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BIM In New zealand
New Zealand comes under the top of the list of countries who adopt Building Information Modeling (BIM) within their construction industry. The US and UK have started adopting BIM widely with modeling and process standards and thereby achieve significant progress in construction sector. New Zealanders try to adopt BIM and apply it to regional context. Many other authorities like Singapore and Honk Kong also try to apply BIM within their local industry with local guidance documents and requirements and to achieve progress. Even Australia, with the help of ACIF and APCC put together guidance at a regional level.
Transformational Technology : BIM (Building Information Modeling)
Operational Benefits
Productivity is the most important advantage of BIM, which is expected by the top metric organizations while they adopt this new technology. The following features of BIM help improve productivity gains.
- Minimized project management
- Enhanced communication and co-ordination
- Early detection of errors
- Reduced rework
- Reduced cost
- Improved quality
BIM is a lifecycle model and its application starts in the early stages of a construction process. BIM helps the designers from the fundamental changes to the design process. Similarly it ensures greater certainty the design of the project and the ultimate construction and operation of the building.
BIM enhances communication and understanding among the team members and therefore it can ensure the collective understanding of design intent. Moreover, as the 3-D BIM model provides visualization of the project, the information can be shared more clearly. Besides, using BIM, each project stake holder is accessible to design, layout information, scheduling, materials data, performance and financial etc. from the starting of the project. As a result, the alterations that have significant construction and lifestyle costs can be made easily and cheap rate.
Project management
Several project managers claim that adopting BIM in the early phases of a project help them to reduce errors, rework, project duration and overall construction costs. As BIM is able to visualize design options, it can reduce costs and improves the certainty of the project outputs. It can also have a significant role in reducing project duration. But the BIM users should be well experienced and proficient to get maximum results from this new technology.
More accurate design and trade coordination, easier and precise design interpretation, reduced change orders, improved accuracy and automated conflict avoidance etc. are the main features of BIM that help construction professionals gain productivity. As BIM is able to detect and avoid conflicts before the construction is started, the firm can save the unbudgeted construction changes by 40%. It will really help save 10% of the total value of a construction project. Besides reducing rework and cost overruns, BIM also help builders use prefabricated materials and pre-assembled components, using its sophisticated modeling capabilities.
Facility Management
The most advantageous features of BIM are real-time performance monitoring and facility management process that ensures hi-quality outcomes in post construction phase of a project. As BIM can create and manage building and infrastructure assets more economically with less environment impact, it is really useful for public-sector asset managers. BIM minimizes environmental impacts and running costs during operation while ensuring human comfort and safety, which are the primary concerns of occupants, owners and asset managers.
Economic benefits
Besides integrating process, BIM can also transfer information intelligently, accurately and timely between key project stakeholders. It is one of the main features that enhance productivity gains. Lots of countries have already understood its ability for productivity gains and several organizations trust in its potential to offer even greater value in future. If BIM can prove this belief, there is no doubt that BIM adoption will be accelerated in an amazing pace.
An online New Zealand BIM handbook is produced by the Productivity Partnership working with the National Technical Standards Committee (NTSC). It focuses on some core objectives as the expected productivity by implementing BIM in New Zealand by 2010. The objectives are like removal of the complexity of building process, enhancement of the speed of the building and reduction of the cost. It considers BIM as an important tool to achieve productivity gain within a short period of time.


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Sports Medicine
The proximal hamstring is a common location of athletic injuries. Athletes participating in sports that require sprinting, jumping, acceleration and deceleration are at increased risk.
The strongest predictor of recurrent injury is prior hamstring injury. Other risk factors include age, increased body mass index and decreased hip flexor flexibility. The role of hamstring flexibility in prediction and prevention of proximal hamstring injury is controversial, but often regarded as a potential risk factor. Since most proximal hamstring injuries occur early in the athlete's season, prevention opportunities may exist, especially with an emphasis on eccentric strength training.
One of the most frequently encountered injuries in sports medicine is strain of the proximal hamstring at the myotendinous junction. These may be treated successfully with nonoperative means including compression, limited weight-bearing, modalities and progressive mobilization. Complete, retracted avulsions of the tendinous origin, although less common, are increasing in incidence and are more often surgically treated. Surgical repair of complete acute avulsions results in significantly greater subjective outcomes, rate of return to pre-injury level of sport, and strength and endurance than nonsurgical management. While repair does provide reliable pain relief, good functional outcome, high patient satisfaction and excellent healing rates (via MRI), hamstring strength and return to pre-injury level of sport is not always fully restored.
Figure 1. With the patient in the prone position, posterior thigh ecchymosis is seen in this case of proximal hamstring rupture.
Figure 2. The appearance of chronic proximal hamstring rupture is seen. Similar to "popeye" deformity with biceps brachii rupture in arm, loss of attachment of proximal hamstring origin allows for significant posterior thigh deformity with shortening and bulging.
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The purpose of this article is to describe the surgical technique used by the authors to successfully treat both acute and chronic avulsions of the proximal hamstring.
Patients who sustain proximal hamstring ruptures typically report an acute injury with sudden pain, muscle spasm and difficulty with ambulation. The mechanism described is usually one of rapid eccentric hamstring contraction (e.g., water-skiing, soccer, falls and bull-riding) with hip flexion and knee extension. Frequently, walking requires a stiff leg to avoid hip or knee flexion that would exacerbate pain. Often noted is the description of the feel or sound of a "pop." Patients with complete ruptures may present with remarkable amounts of ecchymosis in the posterior thigh, knee and calf (Figure 1). The proximal posterior thigh is tender over a usually-palpable tendinous defect distal to the ischial tuberosity. Best appreciated in the prone position, full knee flexion strength and a "bow-string sign" (palpable tension in distal hamstring tendons) are often absent. Depending upon the degree of swelling, symptoms of sciatic neuropathy may be present due to local compression.
Missed and delayed diagnosis in patients with proximal hamstring avulsion may lead to chronic symptoms necessitating care due to pain, weakness, stiffness, lack of endurance and even significant deformity (Figure 2). These injuries more frequently have muscular spasm, atrophy, deformity and painful sciatica. Patients with chronic complete ruptures who undergo surgical treatment often demonstrate improved outcomes, strength, endurance and return to sport, but not as well as acute repair. Furthermore, the rate of complications and re-rupture is higher with surgery for chronic (vs. acute) avulsions.
Figure 3. Coronal T2-weighted MRI of complete proximal hamstring rupture with large hematoma and tendon retraction is shown.
As with nearly all musculoskeletal injuries, proper imaging work-up begins with plain radiographs. These may demonstrate ischial tuberosity bony avulsions or calcium deposition in the proximal tendon. Advanced imaging includes MRI, which illustrates injury location (number of tendons and retraction), degree of local swelling (hematoma) (Figure 3) and proximity of the sciatic nerve.
Surgical management is indicated based upon the number of tendons involved, amount of tendon retraction and other patient-related factors (i.e., general medical health and activity levels). If only one tendon is involved or multiple tendons are involved without retraction (<2 cm), non-surgical treatment may be successful. Patients with desires to return to full activity and multi-tendon injury with greater than 2 cm of retraction merit consideration for surgical repair. Although less successful and less predictable, surgical repair in the chronic setting also may be warranted but may require sciatic neurolysis and augmentation of the repair with allograft.
The hamstring musculature is comprised of the biceps femoris (long and short heads), semimembranosus and semitendinosus. The "footprint" for the proximal origin is large, approximately 3 cm wide and long, on the inferolateral aspect of the ischial tuberosity. The long head biceps and semitendinosus form a conjoint tendon on the lateral ischial tuberosity, while the semimembranosus origin is just medial. The sciatic nerve is located lateral to the proximal hamstring origin, entering the surgical field under the piriformis into the posterior thigh. The posterior femoral cutaneous nerve also traverses under the piriformis into the posterior thigh, beneath gluteus maximus to run deep to the gluteal fascia and fascia lata over the long head of biceps femoris.
Under general anesthesia, the patient is positioned on the operative table prone, with the break in the table flexed at the pelvis, to allow for the ischial tuberosity to rotate into the surgical field. Although a longitudinal or transverse skin incision may be used, a transverse incision in the gluteal fold provides sufficient exposure with excellent cosmesis in the acute scenario (Figure 4). Even with extensive tendon retraction acutely, sufficient skin mobility allows for tendon excursion and re-approximation to the tuberosity. The tendon defect is usually palpable and allows for accurate incision placement. Care must be taken to avoid the posterior femoral cutaneous nerve and its branches. The gluteal fascia is incised, and the inferior free border of gluteus maximus is retracted proximally using a blunt retractor, exposing the deep thigh fascia over the proximal hamstring. Gluteus maximus may be split in line with its fibers if the inferior free edge projects distally enough to preclude satisfactory visualization of the tuberosity. However, avoid excessive dissection to preserve the superior gluteal nerve.
