is also the place that Christian and I shared our first cruise together. | MIAMI, FL | BOULDER, CO
19: Napa Valley | Our trip to Napa Valley was so romantic. We checked into a beautiful B&B. We indulged in a few spa treatments and then hopped into a limousine to go on a tasting tour of the many wineries Napa has to offer. The next evening we went on a Dinner Train Tour. | .............................................. | 3. 1 0. 2 0 1 9
20: Kauai, HI | ................................ | 1. 1 8. 2 0 1 9 | We were pretty lucky with the weather on our trip and only had one day of rain the whole time. The next morning after it rained, we counted at least 15 waterfalls that had appeared on the cliffs outside our window. It was so beautiful!
21: One of the coolest parts of our trip, and something I encourage for anyone who travels to Kauai, was a helicopter tour of the island. We saw parts of the island you can't see any other way, dipping into canyons, getting up close to waterfalls, flying along sea cliffs of the Na'Pali Coast.
24: friendship | As a child I would occasionally think to myself that the girl of my life is out there living her life somewhere in the world. Our paths just haven't crossed yet. I think our paths have finally crossed. Jessica is more perfect for me than I would have ever imagined. Life would not be complete without her.
25: Christian has such an amazing and kind heart. He has never met a stranger and everyone loves him. He truly is my perfect other half. I am so blessed to have him, and will always cherish the time we share. I look forward to a long, happy future together.


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Most of you know that I do a lot of research on the horrible things that haunt the internet. Recently, I have come across enough samples of malcode to suggest a truly sinister problem is heading our way.
Though I cannot release the specifics, I have seen several unrelated groups actively testing spyware that once inside your perimeter, tunnels out to the C&C via SSH and in other cases, SSL.
Detecting these new threats will be extremely difficult and will force security vendors to quickly throw together hueristics that say if you see this protocol and if the destination is an IRC server then block the traffic (or something of the like).
I'm going to discuss this in detail with an AV vendor on Monday. Hopefully they will have encouraging news, as in they are also aware and have a viable solution ready to go.
Consider this your early warning.


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Remember Elio Motors, the startup company that made waves last year for trying to build maybe-vaporware, 65 MPG three-wheel vehicles at a former GM truck plant in Shreveport, La.? It looks like they're one step closer to actually doing it. Maybe, anyway.
The New Orleans Advocate reports that Elio just secured a deal to rent approximately 1.5 million square feet of the 4.1 million-square-foot building which used to be the General Motors Shreveport Assembly and Stamping Plant. CEO and founder Paul Elio said he now expects to begin commercial production in 2015, though that's a year later than expected.
They just raised $7 million for the endeavor. Now all they need is another $193 million to complete the task and, by their estimation, bring 1,500 jobs to an area that was hit hard by the closing of the GM plant during the Carpocalypse.
The Elio three-wheeler is said to get as much as 49 MPG in the city and 84 MPG on the highway from its three-cylinder engine, and be vastly more affordable than other new cars, and come with a full three-year warranty. Paul Elio has said he wants to produce up to 250,000 cars at the plant per year.
Elio Motors has received significant support from the local authorities for production, including changes to the law that would have required a helmet in Louisiana to operate the vehicle and a $7.5 million investment in the plant by the Caddo Parish government that cleared the way for Elio to lease the space.
As with any automotive startup, take this one with a huge grain of salt. It's always an uphill battle to establish a new car company, especially one as niche as Elio Motors is trying to be.


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How To Choose The Right Corporate Uniform
It is not an easy task to reinforce your brand image into the customer's and employer's minds.
Andrew Black
It is not an easy task to reinforce your brand image into the customer's and employer's minds. All successful organizations have chosen the right corporate uniforms for their employees because they know they level of benefit they can get. Implementing a corporate uniform can help your business create the right effect in a very short period of time. It is not at all difficult to design a corporate uniform for your employees.
There are numerous ways to choose the right corporate uniform for your organization. The first thing you should know is that the corporate uniform should look professional and official. Some patent uniforms that were being used for a long time are of no use nowadays. They no more look professional and tend to give a casual look. A factor adding to their unprofessional look is the improper fitting. Corporate uniforms should fit reasonably well, neither too loose, nor too tight.
A professional corporate uniform should also focus on an updated logo at a suitable place over the uniform. This is very important because among a hundred other organizations yours should signify its identity through a well embossed name. Embroidering the logo on the uniform gives a sense of belonging to the employees which is necessary for an organization to climb the success ladder.
