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Around 2 a.m. last Thursday, Dave Serrano wasn't in his bed back in Fullerton. He wasn't snoozing at the McGhee-Tyson airport Hilton, either. His wife and three boys had just arrived on a long-delayed flight from California, but Serrano didn't take them to the hotel.
He loaded them in the car and drove them 15 minutes to the Tennessee campus.
"This is the kid in me," Serrano said, sitting behind his new desk inside Lindsey Nelson Stadium shortly after arriving Thursday morning. "We got out of the airport last night at 1:30. Their (connecting) flight was delayed out of Atlanta because of a storm. I put them in the car, and we were walking the grounds at 2 in the morning.
"I don't take anything for granted. I'm very proud of this. I was proud for them to actually see the inside and know that this is our home now."
A little less than nine hours later, Serrano and his family arrived back at the ballpark -- in the daylight this time -- for an introductory press conference. That introduction and an afternoon filled with more interviews, capped a whirlwind 48 hours that began with a job interview and ended with Serrano becoming the Vols' 24th baseball coach.
Dave Serrano's first 48 hours in Knoxville didn't feature a lot of downtime. Here's a look at some of what kept Tennessee's new baseball coach busy:
|Tuesday, June 14
|Flight from California via Houston lands in Knoxville
|Met with members of baseball search committee until after 10 pm
|Wednesday, June 15
|Wake-up call to prepare for meeting with Chancellor Cheek and Joan Cronan
|Tour of campus facilities
|Offered job by Joan Cronan
|Serrano notifies Fullerton players he accepted UT job
|Press release announces Serrano as UT's 24th head coach
|Begins calling current players and recruits
|Family arrives at McGhee-Tyson Airport
|Thursday, June 16
|Arrives at Lindsey Nelson Stadium
|Receives keys to office, field
|Meets with media relations to discuss plans for press conference
|Family eats lunch in the baseball conference room
|Family poses for photos
|Officially introduced as Tennessee's baseball coach
|Conducts addtional interviews in the Vols' dugout with local media
|Goes live with WNML's John Wilkerson
|Live interview with 104.5 The Zone in Nashville
|Live interview with WNOX-FM radio in Knoxville
|Leaves Lindsey Nelson Stadium to look at houses with his family
Sixteen years ago, he left Knoxville to rejoin his alma mater, Cal State Fullerton, as an assistant coach. Shortly after noon last Wednesday, Serrano accepted an offer to leave Fullerton, where he was 175-73 with a trip to the College World Series in four seasons as head coach, to take over Tennessee's program.
It took 15 baseball seasons to return to Tennessee, but once his plane touched down, the path was pretty direct.
Serrano arrived in Knoxville a little before 4 p.m. local time on Tuesday to interview with members of UT's search committee. The first meeting took place at his hotel at 8:30 that night and lasted around two hours.
Serrano woke up at 6:30 the next morning -- with his body still running on Pacific time -- in advance of a meeting with Chancellor Jimmy Cheek and interim vice chancellor / director of athletics Joan Cronan.
"I probably had a little red in my eyes, and I apologized to them for that, that it was the fatigue and losing hours, but I wasn't making excuses," Serrano said.
Red-eyed or not, Serrano impressed in his early morning meeting.
"I had a very pleasurable meeting with Chancellor Cheek and got to know what he was about... He assured me with all confidence that the new athletic director would be something that I'm proud of. I have all the confidence in the world in his direction to bring in the right guy."
By 9:30 a.m., Serrano was touring campus facilities with assistant media relations director Cameron Harris after having met with UT's academic support staff at the Thornton Center at his hotel.
While Serrano was touring campus, the committee was deliberating. The coach was busy dreaming. During a visit to Neyland Stadium, his thoughts went back to the mid-90's when he was an assistant coach. He remembered gameday and got goosebumps thinking about sharing it with his family, he said.
By noon, Serrano was back at his hotel accepting Cronan's job offer.
"I told them it would be an honor," he said, "and I would be proud to accept the position."
After Cal State Fullerton defeated Texas to claim the 2004 national championship, Serrano soon found himself alone in a hotel room. His son Kyle was out running around with the other Titans batboys. His wife, Tracy, who was working as a wedding planner at the time, was on her way back to California for a job.
Alone with his thoughts, Fullerton's accomplishment washed over him.
"I'll never forget the emotions of, 'Oh my gosh, I was just part of a national championship team,' " Serrano said. "It just hit me."
Early Wednesday afternoon, Serrano had the same feeling. Tracy and the three boys were on a plane from California. The coach was alone again in a hotel room.
"The whirlwind was over of being carted here and there and I realized, I'm the head baseball coach at the University of Tennessee," Serrano said. "It just hit me how honored I was.
"It kind of just goes to show how proud I am to have this job -- I compare it to maybe the greatest moment I've ever had in my professional career, and that's winning the national championship."
That's the goal for Serrano's return to Knoxville. But there's plenty of work to be done to get there. With that in mind, Serrano began calling recruits and current players as soon as he had been approved to do so by UT's compliance staff late Wednesday evening.
His first call went to Diane Betts, whose son Mookie Betts, a shortstop from Nashville and a fifth-round pick of the Boston Red Sox in this year's MLB draft, signed with the Vols this spring. The calls continued through the night and into Wednesday morning.
