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New Design Tool Nixes Mouse; Users Create Shapes with Hands Only
Researchers have developed a design tool that enables people to create three-dimensional objects with their bare hands by using a depth-sensing camera and advanced software algorithms to interpret hand movements and gestures.
"It allows people to express their ideas rapidly and quickly using hand motions alone," said Karthik Ramani, Purdue University's Donald W. Feddersen Professor of Mechanical Engineering. "We're democratizing the design process. You don't have to be an engineer or an accomplished potter to use this. You can be a kid."
The tool, called Handy-Potter, represents a potentially significant advance in how people interact with computers, he said.
"In our lab we have a saying, 'The mouse is dead,'" Ramani said. "With Handy-Potter, we are trying to make the computer interface natural to the user."
His research team won an "all conference best paper" award for the Handy-Potter work, to be presented during the ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference this week in Chicago. The paper was co-authored by Ramani and graduate students Vinayak, Sundar Murugappan and Cecil Piya.
The research, funded by the National Science Foundation, addresses the limitations of conventional computer-aided design tools that are needed to create geometric shapes.
"Traditional tools require the use of procedures so complicated that it is difficult to become an expert," Ramani said. "Handy-Potter is more of an imagination tool. You create the shape while you are completely focused on the idea rather than bothering yourself about the right usage of the tool. The tool learns you and does not become a barrier in creation. You don't learn the tool."
Users interact with a computer using natural user interfaces like hand gestures to create and modify shapes.
"For example, there are very intuitive gestures for pulling and bending a shape," Ramani said. "You learn the gestures naturally and without any user manual."
The tool could have applications in areas including games, architecture, art and engineering design. It uses the Microsoft Kinect camera, which senses three-dimensional space. The camera is found in consumer electronics games that can track a person's body without using handheld electronics.
Researchers created advanced algorithms that recognize the hand, understand that the hand is interacting with the shape and then modify the shape in response to the hand interaction. (A video showing how the system works is available at https://engineering.purdue.edu/cdesign/wp/?p=1221)
"The algorithms are very intelligent," Ramani said. "They represent state-of-the-art synthesis of machine learning, geometric modeling and human-computer interaction."
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SHOES SHOES SHOES!!!! I can barely keep up with all the new releases. On my radar this month was the brand new release from N-core! They've redone their bare-feet with ungraded details and introduced their own "click & match" feature.
The hud is super, super easy to use and comes with tones of skins. Nuria even wrote in the notecard "If your skin is not currently on the database and you are having troubles, don't worry! please send a notecard to Nuria Augapfel adding on the note your skin brand, skin name and tone and she will send you the RGB values for your skin ASAP." - showing that N-core will always go out of its way to make sure their costumers are pleased!
Along with the new feet, N-core has released a new shoe called "Diva", which comes in a multiple of colours. The shoes also feature the new "click & match" which gives the perfect match, each and every time. Check out the pictures below and make sure you head over to N-core for your own demo!!
I'm all about these shoes!!!!! They're so easy to match, I might never take them off...
Hair from DeLa - Vanessa - Dark Brown 3
Skin - Belleza - Shyla - Tan
Eyes from Ikon - Eternal Eyes - Blue-Gray
Dress from Hucci - Eilat Dress - GIFT
Shoes from N-core - Diva (NEW)
Ring from The Sea Hole - Corsage Ring
Watch from 7891 - March Watch - Gold
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Philip Anthony "Espo" Esposito OC (born February 20, 1942, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a retired, professional hockey centre who played 18 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins and New York Rangers.
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- I never shot a deer. I've never shot anything in my life. I never hunted. I'm just not that type of guy. But there's no doubt in my mind that I would have killed to win. That really scares me sometimes. Right now I think about it, and I get little goose bumps. I would have done anything - absolutely anything - to win. In a war, maybe that's what happens. It was our society against their society.
- Reported in Neil Milbert, "Classic Soviet series: When Canada's stars shone brightest", The Chicago Tribune (January 18, 1991), p. C-15.
- Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport -- or in any job for that matter -- you won't succeed.
- Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Phil Esposito," Legends of Hockey.net (2002-02-18).
- The importance of teammates is the thing I appreciate the most from those years. I was a lucky guy. There is nothing better than good teammates. I don't care what anybody says, you can't do it alone. It takes a good team for you to be a good player, and the same goes for playing on a bad team. I see Vincent Lecavalier play all the time. He gives it his all, but it comes down to your teammates,
- Quoted in Andrew Podnieks, "One on One with Phil Esposito," Legends of Hockey.net (2002-02-18).
- Esposito refers to his playing years.


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Today I was planning on writing about my ASL class, more specifically I wanted to write about my reaction to a movie that I watched in the class. The movie is called "For a Deaf Son." it is distributed by PBS and if you are interested on seeing it e-mail me, I will tell you how. Here is a synopsis of the movie.
Annotation The life of four-year-old Thomas Tranchin, born deaf to a hearing family, and the struggle of the producer/director to unlock Thomas' speech capacities is documented through home video of therapy sessions, classrooms, and workshops. Their struggle in the decision of whether to educate Thomas in sign language versus strictly verbal speech is also documented. Therapists and other families with deaf children are also interviewed. 1/2″ VHS
I have many opinions on the movie, but I am not going to talk about the today, because I am sad to say that Tommy is not with us anymore. I offer condolences to Rob and Laurie Tranchin and their family as they mourn for their son, Thomas , age 15, who died December 9 2003.
The article from where I found the news was originally posted at thetactilemind.com, but the site has since changed.
The movie is touching to say the least. It is very moving, or at least it was to me. I cannot begin to comprehend what it will mean to a deaf person. For now all I wasn to say is Tommy, R.I.P.


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We couldn't quite fit everything from our interviews with Blackstone and Walters in the print magazine. Here's a little more from and about these two all-stars:
Blackstone on rebuilding the team post-LeBron James:
LeBron is a once-in-a-generation kind of player, so that would leave any team with a lot of work to do. The team was the best in the league for several seasons, and then to go to the bottom was a very painful thing for everybody. But he left, and we had to decide how to move on.
There are so many things we can't control that we're focusing on controlling the things we can. We're tasked with rebuilding the team, but how do we go about that the right way? It's very easy to build a mediocre team, but once you're there, it's incredibly difficult to get out—and the process is even more painful than anything we're going through right now.
You acquire new players in the draft, in a trade or through free agency. The draft is extremely important but the most straightforward in terms of the process; rookie contracts are mostly about negotiating the little stuff. In a trade, you work it out with the other team, and getting two to tango is much easier said than done. Free agency is the most difficult player- acquisition vehicle to manage and can get a team into big trouble financially at times. You only have so much money you can spend overall. You try to balance out the players you are looking at—does each one make sense for us, both now and in X years?
A lot of the decision-making requires having a sound process, great communication and empowering leadership who will give you the resources and time you need. You only make so many transactions a year. That's why each one is so important.
Walters on the bumpy road to becoming an attorney:
For my whole life, my goal had been to get into law school. The thing is, once you get there, you have to figure out what you're going to do with it. I didn't even do that well my first year and I realized I had to get serious.
That first summer, I had an internship in the offices of J. Wyndal Gordon [J.D. '95], a University of Baltimore grad whose firm handles a whole range of criminal defense, family law, medical malpractice and business litigation. I got to see how law was practiced.
I went back to Baltimore for my second year and achieved a 3.7 GPA that fall semester, and I continued to perform at a high level from then on. I also needed money at the time, though, so I worked full time at Kinko's while I went to law school. Working at Kinko's caused me to be tired all the time, but it was a great reminder that this was not what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Ironically, despite [my] being constantly exhausted, the Kinko's experience not only humbled me, but also ultimately invigorated me.
One day, I attended an event being held at school before I went to work, and a woman from Black Entertainment Television was on the panel. I asked her about a legal internship, and she gave me her card. I got hired and spent my second summer driving between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., every day, but it was a phenomenal experience.
