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Ryan Boatright may not play for Huskies vs. Temple
Junior guard was back home tending to cousin's funeral
STORRS >> Ryan Boatright may not play in UConn's bout with Temple on Tuesday night. But then again, he just might.
Boatright returned home to Aurora, Ill., on Sunday to attend the funeral of his cousin, Arin Williams, who was killed by a gunshot to the head on Jan. 14. Funeral services are slated for Tuesday morning, but Boatright still may be back in time for the 7 p.m. game at the XL Center in Hartford (CBS Sports Network).
"It's 50-50," coach Kevin Ollie said. "He left and he said he wasn't going to be back, but then we talked and he might be back. I'm planning on him not being back."
One might argue that, if there's a game that UConn (14-4, 2-3 AAC) could afford to be without one of its most important players, it's this one. Temple (5-11, 0-5 AAC) has lost six straight and has just 10 scholarship players.
Ollie will have none of that.
"Their record is out the window," the coach said. "That's a good team. That's not a 5-11 team. They've got talent ... (They're) a desperate team, and we're desperate. We need a win. We need to protect our house, defend our home court. It's going to be two desperate teams."
Different players will need to step into different roles and will see more playing time if Boatright, a junior guard who has largely handled UConn's point guard duties of late, isn't there. Lasan Kromah will likely see time at the point, Omar Calhoun will have to handle the ball a bit more, and freshman Terrence Samuel may be called upon for more minutes than usual.
"We say this all the time: next man up," said Ollie. "You never want to lose or see somebody hurt, but if they go down, I'm like, 'It's my time, I'm ready to go.' Hopefully Terrence, Omar, Lasan understand that. They might get that situation where they're going to have the ball in their hand a little more."
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Men's basketball gameday
TEMPLE at UCONN
• When: Tuesday, 7 p.m.
• Where: XL Center, Hartford
• Records: Temple 5-11 (0-5 AAC), UConn 14-4 (2-3 AAC)
• TV: CBS Sports Network
• Radio: WTIC 1080
• In the zone: After the Huskies struggled mightily against Louisville's zone on Saturday night, Kevin Ollie expects to see more opponents use it against them.
"If I was a coach, I'd zone us," he said. "We've got to understand, we've got to smile at a zone. We've got great shooters, a great person in DeAndre (Daniels) who can get in the four-hole and make plays. But, you've got to rebound. We rebound, we can get out on the break and score."
Cummings coming?: Temple has been without junior point guard Will Cummings (16.1 ppg) the last two games due to concussion-like symptoms. Ollie believes Cummings will be back in the lineup on Tuesday.
• Ejection reaction: Asked if he'd heard from any of his "mentors" following his ejection Saturday night, Ollie replied: "I heard from my mother. She said calm down a little bit. That's the best mentor of all."
He hasn't heard yet from Jim Calhoun, who left Saturday's game at halftime (before the ejection) and is now vacationing in Mexico.
"He's on a golf course, but I will hear from him. I know he's seen the incident, but let him be on vacation. When he comes back, we'll have our usual talks."
Ollie admitted that he did overreact "a little bit, when I ran down the baseline," after referee Mike Stuart's no-call when Niels Giffey appeared to be fouled.
"It happens," he said. "Hopefully, we can move on. Hopefully, Stuart can move on from the game, and we can all be better from it. That's what my hope is."
But, he added: "That was a foul."
Name Ht. Yr. Pos. Ppg
Will Cummings 6-2 Jr. G 16.1
Anthony Lee 6-9 Jr. F 13.9
Devontae Watson 6-10 So. F/C 1.2
Quenton DeCosey 6-5 So. G 16.1
Dalton Pepper 6-5 Sr. G 17.5
Name Ht. Yr. Pos. Ppg
DeAndre Daniels 6-9 Jr. F 12.8
Lasan Kromah 6-6 Gr. G/F 6.9
Shabazz Napier 6-1 Sr. G 16.8
Omar Calhoun 6-5 So. G 6.3
Amida Brimah 7-0 Fr. C 3.7
Temple: Josh Brown, 6-3 Fr. G, 2.6; Mark Williams, 6-8 Fr. F, 4.2; Jimmy McDonnell, 6-10 Jr. F, 2.0. UConn: Niels Giffey, 6-7 Sr. G/F, 7.8; Tyler Olander, 6-10 Sr. C, 2.4; Phil Nolan, 6-10 So. C, 3.5.
— David Borges
Samuel, for his part, certainly seems ready.
"I've been ready to get in, show what I can do and help the team win," he said after Monday's practice. "I've been waiting for my time, I've just got to step in, make the right decisions."
In fact, the 6-foot-4 point guard out of Brooklyn seemed a bit dismayed that his opportunity hasn't arrived sooner. Samuel has played in just 10 of the Huskies' 18 games thus far, averaging just 6.3 minutes per contest. Samuel hasn't played at all in UConn's last two contests and has played a grand total of six minutes in the team's five American Athletic Conference bouts.
Asked if his lack of playing time has been tough on him, Samuel said: "It has, actually. At first, it kind of got to me a lot. I might have said, (I'll) just stop working for a while, but I've still got to keep my work habits, keep working in the gym, get better, working on my shot and getting ready to play when my name's called."
Samuel added that junior DeAndre Daniels, who didn't play a whole lot as a freshman, has helped keep his spirts up.
"He says, 'Your time's gonna come, you've just got to wait.' He patiently waited, so I've had to do the same. I think about that every time I put my head down and don't play. I just get back in the gym."
Whenever Boatright returns, Ollie hopes the basketball court will be "like a sanctuary" for him.
"You go and get away from it a little bit," the coach said. "Hopefully, he understands that once he comes here, he has nothing but love. He has a brotherhood that's got his back and is going to be here for him. Hopefully, it relieves him of that tension or thinking about his cousin, or the pressures of dealing with his family and the different dynamics of what's going on. Hopefully when he gets on the basketball court, he can just think about basketball."


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Photo Flash: Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso Perform in Concert at Birdland
On Monday, August 11, Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso took to the Birdland stage for the first time. OK, not exactly. They've been hosting Cast Party in the historic music room every week for eleven years - but this was the swinging duo's first time to be booked in concert! Thanks to their faithful Cast Party following, and the fact that Jim has been booking the Broadway at Birdland concert series for a decade, the room was packed with friends, fans and fellow performers. Caruso and Stritch were joined by Steve Doyle on bass, and jazz vocalist superstar Jane Monheit made a surprise musical cameo. Scroll down for photos!
The two performers, who have performed extensively on their own, gained national exposure together as the host and musical director of the wildly popular open mic, Cast Party, which celebrates talent every Monday at Birdland, tours nationally, and was part of this season's Lincoln Center American Songbook. For the past two years, they have been headlining at Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel, where they are constantly in the news when showbiz heavy-hitters like Liza Minnelli, Bono and Michael Feinstein join them in impromptu performances.You can catch Caruso and Stritch holding court at Birdland every Monday night at 9:30pm, and at Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle Hotel every Sunday in September and December.
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Jyske Bank has conducted a tender in the area of processing payments with international cards, in order to secure future payment solutions.
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"The payment area is developing rapidly these years, and we at Jyske Bank will continue to deliver Denmark's best payment solutions to our customers in the years to come", Jyske Bank CEO Peter Schleidt states.
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Human Rights Watch has singled out President-elect Donald Trump as a threat to human rights after analyzing his campaign. In a 687-page report published this week, the nonprofit watchdog has called Trump's campaign "a vivid illustration of the politics of intolerance." "Donald Trump's election as US president after a campaign fomenting hatred and intolerance, and the rising influence of political parties in Europe that reject universal rights, have put the postwar human rights system at risk," the group said in a statement on Friday.
The report, titled "Demagogues Threaten Human Rights," said that Trump's "campaign floated proposals that would harm millions of people, including plans to engage in massive deportations of immigrants, to curtail women's rights and media freedoms, and to use torture." Kenneth Roth, executive director of HRW, said in his introduction to the report, that Trump joins the ranks of other populist politicians who "seek power through appeals to racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and nativism." Read more at HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH.


