text: Muskegon heights school district Despite state takeover, special education problems linger for Muskegon Heights schools By Lindsey Smith • May 23, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 3:21 Listen to the on air version of this story. New reports show special education students in Muskegon Heights didn't get all the services they should have this year. The company that runs the state's first all-charter public school district is working to correct the problems. Problems with charter company's handling of special ed services Federal law and state regulations outline the rules that are supposed to make sure kids with special needs still get a fair education. Michigan's Department of Education found more than a dozen ways the new Muskegon Heights charter district violated those rules, affecting a couple hundred special education students. "In my opinion this was probably the worst delivery of special education services I've seen in my career," said Norm Kittleson, a former special education teacher at Muskegon Heights. He's been teaching for 15 years. Kittleson started teaching a small class of students with learning disabilities and emotional issues at Muskegon Heights last October. Lawsuit next week to challenge Michigan's emergency manager law By The Associated Press • May 11, 2013 Steve Carmody/Michigan Radio DETROIT (AP) - Leaders of the Detroit branch of the NAACP say they'll file a lawsuit next week challenging Michigan's emergency manager law.The law has allowed Gov. Rick Snyder to put managers in Detroit and other struggling cities and school districts. Critics plan to talk Monday outside the federal courthouse in Detroit.Other legal challenges have not been successful. An Ingham County judge in April threw out a lawsuit that claimed lawmakers violated the Open Meetings Act when it approved the bill in December. After report, Muskegon Heights teachers get Michigan certificates, substitute permits By Lindsey Smith • Feb 14, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Teachers in the new charter school district in Muskegon Heights have now obtained certificates or permits that allow them to legally work in Michigan classrooms. This week Michigan Radio reported the state's first all-charter public school district had at least eight teachers who worked, in some case for months, without a valid Michigan teaching certificate or permit. It's against state law to do that. Now, public records show those who were still teaching at Muskegon Heights without proper certificates managed to get them this week. Most obtained teacher certificates. Two others obtained substitute permits. Stateside: Uncertified teachers at Muskegon Heights charter school system By Stateside Staff • Feb 12, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Listen Listening... / 7:19 The following is a summary of a previously recorded interview. To hear the complete segment, click the audio above. Lester Graham is filling in for Cynthia Canty on today's Stateside. In her recent report, Michigan Radio's Lindsey Smith found that teachers in the new charter school system in Muskegon Heights were hired without teacher certification. The entire public school system in Muskegon Heights was recently turned over to a private company. While there are teachers who do have certification, there are others who do not. The question is, what will happen with those teachers that have not been certified? We sat down with reporter Lindsey Smith, who joined us from Grand Rapids. She told us how it became evident that there were uncertified teachers working in the school system. She also tells us what it was like speaking to the parents in Muskegon Heights and their reactions. Investigation uncovers non-certified teachers at Muskegon Heights new charter school By Lindsey Smith • Feb 12, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Update: As of February 14th, these teachers have now obtained valid Michigan teaching certificates or permits. Muskegon Heights has high hopes for 3rd high school principal in 6 months By Lindsey Smith • Feb 7, 2013 Courtesy photo / Mosaica Education The new Muskegon Heights charter school district is welcoming yet another principal at its high school. Carla Turner-Laws is the third principal so far this school year. Technically, her title is Interim Head of School/Instructional Specialist. A couple dozen people sharing cookies and pink fruit punch welcomed Turner-Laws at a reception Wednesday night. Most were fellow co-workers, friends and family members. The MHPS district's state-appointed emergency manager turned the entire district over to a charter school company last June. Grading Michigan's first fully privatized public school district By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jan 8, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Last summer, Muskegon Heights became the first school district in the state to completely privatize its public school system. In December 2011, after running a budget deficit for six years in a row, the school board requested the appointment of an emergency manager under the now-defunct Public Act 4. Soon after his appointment in April 2012, emergency manager Don Weatherspoon laid off all of the district's employees, created a new charter district, and appointed a new school board to run it. Patience please, Muskegon Heights school leaders "building the airplane as we fly it" By Lindsey Smith • Jan 7, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio This story is the fourth in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part one here, part two here, and part three here. Listen Listening... / 3:23 The on-air version of the story. An expanded online version is below. Students in Muskegon Heights are going through a lot of changes this year, because the entire school district was converted to a charter school system. After tackling some tough issues in the first half of the school year, the operators of the charter school system want the public to give them a full school year to put the changes in place. Many Muskegon Heights students dig the charter company's curriculum: "It's fun." By Lindsey Smith • Jan 4, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio This story is the third in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part one here, part two here and part four here. The decision to convert the Muskegon Heights Public School district into a charter school district was a financial one. But the officials who run the new system hope to improve academics too. Listen Listening... / 3:27 The on-air version of the story. An expanded online version is below. From the outside, Edgewood Elementary School looks and sounds the same as any other year. But this year, Mosaica Education, the charter company that's running the school, hopes a new curriculum, longer school day and year round classes will improve student success. "I couldn't accept that." Why Muskegon Heights teachers quit and how it impacts students By Lindsey Smith • Jan 3, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio This story is the second in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part one here, part three here, and part four here. Listen Listening... / 3:34 The on-air version of the story. An expanded online version is below. At least one in four teachers at the new Muskegon Heights school district have already quit the charter school this year. That's after an emergency manager laid off all the former public school teachers in Muskegon Heights because he didn't have enough money to open school in the fall. That means there have been a lot of new, adult faces in the district. Students say the high teacher turnover has affected them and top school administrators say it has held back academic achievement this school year. Muskegon Heights students hope for less "chaos" as they return to class today By Lindsey Smith • Jan 2, 2013 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Muskegon Heights students are heading back to class today to begin the second half of what's been a very turbulent school year. This story is the first in a four-part series about how things are going so far in Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Find part two here, part three here, and part four here. Listen Listening... / 3:38 Muskegon Heights Public School Academy mini series. Feature 1 of 4. Old district "implodes" after years-long financial problems The school board in Muskegon Heights battled a budget deficit for at least six years in a row. They gave up the fight a year ago and asked the state to just take over. "The system that was in place imploded," said Don Weatherspoon, the guy the state eventually sent in late April to be the emergency manager. "Enrollment went down, costs went up, they borrowed more than they could pay back; you're on a collision course with disaster and that's what happened," Weatherspoon explained. Student enrollment is a big factor in how much money a school district receives from the state. "Everything that you can think of basically broke down. Discipline, learning, record-keeping, financial accounting, etc," Weatherspoon said. By May, Weatherspoon discovered the district is more than $16 million dollars in debt; so much debt it couldn't afford to open school in the fall. 1 in 4 teachers at Muskegon Heights schools quit during first 3 months of school year By Lindsey Smith • Dec 3, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Over the summer Muskegon Heights schools' then emergency manager laid off everybody who worked at the district and hired Mosaica Education to run operations for 5 years. Muskegon Heights has some of the lowest performing schools in Michigan and is dealing with a multi-million dollar deficit. The state appointed manager says he had no other option but to privatize operations. Three months in, one in four (20 of 80 total) of the newly hired teachers has quit. "It's confusing because I go from this learning process to this learning process to that learning process and it's just ridiculous how some teachers leave and we have to start all over and learn something new," Muskegon Heights High School senior Tony Harris said, "It's just, it's crazy." Muskegon Heights will vote on renewing millage for privatized public schools By Lindsey Smith • Oct 11, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The emergency financial manager of Muskegon Heights Public Schools is asking voters to renew an operating millage for the next 16 years. "The outcome of this millage will change the future of Muskegon Heights forever," says a letter the school district's emergency financial manager Don Weatherspoon sent home to parents this week. Weatherspoon privatized the school district so he could focus on paying off its $16 million debt. That debt is mostly owed to the State of Michigan. Charter company faces challenges running public school district in first weeks of class By Lindsey Smith • Sep 18, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The first two weeks of class have presented some obstacles for Michigan's first fully privatized public school district. Muskegon Heights schools' emergency financial manager hired Mosaica Education, a charter school company, in July to run the K-12 system while he focuses on paying off the district's debt. Highland Park schools' EFM took the same option later that month. Alena Zachery-Ross is the top administrator at the new Muskegon Height Public School Academy System. She's very positive, but admits the first two weeks didn't go "as smoothly" as she expected. "There are all these things that you don't think of. There are small details that we want to ensure are taken care of immediately but they take time," Zachery-Ross