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From a shoot last summer, a lovely layout in the latest issue of SAGA Magazine, illustrating the work of rose grower, Rosebie Morton. Some out-takes too, as there is never enough room for all the shots taken for a feature.
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Gucci Mane has been making a concerted effort to properly cosign all of the young artists who blew up while he was locked up by collaborating with each of them. Wop is sharper than ever and more discerning with his features, so it's a blessing for a young rapper any time he or she is awarded with a Gucci verse. Wop and Lil Yachty -- who rose to fame during the latter stages of Gucci's prison stint -- were spotted together about a week ago, and their first-ever collaboration has arrived today. Their new track, entitled "Bentley Coupe," is Yachty's latest official release, and it comes with production from BYOU$, who lent a couple of joints to Lil Boat's Summer Songs 2 mixtape.
"Bentley Coupe" begins serenely, taking the melody from the Minnie Riperton's famous "Lovin' You," but the backdrop is then swarmed with layers of alien bass, prompting Yachty to drop off a ferocious freestyle. Of course, Gucci brings his best, as he tends to do when he's competing with the new generation of rappers whom he inspired.
Quotable Lyrics
That haters wanna cut off my arm
Way too much sauce, I'm like Uzi, Uzi
Water drippin', I'm jacuzzi, 'cuzzi
She suckin' it up like a smoothie, smoothie
I think I'm in love like Choosey Susie
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Nantwich mum Shona Tomkinson has seen her Excel Training Studio go from strength to strength – just a year after opening.
The fitness studio in Nantwich is celebrating its first anniversary, now has more than 120 regular members signed up, and has been shortlisted for a new business award.
Now Shona is looking to expand the brand, with plans to open a new studio in Sandbach.
The Nantwich studio, based at Marsh Bank Works off Welsh Row, puts members through 'The Excel Way' – 30 minutes of hybrid HIIT speed training using disciplines and styles.
Shona said she understands the challenges faced by parents with children, so youngsters are welcome to use a play area situated in direct eye line of the open access training room.
"The plan for the future is to open more Excel Training Studios, starting in Sandbach in the New Year," said Shona.
"I am so excited for what the future holds and want Excel family friendly studios opening up all around Cheshire!
"The majority of our new clients are referrals which is amazing as it means we are doing something right.
"We work hard to make exercise both interesting and fun, all in a supportive environment.
"Our clients want their friends and family to experience that too which is wonderful."
Shona's Excel Training Studio was recently shortlisted for New Business of the Year in the South Cheshire Chamber Awards with the winner announced at a glittering awards evening on November 24.
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Total sees deal targets still too expensive after crude crash
[PARIS] Total SA Chief Financial Officer Patrick de La Chevardiere said prospective takeover targets are still too expensive after crude prices collapsed.
"All potential targets brought to us by bankers haven't yet adjusted in terms of prices," he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. "They are still expensive companies. Their share prices haven't adjusted to the new oil price environment." The executive didn't name any companies Total may be considering to buy.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc's US$70 billion move for BG Group Plc to form the world's biggest producer of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, could trigger a wave of consolidation deals, analysts including Jean-Luc Romain of CM-CIC Securities have said. Gerard Mestrallet, Chief Executive Officer of the French utility that changed its name to Engie from GDF Suez, expressed a similar view on Monday.
Commenting on the the biggest deal in Shell's history, Total's de La Chevardiere said that "the price was quite high." That echoes comments earlier this month from Total CEO Patrick Pouyanne, who said the French company can afford some acquisitions.
"It's a bit early for me," Mr Pouyanne said then. "The opportunities will really come if oil prices remain low over a longer period. Then you will see real opportunities for major companies like Total."
Oil has rebounded from a six-year low in March on speculation a drilling slowdown will reduce U.S. production and Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen will disrupt Middle East supplies. Iran and world powers are in talks to reach a final nuclear deal by the end of June that may result in sanctions being lifted against the Persian nation's oil exports.
The global Brent benchmark collapsed last year as Opec maintained its output target at 30 million barrels a day, saying non-member producers created an oversupply and must help tackle it. It's up 13 per cent this year, at about US$65 a barrel, while still more than 40 per cent lower than its June high.
"There is a big question about what Saudi Arabia will do when Iran is back on the market," de La Chevardiere said about future crude supply and prices. Slower drilling in the US may have lowered or stabilised output there, though "it all depends on Iran coming back or the Saudis making a decision." The company plans to move into Iran when sanctions are removed, La Chevardiere said.
"We had a project prior to the sanctions, and we are ready to move in as soon as the sanctions are lifted," he said.
US drillers cut the number of active rigs in the country to 703 last week, the lowest level since October 2010. Crude inventories gained despite the decline.
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This is a sermon I preached at Gethsemane Lutheran the Sunday before New Year's Day and I keep reading it to remind me what's important in this New Year.
We're looking at the new year and it is time for the Annual New Year's resolutions! One of the keys to new year's resolutions is to picture the ideal future you are shooting for. What it would look like, feel like, be like, to be a success story.
TV does this in really exaggerated proportions. It might be a weight loss or acne loss commercial but the before and after pictures are almost always the same. Before the light is dark, the people are frowning and generally looking miserable, slouching with hair messed up and huge close-ups on the body part they don't like.
Then the after "success story" pictures are filled with sunshine and light, big smiles, tan, hair perfectly done, happy-happy-happy.
The message is clear, before life is horrible and lousy but after you're a success story, you're living the dream. Buy our stuff!
This portrayal of life can be so disheartening because you are always starting off as a failure, starting from weakness, trying to strive for that idealized success story. Success stories of course go beyond weight loss and acne, there is business success, social position, wealth, grades, etc.
Take for example, King Herod from the Christmas Story in Matthew 2:16 ESV
Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.
. King Herod ruled Judah during the time of Jesus Christ's birth, called Herod the Great with good reason.
- He had crushed all military opposition to his rule.
- He was wealthy, handsome, dynamic, politically gifted, an amazing administrator.
- Excelled in famine relief for the masses.
- Was responsible for building most of the 3rd Temple in Jerusalem that Jesus' disciples walked past in awe of. He also built the temple mount a portion that still remains today and the port of Caeserea, all projects that were extravagant and massive.
By most worldly standards he had built himself up as a success story of the ancient world that even very few modern rulers have achieved as much as he did. But his success came at a terrible cost. His god was power and it led him to murder a wife and two children in cold blood, inflict terribly heavy taxes on the people, had such paranoia that he was responsible for the slaughter of the innocents in Matthew 2 trying to kill Jesus he killed all male Jewish children 2 years old and younger.
A success story in the eyes of many but in the eyes of God and all that is good and right, a failure.
Yet there is so much that encourages us to try and follow in his footsteps in small and big ways:
- The ends justify the means
- You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet
- Climb the ladder to success and step on a few people on the way up
- Take a little off the top for yourself
- Put down the other person so you look better
- Dos Equis beer commercial slogan from the "world's most interesting man" who was apparently a womanizer and alcoholic, "stay thirsty my friends."
Worldly success does not mean that you are going to be a horrible person, but if you're god is worldly success then that god will determine what a success story looks like for you and you will sacrifice much at that god's altar and do much to prove how successful you are.
As Christians we confess that Jesus Christ is our God and so naturally Jesus Christ should also define for us what our success story looks like. But this is where Christianity does a funny thing and flips the ideas of failure and success on their heads. We started off talking about all of those TV commercials where you start off as a failure and have to build yourself up into a success and how lousy it can be because you are always starting off from weakness and failure.
But with Jesus it is so different. Jesus calls us through the hearing of the Word and baptism and creates faith that we respond to. This is something that is done for us and to us as a gift of grace. We do not have to earn it. In faith, in baptism, our God already sees us as holy in His sight, beloved, righteous, and good. That means that in JC you start off as a success story not a failure. You start off with the strength of God not human weakness. You already have all the riches of heaven that cannot be bought on TV. In God's eyes, because of JC you are already a success story and the cost of this success are things we should rather be rid of anyways:
- Slavery to sin
- Selfishness
- Sinful pride
- Darkness, evil and brokenness
What happens then is that we get to learn to live within our success story that is given to us by Jesus, let His word teach us, His body feed us, and His church encourage us to be who God has already made us to be.
So I really want to encourage you, as we go into 2014, that whether you lose weight or not, fix the acne, succeed or fail, rise or fall, that in the eyes of God because of Jesus you are and always will be a success story to Him. Amen.


