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What better way to celebrate the coming of spring than by skiing to the beat of your favorite tunes?
You won't even need to strap an iPod to your ski helmet — at least not at two Maine festivals that combine live music and great spring skiing.
Friday is the start of the annual Spring Festival at Sunday River in Newry, which includes a beach party rave that night, plus a day of slope-side music on Saturday and events like the Margarita Mix-Off tasting challenge. Less than a week later, April 6-9, is the 29th Annual Reggae Festival at Sugarloaf in Carrabassett Valley. Nine local and national reggae acts will play by the ski lifts, in the lodge and all over the resort.
"You can be up on the mountain, hear your favorite band and ski right down to where they're playing," said Andrew Yankowsky, 33, of Portland, who has been to the Sugarloaf Reggae Festival twice. "You can snowboard or ski all day, then at night have a few beers and listen to the music."
Yankowsky has seen Maine's ski resort spring bashes from two different vantage points — as a skier and as a musician. He's gone to ski and hear the music, and has brought his kids. But this year his band, Zeme Libre, is playing at both the Sunday River and Sugarloaf events.
"It's such a different vibe playing at a ski resort, everybody's on vacation, a lot of people are staying overnight, so it's a pretty mellow atmosphere," said Yankowsky, lead singer of Zeme Libre, which plays reggae, ska and funk.
Sunday River's Spring Festival, which has been going on in some form as long as anyone there can remember, used to be known as the Parrothead Festival and celebrated the feel-good, island-flavored music of Jimmy Buffett (whose fans are called Parrotheads).
But the festival has been renamed to reflect a broader range of music, and its focus on spring skiing.
Both festivals, after all, are designed to help draw attention to the last month or so of skiing in the mountains of western Maine. This year, after heavy snows in February and March, the skiing should be excellent.
"We had five feet in February and two feet in March, so it still looks like mid-winter here," said Darcy Lambert, director of communications for Sunday River. "This event is to celebrate spring, and spring skiing is part of that."
Sunday River's festival includes an outdoor beach party rave, with a deejay, on Friday night, as well as '70s rock from the Bethel-based Ball Brothers Band indoors Friday night. Then on Saturday, there are outdoor shows all day long, including the Singepole Mountain Band, former Rustic Overtones member Spencer Albee and Portland rock band El Grande.
All the music is free, so even if you don't ski, you can hang out and listen to tunes. There will also be a Margarita Mix-Off contest, with people judging the best drink, and a wacky Slip & Flip race. It's a team relay in which people slide down part of the hill any way they can, and drink a cup of (non-alcoholic) punch, then flip over the cup to signal the start of the next team member's slide.
Sugarloaf's spring festival is sharply focused on reggae music, with nine bands playing over four days. Indoor shows at night have admission charges, while outdoor daytime shows are free. The headliner, New Kingston from New York City, will play in the 1,000-person capacity King Pine room with Gorilla Finger Dub on April 8. Other bands playing night shows include Royal Hammer from Maine and John Brown's Body, while daytime shows will feature Green Lion Crew, Dub Kartel, Spiritual Rez and CatchaVibe.
Both ski areas attract big weekend crowds anyway. But for their spring festivals, the lure of spring skiing on a sunny day with a live music soundtrack brings thousands of people out. The skiers call the snow this time of year "corn snow," because after several days of melting and re-freezing the snow is like little kernels of corn and makes for a fast but easy-to-control ride.
"We get a lot of people who just come for the music on a nice sunny day with the mountains all around," said Ethan Austin, director or marketing for Sugarloaf. "But it's really great skiing. It's a great way to celebrate the shifting of the seasons."
For what to do the rest of the season, see our guide to spring events.
WHEN: Friday and Saturday
WHERE: Sunday River, 97 Summit Road, Newry
HOW MUCH: Free, lift tickets required to ski
INFO: Sundayriver.com
ENTERTAINMENT: Outdoor beach party rave with DJ BREK.ONE and '70s rock from the Ball Brothers Band, both at 8 p.m. Friday; Saturday's schedule includes Singepole Mountain Band from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Spencer Albee from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. and El Grande from 4-6 p.m.
WHEN: April 6-9
WHERE: Sugarloaf, 5092 Access Road, Carrabassett Valley
HOW MUCH: Outdoor daytime shows are free, access passes to indoor concerts range from $20 to $100; lift tickets required to ski.
INFO: Sugarloaf.com
ENTERTAINMENT: Bands include Zeme Libre, Green Lion Crew, Dub Kartel, Royal Hammer, John Brown's Body, CatchaVibe, Spiritual Rez, DJ 4eign, Gorilla Finger Dub and New Kingston. For days and times, go to sugarloaf.com.


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This blazer is cut in a slim silhouette from a breathable 100% linen and lined with a very light cotton. With a fun 6 colour big blume print you will get so much wear out of this piece both in summer and winter! It seriously goes with everything and clashes beautiful with everything in our collection!
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Gold 40-ducat medal with a motif of CZK200 banknote J. A. Comenius
Gold 40-ducat medal with a motif of CZK200 banknote J. A. Comenius
Product description
Introducing a strictly limited edition of just 100 investment medals with the weight of the traditional 40-ducat (139.5 grams) inspired by the CZK200 banknote. Each medal is hand-numbered on the edge.
Czech banknotes are rightly rated among the most beautiful in the world. The author of their designs, academic painter Oldřich Kulhánek, sadly passed away last year, but his work is immortal and the banknote designs belong to his masterpieces. A commemorative medal Jan Amos Comenius is issued in a series of gold and silver commemorative and investment medals inspired by this giant of Czech and world history.
Oldřich Kulhánek's daughter MgA. Klára Melichová was in charge of the composition of graphic designs.
|"My job is obviously a bit different. I do not create an original artwork; I work with reproductions. I did not attempt to make any major changes but to create a design as a continuation of the previous ones," Klára Melichová explains modestly.
The gold commemorative medal was created with a significant artistic contribution of the academic sculptor Vladimír Oppl who prepared a plaster model for the mintage process based on the graphic design. Vladimír Oppl also authored, for example, the graphic design of the 1999 most beautiful world coin – the gold commemorative coin Prague New Town of the Charles IV set.
Similarly to the banknote design, the obverse side depicts the teacher of nations Jan Amos Comenius. The reverse side depicts the symbolism of sharing knowledge and experience – linked hands of a child and an adult – representing Comenius' idea supported and developed afterwards.
Jan Amos Comenius is known not just as a progressive educator and writer. Czechs deem Comenius a patriot who dearly loved his nation and was deeply affected by the suffering in the aftermath of the Battle of White Mountain. Comenius' ideas infused Czechs with strength at a time of despair. As the last bishop of Bohemian Brethren, Jan Amos Comenius was very pious, but at the same time he was tolerant in his faith and sought understanding between the churches. His respect for humanity, knowledge and love of truth far exceeded his time and they carry on an urgent message to all generations. His work is considered to be a comprehensive methodology of humanity.
According to his own biography, Comenius was born in 1592 in Nivnice. He spent part his childhood in Uherský Brod and after he became an orphan he lived with his aunt in Strážnice. He studied theology in Herborn and Heidelberg. In 1616 he was ordained a priest, and shortly thereafter he began to lead the Bohemian Brethren church in Fulnek where the news of the defeat of the Czech uprising caught up with him. After the White Mountain battle he had to hide as a protestant priest and mostly lived at the Brandýs estate of Charles the Elder of Žerotín (Zierotin). The national tragedy became entwined with his personal tragedy when his wife and two children died. In 1628 he left for Leszno, Poland, where he lived in exile as a teacher and rector of the Brethren grammar school, and from 1648 as a Brethren bishop. In 1656 Leszno was burnt down and Comenius moved to Amsterdam, where he lived and worked until his death in 1670.
