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Skatalites drummer Lloyd Knibb died on May 12 in Jamaica, around friends and family. He was 80 years old. According to his wife, Enid, he succumbed to liver cancer.
Knibb was born on March 8, 1931, in Jamaica. He's credited with inventing the ska beat at Coxsone Dodd's Studio One. He played his last show in Peru about a month ago.
In addition to the Skatalites, he played for Tommy McCook & the Supersonics. Knibb started out playing in jazz bands in the 1940s, starting with the Val Bennett band and developing technical skills with Eric Dean's group, playing popular dances of the day (rumba, cha cha) as well as Glen Miller songs.
In a 1998 interview with Carter Van Pelt and Dan Batman, Knibb explained how it all began: "Yeah, man, that's where it started, rhythm and blues. And then the music change. Coxsone call me in the studio one day and say, 'Lloydie, I wan change the beat, you know? Find a beat.' All right, I go inna the studio, and I start some different, different beat. "
According to the Associated Press, "Knibb had been receiving treatment in the U.S. but returned to Jamaica this week. Knibb's manager, Ken Stewart, wrote on Facebook on Wednesday that he was accompanying Knibb on the trip back to the Caribbean island. 'I can only hope we make it back so he can enjoy his family and friends and see his homeland one more time,' he wrote."
Ska Parade founder Tazy Phyllipz wrote on Knibb's Facebook page, "RIP Lloyd Knibb, Order of Distinction. You will be missed! Much respect!"
The Skatalites were scheduled to perform at the Ink-N-Iron Festival in Long Beach in June. From a May 12 Heard Mentality blog post.
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Work is consuming me
It's literally consuming me. Like, my desk grew a mouth and bit off my hand just this morning.
INTPs are ill equipped for this world.
This world is built for STJs.
The ironic thing is that, it [everything] is designed by INTPs.
It's like Einstein figured out his famous equation but he can't match his socks.
I've off wondered if I now use INTP as a crutch-- an excuse to chase my dreams and do whatever I want. Whenever I'm forgetful, spacey, get fired from a job, I blame it on INTP.
Having 6 jobs in the last three years has taught me a lot though. For the most part, it's taught me how to not give a shit about getting fired.
The first time sucked really bad. The last time, I was looking at my watch wondering when he was gonna do it.
I'll have to say that an entrepreneur is by definition crazy.
The world doesn't need any more of this or that. If anything we need less. Less services, less prouducts. Live a simpler life.
And seems like there's another billion dollar startup each day.
You're crazy if you think the world needs another one of whatever you're thinking of building.
Yet I went and did it again.
This time I can say that it's motivated by a very pathological sense of "I can't stand being told what to do."
So either I'm crazy, too entitled, INTP, or all of be above.
I work hard because I'm lazy.
I'm full of inconsistencies.
I really despise working.
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Are you asking a question or having a rant, hoping someone will run with it?
Either is good, I just wanna know how to tackle it
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Re: Work is consuming me
I like it as a rant.
Sounds similar to my work history.
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I'll take it as opportunity for a critique.
Your problem is that you didn't work hard enough to pick the right job.
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Re: Work is consuming me
If it must be one or the other, then rant.
I prefer to instead raise a 3rd category for consideration: pure art
Sometimes you take your paintbrush and just start with no purpose in mind.
I think rants are motivated by stress.
I moreso am simply a classic INTP who needs to write out my thoughts sometimes in order to understand them.
And I like to think my craft is writIng
So therefore anything I write is art.
Sometimes it is shitty art.
But I've been researching "sentence length" as it correlates negatively with reader comprehension.
Now I think I just naturally am able to write for my audience.
Kind of like how a rapper is able to rap without thinking too much about it.
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Re: Work is consuming me
Is there some template going on?
Every small framework, startup company, software, or what have you follows that exactly template.
Someone needs to make a new one.
Yeah, the fact that you are an INTP is hindering you. You can't run a business. You need a small job so you can spend your free time thinking of random shit to tote as brilliance.
"I believe, whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you stranger." -The Joker
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|9th-September-2016, 08:42 PM
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Re: Work is consuming me
You're mostly right but no one will listen.
Not until it's too late, usually. For good reason. Too caught up in their own thing. It wouldn't be so bad if you found a proper crutch for it. However, the world is getting overpopulated.
True INTPs are more often than not outdated for this world but it can work to advantage. About one INTP per group or workforce would be good, and especially more so if it could play its role to objective efficiency. There is just some aspect of people, which allows them to create an impossibly high standard for INTPs to deliver to them. This makes it seem like they want other crew to fill the role, usually more hardworking men or people who demonstrate it and make good first impression. You only get one chance. You have to get along with the group, doesn't matter what type you are. You need to talk to them and show you understand people, and can relate to them. This isn't so important nowadays as consciousness develops, and people naturally resort to weed out strategy.
People are wrong a lot but that's more of a different topic, in its relation to society and the world built for SJs. Someday this will change.
Unfortunately, you need work. You just have to be lucky or talented enough to gain it. Laziness rarely pays off, unless you're already successful, then you can be leisurely. However, this kind of thing has no value in the modern world. It's a simple trick. Hopefully you can manage to find your calling and work there so it seems like you aren't actually working. Whatever this change is, hopefully we see it in my lifetime.
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Re: Work is consuming me
It taught you how to not give a shit about getting fired? I think it should have taught you how to keep jobs...
As a general note, these are all attempts at rationalizing sloppy living. "Einstein this and that"... fyi, Einstein was no. 1 in everything he cared about, from the moment he started in elementary school.
|9th-September-2016, 10:44 PM
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Re: Work is consuming me
okay. I'll agree with you.
but I can build efficient systems, real world or database. What the hell is that worth?
my laundry pile won't look organized.
But I can tell you that I can build a clean business. I just wouldn't want to maintain it.
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Find a sinecure job, although I can't think of any decent examples.
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Re: Work is consuming me
INTP's work just fine. Stop thinking about yourselves as some super genius that needs to solve all the world's problems and understand everything, and humble yourselves. INTP's are so full of unwarranted pride about being outsiders, and smarter than everyone, and all the shit will never discover or never create. This pride seems to be one of the biggest sources of INTP depression. It hinders you from seeing a realistic perspective and causes SJ hate and other absurd ways to blame others and not yourself.
The happiest people don't always have the best but they do the best with what they have. Humility is good for those of strong intellect.