said. She says these 'day-to-day' details are important but she must stick to a priority list. Using emergency loans to pay off other loans; some Michigan school districts are doing it By Lindsey Smith • Aug 24, 2012 The recession has made it harder for local governments and school districts to balance their budgets. This summer the governor signed a new law creating a board that will help those hardest hit cope with short term cash flow problems. Earlier this month the emergency financial managers of both Muskegon Heights Public Schools and Highland Park schools got emergency loans to pay off other state loans. MHPS borrowed $7.65 million while Highland Park schools borrowed $4.4 million. "It's not a handout; it's a loan in order to help get people on their feet, in order to make the changes that are necessary going forward," said Caleb Buhs, a spokesman for Michigan's Department of Treasury. The school districts have 30 years to pay the state back. Highland Park Public Schools selects Leona Group to manage charter system By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 27, 2012 The Leona Group, L.L.C. Highland Park Public Schools contracted the Leona Group to run its charter system next year. A press release issued by the school system's Emergency Manager, Joyce Parker, said that she met with the newly appointed board of education today who approved the Leona Group, LLC contract as charter operator unanimously. From the release: Check out the details of Michigan's first privatized public school system By Lindsey Smith • Jul 17, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Parents in the Muskegon Heights Public School district are just starting to get an idea of what to expect for their children this fall. The district is having major financial problems and is under the control of a state appointed emergency manager, Donald Weatherspoon. Weatherspoon said turning over the entire district to a charter school operator was his only option to keep school open this year. Last week, the three-member school board (appointed by the Weatherspoon) hired Mosaica Education Inc. to operate the schools in Muskegon Heights. Muskegon Heights charter school budget assumes more students and state money By Lindsey Smith • Jul 15, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The school board for the new charter school system in Muskegon Heights will likely adopt a preliminary budget Monday. Muskegon Heights schools' emergency manager hired a for-profit charter school company to run the public school system for the next five years. An attorney for the school board says Mosaica Education drafted the budget the school board will consider approving Monday. It's likely the budget will be amended throughout the school year if needed. Muskegon Heights schools handed over to charter school company By Lindsey Smith • Jul 11, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The leader of a small, urban school district in western Michigan is completely privatizing the public school system there. The case may become an example for other school districts facing major financial problems. The problems are academic and financial The situation at Muskegon Heights Public Schools was dire. It ran $18,000 in the red each day school was open last year. Private, for-profit charter company to run Muskegon Heights schools By Lindsey Smith • Jul 9, 2012 The emergency manager of the Muskegon Heights Public School district has signed a contract with a private company to run the district next year. Mosaica Education is a for-profit charter operator that already runs six other charter schools in Michigan. Muskegon Heights emergency manager signs charter school contract – will reveal Monday By Lindsey Smith • Jul 6, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The emergency manager of Muskegon Heights Public Schools says he's signed a contract with a charter operator that will practically run the whole school district next school year. In a press release sent out this afternoon, Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon says he'll review the signed contract during a public meeting on Monday. The statement doesn't say which charter school company got the deal. Weatherspoon was not available to discuss the release. Plans to have charter operator run Muskegon Heights schools going slower than expected By Lindsey Smith • Jul 5, 2012 biddergy.com Students in Muskegon Heights Public Schools are still in limbo while the district's state-appointed emergency manager decides what charter school company will manage the system. MHPS Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon told parents in May he planned to turn the entire system over to a charter operator this fall. He also said he wanted to have a contract signed June 13. There's still no contract in place. That means parents don't know yet if their kids will get bussed to class, if the district will offer athletics, AP classes, or band next school year. Muskegon Heights charter takeover a 'state bailout,' new report says By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jun 27, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio Muskegon Heights Public Schools voted late last year to request a state emergency manager in an effort to sort out chronically troubled finances. Part of the plan emergency manager Don Weatherspoon eventually came up with involved turning schools in the district over to a charter operator. But as the Detroit Free Press reports today, a study from a non-profit research group says the turnover amounts to little more than a state bailout. In this morning's news... By Mark Brush • Jun 11, 2012 Brother O'Mara / Flickr Detroit in a game of revenue-sharing chicken with the state Detroit's top lawyer, Krystal Crittendon, is challenging the legality of the city's consent agreement with the state in court. State officials are threatening to withhold millions of dollars in state revenue sharing payments if the lawsuit is not dropped. Teachers' union, emergency manager at Muskegon Heights schools settle lawsuit By Lindsey Smith • Jun 7, 2012 Lindsey Smith / Michigan Radio The teachers' union at Muskegon Heights Public Schools has settled a lawsuit against the district. The union had alleged the district's emergency manager was engaged in unfair labor practices. Muskegon Heights schools' emergency manager Don Weatherspoon says allowing a charter school operator to run the public school district is the only way he can afford to keep school open next year. The deficit is more than $12 million. Too far in the red: Plan calls for Muskegon Heights schools to be run by charter operator By Lindsey Smith • May 30, 2012 Muskegon Heights School Board Tonight parents with students enrolled at Muskegon Heights Public Schools will get a chance to hear more about the new plan to turn the district's finances around. The plan is to completely turn over operations to a charter school operator beginning this fall. Muskegon Heights Public Schools is running a more than $12 million deficit. The school board asked for a state appointed emergency manager after struggling for more than six years to close the budget gap. Emergency Manager Don Weatherspoon said the only way to do that is to have a charter operator run things so that he can worry about paying off the district's debts. "I think the most important thing for both students and parents and the community is that they have a neighborhood school system," said Weatherspoon. Weatherspoon said consolidating with neighboring school districts was not an option because of Muskegon Heights' huge deficit. And he said cutting salaries, even by as much as 30 percent, wouldn't have gotten the district into the black. I'll attend tonight's meeting and will update this story. A Michigan school district may be completely replaced by charter schools By Steve Carmody • May 25, 2012 The Muskegon Heights School District could be completely turned over to charter schools this fall. That would be a first in the state of Michigan. The district's emergency manager is submitting his plan to replace the entire school district with charter schools with the state Treasury and Education Departments today. He says that's the only way to get the district out of its financial crisis. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2


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Hamida (Amor Aquint) is a poor young Arab boy who is befriended by Renaud (Francis Lefebvre), the grandson of a wealthy plantation owner (Jean Davy). The boys become fast friends in spite of the colonial system that encourages separating the two cultures. When Hamida dies because of medical neglect, Renaud feels the first pangs of social and cultural injustice. His first stirrings of social awareness have Renaud vow not to be prejudiced like his grandfather in this sentimental drama with an anti-colonialist message.
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Considering the growing economy and the holiday season, most of the companies are going to make profit. If sears and kmart is closing down 77 stores which is a substantial numbers shows that the company is really struggling to make profits. Also, the growing competition from other giant retail store chains like walmart etc. are making it difficult for stores like sears & kmart to make substantial profits.
Yes, I think that this is a sign that the company is in trouble because closing that many stores would make a hard hit on the profit. There are also so many other new stores coming out that I wouldn't be suprised if they were slowly pushing all the pre-existing stores out of business.
It is quite clear that liquidating assets, as Sears has done means the company is in financial turmoil. 77 stores may not be a lot, but they have already closed a lot of store in Canada as well. Closing a store before Christmas means that even with the Christmas rush the company doesn't expect to make any money.
Sears and Kmart will be closing several stores before Christmas. While some people may consider this a sign that the company is in trouble in reality it is really a smart financial move. Because the companies are not closing all stores and going out of business completely they are opening the door for the larger shopping market. That is the online shopping market. They are just two more examples of companies following the business. Closing the stores allows the companies to expand their online presence, which in turn will bring greater profits.


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I'm so glad to finally see some sunshine, it really is good for the soul. And these two dips are perfect for this time of year. Their versatility means you can make them in bulk and add them to lunches and dinners throughout the week. The first is a Pickled Chilli & Parsley Hummus and the second is a Butter Bean & Semi-dried Tomato Dip. They're great for sandwiches, salads, dipping and the latter is a splendid addition to pasta.
Both recipes follow a very similar process with a few cross-over ingredients and you'll need to grab your blender for this one. Suma have an incredible selection of dried goods including these fab Chickpeas and Butter Beans, they're brilliant to buy and cook in bulk for ease of use during the week. I say this because when I get home from a long day at work there are times when I really don't have the energy to fully scratch cook, I'm sure you can relate. A fridge full of ready to eat and quick-cook meals really is a necessity. The Cooks & Co jarred products are brilliant too and I love adding the chillies and tomatoes to a massive variety of meals. Check out the Suma Bloggers Network for all the other recipes using their great range of ingredients!