"I wish I could see them all and look them straight in the face. I think my message will come across a lot clearer that way than on a phone," Serrano said. "But each young man I'm talking to or leaving messages for, I'm just assuring them that their experience under my guidance will be very rewarding and something they'll always cherish. I'm going to take care of them. I'm going to mentor them, and I'm going to coach them up. I told them within time, we'll feel a lot more comfortable with each other."
As for Serrano, he feels plenty comfortable in Knoxville. Standing behind that podium at 2 p.m. last Thursday, he couldn't help but feel the energy and enthusiasm in the MVP Room.
"It's a day that I'll never forget in my coaching career," he said, "and the only better one that I can forsee out in the future is the day that we get this program to Omaha."
The color was right, but the number wasn't his style. Neither, it turns out, was the name stitched across the shoulders. On his own lineup card, Serrano's not No. 1. And as he revealed during his press conference, it's so important that his team plays for the name on the front of its jersey that it won't have names on the back.
Serrano politely accepted the jersey as a memento, but it's not something he'll hang on his office wall. Even though his path to Tennessee was circuitous, his philosophy hasn't shifted much at all. It's always been about working hard and caring about character.
There's no doubt that Serrano's ultimate destination for the Vols is Omaha and the College World Series. There's also an equal certainty that the route is every bit as important.
"It's not the destination, it's the journey that we're going to go through together," Serrano said. "We have a final destination. But it's how we handle the journey along the way that will probably allow us to get to our destination quicker."
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Doctors treat patients with non-small cell lung cancer in several ways, and surgery is a common treatment. Cryosurgery, a treatment that freezes and destroys cancer tissue, may be used to control symptoms in the later stages of non-small cell lung cancer. Doctors may also use radiation therapy and chemotherapy to slow the progress of the disease and to manage symptoms.


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Turkish airplanes hit an are in northern Iraq as part of the campaign to wipe out members of the outlawed Kirdish Workers' Party(PKK). As usual, planes attacked mountainous areas where the terrorists are hiding and according to Turk military sources the area was rendered "ineffective," whatever that means. Prime Minister Erdogan told an Al Jazeera TV reporter, "our target is terrorism and only terrorism, and the operations were 100% successful." Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan said his nation's air attacks in Iraq are not intended to destabilize the Iran government but are made solely with the aim of bringing stability to the region.
The Turkish government is not going to destroy "terrorism" by bombing mountain areas. The solution with Kurds is a political, not a military one. The miilitary history of bombing mountain areas or jungles is one of repeated failure and the Turk attempt to wipe out Kurdish "terrorists" by dropping some bombs is doomed to the same end– total failure.


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Re: Combining Slider and SetterBar in Manipulate
The string is merely a label. The actual value of qt is the numeric value on
the lhs of the rules. So, instead of...
{{qt, 7, "Special"}, {7 -> "Rising", 5 -> "Smile", 20 -> "Saws",
12 -> "Falling"}, ControlType -> SetterBar}
it would be something like this...
{{qt, 3}, {7 -> "Rising", 5 -> "Smile", 20 -> "Saws",
12 -> "Falling"}, ControlType -> SetterBar}
I.e., the initial value would probably be a number (since you seem to be using
numbers as values...although that's certainly not required), and it has to be a
*different* number than any of the ones you're using.
Also...a bit of unsolicited advice. Your use of Block is a *bad* idea. It's
always bad to reference Block-scoped or Module-scoped variables declared outside
of a Manipulate or Dynamic from within that Manipulate/Dynamic. If you're
wanting to localize the variable 'someData', then Manipulate offers you an easy
way to do that. Add someData as a control variable, but no control appearance.
{someData, ControlType->None}
So, after my proposed changes, your code looks like:
ListLinePlot[someData[[tinx, 2 ;;]]], {{tinx, 1, "Time"}, 1, 25,
1}, {{qt, 3}, {7 -> "Rising", 5 -> "Smile", 20 -> "Saws",
12 -> "Falling"}, ControlType -> SetterBar},
Pane[Text@Dynamic[tinx]], {someData, ControlType -> None},
ControlPlacement -> Top,
Initialization :> (someData =
Table[Sin[i j]*Cos[j] // N, {i, 25}, {j, 12}];
tinx = 1)]
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:56:25 -0500 (EST), JohnH wrote:
> I am looking for a solution to what should be a common and simple
> problem. I have a slider to control time, but I also want to use a
> SetterBar to pick out some interesting dates. The bare bones of my
> current attempt is:
> Block[{someData},
> Manipulate[
> ListLinePlot[someData[[tinx,2;;]]],
> {{tinx,1,"Time"},1,25,1},
> {{qt,7,"Special"},{7->"Rising",5->"Smile",20->"Saws",12-
>> "Falling"},ControlType->SetterBar},
> Pane[Text@Dynamic[tinx]],
> ControlPlacement->Top,
> Initialization:>(
> someData=Table[Sin[i j]*Cos[j]//N,{i,25},{j,12}];
> tinx=1)
> ]
> ]
> Ideally, none of the setter buttons would be selected if the time was
> not one of the special ones. Clicking on one of the setter buttons
> would set the time to that value.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.


