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text: SCWS 2016: Quortus takes a different slant on mobile edge computing26 May 2016 02:24 PM Quortus' approach to MEC involves visibility of both the user and the control plane, which provides many more advantages than ETSI's user plane only approach, CEO Andy Odgers tells Wireless editor James AtkinsonMobile Edge Computing (MEC) got a day's conference to itself at Small Cells World Summit 2016 this year (9-12 May), but while Wireless was unable to attend that day, we did get an alternative view on MEC from Quortus, which has been developing MEC-style technology since 2009.'We've been doing MEC for a long time, not for macro networks, but delivering 'intelligence on the edge' for businesses,' Quortus CEO Andy Odgers (pictured) told Wireless. 'We have a lot of experience of enterprises and what we do is based on what users actually want at the edge. So, we come at MEC from the business model and user case of: what do users actually want?For Quortus, MEC is about providing a computing platform for sure, but it is also about implementing an app or IT store at the edge as well, to bring service enablement to the network edge. It has pioneered several disruptive new concepts including local VoLTE calling to and from local enterprise PBX, and dis-aggregation of the core network towards the 'edge'cloud'.Odgers said that currently there is what he describes as a virtualised app hierarchy. At one end you have consumer end users making use of apps on their smart phones, tablets and other devices. At the other end is the Cloud, based on data centre servers and allied to the mobile operators' core networks, providing large scale, high throughput apps, storage, media streaming and big data with a global reach.'In the middle is a gap between device and the cloud, which we've called the enterprise, although it could be an oil rig or whatever,' said Odgers. Enterprises are looking for MEC applications and services, voice, data, positioning and media. Quortus refers to this as a 'community-centric (network edge) sector.AT MWC this year, it announced a partnership with ACS, a large integrator, to do all the essential bits Quortus doesn't do: virtualisation and orchestration of MEC appliances, security, telemetry and running the app store.But Odgers said: 'Quortus comes at MEC slightly differently from how others, including the ETSI MEC Working Group, which is tackling the standardisation work, approach it and the reasons for that comes back to our experience of user points of view.'The ETSI approach is concentrated in looking at packets on the user plane (UP), but this limits the possible capabilities, services and ultimately, revenue generating opportunities in Quortus' view.Among the drawbacks identified by Quortus is the fact that the MNO has no visibility of offloaded traffic. There are security risks as all MEC apps see all the traffic; the MNO is unable to influence the bearer technology quality of service (QoS) to the end user; and it is unable to 'push' if the user's UE goes into idle mode.The Quortus/ACS approach not only sees the packets on the user plane, but it also looks at the control plane too through the Quortus/ACS MEC controller. Their architecture is characterised by: split S/PGW (serving/packet gateway) – so control resides in the core; it is SDN-aligned (and hence on the road to 5G); it provides secure packet filtering to apps; the Quortus EXC software is in the controller and appliance; and it provides standard interface towards the MNO.The advantages of this solution, according to Odgers, is that the MNO has visibility of offloaded traffic; it is able to select bearer QoS, e.g. for VoLTE; is is able to re-establish sessions if the user's UE goes into idle mode; and it provides macro/private LTE mobility options.'We have to think about the business model and practical services. How do you maximise the return? If you only focus on the user plane with your MEC solution, you can't maximise your return on investment,' Odgers argued.'If you want to call our solution pre-standard then fine, but we think it is important for the standards process to have someone out there talking to people and feeding something back in sideways into the ETSI MEC Working Group. We are trying to show thought leadership, suggest alternatives and be practical.'He emphasised that the solution is radio agnostic. 'That is important. Our live demos at MWC were run on SpiderCloud small cells, for example. The demo was important, as it showed this was more than just a proof of concept.' Odgers is also keen to talk up the solution's ability to support voice – proper VoLTE calls, as he puts it.He points out that despite LTE's fine data capabilities, the Small Cell Forum has identified the need for better voice services as the main driver for enterprises seeking to deploy cellular small cells in their buildings.Looking ahead, Odgers has identified more work that still needs to be done including: mobility between MEC appliances; Wi-Fi integration; combining MEC appliances with enterprise eNodeBs (a single all-in-one 'smart cell' for the SME market; and built-in IP-PBX); and a focus on bringing more app partners on board.One further thought – how do you take this to market? Odgers isn't too sure trying to sell the Quortus/ACS MEC solution direct to operators is the way forward. 'Let's find a middle tier option,' he suggested.'Take a company like HP Enterprise; is it better positioned to do this? Yes, massively I'd say, because they know enterprises really well and in lots of different sectors, while operators are less well connected. They can be feet on the ground.'So, what is the money flow then?' he continued. 'MVNOs could brand the solution themselves, or an operator could outsource it to someone like HP Enterprise and sell it back branded as an operator. Or third parties do it themselves.'We are partly pitching an IT system with apps and there are a massively large number of app developers out there. But maybe it will be the enterprises themselves with the pull through coming from them talking to their systems integrators like HP Enterprise who can say to them: what you need is a MEC solution,' said Odgers.James Atkinson EditorLinkedIn |Google + |Email Leave a CommentPlease write code to prove you're humanMore on... 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|David W. Evans, Arthur P. Ginsburg
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The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States for all governmental purposes without the payment of any royalty.