Butter Bean and Semi-dried Tomato Dip:
200g soaked and boiled Butter Beans
10-12 Cooks & Co Semi Dried Tomatoes
Handful of Basil leaves
1 tsp Organic Seaweed - The Atlantic Kelp Company
3 tbsp Olive Oil from the jarred Tomatoes
1 tbsp cold-pressed Flaxseed Oil
2 med Garlic cloves
Juice of 1 Lemon
1 tsp coarsely ground Black Pepper
½ tsp Cornish Sea Salt
Pickled Chilli & Parsley Hummus:
200g soaked, boiled and peeled Chickpeas
Handful of Parsley, leaves and stalks
1 tsp Organic Seaweed - The Atlantic Kelp Company
2 tbsp Light Organic Tahini
1 tbsp cold-pressed Flaxseed Oil
2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 large Garlic cloves
½ tsp Cayenne Pepper
½ tsp Cornish Sea Salt
½ tsp coarsely ground Black Pepper
Juice of 1 large Lemon
Add the cooked and cooled Butter Beans to your blender with the Basil leaves, tomatoes, oils, lemon juice, seaweed and seasoning. Then use a garlic press to crush the garlic and add. Once you've added all the ingredients blitz until smooth. Simple.
The flavours of each are divine. So fresh and zingy but with a real depth. The seaweed really helps to add that umami goodness. If you're a chilli lover like me you can add a little more cayenne to the hummus. You can use extra olive oil if you haven't got flaxseed oil but it does add a great nutritional kick, especially if you follow a fully vegan diet. Both dips will keep in sealed containers in the fridge for a few days.


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Sometimes talking about art with non-artist people is tough. They ask questions about your current work. You respond and then they feel this is an invitation to critique. Since most of the time the "in progress" work isn't present, these non-artist people are critiquing artwork that they have never, ever, seen. And, I suppose it is just because they want to help you, or contribute, or be an expert, or you know god-knows-what. . . But, it is nonetheless infuriating! Dealing with all those little nuanced issues is part of the artistic journey/experience I love so much. I LOVE figuring it out MYSELF. Well, at least until I hit a brick wall. . .And, then I'll show someone the art and be ready for some hard-core honest opinions.
Yeah, so it is difficult to share about your art. Sometimes it is easier to be all mysterious.
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[Disclaimer]This review is written on the assumption that you already know what Callanetics is. If you don't, read the (original) Callanetics (OC) video reviews first.[/disclaimer]
If you're looking for a good leg workout in a short amount of time (20 minutes) this would be a great choice! Callan begins with the usually warm-up and neck stretch. Then she goes to the barre for "up-back-down" (curling the pelvis). These are sort of like a plié with heels held upward, moving down, then curling the pelvis, then moving back to neutral spine, down an inch, and then curling the pelvis and so on. The second exercises is similar, only you just go up and down in plié position. The same exercises are found in some of the Lotte Berk videos.
Then there is the hamstring stretch with leg up on the barre. This is done only with the heel on the barre – she doesn't do it with the arch like she does in OC and in the book. Next is seated stretch with legs apart. Again, she doesn't do this to the sides or with legs together, probably in the interest of time. Finally, you finish up with pelvic rotations, pelvic scoop, and a thigh stretch. This is similar to what the Lotte Berk Method calls "knee dancing". You kneel down and then raise a hips up and around in a circle It's tough on the quads, and you finish up with a good quad stretch.
The set is a more colourful studio than in the original video, and there are three background exercisers. She occasionally goes around correcting their form, which is something I really appreciate.
Overall, another good effort from Callan. It's often hard to get the full original Callanetics video into my rotation, so it's nice to be able to do one section at a time like this. As always, Callan is very supportive and accommodating of different physical needs.
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Callan is kind of fun if you don't take her too seriously. She's really supportive and accommodating which is something you don't always see in fitness instructors.
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Sit, listen to the wind, birds and trees. Allow the beauty and chaos that is nature to enter and propel you through this time we call life. Breath in the smells of an open fire place and a camp fire. Know the difference they have on you and your surroundings. Give with an open heart and mind. Know that there are richer and poorer. But never measure those two thoughts by the amount of money one has. For richness is how you live and give of yourself, not what you have.
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Strawberry, Mango, Pineapple Jalapeno Jam
1 pound fresh strawberries
4 ounces dried mango sliced thin
2 ounces dried pineapple sliced thin
2-4 jalapeño peppers, seeds removed (use gloves)
1 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar
6 1/2 cups sugar
1 dry package sure jel
Wash and boil your jars and lids for the jar. Get boiling water bath ready for jars and begin your mixing of ingredients
Put strawberries, mango, pineapple, jalapeño peppers, and apple cider vinegar in a blender and blend until all are liquid about 1 minute.
Place the sugar and sure jel in a large pot and mix together then add processed fruit mix and bring to a boil and boil gently for 10 minutes.
Put into jars process the lids and place into a boiling water bath for 15 minutes. Take out and allow to sit until caps seal. If one doesn't simply rewarm and do again.
Great for any salad as a dressing, over chicken in a slow cooker, as a dipping sauce for anything Chinese like egg rolls or wontons. Great over cream cheese as an appetizer and served with crackers.
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TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - CFM International, a joint-venture between France's Safran (SAF.PA) and General Electric (GE.N) of the United States, has delivered the first LEAP-1A engine to be used in the Airbus A320neo jetliner, Safran said on Friday.
The delivery is a key milestone for 42-year-old CFM, an unusual French-American venture which has survived decades of trade tensions between the two countries but which now faces its steepest ever challenge in raising production.
CFM has sold 10,000 of the engines which compete with United Technologies (UTX.N) to provide power for an upgraded version of the Airbus narrow body jet family and will also exclusively power the competing airplane, the Boeing 737 MAX.
The CFM-powered version of the A320neo is expected to enter service at mid-year with an unidentified airline.
Speaking at a handover ceremony for the first non-test version of the engine in Toulouse, Safran engines chief Olivier Andries said output was on target and that CFM would produce 100 LEAP engines this year and 500 next year. The engine would be introduced with six airlines this year.
CFM aims to produce a record 2,000 LEAP engines in 2020.
Andries paid tribute to CFM's founders: a German-born fighter engineer who fought for the allies and was made a U.S. citizen by an act of Congress, Gerhard Neumann, and a French resistance hero called Rene Ravaud who lost an arm when the British bombed Brest in western France.
The first Boeing 737 MAX made its maiden flight with LEAP-1B engines in February. It is due to enter service next year.
The Airbus A320neo entered service with Pratt & Whitney (UTX.N) engines in January but deliveries have been delayed by engine software and hardware problems.
Airbus suffered a setback in February when the larger A321neo, equipped with CFM engines, suffered a tail strike during testing in February.
Reporting by Tim Hepher, editing by Astrid Wendlandt and Elaine Hardcastle


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FAL.Zounds, where thou wilt, lad; I'll make one: an I do not, callme villain, and baffle me.
PRINCE.I see a good amendment of life in thee, — from praying topurse-taking.
FAL.Why, Hal, 'tis my vocation, Hal; 'tis no sin for a man to labourin his vocation.
[Enter Pointz.]
— Pointz! — Now shall we know if Gadshill have set a match. O, ifmen were to be saved by merit, what hole in Hell were hot enoughfor him? This is the most omnipotent villain that ever criedStand! to a true man.
PRINCE.Good morrow, Ned.
POINTZ.Good morrow, sweet Hal. — What says Monsieur Remorse? whatsays Sir John Sack-and-sugar? Jack, how agrees the Devil andthee about thy soul, that thou soldest him on Good-Friday lastfor a cup of Madeira and a cold capon's leg?
PRINCE.Sir John stands to his word, — the Devil shall have his bargain;for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs, — he will give theDevil his due.
POINTZ.Then art thou damn'd for keeping thy word with the Devil.
PRINCE.Else he had been damn'd for cozening the Devil.
POINTZ.But, my lads, my lads, to-morrow morning, by four o'clock,early at Gads-hill! there are pilgrims gong to Canterburywith rich offerings, and traders riding to London with fatpurses: I have visards for you all; you have horses foryourselves: Gadshill lies to-night in Rochester: I have bespokesupper to-morrow night in Eastcheap: we may do it as secure assleep. If you will go, I will stuff your purses full of crowns;if you will not, tarry at home and be hang'd.
FAL.Hear ye, Yedward; if I tarry at home and go not, I'll hang youfor going.
POINTZ.You will, chops?
FAL.Hal, wilt thou make one?
PRINCE.Who, I rob? I a thief? not I, by my faith.
FAL.There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee,nor thou camest not of the blood royal, if thou darest not standfor ten shillings.
PRINCE.Well, then, once in my days I'll be a madcap.
FAL.Why, that's well said.