By the time I went back for my third year, I thought entertainment law was what I wanted to do. During my third year, though, I interned with a local attorney who gave me an offer of employment. After graduation, I took the bar exam and called him. That was when he told me that he didn't have the money to hire me. My wife was already working at a firm, but we needed two incomes to build a house. It was a rough start.
Rather than sulk, I decided to search hard for an associate attorney position. Luckily, I found a job within a few weeks as an associate attorney at Naka, Huttar & Oldhouser, a small transactional firm in Baltimore. I learned a lot about being a transactional lawyer [there], and I ultimately credit [the firm] for helping me build the foundation I would need to do what I do today. Everything happens for a reason; I'm truly blessed.


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FoodEx is the largest trade exhibition for food and drinks in Asia, with about 70,000 visitors checking out the products presented by hundreds of participating companies. I was lucky to enter as press; otherwise, visitors must be affiliated with the food industry — and pay ¥5,000 — to enter.
The FoodEx menu is global, including everything from cherry beer from Germany and premium Mexican tequila to top-class French and Chinese dumplings. The event was a rare chance to try out both well-known and exotic foods and even see professionals making them.
In addition to booths offering traditional Japanese favorites such as udon and maguro sashimi, there were plenty of innovative twists, such as dorayaki, a sweet snack made of two pancakes and a red-bean filling, that came in coffee and tomato flavors.
While I was there I was lucky to catch the World Sushi Cup Japan 2013, where top chefs from around the world were competing … and presenting a wide range of styles that you would not normally see in Japan, like the flower makizushi above.


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When we were kids we would love to watch: " The Rockford Files"on television with my parents ...Now this may be ancient for some, never heard of for others...but for the TV fanatics of my generation ;you will remember this much loved detective series starring the wonderful; James Garner .
Dad loved his wit,his charm that rivalled well,maybe his own ....and enjoyed James Garner as an actor tremendously, so it was a relief to know that:
a) he remembered who he was and
b)....he had a comment about him.....
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Will you recognise famous sites in this historic town in it? Director Peter Thwaites selected Český Krumlov for his new campaign for Guinness beer, which tells the story of a unique magic clock, which decides on its own to manage time in a manner that improves the fates of the town and local inhabitants.
The black and white advertisement is set at the end of the 19th century, and observant viewers will recognise well known sites in Český Krumlov, such as Náměstí Svornosti Square with a baroque fountain, the Barber Bridge and the former Church of St. Jošt at Latrán.
Already the second spot from the "Made of More" series, participated in by around 160 actors, the advertisement emphasizes the uniqueness of the famous black beer from Dublin. The spot was filmed during October of last year and took five days to complete. The commercial will begin being broadcast in Great Britain as of 24 January.


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Olsen named entrepreneur-in-residence
The School of Engineering and Applied Science has named Greg Olsen, a pioneer in the sensors industry and in space travel, as its first "entrepreneur-in-residence."
The position gives students and faculty members access to advice and ideas from a highly successful business founder and adds momentum to the growing number of entrepreneurial activities at the school, said Dean H. Vincent Poor.
Olsen said that a company he cofounded, Sensors Unlimited, benefited greatly during its early days from collaborations with Princeton's researchers in material science. Christopher Dries, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton, went on to become the vice president of research and development at Sensors, which is located in Princeton.
"Sensors Unlimited got a lot of help from Princeton, and there is a nice trade going on already between Princeton and entrepreneurship," Olsen said. "I just want to keep that going."
Sensors Unlimited developed optoelectronic devices such as sensitive near-infrared and shortwave-infrared cameras for NASA and other clients. The Goodrich Corp., a Fortune 500 aerospace and defense company, acquired Sensors in 2005 for $60 million.
"Having Princeton interact with industry is a really great thing," said Olsen. "It's good for the companies; it's good for the students; it's good for the University. I'm looking forward to doing whatever I can to get research out of Princeton University and into the world."
Olsen's appointment is with Princeton's Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, in collaboration with the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM).
Olsen went into space in October 2005 as one of the world's first private citizens to become a self-funded astronaut. He traveled on a Russian Soyuz rocket for a 10-day visit to the International Space Station. Since then he has been devoting much of his time encouraging American students to pursue careers in science and engineering.
Olsen graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson with two bachelor's degrees and went on to the University of Virginia for his doctorate in materials science. He was a research scientist at the University of Port Elizabeth in South Africa and then at RCA Laboratories (now Sarnoff), where he developed a photodetector made of the exotic metals indium-gallium-arsenide.
Although he lacked business experience, Olsen thought he could produce detectors faster and more cheaply than RCA could. So in 1984 he cofounded his first company, Epitaxx, which manufactured emitters and detectors for fiber optics.
"I just sort of morphed from being a bench research scientist into an entrepreneur," he said.
His new position at Princeton is itself entrepreneurial. "Since this is the first time we have had an entrepreneur-in-residence, Greg will be defining the position," said Poor. "He is such an agile and innovative thinker that we have great expectations."
Olsen said that he would be making himself available to University researchers and students to offer one-on-one advice.


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#Netflix has done it again with another compelling and addictive #TV series: the new psycho-sexual drama/thriller Gypsy.
The show is from the director of 50 Shades of Grey, Sam Taylor-Johnson, and stars Naomi Watts as the mysterious Jean Holloway. She's a therapist with a supposedly picture-perfect life who becomes a bit too infatuated by the lives of her patients, particularly a client's ex-girlfriend. Jean develops a double life, adopting the name Diane Hart to pursue her intoxicating curiosities.
Since the series' release at the end of June, I haven't seen much conversation about the new Netflix drama. #Gypsy deals with topics such as ADHD and gender dysmorphia in children. We see this in Jean's nine year old daughter, Dolly (Maren Heary), who wears typically 'boy' clothes and demands her hair to be cut like a boy. The drama also has a intriguing, compelling, and strong female lead in Naomi Watts. This is refreshing because, as I'm sure you've noticed, strong and well-written female leads are still lacking on film and TV. Watts executes her role as the impulsive therapist extremely well.
After binge watching all ten episodes there are still many unanswered questions, keeping my interest in the series. Let's go through them one by one below:
1. What Will Sidney Do?
Gypsy begins with Jean seeing client Sam (Karl Glusman), whose problems are rooted in his dysfunctional relationship with on-and-off girlfriend Sidney (Sophie Cookson). Sidney is described as powerful and controlling, piquing Jean's curiosity. Compelled by her client's ex, Jean finds the coffee shop where she works. A spark immediately jumps between the two women, which leads to the birth of Jean's lesbian-alter-ego Diane Hart.
As time goes on, Jean and Sidney engage in a passionate and reckless relationship, yet Sidney is intrigued by Diane's secrecy and her work as a journalist. In the final episode, Sidney has figured "Diane" out. She discovers an article supposedly written by Diane is actually the work of Jean's husband's potential mistress. She also discovers that "Diane" is actually married and has a child.
In the final scene of the series, Sidney turns up at Jean's daughter's school, where Jean is giving a speech on the psychology and practice of bullying. Jean stands on stage under the spotlight, and she sees Sidney at the back of the hall. She does not, however, seem concerned that her two worlds are about to collide. What will Sidney do with this information? Does she plan to expose Jean in front of an audience? Or does this merely heighten her curiosity? Jean and Sidney are a power couple to look out for.
2. What Really Happened To Allison After The Knock On The Door?
Jean also became too involved with drug addict Allison, played by Lucy Boynton. After the patient has troubles with her mother and abusive boyfriend Tom, Jean offers Allison a place to stay. The location? Her secret apartment where alter-ego Diane Hart lives. During Allison's stay, she discovers tapes belonging to Diane. Shortly after, we hear someone try to get into the apartment with a key. The cross-cut editing tells us this definitely wasn't Jean. The next thing we know, Allison is missing. Toward the end of the final episode, we see who we assume to be Allison laying in the back of Tom's car, unresponsive. How did she get there? Is she alive? And who was that at the door?
