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Certificate in Emergency Management, Planning and Administration
The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Emergency Management certificate program for graduate and undergraduate credit is the first of its kind in the state of Wisconsin.
The program responds to and anticipates challenges as varied and fresh as today's headlines. Emergencies resulting in catastrophic loss of life, property and resources are unfortunate facts of life, worldwide. Some believe the risk of hazardous events will only increase, a consequence of mankind's growing ability to alter the environment, more numerous and increasingly severe weather events, the rise of global terrorism, and the ability of viruses and contagious diseases to spread rapidly in an interconnected world.
As a result, today's emergency managers need to be well educated, prepared and informed. Federal officials have recommended there be a college-credit emergency management program in every state. There is general consensus the field is evolving into a professional area requiring advanced education.
Impacts from a disaster can be lessened when businesses, emergency personnel and governments put well-designed plans into action. Such planning requires skills in budgeting, administration, management and emergency operation procedures.
What Will You Learn?
The UW-Green Bay Certificate in Emergency Management, Planning and Administration provides coursework in:
- Budgeting
- Mitigation
- Planning
- Responding
- Recovery from natural and man-made disasters
The certificate program is made up of five three-credit courses:
- Principles and Practices of Emergency Management
- Strategic Emergency Preparedness, Planning and Implementation
- Principles and Practices of Disaster Response Operations and Management
- Disaster Recovery
- Political and Policy Dimensions of Emergency Management
Courses are taught by university faculty members and knowledgeable professionals from the community.
Who Should Enroll?
The courses offered in the Emergency Management, Planning and Administration program are designed for those already in the profession as well as those pursuing an interest in the field. This includes:
- Public safety personnel (emergency management, airport personnel, fire and police)
- General public-sector managers responsible for emergency management
- Industrial emergency responders (fire and hazardous materials)
- Institutional emergency planners (schools, hospitals and prisons)
- Business continuity planners (banking, manufacturing, insurance and corporations)
- Individuals from nonprofit agencies
What Is The Course Delivery Option?
Students and instructors will meet face-to-face three weekends each semester (Friday evening and all day Saturday). Courses will be held in Green Bay. See our website, www.uwgb.edu/em/, for hotels and motels close to the course site.
How Long Will It Take To Complete The Certificate?
The certificate can be completed in two years.
Admission Requirements
Graduate credit can be earned if you are a holder of a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution. Admission to the University is required for certificate program participants. If you have attended UW-Green Bay, you must re-apply unless you have been enrolled during the preceding semester. The application form is posted on our website (www.uwgb.edu/em/) or you can receive one by calling us. For further information call (800) 892-2118, and ask for Kassie VanRemortel for assistance.
Course Descriptions
Principles and Practices of Emergency Management
The overall objective of the course is to examine the theories, principles, and practices of emergency management. The philosophy of comprehensive emergency management will be discussed with the four attendant steps — mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. In addition, the ramifications of state and federal laws affecting emergency operations will be studied.
Strategic Emergency Preparedness, Planning and Implementation
Strategic planning and budgeting is a crucial component of emergency planning and mitigation. The course examines how to acquire and allocate resources and gain long-term support.
Principles and Practices of Disaster Response Operations and Management
Focal points of this course are the principles that promote effective disaster response operations in emergency management. Students will examine the roles and responsibilities of the players in a crisis event, and identify possible problems associated with response operations such as inadequate preparedness measures, safety and site security, politics, communication, coordination and record keeping.
Disaster Recovery
This course examines disaster recovery in isolation from and in relation to the preparedness, response and mitigation phases of comprehensive emergency management. It explores the short- and long-term effects of disasters, as well as the process of putting families, businesses and communities back together. The class will also identify the importance of reconstruction, relocation, and regulations in reducing future disaster vulnerability.
Political and Policy Dimensions of Emergency Management
This course considers the political and policy environment in which emergency management is practiced. This course is based squarely within the realm of government.


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@FTLCityNews Fort Lauderdale City Commission rejects beach fishing ordinance @Lunkerdog @WatersOutdoors
After heartfelt public comments from numerous anglers at a conference meeting Tuesday afternoon, the Fort Lauderdale City Commission agreed to not move forward on a proposed ordinance that would have restricted fishing from the city's beaches.
Currently, fishing is allowed anytime from Oakland Park Boulevard to Northeast 23rd Street, from 4 p.m. to 9 a.m. weekdays from NE 23rd to NE 18th Street and from 6 p.m. to 9 a.m. for almost all of the beach south of 18th Street.
The ordinance would have prohibited beach fishing from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. along the entire beach in Fort Lauderdale.