Figure 4. The location of the transverse skin incision in the gluteal fold can be seen.
The deep fascia is incised longitudinally, often with expression of a large hematoma, exposing the avulsed tendon stump and ischial tuberosity. A pseudocapsule with hematoma may be encountered acutely, while extensive scar tissue may be encountered in the chronic situation. In either situation, the sciatic nerve is identified deep and lateral to the proximal tendon and should be protected at all times. The tendon is identified, mobilized and prepared for suturing (Figure 5). Any remaining tendon stump is curetted off the inferolateral ischium, creating a bony bleeding surface for healing. Multiple suture anchors (usually two or three) are placed in the lateral ischium. Place only one limb of each suture (via Krackow technique) in the tendon to allow for a "pulley technique," reducing the tendon to the anatomic footprint (Figure 6).
Figure 5. The proximal hamstring tendon end is identified, mobilized and prepared for suturing.
In the setting of chronic tendon rupture, a longitudinal skin incision is required to facilitate tendon exposure and mobilization, adhesiolysis and sciatic neurolysis. Although removal of tendinous fibrous scar is warranted, take care to avoid excessive iatrogenic shortening. Tendon and bony preparation and re-attachment are accomplished similar to acute injuries provided that the tendon can be mobilized to the ischial tuberosity. Depending on the chronicity of the injury, the hamstring muscle may be scarred to the sciatic nerve and requires careful dissection, neurolysis and mobilization of the hamstring to bring the tendon back to its anatomical insertion. In some cases, the tendon may not be mobilized to the ischium or may be under tension, and the authors prefer to use Achilles allograft to augment the proximal hamstring repair (Figure 7). In a patient with an intact proximal tendon with pain and weakness who has failed conservative treatment, the surgical approach is similar, with debridement of scar tissue and retention of the attached normal tendon.
Figure 6. This diagram illustrates the "pulley technique." One limb of each suture is placed into the tendon, and the other limb is left free. This allows the tendon to be reduced anatomically to the proximal hamstring footprint on the lateral ischium.
Figure 7. This chronic proximal hamstring rupture required an Achilles tendon allograft reconstruction.
Once secure fixation of the tendon to bone is achieved, the surgical wound is closed in layers. Meticulous hemostasis must be achieved to avoid postoperative hematoma and sciatic nerve compression. Sterile dressing is applied. A hip or knee orthosis may also be applied to prevent undue stress on the repair.
Initial postoperative instructions include toe-touch weight-bearing with crutches and avoidance of positions that could place extreme strain on the repair. These positions are hip flexion and knee extension. Range-of-motion restrictive hip braces that prevent flexion may be used for up to 6 weeks after surgery. If tension is present at the repair site, knee extension may also be limited to 30° to 45° with a hinged knee brace. Active hamstring activity is prohibited. Progression of weight-bearing and gradual re-establishment of hip and knee motion is commenced at 6 weeks postoperatively and may advance over the ensuing 6 weeks. Light concentric hamstring exercises are started at 6 weeks, in conjunction with core and hip stabilization. Active concentric and eccentric strengthening may begin at 3 months, with light jogging, short light sprints and closed chain plyometrics. Return to sport-specific drills and competitive sports may begin at 6 months to 12 months.
Surgical repair of proximal hamstring rupture reliably improves pain and function with excellent patient satisfaction. A recent study at our institution reviewed 15 consecutive patients (mean age 45 years) who underwent repair at mean 3-year follow-up. All 11 patients that participated in sports pre-injury were able to return, however 45% reported a decrease in current level of activity. Isokinetic strength was 78% vs. the contralateral side. Several outcome measures demonstrated significant improvements. This article has described a safe and reproducible surgical technique used to successfully treat this injury.
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by: Kaelyn
Jesus, who is the Son of God, loves us. He arrived on earth and he prayed for us. He was nailed to a wooden cross. Men mocked him. He died on the cross lovingly for us. Three days later he rose from the dead and he showed that he was the Son of God. Because Jesus loves us, He saved us.


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Smashbox released a travel-sized full exposure palette that includes eight neutral shades that are in the larger, full-sized Full Exposure palette. I purchased mine at Ulta, but it is also available at Sephora.
This versatile eye shadow set provides eight must-have neutrals in one portable palette. From nudes to blacks, these crease-resistant, long-wear shimmers and velvety smooth mattes are organized with shimmers on top and mattes on the bottom so that they are easy to use.
This is a slick little palette. If you're planning on doing any traveling, it doesn't get much more compact than this; the palette is about the size of a credit card, and it's very thin.
The palette contains four matte shades and four shimmer shades. I actually ended up using the color in the bottom right corner for my brows, so the palette can multitask depending on what colors you need for your brows. The lighter shimmery shades also work as highlighters (I used them for this when I forgot a highlight on a weekend trip).
The mirror is also a nice size; just right for applying shadow.
I think the shadows are of good quality. You do have to pack on the shimmery shades, or use them wet to get good color payoff. I just spray a little Fix+ on my shadow before applying, which makes the shadows more intense. While it's easy to get a natural look, you can also get a bold look with this palette.
This palette is just SO easy to grab for a weekend out of town. If you're going to do any long-term traveling, this would also be a great palette for that. One thing to note is that the packaging doesn't really provide any cushioning if you drop it. I dropped mine onto the counter top out of my bag at a hotel, and the matte cream shade crumbled a little and broke off on the sides. That isn't a deal breaker for me since it was my own fault, but it is worth noting.
I don't think this is a must have palette, especially if you have a lot of neutrals, but I do like it and am happy with it!


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Make this recipe from the Arancini Brothers to get a taste of Italy.
"It's easy to make our little risotto balls – but not that easy! Enjoy getting it not quite right, then refine and change. That's how we ended up with this recipe in the first place!" – Arancini Brothers
2 large brown onions
1 head garlic
2 tbsp chopped thyme
250g Aborio rice
1 litre Vegetable stock
50gm Salted Butter
Oil for frying
150g mozzerella cheese
100g cheddar cheese
100g parmesan cheese
3 tbsp chives
6 tbsp parsley
1 lemon
1 orange
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
100g rice flour
Salt and pepper (to taste)
1. Get the vegetable stock boiling in the small pot. While that's going, finely dice your onions and garlic
2. Fry the onions and garlic in a bit of oil and the butter. Just before they start to colour, add your rice and thyme. Fry that for 1 minute (it can stick!). Now start adding the stock. You want to be adding about 1 cup every 3 minutes. Do not stop stirring the rice! The idea is to let all the stock be absorbed, then add more. Try to soak up all the stock over 15 or so minutes. This is the real challenge. Not too hot, not too fast, not too cold, not too slow. When the rice is nice and firm, with no hard core in the middle of the grain, remove from the pot and spread over a tray, to cool it quickly. A nice breezy place is great.
3. Grate all the cheese, zest and juice the citrus fruits, finely chop the herbs and mix it all together.
4. Get your now warm rice back in the big pot and mix it with the cheese and herbs. Taste it and add salt and pepper where needed. Wipe out the small pot (no need for excess dishes) and put the rice flour in.
5. With slightly wet hands, form the warm mix into golf balls, cover and roll back into golf balls. Dust in rice flour and fill that tray. Cover in cling film and refrigerate. When it's serving time just fry them in some hot vegetable oil, about 5 minutes. We deep-fry ours for good health, but just a little oil in a pan is fine.


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The European Commission, together with 14 EU countries (Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden) have signed in Malta on 18th May 2017 a political declaration to launch the new 'Clean Energy for EU Islands' initiative. Aimed at accelerating the clean energy transition on Europe's more than 2700 islands, this initiative will help islands reduce their dependency on energy imports by making better use of their own renewable energy sources and embracing more modern and innovative energy systems.
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I have a secret to reveal: the North Korean atomic bomb is a fairy tale. For many years the North Korean government has been desperate because hereditary communism doesn´t work, and they are starving. They invented an imaginary atomic bomb to blackmail the world and try to get fuel and food, but the bomb itself doesn´t exist. In other words, the famous North Korean bomb is Mickey Mouse.
Are you surprised? The fact is that the North Koreans are inventing a story and most of the world remains in ignorance. It is important that you, my readers, know what happens because this is a lesson about how things really work in this world.
So how do the North Koreans deceive the world? It's very simple. They just have to dig a tunnel 1 km long on a mountain, fill its bottom with five thousand tons of TNT,blow it up, and announce they detonated an atomic bomb.