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Here are some local apps that you may find useful:
1. iSinGeo is a web app that allows you to find out what's close to a location that you specify. Input a road name, a bus stop number (they have numbers? who knew?), an MRT station, a hotel or a shopping mall. It locates nearby cinemas, ATMs, restaurants, bars, Apple shops, bicycle shops, Starbucks outlets and much much more. Very cool app that is based on the excellent SinGeo website.
2. Cinepura is a web app that gives you movie screening times. Very handy when you arrive at the Golden Village cineplex at VivoCity only to find that tickets for Wall.E have sold out and you need to find another cinema that shows it in the next hour or so.
3. Transit and MRTSchedule are iPhone apps for jailbroken iPhones. They look very useful and the developer appears to be planning to convert these apps to work for normal iPhones. Transit is a journey planner that tells you how to get from point A to point B by bus. It appears to be like Iris. MRTSchedule tells you when the first and last train leaves from the different stations.
If I've missed out anything, let me know and I'll update the list.


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WASHINGTON — CACI has finalized its agreement to purchase National Security Solutions from L-3, CACI announced during a conference call Tuesday.
The $550 million purchase is expected to be completed in the third quarter of fiscal 2016, said CACI President and CEO Ken Asbury during the call, which also featured CFO Tom Mutryn and COO and President of US Operations John Mengucci.
"This is an exciting acquisition for CACI," Asbury said. "NSS carries a high strategic value to CACI."
NSS will strengthen CACI's government-information solutions and services, he said.
With 4,000 employees, NSS acts as the prime contractor on 90 percent of its business, with the US Defense Department comprising 54 percent of its customer base. Other government agencies, particularly intelligence customers, make up another 20 percent of its customer base.
In a note to investors, Capital Alpha Partners analyst Byron Callan noted that NSS should add $1 billion to CACI's annual sales. This brings CACI's total sales to an estimated $4.4 billion, putting it in the same neighborhood as Booz Allen Hamilton, Cyber Security Research Alliance, Leidos and SAIC.
"We expect no major regulatory hurdles to this deal given the fragmented nature of the defense services market," Callan noted. "Arguably, CACI knows more about managing a services business than L-3, which has been divesting services business and focusing on products."
L-3 is in the process of reshaping its portfolio to focus on markets where it already has a strong position, improving top-line growth and margin profile, L-3 Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese said in a prepared statement.
"The sale of L-3 NSS to CACI aligns directly with this commitment and further sharpens our focus on our higher-returning defense electronics, communications and ISR businesses," he said.
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Rituals and Worship
Sacred Time
Sacred time is experienced when one is aligned with the movement of nature through its regular cycles. It is also experienced as a return to the state of the cosmos before creation occurred.
Sacred Space
Before Taoist ritual begins, a sacred space is created that links heaven and earth. Mountains and caves are also considered sacred spaces, and are often occupied by Taoist hermits.
Rites and Ceremonies
Taoist rituals are elaborate dramas, lasting over several days, incorporating costume, music, recitations, and stylized movements, and culminating in an ascent to the gods to present a written memorial on behalf of the participants.
Worship and Devotion in Daily Life
Lay people may consult a Taoist priest when they have an illness or a problem. Priests participate in daily rituals of self-cultivation to prepare themselves spiritually for their role.
There are a multitude of Taoist symbols, some representing immortality, others related to nature or the stars. A constellation of symbols revolving around writing is essential to Taoism.


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Reset or keep formatting when pasting to email
Whenever I copy something from another email or application such as an Internet page and paste that in my message, the formatting never really blends in with what I have already.
On the other hand, when I have some carefully formatted text from Word and paste that into a new message, a lot of formatting is lost or messed up.
How can I control the formatting of my pasted text?
There are several paste options in Outlook, with different default settings, which can make the default behavior a bit unpredictable and still requires you to change the formatting afterwards. However, looking up and changing the default paste settings is quite easy.
Paste Options
A quick way to change the formatting of pasted text is to click on the paste icon that becomes available at the bottom of the pasted text directly after pasting.
Pasting options icon in Outlook 2007 (left) and Outlook 2010 (right).
You can now choose how Outlook should format your pasted text. In Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016, hovering over an option will automatically preview the formatting results.
To change the default, select the "Set Default Paste…" option or go to;
- Outlook 2007
Tools-> Options…-> tab Mail Format-> button: Editor Options…-> section Advanced-> option group: Cut, copy and paste
- Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
File-> Options-> section: Mail-> button: Editor Options…-> section: Advanced-> option group: Cut, copy and paste
Setting all the pasting options to "Match Destination Formatting", "Merge Formatting" or simply "Keep Text Only" will make sure that the pasted text blends in nicely with your current email.
Pasting Options in Outlook 2003
The paste options which exist in Outlook 2007 and later do not exist in Outlook 2003. However, there is a Paste Special command when you have Word set a your email editor to get a choice of how your copied text is being pasted.
To open Paste Special use Edit-> Paste Special… or use the keyboard sequence: ALT, E, S
Paste special dialog in Outlook 2003 with Word as the email editor.
