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Operational Excellence
Synpulse has a long tradition of conceptualizing and implementing future-proof business models. This practical experience enables Synpulse to see complex projects through to their successful conclusion, from the preliminary study, through design and analysis, to successful introductions in health insurance (e.g. Adcubum SYRIUS®), reinsurance (e.g. SICS), life and non-life insurance.
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«Efficient processes are the basis to fulfill the manifold promises made to customers while, at the same time, reducing costs of the insurance business. Together with standard software producers, we master the tension between agile front- and stable backend. For successful introductions of large-scale projects, we offer tailor-made project methods and industry-specific process models.»
Target Operating Model
Business models are increasingly under pressure and the long-term competitive success of a company depends primarily on how it prevails in consistently aligning strategic success factors along the value chain – and the Target Operating Model (TOM) is the lever serving that purpose. The TOM is the «how» to turning business strategy into reality.
A target operating model provides a vision of the desired state of operations for a company and is necessary for the sustainable success of the business. The TOM follows the strategy of the company and is important to define when starting a new business, entering a new market, selling a new product or acquiring other firms.
The impacts of having a well-defined TOM are wide ranging and include:
- Flexibility to deal with ever changing market situations - shorter time to market
- The ability to scale up capacity quickly
- Lower risks from having a stable operations environment
- Long term cost savings from an efficient operating model
Synpulse can support national and international financial service providers with the definition, implementation, and adaptation of their TOMs for mergers and acquisitions, business field expansion, and market entry. We look specifically at the four building blocks of a TOM: Organization, partnerships, services and technology.
Some of the key elements we examine at as we guide you along the journey of building your TOM:
- Your value chain and associated processes
- Outsourcing possibilities
- Structures and responsibilities
- Workload modelling
- Cooperation models
- Vendor evaluation and options
- IT architecture and data flows
- Online versus offline sales
Synpulse has created TOMs for our clients in banking and insurance and has the expertise, tools and experience to ensure you succeed with your goals. We understand the challenges. We have solutions. We work together with you.
- Silvan Stüssi
- Esther Charlene Ung
Claims Classificator
Current insurance claims classification frameworks use arbitrary boundaries in dimensions like claim amount and «degree of complexity» to categorize claims for further processing. The following steps are heavily affected by this first assessment. Claims are allocated by strict and inflexible boundaries (often determined in order to reach a certain percentage of «automation»), even though the first classification might not be correct or new information arises during the claim handling process suggesting a different category.
This leads to the subpar situation, that claims which do not actually need specialist attention but may nevertheless be classified as such, tie the already limited resources of the experts. On the other hand, there may be unjustified claims just below the respective limits that are automatically accepted and settled.
To achieve an optimal and automated handling of each claim, they should be categorized efficiently at an early stage in the process and altered when necessary, with flexible boundaries and based on a set of different criteria.
Synpulse has the know-how and experience to support you with building and / or optimizing an efficient and modern claims classificator system by implementing the appropriate tools, methods, and concepts.
Clearly defining and planning automated claims settlement and management processes from scratch helps to avoid unnecessary delays or administrative costs and to optimize the availability of information and the use of resources. Based on the claims process in place, claims are classified such that boundaries between categories become multi-dimensional and less rigid.
Data Preparation & Big Data
The claims classificator gathers all incoming information and analyzes it automatically. While an optimal segmentation may be found by means of multi-variant statistics, we use machine learning techniques. This includes the analysis of patterns and leveraging information in detailed descriptions of a claim or correlation between different claims. To that end, structured and unstructured data is analyzed.
How we can help you
Synpulse combines the industry experience of claims process and management and the knowledge in state of the art IT tools and techniques. With this skill set – and with a fully implemented prototype for the claims classificatory tool – we can ideally address your needs in claims classification and enable you to benefit from the following advantages:
- Improved classification of claims based on all the information available
- Appropriate management of cases from the beginning of settlement process
- Optimized resource allocation and decreased administrative costs
- Continuous improvement of claims classification
- High flexibility and scalability of process
Software SOLUTIONS
Business life continues to pick up speed and become more complex. That is why, more than ever, good advice today cannot end in strategies and concepts, but must take into account implementation as whole. At Synpulse Management Solutions AG, we combine all of the expertise necessary to translate your requirements into bespoke software solutions and integrate these into your business organization as optimally as possible.
In the following overview, we would like to present some of our offers in detail:
Information about one's own clients must be compiled, analyzed, and the resulting information prepared in such a way that it offers added value; digitalization and increasing costs — not to mention time pressures — make this process increasingly difficult. Sales organizations need solutions that can be integrated clearly, quickly, and flexibly into the operational and organizational structure.
BusinessRadar is a selection and analysis tool that has been developed continuously in many projects since 2001. The Software Suite already incorporates more than 15 years of expertise from various companies, industries, and countries.
BusinessRadar also affords large sales organizations an end-to-end view of client data, from employee to the Board of Directors, from strategic KPIs to individual data records. By flexibly combining the widest range of modules, BusinessRadar complements existing system landscapes to suit your needs exactly.
What can BusinessRadar do for your business?
- Quick access to information for thousands of users from specialist departments and management
- Instant application of analytical findings by means of operative actions
- Prompt and accurate handling of sales processes
- Pinpoint allocation of the marketing and sales budget
Sales Compass
In light of increasing competitive pressures in the financial services industry, the competitive ability of many sales divisions must be increased: this can only be achieved using strategic sales management. Integral elements of such management include dedicated sales planning, a clear commission system, and integrated sales controlling, which provides information in a timely and effective manner. Client and brand-related KPIs must be included in addition to the production-related KPIs, which were used almost exclusively in the past.
The Sales Compass is a sales management and planning system across all sales channels for use by management. Using the solution, all relevant business information, such as production, stock, remuneration, agency, performance, client and cost information, can be made available in real-time in various role concepts. Innovative KPIs and control parameters can be defined directly by the department and immediately updated (online) in the reports.
What can the Sales Compass do for your company?
- End-to-end control system involving all sales channels and management areas
- Integration of existing planning and control tools (avoidance of isolated solutions)
- Corporate guidelines and value orientation displayed in planning and control tools
- Significant increase in transparency and validity using cockpits and KPI design
- Efficiency gains as a result of a reduction in process run times, error prevention
- Compliance with audit integrity and Solvency II requirements
Dr. Dirk Arndt
Executive Director Synpulse Software Solutions
Syrius Services
Syrius Services (Operational Excellence)
Old systems and their documented customer processes serve as a starting point of several planned projects. Whether these are available in detail, outdated, or unavailable, our approach supports process re-engineering projects and old system solutions using, for example, a standard software package such as SYRIUS - the leading platform for patients in Switzerland - and accident insurers.
The process model developed by Synpulse over the course of several implementation and optimization projects is inspired by agile project methods, and breaks away from the classic waterfall approach. From the outset, notable changes made by the customer are documented, and the specific requirements of the customer are recorded using system processes and workflows. In iterative sprints, one issue after another is processed, addressed in depth, and transferred to specific sub-projects such as parameterization or document specification. The resulting uniform documentation can be used as internal process documentation, as well as in test cases and in the maintenance and operating phase.
Standard software packages, e.g. SYRIUS, allow a great deal of freedom in the parameterization of business rules, object occurrences, and process configurations and permissions. Some implementations are more efficient and can be processed automatically, whereas more conventional implementations are more complex or high-maintenance.
Synpulse provides support throughout the process, from gap analysis and business requirements engineering, to the parameterization and testing of Aducubum SYRIUS, and is consistently oriented toward standard processes. As a result of several years of experience in parameterization, parameterization management, and the application architecture of SYRIUS, our consultants can offer appropriate and efficient implementation solutions ranging from IT architecture and interface design to pure parameterization implementation, e.g. workflow, service, or authorization parameterization.
Our team of consultants can rely on the expertise gained from a number of successful SYRIUS rollouts, the reference process model INSURANCEINABOX®, and the dedicated project method SPEEDmethod® SYRIUS. Synpulse therefore enables the very fast, efficient and sustainable implementation of its projects based on a system- and process-oriented approach.