This works because countries like the U.S., Russia and China don´t want North Korea to build a real bomb. So, every time North Korea has "an atomic bomb test" they cooperate and lie, saying indeed it was a nuclear bomb, which had so many kilotons, and criticize North Korea for being a savage and a threat to humanity (forgetting that each of them keeps an atomic arsenal sufficient to destroy Earth).
Because this "blackmail" works, then North Korea´s crazy dictator doesn´t build the atomic bomb, and everything stays the same. Whenever "they test a nuclear bomb" they are given some food and oil, and the whole issue is forgotten again.
Gentlemen, the plot is so ridiculous the Kim who inherited the dictator´s throne doesn´t even hide that he is more interested in seeing a fake Mickey Mouse show than ruling the country.
"little" Kim waves to his admirers during the
Mickey Mouse show they hold for him in Pyongyang
It's quite a story. Who would have thought the infamous "North Korean atomic bomb" would be just a tunnel they fill with explosives, and nothing more. Isn´t it a bummer? These dictators abuse and abuse the people, and the "great nations" help them stay in power, because they agree among themselves things should be as they have been.
All of you ought to understand that, when things get ugly, nobody really helps anyone. Each group has to fight for its interests the best it can. Otherwise you´ll end in a dictatorship like North Korea, Cuba, or (you fill the name in), living a hopeless life, forced to live clapping and cheering a criminal and hoping for change that never comes...
Venezuela´s National Assembly applauds as it surrenders
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|Katrina Germein
4th International Conference of the Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators, Sydney, June 29-July 2 2012
Monday, 18 June 2012
Guest Blogger: Katrina Germein on Taking Every Opportunity
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Thanks for telling us that story, Katrina - so comforting.ReplyDelete
I'm looking forward to seeing/hearing you on the panel.
Katrina is a valuable asset to South Australian writing community... Bi annually the little big book club asks for submissions from SA writers. Every 2nd year we produce a picture book which is made possible by the wonderful submissions our writers. Katrina has now appeared in 3 of our yearly reading packs (23,000 each year are given to parents with newborn babies - funded through SA govt). Katrina wrote Baby Gets Dressed, and has two lullabies in It's Bed Time and one story in our 2012 It's Play Time picture book. As a organisation we are very thankful too Katrina for her dedication to the craft of writing children's picture books. Sue Hill General Manager of The Big Book Club Inc.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your fascinating, post, Katrina. I'm sure you'll wow them at the conference! :) See you there.ReplyDelete
Thank you for having me Sheryl. I really enjoyed writing this post. It's always good to stop and reflect I think. Thanks for your kind words Sue. I am very lucky to be a part of South Australia's children's writing community and I am so proud to be associated with The Little Big Book Club. I look forward to meeting you in person at the conference Penny.ReplyDelete


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Usually, funding for federal programming within the fields of workforce development, youth development, and education is determined through the appropriations process. During this process, members of the Congressional Appropriations Committees hear testimony by agency officials as well as outside experts to inform their decisions regarding funding for federal programs and activities.
Sequestration (for more information, see NYEC's issue brief on sequestration), however, represents a very different approach to reducing funding for federal programming. Instead of cutting funding on a program-by-program basis according to a perceived decrease in need/effectiveness, sequestration will use the blunt instrument of across-the-board reductions in federal funding. Besides the actual amounts cut from federal job training and education programs, this approach is significant because of its detrimental side effect for advocacy. Alternatives to sequestration are still possible, but the total amount that must be reduced will not change (unless federal revenues increase due to taxes), thus creating a zero-sum situation. All programs are connected, because lessening the cut for one program would increase the cuts to other programs.
Could reducing the budget through sequestration, be an indication for how funding is determined in the future? Will advocates and proponents for federal job training and education efforts be forced to choose between their programs or defense activities and national security? Considering a widespread desire among current lawmakers to avoid the sequestration cuts, this will likely not serve as a model for the future. However, some elements of sequestration could unfortunately still be applied on a smaller scale – instead of making non-defense programming compete with defense (like sequestration), non-defense programming could be singularly targeted for across-the-board cuts or tasked with reducing overall spending by a certain amount. This approach would create a competitive atmosphere, similar to the effects of sequestration, where service providers are pitted against each other in their attempts to save their programs.


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One of the reasons I don't own a cell phone is that I know I'd become badly addicted to texting. On a recent episode of Bill Moyers and Company, MIT Professor and developmental psychologist Sherry Turkle talked about "the seduction" of "the sweetness of something new that's coming to us on our phone . . . the neurochemical hit of instant connection."
Turkle and Moyers also talked about the recent case of a 12-year-old girl who committed suicide in response to being cyberbullied. When Moyers floated the thought that the poor girl could have simply turned off or put down her phone, Turkle snapped, "No, she couldn't. . . . the phone had become her lifeline . . . being part of her social world meant keeping on the phone."
Watching the interview, I related to the "neurochemical hit" but not to the vulnerability Turkle described, until a few days later.
I used to send out little essays, similar to these blog entries (and in some cases identical) as an e-newsletter to friends and associates who subscribed through my business website, marcwordsmith.com. I sent one out last week, and checked the subscription service a day or two later to see how many were actually opened. To my horror, I saw that four old friends—albeit people I have not seen for quite some time—had unsubscribed from the newsletter.
It sounds absurd, I know, but I was deeply hurt. Even if these particular friendships were not currently active, why would these individuals choose to reject me like this? Was it so awful getting an occasional newsletter from me, were they so turned off by me that they actually had to click the unsubscribe link?
To my great relief, I discovered that this had not been the case, after I explored the information on the subscription service website a bit more thoroughly. Rather, these old friends had been automatically unsubscribed, because emails to them had bounced. It took me the better part of an hour to ascertain this, and it made an absolutely enormous difference in my day.
Even though I haven't spoken to any of these friends in months, if not years, and even though the "interaction" that I imagined had occurred was completely cyber—and indirect at that—I had been devastated. Maybe I'm overly sensitive. Maybe this signifies that I DEFINITELY should never get a cell phone. But apart from what it may indicate about me specifically, I believe it underscores Sherry Turkle's point about the awesome emotional power of messaging technology and social media.
A group of Turkle's students at MIT even admitted that they texted during her classes. Turkle recounted: "Basically, they said, 'We are not as strong as technology's pull.'"
I cannot quite imagine the pain of being an adolescent and receiving a continual barrage of putdowns and insults from my peers through the intimate medium of my personal phone, but I get that it would be utterly overwhelming, and I grieve for that girl. I understand how she could have lost all perspective on what truly mattered and what possibilities her future might hold.
Just another reminder, I guess, to be kind, even on the keypad.


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Trip Date: August 11, 2016
Trip time: 8 hours
Distance: 11 kms
Elevation Gain: 2,200m
Route: Kane-ish
Difficulty: Difficult
Trip Report:
Still reeling from rejection on the SE ridge of Lady Mac two days prior (read that account by clicking here), and having scrutinized the three very conflicting trip reports available on the net (Dewit/Bou & Kane) my scrambling confidence was admittedly shaky heading into Vaux solo. Treeing two black bear cubs about 150m up the veritable berry patch that is the lower Vaux gully didn't help, but thankfully momma bear let me pass in a wide sweeping arc. Bring your spray and try to yell over the highway noise!
Luckily, and thanks to the benefit of route beta from trail blazers like Kane, Dewit & Bou, Mount Vaux is an enjoyable outing and making it to the summit was a more straightforward affair than expected. The first 1700m of Vaux is steep hiking on unusually firm terrain for a gully, making for quick travel. The next 350m is moderate scrambling and if you stay on the rock to the left of the snow patch it's safer and faster. After crossing the extremely soft snow arete the crux is fairly gentle compared to other difficult scrambles like Wapta or Smuts, certainly nowhere near a climbers scramble. The final 150m or so to the summit are again moderate scrambling but on very loose rock. Descending is simply a matter of returning the same way and the route is fairly easy to recognize in reverse.
If you've had plenty of practice route finding and are used to difficult scrambles Mount Vaux is a completely reasonable outing (contrary to what others are saying online). The exposure on Vaux is never gut wrenching or extreme and if you take your time picking lines it's easy to feel in control the entire trip. Vaux is a very long route so it's hard to give good comparison scrambles; Mount Bosworth is probably the most similar trip I've done (but Vaux is obviously twice as long).
Mount Vaux is certainly not an easy, benign objective; there are no cairns, trails or paths of any kind on the route…yet…and it would be a terrible idea to attempt it without some solid difficult scrambles that require route finding under your belt. If you chose a bad line on Vaux it could become a climbers scramble or worse very quickly. If you're heading up Vaux be safe and have fun!!


