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Half-Life: On Turning 35 And Leaving RPS
Today I hit half my biblically allotted time on Earth. I'm also leaving RPS' full-time staff. That's my last regular commitment as a "real" games journalist. These fifteen years have been a pleasure.
For a little more of what it means for the pirate-ship that is RPS, read on.
In short: Don't worry too much.
This hasn't been a sudden thing. "Kieron Leaves On September 30th" has been on the RPS Calender for most of the year. As such, we've had plenty of time to bring Quinns in as the new regular writer. You'll all have seen by now exactly how lightning-in-a-bottle he is and what he brings to the site. I can't wait to see what he'll do next.
Equally, while I'm not on the regular staff I'll remain a Director of RPS, so be involved in shaping the site's future. More importantly, I remain a gamer whose main response the medium is going on big rants. When I decide I want to write ten thousand words on an indie strategy game no-one else gives a toss about, there's not a power in the world that can stop me. Unfortunately. My dilettante ass will be showing up whenever I have something worthwhile to say. In other words, I'll basically be filling the position Quinns was before he came on full time.
Take-away message number 1: Quinns is the new me. I'm the new Quinns.
Those who follow my career may be wondering whether this actually has anything to do with me signing an exclusive contract with Marvel. Well… yes and no. Yes, it affected the timing. Not because it has anything to do with whether I can write games journalism or not, but because with the contract signed I felt it important to give my full, undivided and primary attention to the comic-writing.
However, no, it didn't affect whether I was leaving or not. I'd be leaving around now anyway. When Jim floated the idea for RPS back in 2007, I wasn't sure whether I wanted to offer my oar for the Viking longship. I knew it'll be a long haul to get it to a position to actually make money. I also knew that I was kind of half out the door anyway. If I was going to do a load of work for no money, I'd be much better off doing indie comics for no cash. That would feed into where I wanted to be heading.
On the other hand: how could I say no?
It was a site which needed to exist. Number one on my list of unfulfilled games journalist desires was "I'd like to launch a mag". It took me a while to actually realise that's what RPS was, but a chance to build something on our own terms, embodying what the four of us believed about writing was pretty much irresistible. If I was going to leave games journalism, I'd like to leave something like RPS behind.
The point being: to leave it behind. I knew that as soon as the site was commercially valid, I'd probably be out the door.
We had Eurogamer take over our ads early this year. You'll have noticed that we've started having a more commercial class of adverts. While we're resolutely anti-pop-up and multiple-pages and all that, some of you may have been a little annoyed by it. You'll also hopefully have noticed the greater amount of content, from multiple feature posts per day to just a general amount of news churn. Soon, you'll see improvements to the site infrastructure – starting with the comments threads. And there's other special things which we've got lined up for the near future. The ads money has made all that possible.
The ads money and the readership, because ads without anyone to read them are worthless. Pulling up the stats for the last 30 days, and we had 770,959 unique visitors and 4,871,919 page impressions. These are not small figures. We're the largest generalist PC games site in the anglophone sphere.
Readership + Ads = Money = A sustainable site.
Thank you for reading. Assuming you aren't running adblock, just by doing so you're helping to pay for us to make the site better. And, as always, a special shout out to the people who are paying us directly – the RPS subscribers.
Take-away message number 2: I'm not leaving RPS because it's failed. I'm leaving RPS because it's successful, and so no longer needs me.
But I am, in a real way, leaving RPS.
I won't be sitting in the chat-room, posting sexy renders of the latest guns and making terrible puns based around bad pop music – and if you want the one real change from me leaving, it'd be a downturn in references to mid-nineties zine-kid glitterpop.
Of course, I'm sentimental – sentimental enough to fire off a last round from the games-journalism-journalism gun elsewhere. I've been a professional games journo for the last fifteen years. I've been doing this for longer than some of you have been alive. However, I'm aware of how lucky I've been. When I left PC Gamer back in 2003 to go freelance, I assumed that I'd basically done the big body of work which I felt which would have been my highpoint. Those five, drunken years on the mag would be basically as good as my games journalist experience would get. And despite some of the stuff I got up to after I left – don't mention the war – all of that rested on those five years. And part of me was a little sad that it was as good as it got. I never really got to have my own Amiga Power.
Which is why I'm lucky. Against all expectations, when I thought I'd seen and done everything I could do in the field, the last three years have confounded those lessons. It could be better. It could be anything. RPS broke my heart and patched it back together on a daily basis. I consider it the absolute highpoint of my career. I'm very lucky.
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OK, so maybe we're not really talking "spooky" here. It really would have been bone-chillingly scary though, for the officers and crew of the Peter Iredale, a four-masted steel barque that was headed for Portland, Oregon on October 25, 1906. Due to the deadly combination of the rising tide, dense fog, strong winds and rough seas, the Peter Iredale ran aground in the dark of that fateful night. Interestingly enough, not one soul was lost among the ship's crew of 27, including two stowaways. With any other fate, this scene might have been considered quite eerie!
Over one hundred years since it ran aground, the bones of the Peter Iredale's rusted bow and masts are still visible jutting out from the sandy beach at Fort Stevens State Park near Warrenton, Oregon. Easily accessible, this shipwreck is a crowd-pleasing tourist stop, especially if one is interested in the history and lore of the Graveyard of the Pacific. It certainly was a thriller for me!
To find the remains of the Peter Iredale: When heading north on Oregon Hwy 101 from Seaside veer left onto Columbia Beach Road/Ridge Road. Turn left on Peter Iredale Road. It's a short jaunt over the dunes to the shipwreck from the rather large parking lot. The route is very well signed. Restrooms are available here.
Related links:
Maryport Sailing Ship Peter Iredale (Mighty Seas)
Transcript of the Naval Court findings (Issued in London by the Board of Trade on the 24th December 1906.)
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I tried to install Ubuntu 12.10 but for some reason the process stopped half-way and wouldn't progress, after some time waiting I decided to reboot and to my surprise my D: partition, where I have some files stored, was entirely occupied by Ubuntu.
I assume that the filesystem of the partition was changed from NFTS to ext4, so I lost access to the files on Windows. Later I recreated the D: partition again as NFTS, with its original size, and didn't do anything else with it, hoping that none of the files would be overwritten, but the partition was empty. I expected that, as I assume during the Ubuntu installation, the partition is formatted.
However I was hoping it would be possible to recover them. I already used PhotoRec tool to try the recovery of such files but all I am retrieving is thousands of text files, apart from a few intact files randomly named.
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My husband ordered a new tabletop tree!
Can it get any better than this?
My husband ordered a new tabletop tree!
Can it get any better than this?
"Hail him who saves you by his grace,
and crown him Lord of all."
Congrats on the new tree!
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Enjoy and don't forget to post photos
Merry Snowy Christmas
Love & Peace to the World
Congrats for that..
Have a blasting Christmas this year!1
How exciting! Don't forget to post pictures when you get it up
Baww... I've got especially gooey over this thread for some reason I love logging on to this forum in the mornings during these months in the run up to Christmas - gets me in the Christmas spirit every time! What better way to start the day?
Super cool! Boy, that would be a good way to get in my good graces...My hubs is so grinchy...
A Very Merry Christmas to all!


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David Cameron looks well and truly skewered by the revelations about the benefits he has received from offshore accounts. Reading a summary of Cameron's financial affairs, it is known that his wife's step-father own a chunk of Jura. But the reports I read indicates that the land in Jura benefitted from being offshore. Er...it is an island!
Do you reckon this has damaged the PM? And when he goes, who will we get next?