The 40-ducat variant of the gold medal is a scaled down version of the one-kilogram variant. The lesser weight makes investment in gold more accessible and liquid. From the time immemorial, gold has always been used for safekeeping of assets. Its key property is long-term stability - while paper currency loses value, the value of gold remains high.
Three simple reasons to invest in gold commemorative medals
- Gold has made for the most stable value deposit for more than 2700 years. It is said that in ancient Rome one kilogram of gold represented an amount a senator could live on comfortably for a year. Compare this information with today's value of one kilogram of gold – a Czech senator would certainly be able to live on it.
- Gold is resistant to chemicals, it does not rust and is virtually indestructible. Its advantage is the high specific density with the effect that you can deposit a large amount of funds into a small volume of metal (a kilogram of gold is comparable to a mobile phone in size).
- Unlike investment bricks, the value of commemorative medals is not affected by price fluctuations of precious metals on global markets. To the contrary, due to their artistic value, precision craftsmanship and limited edition, their value keeps rising (see the example below).
An example of appreciation of your investment in artistically processed precious metals:
The value of a gold medal issued to commemorate Vaclav Havel gained 20% in less than two years despite a drop in gold prices on the stock exchange (at the issue date the price of gold was around USD 1,700/oz.). The gold medal with the serial number 77 marking the 75th birthday of singer Karel Gott fetched CZK 80,000 at an auction immediately after the entire edition was sold out (the issue price was CZK 55,000).


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Stress-free living on the next Brown Bag menu
Student Life is hosting a Brown Bag luncheon from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in CU1. English professor Mark Schneberger will be speaking about stress-free living.
First Year and Student Life Programs Coordinator Katie Treadwell said the topic is an important one for students.
"We try to shape our events based on what students want to hear," Treadwell said.
Brown Bag luncheons are hosted every week by Student Life in the College Union rooms.
Students are encouraged to bring their own meal to the sessions.
For more information, contact Student Life at 405-682-7523, or visit www.occc.edu/studentlife.


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Despite our nice reputation, a lot of Kiwi's just can't handle booze. Combine it with losing in a sport held dear and things get pretty ugly.
Rowdy crowd mars Eden Park Test
Eden Park 'louts' anger
Unruly Eden Park mob a League problem
As usual, the comments are more telling than the stories themselves. The last one is an opinion piece, and the title isn't really right. Go to any major sports event (and even some not so major ones) and the pathetic, embarrassing behaviour on show at that match is evident. Some people go to watch the game, others just go to get drunk and have 'an awesome time', which is usually less than awesome for those around them. I've seen dickheads at every big sporting event I've ever been to, and had my manhood and sexuality questioned on more than one occasion for not enthusiastically joining in with childish obscenity laden insults directed at either players or officials (going back as far as high school). Not everyone does this, but the idiot minority is usually big enough to be unavoidable.
Couple of things this highlights:
-Some people in this country know how to drink responsibly, but for a vast amount their drinking habits stopped developing before leaving high school: drink as much as you can for as long as you can. I understand in other countries it is embarrassing to be seen drunk in public; here it is practically an expectation. I started out that way, but always being something of a cheap drunk (my alcohol tolerance has always been low for my body type, so low in fact that terrifyingly I can be what I would consider drunk and still have a blood alcohol level that would let me legally drive), as I have gotten older I find myself drinking less and less. I'll partake if it suits, but don't need it to have a good time. I like the buzz and the relaxing effect, but hate being drunk, and hate being around drunk people when I'm sober, and a hangover now just means a morning or a day wasted.
-Combining the latter group of excess drinkers with sports exacerbates a second tendency: national insecurity. The need for validation means we can be incredibly ungracious winners (as supporters-the sportspeople themselves are generally well grounded about winning and losing), and incredibly bitter and sore losers. Combine this with a perceived 'right' and need for alcohol while watching sport (I know people who wouldn't bother going to a game if it was dry) and idiocy ensues. Supporters wearing an opposition jersey, or applauding opposition points skilfully scored are asking for trouble, and I am not talking about good natured banter, I'm talking real hatred and harrassment. I've seen it happen, and it disgusts me. I have trouble reconciling it with our supposed image as a laid back easy going friendly nation.
-Another facet of the insecurity thing is our supposed fundamental rivalry with the Australians in almost every area possible. It is there for sure and one or two sports almost revolve around it, but the truth is the rivalry is massively one way. We care about it way more than the Australians do.
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Asian Tribune is published by E-LANKA MEDIA(PVT)Ltd. Vol. 20 No. 104
Durga Puja and Hindus in Bangladesh - Part -II
By Rabindranath Trivedi
Part -II
Leaders of World Hindu Federation (Bangladesh Chapter), Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad, Bangladesh Puja Udjapon Parishad, Mahanagar Sarbojoneen Puja Committee, Bangladesh Jatiya Hindu Parishad and Bangladesh Christian Association yesterday alleged that idols of the Goddess Durga had been desecrated at various places in the country including Faridpur, Khulna and Satkhira. They urged all to keep vigilance to maintain communal harmony during the five-day-long festivities. They also urged the government to step up security measures and ensure peaceful observation of the occasion.
Different political, social and cultural organizations felicitated Hindus on the eve of the biggest festival. The organizations also condemned the attacks on mandaps and desecration of Durga idols across the country. It may be recalled pre-1/11 days when
BNP-led 4-party alliance government was beating the drum that Bangladesh is 'a land of great communal harmony in 2005'
Our question was then, why 'this peaceful coexistence' did not happen in the last three years since 2001?
The 2006 Religious Freedom Report comments "Religion exerts a powerful influence on politics, and the Government was sensitive to the Muslim consciousness of its political allies [the Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Okiyya Jote political parties] and the majority of its citizens."According to the report, "The Government took steps to promote interfaith understanding. For example, government leaders issued statements on the eve of religious holidays calling for peace and warned that action would be taken against those attempting to disrupt the celebrations. Through additional security deployments and public statements, the Government promoted the peaceful celebration of Christian and Hindu festivals, including Durga Puja, Christmas, and Easter."
An article in The Guardian (UK) of 21 July 2003 stated, inter alia:
"Evidence is emerging that the oppression of minorities is becoming systematic. Bangladesh, which is 85 per cent Muslim but has a long tradition of tolerance to religious minorities, is, say local organisations, being pushed towards fundamentalism by the Jamaat-e-Islami, which is growing rapidly in rural areas with the deepest poverty and runs two key ministries."
"'This is like a silent revolution. We are returning to the dark ages', a leading lawyer said, asking not to be named …'I think the backdrop is being created for the introduction of strict sharia laws. You see extremist rightwing fundamentalists infiltrating every professional area, in the appointment of the judiciary, the law, medicine and in education. They are capturing key positions in government, the universities and institutions'."
"Thousands of Bangladeshis are thought to have crossed the border to India in the past two years. It is impossible to verify numbers because New Delhi will not release records, but Dhaka's statistics show the Muslim majority increasing dramatically and the Hindu, Buddhist, Christian and other minorities declining."
The 2006 Religious Freedom Report notes: "Since the 2001 elections, attacks on religious minorities have led to the routine posting of law enforcement personnel during major religious festivals and events, since festivals tend to attract large congregations that make easy and more attractive targets. Reported incidents included killings, rape, torture, attacks on places of worship, destruction of homes, forced evictions, and desecration of items of worship. These claims continued during the period covered by this report [July 2005 to June 2006]; however, many such reports could not be verified independently, and there were incidents of members of the Muslim community attacking each other on holidays as well, due to a perception that some events were un-Islamic. The Government sometimes failed to investigate the crimes and prosecute the perpetrators, who were often local gang leaders …
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2006 has stated "Throughout 2005, there were persistent reports of abductions and forced conversions of minorities, and destruction and desecration of religious sites." An independent human rights organisation, has provided a series of reports listing a total of 310 incidents of violent and other crime or acts of intimidation which occurred in Bangladesh during the six-month period from October 2006 to March 2007 – in which the victims were members of minority religious communities, or in which sacred images or property belonging to religious minorities was destroyed or damaged. It is not clear from the reports how many of these criminal incidents were religiously motivated. In most cases the perpetrators were said to be either "fundamentalists" or "miscreants".
