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What is Lean?
The goal of Lean is to produce the right amount of high quality products or services, at the right time, with the least amount of time, effort, and cost. The customer defines what the right product or service is, when they need it, and how much they want of it. The Lean approaches, methods, tools, and techniques are built on the world's most efficient system—the Toyota Production System.
Implementing Lean requires that you build quality into all steps of the process with an objective of 100% defect-free production. With Lean, you are providing products and services at competitive prices by eliminating waste in the system. You are supporting team members through effective management deployment and support, and you are instituting a never-ending cycle of improvement.
What makes Lean different from Six Sigma?
The difference between Lean and Six Sigma becomes apparent when you are determining which method to use to implement improvement. Lean uses known approaches and applies them to known root causes, while Six Sigma studies the unique situation and develops customized solutions to address underlying root causes.
What are the similarities between Lean and Six Sigma?
Lean and Six Sigma share a common purpose to increase value to the customer and increase value to the business—they rely on three basic interdependent tenets:
- Focus on the customer
- Use of a scientific approach
- Teamwork
Can I use Lean if I'm already using Six Sigma?
Yes, many organizations that have started with Lean are incorporating Six Sigma into their programs. STAT-A-MATRIX can work with your organization to integrate Six Sigma concepts and tools into your existing structure, giving you the ability to use the tools and techniques that are best suited for the specific problem being addressed.
We already have a continuous improvement program. What can Lean do for us?
Lean focuses on reducing waste in the entire value stream—the complete set of activities required to bring a product or service into the hands of the customer (Lean Thinking, Womack and Jones, 1996). Focusing on the entire value stream allows you to identify and eliminate waste within each process and activity and between processes and activities. Improving individual processes and the overall value stream flow can help you reap the largest benefits from your continuous improvement efforts.
Can Lean be used in nonmanufacturing environments?
Yes, Lean has been applied successfully in a variety of non manufacturing environments including financial services, healthcare industries, government, military, and nonprofit foundations. Virtually any organization can be described in terms of the value stream—and any value stream includes waste, which can be identified and eliminated using Lean.
What are the benefits of Lean?
Improved quality Reduced errors/defects Reduced costs Waste eliminated Improved flow Simplification of complex processes Improved safety Reduced lead/cycle time Providing the right product/service in the right amount at the right time Providing the highest value to the customer at the lowest possible cost Increased profitability
What is a Lean/kaizen/blitz event?
A Lean (kaizen or blitz) event is an intense, brief team effort to apply specific Lean approaches to reduce waste, defects, and cycle time and implement improvements in a particular process or department.
What is a value stream map?
A value stream map is a workflow visualization tool for representing how customer needs are met. It is a picture of the entire value stream. Some of what it includes is supplier and customer information, the flow of materials and information, lead time, and cycle time. The value stream map makes waste easier to see and opportunities for improvement are easier to identify.
What would it take for us to implement Lean?
- Implementing Lean requires:Understanding and commitment of top leadership.
- Access to current information on customer needs—your critical data pool.
- A process-management system to measure current performance and identify where you need to make improvements.
- Resources—Coaches, Team Leaders, Team Members—trained to design and improve processes and to assist process owners.
- Ongoing management involvement and review to reinforce process management, improvement, and design.
- Communication to ensure that customer focus and Lean methods are embraced throughout the organization.
- Assigned responsibilities for Lean within the organization.
How do we know which processes our organization should target for improvement?
Not every process needs immediate improvement. Start by considering which processes concern your customers the most and place your priorities there. Use your value stream map to identify waste and opportunities for improvement. For example, a hospital might learn from surveys that their customers care less about the time it takes to be admitted than they do about safe medical procedures and proper medications.
How do we select Lean events to work on?
There is a systematic process for selection that begins with the organization's strategy and top management. They identify what processes are "hurting" the organization the most, and then develop value stream maps for those processes. Areas of waste are identified, and then translated into executable improvement opportunities. Once the opportunities are prioritized, then process improvement teams are assigned to work on the problems by conducting Lean events.ISO 9000 Quality System standards.
What is ISO?
This is the International Organization for Standardization, a federation of National Standards bodies from 140 nations. The name ISO is not an acronym, but is taken from the Greek word iso, meaning "Equal" since all member bodies have an equal say into the standards. ISO is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. What is the ISO 9000 family of standards?
These are generic quality management system standards. They are 'generic' in the sense that they will apply to any organization or industry no matter the size of the organization. A management system defines the process for doing the business of the organization. And they are standards that define the state-of-the-art processes and procedures for defining and implementing a management system.
These are voluntary standards: organizations choose to adopt them. They don't define what quality is for a particular product or industry, but they do define the requirements for a management system to control processes for quality. By using the procedures and processes in the Quality Management System, organizations will reliably produce goods and services that meet the needs and requirements of their customers.
How is Quality defined?
Quality in the ISO 9000 family of standards refers to all those features of a product or service that are required by the customer. So, it is the customer who defines what quality is and means. The ISO 9000 standards represent a consensus on what constitutes good management practices that will allow an organization to reliably deliver products or services that meet the requirements of the customer.
What is 'certification' and how is it obtained?