Reference is hereby made to the following co-pending U.S. applications dealing with related subject matter and assigned to the assignee of the present invention:
1. "Real-Time Optical Filtering System with Spatial and Temporal Enhancement of Visual Information" by David W. Evans, U.S. Ser. No. 337,349, filed Jan. 6, 1982.
2. "Varying Bandpass of Optical Spatial Filter by Rotating Mirrors having Changing Reflectivity" by David W. Evans, U.S. Ser. No. 337,350, filed Jan. 6, 1982.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention broadly relates to real-time coherent optical filtering of imagery and, more particularly, is concerned with a method of spatial filtering which permits improved filtered image detection and spatial frequency bandwidth adjustment.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Recent psychophysical studies clearly indicate the presence of spatial frequency selective filters or channels within the visual system. Evidence from research suggests that these channels are quasi-independent, each varying from about one-to-two octaves in bandwidth.
More recently, studies show that the different spatial frequency channels are used to perform different visual tasks: low and mid frequencies are used for form perception and recognition while high frequencies are used for perception of fine detail. For example, Ginsburg (see "Specifying Relevant Spatial Information for Image Evaluation and Display Design: An Explanation of How We See Certain Objects," Proceedings of SID, 1980, vol. 21/3) demonstrated that a channel two octaves wide centered at 16 cpo (cycles per object) can be used to transmit all the information needed to recognize a human face.
The implication of these results is that the visual system is made up of many filters, each being responsible for capturing the spatial information needed to perform a particular visual task. If this view is correct then visual filtering processes for a particular task can be modelled by a spatial filtering system with similar characteristics.
However, until recently, real-time coherent optical filtering of imagery was accomplished solely by placing a spatial frequency mask in the Fourier transform plane of a coherent optical data processing system. The transfer function of the system was determined by the amplitude transmittance of the mask. Changing transfer functions required replacement and adjustment of numerous masks in the Fourier plane, a time-consuming problem. Such a system is inflexible if more than one special type of filtering is required.
Now, Indebetouw (see "Turnable Spatial Filtering with a Fabry-Perot Etalon," Applied Optics, Mar. 1, 1981, vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 761-764) has shown that flexible bandpass capability could be achieved by placing an angular filter in the image plane of the system. An angular filter is a device that is capable of selecting a set of plane waves with arbitrarily chosen direction cosines. Since direction cosines are proportional to the input spatial frequencies, the angular spectrum is a scaled version of the Fourier transform. Thus, the angular filter can select spatial frequency bands similar to a mask in the Fourier plane.
Indebetouw uses a Fabry-Perot etalon or interferometer as his angular filter. The center frequency and bandwidth of the filter can be easily chosen by varying the finesse (number of internal reflections within the mirror pair) and spacing of the mirror pair. The center frequency of the bandpass filter can be adjusted by small (less than 0.05 mm) changes in the mirror spacing of the interferometer, while the bandwidth of the filter can be adjusted by larger (greater than 0.25 mm) changes in the mirror spacing. The farther apart the overall spacing of the mirrors, the narrower the bandwidth.
While the Indebetouw system is a definite step forward in the field of real-time coherent optical filtering of imagery, certain improvements are needed in order to enhance its capabilities as a research tool for studying visual processes and as a laboratory tool for analysis of pictorial images. As mentioned above at the beginning, a model of visual processing has been developed which views the visual system as a filtering system. As such, it has been shown that certain bandwidths of spatial frequency information in images are used primarily by the visual system for detection and identification of targets. If these bandwidths can be properly enhanced with real-time spatial filtering, then the provision of an optical processing system with filtering characteristics more closely modelling human vision may be possible.
The system of real-time coherent optical filtering of visual imagery, as disclosed herein, has several improved features which are designed to satisfy the aforementioned need for a system capable of more closely modelling human vision. While some of the features comprise the inventions claimed in the co-pending applications, cross-referenced above, all of the features are illustrated and described herein for facilitating a complete and thorough understanding of those of the features of system comprising the present invention.
The present invention is directed to features which permit improved filtered image detection and spatial frequency bandwidth adjustment. More particularly, the improvement concerns the use of a low-light level video system for enhancing and recording a low luminance image of the filtered output. The video system allows the laser, which coherently illuminates the visual image, to be operated between a wider range of spectral wavelengths and low and high predetermined power levels. As a result, adjustment of the bandwidth of the filtering means in the form of a Fabry-Perot interferometer may be more easily made by merely varying the power level and wavelength output of the laser.
Accordingly, the present invention provides improvement in a method of real-time coherent optical filtering of visual imagery. The filtering method includes transmitting a visual target image of an input, the steps of filtering the transmitted target image to produce a filtered target image having a variable bandwidth of spatial frequency information, and projecting the filtered target image.
The improvement relates to the step of receiving the projected filtered target image and being capable of detecting the image even when at a low level of luminance. Further, the improvement relates to the step of coherently illuminating the visual target image of the input prior to transmitting the same, and adjusting the bandwidth of the filtering between narrow and broad ranges thereof, so as to vary the bandwidth of the spatial frequency information, by varying the power at which the illuminating is carried out between low and high predetermined levels and by varying the wavelength at which the illuminating is carried out within a predetermined range. This improvement obviates the complicated task of having to adjust the mirror spacing in the filtering means, when it takes the form of a Fabry-Perot interferometer, in order to vary the spatial frequency bandwidth.