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A file titled "Suicide Note" was recovered from the desktop computer in the bedroom of a man called responsible for the killings of three people in Orange County, California, last month, authorities said Friday.
The note had indications that Ali Syed was responsible for premeditated and planned acts, according to Orange County Sheriff-Coroner Sandra Hutchens. "Although this investigation will continue, to date, Orange County Sheriff's homicide investigators have not found any prior connection/relationship between Syed and any of his victims."
The suicide note was created within an hour of a 911 call from the suspect's residence, authorities said of a preliminary computer forensic analysis.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former state lawmaker and longtime Republican activist Allen Quist says wants to return to the Minnesota Legislature.
Quist says in a news release Friday he'll run for the House seat vacated by Terry Morrow, a St. Peter Democrat who resigned shortly after winning reelection.
Quist lost to U.S. Rep. Tim Walz in November. The conservative former college professor is a longtime participant in Minnesota politics: in 1994, he snatched the GOP endorsement away from sitting Gov. Arne Carlson, only to lose to Carlson in a primary. He served in the state House from 1983 to 1989.
Democrats Robin Courrier and Karl Johnson are running for the seat, which covers Nicollet County and parts of Mankato. Tim Gieseke plans an Independence Party bid. Gov. Mark Dayton has not yet called a special election.
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Meringue hearts
Let this special someone know you've got your eye on them with a cute, delicious, sweet meringue heart. You only need a couple of eggs, and some sugar, and of course red coloring. These are irresistible and will make an everlasting impression (because everyone loves the person that brings sweets, right?).
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So sorry it has taken me so long to post this audio. Real life keeps getting in the way.
This show came to be as a result of me wanting to automate our lunch count proceedure. I wanted to know the best way to use Google Spreadsheet/Forms to make it happen. Once again, Jen Wagner came to the rescue along with Mark Samberg and his great ideas.
Thanks for a great learning experience!


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I have sighted five UFOs:
They were "unidentified flying or stationary objects" in the sky. Such objects were sighted by many millions of people globally. One of my neighbors has sighted a huge extraterrestrial spaceship fly right above our building. Air force officers all over the world have sighted extraterrestrial spaceships up close within yards, which would hover over or remain stationary over nuclear weapon storages for hours at a time.
I have spoken to hundreds of people on the street raising awareness of the phenomenon. I'd say about 10 to 15% of the people I spoke to have sighted UFOs and a larger percentage of people know of people who have sighted UFOs. I even spoke with people who have been abducted by extraterrestrial beings.
I would like to know whether people in this forum have sighted any UFOs or have had other experiences pertaining to the phenomena.
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Technological advancement in the universe does not necessarily indicate spiritual advancement. In fact, technologically advanced worlds in the universe often become secular in nature. Even in this world, people are no more spiritually advanced than they were a few hundred years ago, if not less. Stronger nations with advanced technology have often exploited some natives living in isolated regions for the acquisition of resources throughout human history. Unfortunately, such is the case in the universe as well.
Westerners had arrived at the continent of America and presented themselves as friends to the Native Americans, luring them with trinket technology such as a compass which intrigued the natives. You all know what happened afterwards. Native Americans became decimated to near extinction, and lost their lands, freedom, self-determination, and sovereignty in their native lands.
Now, the entire human race is the native of this world that is being exploited so by extraterrestrial races from outer space.
What must humanity do then in order to preserve its freedom and self-determination within this solar system?
Actually, isn't it the case that advanced nations have exploited the spirituality of backward nations?
Anyway, when Cthulhu returns, I will be siding with him against the lot of you.
Human beings have evolved and attained the status of preeminence on this planet. As such, human beings are the native steward of this planet. Despite its many errors throughout its history, humanity and humanity alone has the native right to declare its sovereignty in this solar system. If humanity were well versed in life in the universe, it would know that other extraterrestrial races have declared their sovereignty in their solar systems. Such declaration is expected and respected by other races in the local universe. Not doing so will inadvertently invite uninvited and unwelcome "visitors" such as the ET Intervention, alliances of resource-seeking extraterrestrial races (space-travelling pirates.)
Therefore, what humanity can and, indeed, absolutely must do is to unite itself first to declare its sovereignty within this solar system and establish its own rules of engagement with all foreign races from outer space.
Also, humanity must conserve the resources of this world and preserve its environment to retain its self-sufficiency so that it doesn't prompt any extraterrestrial races from intervening in our world for the purpose of preserving the world for ETs themselves, or put itself in a vulnerable situation that the ET Intervention will attempt to exploit. Technology is easily obtained or copied in the universe. However, resources are not so easy to obtain. Technological advancement does not solve depletion of resources. In fact, as can be seen on our planet, technological advancement requires more resources, not less. When resources are depleted, they are depleted. If such resources are necessary in creating and sustaining essential technology, they must be obtained elsewhere or the technology must be modified or discarded.
In addition, humanity must not broadcast all of its weaknesses and strengths out into the space, for no advanced races aware of life in the universe would broadcast themselves out into the space for discreet observers to observe and potentially exploit such transmissions for their benefit. Thus, humanity must learn to exercise discretion in order to prevent manipulations by extraterrestrial races from outer space.
So, humanity must unite itself, maintain its self-sufficiency, and exercise discretion in order to retain its freedom and self-determination.
Do you see how important it is now to preserve our world, instead of squandering the resources and ruining the environment?
Do you see the vital importance for the human race to declare its sovereignty in the solar system?
Some people may believe that if resources of our world are depleted, then they can just venture out into the space and acquire whatever they need. However, inhabitants of our local universe cannot simply travel to other solar systems for acquisition of resources as if they are there for their exploiting and taking, for other solar systems are already occupied, and entering their spaces are likely to be met with hostile forces of the natives. If any world attempted to take control of any other world by force, there would be so many worlds gathering their forces to suppress that one world that it would not be worth its effort.
This is the reason that the ET Intervention cannot and will not overtake the world by force, not because they are benevolent ETs here for the well-being and welfare of humanity. At any rate, they are here for resources and they want to preserve the resources and the world for themselves. It would defeat their purpose to simply destroy them.
Many of the technological worlds in the universe have depleted their resources and must now travel across the space to obtain them. However, our local universe is not an uncharted region, but a region occupied by mature societies with long-established commerce and trade with established rules and regulations and code of conduct. According to such rules and regulations established for trade routes free of troubles and smooth transactions, a world cannot simply overtake another world militarily by force. You can see the evidence of this from the fact that the ETs intervening in our world currently have not attacked air force officers using armaments, for example. Yet, that does not in any way indicate that these ETs have benevolent intentions for humanity.
Absolutely not!
They regard violence as primitive and are not allowed to overtake the world by force because they are restricted by such rules and regulations. So they are not here with military armaments. Instead, these resource-seeking ETs present here in our world employ more subtle methods such as persuasions and deceptions in order to conquer the world clandestinely. They have cultivated quite sophisticated skills in persuading and manipulating others' thought in the mental environment. You can see where humanity has a great disadvantage then, and what it must learn to do in order to counteract the ET Intervention.
It is not our less advanced technology, but our ignorance about the ETs and life in the universe and uncultivated skills in the mental environment that are our disadvantage in dealing with the ET Intervention effectively and beneficially for ourselves.
This must be clearly understood.
We do not want to attract unwanted attention from the extraterrestrial races, for they recognize that preservation of resources and environment is the most important factor in survival and they will attempt to take them away for themselves from human beings that they consider to be a primitive, reckless race and an unworthy steward of such a beautiful world with immense biodiversity that they covet.
It is not just some edifying concepts for experts like environmentalists or climatologists to consider. Everyone must participate in preserving resources and the environment not only for our survival but also to maintain our freedom and self-determination.
It is not the time to make contact with any ETs, for human beings collectively are NOT prepared to deal with them.
Rather, it is time now to alert all of humanity against the ET Intervention, get educated about these extraterrestrials and life in the universe, educate as many people as possible about them, and prepare for future which will be unlike the past.
That was all beamed directly into your head, right?
I suggest you read The Alllies of Humanity from cover to cover. Then you'll know where it came from.
How do you know that the author, Marshall Vian Summers, isn't one of the bad aliens?