PRINCE.Well, come what will, I'll tarry at home.
FAL.By the Lord, I'll be a traitor, then, when thou art king.
PRINCE.I care not.
Sir John, I pr'ythee, leave the Prince and me alone: I willlay him down such reasons for this adventure, that he shall go.
FAL.Well, God give thee the spirit of persuasion, and him the ears of profiting, that what thou speakest may move, and what hehears may be believed, that the true Prince may, for recreation-sake, prove a false thief; for the poor abuses of the time wantcountenance. Farewell; you shall find me in Eastcheap.
PRINCE.Farewell, thou latter Spring! farewell, All-hallown Summer!
[Exit Falstaff.]
POINTZ.Now, my good sweet honey-lord, ride with us to-morrow: Ihave a jest to execute that I cannot manage alone. Falstaff,Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill, shall rob those men that we havealready waylaid: yourself and I will not be there; and when theyhave the booty, if you and I do not rob them, cut this head offfrom my shoulders.
PRINCE.But how shall we part with them in setting forth?
POINTZ.Why, we will set forth before or after them, and appoint thema place of meeting, wherein it is at our pleasure to fail; andthen will they adventure upon the exploit themselves; which theyshall have no sooner achieved but we'll set upon them.
PRINCE.Ay, but 'tis like that they will know us by our horses, by our habits, and by every other appointment, to be ourselves.
POINTZ.Tut! our horses they shall not see, — I'll tie them in the wood;our visards we will change, after we leave them; and, sirrah, Ihave cases of buckram for the nonce, to immask our notedoutward garments.
PRINCE.But I doubt they will be too hard for us.
POINTZ.Well, for two of them, I know them to be as true-bredcowards as ever turn'd back; and for the third, if he fightlonger than he sees reason, I'll forswear arms. The virtue ofthis jest will be, the incomprehensible lies that this same fatrogue will tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at least,he fought with; what wards, what blows, what extremities heendured; and in the reproof of this lies the jest.
PRINCE.Well, I'll go with thee: provide us all things necessary andmeet me to-night in Eastcheap; there I'll sup. Farewell.
POINTZ.Farewell, my lord.
PRINCE.I know you all, and will awhile upholdThe unyok'd humour of your idleness:Yet herein will I imitate the Sun,Who doth permit the base contagious cloudsTo smother-up his beauty from the world,That, when he please again to be himself,Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at,By breaking through the foul and ugly mistsOf vapours that did seem to strangle him.If all the year were playing holidays,To sport would be as tedious as to work;But, when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come,And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.So, when this loose behaviour I throw off,And pay the debt I never promised,By how much better than my word I am,By so much shall I falsify men's hopes;And, like bright metal on a sullen ground,My reformation, glittering o'er my fault,Shall show more goodly and attract more eyesThan that which hath no foil to set it off.I'll so offend, to make offence a skill;Redeeming time, when men think least I will.
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November 2015
|York Light Youth
|Fri 30 Oct to Sat 7 Nov 2015
|Dare To Dream - Homecoming Concert
|Rebecca Newman - The People's Soprano
|Sun 8 Nov 2015
|Viva La Dance
|Evelyn Witcombe School of Dance
|Thu 12 Nov to Sat 14 Nov 2015
|Sunset Boulevard
|NE Musicals YORK
|Tue 17 Nov to Sat 21 Nov 2015
|Shakespeare Schools Festival
|Shakespeare Schools Foundation
|Tue 24 Nov to Wed 25 Nov 2015
|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
|Rowntree Players
|Sat 5 Dec to Sat 12 Dec 2015
The Memory lives on in York
York Light Youth
Friday 30 October to Saturday 7 November 2015
York Light Youth is proud to bring Cats to York. Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's stunning musical tells the story of a tribe of cats called the Jellicles and the night they decide who will be granted an extra, precious life.
This fantastic show will be performed by the talented young performers of York Light Youth, whose most recent successes include Les Miserables in October 2014 and Honk! in May 2015.
Dare To Dream - Homecoming Concert
Classical No. 1 Selling Soprano
Rebecca Newman - The People's Soprano
Sunday 8 November 2015
AFTER a hugely successful SELL OUT UK tour supporting Russell Watson, join Yorkshire's very own Classical No.1 selling soprano Rebecca Newman and her live band for a Spectacular night of music to celebrate her triumphant return to her hometown of York.
Dare to Dream went straight to NUMBER 1 in the Official UK Classical Albums Chart following it's release in September 2014, leading to several appearances on national TV (Songs of Praise, BBC Breakfast) and national radio (BBC Radio 2, Classic FM).
After singing with Alfie Boe, Aled Jones, Blake, and being this year's soprano for the legendary Castle Howard Proms, Rebecca will once again take centre stage as The Joseph Rowntree Theatre welcomes back the UK's history making classical crossover star and gives York a rare chance to see Dare to Dream brought to life. Rebecca will be joined on stage by her special guests Tre Amici - A Fantastic Classical Crossover Trio and this year's winner of Hull Daily Mail's Star Search.
Expect to laugh and cry as Rebecca leads us through her incredible musical journey, from the street to the stage, by performing the stunning operatic arias, show songs, folk songs and original material telling the increadible story of her rise to the top of the UK classical music charts and how Rebecca's beautiful voice overcame the might of the music industry.
For more information visit www.rebeccanewman.co.uk
Viva La Dance
A superb show featuring many different types of dance from the pupils of Evelyn Witcombe's renowned dance school.
Evelyn Witcombe School of Dance
Thursday 12 November to Saturday 14 November 2015
The hottest dance show this November from the students of renowned York dance teacher, Evelyn Witcombe, returning for her 47th annual showcase. Expect dance of every style, from ballet and tap to acrobatic and Irish, including a special armed forces themed number to mark Remembrance Sunday.
Sunset Boulevard
An exciting, dramatic musical based on the film Sunset Boulevard.
NE Musicals YORK
Tuesday 17 November to Saturday 21 November 2015
Follow Joe Gillis into a house of mystery and intrigue on Sunset Boulevard. Will he survive the emotional journey?
Shakespeare Schools Festival
Shakespeare performed as you have never seen it before!
Shakespeare Schools Foundation
Tuesday 24 November to Wednesday 25 November 2015
The Joseph Rowntree Theatre is thrilled to welcome local talent to the stage as part of the Shakespeare Schools Festival.
Each night three to four schools will perform different Shakespeare plays. Come and celebrate the achievements of our local schools while enjoying a wonderful evening of entertainment. You will see Shakespeare performed as you've never seen it before!
The Shakespeare Schools Festival is the UK's largest youth drama festival and enables over 1,000 primary, secondary, and special schools to stage abridged Shakespeare productions in their local professional theatre. 35,000 young people will take to stages across the UK.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Another rollocking romp of a panto!
Rowntree Players
Saturday 5 December to Saturday 12 December 2015
As she turns 18 Snow White becomes the fairest in the land and the Wicked Queen isn't happy. Nor are the dwarfs she has working all hours down the mine finding crystals to power her sinister laboratory in the base. But don't worry Dame Nancy Nip and her son Tuck, recently qualified cosmetic surgeons, are on hand to put things right…


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For many applications, a team of robots can be effectively used. A robot team can accomplish a given task more quickly than a single agent can by dividing the task into sub-tasks and executing them concurrently. A team can also make effective use of specialists designed for a single purpose (e.g., scouting an area, picking up objects, hauling payload), rather than requiring that a single robot be a generalist, capable of performing all tasks but expert at no tasks.
The difficulty arises in coordinating all of these robots to perform a single, global task. One approach is to consider the robot team to be a single robot ôsystemö with many degrees of freedom. A central computer coordinates the group optimally to perform the specified task. The problem is that optimal coordination is computationally difficultŚthe best known algorithms are exponential in complexity. Thus, the approach is intractable for teams larger than a few robots, even if a powerful computer is available. Additionally, the approach assumes that all information about the robots and their environment can be transmitted to a single location for processing and that this information does not change during the time that an optimal plan is constructed. These assumptions are unrealistic for problems in which the environment is unknown and/or changing, communication is limited, and robots behave in unpredictable ways. Another weakness with this approach is that it produces a highly vulnerable system. That is, if the leader (the central planning unit) malfunctions, a new leader must be available or the entire team is disabled.