Certification of compliance with the ISO 9000 standards is provided by a third-party registrar, and not from the ISO organization. The Registrar will audit the Quality Management System for a company to insure that all the requirements of the ISO 9000 standards are met. ISO 9000 defines the requirements of an effective management system, but does not specify how these requirements are met in a particular organization. This allows the organization to find the best way for itself that suits the organization's size, product or service, and culture.
What is the differences the standards in the ISO 9000 family?
The ISO 9000 is a family of standards, each of which will cover a different scope of activities. One standard is not better or worse than another. ISO 9001 covers Design and Development, Production, Testing and Inspections, and Servicing activities. The ISO 9002 standard covers all except Design and Development, while ISO 9003 covers Servicing.
Other Standards
Standards addressing the specialized needs and circumstances of certain industries and applications also exist:
Environment. The ISO 14000 series of international standards integrate environmental considerations into operations and product standards. The standards specify requirements for establishing an environmental policy, determining environmental impacts of products or services, planning environmental objectives, implementation of programs to meet objectives, corrective action and management review.
Aerospace. AS9100, the international quality management standard for the aerospace industry, was released in November 1999.
Automotive. There are three popular standards used in the automotive industry:
QS-9000 is a quality management system developed by Daimler-Chrysler, Ford and General Motors for suppliers of production parts, materials and services to the automotive industry.
ISO/TS 16949, developed by the International Automotive Task Force, aligns existing American, German, French and Italian automotive quality standards within the global automotive industry.
ISO 14001 environmental standards are being applied by automotive suppliers as a requirement from Ford and General Motors.
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The moment Little Mix won The X Factor 'feels like a dream',
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Jan's daughter Jesy forms one quarter of the girl band who became
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Jan said: "I woke up the morning after the final and had to
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"I have always watched The X Factor, I love it, so for my daughter
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"I know some people moan about the programme, but it gives
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Girl bands have traditionally not fared well in the annual
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Jan added: "The best part of it all isn't the winning, it's the
positive comments that the girls have had from their
"They are four ordinary girls but they have had so many letters
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More than 500 skiers will compete for championships in events ranging from classic sprint races to sitski adaptive races to biathlon sprint adaptive races.
Several local skiers will compete for the chance to move on to elite junior competitions, including Park City Nordic Ski Club's Leah Lange, Kyle Deling and Brenna Egan, and Team Soldier Hollow's Aren Burkemo, Marc Jackson, Fischer Heimburger, Bronwyn Tayler and Jeremy Willey.
Along with the older racers, the junior racers will be competing for spots on the world junior championship team. They can also earn their way onto the Under-18 Scandinavian Cup team.
Lange, 14, said she's been training for this event for a long time and hopes her hard work pays off.
"I've traveled across the country this summer to camps in order to train for this event," she said. "I'm excited for the experience and to see what I can learn from it."
"We went to Sun Valley for a couple races recently just to get ready for racing again," Kyle Deling added.
Lange and Deling hope to finish in the top 12 or higher in every race to qualify for the Scandinavian Cup and in the top 20 overall in order to pre-qualify for the FIS Nordic Junior World Ski Championships in Czechoslovakia.
"I'm pretty confident," Lange said. "I'm racing against people four years older than me, so that's scary. But based on some previous races, I think I can compete.
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Then can you please explain why we all heard "Kill him!" on that tape? Was it a coincidental compression artifact that just happened to sound like the words "kill" and "him" during a Republican rally?
There are several possibilities, however you're ignoring two key facts.
1. The Secret Service dismissed it saying that wasn't what happened, and I'll believe the Secret Service over MSNBC.
2. We're potentially looking at someone in a crowd even if it was true, someone in a crowd isn't the same thing as a group receiving stuff from the Democrat Presidential candidates, and considered respected by the Democrats.
The "Code Pink" stuff has relevance because one of the sources given was from MSNBC, and considering the fact MSNBC tried to actively sabotage the Republican Convention, it doesn't look like they are a trustworthy source.
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Actually, it was more akin to "Kill them both", referring to both Democratic candidates.
Again the Secret Service dismissed it, and considering they take threats to candidates extremely seriously I'm going to take the Secret Service's side.
Furthermore, Huffington Post letting people take shots at Nancy Reagan (and they were courted by the Democrat Presidential Candidates) is not equivalent to some bozo allegedly yelling something in a crowd.
So here we have the comparison between groups that the Democrats knowingly associate with and we're comparing it to what some person in a crowd allegedy shouted while they happened to be at a rally for the Republican Presidential Candidate or VP Candidate. What's next, accusations of Racism because Republicans dared to criticize the "annointed one?"
You would have an equivalent if the Republicans were courting groups that call for the torching of abortion clinics or something like that, but the Republicans don't court those groups (and the mainstream media would pounce all over the Republicans if they did).
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Mitt Romney holds a 3-percent national lead over President Obama, according to the latest CBS-York Times poll. The poll shows Romney at 46 percent and Obama at 43 percent. This breaks last month's 46-46 tie, but the race to the White House remains very much still up in the air.
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The poll does not account for Ron Paul's departure from the race, nor speculation that he'll run as a third-party candidate. According to our own poll data, in a three-way race, Paul and Romney would likely split a large portion of the sportsmen vote. Would Obama win an easy victory in a three-way battle? Or could Romney win over some of Paul's supporters?