It was sponsored by commissioner Dean Trantalis, in response to complaints from some of his constituents that allowing fishing was unsafe for swimmers and beach goers and that fishing equipment was injuring sea turtles and birds.
But angler after angler said that they don't fish near swimmers, never hook turtles and there have been no documented incidents of anglers hooking people. They also said they enjoy spending quality time with their families and friends and spoke of their love of the ocean and its marine life and their commitment to conserving those resources.
Based on that testimony, Mayor Jack Seiler, who said, "This seems to me a solution in search of a problem," Trantalis and commissioners Romney Rogers, Bruce Roberts and Robert McKinzie said there was no need to move forward with the ordinance.
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by Fred Sandsmark
Like most companies, aerospace giant Boeing has its jargon—words and phrases that uniquely define its products and processes. Take the word platform. It's used at Boeing to mean a family of aircraft—the F/A-18 fighter, for example, or the 777 jetliner.
But since August 2009, employees in the Global Services & Support (GS&S) division of Boeing Defense, Space & Security have been talking about a different sort of platform: a supply chain technology platform, based on Oracle Business Process Management (Oracle BPM) solutions and Oracle SOA Suite. That platform, built with the assistance of Oracle Diamond Partner Capgemini, is serving as a jumping-off point for Boeing's GS&S staff to deploy radically improved business processes supported by Oracle Fusion Applications to build a high-visibility, end-to-end supply chain. This business process–driven technology platform has ambitious goals: to help GS&S respond more quickly and accurately to its customers' needs, to make business processes at all GS&S sites more consistent and less expensive, and to create a foundation for further improvement and efficiency.Volume and Velocity
Chicago, Illinois–based Boeing is a designer and manufacturer of aircraft. GS&S is Boeing's aftermarket division, where defense and government customers may go for additional parts, accessories, or services to support Boeing products and in some cases non-Boeing products they've already purchased. Before about 1995, GS&S was a relatively low-flying part of the US$68.7 billion company, administering warranties and supplying spare parts while Boeing customers ran their own service operations.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Global Services & Support (GS&S) headquarters: St. Louis, Missouri
Industry: Aerospace and defense
Employees: 61,000
Revenue: US$32 billion in 2011
Oracle products (GS&S only): Oracle Business Process Management Suite 10g, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Fusion Product Hub, Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration
Director of Supply Support, Boeing's GS&S
Length of tenure: Six years
Education: BS, St. Louis University; MBA, Harvard University
But today, GS&S offers a full spectrum of support tailored to customer needs, from providing parts to managing entire supply chains for customers. From 2007 to 2012, GS&S revenues have grown from just under US$6 billion to nearly US$9 billion. The aftermarket, once an afterthought—albeit a vital one—has become a strategic growth business for Boeing.
"The growth that we were experiencing in GS&S meant that the volume and the velocity of the business was outpacing our ability to keep up with it from a process and IT standpoint," explains Tim Murnin, director of supply support at Boeing's GS&S. "In airplane production, you know your schedule several years out. But in the aftermarket, the volume is much more unpredictable. We needed processes and systems agile enough to respond to that volatility."
One factor in that volatility was the platforms themselves: aircraft today have longer life spans, and remain in production longer than ever before. That increases the importance and value of spare parts and maintenance—indeed, some planes initially designed decades ago are still in service today.
The Oracle Fusion Applications architecture lets us use the systems that already exist in our current environment. . . . It doesn't require a wholesale rip and replace."
Meanwhile, ongoing international conflicts have put Boeing's warplanes into hard use, often in physically hostile environments such as deserts. Also, aftermarket customers today—military and commercial—have options other than Boeing for parts and service.
The age and variety of supply chain applications in GS&S compounded these challenges. Business departments such as finance and procurement had their own siloed systems, as did various GS&S locations. (Although GS&S operates at hundreds of sites worldwide, supply chain operations are centered at four sites: St. Louis, Missouri; Southern California; Mesa, Arizona; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.) Those business systems included mainframe and Web-based applications from a variety of suppliers, as well as homegrown systems.
Murnin and the rest of the GS&S team needed an end-to-end supply chain solution that could integrate these many legacy applications; standardize supply chain processes; and provide visibility into inventory levels, proposals, and orders across GS&S. In June 2008, Murnin received leadership approval and budget for a project, dubbed Integrated Material and Information Management (IMIM), to do just that.Preflight Check: Business Processes
The IMIM program began with a GS&S team studying existing business processes.
The business process review took four months, and the succeeding effort to design a new, integrated business process took more than a year. The primary objective, Murnin says, was to establish a true end-to-end process. "Not a procurement process or a contracts process," he explains, "but an integrated supply chain business process that would enable and drive IMIM."