3. Will Detective Kelly Find Out About Jean's Double Life?
After Allison was filed as a missing person, Detective Kelly (Craig Wroe) investigates. He discovers Allison was staying in an apartment and informs Jean he will explore this lead. Jean frantically rushes over to the apartment to get rid of any personal items that may link the apartment back to her. She seems to have forgotten a picture of her mother, however. Was this intentional? We know that Jean's mum rents the apartment in her name. Was Jean covering her tracks or will Kelly link the apartment to back to Jean and expose her double life?
4. What Will Happen With Sam And Sidney?
In the final episode, we see Jean urge Sidney and Sam to get back together, but why? Jean has invested so much time and effort into keeping the two former lovers apart so she could have Sidney to herself. Perhaps Jean has realized her web of lies has become too suffocating, and that she can't function as both Jean and Diane?
As Sidney arrives to Jean/Diane's speech, Sam lets himself into Sidney's apartment. Did he go there to steal his dog back? Or did he go kiss and make up with Sidney?
5. Will There Be a second season?
The biggest question we have is whether there will be a second season. Nothing has been announced thus far, but surely with these unanswered questions – plus other unresolved elements – there has to be another season.
Writer Lisa Rubin says:
"We're all excited about the possibility [of a second season]. It's very much on the table. I'm sure they'll announce it either way in a few weeks."
She also states that if season two happens, we'll understand Jean's motives:
"Jean is a mystery, and a lot of those questions about her past will be answered in a second season. We'll start to understand her foundation and her motivations."
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Lookin' a bit sad there, buddy.
I love flowers, but I hate that this will inevitably be their fate. Sometimes I dry them so that I can keep them 'forever'. Someone suggested plastic flowers, but I don't like the look of them. What's a girl to do to keep some flowers around, eh?
I got the golden glasses from a recent trip to Seoul, South-Korea. They have some beautiful accessories there at reasonable prices! I wanted to bring back so much, but all my skincare and makeup shopping kind of took over – there just wasn't much space left for decoration. I did manage to bring back a few scented candles, a golden scissor and some beautiful reed diffusers shaped like stone! And of course notebooks. A girl gotta have beautiful notebooks.


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Welcome to InQbate
The Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Creativity
InQbate, The CETL in Creativity, is a joint initiative between the University of Sussex and the University of Brighton building on their excellent track record of collaborating in the areas of design, innovation and creativity. InQbate explores how a technology-rich environment can support the creative process, in both science and arts subjects.
Two Creativity Zones form the centrepiece of InQbate and offer exciting opportunities for students to work in spaces that foster collaborative, self-directed and experiential learning. InQbate will produce a series of multidisciplinary case studies and practice guides.


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Arena 1.5:Getting Started
About Arena
Arena transforms your library membership into a whole new experience based upon sharing your interests and discoveries.
It combines information from libraries, clubs, archives, societies, records offices and special interest groups (depending on your implementation of Arena), integrating related resources in new ways that present many opportunities for library members.
You may submit and share your reviews of any library stock, and even create your own virtual library. For example, if you run a sailing club through Arena, you may build a library of sailing-related books, DVDs, pictures, plans, and records for the club.
Arena also enables you to search combined resources in one simple search, rate library items, read and write reviews.
All this exists around the library. You may use Arena to search the library, find out where items are kept in stock, and arrange loans or reservations.
By creating an account in Arena, you can take full control of your library membership, arrange and manage loans and reservations, manage fees, and more. To learn more see User Accounts.
To learn about the technical aspects of Arena, see Arena.
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The Arena screen is divided into several areas (typically five). Only two areas are fixed - the header and toolbar. Arena's features are highly customizable. This means that they may appear in different locations, in different colours, and with different captions and graphics, than those described here. They may even work differently, depending on how they are deployed. For this reason, when we refer to a feature here in the help wiki, we do not specify its location on the screen. Instead we refer to the feature by its default on-screen title.
The language selector
The language selector enables you to choose the language that you want to use in Arena. You may switch languages at any time. To learn more see Language Selector.
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The search tool appears in the Header Area. It enables you to search Arena for items in the library, or for articles posted in Arena. The results of searches appear in the Centre Panel, where you may explore further to find what interests you. To learn more see Search
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Robb Walsh's Buttermilk Dressing Recipe
The following recipe is from the May 16 edition of our weekly recipe newsletter. To receive this newsletter in your inbox, sign up here!
In Texas, the ubiquitous chicken fried steak is often plated with fries and a buttermilk ranch dressed salad on the same plate, making the ranch the dip of choice for the fries. Robb Walsh, author of Texas Eats, speculates that the popularity of ranch as a dip comes from Texas's cowboy culture, where those gruff dudes used the creamy-tangy dressing to compliment everything from fries to onion rings and even chicken fried steak. And now we know that we have Texas to thank for those little tubs of ranch meant for pizza crust dippage.
What Worked: This 1937 recipe for Buttermilk Dressing is the proto ranch. It's cool, creamy, and the ideal dipper and dunker for everything from salads to pizza crusts, wings and fries.
What Didn't: If you're used to a tangier ranch, consider upping the lemon and mustard.
Suggested Tweaks: A handful of snipped chives and parsley would not only add color but also a complementary herbiness.
Reprinted with permission from Texas Eats by Robb Walsh. Copyright © 2011. Published by Ten Speed Press. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
- Yield:makes about 1 1/2 cups
- Active time: 10 minutes
- Total time:10 minutes
- 1/2 cup homemade mayonnaise
- Juice of 1/2 onion
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon paprika
- 1 cup thick buttermilk
Stir all of the ingredients into the unbeaten buttermilk.
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Although facing lethal WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo probably isn't on the top of most fighters' to-do list, defeating the Brazilian striker is now a requirement to take the belt.
Former UFC lightweight contender Manny Gamburyan did his best to stake his claim to a title shot at WEC 48 with a stunning knockout of former champ Mike Brown.
But WEC general manager Reed Harris recently told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio) he isn't ready to declare him a No. 1 contender just yet and said this month's WEC 49 show – and its co-main event – could play a factor in the decision.
WEC 49, of course, takes place June 20 and features a bout with two additional featherweight contenders with Josh Grispi (13-1 MMA, 3-0 WEC) taking on L.C. Davis (16-2 MMA, 3-0 WEC) at Rexall Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Both 145-pounders are 3-0 in the WEC, and their bout co-headliners WEC 49's Versus broadcast, which assures plenty of exposure for the winner and possible title challenger.
Gamburyan (11-4 MMA, 3-0 WEC), of course, garnered some headlines of his own when he viciously knocked out Brown during the WEC's first-ever pay-per-view event back in April. And like Grispi and Davis, Gamburyan also is 3-0 in the WEC.
So who gets the title shot?
It depends on a few factors, Harris said.
"We've got June in front of us, and then after that we've got a show in August that we haven't announced yet," Harris told MMAjunkie.com Radio. "The fights after that, we're just not there yet. We like to see what happens in these fights. That way the best guy, the freshest guy, is the guy competing."
After all, defeating Aldo (17-1 MMA, 7-0 WEC), who won title from Brown in November as part of his current 10-fight win streak, is no easy task. And attempting to do it while at less than 100 percent is far from a sound game plan.
That's why the nod may go to do Gamburyan, who's already had a month and a half to recover from the Brown fight.
And Harris thinks the Armenian's accomplishments – and his confidence – would suit him well for the challenge if he does, indeed, get the title shot.
"I think everybody [at WEC 48] was surprised (about the win) except for Manny," he said. "Manny wasn't surprised. He came up afterward and said, 'Dude, I knew that was going to happen.'
"With striking like that and his wrestling and judo, he tells me he thinks he can beat Aldo. Manny has been in some big fights. He fought for the UFC. Here's a guy that's seasoned and has a good camp."
For more on WEC 49, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Idiom in a box
Around the school you will find these art boxes. They have been made by Bridie, one of the Directors of Tti, as a fun way of illustrating some of the many strange idioms and expressions we might us in English.
Idiom in a box
I've got butterflies in my tummy.