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The Chiropractic Summit was created in September 2007 in recognition of the profession's desire for unity. The first Summit meeting, held in Washington, D.C., was comprised of 13 organizations; the Summit has some 40 members , representing leadership from education, research, regulatory bodies, political action, practice management, chiropractic media and national associations.
It is the goal of the Chiropractic Summit to work on the following critical issues:
1. National Health Care Reform/Medicare Reform & DoD/VA/PHSC
2. Doctor Practice Satisfaction & Self Esteem
3. Profession wide collaboration, grassroots mobilization and self regulation.
4. Reimbursement/Anti-discrimination
5. Public Relations - telling the chiropractic story and promoting the brand (competition and cultural authority)
6. Another major focus of the Summit has been to improve practitioner documentation quality and compliance particularly within the Medicare system. The Summit Documentation Committee serves as a resource for the profession in providing accurate and timely information by publishing periodic topic-specific articles on proper documentation.
One voice. One message. Securing a better future.
Documentation Committee Article: Do You Know About the Physican Compare Website?
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|Chiropractic Summit Promotes Drug-Free Approach to Health Care
November 14, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2016
Chiropractic Summit Unanimously Supports Medicare Reform, Elects New Chairman at Spring Meeting
Arlington, Va.—The Chiropractic Summit, an umbrella leadership group of prominent chiropractic organizations, met on April 28th in Phoenix, AZ. and approved, by unanimous motion, the following historic statement of agreement:
· Unanimous Support for Medicare Reform
The Chiropractic Summit Partners unanimously supports the initiative to remove discrimination against chiropractic patients in Medicare and garner public support for such an effort.
This effort will require a profession-wide grassroots initiative the likes we have never seen before in order to garner public support from our patient population, friends, and families. The Chiropractic Summit fully understands that the time has come to end the discrimination that our profession has faced for far too long.
"We as a profession have unanimously achieved a milestone with this motion telling our brothers and sisters in chiropractic that we the leaders of our great profession have agreed to stop the discrimination against the public we serve," said Summit chair Lewis J. Bazakos, MS, DC. "That being said, we will need everyone in this profession to rise to the task at hand when called upon to support the grassroots initiatives of our member organizations."
Please join with the Chiropractic Summit in this historic effort to answer the call to action when asked. Our patients' rights to receive the care they deserve depends upon each and every one of us.
The Summit Partners unanimously elected Norman Ouzts, DC to serve as the next chairman. Dr. Ouzts, who graduated from Life University & College of Chiropractic in Atlanta, Georgia, previously served as the president of the NBCE.
Dr. Ouzts has served most of his chiropractic career as an elected official, most notably as the District 5 Director and past-president of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners (NBCE); former director of District 5 for the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards (FCLB); former president of the South Carolina Board of Chiropractic Examiners and former president of the South Carolina Chiropractic Association. During his leadership tenure at these organizations, Dr. Ouzts has received many awards of distinction from these and other national organizations for his dedication, loyalty and commitment to the chiropractic profession. Dr. Ouzts term commences at the close of business at the fall Summit meeting on November 10, 2016.
Will Humble, MPH, the division director for health policy and evaluation at the Center for Population Science & Discovery at the University of Arizona's Health Sciences Center and former head of the Department of Health for the state of Arizona, joined the Summit Partners for a special presentation on 'Opioid Addiction in America.'
Mr. Humble, widely-known for his vast knowledge on the issue of opioid addiction in this country and its association to chronic pain, discussed the 1996 American Pain Society Presidents' declaration that "pain" is the 5th vital sign, the progression of new standards developed to treat pain as a vital sign, and the downstream effect this declaration caused with prescription drugs. Mr. Humble discussed the need for Federal prevention strategies for the states and Arizona's efforts to review current initiatives and resources to ensure public health methodology is sound. Mr. Humble's summary comments concerning the need to educate the public that 'pain is part of the natural healing process' is in-line with the Summit Partners initiative to explore ways to increase the awareness of chiropractic as a drug-free alternative.
First convened in September 2007, the Chiropractic Summit represents leadership from some 40 organizations within the profession.
The Summit meets regularly to collaborate, seek solutions and support collective action to address challenges with the common goal of advancing chiropractic. For more information about the Summit and its leadership, visit www.chirosummit.org.
Chiropractic Summit Partners at Summit 24. Photo Courtesy of Dr. John Nab.


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Mozart's Travels ¦ 8 July 2019, 7:30pm ¦ Wigmore Hall, London
Mozart's Travels ¦ 9 July 2019, 7:30pm ¦ Lichfield Festival, Lichfield
Ian Page and The Mozartists return to Wigmore Hall and make their début at Lichfield Festival with a programme exploring Mozart's travels across Europe. The repertoire comprises a mixture of concertos, symphonies and arias composed in London, The Hague, Paris, Munich, Vienna, Prague and Rome. The company's award-winning Associate Artist Louise Alder will perform three arias, including Ilia's "Se iI padre perdei" from Idomeneo, and principals from The Mozartists take centre stage to perform two of Mozart's most popular concertos: Mozart's Concerto in C major for Flute and Harp is performed by Katy Bircher and Oliver Wass, whilst Gavin Edwards performs the Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat major.
Mozart travelled extensively during his short life, particularly in his early years – between his 7th and 15th birthdays he was away from home for a total of almost six years – and his final trip to Prague ended less than two months before his death. These travels played a crucial role in forging his artistic personality, enabling him to become acquainted with a wide range of music and musicians. In particular, his extended stays in London and Paris before he had turned ten and his year in Italy at the age of fourteen provided a unique education, exposing him to different styles, traditions and outlooks.
The featured works in this programme range from eight-year-old Mozart in London composing his first symphony to his horn concerto and "Bella mia fiamma… Resta, o cara", written in his thirties.
Conductor and Artistic Director Ian Page writes: "Mozart's career provides a supreme demonstration of the value and benefits of cultural exchange, and the time that he spent in such important musical cities as London, Paris, Milan and Naples provided him with a depth and breadth of education that he could never have received by remaining at home in Salzburg. This concert explores the range of subtly different musical cultures for which Mozart composed, and will I hope provide a varied and enjoyable cross-section of his extraordinary career. We're also delighted to have been invited to make our Lichfield Festival début with this programme."


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Although every work environment has its own peculiarities and, therefore, its own unique approach requirements, there may still be some general points to ponder in every setting. These points, based on positive organizational behavior, have proven to work through times, cultures, and work environments. They may do it for you too!
1. Be friendly and helpful to superiors, peers, and subordinates alike, but don?t overdo it. This approach calls for two clarifications:


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Miss Brietta would love to come sit and rock for a spell in your home!
This primitive country Miss Brietta Doll is handmade from stained, baked, sanded and painted muslin that is grubbied real good. Miss Brietta has stitched eyes, needlesculpted nose and eyebrows and her mouth is attached. Her hair is made from brown sheep's wool and has been handsewn to her head. Miss Brietta has individual fingers and toes with hand-painted nails. Her dress is a bit gubby from pickin apples and her apron is all dirty from days of cookin in her big ole kitchen.
Miss Brietta measures 47" tall.
Miss Brietta will come to you signed, dated and tagged with a grubby tag that reads "Miss Brietta". She will bring her last three fritters that are made from craft dough and scented with yummy caramel apple wax and oil.
Miss Brietta is resting in the old rockin chair (not included) made by her great, great grandpa.....she just finished three of her famous apple fritters. The apples get bigger and juicier every year and Miss Brietta thinks is the best batch of fritters yet! Too tired and full to do much else, Miss Brietta thinks she will sit a spell and maybe take a nap in the warm Alabama sun while she waits for Levi to get back from his fishin trip. Levi has no care for the peddler that comes through once a month and would rather go fishin but Miss Brietta is glad she met the peddler's wagon cuz if not for him she would have not gotten the sugar need to make the fritters.
Miss Brietta knows Levi will bring her a bunch of wildflowers from the field he has to cross to get to the ole fishin hole. Now, Levi loves Miss Brietta's apple fritters and even though she wants to eat the last of the them, she will save them for Levi. She will put the wildflowers in the pretty vase she got from the peddler and then she and Levi will share the rest of the fritters as she listens to his fish tales.