If the race remains just Romney versus Obama, we're in for a tight one, folks. As The Hill notes, the economy has thus far dominated the race, with 62-percent of voters citing it as the most important issue. The deficit follows at a distant second at 11-percent. The Hill says "only 7 percent said same-sex marriage was the most important issue in this election," but in an election thus far separated by only 3 percent, can either candidate ignore a voter bloc that could make all the difference?
Certainly this includes the sportsmen vote. In case you haven't noticed, presidential candidates need your vote (or at least a big piece of it) in order to win. And they know it. So this November let's remind candidates just how large and politically active we are. How much we appreciate conservation, access to quality fishing and our gun rights. Because in an election battle this close, it's that much easier to make our voices felt.


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Lucky Thompson (tenor sax), Hank Jones (piano), Oscar Pettiford (bass).
Composed by Lucky Thompson.
Recorded: New York, January 30, 1956
Rating: 98/100 (learn more)
This magnificent ballad performance could be considered Thompson's "Body and Soul." Hank Jones's rhapsodic piano intro precedes Thompson's compelling recital of the yearning melody, played with great feeling and a lovely tone possessing a soft vibrato similar to Ben Webster's. Thompson's solo is a lesson in articulate craftsmanship, building slowly as he increases the intensity of his fluid, swift runs and the bite of his tone. Jones and Pettiford wisely keep low profiles, letting the impact of Thompson's full expression rightfully take center stage. After Jones's reprise of his intro, a swooping coda by Thompson ends with a climactic low note held by tenor and bass. Influenced by Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas and the beboppers, Lucky Thompson's individuality, intelligence and harmonically sophisticated approach placed him way above the pack. If not for his complete retreat from playing and teaching in 1974 until his death in 2005, his abilities as a performer and composer would be better remembered today.
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The name Guigal is synonomous with the finest in wine from the Rhone Valley. The Guigal family has been making top quality wines from both their estate and from purchased fruit for over 60 years. Their greatest fame comes from their spectacular Cote Roties, but their other properties scattered across the Rhone Valley also produce spectacular wines.
Robert Parker comments "Guigal, who also owns fabulous vineyards in the Northern Rhone, is a superb blender when it comes to his Southern Rhones. He is turning out enormous quantities of high quality Cotes du Rhone reds, whites, and roses as well as fine Chateauneuf du Papes, Gigondas, and a terrific rose from Tavel."
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Hilary Swank owns two Oscars, but she's a stranger in a strange land in the rom-com "P.S. I Love You," now on DVD. How can such a talented actress look so lost while swooning over "300's" Gerard Butler?
The mystery eludes me, but the film takes a winning premise and saps all the romance right out of it.
My review over at Donne Tempo shares the ugly truth behind this overstuffed turkey.
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(M) General (109 minutes) ★★★1/2
''I'VE been contemplating suicide/But it really doesn't suit my style…'' The famous opening lines of Shivers, written by Rowland S. Howard when he was just 16, pretty well sum up his brand of wry, guarded romanticism - even if Howard came to have second thoughts about the song, or at any rate the overwrought way it was performed by Nick Cave as the frontman of the Boys Next Door.
Howard, who died in 2009 of liver cancer, has never been as famous as Cave, his sometime bandmate. But as a man and musician he's at least as intriguing a figure. This thorough, reverent documentary by Richard Lowenstein and Lynn-Maree Milburn portrays him as a self-created dandy, an autodidact in the noblest sense - though we get only a few hints about how he managed to step on to the Melbourne punk scene in his mid-teens with tastes, prejudices and guitar style all fully formed.
More than with most rock musicians, an air of precocity clung to Howard. In the early Boys Next Door footage, he's like a bashful, resentful school kid, standing off to one side while Cave hogs the spotlight. Playing the androgynous pin-up for publicity shots, in eyeliner and skinny tie, he's pure glamour.
Later, when the drugs caught up with him, he came to look like a crone - but at all periods he had a perfect face for cinema, gaunt and finely drawn, with hooded, ageless eyes and full lips often parted in world-weary amusement. It's no wonder a filmmaker such as Wim Wenders was determined to make Howard a part of Wings of Desire (1987) - his cinematic ode to 1980s Berlin, where the Birthday Party (the successor to the Boys Next Door) were, for a while, the hippest band in town.
Assembling a documentary on a relatively obscure personality such as Howard is a technical challenge - finding the right balance between archival clips and present-day interviews, providing a fair sample of the music while still conveying the basic facts. Not everything succeeds here, especially not the interludes where the camera wanders through a gothic netherworld of cats and tombstones, accompanied by whispered extracts from Howard's unpublished novels.
But at best Autoluminescent is that rare thing, a tribute to an artist that comes close to being a work of art in its own right.
Howard's death is so recent the interviews often have an uncomfortable intimacy, as friends, fans and the various women in his life pay their respects. So many affectionate stories get told - about Howard's hatred for bananas, say, or about the playfully violent fantasies he would dream up with his young stepson. Not merely a biography of one man, the film offers a whole collection of indelible portraits, like a family album.
As in any family, there's a feeling of unspoken tensions, scores not yet settled. Mick Harvey, who fired Howard from the Birthday Party, fronts up for his interview with a look of stolid anger, like a councillor defending an unpopular planning decision. Cave seems ill-at-ease whenever he's on screen - as well he might - while still managing to use phrases such as ''my lyrical style'' without a blush.