"A real focus of this project has been taking the expertise of our users and translating it into a set of automated business rules that can be applied to orders and proposals," adds Dale Robinson, business project manager for IMIM at Boeing's GS&S.
The new process, and the technology to support it, needed to incorporate Boeing's high internal standards. "Security is a really big deal for us as a defense contractor," says Aaron Kelley, IT manager in GS&S. Very strong role-based security at all levels of the architecture was critical, as was global scalability of the system.
All of these factors led the IMIM team to Oracle BPM solutions and Oracle SOA Suite. "We wanted Oracle BPM to provide that integrated business process layer across 16 or 18 functionally oriented systems—a contracts system, a procurement system, a support system, and so on," Murnin says. "And Oracle SOA Suite, with Web services that can be reused no matter what the application is, is the technical backbone behind what we're doing."
The IMIM team wanted to quickly establish momentum once Oracle was selected, so they rolled out a new proposal management process, created in Oracle BPM solutions, at the St. Louis site in August 2009. The IMIM team also spent time on user training and standardizing job roles from site to site. "We conveyed the fact that this was a real project, and not just a marketing slogan," Murnin says. "Their jobs and their systems were going to change." And change they did, for the better: internal labor costs to prepare a proposal dropped 38 percent from 2010 to 2012.
But the team knew that outside resources would be necessary to take IMIM to greater heights. "At the end of the day, this project would affect 800 to 1,000 employees, and you can't lead that sort of change by making speeches at staff meetings," Murnin says. "We needed a change management strategy."IMIM Takes Off
So in early 2010, the IMIM team hired Capgemini to help. At first the Capgemini team's task was narrow: evaluate the overall IMIM technology platform chosen by the internal team, finalize the proposal management portion of the system, and recommend overall direction going forward. But over the longer term, Capgemini would be asked to spearhead the change management efforts. "We really needed a partner that would bring a creative approach, but also was able to relate to the Boeing culture," Murnin says.
Capgemini Vice President Jim Sourges says he and his team were charged with "harmonizing everything under a 'one Boeing' theme, helping people to operate similarly at different GS&S sites and to be more responsive to clients." Capgemini's Accelerated Solutions Environment was key to that effort (see "Tools for Change").
Around that same time, several Oracle Fusion Applications became available that could help GS&S jump-start its transformation. Murnin says the Boeing team decided that rather than developing everything from scratch using Oracle BPM solutions, they would leverage the processes embedded in Oracle Fusion Applications moving forward. Additionally, Boeing's open, standards-based architecture supported the IMIM plan to use existing applications whenever possible.
"The Oracle Fusion Applications architecture lets us use the systems that already exist in our current environment, and layer the new applications on top," Murnin says. "It doesn't require a wholesale rip and replace, and it doesn't require a thick financial shell around the applications like other solutions do." Such a shell, he says, would create data ownership and integrity challenges. Instead, the Oracle Fusion Applications architecture enhances the process visibility and process management capabilities of legacy applications.
The first Oracle Fusion Application, Oracle Fusion Product Hub, began rolling out in May 2012. Oracle Fusion Distributed Order Orchestration will follow later this year. Oracle BPM solutions, meanwhile, are being used to fill gaps in Oracle Fusion Applications. "We're not taking a phased approach where we release Step 1, then Step 2, then Step 3," explains Robinson. Instead, end-to-end business process and the attributes common to every order are organizing principles, which enables automation of routine orders.
It's a real game-changer for us. Employees are applying more of their expertise to the process, and to solving problems."
Under the old system, every proposal and every order was reviewed manually, and employees spent much of their time dealing with late orders. The new system proactively identifies orders at risk of going off schedule and moves them to the top of the priority list. "It's a real game-changer for us," Robinson says. "Employees are applying more of their expertise to the process, and to solving problems, versus clerical activities." Even as jobs and responsibilities changed, 90 percent of the underlying legacy applications remained in operation.
Robinson adds that expanding the Oracle solutions' scope is easier because GS&S began with end-to-end processes. Take orders as an example: once a process is built for one order type, additional rules or requirements can be built to expand that process to include other order types. "We keep building on that initial end-to-end process until we have all of our order types covered," Robinson says.On the Horizon
As it grows, IMIM will provide unified visibility into inventories across all GS&S sites and a common master record for parts. (Although aircraft platforms are uniquely configured for their customers, 70 to 80 percent of parts in a given platform are common from plane to plane.) By integrating inventory data from all GS&S sites, a single source of inventory truth will emerge, enabling better inventory management and responsiveness.