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MWC 15 Special
It's quite obvious that HTC will announce something new at its press conference in London next week and so far it was expected that it might be just the Desire HD. However, after yesterday's announcement of the T-Mobile G2, chances are good that HTC might also announce the Desire Z. Today, we've received further anonymous information about HTC's next Android smartphones, showing two MMS XML templates which confirm both devices, the HTC Desire HD and the HTC Desire Z. Furthermore, the templates confirm that both devices will feature a WVGA touchscreen and that the Desire HD doesn't feature a hardware keyboard while the Desire Z has (the G2's?) hardware QWERTY keyboard.
In addition to the two screenshots above, we've also received a third screenshot of the T-Mobile G2 MMS template which shows that the Desire Z and G2 seems to be - more or less - identical which leads us to the assumption, that the Desire Z will be the European version of T-Mobile's North American G2.The Desire HD showed its face on video before and therefore this device can be seen as confirmed already.
In any case, we will know more next Wednesday when HTC is holding its press conference in London. We will be there to keep you informed.
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Good luck Job Centre, you're gonna need it…Posted: May 18, 2017 Filed under: benefits, disability, esa, fibromyalgia, jsa | Tags: esa, jsa, welfare Leave a comment
I have to go to the Job Centre on Friday. In fact, I have to go to the Job Centre every Friday because I'm now on JSA.
My mandatory reconsideration for my ESA claim was denied, which I already knew it was going to be. I could appeal, but I got 6 points out of 15 so it seems a bit pointless. Normally I'd be the first one going "no, you must appeal, try everything you can!" but to be honest I'm a bit knackered by the whole thing and after not being successful at my PIP appeal last year I'm not massively inclined to go through another one. So, hurrah, the system works! Y'know, the one where they keep saying no until you're too tired and generally exhausted to try getting them to change their minds.
So I'm on JSA. I have a Claimant Commitment and I'm on Universal Jobmatch and I'm just waiting for the ideal job to come along…the one where I can be paid a full working week's wages for three hours work conducted mostly while sleeping. That job.
In a fantastic twist of irony I'm actually better off now than I was on the assessment rate of ESA – assessment rate ESA is the same as the base rate of JSA – £73.10 a week – but on JSA I get "extra money because you're disabled" (that's literally what the extra is called on my JSA letter) bringing my weekly JSA up to £105.35 a week. Today my fatigue and pain were enough that I couldn't walk from my sofa to my kitchen (for context: I could fall off the sofa and almost touch the kitchen they're that close but I've just moved house and have no carpets so that would be a risky move). But of course on JSA you have to job search and "be available for work" which I guess I am if the work involves sitting on the sofa in my PJs knitting socks.*
*I would like to state for the record that I will happily take any job that involves sitting on my sofa in my PJs knitting socks
So I guess I want to wish the Job Centre good luck in finding me a job, I suppose. My tactic currently is to turn up weekly and say "nope, didn't find anything I can physically do this week, sorry" for the foreseeable future and see what happens.
So now I'm a job seeker.Posted: March 8, 2017 Filed under: benefits, disability, esa, fibromyalgia | Tags: disability, esa, government, welfare Leave a comment
How do you tell the job centre that the issue with finding work isn't the "finding" part, but the "work" part? Finding a job isn't the issue. There are jobs out there in my sector – not as many as there were but there are some. Believe me, in fleeting moments I have looked at different job roles and thought "if I wasn't ill I'd be so good at that job". I could have a job, a managerial post, with a salary. If I did that I'd be able to rent a flat privately, I wouldn't be sitting on the council waiting list because the Local Housing Allowance won't cover a private rented flat and I'm pretty sure life would be a lot sunnier.
Funnily enough, I'm not in this non-working position because I don't want to work. Far from it. I'm here because I'm ill.
I'm here because I get about two hours functional working brain time a day, on a good day. I'm here because I currently can't cook a meal, can't clean my own flat (vacuuming and washing up both involving a level of standing and arm-usage I'm really not able to achieve right now), am fatigued to a level where I sometimes have to have meal replacement shakes for dinner and a bus ride to the local job centre and back leaves me in bed for the rest of the day. And sometimes the next one. I don't do this because it's an easier life. An easier life would be working a good full-time job and being able to take care of myself.
Yesterday I discovered I hadn't been successful in my claim for ESA. Out of a required fifteen points, I had scored a measly six. For mobility. The pain, the fatigue, the general crapness of my ability to function wasn't so crap that I would be deemed unable to work. I'm going for a mandatory reconsideration of course – especially as the decision maker on the phone told me "you put that your condition is variable, which means sometimes it doesn't affect you" and we all know that's not what variable means, for me variable means "sometimes I can put on clothes and leave the house!" – but in the meantime I've been transferred over to JSA and I have to attend a "work-focused interview" on Monday morning at the Job Centre.
Y'know, the one that puts me in bed for a day, that one.
I'm already exhausted.
Never ending or beginning like an ever spinning wheel.Posted: September 15, 2016 Filed under: benefits, disability, esa, fibromyalgia, government | Tags: benefits, chronic illness, disability, esa, fibromyalgia, government, welfare Leave a comment
And just when I was all excited that I would have to fill in any more forms.
After just under a year of trying, failing, trying again and finally succeeding to get PIP, welcome to the sequel: ESA. Yup. My circumstances have changed, and now I have to make my own ESA claim. It's like deja vu all over again. I've been sent a "Capability for work questionnaire" with the famous "Can you pick up a £1 coin" question, I have my sick note from the doctor and I'll have not only a "Capability for work assessment" but also a "compliance interview" (because I'm going from being on someone else's ESA claim to going onto one of my own and apparently I have to Do That The Right Way).
Are you ready for months of fun exciting blog entries about my third trip through the wilderness with the Department for Work and Pensions? I know I am!*
*At this point I'd like to personally thank the Department for Work and Pensions for giving me months, nay YEARS of material to blog about. I couldn't have done it without you.
u got pip lolPosted: June 13, 2016 Filed under: benefits, disability, fibromyalgia, PIP | Tags: benefits, chronic illness, disability, fibromyalgia, personal independence payment, pip 1 Comment
Ok my text wasn't quite worded like that but the sentiment was the same. Yup, I got PIP. After not having it since August, after two applications two medical assessments and a tribunal, I finally got my disability benefits back. My Personal Independence Payments can start doing what they're supposed to be doing – giving me personal independence.
We are very relieved. And I am very relieved I can stop thinking about it for a year (I don't know how long or what level it's been awarded at yet) because I am now so very, very bored of talking about it.
It didn't quite break me but it got pretty close. Look back at my PIP tag for the whole gory story but it's not an unusual one, or even a particularly bad one in terms of the fight to get PIP. Even with the BS I've had to go through over the last 10 months, I'm still one of the lucky ones. My story is just another one of the thousands like it. Getting disability benefits is a fight, it shouldn't be but it is. At least I get a ceasefire for a year.
Statutory citizens.Posted: May 18, 2016 Filed under: government, politics, young people, youth work | Tags: government, ncs, young people, Youth work 1 Comment
It was the queen's speech today, as it turns out. This happened.
"…the government intends to introduce a legislative bill to place the NCS [National Citizen Service] "on a permanent statutory footing"."
So. To be honest, I am not terribly surprised. Youth work has been moving slowly in this direction for a long time, putting "stuff" over practice, and numbers over longevity. Just as it is with the employment statistics, it's not about the quality it's about the figures. It doesn't matter if your job is a zero hours job you don't want, what matters is you got one and you can be added to the employment figures (up by a whole 2,000 people by the way, someone find the party streamers…). And so it is with the National Citizen Service, who boasts with having worked with over 200,000 young people in the few years it's been running.
Cameron wants this for his legacy. But what about the legacy of the young people? In five years time, will someone who has been on an NCS course be able to say their life has been changed for the better because of it? If we talk to all these 200,000 young people in 2026, how many will be able to say their lives have been improved and made better through being involved? I'll wager it won't be many.
We all know this isn't youth work. It's prescriptive and it pays absolutely no attention to the needs of the young people it's working with. For some young people it'll be a fun summer and a step up on their way into uni. But what about all the other ones who fall off the end once their involvement with NCS finishes? Every professional who works with young people knows young people like this and knows that NCS just will not work for them. It's short-term work when what's needed is long-term investment.