Some of the most moving recollections come from Howard's brother Harry, who played bass in a couple of the same bands and says he doesn't mind being overshadowed: ''It's a good shadow.''
But Howard also left a mark on those who only knew him from a distance - such as Wenders, who would sometimes spot him loitering in bars after gigs and who speaks, with matter-of-fact sadness, of their mutual failure to stay in touch: ''He left Berlin and never have I seen him again.''
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Peter, Nicole, Bill and Elyce Mouskondis on the floor of the Nicholas & Co. warehouse in Salt Lake City.
Philotimo. That's a word you don't find in many business plans. The Greek word, difficult to translate into English, means "love of honor" or "the inclination to do good" or "love for family, community and country." It's central to the success of Nicholas & Co., the Salt Lake City-based food supply and service company owned and run by the Mouskondis family for three generations.
"All companies have to create their culture," says President Peter Mouskondis. "That Greek word is the basis of our business. To perpetuate, we need to build trust."
The land of opportunity is a land of entrepreneurs. The story of an immigrant who comes to this country and builds a business by determination, hard work and good ideas is a classic American tale. Equally classic is the fracturing and failure of that business in subsequent generations. Family businesses are often dragged down by nepotism, or worse, wayward descendants. But Nicholas & Co., now under its third generation of family ownership, is dominant in the market against national competitors, and its future looks brighter than ever.
Perhaps philotimo is part of the reason.
In 1907, Peter's grandfather, Nicholas William Mouskondis, left his home in Crete, Greece, with an eighth grade education, no knowledge of English and a sign on his back reading "Utah." He started his business by collecting discarded cans from the train cars at the station. He and his family would re-label the cans and sell the goods to customers on his bread route.
Now, Nicholas & Co. is housed in a 12-million-cubic-foot facility, employs more than 500 people, owns a fleet of more than 100 trucks and trailers and sells more than 10,000 products. Aside from selling and delivering groceries to more than 3,500 restaurants and businesses in five states, Nicholas & Co. provides tools and advice: inventory tracking systems, menu development and engineering tools, training in food safety (offered in English and Spanish), marketing support and service, kitchen, wine and hospitality training. They even have a secret shopper program that sends out anonymous Nicholas assessors to critique food and service so a restaurant can improve with friendly advice, rather than that of restaurant critics.
Mikell Trapp, owner of the Trio group of restaurants, has been working with Peter Mouskondis since Trapp was a chef at Stein Eriksen in 1993. "Nicholas' customer service is second to none in the Salt Lake market," he says. "Part of the reason is that Peter wasn't just handed the business on a platter by his father. He's worked in every job in his business, so he has respect and understanding for each one."
It's often a salesman's pitch when a food purveyor offers to partner with its clients, not to push product, but Trapp says at Nicholas they really mean it. "If you need help on a super-busy Friday night or on a huge catering project, they'll send a chef to help out," Trapp notes. "That's amazing in today's business climate."
William "Bill" Mouskondis, who grew up in the business with his father the founder and with his wife, Elyce, expanded the business from the foundation Nicholas Mouskondis had set. He built the customer base past Salt Lake City, including franchisees of national names like Burger King, iconic local chains like Iceberg, Chuck-A-Rama and Arctic Circle as well as the new, high-end independent restaurants that opened. He moved the operation into larger facilities and with great foresight, he put an emphasis on technology, investing in computers for the delivery fleet and laptops for the street sales team—the first food service distributor to do so. In 2004, the Utah Restaurant Association presented Bill Mouskondis with its Lifetime Achievement Award, an unusual honor for a non-restaurateur.
But one of the most important things Bill and Elyce accomplished was the successful transfer of company authority and management to their son and daughter-in-law, Peter and Nicole.
"Peter loved the business from when he was a child," recalls his mother. "He used to go with Bill to conventions, he got to know all his dad's peers and everyone in the business. That's how he came to understand the importance of relationships."
"And there's always the personal touch in the hospitality business," Bill explains.
Typical for the Mouskondis family, when it came time to be interviewed for this story, the entire family, including Bill and Elyce's daughter Marcella, who lives in Texas, gathered around a table in the company office. The frankness, courtesy and general good humor of the conversation would be rare in any modern family, let alone one that works together day in and day out. Together, they discussed what makes Nicholas & Co. work.
"When I started working here 18 years ago, there was a question on everyone's mind: What's going to happen here? Will this business be perpetuated? Or will they sell out to the competition, a national food distributor?" says Nicole. "When I came on board, I saw a future, a culture to be continued."
"But Bill and Elyce really let us learn in the best way," she continues. "We made decisions that Bill advised against. Sometimes he was right, but sometimes we were right, and that's the only way to understand your business. He allowed us to make mistakes, but was there to prevent any disasters."
"Families are long-term," says Peter. "So is our family business."
Peter and Nicole didn't just succeed to management; they inherited friendships and a legacy of relationships with customers, employees and community.
"We want to emphasize the value of local companies," says Peter. "We got tired of seeing local companies marginalized by big businesses who only have their eye on the short-term dollar." Small start-up companies are more trouble to deal with than larger, established ones. They can't supply as many people and they may not have the right systems in place or understand labor laws. Part of Nicholas & Co.'s mission is to help these companies grow.