Does it mean that the three years, starting from 2001 to 2005, were the years of learning for Hindus--how to bear the pangs of agony and tortures and violence—and the following years would be years of appeasement, building of credence and integrity with the minority communities for crossing the bar of general elections in 2007. But BNP-led 4-party alliance could not cross the bar in January Election.
The chief of army staff Gen. Moeen U Ahmed said in London recently that the country was heading for a civil war in the wake of violent political activities, absence of law and order and distrust about voter list General Moeen said priority of the incumbent government is to restore democracy through free and fair elections and transfer of power.He observed that law and order is under full control of the caretaker government that enjoys full public support.
World Hindu Federation(Bangladesh Chapter) has raised its voice to the President Prof. Dr Iajuddin Ahmed on August 19,2007 and placed their memorandum. World Hindu Federation (WHF) Bangladesh chapter called on the Election Commission (EC) to reserve 15 percent of the parliamentary seats for the minority community and ensure their enlistment in the voter list. A five-member delegation of the WHF, in a meeting with the EC, also demanded that the EC reserve 33 percent of the parliamentary seats for women."There are evidences that the minority, including the indigenous people, don't get enrolled in the voter list… Their enrollment and right to franchise should be ensured," WHF President Shiv Shankar Chakravarti told reporters following the meeting. Shiv Shankar alleged there were incidents of 'torture and repression' on the minority before and after the 2001 election. He said they asked the EC to ensure that such incidents do not take place again ,reports the daily star.
Rabindranath Trivedi, is a retired Additional Secretary and former Press Secretary to the President of Bangladesh
To Be Continued
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This example shows how to optimize the QPSK transmitter modeled in commqpsktxrx.slx for HDL code generation and hardware implementation.
The HDL Optimized QPSK Transmitter example shows how Simulink® blocks that support HDL code generation can be used to implement the baseband processing of a digital communications transmitter. The HDLTx subsystem can be cascaded with the HDLRx subsystem given in the HDL Optimized QPSK Receiver Example, in order to form a complete QPSK transmitter-receiver chain from which HDL code can be generated. At the top level of hierarchy, there are two components, HDLTx and Signal Quality Measurement. The HDLTx subsystem has been optimized for HDL code generation by using hardware friendly blocks and design practices. The Signal Quality Measurement subsystem is intended for software based validation of the design and is therefore not supported for HDL code generation. The HDLTx subsystem generates the In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) channels representing a QPSK (Quaternary-Phase-Shift-Keying) symbol mapping. This is input as a complex valued vector to the Root Raised Cosine (RRC) transmit pulse shaping filter. The output of the HDLTx subsystem therefore consists of the pulse shaped and upsampled symbols. The Signal Quality Measurement component consists of the matching RRC receive filter and a Constellation Diagram scope. The purpose of the scope is twofold. It both displays the output data, and calculates the Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) and Modulation Error Ratio (MER) values. This allows the designer to investigate the noise introduced into the system from the RRC filter design. This will arise from two sources - (a) the quantization of the coefficient values in the RRC filter and (b) the truncated impulse response of the RRC filter (roll-off factor 0.5). The EVM can therefore be improved by either increasing the number of fractional bits for the coefficient values or by redesigning the RRC filter to give an improved response.
The HDLTx component is composed of three subsystems -
Data Generation & Packetization
Symbol Mapping
Pulse Shaping
Pipeline registers are inserted between the subsystems in order to minimize the combinatorial path delay between components and therefore maximize the achievable clock frequency (i.e. minimizing the critical path delay). The Data Generation & Packetization subsystem contains several sub-components, which are also pipelined. There is, therefore, a fixed latency before valid data appears at the input to the Pulse Shaping component. To ensure that only valid data is transmitted, valid out and valid in ports are included which are used to control a 2:1 Multiplexer (Input Mux).
The Data Generation & Packetization, Symbol Mapping, and Pulse Shaping subsystems are further described in the following sections.
1 - Data Generation & Packetization
The following figure illustrates the top level hierarchy of the component. The Packetizer FSM and Data Source generate both the preamble and data bits, and perform scrambling and packetization. The packets consist of a 26 bit Barker code preamble and 174 bits of scrambled data. The Barker code preamble is used in the HDL Optimized QPSK Receiver Example for autocorrelation based packet detection via the use of a matched filter. The Bit Pairing subsystem converts the single bit serial data input into a two bit output of half the sampling rate, providing the correct data format for the symbol mapper. Internally, the data source block has a pipeline delay of 2 samples. In addition, there is a pipeline delay between the data source and the bit pairing subsystem. The valid signal is therefore delayed to match the pipeline delay of the data path. The Bit Pairing subsystem reduces the sample rate by a factor of 2. Placing a downsample by two in the valid control path ensures that the sample rate of the valid control path matches that of the signal path.
Packetizer FSM - The Packetizer FSM component consists of a Moore machine, created using a MATLAB® function block. The FSM has two states - Pack_Preamble, and Append_Data. The Pack_Preamble state serves to enable the preamble counter via the load_preamble output. The preamble counter generates the address signal for the preamble Lookup Table (LUT), incrementing from 0 --> 25. Following this, the FSM moves into the Append_Data state, asserting the load_data signal, where it shall remain for 174 cycles. During this time, the reset_preamble output is held high, while the load_preamble output is held low. The FSM shall sequentially switch between the two states in turn.
Data Source - As shown in the following figure, the Data Source component contains two LUTs, containing the preamble and data bits. The preamble bits are invariant between packets, and so the counter used to address the preamble LUT is reset after the loading of each preamble. The counter used to address the data LUT is allowed to wrap around after reaching the maximum address value, which corresponds to the final character of the packet body string "Hello World 099". Each of the LUTs is zero padded in order to ensure that the number of data entries is of a power of two length. In addition to enabling the counter for the data LUT, the load data input is used to control when the data scrambler component should be enabled, and to control whether the preamble or data bits should be passed to the output via the 2:1 Preamble Data Mux.
Data Scrambler - The data scrambler is detailed in the following figure. The scrambler is built from first principles using XOR gates (for modulo 2 addition) and registers. By using an enabled subsystem, it is ensured that the scrambler is only enabled when there is new input data to be processed.
Bit Pairing- The purpose of the Bit Pairing subsystem is to group pairs of bits into an unsigned two bit output - the input format expected by the symbol mapping component. To achieve this, a pair of downsamplers are used to reduce the sample rate by a factor of two, with the first downsampler selecting the second phase and the second downsampler selecting the first phase. The Bit Concat block concatenates the single bit inputs into an unsigned two bit output.
2 - Symbol Mapper
The Symbol Mapper uses the QPSK Modulator Baseband block from the Communications Toolbox™ in order to map the integer input value [0,1,2,3] onto the appropriate complex valued symbol [1 + 1i, -1 + 1i, 1 - 1i, -1 - 1i]. Mapping the symbols in this manner allows for a 2 bit value to be used to represent each symbol. This allows the wordlengths in the RRC transmit filter for the product and accumulator datapaths to be optimized. The block uses a Gray Mapping scheme.
3 - Pulse Shaping
The Pulse Shaping component uses an FIR Interpolation filter, featuring an upsampling factor of four, and a Root Raised Cosine impulse response. The receive filter in the HDL optimized QPSK Receiver demo forms a matched filter to this transmit filter. The filter is pipelined (see HDL Block Properties) in order to ensure that the combinatorial delay is minimized throughout the design.