Better inventory visibility will improve data quality and integrity across GS&S, which promises to further reduce cycle times and data errors. Indeed, these improvements are already arriving. For example, the Oracle BPM solutions–based proposal management tool, initially deployed in St. Louis in late 2009, was extended to three more sites in the first quarter of 2011 and continues to be improved.
"We've seen great metrics as far as reduction in proposal-writing cycle times, and we're starting to see cycle times at all sites converging," Robinson says. "It's a real indication that everyone's following the same process and working in the same tool."
That is to say, on one platform.
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A 32-year-old man is in critical condition after being attacked in the middle of the day on a downtown Baltimore street, according to his family and police.
John Mason has been hospitalized since Friday in an induced coma with three skull fractures as a result of the attack, which police believe occurred at about 2 p.m. on Friday at Lombard and Howard streets, near the Bromo Seltzer tower. Mason's aunt, Christina Jasi, said he had shoe prints bruised into his head.
Police said that witnesses said Mason was attacked by a group of four to five males. He was disoriented and combative when emergency personnel arrived on the scene, which they believe was a result of brain swelling.
A motive is not known; Jasi said nothing was taken from Mason, but police speculated that the attack may have been an attempted robbery.
Jasi said Mason lives in the 300 block of Cathedral Street, where he draws tattoos out of his home. Recently released from prison, she said he kept to himself and is dating a woman who works downtown, and was traveling back after getting lunch with her.
"It's a 50/50 chance of survival," Jasi said. "Once he makes it past 72 hours, his chance of survival increases. The only reason we know what happened is because the doctor saw footprints on his head. They were able to tell us there are scrapes on both knees and palms, and maybe he was hit in the head and fell, and then from there was brutally kicked in the head."
Jasi said police did not get involved until many hours later. Anthony Guglielmi, the Police Department's chief spokesman, said patrol officers were involved in the initial call for an injured person, and only later were able to determine what happened and contacted district detectives, who investigate serious assaults.
Guglielmi said detectives were pulling cameras from the area to try to get more leads.
Detectives in Southeast Baltimore are also investigating the robbery of a 75-year-old woman early in the day in the Fells Point area.
In Fells Point, police said a 75-year-old woman withdrew cash from an ATM in the 2100 block of Eastern Ave. at about 11:45 a.m. and was followed by a man, who escorted her to near a home and then demanded her cash at gunpoint. The woman was not harmed. The suspect is described as a black male, between ages 30 and 40, with medium build and wearing a blue jacket, police say.


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20 Stadiums in 20 Days – Pacific Bell Park
In June of 2000, we had planned to take another organized baseball tour, much like the one we took in 1997. But not with the same tour operator! So we put a deposit down on a West Coast tour with Broach Tours. The tour was scheduled to hit all the West Coast ballparks, if I remember correctly. Unfortunately, a month or so before the trip, we received a call telling us that the tour was being cancelled due to a lack of interest. Aargh!! (we did at least get our deposit back)
So since we'd already planned on that vacation time with our respective workplaces, we decided to just take a trip to San Francisco, and see the Giants and the A's on our own.
2000 was the first year of the brand-new Pacific Bell Park. So as much as my husband sometimes dislikes ordering tickets in advance, we realized we would have to if we wanted to get into any games at Pac Bell. Of course, there were no single-game tickets to be had. But then we noticed that the Giants had a feature on their website that allowed their season-ticket holders to resell any tickets they weren't going to be able to use. Perfect! So we searched available tickets to find ones that weren't being offered for an arm and a leg (just a forearm 🙂 ), and sat through the interminable wait while our dial-up internet service submitted the information, then submitted our credit card info and mailing address, only to be told at the end of the whole process that, due to the laws in certain states, Pennsylvania being one of them, that we couldn't buy the tickets.
Outrage! Shouldn't they have stated this rule up front?
Then I had the bright idea to try and have the tickets sent to my husband's brother in New Jersey. Maybe they didn't have that law! Apparently the Giants' system was not set up to realize that the billing and mailing addresses were different, and it went ahead and processed the transaction. Yay! Then my husband made sure to warn his brother that he would be getting something in the mail from the Giants, but not to throw it away, because it would be our tickets.
The first of the two games we attended was on July 16, an interleague contest against the Texas Rangers. The weather this day was cool but comfortable, and a bit overcast. Most mornings we woke to thick fog, which would eventually burn off, though this day it kind of lingered.
Our seats were down the right-field line, about 15 rows back from the field. Not too bad! This was our view [Sorry Rays Renegade! I don't know what it is about these giant Coke bottles everywhere!]:
In the foreground is Texas starter Esteban Loaiza, warming up prior to the game. Shawn Estes would be on the mound for the Giants.