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Calif. EMS nearly paralyzed by ambulance delays at ER
9 ambulances were held up at an ER for up to 3 1/2 hours
By Marc Benjamin
The Fresno Bee
FRESNO, Calif. — On a Monday night in January, Fresno County's ambulance system was perilously close to paralysis when nine ambulances were delayed at Community Regional Medical Center -- two for 3-1/2 hours.
Ambulance staff is required to stay with patients until they are accepted for exams in an emergency room. On Jan. 13, too many ambulance staffers were kept waiting too long at the region's busiest hospital, said Dan Lynch, Fresno County Emergency Medical Services director.
Lynch filed a complaint with the California Department of Public Health Licensing and Certification Program. Department spokesman Corey Egel confirmed Friday the complaint is under investigation.
"If CDPH identifies violations by the hospital of federal and/or state requirements for ambulances waiting at emergency rooms to be released, only then can CDPH issue a deficiency and consider levying penalties as appropriate," Egel said.
When ambulance staff is delayed at a hospital, it causes a ripple effect across the emergency system. Firefighters have to stay longer at medical-aid calls because of ambulance delays and are unable to respond to other emergency calls. Other ambulances are positioned to serve more distant parts of the region and can't reposition quickly to respond to calls. And when ambulance companies don't meet recommended times, they are fined.
County and ambulance officials say that 30 minutes should be the maximum for ambulance teams to be at hospitals with patients.
More than one in three ambulances exceeded the 30-minute recommendation at Community Regional in 2013, according to statistics provided to the Fresno County Emergency Medical Care Committee.
None of the 11 other hospitals monitored by the committee exceeded 30% in any single month last year.
The problems leading to Jan. 13 were building over time, Lynch said, but nothing fully prepared local emergency officials for it.
"It was the peak of an issue," he said. "You saw symptoms leading up to this point."
On that night, eight ambulances were at Community Regional for at least 90 minutes. After some time had elapsed, bad fortune was avoided with some well-placed phone calls to hospital officials who got the ambulances back on the road within a half-hour, Lynch said.
The next morning, he filed the complaint with the state Department of Public Health.
The reason for the delay, said Lynch, is still unknown.
In the crowded emergency room that night, hospital officials said, they did not realize how many ambulance crews were being forced to stay parked.
"When we were notified, we quickly got patients placed," said Brenda Diel, assistant chief nursing officer at Community Regional. "It was an oversight on our part; the patients had been seen by a nurse and were just awaiting a treatment area."
Late fines
Wait times are a way to evaluate ambulance services. Ambulance companies are fined if they don't, or can't, follow the main rule: arrive fast to emergency calls.
The Central California Emergency Medical Services Committee penalizes ambulance companies for slow responses. Last year, American Ambulance was fined $144,447. Nearly 98% of those fines were for late responses or excessive delays, according to committee records. The companies can be fined even if their ambulances have been stalled at the hospital.
REPORT: Ambulance service delays are outlined in a recent Fresno County Emergency Medical Care Committee report
The biggest problem for ambulances is at Community Regional. At times, said Todd Valeri, general manager for American Ambulance, which provides ambulances in Fresno, Madera, Tulare, and Kings counties, the number of ambulances stacked up outside the hospital has risen into the teens.
While there were times when more ambulances were parked outside Community Regional, the problems on Jan. 13 were exacerbated because it was a time when fewer ambulances are normally on duty.
"We can deploy more ambulances, but we don't have unlimited resources," Valeri said. "We have to do our best to identify times when additional staffing will help."
Valeri acknowledges that some delays resulting in fines "are directly related to ambulances caught up at hospitals."
Waits longer than 30 minutes at emergency rooms occurred nearly four times more often at Community Regional than other hospitals in the Valley.
In 2013, ambulances were held up more than 30 minutes at Community Regional about 34% of the time. About 9% of ambulances at the other 11 hospitals monitored by the county's Emergency Medical Care Committee were at hospitals more than 30 minutes.
Those numbers have risen steadily in the past four years. In March 2010, about 19.4% of ambulances were delayed at Community Regional beyond 30 minutes. In December, the rate was about 34.5%.
Valeri doesn't cast blame on Community Regional. "This is not personal and it's not about incompetence. It's about finite resources and unlimited demand."
But Brad Richter, chairman of the Fresno County Emergency Medical Care Committee, is not as charitable toward the hospital. Delays that lead to fines are costly to ambulance service companies, he said.
"If I had a business, I couldn't afford to pay $10,000 or $20,000 a month off the top," he said.
One night last July, he said, 18 ambulances were queued up outside the emergency room. Ambulance crews deliver about 120 patients daily to Community Regional.
"Emergency Medical Services staff has been working very hard to correct this problem over the last couple of years with no improvement," Richter said. "If the current trend continues, in several years, longer response times are going to be the norm in Fresno."
Emergency room patient visits in California increased nearly 20% between 2007 and 2012, according to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
For Community Regional -- the third busiest emergency room in California with 111,000 patients last year -- about 40% of emergency room patients arrive by ambulance. The rest are driven or walk in. Diel, Community Regional's assistant chief nursing officer, said the emergency room gets 300 patients each day.
Hospital officials are willing to explore other solutions to move ambulances along faster.
But Valeri said hospital officials rejected a proposal by American Ambulance to staff two paramedics at the hospital's emergency room to monitor ambulance patients and free up crews to get on the road.
Diel said no one has broached the subject with her, and she's interested in learning more about it.
Meanwhile, to speed up the process, the hospital began using a new system that lets emergency room officials know the number of ambulances at the hospital and how long they have been waiting, she said.
"We put that in place because of Jan. 13," Diel said. "We want Emergency Medical Services back out and in service as much as anybody else does."
Firefighters get the call
During the late afternoon and early evening hours of Jan. 13, the duration of Fresno Fire Department calls was 27.6% longer than average, said Capt. Gregg Skaggs.
He evaluated 1,725 medical-aid calls from Jan. 1-26, which averaged eight minutes and 57 seconds on scene. But during the peak hours on Jan. 13, he said, the average time at a medical-aid call was 11 minutes and 25 seconds.
Skaggs said he couldn't confirm that the longer calls were due to emergency room delays, "but it's obviously out of the norm."
Fortunately, there were no major fires or auto collisions during those hours.
Sanger Fire Department runs its own paramedic crews and has two ambulances on duty per shift.
Chief Greg Tarascou said his department has to call on other local fire departments or ambulance crews to backfill if several emergencies or medical-aid calls occur at the same time.
"If ambulances are backed up at (Community) Regional Medical Center, then we are stressed to get people to backfill us," he said.
Selma Fire Chief Mike Kain said his department has to call for a backup ambulance "several times a day," he said.
Selma contracts with American Ambulance, which often has to transport patients from Selma's hospital to Fresno or other locations in the state.
"Then you have one ambulance covering the whole city," Kain said.
If both ambulances are on calls, the city relies on trained paramedic firefighters who "will be on scene until the next ambulance arrives."
The next ambulance could come from Sanger Fire Department or Kingsburg.
"We rely on each other for backup," Kain said. "There are times in the system where everybody is on a call and that means your backup is available based upon where the next ambulance becomes available. Who knows where it could be coming from?"
Fresno's not alone
Avoiding similar paralysis is now foremost in the minds of emergency responders, hospital officials and ambulance companies. Ambulance delays are an increasing problem across California and the nation, officials say.
The California Hospital Association and the state Emergency Medical Services Authority convened the Patient-Ambulance Delay Collaborative, made up of officials statewide who are trying to learn why ambulances are spending too much time waiting at hospitals.
"There is not one right, easy answer," said B.J. Bartleson, California Hospital Association's vice president for nursing and clinical services.
She said peaks last month were caused by the flu, but she also said problems may be related to the number of ambulances on the road or hospital staffing levels.
The complaints, Bartleson said, run both ways.
"We hear complaints from hospitals that wonder why they get certain patients and hear from Emergency Medical Service agencies about waiting times," she said.
Longer emergency room delays most frequently occur at urban and county hospitals, said Dr. Howard Backer, medical director of the California Emergency Medical Services Authority. He serves on the Patient-Ambulance Delay Collaborative with Bartleson.
Although 30 minutes is a standard, there are no state rules requiring it be met, he said.
But longer than 30 minutes places a "community at risk of not being able to access emergency services in a way that's expected in life-threatening emergencies," he said.
In some areas it's a seasonal issue, in others it's year-round -- the reasons differ depending on the community.
"There are individual systems that have addressed this problem," Backer said. "It can be fixed if there is a will to do it."