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POPSUGAR Shout Out Oct. 15, 2013
POPSUGAR Shout Out: Survive the Zombie Invasion
- Fight against zombies with this butt-busting workout — Fitness
- These Michael Fassbender GIFs will have you fanning yourself — Love & Sex
- Why buy sprinkles when you can make your own? — Food
- Catch a glimpse of New Girl's Halloween episode — Entertainment
- Video: Could this man be the next Christian Grey candidate? — Celebrity & News
- Inject a little Halloween spirit into your office space — Smart Living
- Shocking pieces from the 2014 bridal collections — Fashion
- Round out your Halloween costume with these hair accessories — Beauty
- 10 movies that are perfect for a girls-only sleepover — Moms
- Affordable side tables that really pack a punch! — Home
- Last-minute costume ideas for you and your gal pal — Celebrity & News
- What should you expect from Apple's keynote next week? — Tech


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WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday placed their emergency operations center in Atlanta on the highest response level because of the worsening Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The move comes as more cases of the deadly virus have migrated from rural villages and towns in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to urban areas in Nigeria, where it could spread more quickly.
The number of Ebola deaths in the region has reached 932, according to the World Health Organization, while the number of confirmed or suspected cases has now reached 1,711.
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday placed their emergency operations center in Atlanta on the highest response level because of the worsening Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The move comes as more cases of the deadly virus have migrated from rural villages and towns in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to urban areas in Nigeria, where it could spread more quickly.
The number of Ebola deaths in the region has reached 932, according to the World Health Organization, while the number of confirmed or suspected cases has now reached 1,711.
The World Health Organization convened a special summit of international experts in Geneva on Wednesday to determine if the outbreak constitutes a "public health emergency of international concern." If so, WHO will recommend temporary measures to reduce the international spread of the disease.
Next week, WHO will convene a panel of medical ethicists to explore using experimental treatments for Ebola patients in West Africa. Ebola only spreads through contact with infected bodily fluids. It cannot be transmitted through airborne particles.
While no vaccine is available, several are being developed. They include ZMapp, an experimental immune system booster made by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. of San Diego. Two Americans who had been working with patients in West Africa and were stricken with Ebola have been hospitalized at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta and reportedly have been treated with ZMapp, even though the drug has never been tested in humans.
President Barack Obama told reporters Wednesday that the U.S. would not send supplies of ZMapp to the epicenter of the outbreak in West Africa because it's unclear whether the drug is actually helpful. It's also "premature," Obama said, to discuss fast-tracking the approval process for Ebola drugs until more information about their effectiveness is known.
"We are in an unusual situation in this outbreak," says Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO assistant director-general. "We have a disease with a high fatality rate without any proven treatment or vaccine. We need to ask the medical ethicists to give us guidance on what the responsible thing to do is."
Ideally, regulatory approval for new medications involves a series of small clinical trials in humans to determine if the treatment is safe. The tests are later expanded to more people to determine their effectiveness and the best course of treatment.
Obama said the outbreak continues to grow, in part because the affected countries have weak public health systems that have been overwhelmed by the challenge of quickly identifying and isolating Ebola patients. In addition, distrust of public health workers by local villagers have also hampered response efforts.
"As a consequence, it spread more rapidly than has been typical with the periodic Ebola outbreaks that have occurred previously," Obama said.
While the U.S. must take the crisis seriously, Obama said, Ebola can be "controlled and contained very effectively if we use the right protocols."
As the U.S. and other international players continue to provide public health assistance in West Africa, Obama said it may become "entirely appropriate to see if additional drugs or medical treatments" can improve survival rates for the virus.
"I will continue to seek information about what we're learning about the drugs going forward," he said.
The CDC is sending 50 additional disease control experts to the four affected African nations to help treat patients and contain the disease. As of Monday, six CDC officials already have been deployed to Guinea, 12 to Liberia, four to Nigeria and nine to Sierra Leone.
CDC spokeswoman Karen Hunter said the movement of the center's emergency operations center to Level 1 activation is "reserved for the largest-scale responses, which often require substantial agency-wide effort." Hunter said the designation is appropriate "given the significance of this outbreak, the extension to Nigeria, and the potential to affect many lives."
On Tuesday, the CDC issued an Alert Level 2 Travel Notice for Americans visiting Nigeria. Travelers to Nigeria are being asked to practice careful hygiene and avoid contact with blood and body fluids of people ill with Ebola.
A Warning Level 3 Travel Notice is also in effect for Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The CDC is advising Americans to avoid nonessential travel to these countries.
Upon request from the World Health Organization, the CDC is taking a more active role in providing technical assistance to the Ebola response effort.
"The bottom line with Ebola is we know how to stop it: traditional public health," said CDC Director Tom Frieden. "Find patients, isolate and care for them, find their contacts, educate people, and strictly follow infection control in hospitals. Do those things with meticulous care and Ebola goes away."
He said health care workers "should isolate and evaluate people who have returned from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone in the past 21 days and have fever or other symptoms suggestive of Ebola. We will save lives in West Africa and protect ourselves at home by stopping Ebola at the source."


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- 1 68hc11
- 1.1 intro
- 1.2 Introduction to the 68HC11
- 1.3 crt
- 1.4 interesting links
- 1.5 finger board, model easII
- 1.6 finger board, model Adapt11C24DX
- 1.7 libraries
- app
- 68hc11 cross compiler build
- buffalo
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Introduction to the 68HC11
Fast and simple insert code into crt0.s
Submitted by imajeff on Fri, 2006-09-22 18:22. Advise | Tricks
Some time ago there was a question of the sort, "How do I make my own crt0.o file". Then the buzz started, and everyone was talking about how to do these things, including relocating RAM and other hardware configuration.
It seemed overly dificult to worry about things like finding the original crt0.s file (I've only found it burried in the GCC source code), and taking chances of changing too much so it didn't properly initialize RAM and such. Well, I have a solution where all I do is insert my startup code in a specific slot within the default crt0.s without having to edit that file!
Here is my entire "startup.s" file:
;;; Startup code ;;; Author Jefferson Smith .section .install1 movb #0x39,0x10 ; INITRM: end 0x3fff movb #0x00,0x11 ; INITRG: start 0 movb #0x08,0x12 ; INITEE: end 0x0fff
Referring to the guide "Using the GNU Development Tools for 68HC11 and 68HC12" section 4.2, I notice that the memory section ".install1" is a "placeholder for applications". The reason is that if I add code to this section, it is automatically inserted between the stack pointer initialization and the default RAM initialization. This is a wonderful place to relocate RAM or hardware registers because no stack was used (have not called __premain() yet) and no memory was accessed except the instruction to initialize SP.
If you have quite a lot of code to insert here, you could `call` into a PPAGE bank so the init code doesn't take up fixed Flash space.
This is an example of the link commandline that uses startup.s:
m6811-elf-gcc -m68hcs12 -mshort -Wl,-T,ldscript-rom.x -mrelax -o test.elf test.o vectors.o startup.o -lm -lbcc -lc -lbcc
Simply adding startup.o to the list of objects inserts the code.
interesting links
finger board, model easII
- Improved silkscreen.
- Jumper selectable reset address. Reset vector can be located at 0xFFFE,0xFFFF or 0xBFFE,0xBFFF.
- Optional external battery backup capable.
- Optional external memory mapped LCD capable.
- Optional Low Dropout voltage regulator ready.
- Optional remote reset through serial port.
- Reset switch now added along side download switch on the communications board.
- Smaller overall footprint, 2" x 4", with the attached communications board.
- Same professional board quality as before.
- Motorola 68HC11 CPU.
- 256kbit (32Kbyte) Dallas battery-backed memory module, no need to use eproms or slower eeproms.
- Compact size 2" X 2.85" (main CPU board)
- Network capable Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI).
- No expensive hardware programmer needed, programs can be downloaded using a standard serial port.
- Expansion Ports, list of headers:
- Port A of 68HC11, 8 multi function I/O pins (JP8).
- Port E of 68HC11, 8 analog channels (JP7).
- Memory mapped I/O, Finger Board can be easily expanded to have 32 digital inputs and 32 digital output lines (JP9).
- IRQ and XIRQ lines brought out for external interrupts (JP11).
- Standard 9 pin serial port (P1).
- SPI high speed serial interface, an easy way to attach peripherals (JP4).
- LCD display interface (JP2).