FIG. 1 is a plan view in schematic form of an improved real-time coherent optical filtering system.
FIG. 2 is an end view of the Fabry-Perot interferometer as seen along line 2--2 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a side view of an improved Fabry-Perot interferometer, as seen along line 3--3 of FIG. 4, wherein the bandwidth of the device may be changed by rotating its mirror. FIG. 4 is a view in partial section taken along line 4--4 of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic representation of the variability in the reflectivity of the mirrors of the improved interferometer of FIG. 3.
FIG. 6 is a plan view in schematic form of the real-time coherent optical filtering system incorporating the improvements provided by the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a plan view in schematic form of an alternative form of an output for the system of FIG. 1.
Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to FIG. 1, there is shown in schematic form an improved real-time coherent optical filtering system, being generally designated 10. The portion of the system 10, which was previously disclosed by Indebetouw in the cited Applied Optics article, encompasses some of the components disposed along a first optical axis 12, namely, the coherent light source or laser 14, an input 16, the three lenses 18, 20, 22, the spatial filter in the form of a Fabry-Perot interferometer 24, and the output 26.
The first optical axis 12 of the system 10 defines a filtered light path from the input 16 to the output 26. The input 16 is a desired target object, such as some predetermined image recorded on a transparency, located at an object plane 28 and illuminated by coherent light from laser 14.
The lens 18 constitutes a first transform lens which causes the light illuminating the object plane 28 to converge at the rear focal plane 30 of the lens 18. The rear focal plane 30 constitutes a first transform plane over which the light is distributed in the form of a Fraunhofer diffraction pattern to produce a two-dimensional Fourier transform of the object image. In other words, the spatial frequency spectrum of the object image is spread across the rear focal or transform plane 30.
The lens 20 constitutes a first imaging lens which retransform the diffraction pattern at the transform plane 30, which is also the front focal plane of the imaging lens 20, into an image of the target object at an intermediate image plane 32 by projecting the light toward the next lens 22 along the first optical axis 12. The intermediate image plane 32 is located at the rear focal plane of lens 20 and the front focal plane of lens 22.
The Fabry-Perot interferometer 24, which may take the form of Model RC-110 manufactured by Burleigh Instruments, is located at the intermediate image plane 32 and functions as a spatial filter which filters the light projected by lens 20 to lens 22. The bandwidth and center frequency of the Fabry-Perot interferometer or spatial filter 24 can be chosen by varying the finesse (number of internal reflections between a pair of mirrors 34, 36) and the spacing of the mirrors. The third lens 22 projects the spatially filtered image from the filter 24 to the output 26 via a mirror 38.
The invention of the first cross-referenced application is directed to improvement of the above-described conventional portion of the system 10 for producing both spatial and temporal enhancement of the predetermined bandwidth of spatial frequency information composing the filtered image. Such enhancement of the visual target object image improves real-time detection and identification of a target by an observer.
Spatial enhancement is achieved by overlaying the filtered image, having the predetermined spatial frequency bandwidth, by the original image of the target object. The improvement which provides such spatial enhancement encompasses the components disposed along a second optical axis 40, namely mirrors 42, 44 and lenses 46, 48, and a beam splitter 50 which reflects some of the coherent light from the laser 14, after passage through the input object 16, to the first mirror 42. The lenses 46, 48 together perform the identical functions of the transform and imaging lenses 18, 20 as described previously. However, the image transmitted along the second optical axis 40 remains unfiltered since there is no spatial filter present. Consequently, the second optical axis 40 of the system 10 defines an unfiltered light path from the input 16 to the output 26, which is substantially parallel to the first optical axis 12 or filtered light path.
At the output 26, the filtered and unfiltered images may be displayed separately for comparison purposes or overlaid one on the other. In the case of the latter, the spatial frequency bandwidth of interest in the original unfiltered image will have a higher contrast than the other spatial frequency information therein.
The output 26 may take the alternative form shown in FIG. 7 wherein video cameras 52 and 54 are provided in the respective filtered and unfiltered light paths 12, 40 for receiving the respective images therein. A video mixer 56 connected to each of the cameras 52, 54 overlays the images, and a video display 58 connected to the mixer 56 is used to display the overlaid images.
Temporal enhancement is achieved by flickering the filtered image, that is, the visual information in the spatial frequency bandwidth of interest. Temporal enhancement--image flickering --together with spatial enhancement can be used by the observer as a cueing mechanism for image pattern recognition. The improvement which provides such temporal enhancement is embodied in the mode of operation of a ramp generator 60, which may take the form of Model RC-42 manufactured by Burleigh Instruments, for controlling the Fabry-Perot interferometer 24 used in the first optical path 12 for filtering the desired bandwidth of spatial frequency information. The ramp generator 60 is used to sweep through the range of spatial frequency information in the image believed to be important for image detection and identification. While it is known per se to use a ramp generator connected to a piezoelectric transducer drive in the interferometer 24 to vary the spacing of the mirrors 34, 36 therein, the improvement herein relates to controlling the signal bias (to set the center frequency), the amplitude (to set the bandwidth), and the time period (to set the sweep rate) by knobs 62, 64, 66 of the ramp generator 60 so as to sweep through a desired channel, such as one centered at 16 cpo with an approximately 2 octave bandwidth, at a desired sweep rate, such as 5 Hz, and cause the filtered image to flicker. The region of spatial information used for recognition will then appear to flicker and the flickering will provide temporal enhancement for the specified range of information. Consequently, a photo-detector need not be used to measure the energy output as proposed in the Indebetouw article, since now the flickering filtered image can be detected by the human eye.