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Weekend Cook and Tell Round Up: 'Tis the Season for Soup
Our last challenge for Weekend Cook and Tell was for all of you to share your favorite belly-warming soup recipes. We called this 'Tis the Season for Soup. Your responses were tantalizing and timely. Here are our favorite soup recipes from this week.
Healthiersteps starts us off with a soup that sure to take the chill right out of you. This White Bean & Kale Soup has two big wins straight-off: it has kale, it's gluten-free.
For claireOOTO, soup makes an appearance on the menu multiple times in a week. Which means, she's full of recipes that aim to please. One of her best ever is her Walnut, roasted mushroom, and French lentil soup. Many thanks, claireOOTO!
Katerina was inspired after a trip to Bologna. She replicated a Tortellini en Brodo with her own twist - utilizing chicken and chicken broth, which are easier to find regardless of where you might be. Steamy filled-dumplings floating in steamy broth are the way to our hearts.
If you're looking for options, Ken G thinks everyone should have a collection of favorite soup recipes. He gives us his list and a recipe for Stone Soup. It's a great message in the difference that can be made by a community coming together.
Juliasalbum has made this soup for the past two Christmases, each time with great success (hence future demand). "This spiced up carrot and lentil soup, topped with toasted sliced almonds and coarsely ground black pepper is a healthy, vegetarian, flavorful Christmas appetizer. The sweetness of carrots in this soup is perfectly balanced with earthiness of lentils, so this soup will appeal to both carrot fans and lentil lovers. A little bit of chilli gives this soup just the right amount spiciness, and the rest of the spices bring out just the right flavors out of carrots and lentils."
To add a little depth to your holiday meal, shanz suggests you make a Sweet Potato Curry. You can also use the recipe for a soup or stew if you add more veggie broth to the recipe.
Finally, zahavah leaves us with a recipe for mushroom soup made with wheatberries that has a fragrant, light broth, large chunks of mushroom, and nutty wheat berries.
A big thank you to everyone for sharing their warm, brothy love for this week's Weekend Cook and Tell challenge. Be sure to head over to Talk and read about next week's challenge: Holiday Food Gifting


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This card made me think of you since I never had a father in my life. I saw you as my father. You took me in as one of your children. I didn't have parents to tell me what I was doing wrong and to help me. You have helped me to make decisions and I am thankful to have you in my life.
I want to thank you for everything that you did for me while I was at AGC. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't be half the person I am today.
Thank you for all the chances and all the times you have helped me hold my head up high and look for the good Lord in the sky. You have given me hope and I am very glad you were a part of my life. My life has changed in many ways and I thank you so much for all the love you have given me and my little girl.
Thank you for taking me and my daughter in and showing me the correct way to raise my daughter. I am grateful for what you have done for me.
Thank you for letting me stay at AGC. I really do love what you have done for me, put me up and gave me a safe place to sleep and live. So thanks a lot.
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The Clarence School Decline Ends Today
I have written extensively about the Clarence schools budget crisis in previous weeks.
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(Vote "YES" For the Clarence School Budget on May 21st)
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(Clarence's Teachers are Indispensable, Not Disposable)
On Wednesday morning, the various factions came together to urge a "yes" vote on the revote budget, slated for Tuesday June 18th. This is without a doubt a win for the community – to end the fighting and come together to prevent further harm.
That same evening, I appeared on WBBZ-TV's "Political Buzz" program, which airs Friday night at 7:30. We extended the half-hour talk a bit, and that segment is now on YouTube:
Today, Business First revealed that the Clarence school district had slipped from 2nd place to 3rd. When I bought my house in 2002, Clarence was the number one district in all of WNY. Beginning in 2003, it maintained a decade-long run at number 2, behind only Williamsville.
Why did the district slide to third place? It's not from uncertainty arising out of the 2013-14 budget, and it's not because of the current controversy. The Business First rankings take several objective standards into account, including (but not limited to) the last 4 years' worth of state testing scores.
As Clarence faces down over $4 million in cuts to personnel, programs, and services, consider what it is that makes Williamsville number one. After all, Williamsville is also a relatively wealthy suburban district just like Clarence:
"We always do really well, but always think we can do better," [Superintendent Scott Martzloff] said. "And that's why we are on journey of continuous improvement. We continue to examine what we do, why we do it and how we can do it better for the future"…We're certainly very fortunate to have highly professional and dedicated teachers in the district who work well with all of our students," he said. "At the same time, we have students who are generally pretty motivated, parents who are supportive and our community really values and supports education. So we're fortunate to have that right recipe."
While Williamsville is seeking the right equation to get excellent results, Clarence has abandoned its hitherto-similar equation without a hint of concern.
While the defeated original, 9.8% budget itself contained $1.8 in cuts, the revote budget adds another $2.5 million in cuts, prompting school board president Michael Lex to declare that the district is teetering on the edge of "educational insolvency". By that, he means that the district is meeting its financial needs only, but is not meeting the community's educational and social expectations. He bluntly explained that the cuts to clubs and extracurriculars, amounting to a savings of $122,000 in teacher-advisor stipends, will reduce kids' college opportunities.
With the revote budget, and the over $4 million in cuts, the tax levy will increase by 3.62%, well under the 3.79% cap. The rate will be $14.65 per $1,000 of assessed value; an increase of about $39 per year for a $100,000 house; approximately $3.25 per month.
But what's gone now? The High School loses Art Partners, Chorus Club, Community Service Organizer, Drama Club, Environmental Club, Foreign Language Club, Future Business Club, Future Teachers Club, Garden Club, Helping Hands, History Club, Interact, Latin Club, Media Club, Orchestra Club, Reach Out Club, Scholastic Club, Stage Band (Jazz), Summer Band, Technology Club, Varsity Club, Asst. Musical Director, and Asst. Yearbook Advisor.
The Middle School loses the Art Club, Assets Committee, Chess Club, Clarence Service, Drama – Art Club, Drama – Dance, Home & Careers Club, Asst. Musical Director, Quiz Bowl, Science Club, Show Choir, Stage Band, Strategic Games Club, Student Leadership, and Vocal Pop Chorus
As time rolls on, the dramatic cuts necessitated in the 2013-14 revote budget will begin to be felt within the district, and reflected in the rankings. Increasing class sizes, cutting social workers and guidance counselors, and eliminating extracurriculars and sports programs is exactly what Williamsville and East Aurora aren't doing. Instead, they're striking a balance while we lunge into the unknown, possibly dropping right out of the top 10 when all is said and done.
A decrease to 3rd place is the result of the last 4 years' cuts. This is what happens when you eliminate the Clarence student enrichment program – the pull-out for gifted and talented students that helped to challenge bright young minds. This is what happens when you reduce the number of reading specialists to help prepare for English Language Arts testing and general literacy, this is what happens when you begin to devalue the excellence you have, and you assume that it will just all play itself out.
Clarence is third overall. It is also third in science, (up from fifth in 2012), third in English, (up from fourth in 2012), and fourth in math (steady vs. 2012).
While it is important to lobby for Albany reform and mandate relief, and while it's important to begin planning now for a potentially darker fiscal future, we also can't lose sight of the fact that teachers are doing more with less, and we simply cannot scapegoat them into bearing the brunt of this meltdown. Not every household in Clarence is wealthy enough to afford a private alternative to cut public school programs. Not every wealthy kid with a mom and a dad is a good and motivated student; more money, more problems.
We talk a lot about running government like a business. Forget for a moment all the financial arguments about per pupil cost, administrative efficiency, and the excellent results we get for lower taxes than most other communities.
Instead, consider this: what business do you know that is content with third or fourth place?


