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ACCORD's book documenting stories of the transition from violence to peace, told by people from three South African communities.
ACCORD has published a report titled Views and Visions of Coexistence in South Africa. The report documents a series of community consultations in three South African communities – Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape and Muden and Mpumalanga in KwaZulu-Natal, where community members were invited to share their remarkable stories of transiting from violent conflict to cooperative post-conflict coexistence.
The publication shares the perspectives, understandings and local articulations of coexistence, and provides valuable lessons and insightful findings on the pivotal breakthroughs that enabled them to move from conflict to coexistence: accepting, trusting and respecting each other, granting each other freedom of association and expression, and actually doing things together.
The coexistence initiative at ACCORD began in 2003, when ACCORD in partnership with the New York based organisation, the Coexistence Initiative, undertook a series of community consultations in the three communities. Follow-up visits were conducted by ACCORD in May 2008 to revisit the initial study. During the visits, community members were updated on the progress made on the initiative, and an assessment was done on the extent to which coexistence has been maintained.
Overall, the updates indicate that all three communities manage to sustain a level of post-conflict coexistence. However, each community is experiencing new challenges related to the distribution of resources, the management of service delivery and economic opportunities through the state, and finally, the uneven record in economic development despite power-sharing and cooperation in a post-apartheid South Africa. Nevertheless, as expressed in the final section of the report, the communities are still able to discuss these challenges in a spirit of tolerance.
The report is available for download on the ACCORD website.
For more information on the publication, please contact Professor Jannie Malan at email@example.com
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Fitness is at the heart of the Royal Navy and the exceptional opportunities we offer for adventure and sport is one of the reason recruits choose to join us. There are also many reasons why it is important that Royal Naval personnel maintain a high level of fitness:
- Improved fitness to fight and ability to cope with the physical demands of life at sea
- Improved confidence in own capabilities and in the physical robustness and determination of other members of the team
- Improved physical ability, which in turn maximises resistance to injury and extremes of heat; fitter people are also likely to recover more quickly from injury and physical stress
- Improved alertness and reduced levels of psychological stress
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Espanola Farmers' Market has partnered with the El Centro clinics for a very effective fruit and vegetables prescription program (FVRx) funded by Wholesome Wave, a foundation based in Connecticut.This grant enables the entire family of children diagnosed with diabetes or obesity to recieve a dollar per day per family member to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at the participating farmers' market. For example, a family of seven was issued a weekly prescription for $49 (7 people x 7 days) which they presented to the Market staff for wooden tokens, then used those tokens to buy fruits and vegetables from many farmer/vendors.
Last season, about 20 families participated fully in this program. The Market redeemed $9,330 in purchases, over 90% redemption rate. We had to report the prescriptions weekly, listing the number of wooden tokens issued, the number redeemed and the code number of the prescription. The clinic was also reporting weekly, with coded data related to measurable heath monitoring to evaluate any improvement resulting from four months of eating more freshly grown food. This accumulation of statistics is what makes the Wholesome Wave FVRx program unique and effective. They are accumulating health data to be able to prove what we know intuitively, that eating healthy food improves health.
This could potentially result in more funding throughout the country for preventative care under Obama's health plans. Espanola Farmers' Market & El Centro were the only market/clinic partnership to recieve this grant in New Mexico and only one of two rural markets in the country for this program. Most partners were in northeastern low income urban areas.
We have been invited to apply again for this season and have already been collaborating on building a more effective program, including printing bilingual recipe cards for farmers to distribute at their tables and having El Centro health workers at the Monday Market to guide the patients in their vegetable purchases and to provide other health information to our customers.
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After climbing a steep iMovie learning curve, I am finally able to post our video of the outreach in Chimayo! We administered 52 vaccines before running out! In addition, Site Manager Elias Fresquez hosted a car show (with awards), a farmers' market, education for seniors by the Public Regulatory Commission, among other things. County Commissioners, the Mayor of Espanola, the Sheriff, school board members and other officials mingled with the public. A great time for everyone!
All this and more in our second minimentary of the series: Hospital in Chimayo!
For years, Rio Arriba County has been the butt of jokes about its high overdose death rates and its supposed lack of coordination between providers. But on August 25, over 350 people showed up at my office (a huge crowd for a working day in Espanola!) to celebrate our town's health care reform success.
We were joined by our county commissioners, Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), state legislators, our Secretary of Health, children, reporters, friends, musicians and a truckload of shelter dogs. We danced, listened to northern New Mexico folk music, feasted, heard speeches and adopted pets, all to celebrate an extraordinary local achievement.
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Zadar has earned its cool stripes in recent years, mostly by being the venue of many music festivals in the summer months. When you're done partying, Zadar is a great place to explore the sea and jump on a boat trip or pick up a yacht charter. This part of the Dalmatian Coast is packed full of stunning islands, with many of them much quieter than the popular south of the region.
If Dubrovnik is where the cruise ships dock, Zadar is where those looking for something a bit different go. To show how quirky Zadar is, you just need to look at some of the waterfront features; including the sea organ, a harmonica that is played by the lapping of the waves on the shore. There's also a solar powered public dancefloor, right on the water's edge.
But that's not all... Zadar is also home to a well preserved Roman forum, a Venetian fortress and some Byzantine architecture too. So even history buffs will find lots to add to their itinerary in Zadar.
And for some other things to do in Zadar, the city also has three of Croatia's best national parks on its doorstep. Krka is probably the pick of the bunch, with the incredible seven cascades waterfall. Looking out to sea, there are plenty of islands and stunning Dalmatian coastline to explore from Zadar town. Just by standing on the harbourside you'll be able to see Ugljan Island in the near distance, tempting you to jump in a boat and sail across the strait.
Picking up a yacht charter in Zadar is simple with Sailo. From day trippers to week long sailing excursions, you'll find plenty of options for boat rental from Zadar. If you're looking to hit the seas with friends and family, there is a great selection of monohull sailboats or catamarans. Or if you want to organise a luxurious cruise then charter a yacht in Zadar for a big group, perfect for pre or post festival events.
There are plenty of things to do by boat from Zadar, Croatia. Browse Sailo's selection of boat rentals and explore the beautiful islands of the Dalmatian Coast at your leisure.
The northern Dalmatian coast is a rather undiscovered boating paradise and an ideal home base for Zadar boat trips. This Bavaria Yachtbau 46.6 ft Sail yacht is a very good choice for one of your sailing holidays in Croatia. Our boats in Zadar are suitable for both week-long vacations with long sailing passages and overnight stops, and island hopping. If you are planning your Zadar boat trips on this Bavaria Yachtbau fantastic Sail yacht, make sure to read our destination guide Zadar, Croatia - Attractions by Boat, as well as the comprehensive guide for Sailing Holidays in Croatia including recommended sailing itineraries and other top boating destinations in the Adriatic sea. Hop aboard your 46.6 ft Bavaria Yachtbau Sail boat rental in Zadar and set sail to discover the amazing Kornati archipelago. Drop anchor on your 46.6 ft Bavaria Yachtbau boat rental from Zadar to enjoy quiet nights in gorgeous bays and coves, dock your Sail yacht to have lunch at remote restaurants, or to get your occasional nightlife fix and replenish the stocks. One of the best Zadar boat trips is to the famous Plitvice National Park - a natural wonderland of interconnected lakes, rivers and waterfalls.
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Karen Shatz is an Associate Professor in the Counseling Program of the Adrian Dominican School of Education at Barry University. Dr. Shatz holds a BA in Psychology from Concordia University, a BSW and a MSW in Social Work from McGill University, and a PhD in Family Therapy from Nova Southeastern University. She is an AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy) Approved Supervisor. Her academic interests include postmodern theory, social constructionism, qualitative research and clinical supervision. Her clinical focus is centered on narrative practices and reflecting teams, and Bowen's Natural Family Systems. She has presented numerous professional workshops at state, national, and international conferences. Dr. Shatz's research interests include phenomenological experiences of loss, and postmodern supervision.