To summarize, the uniqueness of this improvement is that the observer can flicker any range of spatial frequency information simply by adjusting the bias, amplitude, and time period of the ramp signal. Since the improved system 10 can now be adjusted to approximate the known filtering processes of the human visual system, the range of information in a target object most important for visual detection and recognition can be specifically enhanced. Additionally, the provision of the parallel, unfiltered light path 40 provides spatial enhancement for identification of target objects.
Furthermore, determining which channel of spatial information can best be used to enhance identification and detection performance is made easier by a flexible bandpass real-time system of this type, because many filter functions can be tested within a short time period. Ultimately, this type of system could be used to model the total visual filter functions. Ginsburg (in "Visual Information Processing Based on Spatial Filters Constrained by Biological Data," Ph.D. Dissertion, 1977, University of Cambridge) has previously shown that the visual filter function can be viewed as a hierachy of filtered images, each tuned to a separate range of spatial frequencies. A bank of angular spatial filters, each tuned to a specific range of spatial information, similar to that of a visual channel, could provide this hierachy of filtered images. An experimenter could then manipulate the various channels to achieve the desired output image.
It was mentioned earlier in the background section that Indebetouw first suggested the use of a Fabry-Perot etalon or interferometer as an angular spatial filter at the intermediate image plane of the system. The interferometer 24, as seen in FIG. 1, includes front and rear end plates 68, 70 interconnected by upper rod 72 and lower rods 74, 76 which are disposed in a generally equilateral triangular arrangement, as seen in FIG. 2. The front or fixed mirror 34 is mounted in a front holder 78 the vertical alignment of which can be changed by use of adjustment screws 80, 82 and 84, mounted in the front end plate 68, for establishing parallelism with the rear or movable mirror 36. The mirror 36 is mounted by a rear spider 86 which is slidable longitudinally along the three rods 72, 74, 76 to adjust the spacing between the mirrors 34, 36. As seen in FIG. 2, there is a central opening 88 defined through the front end plate 68, and an identical opening (not shown) through the rear plate 70, both being aligned with the mirrors 34, 36, for allowing transmission of light through the interferometer 24. The rear mirror 36 has a piezoelectric transducer 90 attached thereto for varying the mirror spacing for scanning when a voltage having a sawtooth waveform is applied thereto by the ramp generator 60.
The invention of the second cross-referenced application is directed to improvement of the Fabry-Perot interferometer to permit easier adjustment of the spatial frequency bandwidth thereof when used as a flexible bandpass spatial filter. The improvement eliminates the necessity of reestablishing a condition of parallelism between the mirrors 34, 36 after each time the mirror 36 is slidably moved longitudinally toward or away from the mirror 34 in changing the spacing between the mirrors.
Specifically, as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, the mirrors 92, 94 of the improved interferometer 96 are rotatably mounted about a common axis 97 within a casing 98 which is mounted on rods 100, 102, 104 interconnecting end plates 106, 108. The rods and end plates are identical to those of the interferometer 24. The mirrors are maintained in spaced apart parallel relationship within the casing 98.
As diagrammatically depicted in FIG. 5 the reflectivity value of the mirrors continuously varies about the axis 97 from one angular sector of the mirror to the next. Therefore, the bandwidth of spatial frequency information in an image, projected onto a common region 110 of each mirror offset from the axis 97 and filtered by the mirrors 92, 94, may be varied by rotating the mirrors about the axis 97. Thus, reflectivity of the mirrors changes as a function of axial rotation thereof. As mentioned above, such rotational mounting of the mirrors 92, 94 is fixed relative to the spacing between the mirrors such that rotation of the mirrors does not effect their generally parallel relationship.
By changing the reflectivity of the interferometer mirrors, the finesse can be changed and thus the bandwidth. Finesse is directly proportional to the bandwidth, as readily apparent from the functional relationships defined below: ##EQU1## where F is finesse; R is reflectivity; p is spatial frequency and Δp is bandwidth. Therefore, the bandwidth changes as finesse is changed due to the change in reflectivity. Consequently, the bandwidth can be easily manipulated by rotation of the mirrors. Rotation may be carried out manually or by using some suitable mechanical means. As seen in FIG. 5, a reflectivity variation of from 75% to 97% may be used. This would allow a change of the bandwidth from 2.5 octaves to 1.0 octave.
Turning now to FIG. 6, there is shown improvements provided to the system 10 by the present invention for enhancing and recording a low luminance filtered output image. This capability is provided by the use of a low-light level video system 112 at the output. The video system 112, in turn, allows the laser 114, which may take the form of Model 162A manufactured by Spectra Physics and which conherently illuminates the visual image, to be operated between a wider range of spectral wavelengths and low and high predetermined power levels. As a result, adjustment of the bandwidth of the filtering means in the form of the Fabry-Perot interferometer 24 may be more easily made by merely varying the power level and wavelength output of the laser. Variation of the power and wavelength is carried out simultaneously by manipulating the vertical adjustment knob for the rear mirror in the laser. For example, the bandwidth may be varied between one octave to low pass by varying the power level of the laser between 1 to 12 milliwatts and varying the wavelength by up to 70 nanometers, between 450 and 520 nanometers.