Note: A keyboard sequence differs from a keyboard shortcut in that you have to press the keys after each other instead of at the same time. Sadly, the Paste Special keyboard shortcut CTRL+ALT+V which works in Outlook 2007/2010/2013/2016 does not work in Outlook/Office 2003 either.
Quickly clearing the formatting after pasting
If you pasted the text and forgot to reset the formatting, there is another command which is quite effective; Clear Formatting.
To use this command, select the text for which you want to reset the formatting and press CTRL+SPACEBAR
An alternative way to execute this command;
- Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
Press the Clear Formatting icon on the Message tab.
- Outlook 2003 (with Word set as the email editor)
Edit-> Clear-> Formats
Send Word document directly as an email body without copy/paste
If you carefully formatted a document in Word and want to send it as an email, don't bother with copying and pasting the text in a new message in Outlook. You can directly send a Word document as an email body by using the "Send to Mail Recipient" command.
- Word 2003
Press the email envelope icon on the Standard toolbar
- Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013 and Word 2016
Add the Sent to Mail Recipient command to your Quick Access Toolbar (QAT).


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Since signs are not "personally communicated...", they hold no power. This is for places that are opened to the public. The statute goes on to say that either "personally communicated" or No Trespassing signs are fine for unimproved land. This and other pertinent statutes are in the Burglary and Trespass sections of the C.R.S. and do not mention weapons or firearms at all - they are general trespassing laws. In the concealed weapons section of the law, signs are not mentioned at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Colorado Revised Statutes 18-4-201(3)
(just my ill-informed opionion here - hopefully a little less ill-informed than it used to be. Do not interpret this as legal advice.)
Our local Rave Theater posted recently. My wife and I noticed it a couple if weeks ago. We went to a different theater and then I fired off the following. Rave personnel did not respond.
To Whom It May Concern:
My wife and I wanted to watch Red Dawn today so we drove to your West Chester, Ohio theater to see the show. When we got there, I noticed that you have chosen to post the theater prohibiting law-abiding citizens with concealed carry permits from enjoying the movie while armed. My wife and I went to another area theater to see the movie. You have lost your competitive edge in the market for me.
I drive past a Showcase Theater, which has been posted for years, to get to the Rave. This adds about 15 minutes to my drive, but I have gladly gone to the Rave because it appeared that management of the Rave wanted the business of law-abiding citizens who care about their safety and that of their family. In the Cincinnati market you continue to have competition that is not posted and is equidistant from my house as the Rave.
I suspect that you have decided to post your theaters in the wake of the Colorado theater shootings. It is interesting to note that that shooting took place in a theater that was posted to keep out guns. It succeeded in keeping out the guns of law-abiding citizens, but not those of at least one criminal. In fact, the criminal may have been more likely to have chosen the theater he did simply because management had taken the time to post the theater. This assured him he would not fact armed resistance from law-abiding citizens.
I fail to understand the position you have taken that keeps law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves in your theaters while announcing to the criminal underworld that here is a safe zone in which to practice your warped arts. If you look at the mass murders of the last 20 or so years, the vast, vast majority have taken place at locations that are posted to preclude law-abiding citizens from bringing their legally owned and carried weapons onto the premises. Obviously, the creation of gun-free zones has not stopped criminals from walking right past the signs establishing those zones with their weapons.
Under Ohio law, you have every right to post your theaters to keep guns of law-abiding citizens out. Your patrons, however, also have every right to find alternative theaters or venues where they can spend their entertainment dollars while armed. Understand that your signs will only keep out the guns of law-abiding citizens and may enhance the desirability of your theaters for armed criminals who will see your theaters as environments in which they can operate with relative safety.
The Supreme Court of the United States has informed us, in Warren -v- District of Columbia (and several other cases) that we are responsible for our own protection and the police cannot be relied upon for this service. While the police may well provide their services, they are not obligated to so do. Even if they do provide their services, they are not likely to be at the spot of the crime as it unfolds to stop it. Generally, they bring their chalk and yellow tape. The one policeman that you have in the lobby on weekends is not likely to be much more effective than was the similarly-situated policeman in the Colorado theater.
Under Ohio law, your posting your theaters does not create any additional burden on you if someone were to, God forbid, come in and shoot up one of your theaters. Given that neither Rave Theaters nor the police are obligated to protect me or my family and Rave Theaters has adopted a policy that precludes me from protecting myself if I were to go to your theater, I have no further plans to use Rave Theaters unless and until its theaters are un-posted and law-abiding personnel are again allowed to bring their legally-permitted weapons into the theater. I have options where I live and I will use them. While I think your theaters are well constructed and comfortably appointed, your recent posting of the theater renders it not worth the risk to attend a movie at your establishment.
Should you decide to change your policy, please let me know. I dont get to West Chester that often and I certainly will not make a drive there just to see if you have removed the no-guns sign. If the sign comes down, and you let me know, I will again patronize your establishment. I appreciate your attention to this matter.
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Re: Parametric Numerical Integral
Hello Nikol,
your problem does have nothing to with NLimit. The reason you get the
error message is, that be default, function arguments are first
evaluated before passed to the function (you can force different
behaviour by Attributes like HoldFirst, HoldAll...).
