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A Motivating Story
A new developer, Jim, is joining your team today. You have been extremely busy, and you want to get Jim productive as soon as possible. The first thing you need to do is to help Jim get a development workspace set up. You've been meaning to automate the process for a while, but since setting up a workspace is something that you do only once in a while, you've been putting it off.
You point Jim to a Wiki page that has instructions for setting up a developer workspace environment. Jim opens looks at the wiki page and follows the steps for downloading and installing an assortment of tools, including the compiler, version control client, etc. Hours later, after installing the tools, if Jim remembers that the purpose of this activity was to develop software, Jim gets to the steps that tell him what command to execute to get the source code. He checks out the code and tries to build it. The build fails.
Jim re-checks the list on the wiki and realizes that he made a mistake on step 3. He fixes the problem and tries to build again. It compiles! But the tests fail part way through. After checking to see if he made a mistake, he grabs one of his colleagues who walks over with a USB Drive and says, "You need a copy of this configuration file to run tests on a development box." Right before Jim leaves for the day, he can build the application. Maybe tomorrow he will be able to run the application on his machine and get to work.
The Repository Pattern
Having a well-defined process for setting up a development environment, the workspace, is the point of the repository pattern, which advises you to have a single point of access, or repository, for your code and related artifacts. Make creating a developer workspace as simple and transparent as possible.
The repository advises you to create consistent workspaces for development, integration, etc. This enables:
- Reproducibility, by having the recipe for reproducing an environment under revision control, and reducing the "works for me" phenomenon.
- Productivity, by making it simple for developers to get started or create new workspaces for different projects.
- Efficiency, by automating the process, and also making it less error prone.
- Maintainability, by allowing you to create multiple workspaces for release lines.
In principle, you can attain the goal of reproducibility by having a defined manual process. Having a documented process made it possible for Jim to get started rather quickly compared to an ad-hoc one. Having a documented process puts Jim's organization ahead of some.
The risks with having only documented processes are that manual processes are slow to execute, error prone, and difficult to maintain. And once a document shows signs of being out of date people will start ignoring it, thus leading to discrepancies between workspaces, negating the value of having documentation. The value of an automated workspace creation process is best expressed by the Agile Manifesto value working software over comprehensive documentation. The simplest way to ensure that a workspace is consistent is to make it very easy to set one up.
An automated process for doing this sort of set up has all the benefits of the documentation only process, and also has these benefits:
- It will be faster by eliminating idle time: Most set up processes involve starting a process (a copy or a checkout), and then after the step is finished, doing the next one. During the set up the developer is either sitting idle, waiting for a process to complete, which is wasted time, or doing something else, which means that there will be down time unless the developer is looking at the screen when the process stops.
- It is repeatable: To change the set up, you change the set up process. By minimizing manual steps, you minimize the chance for error.
- It can be validated automatically: An automated set up process makes it possible to have low cost tests run periodically, so that you can detect errors that may creep into the set up process automatically.


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On October 16, 2009, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensed bivalent human papillomavirus vaccine (HPV2; Cervarix, GlaxoSmithKline) for use in females aged 10 through 25 years. Cervarix is the second human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine licensed for use in females in the United States. Quadrivalent HPV vaccine (HPV4; Gardasil, Merck & Co, Inc.) was licensed in 2006 for use in females aged 9 through 26 years, and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended routine HPV4 vaccination of females aged 11 or 12 years, and catch-up vaccination for females aged 13 through 26 years.1 This report provides updated recommendations for routine and catch-up vaccination of females with either HPV2 or HPV4.
Both HPV2 and HPV4 are composed of virus-like particles (VLPs) prepared from recombinant L1 capsid protein of HPV; the two vaccines are not live vaccines. HPV2 is directed against two oncogenic types (HPV 16 and 18). HPV4 is directed against two oncogenic types (HPV 16 and 18) and two nononcogenic types (HPV 6 and 11). Both vaccines have high efficacy against HPV 16 and 18-related cervical precancer lesions. HPV4 also has high efficacy against HPV 6 and HPV 11-related genital warts and HPV 16 and 18-related vaginal and vulvar precancer lesions.2- 5
HPV 16 and 18 cause about 70% of cervical cancers; each of the other oncogenic HPV types accounts for a small percentage of all cervical cancers. Other HPV-associated cancers in females include a subset of vulvar, vaginal, anal, and oropharyngeal and oral cavity cancers, caused primarily by HPV 16. HPV 6 and 11 cause approximately 90% of genital warts and most cases of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis.
In anticipation of FDA licensure of HPV2, ACIP reviewed data on the immunogenicity, efficacy, and safety of HPV2, as well as information on HPV4. At its October 21, 2009, meeting, ACIP approved updated recommendations for use of HPV vaccines in females.
HPV2 efficacy was evaluated in two randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trials in females aged 15 through 25 years, including a phase IIb study6,7 and a phase III study.4 The phase III trial included 18,644 females, followed for a mean of 34.9 months. Efficacy against HPV 16 or 18-related cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or 3 or adenocarcinoma in situ (CIN2+) was 92.9% in the according to protocol analysis.4 Among women who were HPV 16 or 18 DNA positive at study enrollment, the vaccine had no efficacy against CIN2+ due to that type. A subset of participants in the phase IIb study has been followed for up to 6.4 years (mean: 5.9 years) after dose one with high efficacy against HPV 16 or 18-related CIN2+ demon strated throughout the follow-up period.7
Protection against cervical lesions due to nonvaccine HPV types was evaluated. In an analysis limited to lesions without HPV 16 or 18 coinfection, efficacy against CIN2+ due to any of 12 nonvaccine oncogenic types (HPV 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66, and 68) was 37.4% (96.1% confidence interval [CI] = 7.4-58.2). In a post hoc analysis, efficacy against HPV 31-related CIN2+ in the according to protocol population was 89.4% (99.7% CI = 29.0-99.7).5
In all studies, ≥99% of participants developed an HPV 16 and 18 antibody response 1 month after completing the 3-dose series. Bridging immunogenicity studies were conducted among 1,193 females aged 10 through 14 years; geometric mean titers (GMTs) 1 month after the third dose were noninferior to those in females aged 15 through 25 years.5 The antibody responses for all vaccine antigens were noninferior after concomitant administration of HPV2 with tetanus toxoid, diphtheria toxoid, and acellular pertussis vaccine and/or with meningococcal conjugate vaccine in females aged 11 through 18 years compared with those after administration at separate visits. Rates of solicited and unsolicited symptoms and events were similar in all study groups.8
HPV2 vaccinees were evaluated for injection-site and systemic symptoms, medically significant conditions, new onset autoimmune disorders, new onset chronic diseases, deaths, serious adverse events, and pregnancy outcomes. Safety was evaluated by pooling data from 11 clinical trials of bivalent vaccine in females aged 10 through 25 years,9 and by a meta-analysis of safety databases of bivalent vaccine as well as other vaccines with the same adjuvant.10 The pooled safety analysis included 23,713 females aged 10 through 25 years; approximately 12,000 females received at least 1 dose of HPV2. In an analysis of local and general adverse events, a larger proportion of persons reported at least one injection-site symptom in the HPV2 group compared with controls.5 In the HPV2 group, 92% reported injection-site pain, 48% redness, and 44% swelling compared with 64%-87%, 24%-28%, and 17%-21% in the control groups. Fatigue, headache, and myalgia were the most common general symptoms. No differences were observed in unsolicited symptoms within 30 days of vaccination between the vaccine group and control groups.