Distributed approaches address the problems that arise with centralized, globally coordinated approaches. The idea is that each robot operates largely independently, acting on information that is locally available through its sensors. A robot may coordinate with other robots in its vicinity, perhaps to divide a problem into multiple sub-problems or to work together on a sub-task that cannot be accomplished by a single robot. The advantage of this approach is that it typically requires little computation, since each robot need only plan and execute its own activities. Also, little communication is required, since the robots only communicate with others in their vicinity. The robots are better able to respond to unknown or changing environments, since they sense and respond to the environment locally. Moreover, the system is more robust since the entire teamĺs performance no longer depends on the guidance of a single leader. The approach works best for problems that can be decomposed into largely unrelated sub-problems, or problems for which a desired group behavior results from the aggregate of individual behaviors and interactions. The primary weakness is that the robots can execute the global task in a grossly suboptimal way.
My early work in multi-robots focused on addressing the problem of uncertainty and change in the robots' environment. Barry Brumitt and I developed the GRAMMPS system for planning and executing mobile missions using a team of heterogeneous robots [Brummit, Stentz, 96] [Brummit, Stentz, 98] . GRAMMPS is a two-layer architecture. The top layer runs on a single robot, designated the leader, and the bottom layer runs on all of the robots. The top layer accepts a mission description statement that specifies a set of goals to be visited by the robot team, with some constraints, such as ordering constraints or limitations on which robots can visit which goals. The mission statements are required to satisfy the following grammar:
m -> M(r,g) | (m and m) | (m or m) | (m -> m)
r -> Ri | (r and r) | (r or r)
r -> Gj | (g and g) | (g or g)
where lower case m, r, and g symbols are variables for move commands, robots, and goals respectively, and the upper case letters are specific instances of the same. An example mission statement is:
M(R1 or R2 or R3, G1 and G2 and G3 and G4) -> M(R1 and R2 and R3, S)
This mission specification states that at least one of the team of three robots (R1, R2, and R3) should visit all four goals (G1, G2, G3, and G4), followed by a return of all three team members to the start state S. This mission implements the distributed travelling salesman problem (MTSP).
The top layer of GRAMMPS parses the mission statement and assigns goals to robots, including the ordering. Since the grammar permits NP-complete problems to be specified, large problems are solved approximately and small problems optimally. The leader then dispatches the assignments to the robots in the team (i.e., lower layer of architecture). The robots plan routes to the sequence of goals and begin executing them. As the robots drive through the uncertain and changing environments, they discover new obstacles and re-plan the routes, using the D* algorithm [Stentz, 94] [Stentz, 95] . If the cost of a new route is significantly different than the old route, the robot reports the cost change to the leader (top layer). The leader then re-plans the entire mission, possibly cancelling old goal assignments and making new assignments for one or more robots.
GRAMMPS was implemented and tested on real robots. The following figures show results for a team of two HMMWVs equipped with laser rangefinders and GPS sensors, capable of driving to goal locations while avoiding obstacles. The mission called for the team to visit a total of eight goals, minimizing total travel time. The environment was initially assumed to contain no obstacles. GRAMMPS produced the initial assignments and tours for the two robots (one in blue and one in green) as shown below. Note that one robot received three goals and the other five.
As the robots drove the mission, the blue vehicle was deflected off course, due to unexpected obstacles. GRAMMPS decided to re-plan assignments and to give the blue vehicle one of green's goals since it was headed in that direction anyway.
Finally, the robot team visited all eight goals and returned to base. The resultant tours taken by the two robots are shown below.
GRAMMPS is quite good at responding to uncertainty and changing conditions. It is able to re-plan both routes and goal assignments as new information is discovered. However, GRAMMPS is a centralized system. If the leader is incapacited or is unable to communicate to its team members, the system breaks. Also, GRAMMPS is limited in its ability to solve large problems. The top layer is the bottleneck, since it must solve (at least approximately) what amounts to NP-complete problems each time substantially new information is discovered by any robot, leading to increasingly larger delays in the system.
GRAMMPS has problems scaling up to large problems and is dependent on centralized planning and heavy communications. My interests shifted to addressing these problems. I noted that an economic system, in particular a market economy, addresses these issues quite well, even for a very large number of citizens. Bernardine Dias and I developed the TraderBots architecture [Stentz, Dias, 99] [Dias, Stentz, 00] that implements a market economy for a team of robots. Market techniques have been used extensively by software agents, but TraderBots is the first application of such techniques to physical robots.
To understand TraderBots, consider an economic system for coordinating robots. An economy is nothing more than a population of agents (i.e., citizens) producing a global output. The agents coordinate with each other to produce an aggregate set of goods. Centralized economies, such as socialist/communist systems, suffer from an inability to gather all salient information, uncertainty in how to optimize with it, and unresponsiveness to changing conditions. Additionally, since economic output is divided equally amongst the entire population, individuals have little incentive to work harder or more efficiently than what is required to minimally comply with the economic plan. Individual input is de-coupled from individual output. The net effect is a sluggish, brittle, inefficient economy.
Free market economies are unencumbered by centralized planning; instead, individuals are free to exchange goods and services and enter into contracts as they see fit. Despite the fact that individuals in the economy act only to advance their own self-interests, the aggregate effect is a highly productive society. Individuals are in the best position to understand their needs and the means to satisfy them. Thus, individuals reap the direct benefits of their own good decisions and suffer the direct consequences of their bad ones. At times they cooperate with other members of the society to achieve an outcome greater than that possible by each member alone. At times they compete with other members to provide goods or services at the lowest possible cost, thus eliminating waste and inefficiency. But at every turn, the individual members act solely to reap the greatest profit for themselves.
Consider a team of robots assembled to perform a particular mission. The goal of the team is to perform the mission well while minimizing costs. A function, Fo, is needed that maps possible mission outcomes onto revenue values. Another function, Fi, is needed that maps possible schemes for performing the mission onto cost values. As a team, the goal is to execute some plan P such that profit, Fo(P) - Fi(P), is maximized.
But it is not enough to define just the revenue and cost functions for the team. These functions must provide a means for distributing the revenue and assessing costs to individual robots. Preferably, these individual revenues and costs are assigned based on factors over which the individuals have direct control. For example, if the mission is to find and retrieve a scattering of objects, the teamĺs revenue, Fo, could be the number of objects retrieved (converted to a ôcashö value), and the teamĺs cost, Fi, could be the amount of energy consumed by the entire team to find the objects (again, converted to a cash value). The individual revenues and costs, fo and fi, could be the cash value of the number of objects turned in and the energy expended, respectively, by that individual.
Therefore, the sum of the individual revenues and costs equals the teamĺs revenues and costs. However, the distribution is not even: individuals are compensated in accordance with their contribution to the overall mission, based on factors that are within the control of the individual. An individual that maximizes its own personal production and minimizes its own personal cost receives a larger share of the overall profit. Therefore, by acting strictly in their own self-interests, individuals maximize not only their own profit but also the overall profit of the team.
The various features of the TraderBots architecture are described below.
Robots receive revenue and incur costs for accomplishing a specific team mission, but the teamĺs revenue function is not the only source of income. A robot can also receive revenue from another robot in exchange for goods or services. For example, a robot may not be equipped to find objects for which the team function provides revenue, but it can transport the objects to the goal once they have been found. Therefore, this haulage robot provides a service to the robots that find the objects, and it receives payment for performing such a service.
The price dictates the payment amount for the good or service. How is the price determined? Assume that robot A would like to purchase a service from robot B. Robot B incurs a cost Y for performing the service. Robot A can make an additional revenue of X if B performs the service for it. Therefore, if X > Y, then both parties have an incentive to execute the deal. But how should the composite profit, X - Y, be divided amongst the two parties? It may sound fair to split the winnings (X - Y) / 2 by setting the price at (X + Y) / 2. But robots A and B may have other opportunitiesŚthey may be considering other deals that contend for the same money and resources. Robot A may have another way of spending its money that nets it more than (X - Y) / 2 dollars. Likewise, robot B may have another opportunity to provide its service for a net exceeding (X - Y) / 2 dollars.
Since all of the factors that contribute to a robotĺs decision about how much it can charge or pay for a given good or service may be hidden or difficult to reason about, a common approach is to bid for a good or service until a mutually acceptable price is found. For example, robot A could start by bidding a price of Y (i.e., robot A receives the entire profit). Robot B could decline and counter with a bid of X (i.e., robot B receives the entire profit). The idea is to start by bidding a price that is personally most favorable, and then successively retreat from this position until a price is mutually agreed upon.
Note that a given robot can negotiate several potential deals at the same time. It begins by bidding the most favorable price for itself for all of the deals, successively retreats from this position with counter bids, and closes the first deal that is mutually acceptable. Note also that a deal can be multi-party, requiring that all parties agree before any part of the deal is binding.