During simulation, the constellation obtained after passing the signal through the transmit and receive filter chain is displayed via the Constellation Diagram Scope (contained within the Signal Quality Measurement component). In addition, the scope displays the calculated EVM and MER via the Tools --> Measurements --> Signal Quality option.
The EVM is the calculated magnitude of the error vector between the ideal constellation point (given by the immediate symbol mapper output) and the constellation point obtained after transmit and receive pulse shape filtering has been performed. The EVM gives a figure of merit regarding the distortion introduced by the transmit and receive filtering. In this case, the EVM allows the system designer to determine if the distortion introduced by the pulse shaping filters due to the effects of fixed point quantization and non-ideal (truncated) impulse responses is acceptable or otherwise. For further information, please refer to the EVM Measurement block documentation.
The MER is a measure of the signal-to-noise ratio in digital modulation applications. It is the ratio of the average reference signal power to the mean square error. For further information, please refer to the MER Measurement block documentation.
Shown below is a snapshot from the Constellation Diagram scope output.
The HDL code generated from the HDLTx subsystem has been synthesized using Xilinx® ISE on a Virtex6 (XC6VLX240T) FPGA, and ran at around 300 MHz. When operating the RRC transmit filter at maximum rate, the QPSK input symbols are generated at 75M symbols/second. The resulting theoretical maximum data rate is therefore 150M samples/second, taking into account the data transmitted over both the I and the Q channels.
You can use the commands makehdl and makehdltb to generate HDL code and testbench for subsystems in HDLTx. To generate the HDL code, use the following command:
To generate a testbench, use the following command:
When generating the testbench, a validation model will be created which includes the internal pipeline delay of the RRC transmit filter. The second constellation diagram which is invoked illustrates the output of the validation model.


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To the farmers living on the Nebraska prairie in the 1880's it seemed the railroads were standing on their throats. And to those concerned about Health Care Reform or Union busting, I urge you to study the century long struggle against the railroad monopolies. All across the American west, farmers had bought their land from the railroads. The banks which held their mortgages were owned by the railroads. The only way to get their wheat and corn to market was via the railroads. The only silos to store their harvested crops while awaiting shipment were owned by the railroads. The railroad monopolies set the shipping rates and the silo rates and there was no appeal to their heartless bookkeeping.
However, Elder's plans for a grand investigation of election fraud and a remaking of state government were derailed when Meiklejohn grabbed the gavel off the podium and refused to return it. There was a shoving, grasping cat fight for the precious totem, which Meiklejohn eventually won. From this point the business of government in Nebraska got very noisy and ground to a complete halt, all over the issue of the certification of the new governor.
As these things were normally counted, the clear election loser was the Republican candidate L.D. Richards, who received just 68,878 votes. The Democrat, James Boyd, had received 71,331 votes, and was, according to county election officials from across the state (who were all either Democrats or Republicans, of course), the winner. But Speaker Elder was certain the actually winner had been John Powers, the candidate of Elder's People's Independent Party. Officially Powers had received 70,187 votes, making him second by 1,144 votes. But Elder believed with good reason that 2,000 fraudulent votes had been cast for Boyd in Douglas County, centered on Omaha. And Speaker Elder was demanding an immediate investigation.
With the Republicans siding with the Democrats against the Independents, neither side dared to adjourn. Elder presided from the podium, calling on speakers and announcing votes, while Meiklejohn sat at the clerk's desk, doing the same. Nobody got anything done because nobody could hear anybody else. Sometime after midnight, with the Republicans caucusing with their Democratic allies in an anteroom, Speaker Elder ordered the doors locked and told the sergeant-at-arms to admit no one without a written pass from him; check.
Meanwhile, the presumed victor, James Boyd, had requested and received an immediate hearing before the State Supreme Court. Boyd was asking for a writ of mandamus ("…a court order that required another court, government official, public body, corporation or individual, to perform a certain legally required act"). Boyd's attorney argued his case before three judges of the Nebraska state Supreme Court, in a hearing room crowded with armed angry spectators from various political factions. After the hearing it was expected the judges would retire to consider the arguments. Instead the justices held an immediate huddle and after a few moments Chief Justice Cobb announced that the weighty issues of freedom of speech, suffrage, democracy, public order and good government were all irrelevant. The court had decided that certifying election results was simply a clerical duty and not a matter of choice. Cobb signed the writ of mandamus on the spot and then ran for the exit; checkmate.
The spectators were so stunned they were frozen. And that was probably the only reason none of the freshly disenfranchised voters in the room started shooting. The sheriff of Lancaster County (a Democrat), surrounded by deputies (more Democrats), smashed down the locked doors of the legislative chamber, charged to the front of the room and forcefully served the writ upon Speaker Elder. They practically threw it in his face.
And to everyone's surprise, Speaker Elder did as he was ordered to do. John Boyd was officially declared the official governor of the state of Nebraska. "Thus", said Judge Bayard Paine forty-five years later, "tragedy was averted in Nebraska statecraft." Instead, tragedy was converted into low comedy.
At that point in time the most hated man in Nebraska was probably the outgoing governor, Republican John Thayer. It was Thayer's open kowtowing to the railroads over the previous year which been most responsible for the defeat of the Republican Party in the past election. And he now refused to surrender his office, saying he would "hold on to the chair, the seat, and the office of Governor until the cows come home." Whatever happens in Nebraskan politics, one way or the other, it always seems to come down to cows.
While the legislature bickered downstairs, Thayer barricaded himself in the governor's offices upstairs. He called on 25 men of the State militia under the appropriately named Captain Rhody, and the Omaha Police Department, to stand guard over his self. Having finally taken the oath, Boyd moved into other offices in the State House and dispatched the Lincoln County sheriff (again) to take procession of the executive suites. But this time the sheriff ran up against an armed militia which refused to surrender. Fist fights again broke out, until Boyd ordered his side to retire.
On January 10th it finally occurred to Captain Rhody that he and his little band of men had been maneuvered out on a limb, and if that limb collapsed he was the one most likely to be lynched from it. Rhody announced to outgoing Governor Thayer that "I have saluted you for the last time", and then marched his little army back to their barracks. Abandoned, Thayer surrendered the Governor's offices, and Boyd moved in.
But Thayer was far from ready to give up. He hired his own attorney and on January 13th 1891, appealed to the state Supreme Court. His argument was inventive; John Boyd was not qualified to be governor because he was not an American citizen because he had not been born in America. And that made John Thayer the original "birther".
Indeed Boyd had been born in Ireland in 1834. His family had immigrated to America when he was 14. His father had begun the naturalization paperwork in 1849 but events, both personal and political, had intervened. In 1856 the Boyd family had moved to Nebraska territory and had become involved in business and local politics. They were still residents in 1867 when Nebraska had been admitted to the union over President Andrew Johnson's objection. But Boyd's father had never completed the naturalization paperwork. Ergo, argued ex-Governor Thayer, John Boyd was not qualified to be the current governor of Nebraska.
And on May 5th, 1891 the State Supreme Court agreed with Thayer. Of course most of the judges had been appointed by Thayer, but Boyd chose not to call the Lincoln County Sheriff again. Boyd was out and ex-governor Thayer was Governor again. The Nebraska governor's office was beginning to resemble the prize in a game of musical chairs, but without the music. But what Thayer had done was a desperate power grab and doomed to failure in the long run, if for no other reason than it assured that any Irish Republicans in Nebraska were not likely to vote Republican again in the near future.