The advantage of using the low-light level camera is that it lets one operate in a region of wavelength passbands and power outputs that before were too low in luminance to be usable with the human eye. Now, an observer can sweep through wider ranges of wavelengths and power levels, change the bandwidth, and still be able to see the output with unaided vision.
It is thought that the improvement provided by the present invention and many of its attendant advantages will be understood from the foregoing description and it will be apparent that various changes may be made in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts thereof without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention or sacrificing all of its material advantages, the form hereinbefore described being merely a preferred or exemplary embodiment thereof.
|Indebetouw, G., "Tunable Spatial Filtering with a Fabry-Perot Etalon," Applied Optics, Mar. 1, 1980, vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 761-764.
|Specifying Relevant Spatial Information for Image Evaluation and Display Design: An Explanation of How We See Certain Objects, by Arthur P. Ginsburg, Proceedings of the SID, vol. 21/3, 1980, pp. 219-227.
|Visual Information Processing Based on Spatial Filters Constrained by Biological Data, by Arthur P. Ginsburg, AMRL-TR-78-129, vols. I and II, Dec. 1978, pp. 1 to 306.
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David Crossley wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > No. What the above means is that i configured the core > > to have a project symbols file. If they over-ride that in > > their project's xml catalog they can supply their own file. > > Aha, i found it. When this ability for "project and core symbols" > was added in forrest-0.8 version, i declared the project symbols > in the xml catalog.xcat file of our seed projects. However i only > supplied the actual file of symbols in the "fresh-site" not in > the main/template-sites/basic/ > > So if people based their sites on 'forrest seed' then all would > be okay. However, if based on 'forrest seed-basic' then not. All is okay now. I found a workaround and described its implementation in FOR-1071. -David
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Mr. Scalera, of the children's association, said the group had strongly criticized the Governor on occasion but was supportive of this plan although it believes teachers should eventually be required to have bachelor's degrees. The association was asked to play host to the Governor's announcement and picked the Ironbound center.
There are two basic ways to meet the Governor's certification requirement. The state Bureau of Licensing grants a ''group teacher'' certificate on behalf of the Department of Human Services. Candidates must have 18 credits in college classes that focus on early childhood education and development. (Non-college-credit classes that cover similar territory can also be applied, but in any case, the training takes at least a year and costs about $2,000.)
But more and more, teachers are getting a Childhood Development Associate's certificate, a nationally recognized credential granted by a Washington nonprofit, the Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition. Deborah Jordan, the council's deputy director, said about 103,000 teachers were currently certified, nearly 2,000 of them in New Jersey, and that applications were increasing rapidly. In some classes at the Ironbound Center, Ms. Calvopina said, both teachers already are certified.
To qualify, applicants must have a high school diploma or its equivalent; must be demonstrate competency in speaking, reading and writing; must have 480 hours of experience working with children from birth to 5 years old; earn 15 college credits in early childhood education, including early childhood education and child psychology and development (a year's worth of study that, at Essex County Community College, costs about $1,500), and undergo the council's certification process, which, for a fee of $325, includes an interview, examination and submission of a portfolio of the applicant's own teaching tools. The first certificate is good for three years; subsequently, teachers must reapply every five years.
At the Ironbound center, Mirtea Pose, a teacher's assistant, listened gravely as a 3-year-old explained how another boy would not share a toy. ''Brandon, come here, I want to talk to you,'' Ms. Pose said. After listening to her brief lecture in Spanish, Brandon kissed the first boy on the cheek, and both ran off smiling.
Ms. Pose, who is in the midst of qualifying for her certificate, was asked if her studies in child psychology and child development had helped her in the classroom.
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Alright well if I haven't already made it blatantly obvious, I'm new to the whole Forrest/Cocoon thing, and the documentation is hardly useful for someone trying to figure out how to use it and more useful as a reference for someone who already knows it. I'm also inexperienced with servlets, containers, and webapps, though I do know Java. Would you mind explaining how I would integrate Forrest, along with other components such as PHP, into an Apache server, using what you mentioned below? Thank you so much for your help, and for putting up with me! -- Lake McManus~马雷~レイク・ミクマーナス~ْلَيكْ مِكْمَنُس~लेक् मिक्मानस E-Mail: email@example.com "Impermanent are all created things; strive on with awareness." -----Original Message----- From: Ross Gardler [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: 2005 August 27 09:33 To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: Forrest as a Module Lake McManus wrote: > In my opinion, Forrest would be much more useful as a module. Forrest is a webapp for hosting in a Servlet engine. It is a completely different beast to an HTTPD module (I guess that is what you mean by module). Of course, the servlet container itself can be run as an HTTPD module. > Despite > what the Forrest website says, I can't understand how Forrest can be > used for dynamic pages See our home page [1] and the docs at [2] which describes the dynamic mode in more detail. In short you can do 'forrest run' and point your browser at http://localhost:8888 (the port is of course configurable, and you can poit at it from an external machine if you want to). In a production environment you probably want to do 'forrest webapp' and deploy on your favourite servlet container. [1] http://forrest.apache.org/#Static+or+Dynamic [2] http://forrest.apache.org/docs_0_70/your-project.html#webapp >Making it a module would allow this. That > would make a lot more sense than having to run Forrest every time you > update the site, especially if you're not running Forrest on the > server. At first I thought Forrest would be something like that, but it > took me a while to realize, to my dismay, that it wasn't. On the contrary - that is *exactly* what forrest does when you run in dynamic mode. You should also appreciate that Forrest is designed to allow static content to be created since most content is, in fact, static and therefore is much more efficiently served by a web server. If you have dynamic needs then run in dynamic mode. > Having > Forrest as a module would also increase functionality with server-site > scripting like PHP. That way, PHP could produce Forrest-compatible > code, and then Forrest would process it. It already can. This is made really easy with the locationmap in 0.8-dev, however, it is still achievable in 0.7 if you write a custom sitemap for your project. Furthermore, Forrest is built on top of Cocoon, so we have the full power of Cocoon in the dynamic environment. > Is there any effort being made > toward this? Errr... just in case you haven't noticed with my replies above, it already does everything you ask for :-P > And is there a reason that it wasn't developed like a > module or CGI in the first place? Because it is much more powerful and efficient as a Cocoon application. Ross
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Feng Po Chu is the main villain in Kate Furnivall's novel The Russian Concubine. He is the son of the President of the Kiuomintang, a facist government faction. Feng Po Chu is pure evil. He runs a brothel, and is in command of an entire legion of Kiuomintang agents as well as his own Black Snake Triad division, which is evil and utterly ruthless. Feng Po Chu could be viewed as the antithesis of his father: Feng, his father, is ruthless, but not evil, as he can tolerate his enemies. Feng simply takes delight from torturing and killing his enemies without a second thought.