- Sharp IR receiver input (JP10).
- Speaker output (JP12).
- Infrared transmitter output (JP13).
- MODB select (JP18)
- External A/D reference input (JP6)
- SRAM battery backup (JP19)
Power requirements
- 7 to 18 Volts DC. Can easily run from a 9 Volt DC battery.
- Current consumption: 24ma.
- DC without communications board < 10ma in WAIT mode, or STOP mode 30ma.
- DC with communications board.
- Dimensions:
- CPU board only 2.85" long 2.0" wide.
- Communications board 1.15" long 2.0" wide.
- CPU board with attached communications board 4" long 2.0" wide.
Memory map
Reset vector can be located at 0xFFFE,0xFFFF or 0xBFFE,0xBFFF.
|Memory Location
|I/O Device
|68HC11 internal RAM
|Built in. (A1 chip)
|68HC11 internal RAM
|Built in. (E1 chip)
|68HC11 control registers
|Built in.
|JP9 Memory mapped I/O
|Memory writes in this range enable pin 1 of JP9 expansion header. Memory reads in this range enable pin 3 of JP9 expansion header. When enabled, they are active low.
|JP9 Memory mapped I/O
|Memory writes in this range enable pin 5 of JP9 expansion header. Memory reads in this range enable pin 7 of JP9 expansion header. When enabled, they are active low.
|JP9 Memory mapped I/O
|Memory writes in this range enable pin 9 of JP9 expansion header. Memory reads in this range enable pin 11 of JP9 expansion header. When enabled, they are active low.
|JP9 Memory mapped I/O
|Memory writes in this range enable pin 13 of JP9 expansion header. Memory reads in this range enable pin 15 of JP9 expansion header. When enabled, they are active low.
|External RAM
|DS1230AB/Y Dallas 256kbit (32Kbyte) battery backed static ram. The RAM is mapped into the upper 32K block of the 68HC11 address space.
|HD44780, JP2 ... CD=PA4, addr{cmd, data}={RW=A8, RS=A9}
The Finger Board operates the 68HC11 in "Special Mode". This causes the interrupt vectors to be located at address $BFC0-BFFF. While operating in "Special Mode", the 68HC11 can switch back and forth between expanded mode operation and single-chip mode. Interactive C switches the 68HC11 to single-chip mode when it communicates with the LCD since the LCD module cannot communicate at the normal rate of the peripheral bus.
On power-up with S1 depressed, the 68HC11 enters "Special Bootstrap Mode". This is when the internal boot loader is used to upload a more extensive bootloader which will then load your srecord program code. After your program code has been loaded and a reset is issued, the 68HC11 enters "Special Test Mode" and will automatically jump to the program with the reset vector location stored at $BFFE:BFFF.
When using other languages, make sure to declare your interrupt vectors in the "Special Mode" range of $BFC0 to $BFFF.
The Finger Board II now has the option to set the reset vector to location $FFFE:FFFF with jumper JP18 (MODB).
For more information, please see chapter 3 of the Motorola 68HC11 reference manual.
How much free memory do I have after loading the IC pcode? After loading the pcode, there are approximately 16320 bytes of available program space. The pcode source code can be modified and re-compiled to take up a smaller footprint in memory. Routines such as the IR and Motor PWM subroutines can be deleted if not needed for your application.
This is the approximate breakdown of the memory space. (Thanks to firstname.lastname@example.com)
User program object code + user global variables: 16320 bytes available Runtime pcode OS: 7936 bytes Used stack space for user processes: 6656 bytes Used buffer for interaction process: 256 bytes Used buffer for printing: 256 bytes used
The Finger Board uses LCD's with the Hitachi chip set HD44100 and HD44780. Some of the older LCD displays require a -5volt bias and will not work. If the version of the LCD contains a single row header, 1 X 14, connect the pins in the same pattern as on JP2. Pin 1 on LCD connects to pin 1 on JP2 etc.
This is the pin assignment of the LCD. Pin 1 - gnd Pin 2 - 5volts Pin 3 - gnd (contrast pin, ground for highest contrast) Pin 4 - RS (register select) Pin 5 - R/W (read/write) Pin 6 - enable Pin 7 - db0 (data bus) Pin 8 - db1 Pin 9 - db2 Pin 10 - db3 Pin 11 - db4 Pin 12 - db5 Pin 13 - db6 Pin 14 - db7
finger board, model Adapt11C24DX
- Compact "DX" form factor (2.8" x 2.1")
- Works with any 68HC11 E series microcontroller
- 9.8304 MHz crystal
- 512 bytes internal RAM (on MCUs)
- Hardware Write Protect switch for EEPROM
- Design incorporates 68HC24 port replacement unit (PRU) for full 68HC11 port compatibility
- 26 general purpose I/O lines (including 3 input captures and 5 output compares)
- Pulse accumulator, hardware timer, real-time interrupt, watchdog, 2 hardware interrupts
- 8 channel 8-bit analog-to-digital converter
- Serial peripheral interface (SPI) port offers virtually unlimited expansion
- Serial Communications Interface (SCI) port, with programmable baud rate up to 38,400
- RS-232 serial port, utilizing on-chip SCI (4-pin connector)
- SCI compatible with MIDI and RS485/RS422
- On-board reset circuit and button, 5V regulator, and RS232 interface
- Low power requirements (45 mA nominal; much less in STOP mode)
- All port pins are brought out to standard 50-pin connector pattern
- Virtual plug-in interchangeability with all Adapt11 family boards
- 11 connector options for the ultimate in modular design capabilities
- Use programming language of your choice: C, BASIC, assembler, etc.
- Compatible with JBug11 and PCBug11 debug/monitor programs
- Easy program-loading via MicroLoad, JBug11, PCBug11, ICC11, etc.
- Compatible with BASIC11 Compiler/Simulator/Debugger/Terminal IDE for Windows
- Low cost-- ideal for educational and embedded applications
- Many accessories available
Memory map
0000-01ff internal ram 0200-0fff 3.5K external ram 1000-103f internal register block 103f-1fff reserved 2000-7fff 24k external ram 8000-ffff 32k eeprom e000-ffff 8k eeprom


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od JUGGLER » Štv 10 30, 2014 12:10 am
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Mika píše:das mi prosim Zdroj ? nechcem vypustat poplasnu spravu domov
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JUGGLER píše:A nemôžete stručne zhrnúť o čom píšete? Nechce sa mi prekladať nemecké články , ani sa vŕtať v tvítoch..
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jogo píše:Som dnes v radii pocul, ze prezentacia holandskych vysetrovatelov trvala hodinu
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od makx » Uto 10 11, 2016 3:17 pm
jogo píše:Som dnes v radii pocul, ze prezentacia holandskych vysetrovatelov trvala hodinu a uvadzali sa tam fakty a dokazy. Velmi rad by som si ju pozrel, aby som si mohol urobit vlastny nazor(ako porota na sude v USA ) a nie nazory komentatorov na danu prezentaciu, ako mi ju podava maistremove media aj Hlavne spravy.
Lebo reakcia z ruskej strany, ked vytiahla nejaky zaber z radaru sa mi zda nedostatocna. Rad by som pocul fakta z Holandskej strany a odpovede na nich z Ruskej strany a potom fakta z Ruskej strany(napriklad ten snimok z radaru) a reakciu Holandskej strany na tieto fakty.
Ale to chcem asi prilis moc...
p.s: Neviete niekto, kde je ta vysetrovacia sprava holandskych vysetrovatelov zverejnena?
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It's Not The Economy, Stupid
21 October 2016 Articles
by Max Wifeschild
The most shortsighted argument for mass immigration is that it is good for the economy. This canard, which gets brought out repeatedly throughout the West, ignores many real and serious impacts to a nation's culture that go beyond GDP growth.
These arguments are encapsulated in the latest spew of Jessica Irvine from the Sydney Morning Herald: If Australia Halted Immigration.
First, notice that this article has had comments disabled. Isn't it interesting how the articles most worthy of comments are never allowed on these news sites? Yet, you are free to comment on Sportsball to your heart's content.