"Community involvement keeps us in touch with what our customers and their customers are interested in," says Nicole. "Peter serves on Gov. Gary Herbert's Consumer Advisory Board. We're involved in Utah's Own. We have to live in this society. We have a place in this economy."
The company's support of smaller local food producers and farmers has earned loyalty, especially among independent restaurants. "We moved all our business to Nicholas & Co. because of the local angle," says Trapp.
Support of the community means support of individuals, too. This is a company that remembers where it came from. When Jorge Fierro, founder of Rico Brand foods, first came to Utah, he spoke virtually no English, much like Nicholas Mouskandis. "I was taking English as a second language and looking for a job," recalls Fierro. "I had warehouse experience in Mexico so the agency sent me to Peter Mouskondis, and he and his mother gave me a job. When I wanted to apply for permanent residency, they wrote a letter saying I had full-time employment in the U.S. I think they could relate because of the grandfather. I met him once—he was old and in a wheelchair. But he may be one of the reasons I was inspired to go into food business. I thought, if he could do it, maybe I could."
That was 26 years ago. Now Fierro works with Nicholas & Co. to supply Rico products sized to sell to restaurants.
"Our grandfather Nicholas said, all you have is your name when you leave this earth," recalls Marcella. "When you lay your head on the pillow at night, you want to feel like you've done your best by everyone."
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Feb. 25, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (SMU) - After coming up just short at last year's Conference USA Indoor Championships, this year's distance medley team composed of Mary Alenbratt, Lakeisha James, Kajsa Barr and Kristine Eikrem-Engeset set a new Conference USA Indoor Championships record with a time of 11:32.36, breaking Tulsa's 2010 mark by nearly five seconds.
The record-time also topped the school record by over five seconds, which was set at last season's conference indoor championships, by Alenbratt, Egheosa Osawemwenze, Lovisa Lindh and Silje Fjortoft.
In the weight throw, senior Ayla Gill took third place with a toss of 18.03m.
In the 400 meters, freshman Craishia Washington qualified for tomorrow's final with a season-best mark of 55.70.
The 2012 Conference USA Indoor Championships continue tomorrow at noon. Live results can be viewed at http://flashresultstexas.com/2012/cusaindoor12/.


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The Rock Talks About How Personal His Program Is With John Cena, Admits He's Come Close To "Slapping The Lips Off His Face"
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In my university, the wifi signal covers anywhere in the campus.
However, an internet client software is needed for users to login before the internet connection is available. And there are no such client in my android cellphone.
So, is it possible to set up an VPN server using my PC(windows 7, which has the access to the Internet), and then connect to it using my android cellphone to get the access to the Internet?
P.S. I have no access to the routers because it is controlled by the univerisity.


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In fact, the reason for this post is a kind of double entendre on silence: the relative silence in literate western circles with respect to Japanese literature of the past century. Over the last month, I realized that virtually no one I had spoken with had read a single Japanese novel. Yet, like Russia of the 19th century, Japan produced a concentration of great writers and great novelists in the last 20th century that is set apart: the forces of of profound national changes (and defeat) created the crucible of great art. That art carries the distinctive aesthetic sense of Japan - a kind of openness of form, but is necessarily the carrier of universal, humanistic themes.
Endo is a writer in the post war period - the so-called third generation, and in my view the last of the wave of great Japanese literature. Read him. But don't stop - perhaps don't start - there. The early 20th century work of Natsume Soseki are a product of the Meiji period. In my view, Soseki is not only a father of Japenese literature but one of the greatest figures of world literature taken as a whole - I am a Cat remains one of my very favorite novels. Two troubling post-war novels by Yukio Mishima merit attention - Confessions of a Mask and the Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, both I would characterize broadly as existential masterpieces. The topic of identity in the face of westernization is also a moving theme in Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human. I hardly mean this as a complete survey - something in any case I am not qualified to provide -just a pointer toward something broader and important.
My encounter with contemporary Japanese literature - albeit limited - has been less impactful (I want to like Haruki Murakami in the same way I want to like Victor Pelevin, but both make me think of the distorted echo of something far better). And again like Russia, it is difficult to know what to make of Japan today - where its future will lead, whether it will see a cultural resurgence or decline. It is certain that its roots are deep and I hope she finds a way to draw on them and to flourish.


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A 10-year-old fifth grader attending Devonshire Alternative Elementary School in Columbus, Ohio was suspended for three days last week for pointing his finger in a gun-like fashion at a fellow fifth grader and then pretending to shoot his classmate.
The Columbus Dispatch reported on March 4 that the school principal suspended young Nathan Entingh for using a "lookalike firearm."
"I was just playing around," Nathan said. "People play around like this a lot at my school."
According to a school spokesperson, Nathan pointed his finger at the other student's head, and pretended to shoot "kind of execution style."
And although other students at the same school are guilty of the same activity and haven't been suspended, Principal Patricia Price says she's warned her students "about pretend gun play numerous times this year."
The kids were told, 'If you don't stop doing this type of stuff, there would be consequences,'" Warner said. "It's just been escalating."
Paul Entingh, Nathan's dad, think it's the adults at the school that are misbehaving.
"He said he was playing," Paul Entingh said. "It would even make more sense maybe if he brought a plastic gun that looked like a real gun or something, but it was his finger."
Nathan's father said he would have at least appreciated an in-school suspension for his son. But as Nathan has never been in trouble at school before, the elder Entingh thinks the three day suspension "is overboard."