The negotiated price will tend toward the intersection of the supply and demand curves for a given service. If a service is in high demand or short supply, the price will be high. This information will prompt other suppliers to enter the fray, driving the price down. Likewise, if demand is low or supply high, the low price will drive suppliers into another line of business. Thus, price serves to optimize the matching of supply to demand.
Finally, it is important to note that price and bidding are low bandwidth mechanisms for communicating aggregate information about costs. When consumers decide between purchasing apple juice or orange juice for breakfast, they do not analyze land acreage dedicated to both crops, the costs of producing each, the demand for each, and the impact of weather and pest infestations. Instead, they merely look at the price of each and weigh them against their own personal preferences. Yet the price encodes all of these factors in a concise fashion that enables them to make a locally optimal decision based on low-bandwidth information available at the point of sale.
As described above, robots interact with each other to exchange goods and services. Two robots are cooperative if they have complementary roles, that is, if both robots can make more profit by working together than by working individually. Generally, robot teams foster cooperation between members of different types (heterogeneous). For instance, a robot able to grasp and lift objects and a robot able to transport objects could team together to provide a pick-and-place service that neither one could offer independently.
Conversely, two robots are competitive if they have the same role, that is, if the amount of profit that one can make is negatively affected by the presence of the other robot. Generally, robot teams foster competition amongst members of the same type (homogeneous). For instance, two robots that are able to transport objects compete for the services of a given grasping robot, thus driving the price down. Either one could charge more money if the other were not present.
These delineations are not strict however. Subgroups of heterogeneous robots could form that provide a given service. These subgroups would compete with each other, thus providing an example where robots of different types compete rather than cooperate with each other. Heterogeneous robots could also compete if the same task can be accomplished in different ways. Conversely, two robots of the same type may cooperate by agreeing to segment the market. This can make sense if the relative positions of the two robots make for a cost-effective division of labor (i.e. if the robots cooperate they could both make more profit than if they compete). In this sense, even homogeneous robots can be considered heterogeneous since they differ in location or situation. Homogeneous robots can also cooperate if accomplishing a specific task requires more than one robot. For example, several robots with grasping capability may need to cooperate in order to move a heavy object, or two robots with cameras may need to cooperate to provide stereo-mapping data. The flexibility of the market-model allows the robots to cooperate and compete as necessary to accomplish a task, regardless of the homogeneity or heterogeneity of the team.
Conspicuously absent from the free market system is a rigid, top-down hierarchy. That is not to say that the system is in anarchy; instead, the robots organize themselves in a way that is mutually beneficial. Since the aggregate profit amassed by the individuals is directly tied to the success of the mission, this self-organization yields the best results.
Consider a group of ten robots. An eleventh robot, A, offers its services as their leader. It does not become their leader by coercion or decree, but by convincing the group that they will make more money by following its advice than by acting individually or in subgroups. A does this by investigating ôplansö for utilizing all ten robots. If A comes up with a truly good plan, it will maximize profit across the whole group. The prospective leader can use this large profit to bid for the services of the group members, and of course, retain a portion of the profit for itself. The leader may be bidding not only against the individualsĺ plans, but also against group plans produced by other prospective leaders. This self-organization need not be limited to two levels. A leader could organize a group of subgroups, each of which has its own leader.
From this example, it is evident that leadership roles are generally reserved for the ôdeep thinkersö, the robots with the computational capacity to reason about potentially complicated group interactions. If the team has no deep thinkers, the mission may still be achievable but in a less optimal fashion. The deep thinkers offer the opportunity to milk every last bit of efficiency out of the team. But there is a limit to this organization. As the group becomes larger, the combinatorics become intractable and the process of gathering all of the relevant information to produce a good plan becomes increasingly difficult. A leader will realize this when it can no longer convince its subjects (via bidding for their services) to follow its plans.
The robot economy is able to learn new behaviors and strategies as it executes its mission. This learning applies to both individual behaviors and negotiations as well as to the entire team. Individual robots may learn that certain strategies are not profitable, or that certain robots are apt to break a contract by failing to deliver the goods or proper payment. Individuals may also learn successful bidding strategies or which deals to offer when. The robot team may learn that certain types of robots are in over-supply, indicated by widespread bankruptcy or an inability to make much money. Conversely, the robot team may learn that certain types of robots are in under-supply, evidenced by excessive profits captured by members of the type. Thus, the population can learn to exit members of one type and enter members of another. Moreover, in this approach, successful agents are able to accumulate wealth and perpetuate their winning strategies because of their ability to offer higher payments to other agents.
One of the greatest strengths of the market economy is its ability to deal successfully with changing conditions. Since the economy does not rely on a hierarchical structure for coordination and task assignment, the system is highly robust to changes in the environment, including malfunctioning robots. Disabling any single robot should not jeopardize the systemĺs performance. By adding escape clauses for ôbroken dealsö, any tasks undertaken by a robot that malfunctions can be re-bid to other robots, and the entire mission can thus be accomplished. Furthermore, if a robot is partially disabled in some manner (e.g., a robot is immobilized due to losing a wheel), it can still be useful to the economy by seeking a new role that makes use of its remaining resources (e.g., computation or communication resources). Thus, the market model allows the robots to deal with the uncertainties of a dynamic environment in an opportunistic and adaptive manner.
Consider the following example. We would like a team of two robots to pick up two objects, A and B, and return to their home base. We would like for the robots to minimize their total travel cost when fetching the objects. The problem is depicted in the figure below. We define the costs to be one dollar for each foot of travel. We open by requesting bids from the two robots to perform the two tasks. For the task to retrieve object A, Robot 1 incures a cost of $50 to drive to A and $50 to drive back. Robot 1 bids $120 for the task, covering its cost plus $20 profit. Robot 2 incures a cost of $110 to drive to A and $110 to drive back. Robot 2 bids $240 for the task, covering its cost plus $20 profit. Similarly, Robot 1 bids $220 and Robot 2 bids $180 for Task B. Based on lowest bids, we award Task A to Robot 1 and Task B to Robot 2. Note that Robot 1 makes a profit of $20, and Robot 2 makes $30.
Note that although this solution is not globally optimal, it is reasonable. In fact, it may be the best solution the team can come up with, assuming they are limited in their computational abilities, or are pressed for time.
After the initial assignments are made, assume the robots get some more time to think. Robot 2 notices that Robot 1 is already committed to going to A. Since A is near B, it may be cost effective for Robot 1 to also retrieve object B. If Robot 2 subcontracts Task B to Robot 1, it will save $150, namely its travel distance. Therefore, Robot 2 would be willing to subcontract Task B if it ends up paying less than $150 to have Robot 1 retrieve B. Likewise, Robot 1 notices that by detouring to pick up object B, the cost of its tour becomes $50 + $60 + $100 = $210. This is $210 - $100 = $110 more cost than it would incur if it just retrieved A. Therefore, Robot 1 would be willing to fetch B if it receives more than $110 for the subcontract. See the figure below.
Therein are the makings of a deal. Robots 1 and 2 negotiate and arrive at a subcontract price of $130. Note that both of the robots increase their profits through the subcontract, therefore they are incentivized to make the deal. But more importantly, we are happier because the team task is solved for less cost: 210 feet driven instead of 250 feet.
TraderBots was initially implemented and tested in simulation for a mapping application [Dias, Stentz, 00] . A team of robots was tasked with visiting a set of locations inside of a building with a known floor plan to collect sensor data, while minimizing total distance travelled. An OpExec, representing the user, started the process by soliciting bids from the robots for each of the locations. Using a greedy algorithm, the OpExec awarded the tasks, one by one, to the lowest bidder. After initial assignments were made, the robots were free to buy/sell task assignments amongst themselves.
The figure below shows the case for four robots and 20 locations. The robots started in the four corners of the environment and bid on the 20 interior locations. The initial robot tours are shown in the left figure below. Note that the tours are relatively inefficient. The figure on the right shows the final tours after the robots traded tasks amongst themselves to optimize costs, and no more profitable deals could be made.
The figure below shows the cost of the global solution as a function of number of rounds of trades. The total cost was reduced by 40% over the greedy solution by the time the market reached quiescence.
Rob Zlot joined our team, and we ported the TraderBots architecture to our robot testbeds. Our test bed consisted of ten Pioneer robots equipped with sonar rings for sensing, gyro/odometry for position estimation, cameras for cooperative stereo, and wireless comms for negotiating with each other. See the figure below.
We modified the application to have the robots map an unknown environment. Initial task assignments could not be made, since the size, layout, and scope of the environment were unknown. Instead, the robots created new tasks whenever they detected new areas to explore. These new areas were "owned" by the robot that discovered them, and the task of exploring each one was put out to bid on the market. Thus, new tasks were constantly created as the robots mapped the environment. To the best of our knowledge, the resulting mapping system was more efficient, in terms of area covered per unit distance travelled, than any other published system [Zlot, Stentz, Dias, Thayer, 02] .