Serious adverse events and deaths were evaluated in a pooled safety analysis that included 29,953 females aged 10 through 72 years (16,142 received HPV2). Proportions of persons reporting a serious adverse event were similar in vaccine and control groups (5.3% and 5.9%, respectively), as were the types of serious adverse events reported.5 In the pooled safety analysis, including 12,533 women who received HPV2 and over 10,730 in the control groups, incidence of potential new autoimmune disorders did not differ (0.8% in both groups).
Clinical protocols excluded women who were pregnant, and participants were instructed to avoid pregnancy until 2 months after the last vaccination. However, 3,696 pregnancies occurred in the vaccine group and 3,580 in the pooled control groups. Overall, no differences were observed in rates of any specific pregnancy outcomes between groups.5 Among 761 pregnancies around the time of vaccination (defined as last menstrual period 30 days before to 45 days after vaccination), 13.6% of pregnancies ended in spontaneous abortion in the vaccine group compared with 9.6% in the control group. HPV2 has been classified as Category B on the basis of animal studies that revealed no evidence of impaired fertility or harm to the fetus. No data are available on use of HPV2 in lactating women.
ACIP recommends routine vaccination of females aged 11 or 12 years with 3 doses of either HPV2 or HPV4. The vaccination series can be started beginning at age 9 years.
Vaccination is recommended for females aged 13 through 26 years who have not been vaccinated previously or who have not completed the 3-dose series. If a female reaches age 26 years before the vaccination series is complete, remaining doses can be administered after age 26 years. Ideally, vaccine should be administered before potential exposure to HPV through sexual contact.
ACIP recommends vaccination with HPV2 or HPV4 for prevention of cervical cancers and precancers. Both vaccines might provide protection against some other HPV-related cancers in addition to cervical cancer, although there are currently only data sufficient to recommend HPV4 for protection against vulvar and vaginal cancers and precancers. HPV4 is recommended also for prevention of genital warts.
The dosing and administration schedules are the same for HPV4 and HPV2. Each dose is 0.5 mL, administered intramuscularly, preferably in a deltoid muscle. The vaccines are administered in a 3-dose schedule. The second dose is administered 1 to 2 months after the first dose, and the third dose is administered 6 months after the first dose.
The minimum interval between the first and second dose of vaccine is 4 weeks and between the second and third dose is 12 weeks. The minimum interval between the first and third dose is 24 weeks. Doses received after a shorter-than-recommended dosing interval should be readministered. If the HPV vaccine schedule is interrupted, the vaccine series does not need to be restarted. Coadministration of a different inactivated or live vaccine, either simultaneously or at any time before or after HPV vaccine, is permitted because neither HPV vaccine is a live vaccine.
Whenever feasible, the same HPV vaccine should be used for the entire vaccination series. No studies address interchangeability of HPV vaccines. However, if the vaccine provider does not know or have available the HPV vaccine product previously administered, either HPV vaccine can be used to complete the series to provide protection against HPV 16 and 18. For protection against HPV 6 or 11-related genital warts, a vaccination series with less than 3 doses of HPV4 might provide less protection against genital warts than a complete 3-dose HPV4 series.
Females who have abnormalities on their cervical cancer screening results are likely to be infected with one or more genital HPV types. With increasing severity of Papanicolau (Pap) findings, the likelihood of infection with HPV 16 or 18 increases, and benefits of vaccination decrease. Vaccination is still recommended for such females, because vaccination can provide protection against infection with HPV vaccine types not already acquired. Females should be advised that vaccination will have no therapeutic effect on an existing HPV infection or abnormal Pap test.
Prevaccination assessments (e.g., Pap testing or screening for high-risk HPV DNA, type-specific HPV tests, or HPV antibody) to establish the appropriateness of HPV vaccination are not recommended at any age.
A history of genital warts or clinically evident genital warts indicates infection with HPV, most often HPV 6 or 11. Vaccination is still recommended for such females because vaccination can provide protection against infection with HPV vaccine types not already acquired. Females should be advised that vaccination will have no therapeutic effect on an existing HPV infection or genital warts.
Lactating women can receive HPV vaccine.
HPV2 and HPV4 are not live vaccines, and can be administered to females who are immunosuppressed (from disease or medications). However, the immune response and vaccine efficacy might be less than that in immunocompetent persons.
HPV vaccines are not recommended for use in pregnant women. If a woman is found to be pregnant after initiating the vaccination series, the remainder of the 3-dose series should be delayed until completion of pregnancy. Pregnancy testing is not needed before vaccination. If a vaccine dose has been administered during pregnancy, no intervention is needed.
Patients and health-care providers should report any exposure to HPV4 during pregnancy to Merck at telephone, 800-986-8999, and any exposure to HPV2 during pregnancy to GlaxoSmithKline at telephone, 888-452-9622.
HPV vaccines can be administered to persons with minor acute illnesses. Vaccination of persons with moderate or severe acute illnesses should be deferred until after the patient improves.
Syncope can occur after vaccination and has been observed among adolescents and young adults. To avoid serious injury related to a syncopal episode, vaccine providers should consider observing patients for 15 minutes after they are vaccinated.
HPV vaccines are contraindicated for persons with a history of immediate hypersensitivity to any vaccine component. HPV4 is produced in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) and is contraindicated for persons with a history of immediate hypersensitivity to yeast. Prefilled syringes of HPV2 have latex in the rubber stopper and should not be used in persons with anaphylactic latex allergy. HPV2 single dose vials contain no latex.
FDA Licensure of Bivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV2, Cervarix) for Use in Females and Updated HPV Vaccination Recommendations From the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). JAMA. 2010;304(6):632-634. doi:
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A robber dressed in a Halloween mask demanded cash Monday morning at an AmTrust Bank in Surprise.
Sgt. Mark Ortega, Surprise Police Department spokesman, said the unidentified man pointed a handgun at a teller at the bank, 14543 N.W. Grand Ave., before demanding an undisclosed amount of cash.
No one was injured during the late-morning robbery, Ortega said.