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I've been fired a ton of times and am looking into work that won't drive me mad. I am a finance guy so most of the entry level jobs available to me require short term results, but I am a long range thinker. Simply put, my abilities are useless in the field until some top economist or finance guru (whoever wrote the best selling self help/get rich book that year) is contracted to boost efficiency with a long range scheme and I don't keep a job long until then. As I've posted on another thread. Try some mindless labor where you can think about whatever you want whilst performing your job. Explore whatever ideas or projects you come up with on the side until you can make a living off them. That's the route I'm going to take. I've had 3 jobs since march and have quit multiple before officially starting because I knew they wouldn't pan out. I get deja vu when some of these people call me in for a interview and I know how the conversation is going to go and basically submit my resignation before joining. My favorite jobs I've had thus far were Lifeguarding at an apartment complex (I basically read and played guitar through the summers while guessing who couldn't swim or when certain regulars would arrive and leave) and un-installing vending machines for a college roommates family company (involved 10 hr days at gas stations taking apart and readying machines for shipping to a new test market). I don't know if this helps, but here you are. Free of charge
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Early results showed a tight race in Ghana's presidential election on Saturday as the West African country allowed voting in some areas for a second day after delays forced an extension of the polls.
The stakes are especially high in a nation with a booming economy fuelled in part by a new and expanding oil industry. Ghana is also seeking to further burnish its credentials as a stable democracy in a turbulent region.
Incumbent John Dramani Mahama, a writer and Afrobreat music fan, is vying for a first elected term against main opposition candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, a UK-trained lawyer and son of a former president.
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Ghana has had five elections since military rule ended in 1992, but the stakes are seen as higher this time, as commercial oil production that began in 2010 is set to expand.
Mahama, 54, of the National Democratic Congress, only took power in July, when his predecessor John Atta Mills died following an illness.
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The symptoms and the dysmenorrhea that you describe could indicate underlying problems like PID, infections, vaginal spasm, vaginal endometriosis, pelvic adhesions, worsening or rupture of ovarian cysts, torsion in ovarian cysts (if cysts are big), endometriosis, endometrial cyst rupture, etc. The exact cause can only be made out after careful evaluation. Observe the symptoms for any further worsening or recurrence. If the symptoms persist, or if they keep worsening/not improving, you should consider visiting your doctor/gynecologist at the earliest for thorough examination and further evaluation to look for the underlying cause for the symptoms and the worsening dysmenorrhea that you describe. Treatment as appropriate (based on examination findings and investigations results) would be started to help you control the symptoms. Be in regular monitoring and follow-up with your treating doctor/gynecologist and report any new/abnormal symptoms immediately.
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Six albums into VALIENT THORR's career and most of us who have kept tabs on the Raleigh-by-way-of-Venus heavy rockers pretty much know just what to expect from the shaggy band?or do we?Fact is, there's always been an air of unpredictability about VT that's helped separate them from all of the other retro-looking heavy rock acts (indication, perhaps, that there may be more than fun-filled science fiction behind those alien origin stories?), and 2013's "Our Own Masters" (featuring the most heinous, god-awful album cover of the year so far) is no exception. The album's official blast-off, "Immaculate Consumption", for example, explodes towards the heavens with the urgency and lightning staccatos of '80s thrash? if it were performed by VAN HALEN; the song's evident sense of humor contrasting nicely with VALIENT THORR's amusingly paranoid conspiracy theories of yesteryear. Said theories continue to populate both the fabulously frantic "Master Collider" and clumsily uninspired "Manipulation" with familiar strains of interplanetary intrigue; but can also make way for more plainly spoken songs like "Insatiable", which unfortunately combines the good, the bad and the ugly into a beard-scratching hybrid - part predictable hard rock, part Joe Satriani-like guitar exotica - that's sure to leave longtime VT followers a little perplexed. Of greater concern, however, is the closing catastrophe named "Call off the Dogs", which sees VALIENT THORR either worshipping or mocking QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (it's really hard to tell) amid brief flashes of sanity, before sending listeners home with a strange taste in their mouths. Luckily, scattered highlights such as the 30-second freak out, "Life Hands You Demons", the musically adventurous and lyrically clever "Cerberus", plus more familiarly frenzied numbers such as "Crowdpleaser" and "Nervous Energy" help right the VT ship's upward trajectory just long enough to avoid a Challenger-esque blowout, just seconds from lift-off. Still, there is definitely something queer going on throughout much of "Our Own Masters" - and none of it is queerer than the ultra-compressed, emotionally stunted, '80s-style production aesthetic chosen by VALIENT THORR and Kyle Spence (of noise/rock scientists HARVEY MILK) to harass all of the above, and the songs named "No Strings Attached" and "Torn Apart", in particular. This, coming from a band whose previous albums exuded both the wild, proto-punk abandon of the MC5, is frankly a little confusing. But then, so is VALIENT THORR, and while it would seem that the group's willful schizophrenia got the best of them when creating "Our Own Masters" (and first time listeners may do well to try other albums before venturing here) there's just as good a chance that dedicated fans will find even more to love about these frequently perplexing and unpredictable new songs. Heck, like SPINAL TAP, perhaps the band's audience is simply becoming "more selective."
"Our Own Masters"
01. Immaculate Consumption
02. Master Collider
03. Manipulation
04. No Strings Attached
05. Life Hands You Demons
06. Torn Apart
07. Cerberus
08. Good News Bad News
09. Insatiable
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11. Nervous Energy
12. Call Off the Dogs
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A group of students in Bob Pittard's class at Jefferson High School took a 12-day trek across Europe in late March to aid in their studies of World War II.
The students visited numerous landmarks and places relevant to their studies, including a stop in Paris to see the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Louve Museum. The students visited Normandy, taking in Sainte-M re- glise, the Gold Beach and American beaches and Point Du Hoc.
The students also traveled through Belgium into Bastogne, where they saw the Battle of the Bulge memorial, and then made their way to Luxembourg, where they visited the American Cemetery and saw the grave of Gen. George S. Patton.
The students moved on to Germany, where they were able to view numerous landmarks, visiting Austria, Nuremberg, Weimar (where they saw the Buchenwald Concentration Camp), Berchtesgaden, Berlin and on to Munich to see the Dachau concentration camp and the Glockenspiel.
Student Clara Logue wrote about the trip, "... I got a chance to see, hear, smell, and feel history, to stand in the spot where Hitler gave speeches to millions, to run my hand through the sands of Normandy, to walk within the walls of the infamous concentration camps. What I learned on this 12-day journey I will remember for the rest of my life."
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CIMdata has released a new Program Review titled "Meeting the Challenges of Transitioning PLM Implementations." It describes challenges faced by companies as they transition their PLM implementations through the series of version and enhancement releases provided by their PLM supplier. As examples, CIMdata interviewed a number of long-term customers of Siemens PLM Software to assess their approaches and experiences in addressing this often-challenging issue.
"In increasing numbers, businesses have committed themselves to transforming the way they operate in order to become more innovative, effective, and responsive to the markets they serve," said Ed Miller, president of CIMdata. "In order to facilitate new processes, companies generally utilize information technologies as primary enablers."
IT-based initiatives offer significant opportunities to organizations, especially broad enterprise-focused ones like PLM, but they also bring their own set of issues, according to the company.