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FARMER, JAMES LEONARD, SR. (1886–1961). James Leonard Farmer, Sr., believed to be the first black man in Texas to have a Ph.D., was born on June 12, 1886, in Kingstree, South Carolina, the son of Carolina and Lorena (Wilson) Farmer. His parents were former slaves. He attended grade school in Pearson, Georgia, and then studied at Cookman Institute in Daytona Beach, Florida, before going to Boston University, where he received B.A. and S.T.B. degrees. He received the Ph.D from Boston University in 1918. He also studied at Harvard in 1916–17 and received an honorary doctorate in 1929 from Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Georgia.
Farmer was a deacon in the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1917 and after college served as pastor of black churches in Texarkana and Galveston. He taught philosophy and religion and also served in administrative capacities at Wiley College in Marshall, Texas (1919–20, 1933–38); Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi (1920–25); Samuel Huston (now Huston-Tillotson) College, Austin, Texas (1925–30, 1946–56); Gammon Theological Seminary (1930–33); and Howard University, Washington, D.C. (1938–46). From 1932 to 1956 he was also dean of Gulfside Summer School of Ministerial Training in Mississippi. He was versed in Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Latin, French, and German; he was a poet and the author of two books, The Coming of Peace and the Prince of Peace (1943) and John and Jesus in Their Day and Ours (1956). He wrote biblical criticism, articles for secular magazines, and Sunday school lessons for the Southwestern Christian Advocate (see UNITED METHODIST REPORTER) and contributed several sermons to a book, Pulpit Eloquence(1939).
Farmer married Pearl Marion Houston on September 2, 1917. They had three children. One, James Leonard Farmer, Jr., became a civil rights leader and founder of the Congress of Racial Equality. Farmer was a Mason, a Republican, and a member of Omega Psi Phi. He died in Washington, D.C., on May 14, 1961. In 1997 a Texas state historical marker was dedicated on the campus of Wiley College in Marshall, Texas.
National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Vol. 48. James Farmer, Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Arbor House, 1985).
Gail K. Beil
The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
William E. Bard, "ADAMS, WALTER R.," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fad08), accessed March 19, 2015. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.


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WASHINGTON -- Key impeachment witnesses said Thursday it was clear that President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani was pursuing political investigations of Democrats in Ukraine, in testimony undercutting Trump's argument that he only wanted to root out Ukrainian corruption.
State Department official David Holmes said he understood that Giuliani's push to investigate "Burisma," the Ukrainian gas company where Joe Biden's son Hunter served on the board, was code for the former vice president and his family. Former White House adviser Fiona Hill warned that Giuliani had been making "explosive" and "incendiary" claims.
"He was clearly pushing forward issues and ideas that would, you know, probably come back to haunt us and in fact," Hill testified. "I think that's where we are today."
Testimony from Hill and Holmes capped an intense week in the historic inquiry and reinforced its central complaint: that Trump used foreign policy for political aims, setting off alarms across the U.S. national security and foreign policy apparatus.
Democrats allege Trump was relying on the discredited idea that Ukraine rather than Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. election as he sought investigations in return for two things: U.S. military aid that Ukraine needed to fend off Russian aggression, and a White House visit the new Ukrainian president wanted that would demonstrate his backing from the West.
Hill, a former aide to then- national security adviser John Bolton, sternly warned Republican lawmakers - and implicitly Trump - to quit pushing the "fictional" narrative that Ukraine, rather than Russia, interfered in U.S. elections as an impeachment defense. Trump has told others testifying in the inquiry that Ukraine tried to "take me down" in the 2016 election. Republicans launched their questioning Thursday reviving those theories.
Hill declared: "I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternative narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine - not Russia - attacked us in 2016."
Her testimony also raised fresh questions whether Bolton, who has yet to defy White House orders for officials not to testify, would appear in the inquiry. In what was seen as a nudge to her former boss, Hill said those with information have a "moral obligation to provide it."
The landmark House impeachment inquiry was sparked by a July 25 phone call, in which Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for investigations into Biden and the Democratic National Committee. A still-anonymous whistleblower's official government complaint about that call led the House to launch the current probe.
Hill and Holmes both filled in gaps in previous testimony and poked holes in the accounts of other witnesses. They were particularly adamant that efforts by Trump and Giuliani to investigate the Burisma company were well-known by officials working on Ukraine to be the equivalent of probing the Bidens. That runs counter to earlier witnesses Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, and Kurt Volker, the former Ukraine special envoy, who insisted they had no idea there was a connection.
Holmes, a late addition to the schedule, also undercut some of Sondland's recollections about an extraordinary phone call between the ambassador and Trump this summer. Holmes was having lunch with Sondland in Kyiv and said he could overhear Trump ask about "investigations" during a "colorful" phone call with Sondland.
After the phone call, Holmes said Sondland told him Trump cared about "big stuff," including the investigation into the "Biden investigation." Sondland said he didn't recall raising the Bidens.
During Thursday's testimony, the president tweeted that while his own hearing is "great" he's never been able to understand another person's conversation that wasn't on speaker. "Try it," he suggested.
Holmes also testified about his growing concern as Giuliani orchestrated Ukraine policy outside official diplomatic channels. It was a concern shared by others, he testified.
"My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland stated, "Every time Rudy gets involved he goes and f---s everything up."
Holmes testified that he grew alarmed throughout the year, watching as Giuliani was "making frequent public statements pushing for Ukraine to investigate interference in the 2016 election and issues related to Burisma and the Bidens."
Hill left the White House before the July phone call that sparked the impeachment probe, though she was part of other key meetings and conversations related to Ukraine policy. She opened her testimony with an impassioned plea for Republicans to stop peddling an alternative theory of 2016 election interference and helping Russia sow divisions in the United States.
"This is exactly what the Russian government was hoping for," she said about the currently American political climate. "They would pit one side of our electorate against the others."
She warned that Russia is gearing up to intervene again in the 2020 U.S. election. "We are running out of time to stop them," she testified.
Trump - as well as Republicans on the panel, including ranking GOP Rep. Devin Nunes of California - continue to advance the idea that Russian interference was a "hoax," and that it was Ukraine that was trying to swing the election, to stop Trump's presidency.
"That is the Democrats' pitiful legacy," Nunes said in his opening remarks. He called it all part of the same effort, from "the Russia hoax" to the "shoddy sequel of the impeachment inquiry.
Hill, who became a U.S. citizen in 2002, told lawmakers she was the daughter of a coal miner in the northeast of England, noting it is the same region George Washington's ancestors came from.
Hill said Bolton told her separately he didn't want to be involved in any "drug deal" Sondland and Trump's acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney were cooking up over the Ukrainian investigations Trump wanted.
In Moscow on Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was pleased that the "political battles" in Washington had overtaken the Russia allegations, which are supported by the U.S. intelligence agencies.
"Thank God," Putin said, "no one is accusing us of interfering in the U.S. elections anymore. Now they're accusing Ukraine."
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To know: Three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of hooliganism, and were sentenced to two years in prison; read The New Yorker's coverage … Mitt Romney's campaign refused a deal offered by President Obama's team under which Romney would have released five years of his tax returns, and the Obama camp would stop demanding more … The White House is reportedly considering releasing some of the oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve … The mayor of Dallas has declared a state of emergency due to West Nile virus, which has infected two hundred people and killed ten in the area.
To read: For the New York Times, Ashley Parker reports on a meeting of the Romney transition team:
As Mitt Romney and Paul D. Ryan fanned out across the country this week, glad-handing voters and donors, a smaller but no less important gathering was taking place on Capitol Hill: Mr. Romney's transition team met on Tuesday with more than a dozen loyalists from the private and public sectors in space borrowed from a law office.
Mr. Romney's transition team, which has quietly been ramping up since June, is an extension of his campaign and reflects many hallmarks of the Romney operation—methodical and disciplined, with acute attention to detail. The team also offers a glimpse of what might be Mr. Romney's approach to governing, functioning much like his old private equity firm, Bain Capital. The team is assessing the government and looking for ways to make it more efficient and streamlined.
"With Mitt, his approach to problem solving is first to identify the problem, make sure you're solving for the problem actually there; second, look at best practices; third, apply best practices to the problem at hand; and fourth, execute on it," said Beth Myers, a top Romney adviser who worked on his transition team in 2003, when he became governor of Massachusetts.
Mr. Romney's transition team, known within the campaign as "The Readiness Project," is led by Mike Leavitt, a former governor of Utah and a former secretary of Health and Human Services, and until recently included only three other advisers—Ms. Myers; Bob White, a longtime friend of Mr. Romney who was chairman of his transition in Massachusetts; and Ron Kaufman, a senior adviser and Republican national committee member from Massachusetts.
Gizmodo's Molly Oswaks writes a note to the commenters at the tech blog:
There are now two female staffers writing for Gizmodo, myself and [Leslie Horn,](file://localhost/leshorn) and neither of us blew anyone for our job.