The male suspect, who was wearing dark clothing and dark boots, is described as standing 6 feet to 6 feet, 3 inches tall. He was last seen fleeing on foot to an adjacent parking lot before driving away in a black or dark blue late model Chevrolet Impala.
Surprise police canvassed the area where the suspect was seen and were able to recover all the money taken during the incident, Ortega said. Police are unsure why the suspect dropped the money near the parking lot.
The FBI has been contacted. The Surprise Police Department asks anyone with additional information to call 623-222-4000.


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The King's farewell ... Graham Kennedy made his name in the early
days of television.
There was very little before him and there has been no one to beat him since. Robin Oliver recalls Gra Gra's great days.
THEY were the days of flimsy sets and often flimsier performance but out of them sprang one of the giants of Australian television. This week, with a sadness borne aloft on a raft of smiles, those who knew him - and many who did not - have been recalling their favourite stories of Graham Cyril Kennedy, who died in Bowral on Wednesday at the age of 71.
It was 1957, only a few months after Australian television had made a cautious start with Nine broadcasting from a converted church hall in Surry Hills. In Melbourne, the matching GTV-9, clearly impressed by the success of Steve Allen and Ernie Kovacs on the Tonight show on NBC in New York, decided on something similar, though with an essentially Australian flavour.
Kennedy was just the larrikin Nine needed and, at the age of 23, was ready and waiting. He left his job in radio to launch In Melbourne Tonight, which, with its successor, the more widely seen Graham Kennedy Show, has remained the great temptation to TV networks since 1969.
Only Don Lane (with the dependable favourite, Bert Newton, at his side), Steve Vizard with his Letterman touch, and more lately Rove McManus, with its dependence on insipid Hollywood stars, have made any kind of impact on the late-evening market since.
There have been imitators, and numerous flops, including the over-hopeful revival in the '90s of In Melbourne Tonight with Frankie J. Holden as the host.
Television is nearly half a century older than when Kennedy's carefully crafted larrikinism was launched into a new medium driven by a real sense of excitement. Sadly nobody, in an industry full of bombast, has devised much in the way of fresh ideas.
Before being spotted by Nine, Kennedy had gained his first real taste for wireless when, at 17, he joined 3UZ as a turntable operator for the Melbourne personality Clifford Nicholls Whitta, of whom he would always remain in awe. Whitta had taken a shine to the new boy. "He was a most unusual kind of radio personality," Kennedy said many years later. "Mornings, 9am to 1pm, just commercials and chat. Very little music. It was my job to feed him a stooge, offsider and straight man."
It was not Kennedy's first job. He had started as a schoolboy "running the news" for Radio Australia, which meant legging it from the office in Collins Street, Melbourne, to the studio in Lonsdale Street. "You'd run like buggery up the two blocks and into a little cottage (I mean, round the world you could hear the men's lavatory flush if you pressed it at the wrong time). So you'd thrust the bulletin into the hands of the announcer, who'd glare at you because he hadn't had time to read it. You got 10 shillings-and-sixpence a night and 12 shillings on Sunday."
The years with Whitta persuaded Kennedy to flex his show business muscles. He would work nights with the Melbourne Little Theatre Company, appearing in such productions as The Man Who Came to Dinner. Vaudeville also beckoned, with two shows a night for six weeks at the Princes Theatre. "Pure agony," was the way he described it.
But the new word was television. The distinctly grey and white screens were already flickering their test patterns. Kennedy anticipated the industry would be seeking people with radio experience. He wasted no time. All he really wanted was some new front teeth. There was nothing wrong with the teeth he had, but there were a couple of spaces that he felt looked a bit weird. He took the afternoon off to visit a dentist, determined if necessary to have all his front teeth removed. The dentist told him a partial denture would fix the problem, so three perfectly good teeth made way for four. His family was horrified and he himself would live to regret the decision, but what would early television have been if Kennedy had not felt able to smile away a stream of double entendres.
Nine could not have known what is was getting into when it signed Kennedy to present In Melbourne Tonight. His stint in vaudeville and Whitta's constant demand for one-liners had taught him that the best defence against shyness was a sharp sense of wickedness. Added to that, the camera became his unexpected friend. Throughout his career he would remain nervous until that light went on and the devil would get to his tongue.
In Melbourne Tonight was an instant success but it would be a while before coaxial cable technology allowed the show to be screened in other capitals.
Kennedy retained the proud image of those early days, an era he was convinced most viewers could no longer remember. "If you were an In Melbourne Tonight watcher, you'd have a great memory," he used to say.
Various presenters covered when Kennedy took a break. One of them was the veteran Australian actor Frank Wilson, now 81, who this week recalled that it was not an easy process. "It took me four to five weeks to write and prepare the material for one show," he cheerfully admits. "Of course, Kennedy used to do it in a day."
Wilson was happy with his contribution, but urged Nine to adapt the daytime talent show New Faces for a night-time audience when Kennedy was absent. Initial reluctance was overcome when New Faces went on to enjoy success in its own right.
In 1959 Newton, who was developing a morning show for Nine, was called in to cover on IMT. Newton had worked with Kennedy in radio and they had become friends. When the IMT stint required him to present a live commercial, Kennedy constantly interrupted with wisecracks until the intended 30-second spot became 18 minutes of television. Afterwards, the executive producer told Newton: "Forget the morning program, you've got a new job." It was the start of Australian television's most memorable partnership.
Rubbishing the ads was a Kennedy specialty. One of his announcers, a woman known by all as Missy, would later remember that it was a strict requirement that she completed each script whatever happened, otherwise the advertisers might demand their money back. She told how one commercial ran for 22 minutes as the jokey interruptions flowed. The advertisers could barely conceal their delight.
Kennedy's was an intermittent TV career so widely adored that it survived several suspensions and smacks on the wrist for on-air naughtiness. It was finally revived in its original splendour in 1977 when the Ten Network hired him to host a local version of the imported quiz show, Blankety Blank. Ten added an "s" to make it Blankety Blanks and watched along with a massive Australian audience as double entendres and wicked glances flowed as never before. The game itself was childishly simple, with a hapless competitor trying to guess the missing final word in supposed quotes from fictitious people. The real fun came when Kennedy would introduce the next quote as "Cyril said ..." the cue for an outburst of salacious barbs from a panel of practised jokers - the regulars included "Ugly" Dave Gray, Stuart Wagstaff and Noeline Brown.
Nine eventually tried to revive the show, but without Kennedy it quickly flopped. However, Nine lured Kennedy back in 1988, when in a surprise move it invited him to host a news-based program, Graham Kennedy's Coast to Coast. A promotional lunch was cautiously offered - just him and me - at Doyle's restaurant at Circular Quay. There were strict admonitions that Kennedy was a punctual man - and when I arrived at precisely 1.15pm there he was, sitting at what he was allowed to regard as his own table, contentedly swigging a Crown Lager, wearing a jaunty yachting cap, his eyes fixed on his apartment across the harbour at Kirribilli.