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In a new report on electric vehicle developments the Global Smart Grid Federation (GSGF) highlights new business opportunities, key trends and policy initiatives, as well as providing a global view of the large-scale roll-out of electric vehicles. The report also gives recommendations on how to accelerate the take-up of electric vehicles.
Charging stations first and foremost
While the technology of electric transportation as a whole, and batteries in particular, is evolving very quickly, one of the biggest impediments for consumers in purchasing an electric vehicle is the so-called 'range anxiety'. The batteries in electric vehicles run flat at a fast pace, causing the driver concern about where it can be recharged. The key to overcoming this obstacle is to increase the number of charging stations that are publicly available. We face here a typical chicken and the egg problem: with few electric vehicles, there is no real business incentive for commercial companies to build infrastructure, and without charging stations consumers refrain from buying an electric vehicle. Based on the experiences of countries where electric transportation has been successful, there was always enough supply of public chargers. Therefore, public infrastructure should be installed before the rollout of vehicles, at least to a certain extent, in order to relieve anxiety.
Sustainable policy
Preparing future large scale electric transportation deployment, it is imperative to focus on sustainable policies to support both infrastructure and vehicle deployment. In several countries where promotion for alternative fuel vehicles failed, incentives phased out too early, before successful introduction and before the market could stand on its own feet. However, countries that succeeded in promoting alternative fuel vehicles also succeeded in supporting infrastructure for the new fuel. In other words, if we decide to support the introduction of electric transportation, we must consider the rollout of sustainable policies, aptly mixed for each country. They need to be continued throughout the introduction stage, and afterwards they should be carefully and gradually phase out.
Standardisation of interfaces
Various evolutions resulting from the interaction between technology producers and the safety restrictions of different power grids have resulted in the development of different standards for different countries and different brands. However, vehicles are global products, rolling in and out of countries, making interoperability and standardisation of these interfaces imperative.
Share and develop
Many countries are currently testing how to integrate electric vehicles into the grids and into their country's economic structures. Global Smart Grid Federation recommends that countries share their experiences and grid analyses with each other. Now that technologies for electric vehicles, through demonstration programs everywhere, have proved themselves to be geared up to go, it is necessary to consider and share information about cases that might enhance the value of electric vehicles, in addition to looking into the usage data. These analyses will lead the way to new possibilities for the user and for promoting electric vehicles.


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Patients diagnosed with rectal cancer often face the possibility of complete organ loss, and 25 percent of patients with stage II/III rectal cancer require a permanent colostomy. Improvements in systemic therapy and use of neoadjuvant treatment have encouraged efforts to avoid radical resections. This trend has been seen with other solid malignancies including breast, anal, and head and neck cancers. For rectal cancer, there is ongoing investigation regarding whether preoperative chemotherapy along with less aggressive surgical resection will allow preservation of the rectum and rectal function and avoid the need for a stoma.
The NEO Trial (CCTG CO28)
The CCTG (Canadian Clinical Trials Group) CO28 Neoadjuvant chemotherapy, Excision and Observation (NEO) Trial has been activated at designated centers in the U.S. and Canada. It aims to treat patients diagnosed with T1-T3a/b, low- to mid-rectal tumors with neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by minimally invasive transanal surgery. Study objectives are to establish the feasibility and safety of this approach to allow sphincter preservation.
Current treatment of T1-T3 rectal tumors includes radical surgery with an open or laparoscopic total mesorectal excision (TME), while preoperative chemoradiation is added for patients with T3-T4 or N+ tumors. Population-based studies in the U.S. have documented an increasing use of local excision/transanal surgery in the treatment of T1 or T2 rectal tumors.1 However, a significant proportion of T1-T2 tumors are pathologically node-positive and the literature demonstrates an increased rate of local relapse when patients are treated with transanal local excision alone.2-4
Staging and treatment
Patients enrolled in CO28 are staged with pelvic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and endoscopy (see Figure 1). Clinically node-negative tumors that are eligible for the NEO trial must meet the following criteria: T1, T2, or T3a/b but extend less than 5 mm beyond the muscularis propira; amenable to minimally invasive transanal excision; and exhibit no high-risk pathology features.
Figure 1. Study schema of the NEO Trial, CO28
The primary endpoint is the rate of downstaging to pT0 or pT1 upon excision after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. The study will be considered successful if at least 65 percent of patients are managed with rectal organ preservation.
Patients are treated with three months of neoadjuvant chemotherapy with FOLFOX (Oxaliplatin, Leucovorin, and 5-Fluorouracil) or CAPOX (Capecitabine and Oxaliplatin). If evidence of tumor regression is found on rectal endoscopy and MRI, patients proceed to tumor excision by surgeons experienced in transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEMS) or transanal minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS). Participating surgeons must have performed at least 20 TEMS/TAMIS procedures and must submit an unedited video of the first patient they enroll.
Local excision is permitted for very low tumors when appropriate. Subsequent treatment is determined on the basis of tumor pathology on the resected specimen. Completely resected tumors downstaged to pT0 or pT1 without any histologic high-risk factors have a low risk of nodal involvement and are treated with observation.5,6 Endoscopic and cross-sectional imaging is repeated every four to six months for 36 months and annually in years four and five.
It is recommended that patients with tumors that do not achieve downstaging to pT1 after systemic chemotherapy proceed directly to standard TME surgery. Preoperative pelvic radiation is recommended only for patients with ypT3+ or node-positive tumors.
Study leads are Hagen Kennecke, MD, MHA, FRCPC, co-author of this column, and Carl J. Brown, MD, FACS, colon and rectal surgeon, Providence Health Care, Vancouver, BC. The study will be run by the Canadian Clinical Trials Group at select Canadian and U.S. cancer centers. Per-case funding will be provided and chemotherapy supply is expected to be commercially available. Contact email@example.com for study information and participation.
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- Salinas HM, Dursun A, Klos CL, et al. Determining the need for radical surgery in patients with T1 rectal cancer. Arch Surg. 2011;146(5):540-543.
- Sajid MS, Farag S, Leung P, Sains P, Miles WF, Baig MK. Systematic review and meta-analysis of published trials comparing the effectiveness of transanal endoscopic microsurgery and radical resection in the management of early rectal cancer. Colorectal Dis. 2014;16(1):2-14.
- You YN, Baxter NN, Stewart A, Nelson H. Is the increasing rate of local excision for stage I rectal cancer in the United States justified?: A nationwide cohort study from the National Cancer Database. Ann Surg. 2007;245(5):726-733.
- Monson JR, Weiser MR, Buie WD, et al. Standards practice task force of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. Dis Colon Rectum. 2013;56(5):535-550.
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Re^3: Powerset short-circuit optimizationby jimt (Chaplain)
|on Oct 25, 2006 at 21:27 UTC ( #580656=note: print w/replies, xml )
|Need Help??
This is a friggin' awesome problem. Lots of fun working on it. :-) But I think a solution is at hand.
My previous solution assumed that there was some sort of external criteria that would determine whether to skip generation of the powerset. Extensive private conversation with Limbic~Region plus his re-statement of the problem made it clear that that's not the case. Existence is the condition AND we need to worry about multiple sets and god knows what else. This will take time to explain.
I will run through some theory an explanation, then post the modified code, then further explain that.
The issue that other people were having was placement of the characters in the set. So if you start off with set ABC, you'll know to ignore AB. However, you need to keep track of "AB" somewhere in memory and then do a string comparison or the like. Expensive.
My original approach simply used set enumeration to flag sets as being valid or dupes or whatnot. But that wont work here. With the example set ABC, you'd flag BC (idx 6 by how my function counts). BCD comes along, but its idx 6 is CD. So you'd improperly skip over CD. Further, its BC is idx 3, which you'd duplicate. Not good.
We're going to fix this by using placeholders in the set by means of dead bits. This is far cheaper than you would initially think.
BC is 011 in our original set, and hey, in our newly modified set with the dead bit at position 0, BC is once again 011. So now we can safely exclude this set.
Note - this does not require the elements to be in sorted order, or even for you to know them in advance. We'll use an LZW style approach to keep assigning slots as we see them.
The order is irrelevent, but it does require that we build up an additional hash table mapping elements -> slots. Memory intensive, but relatively cheap - we only need to look into this index at the start of processing on a set.
But wait! You say, I glossed over a whole set of values up at the top! Let's return to them:
That's hugely inefficient. That's 8 checks we need to do just to get to a valid set. It spirals horribly out of control as you add more dead bits. Say, for example, you were using all letters of the alphabet. Your last set is just (z). By that point, z is in slot 25. So you'd have:
Thats 67,108,864 iterations through invalid sets before you find your one valid one. Fortunately, an xor can cause us to solve this in constant time.
Build up a new digit that is the |'ed (bitwise or) string of all of your dead bits. In this case, we'd have 11111111111111111111111110. Now, as part of your index incrementing loop, you & (bitwise and) your set candidate with the deadbit string. If you get back 0, then you're fine (there are no deadbits in your set index, so you continue with it. If you get back something other than zero, then you ^ (bitwise xor) your index with the deadbit string and then & it with the original (to ensure you don't accidentally turn on any bits that were previously off). This will remove all deadbits from your string and jump you to the next valid index past the deadbits.
Examples are in order:
The code must be modified to incorporate the deadbits, as well as given the ability to return and re-use our previously skipped indexes. Modifications are as follows. There's a fair bit of additional set up an logic required vs. the previous version, but it can spit out all the numbers as desired from node 580625 with only 39 calls to the iterator and by storing only 32 integers in memory. Most of the additional work and overhead are bitwise operations.
Update: Fixed a minor logic glitch that could cause dupes with specially crafted sets. This code should now be complete.
Update 2: Changed to pack as a little endian long (V) instead of just a long (L) to make cross platform compatible.
Update 3: Okay, I'm man enough to admit that all of my slick binary logic actually introduced a horrrible inefficiency (looping to see if a set should be skipped). Fixed with a hash lookup instead. Duh.
Update4: I think I've squeezed as much raw power out of this as I'm going to get. The newest version here requires the set elements be known in advance and it doen't print out the null set. Otherwise? It does work. Comparing against Limbic~Region's code below, mine is indeed still slower. Dang.
Current state of the art. Expects the data file to be passed on the command line:
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I took this photo and wrote the tanka imposed on it, if I remember correctly, over eight years ago. The energy bound up in the tension of this photo is trying to balance two sets of paradox. In a peace studies sense I was trying to balance the individual's need to contribute and offer a perspective of life and the need for the individual to give itself away into a larger whole so there can be harmony. On a personal level I was struggling with the tension of holding on to the sense of community and meaning I was finding in the human relationships among my fellow students and the reality that I was not willing to admit, that the course of life would take that particular togetherness and scatter it.
"A thousand grasses" among the fields of people that cover the earth. There are individual blades but grass is never properly understood as a single blade, its part of a larger patch at least and in this case a field. The field of human "being" is always in this bundled tension where boundaries blur amid the winds of life.
"Waving, spitting out the earth." We all consume something from earth and give something back. Something like the circle of life. But as we each participate in life's energies our contribution, our respiration, our reciprocity is markedly unique among sentient beings. How we do this and whether it is constructive and life giving or not lies within our boundaries. The person who understands wholeness understands that we are kings under our own umbrella. Within these boundaries we are called to contribute to the creation from the unique position we occupy in the world.
"They will all stand together." This is a human hope. It is a prayer. We don't stand together now and we will subject ourselves to various kinds of unjust and dehumanizing systems in order to stay together in false harmony. We are driven by insecurity; unless we have found the only satisfying security. "As we have heard, so we have seen in the city of the Lord Almighty, in the city of our God: God makes her secure forever." (Psalm 48:8, NIV). True harmony is in conformity with the truth and such a reality may demand us to suffer in dying to our old paradigms and ways of gaining security but it will bring deliverance from violence. Where I was once afraid, and continue to be so amidst the impermanence of life, I recognize that God alone is the remedy for all of my inconstancy.
"In the midst, together." In the midst of what? In the midst of that hope of resurrection and a new heavens and new earth. "The Church . . . will receive her perfection only in the glory of heaven, when will come the time of the renewal of all things. At that time, together with the human race, the universe itself, which is so closely related to man and which attains its destiny through him, will be perfectly re-established in Christ" (LG 48).
The ache of impermanence suggests we live for a better country and a city, a kingdom that will endure and hold us all in love. A city in which God will wipe away every tear from our eyes. Predicated on such a hope I can firmly declare amidst the winds of life there is a greater, divine wind that is gathering people from among the fields of the earth and establishing secretly in their hearts such a kingdom that cannot be shaken and in which "'love one another" is the rule. The incarnation of hope or the future reality of our hope stands in comes to us in the form of joy. Of the many responses to joy in life I think dancing together is among one of the more authentic responses we can have. Dance away.