And where does this leave youth work? It leaves it unfunded and unappreciated. Money is being thrown towards the NCS, it'll get more and more difficult to find funding for good, long term youth work projects. There is already a lack of investment in good youth work, now there's a big shiny government-backed logo standing in the way of youth workers being able to do any kind of good effective practice.
We're pumping £1.2 billion into something that no-one knows the long-term outcomes for. But then, what does the long-term matter when you're going to be leaving your post as PM in 2020 anyway.
(also: see In Defence of Youth Work's post on NCS here)
Being visibly invisibly ill.Posted: April 30, 2016 Filed under: benefits, disability, fibromyalgia, PIP | Tags: atos, benefits, chronic illness, disability, fibromyalgia, pip 2 Comments
I am awaiting an envelope, and that envelope will tell me when my ATOS assessment for my third PIP application will be. Third application, third assessment. I should be a pro at these by now.
When I had my appeal hearing back at the beginning of March, they asked me about my graduation. Not being at uni, or work, the actual ceremony. Did I go there myself? Were my family there? Why? Did I have to walk up steps? Did I use my sticks to walk across the stage? Did I talk to anyone? How did I get home?
Not gonna lie, about five minutes of questioning was based on around thirty seconds of my life.
My graduation was a very special day. It was not a "usual" day, and on that day I did not do my "usual" activities. I wanted to look nice, I wanted to enjoy myself, I didn't want to walk across the stage with my sticks and I wanted to talk to people. Because I was so determined not to miss it, I accounted for days before and after it in order to save energy and then have time to recover afterwards.
I don't want my full-time job to be "ill person". Dealing with it is a full-time activity and it's not going to disappear but I don't need to have that as my primary identity: "Emsy, The Ill Person". But anything I do that puts my illness into the number two spot (anything that requires me having to act like a regular human being and do things like "get dressed" or "leave the house") is questioned by ATOS as a signifier that I'm not actually ill. If I don't walk around (well, maybe not walk because, ATOS…) with a placard saying "GUYS I'M ILL" then I'm not ill. Or, I'm not ill *enough*.
I want to deal with my illness in my own way, in the way that is the best way for me and my (physical and mental) health. But if I do, I won't be believed. At what point am I going to have to sacrifice money I need in order to have a sense of self-worth I also need? Because apparently, I can't have both.
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So, my PIP appeal was not successful. The panel didn't award me enough points under the descriptors for me to qualify. So no PIP for me. I can reapply, and I will, but the back-payment of PIP between last September and now – which I would've had if my appeal had been successful – is gone.
I was going to write about the tribunal experience, about going into a courtroom and being questioned and about how this isn't an exercise in helping someone, this is a tribunal hearing where you are expected to explain yourself. About how you have to give evidence in the "right" way, and not annoy the judge which suggests that they may be basing their decision on their opinion of you, rather than on your medical evidence.It shouldn't matter how much I piss the judge off if the medical evidence stacks up in my favour. But thousands of people have done this before and this is not something out of the ordinary. For many sick and disabled people, this is ordinary. Going to court to try and get the basic level of help to live your life is now "ordinary". Unremarkable. Expected. Acceptable.
Personal Independence Payment is supposed to provide you with exactly what it says – independence. For the year I had PIP I used it for yoga classes, bus travel, car parking, heat pads and support pillows and a whole load of other stuff. Having this stuff meant I could look after bits of my health – travelling, sleeping well, moving around to a level I could manage – that meant I was able to do other things I wanted to achieve, like finishing my MA. Unfortunately, the things my PIP allowed me to do turned out to be the very things that led to it then being taken away from me again. The argument "when I have PIP I'm independent so I need to continue having it in order to maintain that" wasn't enough. Which leads me to believe this isn't about "independence" at all.
As for me, I'm alright. On the day of the tribunal I was upset but I went through the five stages of grief pretty quickly and had got to acceptance by the next day. I'll reapply, I have other things to do, this isn't the be-all and end-all of everything. However it does mean you'll now have to put up with me going through the PIP process *again*…but you can blame the tribunal service for that one!


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NBA Draft forcing major personnel decisions
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John Wall has been the consensus number 1 pick ever since he entered his freshman year at Kentucky. His explosiveness and instincts have put him at a level above the rest of the 2010 NBA draft class. However, with the Washington Wizards holding the 1st pick in the NBA draft there has been a lot of speculation as to what is going to happen at the point guard position. It is not just the Wizards though, a number of other teams with early lottery picks are going to have to choose between future and the present as well as needs and best available.
Washington Wizards. It is no secret that the Washington Wizards have had a lot of off and on the court issues with their players and especially Gilbert Arenas. On the court Gilbert Arenas has shown he can be one of the best players in the NBA as well as one of the best clutch shooters in the league. After receiving a big contract from the Wiz, Gilbert was hampered by injuries but last season was finally healthy. However, he had trouble getting back to his old form. Later in the season, after an incident where he brought guns into the locker room, Arenas was suspended for the rest of the year.
Fast forward to the present. The Wizards have the first pick in the 2010 draft and are no doubt going to select the 6 foot 4 point guard John Wall out of Kentucky. It just so happens that point guard is the position that Gilbert Arenas plays. What are the Wizards to do? The possibility of trading Gilbert Arenas is very low considering the massive amount of money that is still owed to him (Around 95 million over next 5 years), and his play which has been less than stellar to say the least. I think that the best and most obvious decision would be to move Gilbert Arenas to shooting guard and bring in John Wall to play the point. First off, there has always been a lot of criticism to the way Arenas plays point guard as he dominates the ball and mostly creates for himself rather than for teammates. It seems like a move to shooting guard could be suitable for Arenas. However, a problem that this poses is that both John Wall and Gilbert Arenas are players who dominate the ball. Although John Wall is a very unselfish player, he is going to need the ball in his hands a lot. Both Arenas and Wall are unbelievably talented players but meshing together is going to take time and force them to put their egos aside.
Philadelphia 76ers. The 76ers hold the second pick in the draft and are a team that isn't really being talked about right now. Shooting guard Evan Turner has been the consensus number 2 for as long as John Wall has been the talk of the town. Bringing in Evan Turner is the sensible pick but I also see it as a potential problem for the 76ers. Andre Iguodala is listed as a Guard/Forward, so he can play the 2 or the 3. Drafting Evan would mean an obvious move for Andre Iguodala to small forward. Now the transition to small forward isn't the problem, rather the problem I see is that Turner and Iguodala are quite similar as players. Both players are slashers that are very good in transition but aren't great outside shooters. Granted Iguodala is alright from beyond the arc as a career 32.1% shooter from back there, but by no means is he automatic. Evan Turner has a great mid-range game but is also not a polished outside shooter. I just don't see this team, with their 2 star players being so similar, having great success in the future. A quick note also is that Louis Williams is probably going to see his role diminished as a result of Evan Turner's arrival.
New Jersey Nets. The new owner for the Nets, Mikhail Prokhorov, has some mighty aspirations for a team that almost set the record for most losses in a season last year. For rebuilding teams, the draft is where it is all supposed to start but the fact that the lowly Nets did not get the #1 or #2 pick this year is causing some major headaches for the front office. The Nets need a top flight wing player but no player of that criteria seems deserving of the #3 pick. That leaves the Nets with probably having to take another big man to complement Brook Lopez. Now taking another big man is not the most terrible thing in the world but it is not ideal. The safest choice would probably Derrick Favours who has all the physical tools to be a great big man but is very raw. The other big man choice is Demarcus Cousins who is slipping in a number of mock drafts because of questions surrounding his maturity and work ethic. Having a two-headed monster could pan out great for the Nets, just look at the San Antonio Spurs when they had David Robinson and Tim Duncan. However, the inability of the Nets to find a franchise wing player in this first draft under their new owner could cause some issues in the future. The Nets do have a lot of cap room this year and there are a number of very good second and third tier free agents out there. With the Nets probably not getting the wing player they need in this draft, it is very possible that an opportunity for immediate success could have the Nets overpaying for lower level free agents.