It was a lunch with much hilarity. Kennedy maintained the cap saved him doing his hair. "There's not much up there," he said. "But I'm not changing it. It was the first thing I sorted out with Channel Nine. I said: 'Do I have to have the compulsory hair transplant?' and they said no. I told them the others did. Bert did, Don did, Mike did, I didn't think Sam Chisholm did, but he doesn't appear on camera."
He suddenly switched topics. "Did you know that I was the first person to say ' f---.' on Australian television?"
[Actually that didn't quite happen. He had always claimed that what sounded like "faaaark" was actually his well-practised imitation of a crow. The moment earned IMT a slap on the wrist; but when the next week, and with one voice, the audience also imitated the crow's call, Kennedy was suspended.]
As to that word: "Now you hear it so often that when I switch on the ABC at seven o'clock I half expect to hear the man say, 'I'm Richard Morecroft and here is the f---ing news.' "
He recalled an early moment at In Melbourne Tonight when he was working on his scripts for that evening's show ("You had to learn the lot: opening remarks, five sketches, 16 commercials"). He was told the man from Johnson's Wax would like a word. "This charming little chap bowled over and shook hands and asked what sort of floors I had at home. I said there was rubber in the kitchen and he said Johnson's had just the stuff and he would like to demonstrate the product." And so it was that Sam Chisholm, salesman, came to scrub and polish Graham Kennedy's kitchen floor.
"I must say, he did an excellent job," Kennedy said. "If he can run a network as well as he can polish floors ..."
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Paulo Leitão
Instituto Politecnico Braganca (Portugal)
Global markets are imposing strong changing conditions for industrial companies running their businesses, facing strong pressures related to the customization of products in high flexible production systems. Industry 4.0 is an initiative that promotes the computerization of traditional industries, aiming intelligent factories characterized by adaptability, efficiency, functionality, reliability, safety, and usability, as well as the integration of customers and business partners in business and value processes. Cyber-physical systems constitute a technological basis to address this challenge, providing significant benefits in several emergent application domains, such as smart grids, smart buildings, smart transportation, smart healthcare, and particularly in smart manufacturing. This presentation discusses the use of multi-agent systems to support the development of intelligent, dynamic and self-* large-scale industrial cyber-physical systems. For this purpose, some successful industrial/research projects will be described, emphasizing the achieved results, the innovation of using agent-based solutions as well pointing out the current trends and challenges.
Paulo Leitão received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2004. From 1993 to 1999 he developed research activities at the CIM Centre of Porto, from 1999 to 2000 at IDIT - Institute for Development and Innovation in Technology, and since 2009 at LIACC - Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science Laboratory. He is Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal, since 1995.
His research interests are in the field of intelligent & distributed manufacturing control, reconfigurable manufacturing systems, cyber-physical systems, multi-agent systems, holonic control systems, factory automation, and bio-inspired engineering.He participate / has participated in several national and international research projects (e.g. EU
H2020 PERFoRM - Production harmonizEd Reconfiguration of Flexible Robots and Machinery, EU FP7 ARUM - Adaptive Production Management, EU FP7 GRACE - InteGration of pRocess and quAlity Control using multi-agEnt technology, EU DEDEMAS - Decentralized Decision Making and Scheduling, EU MOSCOT - A Modular Shop Control Toolkit for Flexible Manufacturing, EU PASO - Paradigm Independent Shop Control for Smaller Manufacturing Sites, and EU CCP - CIM Centre of Porto), and Networks of Excellence (e.g. IMS - Intelligent Manufacturing Systems, and CONET - Cooperating Objects Network of Excellence). He is member of the International Program Committee of several scientific events, has published more than 160 papers in international scientific journals and conference proceedings (per-review), and co-author of three patents He received four paper awards at INFOCOMP'13, INCOM'06, BASYS'06 and IEEE INDIN'10, and served as co-chair of several international conferences, namely SOHOMA'16, ICARSC'16, IFAC IMS'10 and HoloMAS'11.
Dr. Leitão is Senior member of IEEE, member at large of the Industrial Electronics Society (IES) Administrative Committee (AdCom), chair of the IEEE Standards Association P2660.1 Working Group and past Chair of the IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Agents.
Ichiro Satoh
National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
There hare been several lost agent technologies, which were initially promised in 90s. Mobile agent technology is one of such technologies, where mobile agents can be travel from computer to computer under their own control. However, the technology seem to be have not been in practice, because it had serious patent and security problems. This talk describes problems in developing and using agent technogies through experiences in mobile agent research. Nevertheless, elemental technologies of mobile agents have been used in many areas, e.g., virtual machine, software component, MapReduce, and so on. The talk tries to survey and redefine technologies for mobile / non-mobile agent technology through our experiences in mobile agent research with some demonstration.
Ichiro Satoh received his B.E., M.E, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Keio University, Japan in 1996. From 1994 to 1995, he was a visiting researcher of Rank Xerox Grenoble Laboratory. From 1996 to 1997, he was a research associate in the Department of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, Japan and from 1998 to 2000 was an associate professor in the same department. From 2001 to 2005, he was an associate professor in National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan. Since 2006, he has been a professor of NII and now he also work as Deputy of Director General of NII. His current research interests include, distributed and agent computing. He also work as technical chairs and members of governmental committee in the Japan Cabinet Secretariat. He worked as several members of EU's committees to make research issues in FP7 and Horizon 2020.
Alexander V. Smirnov
St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (Russia)
Context-aware decision support is required in situations taking place in dynamic, rapidly changing, and often unpredictable distributed environments. Such situations can be characterized by highly decentralized up-to-date data sets coming from various resources located in socio-cyberphysical systems. Such systems tightly integrate heterogeneous resources of the physical world and IT (cyber) world together with social networking concepts. This term is tightly related to such terms as Web 4.0 and Internet of Things (IoT). The goals of context-aware decision support are to assess the relevance of information & knowledge to the problem that requires a decision, to timely provide the decision maker with up-to-date information, and to gain insight in seeking and evaluating possible decision alternatives.
The paper addresses theoretical and technological foundations of context-aware decision support in agent-based environments. The theoretical fundamentals are built around ontologies as a widely accepted tool for the semantic modeling of context information. They provide efficient facilities to represent application knowledge, and to make resources of the dynamic environments context-aware and interoperable. The proposed fundamentals are supported by advanced intelligent technologies (ontology management, context management, smart space, cloud computing, decision mining, and user profiling).