- Markus Steinemann
- Ingo Muschick
Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
What is Robotic Process Automation or in short RPA?
A RPA 'robot' is a software application that replicates human user interface actions. The robot operates on the user interface (UI) in the same way a human would. This means the robot can interact across interfaces and can be easily integrated in a non-intrusive way. Examples for robot activities could be data entry into systems, reporting, reconciliation or even full end-to-end business process automation. A robot frees up time for human users for more valuable tasks.
In the near future the robots will even be able to learn. This new generation of robots have to be trained. Therefore it is a good time to start investing today as robots will create data required for future artificial intelligence applications.
What pain points can RPA address?
On insurance side, we experienced issues first hand which could be addressed by RPA. To mention a few:
How we can help you
We offer you a structured and quick approach to identify and evaluate your RPA potential, RPA feasibility, tools, prototyping, testing, and deployment. As a plus you can profit from our extensive «INSURANCEINABOX®» and «REINSURANCEINABOX®» process models, our experience in defining operation models and leading digital transformation programs.
Advantages of RPA
- Increase process efficiency
- Increase quality (100% accuracy)
- Free up time and resources of low added value tasks
- High scalability, flexible time, and resource allocation
- Low cost of develoment with short payback period
Training Solutions
Banks and insurance companies are subject to constant organizational and technological change. Precisely where major restructuring or launch projects are concerned, professional training is key to success. In «Training Solutions», Synpulse has developed a methodology for mastering these challenges with modern and effective training solutions.
If you are facing the challenge of implementing a major change project in your organization, Synpulse is the ideal partner for your internal communication and training. «Training Solutions» is the methodology we have developed to prepare your organization well in advance for change.
Our first step is to explore with you your communication and training needs. Then we jointly decide on the most suitable training resources. Whenever possible, we use modern tools such as e-learning, webinars and e-classrooms. This gives you maximum effectiveness at minimal cost.
Precisely where international projects are concerned, it is essential that training can take place independent of time and place and that assessment is automated. Traditional training methods often break the agreed budget with the cost of travel alone, which frequentlyoften makes this option unviable.
We employ «Training Solutions» continually and successfully in projects and optimize it on an ongoing basis. Its pragmatic approach and the mix of training resources in particular mean that our clients can tailor the training process to their needs. It also means that we can make adjustments as and when they are required. Our customers additionally benefit from experienced Synpulse project team members, whose expert knowledge and skills from an insurance and banking background make them highly effective in putting together training packages.
«Training Solutions» is an ideal way of meeting a large-scale need for training. Our clients benefit from our many years of expertise. We help you to achieve maximum effectiveness from your training at minimal cost and working with modern tools and resources.


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Dear All,
This coming week, I shall be moving into my cottage and only sporadically on the internet. I will catch up properly as soon as I can. In the meantime…
Take care and keep laughing!
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July 16, 2016 in Miscellaneous, Photography | Tags: moving, moving house, stress
Dear All,
This coming week, I shall be moving into my cottage and only sporadically on the internet. I will catch up properly as soon as I can. In the meantime…
Take care and keep laughing!
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Very best of best wishes for the move, Sarah. Hope you have a bottle of prosecco handy for later 🙂
The smoother the better! Thanks.
LOVE your image Sarah as I can TOTALLY relate at present – best of luck with the move!
Thanks, Joanne. I first illustrated the post with something that related not a jot to the subject. I suddenly remembered this image for the cover makeover with The Money Pit. Perfect!
Wipes sweat off her brow with relief. x
All the best with the move, Sarah.
I'm going to be holed up in a caravan for the next week in an attempt to get some writing done so if you don't hear anything from me it's not because I'm not speaking – I'll be offline and writing 🙂
Good for you, It's the only way. It's one reason why I'm so happy I'm going to be living alone again! Thanks, Mary.
All the best with your move! I hope everything goes well – and don't forget to look after yourself in all that chaos. 🙂
I feel your pain! Moving is on the top of my list of things that turn my life upside down and my schedule into a shambles. If you can do it in a single moving week, I need to hire you to coach ME 🙂
But oh to live in a cottage – that would be a dream come true for me. I hope everything goes smoothly so that you can sit back and enjoy yours ASAP.
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Bless you, Madelyn! Added to which, I'm coping with the fall-out from a twenty-year relationship – I now suspect most of our difficulties related to his undiagnosed ADHD. And that's why I started following your blog!
It's a challenge for SURE. The very things that make an ADD/EFDer attractively engaging at the start of the relationship can become crazy-making as time goes by (for both of you). You have the patience of a saint if you can stick for 20 years with an un-dx'd guy!
What is it about guys that they aren't eager to find out what's "wrong," making life and relationships harder than it seems to be for others? (I blame the persistence of that darned "H" for misleading them – hyperactivity tends to simmer down or be channeled after puberty, but there is so much MORE involved!)
In any case, in my considerable experience, women are more likely to seek out diagnosis and help – though statistics show that it takes some time for things to get bad enough that they realize that it's not "just them."
Average age of dx for women is 38 (about the time that perimenopause begins, when dopamine enhancing estrogen production first begins to wane).
That statistic INCLUDES women who were dx'd in childhood, which indicates that a great many struggle even longer before they finally find the answer to why life seems so tough. So sad, but at least most of them eventually figure it out – because they are willing to LOOK.
I have written to him to suggest ADHD might be a possibility but I doubt he will take it on board. I was going to say a lot more but I'll probably email you in the next week or so, depending on moving and movements!
The BEST way I've found to encourage the reticent to take a look is to remind them that we don't have to be diagnostic to have problems – but that looking at what bona-fide ADD/EFDers have to deal with can help them figure out how to overcome whatever's going on in their own lives.
When they take a look without having to admit that there's something "wrong," they frequently find it easier to believe that perhaps they DO have ADD. Others discover that they are below the diagnostic line, but still find value in finding out how to work with some of their issues in a more productive way.
Again – good luck with your move. BTW, you can always leave me a private comment with a "don't approve this" at the top – then I'll see it, but nobody else will. I stay on top of blog comments better than email (because I get so many essentially useless "announcements" from anybody selling anything that my ADD eyes can barely locate what I'm looking for anymore grrrrr!)
Good luck with your move! I'm STILL organizing my new(ish) digs from my last move for lack of time and engagement. I truly despise the entire process.
Perfect advice! Thanks.
A new beginning! I hope it's refreshing once you get past the disruption of the move. A cottage sounds just lovely.
I must say that having bought it site-unseen, I've really landed on my feet. It's divine!
Dear Sarah. I hope by now you are getting settled into your new home. Moving is such backbreaking work! Take your time. In adulthood, I've moved from one state to the next (about 300 miles), and then across the country. And then back across, but even farther (1900 mi.)… and heaven help me I want to do it again — and have been trying hard for four years.
Blessings in your new home. Mega hugs.
Clearly you're a glutton for punishment! Thanks, Teagan. It's certainly a challenge as I'm doing it on my own for the first time in many years and my health is that much worse. Having to pay for a lot of help. I've now come to even more of a standstill as I've pulled a muscle in my bum! I just wish I could find my knives and forks! Humongous hugs. xx
Ouch! Re the muscle! Do be careful. I've ruined my back over the years — being determined to do the impossible because there was no one to help. It truly gets harder each time. Add to it the length of the drive… But I still want to get back to the southwest.
I had to giggle about the forks. Thank goodness God gave us 10 utensils — everything is finger food! 😀 More hugs.
Everything is finger food unless you have distorted digits as I do! x
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Are you worried about becoming too popular? On Thursday night there was a pretty long wait for Motorino hopefuls. The way we did Motorino in the city is that we have a much smaller appetizer section, a much smaller pizza section. Because I was very well aware that we had too little seats, and Manhattan is a big city. And there were a lot of people interested. We can turn tables quite fast without cutting into the simple experience that Motorino is supposed to deliver. Meaning you can have your appetizer, your drinks and your pizza and your dessert in a very well staged manner, in a very comfortable manner, without being rushed. But it's a short experience. You're not looking to spend three hours sitting at Motorino, no. It should never be more than half an hour, 45 minutes wait to get there. Which is less than many other New York restaurants.