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Technology at The Master's School
We are proud to deliver a program that is challenging, relevant, and Christ-centered in order to produce students who are well-known, well-taught, and well-prepared to enter an ever-changing world. Our world's global culture and evolving technology have brought to light a series of skills necessary to thrive in the years to come. These "21st-century skills" range from creativity and critical thinking to flexibility, media literacy, communication, and collaboration. While we recognize that teaching these skills has been a hallmark of a Master's School education for years, we are excited to embrace an increased and strategic use of technology in accordance with our long-term technology plan.
Technology Integrated into Curriculum
We recognize that certain technologies have become just as essential as pen and paper. We are actively integrating technology learning experiences into our curriculum, enhancing and deepening the learning process in a transparent and effective manner, while providing solid experiences interacting in an ever-increasing international digital culture.
Best in access for Everyone
We believe when students and teachers are equipped with the best tools and resources, they strive for excellence. By providing equal and uniform access to technology resources, and setting high expectations for achievement, we situate the student in an environment of success.
Creation and Consumption
Providing technology and resources is not enough. We require students to clearly articulate their understanding of complex materials by demonstration. We provide flexible tools which allow the student to not only explore new media, but also to have a hand in its creation. One distinguishing tool that we equip our students with is a digitizing pen, enabling hand written note taking, annotation and sketching, which we believe are critical to content absorption and idea formation.
Preparation for the Real world
Technology is synonymous with change. A popular and effective tool today may be replaced with something else in short order. The Master's School has opted to embrace flexible technologies, providing industry standard software and interfaces where appropriate, but prepared for agility and innovation in an ever changing landscape.
Teachers in grades K-6 have access to ipads and laptops for use within the classroom. Students are able to access engaging tools to bolster the classroom learning experience, under their teacher's guidance.
1:1 Technology
Students in grades 7-12 receive a Window-based, pen enabled convertible laptop to use for in class note taking, research, and homework. Students are able to access ebooks and library resources in and out of the classroom.
Teachers of grades 7-12 are equipped with a pen enabled convertible windows laptop. They are able to collaborate with students and grade homework electronically. Teachers integrate library resources and media to present rich and engaging lessons.


