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Pilot Program Goals – Year One * Establish 3 WF-WR Riparian Conservation Agreement pilot projects with eligible landowners in the next year; * Establish one or more stream bank restoration projects in the next year by working with proven experts in this field of conservation such as the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, the University of Arkansas and the ADEQ; * Involve community members in a broad-target watershed education campaign, which making watershed maps, installing watershed signage at community parks and producing WF-WR specific outreach materials. Program Goals – Year Two * Expanded easement enrollment from 3 pilot landowners to 5, for a total of eight at the end of two years time; * Conducting an expanded conservation easement clinic for watershed landowners who would like to learn how to write/maintain their own conservation easements (this option isn't tax deductible but it would give those folks who don't feel comfortable with third party land arrangements an option to participate ). * Writing and publishing an Upper White River Basin watershed monthly column for the "White River Valley News", a weekly newspaper, which publishes to a target audience in the Goshen, Elkins, Greenland, West Fork and Winslow communities. Example of Conservation Menu Options Protection Description Results Income tax Estate Option deduction tax ? reduction ? 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Why you should be wary of body transformation posts on the internet.
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Two years ago, I had bariatric surgery. I still can't stop bingeing.
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No more lazy punchlines.
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Some consider OSFED a less serious version of "real" eating disorders, but it can be just as deadly to those who suffer from it.
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- Managing Software Project Risks (Planning Phase) with Proposed Fuzzy
Regression Analysis Techniques with Fuzzy Concepts
Abstract: Managing Software Project Risks (Planning Phase) with Proposed Fuzzy Regression Analysis Techniques with Fuzzy Concepts
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Author abdelrafe elzamlyBurairah Hussi
Regardless how much effort we put for the success of software projects, many software projects have a very high failure rate. Tthe failure risk is not always avoidable, but it could be controllable through software development phases. The aim of this paper is to present the fuzzy regression analysis modelling techniques to mitigate the risks in a software development project in planning phase. Top ten software risk factors in the planning phase and the best thirty risk management techniques were presented to respondents. All selected risks in software projects (planning phase) were siginificance in software project manager's perspective, whereas all risk management techniques are used most of the time, and often. The study has been conducted on a group of software project managers in software development companies. Fuzzy multiple regression analysis techniques had shown that are effective in mitigating the occurrence of each software risk factor. Successful software project risk management will greatly improve the probability of project success.
PubDate: 2014-03
- Construction of Cutting Tool Life-cycle Information Management Platform
Abstract: Construction of Cutting Tool Life-cycle Information Management Platform
Pages 27-30
Author Jing ShengYadong Fan
To improve process capability in manufacture industry, the information of cutting tool life-cycle is vital. The cutting tool life-cycle management was presented. Some key technolo¬gies were investigated, including cutting tool resource classification and code technology, etc.. Further more, the cutting tools life-cycle management system was analyzed and designed through IDEF (Integrated computer aided manufacturing definition method ) methodology, and then the key page of TLMS (tool life-cycle management system) was employed according to J2EE (java 2 platformenterprise edition (j2ee)) mode. The information management platform of the cutting tool life-cycle is an effective way to solve its shortage of resources during manufacture.
PubDate: 2014-03
- The Reseach of the Vehicle Tracking and Illegal Trajectory Discriminant
Based on Video
Abstract: The Reseach of the Vehicle Tracking and Illegal Trajectory Discriminant Based on Video
Pages 41-44
Author Jun GuZhenghua ZhangMin Xi
The single Meanshift tracing with RGB model always loses its target under complex condition. The Meanshift and the prediction of kalman combined in tracking moving targets could improve it. According to the initial location, Meanshift and the prediction of kalman are combined to confirm the new location being the starting point of next tracking, then the trajectories of vehicles are shown. The trajectory of vehicle can distinguish whether the vehicles break rules and regulations. Experimental results show that improved tracking algorithm under complex condition has a certain degree of improvement, and the trajectory tracking has a smooth effect, which doesn't take too much time, and still meets the requirement of real-time. Extraction of vehicle trajectory provides the basis of illegal discrimination. The lanes and the light determine whether the vehicle has run a red light or illegal turn. The detection method can accurately discriminate illegal vehicles to make video surveillance more intelligent.