Some of you seem to be under the misguided impression that sexual favors are the only way a woman could possibly end up writing for a tech blog—wrong. And you know what? It's not just wrong, it's rude.
It's rude to come into our posts and say that the only reason we have the jobs that we do is because Gizmodo needed to fulfill some imagined gender quota. It's fucking rude to say that we're only writing for Gizmodo because we "lipstick shampooed" some guy's "jock" to "get our job." (Your over-evolved metaphor only further proves your immaturity; just say "blow job"!) But either way, if you say these things, you can bet your cowardly, juvenile ass you're going to get dismissed from the discussion.
To peruse: Mitt vs. Rob, a Tumblr that illustrates comedian Rob Delaney's tweets to Romney.


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The What without the How: Specifying Planning Problems in Robotics
Every new graduate student is told that when it comes to research, a good problem formulation is half the battle won. As the responsibilities we give to robots and autonomous vehicles become more complex by the day, the time is ripe to step back and redefine the basic blocks that define the planning problems we solve when creating "autonomy". The classical piano-mover's problem has dominated the motion planning literature for decades, and is still unsolved for many domains, but increasingly, planning problems involve responding to uncertainty, stochasticity, partial observability, unwieldy dynamics, and other challenges. Moreover, the "what" itself is evolving. Planning for long-term autonomy, collaborative and surveillance tasks have all motivated unique reformulations of the classical planning problem, including novel means of specifying desired behavior such as temporal logics and domain-specific languages, as well as natural language instructions. This workshop is an attempt to wrangle these disparate approaches and make some sense of the zoo of options. Participants will be treated to a breadth of current approaches from area experts, and encouraged to be critical of new modes of specification and the utility of the planning approaches that go therewith.
Description of the event
The first half of the workshop will feature a series of warm-up talks to expose attendees to the wide variety of problem formulations that are currently used to solve planning problems in robotics. Each speaker will have ~20 minutes (including questions) to describe a problem and its solution, with a focus on how the specification was crucial to the approach. We have proposed speakers who can speak to various aspects and flavors of the planning problem.
For the second half of the workshop, we will solicit contributed lightning talks of ~5 min of the following format: propose two formulations of the same planning problem (i.e. with different specification languages/modes) and argue for one.
In the final 1.5 hours of the workshop, we will play a party-planning game. We will divide the participants into an even number of teams. Each team will be randomly assigned a (party-themed) task, and charged with coming up with a specification for the task. The idea is to specify the task so well that another team can plan for and execute it correctly. Teams will then swap task specifications with a different team, and come up with a plan for achieving the task as specified, but do so in troll-mode, i.e. adversarially. In other words, upon receiving the other team's problem description, each team's goal is to solve the problem, but in the "worst" way possible. The goal of this activity is to demonstrate the non-triviality of well-specified planning problems. We will wrap up with an open discussion of lessons learned, via the game, as well as throughout the day.
We will then have a (hopefully not horrible) party.
- Cristian-Ioan Vasile, MIT, USA
- Vasu Raman, USA
Contact the organizers: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Important Dates
- Workshop Date: Saturday July 15th 2017, Location: 32-155
- Abstract Submission Deadline: May 19th 2017
- Acceptance Notifications: June 11th 2017
- Presentation Submission Deadline: July 10th 2017
Call For Lightning Talks
We solicit abstracts (~ 1 page) on specification of planning problems, the relationship between specification and planning, design choices, and challenges. To foster critical discussions, abstracts should consider a problem that can be formulated and solved in two different ways. Moreover, you should chose one formulation and argue for it. You should focus on what was specified, what was planned for, and the advantages and disadvantages. We ask that the abstract have the following format: 1) informal problem description; 2) formulation 1 and solution; 3) formulation 2 and solution; 4) argument for either design choice.
Abstracts should be send by email to firstname.lastname@example.com and are due by May 15th 2017. The emails must have the subject "[RSS2017-SPR] Abstract submission".
Selected abstracts will be presented at the workshop PechaKucha-style: 15 slides over 5 minutes (20 seconds per slide). Final presentations must be submitted by July 10th 2017 in Powerpoint with standard (4:3) format.
Invited Speakers
- Prof. Calin Belta, Boston University, USA
- Dr. Andrea Censi, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Prof. Leslie Kaelbling, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
- Prof. George Konidaris, Brown University, USA
- Prof. Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University, USA
- Prof. Amy LaViers, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Prof. Daniele Magazzeni, King's College London, UK
- Prof. Jason O'Kane, University of South Carolina, USA
- Prof. Stefanie Tellex, Brown University, USA
|8:45 – 9:00
|Welcome and Workshop Overview
|Session 1: 9:00 – 10:30
|4 talks
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|Speaker: Calin Belta
|09:20 – 9:40
|Speaker: Leslie Kaelbling
|9:40 – 10:00
|Speaker: George Konidaris
|10:00 – 10:20
|Speaker: Jason O'Kane
|10:30 – 11:00
|Coffee Break
|Session 2: 11:00 – 12:00
|3 talks
|11:00 – 11:20
|Speaker: Hadas Kress-Gazit
|11:20 – 11:40
|Speaker: Cristian-Ioan Vasile
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|Speaker: Daniele Magazzeni
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|Lunch break
|Session 3: 14:00 – 14:45
|2 talks
|14:00 – 14:20
|Speaker: Amy LaViers
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|Speaker: Stefanie Tellex
|Moderated Session: 14:40 – 15:00
|Conclusions, Problems, Research Directions
|15:00 – 15:30
|Coffee Break
|Lightning Session: 15:30 – 16:00
|5 talks
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|Speaker: Dale McConachie
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|Speaker: Schillinger Philipp
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|Speaker: Maira Saboia Da Silva
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Rajiv Singh Thakur, a resident of Sector 21-C, said he purchased an apartment in Tower 8-B of Suncity Parikrama Group Housing, Panchkula, for Rs 59.75 lakh, including a booking amount of Rs 5.56 lakh on May 9, 2010, and Rs 8.34 lakh on start of the excavation. The flat was to be handed over to Thakur within three years from the date of the agreement by July 24, 2013.
Thakur said he paid all the instalments on time but was not given the flat.
Thakur visited the site in August 2014 where he was assured the work was in progress and would be completed soon. On May 23, 2014, Thakur issued a legal notice. A representative of the builder assured him over phone that the construction would be completed soon and a compensation for the delay would be given to him but to no avail.
The forum issued a notice against Suncity Projects Private Limited, New Delhi, Suncity Business Tower, Gurgaon and Suncity Parikrama Group Housing, Panchkula, to appear before the forum. They said they had demanded for 90% of the basic sale price as per opted payment plan and Thakur did not pay 59.75 lakh supposed to be paid before possession.
The forum said, "It was time builders realize that any delay in delivery of a habitable flat causes emotional as well as economic trauma to persons who have booked it." The forum directed them to hand over the physical possession of the flat to Thakur within six months. If they fail to do so, they must give 12% per annum interest on deposited amount from the date of deposit till the handover, pay Rs 10 per square yard per month from July 24, 2013, till the promised date of delivery, pay compensation of Rs 50,000 for causing mental agony, harassment, unfair trade practice and deficiency in service and pay Rs 10,000 as litigation expenses.
The forum has observed that there were a number of instances when builders took flat applicants for a ride on one pretext or the other. "There are reports in print media from time to time about such aberrant builders are getting burdened with damages at the hands of consumers. It is time the builder community realizes that any delay in delivery of a habitable flat causes emotional as well as economic trauma to persons who have booked it," the forum said.


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Feb 1, 2017
I received a great email this morning from a company I admire: GoldieBox. The email celebrates "Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day," which is a holiday more of us in the creative technology world should know about. I'm a dad of two creative little girls, aged 3 and 5, and a "work dad" of a company of 150 people. So encouraging more young girls into the fields of engineering and technology is something that's important to me on both home and work fronts.
At home, I never realized just how powerful an impact toys have on a young girl's development. That is, until I started to see the toys that somehow crept into the toy box. I found a pink toy cell phone that repeated lines like, "Let's go shopping," "let's get our hair done" and "you're so pretty." It was frightening to me to think that those seemingly harmless toys are already conditioning my girls with such empty thoughts. And, this isn't an anti-Barbie rant; my girls can play with dolls. But we need to make sure there are equally as powerful forces in their play that break through the gender stereotyping that, I feel, stops young girls from thinking about science, math and engineering at an early age.
Here at Genuine, we are lucky to have some of the top female technologists, engineers and leaders in the digital agency world, but the sad fact is it's not always easy finding them. The imbalance of talent in technology starts well before women begin to search for a job. It starts well before women begin to think of engineering as an option in school.
It starts when they're kids. How our kids play is a key contributing factor to whether science, engineering and math is fun—or frightening.