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23 May 2019 08:00CET
Digital transformation in the waste management sector - practical tips from practical experience
Iserlohn, Germany
For the waste disposal sector the digital transformation means a comprehensive change in processes and services as a result of ongoing digitization. It is changing all areas of the business, relationships with customers, suppliers, sub-contractors, business partners, the way we communicate.
In the first part of the event we will take a look at the current status and how the digital change is progressing in waste management companies and their strategies for the future.
In the second part experts will tell us about the latest trends in technology and software which can drive forward the digital transformation of the sector. Demonstrations will give us an insight into the applications. Exchange and advice on a one2one basis. Practical tips from practical experience.
The event with accompanying trade show will take place on 23 May 2019 from 7.30 to 17 hrs at SASE gGmbH, Max-Planck-Strasse 9, 58638 Iserlohn.
Presenter: Volker Fennemann, Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics, Dortmund
07:30 Business breakfast, get-together, trade show opens
08:45 Chance of the century or a digital morass? Digitization: Vision and strategy is up to the boss
Dr Klaus Neuhäuser, Baker Tilly Unternehmensberatung GmbH, Düsseldorf
09:15 Failure or lasting change? Digitization as the starting point for change in our organization
Marcell Wiese, Stratmann Städtereinigung GmbH & Co. KG, Manager Bestwig
09:45 The BSR 2030+ project
Andreas Thürmer, BSR - Berliner Stadtreinigung, Head of the Office of the Management Board, Berlin
10:30 Digitization – our path
Claudia Malter, Stadtreinigung Hamburg, Hamburg
11:00 Exchange of order-related performance data
Aimée Kokam, Assistant for waste logistics, waste processing and special waste management, BDE (Federal Association of the German Waste Disposal, Water and Raw Materials Industry), Berlin
11:30 Are you a trendsetter or a traditionalist? And what do your customers say to that? Digital roadmap, e-invoicing, service portals, the "digital" waste planner, digital littering, trends
Margit Klinken, sensis GmbH, Viersen
12:00 Light lunch, networking, demonstrations, visit to the trade show
13:00 Current trends in telematics with mobile weighing machines, RFID, and active container sensors
Andreas Schmidt, Division Manager/Authorised Officer, MOBA Mobile Automation AG, Dresden
13:30 Digital transformation benchmark for the waste management sector
Lara van Rijswijk, Marketing Manager Central Europe, AMCS Group
Major change begins with basics ideas
Jens Hettenhausen, Head of Logistics, ALBA Group
14:00 CONNECT ready: Depot and waste systems ready for take-off with digital applications
Dr Hanns Menzel, PAUL WOLFF GmbH, Mönchengladbach
14:30 Coffee break, networking, demonstrations, visit to the trade show
15:00 The road to the paperless refuse truck - reports from practical experience with the introduction of digital order processing
Hartmut Möllmann, Dr. Ing. Wandrei GmbH, Berlin
15:30 Increasing the efficiency of citizen-friendly waste collection in the digital age. Results of a research project
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Holzhauer, Centre for Recycling Technology at the
Westphalian University of Applied Sciences, Gelsenkirchen
16:00 Snack, networking, demonstration, visit to trade show
Followed by a guided tour around the SASE exhibitions


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Mallardi to Keynote "The Digital Graphic Pathway to 2020" at PRINT 13
CHICAGO—August 28, 2013—Printing's foremost forecaster will present a novel if not radical program on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 at PRINT 13. Vincent Mallardi, who has published "Hot Markets for Print Media" for the past 34 years, as well as writing hundreds of other books, studies and articles, will take attendees to the next level of print integration with complementary media and the markets that will buy into the future techno-economic and socio-political "cross."
"Print's greatest days are ahead not behind," said Mallardi. "Ink-on-paper is becoming deposition of any-film-onto-any-substrate. Reflective and transmission reception are precursers to emanation media where our product not only produces light but also other forms of sensory energy. Everything in the future of print is 'smart' except for incompetently-run companies that will fold into the past."
Mallardi, known for not sparing words or visions, will be profering many terms and concepts not quite yet understood by our medium. In techno-economics these include latent imaging, 3-D, VDP/TP, virtual reality, near-field, nanotech and down-the-road quantum-computing enablements. The socio-political corollary he will present is, in his words, "unlike few can presently imagine."
The International Business Forum will be the culminating event at PRINT 13 and its most attended. Following a networking event at 11:00 am on Wednesday, there will be a luncheon with more than 200 executives from companies interested or already engaged in tangible graphic media driven by converging technologies and demanders. These include conventional manufacturing printers, photobook participants, direct marketing/corporate media planners and printing intermediaries, most through the PBBA (Printing Brokerage Buyers Association International).
Following the luncheon and Mallardi's presentation, there will be senior level sessions related to digital image technology through the afternoon and next morning. There is no extra charge for luncheon participants attending these sessions.
Registration is at hotmarkets.p2mobi.com or by texting MALLARDI to 90210.
Don Franz, the publisher of Photo Imaging News, is the conference organizer along with the Graphic Arts Show Company. Sponsors include Fujifilm North America, Taopix, locr, pixami, Scodix and P2Mobi.com.


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Release Date: 1987 |
Album Rating: 4.0First review as Insurrection. :-/
Album Rating: 2.0good review Hitsurrection not a fan of this album though
it IS more stable or consistent than BTR, the high points on BTR are so far beyond anything on this album
I disagree, From The Past Comes The Storm and Rest In Pain are easily among Sepultura's best
great review, but you say this is better than BTR, but you gave this a lower score?
Album Rating: 4.0I mean it's better all-around, but not overall... if that makes sense.
oh right yeah i see what you mean now. i used to love Arise but nowadays i like BTR and this more, maybe even Chaos AD too. Roots is a complete pile of shit though, I hate it sooo much
Album Rating: 4.0TROOPS OF DOOM!!!
is that a bonus track on this? it was on Morbid Visions first
Album Rating: 4.0I only heard Arise and Chaos once each so they haven't really sunk in. As for Roots, I heard a couple songs off it and got bored isntantly.
And yeah "Troops of Doom" is a bonus track.
Arise is kind of like BTR I guess; it has some unbelievably awesome songs like Arise, Dead Embryonic Cells and Despearte Cry, but the rest of the album just can't compare
Album Rating: 4.0I guess if they combined the best of BtR and the best of Arise, they would've created the perfect thrash album.
yeah i would instant 5 that.
this album is crazily overlooked hopefully the review will get more people to give it a shot
Album Rating: 4.0Yeah, hopefully.
good review. how long did it take for your first review to make it through? mines not showing up yet.
Album Rating: 3.5Album sort of reminds me of Ride The Lightning mixed with Scream Bloody Gore
Album Rating: 4.0
You should probably include the opening intro in the tracklist.
Best Sepultura album. To The Wall, Inquistion Symphony, and Rest In Pain are all top 5 songs of theirs.
By the way, I got the vinyl version. Epicness.
Who were you before?
You should probably include the opening intro in the tracklist.
Only album be them I haven't heard
Digging: Altarage - The Approaching Roar
You are missing out.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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A glittering wonderland where car makers add zeros to the prices of everyday goods.
All because they stick their badges on them.
To celebrate this lunacy, we've collected some of the more…astronomical asking prices in one convenient spot for your viewing pleasure.
Oh, and it's timely too, with Ferrari and Hublot releasing a new 'special edition' watch (pictured).
Designed to accompany the release of the $2.3 million LaFerarri, the watch – called the Hublot MP-05 LaFerrari – has 637 moving parts and needs to be wound every month.
Sadly, Hublot is yet to list the watch's cost, but if the LaFerrari's $2.3 million tag is out of your range, we're guessing the watch will be too.
Still it's worth clicking through the gallery, for a laugh if nothing else.


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Any qualified elector shall on the day of the election be entitled to absent himself from any service or employment in which he is then engaged or employed, for a period of 2 consecutive hours (excluding any lunch or rest periods) between the time of opening and closing the polls. The qualified elector shall not because of so absenting himself be liable to any penalty, nor shall any deduction be made on account of the absence from his usual salary or wages; provided, that the foregoing shall not be applicable to any employee whose hours of employment are such that he has a period of 2 consecutive hours (excluding any lunch or rest periods) between the time of opening and closing the polls when he is not working for his employer. If, however, any employee fails to vote after taking time off for that purpose the employer, upon verification of that fact, may make appropriate deductions from the salary or wages of the employee for the period during which the employee is entitled to be absent from his employment. Presentation of a qualified elector's receipt by an employee to his employer shall constitute proof of voting by the employee. Any person violating this section is guilty of an offense under 6.1207.History: 1977, PL 15-42 § 1.