"A major issue that has challenged companies implementing PLM over the years has been the time, cost, and difficulty of evolving their PLM environment through the ongoing introduction of new versions of software that are provided to them by their PLM solution suppliers," said Miller. "A common complaint from companies with PLM implementations has been that technology changes introduced by their PLM suppliers have often caused them difficulties as those newer technologies have been inconsistent (with their previous versions) in both architecture and application software, and thus not easily evolved within the company's IT environment."
In an effort to review Siemens' positioning and success in supporting upgrades and enhancements, CIMdata has interviewed a number of Siemens' customers to gain a better insight into their experiences. This review provides CIMdata's perspectives on the results of those interviews and the recommendations that these companies provided to minimize difficulties. Some excellent examples emerged.
Copies of the "Meeting the Challenges of Transitioning PLM Implementations" CIMdata review are available here at no cost.
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Any Final Fantasy fan will tell you that Bahamut is the king of the summons. He is frequently the strongest creature you can call into battle, and he has been a fixture of Square Enix's flagship series for years. We decided to chronicle Bahamut's illustrious career as a summon, collecting videos of the monstrous dragon Mega Flaring his foes into oblivion throughout the numbered Final Fantasies.
Final Fantasy III (DS)(Watch the video here, and skip ahead to 1:45. I promise this is the only one that isn't embedded.)Bahamut appeared in the very first Final Fantasy, but FF III marked the first time players could summon him. Well, Japanese players, anyway; this game didn't release in North America until the DS remake in 2006. Admittedly, this isn't Bahamut's finest hour – he basically just shows up and roars, then some beam comes from the sky (presumably from his mouth, I guess?).Final Fantasy IV (SNES)
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Like many of us, Andrew Palau spent his growing-up years immersed in a selfish and self-centered life, numb to God and to the letters his evangelist father wrote him. In The Secret Life of a Fool, Palau recounts his years of rebellion and reckless living—and the moment when the shame of his life collided with God's relentless grace, changing everything. It's an unforgettably gutsy story, packed with honesty and hope for us all.
©2012 Andrew Palau (P)2012 Oasis
"Andrew's is the story of a young man descending into a deep pit of hopelessness and despair, only to be rescued under the most ironic of circumstances." (Mike Huckabee)
"If your minefield is drugs, alcohol, or doing everything you can to run away from God, then Andrew Palau is your guide. Trust him; he knows the way out." (Dave Ramsey, host of The Dave Ramsey Show)
"This book has both guts and grace. Andrew Palau guides us through his story with such raw honesty—and yet all the dark moments and detours along the way are ultimately overshadowed by one thing: the beautiful grace of God." (Matt Redman, Christian worship leader, songwriter and author)
"God's relentless love for a young man"
This true story of Andrew Palau was exciting from beginning to end. Andrew narrated the story himself, which made it all the more interesting. His incredible humility shone through the entire story. There were many occasions throughout the book, that his wild past life could have been made to look appealing, but then Andrew would always recognize just how self-centered those days had been. Andrew's parents were so wise to persistently love him and yet allowing him to find God on his own. God continues to stand at our hearts door and knocks, whenever we hear that voice and open the door, He will come in. Andrew told us that personal story of his own life.
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Vulnerable, honest, and powerful story. Andrew shares his journey to faith with the same passion and emotion that he speaks and lives. I appreciated his willingness to be incredibly real with his audience.
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Kaito KA1103 World Band Radio
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Staying informed is important.
Staying informed in a survival situation is even more important. Without information about what's happening in the world around you, it's easy to make some bad decisions.
Kaito, makers of some of the finest world band radios on the market knows how important it is to know what's going on, and that's why they've designed the KA1103.
Based on their wildly popular KA1102, this model takes up functionality a few notches and brings the radio into the modern age.
The KA1103 is a world band receiver. It uses digital, PLL (dual) conversion. It also has the ability to receive an incredible variety of signals, including AM, FM, as well as short and long wave signals. It displays stations received with a digital face along with an old-school analog dial.
Where the KA1103 truly excels is in its ability to effectively use its highly sensitive "wide to narrow" filter. This filter will help pull out the best frequencies and helps eliminate channel interference.
The KA1103 was made to have some of the highest sensitivity and selectivity on the market.
Since it uses single side band reception, or (SSB) reception, it can help transmit without much interference.
Another huge benefit to the KA1103 is you're presented with the ability to tune in to radio stations in 4 different ways. Direct tuning allows you to directly select the frequency you want digitally. Manual tuning gives you the old-fashioned experience of dialing the radio's knob.
Then there's a scan option where the radio will stop on all receptions you can hear. Lastly, is preset tuning, where you can press a button and recall a previously set station. With the ability to store as many as 256 presets, you can use the 10 key function to find your top 10 presets quickly and easily.
The radio comes with high sensitivity headphones for in ear listening, or you can use the onboard 3" speaker.
Another cool feature is the KA1103 has its own built-in battery charger. It also can be used when plugged in using the AC adapter (included).
Here are the specs of this beast of a radio:
- Frequency Coverage: FM:76.0-108.0 Mhz; MW:520-1710 Mhz; SW:1.71-29.99 Mhz; LW 100-519 Khz.
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Roberts progressing in exercise plan
By Arden Zwelling / MLB.com
The second baseman has been progressing through an upper-body exercise plan that was developed by concussion specialist Dr. Michael Collins. Roberts hasn't reported any ill effects as he has progressed through the plan.
"He's starting to do some more physical things down there," Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. "He's gotten into an exertional program. He's doing light upper-body exercises. He's moving along good."
Roberts hasn't seen the field since May 16 at Fenway Park, when he started getting headaches after a headfirst slide into first base. Up until this point, the concussion-like symptoms had limited Roberts from undergoing most physical activity as he slowly progressed through his rehabilitation.
The team isn't taking any chances with the veteran infielder, who has battled injury in the past. The concussion-like nature of this injury gives the Orioles even more reason to not rush anything with Roberts.
"We already have progressed really slowly and done it the way that the doctors have prescribed," Showalter said. "It's not something that you try to get on a different timetable. You go with the people that are experts at it, and you work within their time frame."
This is the second straight season that Roberts has been bothered with a long-term injury; he missed 59 games in 2010 with a herniated disk in his lower back. The 33-year-old also battled back and neck injuries this Spring Training after another headfirst slide into first base.
For now, the team is hoping that Roberts will be cleared to resume baseball activities on June 21.
Mark Reynolds was back in the lineup at third base and hitting eighth for the Orioles on Tuesday night after leaving Sunday's game after the seventh inning with a left forearm contusion. Reynolds said he was still sore but felt game-ready and would have been fine to play if the team had a game Monday.
First baseman Derrek Lee also returned to the lineup Tuesday night after missing the team's weekend series in Tampa Bay while attending his grandfather's funeral in Sacramento. First baseman Brandon Snyder was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk to make room for Lee.