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Your first day Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Your first day Goto page 1, 2 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Newbie Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message SweetOneJoined: 19 Jul 2003Posts: 109 Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject: Your first day I am wondering what you remember of your very first day teaching overseas? What struck you as the most challenging aspect and what was the most enjoyable? (not that they are mutually exclusive) I have tutored many, but am facing my first job overseas in the not-to-distant future and would like some input from those who can recall their first time. Thank you and I look forward to all your responses. P.S. - It doesn't matter to me if your first country was China, Turkey, S. Africa, or ???? Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:43 pm Post subject: The most challenging aspect for me was teaching classes of really low level students. I didn't have enough Japanese to help them along. The thing I remember most was being stupid enough to pass out almost all of my business cards to my students on the first day! Back to top deniseJoined: 23 Apr 2003Posts: 3419Location: finally home-ish Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:51 pm Post subject: My first class was a sub assignment. I was really freaked out about it--I had prepared all of my lessons for my own classes, and then I showed up at school to find out that one of the teachers was out sick and I'd have to take over his class. This was in the Czech Republic, and a lot of my school's students ("clients") were business students--this particular class was for Warner Brothers. Basically all I ended up doing was going to their office and kinda chatting with them, the class being a "conversation" class (oh, how I hate that label!), and looking at all of their movie posters. It turned out to be a pleasant experience, but still, I'd rather not have had to sub for my first lesson. d Back to top CobraJoined: 28 Jul 2003Posts: 436 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 12:40 am Post subject: First day routine: Self-introduction. Have students write their English name on a placard and put it in front of them where I can see it. Student self-introductions Discuss each English "name" its origins and meaning. Require name changes when appropriate. (Many "names" are just English words from a dictionary) Hand out class rules and post a copy in classroom. Discuss class rules and gradeing system. Explain difference between language learning and language acquisition. This usually takes the first two hours. Back to top Ben Round de BlocJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 1946 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:02 am Post subject: My first foreign teaching job was in a language school here in the same city where I still live and teach (but not at the same school.) This was after teaching for many years in public schools in the States. Some of the things I remember from my first days teaching in that language school: 1. Small classes of from 5 to 9 students. I was used to 30+ students per class. 2. The casual, non-academic approach to teaching. 3. A site director whose comments indicated to me that she was pretty clueless about second language acquisition. 4. The politeness of all of the students. I guess I expected it from the adult classes, but I was surprised by how well behaved the children and teenagers were. 5. An incredibly helpful, congenial secretary. 6. A very limited supply of materials and equipment (supplementary materials, games, tape recorders, etc.) 7. Meeting some really nice fellow teachers. 8. Hardly any paperwork to fill out and turn in. Back to top RogerJoined: 19 Jan 2003Posts: 9138 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:32 am Post subject: First class of foreigners I was supposed to be teaching English writing: A Chinese normal school (college of future English teachers). It was a steaming hot September day, the school was noisy. I walked upstairs and past a couple of classrooms with their doors wide open. My classroom's entrance came into view. I saw a mass of Chinese. I had been told it was going to be 35 students (and 70 in the English Literature classes!). Those in front noticed me. A hush fell over the class. My chest constricted. I summoned my courage, finally stepped into the classroom. Some laughed out aloud. Others greeted me. I did not know how to begin class as I was used to having the full attention from students when entering their classroom. As I later learnt, I should have insisted on students standing up. Since they did not do that of their own free will I simply begged for silence, then introduced myself. And that's when my Canadian colleague arrived on the scene. She too was supposed to be teaching this very same class. She beat a hasty retreat, and later we were told that the administration had misassigned two teachers to the same class at the same time. So the first day taught me two hard lessons - about student behaviour, and about poor organisation on the part of the school, two features that have resurfaced many times over the years! Back to top WolfJoined: 10 May 2003Posts: 1245Location: Middle Earth Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 2:30 am Post subject: My first EFL teaching experience was a case of extremes. I got hired by NOVA - via Toronto - to teach in Japan. I flew halfway across the planet - a door to door journey of 25 hours. When I finally arrived in Osaka I was placed in a hotel in Namba and told to wait - for four days. I amused myself by learning how to eat chopsticks and trying food at various restaurants (hard to do with no guide, no friends and no local language skills.) Finally I get my orientation. This was only to let us know that a) we were in Japan (which I had figured out anyway) and b) our company's rules were to be obeyed lest the summoning of Lucifer occur. Well, they were polite, but we had about 2 hours of "if you do this that will be the consequence, if you do this then that will be the consequence ...." Then I got sent to a different city that night (the only one out of a group of 27 who ended up not staying in Osaka. How's that for fate?) When I arrived there, I was taken . . . to a hotel. Again. In spite of the fact that my apartment was ready and the fact that I had to carry quite a bit of luggage through the subway system (I was moving and hadn't arrived yet, and the guy who met me was a cheapskate who wouldn't spring for a taxi.) So I did my three day training living in another hotel. It was during the second night here that I experienced my first earthquake. I was given a dizzying intro onto The Meathod That Must Be Used Lest Dark Powers Be Summoned. After that I was finally moved into my apartment (which I shared with two others.) On my first day I was given 40 minutes to prepare seven lessons. I remember thinking that I would be given this time for my entire probational period. Then I got told it was only for my first day. I asked "what do you expect me to do on my second day? It's going to take me more than one day to get used to this." I got a dismissive reply. I remember that during my first week the other teachers complained about the music (heavy stuff with lyrics that cannot be printed on this fourm ). So I brought a Mozart CD one day. Hey, a) I was 22 b) back home people wouldn't mind and c) I had heard a report earlier about how Mozart helps reduce stress - an was I stressed. Well, it seems that Mozart was inappropriate (but not F*ck the Police. ) The branch manager took the CD out of the machine and handed it to me. In spite of the fact that the case was beside the machine, and I was in between classes with not much time to deal with this sort of thing. This was a perfect foreshadowing of my time teaching there. Back to top SteinerJoined: 21 Apr 2003Posts: 573Location: Hunan China Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:22 am Post subject: Wow, Wolf. Doesn't sound like too much fun. I'm glad I came to China instead of Japan, if just for the better food: Wolf wrote: I amused myself by learning how to eat chopsticks Back to top isabelJoined: 07 Mar 2003Posts: 510Location: God's green earth Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:27 am Post subject: My first day of teaching was years ago. But my first day of teaching children was last week. In Korea. Oh my god! How in the world do teachers of children do it? My deepest respect to those who do. At the end of my first day I went home and didn't know what to do first- sleep or cry. Some people love it, and some kids are better than those in Korea. The really weird thing is that the Korean college students are the best in terms of demeanor. I understand that they get beaten regularly in junior high school. Back to top WolfJoined: 10 May 2003Posts: 1245Location: Middle Earth Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:52 pm Post subject: Steiner wrote: Wow, Wolf. Doesn't sound like too much fun. I'm glad I came to China instead of Japan, if just for the better food: Wolf wrote: I amused myself by learning how to eat chopsticks I meant for the first couple of days - not my whole three years there. There is a lot to do in Japan. If you're willing to learn the language and poke around, you can find just about anything you might have an interest in. Back to top SteinerJoined: 21 Apr 2003Posts: 573Location: Hunan China Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 2:02 pm Post subject: Yeah. The first half of my post referred to your first day or so. The food comment referred to your eating chopsticks. Did you go on to feast on pencils and then baseball bats? Back to top SweetOneJoined: 19 Jul 2003Posts: 109 Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject: [quote="Cobra"]First day routine: Require name changes when appropriate. (Many "names" are just English words from a dictionary) Cobra: I wonder why you require name changes at all? Even if the name is just a word, such as boondoggle, if that's the name they like, why not keep it? It isn't going to be used in thier real live, is it? Back to top dduckJoined: 29 Jan 2003Posts: 422Location: In the