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Whole Foods Market to hold session on employment opportunities
Store opening delayed to Feb. 4, 2014
Representatives from the soon-to-open Whole Foods Market on Broad Street will hold a community information session on employment opportunities.
The meeting will take place Thursday from 6-7 p.m. at the Treme Center, located at 900 North Villere Street.
The 60,000-square-foot development at Broad and Bienville streets is under construction at the former Schwegmann's grocery store site, and it will create approximately 125 jobs.
Following construction delays, the store is now scheduled to open Feb. 4, 2014, after Whole Foods previously said it would open in December 2013.
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Writing the Lisp Code
In this section we'll write Lisp code that duplicates the features provided by the Objective C code in Apple's tutorial. In Apple's tutorial, the explanation of the Objective C code begins with the section Bridging the Model and View: The Controller.
The Lisp code in this section of the HOWTO is considerably simpler than the corresponding Objective C code, in part because we can ignore the conventions that XCode uses for laying out source files. We can just write all our definitions into a single Lisp source file, and load that file into Clozure CL when we are ready to build the application. The Lisp code is also a little more compact than the corresponding Objective-C.
First Things First
Place the following line at the top of your Lisp source file:
(in-package "CCL")
OpenMCL's Objective-C bridge code is defined in the "CCL" package. Usually, when building an application, you'll create a package for that application and import the definitions you need to use. In order to keep the discussion short in this simple example, we just place all our definitions in the "CCL" package.
Defining the Converter Class
We begin by defining the Converter class. Recall from Apple's tutorial that this is the Model class that implements the conversion between dollars and other currencies. Here is the Lisp definition that implements the class you created in InterfaceBuilder:
(defclass converter (ns:ns-object) () (:metaclass ns:+ns-object))
This is an ordinary CLOS class definition, with a couple of simple wrinkles. First, the superclass it inherits from is the NS-OBJECT class in the "NS" package. NS-OBJECT is an Objective-C class, the ancestor of all Objective-C objects. This CLOS definition creates a new Objective-C class named "Converter".
We tell OpenMCL how to build the right kind of class object by including the :METACLASS option in the definition:
(:metaclass ns:+ns-object)
The Objective-C bridge knows that when the metaclass is ns:+ns-object, it must lay out the class object in memory as an Objective C class, rather than a normal CLOS STANDARD-CLASS.
Next, we define the method "convertCurrency:atRate:":
(objc:defmethod (#/convertCurrency:atRate: :float) ((self converter) (currency :float) (rate :float)) (* currency rate))
This is the method that actually does the currency conversion. It's very simple--really, it just multiples currency times rate. Most of the text in the definition is Objective C bridge code that links the definition to the right class with the right argument and return types.
objc:defmethod is a version of DEFMETHOD that creates Objective C method definitions.
The syntax #/convertCurrency:atRate: uses the "#/" reader macro to read a symbol with case preserved, so that you can see in your code the same name that Objective-C uses for the method, without worrying about how the name might be converted between Lisp and Objective-C naming conventions.
The number of arguments to an Objective-C method is the number of colons in the name, plus one. Each colon indicates an argument, and there is always an extra "self" argument that refers to the object that receives the message. The "self" argument is implicit in Objective-C definitions, but it's just another argument in the Lisp code.
We indicate the return type and the types of arguments in the method definition by surrounding parameters and the method name with parentheses, and appending the type name. Thus, for example,
(#/convertCurrency:atRate: :float)
means that the return type of the method is :FLOAT, and
(self converter)
means that the type of the object that receives the convertCurrency:atRate: message is Converter.
You'll see these same conventions repeated in the next section.
Defining the ConverterController Class
The previous section defined the Model class, Converter. All we need now is a definition for the ConverterController class. Recall from your reading of Apple's Tutorial that the CurrencyConverter example uses the Model-View-Controller paradigm. You used InterfaceBuilder to construct the application's views. The Converter class provides the model that represents application data. Now we define the controller class, ConverterController, which connects the View and the Model.
Here's the Lisp definition of the ConverterController class:
(defclass converter-controller (ns:ns-object) ((amount-field :foreign-type :id :accessor amount-field) (converter :foreign-type :id :accessor converter) (dollar-field :foreign-type :id :accessor dollar-field) (rate-field :foreign-type :id :accessor rate-field)) (:metaclass ns:+ns-object))
Once again we use the Objective-C bridge to define an Objective-C class. This time, we provide several instance-variable definitions in the class. We also explicitly define the names of accessor functions for each of them. The :FOREIGN-TYPE initargs enable us to specify the types of the fields in the foreign (Objective-C) class.
Each field in the definition of the ConverterController class is an outlet that will be used to store a reference to one of the UI fields that you created in InterfaceBuilder. For example, amount-field will be connected to the "Amount" text field.
Why did we spell the name "amount-field" in Lisp code, and "amountField" when creating the outlet in InterfaceBuilder? The Objective-C bridge automatically converts Lisp-style field names (like "amount-field") to Objective C-style field names (like "amountField"), when handling class definitions.
The converter field at launch time contains a reference to the Converter object, whose class definition is in the previous section.
The final piece of the implementation is a definition of the "convert:" method. This is the method that is called when a user clicks the "Convert" button in the user interface.
(objc:defmethod (#/convert: :void) ((self converter-controller) sender) (declare (ignore sender)) (let* ((conv (converter self)) (dollar-field (dollar-field self)) (rate-field (rate-field self)) (amount-field (amount-field self)) (dollars (#/floatValue dollar-field)) (rate (#/floatValue rate-field)) (amount (#/convertCurrency:atRate: conv dollars rate))) (#/setFloatValue: amount-field amount) (#/selectText: rate-field self)))
Just as in the Apple example, this method reads the dollar and rate values, and passes them to the "convertCurrency:atRate:" method of the Converter class. It then sets the text of the amount-field to reflect the result of the conversion. The only significant difference between this implementation and Apple's is that the code is written in Lisp rather than Objective-C.
This completes the definition of the Currency Converter's behavior. All that remains is to actually build the Cocoa application. The next section shows how to do that.


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Thursday, 24 March 2011
Long Distance
Posted by Amrita at Thursday, March 24, 2011
Labels: Photos
12 Fertilize my soul:
- Julie said...
Love the old phone.
- 24 March 2011 at 22:23
- Terra said...
Beautiful old phone and nice quote.
- 24 March 2011 at 22:53
- Anonymous said...
Ha ha! I love the quote and I'll bet that old antique phone is worth a lot of money :-)
- 25 March 2011 at 00:34
- Nadwrażliwiec said...
I remember first mobile phone in our family. It was big, black "brick". It was 12-13 years ago. Everybody in our housing district could know, who had had mobile phone, because we didn't have range in our flats - so everyone, who had mobile phone and wanted to talk with someone using it, had to lean out the window. Of course, everyone had "normal" phones. Today is completly different situation. Everyone, even children have mobile phones. But people are far and far away...
- 25 March 2011 at 02:19
- Simply Shelley said...
Neat phone...things used to be made so much more beautiful and unique...I believe thats one reason I love the old vintage things so much more than new and modern.....blessings to you Amrita...
- 25 March 2011 at 02:24
- Carol-Ann Allen said...
Ha! Love the pithy remark even more than the snazzy phone!
- 25 March 2011 at 04:11
- Felisol said...
Dear Amrita,
When Serina was a little girl, I didn't have much time to go around for visits, so I called family and friends instead. One day my little 3 yearling drew on a long sheet telephone lines with hearts in between.It amazed me that the child understood that much; me talking in the phone was heart connecting with hearts. Maybe, because I always let her say some words too, if she felt like that.
From Felisol
- 25 March 2011 at 05:03
- John Cowart said...
That phone is a work of art!
- 25 March 2011 at 14:29
- Anonymous said...
When my husband studied abroad for 3.5 years, he used to call us twice a week. And the three of us, my daughters and I, would eagerly took turn to have brief chats with him.
- 25 March 2011 at 15:03
- Amrita said...
Hi friends nice to hear from you.
Yeah Ron, this phone must cost about $15 - not bad eh? And I could get the price down for you.
- 29 March 2011 at 09:13
- Amrita said...
In th e past 15 year s th e telecom industry in India is booming. There are millions of subscribers now. The mobile services are really good and in competition with each other too.
You won 't beleive it but we only got a home phone (land line) installe d in 1995. Before that we used a public booth. Did not miss it too.
My Dad gifted me a cell phone 7 years ago - just 6 months before he died
- 29 March 2011 at 09:17
- Dick said...
It looks very special.
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Adir L.C. Shares the Insanely Catchy New Tune "Dinosaurs"
PopMatters just premiered the new single from Dinky Pop artists, Adir L.C. We feel the need to warn you. Once you hear this song, it will get stuck in your head. It's that kind of catchy! PM says of Adir L.C., "Already a popular artist in Israel, his crossover appeal on this side of the world is undeniable, and based on the strength of the new track "Dinosaurs", it should only be a matter of time."
Oceanside Cities is coming out November 6th!
Head over to PopMatters or just click on the track below!


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On Hiatus
Bethany had everything you could ask for. A condo that was (almost) paid off, a well paying job, and most importantly, a family. It all changed in a heart beat and she had to watch as her whole world crumbled around her and soon she found herself alone in a city of flesh-eating zombies. Despite the overwhelming odds against her, Beth has managed to do what very few people have been able to do in this post-apocalyptic nation. She has survived. However, after coming across a young man with an unexpected trait, she finds herself torn between staying in the comfort and safety of her current routine or risking it all for the greater good of humanity. As expected, there will be blood, guts, bodies and other unsightly dead things, you have been warned!