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- Cultural Relics Health Evaluation Based on Cloud Model Approved Analytic
of Hierarchy Process
Abstract: Cultural Relics Health Evaluation Based on Cloud Model Approved Analytic of Hierarchy Process
Pages 88-93
Author Xiaohong ZhangHuiqin WangZhan Wan
Cultural relics health management includes healthy monitoring ,healthy analysis,and health assessment,in which the method and model structure of the assessment are the most important aspect of the protection of cultural relics.This paper builds the indication system of cultural relics health, in consideration of the ontology state of the cultural relics,disease state,heritage preservation the environment and the security of cultural relics. The improved evaluation methods of heritages health assessment are put forward in this paper, the priority of AHP replaced by cloud model calculates the coefficient weight in the relics health evaluation model. At last,the defferent health index of Tang shun Ling in three dates are compared by the method.
PubDate: 2014-0
- A CIS-Based for Check-Scanning System
Abstract: A CIS-Based for Check-Scanning System
Pages 85-87
Author Hou LigangZhang ZhiyuanGeng Shuqi
In this paper, we describe a sophisticated scanning system, which is based on an advanced Contact Image Sensor(CIS), used to scan the image and to verify the authenticity of the checks. The entire structure works on the FPGA platform, and the CIS is responsible for sampling the image information served as analog signal that is sent to A/D converter subsequently, aiming to convert analog signal to digital signal. It is important that those digital signal is sent to PC through Cypress non-destructively because those data need to be analyzed by a software on PC to acquire the useful information. This implementation not only clearly scans the image of checks, but it is high precision, simple design, and easy to carry.
PubDate: 2014-0
- Monitoring Exposure to Traffic Noise with Mobile Phones in China: A Review
of Context
Abstract: Monitoring Exposure to Traffic Noise with Mobile Phones in China: A Review of Context
Pages 52-63
Author S. LeaoW. Zho
There is sufficient scientific evidence that noise exposure can cause serious health problems, including hypertension and heart disease. 2Loud? is a mobile phone application developed and tested as a technology to accurately monitor, assess and map the level of exposure to traffic noise of citizens. This paper aims to set the basis for the test of 2Loud? in China, through a context review, as part of a collaborative research between Deakin University and the Chinese Academy of Science (RCEES). Australia and China share similarities and have differences in relation to patterns of urbanisation and technologies' use, and cultural and political backgrounds. These can provide a fertile environment for the investigation of opportunities and barriers to develop environmental community sensing processes related to noise in urban areas, which can make an impact on the quality of life of the population.
PubDate: 2014-0
- A Review of TQM and IT Research in the ICT Industry: An Agenda for Future
Abstract: A Review of TQM and IT Research in the ICT Industry: An Agenda for Future
Pages 64-84
Author Suby KhanamFaisal TalibJamshed Siddiqu
Over the past two decades, total quality management (TQM) and information technology (IT) have become the essential components of the information communication and technology (ICT) industry. TQM is an integrated approach that continuously improves the quality of performance while IT act as technical knowledge that supports quality experts and both are frequently used to fulfill customer requirements. There is a lack of sound literature review on TQM and IT together in the ICT industry. A comprehensive study of the published TQM and IT literature is undertaken to fill this gap that will also guide the future researchers in the area. The methodology adopted in this paper is the classification of literature review based on study type, nature of study, type of industry and country where study is conducted. A total of 153 TQM/IT related research papers were identified from different sources and 89 articles were finally filtered out for conducting the present study. The paper reflects the extent of work undertaken in the area as well as tries to re-structure and organize the available knowledge on TQM and IT in ICT industry. Major conclusions and suggestions for future research are presented at the end.