Secondly, this article was a response to a recent Australian poll that found half of Australians wants to ban Muslim immigration entirely (a similar position to our glorious leader Donald Trump).
Those aren't just conservatives being part of the evil media narrative. No, this figure also includes 1/3rd of left-wing Green Party voters in Australia. This shows that banning Muslim immigration is not a fringe view despite what the media says.
The poll numbers are likely more than half if you consider that some people will not answer a pollster truthfully for fear of repercussions from politically correct commissars ruining their lives. In fact, if the poll were broadened to encompass mass immigration in general, you'd probably find similar results of most people wanting it stopped.
All we ask is that you let us work to fund your retirement. We exist only to serve your GDP.
The arguments for mass immigration and the economy are all classic "We must grow the GDP above all other reasons or we will die" variety. Let's review these arguments in this article.
Claim: Population Growth Would Halve
So what? How does having more crowded cities, highways, schools, and communities make everyone happier? In terms of Australia, would a massive population increase solve their arable land and water concerns?
I can't think of a single country that will have their social and environmental problems solved by adding more people to the situation.
Claim: Economic Growth Would Falter
"Australia's quarter century of uninterrupted growth is due in no small part to a swelling population. That makes us quite different to a lot of other countries across the world who have got the challenge of population growth that's slowing, or shrinking, like Japan.'"
Again, so what? Japan is an advanced society that produces the top technological innovation on the planet. They are not going to be improved by a massive wave of third-world immigration to their shores. They have success more than a stock growth chart can ever show.
Japan is an extremely safe, innovative, and advanced country that looks out for their people first. The Japanese do not live in a police state because Japan does not import people that spontaneously explode, hijack planes, stab people randomly, run children over with trucks, and form rape gangs that prey on women. Doesn't that sound a lot better than having an extra 0.5% GDP growth from hostile immigration?
Claim: Our Workforce Would Age Faster
"The median age of all new arrivals to Australia last financial year was 26.5, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics. This includes temporary and permanent visa holders. The median age of the entire Australian population was 37 years."
Mass immigration puts tremendous strain on social services and drives up costs of native citizens family formation. The effect of mass immigration is not a lower average age in the workforce, but a decline in native citizens having larger families because it is too expensive.
Most white Western people plan ahead for family costs before having kids. An immigrant from a third-world region and his eight children do not. Considering that most immigrants from third-world regions use government benefits for the rest of their lives, why should they care if it is too expensive for you to have a larger family? They aren't paying the bills, you are.
Further, white Western companies work well because white people run them. Australia (and all Western nations) cannot repeat the same success with an imported workforce from random cultures. If it were that easy, then these other countries with huge young populations could just copy what Western countries do and be successful where they are, right?
Claim: The Federal Budget Would Blow Out
"With no new migrants arriving, there would be fewer working aged people to pay the income taxes needed to support an ageing population."
Nobody is moving to a Western country to support retiring white people. Once an imported population gains political clout, they simply vote for politicians that funnel funds to them and their kids. After all, the left tells these groups constantly that whites are racist, wicked people that cause all their problems. Why would the imported help feel any compulsion to pay for white people's retirement?
Besides, what kind of a policy is it to pirate off people from countries that need them more than we do? Even worse, you are pirating them with the idea that they are going to support your champagne and caviar retirement. That doesn't sound like the compassionate open borders left I hear so much about. That sounds like vile selfish people.
Claim: Roads Would Remain Crowded, Housing Expensive
Importing huge numbers of people is not going to result in less crowded roads and cheaper housing. It adds more people on the roads and more people competing in the housing market. Economists always forget basic rules of supply and demand when to shilling for open borders.
Besides, why should citizens want to give up their country to mass immigration just so they get some extra lanes on a highway? Wouldn't they rather have a cheaper house closer to the city? Isn't that a better idea than being forced to live far away and commute due to mass immigration driving up housing costs?
Claim: Tourism and Education Would Suffer
Why couldn't people visit on a tourist visa and leave like today? Plus, universities should be for domestic students first and foremost. The globalist elite always complains about the lack of educated people and wants to import them instead to fill this supposedly shortage. Well, why not educate the locals first in the universities their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents built for them as intended?
Universities have drifted from their mandate to educate citizens first. When did importing foreign students become a priority over educating our own (hint: money)? Other countries should educate their own students and leave our universities for our own people.
Claim: It'd Be Harder to Find a Doctor
"Angela Julian-Armitage is a barrister and national president of the Migration Institute of Australia, a body representing Australia's migration lawyers and agents…
Without immigration, she says: 'The skilled occupation lists would never get filled. Seeing doctors and nurses would be harder for everyone. A lot of businesses would have to close. Universities would collapse without international students' income. We would have a rapidly diminishing taxation base to fund the running of the country and the ageing population, and – most of all – Australians who married a non-Australian overseas could not bring in their new spouse.'"
An immigration lawyer that makes her money from immigration, says stopping immigration is bad? Shocker.
Her statement is pure non-sense, including the idea that someone couldn't bring in their spouse. I've never seen any immigration policy, even one from a very restrictive country like Japan, which does that.
Without me, where would your backwards country be today?
How does she think Australia became so successful up until the early 1970s when there was an extremely strict whites-only immigration policy? Did Australia not have any first-world services and features? Or do these people actually believe that it was the benefit of multicultural immigration that brought these things to Australia and other Western countries? Good thing we got those Muslim immigrants or we never would have electricity, right?
Conclusion: Mass Immigration is Bad for Western Countries
There are quality of life issues to consider that go beyond the economy. Mass immigration in fact destroys the society that gives us a good economy. Halting mass immigration would benefit Western countries in the following ways:
We wouldn't need a security state to watch everyone for terrorism because we are not importing groups hostile to our own people.
Housing prices would drop to reasonable levels and we wouldn't need more roads to carry people on long commutes.
Our schools would be for our own children without wasting resources on imported children and their problems.
Cost of living would decline. It would be cheaper to support a large family because we won't be importing other's poverty and dysfunction that steals from us.
We can spend government resources exclusively for our own benefit instead of on imported people that hate our way of life and our beliefs.
The problems our countries have would be ours alone. We can work to solve them to our own benefit without worrying about the feelings of others that have different goals for being here.
The reason why Western countries are the #1 immigration destination today is because they are already great. It's not because these countries are broken and can only be fixed by secret mass immigration magic.
The truth is that an economy exists for a nation. The nation does not exist for the economy. When the economy works to destroy the nation with immigration, it is time for the economy to change, not the nation.
A nation is more than GDP growth on a chart. It's about the people and culture that built the place. That can't be fixed by swamping it with people who do not share our values.
It's time for all Western countries to radically change their failed immigration policies that are destroying our societies. Mass immigration, and an economy that relies on it to succeed, is a horrible idea and must be stopped.
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Welltok [DENVER] announced that Chris Power joined the company as its new chief financial officer (CFO). Power most recently served as CFO of Paycor. He was also previously CFO of LifeLock. Additionally, Power served as CFO and in other senior executive roles at other notable technology companies, including Salary.com, Monster Worldwide and Nortel Networks.
Paycor [CINCINNATI, OH] announced the appointment of William J. (Bill) Davis as chief financial officer (CFO). Most recently, Bill served as CFO at Gloo Networks plc. He also served as CFO for Blackboard, Inc. Prior to joining Blackboard Inc., Bill was CFO of Allscripts Healthcare Solutions for nearly a decade. Bill was also previously CFO at Lante Corporation and started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.
Abide Therapeutics [SAN DIEGO] announced the appointment of Sapna Srivastava, Ph.D., to the position of Chief Financial and Strategy Officer. Most recently, Dr. Srivastava held the position of Chief Financial and Strategy Officer at Intellia Therapeutics. Prior to that role, Dr. Srivastava spent over a decade on Wall Street as a Senior Biotechnology Analyst for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and ThinkEquity Partners, LLC. She began her career as a research associate at J.P. Morgan.
Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc. [VALENCIA, Calif.] (NYSE: WAIR) announced that it has appointed Kerry A. Shiba as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Mr. Shiba succeeds Richard J. Weller, who previously announced his intention to retire. Prior to joining Wesco Aircraft, Mr. Shiba was executive vice president, chief financial officer and secretary of Superior Industries International, Inc. Previously, he served as senior vice president, chief financial and restructuring officer, and president of the original equipment business unit of Remy International, Inc. Mr. Shiba also held senior management positions with Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, including vice president and chief financial officer, and served in senior financial management roles with The BF Goodrich Company. He began his career with Ernst & Young, L.L.P.
General Cannabis Corp. [DENVER] (OTCQB: CANN) announced the appointment of Brian Andrews as Chief Financial Officer. Prior to his appointment as Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Andrews served as our Vice President of Finance since January 2017. From August 2013 to January 2017, Mr. Andrews worked for NOW CFO, LLC, where he provided accounting and finance consulting services to numerous public and private companies, including General Cannabis Corp from September 2015 through January 2017. From November 2011 to July 2013, Mr. Andrews served as corporate controller for Mesa Labs, Inc.
Hitachi Data Systems Federal Inc. (HDS Federal) [RESTON, Va.], a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), announced the appointment of Mark A. Serway to chief financial officer and vice President of operations. Prior to joining HDS Federal, Serway served as chief financial officer for Govplace, Inc. From 2008 to 2013, Mark served as senior vice president and chief financial officer at Akima. Earlier in Mark's career, he held progressively senior positions with Employment Enterprises, Paradigm Solutions, Lockheed Martin IT, Getronics Government Solutions, Babcock & Wilcox and Boeing Computer Services.
Anchor Loans [CALABASAS, Calif.] announced the appointment of Bryan Thompson to serve as the company's chief financial officer. Prior to joining Anchor Loans, Thompson served as CFO for Luxury Mortgage Corp.
AMREP Corporation [PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa.] (NYSE: AXR) announced that James McMonagle, Jr. has been appointed as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AMREP, with Robert Wisniewski retiring as Chief Financial Officer of AMREP. Prior to being appointed Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of AMREP, Mr. McMonagle had been Vice President, Finance of the Company since February 2017. Prior to joining AMREP, Mr. McMonagle had been Director of Finance of The Lloyd Group, Inc., and Vice President, Finance of SnapOne, Inc.
Coalfire [WESTMINSTER, Colo.] announced the appointment of Michael Chao as Chief Financial Officer. Most recently, Chao served as CFO of KeyPoint Government Solutions, Inc. Previously he held key financial positions at Vail Resorts, Famous Brands International, eBay and KPMG.
Dynasty Financial Partners [NEW YORK] announced that Jason Emerson will join the firm as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Emerson joins from Convergex Execution Solutions where he was Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to Convergex, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Gain Capital and has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry where he has held various management positions at firms including Knight Capital Group, Instinet and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Career Education Corporation [SCHAUMBURG, Ill.] (NASDAQ: CECO) announced that A.J. Cederoth, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving the Company to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Cederoth's employment with the Company is expected to continue through September 30, 2017. Ashish Ghia, Vice President Finance, has been appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Ashish Ghia joined Career Education in June 2008 and has served in various financial planning and analysis roles of increasing responsibility, most recently as Vice President Finance since February 2016. Prior to joining the Company, he was a Business Finance Manager with Sears Holdings Corporation from 2006 to 2008, and also held associate positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Ernst & Young.
Flywheel Sports [NEW YORK] announced that Michael Cohen joins the team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Most recently Cohen served as CFO of Birchbox. Prior to his appointment at Birchbox, Cohen led the team of Associated Content. Cohen has also held senior management positions with ESPN and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Envision Healthcare Corporation [NASHVILLE, Tenn. & GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.] (NYSE: EVHC) announced the implementation of succession plans for its current Chief Financial Officer, Claire Gulmi. Kevin Eastridge, currently Chief Accounting Officer, will succeed Ms. Gulmi as Chief Financial Officer, also effective October 2, 2017. Thereafter, Ms. Gulmi will be employed as an advisor to the Company for one year to assist with the transition of her responsibilities to Mr. Eastridge. Mr. Eastridge currently serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer for Envision. Prior to the merger creating today's Envision, Mr. Eastridge served as Senior Vice President of Finance at AMSURG Corp. from July 2008 through November 2016 and as Chief Accounting Officer from July 2004 through November 2016. Mr. Eastridge served in various capacities with AMSURG from March 1997 through July 2004, including Vice President of Finance and Controller.
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MDU Resources Group, Inc. [BISMARCK, N.D.] (NYSE: MDU) announced that Jason L. Vollmer has been promoted effective Sept. 30 to vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer, replacing Doran N. Schwartz as CFO. Schwartz has resigned to accept a position with another organization. Vollmer joined MDU Resources in 2005 as a financial analyst, was named manager of the treasury, cash and risk management department in 2011, then treasurer and director of cash, risk management and general accounting in 2014, and in 2016 was named vice president, CAO and treasurer. Prior to joining MDU Resources, Vollmer worked at the North Dakota Office of the State Auditor.
Ferrellgas Partners, L.P. [LIBERTY, Mo.] (NYSE: FGP) announced the appointment of Doran Schwartz as Chief Financial Officer, effective October 16, 2017. Prior to joining Ferrellgas, Mr. Schwartz served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MDU Resources Group, Inc. from February 2010 to 2017, and was Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at MDU from September 2005 to February 2010. Schwartz will succeed current CFO Al Heitmann after Heitmann's retirement on January 31, 2018.
Flowserve Corporation [DALLAS] (NYSE:FLS) announced that Lee Eckert will join Flowserve as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective October 9, 2017. Mr. Eckert joins Flowserve from CHC Group LLC., where he served as senior vice president and CFO since 2015. Mr. Eckert has over two decades of financial experience. Before joining CHC Group LLC, he served as chief financial officer of the U.S. division of National Grid Plc. In addition, he served in various executive capacities at MeadWestvaco Corporation, including as vice president, operations, Healthcare, and chief financial officer of the Packaging Resource Group. He also served in senior finance roles at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and General Electric (GE).
LRAD Corporation [SAN DIEGO, CA] (NASDAQ: LRAD) announced it has appointed Dennis D. Klahn as its Chief Financial Officer ("CFO"). Mr. Klahn was most recently a Group Controller at Teledyne RD Instruments, a subsidiary of Teledyne Technologies (TDY). Prior to that role, he served as Controller or CFO at several companies, including ISE Corporation, Overland Storage, Anacomp, and International Lottery & Totalizator Systems.
Vanir Group of Companies [SACRAMENTO, Calif.] announced hiring Ray Núñez to serve as Chief Financial Officer for all Vanir entities, including Vanir Construction Management, Vanir Development and Vanir Energy.
Bold Penguin [COLUMBUS, OH] announced that former State of Ohio Deputy Treasurer Seth Metcalf has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Additionally, he previously served as a tax and transactional finance attorney with the international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, LLP (n/k/a Squire Patton Boggs) after graduating from Cornell Law School and The Ohio State University.
Papa Murphy's Holdings, Inc. [VANCOUVER, Wash.] (NASDAQ: FRSH) announced that Chief Financial Officer Mark Hutchens has been promoted to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company. Mark Hutchens has served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer since January 2014 and was promoted to Executive Vice President in June of this year. Previously, Mr. Hutchens served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer – International, for Bloomin' Brands, Inc., where his responsibilities included finance, business development and supply chain management activities for Outback Steakhouse International. Prior to joining Bloomin' Brands, he held a variety of leadership positions at Office Depot, Yum! Brands, PepsiCo's KFC subsidiary and Ford Motor Company.
Tuition.io [Santa Monica, Calif.] announced Scott Simmons as its chief operating and financial officer. In a newly created joint COO/CFO position, Scott Simmons will oversee the company's operational management and financial strategy. Simmons joins Tuition.io after almost four years with ShopRunner, where he acted as COO/CFO. Previously, Simmons was with NexTag for over a decade where he served in a variety of roles beginning with VP of Finance and extending to VP of Business Development, VP and General Manager, Services Shopping, SVP Marketing and ultimately President of NexTag. Prior to NexTag, Simmons held a variety of senior financial and analyst positions with Real Time Data, and financial services giant Prudential Investment Corporation.