Therefore when you say:
NLimit[int[p], p -> Infinity]
Before NLimit is called, int[p] is evaluated, reporting that 1 p is not
numerical, what is correct.
You must ensure that int is only evalauted for numeric arguments by e.g.:
int[p_?NumericQ] := ...
have fun, Daniel
Nikola Letic wrote:
> Hello,
> I have the following problem:
> I define a parametric integral as follows:
> int[p_]:=NIntegrate[If[t == 0, 0,1/(E^((1/2)*(-2 +
> 1/t)^2)*(Sqrt[2*Pi]*t))],{t, -p, p}, MaxRecursion -> 50,WorkingPrecision ->
> 50]
> it works fine for numerical values of p such as int[10], but when I try
> something like this:
> << NumericalMath`NLimit`
> NLimit[int[p], p -> Infinity]
> it ends up with error messages:
> NIntegrate::nlim: t = 1.00000 p is not a valid limit of integration.
> Now I tought that NLimit should also deal only with numerical values, but I
> was wrong. Seems that the way I defined this function above has serious
> limitations in its further usage.
> Does any of you Mathematica Gurus know an easy workaround for this?
> Thanks in advance
> Nikola Letic


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"I didn't feel that the program made anything more challenging, rather it gave me the opportunity to see what other students in other departments were doing. I really liked learning about that because it opened up doors for potential collaborations, but also it just simply provided me more exposure to the different types of research being conducted. Just having two professors' inputs and opinions on how research should be conducted and writing papers alongside them was invaluable. Everybody has a different take on it, but working with two professors with excellent publications records and seeing how they approach research (however differently) was something I greatly appreciated. As for nonacademic benefits: extra money for supplies? Sorry, but seeing the wealth of free Apple laptops surely made other grad students envious. There really wasn't that much more work associated with being in INBT, certainly for me nothing to complain about. I thought the extra courses were interesting and sometimes really fun (the video course!).


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If you asked anyone on my team what agile practice is most responsible for our success over the past eight years, I bet they'd say retrospectives. But I wonder if it's not so much the retrospectives themselves, as the "small experiments" (to borrow Linda Rising's term) we perform to try to address our problem areas.
If you asked anyone on my team what agile practice is most responsible for our success over the past eight years, I bet they'd say retrospectives. At the start of every two-week sprint, we spend time talking about the previous sprint, identifying areas that need improvement, and thinking of ways to overcome obstacles. But I wonder if it's not so much the retrospectives themselves, as the "small experiments" (to borrow Linda Rising's term) we perform to try to address our problem areas.
Here's a recent example. Our product owner is awesome, but like many POs, he has many responsibilities and not enough time. Years ago, he came up with the idea of story checklists. Before each iteration, he prepared a checklist for each user story, following a template that included information such as mock-ups for new UI pages or reports, whether a new story affected existing reports or documentation, whether third parties needed to be involved, and high-level test cases. This helped us get off to a running start with each story.
As our PO was burdened with more responsibilities, he started to run late on preparing the story checklists. The downward slide started slowly. At our sprint planning, he'd say, "Oh, I am still working on the checklist for this one story, but I'll have it ready soon." Or, "I'm waiting to hear from the head of sales to get the final requirements for this, I'll let you know as soon as I know." We're agile, we're flexible, we have a lot of domain knowledge, so we felt we could cope.
But the one missing story checklist soon turned into two, then three—after awhile, we weren't getting any story checklists, ever. We discussed each story with our product owner at our sprint planning meetings and wrote requirements and high level tests on the whiteboard, but that whiteboard also had outstanding questions for each story. We'd start working on the story with the best information we had, but then there would be changes. We spent a lot of time going back and forth to look for the PO, ask questions, and update the requirements as they changed or were finalized. We still got our stories done, but it was costing the company more, and slowing us down.
The PO had no motivation to reverse this change. It wasn't even his fault, he was usually waiting for other people. We were still finishing the stories. But we could have done more work if we could have saved the time for all the back-and-forth over requirements.
Our frustration mounted. Finally, at a retrospective, we decided we had to do something about this problem. The company was spending extra money to finish each story, simply because the business people were not getting their ducks in a row before each iteration began. We decided to try an experiment.
We had recently begun to use a product called MercuryApp to record our feelings about the progress of the sprint every day. (That is another experiment, a way to keep better track of how things go so our retrospectives can be more productive, but that's the subject for a future blog post). This product lets you rate your feelings on a 5 point scale from a very sad face to a very happy face. This gave us an idea. At the end of our sprint planning meeting, we put a "rating face" next to each story on the whiteboard. If we didn't have any requirements, we put a very sad face. If we had all the requirements we needed to complete the story, we put a very happy face. Most were somewhere in between—a sort of sad or happy face, or a "meh" face.
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Fantastic post Lisa! This is one of the best examples I've seen of how a great team solves a problem. I have often seen situations similar to this and often the result is blame to the person who isn't delivering what the team needs. I see this experiment as a system change to help get your team the outcome they needed to finish the work. I usually observe "it HAS TO get done..." without any real change to influence different behaviour. Thanks for sharing this story!