PubDate: 2014-0
- Effective Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Mobile
Abstract: Effective Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks with Multiple Mobile Sinks
Pages 45-51
Author Keiichi EndoShingo YanoDai Okan
In this paper, we propose a method that extends the lifetime of wireless sensor networks by using multiple mobile sink nodes. The proposed method determines the positions of multiple sink nodes based on remaining battery levels of sensor nodes. When a sink node is moved, the new position of the sink node is determined considering the distance to other sink nodes and the distance to the sensor node with the lowest remaining battery level. The proposed method also considers remaining battery levels in constructing routing tables. We conduct a comparative evaluation of the existing and proposed methods via simulation to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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Abstract: Decision-making Software Architecture; the Visualization and Data Mining Assisted Approach
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Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) is considered as a combined task of optimization and decision-making. Yet in solving real-life MCDM problems often most attention is paid to finding the complete Pareto-optimal set of the associated multiobjective optimization (MOO) problem and less to decision-making. In this paper, along with the presentation of two case studies, an interactive procedure has been suggested which involves the decision-maker (DM) in the optimization process helping to choose a single solution at the end. Our proposed method on the basis of reactive search optimization (RSO) algorithm and its novel software architecture packages of LIONsolver and Grapheur are capable of handling the big data often associated with MCDM problems. The two considered case studies are; firstly, a series of MCDM problems in construction workers' management and secondly, the well-known MOO and decision-making problem of welded beam design.
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- Simulation Study on Regulation Effects of the Mobile Market
Abstract: Simulation Study on Regulation Effects of the Mobile Market
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Author Huan GuoXia JinWen Zhen
Based on the Swarm platform and adaptive agent of complex adaptive system, the simulation model of mobile telecommunications market's regulation has been developed with the aim to simulate the effects of regulatory policies. Through the different simulation results, the implementation of regulatory policies having impact on the mobile telecommunications market can be analyzed, which provides theoretical support and basis for the future development of mobile telecommunications market's regulatory policy, in order to avoid the unpredictable and potential risk of the regulatory policies in the effective implementation process.
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- Automatic Anti-overflow Alarm Device Design of Electric Cooker
Abstract: Automatic Anti-overflow Alarm Device Design of Electric Cooker
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Author Lanhua ZhangZhaojun LiuHaitao DuXiaoyan MaXiaoyan FanJinchi Zhan
In order to solve the spillover of electric cooker, a kind of automatic anti-overflow alarm device was designed to warn by different alert sounds. The small integrated assistant sensor can easily be embedded on the lid of the pot; and by hot sensor switch automatic anti-overflow alarm function was implemented. The theoretical and practical results implied that it is feasible and effective to embed the assistant device on the electric cooker pot to achieve the automatic anti-overflow alarm.
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Ten years of status updates
Social media site a great way to stay connected with friends, but is the time you'll lose worth it?
As many of you already know, it was Facebook's 10th birthday on Tuesday.
I didn't know this until Tuesday when I started seeing everyone's "Facebook Reflection" videos on their profiles.
I even made one myself, though I've only had a Facebook since I started college in 2011.
Facebook is a wonderful tool.
It helps you find old friends, stay connected with current friends and unwind every now and then.
Though Facebook may be useful now that I have moved away from home, for the seven years that it existed before I joined, I just didn't see any real use for it.
See, I had never moved until I went to college, so the majority of my friends lived in the same town as me and I saw them every day, as long as I went to school or to the store or just walked around the neighborhoods with friends.
Why would I also want to see them even more on a social media site?
I was also one of those nerds that was never really into social media.
I had a MySpace (if anyone even knows what that is anymore ... ), but I probably logged into my account a grand total of 20 times, if even that.
I figured I would get one when I finally went off to college because, well, since I never moved, I never made friends anywhere else.
And where would all my friends and old classmates be when I finally moved?
On Facebook.
So I finally gave it a whirl and set up an account at the beginning of my first college semester.
When it comes to keeping in contact with my friends, it's great.
Other than that ... well, it's like a love-hate thing that I'm sure many people can relate to.
Facebook is a vortex that steals time. That's what I am convinced Facebook lives off of.
Go on Facebook, look at the clock, and suddenly an hour has gone by, and what have you done? Creeped on friend's pictures, read dozens of memes that are at first hilarious, but then you oddly become desensitized to the humor of it.
And of course, when you force yourself to stay off Facebook (which obviously can be really hard to do), you can just get more things done in your life. Literally, I mean it! When I force myself off of Facebook, I have nothing else to do than be bored, and eventually I think of stuff that I need to do.
This is honestly great!
So thank you, Facebook, for keeping me in touch with my friends from across the miles.
Though through my reflection of my time on this social media site, I believe that I have honestly wasted more time with it then I would've ever liked.
But will I get rid of my profile?
In time, maybe, but as of right now, I'm just complaining.