Midway through the game, a foul ball came down the line, aimed directly at my husband. According to him, he would have caught it except for some knucklehead who stuck their hand in front of him. Yes, that knucklehead was me. If it's any consolation, my pinky hurt for the rest of the game. The ball, by the way, deflected off my pinky and ended up a few rows in front of us.
J.T. Snow and Rich Aurilia each hit home runs for the Giants this day. The Giants won, 6-4, with the win going to Estes and the loss to Loaiza. San Francisco closer Robb Nen got the save, coming in to pitch not the ninth inning, but the:
Four days later, on July 20, we were back for our second game. This time our seats were a little further back from the field, but closer to home plate (still on the first base side). The San Diego Padres were the visitors today. This was a much sunnier day. A statue of Willie Mays stands outside the main entrance gate:
Kirk Rueter was the starter for the Giants, and Woody Williams for the Padres. Rueter's nickname is "Woody", because he resembles the character Woody (the cowboy doll voiced by Tom Hanks) from the Toy Story movies. So this game was a Battle of the Woodies.
My husband got another chance at a foul ball, off the bat of Rich Aurilia. This time I wisely kept my hands to myself, and he made a barehanded catch of the ball while it was on the fly. The elderly women seated in front of us thanked him for saving them from injury – they were ready to duck and cover had he not caught it. Here is a picture of Aurilia:
Woody Williams hit his first career home run in this game. He would end up with a ******** total of 4 in his 15 year career.
[OK, that word is supposed to be wh-pping, with an 'o' in the middle. Since when is this considered a bad word???]
Of course, you-know-who was playing for the Giants back in 2000:
Barry Bonds. This was when he was merely annoying, and not yet the pariah he is now. Odd, he looks like he's actually smiling and interacting with the fans.
Jeff Kent and Russ Davis would homer for the Giants, to help lead the SF "Woody" to victory. Rueter got the win and Aaron Fultz the save in a 7-3 Giants victory; Williams took the loss for the Padres.
Pacific Bell Park is no longer called Pacific Bell. In less than 10 years of existence, it is on its third name. It is now AT&T Park, after going by SBC Park in the interim. This is why I hate corporate naming! Frequent name changes, and the name has no real tie to the team or its location. AT&T Park could be located anywhere! Aargh!
Nonetheless, it is one of our favorite ballparks that we have been to so far. The location is amazing, with great views of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco Bay beyond the outfield. And there were these really yummy garlic fries at the concession stand! Definitely a ballpark I would go back to!
Fun non-baseball things to do in San Francisco and vicinity: Ride the cable cars. Go to Napa for a day and get a buzz off the free wine tastings. Drive up the coast to Muir Woods and marvel at how tall the redwood trees are. Visit Alcatraz. Go to Ghirardelli Square and eat so much chocolate before lunch that you decide the chocolate is your lunch! (yes, we did do all this)
In my next entry, we venture across the bay to Oakland, and visit Network Associates Coliseum.
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Tyler Troast '08, David Horowitz '83, P'16, Douglas Troast '85 and Brian Troast '06
With his newly minted Bucknell engineering degree, Brian Troast '06 arrived at his first job to face a 70-foot-deep gaping hole. He was staring at Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center once stood. Troast has been working on Tower One, nicknamed Freedom Tower, ever since. He started as a builder, gradually taking on project management and now architectural finishing. When he heads to work in the morning he thinks about the void there when he first started and the horrific events that caused it. Motivating him throughout have been the people who lost their lives on 9/11 and the meaning of placing an iconic building back into the New York skyline to honor them.
It took three years for Troast and the rest of the Freedom Tower team to build to street level and another three years to add the new tower's remaining 104 stories. When completed, Tower One will be the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the third-tallest building in the world. He says the experience has been a little like beginning at Bucknell. "As a freshman you start from nothing with a clean slate before you. Four years later you've built something amazing."
Engineering, construction and Bucknell run in the Troast family. Brian, his brother Tyler Troast '08 and his uncle Doug Troast '85, along with fellow Bucknellian David Horowitz '83, P'16, have all worked from foundation to completion stages on one or more of the towers that make up the new World Trade Center complex. Brian says they've used their Bucknell education every step of the way. "One of the biggest things Bucknell teaches you is to think on your feet, to keep learning and how to learn. You can't ever be satisfied thinking you know enough."
That's also what excites the Troasts and Horowitz about where Bucknell itself is headed. Since it began in 1846, the University has been building something new every day— creating opportunity, bringing new knowledge into the world and strengthening a campus that keeps setting a higher standard for education.
That's what makes Brian Troast most proud to be an alumnus. "Bucknell is never satisfied either," he says. "It's always pushing to new levels."