- Fernandez, M. S., Sacco-Bene, C., Shatz, K. (2017). Impact and prevention of misconduct in the faculty- student academic relationship. In, C. Schwilk, R. Stenvenson, & D. Burke (Eds.), Sexual misconduct in the education and human services sector. Hershey, PA: IRMA
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- Shatz, K. (2013). Relational Stories: Moving Away from the Embedded Victim Metaphor of Gender Violence. XXXIIIrd Congress of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.


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Stephen King
In October of 2002, Cemetery Dance Publications released a special Limited Edition of Stephen King's From a Buick 8 in Gift, Limited, and Lettered states. Illustrated by the legendary Bernie Wrightson(artist for The Stand and Cycle of the Werewolf), the Cemetery Dance editions featured unique binding and endpapers, oversized design, and amazing artwork (both full-color and black-and-white interiors by Wrightson). The book sold out before publication (and the Limited and Lettered Editions sold out in less than 24 hours!) and now commands high prices on the secondary market, but some artwork, covers, and photos of the various editions are still available online.
• "The Road Virus Heads North" in 999
• an original Stephen King short story entitled "Chattery Teeth" in issue #14
In December of 2006, we published a deluxe Limited Edition of The Secretary of Dreams, Stephen King's first-ever unabridged graphic short story collection. Featuring a half-dozen classic tales of terror personally selected by King, this collection presented his stories for the first time in the tradition of the pulp horror comics. Spanning close to 280 oversized pages, the hundreds of illustrations and full comic panels from acclaimed Maine artist Glenn Chadbourne transformed The Secretary of Dreams into a work of art. Not one word from King's stories was left out — instead they were brought to life by hundreds of pen and ink drawings by Chadbourne. Stories featured in this volume were: "Home Delivery,""Jerusalem's Lot," "The Reach," "The Road Virus Heads North," "Rainy Season," and "Uncle Otto's Truck."
In April 2010, Cemetery Dance surprised the publishing industry and King fans everywhere by announcing and publishing the hardcover edition of Blockade Billy by Stephen King, a previously unannounced, never-before-published novella set in the world of Major League Baseball. Customers who ordered the 10,000 copy first printing also received an authentic William "Blockade Billy" Blakely baseball card. The Cemetery Dance hardcover edition represented the story's first print publication anywhere in the world and the first printing sold out in less than six weeks.
In October 2010, we published The Secretary of Dreams (Volume Two). This second venture into the world of Stephen King's stories contained more artwork and detailed illustrations that could only have come from the inspired hands of artist Glenn Chadbourne. An original Cemetery Dance Publications publishing event, this deluxe oversized hardcover edition is the World's First Edition and there are no other editions planned at this time. Samples of the artwork are available online and copies are still available for sale on our website.
Also in October 2010, we announced a deluxe Limited Edition of King's new book, Full Dark, No Stars. We brought together a team of five artists to create sixteen exclusive illustrations for our edition including B&W pieces and glossy color tip-ins. This fine collectible volume was available in three states printed in two colors on a high-quality paper, and the oversized Collector's Gift Edition was issued with the smallest print run of any Stephen King Gift Edition since we published From a Buick 8. The signed Lettered Edition sold out within 2 hours of being announced, the signed Limited Edition sold out within 12 hours, and the Slipcased Gift Edition also sold out just about two months after it was announced, making it our second Stephen King book to completely sell out pre-publication. Full Dark, No Stars shipped in December 2010, exactly two months after it was publicly announced.
In May 2011, we announced a 25th Anniversary Special Limited Edition of It by Stephen King, the classic (and massive!) novel he calls his "final exam on Famous Monsters" in his brand new afterword to this oversized special edition. The Deluxe signed Lettered Edition sold out in 25 minutes and, even with some serious server problems, the Deluxe signed Limited Edition sold out within 30 hours of being announced. It was published in December 2011 and the remaining copies of the Gift Edition sold out in 2012.
In February 2013, we announced our deluxe Limited Edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, which will be published in September 2013. The Lettered Edition sold out in 75 minutes, the Limited Edition sold out in 4.5 hours, and the Gift Edition sold out exactly one week after it was announced, which is the fastest a Stephen King Gift Edition has ever sold out for us.
In May 2013, we surprised the publishing industry and King fans everywhere again by announcing the World's First hardcover edition of The Dark Man by Stephen King, a unique addition to the King canon, an eighty-eight page poem featuring extraordinarily detailed Glenn Chadbourne illustrations on every page. This beautiful hardcover book is an incredible blending of King's words with Chadbourne's art to create a page turning experience you can return to again and again, always finding new details hidden in every illustration. Both signed editions sold out in less than two hours, but copies of the trade hardcover are still available.
In April 2014, we announced an exclusive deal to produce a six volume set of special collectible editions of Stephen King's early books that were originally published by Doubleday back in the 1970s and early 1980s. These books are Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand, and Pet Sematary.
In July 2016, we announced and published Six Scary Stories selected and introduced by Stephen King, stories King discovered when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder & Stoughton were pleased make a reality.
In March 2017, Cemetery Dance Publications surprised the publishing industry and King fans everywhere by announcing the world's first hardcover edition of Gwendy's Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar! This exclusive hardcover edition is the only trade edition planned anywhere in the world at this time.
Cemetery Dance Publications has also published several of King's shorter works in our hardcover books:
• "The Road Virus Heads North" in 999
• "One for the Road" in Legacies
• "Autopsy Room Four" in Robert Bloch's Psychos
• "Chattery Teeth" in The Best of Cemetery Dance
• "The Reaper's Image" in Great Ghost Stories
• Six Stephen King poems were collected in The Devil's Wine
• The first publication of a very long chapter from King's "lost" 1970 novel Sword in the Darkness appeared in Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished
• "My Little Serrated Security Blanket," a rare essay by King, is reprinted in Stephen King: The Non-Fiction
• "The Crate," a long lost novella from the late 1970s, was published in Shivers VI
• "Weeds," a long lost short story from the late 1970s, will be published in Shivers VII
And many issues of Cemetery Dance magazine have featured Stephen King including:
• an original Stephen King short story entitled "Chattery Teeth" in issue #14
• transcript of King's Q&A session at Cornell University in issue #22
• visit with Stephen King, Tom Hanks, and Frank Darabont together on the movie set of The Green Mile in issue #30
• photo essay of King's office and an exclusive interview with his office staff in issue #31
• Stephen King's long interview in the magazine's special 50th issue
• preview of The Colorado Kid by Stephen King in #53
• feature review of Under the Dome by Stephen King in #63
• an exclusive excerpt of Blockade Billy by Stephen King in #64
• the long lost Stephen King short story entitled "The Glass Floor" in issue #68
In addition, News from the Dead Zone is the only regularly-published feature column devoted to Stephen King, and it only appears in Cemetery Dance magazine. This column features exclusive insider information on all Stephen King news — past, present and future. If you loved the old Castle Rock newsletter, you'll love News from the Dead Zone. Click here to subscribe today!
Below is a complete listing of the Stephen King related products in our store including books about his work and his books from other publishers. Enjoy!
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A university education is one that prepares students to live creative and productive lives, take responsibility for their actions, and engage in a lifetime of learning. It consists of a "General Education" (GE) and an in-depth study in at least one field (a major). The basic structure of our GE program is laid out by the CSU. Campus faculty have identified the specific elements of the program designed to provide students with a knowledge of human cultures and the natural world, develop intellectual and practical skills, promote acceptance of personal and social responsibilities, and encourage integrative learning. (See Essential Learning Outcomes established by the Association of American Colleges and Universities.)
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Why let Chell have all the 'Fun'? With the Aperture Science Test Subject Track Jacket, you can imagine all sorts of life-threatening, potato-related adventures to replace your currently portal-less existence. Important note: While lending the wearer an undeniable improvement in both style and overall looks, this jacket is not designed to deflect, reduce, minimize, mitigate, or otherwise protect the wearer from the effects of any hazards found within the Aperture Science Enrichment Center.


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Canaries Home Win Streak Ends In Series Finale
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- The Sioux Falls Canaries lost their bid to break a team record with a nine consecutive home win on Sunday afternoon with a 9-1 loss to the Gary SouthShore RailCats.
The Birds (26-36) still captured three of four games in the series and are 6-1 against the RailCats this season.