In the events of the novel, set in 1940s China, the government has been seized by Chi Keng-shek. Chinese communists view him as a traitor as he fulfilled none of his promises and is more interested in wealth and power. Chang an Lo, a communist whose family have been killed, is on his way to kill Chi Keng-shek, president of China. Chang ends up meeting Lydia Ivanova, a Russian exile in China. The two develop a friendship which was banned at the time. Unfortunately Feng Po Chu is on the track of Chang, as the government want to kill all communists in China.
Hunting Chang
Feng Po Chu sets numerous traps for Chang, but Chang outmanovoures them all and manages to outwit him. This infuriates Feng. Chang finds the government headquarters and infiltrates Feng's bedroom in the dead of night, finding him asleep naked with two concubines. Chang presses a knife to Feng Po Chu's testicles and forces him to be dragged to his father, Feng, in a deal which will ensure Chang's safety. The deal goes awry, and Feng Po Chu embarrases himself in front of his Black Snake Triad by excreting himself in embarrasment. Feng Po Chu vows revenge.
Feng learns that Chang has a friend named Lydia from his city spies, and he learns that they meet at a river named Lizard creek. The evil Black Snakes ambush Lydia on her way home and torture her briefly, demanding to know the location of Chang, who has laid low. Lydia denies having any contact with Chang, and suggests he may be dead, to which the triad gangsters seem to accept.
However, Feng Po Chu does not give up. He tracks Chang down and ambushes him, knocking him out with a blow to the head. Feng Po Chu gets his revenge by imprisoning Chang in a small, airtight box for three whole months, and then beating him and torturing Chang by means of chopping off his fingers and disfiguring his face and body. Feng Po Chu then dumps Chang's starved, broken body on the street to be cleaned up and disposed of as rubbish.
Triumph and downfall
Unfortunately for Feng Po Chu, Lydia Ivanova, the Russian exile, manages to find Chang an Lo after an exhausting search. She nurses him back to health and he tells her of the Black Snakes and their evil torture. One of Lydia's friends, an English girl named Polly Mason, accidentally discovers Chang in Lydia's bedroom when she pays Lydia a visit. Lydia begs Polly not to tell anybody of Chang's presence in her home; even though he is no criminal; she is still worried the government will kill Chang if they know he is with her. Polly, unfortunately, is frightened of her abusive father, Christopher Mason, and she tells him of Chang's presence - causing Christopher to alert the Kiuomintang faction (which are very influential in the city) and in due course Feng Po Chu. Feng is furious with Lydia for harbouring what he deems a criminal and he ruthlessly kills her beloved rabbit, and then knocks out Lydia when she comes to see the rabbit and finds him dead. Lydia wakes in the same torture box Feng Po Chu put Chang in.
In the box, the Black Snakes begin to drown Lydia repetitively, to force information out of her about why she let Chang live, but then Feng Po Chu deems it more effective torture if he personally tortures Lydia, so he releases her from the box and then begins to tweak her breast with tweezers. Lydia refuses to tell him anything and in a squabble she gains hold of a pistol, which she uses to kill the evil Feng Po Chu.
Feng Po Chu was an evil, ruthless man, cowardly when he was in a battle situation, yet ruthlessly terrifying when in his Triad profession. His powers lay in torture, and he revelled in human misery. His sole aim was to seize control of the Chinese underworld; this put him at odds with his father. His father disowned him, which spurred his wrath to even greater levels. After Feng Po Chu's death, his father accepted his estranged daughter back into his family.


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The Number One bestselling crime series from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. In this sixth DS Logan McRae thriller, Scotland's finest see first-hand how starting again can be murder...
Everyone deserves a second chance.
Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn't he be allowed to live wherever he wants? Yes, in the past he was a violent rapist, but he's seen the error of his ways. Found God. Wants to leave his dark past in Newcastle behind him and make a new start. Or so he says.