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From Openmoko
It would be usefull to access an offline version of wikipedia (since there are people who do not want to pay for mobile internet) on the OpenMoko Platform. Here is a little tweak I did with the Stylus Demo by Mickey. Please submit more feature ideas!
Feature Ideas
- show articles depending on location (GPS)
- list with
- recently viewed articles
- most viewed articles
- search articles "as you type"
- it will have no pictures - not enough room on any storage media
- tex forumlas could be generated with a local LaTeX install but such may be too big for the phone
- all wikipedia versions except the english one will fit on a 4GB SDCard (tested with the second largest wikipedia (german))
- all articles in one big file and one index file for title searches OR a lot of small gzipped files which get unzipped on the fly
- the gzipped/bzipped version will only take less then a gigabyte and this way even the english wikipedia should fit on a little microsd card
- can anyone confirm if SDHC cards are working with the neo? if not we are capped to 2GB
- new wikipedia versions can be obtained from here [1]
- option for varying the text size
- settings dialog
- set article location


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Zimbabwe swears in new legislature
Zimbabwe's largest ever parliament was sworn into a new five-year term to be dominated by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party after disputed elections in July.
The new 270-seat parliament starts sitting Sept. 10.
Under a new constitution adopted in March, the legislature was expanded from 210 seats by adding 60 women members elected under a gender-sensitive proportional representation provision.
Mugabe's party holds 196 seats, the main opposition, the Movement for Democratic Change, 70 and two went to independent candidates and two to a small opposition group.
Mugabe's party elected unopposed its choice for Speaker, a former provincial governor. The opposition, claiming widespread rigging in the July 31 polls, boycotted the Speaker vote.
Three lawmakers were not at the ceremony and will take their oaths later.


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For a man who opposes domestic production of American crude oil in the oceans, Barack Obama seems awfully eager to push Brazil into the kind of exploration and extraction that his administration blocks here in the US. Investors Business Daily calls this policy Drill, Brazil, Drill, a takeoff of Sarah Palin's Drill, Baby, Drill support for unleashing US energy resources. Obama's plea also negates the reason he claimed that the trip was necessary in the first place:
Now, with a seven-year offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, on Alaska's continental shelf and in much of the Gulf of Mexico — and a de facto moratorium covering the rest — Obama tells the Brazilians:
"We want to help you with the technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely. And when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."
Obama wants to develop Brazilian offshore oil to help the Brazilian economy create jobs for Brazilian workers while Americans are left unemployed in the face of skyrocketing energy prices by an administration that despises fossil fuels as a threat to the environment and wants to increase our dependency on foreign oil.
Let's recall why Obama claimed this trip was so necessary that it had to take place just as he started a war in Libya. On Thursday, he wrote an op-ed in USA Today that he needed to boost American exports in order to create jobs:
Every $1 billion we export supports more than 5,000 jobs here at home. That's why last year, I set a goal for this country: to double our exports of goods and services by 2014. And we are on track to meet this goal: exports were up 17% in 2010.
The impressive growth that we've seen in Latin America in recent years is good for the people of the hemisphere, and it's good for us. Thanks in part to our trade agreements across the region, we now export three times as much to Latin America as we do to China, and our exports to the region — which are growing faster than our exports to the rest of the world — will soon support more than 2 million jobs here in the United States.
Instead, Obama appears to be in Brazil promoting imports rather than exports. Instead of working toward American energy independence, Obama pledges to become even more dependent on South American oil. The very same fossil fuel that Obama incessantly eschews when it comes from American territory, he embraces when it comes from Brazil.
If Obama was really interested in job creation, he would end his permitoriums on off-shore drilling. His administration would dismantle the obstacles blocking extraction of oil in the interior West, where an estimated 800 billion barrels of oil await extraction from shale formations. Obama would call off the EPA and allow Americans to have the same latitude to get at and use our natural resources as he insists that Brazil do. That would support millions of American jobs, and we wouldn't have to send vast sums of American wealth to Brazil.
I have nothing against Brazil selling its oil on the open market. I wish Obama felt the same way about Americans as he apparently does about Brazilians.


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News from Neateeshirts — enthusiasm
Origin of the "yes" cat
backstory cat cat loves paper cat video cats cute design enthusiasm fat cat food fun funny ginger tabby grin How we came to this site humor I Hate Monday love cats neatees smile story t-shirts tabby cat tees TGIF Why we make cat shirts Willy Wilson yes
One of our favorite designs is the "yes" cat. The cat, so far, appears on two shirts; the "YES" shirt and the "FOOD" shirt. We have a "chocolate" shirt in the makings. The story behind that cute cat is a particular pose of my cat, Wilson Bones Mallette, on the sofa. He looks calm in this photo, but all I need to do is rattle a bag of treats, and his face instantly resembles our yes cat illustration. The Wilson "Willy" story How Wilson got his name: My husband and I are owned by just one kitty – Wilson...


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Federal officials join Bedford home invasion investigation
Police hope to interview victim again
Federal officials are now assisting in the investigation of a violent home invasion in Bedford.
A husband and wife were seriously injured in a home invasion at 7 Proclamation Court on Saturday.
Officials from the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and the state Attorney General's Office met with police at the Bedford Police Department on Wednesday to review the case.
Homeowners Eduardo and Sonia Quesada were injured in the attack and were hospitalized. Sonia Quesada was released from the hospital Wednesday, while her husband was transferred to a Boston hospital.
Police said they hoped to interview Sonia Quesada again soon about the attack.
Sources told News 9 that on the night of the home invasion, a woman covered in blood knocked on a neighbor's door, and the neighbor called 911. The woman told the neighbor that her husband was still in their home, and so were the intruders.
During that call, police also learned that a baby was inside the home. The child was later found unharmed and is being cared for by relatives.
Police have said they don't believe the community is in danger.


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Lincoln News
LPC Ranked #3 Best Place to Work
Lincoln Property Company ranked third on Dallas Business Journal's Best Places to Work
DALLAS, TX -- Lincoln Property Company was named as a Best Places to Work in North Texas finalist by The Dallas Business Journal at their annual awards ceremony last week. Ranked the third Best Place to Work in the large company category, Lincoln was recognized for its competitive employee benefits and its emphasis on individual development.
Chief Accounting Officer, Andy Atalis, has been with the company for 18 years. He says that employees tend to stay with Lincoln because of the positive environment where people work hard, enjoy what they do and enjoy the people they work alongside.
Lincoln appreciates its employees not just for what they do, but for the individual person that they are, says Atalis. From the top down, everyone values each individual.
Among the perks and benefits offered to Lincoln employees are paid parental leave, flexible hours to balance work and home life, employee referral bonuses and birthdays off as a paid holiday.
Lincoln also creates out-of-office events to help encourage team building and to raise money for Lincoln Charities. Employees participate in softball games, golf tournaments, car washes and barbecues. These events are open to vendors, and all the money raised goes to help Lincoln employees in times of great financial need such as an illness or death in the family.
Jacquie Bryant has been with Lincoln for 30 years and currently serves as an Executive Assistant. She says the people she works with are fun, upbeat, loyal and dedicated. She appreciates the flexibility and has great relationships with all of her co-workers.
My supervisors are always willing to make it work for me, says Bryant. When I get to take a trip, they are genuinely excited for me. That is not common in many offices.
The Dallas Business Journal has been conducting employee engagement audits of North Texas businesses for more than twelve years. Their annual rankings are intended to highlight companies that place an emphasis on supporting innovation and ideas, embracing tolerance and flexibility and establishing competitive employee compensation plans. The award also places importance on the overall quality of support, communication and skill development at individual organizations.
Atalis says he is proud that his employees are happy and feels honored by this award.
You're going to spend a third of your life in this place, says Atalis. I want you to love working here, and I do everything I can to foster that environment.
For more information about Lincoln Property Company or for career opportunities, visit LincolnApts.com.