Minnesota Timberwolves. Another team with a number of personnel issues are the Minnesota Timberwolves and this draft is not going to help solve those problems. First of all, the T-Wolves made one of the most mind-boggling draft decisions ever last year by drafting two franchise point guards in Ricky Rubio and Jonny Flynn. Minnesota also has issues up front because the front office has decided that there is no way that the two power forwards Kevin Love and Al Jefferson can play together. There has been a lot of talk over the last few months about dealing Al Jefferson but nothing has happened so far. Like the Nets, the Timberwolves could use a good wing player, but again the question is whether there is one deserving of such an early pick. I didn't mention earlier that Wesley Johnson is
probably the only guy that could be taken that high, but he may have limited upside on the offensive end. The guy that I would probably peg in that spot if he falls to them is Demarcus Cousins. Cousins is a legitimate talent as well as a legitimate center, which is something the Timberwolves could use. I think that all the talk surrounding his immaturity and work ethic can be changed if he is put into the right environment. This is a guy who could eventually be classified among the best big men in the league and it would be too hard to pass up on a talent like him. What they are going to do with their power forward situation is something we will have to wait and see. Minnesota needs a wing player but could use a center and Cousins fits the bill.
Sacramento Kings. A number of mock drafts have a big man pegged the Kings way but I just don't see why the Kings would go in that direction given their current situation. The Kings already have young power forwards in Jason Thompson and Carl Landry. In addition to those two they acquired center Samuel Dalembert from the 76ers. Big man is not a need for the Sacramento Kings. After dealing Kevin Martin the Kings are another team in need of a wing scorer but alas there doesn't seem to be very many quality ones in this draft. The Kings are going to have a very tough decision to make come Thursday evening.
Toronto Raptors. Well, I have to talk about the Toronto Raptors because I am a huge fan of theirs. The Raps have way too many personnel problems to deal with. Their point guard play has suddenly become very average, Hedo Turkoglu doesn't want to play for them anymore, and who knows what is going to happen with Chris Bosh. In my opinion, the smartest thing for the Raptors would be to try and pick up a true center rather than try and replace Chris Bosh. The Raptors have lacked a real interior presence since Bosh has arrived on the scene and Andrea Bargnani could easily move to power forward. I have seen most mock drafts put Cole Aldrich into the hands of the Houston Rockets who draft at #14 right after the Raptors. Despite his limited upside, I think that Aldrich would be the safest and smartest pick. Like other teams early in the draft the Raptors need a productive wing player. Their first round pick last year Demar Derozan is still developing and as of right now Hedo Turkoglu is still around. Drafting a wing player in this draft would be almost pointless because there is no room on the roster for a wing player to get significant playing time and develop. Cole Aldrich on the other hand can block shots, rebound and play defence, which are none of the attributes that the Raptors had as a team last season.
The 2010 NBA draft class may not be one of the strongest draft classes of all time. Well, they said the last year too. But one thing that is for sure is that more than usual we will be seeing teams in the early stages of the draft having to make very tough decisions in choosing either for need or the best player available.


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The 3rd release from the duo of Chick Lyall (piano, violin, synthesizers, modules, computer) and David Garrett (drums, percussion, prepared piano, zither, electronics) in an inventive set of pieces that use a "kitchen-sink" approach to creating mesmerizing and inexplicable music.
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"Chick Lyall and David Garrett have worked together as improvisers since the 70's. At that time they had only the most primitive and paltry means at their disposal, an out of tune piano, various sound objects used as percussion and a range of household implements to create a ragbag of sonorities This new CD (their 3rd for FMR) contains wonderful but precarious balance between pre-prepared material, sequenced segments, lyrical piano interludes and minimalist debuted riffs in a shifting combination of electronic and acoustic instruments. Recommended!!!"-FMR
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- VP8 image compression showed performance comparable to JPEG XR and JPEG2000, all significantly outperforming JPEG
- VP8 video compression showed performance competitive with x264, while the new HEVC showed the best performance
- For some contents, both VP8 image and video compression did not do good job for low bit rates control.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Rate distortion performance of VP8 (WebP and WebM) when compared to standard image and video compression techniques
Monday, August 22, 2011
The Latest H.265 / HEVC Specification WD4
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Sony Introduces Digital Binoculars That Record Photos & HD Videos
Sony entered the binocular market on Friday, introducing its DEV-3 and DEV-5 digital binoculars, both capable of capturing 7.1-megapixel still images and 1080 HD videos in either 2D or 3D.
The binoculars are the "world's first digital binoculars with HD video recording, zoom, autofocus and SteadyShot image stabilization," according to the company's announcement.
SteadyShot image stabilization is the the optical stabilization system that's found in Sony Handycam camcorders and Cyber-shot cameras — it helps keep images clear and stable, even when viewing at high magnifications.
The binoculars come with a rechargeable battery pack that allows up to approximately three hours of 2D recording on a single charge. Also included with both models is a battery charger/adaptor, A/V connecting cable and USB cable for PC connection.
There are only slight differences between the two binocular models. While both the DEV-3 and DEV-5 feature 10x optical zooms, the DEV-5 can digitally zoom up to 20x. The biggest difference is the DEV-5′s built-in GPS receiver, which enables it to automatically geo-tag videos and photos. Lastly, the DEV-5 comes with a number of fancy accessories not included with the DEV-3, including a carrying case, neck strap, finder cap, a lens cover and large eye cups.
You really have to be an enthusiastic birdwatcher or sports fanatic to shell out for these puppies, though. The DEV-3 comes in at $1,400, and the DEV-5 will be priced at a whopping $2,000. We're not convinced that a $600 price jump is justified for the addition of DEV-5′s GPS feature, advanced zooming and a few accessories.
Both binoculars will be available in November 2011 at Sony retail stores, the online Sony store and at authorized retailers.
HP, Palm, tablets, PCs, smartphones
HP, which is the largest PC manufacturer in the world, also announced that it may get out of PCs. Presumably, in the same way as IBM, by finding a home for the division in a company that is more geared up to producing consumer products.
They are also buying Autonomy, the largest software company in the UK, $10B, positioning themselves more in services and servers, competing head to head with IBM and Oracle. Of course Apotheker the CEO would probably prefer to buy his old company SAP but he can't afford it since it is worth as much as HP.
Analysts didn't like it and many downgraded HP, and as a result HP is down 20% (destroying $12B or so of market cap). So forget that SAP is worth as much as HP, it's now worth $10B more.
So what a story! The big fight by Carly Fiorina (against Walter Packard, Bill's son) to buy Compaq. Oh yes, and people's phones being bugged. Out she goes. In comes Mark Hurd. Weird sexual shenanigans and out he goes (and pops up at Oracle). In comes Leo Apotheker (whose prior experience was all running software businesses such as SAP and for a time was hiding to avoid being subpoenaed in a lawsuit with Oracle). I wonder how long he'll last.
Friday, August 19, 2011
OMAP for sale? TI said No
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
DSP or FPGA – 5 parameters to make a choice
For the last few years what we
Identify the sampling rate of the system design in consideration. If it is more than a few MHz, FPGA is the natural choice. What is the data rate of the system? If it is more than perhaps 20-30Mbyte/second, then FPGA will handle it better. How many conditional operations are there? If there are none, FPGA is perfect. If there are many, a software implementation may be better. Does your system use floating point? If so, this is a factor in favor of the programmable DSP. Are libraries available for what you want to do? Both DSP & FPGA offer libraries for basic building blocks like FIRs or FFTs. However, more complex components may not be available, and this could sway your decision to one approach or the other. The table below shows a direct comparison table for performance criterion.
MMAC is the number of fixed-point-32-bit or single-precision floating-point multiply-and-accumulate operations that can be executed in units of millions per second
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2.Power consumption
In some high-performance signal processing applications, for example, FPGAs can take advantage of their highly parallel architectures and offer much higher throughput than DSPs. As a result, FPGAs' overall energy consumption may be significantly lower than that of DSP processors, in spite of the fact that their chip-level power consumption is often higher. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of accurate, apples-to-apples energy consumption data for FPGAs and DSP processors, making it difficult to compare their energy efficiency.
3.Form factor and Size
When sample rates grow above a few MHz, a DSP has to work very hard to transfer the data without any loss. This is because the processor must use shared resources like memory busses, or even the processor core which can be prevented from taking interrupts for some time. An FPGA on the other hand dedicates logic for receiving the data, so can maintain high rates of I/O. A DSP is optimized for use of external memory, so a large data set can be used in the processing. FPGAs have a limited amount of internal storage so need to operate on smaller data sets. However FPGA modules with external memory can be used to eliminate this restriction. A DSP is designed to offer simple re-use of the processing units, for example a multiplier used for calculating an FIR can be re-used by another routine that calculates FFTs. This is much more difficult to achieve in an FPGA, but in general there will be more multipliers available in the FPGA. If a major context switch is required, the DSP can implement this by branching to a new part of the program. In contrast, an FPGA needs to build dedicated resources for each configuration. If the configurations are small, then several can exist in the FPGA at the same time. Larger configurations mean the FPGA needs to be reconfigured – a process which can take some time.