It's easy to fall into that blame game, we try hard to focus on the issues and think of experiments to try to address them. Thanks, I am glad you liked the post!
I am always looking for ways to improve our retrospectives and having the team thing about how they feel about each story is a very interesting idea. Thank you!
The team I work with as a Scrum Master is the only team on the project that has never missed a retrospective, they have even decided to ensure they happen even when I cannot be there, which means they value its importance to the process and the team's success.
Throughout the retrospective process this team has used the meeting in many different ways and I have a tendency to let the mood of the team direct whether it is meant to be a progress improvement meeting, a true review of how things went or just a down and dirty venting sessions... I have learned that with this team (together for 2.5 years now) that sometimes bonding over a sprint's challenges in gripe session improves team performance in the next sprint more than trying to figure out what to fix and how.
This team has defined, refined and thrown out a lot of process over the past 2.5 years and we continue to do so as the needs of the project change through different cycles of development. It has helped make us one of the most high performing teams in the project even when randomization strikes.
That's a good point, sometimes people just need to vent. It might clear their mind and help them let go of the emotional issues and think of new ways to improve. It's good to hear about other teams who find a lot of value in retrospectives.
Have you tried performing a Pre-Mortem right after your planning meeting. A Pre-Mortem will help predict failure and combat the Go-Fever of the business. Here is a presentation on Pre-Mortems https://www.haikudeck.com/p/8qQ1cTUbEX/pre-mortems. I will be presenting this at the PNSQC conference in Portland, OR Oct 13th-14th.


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I love the phone but when a call comes in that you want to call block the answering machine will start beeping and not shut off. It's very annoying you have to keep pushing buttons til you find the right one.
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Prerequisites: Introductory accounting (including basic financial analysis) and finance.
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This applied equity research course adopts a case-study approach to value stocks and companies using financial statements. Special attention will be dedicated to initial public offerings (IPO) and mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It introduces fundamental analysis and provides empirical evidence on returns to investment strategies based on stocks' fundamentals.
The focus of this course is very much applied. It is led by case-studies. Students are invited to work in small groups and value stocks using valuation software. The course includes a valuation-based M&A game in which students working in small groups are competing to take over some target firm. Students also get the opportunity to enter a "stock picking" tournament. This course would complement AF215: Business Analysis and Valuation, though the latter course is not a prerequisite.
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This course should hence appeal to students interested in equity research, asset management, corporate finance and strategy consulting.
Valuation and Security Analysis, by Beccalli and Frantz, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming, 2014).
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All six of the infamous Red Road high flats were 'blown down' today but remnants of two of them remained after the explosion. Hours after the event, no one at Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) was able to comment on whether this was intended or not. Nor did the social landlord – part of the Wheatley Group – release the normal details of how much explosive was used, how many tonnes of rubble would be created etc.
One insider, however, said that the steel structure of the building was such that four times the normal amount of explosive would have been used and the two bits of building remaining standing would have been 'not expected.'
And by early evening it was understood that hundreds of people were being advised to 'look at the GHA website' to see where they might spend the night if they were unable to return to their homes because of the unsafe, remaining structures.
An emergency inspection was believed to be underway as this story
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Local people in their hundreds stood at various vantage points for hours to wait for the massive implosion. They were well pleased. Cheers and a round of applause accompanied the massive cloud of dust which followed the collapse of the blocks. The dust spread over a very wide area.
Said trainee photographer Joe Graham: 'That was quick!' as he scrolled through his images.
Local resident Joan Flanagan said: 'That was magic. I like big bangs and love to see things being destructed like that.'
Bobby Burns, also a local resident said: 'That's bitter sweet to see. It is one chapter of life closed now. But I suppose it opens a new one of re-generation for the area.' He said he'd lived in two different tower blocks and commented: 'They've both gone now. They were blown down too.'
The huge operation to clear the surrounding area of people began early on Sunday morning. 'Two thousand five hundred people had to be moved,' said one GHA official spokesman. 'That takes time.'
Some resistance was expected from one householder – Tina Suffredini who chairs the local residents' association. But when the time came, the GHA's 'plan B' to have Sheriff Officers physically remove the lady from her property, was not required and she left her home of her own accord.
MSP Patricia Ferguson, who spent 11 years of her early girlhood in one of the Red Road flats said: 'These needed to come down. I hope the new developments will bring job opportunities and community facilities and the GHA is consulting with local people to do that.'


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Sound proofing room
I am building new construction and want to build a home music studio in the basement of my house. is there a recommended material better than foam board for this. Iplan to wrap the walls and ceiling to make it sound proof
Ted White is the guy for that, I'll send him a PM. While waiting, for your reading enjoyment; http://www.diychatroom.com/search.php?searchid=3879478
Tips; http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/publicati...h/2000-109.htm
You'll want to isolate the room, but with the specific goal of isolating the bass. The bass is the challenge.
At the heart of this is mass. We want as much as possible, and this often means two sheets of 5/8" drywall. Great mass at a great price.
Next decouple the mass from the "original" house structure by deploying framing techniques like staggered stud or double stud walls, clips & channel, etc.
Then damp the double drywall panels with a quality damping compound. It goes between the drywall layers.
Use standard fiberglass insulation in the wall and ceiling cavities.