The paper summarizes ten year experience of using Smart-M3 (multi-device, multi-vendor, multi-domain) platform for implementation of service-oriented applications based on information sharing by software agents and related to collaborative work, smart logistic, and infomobility. A novel concept of human-computer cloud as an architectural approach to build decision support systems as agent-based cloud systems is also described. The concept serves as a unifying basis for usage of human-based resources and enables their virtualize like "ordinary" computing resources. Particularly, the paper discusses a tourist decision support system integrating machine-driven (GIS, knowledge-based inference, etc.) and human-driven (recommendation systems, expert competence management, etc.) services.
Prof. Alexander V. Smirnov is head of Computer Aided Integrated Systems Laboratory at St.Peterburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences - SPIIRAS (1994). He received his Ph.D from St.Petersburg State University of Electrical Engineering (1984) and Dr.habil. from SPIIRAS (1994), and became a Full Professor in 1998. Also, he is a Head of International Laboratory on Intelligent Technologies for Socio-Cyberphysical Systems, ITMO University, St.Petersburg (from 2014), and a Director of Joint Master Program on Business Informatics between ITMO University and Rostock University (Germany). He has been involved in projects sponsored by Ford, Nokia, US DoD, European Research Programs (Information Society Technologies, Esprit, Eureka/Factory, etc.), and Russian agencies in the areas of distributed intelligent systems, ontology management, intelligent decision support systems, etc. He is a member of technical committees of IEEE SMC TC on Cyber-Physical Cloud Systems, IFAC TC 5.1 on Manufacturing Plant Control; IFIP TC WG5.1 on Global Product Development for the Whole Life-Cycle, and a fellow of the European Academy of Industrial Management.. His current research is in the areas of ontology-driven information integration, corporate knowledge management, context management, operational decision support, socio-cyber-physical systems. He published more than 300 research papers in reviewed international journals and proceedings of international conferences, books, manuals.


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2. We advocate for states' rights
3. We want "to make the world a better place" but doubt it is possible
as long as any Democrats are in office.
4. "We identify with the colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule"
5. We are interested in "defeating the Communists"
6. We feel the federal government should butt out of issues such as
drinking ages, procreation ages, driving ages, smoking ages, and
other personal liberties that have been curtailed in last 100 years.
11 September 2013
Proper Remembrance of Sept.11.2001
They'll hold hands, light candles, and pass around a plateful of platitudes: "Never forget," they'll intone. "Let's roll," they'll thunder. "God bless America," they'll warble in perfect harmony.
They'll assure us that they are committed to fighting terror and securing our borders and doing whatever it takes to protect the homeland from another horrific mass murder at the hands of freedom-hating fanatics. And then?
And then, from Washington state to Washington, D.C., they'll go back to work, roll up their sleeves, and spit on the graves of the 9/11 dead.
Your pious city councilwoman will return to the office to draft a resolution condemning the common-sense detention and deportation of Middle Eastern illegal aliens suspected of terrorism.
Your politically correct police chief will refuse to cooperate with federal authorities in criminal investigations of illegal visa overstayers and border-crossers and ship-jumpers.
Your pandering mayor will stealthily renew his policy of preventing city employees from reporting illegal aliens.
Your indignant local librarian will promote fear-mongering and misinformation about the Patriot Act.
Your regional Chamber of Commerce president will join forces with Canadian and Mexican government representatives to put business interests ahead of border enforcement.
Your tuition-thirsty university president will lobby behind closed doors against federal efforts to track foreign students and ensure that they go home when required. Your vote-hungry governor will encourage document fraud through his support of insecure foreign-issued identification cards and driver's licenses for "undocumented workers."
Your race card-fearing congressman will court Arab and Muslim special interest groups and donors who have coddled Islamists on college campuses, in prisons, and in the U.S. military in the name of "diversity."
Your grandstanding senator will block funding for long-delayed homeland defense measures — such as a national entry-exit system to monitor temporary foreign visitors — even as he whines about the need for more money to ensure our safety.
Your incompetent Transportation Security Administration will stonewall pilots who want training to be armed, squander tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on lucrative contracts for weapons-detection equipment that doesn't work or get used, and continue to ban racial profiling.
Your indifferent Interior Department will look the other way as underequipped and understaffed park rangers along the southwestern border remain vulnerable to drug smugglers and terrorists.
Your bloated Homeland Security Department will keep Clinton-era holdovers in pivotal positions, reduce routine inspections at seaports in the name of efficiency, and continue to shortchange interior enforcement against deportation fugitives and asylum con artists in favor of duct tape tipsheets and cosmetic color-coded alerts.
Your corrupted State Department will appease Saudi terror-backers, reward butt-covering managers, assuage European travel industry tycoons, and continue to defend lax visa screening policies.
Your Democratic presidential candidates will unanimously endorse the very kind of amnesty policies that allowed several al Qaeda operatives to infiltrate this country and hatch terrorist plots.
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To those who lost their lives on Sept. 11 because their government failed to enforce its borders, laws, and sovereignty, the politicians and bureaucrats and civic leaders will ostentatiously offer one measly day a year of dedication in rhetoric — and 364 days of desecration in deed.
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The sections described below are taken from HR 3590 as agreed to by the Senate and from the reconciliation bill as displayed by the Rules Committee.
1. You are young and don't want health insurance? You are starting up a small business and need to minimize expenses, and one way to do that is to forego health insurance? Tough. You have to pay $750 annually for the "privilege." (Section 1501)
2. You are young and healthy and want to pay for insurance that reflects that status? Tough. You'll have to pay for premiums that cover not only you, but also the guy who smokes three packs a day, drink a gallon of whiskey and eats chicken fat off the floor. That's because insurance companies will no longer be able to underwrite on the basis of a person's health status. (Section 2701).
3. You would like to pay less in premiums by buying insurance with lifetime or annual limits on coverage? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer such policies, even if that is what customers prefer. (Section 2711).
4. Think you'd like a policy that is cheaper because it doesn't cover preventive care or requires cost-sharing for such care? Tough. Health insurers will no longer be able to offer policies that do not cover preventive services or offer them with cost-sharing, even if that's what the customer wants. (Section 2712).
5. You are an employer and you would like to offer coverage that doesn't allow your employers' slacker children to stay on the policy until age 26? Tough. (Section 2714).
6. You must buy a policy that covers ambulatory patient services, emergency services, hospitalization, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services; chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care.
You're a single guy without children? Tough, your policy must cover pediatric services. You're a woman who can't have children? Tough, your policy must cover maternity services. You're a teetotaler? Tough, your policy must cover substance abuse treatment. (Add your own violation of personal freedom here.) (Section 1302).
7. Do you want a plan with lots of cost-sharing and low premiums? Well, the best you can do is a "Bronze plan," which has benefits that provide benefits that are actuarially equivalent to 60% of the full actuarial value of the benefits provided under the plan. Anything lower than that, tough. (Section 1302 (d)(1)(A))
8. You are an employer in the small-group insurance market and you'd like to offer policies with deductibles higher than $2,000 for individuals and $4,000 for families? Tough. (Section 1302 (c) (2) (A).