GoldieBlox is bridging the gap between girls and engineering in a clever and creative way.
GoldieBlox creates creative projects for kids (and parents) to build together. Along with many of their products come creative "directions" that double as stories that guide the kids not only on how to build these toys but also have a creative storyline to go along with it. They captivate my 3 and 5 year old—I had a solid 2 hours of focused 1-on-1 building time with my older one last week. (If you have a 5 year old you know that 2 hours is the equivalent of about a week in 5-year-old attention span time.)
The founder is Debbie Sterling and you can follow her here @debbieblox. You should take a look at her timely and important perspective on the world in this video—share it.
Now, if you have a little girl in your life, buy them a toy that opens their eyes to all possibilities of what they can be in life. That's our job as parents.
Thanks, Debbie and GoldieBlox, for helping encourage my girls and hopefully a new generation of creative technologists and engineers who, like us at Genuine, make #inventtogether a part of life.
This is my daughter, bursting with pride over her latest creation. It's kind of a Rube Goldberg-y teacup carnival ride. Cut to 10 minutes later—she tore it apart and built her own invention. (I know my favorite teacher growing up, Ms. Donadio, would like that!)
Want to learn how Genuine can help you with your next digital, creative, tech or media project? Get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This will be a quick post. If anyone is like me and using the 4.1 version of the core DotNetNuke blog module than you've probably noticed that the "Written by:" is blank when viewing an individual blog entry.
I did a little debugging and found the problem in the ViewEntry.ascx.vb on Line 119
If m_oBlog.ShowFullName Then lblUserID.Text = m_oBlog.UserFullName Else lblUserID.Text = m_oBlog.UserName End If
This needs to be changed to:
If m_oBlog.ShowFullName Then lblUserID.Text = m_oEntry.UserFullName Else lblUserID.Text = m_oEntry.UserName End If
I've provided the details and a link to a fixed version of the DLL on codeplex
But if you you don't want to do that. You can use a little jQuery magic like I originally did to fix the problem until an official update is released.
<script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function(){ jQuery(".blog_author").html("Written by: Jonathan Sheely"); }); </script>
[Update: 7/12/2011] Original DLL posted to Codplex required DNN version 5.6.2. I've updated codeplex with a newer DLL that only requires DNN 4.7.0 or later. You can also download that DLL here from my blog


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Aardvark Direct Pro Q10
It seems that every new computer-based audio-product release offers more channels, fancier features, higher audio quality, and, on occasion, a lower price. Aardvark is a strong participant in the battle for your computer audio dollars, and with the Direct Pro Q10, your money buys more than ever before. The Aardvark Q10 provides ten channels of 24-bit audio I/O, eight mic preamps, a software-controlled mixer, and a host of other goodies.
The Aardvark Q10 consists of a PCI-based host adapter, a rackmountable interface box, and a cable that connects the two. The 6-foot cable was long enough to reach from my computer to the ideal mounting spot in my equipment rack (right beneath my patch bay). If your studio is more spacious, you might wish that the Q10's cable were a bit longer.
The PCI card is heavily shielded and contains only the connector for the audio interface cable. All A/D and D/A conversion takes place in the external interface box, and all of the audio, MIDI, and synchronization connections are located there. I definitely prefer the Aardvark Q10's scheme to products that put audio, MIDI, or sync connections on the host card itself, an arrangement that requires me to crawl behind my computer and curse the rat's nest of cables back there.
Silver with bright purple rack ears, the Aardvark Q10's interface box certainly stands out. I realize that manufacturers need to capture the attention of an increasingly fickle public, but I'm spotting a disturbing trend in my equipment rack. I thought my studio looked good when everything was composed of austere black rack units; now I have Joemeek green, PreSonus blue, JLCooper gray, and (sigh) Aardvark purple.
The Aardvark Q10's front panel contains eight combo jacks that accept XLR and ¼-inch connectors (see Fig. 1). The line-level inputs can accommodate +4 dBu and -10 dBV signals on balanced or unbalanced connectors. Mic inputs 1 through 4 come with 48V phantom power, but a single switch puts power on all four jacks. The phantom power doesn't affect the line-level inputs. When I had only one or two condenser mics in use, I hooked line-level sources to the other powered connectors, and no inputs were wasted.
Inputs 7 and 8 can accommodate high-impedance, low-level sources such as electric guitars. By activating one of the two guitar switches on the front panel, you can plug a guitar directly in to the Q10 without using a direct box or a separate preamp.
Also on the front panel is a level control for the monitor outputs and a headphone jack with its own level control. A bright red LED glows when power is applied, and believe it or not, you have software control over the brightness of this power indicator. The interface box has no separate power connector and is powered entirely from the cable to your computer.
The Q10's rear panel, in addition to the connector for the host adapter cable, sports in and out connectors for MIDI, word clock, and S/PDIF. It has eight balanced ¼-inch analog channel outputs and four channel inserts hardwired to input channels 1 through 4.
Two additional outputs, Monitor L and Monitor R, are intended to feed your control-room monitors. Typically, you run your master mix signal through those outputs. However, you can route quite a variety of signals through them. The only technical difference between the monitor outputs and the other analog outputs is that you can control their volume with the front panel's Monitor Level knob.
Aardvark offers driver support for Windows MME, ASIO2, DirectSound, and Tascam GigaStudio (GSIF), but, unfortunately, only for the Windows 95, 98, and ME platforms. MME and ASIO drivers for Windows 2000 and XP are in the beta stage; I tried them, but they weren't quite ready for prime time. Hopefully, official 2000 and XP drivers will be available by the time you read this. According to Aardvark, WDM and Macintosh drivers are in development, as well.
Installing the Q10 software is straightforward. Windows recognizes a new Plug-and-Play device as it boots up, and you simply point to the Q10 driver on the installation CD. Once the driver is in place, you install the Control Panel software from the CD.
The Direct Pro Q10 Control Panel gives you total control of the Q10 hardware, allowing you to set and check levels, route audio, and configure every aspect of your Q10 system (see Fig. 2). The Control Panel consists of one main screen and some ancillary dialog boxes. The window isn't resizable, but an Always on Top option lets you keep it visible when other audio software is active. You can even decide if the onscreen mixer will be blue, silver, red, or gold. As many as four Direct Pro Q10s (or any member of Aardvark's Direct Pro series) can be installed in your system at the same time. The Control Panel provides a menu command to switch between any installed host adapters.
The Control Panel's left side presents eight fader groups, one for each analog input, and a stereo fader for the S/PDIF input. In addition to a fader, each analog fader group has a mic/line switch, a trim control, and a level meter. The meters have peak indicators (which can be switched off); they light when an overload condition exists.
Each fader group also has numerical indicators for trim, fader position, and level (or peak, if you prefer). For stereo operation, Link buttons ensure that settings for adjacent fader groups remain identical. Each fader group provides Mute and Solo buttons and a Pan control. The sole purpose of the Pan control is to place the channel's signal in the Direct Pro Q10 monitor bus. You'll use your audio-recording software to establish pan settings in your recordings for the input channels.
Channels 7 and 8 lose their mic/line switches when you activate the guitar switches that are on the interface box. The S/PDIF fader group is identical to the others, except the mic/line switch and trim control are replaced with an indicator for digital signal lock. Because it represents a stereo signal, the S/PDIF fader group has no Pan control.
To the right of the input-fader groups are five stereo faders that represent the playback channels from your audio software. Accompanying each fader are peak/level meters with overload indicators for the left and right channels, a numerical indicator of the fader position, and buttons for mute and solo.
The remaining fader group controls the monitor mix bus. Separate faders and meters for the left and right channels are provided, in addition to numerical indicators for fader position and peak/level.
The Control Panel's main screen has analog-style meters for the left and right monitor signals, a phantom-power indicator, the brightness control for the interface box's power LED, and buttons to access the remaining Control Panel features. A Source-Select control lets you choose between 32, 44.1, and 48 kHz operation. (The Q10 does not support 96 kHz audio, but such support is supposed to be available in a future software release.) If you want to sync to an external source, use the Source-Select control to select S/PDIF or word clock.
The Routing screen lets you choose an audio signal for each audio output that appears on the back of the Q10 interface box (see Fig. 3). The sources include any input channel, any playback channel, the left or right channel of the monitor mix, a 1 kHz test tone, and digital silence. The S/PDIF always outputs the signal that appears on analog outputs 7 and 8, but I can live with that restriction.
You can create any number of routing presets, representing your favorite configurations for the audio-signal outputs. That's the good news; the bad news is that it takes a whopping six mouse-clicks to recall a routing preset from the main Control Panel screen (including clicks required to close the dialogs you open in the process).