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The deadly occupation of convenience store employee and how the convenience store industry is fighting to prevent the implementation of federal rules that would make those jobs safer.
by Bonnie Bobit
Other than the job of police officer, which job category would you say is most often subject to homicide in the United States? Postal worker? Private detective? Bounty hunter? Abortion clinic staff? Liquor store workers? By far the most dangerous job in the United States is, and has been for years, that of those who work in convenience stores at night.
Ten months ago, Secretary of Labor Alexis M. Herman released recommendations by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that could significantly reduce the number of employees murdered on the job during robberies and other violent acts. The report, in citing that after-dark convenience store workers were at the greatest risk of being murdered during robberies and other violent acts, included recommendations that directly addressed what convenience store owners could do to better protect their employees from assault. In particular, the report advanced a series of preventative measures, chiefly physical improvements and alterations to the stores.
Not surprisingly, the convenience store owners immediately translated these improvements into added overhead costs and balked at the report. Quickly, public relations reps from the major convenience store chains called a press conference to say that OSHA's recommendations were premature, not practical, and would ruin customer relationships.
I can't help but wonder just how "premature" these recommendations are … after all, my most recent studies reveal that nearly 28% of all death row inmates in the United States have been involved in convenience store robberies, abductions, and/or murders. On the contrary, it appears that these recommendations are long overdue and should be mandatory rather than optional.
Consider the following sampling:
On July 19, 1996, after yelling racial slurs to a group of people at a convenience store in Durant, Okla., four-time convicted felon, Ernest Eugene Phillips, stabbed and killed Roderick Jason McFail.
On May 18, 1996, Douglas Roberts robbed a convenience store in San Antonio, Texas, and kidnapped store clerk, Jerry Velez. Roberts forced Velez to give him the keys to his car, which Roberts drove to a remote area. Valez was stabbed and run over with his own car before he died.
On Feb. 26, 1995, Billy Don Alverson robbed a convenience store in Tulsa, Okla., where his accomplice, Michael Wilson, had previously worked. During the robbery, Alverson beat 30-year-old store clerk Richard Yost with a baseball bat for over two minutes, causing injury to almost every part of his body and killing him.
In March 1995, Henry D. Dawson killed Nevada convenience store clerk, Leslie Gail Shepard, who resisted his sexual advances.
Dr. Elizabeth Peavy, a Houston dentist, stopped at a convenience store on her way home on May 15, 1994. As she was leaving the store, Tony Tyrone Dixon and several accomplices stopped her and demanded her car keys. When she refused, Dixon shot her and left the scene. A few minutes later, Dixon returned, shot Peavy three more times and finally did steal her car.
After escaping from a North Carolina prison, Richard Eugene Hamilton and Anthony Floyd Wainwright, killed Carmen Gayheart, a 23-year-old nursing student. Gayheart was last seen on April 27, 1994, when she stopped at a convenience store.
On Aug. 15, 1992, Debra Lewis, a 27-year-old single mother, was working at a convenience store in Mobile, Ala., when drifter Samuel Lee Ivery decapitated Lewis' head before robbing the store. Ivery had recently been released from a California mental facility.
In April 1992, Chad Alan Lee entered the AM-PM mini-market on 19th Avenue in Phoenix with the intent to rob the store and leave no witnesses. Lee repeatedly shot clerk Harold Drury, then dismantled the revolver and threw it in a dumpster across the street.
On March 15, 1992, Pete Carl Rogovich robbed a Phoenix convenience store, killing Tekleberhan Meskel Manna.
On Dec. 27, 1989, Eric John King shot and killed Phoenix Short Stop clerk Ron Barman and security guard Richard Butts. Witnesses saw King return to the scene to wipe off the holster of Butts' gun that he used to kill both men.
On May 19, 1989, Clinton Lee Spencer hooked up with Shandora Johnson-Marrow and Stacy Moore at a Circle-K in Mesa, Ariz. Later that night, Spencer sexually assaulted Johnson-Marrow, stabbed her twice, and then tried to burn her body with liquid accelerant.
In 1988, Edward Bennett, 19, pulled out a .45-caliber handgun and shot a Las Vegas convenience store clerk, 21-year-old Michelle Moore, in the face, killing her instantly. He then picked up Moore's head and marveled in detached wonderment that he could see the floor through the bullet hole.
On Sept. 29, 1986, while on parole from a life sentence for killing his wife a decade earlier, Michael Alan Lawrence, 31, murdered Gail Tyree. The 37-year-old convenience store clerk was found in the storage room of the store with two bullet holes in the back of her head. Lawrence stole $58 from the Florida store.
On Jan. 27, 1986, Shep Wilson Jr. kidnapped Monica Denise Cook, 20, from a convenience store in Sylacauga, Ala. Cook was raped and beaten before Wilson strangled her to death. Wilson had an extensive adult criminal record dating back to 1975 and was on parole for rape at the time of the crime.
On Sept. 8, 1985, Sean R. Sellers shot and killed a 36-year-old convenience store clerk in Oklahoma. Sellers later confessed that the motive was to see how it felt to kill someone.
In 1983, Johnny Watkins Jr. shot Betty Jean Barker four times during a convenience store robbery that netted him $89.89. Eleven days later, Watkins used the same gun to shoot and kill Carl Douglas Buchanan during another convenience store robbery that got him $34.74.
Self-proclaimed "mad dog killer," Marion Albert Pruett, abducted and killed Arkansas convenience store clerk Bobbie Jean Robertson during an October 1981 robbery. Pruett also killed at least four other people in Mississippi, Florida, Colorado, and New Mexico.
In 1981, after robbing a California convenience store of $33, Richard Boyde Jr. kidnapped store clerk and part-time wrestling coach Dickie Lee Gibson, shooting him three times in a nearby orange grove.
On Jan. 29, 1981, Suzanne Rossetti locked herself out of her car at a Phoenix convenience store. As Rossetti struggled to regain access, two passersby, Jesse James Gillies and Mike Logan, stopped to help her get the car open. To show her gratitude, Rossetti offered them a ride. Once in the car, the two men abducted her and repeatedly raped her while bashing her in the head with rocks. They ultimately pushed Rossetti from a cliff as she begged for mercy.
On Feb. 10, 1980, during a Galveston, Texas, robbery that netted Warren Bridge and Joseph Costa $24, Bridge shot 62-year-old Stop & Go clerk Waler Rose four times with a .38-caliber pistol.
On Jan. 17, 1980, Harold McQueen Jr. and an accomplice shot a Madison County, Ky., convenience store clerk who died two hours later. McQueen had extensive juvenile and adult criminal records, a history of drug abuse, and hospitalization
Convenience store owner, Roger Dennis Tackett worked on June 17, 1979, so that he would not have to work the following day ~ on Fathers' Day. Wilber May and former Baptist minister Van Roosevelt Solomon shot Tackett a total of five times before he died.
During a bloody crime spree on Feb. 22, 1979, two ex-cons, Ronald Woomer and Eugene Skaar, robbed a South Carolina mini-mall, then abducted two female employees. Della Louis Sellers was shot and killed, and Wanda Summers was shot ~ disfigured for life.
During a 1978 robbery, Robert A. Preston kidnapped 46-year-old convenience store clerk Earline Walker. Walker's mutilated body was later found about a mile away from the store in a field.
Nursing student, Teresa Carol Allen of Cochran, Ga., was working part time in a convenience store to help put herself through college. While Allen was working on Dec. 12, 1976, Roosevelt Green and Carzell Moore robbed the store of $466. Allen's body was found two days later. She had been raped, shot in the head, and left to die.
On Nov. 21, 1975, federal parolee Thomas Whisenhant shot and killed Mobile County, Ala., Compact Food Store clerk Patricia Hitt. Six months later, Whisenhant raped, mutilated, and murdered Venora Hyatt after kidnapping her from a 7-Eleven food store in the same area. Seven months later, Whisenhant raped and killed another Mobile County convenience store clerk, Cheryl Gazzier Payton.


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