The Canaries offense had a promising start when Nick Van Stratten led off the bottom of the first with a double and scored on Marcos Rodriguez' single. But the Canaries had just two more base runners after that. RailCats starter Ari Ronick (6-5) retired the next 20 of 21 batters he faced, yielding only one more infield hit from Stephen King. Ronick threw seven innings, allowing only one run on three hits. He did not walk anybody and struck out eight.
Gary SouthShore (35-26) led the entire game. Ryan Babineau doubled home a run in the first inning, and Christian Vitters followed with a run-scoring base hit. They scored four more runs in the third inning, leading to an early exit for Canaries starter Adam Champion (4-7). Champion's briefest outing of the year lasted 2 1/3 innings. He allowed six runs and eight hits in his second consecutive loss.
The RailCats collected 14 hits, led by Mike Massaro's 4-for-5 performance with three RBI. Vitters had three hits and two RBI, and Christian Guerrero also had a two hits and a pair of RBI.
After an off day on Monday, the Canaries open a six-game road trip with the opener of a three-game series against Winnipeg on Tuesday.
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This question is a 2 part question (I know there is already a question on GDM):
When I create a new user that person shows up on the login screen for Kubuntu 12.10 however I would like to hide that user so he/she doesn't show up. This has happened for several service type accounts I've created that I want to hide. The other user case would be a shared computer where I would want my wife's user and my son's user to show up, but my user (the admin account) to be hidden. So is this possible?
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Sheridan lands re-trial date
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES star NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN's wrongful termination lawsuit has been given a re-trial date.
The actress launched a legal battle against the TV drama's creator Marc Cherry and executives at Touchstone Television Production after claiming her character was killed off because she complained to producers about an incident that took place between herself and Cherry, during which the writer/producer allegedly struck her.
She was seeking £3.75 million in damages.
Last month (Mar12) the writer and the TV bosses testified in court that the decision to axe Sheridan's character, Edie Britt, was made months before the alleged incident but Los Angeles Superior Court jury members failed to reach a verdict and the case was declared a mistrial by Judge Elizabeth White. A battery charge against Cherry was also tossed out.
Not satisfied by the inconclusive ruling, Sheridan's lawyers have been campaigning for the chance to present the case again, and, on Wednesday (18Apr12), White granted the actress a re-trial date of 10 September (12).
White also encouraged both parties to meet and try to reach an out-of-court settlement, according to The Hollywood Reporter.


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From The Walrus:
In the history of agriculture, no one has ever paid less for their calories than contemporary North Americans do — in labour or in dollars — and a substantial portion of the techno-industrial genius and applied skill that enables us to eat so cheaply is found in places like Jaques Farm.
For all its prowess, Canada's cheap food policy has produced an agribusiness sector that broadcasts the mixed signals of a system under severe stress. Nationwide cash receipts have climbed from $37 billion in 2006 to more than $44 billion last year, with a record take of $46 billion during a price spike in 2008. But over the same period, net farm income — the figure that matters most to the 300,000 Canadians who work the farms — has fluctuated wildly, climbing from $283.5 million in 2006 to above $6.8 billion in 2008 (a twenty-four-fold increase) before declining 62 percent, to just over $2.5 billion, in 2009 and 2010. Between these figures lies a gap pried steadily wider by the need for more land, bigger and smarter equipment, patented seed, and ever-precious supplies of fossil fuel inputs — from the gas in the combines to the petrochemical herbicides and nitrogen fertilizers that enable increasingly larger yields.
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Computacenter saw revenues, profits down in 2005
But says reasons to be cheerful
Computacenter's 2005 revenues and profits were down on the previous year, results released today showed.
Revenues came in at £2.29bn, compared to £2.41bn last year, while profit before tax slumped to £34m compared to £67.9m the previous year.
In an illustration of how channel economics are changing, the firm said £27m of the profits drop was down to lower vendor rebates in the UK. Second half profits were £25.8m, it said.
This didn't let its troublesome European operations off the hook. Germany made a loss in the first half, though it returned to profit in the second. France had a very poor first half, with some recovery in the second
The company has been undergoing restructuring, including a push into the SMB and software markets.
Chairman Ron Sander said that, "Trading activity in the first two months of 2006 has been below the comparable period in 2005." However, he continued, "in recent years, our sales have become increasingly weighted towards the end of each quarter, such that trading in the early weeks of the quarter now provides a less reliable indicator of performance for the period as a whole."®


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(a) Granting Continuance.
(1) In General. The court may continue a scheduled proceeding, hearing or adjudication to a later date so long as time requirements for resolution of the matter are not delayed.
(2) Findings Required. Before granting a continuance, the court must make written findings or oral findings on the record that the continuance is necessary for the protection of the child, for accumulation or presentation of evidence or witnesses, to protect the rights of a party, or for other good cause shown.
(3) Notice. The court must, either in writing or orally on the record, provide notice to the parties of the date and time of the continued proceeding.
(b) Adjudication or Disposition. An adjudication or disposition hearing may not be continued or adjourned except on written motion under Rule 14. The court must make specific findings that the continuance or adjournment is in the best interests of the child.
(c) Existing Orders. Unless otherwise ordered, existing orders remain in full force and effect during a continuance. When a continuance is ordered, the court may make any interim orders that are in the best interests of the child.
Rule 9 was adopted effective March 1, 2010.
The good cause standard in paragraph (a)(2) applies when a situation occurs that is not within the control of the party seeking the continuance. It does not apply when there is fault, excusable or otherwise, on the part of the party seeking the continuance.
SOURCES: Juvenile Policy Board Minutes of February 20, 2009; December 5, 2008; August 8, 2008; May 9, 2008; February 29, 2008; September 21, 2007; April 20, 2007.
CROSS REFERENCE: N.D.R.Juv.P. 14 (Motions); Unified Judicial System Policy 409 (Juvenile Court Time Standards).


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Intelligent Protein Snacks Roll out 'Chips' Made from Egg Whites
Intelligent Protein Snacks, which goes by the shortened brand name of "ips," is a new snacking concept that complements today's trend in protein-enhanced diets.
The company combines corn, egg whites and other all-natural ingredients, including high-oleic sunflower oil for extra stability during processing and shelf life. Using a patent-pending Pressure-Puff process followed by toasting in an oven, the resulting crispy, gluten-free snack chips are high in protein. A 1-oz. serving contains 7g of protein, or as much protein as two egg whites. A serving also contains half the fat (4-5g, depending on variety) of fried potato chips and fewer carbs than baked chips. Varieties are: Aged White Cheddar, Barbecue, Cinnamon Sugar and Sea Salt & Black Pepper.
The suggested retail price for a 1-oz. bag is $1.49 to $1.99. Later this year, the company plans to introduce multi-serving 3-oz. bags.


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what brand and what features should have the fins to go fast. Now I have the 36 front and 32 rear but probably have little rake because the board does not slip, not as fast, probably too little rake my fins have seen that the standard fins have much rakeRolfvanderVlugt wrote:Hi Orwell. Thank you for putting up this question.
Katja and I are riding Monaro prototypes. We can compete with the best riders of the world with them. We are not riding Woody Cookies at the moment. Last year (2010) we have used both Monaro and Woody Cookie for our competitions.
If you ask me the Monaro V3 is able to compete with any board. But as we are pushing forward the rapid development of raceboards Katja and I use prototypes in the open class competition at the moment.
check this for some prove of performance
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All the best! Rolf


text: just to reiterate my comments about AMD vs Intel: athlon64/3000+ happens to be passing through my office right now. great little box (MSI uatx, ati chipset, antec minuet case). anyway, it idles at 57W and when compiling the kernel is 75-80W. I'm pretty sure I've got clock-modulation turned off. I expect Pentium-M would behave similarly, though probably not perform as well on compute/memory-intensive stuff. but this is noticably different from any Intel chip in the P4 family. regards, mark hahn.


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When referees go under the hood for challenges next season, they might get to consult officiating czar Dean Blandino in the league office ... plus, more agenda items for next week's league meetings (playoff expansion by 2015!) and how free agency has transformed the NFL's middle class
Time to take a breath. We'll eventually get to the rise of the NFL's middle class in the league's 22nd year of free agency, spurred by $665 million guaranteed to players in the first six days of the open market, and the $1.52 billion in paper contracts for 128 players.