State Sen. Charleta Tavares from Columbus, blames a 1998 state law requiring schools to adopt zero-tolerance policies, and has proposed legislation that would overturn that law.
Her legislation would forbid zero-tolerance school policies, "because she said they lead to unfair punishments."
When asked by The Columbus Dispatch yesterday how he feels about his suspension, Nathan said, "I was thinking it was dumb."
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" Brand: Cue & Case / Type: Cue Case for 3/4 Jointed Snooker Cue "
Investing a decent cue case is a must, especially if you've purchased an expensive cue which you want to keep safe from moisture and miscellaneous knocks. Most cues do come with a case, but these are often soft pouch-like affairs which do little to protect your costly potting stick. The cue that I recently purchased didn't actually come with a case, so I had to buy my own. I decided on the Croc Tubular Cue case, which is currently available for £27.99 from Amazon. To be honest, I wasn't too keen on spending nearly thirty pounds on a cue case, so I purchased my one for £24 on eBay.
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With the beginning of 2013 just around the corner, we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your business and support throughout 2012.
2012 was an excellent year for Matcha all across North America. We are thrilled to see how much Matcha has grown and is becoming common across the country. That success is due in no small part to you – our customers and all Matcha supporters alike.
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Since December 23rd, I have been working with Sprint and HTC to try to address multiple error messages on both lines of our account.
Has anyone been experiencing the following error messages?
PRL Update Error: 1012
Troubleshooting with Sprint, we have done multiple factory resets, changed network settings (LTE/CDMA vs CDMA Only), changed SIM cards.
Sprint wireless support advised that these were HTC software error messages.
HTC advises that these are Sprint network error messages.
Has anyone been able to resolve similar issues?
Has anyone been able to get a straight answer out of Sprint or HTC about this issue?
your needing to reactivate your phone..the over the air activation didnt work for whatever reason..it could end up being something with your account as well..make sure youre in a area with good reception both data and voice..then put into the dial pad ##873283# and let it do its thing..post what it does
Error Code #1012
Your over the air activation did not go through.
Click OK. If the problem persists, contact Customer Care.
Thanks for the feedback, I will give it a shot and post the results.
Last Monday a Sprint agent had me update both the Profile and PRL via WiFi at home, as we could not update over Sprint data.
it should be a issue with activation..then again they might have had you do the Profile and PRL update to see if your reception would improve..that code i gave you will do both of those as well as the hands free activation...you can always just go in manually and do the hands free activation as well by itself..
Thank you for posing and for providing feedback in regards to these error codes. Have you been to a Sprint service and repair center so a technician can run a diagnostic on your device? Please let me know, I look forward to your response.
Charles G.
Sprint Social Care Team
Charles G,
Yes we have had at least seven + visits to the Sprint store in Aurora, IL (Rt. 59) to try and address multiple issues with each HTC One on the account since June 2013.
We have had a total of five factory resets done by Sprint agents on both phones, replaced the SIM card on one phone and have done all updates as instructed by Sprint and HTC.
Since the last HTC software "fix" update done on both phones last week, we are now getting a new error message on one of the phones stating : "The Sprint Default Configuration download has been interrupted. Tap Retry to try again now." When you hit Retry, it just goes back to the same error message. The error message does not clear, even after shutting down the phone.
We are still not able to run either phone on Sprint data without receiving LTE: ESM error messages.
At home, we need to run off of our WiFi to have any hope of updating the Profile or PRL.
My confidence level in Sprint or HTC being able to provide a resolution to address our issues is very low at this time.
Getting another error message this AM, MIP: 65541. Anyone familiar with this?
Just received an LTE: ESM-0 error message, along with a dropped call to our second line.
This is the same error we were receiving pror to the update from HTC last week.
I am also receiving the same error messages:
Still getting LTE: ESM 65535 error message.
Does anyone at Sprint have any comment why this error message is still popping up on our phones, even after the last software update from HTC?
This is all i could locate on this error code..not that it explains anything..
SprintCare Dec 29, 2013 11:13 AM (in response to Hotflash61)
Thanks for the reply. The best way to be able to restore your HTC One's ability to update profile and PRL is to chat with a HTC Device Support Representative that will be able to guide you through restoring that functionality. You can reach them via chat through this link:
one additional thing you might try is to punch into the dial pad ##873283# and let it do the handsfree activation again...it will also do a PRL update while its at it and i believe it does a Profile update as well..but run it through that and see if anything improves. post what you see or what it does.
after it does the handsfree activation give it a while..it will automatically do the other updates after that..sometimes it takes about a minute for it to pop up and do it..so dont try to do any other updates or open any apps until its fully done.
Thank you for the posts. Since you are still receiving this error message after the update I think it would be best to chat with a HTC Product Support Specialist
http://www.htc.com/us/contact/chat/. Let them know of the errors that you are getting and that you have received the update and it is still occurring. Thank you.
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Michael C.
This is pretty crazy. I would like to jump into this head first and see what we can figure out. Would you mind sending my team and I a PM with your phone number, PIN, and a link to this conversation? I would really appreciate it.
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I have had the same problems since I updated.
Here is what I have done.
1. Spent an hour on the phone with sprint tech . She tried tons of trouble shooting steps. (restart, updating etc... and they couldn't figure out the reason. tried tons of trouble shooting steps. sent me to store.