Cesar Izturis reported to extended spring training Tuesday, where he will continue to rehab from surgery he had on his right elbow to repair nerve irritation. Manager Buck Showalter said Izturis had moved on to "the next step" as far as improving his range of motion and participating in rehab exercises.
Right-hander Justin Duchscherer will throw 4-5 innings Thursday in the last game of extended spring training. He has yet to pitch this season because of a lower back injury.
Arden Zwelling is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- He was almost forgotten heading into last spring, another player on a summer basketball team pushed down the bench in an environment where starters play a lot of minutes and every possession is a chance to be noticed.
Slowly, though, Amanze Egekeze (Lake in the Hills, Ill./Huntley) started to find himself even though he was the third man off the bench for the Illinois Wolves when he started playing summer basketball with the team last season. The aggressiveness Egekeze needed at the time was there, but the skills he had to have were still raw.
So he worked and he soon realized if he pushed enough, he could play basketball in college.
"The spring coming off my freshman year," Egekeze said. "I played varsity but I was coming off the bench and was only averaging about three points a game. I had one really good game and the coaches were there and saw something.
"I progressed slowly. I was the eighth man on my AAU team and worked my way up."
By his third AAU tournament, he made his way into the starting lineup for the Wolves and has remained there since, a lanky 6-foot-7 post player who has almost a 7-foot wingspan and a knack for scoring around the basket.
Egekeze's game continued to improve and as it did, he never lost the aggressiveness his coaches at the Wolves saw in the first place. Egekeze never shied away from playing the post.
Adding that style to a improved skill set has attracted attention from big-time programs. Egekeze said DePaul and Toledo have offered him scholarships and that the majority of the Big Ten, including Michigan, has expressed interest in the summer basketball teammate of the No. 45 player in the Class of 2014 and another Michigan target, Keita Bates-Diop (Bloomington, Ill./University).
"In his last six, seven months with us and his high school team he became more aggressive," said Dave Kleinschmidt, his coach with the Wolves. "Before, he was timid. He still has a skinny body. For his body shape, he's probably our best post, skill-wise. He likes to bang, be aggressive, has offensive moves on the glass that we don't really have on our team."
His post game attracted attention of colleges. Since the end of the high school season, Egekeze has worked on improving his shot to add versatility to his game and make himself more attractive to colleges during the open July evaluation period.
His game caught the eye of college coaches during April. Now, he has to capitalize on his improving game.
"I would say it is more inside-out," Egekeze said. "I like to post up so I have good post moves, but I'm trying to round out my game."
Egekeze said Michigan showed up at one of his workouts during the high school season and has stayed in contact with him, mostly through assistant coach LaVall Jordan. Every time he has spoken to the Wolverines' staff, Egekeze said, the response has been increasingly positive.
Michigan also fits the type of school he is looking for and he has already visited campus.
"I'm looking for a good combination of academics and also basketball," Egekeze said. "I visited the campus a little bit at Michigan and it's a really good program I'd say."


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Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in San Jose.
Investigators say the shooting happened when police responded to a robbery alarm at a bar.
The call came in at 8:38 p.m. on Sunday night.
Officers were immediately dispatched to Richard's Bar, located in the 1700 block of Alum Rock Avenue, Officer Jose Garcia said.
At least one officer dispatched their firearm.
No injuries were reported, he said.
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Op-Ed To Thwart Referendum Of Racetrack Conversion to TOD
"After more than five years of public scrutiny of the Bay Meadows redevelopment proposal, including almost 100 public meetings before the Citizens' Advisory Committee, the Planning Commission and the San Mateo City Council, Bay Meadows II received its final, official blessing on Monday. The Sierra Club, the Greenbelt Alliance, the League of Women Voters of Central San Mateo and the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo look forward to the transformation of the aging race track with its vast, barren parking lots into a vibrant, new residential community.
Unfortunately, a small group of naysayers who don't want to see the racetrack go -- even though it is long past its zenith -- are circulating a petition to stop the development of this new community. Signing the petition will only result in unnecessary and expensive delay to both the city and the approximately 1,250 families who will eventually move into San Mateo's newest community."
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SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah State Bar has honored six attorneys with Lifetime Service Awards:
Francis J. Carney, who practiced as a medical-malpractice defense attorney for nearly 20 years, followed by 10 years as a plaintiffs counsel. He now works as a mediator, is a member of the Utah Supreme Court's advisory committees on the Rules of Civil Procedure and Model Utah Civil Jury Instructions, and serves as co-chairman of the Utah State Bar's Character and Fitness Committee.
Bert L. Dart, a past president of the Utah State Bar and the Salt Lake County Bar, has also served as chairman of the Utah Legal Services board of trustees and the Utah Supreme Court Professional Conduct Committee.
Pamela T. Greenwood served on the Utah Court of Appeals from 1987 to 2010. She was the first female president of both the Utah State Bar and the Salt Lake County Bar. She practiced general civil law in the areas of real estate, corporate law, employment, domestic law and bankruptcy.
W. Eugene Hansen has served as president of the Utah State Bar, chairman of the Utah State Board of Regents and member of the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
V. Lowry Snow is a past president of the Utah State Bar and past recipient of the Bar's Pro Bono Service of the Year award. He is a past chairman of the Washington County Economic Development Council and is a member of the Governor's Office of Economic Development board.Comment on this story
Francis M. Wikstrom is a former U.S. attorney for Utah and chairman of his law firm's litigation department for more than a decade. He is chairman of the Utah Supreme Court Advisory Committee on the Rules of Civil Procedure.
The Bar also recognized:
Steven H. Stewart, Pro Bono Award. Stewart is a member of the board of directors of the Inclusion Center for Community and Justice, served as an Alta justice court judge.
T. Richard Davis, Professionalism. Davis is an attorney focusing on real estate and banking law.
Robert D. Myrick, Community Member Award. Myrick is a non-lawyer member of the Utah Supreme Court's Ethics and Discipline Committee. He is president, CEO and board member of Morgan Stanley.


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Margarita Parra
Margarita Parra obtained his B.S. degree from the University of Valencia, Spain and his Ph.D. degree from the same university under the supervision of Professor E. Seoane and D. Tortajada in 1986. He had a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College (London) with Professor Steve V. Ley in 1988-1989. From 2002 till 2006, he was a Vice Dean of the Faculty of Chemistry. In 2010, he was a Professor of organic chemistry at University of Valencia. The main emphasis of his work is on the discovery and development of new synthetic methods and their application to synthesis of biologically molecules. Specially, the new methodology developed in the group is the reactivity of enediolates of carboxylic acids. In this carbanionic chemistry, we are interested too in the structure of this dianions and its influence on the reactivity control. In the last years, he has worked on the use of chiral bases in the dianion generation and as chiral auxiliary in alkylation reactions. On the other hand, Dr. Parra is interested in design, synthesis, and testing of sensors of cations, anions, and neutral small molecules in solution and incorporated in different nanoparticules.