While you design an appropriate pattern for both male and female employees, look on for a suitable fabric as it is very important to make the work process easier for employees. The uniform material should be durable with permanent and decent colors.
Comfort should also be considered while formatting the uniform. Often employees wear clothes that look good on them but they are very uncomfortable working in them. This should not happen with the corporate uniform. It is essential to look professional and be comfortable at the same time.
With all the above mentioned specifications, the uniform should not at all be boring for the employees. You can select contrast of different bright colors for the uniform, however, this only confines to certain industries. Not at all organizations can follow this as it is usually meant to go well with the creative industry.
If you are confused about which colors to choose, check out the organization logo and coordinate different colors. Alternatively, you can choose a color scheme that contrasts the logo. This will bring out the colors of the logo brightly. Many organizations also prefer to have a black and white logo, but then again it depends on the industry your organizations belongs to.
Implementing a corporate uniform is a matter of choice for an organization. However, you can get the maximum amount of benefit for your business by doing so. It is not only gaining popularity among larger organizations, but medium and small sized businesses are also moving towards it.
Organizations implement uniforms for employees to gain maximum commercial benefits indirectly. Very few organizations realize the fact that these uniforms are an amazing long-term investment that builds your brand all over again starting from the employees to competitors to customers.
Andrew works for a promotional clothing company. He has helps many organisations with their imprinted promotional merchandise needs.


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trevorhoare necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Looking for a professional looking version of my mock up.
I have created this page of the general idea for the website.I am looking for someone to take this pages and redo it in a professional manner.
Want to maintain the minimilistic style while adding bright colors and some subtle design accents, that will make the pages look fun and a little nerdy and silly.
Here is a version that I made in mspaint that gives the general layout. Use this as a guide when making your submission.
Also, I am not looking for someone to take this image and just add to it... I'm looking for someone to make a new version that looks like it was done by a real designer, using my mockup as a guide.
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Laughable how full of crap these people are. Yeah right. This was like CityTime and SAIC, TechnoDyne, Spherion and the majority of sub-contractors and oh yeah Gartner doing quality control on Spherion doing quality control on SAIC CityTime! Simple math proves they are full of crap....There was no way in hell Haggerty could have spent 1.1 million dollars in 24 hours and either could Paris Hilton if she worked for Mike Bloomberg. No one reported this as a crime or did squat until The NY Post exposed Haggerty and why? Cy Vance was forced to do his job although Cy Vance is proving to be a big time failure giving immunity to Mike Bloomberg and his staff and letting the NYPD Rape Cop HEROIN be rolled in to a sentence year -- are you kidding me? So Cy Vance decided to do his job and Connolly rolls over in faced by some threat from Vance? I am just wondering because it wasn't like Connolly or Mike Bloomberg ran to the NYPD or called Cy Vance's Public Integrity Hotline which I did to report Bloomberg and Quinn. The Public Integrity Hotline for the Attorney General and Manhattan DA should just have an automatic recording Mike Bloomberg and his staff and Christine Quinn and her staff have immunity and are above the law and so is the DA. The AG Public Integrity refuses to investigate Cy Vances handling of the NYPD rape cop heroin.
Mike knew Haggerty could not spend 1.1 million dollars in a day and Mike did not care....Mike's attitude was keep the change and Haggerty did. Mike never asked for the money back.
Google Fiona Reid and Steve Rattner. Mike stood by Steve and so did the owner of the NY Times giving Rattner an op ed piece in the NYTimes after pleading the 5th amendment 62 times. Well if Dennis Vacco and Raymond Costello called Steve Rattner and asked him about his amoral activities and how Mike Bloomberg stood by him and even got him on Charlie Rose who Mike owns like a ken doll -- than Vacco Costello could highlight how this goes on all the time and Mike could care less and is careless with tax payer money, NY Pension like Rattner raid them -- his own money manager and did not want any money back from Haggerty.
WHY OH WHY DOES MIKE BLOOMBERG, PATRICIA HARRIS, KEVIN SHEEKEY, FIONA REID, ALLISON JAFFIN NEED IMMUNITY? If they are innocent why not waive their immunity? Vacco and Costello need to point that out to juries and than ask jurors in the closing argument if you had your car stolen, cash stolen, wouldn't you go to the police? Yes but Mike Bloomberg did not. Mike never asked for the money back because he did not want it back. It was like this -- keep the change for doing my dirty, dirty work.