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ICHEC is delighted report that a team lead by Dr. Turlough Downes of Dublin City University has been awarded 16.3 Million Core hours through the PRACE "7th Regular Call" for a proposal entitled: "MF-DISK: Protoplanetary disk dynamics: the multifluid magneto-rotational instability, gaps and jets".
His collaborators are Wayne O'Keeffe DCU, Donna Rogers DIAS, Aleks Scholz DIAS and Gilles Civario of ICHEC. The computer time has been awarded on the JUQUEEN system at the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing in Jülich, Germany. This is currently the fastest computer in Europe with a performance of greater than 5 Petaflops.
Also in this call Prof. John Bulava of Trinity College Dublin is a collaborator in another successful proposal lead by Stefan Schaefer of CERN. This project is in the area of Quantum Chromodynamics.
The PRACE Regular Calls are held every 6 months, they are open to researchers across Europe and are extremely competitive. Irish researchers interested in pursuing resources via PRACE are encouraged to contact ICHEC in advance to discuss their application. Sucessful Irish Regular Call applications are now automatically entitled to the equivalent of 10 percent of the award on ICHEC systems to support local work on the project.
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I was waiting for someone to make that comment
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My employer pays 80% of my premium ergo the employer pays 80% of my prescriptions
oh gee, do you live in NY where school tax is through the roof
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tile "cliff" - not right by anyone's standards
Hello once again!
I've been reading the archives hoping to find a similar situation which would then indicate that this tile that sticks out (and the one above it) is the norm. Is it a case of "that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes" and "we'll just have to live with it"?
These tiles stick out between an eighth and a quarter of an inch. The tile on the right is a bullnose tile at the edge of the shower and this is right at eye level. This will annoy the crap out of me every time I get in the shower.
Dh plans on talking with the tile guy, but we want to know what you all think so we are at least a little informed.
Isn't 1/16th of an inch the allowable lippage? Sorry, forgot to mention that in first post. I think that is the term you need to look for when googling and preparing to speak with your tile guy. Some of the tile folks will certainly have better info.
Here is a link that might be useful: Info on lippage
I'd also worry about water damage since it appears the one tile is essentially pushed out almost the whole depth of the tile.
Uneven tiles have nothing to do with waterproofing. The waterproofing is done under the tile, since both tile and grout can allow water to get past them.
But that much lippage is unacceptable.
I believe we have a solution. He is going to build up under the tiles near that edge. He used the Schlueter system under the tiles as the water barrier. It sounded very reasonable to me from what he explained and the very little I read about it and definitely better than what was there before.


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If you needed more proof that security is one of the hottest areas of VC investing these days (and if you do, you haven't been paying attention), here's your sign: Mountain View's Shape Security just announced that it has raised a $40 million Series C round, bringing its total raised to $66 million. This despite only being out of stealth for about a month.
The investors in the deal include a who's who of security industry investing, including Norwest Venture Partners, one of the first investors in FireEye, and Sierra Venture Partners, an early investor in Sourcefire, which Cisco bought for $2.7 billion late last year. Rounding out the deal are Shape's existing investors, which include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Venrock, Google Ventures, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt's TomorrowVentures, and Allegis Capital.
Shape VP of Strategy Shuman Ghosemajumder told me that the company actually still had a significant amount of money left over from its Series B round last January, so it didn't exactly need to raise another round so soon. But Shape wants 2014 to be a major growth year, so it will use the influx of cash to hire more sales staff and developers to speed up the adoption of its product, which protects web applications from automated attacks. Shape wants to double its workforce to about 120 employees over the next 12 month, and expects to grow bookings from being in the seven-figure range to the eight-figure range, Ghosemajumder said.
"What we've seen with a lot of our customers is this is not something they'd even thought about before. But when we explain the product, it makes perfect sense to them," Ghosemajumder said. "That's kind of a sign that you're onto a fairly foundational technology."
Jon Xavier is the technology reporter at the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
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Hewlett-Packard Co on Tuesday took a massive US$5 billion charge, claiming a raft of improprieties, misrepresentation and disclosure failures at software firm Autonomy, which it acquired last October for US$11.1 billion.
HP said it discovered "serious accounting improprieties" and "a willful effort by Autonomy to mislead shareholders" after a whistleblower came forward.
The latest charge, which follows a nearly US$11 billion charge last quarter for its EDS services division, is the latest blow to HP. The technology company has been roiled in the past few years by a revolving door of CEOs, overall management turnover and challenges in its core personal computer and printer businesses.