middle Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:24 pm Post subject: My first day, only a couple of months ago here in Mexico, I was driven a few miles out of town to a client's site. I asked about the students and the lesson and was told not to worry, all I had to do was talk to them and get to know them. Uptil the moment that my students walked in through the door I didn't know the first thing about them: how many, level, motivation, nada. These days I wouldn't blink an eye at this, but straight after an intensive CELTA course this felt WRONG WRONG WRONG! Afterwards, I was so stressed all day that I couldn't sleep a wink. My boss repeated the exercise the following day at another company... Gradually, you get used to the chaos. No, Honestly! Iain Back to top yaramazJoined: 05 Mar 2003Posts: 2384Location: Not where I was before Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 6:52 pm Post subject: My first day teaching 10-12 year olds in Turkey, in a verrrrry posh private school: first of all, I didn't know who I'd be teaching until I was handed a slip of paper at 9am with my schedule on it- it could have been grade 1s or grade 8s for all I knew. Nice to have time to prepare appropriately! The four foreign teachers were then hustled to an outdoor assembly in front of the huge statue of Attaturk (the Wizard of Oz-like one) where we were shown to the kids and parents for their scrutiny. We were the only teachers around who weren't wearing immaculately tailored suits. The women wore Chanel knock-offs and stillettos, with enough make-up on to do make-overs for a night club. I was wearing my Canadian teacher uniform of sensible shoes, turteneck sweater and long, flowery skirt. A slash of lipstick, a hint of mascara. Nothing else. Can you say, fashion faux pas??? After the assembly, all the kids were sent off to their classrooms. My first lesson wasn't until 11 so I was free to fret. O, and because there are three separate buildings on the school grounds I had to figure out where all my classes were. No one seemed able to tell me. And curiously, some of the grade 5 classes were in one building, and some were in another. No logic. I also had to figure out how long our lessons were, as no one had told me either. As well, there was a series of shrill, horrible bells that rang to the tunes of different bad songs to announce the start and end of class. But which of the 3 or 4 bells calling you to class was the right one? One was a warning bell, one was for the kids to go in, one was for the teachers, and one was the final bell... but was it Oh Susannah that I'd go in on? Or Oh My Darling Clementine? I went in and found an empty classroom. Wrong bell. Afte ten minutes a great horde of ten year olds tromped in. Fights erupted, kids screamed, desks were toppled... a pattern I'd get used to as the year went on. I introduced myself and got all 35 of them to introduce themselves and to state hobbies, age, name, brothers and sisters, etc. It was actually kind of fun. Then we played the whispering game, which was a total dud initially because I liked playing it in a circle around the desks and these kids had no idea how to be in a classroom NOT sitting in their desks. And god forbid they should talk to a member of the opposite sex. We ended up doing the whispering game up and down the many rows of desks. They seemed to have their own pattern already established. My classes that day all followed a similar pattern. They were far more regimented than I'd expected. At the start of every class they would stand up, I'd have to say 'Good morning (orwhatever) everybody' and they'd bellow out of unison, 'Good morning teacher!' and I'd shout back 'How are you today?' to which they'd screech mechanically, 'Fine thanks and you?' they never actually waited to find out how I was before they'd sit and start ignoring me determinedly. I learned that they will not do pairwork, groupwork or dialogues. They actually refuse. They also refused to do any writing. They would simply not do it. End of story. They thrived on loud multiple choice guessing games but couldn't answer a simple question unless there were choices for answers already there. Their levels of English ranged from non existant to practically perfect, within one classroom (I was used to teaching very specific levels at language schools). Lots of them enjoyed screaming obscenities at me in Turkish. Wheee! I eventually learned enough Turkish to reply and scare the pants off them (foreigners aren't supposed to understand Turkish). At the end of the day we got to sit through a series of staff meetings entirely in Turkish, with no translator. We had been in the country 10 days at that point. Yeah, we understood everything... ha. Good luck to all the newbies on their first day! Back to top CapergirlJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 1232Location: Nova Scotia, Canada Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 2:06 am Post subject: My first day of teaching EFL was in Korea. The day after arriving, I was whisked off to a couple of schools to observe one of the Korean teacher's classes. (The first thing I noticed, of course, was that she was transposing her p's and f's. A pig was a "fig", a fish was a "pish", etc.) The next day, it was my turn. With no idea of where I was going or what I was teaching, no prep, and a few materials borrowed from one of the Korean teachers, I was dropped off at a local kindergarten and told to teach six 15-minute classes then take a taxi to a local elementary school. I managed to do some activities with fruit using a felt board and pictures, and we sang a few songs...repeat six times, and then off to the elem. school. There, I stood alongside a Korean teacher and observed her teaching for part of the class. Then it was my turn. My "job" was to point to pictures of objects (hat, book, pen, etc.) taped to the blackboard, say their names one by one, and get the students to repeat them...over and over and over (remember that thread in the general forum on the audiolingual method? ). Next, I had to teach half a dozen Korean teachers (in the 50-60 age range). They were using Step-by-Step, at a level that was clearly beyond their capabilities. They all felt they had very good English yet I could barely understand a word they were saying. We spent most of our first "class" talking about me. I tried to get them to tell me about themselves, but they kept turning the tables back to the fascinating topic of...me. That day was the beginning of a wild ride. I would get used to teaching at 3-4 different schools a day. I would even get used to doing classes on the fly a lot of times, as preparation would require actually knowing where, whom, and what I was going to teach that day. It was very stressful, but not nearly as stressful as trying to control a classroom of Korean kids. I couldn't believe how out of control they were! I also found it a bit stressful trying to dodge videocameras on a weekly basis at one particular school. Teaching? There wasn't a lot of that. Entertaining...that was the job of the foreign teacher in Korea. 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In Madeline L'Engle's fictional work The Arm of the Starfish, Calvin O'Keefe discovered a way to help mammals regenerate tissue the way starfish do. Nonfictional research has not gotten quite that far, but it might not have to. A new paper has found that rhesus macaques can spontaneously reform connections among their spinal neurons following injury.
It has been known for some time that the mammalian spinal cord can extensively recover from partial, but not complete, injury. Although the general consensus has been that the axonal projections, which connect the neurons of the spinal cord, did not have the plasticity required to recover after injury, our heroes (the authors) thought otherwise and set out to test it.
To do so, they gave what's called C7 lateral hemisection lesions to 5-8 year old rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta), which involves severing one side of the spinal cord. They then examined structural, elecrophysiological, and functional responses to the lesion at either two weeks or 4-8 months later. They focused on the corticospinal projections, which primates use for many features of fine voluntary movement.
All hemisected subjects initially displayed complete disruption of motor connections projecting through the right side of the spinal cord. Fine motor control, as assayed by the ability to reach for a food reward with the right hand, had started to recover at 4 weeks post-lesion and reached a plateau at 12-16 weeks post-lesion. Other functions in the right forelimb and hindlimb also recovered at this time.
Two weeks after C7 hemisection, the number of corticospinal axons below the lesion site was reduced to 26 ±4 percent of that in control monkeys. The axons that were left came from projections that descended on the opposite side, and then crossed the spinal cord midline.
By 24 weeks post-hemisection, though, the injured monkeys had 60 ±9 percent of the corticospinal connections as their intact counterparts—a spontaneous 2.3 fold increase. But these didn't represent entirely new axons. The researchers showed that axons that had crossed the midline before the injury had sprouted more branches, and that these formed the additional connections
Although the injured monkeys had fewer axons, analysis of their topographical distribution in gray matter indicated that they were qualitatively the same as those in uninjured monkeys. Principal components analysis showed that the functional improvement of the forelimb was significantly associated with the sprouting of these corticospinal axons.
The authors point out that although we frequently use rodents to model spinal cord injuries, this sort of spontaneous recovery is not observed in their corticospinal axons. This is probably due to the different organization at play in primates; rodents have few corticospinal axons that cross the spinal cord to begin with, so there's little there to drive the recovery. Thus, rodents might not be the best models for humans with spinal cord injuries. At the very least, if rodents are used, more of their limited corticospinal neurons should be left in place to better mimic the situation in humans.