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Honestly what they need to do is just quit having half a dozen or more mechanics in raids nowadays. LFR has to be a dumbed down version of the actual raid, so if the actual boss has 5-6 abilities then the LFR boss tends to have at least 4 if they don't have all of them that just hit for less, but that doesn't solve the problem of the type of people who queue for LFR usually can't handle that many things going on. This is why Dark Shaman is such a terrible fight IMO, doubly so in LFR. There's what, 6 things going on at once (tank debuffs, slime geyser, slime adds, elemental wall, meteor, purple swirlies?) and it's no wonder LFR people can't deal with that.
It's going to be harsh but they need to just cap boss abilities at like 2-3 abilities per boss, and be done with it. Maybe you can add an extra one for heroic mode. Instead, they said they LIKE the idea of personal responsibility and with determination stacks (and other things in general) they can tune the bosses to be super complex because either you can drop to an easier mode or every time you wipe you get a damage/health buff. That's just piss poor encounter design IMO. I daresay the majority would be happy with fewer mechanics overall, in LFR and elsewhere and those who like lots of mechanics, well sorry but you're the minority here.


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Kris Jenner Cheated on Bruce, Says Sister Karen Houghton During Explosive Interview
In the wake of the separation between Kris and Bruce Jenner there have been several reports regarding the pairs deteriorating relationship, but Kris' sister is alleging infidelity.
During an interview with Star magazine, Kris' sister Karen Houghton said that Kris admitted to being unfaithful.
"Kris has admitted to cheating," Karen explained in the interview. "It's so funny because I could never see a guy cheating on her. She's so powerful."
Her sister also insists that Kris' drive for money and success came at the expense of her marriage and family.
"My sister is a person who likes to stay really busy, focused, in control, done, done, ABC, you know," she continued. "And even a little bit anal. But I think that's because when you have situations inside of you that aren't filling your complete happiness, there's a hole in you. And I think right now, Kris has that hole in her because of what's going on with the family right now."
Some even ebelieve Kris wants to use the couple's marital problems in order to draw attention back to her show and increase ratings.
"Kris has no desire to get back together with Bruce, but she wants to film a 'reunion' of them attempting to work things out, which would all be designed for the show," a source told Radar Online.
Bruce and Kris have been subject to divorce reports for several months and have two children together, Kendall and Kylie, in addition to other children from previous relationships. However, neither publicly admitted that either cheated during their marriage.
In a statement Kris, 57, and Bruce, 63, revealed that their family is their number one priority.
"We are living separately and we are much happier this way but we will always have much love and respect for each other," the couple told E! News. "Even though we are separated, we will always remain best friends and, as always, our family will remain our no. 1 priority," they added.


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'Farm loan waivers to touch 2 pc of GDP in run-up to 2019 polls'Calls for farm loan waiver have gained momentum following CM Yogi Adityanath's decision to do so in Uttar Pradesh. The decision has come in for criticism from both the RBI as well as NABARD
Amid growing clamour for other state governments to waive farm loans on the lines of the decision by the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh, a foreign brokerage today said that the burden from such populist measures was estimated to touch 2 per cent of GDP by the 2019 elections.
"Farm loan waivers of up to 2 percent of GDP in the run up to the 2019 hustings pose fiscal/rate risk and impacts credit culture," analysts at Bank of America Merill Lynch said in a note today.
They said the Yogi Adityanath government's debt waiver of US $5 billion (Rs 36,000 crore) or 0.4 percent of the state GDP, will lead other states to follow such populist suit.
Even though the Centre has asked the states to take care of its finances while declaring such schemes, the note said the states will continue to be in breach of the indicative 3-3.5 percent fiscal deficit numbers. Already most of the states are running over 3.5 percent deficits.
Also Read: Farm loan waivers: A short-term political solution to a much larger problem
Following Yogi Adityanath's announcement of the crop loan waiver, several other states have seen a rise in demand for similar measures, with Maharashtra, Haryana and Tamil Nadu being the prominent ones. In fact, the Madras High Court even ordered the state to write off the entire farm loan in the state which would entail a hit of over Rs 4,000 crore to the state's finances.
Terming such measures as a "worry", the note welcomed Reserve Bank Governor Urjit Patel's warning on the farm loan waivers creating a moral hazard by inducing farmers not to pay and also spiking rates.
The American brokerage said the farm loan waivers are a "key risk" to the new fiscal deficit roadmap proposed by the NK Singh committee.
Once the demand for credit picks up, such measures can spike yields and put pressure on lending rates as banks will want to lend to high-yielding commercial credit, it said.
Also Read: 'Moral hazard': RBI reacts to govt's promise of farm loan waiver
It can be noted that the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) has also raised flags of concern on the issue.
It also welcomed the provisions to make fiscal deficit number counter cyclical, saying it is on expected lines.
The achievement of fiscal gap numbers -- 3 percent between fiscal 2018 and 2020 and reduction to 2.8 percent in fiscal 2021, 2.6 percent in fiscal 2022 and 2.5 percent in the next year-- depends on the global situation.
"If it (global economy) turns up/down, rising/falling tax collections from higher/lower activity will contract/expand the fiscal deficit," it said.


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COS 460 - Computer Networks (Fall 2015)
This course covers computer networks organized as a layered architecture based on the TCP/IP and ISO OSI Reference Model. Protocols and services of each layer are examined in detail. Specific local area networks, metropolitan area networks, and wide area networks will be considered.
The focus of the course will be on understanding and utilizing the Internet (TCP/IP) protocol stack. Students will write network client and server applications in addition to reading and discussing the theory behind modern data communication networks.
The class is dual-listed as an undergraduate (COS 460) and graduate course (COS 540); graduate students will have additional reading and must prepare a presentation for the class.
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Fate Leads the Willing - Cicero
Lead me, Master of the soaring vault
Of Heaven, lead me, Father, where you will.
I stand here prompt and eager to obey.
And ev'n suppose I were unwilling, still
I should attend you and know suffering,
Dishonourably and grumbling, when I might
Have done so and been good as well. For Fate
The willing leads, the unwilling drags along.
-- Cicero (via Seneca)
Also quoted as:
Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.
-- Cicero
Aperture and EXIF GPS Data
It appears that over time, applications I use tend to mysteriously lose functionality when they are "updated" or "new" versions are released. Yes, I use Apple Inc. products. The latest seems to be the inability to set GPS data in photographs that don't already contain them. Apple's new Photos application completely lacks the feature and Aperture (no longer being updated) will not allow modification of the originals. Hence, there I was, just back from a trip around the Grand Canyon with a bunch of photos that needed to be Geo-tagged and no easy way to do it.