Mike funneled money to Haggerty the election before via the Republican Party.
Mike is the king of funneling money and look how he found countless creative ways to pay Team Bloomberg including NYC gov., money for working on his charity, money for working at his private empire, money for Allison Jaffin who also got money from NYC gov and charity from a dummy company that the NY Post exposed! And Wolfson a slimy campaign operative along with other low life campaign scum who helped pushed through an illegal third term all got 6 figure salaries courtesy of the tax payers -- as well as lavish salaries and perks courtesy of Bloomberg's campaign...and how many were driven around courtesy of the tax payers like Pat Harris while working on Mike's charity.
Dennis Vacco and Raymond Costello need to tell the jury that the DA has the wrong guy here and the guy that should be prosecuted and his staff all have immunity and include corrupt Christine Quinn who pushed through a third term with Mike using slush and intimidation along with Mike Bloomberg.
p.s. US Attorney gave Christine Quinn and staff unofficially immunity on slush fund investigation and made it go away not taking note of the face Quinn has not filled a watch dog position in slush in 2 years which is about how long US Attorney stalled investigation they would flush down the toilet like Bloomberg and Quinn flushed democracy down the toilet. Bloomberg Quinn used slush and intimidation to push thru 3rd term.
- and Connelly just wrote these checks to Haggerty all by himself and didn't get the approval of party chairman Frank Mackay......give me a break.....and Sheeky didn't tell him that the money was for Haggerty.......give me a double break.....and the rules about housekeeping miney not being for candidates are confusing.......give me a triple break...they all are in this together and Mackay is hiding under his wife's skirt.
- and we are forgetting...Connelly got a piece of the action......


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California Energy Commission's Climate Change Activities
California energy regulators have known for years that energy policy and environmental policy are inextricably linked. For more than 30 years, California has had aggressive energy efficiency and renewable energy policies, in order to minimize the impact of energy consumption on the environment. California's aggressive motor vehicle air quality standards have long exceeded the minimum federal requirements, and the state continues to push the federal government to allow us to keep exceeding those standards.
In large measure, California's programs have been motivated by concerns about the environment. Those concerns are exemplified in the context of global climate change. California's Climate Change Research Center states that during the last 50 years, winter and spring temperatures have been warmer, spring snow levels in lower and mid-elevations have dropped, the snowpack has been melting one to four weeks earlier, and sea levels are projected to rise. Not only will there be a change in average temperatures but there is a projected increase in extreme conditions such as a rising incidence of "heat storms." While these trends will impact all of us, they will have an especially large consequence for California's agricultural industry.
The impact on the energy infrastructure in the state is likely to be significant as well. Lower levels of snowpack and associated decreases and changes in the spring runoff will affect hydroelectric generation. A large number of critical power plants are located at sea level along the California coast to take advantage of nearby cooling water and even small rises in sea level will impact those facilities. Increased use of air-conditioning in homes, especially those built further inland and away from coastal areas, creates rising demand for electricity, as well as additional load on transmission and distribution lines to transport power to these areas. This increase in inland home construction also creates a feedback effect in terms of increasing emissions from automobiles traveling greater distances to transport people to work in urban coastal areas.
Energy Commission Role in Climate Change
The California Energy Commission has played an important role since 1988 in coordinating state activities addressing climate change and continues to play a major role in the state's efforts. Among those activities, the Commission is or has:
- Actively involved in a number of activities supporting implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) and other climate activities. Most of the ongoing responsibilities achieve reductions in greenhouse emissions through energy efficiency, renewable energy and alternative transportation fuel programs.
- Serving on the Climate Action Team (CAT) - Energy Commission leads the CAT Land Use and Local Government (LUSCAT) sector group and participates on 11 CAT subgroups responsible for developing action items that will result in quantifiable greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- Conducted a joint proceeding with the California Public Utilities Commission on AB 32 implementation in the electric sector and made joint recommendation to the ARB in February 2008 (currently out for comments until March 13th).
- Conducting scientific research on climate change through the Public Interest Energy Research Program (PIER) and the California Climate Change Center.
- Developing Climate Research, Development, Demonstration, and Deployment "Road Map" with the Air Resources Board and other state agencies to achieve greenhouse gas emission reduction goals and support adaptation goals.
- Providing technical support to the California Climate Action Registry in developing greenhouse gas emission protocols, qualifying third party organizations to provide technical assistance and certification of emissions baselines and inventories.