More immediately, Boyd appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Their decision was announced by Chief Justice Fuller: "Manifestly," he said, "the nationality of the inhabitants of territory acquired by conquest or cession becomes that of the government under whose dominion they pass…The judgment of the supreme court of Nebraska is reversed…" It was an 8 to 1 judgment, issued on January 2nd, 1892. And thus the election of 1890 was finally decided, over a year later. Boyd resumed his office on February 3. But, since the Governor of Nebraska served just a two year term, the antics of Governor Thayer and Speaker Elder, had effectively cut Boyd's term in half.
And that is the kind of political victory that only makes sense when figured by the quarterly profit and loss statements of a corporate boardroom. Politically, the Republicans were still out on that limb, in strong disfavor in Nebraska, and the Democrats made the smart move of courting the Independents.
The frustrated farmers and their leaders had come to the realization that to fight the large railroads would take a national political movement, and the Nebraska Independents, along with similar groups around the nation, found themselves drawn toward the Democratic Party. And in the Presidential election of 1896 they aligned themselves behind Nebraska Democratic Senator William Jennings Bryant, for President. He lost.
And that defeat deflated the Independents. nationally. They never gave up. But they never completely beat the railroads, which retained a great influence over national politics well into the 1950's. But rather than the Democrats absorbing the Independents, in fact the Independents absorbed the Democratic Party. What came out of their joining was a populist Democratic party, a party that saw government as a force to redress grievances, a party which, for all its numerous failings, was a people's party. And in that small way, the Nebraska populists won.
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So it's not just me. I'm glad to know that. Here is William James writing to his brother in 1902:
I have read The Wings of the Dove (for which all thanks!) but what shall I say of a book constructed on a method which so belies everything that I acknowledge as law? You've reversed every traditional canon of story-telling (especially the fundamental one of telling the story, which you carefully avoid) and have created a new genre littéraire which I can't help thinking perverse, but in which you nevertheless succeed, for I read with interest to the end (many pages, and innumerable sentences twice over to see what the dickens they could possibly mean)… At any rate it is your own…
My premise is that William James has first, the intelligence of William James, and second, at this point almost forty years of experience reading the complete works of Henry James, so if he had this kind of trouble, I should not be surprised at my own.
I have the advantage of having read a century's worth of subsequent novels that avoid their stories even more ruthlessly than those of James – am I ever used to that – but the writers I think of as the most Jamesian don't write sentences like those. Saul Bellow or Alan Hollinghurst or Hotel du Lac, those are examples I have in mind. The sentences do not make me swear on the name of Dickens. Maybe you know some more cryptic examples.
This is William Dean Howells, also smart and used to James, in "Mr. James's Later Work" (1903), which he partly writes as a dialogue with "a weary woman" – she is speaking:
"'There they are,' as he keeps making his people say in all his late books, when they are not calling one another dear lady, and dear man, and prodigious and magnificent, and of a vagueness or a richness, or a sympathy, or an opacity. No, he is of a tremendosity, but he worries me to death; he kills me; he really gives me a headache. He fascinates me, but I have no patience with him."
I took the liberty of adding italics to the words that are directly borrowed from James. I think some of the others are jokes. "Tremendosity" is definitely a joke; "opacity" is not in The Wings of the Dove, at least; as for "vagueness," this is practically a description of the novel:
an impenetrable ring fence, within which there reigned a kind of expensive vagueness made up of smiles and silences and beautiful fictions and priceless arrangements, all strained to breaking (9.4)
I had wondered if some of the adjectives that James's characters fling at each other – "wonderful" – were perhaps examples of current slang, something he heard at dinner parties, but I guess not, or at least they were not at the parties Howells attended. They are mostly signals that I am in James-world, which is not exactly like this one ever was. The weary woman again:
"We could not bear to lose a word; every word – and there were a good many! – seemed to tell. If you took one away you seemed to miss something important. It almost destroyed me, thinking it all out. I went round days, with my hand to my forehead; and I don't believe I understand it perfectly yet. Do you?"
No. I have two other differences from Howells's magnificent invention. First, when I left all the words in I still thought I was missing something important, and second, it turns out I have endless patience with James, so I will bang on about him until I run out of babble. I didn't take a fifth as many notes as I did with The Ambassadors, so I won't go on as long as that.


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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nuclear detonation detection payload successfully launched
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Nuclear detonation detection payload successfully launched
More than 50 years ago, Los Alamos National Laboratory and the forerunner to the Department of Energy supported the very first satellites to detect nuclear explosions in the atmosphere or space. This early capability was an essential element in the very first treaty regulating nuclear weapons tests. Continuing that tradition, the second Space and Atmospheric Burst Reporting System (SABRS-2) payload developed and built by Los Alamos was successfully launched last fiscal year in support of the Laboratory's ongoing Global Security mission.
The SABRS payload is designed to replace the neutron, gamma-ray, and particle detectors fielded on Defense Support Program satellites in the 1970s through the 1990s. It augments the optical, radio frequency, x-ray, and particle sensors of the Global Burst Detector (GBD) payload, which is currently fielded on U.S. Air Force GPS satellites.
The SABRS and GBD Payloads make up the sensing part of the United States Nuclear Detonation Detection System, which monitors the entire globe, from the surface of the earth, out to deep space, for nuclear detonations. "Today's SABRS payloads continue to serve an indispensable role in nuclear weapons test monitoring," said PADGS Terry Wallace. "The combination of SABRS payloads operating in geosynchronous orbit and the GBD payloads on GPS provides robust capability for the detection of nuclear explosions anywhere in the atmosphere or in space."
The launch of the second SABRS payload is a great success story in government acquisition as funding challenges within the Air Force have threatened the program on a number of occasions. The successful launch can be attributed in part to White House Policy committees and with strong support from the State Department's Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller.
This launch is a key step in ensuring the U.S. maintains persistent global capability for detecting above-ground nuclear detonations. The first SABRS payload launched in 2012 and the third is currently being built by Los Alamos. It is scheduled to launch in 2019 to complement the GBD payloads, which are deployed on GPS satellites every year.


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Keyhubs Founder, Vikas Narula, has had a busy spring and summer season of keynotes, workshops, and speeches. Since delivering his TEDx talk in 2017, Vikas has been invited to present at a variety of conferences and gatherings, including:
AHRMIO in Milan, Italy
OMAA at Niagara-on-the-Lake
Spark the Change, Toronto and Montreal
The World Bank HR Connected Conference in Washington DC
In June, Vikas delivered the graduation commencement speech at his high school alma mater.
If you would like to book Vikas for a keynote or workshop, please contact us.


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Melanie Safka, known professionally as Melanie, transformed from a coffeehouse circuit folk singer to the voice of an era in one magical moment in 1969.
Melanie had a few singles under her belt when she signed on to be one of three women to perform at Woodstock. The multi-day concert was sold out at 100,000 tickets. However, 500,000 people arrived for the dairy farm event.
One of the nights, a steady drizzle fell onto the stage and crowd. The scheduled act had to cancel due to the wetness. The stage manager turned to Melanie.
The singer-songwriter took to the stage before the half a million people with just her guitar. She played her song, "Beautiful People," even though her voice shook. To show their support and understanding, members of the audience let "candles" (lighters and matches) through the crowd – the first time such a panorama display occurred at a concert.
Melanie later wrote "Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)" which was inspired by the support from the crowd.
Like Melanie, I recently had a moment where the audience reached out to connect with me — and it was the best "candles in the rain" moment.
On Thursday, I presented a speech about social anxiety as part of the Mental Health Awareness Week at the Sechelt Library on the Sunshine Coast, BC with my friend, fellow Toastmaster, and mentor – Patricia Hetherington.
Patricia talked about her struggles with mental health and read a beautifully crafted chapter from her upcoming book. She then passed the lectern to me.