Yes, You can geo-tag in Aperture, but the tags are only within Aperture -- they are not written to the "Master" or "Original." I wanted them in the original, mostly for safety sake. I've had software corrupt itself before. I didn't want to go to the effort of tagging everything only to lose it if Aperture (or a future Apple Inc. product) decided to munge itself.
The Internet provided a few pay applications for this purpose. HoudaGeo being one that seemed to work. But I was reluctant to spend the $30USD for something I knew could be done easier and cheaper.
I worked at the
bashcommand line with
exiftoolfor some time before deciding to use AppleScript rather than
Pythonas a control script. AppleScript was the only way I could find to get the underlying "managed" file names of the photos within Aperture. Lindsay Berger has a well done script that displays the EXIF data from Aperture. Some simple modifications were all I needed. In the end, the AppleScript below did the trick, with
exiftoolinstalled and doing the grunt-work in the background.
-- Script Name: Aperture Update EXIF GPS Data -- Description: This AppleScript will use EXIFtool to set EXIF GPS data for the photos -- selected in Aperture. The GPS data is taken from Aperture's data for the photo -- -- Author: Stepehen Houser (http://stephenhouser.com) -- Adapted from: Lindsay Berger (http://bergersoft.com/personal/AppleScript/) -- Date: July 2015 on run set EXIFoutput to return -- leave this blank to get all EXIF data, otherwise specify which fields you want set DesiredEXIFData to "" -- set DesiredEXIFData to "-PictureControlName -LensId, -Flash" tell application "Aperture" set imageSel to (get selection) end tell if imageSel is {} then display dialog "Please select an image in Aperture" with title "EXIF Data" buttons {"Okay"} return else repeat with cur_pic in imageSel tell application "Aperture" tell library 1 tell cur_pic set lat to get latitude set lon to get longitude end tell end tell end tell set myPath to getPath(cur_pic) log "/usr/local/bin/exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -P -exif:GPSLatitude=" & lat & " -exif:GPSLatitudeRef=North -exif:GPSLongitude=" & lon & " -exif:GPSLongitudeRef=West " & myPath do shell script "/usr/local/bin/exiftool -overwrite_original_in_place -P -exif:GPSLatitude=" & lat & " -exif:GPSLatitudeRef=North -exif:GPSLongitude=" & lon & " -exif:GPSLongitudeRef=West " & myPath #set EXIFoutput to EXIFoutput & myPath & return #set EXIFoutput to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/exiftool -t " & DesiredEXIFData & " " & myPath #set the clipboard to EXIFoutput #set EXIFoutput to formatText(EXIFoutput, return) #choose from list EXIFoutput with title "List Exif Metadata" with prompt "Picture:" & return & myPath OK button name "OK" cancel button name "Cancel" with empty selection allowed end repeat end if end run on getPath(aItem) tell application "Aperture" tell library 1 tell aItem set MasterFile to (get value of other tag "FileName") set isReferenced to get referenced if isReferenced then set FinderPath to choose file MasterFile with prompt "Please locate referenced file" set thePath to POSIX path of FinderPath else set ImpGroup to (get value of other tag "ImportGroup") set MasterPath to my GetMasterPath(ImpGroup) set MasterPath to my getLibPath() & MasterPath set thePath to quoted form of (MasterPath & MasterFile) end if end tell end tell end tell return thePath end getPath on GetMasterPath(aStr) set tid to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "-" set aYear to text item 1 of aStr set aMonth to text item 2 of aStr set aRest to text item 3 of aStr set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " @ " set aDay to text item 1 of aRest set aRest to text item 2 of aRest set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ":" set anHour to text item 1 of aRest set aMinute to text item 2 of aRest set aRest to text item 3 of aRest set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " " set aSecond to text item 1 of aRest set AmPm to text item 2 of aRest if AmPm is equal to "PM" then set anHour to anHour + 12 end if set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/" set aRest to {"", "Masters", aYear, aMonth, aDay, aYear & aMonth & aDay & "-" & anHour & aMinute & aSecond, ""} as text set AppleScript's text item delimiters to tid return aRest end GetMasterPath on getLibPath() tell application "System Events" to set p_libPath to value of property list item "LibraryPath" of property list file ((path to preferences as Unicode text) & "com.apple.aperture.plist") if ((offset of "~" in p_libPath) is not 0) then set p_script to "/bin/echo $HOME" set p_homePath to (do shell script p_script) set p_offset to offset of "~" in p_libPath set p_path to text (p_offset + 1) thru -1 of p_libPath set g_libPath to p_homePath & p_path return g_libPath else return p_libPath end if end getLibPath on formatText(aStr, aDelimiter) set oldDelimiters to AppleScript's text item delimiters set AppleScript's text item delimiters to aDelimiter set theArray to every text item of aStr set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldDelimiters return theArray end formatText
Portland Women's History Trail in Apple AppStore
Today iOS version of the Portland Women's History Trail went live in the Apple AppStore.
The web version has been live for some time. The Android version went live just over a week ago. Now, the final version is live for iOS users to find easily in the Apple AppStore.
The trail was originally created by Eileen Eagan and Polly Welts Kaufman in Portland (Maine). The app is built using jQuery Mobile and jekyll to create a complete HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript application. To read more about the application, check the related posts below.
Portland Women's History Trail on Google play Store
Late last week the Android version of the Portland Women's History Trail went live in the Google play.
The web version has been live for some time and the iOS version is currently waiting for review by Apple.
The trail was originally created by Eileen Eagan and Polly Welts Kaufman in Portland (Maine). The app is built using jQuery Mobile and jekyll to create a complete HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript application. To read more about the application, check the related posts below.
Here's a few screenshots to whet your appetite:
Cordova Apps and Offline Operation
There are a number of quirky tasks to complete when you get ready to publish an app in either the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store. They are not the type of thing I, as a developer, usually think about when starting a project. As the Portland Women's History Trail gets nearer to "submission ready," I've steadily chopped away at that list, but the first major task was making a fundamentally HTML/CSS/JavaScript application work when bundled and offline took a bit of research and ultimately, doing things the "right way."
The app is developed in Cordova and uses several frameworks like jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Google Maps, Google Analytics, and a few Google Fonts. When the app is run and the user has network connectivity, things work as expected. The problem comes when the app is bundled to a native app with Cordova and launched when offline.
jQuery and jQuery Mobile
jQuery and jQuery Mobile are easy problems to solve. You can just bundle them with the app and fetch them locally. This has the benefit of faster loading even when the device is online. Simple, done, still broken.
Google Fonts
The graphic design of the app called for two specific, freely available, Google Fonts;
PT Serif Caption. Normally these are simply
@importedin your site's CSS file:
@import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto); @import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Serif+Caption);
As you might suspect from the rest of this article, this causes problems when you are offline or have limited bandwidth. To solve this, the font files need to be served from the local system. The added complexity is that the
@importdoes not refer to the font file directly, but to a CSS
@font-facespecification that in-turn refers to the font files. We thus, have a two part solution.