4.Design Reliability and Maintenance
This is one area where we can always debate which is better reliable and easier to maintain. Experts say that with similar expertise of 2 engineers one on FPGA and the other on DSP, FPGA based system would be better in terms of reliability and maintenance. The reasons behind this are due to differences in the digital signal processor and FPGA engineering development process. There is a fundamental challenge in developing complex software for any type of processor. In essence, the digital signal processor is a specialized processing engine, which is constantly reconfigured for many different tasks, some DSP related, others more control or protocol oriented. The complexity of each task is more or less equivalent, no matter whether the design uses digital signal processor or FPGA implementation. Both routes offer the option to use third-party implementations of common signal processing algorithms, interfaces, and protocols. Each also offers the ability to reuse existing intellectual property (IP) on future designs. FPGAs offer a more native implementation for most DSP algorithms. Each task is allocated its own resources, and runs independently. It intuitively makes more sense to process each step of a continuously streaming signal processing chain in an assembly line-like process, with dedicated resources for each step. By comparison, FPGA designs tend to be updated much less frequently, and it is generally an unusual event for a manufacturer to issue a field upgrade of a FPGA configuration file.
5.Cost: Development Time, Time to market and risk
This is another potential item of debate. Some are of the opinion that Programming FPGAs is difficult, usually requiring a hardware-oriented language such as Verilog or VHDL. FPGA solutions can take an order of magnitude longer to code than DSP solutions which impacts development costs and increases time to market. The DSP can take a standard C program and run it. This C code can have a high level of branching and decision making – for example, the protocol stacks of communications systems. This is difficult to implement within an FPGA. But at the same time one can argue with the fact that most signal processing systems start life as a block diagram of some sort. Actually translating the block diagram to the FPGA may well be simpler than converting it to C code for the DSP. So looks like it all depends on availability of expertise.
At the end choosing between an FPGA and a DSP is dependent on several other factors apart from those listed above. In fact there is no global recipe to decide this as it's a tradeoff business. It is the job of the architect to choose a platform that best meets the requirements of a specific system. I tried to give some insight into choosing the appropriate device for your design and hope this helps.
So why isn't everyone using FPGAs for DSP?
• Lack of experience using these devices for intense computational applications.
• Algorithms developed for microprocessors can be difficult to translate into hardware.
• Immaturity of design tools for FPGA based DSP design
• Success of an FPGA DSP design is heavily dependent on the experience of the designer, not only in implementing designs in FPGAs, but also in tailoring algorithms for hardware efficiency.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Viewsonic G Tablet Clockworkmod v188.8.131.52 Installation
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Saturday, August 13, 2011
Install Android Honeycomb on Viewsonic G Tablet
- Use nvflash to update image to 1.2; including with APX mode (power button + volume down), downloading USB driver, and flashing image;
- Update image with Honeycomb Alpha from http://www.mediafire.com/?mftq46bwi5srbv0. Put the update.zip in sdcard with the recovery mode (power button + volume up).
- Crack the GTablet case http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PswxJ96gXbs&NR=1
- Fix G Tablet Wifi hardware http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfOV_2i09zo&feature=related
Friday, August 12, 2011
The Latest H.265 - The second release of HEVC Test Model 3.0
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Smartphone Application Processor Growth Forecast to 2016
Smartphone big year to year growth to 2016
Sunday, August 7, 2011
TI DM8168 HDVICP2 H.264 Encoder
- H.264: BP/MP/HP Encode and Decode
- H.264: Fast Profile/RCDO Encode and Decode
- MPEG-4: SP/ASP Encode/Decode (No support for GMC)
- DivX 5.x & higher Encode/Decode (No lower version; for example, 3.11 and 4.x)
- H.263: Profile 0 and 3 for Decode, Profile 0 for Encode
- Sorenson Spark: V0 and V1 Decode (No encode support)
- MPEG-2 SP/MP Encode/Decode
- MPEG-1 Encode/Decode
- VC1/WMV9/RTV : SP/MP/AP Encode and Decode
- ON2 VP6/VP7 Decode
- RV 8/9/10 Decode
- AVS 1.0 Encode and Decode
- JPEG (also MJPEG) Baseline Encode/Decode
- H264 Annex H (MVC)
- A primary and a secondary sequencer: ICONT1 & ICONT2, which include its memories and an interrupt controller. Both these sequencers, ICONT1 and ICONT2, are identical.
- A video DMA engine: vDMA
- An entropy coder/decoder: ECD3
- A motion compensation engine: MC3
- A transform and quantization calculation engine: CALC3
- A loop filter acceleration engine: iLF3
- A motion estimation acceleration engine: iME3
- An intraprediction estimation engine: iPE3
- Shared level 2 (L2) interface and memory (of size 256 Kbytes)
- Local interconnect
- A message interface for communication between SyncBoxes
- Mailbox
- A debug module for trace event and software instrumentation: SMSET
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Apple Strength Will Compel ARM to Trim its Sails
Intel wins in Tablets and iPhone business through expanded foundry business for Apple that includes building ARM chips for iphone and ARM + x86 combo CPUs for Tablets and MAC Air notebooks. Add on to that the Qualcomm foundry business and it is a significant revenue upside. Qualcomm may have the option of increasing their business with Intel Foundry – for the purpose of selling chips into Samsung, HTC, and Nokia etc… As a long time participant in the mobile PC business, it is the shifting alliances that will be the most fun to watch over the next two years.
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LTE-Advanced – arriving sooner than you think
U.S. operators will lower their spending on LTE networks as initial deployments are completed through 2014, according to a recent report by Technology Business Research. However, while those initial rollouts will solve some immediate network issues, carriers will continue to seek other routes to boost capacity and coverage as the relentless consumption of data continues. Some carriers are already looking to LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) to fulfil these anticipated needs, but its initial deployment will be very different from that of "basic" LTE.
LTE-A, the next upgrade for LTE networks, represents true '4G' – when measured by the original International Telecom Union standards. LTE-A promises to deliver upwards of 1Gbps peak downlink data rates, enhanced cell edge performance, much improved radio interference mitigation and spectrum re-use. The advantages of LTE-A will ensure the technology gains rapid market traction in the U.S. and Europe. However, there are differences between LTE-A and LTE; and especially in their deployment. LTE is being deployed by operators as a complete network upgrade, but LTE-A will be rolled-out by operators incrementally on a feature-by-feature basis. Initially, operators will look to leverage the features of LTE-A that gift them the greatest tactical, and operational, advantages in the market.
Small cells are playing a role in global 3G and LTE deployments and will underpin the key features of LTE-A as well. This is because small cells take the pressure off the macro network by providing traffic offload, coverage and capacity gains. However, mitigating for radio interference in these deployments has always been an issue for operators. It is a challenge that operators are very focused on solving. As operators deploy small cells in the same spectrum as macro cells, the result is the newer small and the older macro cells suffering from radio interference – damaging the overall throughput and capacity of the wireless network. But LTE-A comprises a key radio interference management feature called Enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (eICIC). eICIC acts to improve the coordination between the network cells and to reduce radio inference and this results in improved network throughput. Case in point, operators in Asia, where LTE arrived in the market much earlier, experienced these interference problems in their roll-outs of LTE. They have turned to commercial LTE-A deployments to mitigate for radio interference in close proximity deployments of small cells in the network.
As well as radio interference mitigation via eICIC, another feature in LTE-A which acts to boost network throughput is carrier aggregation. This feature enables an operator to conduct contiguous and non-contiguous spectrum allocations. This basically means a carrier can ensure their existing spectrum is efficiently aligned to deliver higher network throughput. Increased throughput has usually required more spectrum – which is scarce and extremely costly for the operator – but carrier aggregation removes this requirement for more spectrum to drive higher throughput by leveraging the non-contiguous chunks of available spectrum. Another feature within LTE-A that operators are keen to leverage to improve spectral efficiency is Multiple Input and Multiple-Output (MIMO). A form of smart antenna technology, MIMO involves the use of multiple antennas at both the transmitter and receiver to improve spectral performance.