With heartbeat pounding in my ears, shaking hands and butterflies fluttering in my stomach, I stepped before the crowd to outline my struggle with social anxiety. I talked about how my height and introverted personality contributed to self-esteem issues. I shared how these were the building materials that erected barriers around me — isolating me from connecting with others.
With a shaky voice, I told them how I choose to use my words to propel me out of my comfort zone. I shared how my journey from journals to blogging to public speaking was a work in progress to the person I know I can be.
And then the magic moment happened.
After the speeches concluded and the applause died out, people came up to me and shared their stories of struggles and triumphs with anxiety. They told me about their height issues and feelings of "sitting life out." They talked about how sometimes the little steps outside of the comfort zone were the hardest.
There is a sense of relief when you hear the "me too" stories. There is a release when you hear that you aren't the only one. There is a sense of hope when you hear how they are taking steps to take themselves out of their comfort zone.
The best part was hearing how my story touched them and how they could relate.
It's why I talk about social anxiety.
Our voice is our greatest resource in our daily struggles with anxiety. Our voice is at its most powerful — when we are at our most vulnerable.
Share your story.
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Key Facts You Must Know About Numerology
Numerology is the philosophical and scientific study of numbers and their connection to human personality and time cycles. An ancient practice used in Greece, Egypt, Rome and China, good numerology readings can often give insights to a person's personality, strengths and weaknesses, challenges and opportunities, inner needs, emotional reactions and relationships.
The practice of numerology is based on the statement of the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, "The world is built upon the power of numbers." What this means is that the entire universe is composed of a mathematical pattern and all things can be expressed in numbers and has its own vibration frequencies. By applying the principles of numerology, we can gain deep awareness of our lives and relationships.
Here are some quick facts about numerology:
- The root of numerology can be traced back to 10,000 years ago to Egypt and Babylonia.
- Pythagoras (600 BC), the famous Greek Mathematician, is the father of modern day numerology.
- Numerology is not about your fate. It merely shows you the pattern of your life. All numerology does is to serve as a guide to fulfilling your life purpose.
- A good numerology report can help you achieve success in life by giving you a better understanding of your strengths, weakness, talents and personality traits. Also, by having a better knowledge of your path, you can better seize opportunities and avoid pitfalls.
- From your personal numerology reading, you will be able to improve your relationships by gaining a better understanding the motivations and the emotions of yourself and others.
- Free numerology readings online are inaccurate and incomplete. Numerology is much more than calculating your numbers from your birth date or name. Only a full numerology reading can give you the complete analysis of your life.
- Numerology reading is only as good as the expertise of the numerologist giving it. Hence, it is essential to get your numerology report from an experienced master numerologist.


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On this episode of the Corporate Data Show, Ryan Rolf, Vice President of Data Sales at Lotame, explains the ups and downs of data brokering. Lotame is the only independent data management platform in the market today, specializing in the technology to help clients—particularly publishing clients—manage their data.
Aggregating data from many sources in true data broker fashion, Rolf supplies data to advertisers to field their targeting, all the while hosting it online for easy access. In his six years at Lotame, Rolf has seen the company become one of the largest global online data exchanges.
Clients with diverse use cases are coming to him to build stuff, so he knows the importance of data quality. "When you talk data quality," Rolf said, "quality issues are in both sides of the world—third party data and first party data."


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November was a busy month on the land - our annual olive harvest, wood collection for winter, visitors, helpers, finishing building work ... and Barbara turned 40!
click below to see more of the pictures and follow the story.....
Barbara's 40th Birthday
From the land we drove to the top of our local mountain grange - the Gardunha....up there it was silent and beautiful...climbing on the giant rocks and enjoying the view.
We drove over the other mountains and stayed the night with our dear friends Andy and Vonnie, Josh and Ellie at Vale de Moses.
Chatting until late by the fire, and treated to delicious food and company made the birthday really special.
Neightbours Martin and Tiddy invited all of us from the Mount of Oaks over for food, fun and singing on Hallowee'n.
We met a couple, Linda and Russ who are in the process of moving to the neighbourhood from USA.
And also another couple, Liz and Ian who recently bought a place nearby too - so it was a great night for meeting new folk and catching up with old friends! We sang until late and were grateful for the lyrics provided by Liz's ipod!!!
Comings and Goings.....
Tom had a great time with Xico. The animals are as much hosts as us.
After the boys left we had 2 lovely ladies coming for more or less a week. They were a precious help during the olive harvest.
Sara making some Kartoffelpuffer
Ulli Butterfly on the tree
Olive Harvest
This year was not the best for Olive production but we had plenty of helping hands and we could also focus more on prunning some of the trees
We had the precious help of our friends Lopes, Nuno & Carlos. They helped us with joy and even brought some food with them!!! At the end of the day the harvest was done!
In the end we had 682 kilos of Olives!
Our friend Amandine join her olives with ours and off we went to the press
By the recommendation of Vitor, one of the students from the last PDC, we took the olives to a local traditional press in Donas, just outside of Fundao. This is a traditional press runned by a lovely family and we are really happy with the result. Even though we have less olive oil this year, it is super tasty...
We had more visits coming at the end of the month. Helene, Hussain and Johann came from Germany for a couple of days. Johann loved playing with the animals!
We also said "Até Já!" to Bárbara and Emma. They are going to be away for 6 months, a well deserved rest after looking after this place for so long.
We hope that they come back rested, with renewed inspiration and energy. That's also what we wish for everyone in this New Year. Thank you so much for all the support in 2014 and stay tuned for what's going to happen in 2015!


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Decision Making Process Steps
Be it a corporate environment where a team is involved in the process of making a decision, or an individual deciding for himself and or his family, decision making is an important daily task that every human being goes through. Simple decisions as to whether one should have eggs and grits or sandwich for breakfast to whether one should write a report to whether one should go to work rather than call it sick, to complex ones such as whether to buy a second car, all involve a cognitive decision making process.
Speaking of cognitive decision making, there may be instances where a decision making process may not be scientific in the true sense of the word. Humans are emotional beings and it does play an important role in an average human beings life. Resultantly, some decisions can be different to just being 'simple cognitive'. An automobile design maker would want to push through his new design against those created by others, in spite of the fact that it is fundamentally flawed, just because he is emotionally attached to it. A business may try to launch a new product even though the market conditions are not suitable for it, just because a key-decision maker considers it to be a personal agenda. In another instance an individual may decide to go through with a big purchase even though his financial conditions are not right, just because he has made a promise to someone special.
Decisions made can involve just as much of an average individual's cognitive abilities as his emotional intelligence. Some decisions are made by our subconscious mind and there are no thinking involved at all in making them. E.g. if you see a train crossing a railroad you immediately press hard on the brakes to avoid ramming into the passing train. If you see a downhill your steps are immediately bigger (or smaller if you are older). There are no thought process, no information gathering and no pause or sigh before the decision is fretted out. You act in an instant, your subconscious mind taking over the decision making process. It is also called as instinct. For other decisions, however, the process is a bit longer and cumbersome and requires a complex information gathering process followed by evaluation of the alternatives.
For a large part the following are the steps that are involved in a typical decision making process. Understandably such decisions are not taken by the subconscious mind.
Steps in a Decision Making Process
1. Identifying the Reason for the Decision Making Process
Identifying the reason for the decision making process is the first cognitive step. In many situations a decision maker may not have been the originator of the process. He may just be a line manager or a junior executive handling documentation in a large corporation. So, the first step in making the process of decision is to identify the reason and ask for clarifications if necessary. To reiterate, a line manager may not have much information as to the reasons of the decision. His decision may only play a small part in a larger scheme of things, but nevertheless individual decisions, such as these, are important.