9. If you are a large employer (defined as at least 101 employees) and you do not want to provide health insurance to your employee, then you will pay a $750 fine per employee (It could be $2,000 to $3,000 under the reconciliation changes). Think you know how to better spend that money? Tough. (Section 1513).
10. You are an employer who offers health flexible spending arrangements and your employees want to deduct more than $2,500 from their salaries for it? Sorry, can't do that. (Section 9005 (i)).
11. If you are a physician and you don't want the government looking over your shoulder? Tough. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to use your claims data to issue you reports that measure the resources you use, provide information on the quality of care you provide, and compare the resources you use to those used by other physicians. Of course, this will all be just for informational purposes. It's not like the government will ever use it to intervene in your practice and patients' care. Of course not. (Section 3003 (i))
12. If you are a physician and you want to own your own hospital, you must be an owner and have a "Medicare provider agreement" by Feb. 1, 2010. (Dec. 31, 2010 in the reconciliation changes.) If you didn't have those by then, you are out of luck. (Section 6001 (i) (1) (A)).
13. If you are a physician owner and you want to expand your hospital? Well, you can't (Section 6001 (i) (1) (B). Unless, it is located in a country where, over the last five years, population growth has been 150% of what it has been in the state (Section 6601 (i) (3) ( E)). And then you cannot increase your capacity by more than 200% (Section 6001 (i) (3) (C)).
14. You are a health insurer and you want to raise premiums to meet costs? Well, if that increase is deemed "unreasonable" by the Secretary of Health and Human Services it will be subject to review and can be denied. (Section 1003)
15. The government will extract a fee of $2.3 billion annually from the pharmaceutical industry. If you are a pharmaceutical company what you will pay depends on the ratio of the number of brand-name drugs you sell to the total number of brand-name drugs sold in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the brand-name drugs in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2.3 billion, or $230,000,000. (Under reconciliation, it starts at $2.55 billion, jumps to $3 billion in 2012, then to $3.5 billion in 2017 and $4.2 billion in 2018, before settling at $2.8 billion in 2019 (Section 1404)). Think you, as a pharmaceutical executive, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 9008 (b)).
16. The government will extract a fee of $2 billion annually from medical device makers. If you are a medical device maker what you will pay depends on your share of medical device sales in the U.S. So, if you sell 10% of the medical devices in the U.S., what you pay will be 10% multiplied by $2 billion, or $200,000,000. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for R&D? Tough. (Section 9009 (b)).
The reconciliation package turns that into a 2.9% excise tax for medical device makers. Think you, as a medical device maker, know how to better use that money, say for research and development? Tough. (Section 1405).
17. The government will extract a fee of $6.7 billion annually from insurance companies. If you are an insurer, what you will pay depends on your share of net premiums plus 200% of your administrative costs. So, if your net premiums and administrative costs are equal to 10% of the total, you will pay 10% of $6.7 billion, or $670,000,000. In the reconciliation bill, the fee will start at $8 billion in 2014, $11.3 billion in 2015, $1.9 billion in 2017, and $14.3 billion in 2018 (Section 1406).Think you, as an insurance executive, know how to better spend that money? Tough.(Section 9010 (b) (1) (A and B).)
18. If an insurance company board or its stockholders think the CEO is worth more than $500,000 in deferred compensation? Tough.(Section 9014).
19. You will have to pay an additional 0.5% payroll tax on any dollar you make over $250,000 if you file a joint return and $200,000 if you file an individual return. What? You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government? Tough. (Section 9015).
That amount will rise to a 3.8% tax if reconciliation passes. It will also apply to investment income, estates, and trusts. You think you know how to spend the money you earned better than the government? Like you need to ask. (Section 1402).
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Be it further resolved that this resolution serves as Notice and Demand to the federal government to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers.
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Voting in 2010 - Where do your Reps Stand?
Homosexuality ? Atheism ? Socialism ? Abortion ? Feminism ? Pacifism ?
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Do you agree with Decreasing Independent Living via Promotion of a Welfare State ?
Do you agree with Promoting Atheism as a Religion via Teaching Evolution or Humanism in Schools ?
Do you agree with Devaluating Human Life in General via Promotion of Abortion ?
Do you agree with Increasing Imbalance via the Promotion of Radical Feminism ?
Do you agree with Decreasing the strength of the nation via Pacifism and an Anti-War stance ?
Do you agree with promoting Racism by encouraging minorities to regards other groups as intolerant ?
Do you agree with disempowering law-abiding citizens by revising gun laws ?
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Educators working on behalf of children in Kindergarten through grade three have a special set of interests and concerns. In this issue of Beyond the Journal, we are pleased to offer our readers two articles published exclusively on this Web site: Kristie Kaurez comprehensively reviews kindergarten policies across the country and Jean Ann Clyde and Mark W.F. Condon provide insight into the learning process involved in reading-like behavior.
Also in this issue: a student teacher describes the learning experiences of first graders' explorations with hissing cockroaches in the classroom; a piece about the transition to kindergarten for children with disabilities; a review of the researched based principles behind excellent kindergarten programs; a list of book pairs that help link math and literacy for first graders; and a comprehensive resource list related to the Kindergarten and Beyond theme, including live links to relevant Web sites.
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A baby penguin and its proud parents pose for photographer Steve Bloom. It's one of the many wonderful images of animal families he's captured for a new book.
Steve travelled all over the world photographing baby animals for his book, aptly named My Favourite Animal Families! Here we see two pandas playing in the snow in China.
From snow in China to rain in Africa - look at this baby elephant using her mother as an mum-brella!
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Orangutans tend to live alone - the child stays with its mother for six to seven years before going off on its own.
Baby gorillas like to be carried by their mothers.
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SNOHOMISH — The Snohomish fire district is asking voters to approve an emergency medical services levy set for the primary ballot in August.
If approved by voters, the levy would draw 50 cents per $1,000 of property value, compared to 35 cents now. The owner of a $300,000 home would pay $150 per year.
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Hello all,
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We have a UC560 setup where about 8 users have SPA525G2 phones with a SPA500S extension connected and about 30 others phones that are either SP525G2 or SPA504 phones without any SPA500S connected.
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The first picture is a view of Nazareth from our hotel there. This morning we left for Galilee, stopping first at Cana (photo of the wedding church). That stop wasn't nearly as exciting as our time there a few weeks ago, when we celebrated the wedding for Aggie and George. Then we drove to the Mount of Beatitudes, which is always one of my favorite stops - so peaceful and reflective (photo of the church). We walked from there about 45 minutes down to the "Mensa Christi" ("Table of Christ") near where Jesus probably called the fishermen, fed thousands, and described Peter as the Rock. After lunch we visited Capernaum (picture of the synagog - Matthew 8 and 9). We then went to our hotel for the next two nights, where we had a beautiful Pentecost Eucharist service outdoors overlooking the Sea of Galilee, receiving the sacrament at almost the precise time (there's nine hours' difference) as it was being shared in the early service at Concordia. We thought of our many friends there.