Detective Sergeant Logan McRae isn't exactly thrilled to be part of the team helping Knox settle into his new Aberdeen home. He's even less thrilled to be stuck with DSI Danby from Northumbria Police – the man who put Knox behind bars for ten years – supposedly here to 'keep an eye on things'.
Only things are about to go very, very wrong.
Edinburgh gangster Malk the Knife wants a slice of the development boom Donald Trump's golf course is bringing to the Granite City, whether local crime lord Wee Hamish Mowat likes it or not. Three heavies from Newcastle want a 'quiet word' with DSI Danby about a missing mob accountant. And Richard Knox's dark past isn't done with him yet...
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Crime fiction fans are well aware that one of the most incendiary brands in the field is that of Tartan Noir: this is the generic term for those tough and uncompromising Scottish crime writers who have had such a seismic influence (notably Val McDermid and Ian Rankin -- the latter, in fact, has long been the best-selling male crime writer in the UK). The characteristics of Tartan Noir are pungently evoked Scottish settings (McDermid excepted), abrasive protagonists who pull no punches and a readiness to confront the darker aspects of society (and not just that of Alex Salmond's fiefdom -- the best books in the field never come across as parochial or nationalistic, with such cities as Edinburgh standing in for any British city).
One of the fastest rising stars is Stuart MacBride, who won the International Thriller Writers Best Debut Novel Award, the CWA Dagger in the Library and the ITV3 Crime Thriller award for Breakthrough Author. But does MacBride justify all the hoopla? If you need an answer to that, perhaps you should pick up his latest novel, Dark Blood. But not if you're the kind of crime reader who likes comfortable, unchallenging fiction that slightly shakes (but never upsets) the status quo.
As in such books as Cold Granite, Broken Skin and Dying Light, MacBride is all about putting his characters through the wringer -- rather, in fact, as he does the reader. In the new book, Logan McRae, the author's hard-nosed Aberdeen copper, is handed an assignment that is most definitely not to his liking. A career criminal, Richard Knox, has served his time and is told he will be allowed to live wherever he likes, despite his multiple convictions for rape and violence. He has taken the route adopted by many criminals -- found religion, claiming he is a changed man. His desire is to up sticks from Newcastle and make a new start. But unfortunately for Logan McRae, he has decided he wants his new home to be Aberdeen. Needless to say, his brutal past will not be buried for too long, and Logan McRae, forced to help with the ill-advised relocation, finds himself with the trickiest problems of his career. Particularly as other kinds of criminal activity in Aberdeen are at boiling point.
Dark Blood is full of the kind of scabrous and flinty writing that is very much Stuart MacBride's trademark. This reviewer, for one, would not be surprised if he soon has a few more crime fiction prizes under his belt. --Barry ForshawReview:
Praise for Dark Blood:
'A terrific writer ... Brilliant ... bodies abound, blood flows freely and McRae is a delight' The Times
'Stuart MacBride's thrillers just keep getting better ... One of the most disturbing novels in the highly successful Logan McRae series ... admirers of tough, modern crime novels will be in seventh heaven – or should that be hell?' Express
'The plotting puts most writers in the genre to shame ... This is quintessential Stuart MacBride: tartan noir etched in the darkest of hues with dialogue so sharp you might cut yourself' Independent
'Tartan noir's greatest exponent' Daily Mirror
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The Investor Advisory Panel Seeks Your Input
The Investor Advisory Panel's mandate is to represent the views of investors by providing written comment to the Ontario Securities Commission with respect to certain policy initiatives, including proposed rules and policies, the annual Statement of Priorities, concept papers and specific issues. To assist in fulfilling our mandate, the Panel requests your comment on various initiatives that the Panel is considering. The input that we receive will assist the Panel to formulate responses to policy initiatives and the OSC's Statement of Priorities. If you have constructive comments about investor-related issues that are not listed below, we welcome your input and views on those issues as well.
Point of Sale
In order to provide more meaningful information to mutual fund investors when they are considering an investment decision, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has developed a new point of sale disclosure framework. Mutual funds will be required to prepare a new disclosure document called "Fund Facts" that highlights the potential benefits, risks and costs of investing in the fund. The CSA intends to implement the disclosure framework in three stages. Stage 1, which is expected to take effect on January 1, 2011, mandates the production of the Fund Facts document which must be posted on the fund's website and delivered to investors on request. Stage 2 is a proposal to allow the delivery of Fund Facts to satisfy the requirement to deliver a prospectus within two days of buying a mutual fund and will likely be published sometime in 2011. Stage 3 would implement point of sale delivery for mutual funds. Additional information is available at Implementation of Stage 1 Point of Sale Disclosure for Mutual Funds.
What are your views on the point of sale proposal and the fund facts concept in particular? Will the proposal protect investors and provide them with the key information necessary to make these important decisions? Is other information (such as personalized rates of return) necessary? Should investments other than mutual funds and segregated funds be covered as well?
Responsibility for investigating and prosecuting financial market crimes and misconduct is divided between the provinces and the federal government, and between various agencies and institutions of which the OSC is one. The OSC's enforcement focus is designed to protect investors and markets from abuse by identifying serious risks associated with breaches of the Securities Act (Ontario) and taking actions to deter illegal conduct. Market participants who do not comply with securities laws may face a number of penalties under the Act. Additional information about the OSC's approach to enforcement is available in the current Statement of Priorities.