2. Gathering the Necessary Information
Any decision making process must take into consideration the many aspects that would play a part and or be affected by such decision. A rather 'harmless' household decision to go on an overseas vacation may play a major part in the financial aspects of the family. A household may have to cut down on expenses in other areas in order to pull money for such a vacation. A more important decision such as investing in a home can mean a major string of expense cut-down in order to channelize money for the mortgage. The same way a business decision, such as whether to acquire a competitor can affect the core business financial aspects of a business. The business may have to cut down on its manpower in order to streamline its activities and in order to absorb the investment as well as to reduce redundancies appearing in many ranks. Still others may have much wider ramifications than just cost or redundancies. E.g., a change in the training process for new recruits in a business may require not only investment in new training tools but also in the whole mindset of the business. Whatever may be the need for such decisions to be made, it is a pre-requisite to find as much information as possible so that the right choice can be made.
3. Basis for Weighing the Options
What is the basis for weighing the options? If a business or for that matter a household or an individual deciding for himself is engaged in the process of making a decision, the basis for weighing the options has to be established first. A household may be deciding on whether it is prudent to invest in a home. While there is nothing in the world that can beat the convenience and comfort of owning a home, the financial aspects has to be considered too. Does the man of the house qualify for a home on his own salary? Does his spouse also have a job and can she be a co-applier for the loan? Does one go for a fixed interest or an adjustable rate loan? Would he / she believe what the lender says about the APR or he / she decides to do additional investigation?
Again, a business may be deciding on a new plant at a location that is closer to a potential market. The factors that may weigh heavily on the decision making process is whether the products can be easily stored at a nearby storage facility while still being manufactured at the existing manufacturing establishments. They would also want to know whether the transport costs applicable, in the previous steps, would be reasonable, and would not justify a new manufacturing establishment. The business may also have to wonder whether the capacity of the new plant near to the new market would be running in full capacity or there would always be opportunity cost that is wasted. Answers to these questions will decide whether the decision to invest in a new plant be justifiable or not.
Different entities may place different levels of importance to different aspects while weighing the pros and cons. While the sole basis, at the end of the day, for a manufacturing or service business may be profitability a household may look at convenience and other factors when making a decision. Non-profit organizations may only be looking at the solution that provides the greatest benefit to their patrons and members.
4. Assessing the Pros and Cons of Different Choices in Hand
Every business and for that matter every household goes through a process where the many alternatives are weighed and the right solution is selected on the basis of such decision making parameters. This is where each and every individual involved in the decision making process places forth his / her comments and arguments. In a corporate business environment the key decision makers may sit over several sessions and decide after due deliberations the right decision and the ideal course of action based on the information gathered in the earlier steps.
The process as described in the opening paragraphs may be less cognitive at times and more emotional in nature. Sometimes though the process of decision making can be simplified if an experienced person is a part of the process. Experience denotes knowing what the pros and cons of a decision would be and thus being able to discount some alternatives and select the one that is most likely to fit in the scheme of things. An experienced individual is also likely to go with his / her intuition. Although that approach may appear to be less cognitive at times, it is likely to be the best solution in the long run.
5. Applying the Decision and Taking Feedback
The final step of every decision making process is its implementation. If a household has decided in going for an overseas vacation and that means curtailing non-essential expenses for the next 6 months including eating out or using two cars or non-essential purchases, that has to be strictly implemented. If a business has decided to change the recruitment process then the implementation means re-training the onboarding and hiring staff, investing in new training tools and changing the whole outlook of the business in terms of the training process. If a business has decided to invest in a new manufacturing plant closer to a target market that needs to be implemented. Investment into new machinery, additional manpower to man the machines, vehicles for distribution of the finished products to the target market has to be acquired. Training of the hired manpower has to be done and administrative staff needs to be recruited for supervising the establishment.
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No event, document, or specific announcement appears to have occasioned the May 10, 2013 news item on Nanowerk about Europe's nanotechnology roadmap (Note: A link was removed),
Nanotechnology is opening the way to a new industrial revolution. From 'individualised' medical treatments tailored for each patient to new, environmentally-friendly energy storage and generation systems, nanotechnology is bringing significant advances. Exciting new futures await those businesses able to get ahead in the race to turn this wealth of promise into commercial success. But in a field which requires a high degree of coordinated effort involving many different stakeholder groups, including researchers, policymakers and commercial players across a wide variety of industrial sectors, it has perhaps been inevitable that fragmentation, disconnectedness and duplication have stood in the way.NANOfutures was set up in 2010 to tackle exactly this problem of fragmentation. Supported by European Union (EU) funding, NANOfutures is a European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP) bringing together industry, research institutions and universities, NGOs [nongovernmental organizations], financial institutions, civil society and policymakers at regional, national and European levels. Acting as a kind of 'nano-hub' for Europe, NANOfutures is dedicated to fostering a shared vision and strategy on the future of nanotechnology.
The May 9, 2013 European Commission news release, which originated the news item, goes on to describe the NANOfutures project which ended in Sept. 2012,
Reflecting its objective of achieving a truly cross-sectoral approach, breaking out of individual industry silos and addressing the major nanotech issues which are common to all sectors, NANOfutures set up a steering committee which included representatives from 11 European Technology Platforms (ETPs) – sector-specific networks of industry and academia – including those for textiles, nanomedicine, construction and transportation. Chaired by Professor Paolo Matteazzi of Italian specialist nanomaterials company MBN Nanomaterialia, the committee also included ten nanotechnology experts, each one chairing a NANOfutures working group on cross-sectoral topics such as safety, standardisation, regulation, technology transfer and innovative financing.
This approach allowed NANOfutures to identify key aspects of nanotechnology and its exploitation in which all players – from researcher to politician, financier, commercial developer, regulator or end-user – were involved and therefore had common interests.
One of the major successes achieved by the two-year project was securing an agreement by all 11 ETPs on a set of research and innovation themes for the next decade. "The ETPs agreed to focus their private efforts, and call for increasing public efforts, on such themes in order to bring European nano-enabled products to successful commercialisation, with benefits for the grand challenges of our time such as climate change, affordable and effective medicine, green mobility and manufacturing," says the project's coordinator, Margherita Cioffi of Italian engineering consultancy D'Appolonia.
The most tangible result of this, and the key outcome from NANOfutures, was the development and publication of a 'Research and Industrial Roadmap' setting out, in Ms Cioffi's words, "a pathway up to 2020 which will enable European industry and researchers to deliver and successfully commercialise sustainable and safe nano-enabled products." Divided into seven separate thematic areas, or 'value-chains', the roadmap covers European priorities from materials research to product design, manufacturing, assembly, use and disposal. It describes both short- and longer-term actions with the aim of providing a practical guide for EC and Member State governments, research centres and industry, as well as standardisation and regulation bodies.
Other benefits directly resulting from the project, Ms Cioffi adds, were the sharing of safety best practices, the creation of partnerships to promote product development, training and other services, and the bringing together of relevant SME businesses with potential users and investors during specially organised Technology Transfer workshops.
Since it is not a product in itself, but a method with an enormous range of potential applications, nanotechnology naturally reaches into a diverse range of human activities. Paradoxically, almost, this very richness and universality of its benefits leads to a fragmentation of effort which acts as a barrier to its efficient exploitation. By bringing together the various stakeholders to create a unified, strategic approach, replacing fragmentation and duplication with a focus on areas of agreed priority and common interest, NANOfutures has played an invaluable role in promoting the rapid development of nanotechnology – with its twin benefits of societal usefulness and enhanced European competitiveness.
Project details
Project acronym: NANOFUTURES
- Participants: Italy (Coordinator), Belgium, Spain
- Project FP7 266789
- Total costs: €1 171 011
- EU contribution: €999 980
- Duration: October 2010 – September 2012
The NANOfutures website provides more resources including a list of documents/deliverables featuring a 148 pp. July 2012 roadmap. Unfortunately, I cannot provide a direct link to the roadmap or the documents page, for that matter.