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Why do I need policies?
Without policies, it's impossible for your employees to know where the parameters are in your organisation or what their entitlements are……whether it's holiday, maternity leave or absence.
Some information can be detailed in the contract but more is needed, especially for more complicated processes like long term sickness absence or shared parental leave.
By giving your employees clear guidance, they will understand what is expected of them….but equally, and many times more importantly, what will happen if they don't follow them. Without clear, up-to-date policies you as an organisation can be open to complex people issues which take a lot of time and effort to resolve and can even result in a tribunal case.
At Cornerstone Resources we don't just provide off-the-shelf solutions, we can help tailor your HR policies so that they meet legal requirements and also fit the needs of your of your organisation.
What do I need?
ACAS recommend that the following main policies are in place:
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At Cornerstone Resources, we understand that you have competing demands on your budget. That's why we provide you with 2 options:
- Engage Cornerstone Resources to create bespoke policies or a company handbook for you based on your own ways of working
- Buy a template pack of policies for a fixed fee of £99, you then personalise them yourselves


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Guardian Force
One of the recurring features of the Final Fantasy series are the Summons. In previous games these took the form of very powerful magic spells, things changed in the eighth installment of the series. Guardian Forces (GFs) were intrinsically linked to the Junction System which the game employed, each character required at least one GF to be attached (or set) to him or her in order to wield magic in battle.
A GF is a powerful creature which can be junctioned by a character in order to gain use of its abilities. As battles are fought, Ability Points (AP) are earned and these can be used to let the GFs learn new abilities (everything from item creation to special abilities, such as the ever-present mug).
Note, that some Guardian Forces and screenshots of Guardian Forces contain unavoidable spoilers.
SHIVA[edit | edit source]
|Shiva is one of the first two GFs found in the game and one of the most commonly occurring in the series. Named after a Hindu Goddess, the portfolio of Shiva deals mainly with Ice.
QUEZACOTL[edit | edit source]
|Quezacotl is the other half of the starting pair of GFs. Vaguely resembling the feathered snake it is named after, this GF replaces the more obvious choice of Ramuh for a thunder element summon.
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$2.32 per serving.
Ask your butcher to cut a 1-pound roast for you, or buy a larger one (especially if it's on sale) and freeze the rest for later. Use a dark beer that's not too strong; stout will overpower the other ingredients.
How to Make It
Preheat oven to 300°.
Place flour in a shallow dish. Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Sprinkle beef evenly on all sides with 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper; dredge in flour. Add beef to pan; cook 10 minutes, turning to brown on all sides. Add broth and next 3 ingredients (through bay leaf), scraping pan to remove browned bits; bring to a boil. Cover and bake at 300° for 1 1/2 hours. Add carrots; cover and cook 25 minutes. Add remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, turnips, and onion; cover and cook an additional 1 hour and 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender and beef is fork-tender.
Remove beef and vegetables from pan; discard bay leaf. Cover beef mixture; keep warm. Let cooking liquid stand 10 minutes. Place a zip-top plastic bag inside a 2-cup glass measure. Pour cooking liquid into bag; let stand 10 minutes (fat will rise to the top). Seal bag; carefully snip off 1 bottom corner of bag. Drain cooking liquid into a medium bowl, stopping before fat layer reaches opening; discard fat. Serve cooking liquid with beef and vegetables. Sprinkle each serving with 1 tablespoon parsley.