That will get you your bunker, and a wonderful thing it will be. But now you have to cut a bunch of holes in it. You'll need a door, maybe some recessed lights, ventilation, etc. All of these can compromise the job you did on the ol' bunker. So plan carefully and you will be shocked at the level of sound isolation you can achieve.
This is pretty vague.... Yes you need to isolate all structure. You also need to build the ceiling so it doesn't resonate. In either direction. Stuff the framing with rock wool, sheetrock with 5/8 and tape. Install RISC-1 clips and hat channel. Then hang two more layers of 5/8" rock on that. Keep it away from the walls and use acoustic caulking around the perimeter.
Noise control is tough. Think vibration and airflow. You need to stop, or at least minimize both.
That would create a triple leaf. Lab proven to perform poorly. Simply eliminate that first layer of drywall and just install the clip directly to the joist.
You can quote lab results all day. Dean Gainer spec's this, and I tested the results in field. You couldn't hear jumping on the floor above, no voices, no bells, no loud music- just quiet. Residential noise control is way different than commercial. I've seen what worked- and what didn't.
The best way to do it is a structure within a structure. Ala Skywalker studios. That even has RF shielding and an isolated floor.
Data is data, but choice is always yours.
Sound proofing nerd fight...
Just kidding of course guys.
Good information Ted. Soundproofing was always a bit hazy to me to start with but I have read your posts and you are the man.
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2013 Psychiatric Service Codes: The Journey Through RUC & CPT
This webinar, the first in a series of three on the new CPT Codes effective in January 2013, will give the background and explanation of the RUC (RVS Update Committee) process, including timeline, committee recommendations and editorial process, and approval of the new codes.
APNA appreciates the cooperation with ANA to offer this webinar series. We are very grateful to the following faculty members who have worked on this project:
Sandra J. Cadena, PhD, ARNP, CNE
Eileen Shannon Carlson, RN, JD
Mary D. Moller, DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN
We are particularly appreciative of the outstanding efforts of Eileen Shannon Carlson, RN, JD, ANA Associate Director, Government Affairs, who devoted many hours in coordinating the work of nursing with those of the physicians, psychologists and social workers who also utilize the CPT codes in their practices.
Eileen Shannon Carlson, RN, JD; ANA RUC & CPT Staff Support
Disclosures: The speaker has no conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose. The activity planners have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Session Length: 45 minutes
Target Audience: RN, APRN Anyone who desires a better understanding of the CPT billing process.
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2. Describe APNAs role in the RUC.
Continuing Nursing Education:
0.75 contact hours. *In order to receive contact hours, you must: Listen to the entire session, complete an evaluation, and earn a passing score on the post test before the expiration date. You will have 5 tries to correctly answer the questions on the post test. Once you have passed and completed an evaluation, the certificate will be generated online, available for you to print immediately. We cannot award credit unless all steps are completed.
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Two men were flown to hospitals Monday afternoon following this two-vehicle accident on Route 119 in Burrell Township.
According to state police in Indiana, the accident occurred around 4 p.m. as Matthew Henigin, 27, no hometown given, was turning onto Dean Drive from Route 119 South.
Police said Henigin crossed in front of a northbound vehicle driven by Jesse Boyd, 22, no hometown given, and Boyd's car broadsided Henigin's pickup truck. Boyd suffered a serious injury and was flown to an undisclosed hospital. A passenger in his vehicle, Zachary Bell, 21, no hometown given, suffered a moderate injury and also was flown to an undisclosed hospital.
Neither was wearing a seatbelt, police said.
Henigin, who was wearing a seatbelt, was not injured.
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RPC Seven Hills
The Seven Hills office comprises the major functions of business development, engineering design and drafting, sales, and project management for the infrastructure & environment and defence operations of the business.
Using state of the art finite element analysis tools and CAD systems, RPC Technologies provides unparalleled skills in the design and development of fibre reinforced composite structures. The engineering team provides innovative engineered solutions to industry that have put RPC Technologies at the lead in technical development in the fibre composites field. We are a Bureau Veritas Quality International accredited company complying with AS/NZS ISO 9001:2008.
Our Seven Hills workshop undertakes the design, construction and maintenance of specialist tooling, such as filament winding equipment, for other operations within the group. In addition, fabrication and rehabilitation work for the Department of Defence on specialist military equipment, such as Floating Bridge sections (MGB), is regularly undertaken at this facility. The ballistic curtains (spall liners) for the Australian Army M113 Armoured Personnel Carriers and Bushmaster are also manufactured and refurbished at this facility.
RPC Broadmeadow
Broadmeadow operation was acquired in 2004 as a complementary adjunct to the existing RPC operations. The Broadmeadow facility comprises over 4,000 square metres of manufacturing area, in addition to a substantial engineering group that covers the disciplines of mechanical and electrical engineering, materials science, and industrial design, along with associated state of the art design and testing equipment. Business development, project management and other business related services for the Transport and PCM operations are also located at the Broadmeadow facility.
RPC has sufficient infrastructure and technical resource to mobilise the largest of composites, seating, toilet module and lighting projects for the rail industry. During the last several years, projects such as the Double Deck Millennium train, V'Locity DMU Single Decks and OSCAR Double Deck trains have sourced the vast majority of composite, lighting and seating products from RPC Technologies.