Combined with efficiencies in radio interference mitigation and spectrum performance, LTE-A also enables an operator to leverage the benefits of Self Optimising Networks (SON). A much discussed feature of LTE-A, SON enables operator's network to auto-configure network nodes. This allows the network to automatically configure, monitor, and optimise, newly installed network cells and for faulty cells to be repaired.
The features of LTE-A enable an operator to boost network performance and process traffic in a more cost effective way – just as LTE does. However, operators are leveraging their experience of LTE network deployments and making more affordable and efficient incremental deployments of LTE-A delivering gains one-by-one as they are needed.
To hear first-hand more about what steps telecoms companies are making in LTE Advanced, be sure to book your place at the LTE World Summit, the premier 4G event for the telecoms industry, taking place on the 24th-26th June 2013, at the Amsterdam RAI, Netherlands. Click here to download a brochure for the event.


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Dayna Brackley takes us behind the scenes of the #LondonVotes public awareness campaign in the lead up to the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections on Thursday 5 May.
I am the Senior Manager of the marketing, brand and digital team at City Hall. It is my role to run our marketing campaign ahead of the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections on Thursday 5 May. I have a team of 10 people working on all of the different elements.
The purpose of our #LondonVotes campaign is to make sure Londoners know how, when and where to vote on 5 May.
At City Hall we always try to put Londoners' needs first. So when we started to think about our public awareness campaign, we decided who better to ask what they wanted to know than Londoners themselves?
There were a few things the people of London told us they needed from our campaign. It needed to stand out and be bold. It needed to tell them very specifically what they were voting for. Importantly, it needed to tell them how their vote could make a difference. And lastly, it needed to tell them when, where and how they could vote.
We got to work and came up with a series of visually striking posters in bright pink and teal with the date as our main image. You can see them on the Underground, across buses and at bus stops, as well as online and in local press. You can also hear our ads on the radio.
In planning our campaign we have responded to the change in audience behaviour since the last London elections in 2012. Now around 96 per cent of people in London own a mobile phone, over 50 per cent own a tablet and almost 70 per cent of us use YouTube to watch videos. So we had to adapt our content to continue to engage people, like this gif filmed outside City Hall just last week.
The other big change is our use of social media. We want to ensure people can get the answers they need in the lead up to the elections. So we are training our staff at City Hall so we can provide Londoners with prompt, helpful information throughout the campaign.
Very soon Londoners will also receive our voter information booklet through their letterboxes. It includes mini-manifestos from Mayoral candidates and information on how to vote. It's bright pink so it can't be missed!
The Mayor of London has such an important remit. The Mayor makes decisions about London housing, transport, policing and the environment – things that affect the people of this city every day. It's the job of the Assembly to hold the Mayor to account on these issues. So it's essential we ensure Londoners have all the information they need to have their say on 5 May.
To vote in the Mayor of London and London Assembly elections, you must be registered to vote by midnight on Monday 18 April. Register online now at gov.uk/register-to-vote.
To find out more about the London elections, visit www.londonelects.org.uk or follow @LondonElects on Twitter.


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President Obama and Congress approved a one-year extension of a wind industry tax credit included in the fiscal cliff deal.
The deal includes a "tax extender" that provides a 2.2-cent per kilowatt hour tax credit for energy produced at wind farms.
According to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) press release, wind set a new record in 2012 by installing 44 percent of all new electrical generating capacity in America and leading the electric sector. Natural gas only carried 30 percent while coal and other sources had even less.
Companies were unsure if the credit would be extended which created a premature downturn in the industry. According to AWEA, a national trade association representing the industry, companies idled factories because of a lack of orders for 2013, resulting in numerous layoffs.
The so called "boom-bust cycle," created by yearly tax credits, has effected the industry for decades. With an expiration date of 2014 on this credit, the halting of construction is expected to happen again.
The AWEA proposed a six-year phase-out of the credit, but is also a strong proponent of the credit because it understands the immediate implications.
"We've always said we won't need forever," Ellen Carey, an association spokeswoman, told USA Today. "We need to have a glide-path to keep the success."
In the closing days of the congressional session, the AWEA and industry workers pressed policy makers to extend the tax credit.
"Behind the wind mills, there's families and behind those families, we need jobs," the daughter of an industry worker, Tiffany Allsup, said in a video-plea to Congress.
According to the AWEA, 37,000 out of the 75,000 American jobs in wind energy and hundreds of U.S. factories in the supply chain would have been at stake had the credits been allowed to expire.
Former CEO of AWEA, Denise Bode, thanked Obama and Congress for extending the wind industry tax credit. Her successor, Rob Gramlich (AWEA's interim CEO as of Wednesday), looks forward to moving on with upcoming projects:
"Now we can continue to provide America with more clean, affordable, homegrown energy, and keep growing a new manufacturing sector that's now making nearly 70 percent of our wind turbines in the U.S.A.."
The U.S. Department of Energy has projected that wind energy could supply up to 20 percent of America's electricity by 2030 and industry workers want to keep that goal on track.
Scott Clavenna, CEO of Greentech Media, told NPR that a change in the 2013 tax credit says firms only have to begin projects before 2014, not finish them. Clavenna said that this means industry players now have time to start planning for time consuming projects again.


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I first wrote this last year before the full extent of the legal aid cuts was known.
Since LASPO received Royal Assent the Law Society has called upon all layers to increase the amount of Pro Bono work that they do.
This is of course nothing to do with any U2 fan club.
In simple terms pro bono refers to the provision of free legal services by the legal profession. Last year Michael Napier QC talked about setting aspirational hours of pro bono work. He says that his own firm Irwin Mitchell encourages its lawyers to do 14 hours of pro bono work a year.
Most lawyers I know, will probably do more than that per month. Much of the work done in preparation for public funding in a clinical negligence in the case is done at no charge. This can involve anything from the screening of new matters to initial investigation work in order to establish whether or not this is a potentially viable the case. How often do we advise potential clients in person and by telephone of the alternatives to litigation and to set them on the right path? This is often also the case in employment and criminal injuries cases.
In addition to this and many lawyers do huge amounts of voluntary work; attending advice sessions at citizens advice bureaux and law centres. Many Courts also have a resource for free legal advice manned by volunteers.
What concerns me here is that the politicians could use up all of this talk about pro bono work as an excuse to justify cuts in public funding. The reality is that lawyers will always do their bit ; in fact they do a lot more than a bit!
This should not be seen as a replacement for a properly funded legal aid scheme giving equal access to justice to all citizens.
Of course it might be necessary for lawyers to do even more free work if this is the only alternative to a total collapse of our court system. With this in mind it is interesting to note the comments from Lady Hale of the Supreme Court indicating that these cuts are a false economy.
So I think we should expect the amount of unpaid work done by lawyers to increase but this should not deflect us from the tireless and continuing opposition to the cuts.


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A couple of months ago, I found myself diving head first and eyes closed into the world of blogging. My 'public' literary contributions up to that point were limited to stale requisite business proposals at work or cryptic social media updates – ah yes, masterpieces that only a mother could love .. well, assuming your mom was also your boss or she actually knew how to use her Facebook account…
Nope, I was a total newbie to this groovy scene. Without any expectations (or even a plan), I decided to share my thoughts, inspirations and my heart.
Two months and a little over 20 posts later … I'm still finding my way and my voice. The best part that I never saw coming were the incredibly talented bloggers I've met in this short period of time!
One in particular. An amazing woman and a clever fellow blogger, shareenayoub, just nominated me for…
The Versatile Blogger Award!!
I'm not sure where to begin with my appreciation, but I suspect the best way is a sincere "Thank You" and a promise to keep earning this awesome nomination. Shareenayoub, I am honored and grateful for your support
If you haven't seen her blog, then you must check out her brilliance:
This nomination is truly flattering … and a little scary because I'm also supposed to share 7 things about me that no one knows (and I had planned to keep it that way) …
Oh well, here goes:
1. I'm a documentary freak.. My entire Netflix queue is filled with every documentary available at any given time. Pick a subject, any subject. If someone has made a documentary about it.. I'm sure I've seen it. (trust me, they make 'em about everything from sushi to porn)
2. I love to floss my teeth .. aside from sounding like I'm trying to impress my dentist, at least this factoid is a healthy one.