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ST. CROIX COUNTY HIGHWAY DEPT: 2018 Weight Restrictions Notice
The St. Croix County Highway Department will post as required all county trunk highways that show excessive spring breakup, limiting all vehicles except tandem axle trucks to six (6) tons per axle. Vehicles with group axles spaced less than eight (8) feet apart shall not exceed a gross weight of ten (10) tons on the group, with any additional axle(s) being allowed three (3) tons each. Vehicles with group axles over eight (8) feet apart shall not exceed limits as specified for Class "B" highways.
We ask your cooperation in limiting the size of your loads on unposted roads so weight restrictions may be kept to a minimum. This is the time of the year that an eighteen-wheel truck semitrailer has a loading effect of 6,000 passenger vehicles. Weight on our roads is always a concern, but it is the most critical during the spring breakup. Posting may occur earlier than in the past and additional roadways may be posted which may not have typically been posted in the past. Please be aware and plan activities to avoid conflict with posted roadways. Let us all work together to preserve our road system, allowing us to provide the very best of transportation services throughout St. Croix County.
Please check the website: sccwi.gov for updated weight posting information.
Thank you,
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Due to computer problems, Osakaisthebomb was unable to continue leading this project. Since he put so much hard work into this MEP, I decided to take up leadership so the project didn't die, and his work go to waste.
The Theme.Current Status (June 7) wrote: Released!
A multi-Editor project with all Christian metal music. The audio will be a single auido track mix edited together by Osakaisthebomb.Full Mix(12:52)
The Track is composed of 15 songs. So there will be 15 editor spots available.
1.Do not edit your audio track in any way.
2.No SUBTITLES or any words put on screen by you.
3.No hentai, live action, or regular cartoons.
4.DVD Quality only.
5. No Sexual themes
6.No satanic or anti-Christ symbolism (and no, Neji's cursed mark doesn't count as a satanic symbol).
This is for obvious reasons
7.Action, Sentimental, Dramatic, and Horror videos only (no Comedy, Dance, or Fun videos)
HagarenViper - Coordinator/Beta tester
Kazemon15 - Co-Coordinator/Beta tester
NerdStrudel Beta tester (If he still wants to)
Editor sign up
Everyone has to audition before being able to choose a track to work on. To do so, send me a link to your best video or just make a "quick video"* showing your editing skills and I'll decide if you should be let on. As soon as I give an okay you can choose any track that is left. (Sendspace is preferred, but MU is ok as well.)
FBR = Full Beta Recieved
FR = Final Received
The tracks/editors and anime
Intro- Pyrolord
Track 1-History Erased by Spoken - Pyrolord - Samurai 7 FR
Track 2-Stitches by Haste the Day - Kazemon15 - Tales of Symphonia: The Animation FR
Track 3-A Call to the Faithful by Inhale/Exhale - Inan - One Piece
Track 4-Blueprints for Future Homes by Norma Jean - LeapofFate - Rebuild of Eva FR
Track 5-I am You by Demon Hunter - Momoko17 - Gurren Lagann FR
Track 6-The River Song by Still Remains - HagarenViper - Haibane Renme FR
Track 7-Love You to Death by Family Force 5- Allykatchan - Princess TutuFR
Track 8-Sleepwalking by Blindside - AaronAMV - FLCL FR
Track 9-Charlatan's Host by Oh,Sleeper - Momoko17 - Kingdom Hearts FR
Track 10-Awake by Seventh Day Slumber - HagarenViper - Digimon Frontier FR
Track 11-Deadbolt by Thrice - LeapofFate -Le Portrait de Petit Cossette FR
Track 12-Rapture Raptors by Chasing Victory- Allykatchan - Shaman KingFR
Track 13-A Scar filled Sky by Cry of the Afflicted - Pyrolord - Trinity Blood FR
Track 14-Love Hate by Disciple - Kazemon15 - Tsubasa Chronicle,Tsubasa Tokyo Revelations FR
Track 15-Death Finds Us Breathing by The Showdown - Code - Persona 3: FES FR
Credits- Osakaisthebomb
If any one needs song lyrics to help with there track let me know.
Character Representations wrote: *Pyrolord - Tasuki
*Kazemon15 - Fairymon (Digimon Froniter)
*AaronAMV - Munto
*Momoko17 - Yuna (FFX2)
*Code - Lelouch (Code Geass)
*LeapofFate - Kira (Death Note)
*Hagaren Viper - Gaomon (Digimon Data Squad)
No real request on anime. Just try not to use an anime that is overused unless you really believe your idea will be better than anything seen before. Also do not use an anime already being used in the project.