Another set of presets can be yours in only four mouse-clicks, but that's still too many clicks. Those presets let you capture all of the settings in the Control Panel, including output routings, fader positions, trim levels, and configuration parameters. The presets are handy, but what I really wanted was MIDI-based control over mixing and routing. Such capabilities would let me fully automate my mixes with a sequencer and use an external hardware control surface.
A click of the Control Panel's Advanced button brings up a multitabbed dialog box containing all sorts of settings and information. There you can fine-tune the ASIO and DirectSound performance, switch the analog outputs between -10 dBV and +4 dBu operation (each output is individually switchable), and view the in-use status for each of the Q10's five stereo channels.
The advanced-settings dialog also lets you switch the meters between prefader and postfader operation and switch the S/PDIF output between consumer and professional formats. One setting switches the recording source of channels 9 and 10; by default, those channels carry the signal from the S/PDIF input. When you switch them to the Monitor mix instead, you gain instant, all-digital mixdown capability from channels 1 through 8 to channels 9 and 10.
My experience with the Q10 was entirely positive. In my personal studio, I want to simply sit down and play an instrument without having to configure a bunch of software settings. With the Q10's built-in monitor mix and front-panel level control, I could do that easily (though I still had to boot up the computer). I could plug in a microphone, guitar, and keyboard and then record them with ease. I could put the instrument I was playing in a headphone mix with the playback tracks and record only the instrument. I could even mix down my tracks without ever leaving the digital realm. With a modest studio setup such as mine, it's possible to completely replace a mixer with the Q10 and a patch bay.
The Q10's audio quality is excellent. Self-noise was inaudible except at extreme settings. When I connected my Les Paul Studio, the guitar inputs sounded warm and clean. I did a very unscientific comparison between the Q10's mic preamps and a PreSonus MP20 (a 2000 EM Editors' Choice winner). The Q10 held up quite well. The MP20 exhibited a subtle fullness that I couldn't hear in the Q10, but I would have no qualms about using the Q10 for serious recording.
The documentation for the Q10 is adequate but not outstanding. A 44-page manual takes you through the system, and that's really all you need. There's no online help, but frankly, I didn't miss it.
The Q10 is an excellent system for the small studio, provided you run Windows 95, 98, or ME on your computer. My primary environment is Windows 2000 and Cakewalk Sonar, so I'm anxious to see solid Windows 2000 support and WDM drivers for the Q10. If you're looking for a capable system to record and mix down ten channels of audio, the Q10 is hard to beat.
Allan Mettsis an Atlanta-based musician, a software and systems designer, and a consultant.
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A small group of young farmers started an initiative of collecting and sharing low tech on farm solutions, which then evolved into an digital open platform for disseminating innovations.
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With Data Warehouses around the world growing rapidly every day, the ability of a Data Warehousing solution to handle mass-data, thus allowing for the ever-shrinking time-windows for data loads is fundamental to most systems.
BW 7.3 recognizes the "need of the hour" with several performance related features and in this blog, I will discuss the performance features related to data loads in SAP BW 7.3, focusing mainly on Master Data Loads and DTP Processing.
Here is the list of features discussed addressed in this blog –
Master Data
- Mass Lookups during Master Data Loads
- The "Insert-Only" flag for Master Data Loads.
- The new Master Data Deletion
- SID Handling
- Use of Navigational Attributes as source fields in Transformations.
DTP Processing
- Repackaging small packages into optimal sizes.
Master Data
1. Mass Lookups during Master Data Load
Data loads into a Master Data bearing Characteristic require database look-ups to find out if records exist on the database with the same key as the ones being loaded. In releases prior to SAP BW 7.3, this operation was performed record-wise, i.e. for every record in the data-package, a SELECT was executed on the database table(s). Obviously, this resulted in a lot of communication overhead between the SAP Application Server and the Database Server, thereby slowing the Master Data loads down. The effect is pronounced on data loads involving large data volumes.
The issue of overhead between the SAP Application Server and the Database Server has now been addressed by performing a mass-lookup on the database so that all records in the data-package are looked-up in one attempt. Depending on the DB platform it can bring up-to 50% gain in load runtimes.
2. The 'Insert-Only Flag' for Master Data Loads
- Starting NW 7.30 SP03, this flag will be renamed to – "New Records Only". The renaming has been done to align with a similar feature supported by activation of DSO data. (See blog http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogsblog=/pub/wlg/23048 )
As mentioned above, the Master Data Load performs a look-up on the database for every data-package to ascertain which key values already exist on the database. Based on this information, the Master Data load executes UPDATEs (for records with the same key already existing in the table) or INSERTs (for records that don't exist) on the database.
With the 'Insert-Only' feature for Master Data loads using DTPs, users have the opportunity to completely skip the look-up step, if it is already known that the data is being loaded for the first time. Obviously, this feature is most relevant when performing initial Master Data loads. Nevertheless, this flag can also be useful for some delta loads where it is known that the data being loaded is completely new.
Lab tests for initial Master Data loads indicate around 20% reduction in runtime with this feature.
The 'Insert-Only' setting for DTPs loading Master Data can be found in the DTP Maintenance screen under the 'UPDATE' tab as shown below.
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If the 'Insert-Only' flag is set, and data is found to exist on the database, the DTP request will abort. To recover from this error, the user simply needs to uncheck the flag and re- execute the DTP.
3. The New Master Data Deletion
Deleting MasterData in BW has always been a performance intensive operation. The reason being that before any MasterData can be physically deleted, the entire system (Transaction Data, Master Data, and Hierarchies etc) is scanned for usages. Therefore, if a lot of MasterData is to be deleted, it takes some time to establish the data that is delete-able (i.e., has no usages) and data that is not (has usages). In addition, with the classical MasterData Deletion involving large data volumes, users sometimes ran into memory overflow dumps.
To address these issues, the Master Data Deletion was completely re-engineered. The result is the New Master Data Deletion. In addition to being much faster than the classical version, the new Master Data deletion offers interesting new features like Search-modes for the usage check, Simulation-mode etc. The screen shot below shows the user interface for the new Masterdata Deletion when accessed via the context menu of InfoObjects in the DataWarehousing Workbench.
Although the new Master Data Deletion has be available for some time now (since BW 7.00 SP 23), it was never the default version in the system. This implied that the BW System Administrators needed to switch it ON explicitly. With BW 7.30 however, the New Master Data Deletion is the default version and no further customizing is necessary to use it.
All further information about this functionality is documented in the SAP note:1370848 under https://websmp130.sap-ag.de/sap(bD1lbiZjPTAwMQ==)/bc/bsp/spn/sapnotes/index2.htm?numm=1370848
It can also be found in the standard SAP BW documentation under http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw73/helpdata/en/4a/373cc45e291c67e10000000a42189c/frameset.htm
4. SID Handling
This feature relates to the handling of SIDs in the SAP BW system and while it is certainly relevant for Master Data loads, it is not restricted to it. The performance improvements in SID handling are relevant for all areas of SAP BW where SIDs are determined, for example – Activation of DSO Requests, InfoCube Loads, Hierarchy Loads and in some cases, even Query processing.
In BW 7.30, SIDs are determined en-masse' meaning that database SELECTs and INSERTs that were done record-wise previously have been changed to the mass SELECTs (using the ABAP SELECT FOR ALL ENTRIES construct) and mass INSERTs. The system switches to this mass-data processing mode automatically when the number of SIDs to be determined is greater than a threshold value. The default value of this threshold is 500.
The threshold value is customizable of course and that can be done in the SAP IMG for customizing under the transaction SPRO by following the path: SAP Netweaver -> Business Warehouse -> Performance Settings -> Optimize SID-Determination for MPP-Databases.
Note: As the threshold value corresponds to the minimum number of SIDs
to be determined in one step, setting the threshold to a very high value
(For example: 100000) causes the system the system to switch back to the
classical behavior.
5. Use of Navigational Attributes as source fields in Transformations
Quite often there are scenarios in SAP BW where data being loaded from a source to a target needs to be augmented with information that is looked up from Masterdata of Infoobjects. For instance – loading sales data from a source that contains data on Material level to a DataTarget where queries require the sales data to be aggregated by Material Group. In such cases, the Master Data Lookup rule-type in Transformations is used to determine the Material Group for any given Material (given that MaterialGroup is an attribute of Material).
Although the performance of the Masterdata Lookup rule-type has been optimized in earlier versions of BW (starting BW 7.0), there is an alternative to this rule-type in BW 7.30. Now, navigational attributes of Infoobjects are available as source fields in Transformations. The benefits of this feature are two-pronged.
- The fact that the data from the navigational attributes is available as part of the source structure allows the data to be used in custom logic in Transformations (example : Start Routines).