3. I went to a fortune-teller/psychic many years ago and still try to recall if any of his predictions for my life have proven to be accurate thus far.
4. I say a little prayer every time I see an ambulance roar by with its sirens blaring.. someone's mother, father, sibling or child is in there and … maybe it could help?
5. I miss school. Yes, a career is nice and pays the bills, but I'm a sucker for education.
6. I'm a hopeless romantic that hates 'chick flicks'. Okay, hate may be a bit strong… but let's just say that I believe a good action flick is totally ruined when they insert a silly love story to attract the female moviegoers. Ummmm, no. Let me enjoy the hot shirtless leading man fighting off evil (and yes, he should remain shirtless throughout) without the distraction of some random helpless chick arbitrarily inserted into the story for no particular reason than to distract him from saving the world… without his shirt.
7. I know almost every word to almost every cheesy eighties pop song in existence and will happily sing along whenever and wherever I hear one…until someone asks me to do karaoke. That's where I draw the line.
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Square Enix has released it's DLC schedule for Dragon Quest Heroes II in Japan. The schedule gives details of five different packs.
The first DLC pack had a release date of June 2nd and included the following:
Additional quests for Torneko and Maribel & Gabel. Clearing these will net you the Slime Abacus weapon for Torneko
You can also exchange MiniMedals for the following goodies:
- Slime Dual Swords
- Slime Rod
- Slime Stick
- Slime Staff
- Slime Blade
- Slime Axe
The second DLC pack is set to release next week on June 9th and will include the following:
A new boss fight against Estark (from Dragon Quest IV) – defeating him will grant you Estark's Dual Swords.
There will also be additional quests for Terry & Carver and Maya & Meena. Complete Terry & Carver's quest to receive the Slime Sword for Terry and the Slime Gloves for Carver. Complete Maya & Meena's quest to receive the Slime Fan weapon for Maya and Slime Tarot weapon for Meena.
The third DLC is set to release June 16th with another couple of quests:
This time it's the turn of Jessica & Angelo and Alena & Kirl. Complete these two quests to receive the Slime Whip for Jessica, the Slime Arrow for Angelo and the Slime Spear for Kiryl.
You'll also get access to the following characters for the multiplayer dungeon, Space-Time Labyrinth:
- Luceus
- Aurora
- Bianca
- Nera
DLC #4 is due out on June 23rd and you'll get another new boss fight, this time against Dragonlord from the first Dragon Quest game! Defeating him will get you the Dragonlord's Staff.
You'll also gain access to the following characters for the multiplayer dungeon:
- Doric
- Isla
- Yangus
- Psaro
The 5th DLC is due out early July and for this one you'll get access to a multiplayer battle mode called Monster Coin Battle. In this mode you'll need to protect the Labyrinth of the Guardian Stone by using Monster Coins.
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Every school day roughly 440,000 school buses pick up and drop off children in thousands of communities across the county. The diesel exhaust that comes from these buses has serious health implications for everyone in their vicinity. Children are especially sensitive to the air pollution caused by exhaust because their respiratory systems are still developing and they have a faster breathing rate which can increase their exposures. Reducing pollution from school buses will help improve local air quality and reduce children's exposure to diesel exhaust. For more information about reducing pollution from school buses, visit EPA's Clean School Bus USA website at: www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus.
With funding from an EPA Regional Applied Research Effort (RARE) grant, Region 2 and the EPA Office of Research and Development (ORD) studied school bus exhaust emission levels during idling and restart scenarios. This important study adds to our knowledge about idling reduction benefits. The study found that the emission pulse measured after the school bus is restarted contains less carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and other pollutants than if the school bus idled continuously over a 10-minute period. The analysis indicated that continuous idling for more than three minutes emitted more fine particle (soot) emissions than at restart.
The study lends support for the Clean School Bus USA program's goal to reduce idling. EPA will continue to work with states and local agencies, including school districts, to increase idling reduction efforts and reduce harmful air pollution to protect our children and our communities.
Testing was performed on six buses owned and operated by the Katonah-Lewisboro School District of New York.
- The study validates the reduction of diesel pollution through idling reduction programs.
- Idling reduction policies will decrease potential diesel exhaust exposure to children on and around the bus, as well as to other people in the surrounding community.
- There are things that communities can do now to reduce pollution levels including idling reduction programs, anti-caravanning practices, ensuring proper maintenance of engines, and replacing and retrofitting older buses. See EPA's Clean School Bus USA website for more specifics and to order free materials for an idling reduction program. https://www.epa.gov/cleanschoolbus/antiidling.htm
Region 2 in partnership with EPA Region 1, the Northeastern States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) and the eight states of the Northeast formed the Northeast Diesel Collaborative. The Collaborative's goal is to reduce diesel emissions from on-road diesel vehicles, non-road diesel equipment and locomotive and marine diesel engines by pursuing an array of diesel emission reduction strategies, including: retrofit, clean purchase (retirement and replacement), idle reduction and outreach and communication. The Northeast Diesel Collaborative provides grant opportunities for diesel retrofits. Check out the Northeast Diesel Collaborative to learn more about grant opportunities and other useful information. http://www.northeastdiesel.org


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Jennifer Westfeldt (born February 2, 1970; age 50) played Meredith Reed during Season 8 of 24.
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Jennifer Westfeldt was born in Guilford, Connecticut to a therapist mother and an engineer father. She graduated from Guilford High School and attended Yale University, where she sang with the a cappella group Redhot & Blue.
Westfeldt began her acting career in theater appearing in Off-Broadway plays. In 1998, she had her first acting role in the show Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. She was a regular in the show, along with Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion, among others. Westfeldt has also appeared in shows like Judging Amy (with Bruce Nozick), Numb3rs (with Peter MacNicol, Max Martini, Christina Cox, and Kevin Fry-Bowers), and Grey's Anatomy.
Aside of TV, Westfeldt has appeared in several shows. She wrote and acted in the titular role of the hit independent film Kissing Jessica Stein. Westfeldt received wide critical acclaim for her performance and script.
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- Childrens Hospital (2012)
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Wireless Side-Channels in MIMO Full-Duplex Systems
Bai, Jingwen
Sabharwal, Ashutosh
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In this thesis, we propose a new approach for enhanced interference management via wireless side-channels in advanced wireless systems such as MIMO full-duplex systems. The rise of multiple radio interfaces, such as WiFi (operating in unlicensed ISM bands) and cellular (operating in licensed bands), with near-default inclusion in smartphones, allows for a new use of the ISM bands to manage interference in cellular bands, by creating wireless "side-channels" between mobile users. In a multi-user MIMO full-duplex system, an in-band full-duplex base station (BS) with multiple antennas communicates with multiple up- and downlink users in the same time-frequency slot. We characterize the impact of side- channels in managing interference from uplink users to downlink users in such MIMO full-duplex system. First, we experimentally quantify the likelihood of establishing ISM side-channels between smartphones in WiFi-free areas such as highways. Next, we study a side-channel assisted two-user MIMO full-duplex sys- tem and characterize its generalized degrees-of-freedom and diversity- multiplexing tradeoff. For such a system, we show that the optimal perfor- mance is achieved by our proposed vector bin-and-cancel strategy which leverages Han-Kobayashi message splitting. Then, we study a side-channel assisted multi-user MIMO full-duplex system from a cross-layer protocol design perspective. Our protocol design integrates automatic repeat request (ARQ) at the medium access control (MAC) layer with enhanced interference management via side-channels at the physical layer (PHY). Our proposed joint PHY-MAC protocols exploit the ARQ information offered by the MAC layer to reduce the data retransmission time and improve system goodput. Finally, we study a multi-cell multi-user MIMO full-duplex system, where new forms of intra- and inter-cell interference appear due to the full-duplex operation. We characterize the up- and downlink ergodic achievable rates for the case of linear precoders and receivers. The rate analysis includes practical constraints such as imperfect full-duplex radio chains, channel estimation error, training overhead and pilot contamination. We show that with large antenna arrays at base-stations, the gains from full-duplex are available at the network level despite the increased interference in the full-duplex networks. Moreover, full-duplex networks can use fewer antennas to achieve spectral efficiency gain over the half-duplex counterparts. We also demonstrate that under realistic multi-cell MIMO full-duplex network scenarios, side-channels are effective in significantly improving the spectral efficiency of cell-edge users.
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