This spontaneous sprouting of these corticospinal neurons after injury might be a potential therapeutic target; if we can figure out how to enhance it, that might help people recover from partial spinal injury.
Nature Neuroscience, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/nn.2691 (About DOIs).


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Jeff Utecht and wife Daneah share their students from International School Bangkok with us for an evening of inspiration and hope as their students relate their experiences with a very special project: Operation Smile. Daneah and two of the students have created videos to capture the visit the students had with young patients who experienced facial reconstructive surgery in Thailand.
The Chat:
[18:23] <PeggyG> here we go!!! :-)
[18:24] <PeggyG> WOW3 :-)
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text: Nokia has kept a tight lid on its plans for this year's MWC. The smartphone maker is expected to introduce new editions of its Lumia series of Windows Phone devices. But there have been rumors that Nokia has a Windows 8 tablet ready for Barcelona; Nokia has reportedly been working on a Windows RT tablet for some time, which would build out the company's Microsoft-focused mobile portfolio. Will Nokia's Windows 8 device be a full-size tablet or a phablet? Stay tuned for more.


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Swoosh: North joins south over Emmet
The long-awaited bridge that will finally unite UVA's two biggest campuses– the hallowed Central Grounds and the nouveau North Grounds– is about to be built.
As first discussed by internationally famous "green" architect William McDonough back in 1996, the bridge was an integral component of a "Groundswalk" system that would includes multi-passenger vehicles "swooshing" people around Grounds. The idea– backed by UVA's Board of Visitors (in their 1998 approval of the school's master plan)– favors bikes, pedestrians, and transit over single-occupancy vehicles, says UVA landscape architect Mary Hughes.
While McDonough's dream for some sort of clean-fuel transit vehicle still lives, "The perfect vehicle just isn't there yet," says Hughes. "So we've designed a bridge that can be built in two phases."
Phase one is a pedestrian bridge, going up with $1 million in federal funds as a "demonstration project," says Hughes.
Perhaps there's hope for that "swoosh" system in our lifetimes. On March 5, General Motors and Royal Dutch Shell announced a partnership that vows to bring the price of hydrogen cars down to $20,000 by the year 2010 and create a slew of fueling stations.
Meanwhile, UVA has awarded the bridge construction contract to Hammond-Mitchell Inc. of Covington. Under UVA's "Notice to Proceed," issued March 3, the contractor has 30 days to begin work and 276 days to get the bridge usable.
"We are mobilizing this week," says project manager John Quantz on Monday, March 10. What's the first thing the public will see? Fencing and a construction trailer will soon appear at the corner of Emmet and Massie.
What's the first thing the public hears? Pile-driving for the foundations. That will happen around the start of May, says Quantz.
Width: The deck will be 18 feet wide, but the usable width between the railings is 16 feet.
Length: The clear span across Emmet Street will be 85 feet long. There will also be 40 feet of short-span bridge on the west side of Emmet and 225 feet of short spans on the east side.
Materials: Columns, beams, and railings will be steel, and the deck will be concrete. Approach paths will be paved with asphalt.
Lighting: Four lights on the bridge and 16 lights on the approaches in standard UVA "Edgewood" poles.
Location: Just south of where Meadow Creek goes beneath Emmet Street, and one block north of the CSX train bridge.
Clearance: 17 feet 6 inches above Emmet Street– about four feet more than the CSX train bridge.
Budget: Construction contract: $2,435,660 in an overall project budget of $3.2 million, which includes feasibility study, design, project management, inspection, and related work.
Architect: Amman & Whitney
Engineer: Ayers St. Gross of Baltimore
Contractor: Hammond & Mitchell of Covington
Start: some time during the month of March
Finish: Around the end of November
Hassle-factor: To permit laying the steel box beams, Emmet Street will be closed for one night. Detours and notices TBA.
sources: David Sweet in UVA's facilities management office and Mary Hughes of the UVA architect's office


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Every weekend morning I hear the sound of little feet padding down the hall. They go to the restroom and then come skipping into my room - topped off with a grin that could light up the darkest night.
It's the 7 year old. He's come for snuggles.
This has been our tradition for as long as he hasn't been sleeping in my bed. He snuggles back into his old spot and we kiss and cuddle, and whisper I love yous under the blankets until one or both of us falls asleep.
Sometimes, like this morning, I like to watch him drift off....watch his baby face reappear in sleep.
He looks so much like his baby self in those moments somtimes, sometimes I want to cry.
He's so big now, I have to remind him not to knee me in the tummy, adjust him off my arm as it starts to tingle under his weight. Sometimes I get so hot - he's a little fireball- but I still hold him close.
Someday he won't want to do this and I can never get these minutes back. Not ever.
I tell him that sometimes, that some day he'll be too big and won't want to cuddle with his Mommy in the mornings. He always buries his face against me and says the same thing. "I always will Mommy."
I only wish that were true.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Saturday Snuggle Bunnies
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 11:22 AM
Labels: Lil' Satchmo, Mommyhood


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Baan Malur, Tamriel Rebuilt
Reposted from TESRenewal
The ModExporter is designed to load a TES3 (Morrowind) based ESP/ESM file and export it as a TES4 (Oblivion) ESP which can be played in Morroblivion. It is based off the OpenMW code base. Although it was designed with Tamriel Rebuilt in mind, it can be used with many other Morrowind-based mods. Currently, it will convert landscapes, static meshes, NPCs and weapons. There is partial conversion of creatues, armor, clothing (meshes are substituted instead of converted). Dialog and quests are converted, but not fully usable due to incomplete conversion of scripts. A script translator and byte compiler are partially complete. Future versions will have more complete conversion of scripts and thus more usable dialog and quests.
Below is a tutorial to take you through conversion of Tamriel Rebuilt, the entire process should take about 30 minutes on a modern computer (circa 2017).
Source Code:
OpenMW developers/source-code for doing all the heavy lifting of loading and parsing the TES3-based files. The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (uesp.net) community for sharing valuable information regarding game engine and file formats of Morrowind and Oblivion.
TESxEdit developers/source-code for definitions of the TES4-based file format.
Zilav for insights and helpful advice in emails and forum posts related to TES4Edit script writing and Oblivion interior and exterior cell cluster organization.
TESRenewal.com community for encouragement, suggestions and help testing and bug reporting throughout the development process.
EDIT: And also...
Galadrielle for original ESPConverter and the long list of contributors to Morroblivion!
Puddles for his work on the Tamriel Rebuilt creature and replacers!
Morroblivion v064 + Unofficial Patch 2017-Dec-18
Tamriel Rebuilt 17.09 + Tamriel Data
OpenMW 0.42 (the Win64 version is required)
Oblivion Character Overhaul 2
Morroblivion Symphony of Creatures
Tutorial Instructions for converting Tamriel Rebuilt to Morroblivion
Building the ESPs:
1. Install Morrowind + Tamriel Rebuilt 17.09.
2. Install OpenMW 0.42.
3. Launch OpenMW and import your Morrowind settings.
4. If you have a folder named "C:\Oblivion.output", then make sure it is empty. This is where exported mesh and texture resources will be placed.
5. Unzip the contents of "ModExporter-2017-Dec-31.7z" into the main executable directory for OpenMW.
6. Launch "openmw-modexporter.exe" and click "Edit A Content File".
7. Select Morrowind.esm from the drop down.
8. Put a checkmark next to Tamriel_Data.esm. Click Open.
9. After it's finished loading and the main editor window has loaded, select the menu command: File->Export ESM.
10. In the Export Module dialog window, navigate to your Oblivion\Data directory and click Save. It will be automatically saved as Tamriel_Data.esp.
11. Wait for export to complete, then close the modexporter and relaunch. This time export TR_Mainland.esm to TR_Mainland.esp.