Former Autonomy Chief Executive Mike Lynch, who was pushed out in May, "flatly rejected" HP's allegations.
"The former management team of Autonomy was shocked to see this statement today, and flatly rejects these allegations, which are false," a Lynch spokeswoman said in a brief statement to Reuters.
HP took US$8.8 billion in charges in the fourth quarter, with US$5 billion tied to the problems at Autonomy.
HP said it has referred the matter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission's enforcement division and the UK's Serious Fraud Office for civil and criminal investigation. It said it will take legal action to recoup "what we can for our shareholders."
HP informed both the SEC and the Serious Fraud Office over the past week. Both agencies declined to comment.
HP's stock slid to a 10-year low, losing 11.2 percent to US$11.81 in afternoon trading. Shares are down nearly 50 percent year to date.
HP alleged that Autonomy's former management inflated revenue and gross margins. It said Autonomy executives mischaracterized revenue from low-end hardware sales as software sales and booked some licensing deals with partners as revenue, even though no customer bought the product.
HP said it began an internal investigation, including a forensic review by PricewaterhouseCoopers of Autonomy's historical financial results, under HP General Counsel John Schultz after the whistleblower came forward.
Schultz said since the accounting troubles occurred prior to the acquisition, it took a long time before the company was in a position to make the news public.
"Not surprisingly, Autonomy did not have sitting on a shelf somewhere a set of well-maintained books that would walk you through what was actually happening from a financial perspective inside the company," he said. "Indeed critical documents were missing from the obvious places, and it required that we look in every nook and cranny."
HP CEO Meg Whitman said her predecessor, Leo Apotheker and the former chief strategy officer, Shane Robison, were the key people behind the Autonomy acquisition.
Apotheker was ousted as CEO in September 2011 after just 11 months on the job and Robison left soon after.
"Most of the board was here and voted for this deal, and we feel terribly about that," said Whitman on a call with analysts. "The board relied on audited financials, audited by Deloitte. Not Brand X accounting firm, but Deloitte," she said, adding that KPMG was hired to audit Deloitte.
"Neither of them saw what we now see after someone came forward to point us in the right direction," Whitman said.
Other advisers who worked on the deal included Qatalyst Partners, the investment bank run by technology investment banker Frank Quattrone; UBS; Goldman Sachs; Citigroup; JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America for Autonomy. Perella Weinberg Partners and Barclays Capital advised for HP.
Law firms for Autonomy were Slaughter & May and Morgan Lewis. The firms for HP included Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Drinker Biddle & Reath; and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, which advised the board.
Lynch said he was "shocked to see" HP's allegations, adding that its due diligence prior to the acquisition was "intensive." He said HP's senior management was "closely involved with running Autonomy for the past year."
In response, Whitman said on CNBC the company stands by its findings.
In a statement, Apotheker said he was "stunned and disappointed" by the revelations and offered to make himself available to HP and the authorities to get to the bottom of the matter.
Robert Enderle, a tech analyst at the Enderle Group, said he has never seen such a potential misrepresentation of financials.
"You have to rely on what the firm gives you during due diligence and I've never seen a misstatement at this level," Enderle said.
If the charges are true, it could result in a massive punitive damages award for HP, Enderle said.
Other analysts hoped it was the end of the bad news for the company.
"This kind of feels like the last of the bad news," Forrester analyst Frank Gillett said.
The Autonomy allegations and announcement of the charge coincided with the reporting of a fourth-quarter loss for HP.
Net revenue fell 6.7 percent to US$29.96 billion for the fourth quarter ended October 31 from US$32.12 billion a year earlier. Analysts, on average, expected $30.43 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue from all of its main business units declined, with the personal computer division recording the steepest drop at 14 percent.
HP reported a quarterly net loss of US$6.85 billion, or US$3.49 a share, versus a profit of US$239 million, or 12 cents, a year earlier.
The sprawling company, which employs more than 300,000 people globally, is undergoing a restructuring aimed at focusing on enterprise services in the mold of International Business Machines Corp.
"To put it bluntly ... this story has been an unmitigated train wreck, and it seems every time management speaks to the Street, there is new negative incremental information forthcoming," said ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall.
- Reuters
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