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Death Be Not Proud
by Hugh Pickens May 17, 2008
Peter Militch was probably the best engineer I ever worked with in my life and he was also one of my best friends. Peter was born in Australia. Peter's father had served in Yugoslavia in WWII and ended up interned in Australia where he became a permanent resident of the country after the war and worked in mining in the outback in Australia.
Peter was born in Leigh Creek, a town of 900 people that was about 200 miles from the next town and 400 miles from the nearest real city. Leigh Creek was a government owned town - the government owned all the houses, "even the pub," said Peter. "There was no television, no radio, and only a couple of phones in the town. A couple of years ago the government figured out that the town lay right over the biggest seam of coal in Australia and bulldozed the town and built a new town for the inhabitants," Peter added. "So the town where I grew up is now a hole in the ground, 3 miles long and half a mile wide."
When Peter was 12 he and his mother and brother moved to Adelaide and lived just a short walk from the beach. Peter learned mechanics and he and his brother and friends loved to soup up go-carts and race them around the streets of the city eluding the police.
After Peter graduated from college with a degree in Electrical Engineering he went to work on the Deep Space Network in Canberra, Australia. In 1982, Peter came to the United States after he married Donna and went to work at Bendix Field Engineering as a field engineer supporting NASA's worldwide Ground Network.
NOAA GOES Weather Satellites
I first met Peter in 1985 and over the years he and I worked together on a number of projects. In 1992 NOAA's GOES weather satellites were at the end of their useful lives and could have failed at any time so NOAA made an agreement with the government of Germany to borrow a Meteosat Weather Satellite as a backup and drift it over from Europe to provide weather coverage for the US's Eastern seaboard in the event of an early GOES failure.
The only problem was that Meteosat was a pretty dumb satellite and had to be in constant contact with a Ground Station to operate so NOAA started a crash program to implement a Meteosat Ground Terminal at Wallops Island Virginia in six months. Peter and I wrote a proposal to build the ground terminal over the Christmas holidays in 1992 and won the job.
It was BFEC's first fixed price engineering contract and the project was basically run as a two man project with Peter handling the design and systems integration while I handled the scheduling, budgeting, logistics, and subcontractor management bringing in temporary technicians and installers as we needed them.
The key to the project's success was our decision to subcontract the one custom piece of equipment, a KA-Band triplexer to two different waveguide companies. We needed four couplers in all so we awarded a contract for one each to MDL and to M/A-Com with the carrot that we would award the contract for the other two to the first company to finish. Our strategy worked. At the end of the project, we had completed the Meteosat Ground System on schedule and on budget and made 15% profit on BFEC's first fixed price contract.
The GRTS Project: A TDRS Ground Terminal in Australia
In the early 1990's the tape recorder for NASA's $450 million Gamma Ray Observatory failed and the spacecraft's capabilities were severely degraded because the quality of the data depended on getting hours long runs of data relayed through TDRS which was impossible because the spacecraft passed through the "zone of exclusion" on the other side of the earth at least twice a day.
NASA came up with a radical solution of solving the problem by building a TDRS Ground Terminal in Australia and came to Bendix to help implement it. The TDRS Ground Terminal in White Sands had cost $600 million and took ten years to build but NASA asked us to build a stripped down Ground Terminal, co-locate it at the DSN Station in Camberra Australia and build it in 13 months. I was BFEC's Project Manager on the GRTS Project which eventually grew to an engineering team of about 25 engineers and Peter played one of the key roles on the project because the station had be be remote controllable from White Sands and Peter conceptualized and designed the remote control subsystem. We came in on schedule and on budget with a TDRS system that cost $12 million.
FAISAT Transceivers
I think Peter's biggest technical challenge was designing and building five radio transceivers to go aboard FAISAT's 2v telecommunications satellite. Each transceiver weighed just over 5 pounds and was the size of a couple of paperback books. "They look for very low level signals coming from the ground at any of the several thousand frequencies, and then process them, decode them, and send them on to the spacecraft computer - all in a matter of milliseconds," said Peter. Each radio unit had three computers executing a total of twelve thousand lines of code in 256 bytes of RAM. Peter led a team that designed and built the radios with less than half a dozen engineers.
NOAA Fairbanks Autonomous Ground Stations
But the project that would pay the biggest dividends is one that Peter had dreamed about for ten years - building a fully autonomous satellite ground station that would operate for extended periods of time with little or no human intervention. The station Peter and Mike Anderson built for NOAA at their Fairbanks ground station had a front end with three 13-meter satellite tracking systems operating at L-Band, S-Band and X-Band frequencies. The station included a robust scheduler that permitted remote users to request pass activities for supported missions, built a human-readable control script that tracked spacecraft, received telemetry data, and archived it for post-processing activities. The system Peter designed and installed in Fairbanks became the prototype for a far larger system that he and Mike would build later for the DOD.
Working as an Engineer
I once asked Peter if he would ever retire as an engineer and he told me he wasn't sure but he didn't think so. "Working as an engineer is like getting paid for your hobby," Peter said. "Maybe I'll leave the company when I complete my thirty years and do something else in engineering. Maybe I'll go to work for a startup - that would be fun."
But Peter wasn't just interested in engineering. Peter was a voracious reader, going through a book a day and he could discuss any subject intelligently from computer design to history, to cognitive science. His hobbies included riding his motorcycle on cross country trips he made every few years and building an airplane in his spare time - a Cozy Mark IV #740 that he had spent three years on, completing the nose, spars, and beginning the wings.
Mobilizing the Citizens of Laurel Maryland
A lot of people don't know that in the 1990's Peter played a large part in mobilizing the citizens of Laurel to prevent Jack Kent Cooke from building a football stadium for his NFL team in the city. "Peter and his group analyzed maps, data and traffic patterns. We often sat until 1 or 2 a.m. preparing a case that amazed even the most cynical developer representatives," wrote Jeanne Mignon. "Peter never complained about the long hours; in fact, as we ate pizza and talked, he seemed quite in his element. Peter is an engineer. He is precise and communicates clearly. He is also wily and determined. His ideas for stymieing our opponents often bordered on brilliance. He foresaw their strategies, their weaknesses and their arrogance."
Peter's Legacy
When I talked to Peter at his home a few weeks ago, I asked Peter what he thought his legacy would be. "I think it will be my daughters. I am really proud of them," Peter said. "You know they are very kind and I think that kindness is about the most important human attribute."
I think Peter had kindness in him. In the years I worked with him I never once heard him raise his voice or lose his temper. Peter always believed that the facts would speak for themselves and it wasn't necessary to present emotional arguments to support a position. When Peter discovered he had cancer he approached the problem like any other. "A weaker individual would have succumbed to self-pity," wrote Jeanne Mignon. "Peter, true to form, researched and advocated for every possible avenue for cure, remission or delay of the tumor engulfing his system." Peter had a quiet dignity as he faced his condition philosophically. There was a strength in Peter that bordered on divine - you could feel it in his presence.
After his long struggle with cancer Peter died at his home in Laurel, Maryland on May 15, 2008 in the arms of his wife Donna who was devoted to Peter's care. Peter is survived by his wife and two daughters and by his mother, father, and brother in Australia.
Peter was 52 years old.
I will miss Peter and think about him every day for the rest of my life.
External Links
- Original Story Published on May 17, 2008 that includes comments from Peter's friends
- The GRTS Project: A TDRS Ground Terminal in Australia
- NOAA Fairbanks Autonomous Ground Station
- European weather satellite moves closer to United States
- GOES Satellites ensure Fair Warning of Foul Weather
- FAISAT Transceivers
About the Author
Hugh Pickens (Po-Hi '67) is a physicist who has explored for oil in the Amazon jungle, commissioned microwave communications systems across the empty quarter of Saudi Arabia, and built satellite control stations for Goddard Space Flight Center in Australia, Antarctica, Guam, and other locations around the world. Retired in 1999, Pickens and his wife of 33 years moved from Baltimore back to his hometown of Ponca City, Oklahoma in 2005 where he cultivates his square foot garden, mows seven acres of lawn, writes about local history, photographs events at the Poncan Theatre, produces the annual Oklahoma Pride series with his wife at Ponca Playhouse, and recently sponsored the first formal dinner in the Marland Mansion in 75 years. Pickens is presently in the process of planning the construction of an Art Museum in Northern Oklahoma. Pickens can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pickens' Publishing
In 1996, Pickens edited and published My Life In Review: Have I Been Lucky of What?, the memoirs of Jack Crandall, professor of history at SUNY Brockport. Since 2001 Pickens has edited and published "Peace Corps Online," serving over one million monthly pageviews. Pickens' other writing includes contributing over 2,000 stories to "Slashdot: News for Nerds," and articles for Wikipedia, and "Ponca City, We Love You". Pickens has written the following articles available on his wiki at Research and Ideas.
- My Biography of Jon Carson -The Man Who Won the Presidential Nomination for Barack Obama (>700,000 pageviews)
- My Discovery that Barack Obama's Mother Grew Up in Ponca City February 6, 2009 (>300,000 pageviews)
- Academy Award Winning Screenwriter Chris Terrio (>400,000 pageviews)
- Biography of Ninja of Go! Team (Nkechi Ka Egenamba)
- History of the 100-Year Old Oil Refinery in Ponca City, Oklahoma (>535,000 pageviews)
- My Uncle Donald and America's Fresh Water Submarines in World War II (>110,000 pageviews)
- What Happened to Okies after "The Grapes of Wrath" (30,000 pageviews)
- The Pioneer Woman Models Come Home to Ponca City February 26, 2010
- President Barack Obama's Mother Grew Up in Ponca City February 6, 2009
Science and Technology
- Stories on Slashdot
- Stories on Soylent News
- Building NASA's GRO Remote Terminal System (GRTS) in Australia
- Why I enjoy Writing for Slashdot
- Why I enjoy Writing for Wikipedia
Business and Investing
- An Independent Evaluation of Phillips 66, its Business Strategy, and Execution (>970,000 pageviews)
- Latest News from Phillips 66 (>450,000 pageviews)
- A History of the Ponca Refinery in Ponca City (>268,000 pageviews)
- A Financial Model for Tucows and Ting (>960,000 pageviews)
Ponca City, Oklahoma
- Hugh and Dr. S. J. Pickens Sponsor First Dinner Served in E. W, Marland Formal Dining Room in 75 Years December 18, 2016
- "Lydie Marland in the Afterlife" Reinterprets the Life of Ponca City's Controversial First Lady June 30, 2017
- The Pioneer Woman Models Should Return to Ponca City July 13, 2007
- The Pioneer Woman Models Come Home to Ponca City February 26, 2010
- President Barack Obama's Mother Grew Up in Ponca City February 6, 2009
- Standing Bear Looks to the Future
- Ponca City, We Love You
- What to See in Ponca City
- Ponca Playhouse to Present "The Broken Statue" January 17, 2012
- What Ponca City Owes EW Marland June 20, 2012
- How Much Money Does the Marland Refinery in Ponca City Earn for Phillips 66? July 23, 2012
- EW Marland and the Movie "The Ends of the Earth" (320,000 pageviews) May 23, 2013
- Sculptor Bryant Baker's Lost Masterpiece November 3, 2015
- Ponca Playhouse Production of "Lydie Maryland in the Afterlife" Ends in Triumph
Pickens Museum
- Pickens Museum
- Doctor Pickens Museum Facebook Page
- Meet the Team that is Going to Design Doctor Pickens Museum
- World's Largest Naja on Display Outside Ponca City by Stephen Schwark
- A 1949 Hudson Limousine
- Jo Davidson Sculpture from 1929
- Native American Artist Tonya Rafael Visits Ponca City
- Pickens Museum Opens New Exhibition "Winter in New York" by Roger Disney
- The Three Faces of the Pioneer Woman by Daniel Pickens
- Letter from a Birmingham Jail by Faith Ringgold
- The Turquoise Guitar by Jolene Bird
- Sculptor Bryant Baker's Lost Masterpiece November 3, 2015
- Doctor Pickens Museum of Turquoise Jewelry and Art
- The Pioneer Woman Models Should Return to Ponca City July 13, 2007
- The Pioneer Woman Models Come Home to Ponca City February 26, 2010
- Ponca Playhouse to Present "The Broken Statue" January 17, 2012
- EW Marland and the Movie "The Ends of the Earth" May 23, 2013
- Sculptor Bryant Baker's Lost Masterpiece November 3, 2015
- A Ponca City Mystery - Who is this man? April 5, 2018
- Ponca Playhouse Presents: August Osage County"
- Biography of Ninja of Go! Team (Nkechi Ka Egenamba)
Peace Corps Writing
- Peace Corps Online
- Peace Corps Library
- The Peace Corps "Sharp Incident" in Kazakhstan
- Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing on the Nominee for Peace Corps Director
- An Interview with Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter
- An Interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez
- A Profile of Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams
- Dr. S. J. Pickens October 21, 2017
- The Anger and the Guilt I can Handle - It's the 'Missing Her' I Can't Stand June 1, 2018
- My Uncle Donald and America's Fresh Water Submarines in World War II (>90,000 pageviews)
- Death Be Not Proud
- My Favorite Christmas
- A Victorian Mansion in Baltimore's Reservoir Hill
- Remembering John D MacDonald and His House on Siesta Key
- Remembrances of My Life as a Geophysical Observer with Petty Geophysical Working in the Amazon Jungle in Peru in the early 1970's
- My blog on Facebook
- Miscellaneous Answers on Quora on Investing, Day Trading, Becoming a Millionaire, Human Loss, and Faking Your Own Death
Phillips 66
For nearly 100 years oil refining has provided the bedrock of Ponca City's local economy and shaped the character of our community. Today the Ponca City Refinery is the best run and most profitable of Phillips 66's fifteen worldwide refineries. The purpose of this collection of reports is to provide a comprehensive overview of Phillips 66's business that documents and explains the company's business strategy and execution of that strategy.