Complex design projects such as toilet modules with power doors for disabled access, vacuum toilet systems, lighting and all ancillary hardware and electronics can be fully designed and integrated by RPC Technologies. Driver's cab modules can also be designed and manufactured to include various levels of mechanical and electrical fit-out. High levels of cab fit-out by RPC Technologies before delivery enable vehicle builders to minimise disruption to cycle times often associated with the traditional driver's cab fit-out on vehicle. It is testimony to the technical skill of RPC Technologies that numerous engineering awards have resulted from design projects undertaken.
In addition to manufacturing new products, we can also refurbish interior components such as seating. The largest passenger railcar refurbishment ever undertaken in Australia (approximately 1,000 double deck railcars) had all seating units refurbished by RPC Technologies. Refurbishment is a cost effective solution that can often extend the life of products well beyond original design expectations.
Specialist composite manufacturing technology, such as large scale vacuum infusion, is based at Broadmeadow. Our infusion is used for the manufacture of ballistic cab fronts such as those used on the Millennium Double Deck railcars in NSW and the V'Locity DMU vehicles in Victoria. Development of our infusion process was undertaken entirely in-house, as are many of the other processing techniques now utilised by the RPC Technologies Group. This ability to not only engineer products but also manufacturing processes sets us apart from competitors.
RPC Corio
RPC purpose built flagship facility was built in 2010, and provides significant additional capacity to the RPC Group. Established specifically to cater to the needs of our clients in our Transport, Infrastructure & Environment and Defence sectors, the facility boasts a large, temperature controlled factory fully equipped with a wide range of equipment, including overhead cranage, full extraction systems, a specialist infusion room, paint booth, and post curing oven.
PT RPC Indonesia - Batam
The Batam Island facility is the largest of the composites manufacturing facilities within the RPC group, and is strategically located within the Batam bonded zone and free trade area. This facility currently employs around 200 people and will continue to grow because of the outstanding quality and cost outcomes RPC Technologies can deliver from this globally competitive facility.
The Batam facility is owned by PT RPC Indonesia, which is a full PMA company (i.e. established as a foreign investment company). This structure allows full control and ownership of the Batam operation by the RPC Group.
The size of the manufacturing operation in Batam is approximately 7,200 square metres, however it will continue to expand for the foreseeable future to meet growing demand for its products. This facility also incorporates office space and stores, and has filament winding equipment as well as a comprehensive array of infrastructure for contact moulding.
Products produced in this factory have been supplied to many successful projects throughout Australasia. High quality rail components, odour containment covers for sewerage treatment plants, cooling water pipes, cooling tower shells and a host of other composite components have been manufactured in this facility.
Some of the larger multi-million dollar projects undertaken in the Batam facility for overseas clients include Ulu Pandan STP Stage 1 and Extension, Bedok Contract II Covers, Bedok Contract III Ducting, Pulau Seraya Power Station Cooling Water System, Lumut and Perlis Power Station Cooling Water Systems, and Goro Nickel Upper Decanter. Some of the large Australian multimillion dollar projects include interior and exterior panels for OSCAR double deck railcars, interior and exterior panels for V'Locity railcars, and covers for sewerage treatment plants in various parts of Australia.
The Batam facility is fully staffed by Australian management and shop floor supervision. RPC Technologies operations, engineering and maintenance personnel regularly visit the works as new projects come on stream that require this specialised input. There is also an engineering department employing 7 qualified engineers doing design and project management. Facilities include 7 AutoCAD workstations and 1 SolidWorks 3D CAD workstation.
The Batam factory is able to manufacture large composite structures, and has previously made filament wound pipe up to 3.6m in diameter and lengths up to 12m. Part of the Batam facility can also accommodate fabricated composite product up to 6m in height, catering for even the largest of projects. Post curing ovens, rotators, pipe end preparation grinders, radial drilling and other machining equipment fully equips the Batam operation for most types of composite projects.
RPC Singapore Pte Ltd
Established since 1995, the Singapore office is a representative and sales operation which manages RPC projects throughout South East Asia. The operation is staffed by local Singaporean Nationals demonstrating RPC's commitment to Regional Operations.


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Nice guns! Welcome to one of the best destinations around.
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A wheelgun fan.....cool!
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welcome. i think you'll love it here. btw, nice gun choices.
Welcome Dean
Yep - good to see a revo fan here - I also have a 19-3 - one of the classics IMO, along with the N frames. But those snubs are nice too.
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welcome, nice collection of wheelguns, you and Euc. should get along.
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Give us a week or 2 before you make any decisions, we may just be able to sway you twards a shinny new 1911 instead of another wheel gun.Originally Posted by IndianaDean
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Welcome to the Foum! You're a wheelie gun fan huh? Wellllllllll then...........some of us are both, and some are just auto shooters.........If you're thinking of a 1911......Bruce will help lead you there <JK Bruce>
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Welcome Dean.
I love wheelguns they are simple and fun.
1811's well get what you like. sorry Bruce ;)
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Don't get me wrong, I have more wheel guns then auto's, I just Love the 1911 for a defensive handgun.