- Secondly, the data from the navigational attributes is read by performing database joins with the corresponding Masterdata tables during extraction. This helps in improving the performance of scenarios where a lot of look-ups are needed and/or a lot of data is to be looked-up.
To use this feature in Transformations, the navigational attributes need to be switched ON in the source InfoProvider in the InfoProvider maintenance screen as below –
Once this is done, the selected navigational attributes are available as part of the source structure of Transformations as shown below –
Data Transfer Process (DTP)
1. Repackaging small packages into optimal sizes
This feature of the DTP is used to combine several data packages in a source object into one data package for the DataTarget. This feature helps speed up request processing when the source object contains a large number of very small data packages.
This is usually the case when memory limitations in the source systems (for example: an SAP ERP system) results in very small data-packages in the PSA tables in BW. This DTP setting can be used to propagate the data to subsequent layers in BW in larger chunks.
Also, InfoProviders in BW used for operational reporting using Real-time Data Acquisition contain very small data packages. Typically, this data is propagated within the DataWarehouse into other InfoProviders for strategic reporting. Such scenarios are also a use-case for this feature where data can be propagated in larger packets.
As a prerequisite, the processing mode for the DTP needs to be set to 'Parallel Extraction and Parallel Processing'. Also note that only source packages belonging to the same request are grouped into one target package.
Below is a screenshot of the feature in the DTP Maintenance.


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Dr. Eric Fishman, CEO EHRtv interviews Stephen S. Hau, President & CEO of Shareable Ink.
Category: HIMSS12, Tradeshows, Uncategorized
Date: March 13, 2012
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Dr. Eric Fishman: This is Dr. Eric Fishman with EHRtv, and we have the pleasure of speaking to Stephen Hau; CEO and Co-founder of Shareable Inc. Steve, thank you for taking some time today at HIMMS 2012.
Stephen Hau: Thanks for making time for me.
Dr. Eric Fishman: You've had a long history of being in health I.T. including having founded a major player in this industry; PatientKeeper. So, let's go very briefly through that and then how that brought you to Shareable Ink.
Stephen Hau: Sure. Well, that's right; so I've been in healthcare I.T. for – probably my entire career. I actually dropped out of a graduate program and started a company called PatientKeeper many years ago. And that was just a great experience about learning about physicians, their technology needs, and the challenges and opportunities of bringing healthcare I.T. into the market place. And to your point I left three year ago to start Shareable Ink. with some strong opinions about technology and healthcare.
Dr. Eric Fishman: How did you come up with the idea of Shareable Ink?
Stephen Hau: Well, you know I partnered up with a friend of mine; Dr. Vernon Huang who's an anesthesiologist, and he also worked at PatientKepeer at the early years. He actually has a background – was a Medical Director at Apple Computers for a little while. And – you know, I think he came at it from a physician's perspective and I came from a – more of a technologist perspective of trying to get technology in the hands of physician. And we got very excited about the prospect of creating natural input tools to make it very easy for physician to document. Basically we're making two bets; we believe the industry has to become more electronic – I mean, if you just look around the trade show floor, I think everyone agrees with that. But we had a second bet which is – we thought without new innovative tools that transition was going to be difficult because productivity is so key in this industry.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And physicians have been handwriting forever. We'll talk about anesthesia in just a moment. But tell us about the some of the other markets that you're evolving into at this point in time.
Stephen Hau: Well, we have an enterprise cloud technology which is very flexible. At the heart of what we do, we take natural inputs from physicians. They can write using digital pen, use a pen with a camera. They can input using an iPad. We even take scanned images. And we're able to convert the natural input into codified structured data. That's generally applicable across healthcare. We started anesthesia and have been very successful there. But more recently, we move into emergency departments; that's an area where the physician has to be highly productive; any sort of delay is just not acceptable in that environment. So that's been an area where we've been very successful. We've done quite well in physician practices; again, that's an area where productivity is very important. EMRs are making great progress there. Docs love to go to the EMR to retrieve information.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And they hate clicking.
Stephen Hau: But they sure hate clicking the keyboard and all the drop down list – can again make a productivity hit with the physicians.
Dr. Eric Fishman: And physicians are not known as having great handwriting. What type of accuracy do you get in interpreting the scroll that I and some of my colleagues have?
Stephen Hau: Yeah – you know, it' very interesting. Our handwriting recognition is very robust, and we apply a lot interesting tricks of the trade. The fact that much of our documentations are done on forms, gives us contextual clues that give us an edge in getting the handwriting recognition correct. But beyond that, we process a page of medical documentation every thirty seconds of the day, and our activity is growing every – doubling every two to four months. And the result to that – we have a ton of data so we can almost predict what the physician is going to write in certain circumstances, and that gives us a huge advantage in handwriting recognition.
Dr. Eric Fishman: As you may have – may know even in the speech recognition business for quite some time, and there is a learning curve, and if a physician or now a correctionist, corrects a misrecognition; it improves the accuracy in the future. Does Shareable Ink have the same type of technology that – either for the individual user or for everybody on the cloud that if corrections are made, that there become a general improvement in the accuracy?
Stephen Hau: That's absolutely right. So, our approach involves allowing physicians to use the system right out of the box. You don't have to train the system, the system gets smarter as you use it. And it's kind of leveraging the power of the cloud. Very much like Siri is really Nuance which is – you know, it's a common voice –text technology. But once it's all plugged-in the cloud, you get the benefit of learning what that physician does as well as what other physicians – what his cohorts are doing, and that gives us a huge advantage in our recognition capabilities.
Dr. Eric Fishman: It's interesting stuff. Steve, I hope I'll be able to speak with you next year at HIMMS. What do you expect to happen to Shareable Ink when you interfold between now and then?
Stephen Hau: Well, we're having a great kind of growth experience right now. The year that we just ended was huge for the company. We won a lot of customers which is great because in addition to – you know, we want the software to be used; it's a lot of fun creating benefits out there in the field and making customers successful. But also as a by-product of that, we're getting just a ton of feedback with great ideas for future products and so forth. So not only is our sales pipeline very robust, our product pipeline is very very robust as well.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Are you interested in giving us one example of what you expect to show up functionality-wise in the next twelve months?
Stephen Hau: Well one thing we're unveiling at the show today is Shareable Ink for iPads, so we've been very excited about the emergence of tablets especially the iPad device. It's great to see physicians adopting a certain technology. iPads – you know, generally they're great viewing tools – not the best input tool typically. So we've taken a very different take on the iPad. We actually put the paper on the iPads. We give physicians two modes: a guided view where they kind of enter a smart form, but also the ability to write in free style mode which is actually paper facsimile on the iPad, and it's really neat because it's really really fast. And again, we're very sensitive to physician productivity – it's about keeping that physician able to document just as quickly as possible. And we think we have a really neat offering on the iPad.
Dr. Eric Fishman: Wonderful having people like you in this industry. You – you know, quick thinkers and moving forward and…
Stephen Hau: We got a great team just working very hard, and we're really excited about what we're doing
Dr. Eric Fishman: Steve, I thank you very much, and I appreciate your time.
Stephen Hau: Yeah, I appreciate your time. Thank you.
Dr. Eric Fishman: This is Dr. Eric Fishman speaking to Steve Hau; CEO and co-founder of Shareable Ink. Thank you.
Thanks for publishing this video about Shareable Ink. Please visit our website (www.shareableink.com) to learn more about our unique approach to helping healthcare organizations become more electronic!
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Do you think boxing is just a sport for the solid and tough, you probably make a mistake then. Nowadays, Boxing's one of the most popular fitness exercise out there and if you want a lean, strong, shaped body you're after then this could be the best sport for you. You can see the amazing result thinking all the famous artists done boxing to get in shape.
What's it all about?
Scrap any opinions you have in your mind about boxing, boxing is mostly a social sport. North London Boxing Classes are usually made up of about 15 people and focus on technique and fitness. You learn how to defend yourself also will be feeling as if you are a real boxer by without getting hit.
What can I expect at a class?
Our North London Boxing classes will usually start with a 20-minute technique warm-up, followed by about 15min. of boxing pads, 30min. boxing punchbag, skipping rope,shadow boxing, etc. and finishing with a 25-minute cool-down. In our classes, you will learn how to punch properly — it's all about technique not your strength.
In boxing, there are three main moves you have to do: hooks ("side" punches, palms must be facing the floor), jabs (straight left punches) and uppercuts (either right or left punches going upwards). Our boxing trainer will tell you which combinations you will be doing, and might also get you to change partners part-way through the work-out.
Don't think that boxing is an easy training, though: You have to be %100 focused.Of course you can get break when you are tired and rest little bit then start again especially if you are beginner. Boxing is a full body workout with full intensity. That will keep you moving the whole time. When you're not throwing a punch, you are ducking and weaving or doing abdominal work and squats.
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