But you've been pounded over the head with that for a week. So let's take a quick detour and look at the hot-button issues the Competition Committee has pored over in advance of the annual league meetings. There are four issues that will draw significant attention when owners, club executives and coaches begin meeting six days from now in Orlando:
The point-after. No change for this year, and I doubt anything will change for several years, because there's no momentum to make a change despite the fact that just one PAT is missed every 43 games. During one preseason weekend, however, the owners may consider moving the PAT line of scrimmage to the 25-yard line, or employing what I'd call the Goodell Proposal: eliminating the PAT and giving seven points for a touchdown, while allowing teams to go for two but getting only six points if the conversion fails.
Playoff expansion. I'm hearing it's probably a matter of when, not if. More likely than not, the league will add two playoff teams in time for the 2015 season, meaning 14 playoff teams (instead of the current 12) out of 32. I'm also hearing the league would be inclined toward one team in each conference getting a first-week bye in the postseason. That would mean matchups of two versus seven seeds, three versus six, and four versus five in the wild-card round. This, of course, would mean six wild-card games instead of four, with at least one of them likely moving to Monday night.
Unfair to have teams play Monday night? I don't see it, though I'm not a fan of playoff expansion because I think it devalues the 17 weeks of the regular season. Currently, the four teams playing on the Saturday of wild-card weekend have a short week going into the game. Often, teams that play on wild-card Sunday have to play on the following Saturday. I'm certain the NFL would arrange the schedule so that a Monday winner wouldn't play its divisional game until the following Sunday.
Officiating changes. No movement is expected on creating centralized replay at the league's officiating control center, but I'm hearing that owners will discuss and consider—and that's the word I keep hearing, consider—allowing league officiating czar Dean Blandino to consult on replays while the referee is determining whether to uphold or overturn the call. This wouldn't be a cure-all for bad replay decisions, but it would be a safety valve to help prevent horrible calls like the one Jeff Triplette mauled in Cincinnati last season, when he awarded Bengals running back BenJarvus Green-Ellis a touchdown even though he appeared to be down shy of the goal line in the replay.
Using the N-word on the field. There won't be a rule change mandating a flag if an official hears the N-word. But officials will have the right to penalize verbal abuse, whether it be a player using a racist term or directing other foul language at either opponents or officials. There's a feeling that the league wants to promote more respect on the field, but outlawing one word is too slippery a slope.
Now on to the other news of the week.
The NFL's new middle class
After three years of a stalled market, free agency finally works. When I see free agency this year, I see it working the way it was meant to work when the league implemented it before the 1993 season. If a player is stuck behind a good player somewhere, he can move and start somewhere else. And if a player thinks he's undervalued and his contract is up, well, he can move too.
Wesley Woodyard got replaced in Denver at middle linebacker by Danny Trevathan; Tennessee signed Woodyard to start in the middle for four years and $16 million. Geoff Schwartz was a backup tackle and guard in Kansas City; the Giants got him for $4.2 million a year, probably to start at guard. Cincinnati started Anthony Collins at left tackle for eight games last year and he performed well; Tampa Bay signed him for five years and $30 million. Josh McCown would have been only an insurance policy in Chicago, but he has a shot to be the starting quarterback in Tampa—and he'll make between $5 million and $7.5 million a year, depending how much and how well he plays.
The cap went up $10 million per team this year, and the new CBA mandates that each team must spend at least 89% of its cap between 2013 and 2016, meaning if teams don't spend close to the max, then the union will spend it for them in penalties come 2017.
"The extra cap money this year is allowing teams like Tampa to spend for players like me and Anthony Collins,'' McCown told me. "Now, with the minimum spending rules, owners have to spend and it looks like the money is flowing back to the middle class."
As one club executive told me over the weekend, the real win for the players in the 2011 CBA won't be the increase in the cap over the next few years—it should expand by at least another $10 million next season—but rather the minimum spending rules. In past years, owners had a salary cap, but many didn't spend anywhere near it. Now they have to.
Raiders of the Lost Tackles
The Raiders would like to build like the Packers, but they can't. When Oakland hired Reggie McKenzie to be its general manager in 2012, he wanted to build the team in the image he knew best after spending 18 years in the Midwest—the Green Bay Way. Draft and develop, spend money on your own players.
In the last 13 months, the Raiders have lost three of their top draftees from recent years: defensive tackle Desmond Bryant, pass rusher Lamarr Houston, and left tackle Jared Veldheer. Oakland lost Bryant last year because of the cap crunch. The Raiders lost Houston and Veldheer this year because McKenzie didn't want to pay market value for them.
In the case of Veldheer, it could turn into a terrible mistake, because the Raiders are without a left tackle after the Rodger Saffold debacle. If they choose to draft a very good one with the fifth overall pick this year, then that means one less potential franchise player because they erred so badly in free agency.
You've heard the story by now: Oakland thought Veldheer wanted too much money to be the left tackle and saw him more as a right tackle. And so the Raiders let him go and signed Saffold, a player St. Louis was demoting from tackle to guard (though the Rams liked Saffold a lot at guard.) You won't find many personnel people in the league who value Saffold over Veldheer. But the Raiders agreed to pay Saffold an average of $8.5 million a year during the pre-free agency negotiating period. Veldheer ended up getting $7 million a year to play left tackle for the Cardinals.
When Saffold flew to Oakland for the required physical last Wednesday—accompanied by his parents and two agents—it seemed to be the same formality as any other pre-signing physical. "Rodger said the doctor told him he was OK, fine, no problem,'' one of the agents, Alan Herman, said on Sunday. "That afternoon, the Raiders told us he failed the physical, [that he] had a tear in his labrum and needed immediate surgery.''
Saffold injured his shoulder last August, sat a week, and then played the season with the injury. After the season, the Rams told him they didn't think he needed surgery—and keeping Saffold was one of St. Louis' top priorities in free agency.
Herman consulted with Dr. Frank Cordasco, an orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, and had him examine Saffold. Says Herman, "He told me, 'He doesn't need surgery. There is no problem with Rodger Saffold.' "
The Raiders wouldn't make McKenzie available to me, so I couldn't ask him about the prevailing view around the league: that Oakland got cold feet when the team saw the intense criticism of Saffold's contract. "Buyer's remorse?'' says Herman. "Who knows? All I know is his shoulder is fine. He told us he just benched 400 pounds working out.''
The Rams took Saffold back, happily, at a reduced price. And the Raiders had to settle for Jets right tackle Austin Howard, plus a mélange of vets on defense (Justin Tuck, LaMarr Woodley, Tarell Brown) who were seeking homes after being dissed or cut by their teams.
Not the way Oakland wanted free agency to go. Not at all.
I still don't get the Revis thing
The Patriots fell out of a tree and landed on their feet by getting cornerback Darrelle Revis, a transcendent talent at one of the most important positions in football. Lucky that the Bucs cut him, the Patriots pounced and signed Revis for a year and $12 million—though the deal was dressed up as two years and $32 million.
The Buccaneers cut Revis because he isn't a great scheme-fit for the Tampa 2 defense, in which corners must be more physical than if they were left on islands to simply cover receivers short and deep. I get that. But last year, according to Pro Football Focus, defenses played three or more corners on 58% of the NFL's defensive snaps. Revis is the best cover man in football. The cap rose by $10 million, and Tampa Bay could have afforded to do most or all of what it did in free agency and keep Revis, who already cost the team first- and fourth-round picks in addition to the contract that paid him $16 million a year.
I get new coach Lovie Smith wanting a clean slate and not wanting the onerous Revis contract. But if you told me the league's best cover corner could be had in this era of pass-happy football, in a division with quarterbacks Drew Brees, Matt Ryan and Cam Newton, for 12% of my salary cap, I'd say, "Where do I sign up for that?"
Five Things I Think You Should Know
1. Denver has exercised its 2014 option on Wes Welker, who will make $8 million (including bonuses) at age 33 this fall, and then become a free agent for what might be one final (minor) payday in 2015.