- Supporting Air Resources Board's statewide greenhouse gas emissions inventory for updates and accuracy.
- Participating in the working groups of the Western Climate Initiative to identify, evaluate and implement collective and cooperative ways to reduce greenhouse gases in the West (including portions of Canada and Mexico).
- Providing policy guidance and monitoring international, national and regional developments, and activities impacting clean energy and climate change issues.
- Investigating the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.
The Energy Commission has also published numerous reports under its PIER Program and by staff. For those reports, please visit the Energy Commission's publications database.
Background Information
The California Energy Commission's involvement in Climate Change dates back more than 20 years.
In 1988, the Energy Commission was made the lead agency for climate change issues under Assembly Bill 4420 (Statues of 1988). The Energy Commission was also statutorily directed to prepare and maintain the state's inventory of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions.
Senate Bill 1771, chaptered in September of 2000, specified the creation of the non-profit organization, the California Climate Action Registry. The Registry helps various California entities' to establish greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions baselines. Also, the Registry enables participating entities to voluntarily record their annual GHG emissions inventories.
On October 13, 2001, Governor Gray Davis signed California Senate Bill 527. This bill required the California Energy Commission to provide guidance to the California Registry on a number of issues, such as, developing GHG emissions protocols, qualifying third-party organizations to provide technical assistance, and qualifying third-party organizations to provide certification of emissions baselines and inventories.
On June 1, 2005, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Executive Order # S-3-05, which established the following greenhouse gas targets:
- By 2010, Reduce to 2000 Emission Levels
- By 2020, Reduce to 1990 Emission Levels
- By 2050, Reduce to 80 percent Below 1990 Levels
To meet the targets, the Governor directed the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate with the Secretary of the Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, Secretary of the Department of Food and Agriculture, Secretary of the Resources Agency, Chairperson of the Air Resources Board, Chairperson of the Energy Commission and President of the Public Utilities Commission.
AB 32 and SB 1368
The most important development in California energy policy in the past two years, if not the past several decades, is the arrival at consensus that California must act to mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions, in order to reduce the impact of climate change. In 2006, the Legislature passed and the Governor signed two landmark pieces of legislation with far-reaching implications for energy policy.
The most comprehensive is the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, Assembly Bill 32, which sets an economy-wide cap on California greenhouse gas emissions at 1990 levels by no later than 2020. This is an aggressive goal that represents approximately an 11 percent reduction from current emissions levels and nearly a 30 percent reduction from projected business-as-usual levels in 2020. Figure 1 illustrates that 25 percent of the state's greenhouse gas emissions is attributable to electricity generation while 38 percent is attributed to the transportation sector.
Meeting this goal requires the cooperation and teamwork of multiple sectors of the California economy, including the electricity, natural gas, and transportation sectors.
The second important piece of climate change legislation from 2006 is Senate Bill 1368 (Stats. 2006, Ch. 598), which requires the Public Utilities Commission and the Energy Commission to implement an emissions performance standard for all retail providers of electricity in the state. For any long-term commitment (five years or longer) to buy or build generation to serve California retail customers, emissions must be limited to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) per megawatt-hour of electricity delivered. This is roughly equivalent to the emissions from a new combined cycle natural gas turbine. The law also provides for the possibility that the CO2 emissions from a generator could be permanently captured and stored, thus not counting towards the performance standard limit for that generator.
More information about the state activities can be found on the California Climate Change Portal.
For more information about the state's response to Climate Change please contact the people below.
Climate Change Policy
Climate Action Team
John Blue
Climate Change Program Manager
Calif. Environmental Protection Agency
Phone: 916-445-9478
News Media Inquiries:
Calif. Environmental Protection Agency
Communications and External Affairs Office Phone: 916-324-9670
Climate Change Research
Guido Franco
Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program
Calif. Energy Commission
Phone: 916-654-4542
Mailing Address
Calif. Energy Commission
Climate Change and California
1516 Ninth Street, MS-29
Sacramento, CA 95814
Additional Information
- California's Climate Change Portal
- California Climate Change Assessments
- Climate Change Research
- Bioenergy Action Plan
- Emission Performance Standards
- Renewables Portfolio Standards
- State Alternative Fuels Plan - AB 1007 Report
- AB 32 Implementation - Greenhouse Gases Emissions is now available on our EnergyArchive website.