12. Repeat the same steps to export TR_Preview.esp to TR_Preview.esp.
13. Open Wrye Bash and make sure load order is Tamriel_Data.esp, followed by TR_Mainland.esp, followed by TR_Preview.esp. Move all 3 files after Morroblivion_Unofficial_Patch.esp.
14. Install the "Mods-for-ModExporter-2017-Dec-31.7z" with Wrye Bash. Place Morrowind_Compatibility_Layer.esp before Tamriel_Data.esp. Place TR_Fixes.esp and TR_OCO2_facelift.esp after TR_Preview.esp.
15. Create a Bashed Patch and move it after the last TR related esp file. Build the Bashed Patch.
Building the Resources:
1. Landscape and Icon textures should have been exported to C:\Oblivion.output during the ESP export steps above. Leave them there for now.
2. Go to the OpenMW executable directory where you ran the "openmw-modexporer.exe".
3. Open the Morroblivion.ini from that directory.
4. Find and edit the "Morrowind=" line so that it points to the directory where you have installed Morrowind + TR 17.09. Make sure to put a "\" at the end of the line.
5. Go back to the OpenMW executable directory, and look for these files which should have been generated during the ESP export steps above:
ModExporter_NIFConv_Tamriel_Data.bat, ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Mainland.bat, ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Preview.bat
6. Double-click "ModExporter_NIFConv_Tamriel_Data.bat". It will start two windowed processes to convert NIF files in parallel. Let it run until you see a message that conversion is complete for both windows. Press any key to close the windows.
7. Repeat step 5 for "ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Mainland.bat". Then repeat again for "ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Preview.bat".
8. Now go to the "C:\Oblivion.output\Data" directory.
9. Create a new 7-zip or other Wrye Bash compatible archive from the directories in c:\Oblivion.output\Data.
10. Drag that new archive into the Installers tab of Wrye Bash to let Wrye Bash copy it into the Bash Installers directory.
11. Right-Click on the new archive inside Wrye Bash and click Install.
Building the LOD Resources:
1. After you have archived and installed the resources in C:\Oblivion.output in the above steps, delete the contents of C:\Oblivion.output so you can start with a clean directory.
2. Go back to the OpenMW executable directory, and look for these files:
ModExporter_NIFConv_Tamriel_Data_LOD.bat, ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Mainland_LOD.bat, ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Preview_LOD.bat
3. Double-click "ModExporter_NIFConv_Tamriel_Data_LOD.bat". It will start a windowed process to convert NIF files. As above, let it run until you see a message that conversion is complete for both windows. Press any key to close the windows.
4. Repeat step 5 for "ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Mainland_LOD.bat". Then repeat again for "ModExporter_NIFConv_TR_Preview_LOD.bat".
5. Now go back to the "C:\Oblivion.output\Data" directory.
6. Create a new 7-zip or other Wrye Bash compatible archive from the directories in c:\Oblivion.output\Data. Make sure it has a different name from the archive you made above.
7. Drag that new LOD archive into the Installers tab of Wrye Bash to let Wrye Bash copy it into the Bash Installers directory.
8. Right-Click on the new LOD archive inside Wrye Bash and click Install.
Generating Distant Lands and Objects:
In order to register the LOD meshes and generate distant lands, you will need to run TES4LL and TES4LODGen. Instructions for using these programs can be found on their webpages at Oblivion Nexus.
The ModExporter-2017-Dec-31.7z and Mods-for-ModExporter-2017-Dec-31.7z files are mirrored here for your convenience.


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Every zone
must name a head coach and at least one assistant coach (exception:
sports for athletes with a disability, which must have one head
coach and at least one assistant coach for the sport). If
additional adults are named for the zone (or sport) and they meet
the certification requirements of assistant coaches, they
should be registered with the role "assistant coach", otherwise they
are registered with the role "adult supervisor".
See BC Games General Rules for more information.
Transportation, accommodation, and meals, as
arranged by the Host Society, will be provided for officials.
See BC Games General Rules for more information.
BC Games General Rules dictate the level of
coach certification required for head coaches and assistant coaches
unless otherwise stated in this Technical Package -
click here for details. A minimum of Making Ethical
Decisions is required for all assistant coaches
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Participant information is collected under the
authority of the BC Games Society. The information provided will be
used to determine eligibility to participate in the 2020 BC Winter
Games. On confirmation of eligibility the information will be used
to arrange liability insurance coverage to address any claims
arising from the voluntary participation of registered participants
in the 2020 BC Winter Games. The name, hometown, sport, and results of
registered participants will be provided to media outlets and
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Games Society websites for the purposes of acknowledging selection
for participation and placing. The names, addresses, email addresses, phone
numbers, results, and/or images of registered participants may be used in
non-commercial promotion/development of sport and/or the BC Summer
and/or BC Winter Games or the BC Games Society. The BC Games
Society reserves the right to use or reproduce images for the
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Everyone and their mother has a search engine these days, but most of these companies are either trying to improve on the tired UI of search results, or one-up Google in the content indexing game by exploring semantic technologies. BackType is among a handful of new search engines that focus on "the conversation"—the universe of scattered discussions across blogs, social news sites, and microblogging services where the dialog about a post or product is often found today. Ars looked into BackType and spoke with founder Christopher Golda about the inspiration and direction for his company.
BackType offers two distinct services for different sets of users. The first is a comment claiming system with which users can register and identify their online presence. BackType can track your comments at a number of hosted services like Digg and Intense Debate, but it can also identify you by the website URL(s) you typically leave in comment forms. This allows BackType users to claim their comments out of the roughly 100 million (and counting) comments that Golda told Ars his company has already indexed. Friends and coworkers can then stay on top of the content and conversations that you find worthwhile to engage with. Facebook Connect integration is almost ready, which will bring even more ubiquity to one's online discussions.
The other half of BackType is, of course, its search engine that allows users to actually sift through all these comments and receive keyword-based alerts. This allows general users to check on what others are saying about the day's hot topics. But it could also offer value to companies, publishers, PR firms, and more that want to check in on what real people (and not us jaded media types) are saying about their products and clients. Type in a keyword like "Windows 7," and you can not only see comments and their sources as recent as five minutes ago, but you can also opt to receive e-mail alerts as soon as BackType indexes new relevant comments.
Golda said the inspiration for BackType came from "a very simple problem we were experiencing... I wanted to be able to follow comments written by the people we care about. It was easy," Golda continues, "to follow all the blog posts, videos, tweets, and other user-generated content, but there was no way to follow comments." BackType isn't alone in this space, though, as Golda has plenty of competition from others like uberVU and Artiklz.
BackType is moving swiftly to incorporate as many "high-quality comment-like content" sources as possible, as exhibited by its current and future roster. Already the company indexes comments from platforms like Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, Digg, and Reddit, but it also crawls Yelp, a social review service, Mahalo Answers, and hosted comment services like Disqus and Intense Debate. Twitter will also soon join the fold, which should be a boon especially for companies trying to stay on top of the public's pulse.
Another in-transit feature, Golda says, will allow BackType users to visualize the scattered and fragmented conversation around a particular article on the web. "We're working on ways to help readers and publishers track conversations that are related to a specific story (the "conversational graph") as we're in a unique position to do so." So feeding a particular URL into BackType will eventually return comments on that page, as well as comments on its entries shared by users on FriendFeed, Twitter, Digg, and even blogs that linked to the entry.
Eventually, Golda says BackType will introduce a business model focused at the aforementioned businesses and PR firms for which his company offers the most value. Golda would not share any details of how BackType would start generating revenue, but it isn't hard to imagine the company charging fees to these companies for features like faster, broader, and more up-to-date access to its aggregated index of what the general public is saying.
When everyone has a voice in the Internet, it can be difficult to hear what the general public is saying, let alone find where the quality conversations are taking place. After some major additions like Twitter to its index, BackType stands a good chance of making a business out of helping both users and companies to follow the conversation no matter where it happens.


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This is Jim Sturgess at the LA premiere of Cloud Atlas last night getting ready for Movember I guess? Or a movie role? The moustache doesn't bother me. There's something else that bothers me more.