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February 10, 2004
Thank you Brad [Brad Giles, VP Environmental Safety & Health] for the kind introduction.
I also want to thank Tom Zarges [COO] and Steven Johnson [Chief Business Development Officer], and in particular Rick Callor for the invitation to join you today.
When I got the letter asking me to participate in the Safety Workshop, I knew I had to come.
First, I have a number of friends here in the audience - people I've worked with and respect. Moreover, WGI is one of this nation's top engineering, construction and management solutions firms. I'm very familiar with Morrison Knudsen and other member companies. Most importantly, I came because WGI is committed to making safety a core value.
I know that all the members of the WGI team here today - whether you're in mining, or power plant construction, or managing a city rail system - are equally determined to keep your employees and customers safe and healthy.
I can see from your agenda and workshops that you have covered a number of key safety and health issues - like ergonomics, respiratory protection, and hazardous materials. In fact, after I speak, I noticed that there's a talk specifically on mine safety.
What I would like to do this morning is discuss with you how MSHA is changing to fit the needs of the 21st century mining industry. How we are changing our culture, developing new partnerships, applying new technologies, and creating a number of new initiatives and programs to better serve our stakeholders - mine operators, miners, safety associations, and health and safety managers like you.
I hope you will come to better understand the MSHA team, and how by working together we can further prevent on-the-job injuries and fatalities.
At MSHA, our key stakeholders are the 340,000 men and women who work directly in America's mining industry -- including coal, metal and nonmetal mines. Wal-Mart may have that many employees in just six or seven states, but today's miners are essential for everything from powering our electric grid to providing the sand, gravel and stone to keep today's housing and construction boom going strong.
In short, today's miners are vital to the success of this nation's economy and security.
As head of MSHA, my goal is quite simple - making sure that every miner is able to go home healthy and safe after every shift. Getting there is the difficult part - as it involves education and training, enhancing technical services, enforcement, compliance assistance, and building new relationships and alliances.
Through these means we have made significant progress in helping prevent incidents that cause fatalities and injuries.
In fact, last year the U.S. mining industry set its best safety record since statistics were first compiled in 1910. 56 miners died in mining-related incidents versus 67 in 2002 -- a decrease of 16 percent. The decline in injury rates has followed downward as well. And over the past three years deaths have declined at a remarkable 33 percent.
These are not just numbers, but lives saved and tragedies averted. We must always remember the human cost and face of fatalities.
The decline in the fatality and injury rate is the result of a number of factors. The most important I believe is the new emphasis MSHA places on communications - both within MSHA and with our stakeholders.
There can be no question that if you are to make safety the value that determines all your choices you must start internally with your employees. At MSHA we have been successful in making our goals and methods clear to every member of our team - they are the performance measures by which every person in evaluated.
We have established a number of health and safety benchmarks for each of our managers to achieve - their promotions and salary are determined by their ability to achieve real results.
Given that the President and Labor Secretary both have MBA's, you should expect nothing less than the ability to demonstrate tangible, measurable results.
Not only have we established clear goals, but we haven't sat back behind our desks. Communicating internally also requires that you get out and talk to your employees in the field. All of MSHA's top managers are constantly on the move. In fact, I've personally visited every one of our 17 district offices - at least twice to talk with our employees.
In fact, whenever I am on the road, I also make sure to visit mines as often as possible. I've really appreciated the opportunities to visit these operations. There's nothing like getting out into the workplace to remind you what it's all about -- you don't get lost in bureaucratic jargon and abstractions. It's truly where the rubber meets the road.
Even with all the progress we've made in advocating mine health and safety, we still have a long way to go.
To keep in touch with stakeholders we have developed a number of special initiatives. I know that many of you are not in the mining industry, but I think these examples will give you an idea of our outreach strategy.
Last year we started the National Coal Mine Safety Awareness Day. The purpose of this event is to raise the awareness level among coal miners and operators concerning hazard recognition and prevention. We sent over 600 enforcement, training and technical support personnel to 1,500 active coal mines, over a two week period, to speak directly with our stakeholders.
For Metal and Nonmetal mines we initiated special Spring Thaw Workshops which come just before the start of the high-production season. They also are specially designed to increase awareness of mine safety hazards.
And to make sure even our smallest stakeholders are not ignored, we created a small mines office whose sole purpose is to help small mine operators comply with safety and health regulations or just help them develop a safety program. Last year we took health and safety education on the road and visited more than 1,600 of these small mines.
Besides on-site visits, we also utilize cyberspace to reach out to our stakeholders. For example, we have just launched two National Webcasts. With over 200 people online, we analyzed fatalities - both causes and prevention - and discussed best practices. And then there is our web site - which gives stakeholders the ability to download materials, submit forms, or just ask us a question.
If you want to participate in one of our national webcasts, or be included in our email registry - and receive various updates on regulations, training, etc -- just let me know.
Strengthening our relations with our stakeholders goes beyond making on-site visits and email. It also requires closer coordination and communications - which is why we are also developing a number of special alliances and cooperative agreements.
Last year we entered into our first Alliance Agreement with several mining industry and safety organizations - including the American Society of Safety Engineers and the National Stone, Sand and Gravel Association. What is unique about these agreements are that they commit MSHA and the participating organizations to work together towards shared, specific goals, with mechanisms to benchmark real progress.
Equally important, MSHA is now forming partnerships with non-traditional groups and organizations that impact the mining community. For example, we just signed the first alliance agreement ever between a labor union and MSHA. The agreement, with the International Union of Operating Engineers, focuses on homeland security - with an emphasis on rescue and recovery services. Moreover, we have a new relationship with the Ironworkers union. We're helping train their instructors and develop training materials for their safety classes.
Of course, these are just a few of the initiatives and outreach programs we're involved with. Actually, they are a part of MSHA's overall strategy, our Triangle of Success - which is using a balanced approach to mine safety involving technical assistance, education and training, and enforcement.
When it comes to technical assistance, we're working on a number of important projects that may interest you - like the exploration of new technologies for scaling highwalls, and haul road design to help control runaway vehicles. We're also investigating new types of lighting systems that could be installed on lift equipment to significantly improve the ability of miners to judge the stability of mine roofs and back.
Most importantly -- for those in the mining industry -- we're working with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to test prototypes of a personal dust monitor for use in coal mines. If successful, and it looks very promising, this device will be able to give an immediate readout of a miner's current and extrapolated exposure to respirable coal mine dust - which can cause black lung.