The media, some politicians and members of the public have expressed concerns about Canada's record in prosecuting and deterring financial market crimes and other misconduct. What specific policies or amendments to existing law should the Panel advocate with regards to enforcement of securities laws?
Fiduciary Standards for Financial Service Professionals
Whether financial service professionals should owe a fiduciary duty to act in the best interests of their clients has been raised in discussions about regulatory reform following the financial crisis. In particular, the Dodd-Frank Act provides the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission with the legal authority to impose a fiduciary standard on broker-dealers. By contrast, in Canada, dealers and other financial service professionals must meet know-your-client and other suitability requirements which do not necessarily require them to adhere to a fiduciary standard.
Should Ontario move towards requiring financial advisors and salespeople to bear a fiduciary obligation to their clients? Should financial service professionals be liable to clients in the event that they fail to act in their clients' best interests? How would this reform change the Canadian financial services landscape if implemented?
Credit Rating Agencies
The Panel recently submitted comments relating to Proposal National Instrument 25-101 - Designated Rating Organizations. While the comment period has now closed, the Panel continues to be interested in investors' views on this submission and whether additional measures should be considered from a regulatory standpoint. Does the proposed instrument, and the IOSCO principles on which it is based, go far enough in ensuring that investors are protected with regards to securities that have been rated by a credit rating agency?
Initiatives in Other Countries
The Investor Advisory Panel firmly believes that investors in Ontario should be as well protected as investors in other developed markets. New rules and policies to protect investors in the U.S., the U.K., the European Union, Australia and elsewhere are being considered in the wake of the global financial crisis as is evident in the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act. What practical measures should the Panel consider in light of regulatory action, public education and other measures in jurisdictions around the world? How well do such initiatives translate to Canada's regulatory system?
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You may provide your comments by email by selecting the "Submit Comment" box below. You may also provide written comments in hard copy or electronic form. It would be helpful to receive your comments by January 15, 2011 but this is not a hard deadline. The Panel is interested in hearing your views at any time.
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Yesterday, Jimmy Walker--a slender, 6 foot 2 inch, 37-year old, Baylor graduate, and bearded native Texan--won his first major, the PGA Championship. It was the last of the four majors this year and was held at the famed Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey. To do so, Jimmy defeated defending champion and #1 world player Jason Day by one stroke. He then lifted the 37-pound, crystal, Wanamaker trophy at the end of a grueling and tense day of golf.The tournament had been plagued with … [Read more...]
Jimmy Walker Wins His First Major Golf Championship
Jason Day Wins the 2016 Players Championship
Number 1 pro golfer in the world, Jason Day, continued his four-stroke lead to the clubhouse today to win the Players Championship wire-to-wire. That means he led all the way from the start of the tournament to the finish. The first round he posted a 63, nine under par 72, which tied the course record. The second round he shot 66 for a tournament record of 129 for the first two rounds. From then on, he pretty much played par golf on slicked up greens the last two rounds.Tournament officials … [Read more...]
Day Three of the 2016 PGA Tour Players Championship
Jason Day continued his fine play today, finishing the third round of the Players Championship with a four shot lead. But it wasn't easy. He made two double bogeys the front nine. But the long hitter hung in there. For example, he hit three wood and eight iron to the 536 yard, par five, 16th hole, with over half of the green surrounded by water. But he missed his eight foot eagle putt to still register a birdie.The golf course completely changed from the first two days of play. Even though … [Read more...]
Second Day of 2016 PGA Tour Players Championship
Today was the second round of the PGA Tour's Players Championship at TPC Sawgrass (Stadium Course) in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, the home of the headquarters of the PGA Tour. This very full field tournament is regarded by the players and media as having the strongest field every year of any pro tournament in the world. Thus, many consider it the ad hoc fifth major. Early inclement weather today caused a temporary delay that led to the round being unfinished due to darkness. The following are … [Read more...]
Pro Golf Is in Good, Young Hands
I was glad for Jason Day on Sunday when he won the PGA Championship by three strokes. It was his first time to win one of the four majors in international professional golf: the Masters in April, U.S. Open in June, British Open in July, and the U.S. PGA Championship in August. It surely capped off one of the most exciting years for the four majors in the history of professional golf.Jason Day is a dark and handsome, muscular yet slender, six-foot tall, 27 year-old Australian who now lives … [Read more...]
Jason Day's Vertigo Last Week
Jason Day is a much-liked, dark-haired, handsome, fit PGA Tour player from Australia with a super golf swing. He has been knocking at the door repeatedly to win his first major championship. In the third round of the U.S. Open last Saturday, he was walking on a fairway and all of a sudden he fell over, hit the ground, and his head bounced on the turf. At first he lay there rather motionless and people didn't know what was wrong.Jason was having an instant bout of Benign Positional Vertigo ( … [Read more...]
Houdini Almost Won at Golf
Victor "Houdini" Dubuisson almost won the Word Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship yesterday at The Golf Club at Dove Mountain in Marana, Arizona, which is near Tucson. That is, after his finals performance Sunday, this 23-year old Frenchman should add "Houdini" as his middle name. Why? He was about 3 down with five holes to play, so I turned off the TV figuring Victor's opponent--the fledgling 26-year old Australian Jason Day, who married an American, lives in the U.S., and … [Read more...]


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