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Marriott International is following the lead of Sheraton and totally revamping its hotel lobbies, according to this story in the Washington Post today. The chain, which is based in Maryland, tapped Palo Alto design firm Ideo to create a branded interior that is more welcoming, useful, and comfortable for business travellers. Some of the additions have a duh quality to them (PCs with web access and tables around which a small group may sit.) But I think the general idea of turning the hotel lobby into more of a space where you can camp out and work is a good one. I think every hotel lobby should have a wine tasting in the late afternoon (a la the Kimpton Group based in San Francisco.) I also think hotels should let a select few marketers use lobby space to offer freebies like the latest razor or toothpaste or what not to their guests. I say this because (a.) I love freebies, and (b.) I always forget a razor. How would you improve hotel lobbies?
Building a Better Hotel Lobby
By Mike Hofman@mikehofman
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Workers get their jobs back after "stealing" uniforms
THREE employees whose employment was terminated after CCTV footage captured them finding and taking uniform items from an open cardboard box in their workplace have been reinstated by the Fair Work Commission.
The employees were initially stood down by their employer pending an investigation into the conduct.
During the investigation the employees were represented by their union. In a strange sequence of events, after reviewing the CCTV footage, the union asked the employer whether it would allow the employees to resign. It came to light in the hearing that the employees were not aware that the union had done this.
The resignation proposal was rejected and the evidence was that the employer wanted to make an example of these employees by dismissing them and indicated that the police may be contacted.
There were further discussions about the resignation proposal (again without the employees' knowledge), that resulted in the employer reluctantly agreeing to allow them to resign. The union then dictated the resignation letters for each of the employees to write and their resignations were provided to the employer.
The employees commenced unfair dismissal claims on the basis they were forced to resign.
In the decision, the Fair Work Commission accepted that the employees were forced to resign as an alternative to the employer terminating the employees for serious misconduct and calling the police.
The FWC then went on to find that the conduct by the employees was not "theft, or serious and wilful misconduct".
Instead, the FWC stated that "the proper characterisation of the wrong doing of [the employees] was a failure to follow the prescribed procedure for acquiring uniform work clothing".
The FWC was 'not convinced' that the evidence was of sufficient quality 'to enable [it] to be satisfied that the applicants intended to permanently deprive [the employer] of the items of uniform work clothing'.
The FWC then noted the employees clean employment histories and found that the dismissal of these employees was disproportionate to the conduct. Accordingly, the employees were reinstated.
- Lisa Aitken is an accredited specialist in workplace relations law and the principal of Aitken Legal, which specialises in employment law for employers. The information in this column is intended as a guide only. Liability limited by a scheme approved under professional standards legislation. Click here for more information about Aitken Legal.


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"I'm both cautiously optimistic and strategic when choosing the keynote speaker to kick-off an event of this magnitude, and quite simply put… you under promised and over delivered! Your sheer enthusiasm and excitement for the establishment of a work-life balance was a "true speaker to listener" connection that synergized the entire rest of the day and set an amazing tone for the conference. Your passion was contagious!"Patti Kimbrough – Director of Special Events & Government Affairs, Fayetteville, AR
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Direct Your Own Production
Mix the Play is an interactive video platform that invites you to create a scene from two of Shakespeare's most loved plays, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet. Using film samples and effects, you can control a range of elements, including casting, setting, costumes, acting style and music.
The platform is simple and intuitive and it is easy to share your creations on social media. You do not require any prior knowledge of directing.
Make your own scene now on https://mixtheplay.britishcouncil.org/ and experience Shakespeare as you never have before.


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As we approach the biggest day of the year for Irish Catholics (and Irish protestants too) it's good to give the monks of the Emerald Isle credit for saving Catholic and secular civilization way back in the sixth century. For a detailed description of these events, Thomas Cahill's excellent book, How the Irish Saved Civilization is a wonderful resource. This post only skims the surface.
The early Irish were fascinated with letters. Since they were poor people, they would often borrow great books and then painstakingly copy them, letter by letter; word by word. They would combine Greek and Roman alphabets with their own Ogham alphabet to create books that were also works of art. Any visit to Dublin should include a trip to Trinity College to see the Book of Kells, a hand-copied book of Scriptures, created around 800.
Monks living in monasteries all over Ireland, as well as several on islands off the Irish shore spent their days copying the great works of European literature.
As the barbarians overran continental Europe, the Irish monks were minding their own business, copying everything they could get their hands on. In the process of conquering the Continent, the barbarians destroyed the literature of the past. The past was obliterated, except on that tiny island in the North Sea.
To make a long story short, the barbarians couldn't be bothered conquering a small, desolate island like Ireland, so the literature of Greece and Rome lived on in the monk's libraries. While the continent suffered through the "Dark Ages", the Irish were keeping the candle lit and would bring the light back to the Continent, possibly flavored with a little Irish wit and humor.
The "White Martyrs", so named because they sailed off into the white horizon never to return, would replant the seeds of ancient civilization in the many monasteries they founded all over Europe, even as far south as present-day Italy. So, when we read the ancient works of the great Greek and Roman writers, we have to assume that the Irish monks copied them exactly as written. But who knows, since they all passed through Irish hands, there might be just a little bit of blarney here and there.
It's cool the the Irish Catholic monks of the Emerald Isle kept this great literature alive, especially if you happen to be a descendant of the Auld Sod yourself. And this weekend, who isn't?
Tomorrow: What do you think?
Filed under: Lent, Life, Saints, Uncategorized | Tagged: Book of Kells, Catholicism, Dublin, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill |


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Not many people realize that Congressman Frank Pallone is also a blogger extraordinaire, he contributes regulary to the Daily Kos.
This morning he published the following piece that announces his campaign for re-election kick-off event in Long Branch on Sunday afternoon:
With yesterday's primary election in the books, the journey to November's general election starts right now.
While we still don't know who our opponent will be, we do know she will either be a self-funding billionaire or the darling of the tea party. We also know that, no matter what, we will be facing a well-funded right-wing assault seeking to turn back the clock to the Bush/Cheney policies that have caused so many problems for our state and nation.
Congressman Frank Pallone's diary :: ::
I treat every election the same, no matter who is on the ballot: run hard and let the voters know of the work we've done to make their lives better. I've been fighting hard every day to deliver real results for the 6th District. I've fought to create and protect jobs, while opposing trade agreements that destroy jobs and give tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. I've safeguarded our beaches and am holding corporate polluters accountable by forcing them to foot the bill for cleaning up their toxic waste sites. And I've worked hard on health care reform that will help everyone across the nation.
But there is still much work to be done, and I simply can not continue my work without your support. So I hope you will join me at my hometown headquarters, as we kick-off my re-election campaign. It's not going to be anything fancy – just some food and refreshments – but it will give us all a chance to get to work, making sure the 6th Congressional District stays blue.
Sunday, June 13th
2:30pm – 4:30pm
Pallone for Congress Campaign Headquarters
495 Broadway, Long Branch, NJ
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or to firstname.lastname@example.com
Over the coming months, I am going to need help from all of you – the progressive activists who have always made up the backbone of my grassroots campaigns. Together, we will keep fighting to put people to work, make continued investment in renewable energy sources and our infrastructure, and make sure our most vulnerable citizens – children, the impoverished and our seniors – have access to quality, affordable healthcare.
Although it may almost be summer – when many of us are dreaming of days at the beach and barbecues with families and friends – we can not afford to be lackadaisical. Today is when the real fight begins.
So please stop by on Sunday, and be sure to bring your friends and family. As always, don't forget to follow me on Twitter and Facebook for the latest updates on what I'm doing for New Jersey's 6th District, both here at home and down in Washington.