Video export settings
Frame Size
640x480 (if you have 16:9, letterbox it)
Pixel Aspect Ratio 1.0 (Square Pixels)
Frame rate 29.97
-beta: any codec but .mp4 is preferred.
-final: LAGARATH.
(send files to email@example.com via sendspace/megaupload)
Acts that will get you disqualified
1. Breaking above rules
2. not sending your beta to me on time
3. Lack of effort to make a good video.
4. flamming (even if it's toward someone flamming the project
If there are any questions or mistakes in this first post be sure to let me know.
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For many nonprofits, email is the bridge that Facebook fans frequently walk across on their way to becoming a donor, simply because it's more private and less distracting than Facebook.
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text: salty09 5 Posted May 10, 2013 I am the proud owner of tow M13 units and recently just sold my M9. I bought it because I thought I could replace one of the M13 units with it to decrease the size of my pedalboard. I just never really liked the editing portion of it as compared to the M13, so I got rid of it. My current set up is running my guitar into the input of the M13 that is on my pedalboard and then in the loop I am running to the other M13 and a Wobo Midi Looper4. I use the Wobo to seamlessly switch dirt boxes in and out of my signal path. The second M13 I got as a backup, because I depend on the M13 for a lot of sounds in songs. I now use it in the loop of the M13 on my board so that I do not have to climb under my desk where my board is neatly placed to change settings on the M13 during the experimentation stage of coming up with sounds. The extra M13 sets on the top of my desk and when I want to work with a set of effects on the M13 I use it to work them out and then transfer those settings to the one on my board. Because of these couple of things and a few others, I have been really thinking about having a PC based application to create scenes on to then send via midi into the M13\M9\M5 devices. I am a programmer for a software company and we are still working with .Net 2005, so on my own I want to get up to speed with .Net 2012 and am thinking this may be a good project to do it with. What I envision is am application that has a GUI designed after the layout of the M13 allowing the user to drop down each effects unit and select the type of effect and parameters for the effect that they want to save. The user would have the ability to save groups of scenes, individual scenes and individual effects in order to put them together however they wanted later on. One of the things that really appeals to me about this is the ability to more easily manage the setup of expression pedals for multiple effects in a scene. I am in the process of getting research together now to start on this project. The place I am lacking is working with SyxEx files. From what I have read so far they are HEX based. I opened up a file from a M13 that someone put online and saw the HEX data in it, but also saw some other characters hung off the end of each line. If anyone wants to help with this project and knows anything about reading and writing that file it would really help me get moving forward. If not my next step would be making small changes to the file and comparing them before and after to decode how the file works. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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I was born at a time when the very culture was shifting to accommodate me, 1987, China. I am using the rabbit as a point to reference for my childhood memory, which always by his side, but was buried in oblivion. I am cherishing the invaluable experience and enlightenment during the process of film-making. Much of my understanding of the life I experienced as well as my gradual comprehension of the abundant and unique expressive force of the language of camera is also thoroughly embedded in the process of film-making.


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Application Service Management (ASM) tools typically monitor services and the underlying code components that support those services. But according to ClearApp, a vendor of ASM tools for J2EE-based composite applications, the lack of business context is the biggest limitation in today's enterprise systems and applications management solutions. The solution to this problem, says ClearApp, is the adoption of application service modeling. ClearApp is basing its position in part on the paper What's Next in Application Management: Using Modeling to Optimize Composite Applications in Dynamic Environments written by industry analyst firm Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG).
According to ESG analysts Bob Laliberte and Brian Babineau, there is a need to automate service discovery and dependency mapping to ensure that complex business services are viewed holistically within heterogeneous, n-tier application environments. In ESG's view, this gap between services and infrastructure will only become more acute as additional layers of abstraction are added by tomorrow's server virtualization and SOA middleware advances.
In the paper, ESG examines the limitations of alternatives to application service modeling. From transaction tracing to business process management to configuration management databases (CMDBs), the report argues that all fail to deliver a complete, consolidated map of the service dependencies shared among complex composite applications, their code, and infrastructure components -- from top to bottom. Similar to how modeling has been successfully deployed in network management, it now should be leveraged in application management as well. The ESG paper concludes that such a maturation of application management would provide clearer root cause analysis, swifter problem resolution, effortless change management, and improved service-level management.


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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — The playing future of an active NFL legend is in serious jeopardy with Monday's announcement that Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis will miss the remainder of the 2012 season with a torn right triceps.