First, include the following in the CSS, replacing the
@font-face { font-family: 'Roboto'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; src: local('Roboto'), local('Roboto-Regular'), url("css/fonts/Roboto.ttf"), url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v15/zN7GBFwfMP4uA6AR0HCoLQ.ttf) format('truetype'); } @font-face { font-family: 'PT Serif Caption'; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; src: local('PT Serif Caption'), local('PTSerif-Caption'), url("css/fonts/PTSerif-Caption.ttf"), url(https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/ptserifcaption/v8/7xkFOeTxxO1GMC1suOUYWVRF2Zew_pgh0xNsNWxurqo.ttf) format('truetype'); }
This specifies the fonts in question and gives list of locations to try and find them. Note the order, we will look
local()first, then the local-served
url(), and finally if those fail the hosted
url(). The last one should not be needed, but I left it in for reference. That is, the local-hosted should satisfy the request.
Second you need to download the actual font files (
.ttfin this case) and place them into the correct location (
css/fontsfor this project) so the HTML engine can find them at runtime.
Problem solved. And really, not that bad of a solution. Like jQuery and jQuery Mobile this should speed things up a bit as the fonts don't have to traverse the Internet to get to the device. Additionally it will help those that are bandwidth-impaired.
Google Maps
Google Maps is where the main problem occurs. If loaded as part of the page header when offline, it silently fails to load and maps are not displayed. Nor is there any sort of error message displayed.
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/jssensor=true"></script>
The easiest method I found to solve this is to use the functionality that Cordova provides in the device plugin. This plugin sends messages to us when the devices is initially ready, when it comes online, and when returns from the background. You can use these along with programmatically loading the Google Maps script and viola! Problem solved! Thank you to Coding With Spike and Loading Google Maps in Cordova the Right Way. Note the code below is an excerpt of the application's code meant to convey the idea not meant to be runnable as-is.
function loadMapsApi() { //console.log("loadMapsApi()"); if (navigator.connection.type === Connection.NONE) { return; } if (typeof google == "undefined" || typeof google.maps == "undefined") { //console.log("Maps API not loaded"); $.getScript('https://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?callback=onMapsApiLoaded'); } else { //console.log("Maps API already loaded"); setTimeout(function(){onMapsApiLoaded();}); } } (function(global) { "use strict"; //console.log("main.js: global function()"); $( "[data-role='navbar']" ).navbar(); $( "[data-role='header'], [data-role='footer']" ).toolbar(); function onDeviceReady () { //console.log("onDeviceReady()"); } function onOnline () { //console.log("onOnline()"); if (map == null && $.mobile.activePage.attr('id') == "map") { loadMap(); showMap(); } } function onResume () { //console.log("onResume()"); if (map == null && $.mobile.activePage.attr('id') == "map") { loadMap(); showMap(); } } document.addEventListener("online", onOnline, false); document.addEventListener("resume", onResume, false); document.addEventListener("deviceready", onDeviceReady, false); })(window);
Google Analytics
Google Analytics caused me a few problems as well. Not by being off-line, but by trying to determine where to fetch
analytics.jsfrom. You can see this in the base code, provided by Google:
(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document,'script','//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');
A helpful, but not conclusive suggestion was to include the new
ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null); // Disable file protocol checking.
Ultimately, having a different code path for Cordova and non-Cordova builds got the job done:
{% if site.cordova %} var analyticsURL = "{{ site_root }}js/analytics.js"; // local for Cordova {% else %} var analyticsURL = "//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js"; {% endif %} (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){ (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o), m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m) })(window,document, 'script', analyticsURL, 'ga');
Ready for Offline
Now the app is ready native bundling and will work nicely online and offline. The changes for jQuery, jQuery Mobile and Google Fonts are relatively simple -- host and load them locally. The changes for Google Fonts is similar but with a twist -- two-step host and load them locally. Google Analytics involved a minor code change dependent on the deployed platform (web vs native). And the changes for Google Maps is the most complex. All of the changes together provide a more robust application that degrades gracefully when bandwidth is limited or the device goes offline.
Now, back to my list of getting the app ready for publication in the App Stores.
Ham Radio at the University of Scouting 2015
I had the opportunity to present at this year's University of Scouting (Pine Tree Council, 2015) on Ham Radio. The class was well attended and there was a wealth of information to share -- not all of which could be done in the short hour we had allocated to us. The attendees were mostly unlicensed Scouts and adults looking to understand what would be involved in earning the Radio Merit Badge and becoming a licensed Ham.
There are many aspects of Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) and we won't be able to cover them all here either -- this is just a summary and recap of the presentation. With that in mind, lets jump right in.
You can see the full Mind Map of the presentation by clicking on the summary image.
Introduction to Ham Radio
Go listen to some morse code. Really. Listen to it. Can you make out the dots and dashes? Notice how you can hear it even when there's a lot of noise. Notice how well those dots and dashes cut through nearly anything. Continuous Wave (CW) is mighty good at working in the most undesirable situations. There's a reason it has hung around for so long and now you know why, it works!
Ham Radio is not about morse code though, it is much more. In fact morse code is not even required anymore to get a Ham License. There's only a multiple choice exam, given by other volunteers. Sounds a lot like Scouting doesn't it, volunteers. There's even achievements, recognition, membership cards, and badges (patches)!
On The Air
Getting on the air is really the purpose of ham radio. It's like the putting the "out" in scOUTing. It's the thing, the purpose. At the start you listened to some morse code. Along with code, there are numerous other ways to communicate over the air; voice, video, and data.
Voice, or phone as some call it, is what you would expect, people talking. There are a few ways to communicate voice or sounds, two you may already know; AM and FM. These are the same technologies that your regular radios use. They are, however, a bit inefficient with use of the radio waves. To get more people talking in the same space we can use single side band (SSB). SSB is effectively half of an AM signal. This half of the signal is enough for us to understand what's being said. It also gives a distinct sound to the conversations that you'll likely not hear anywhere else.
There's plenty of data going over the air as well. In fact there are many networks similar to the Internet that work without the land-based lines the Internet runs on. The long history and variety of digital modes is quite a bit more than we can go into here, suffice to say that much of the modern Internet has it's roots in how hams have used digital over the air.
Moving away from communication modes, ham radio also gives us the ability to communicate to folks locally and quite far away. One of my first DX (distant) communications was from a mountain ridge in Maine to New Zealand. Today's Internet may make this seem like a trivial contact, as with it we can talk to anyone, anywhere, nearly anytime. With radio however, these windows that allow us to talk to different places move during the day, night, and with the solar cycles. So talking to someone in New Zealand from Maine might only be possible for an hour right around dusk. There's much more of a challenge to it.
When we put this distant communication in the context of Scouting we can easily see where the Eagle required merit badge Citizenship in the World can factor in. One of the requirements is to talk to a scout in another country about scouting. Wouldn't it be fun to do that on a random contact by radio where you both share in the excitement!