Lately I've been hearing here and there that Jim and his long-time girlfriend Mickey O'Brien are no longer together. No confirmation either way but I wanted to make mention of the rumours in this article and decided I'd check his Twitter since he and Mickey are both on there and if they were tweeting each other back and forth or whatever, that might be a sign of something, or nothing.
I do not learn from mistakes.
I obviously did not learn from my Tom Hiddleston mistake . As I learned during my Tom Hiddleston mistake, Twitter cannot be unseen.
In response to a few negative reviews of Cloud Atlas, Jim tweeted:
Some critics are saying that #CloudAtlas is too complicated for a mainstream audience...I hope you prove them wrong!!!!
Which is fine.
And then he proceeded to RE-tweet a LOT of fangirly cheerleading. We've talked about how I feel about the practice of re-tweeting, right? And how gross it is to re-tweet compliments? How about re-tweeting your own fansites getting twi-hardy about your sh-t?
Of course this hasn't killed it entirely. Of course I still love him. But the Twitter, never again with the Twitter is what I'm saying.
Like, why do they even have to? This is why I wish there was a Governing Body for Celebrity, an Academy of Celebrity Conduct. To monitor this business of the self-pimp. Because this irresponsible reckless Twitter behaviour is contributing to the overall degradation of the star. Do they realise that the closer the come to us, the harder it will be to separate from us?


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Cindy Lange-Kubick, the Lincoln (Neb.) Journal Star's Life columnist, has written a response to our Bo Pelini story in which she provides us with a number of tips for possible stories. We take all the tips we get very, very seriously, and so we'd like to use this space to let Ms. Lange know exactly which ones we're interested in.
Dear Deadspin:
I have a Polaroid of Bob Devaney at the Legion Club in 1968. He appears to be wearing a boa around his neck, and has his arm around two cheerleaders and a waitress whose name tag says "Shirley." I'd mail it to you, but it's sticky and it smells like a whiskey sour. LOL.
Dear Cindy: Yes, totally interested! How obviously drunk is Bob Devaney in the picture, though? If he's Papa John drunk, then we'd be willing to pay for express mail. If he's Eli Manning drunk, regular mail is fine.
Dear Deadspin:
I have an old cassette tape of Tom Osborne's wife, Nancy, from one of those mediocre 9-3 years. She's cussing out her husband for calling "up the middle" again. Are you interested?
Dear Cindy: Sold! Especially if "up the middle" is actually a euphemism for some kind of sex thing. Is it a sex thing? Is there any way you might be able to confirm this?
Dear Deadspin:
I was at a "Make a Wish" dinner and Bo Pelini and all his coaches were surprising a sick kid with a car. I think someone has video.
Dear Cindy: Interested, but if it's a vertical video, you can get the fuck out.
Dear Deadspin:
I have a document that shows how much Bo Pelini and his coaching staff make, would you like a copy? FYI: It's a lot of money, and money equals love, right?
Dear Cindy: Eh, old news.
Dear Deadspin,
Thanks for reading all my emails, hope I'm not flooding your inbox. One last thing: I was wondering if you have any interest in taped conversations between our chancellor and athletic director from the week of Sept. 16, 2013?
Dear Cindy: Do either of them use any racial slurs?
Dear Deadspin:
I was walking into a restaurant three years ago and Bo Pelini jogged by. He didn't smile or anything. I don't have a photo, but I remember it really well.
Dear Cindy: We have an entire rubric devoted to these kinds of stories. You can find them under the "This is So Stupid" tag. Thanks again for sending it in!


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The Directed Reading Program (DRP) pairs undergraduate students with graduate student mentors for semester-long independent study projects. It runs each semester and during the summer and is coordinated by math Ph.D. students. Participation is not for credit and does not appear on a student's transcript.
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Current and past pairings
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Applications for Spring 2017 are currently being accepted. The deadline is Friday, February 3.
Applicants who are selected for DRP positions will be paired with mentors based on mathematical interests and availability. Once paired, the mentee and mentor jointly decide on a specific topic of study. Most projects are based on a particular book or article that the mentee reads at his/her own pace, guided and supplemented by the mentor. Applicants must use the field 'What are your mathematical interests?' to specify any concrete ideas they may already have for a project. Applicants may want to see our list of sample projects and our list of past projects.
Requirements. Each mentee meets weekly with his/her mentor for about an hour. The details of these meetings are left up to the mentee/mentor pairs; they might include presentations by the mentee, informal lecturing by the mentor, general discussion, questions about exercises, etc. In addition to the meetings, the mentee is expected to work independently for at least four hours each week. At the end of the semester, each student gives a 1015 minute presentation on a topic they have studied.
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Pebble is bringing the smartwatch into the mainstream with its recently announced Pebble Steel smartwatch. The second generation Pebble smartwatch actually looks classy and non-obtrusive, something the first Pebble smartwatch didn't have. With the Steel line, Pebble is helping to bring smartwatches from geek to chic.
Gone is the plastic casing, replaced by stainless steel and a face protected by Corning Gorilla Glass. The steel band includes a traditional watch clasp, and a tiny LED light which indicates charging status. Other than that, the Pebble Steel features all of the awesome features of the previous Pebble smartwatch: an e-paper display, 5 to 7 day battery life and a waterproof design.
Pebble's new classy gizmo runs existing Pebble apps, and will be showcasing a host of new apps later this month.
The Pebble Steel smartwatch is available for pre-order from Pebble's website for $249 in two flavors, Brushed Stainless or Black Matte. The units will begin shipping on January 28th.
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I talked a little about my experience with doing biographical work at my Foundation Studies course in this post: https://theparentingpassageway.com/2012/09/01/the-work-of-the-biography/ . If you have not done the preliminary work outlined in that post, you may want to start that first and then return here to deepen your work.
Based upon some of the ideas in my course regarding each seven year cycle, I have formulated some open-ended questions for you to answer in order to take a closer look at your own journey. Continue reading


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Lawmaker backs backs off comments on bike riders, climate change
Washington Republican apologizes for email to shop owner
A Washington state lawmaker has apologized for saying that bicyclists contribute to climate change with their heavy breathing.
Republican Rep. Ed Orcutt, of Kalama, is the ranking minority member of the state's House Transportation Committee.
He apologized Monday for writing in an email last week that "the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider.
He was responding to bike store owner who was upset about a proposed fee on some new bicycle purchases.
"You claim that it is environmentally friendly to ride a bike," Orcutt said in the email. "But if I am not mistaken, a cyclists has an increased heart rate and respiration. That means that the act of riding a bike results in greater emissions of carbon dioxide from the rider. Since CO2 is deemed to be a greenhouse gas and a pollutant, bicyclists are actually polluting when they ride."
Orcutt is a fiscal conservative and believes cyclists should help pay for the upkeep of roads.
Orcutt says he was trying to say that bicyclists don't have a zero carbon footprint but that it was poorly worded.
"My point was that by not driving a car, a cyclist was not necessarily having a zero-carbon footprint," Orcutt said in the email, according to Reuters. "In looking back, it was not a point worthy of even mentioning so, again, I apologize."


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Download audio file (hunger1.mp3)
Time Phrases
Look at these time phrases:
Which one did you hear?
Look at these phrases:
in the morning
in the afternoon
at mid-day
in the afternoon
in the evening
at night
Which one did you hear?
A phrase with a noun and a location is called an adverbial phrases. It tells "where".
in my room
in my bed
in his bed
in your bed
Where is he?
In English we use the pattern:
"be" verb PLUS adjective
I am awake.
He is asleep.
They are half asleep.
Which one did you hear?
Verbs in Present Simple Tense
I wake up.
I sit up in bed.
I get up.
I get out of bed.
I walk to the window.
I look out.
I open the window.
I look out of the window.
I close the window.
I go back to bed.
Which phrases did you hear?
Nouns and Adjectives
The "sun" is a noun. "Beautiful" is an adjective.
It is ugly.