2. How the Broncos likely will line their receivers up in 2014: Julius Thomas tight to the formation, either left or right; Demaryius Thomas split wide, either left or right; Welker most often in the slot; and Emmanuel Sanders mostly opposite Demaryius Thomas. But here's the changeup: Sanders started in the slot 11 times for Pittsburgh in 2012 before moving mostly outside in 2013. One of the things offensive coordinator Adam Gase likes to do is move Welker around so he doesn't get beat up too much in the slot, so don't be surprised to see Sanders learning all the spots. Get your head in the playbook now, Mr. Sanders. Your quarterback is pretty demanding.
3. The Panthers do not currently employ a wide receiver who caught a pass for them in 2013.
4. Pro Football Focus had Packers wideout James Jones down for two dropped passes in 88 balls thrown to him last season, so for those who say Jones hasn't signed anywhere because of butterfingers, there's that. Roddy White had eight drops in 94 targets.
5. If a once-proud player's stock has plummeted more precipitously than Josh Freeman's, I'd like to know who that player is. A year ago, Freeman was set to play out the final year of his rookie contract as Tampa Bay's starting quarterback, at $8.43 million, and then enter the 2014 free-agent market or sign a long-term deal with the Bucs, who could have franchised him. Then he got supplanted by Mike Glennon, cut, signed by Minnesota, and benched after one start for the Vikings. Now, at 26, he'll have to sign a bargain deal in a place like Oakland and compete just to make the roster. There's a book in there somewhere.
Quotes of the Week
"That entire situation is a business ordeal that some people will turn into a personal matter. Situations like that happen all the time over the National Football League. There was no handshake. There was no kind of agreement in terms of—we were close to a deal, but it wasn't anything official just yet. In terms of shopping around, we didn't shop around. Teams were still calling. Teams were still trying to get involved. That's what happened. Steve Weinberg, he did an exceptional job in terms of the whole free agency process.''
— Former Steelers wideout Emmanuel Sanders, after signing with Denver on Sunday. According to the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport, the Chiefs accused Weinberg, Sanders' agent, with making a verbal agreement to sign in Kansas City and then taking that deal and shopping it to Denver. Weinberg hasn't been heard from, and the Broncos denied knowing anything about a verbal agreement between Kansas City and Sanders' camp.
What, really, can the Chiefs do? If a contract wasn't signed, I don't see that there's any recourse other than to say they'll never deal with a Weinberg client again. (Later in the day, the Chiefs said it's a dead issue.) This is the Wild West, and if they feel wronged, well, they're not the first ones to feel that way in the history of NFL negotiations. If it's true that Weinberg had a verbal deal and went to Denver instead, that's not right. But there's a reason the league honors only signed contracts and not verbal agreements.
"To play with Peyton Manning is like wide receiver heaven."
— Sanders.
"Will I miss Cam? Sure I'll miss Cam. But you've got to remember: I was with Cam for three years only. I was with other guys, Jordan Gross for example, for years. I was with people in the organization for years and years. There are in people in the organization who had kids in elementary school when I got there and they're now in college. This is not easy, believe me."
— Steve Smith, who was drafted by the Panthers three months into George W. Bush's first term, on leaving Carolina for a new start in Baltimore.
"The teams that have the good quarterbacks are the teams that win. I'm looking forward to playing with Aaron. As much as I disliked chasing him, I'm excited to join him."
— New Packers pass rusher Julius Peppers, to Vic Ketchman of Packers.com, referring to new teammate Aaron Rodgers after signing a three-year contract with Green Bay on Saturday.
Stat of the Week
Let's not let the moment pass, Panther fans, without remembering how much Steve Smith (now a Raven) did for your franchise over the past 13 seasons. Here's the numerical legacy of No. 89:
· On the first play of his NFL career, with Cris Carter and Randy Moss watching from the Vikings' sideline in September 2001, Smith took a Mitch Berger kickoff at the 7-yard line at the Metrodome and ran it back 93 yards for a touchdown.
· He ranks 25th on the alltime receiving list with 836 catches. In the long, illustrious histories of the New York Giants and the Chicago Bears, no receiver has caught more for either team.
· Smith has caught 17 more balls than Steve Largent; 72 more than James Lofton; and 86 more than Charlie Joiner and Michael Irvin—who are all in the Hall of Fame.
· With three returns for touchdowns as a rookie (two kickoffs, one punt), Smith was the NFL's first-team All-Pro return man in 2001.
· He was better when the games were bigger, averaging 16.8 yards per catch in nine playoff games, with individual receiving games of 135, 163 and 218 yards.
Factoid of the Week That May Interest Only Me
From The NFL Owns The Sporting Calendar Dept.:
On the third day of free agency last Thursday, except for three minutes that were spent discussing the bathroom habits of Mike Greenberg, the first 66 minutes of ESPN's popular "Mike and Mike" morning-drive radio show were devoted to NFL free agency.
Mr. Starwood Preferred Member Travel Note of the Week
A vote for Virgin Atlantic: After visiting my brother and his family in England, I flew back home a week ago on Virgin Atlantic, and the flight staff was beyond pleasant. Water and smiles from the flight attendants were plentiful; there were very few announcements, so as not to disrupt sleep; and there wasn't a single bump on the seven-hour flight. Usually a flight that long is a grinder, but all in all, I must say it was probably the lowest-stress flying experience that I've ever had. If I'm going to complain about silly travel problems, I should praise an airline for getting it right, and this one did.
Tweets of the Week
"Rob Ryan's already turnt up for St. Patrick's Day..."
— @NFLtalkRT, with an impressive photo of the New Orleans defensive coordinator at a parade celebrating St. Patrick's Day in Saintsland.
Rob Ryan's already turnt up for St.Patrick's Day... pic.twitter.com/MAXDMuyuzS
— NFLTALKRT (@NFLTalkRT) March 15, 2014
"Yes, March Madness, there is a Virginia."
— @NYPost_Serby, the ever-clever Steve Serby, after Virginia beat Duke for its first ACC Tournament title in a thousand years on Sunday.
"BREAKING NEWS: Martha's Vineyard to be renamed 'Revis Island' for the next 365 days."
— @MeganCassidy, ESPN associate producer, after the Patriots signed Darrelle Revis to a two-year contract that will very likely be broken after one year.
"I'm now starting to think CNN took the plane."
— @AlbertBrooks, evidently not a fan of the nonstop missing plane coverage on Sunday.
"Dude in a bulkhead seat took his shoes off and is actually rubbing his feet on the touchscreen on the wall. How can anybody think this is OK"
— @billbarnwell of Grantland, on a Sunday flight.
Ain't that America.
Ten Things I Think I Think
1. I think I'd love to hear some good reasons why James Jones, he of the 17 touchdown receptions over the last two seasons, is sitting on the sidelines of free agency, offer-less. He's a very good deep threat whom Aaron Rodgers would like to have back. I don't get that one. Jones and Cam Newton would make beautiful music in Carolina.
2. I think I like what the Broncos are doing in free agency; I appreciate the fact they're growing some teeth on defense. On the other side of the ball, I realize Ryan Clady will return from his Lisfranc foot sprain (he was hurt in the Broncos' second game last season) to nail down the left tackle spot in 2014. But Denver has lost effective guard Zane Beadles to Jacksonville and done nothing to improve the line in free agency. In the Super Bowl, Peyton Manning scrambled for his life much of the time. I counted eight "quiet" pockets when I re-watched the game, meaning only on eight pass attempts did Manning have all the time he needed to make a comfortable throw. I'm sure John Elway is concerned about the line, particularly right tackle Orlando Franklin's ability to hold off quick outside rushers, but we haven't seen him act on it yet.
3. I think it's amazing to see the decline in impact and market presence for B.J. Raji, who re-signed with Green Bay for one year and $4 million. This is a man who looked like a five-year, $40-million player a year or so ago. But you are what your tape says you are, and Raji's tape stunk last season.
4. I think if I were Miami, I'd follow up with Devin Hester. He's a "U" guy and wants to play for the Dolphins … Miami has $25 million free under the cap … The Dolphins have a pedestrian return man in Marcus Thigpen … What's the delay? The fit is perfect.