Needless to say, when it comes to education and training, almost everything we do involves some type of educational component. But the crown jewel of MSHA's educational and training programs is the National Mine Health and Safety Academy in West Virginia. Our doors are always open to help mining companies with annual refresher courses, mine rescue training, mine foreman certification and electrical training.
Besides education, training and technical assistance, our strategy to further improve safety and health performance also involves compliance assistance. Today, compliance assistance is an integral part of every component of MSHA activities.
No longer are we guided by a "got ya" mentality. We understand that the vast majority of mine operators want to do the right thing -- and we should be willing to assist in that objective. We believe that assisting employers in complying with the law is every bit as important as enforcement.
All of our mine visits are now "inspections with a purpose." Inspectors are there to help determine the roots causes of hazards that lead to both violations and incidents. We want these inspections to be a win/win for all the parties involved.
But please make no mistake - where there are violations, we will take tough enforcement action. We will continue to hold the mining industry to stringent standards, while we provide advice and assistance to those who are working to improve safety performance.
Overall, our strategy is taking hold and we are making a real difference in the lives of miners. What we are doing is creating a culture of prevention. One that allows for:
- Better cooperation between MSHA personnel and mine operators
- Closer working relationships with equipment manufacturers and suppliers in the research and development of new technologies
- Collaboration with academia and others to find more efficient ways to educate miners
- Development of new alliances with traditional and non traditional stakeholders.
Quite honestly, we want to become the premier mining safety and health agency in the federal government, second to none.
I could continue to give you a more detailed list of all the changes going on within MSHA, and even more of our initiatives, but let me stop here.
By now I'm sure you have gotten the message -- that MSHA is committed to helping the mining industry continue to improve its safety and health performance.
As safety and health managers we all have the same goal and purpose. Working together and pooling our experience and talents can make a real difference in the lives of our employees and all stakeholders.
Again, thank you for the invitation to join you today. I appreciate all you are doing to help make safety a core value.
Have a great workshop.
May God bless America's miners - and God bless America.


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Euclid Hall's chicken and waffles, with crispy chicken mousseline and confit "nuggets."
Why does pork go so well with breakfast, and poultry not so much? Turkey bacon aside (and in my book, it should be way aside), the only poultry you're likely to find at breakfast is in chicken and waffles.
Long associated with the South, this dish actually traces its roots not to jazz-era Harlem, as is often thought, but to the 1700s, when German settlers (aka the Pennsylvania Dutch) brought it to infant America. See also: - - Second Home Kitchen and Bar: Best Chicken and Waffles 2012 - Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two brings low-country cuisine to the Mile High City - Slide show: A closer look at Restaurant Fourteen Seventy-Two
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=== Design ===
=== Design ===
In [[GTA San Andreas]], the Primo is one of the better sedans available in the game, although its design is less unremarkable and thus appears more generic in traffic. It resembles a [[wp:Toyota Camry#Second generation (V20; 1986–1990)|1987-1990 Toyota Camry]] sedan to some extent.
In [[GTA San Andreas]], the Primo is one of the better sedans available in the game, although its design is less unremarkable and thus appears more generic in traffic. It resembles a [[wp:Toyota Camry#Second generation (V20; 1986–1990)|1987-1990 Toyota Camry]] sedan to some extent.
=== Performance and locations ===
=== Performance and locations ===
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The Primo is a four door car in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and Grand Theft Auto IV.
GTA San Andreas
In GTA San Andreas, the Primo is one of the better sedans available in the game, although its design is less unremarkable and thus appears more generic in traffic. It closely resembles a wp:Ford Tempo/wp:Mercury Topaz sedan. It also somewhat resembles a 1987-1990 Toyota Camry sedan to some extent.
Performance and locations
The Primo is one of the most dependable vehicles in the game, possessing good handling as a result of its lighter weight, fair acceleration and a decent top speed. For that, it is an ideal choice for doing drive-bys against enemy gangs. While relatively acceptable under normal driving conditions, the Primo's axle width may make the car less stable in bumpy conditions.
The Primo can be found mostly anywhere in the State of San Andreas.
- Colors (exterior)
- Vents (one variety)
- Exhausts (four varieties)
- Nitro (all)
- Spoilers (three varieties)
- Wheels (ten varieties)
- Bass Boost
- Hydraulics
In GTA IV, the Albany Primo retains its four-door sedan design, but is influenced heavily by the 1987–1993 Cadillac Allante but has a four door sedan design most likely from a 90s/80s GM A-body, like the 1989-1996 Buick Century. The top of the trunk lid seems loosely inspired by 1992-2004 Cadillac Sevilles, this also may be the source for the bulkier appearance. The car is also available in one-tone or two-tone body colors (which are probably inspired from Cadillac Sevilles, more likely the 1986-1991 models).
The Primo is most likely powered by a mid-range V6, which gives it a satisfying top speed. The Primo's underpinning is it's body roll and small, weak brakes. The Primo's acceleration and handling are also poor and unsporty and it suffers from a problem similar to the Emperor in which the rear swings frenziedly on sharp turns - but even worse, the car feels heavily planted on the ground, therefore, if the turning is done smoothly, the Primo will do a very wide turn, the only possible workarounds are to start drifting yards before where the desired turn is or to slow down. This car is thus very unfavorable for driving at high speeds, leading this vehicle to be better suited towards missions where a getaway vehicle is not required, friend "hangouts" and city driving.
Due to its sturdy build, the Primo is able to take a few direct frontal hits without stalling or setting alight.
There are two different styles of Primo. There is a standard middle-of-the-road sedan, and there is also one with a special "Supercharged V8" badge on its decklid. The supercharged Primo is lowered with added ground effects and a spoiler. It always comes in maroon, and is the vehicle of choice for members of the Spanish Lords (though it can be repainted at a Pay 'n' Spray in the standard Primo colors). Despite the "Supercharged V8" badge, it has the same performance as the regular Primo, and sounds just like the regular Primo - nothing like a V8, which leads us to believe that the effects are purely cosmetic.
While not an actual variant per se, standard black Primos may also be found with the same golden trims as those on the Supercharged V8 variant, the only color scheme for standard Primos to incorporate golden trims.
- Primo-GTA4-SuperchargedV8-front.jpg
The Supercharged V8 variant of the Primo in GTA IV (Rear quarter view).
- Primo-GTA4-black&gold-rear.jpg
A standard Primo with a unique black body and golden trim scheme.
- In GTA IV, the "supercharged" Primo shares it's trunk spoiler with the DF8-90 V8 Turbo.
- After collecting all thirty cars for Stevie, he agrees to purchase cars from Niko Bellic, with the Primo fetching $1,800.
- The Primo plays the following radio stations by default when entered:
- Bounce FM in GTA San Andreas.
- Electro-Choc or Radio Broker in GTA IV.


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