The figure below shows the results of this mapping system. The top two figures show the Field Robotics Center highbay that was mapped. Note all of the clutter. The bottom figure shows an overhead view of the aggregate map built by the robot team using their sonar sensors.
Recently, we upgraded the robot test beds to use SICK laser rangefinders, rather than sonar sensors, to map. The upgraded robots are shown below.
The figure below shows an overhead view of an area mapped by four of the robots. The dark green areas are walls, objects, and people. The light green areas are sensed free space. The black areas are unknown space. Note that the map is built incrementally as the robots discover and explore new areas. The area covered was about 200 feet on a side.
Since the first implementation of TraderBots, Bernardine Dias has worked on improving aspects of the market system [Dias, Stentz, 01] . The first version of the system permitted only single-task auctions. Because of this limitation, the market would sometimes reach quiescence in a fairly shallow local minimum. By clustering tasks that can be performed together, cost effectively, a lower global minimum can be reached [Dias, Stentz, 02] .
Bernardine also pushed on the concept of the "leader" robot. A leader is a robot that produces cost efficient plans, involving several robots, and sells them on the market. One type of leader is a robot that figures out better assignments of tasks to robots. Bernardine employed a combinatorial exchange to better map tasks onto robots and lower the global cost.
Rob Zlot is working on accommodating more complex tasks in the market architecture. He introduced the notion of AND/OR trees for representing an abstract task at the root level along with multiple decompositions into more detailed, primitive tasks. Each tree constitutes one or more "plans" for solving the abstract task. Robots may bid on the leaf nodes of the tree to implement the plan, or if they have a better decomposition, they may bid on intermediate nodes--perhaps even the root. Rob developed a computationally efficient algorithm for clearing task trees on the market [Zlot, Stentz, 03] . He is applying it to the problem of area reconnaissance, whereby a team of robots are deployed to sense a collection of areas. Optimizing the problem is difficult, since areas can be typically observed from many different viewing locations.
The original Traderbots architecture was developed in the DARPA- funded Cognitive Colonies project. Since then, it has been ported to new projects and applications. Traderbots is now used by the ARL-funded Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance project to control a section of unmanned ground vehicles performing a reconnaissance mission. The new work includes handling more complex tasks and tight coordination between robots.
Traderbots is also used by the NASA-funded Federation of Intelligent Robotic Explorers (FIRE) project to coordinate a prototype colony of robot explorers on Mars. The new work includes the incorporation of scheduling techniques into the market. Traderbots forms the market layer of FIRE's three-tiered architecture.
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2006-05-25 16:16E-Games ContestAbout: Development of online and mobile games for youth work.
Organizers: Consortium of Europe-wide youth organizations and centers in the frame of E-games initiative.
Topics: human rights, intercultural learning, youth project management, youth information etc. More information about preferred topics is attached. The applications preferred are covering the attached categories but are not limited to them only.
Aim: The aim of the proposed games should be to provide modern training tools and examples for youth trainers and organizers of youth events and to provocative exploration of important topics in the youth work like human rights, intercultural learning, youth project management etc. All the produced games will be distributed for free in the youth centers and youth organizations;
Format: The proposed games should be suitable for online (play in browser) usage or for mobile devices (mobile phones, Pocket PC's etc.). A standalone download not exceeding 5 MB is also possible. The games should be with simple scenarios but should have clear educational objective;
Authors' copyrights requirement: The games must be either author development or adapted copyrights-free games; All the used texts, graphics, sounds, animations must be owned by the author or secured against copyrights; The organizers will have the right to use free of charge all the proposed games/applications in the E-games project materials (which will be distributed for free in youth organizations and youth centers);
Good practice requirements: The games should be free of any non-authorized usage of computer resources and should not include illegal content.
Awards: In each topic category, the organizers should award up to 3 entries (total up to 12 prizes). The 1st place winner will be invited to attend one international conference/seminar in the frame of the E-games initiative and will receive 500 euro plus diploma; the second place will receive 200 euro plus diploma and the third place will receive organizers certificate; Each of the 3 winners in each of the categories will be include in the printed materials of the E-games initiative and will receive a copy of the produced training materials;
Awards presentation: The winners will be invited during Computer Space forum in November 2006.
Application procedure: Each author could submit up to 3 entries to the Computer Space address, by post or by e-mail; Young authors or youth teams (up to 30 years old) will be encouraged to participate; You have to register your project in offline or online multimedia categories depending on the project format.
Send a CD or www address of the game and: 1/ Author (s) or owners name and address; 2/ Short game description; 3/ Photo of the author or screenshot of the game;
Deadline for receiving the application: Computer Space categories deadline.


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Shrimp is such a versatile seafood, finding its way onto the most elegant dinner plates and the most festive of appetizer displays for any occasion. And at Roche Bros., we have shrimp available in every which way you can imagine.
Here's a look at our top 5 favorite ways to serve this tasty shellfish:
Spicy Shrimp Pasta with Cilantro and Fennel
Shrimp and pasta gets hot and spicy with this fresh take on dinner. Finely blend fresh cilantro, mint and fennel with lemon juice, olive oil and ground cumin seed. Pan sear farm-raised shrimp in a spoonful of oil, until cooked through, while your pasta is boiling. And then toss it all together, with crumbled feta cheese, plus chopped jalapenos and salt and pepper to taste!
Cooked Shrimp Rings
When you're expecting a crowd, find SEAMAZZ Shrimp Rings in the Roche Bros. seafood department. It's the elegance of shrimp without any of the peeling, cleaning or cooking. SEAMAZZ Prime Shrimp delivers unparalleled taste, texture and quality. Cooked to perfection in-the-shell, peeled and individually quick frozen, this shrimp is the finest pre-cooked shrimp available. Arranged for you in a beautiful ring with cocktail sauce in the center, your guests are sure to be impressed.
Our Own Shrimp Salad Rolls
In Our Kitchen, we toss delicious cooked shrimp with just the right amount of mayonnaise, finely minced celery and flavor, and surround it all with a fresh roll, creating Shrimp Salad Rolls that are perfect for an easy lunch or quick dinner. Find them in the seafood department.
Roche Bros. Cooked Cocktail Shrimp
The cooked cocktail shrimp in our seafood department is ready for you to dress up any way you'd like! Cooked, farm-raised shrimp with the tails on, they are ready to serve as a beautiful appetizer. Place three shrimp each in small, clear bowls with a pool of Our Own Seafood Cocktail Sauce in the center for dipping.
Crab-Stuffed Shrimp
At Roche Bros., we make it possible to serve Crab-Stuffed Shrimp whether you're in the mood to cook up something special – or not! Make your own with our Jumbo Wild Caught Stuffing Shrimp, and a blend of crab meat, egg, breadcrumbs, mayonnaise and lemon, with your choice of seasonings, such as garlic powder, salt and dried mustard. Or take home our flavorful, ready-to-go Crab-Stuffed Shrimp. We've perfected the recipe and done all the work. All you have to do is heat and serve!


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Our changing rooms range from smaller functional changing areas with lockers or bag drops to stylish, spacious surroundings with great showers, hair dryers and complementary toiletries. In all cases these are maintained to the highest possible standards.
Our clubs offer a vast range of both resistance and cardiac equipment. Whether you want to follow the big match, catch up with the action in your favourite soap or simply listen to music, with our top of the range equipment you can do it all!
Our personal trainers have been specially selected for both their qualifications and varied approach. All are REPS level 3 qualified and are continuously undergoing training to further develop their skill set. Attractive packages available.


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Silent Night: A Lady Julia Christmas Novella
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- 'Tis the season for an investigation! Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane return for a Christmas caper at Bellmont Abbey-.After a year of marriage-and numerous adventures-Lady Julia and Brisbane hope for a quiet, intimate Christmas together-until they find themselves at her father's ancestral estate, Bellmont Abbey, with her eccentric family and a menagerie of animals. Nevertheless, Julia looks forward to a lively family gathering-but amongst the celebrations, a mystery stirs. There are missing jewels, new faces at the Abbey, and a prowling ghost that brings back unwelcome memories from a previous holiday-one that turned deadly. Is a new culprit recreating crimes of the past? And will Brisbane let Julia investigate-?Don't miss a single tale in the Lady Julia series-read the book that started it all, Silent in the Grave, available now.