5. I think this is how I view the first week of free agency for Seattle: totally understandable and justifiable. You think the Seahawks should have kept wideout Golden Tate, at $6 million a year, instead of letting him go to Detroit? You think Seattle should have kept proficient right tackle Breno Giacomini at $4.5 million a year, instead of letting him go to the Jets? There are two factors at play here. When you win the Super Bowl, teams come after your unrestricted free agents, and you've got to figure out which ones you should keep and which ones you can replace in the draft. Factor two: Seattle has to find a way to re-sign Russell Wilson, who will be in the last year of his rookie contract next season and eligible to renegotiate, and keep Legion of Boom members Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman. The front office has to make all 2014 decisions with 2015 in mind. That's why, to me, there was one must-sign for Seattle in this year's free agency class: defensive lineman Michael Bennett. And the Seahawks locked him up for four years and $28.5 million a day before the market opened. When they made that signing, Seattle's free agency business of consequence was finished, and rightfully so.
6. I think I like the Browns taking a run at Cincinnati restricted free agent Andrew Hawkins, committing $10.8 million in the first two years of an offer sheet so the Bengals won't match. And Cincinnati almost certainly won't. Though smurfy, the 5-foot-7 wideout is surprisingly physical and competitive in the air. Hawkins is a good player taken from a division rival who—most likely—will be the slot receiver for your team that Davone Bess wasn't. Good move by GM Ray Farmer and Cleveland, who've got scads of cap room.
7. I think if I'm a Cowboys fan, and I've seen defensive ends DeMarcus Ware and Jason Hatcher fly out the door, with Anthony Spencer soon to follow, I'm thinking: General manager Jerry Jones had better have an impact-player defensive draft, or owner Jerry Jones should fire the GM.
8. I think every year Julian Edelman is healthy for 16 games and has Tom Brady throwing to him, he'll catch at least 100 balls.
9. I think it's been a bad week for Cam Newton's pass catchers: Steve Smith and Brandon LaFell signed elsewhere, and neither Hakeem Nicks nor Emmanuel Sanders became a Panther. But let's judge the makeup of Carolina's receiving corps in August, when training camp is in full swing, and not on St. Patrick's Day. There are no games today.
10. I think these are my non-football thoughts of the week:
a. Best story I read this week: Andrew Solomon in the New Yorker, on how Newtown killer Adam Lanza's father is coping with life after the inexplicable.
b. Imagine thinking your son would have killed you, your other son, Ryan, and your ex-wife, Nancy, if you'd all been together when Adam Lanza went on his rampage. That's what Peter Lanza told Solomon would have happened: "With hindsight, I know Adam would have killed me in a heartbeat, if he'd had the chance. I don't question that for a minute. The reason he shot Nancy four times was one for each of us: one for Nancy; one for him; one for Ryan; one for me."
c. Hard to live with that, I'd say.
d. Second-best story: Jayson Jenks of the Seattle Times, on a name you might remember if you're a football fan of a certain age, former Seahawks center Grant Feasel, who died in July 2012 of acute alcoholism—and apparently from the effects of CTE.
e. How incredible a story, a jumbo jet disappearing. It's amazing in this day and age there isn't a fail-safe system that can account for an airplane vanishing.
f. Good week for my new rotisserie baseball team. When you draft Patrick Corbin, Brandon Beachy and Oscar Taveras, and they all start falling apart days after the draft, well, maybe it's a sign that it's going to be a long year. Or that you don't know what you're doing.
g. Jon Stewart is never not funny.
h. Coffeenerdness: Big fan of the reusable Starbucks cup that saves you 10 cents every time it's used. Paid for itself in about a day and a half.
i. Beernerdness: Not that I have a go-to beer (well, I might if I lived in Seattle), but having Brooklyn Lager on tap at most of the places in my neighborhood is a very good thing.
j. Some journalism people to point out: ESPN's Adam Schefter just had as good a week as I can remember in this business, breaking story after story of who was signing where. This is a rivalry business, naturally, but you've got to tip your hat to a man who is so on top of his game, and Schefter certainly is.
k. Good luck to Rick Reilly as he moves away from writing. It's become fashionable to rap Reilly for some of his recent work, and he's not without his faults. (Nor am I, as you all know very well.) But I've always viewed his prose as I-am-not-worthy stuff, so much of it brilliant. He raised the bar for sportswriters everywhere. I'll miss reading him.
l. Hey, Jay Glazer! Feel better. The man's got double pneumonia, and that cannot be fun. He had a tough time in the hospital last week.
m. Saturday was Sid Hartman's 94th birthday. The Minnesota media legend (there is a bronze statue of him outside Target Field) still works six days a week, writing three or four columns for the Star Tribune and doing daily radio spots. He also does a radio show on WCCO on Sunday mornings, and then hosts a sports TV show on Sunday nights. Can I have that energy, please, for four more decades?
n. Louisville, fourth-seeded? So there are 12 teams in America that are either better overall than Louisville or playing better right now? I don't think so. I'm a basketball doofus and even I know that stinks.
The Adieu Haiku
Do not grade teams now.
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Conexant CX2388x
Big brother to the BT878 produced by Conexant Systems, Inc.. Has specialised DVB support in a new PCI function, instead of using the digital audio input for it. (Yay!). In fact it has stacks of functions, like 6 or something, but fortunately they all share the same (huge 16MB!) memory mapping. Has the same (identical?) RISC programs as the BT878 and the same kind of i2c bus control controller.
Note that according to the product brief, the maximum video signal that this chip can capture is "up to 768 x 576 (square pixel PAL/SECAM)", that is 576p. No true HD signals (720i, 720p, 1080i) can be captured with cards using this chipset. Some countries, such as Australia, have defined HD to be 576p or above, but 576p is not generally considered HD.
But really for DVB I don't think it gives you anything that the BT878 doesn't. If however you want to put analogue video on the same card (like DViCO do) then it seems to have a few improvements in that department.
Analog audio inputs
The cx2388x family of ICs are capable of providing demodulation of all major global broadcast audio standards. In other words, they can directly accept S-IF from a TV tuner pll. These signals will in turn be decoded and are output either to the PC's sound card directly via a patch cable (invokes a DAC step), to a digital audio output interface (eg. SPDIF), or to the host via a DMA channel.
The cx2388x IC's do not process other analog audio sources. They do, however, provide the ability to connect directly, via an i2s input port, to a 3rd party audio ADC.
Also see v4l's cx88 page


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|edge(a, b)
edge(a, c)
edge(c, d)
edge(b, d)
edge(a, e)
edge(b, f)
|edge(c, g)
edge(d, h)
edge(e, f)
edge(e, g)
edge(g, h)
edge(f, h)
We'll collect this set of facts and call the collection of propositions (20 atomic propositions in all) GRAPH.
Also not terribly interesting, but maybe ever-so-slightly interesting, is that one can take this representation of a graph and do forward-chaining logic programming with it. Consider, for example, the following forward-chaining logic program made up of two rules.
edge(Y,X) <- edge(X,Y).These are just logical propositions; the upper-case identifiers are implicitly universally quantified, the comma represents conjunction, and (following common convention for logic programming) we write implication backwards as B <- A instead of A -> B. We'll call this collection of two rules REACH.
reachable(Y) <- edge(X,Y), reachable(X), vertex(Y).
Recall that the behavior of a forward chaining logic program is to take facts that it has and learn more facts. If we just throw the graph at this program, it will use the first rule to derive all the backwards edges (edge(b,a), edge(c,a), and so on) but nothing else. If we add an additional single fact reachable(a), then our forward chaining logic program will furiously learn that b, c, and indeed all the other vertices are reachable. We can rephrase this in the following way: for a specific choice of X and Y, there is a path from X to Y if and only if there is a derivation of this sequent:
GRAPH, REACH ⊢ reachable(X) -> reachable(Y)In fact, the forward chaining logic programming engine, given reachable(X) for some specific X, will derive a fact of the form reachable(Y) for every reachable Y.