- GHG Impacts of Power Plants is now available on our EnergyArchive website.


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(b) Every employer shall adopt a written Code of Safe Practices which relates to the employer's operations. The Code shall contain language equivalent to the relevant parts of Plate A-3 of the Appendix.
(c) The Code of Safe Practices shall be posted at a conspicuous location at each job site office or be provided to each supervisory employee who shall have it readily available.
(d) Periodic meetings of supervisory employees shall be held under the direction of management for the discussion of safety problems and accidents that have occurred.
(e) Supervisory employees shall conduct "toolbox" or "tailgate" safety meetings, or equivalent, with their crews at least every 10 working days to emphasize safety.
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The winning "ReTeLINK" project
An Italian research team managed to convince the international jury, leave 20 competitors in its wake and advance important innovations in the field of human-robot collaboration. Researchers from the Biorobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna took home the KUKA Innovation Award 2015 with their application ReTeLINK (Reciprocal Teleoperation of the LBR iiwa and an Interactive Exoskeleton).
The "ReTeLINK" is an application which involves establishing a data link between two compliant robot arms: the KUKA LBR iiwa robot arm and a newly developed upper-limb exoskeleton (shoulder-elbow). With the application, the human moves the lightweight robot like his own arm, using the sensorized exoskeleton capable of detecting the shoulder and elbow joint angles. The exoskeleton's motors provide force feedback of the interaction of the LBR iiwa with its environment. This can be applied to applications in telepresence and rehabilitation treatment.


text: After some consideration, I can not ack this new api proposal. I believe a lot of the support for it is based in people not knowing the current state of multiproto and thinking this might be the only path to new needed drivers. It hasn't helped that there has been some misinformation spread such as the binary compatibility and so on. There is a current pull request for multiproto right now and if done, drivers could start being developed right now. In the end that's what matters to users, especially those of us who've been patiently waiting several months or even years. To my knowledge the multiproto api is very robust and can be easily updated to accommodate new modulations, etc. From a technical standpoint, I can't justify disregarding all the work thats been done on multiproto, especially when it's finally ready to go. In Mauro's own response to the pull request, he admits the multiproto code is complete. Unless someone can provide legitimate reasons why we should wait for yet another api to be written when multiproto is (finally) ready to be pulled now, I'm afraid I can't support the idea. People have been waiting to move forward with a new api for a long time and it seems we can with multiproto right now, today. I don't agree that makes a very strong case of too little, too late. Whether it's openly admitted or not, I think we're mostly all aware that there is some personal politics involved in this as well, which is unfortunate. Hopefully people will be mature enough to put that aside and do what's best for us, the linux dvb user base, as a whole. After learning that multiproto is ready and there's no technical reason against it, I wonder how many people still choose to wait for another api to be written..? Best regards guys!


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June 6: Live! AIDS 2012 Community Reps Take Your Qs, Suggestions!
May 20, 2011
Join us for the LiveBlogged launch of Countdown AIDS 2012, an open, public project for sharing information and mobilizing around the 19th International AIDS Conference:
When: Monday, June 6 at 1 pm Eastern
What: A LiveBlog: Just come on back to www.preventionjustice.org on that day and time, and you'll be able to type in and read questions and comments! (The conversation will also be available immediately afterwards, and on an ongoing basis.)
Why and Who:
AIDS 2012 is over a year from now, but plans are underway for this massive event that will gather over 25,000 in Washington DC next July.
What will happen there? How can people living with HIV and other activists use this conference to further HIV prevention justice and our policy priorities? How can the planning be as transparent and accountable as possible?
We'll give you the opportunity to ask these and more questions of the five U.S.-based community representatives to AIDS 2012:
In mid-May, they participated in the first full meeting of the AIDS 2012 Joint Programme Committee (comprised of members of 3 subcommittees: Community Programme, Leadership and Accountability, and Scientific Programme) and the 3rd meeting of the 2012 Conference Coordinating Committee.
What does that all mean? Who runs this thing, anyway? What can be done to make it an advocacy success? And what are the implications of it happening in the U.S. just months before a Presidential election?
The discussion will be facilitated by Julie Davids of the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance.
Countdown AIDS 2012 is an open, public project for
sharing information and mobilizing around the 19th International AIDS
Conference, known as AIDS 2012.
This article was provided by HIV Prevention Justice Alliance. Visit HIV Prevention Justice Alliance's website to find out more about their activities and publications.
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