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People may wonder why I want to revisit some of the most painful periods of my life on this website. One of my hopes in creating this website is that young athletes, fans of beach volleyball, will come to it to learn about how I have become the person I am today. Much of what makes me who I am today are the experiences I have gone through – good and bad. While injuries can seem devastating in the moment they occur, much can be learned from them and they can help us develop and grow as a person. I believe the human body and mind are much stronger than what most people give them credit to be. Read on if you want to learn about some of the obstacles I have overcome in my journey to become the person I am today.
My most significant injury came at the end of my sophomore year of college. We were losing in the NCAA tournament round of 16 at Stanford University to Oral Roberts. We had lost games one and two and were down 12-4 in game 3. I came into the middle of the court to hit a ball out of the middle and then was moving back outside when I slipped on the wet floor and my right leg went out from under me. I landed full force on my inward buckling knee. I tore my ACL and MCL completely apart. My leg was left dangling with not much keeping it together.
My doctor wanted to wait for one month before surgery so that my MCL could start to repair itself and I could get some strength and mobility back in my leg. I had to be immobilized for 10 days from hip to ankle in a cast. After the cast was removed, I had to work on getting some mobility back into my stiffened knee.
When I went in for surgery, my doctor used the middle third of my right patellar tendon as the graft for my new ACL in my left knee. He also had to make 20 lateral incisions into my MCL to make it bleed so that it would heal itself. The surgery went very well and when I woke up in the recovery room I was already doing rehab exercises! My leg was in a mobility machine that kept it flexing and straightening.
The first few days of rehab were the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Besides being extremely painful, you simply can't do much. My lifestyle had to change. Now my biggest challenge was getting up with my walker and making it to the bathroom. I did not even have one good leg to hop on. Both of my knees had been cut open and I now had 4 inch scars on them both. I remember one of the most challenging things I had to do was sit at the edge of my bed and let my legs dangle over the side. This was terrifying to me because I was sure that my stitches were going to tear open in addition to it being extremely painful. Several times I was right on the edge of passing out because the pain was so intense.
Thankfully the first 2 weeks are by far the worst. I was walking around at that point and making good gains with my mobility. I was fortunate enough to be in a situation where rehabbing was my top priority (besides my classes, of course!) Several hours each day were devoted to getting back into top shape. There were 5 of us athletes at Notre Dame whom all had ACL reconstructions within a week of each other. We were a good support group for each other as we would have competitions with who could get the most flexion or the most extension. It was the athlete in us all that kept us competing even through something like rehabilitation.
At 3 weeks post-operation, I was able to start playing mini games of one-on-one basketball. My vertical was non-existent, but the lateral moving and getting over the fear of hurting me again was the big aim. This helped tremendously because once I stepped back on the volleyball court, I was not afraid. However, I would stop practice if there was water or sweat on the floor and wipe it up. Thankfully, all the hard work paid off and I recovered to 100% in a little over 4 months. The timing of the injury could not have been better (if there is such a thing as good timing!) I missed the last 3 points of the season and was able to make a return at 100% for the next year. However, the good fortune didn't last long.
We were about half way through our season when I injured myself again. I am not really sure how it happened because there wasn't any one painful movement or situation that really made me think that I hurt myself. But, this time it was a piece of cartilage that had broken off in my left knee. Somehow the cartilage wedged itself between the tibia and the meniscus and worked its way from the front of my knee to the back. It left two deep grooves in my tibia. Since the bone was damaged, the recovery was long. There was no rehab to do, except take it easy and let the bone heal. This meant about 16 weeks of NOTHING. I had to limit walking and all impact on my knee so that it would heal quickly. This injury was probably the most frustrating to me because there was nothing I could do about it. I had to sit out the remainder of the season (which was only half way through).
Watching from the sidelines was very difficult knowing that there is nothing you can do to help your team. However, being forced into the situation brought about a new maturity for me. I learned so much about myself and my body. That knowledge continues to help me overcome obstacles on the volleyball court and in everyday life. The mental challenge of getting through serious injuries has helped me to realize that my mind is my biggest ally. My body will respond to whatever my mind tells it to do. I wanted to test my mind and body by pushing them to the limits. While doing so I realized that there are no limits. The only limits are the ones you set for yourself.


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Arkansas Music Pavilion Walton Arts Center. $32-$77. UPDATE: This concert has been moved to the decidedly more indoors Walton Arts Center.
UPDATE II:The Walton Arts Center just announced that this show has been canceled because of "a family emergency in the band's home town of Atlanta." Dang. The press release further states that "although best efforts have been explored to reschedule, based on the band's current schedule, there are no dates available at this time. Therefore, this is a cancellation as opposed to a postponement. All tickets will be refunded in full. Box office representatives will be calling ticket holders to issue refunds in the next 36 hours."
Is there a shaggier, stoned-er, more hippie-fied, genre-defying, consistently great, loveable, frayed-but-not-torn bunch of rock 'n' roll survivors than The Black Crowes? I think not.
Seriously, what other band can come close to The Crowes' streak of fantastic albums over the course of the last nearly 25 years? They started out as a bell-bottomed, Stones-'n'-Faces-loving blues-rock swagger machine and evolved over the years into an all-encompassing amalgam of rock, soul, blues, folk, country and R&B, all wrapped up comfortably in a wooly jam-band vibe that fits like a perfectly broken-in denim jacket.
Sure, they took a couple of hiatuses here and there, being that brothers will sometimes get to feuding with one another. But they always seem to work it out and answer the call of the road, and of their devoted fanbase. You know this is gonna be a great show.


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SQLBackupAndFTP 12.4.8
Runs scheduled backups of SQL Server databases, zips them and sends to an FTP.
What's New
SQLBackupAndFTP can schedule daily jobs to backup your SQL Server and SQL Server Express databases, zip and encrypt the backups, FTP the backups to a remote FTP Server or save it on the LAN, send you an e-mail confirmation on job's success or failure.
What can SQLBackupAndFTP do?
SQLBackupAndFTP is MS SQL Server backup software that runs scheduled backups (full, differential or transaction log) of SQL Server or SQL Server Express databases (any version), runs file/folder backup, zips and encrypts the backups, stores them on a network or on a FTP server, removes old backups, and sends an e-mail confirmation on job's success or failure. It can also backup remote/hosted databases using script backup.
What's unique about SQLBackupAndFTP software?
Simple: SQLBackupAndFTP is unique in its simplicity - the whole "set it and forget it" job can be done in a single form with no tabs in a minute of two.
All-in-one: The whole backup - zip - ftp - confirm process is integrated as 1-2-3 (4)
Inexpensive or free: Comparable functionality starts in programs from $200. In SQLBackupAndFTP you can use a free version (if you need to schedule one or two databases), or upgrade to a Standard version for $69 $59 to get unlimited scheduled SQL Server database backups. Professional adds AES encryption and FTP options for $99 $79
Credible: Created by a US based software company with years in .NET and SQL Server experience
What's New:
- Bugfix (CPU utilization, "A specified logon session does not exist" error, service scheduler misbehaviour)
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Creek House / Tham & Videgård Arkitekter
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The site is located on the south western coast of Sweden in an old agricultural area gently sloping down towards the sea. In the midst of a vast and open cultivated landscape, this plot constitute an exception as it is planted with many different trees and flowering bushes, lending it the character of a small botanic garden. The big trees stand close together and the sun is filtered through a roof like foliage that covers most of the parcel. Adding to the idyllic setting, there is also a small creek meandering through the garden. As the trees and plants also function as a shield from the strong winds, we decided that the house had to be carefully inserted between the tree trunks. The home is spread out over a single storey, carefully adapted to the natural features of the site. Each function is contained in a separate spatial unit making the program legible as boxes of varying scales and heights: the building consists of a series of solid, loosely arranged volumes constructed from deep red handmade bricks. These brick blocks are linked together to create both interior and exterior spaces and spatial connections, giving the lot—despite its limited size—an abundance of different small places. As a result, the complex of spaces cannot be overviewed from a single point and appears larger, somewhat like a hidden world.
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