QSL Cards
After you've talked to a few folks around the world, you might want to keep a log to remember what you've done. Logs aren't required anymore, though many hams, myself included, still keep them. In addition, you can send and request QSL cards from people you have made contact with. These QSL cards look like a postcard and have on them the details of your contact. Things like callsigns, time, date, frequency, and how good (or bad) your signal was.
Many hams take pride in a well designed QSL card and include photos of their station, their loved ones, or just some fun radio related items. Some cards that are sought after are from special event stations and locations. A few recent ones I received commemorated Veterans Day in the US and Christmas in Finland. The variety of cards and locations you can get them from makes for a very fun collection. And, again, if you're of the Scouting mind, you can use them to work on your Collecting merit badge.
Special Events and Contests
Wait, special event QSL cards? There are special events? Why yes there are all kinds of special events for hams and scouts.
The one I've found the most fun is the annual Field Day. Field Day is held worldwide in June each year and is intended to practice emergency preparedness for ham operators. By utilizing emergency power, typically outside their regular operating locations, hams try to make as many contacts in 24-hours with others doing the same, as they can. The goal is to demonstrate they are ready to operate and exchange critical information during an emergency. Conveniently, scouts can also use parts of this in relation to their Emergency Preparedness merit badge work.
Field day is only one of the many special events. One geared directly towards scouting is the annual Jamboree On The Air (JOTA) held each October. This event is, like field day, a contest to get as many contacts as you can in 24-hours. Here though the goal is to make contacts with scouts! Along with all the contacts you can make there's even a patch you can get.
Awards and Recognition
QSL cards and patches for ham radio are only two of the types of recognition for special events and contests. Some hams take pride in contacting all 50 of the United States to earn their Worked All States (WAS) award. Others feel the DX Century Club (DXCC) is the primer award for working 100 distinct countries. There are numerous other awards and endorsements that a ham can earn. These include working all "zones" as defined by the International Telecommunications Union, working all the European countries, all the Canadian provinces, and many, many more.
Scouts and Radio
There are a lot of aspects of ham radio that relate to Scouting and Scout merit badges, none is as direct as the Radio merit badge. It specifically has amateur radio as one of it's completion paths. Learning and understanding ham radio is a requirement of that path. The merit badge is not the only connection. There is an Amateur Radio Operator shoulder patch, that can be worn by any licensed ham, and a Morse Code interpreter strip, that can be worn by any Scout or Scouter who demonstrates proficiency in Morse Code. Beyond those two the Boy Scouts of America recognizes the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) as a community organization and offers an award (and knot) for those who make "...a significant contribution to providing Scouts with a memorable and valuable Amateur Radio experience."
One of these memorable experiences is the special amateur radio station, K2BSA, that scouts and scouters can contact on the air and get a special QSL card. Even more exciting is that you can operate K2BSA. Then you are the special event!
Becoming a Ham
Becoming a ham is easier than ever. There's no Morse Code requirement, it was phased out years ago. There are three levels of license in the Amateur Radio Service; technician, general, and amateur extra. Each level has an examination that is administered by volunteers, certified by a volunteer examiner coordinator. The ARRL is one such coordinator. The exams are open to all and offered at various times across the country.
The exams themselves are straightforward. The questions and answers are public and published for all to read and review. They cover general technical (electronics and radio) knowledge, operating procedures, and regulations (where you can transmit). Weighing in at 30 questions for the Technician with only 26 correct required to pass you could easily be on your way to your first license in a few days of studying.
When you get there, to your first license, there's a lot you can do. So go, get out there, get on the air. Enjoy, talk, collect, prepare, get the certificates, the patches. Most importantly though, have fun!
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Tottenham's Under-21s match against West Brom has been postponed until Monday, March 25.
The game was originally scheduled for today but was called off because of the weather.
Kick-off at West Brom's training ground will be 1pm.
The Under-21s' next fixture in the Elite Group of the Barclays Under-21 Premier League is at home to Southampton this Saturday.
Kick-off at the new Training Centre is 12 noon.


text: Milford Brisbane-bound, for now Fri 29 Nov, 2013, 3:45pm By Tony Webeck, Chief Queensland Correspondent, NRL.com @TonyWebeck Tweet Email Print Anthony Milford's future at the Raiders remains clouded despite claims he will play out the final year of his contract. Credit: SWpix.com Copyright: SWpix.com Anthony Milford may be en-route back to Brisbane after the World Cup but his immediate playing future remains unclear following revelations that he has not yet agreed to return to Canberra in 2014.Milford told the Courier-Mail he was "shocked" that the Raiders had trumpeted news he was set to honour the final year of his contract at the club despite earlier seeking a release on compassionate grounds.Within the space of an hour on Wednesday the Raiders announced Milford had agreed to don the lime green again in 2014 before the Broncos revealed they had got their man on a two-year deal starting in 2015.The 19-year-old is heavily featured on both clubs' websites but where he will play next season remains in doubt judging by comments made from Samoa where he was holidaying, the prospect he will have to sit out the season altogether now a possibility."I spoke to Ricky (Stuart, Canberra coach) and Don Furner (CEO) last week and they said they wanted me back on December 16 for pre-season training," Milford told the Courier-Mail."I haven't given any guarantees. Now all this has come out ... when I get home there will be some conversations going on."Those conversations are due to happen sooner rather than later, with Milford having left Samoa yesterday on his way back to Brisbane via Auckland, his arrival at Brisbane airport likely to generate the type of publicity normally reserved for A-list Hollywood celebrities.New Raiders coach Ricky Stuart hit out against the Broncos' inability to develop young talent on Wednesday but Broncos coach Anthony Griffin defended the club's right to be attractive to players hailing from Queensland."It has always been an asset of the Broncos because of our Queensland flavour," Griffin said."A lot of players leave our state for a chance and then want to return. That was obviously a part of Anthony's decision to come back here."The Broncos should always be attractive to Brisbane and Queensland players or we aren't doing our business properly."Both the Raiders and Broncos declined to comment on the latest revelations when contacted by NRL.com, with the ABC reporting that the Raiders have a written agreement from Milford to play for them in 2014 and that his manager, Sam Ayoub, endorsed Wednesday's media release."For [Canberra] to put out a statement, I never expected that to come out," Milford said. "There was no talk of that; I didn't even know they were going to put out a statement."A Souths Logan junior, Milford was signed to a scholarship by the Raiders as a 13-year-old and made his first grade debut in Round 5 this year, going on to win the Mal Meninga Medal as the club's player of the year.He made his international debut for Samoa at the World Cup, earning man-of-the-match honours in wins over Papua New Guinea and France and kicking 10 goals during the course of the tournament. Tweet Email Print Send to a friend: Your Name: Your Email: Friend's Name: Friend's Email: Close Submit loading image needs to go here


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