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School Nurses: The Best Defense Against the Spread of H1N1
NEA's Health Information Network asked a panel of school nurses about the challenges we face as we go back-to-school and prepare for a possible H1N1 epidemic.
Beth Mattey (R.N., M.S.N., N.C.S.N.) is a 22-year NEA member and a school nurse at Mt. Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Delaware. Robin Wallin (R.N., M.S.N., N.C.S.N., C.P.N.P.) is the nurse coordinator for Alexandria Public Schools in Virginia and has been an NEA member and school nurse since 1997. Mary Paradise has been a school nurse for 12 years in Seattle and is now on staff at NEA.
What is the biggest obstacle to meeting the challenges that H1N1 presents?
Paradise: One of the main barriers to effectively treating students is a lack of reliable emergency contact information. The forms that parents or guardians are required to provide must be verified and re-verified to make sure that families can be contacted when their student isn't feeling well.
Mattey: On top of that, the challenges of not having a full-time nurse on staff are immense, and many schools in the U.S. don't have a full-time school nurse. School nurses are the health care expert in schools—they have the education and expertise to quickly recognize serious symptoms and recommend appropriate care.
Wallin: There are definitely logistical issues to overcome. Communication and information are certainly at the top, but there are resources and workload issues to be considered too, specifically, isolating and supervising students if they are sick.
What should you do about staff and students who exhibit symptoms while they are at school?
Paradise: If a student or staff exhibits flu symptoms or is diagnosed with the flu—H1N1 or seasonal—make sure you can isolate them to prevent the spread of the virus and then send them home.
What do schools need to be aware of when isolating sick students and staff?
Wallin: The first thing you should do is determine what local policies already exist. We plan ahead to find space for and maintain a working sick room. Then, make sure you're logistically covered: Is someone available to supervise sick people? Are there proper hydration and nutrition plans in place? How will you keep students occupied while they're in the sick room?
How can you do this effectively?
Mattey: It's best to create very clear and detailed roles within your school—in other words, an emergency plan. A team of school staff that includes administrators, teachers, support staff, and the school nurse should meet early in the year to plan for possible scenarios like those mentioned previously. The team should continue to meet during the school year to update the plan. Keep in mind that we don't know how the H1N1 virus will impact schools this year. We might have to change our plan mid-year. In an emergency, one nurse I know "deputized" support staff and security into service so they could supervise the sick kids.
Wallin: You will also need to allocate resources to occupy and supervise students—movies, videos, lessons, and books to read. And there are staffing resources to be cognizant of, especially if you don't have a full-time nurse.
Who else needs to be involved?
Paradise: It's important that we foster partnerships with public health care departments and providers outside of schools. Oftentimes a sick child will leave school and be taken directly to the emergency room. This can be costly, time-consuming, and may overwhelm hospitals. In some cases, the public health department might be more suitable to meet the needs of the student and parents/guardians and help them find the alternatives to the emergency room so those who need emergency care can have access to it.
Wallin: As soon as possible, get together with your local health departments and discuss the options.
Mattey: Local public health departments will be an invaluable resource on the local impact of H1N1. What may be happening in California may not be happening in Delaware. School nurses and others will need to communicate with the public health department to determine the best course of action in your community.
We've discussed planning as a school, what about personally. What advice do you have for educators?
Wallin: First and foremost, if you are sick you must stay home! If you have enough sick leave, use it appropriately. If you have a fever, stay home until you are fever-free for 24 hours.
Mattey: Practice proper hygiene and infection control. Hand washing and respiratory etiquette (coughing into your sleeve) and staying home when you're sick is paramount to protecting yourself and others from the flu. Staff should also get the seasonal flu vaccine in the fall and the H1N1 vaccine when it's available.
Wallin: If you have a sink, use warm water and wash your hands properly. Ensure that you have an appropriate supply of soap and paper towels. A lot of schools overlook that, but they are necessary tools to washing hands properly.
Paradise: I'd add that warm water is the most helpful but cold or lukewarm water is the next best thing. If you don't have a sink, alcohol-based (with at least 60 percent alcohol) hand sanitizers are your best option. Review your state's guidance on hand sanitizers before you distribute them. Kids should never use hand sanitizer un-supervised.
So the message is that prevention comes from being prepared. How should an educator embrace that?
Mattey: Staying up-to-date is key. Take advantage of available information.
Paradise: Seek out your school nurse—if you are lucky enough to have one!
Mattey: Exactly! In the case of H1N1, you don't need to reinvent the wheel. Your school nurse may have access to information and handouts for staff and parents from the National Association of School Nurse's Web site. Also check out www.cdc.gov and flu.gov for more great resources to review before school starts--they are updated regularly.
Wallin: The best resource for planning is early immunization for regular seasonal flu. While the H1N1 vaccine may not currently be available, you should monitor the CDC for updates on your access to it. If you have sick kids in your school or class, review social distancing practices. I recommend that desks are pushed apart (at least 3 feet from each other on all sides) rather than in groups or pods.
Paradise: I can't speak more highly of appointing a "classroom health officer." Each day, I would assign a different student a health-related task to teach the class. Kids learn every day from other kids, so they can certainly teach other good habits, too. With H1N1, they could do some research and inform the class. Hygiene contracts to be signed by parents are also powerful.
That's a lot of information, how do you make it sound so easy?
Mattey: You have to Stay Calm. Nurses and educators have so much in common. We are the type of people that are wired to handle situations like this. It's in our DNA.
Wallin: There is a teachable moment here. Yes, H1N1 is scary, but we are more prepared for this pandemic than ever in the history of the world. We are capable of staying in front of it and there's a lesson for our students there.
Mattey: The most important lesson is that the best way to avoid getting sick and stay healthy is to practice proper hygiene, eat well, get enough rest. You have to realize and respect that the silver lining of H1N1 is the opportunity to teach, instill, and practice proper hygiene and flu prevention etiquette.
Lack of health care professionals in schools affects students', teachers' performance.
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Fewer school nurses often mean more medical responsibilities for teacher's aides, secretaries, and other education support professionals.
- NEA Health Information Network Flu Resources
- The National Association of School Nurses


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AS OF NOW, these are what the rules for Supernatural Powers look like for Brikwars 2010. Simple, streamlined, and open-ended. If we wanna talk about em, here's the thread to do it in.stubby wrote:The supernatural rules are as follows:
6. You buy supernatural dice for a character (or object or vehicle or weapon or whatever) at the cost of 3CP per d4, 4CP per d6, 5CP per d8, 6CP per d10, and 7CP per d12.
7. These dice may be combined for specific effects according to the character's Supernatural Cliche (e.g., superhero, wizard, etc). Dice are assigned one at a time to add to or subtract from Range, Damage, Skill, Armor, or Move. At half effectiveness (rounded down) they can add to or subtract from Radius, Arc, and alternate Move (e.g., giving Flying Move to a normally ground-based creature).
8. When used for Damage, a d4 always causes one of the d4-based Damage types (Fire/Acid/Poison/etc.), while d10s always do Explosion Damage; everything else causes normal Damage.
9. Supernatural effects have a Use rating of +1 for every die used. If the effect is added on top of an Action that already has a Use rating (swinging a sword and adding Fire Damage to the attack, for instance) then the +1s are added on top of the Action's existing Use.
10. Any crit fail on a Supernatural Die turns it into a Supernatural Die that one of your opponents can re-roll, re-assign, and use to sabotage the effect (subtracting Range or Damage from your attack, for instance), although he must still keep the overall effect within your Supernatural Cliche.
Numbers 9 and 10 may be wildly out of balance; those in particular need a lot more playtesting before I'm sure that SN dice will still be worth the cost. For very large Supernatural Effects I'm sure that players will have to devote a couple of the dice to boosting their own Skill Rolls.
Resurrection, retroactive, and lasting effects are no longer possible in the updated system, although dead bodies can be animated on a turn-by-turn basis. There's no "loaning" SN dice to other SN units anymore either. I kind of want to put in some kind of quick-build power, but I think it's better left to the Mechanix rather than trying to duplicate it in SN.
Spells with Durations (speed buff, armor buff, ripped and buff) are (tentatively) treated by leaving the dice used to buff with the recipients and the caster is forced to take a cumulative -1 to skill per die left behind.
These rules need some playtesting, so if any of you are willing to throw some conjurers and telekinetics into their next brikwar, tell us how it goes!