2. went to sprint store, there they factory reset the phone and said it is fine.
3. After arriving home I started getting the errors and I was STILL having problems. I saw this thread and I chatted with HTC as sited above. They had me clear the cache on the phone using HBOOT and that didn't work. they told me that I have to contact Sprint to "verify the marriage between the device MEID and the SIM Card # in their system".
4. Contacted Sprint. They tried all the usual trouble shooting steps, and verified the above. Again I had the same problems including the Errors. Finally after a long time, the rep told me that there is nothing he could do. He is passing the problem over to some other person at sprint and that they hope to get back to me in 72 hours.
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Rihanna Trades Places with the Paparazzi
Chased down by photographers in boats while vacationing in Hawaii, Rihanna decided to take matters into her own hands. "Me high jackin the PaPz," tweeted the pap star.
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Celebrity makeup artist (and little sister to guess who?) Kayleen McAdams shared her work on the Nylon Magazine cover. "Favourite time of the month: new covers Check out Zoe Kravitz on the cover of @nylonmag, makeup by moi!" she tweeted.
Paris Goes Pink...
This week two starlets decided to go pink with their hair. "I love Pink! Obviously...lol ;) Ready for Day 2 of @Coachella! ???," tweeted Paris Hilton, who appears to just be rocking pink extensions, not a full dye-job.
...and So Does Lauren Conrad
Lauren Conrad, on the other hand, took the plunge and dip-dyed her 'do hot pink. "My Little (pink) Pony!" she tweeted. Are you digging celebs' fascination with technicolor hair?
Ke$ha's TMI Tweet
"Pee pee on the street. PoPo come n get me if u can find meeee. I blame traffik," over-shared Ke$ha in her usual brash fashion.
Katie Couric Reaches New Heights
"Needed a stool but now I'm at @TyraBanks level! Smize!!" tweeted Katie Couric, posing with Tyra Banks on the red carpet at the Matrix Awards. The 5'1" journalist "towered" over the 5'10" former supermodel!
P!nk is a Daredevil
P!nk took a ride in husband Carey Hart's off-road truck and lived to tweet about it. "Hahaha look at the relief on my face after @hartluck1 let me out of the truck!!!! Rock n roll baby!" tweeted the singer.
Brooklyn Gets Bangs
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Emily Vancamp Trains with the Big Boys
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The location of the Durango plant is approximately 550 mi. towards the northern part of Mexico and it is expected that the site capacity will be 10 MW in the future.
The 184 Skyline Solar X14 arrays are present in the solar plant, which utilizes parabolic mirrors in order to focus solar energy onto the crystalline silicon PV cells. The company has mounted these solar arrays on extruded aluminium space frames, which make sure they are at a level raised from the ground, and trap sunlight with the help of a daily east-west arc.
Hydro selected extruded aluminium for the frame structures, as it cost low capital, utilizes efficient material and expands in short times. Aluminium is resistant to corrosion and offers high stiffness for wind resistance, enhances robustness and system accuracy.
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Renovating or tearing down?
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I agree with awesomesix
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thats the name of a fairy odd parents episode!
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Hmm, that's a tough one. Of course, I'm a bit biased towards the sisters.
March 12th
the last one on the right
March 10th
Thank you so much for including my Witch Doctor character in your comic!
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I have no idea what awesomesix is saying but, You did great
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well, depending on which witch is the witch which we are looking for, the witch which is in the middle which is the center is not the witch which we are looking for.
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"Big Brother 16" spoilers now include secrets about the jury competition. These latest "Big Brother 16" spoilers come from Thursday (Aug. 21), as the house prepares to not only evict another houseguest, but to welcome a jury member back into the house. According to a report from Big Brother Network, specs for the jury challenge have been leaked and it looks like they will be competing separately from the other houseguests. That's a different approach than producers took in 2013.
Jocasta, Hayden, Nicole, and the houseguest evicted on Thursday night will all compete in the jury competition. It looks very likely that it will be Zach joining the jury next, so he will quickly get a chance to compete to get back into the game. As for the challenge itself, it appears to be a version of shuffleboard, where the four houseguests will all be playing on the same structure. Several fan sites have hypothesized that this will take place before the latest Head of Household competition.
It is unclear whether the returning jury member will be able to compete to become HOH, but they have been allowed to in the past. It would make sense this time as well, but it could certainly shift the power in the house if the returner were somehow able to take the power back. According to the main CBS web site for the show, the episode will begin at 9 p.m. PT /ET and there is a lot for producers and host Julie Chen to present.
At this point it looks like the winner of the latest HOH competition may not be revealed by the time the one-hour show concludes. This isn't exactly something new, as producers do it from time to time to get people to subscribe to the live feeds. It will give fans some more "Big Brother 16" spoilers to look forward to as well. The first of those revelations comes today, as it looks like Zach is nearly guaranteed to be going home based on the plan for the current eviction vote.


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November 3, 2005
Iranian President's Call Helps Israel
Israel often comes under international criticism for its counterterrorist and settlement-building policies. But comments by Iran's president calling for Israel's destruction have elicited international sympathy for the Jewish state.
In itself, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's televised late October call for the Jewish state to be "wiped off the map" wasn't so new.