At this point, the site is probably most valuable for its links to other project as a host of resources are organized under buttons (the left side of the home page) titled with Communication Projects, Finance Projects, Safety Projects, etc.


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Mar 26, 2009
Jay Rinsen Weik gives a talk and leads discussion at the Toledo Zen
Center on July 30, 2008.
"The mind of the great sage of India was intimately conveyed from West to East.
Among human beings are wise ones and fools, but in the Way there is no northern or southern patriarch."
- Shih-T'ou, Identity of Relative and Absolute
For more information about the Toledo Zen Center, please visit toledozen.org. The Toledo Zen Center is a member of the Hermitage Heart Sangha, online at hermitageheart.org.


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A paper published recently in PLOS Genetics (1) describes a statistical method for resolving individual genotypes within a mix of DNA samples or data sets containing aggregate single-nucleotide polymorphism data. This scientific advance may have important implications for forensics and for genome-wide association studies (GWAS). It has also changed our understanding of the risks of making aggregate genomic data publicly available. While we assess the broader scientific, ethical, and policy implications of this development, NIH has moved swiftly to remove aggregate genomic data from our publicly available Web sites. Further information about changes in NIH open-access policies for GWAS is available on the NIH's GWAS Web site (2).
The paper by Homer et al. showed that a new statistical technique applied to aggregate data can determine whether a specific individual's genomic data are part of a given data set, including whether they are in the control group or the case (affected) group. It may also be possible to statistically infer whether a relative of the individual is a member of the case or control groups. The method requires having an individual's high-density genotype data in hand from another source. Though the specific identity of the individual who was the source of the data could only be determined if that source were known through other means or reference data, this discovery nonetheless has implications for how these summary data should be protected. As a result, NIH has removed from open-access databases the aggregate results (including P values and genotype counts) for all the GWAS that had been available on NIH sites (such as dbGaP and CGEMS). NIH intends to move the aggregate genotype data to the controlled-access database, where there is a firewall as well as protections and policies in place for appropriate data access, including review and approval of data access requests. The new finding does not have the same implications for data available through controlled access, and NIH access policies for individual-level genotype and phenotype data have not changed.
Sharing genomic data and, particularly, allele frequencies has become common practice, if not an imperative, in science. Yet, the protection of participant privacy and the confidentiality of their data are of paramount importance. These new statistical approaches have implications far beyond NIH data-sharing policies, as aggregate GWAS data have been provided in publicly available form in many other ways, including other research databases and Web sites, journal articles and other publications, and scientific presentations. NIH urges the scientific community to consider carefully how these data are shared and take appropriate precautions to secure aggregate GWAS data in order to protect participant privacy and data confidentiality.
In short order and over the coming months, NIH will work with our advisory groups and the wide range of stakeholders related to GWAS to further explore and address the policy implications of this finding. We call on our colleagues in the scientific community to join us in these important deliberations.


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FOX News: "2016 Presidential Elections May Not Happen Due To 'Wide Spread Anarchy' Giving Obama 3rd Term."
Alan Keyes: "Obama scheme to declare martial law and stay in the White House"
With the flurry of news on Jade Helm 2015, ISIS crisis, a rapidly increasing national debt and a very unstable financial foundation, Americans are worried.
Our nation is quickly changing.
Until we start dealing with these things in a comprehensive and logical way, there is no telling what could happen.
Listen to the interview below, and see what you think about the upcoming election.


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Like it or not, bookkeeping is an essential part of running a successful business; big, or small.
Many small business owners start out by doing their bookkeeping themselves and then perhaps progress to employing a part-time bookkeeper as their business grows. Quite often, as businesses continue to grow, a bookkeeper might even become a full-time member of the payroll. At the risk of upsetting all you bookkeepers out there (sorry), now is the time, if you're a small or growing business, to ask whether business bookkeeping necessarily warrants either burning the midnight oil or adding another employee to your payroll?
Many start up business owners make a point of doing all their own bookkeeping in order to keep their costs down.
While this might appear to make complete financial sense, if it means that you're missing business opportunities because of having your head buried in the books, it mightn't be making the best business sense. Taking the burden of all your own bookkeeping can weigh heavily, particularly at a time when you need to be nimble footed to seek out every business opportunity you can. Add to this, the single view you get when you're the only person looking at your accounts on a month-to-month, or quarter-to-quarter basis and the need for a bit of outside support starts to become clear.
So, if you're at the stage where your small business bookkeeping is encroaching on time you should be spent doing other things, what are the options? Clearly, the traditional route would be to ask a bookkeeper to come into your office once a week, once a month or however often is required to carry out your bookkeeping duties. In return for this, they'd reasonably expect a desk, access to your accounts, maybe even a computer and certainly some form of payment for their effort. Depending on your business arrangements, this might work well, but for more and more people, who work from home, for example, or who simply don't have the space or desire to accommodate another person in their workplace, the answer is to outsource.
Or how about a local bookkeeper?
One step removed from employing a bookkeeper is to find a local bookkeeper that will carry out your required bookkeeping duties remotely at their own premises. In this arrangement, you'll typically agree a number of hours per week or per month and the logistics of passing the required documentation over to them. This type of arrangement can be both cost effective and can work really well for people who have limited space and maybe don't have the time or the inclination to have someone else come into their place of work. Today though, there is a real workable alternative to this and it's online bookkeeping.
Online bookkeeping is the perfect solution
Certainly if you want to free yourself from the hassle of bookkeeping whilst giving yourself access to your accounts on a 24/7 basis.
Online bookkeeping is a truly cost effective solution to having an expert on board just when you need them, without breaking the bank. The way it normally works, is that you scan your documents and email them to the person or company you've chosen, meaning that no matter where they're located you can work together. Thereafter, once you've agreed the precise modus operandi for what you need and what you want, they will provide all of the accounting and management reports you require. Online small business bookkeeping has truly revolutionised bookkeeping for many small businesses, giving them access to experts at a fraction of the cost of similar face-to-face relationships.
If you fancy exploring the pros and cons of online small business bookkeeping, why not contact us now so we can chat?
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If you just began your low carb diet regimen and also are stuck for concepts on just what to consume for morning meal or simply would like to try something brand-new, here are some easy-to-prepare breakfast suggestions for you. It is very important to plan your meals, so you don't end up making bad selections because you are hungry and in a rush. Simply since your meals are low in carbs, does not mean they have to be monotonous. It is a great idea to locate some meals you like as well as consistently keep the substances for them in your home.
Quick breakfast suggestions
1) Eggs
You can consume eggs in a variety of ways. One of the most known way of offering eggs on a reduced carb diet plan is probably eggs with bacon, yet eggs are so considerably additional compared to that. You can make omelettes, clambered eggs as well as steamed eggs simply to call a few. I have a cook publication with over 100 egg recipes, they are not all low in carbs, however many could be customized.
2) Smoothies
You can make a variety of reduced carbohydrate smoothie mixes. Usual components are eggs, amino acid powder, Greek yogurt, whipping cream, food preparation oils, frozen berries, nuts and reduced carbohydrate sugars.
3) Low carbohydrate bread
There are thousands of reduced carbohydrate bread recipes to decide on from. You can start by taking an appearance below at ezinearticles, however understand that simply since somebody assert a recipe is low in carbs, it might not be. If you are a brand-new reduced carber as well as do not yet have a feel for the amount of carbohydrates are in a dish, you must do your homework and also count the carbs.
I would state morning meal is one of the most important dish of the day, due to the fact that if you do not start your day right, it often follows up the day and you will wind up obtaining deprived as well as eating as well a lot later that day. However, declaring that morning meal is one of the most important meal, in my experience does not suggest eating morning meal the min you open your eyes, yet leaving to a good beginning always aids. I suggest eating breakfast when you get hungry.
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