The Ravens' season, too, hinges upon how the team responds to the loss of Lewis and cornerback Lardarius Webb, who tore his left anterior cruciate ligament in Sunday's victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
Coach John Harbaugh announced the findings of Monday's MRIs at team headquarters. He said he had not spoken with Lewis since hearing the news and would not say if he believed the 37-year old, 13-time Pro Bowl player would retire rather than return next season.
"That's for Ray to speak on," Harbaugh said. "I admire Ray Lewis. I've said that many times. I think anybody that knows him feels that way. I'll be looking forward to see what he says about that."
Harbaugh said Webb was "distraught" after the game. He said Lewis was worried but spoke of his faith in God.
"He said some things that I will never forget," Harbaugh said. "He puts his faith in Providence."
If Sunday's game was Lewis' last, it was one to forget. The Cowboys set a record for rushing yards against the Ravens in a single game with 227. Lewis' impact and ability had come into question before the injury, with a former teammate and several analysts saying he hasn't been the player he once was.
Still, former Ravens head coach Brian Billick, now an analyst for NFL Network, told USA TODAY Sports the loss of Lewis is a "huge blow."
"You don't take a Hall of Fame player like Ray Lewis out of the heart of the defense and say, 'Okay, we're going to be fine,' " Billick said Monday.
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The MVP of Super Bowl XXXV, Lewis was leading the Ravens with 57 tackles at the time of his injury. He's been the face of the franchise since it relocated from Cleveland in 1996, the year he was drafted out of Miami (Fla.). Lewis and the defense led the Ravens to their lone championship in the 2000 season.
Said New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan, who once coached Lewis with the Ravens: "He's just a great player, a great competitor, so passionate in everything he does. When you lose a player like Ray Lewis, it's not just the Ravens that lose, but the entire NFL loses."
Lewis has plenty to look forward to in a life after football. His son, Ray Lewis III, committed to play running back for the Miami Hurricanes in December, and Lewis has expressed a desire to see his son play. He also figures to have plenty opportunities in broadcasting.
But at least one teammate expressed skepticism over the notion of Lewis retiring.
Said Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco Sunday, to ESPN's Ed Werder: "If you tell Ray you hear he's not playing anymore, he'd freaking kill you."
Billick said recent negative assessments of Lewis' play have been overblown, and the struggles of the Ravens defensive line are more to blame for Baltimore's defensive problems.
"In the last two games, it was as much about the offensive linemen being able to get up to that second level," Billick said. "(The Ravens) need to protect him a little better, because he can't take on the unblocked linemen as well as he used to."
The Ravens can look forward to the return of reigning NFL defensive player of the year Terrell Suggs, who is targeting a Week 9 return from a partial Achilles' tendon tear suffered this offseason.
The outside linebacker won't be back for a Week 7 visit to the Houston Texans (5-1) and their sixth-ranked rushing offense led by running back Arian Foster. The Ravens have a much-needed bye the following week.
But defensive edge play hasn't been Baltimore's problem, says Harbaugh.
"Terrell is more of an edge setter than he (is responsible for) keeping the interior line off of the linebackers," Harbaugh said. "Guys getting up on the linebackers is a concern for us."
That's a problem for Ma'ake Kemoeatu and Haloti Ngata, interior tackles on a defense that ranks 23rd against the pass and 26th against the run. Ngata, himself hampered by a knee sprain Sunday, called the Ravens run defense "disgusting" and said the team needed to "go back to the drawing board."
They'll have to do so without two of their top defensive players. Expect the Ravens to insert Dannell Ellerbe at inside linebacker and promote 2011 first-round pick Jimmy Smith to starting cornerback opposite Cary Williams. Harbaugh feels confident in the team's ability to replace Webb and Lewis.
"That's what you have to be able to do," Harbaugh said. "Obviously, that's going to define what we're able to accomplish this year. I won't put odds on it. That's just something that we're going to have to get done."
Harbaugh described Webb as the best cornerback in the NFL Monday. He tore his right ACL in 2009 as a rookie. The Ravens have allowed 260 passing yards per game during a 5-1 start.
"To me, Lardarius had become one of the premier corners in the league," Harbaugh said. "I'm biased. I'd say he's the best. I wouldn't take anybody over Lardarius Webb. He will be back. He will rehab like crazy, and he will be back stronger than ever. He's just that kind of guy."
All things considered, the Ravens are far from the clear-cut AFC favorites they might have become with the New England Patriots and Texans losing in Week 6.
"They're going to be a factor," Billick said. "They're going to make a run at it. Obviously, Ed Reed will anchor that defense as he always has. You've got Haloti Ngata up front. Although it will hurt to lose Ray Lewis, they have plenty of character to get through this. Are they in the same strong position they were in before? Probably not."
Contributing: USA TODAY Sports' Jim Corbett