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Senior Developer to Write 3 Stored Procedures and 1 C# Executable/Win Service
Budget $30-100 USD
I'm looking for a Senior Developer with Stored Procedure and C# experience. This individual must also have experience in creating Windows Services that are safe and stable. In addition, this individual must also have experience querying Google, Yahoo, and MSN so as to spider and capture search results. In other words, here's what this project requires:
1. Write a stored procedure that will take content articles that are listed in the database and combine them by category to create BLOG pages - once, these BLOG pages are created, then this stored procedure should search all content to determine the most "applicable" keywords.
2. Write another stored procedure that will also combine content articles that are listed in the database to create BLOG pages based on the most "applicable" keywords. This stored procedure will be similar to the previous one.
3. I also require that a new stored procedure be created that points to the other stored procedures so that it can be scheduled for execution on a regular basis. This stored procedure should be easy enough with no real business logic in it other than to execute on certain days.
4. Write an executable that will take the most "applicable" keywords and search Google, Yahoo, and MSN for the most applicable search results. Once these results are determined then your code should spider through these search results pages and collect URLs so they can be stored in the database for future use. After this executeable is finished, then I will want this executable to be converted to a Windows Service also. In other words - I want an executable and a Windows Service that does the exact same thing.
I will provide detailed step-by-step instructions on how to do all of this work. In addition, I will be available to answer any questions that you may have. But, I will also test everything very thoroughly to ensure that all business logic is followed.
This could be a fun and exciting project for the right developer which also offers the potential for future work. So, for those developers that bid on this project I would like for you to briefly answer the following questions:
1. How much experience do you have with C# and with writing Windows Services?
2. How much experience do you have with MS SQL 2005 and with writing stored procedures? With scheduling stored procedures?
3. How much experience do you have with writing code that spiders search engine results - more specifically - Google, Yahoo, and MSN search engine results so as to capture URL data.
If you don't answer these questions, then I will have no choice but to assume that you don't have the right kind of experience and you won't be considered for this project.
Thank you for your time and good luck to you...
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This Roasted Garlic & Tomato Lentil Salad is the perfect vegan cold lentil salad that everyone will love! With roasted garlic, oven roasted tomatoes and onions, this is one you don't want to miss.
You guys are going to love this Roasted Garlic & Tomato Lentil Salad!
I had no intention of publishing this recipe today, but I couldn't stop myself. It is just that good.
The last few days I've been a bit under the weather.
And by a "bit" I mean I slept about 14 hours yesterday.
Anyone who knows me knows I can't nap to save my life, so this is a pretty major "what the heck is going on" kind of thing.
I woke up today feeling a little better and decided to spend the day on the couch and playing with Skye.
Then I started thinking about lunch and knew I had everything to make this Roasted Garlic & Tomato Lentil Salad on hand. I decided that a healthy lunch was just what I needed and that I could always photograph it tomorrow.
Then one thing lead to another.
I decided to take just a few quick shots on my new background hubby got me. (Love it.)
And then I tasted the salad.
To. Die. For.
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed something as much. (And certainly not a cold lentil salad.) After not eating yesterday, this Roasted Garlic & Tomato Lentil Salad was just what I needed.
This baby is getting put in the back of the fridge so I have lunch for the next three days. A girl has to recover you know and the best lentil salad recipe is just the way to do it.:)
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- Serve over massaged kale
- Substitute Artichokes for the tomatoes and add capers
- Instead of roasted tomatoes, try sun-dried tomatoes
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- 1 head garlic
- 1 tablespoon olive oil divided
- 1 1/2 cups grape tomatoes halved
- 1 cup red onion sliced
- 2 3/4 cups vegetable broth
- 1 cup green lentils
- 1/2 cup diced celery
- 1/2 cup diced red pepper
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cut top of garlic head and place in foil. Drizzle with 1 teaspoon of oil and close foil around garlic.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Arrange tomatoes and onion in a single layer and drizzle with avocado oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
- Place garlic and tomato mixture in a preheated oven and cook for 25 to 30 minutes, until slightly shriveled.
- Carefully open garlic and allow to cool. Gently press cloves from garlic head and place in a small bowl, breaking garlic into smaller pieces with the back of a fork.
- Meanwhile, bring broth to a boil. Add lentils and reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 25 to 30 minutes, or until tender. Drain and transfer to a bowl.
- Add garlic, tomatoes, red onion, celery, red pepper to the bowl.
Make dressing by combining olive oil, lemon juice, and crushed pepper in a small bowl. Whisk in salt and paper to taste. Toss with lentil mixture and serve.


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LONDON (Reuters) - A rally in world equities and gold paused on Tuesday while the dollar inched up as investors positioned for widely expected confirmation from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it is sticking with its monetary stimulus.
Although markets are wary of potential surprises when the Fed presents the outcome of a two-day meeting on Wednesday, a rally in riskier assets over the past week and a dollar selloff is seen as having largely factored in an unchanged policy.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 hit a 5-year high last week as investors welcomed the expected delay in Fed tapering. The index edged down 0.1 percent on Tuesday as attention turned to what has so far been a mixed earnings season in Europe.
Markets expect the Fed to extend its $85 billion monthly bond buying scheme into next year while it assesses the impact of this month's government shutdown on growth.
"People are more sanguine about the event risk from the Fed, and I think quite a few investors are comfortable with the fact that a Fed move could be delayed until March," Dennis Jose, European equity strategist at Barclays Capital, said.
The European share market dip followed a softer session in Asia where MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS lost about 0.3 percent and Japan's Nikkei stock average .N225 gave up 0.5 percent.
MSCI's world equity index .MIWD00000PUS, tracking shares in 45 countries, ended four days of gains to trade virtually.
Among third quarter earnings reported so far in Europe, 53 percent of companies on the pan-European STOXX 600 index have either beaten or met market forecasts while 47 percent have missed them.
That pattern continued on Tuesday, with German industrial gases maker Linde (LING.DE) and French tire firm Michelin (MICP.PA) cutting earnings targets.
Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) posted a 98 percent drop in quarterly pretax profit.
"Across the board, results have been a mixed bag. It doesn't look too great," said Terry Torrison, managing director at Monaco-based McLaren Securities.
Currency, fixed income and commodity markets mostly moved in narrow ranges ahead of the Fed announcement.
The dollar had gained slightly against a basket of currencies .DXY as bets on a Fed tapering delay petered out and many players withdrew from the market.
"There is a lightening of positions before the Fed, but volumes are low - at least 20-30 percent lower than usual," said Alvin Tan, currency strategist at Societe Generale.
The euro, which has benefited from the dollar's recent decline and hit a two-year high of $1.3833 on Friday, was flat on the day at $1.3780. <FRX/>
Dealers said investors were wary of pushing the single currency any higher given concerns that the European Central Bank may express unease at the currency's strength.
German Bund futures were flat at 141.15, staying near a two-month high of 141.23 hit on Monday. Cash 10-year German yields were unchanged at 1.75 percent.
Gold, which has risen 8 percent since mid-October to close to a five-week high, shed about 0.5 percent to trade at around $1,345.50 as its rally ran out steam.
"We think the (Fed) expectations have already been priced in and gold is due for a correction," said Songwut Apirakkhit, managing director of Globlex Holding Management. <GOL/>
Brent crude edged down toward $109 a barrel, though it held onto most of the previous day's gains made when reports of a sharp drop in Libyan oil exports rekindled worries over supply.
Libya's crude oil exports have dropped to less than 10 percent of capacity due to the worst disruption in its oil industry since the 2011 civil war.
Additional reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta and Anirban Nag; Editing by John Stonestreet


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Thermal and high magnetic field treatment of materials and associated apparatus
United States Patent
|June 29, 2010
|View the Complete Patent at the US Patent & Trademark Office
|Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Visit the Partnerships Directorate Website
|Production of Materials with Superior Properties Utilizing High Magnetic Field
|An apparatus and method for altering characteristics, such as can include structural, magnetic, electrical, optical or acoustical characteristics, of an electrically-conductive workpiece utilizes a magnetic field within which the workpiece is positionable and schemes for thermally treating the workpiece by heating or cooling techniques in conjunction with the generated magnetic field so that the characteristics of the workpiece are effected by both the generated magnetic field and the thermal treatment of the workpiece.
|Kisner; Roger A. (Knoxville, TN), Wilgen; John B. (Oak Ridge, TN), Ludtka; Gerard M. (Oak Ridge, TN), Jaramillo; Roger A. (Knoxville, TN), Mackiewicz-Ludtka; Gail (Oak Ridge, TN)
|UT-Battelle, LLC (Oak Ridge, TN)
|11/ 480,683
|July 3, 2006
|This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy to UT-Battelle, LLC, and the Government has certain rights to the invention.