Twist 1: weighted logic programmingThe first interesting twist on our boring program is this: we consider those proofs of the sequent
GRAPH, REACH ⊢ reachable(X) -> reachable(Y)and we ask, what if some proofs are better than others? One way to introduce a metric for "what is better" is to say that every one of those atomic propositions has a cost, and every time we use that atomic proposition in a proof we have to pay that cost: we want the cheapest proof:
|edge(a, b) = 66
edge(a, c) = 53
edge(c, d) = 12
edge(b, d) = 57
edge(a, e) = 19
edge(b, f) = 53
|edge(c, g) = 92
edge(d, h) = 6
edge(e, f) = 8
edge(e, g) = 84
edge(g, h) = 162
edge(f, h) = 4
|vertex(a) = 0
vertex(b) = 0
vertex(c) = 0
vertex(d) = 0
vertex(e) = 0
vertex(f) = 0
vertex(g) = 0
vertex(h) = 0
Related workIn fact we can play the same game on any semiring as long as the "score" of a proof is the semiring product of the score of the axioms (in this case, "plus" was the semiring product) and the way we combine the scores of different proofs is the semiring sum of the scores of the two proofs (in this case, "min" was the semiring sum). This sort of generalization-to-an-arbitrary semiring is something that isn't noticed as much as it probably should be. If you're interested in learning or thinking more about weighted logic programming, the first eleven pages of the paper I coauthored with Shay Cohen and Noah Smith, Products of Weighted Logic Programs, were written specifically as a general audience/programming languages audience introduction to weighted logic programming. Most of the other literature on weighted logic programming is by Jason Eisner, though the semiring generalization trick was first extensively covered by Goodman in the paper Semiring Parsing; that paper was part of what inspired Eisner's work on weighted logic programming, at least as I understand it.
Twist 2: linear logic programmingAnother direction that we can "twist" this initially graph discussion is by adding linearity. Linear facts (in the sense of linear logic) are unlike "regular" facts - regular facts can be used any number of times or used not at all - they are persistent. Linear facts can only be used once in a proof - and in fact, they must be used once in a proof.
We've had the vertex propositions hanging around all this time and not doing much; one thing we can do is make these vertex propositions linear, and we'll make the reachable propositions linear as well. In this example, we'll designate linear propositions by underlining them and coloring them red; our program before turns into this:
edge(Y,X) <- edge(X,Y).By the way, if you're familiar with linear logic, the logical meaning of this formula is captured by the following two propositions written properly in linear logic:
reachable(Y) <- edge(X,Y), reachable(X), vertex(Y).
∀x. ∀y. !edge(x,y) -o edge(y,x).We'll talk a little bit more about this specification (call it LREACH) shortly; for the moment let's switch to a different train of thought.
∀x. ∀y. !edge(x,y) -o reachable(x) -o vertex(y) -o reachable(y).
Greedy logic programming with linear logicWhen we talked before about the cost of using a fact in a proof, we were actually assuming a little bit about proofs being focused; we'll talk a little bit about focusing and synthetic rules in this section (see this old blog post for background).
If we make all of our atomic propositions positive, then the synthetic rule associated with the critical second rule above ends up looking like this:
Γ, edge(X,Y); Δ, reachable(Y) ⊢ CRecall that we like to read forward chaining rules from the bottom to the top. If we assume that the context only ever contains a single reachable(X) proposition, then we can think of the linear context as a resource consuming automaton that is in state X. At each step, the automaton consumes an available resource vertex(Y) with the constraint that there must be an edge from X to Y; the automaton then transitions to state Y.
Γ, edge(X,Y); Δ, reachable(X), vertex(Y) ⊢ C
One efficient way to give a logic programming semantics to these kind of forward-chaining linear logical specifications is to just implement an arbitrary run of the automaton without ever backtracking. This is a greedy strategy, and it can be used to efficiently implement some greedy algorithms. This was the point of Linear Logical Algorithms, a paper I coauthored with Frank Pfenning. One neat example from that paper was the following graph program, which computes a spanning tree for a graph rooted at the vertex a:
edge(Y,X) <- edge(X,Y).This program works like another little resource-consuming automaton that, at each step, consumes a vertex resource to add a non-tree vertex to the tree along a newly added tree edge. This is, incidentally, the same way Prim's algorithm for minimum spanning trees progresses.
intree(a) <- vertex(a).
tree(X,Y), intree(Y) <- edge(X, Y), intree(X), vertex(Y).
Hamiltonian paths in linear logicThe greedy strategy where we look at one possible set of choices is very different than the behavior of our briefly-sketched forward-chaining persistent and weighted logic programming engines. The latter worked by taking some initial information (reachable(X) for some X) and finding, all at once and with reasonable efficiency, every single Y for a given X such that the following sequent holds:
GRAPH, REACH ⊢ reachable(X) -> reachable(Y)Call the (persistent) edges EDGE, and the (linear) vertices VERT. Now we can look at the (seemingly) analogous problem stated in linear logic to see why it is in practice, so different:
LREACH, EDGE; VERT ⊢ ⊢ reachable(X) -o reachable(Y)Because linear logic requires that we eventually use every resource in VERT, this derivation corresponds to a run of the automaton where the automaton visited every single node and then ended at Y. If we consider just the case where X and Y are the same, complete derivations correspond to Hamiltonian tours.
By adding linearity, we've made the forward chaining language more expressive, but in doing so we created a big gulf between the "existential" behavior (here's one way the automaton might work, which we found by being greedy) and the "universal" behavior (the automaton can, potentially, follow a Hamiltonian path, which we learned by calling a SAT solver). This gap did not exist, at least for our running example, in the persistent or weighted cases.
Combining the twists?Both linear logic programming and weighted logic programming arise start from a simple observation: the shape of proofs can capture interesting structures. The "structure" in this case was a path through a graph; in weighted logic programming the structures are often parse trees - you know, "boy" is a noun, "fast" is an adverb, "the" is a demonstrative adjective, and the two combined are a noun phrase, until you get a tree that looks something like this:
Sentence(More on this in the "Products of Weighted Logic Programs" paper.)
/ \
/| | \
/ | | \
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the boy ran fast
Weighted logic programming enriches this observation by allowing us to measure structures and talk about the combined measure of a whole class of structures; linear logic, on the other hand, greatly improves on the things that we can measure. But what about using the observations of weighted logic programming to assign scores in the richer language of linear logic programming? What would that look like? I'll give a couple of sketches. These are questions I don't know the answers to, don't know that I'll have time to think about in the near future, but would love to talk further about with anybody who was interested.
Minimum spanning treeI commented before that the logic programming engine described in Linear Logical Algorithms implements something a bit like Prim's algorithm to produce a graph spanning tree. In fact, the engine we described does so with provably optimal complexity - O(|E| + |V|), time proportional to the number of edges in the graph or the number of vertices in the graph (whichever is larger). What's more, we have a good cost semantics for this class of weighted logic programs; this means you don't actually have to understand how the interpreter works, you can reason about the runtime behavior of linear logical algorithms on a much more abstract level. The recorded presentation on Linear Logical Algorithms, as well as the paper, discuss this.
If we replace a queue inside the engine with an appropriately configured priority queue, then the logic programming engine actually implements Prim's algorithm for the low cost of an log(|V|) factor. But can this be directly expressed as a synthesis of weighted logic programming and linear logic programming? And can we do so while still maintaining a reasonable cost semantics? I don't know.
Traveling salesman problemWhile minimum spanning tree is a greedy "existential" behavior of linear logic proof search, the weighted analogue of the Hamiltonian Path problem is just the Traveling Salesman problem - we not only want a Hamiltonian path, we want the best Hamiltonian path as measured by a straightforward extension of the notion of weight from weighted logic programming.
Not-linear logics?Adding some linearity turned a single-source shortest path problem into a Hamiltonian path problem - when we turned vertices from persistent facts into linear resources, we essentially required each vertex to be "visited" exactly once. However, an affine logic interpretation of the same program would preserve the resource interpretation (vertices cannot be revisited) while removing the obligation - vertices can be visited once or they can be ignored altogether.
This makes the problem much more like the shortest path problem again. If edge weights are positive, then the shortest path never revisits a node, so it's for all intents and purposes exactly the shortest path problem again. If edge weights are negative, then disallowing re-visiting is arguably the only sensible way to specify the problem at all. Can this observation be generalized? Might it be possible to solve problems in (weighted) affine logic more easily than problems in weighted linear logic?