But since the comments came not from one of the country's ayatollahs but from its president, and came soon after Israel garnered international plaudits for its Gaza Strip withdrawal, and as international scrutiny on Iran's nuclear program intensifies -- they drew a lot of attention.
Israel found its objections to the radical rhetoric echoed worldwide -- from the United States to Europe to the United Nations.
Even Russia, which is helping Iran build its Bushehr nuclear reactor and has long been hesitant to criticize its trading partner in the Persian Gulf, joined in.
"What I saw on television is unacceptable. We will bring this to the attention of the Iranians," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who in a landmark United Nations address in September bemoaned the fact that "no one opens their mouth" when such threats are made against his country, launched a campaign to have Iran expelled from the forum.
"A country that calls for the destruction of another people cannot be a member of the United Nations," Sharon said.
Jerusalem officials admitted that a U.N ouster of Iran was unlikely, given that it would require a Security Council recommendation and two-thirds majority vote in the General Assembly -- traditionally a bastion of anti-Israel sentiment.
"I don't know if it has any chance of success," Vice Premier Shimon Peres said of the campaign. "But it is something we must say. I don't think it is a matter of what one thinks is worthwhile or not. This is intolerable."
The U.N. Security Council has rebuked Iran for Ahmadinejad's comments.
For its part, Iran over has accused the West of using its president's comments about the destruction of Israel in order to intensify pressure on Iran over its nuclear program.
At the same time, Iran's Foreign Ministry released a statement saying that the government's official stance "is that the occupation of Palestine should end, refugees should return and a democratic state should be formed with Jerusalem as its capital."
According to some Jerusalem officials, the international community responded so strongly to Israel's diplomatic offensive in a bid to avert an Israeli military offensive.
Sharon, like President Bush, has long hinted that force could be a last resort for preventing Iran from getting the bomb. Ahmadinejad's speech at the "World Without Zionism" rally -- where the title was posted in English, not Farsi, for international consumption -- coupled with his lack of cooperation with European-led efforts to curb Iran's nuclear program, have made this specter of confrontation loom ever larger.
"Such a country, with nuclear arms, is a danger, not just to Israel and the Middle East, but also to Europe," Sharon said. Similar comments came from the White House.
Still, no one expects military escalation before the exhaustion of U.S.-led efforts to bring Iran before the Security Council and impose sanctions unless it abandons its quest for weapons of mass destruction.
Ahmadinejad has made this possibility more likely.
"I cannot fail to recognize that those who favor transferring the Iranian nuclear issue to the U.N. Security Council now have an additional argument," Lavrov was quoted as saying.
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College Hockey:Michigan Power Play, Defense Key Sweep of Ferris
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — All week, the Michigan coaches stressed that to succeed come playoff time, their players would have to perform better in two ways — defensively and on special teams.
The sixth-ranked Wolverines answered that call this weekend, completing a two-game sweep of Ferris State with a 3-0 victory Saturday night at Yost Ice Arena.
Michigan connected on two of its five power-play chances, and after the first 10 minutes put a stranglehold on the Bulldogs defensively.
"Our special teams played well tonight," senior captain Geoff Koch said. "The work this week made a difference."
Ferris State coach Bob Daniels told his team before the game to forget about the previous night's 8-3 drubbing — a game that the coach couldn't remember the last time his team played so poorly.
And for the first half of the first period, the Bulldogs did just that, notching a nine-to-five shot advantage and getting several good scoring chances by centering the puck.
"They had us on our heels," Michigan coach Red Berenson said. "We were tentative."
But Michigan goaltender Josh Blackburn (18 saves) halted the Ferris State attack for the first half.
"We had a hard time trying to solve Josh Blackburn," Daniels said. "He played well."
And Blackburn's defense took over the rest of the game en route to the shutout.
"Great effort by the guys tonight," said Blackburn, who earned his fifth blanking of a team this season. "A couple of saves and I didn't really have to do much — it was a great defensive performance. I felt relieved out there.
"That's a good feeling for me."
Two power-play goals by senior Josh Langfeld and sophomore Mike Cammalleri gave the Wolverines a 2-0 advantage. Langfeld, who returned this weekend from injury, tallied his 15th of the season thanks to a feed from senior Mark Kosick. Langfeld took the puck in front of the right circle where he got it under Ferris State goaltender Phil Osaer.
Cammalleri notched his 25th of the year by himself. After winning a faceoff, Cammalleri fired a bullet that flew over Osaer's shoulder.
The Wolverines then fought off a Ferris State rally, especially on the penalty kill. Ferris State went 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
"That was the difference in the game." Daniels said. "Not only didn't we score any goals, we didn't threaten them. We were playing better five-on-five."
The Wolverines outshot the Bulldogs 28-18, including 14-3 in the second period.
Michigan defenseman Dave Huntzicker did not play, nursing an injured shoulder. Berenson said he would have used Huntzicker in a bind.
With a series sweep, Hutzicker can rest, and the Wolverines can prepare for their next opponent, which could be Western Michigan, Nebraska-Omaha, Northern Michigan or Ohio State.
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Featuring Krom vocalist Sophea Chamroeun, the video "Country", made by Krom sound engineer and video producer Sarin Chhuon, music/guitar(s) Christopher Minko, tells the story of a Phnom Penh garment factory worker who longs for her simple life in the idyllic countryside of Cambodia. "Country" was filmed in Kandal province and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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