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Does any one have the experiences to run Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 run on VMs hosted in Eucalyptus or Nimbus? I heard of that both Eucalyputs and Nimbus do not support Windows VMs. If so, is there any other open source Cloud
platform on which we can deploy the Windows VMs?
Another question is about how Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 work with Xen. It seems that R1's network driver did not support Xen well, or vice versa. So the network performance is very slow when running Windows HPC on Xen. How is the situation
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We are trying to run few DryadLINQ applications on both bare-Windows and Windows VMs, and make a performance comparision between them.
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All we have to do is edumacate the electricians.
We walk before we run. If we limit ourselves to being perfect out of the gate, we will never get out of the gate.Now don't get me wrong, as a developer of both platforms I hate those expensive 25k RAM (!) PLCs and all the visual programming nonsense that comes with it, but it's really still the only viable option if you need RELIABILITY.
So, the real question then is what would it take to build a PI with the same level of reliability as a PLC?
Not at all. It is just a different perspective.jstokes5 wrote:Sorry if I offended rm. I was joking. I'm an electrician myself.
It sounds interesting, but all I seem to be able to find are descriptions alluding more to monitoring features than programming one.ranpitime wrote:Hi
>now maybe I'm missing something, but how does the software you're promoting help use the Raspberry Pi as an actual PLC?
ok, sorry will not do it again, (the Intension was more how to do it)
but the answer to that question is a clear yes, it will turn Raspberry PI to an actual plc... that's it!
Thanks for the fair warning!
Hmm... An interesting question. I bet everyone will have their own answer to it If you're asking as long as the Pi can turn on and sense digital signals and measure and source analog signals (which is 95% of what a PLC does) then why do we need to make it a full blown PLC since it's already doing everything a PLC does.SGPIGLF wrote:Hi to all,
I am new to Raspberry Pi ,control engineering and PLC System. I thought as long as the system is able to perform the function design for it will be good enough. Why is there a need to get Raspberry Pi to becomes PLC System?
Do understand from the discussion above on Safety which I agree but in many situations there are external circuits connected to raspberry pi that can be designed to incorporate the safety requirement I guess..... Correct me if I am wrong or enlighten me on it.
Hope to learn more about all the experts here. Thanks.
Exactly that was the spirit when this thread was started back in 2011. We succeeded to make thinks moving to that direction.abishur wrote: .....That's just WAY too expensive to use in a class room environment. I can't even get my company, a PLC programming company, to purchase a training PLC for new employees to learn on for that price! But a $50 solution that used the Pi and gave just a handful of electrically isolated I/O and maybe an ADC with a could analog inputs? It wouldn't be much but it would be more than enough to teach new employees the basics and would be almost 3 times less than the last useless college book I bought!
That is something! and I believe the best is not seen yet! Nice work @DWomack.DWomack & 3S answer wrote: So you won't need an extra license dongle unless you want it explicitly.
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Man sheriff held guiltless in fatal shootings pleads guilty
Federal charge trumps state law, leading to federal plea
A man who an Upstate sheriff said would not be charged in connection to a "stand your ground" case in which two burglary suspects were killed has pleaded guilty to federal charges and faces up to 10 years in prison.
The U.S. Attorney's Office said Douglas Lamar Williams pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
After the 7th Circuit Solicitor reviewed the case in April 2012, Spartanburg County Sheriff Chuck Wright said that Williams would not be charged in the case because he "acted in accordance with the law."
Federal authorities disagreed and charged Williams with the weapons violation. No charges were brought in connection to the deaths of the two men Williams shot.
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Just after midnight on April 7, 2012, Williams returned to his Lee's Crossing apartment on Powell Mill Road. He was the front seat passenger in a vehicle driven by his girlfriend.
Williams told authorities he found 22-year-old Michael Gentry-Hill Jr. and 18-year-old Darren Hill behind an air conditioning unit outside his apartment. Authorities said one of the men was wearing a ski mask.
Williams said he believed that the men were attempting to break into the ground floor apartment he shared with his girlfriend. Williams, who was at the time a convicted felon, got out of the car with a loaded Smith and Wesson .38 caliber revolver and walked up to the two men while announcing his presence. Williams then shot the men in the head. Both died at the scene.
After the shooting, state police said Williams should not have had a weapon or ammunition because of a 2008 forgery conviction. But Wright said the gun was William's girlfriend so he was not in violation of the law.
On Wednesday, Williams pleaded guilty to the federal indictment.
Williams faces a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a fine of $250,000, a three-year term of supervised release and a $100 special assessment fee.


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and the blogosphere to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
•The whole point of having bowl games in the South is to ensure warm weather, right? Well, warm-weather Georgia Tech's offense struggled in 40-degree temperatures, as Iowa took the Orange Bowl for their first major bowl win in 51 years. But forget all that, there's one game left that really matters: tonight's GMAC Bowl, of course.
•The US broke a five-year Canadian streak, and won the world hockey juniors on an overtime goal. Judging from the 6-5 score, the future of hockey looks bright. Unless you value non-European goalies.
•Randy Johnson calls it quits after 22 years, and the countdown to Cooperstown begins. The only question is will he go in as an Expo, and Astro or a Giant?
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Keep an eye out for 700,000 ultrathin Japanese condoms! A shipment worth $1.5 million disappeared while being transported to Tokyo from Sagami Rubber Industries' factory in Malaysia, AFP reports.
This is a deeply troubling development, but thankfully the Malaysian police are on the case. Says one officer, "We take the matter of the missing condoms very seriously... we are investigating the matter."
Still, we can't judge the thief too harshly. Stealing may be illegal, but times are tough. Can you honestly say you wouldn't steal a crate of condoms to protect your 700,000 horny sex partners?
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You've seen your local delivery people riding around with large baskets and carrying platforms – their bikes are clunky, but they get the job done. By comparison, Behar's bicycle is much easier on the eyes. In between two small front wheels sits a flexible beige platform. With high walls and guard rails, the front platform can be used to carry groceries, a case of wine, a kid, a dog, you can even carry your surfboard to the beach!
The ultra-durable bicycle has been designed to maintain sturdiness, regardless of whatever load it bears, so there is no need to fear toppling over if the front is too heavy – all within reason of course. The soundtrack for your day is also planned for with the wireless jambox speaker integrated into the bike. Locks, lighting and bags are also included. A removable canvas panel can be attached with belt-like fasteners, which includes a secure box for keys and small items.
The bike is also flexible enough for varying street terrain with its 11 gears, and front and rear hydraulic disk brakes – also making for a grease-free ride. The Local Bike was designed not just as a means of green transportation, but to help make city life a little easier.
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- 2 cups sweetened flaked coconut
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces, room temperature
- 4 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips (about 2/3 cup)
- 3/4 cup chilled whipping cream
- 2 bananas, cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds
Recipe Preparation
Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350°F. Spread 11/2 cups coconut on large baking sheet. Toast until golden, stirring twice, about 15 minutes. Cool. Maintain oven temperature.
Line another large baking sheet with foil. Using electric mixer, beat egg whites and next 4 ingredients in large bowl until foamy. Gradually add sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Beat in 1/4 cup boiling water, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until whites are stiff and glossy. Fold in 1 cup toasted coconut. Spoon meringue onto center of prepared baking sheet and spread to 9-inch-diameter circle with slightly raised edges. Sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup untoasted coconut.
Bake meringue 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 200°F and bake until dry and crisp outside and just cooked through inside, about 1 hour. Turn off oven. Let meringue stand in oven 1 hour. Remove from oven and cool completely.
Whisk egg yolks, 2 tablespoons sugar, butter, 2 tablespoons water, and rum in medium metal bowl to blend. Set bowl over saucepan of simmering water (do not allow bottom of bowl to touch water). Whisk until thermometer inserted into mixture registers 160°F, about 6 minutes. Add chocolate and whisk until melted and smooth. Turn off heat; leave bowl over water.
Using electric mixer, beat egg whites in large bowl until soft peaks form. Gradually add 2 tablespoons sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Fold 1/3 of egg whites into chocolate mixture to lighten. Fold in remaining whites. Remove from over water and let mousse cool 20 minutes.
Beat whipping cream in large bowl until peaks form. Place meringue on platter. Spread mousse over center of meringue; top with sliced bananas. Spread whipped cream over bananas and chill at least 20 minutes and up to 3 hours.
Sprinkle with remaining toasted coconut. Cut into wedges and serve.