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Statement by Scott Patterson,
Acting Director of Evaluation and Technical Service, SSA/OIG,
before the Representative Payee Advisory Committee
February 15, 1996
Assessment of Payee Risk
Testimony Before the
Representative Payee Advisory Committee
Good morning, Madame Chair and members of the Representative Payee Advisory Committee. I am Scott Patterson, Acting Director of Evauation and Technical Services, for the Office of the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration (SSA). I am joined by Dan Blades, Deputy Inspector General, and Deborah Harvey and Brian Pattison, senior evaluators from our San Francisco office. The representative payee program is an important service to beneficiaries that SSA must assure is administered effectively.
The SSA administers two programs under the Social Security Act--title II (retirement, survivors, and disability insurance) and title XVI (supplemental security income). These two programs provide monthly benefit payments of about $30 billion to approximately 50 million beneficiaries who are aged, disabled, or survivors. There are approximately 6 million individuals, or slightly over 10 percent, who cannot handle their own finances. The SSA is authorized to appoint representative payees to assist beneficiaries. Payee responsibilities include:
- frequently monitoring the beneficiary's well-being for food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and personal needs;
- notifying SSA of situations that affect the beneficiary's entitlement to benefits;
- submitting an annual accounting to SSA showing how the payee used the benefits;
- answering questions on the accounting form about custody and conserved funds; and
- informing SSA of changes in the payee's own circumstances that would affect the payee's performance.
According to SSA, it costs approximately $150 million a year to administer the representative payee program, of which about $60 million is for the annual accounting process.
The SSA requested that we provide information to assist them in addressing the requirements for annual accounting. Our study's objective is to (1) assess how different categories and types of payees handle their responsibilities and (2) determine the relative risks of improper use of benefits by the category and type of representative payees. Currently, SSA believes that some categories and types of representative payees are less likely to misuse benefits or fail to fulfill their responsibilities than others. The SSA's · assumptions are (1) parents, acting as representative payees for their minor children, present the lowest risk and (2) nonrelative, noncustodial payees present the highest risk.
BeforeI discuss our preliminary results, I will briefly describe our study's methodology. I believe it will show the depth and objectivity of the fieldwork. The extensive fieldwork will strengthen the potential impact of our results on representative payee accounting.
Our sample size was designed to analyze and describe the relative risks of both the universe of payees and many categories and types of representative payees. In September 1994, SSA prepared a computer file of titles II and XVI beneficiaries with representative payees who received benefits between October 1993 and September 1994. From this file, we extracted a sample of 3,010 representative payee cases for our study. The cases were equally divided for each of the following:
1. relatives and nonrelatives,
2. custodial and noncustodial payees and
3. title II and title XVI programs.
We then mailed the SSA accounting forms to the selected payees. When payees completed the forms and returned them, we analyzed the information and sent the case to our study interviewers. We then also sent non-responder cases (payees who did not return the form) to the interviewers. More than 235 study interviewers conducted fieldwork from October 1994 through January 1996.
As of January 31, 1996, we had received 3,004 completed cases (or 99.8 percent of 3,010 cases) from the study interviewers. We are now analyzing these data and want to share some preliminary results. However, we have not yet weighted the preliminary results nor have we determined the statistical significance of these results.
We generally found that the custodial relationship has a greater impact on payee performance and use of funds than the assumption that risk is based on relationships between payees and beneficiaries. Noncustodial payees were more likely to exhibit poor performance than custodial payees. However, custodial payees were more likely to improperly use benefits than noncustodial payees. The current accounting process often failed to identify these payees.
Custodial and noncustodial payees include parents, other relatives, and nonrelatives such as institutions, agencies and their officials, and friends.
We identified approximately 150 of 3,010 cases exhibiting poor performance. Of the 150 payees, 60 were custodial payees and 90 were noncustodial payees. We relied on the interviewers to identify poor performance. The interviewers identified poor performance based on SSA's stated responsibilities for representative payees. They found that payees:
1. failed to manage benefits--they turned the benefits over to someone else to perform the payee task or gave the benefits directly to the beneficiary;
2. failed to complete an accounting form--these payees were often volume payees and repeatedly failed to complete SSA's accounting form each year; and
3. failed to report changes in beneficiary's circumstances--these failures often resulted in overpayments.
Use of Funds
We identified at least 36 of 3,010 cases, or about 1 percent, exhibiting possible improper use of funds. According to SSA's records, 22 were custodial and 14 were noncustodial payees. However, we later found that only 11 of the 36 payees were custodial payees. We relied on the interviewers to identify payees who had improperly used funds. They found that these payees did not use the benefits for the beneficiary. For example,
- a mother falsely claimed custody of her son when she applied for his title II and, later, title XVI benefits. However, she never contributed to the care of this child. The true custodian paid the entire cost of care since she brought the child home from the hospital when he was 3 days old; and
- a State social service agency commingled funds for all beneficiaries in their care and could not properly account for the use of funds for each beneficiary.
We identified two other problem situations--a volume payee and beneficiaries in prison.
Problem Situation #1:
We identified one problem volume payee--54 of 3,010 cases in our sample. This State social service agency serves as payee for more than 2,000 child beneficiaries. We found that this agency:
- failed to complete and return the accounting form;
- failed to inform SSA of important changes in beneficiaries' circumstances
where and with whom the beneficiary is living, and
conserved funds which exceeded resource eligibility limits; and
- lacked sufficient records to identify how beneficiary's funds were used--an inability to provide us with financial information about a specific beneficiary because the agency had no record of having received benefits for the individual.
Our office has initiated a financial audit of this agency.
Problem Situation #2:
We identified approximately 30 of 3,010 cases in which the beneficiary was in prison during the accounting period. We also found that their payees often failed to inform SSA of ·the change in the beneficiaries' circumstances so that SSA could suspend benefits. Consequently, these beneficiaries were overpaid.
The Annual Accounting Process
The current accounting process does not effectively detect possible problem payees. From the 150 cases of poor performance and 36 cases of improper use of funds, we found cases in which:
- the payee filled out the accounting form in a manner that produced no further contact,
- problems with the accounting form could be cleared with a simple telephone call, and
- the payee did not return the accounting form--although this is an indication of potential problems, we found that workloads related to processing non-responding payees has low priority.
After we complete an in-depth analysis of all the data we collected, we expect to report our results to the Commissioner of Social Security. We appreciate the opportunity to share this very preliminary look at our data. At this time, we would be happy to respond to any questions that the committee may have for us.


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Provost Vincent Price and Vice Provost for Faculty Lynn Hollen Lees announced the appointment of the fifth cohort of Penn Fellows.
The Penn Fellows program, begun in 2009, provides leadership development to select Penn faculty members in mid-career. It includes opportunities to build cross-campus alliances, meet distinguished academic leaders, think strategically about universities and university governance, and consult with Penn's senior administrators.
The 2013 Penn Fellows are:
Elisabeth Barton, associate professor of anatomy & cell biology in the School of Dental Medicine, studies muscle physiology, especially skeletal muscle repair, with the goal of developing therapies to aid in combatting muscle disease and enhance repair after injury.
William Burke-White, professor and deputy dean in the Law School, is an expert on international law and global governance who served from 2009-2011 on the Policy Planning Staff of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Adam Grant, associate professor of management in the Wharton School, studies work motivation, job design, employee initiative and proactivity, leadership, and burnout and is the author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.
Carmen Guerra, associate professor of medicine in the Perelman School of Medicine, specializes in cancer control, especially the barriers to physician recommendation and patient acceptance of cancer screening tests and procedures and the impact of literacy barriers on cancer screening.
John MacDonald, associate professor and chair of criminology in the School of Arts & Sciences, studies a wide variety of topics in criminology, including interpersonal violence, race and ethnic disparities in criminal justice, and the effectiveness of social policy responses to crime.
Kim M. Olthoff, Donald Guthrie Professor of Surgery in the Perelman School of Medicine and director of the Liver Transplant Program at the Penn Transplant Institute, focuses on adult and pediatric liver transplantation, living donor transplantation, and surgery for hepatobiliary malignancies and benign liver tumors.
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