It is beautiful.
It is very beautiful.
It is very ugly.
The sun is very beautiful.
The moon is very ugly.
It is hot.
It is cold.
It is warm.
It is cool.
It is yellow.
It is green.
It is light.
It is dark.
Which phrases did you hear?
Nouns and Adjectives – Vocabulary
light – a light room (not a dark room)
life – a living room (not a sleeping room)
life – a living person (not a dead person) (not a deceased person)
love – a loving wife (not an unfaithful wife)
beauty – a beautiful place (not an ugly place)
a room
a bedroom
a living room
a kitchen
a kitchenette
a building
an apartment building
a skyscraper
a tall building
a condo – a condominium
a village
a town
a big town
a city
Which ones did you hear?
Look at these patterns:
"be" verb PLUS adjective – I am hungry.
"be" verb PLUS adjective – It is morning..
want to PLUS verb – I want to eat.
I want to sleep.
I want to eat.
I want to get up.
I want to go to bed.
Existence and Location
Where is the bacon?
It is in the refrigerator.
Is there any cheese?
Yes, there is.
No, there is not.
Are there any eggs?
Yes, there are.
No, there are not.
Present Simple Tense – General Statements
People get hungry.
Everybody gets hungry.
Everybody gets hungry.
Everybody gets hungry sometimes.
Everybody feels hunger.
Everybody feels some kind of hunger.
In some way all hunger is one.
Present Simple Tense – Personal Statements
I am hungry.
I am not hungry.
I am thirsty.
I am not thirsty.
Which one did you hear?
Noun or Adjective?
hunger- hungry
Do you feel the hunger?
Are you hungry?
I feel like a ham sandwich.
I feel like a shower.
Which one did you hear?
Future Plan
I am going to go downstairs and make a ham sandwich.
I am going to go downstairs and cook dinner.
Which one did he say?
General Statements – hungry for
Some people are hungry for meat.
Some people are hungry for fresh vegetables and rice and fruit.
Some people are hungry for alcohol.
Some people are hungry for love.
Nouns – Singular and Plural – Count and Non-count
Hunger comes and goes.
It comes and goes.
We have appetites.
We have an appetite.
We have an appetite for food.
We all have appetites for various things.
Do you have a big appetite?
Look at this pattern:
I have a desire to PLUS verb
I have a desire to eat.
I have a desire to go overseas.
It is more common to say:
I want to eat.


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Investing in the future: Mount students visit N.Y. Stock Exchange
More than two dozen Mount Saint Mary College students recently got an inside look at New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan.
Sponsored by the college's School of Business, Student Business Association (SBA) and Career Center, the trip took students on a walking tour of Financial District sites in New York City, culminating with the Stock Exchange.
Peter Greco, a business student with a concentration in finance, was surprised to see fewer people on the floor than he expected. Greco's tour guide explained that over the last decade, much of the business has moved online.
A highlight of the visit, Greco observed, was the ending bell. "Everyone was cheering," he said. "It was like you'd see in the movies."
Thomas Barnes, business student and SBA secretary, was pleased with the wealth of information he learned. "This was a great experience," he said.
Kathleen O'Keefe, associate director of the Career Center, and Regina Eisenbacher, administrative assistant, organized the outing.
"This trip was truly amazing," said O'Keefe. "Just watching the students on the Stock Exchange floor listening to the traders and asking questions was so incredibly rewarding."
Learn more about the Mount's business and Career Center programs on the web at www.msmc.edu.
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This is the code that is creating the textures:
The previous working webkit code used 'GFXDefaultStaticDiffuseProfile', which has been renamed in development to'GFXStaticTextureProfile'. However when I try to use that I get a crash when the code tries to lock the texture. Locking the texture calls ID3D11DeviceContext::Map, which throws this error:
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mTextureObjectA.set(mTexSize, mTexSize, GFXFormatR8G8B8X8, &GFXDynamicTextureProfile, avar("%s() - (line %d)", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__), 0); // was GFXDefaultStaticDiffuseProfile
mTextureObjectB.set(mTexSize, mTexSize, GFXFormatR8G8B8X8, &GFXDynamicTextureProfile, avar("%s() - (line %d)", __FUNCTION__, __LINE__), 0); // was GFXDefaultStaticDiffuseProfile
Having had a look through the D3D11 documentation I think I need the texture to be dynamic since webkit will be updating it. Hence why I've updated the texture profile to GFXDynamicTextureProfile.
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D3D11 ERROR: ID3D11DeviceContext::Map: Map cannot be called with MAP_WRITE_DISCARD access, because the Resource was not created with the D3D11_CPU_ACCESS_WRITE flag. [ RESOURCE_MANIPULATION ERROR #2097210: RESOURCE_MAP_INVALIDMAPTYPE]
D:\Torque\Torque3D\Engine\source\gfx\D3D11\gfxD3D11TextureObject.cpp(114,0): {Fatal} - GFXD3D11TextureObject::lock - Failed to map subresource.
In GFXD3D11TextureManager::_innerCreateTexture() I'm now getting these errors when the texture is created:
This is the D3D11_TEXTURE3D_DESC that has been created:E_INVALIDARG One or more arguments are invalid
D3D11 ERROR: ID3D11Device::CreateTexture2D: A D3D11_USAGE_DYNAMIC Resource must have MipLevels equal to 1. [ STATE_CREATION ERROR #102: CREATETEXTURE2D_INVALIDMIPLEVELS]
D3D11 ERROR: ID3D11Device::CreateTexture2D: A D3D11_USAGE_DYNAMIC Resource cannot be bound to certain parts of the graphics pipeline, but must have at least one BindFlags bit set. The following BindFlags bits (0x28) cannot be set in this case: D3D11_BIND_STREAM_OUTPUT (0), D3D11_BIND_RENDER_TARGET (1), D3D11_BIND_DEPTH_STENCIL (0), D3D11_BIND_UNORDERED_ACCESS (0). [ STATE_CREATION ERROR #99: CREATETEXTURE2D_INVALIDBINDFLAGS]


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Yamaha, Futuresonic & Sequence presents:
The Manchester Launch Party of the Yamaha TENORI-ON
Mint Lounge, Oldham Street, Manchester
20.00 - 00.00
A short presentation and discussion with the inventor & designer behind this unique instrument: Toshio Iwai
With live performances from:
Robert Lippok (Domino)
Secondo (Dreck Records)
Graham Massey (808 State/Toolshed)
The TENORI-ON is a unique 16 x 16 LED button matrix performance instrument with a stunning visual display. For Djs and producers it is a unique performance tool enabling them to perform using MIDI and load the TENORI-ON with samples to jam and improvise within their set BPM's.
By operating and interacting with the LED buttons and the light they produce you gain access to the TENORI-ON's numerous performance capabilities. The TENORI-ON provides six different performance and sound/light modes for broad performance versatility and these modes can be combined and used simultaneously for rich, complex musical expression.
Conceived by leading Japanese media artist Toshio Iwai in 2001 and following five years of intensive development the TENORI-ON has been showcased at major arts festivals and media arts festivals including Sonar (Spain), Futuresonic (U.K.), Ars Electronica (Austria), SIGGRAPH (U.S.) as well as being road tested by cutting edge artists including Kraftwerk, Matthew Herbert, Mouse on Mars and Tortoise.
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Moving this to 808 discussion, as it's Massey involved. Catch this if you can, free entry!
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Theres a clip of my set near the end
Theres a clip of my set near the end
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Tul has become the latest graphics card maker to launch a board supporting HDMI. The company's PowerColor-branded board is based on an ATI Radeon X1600-class GPU and incorporates an HDCP anti-piracy crypto chip for full HD readiness.
The PowerColor X1600 Pro HDMI has a 500MHz core connected across a 128-bit bus to 256MB of GDDR 3 running at 450MHz (900MHz effective). The GPU has 12 pixel-shader pipelines fed by five vertex-shader engines.
The low-profile board is CrossFire ready for multi-card set-ups. ATI's Avivo technology is on hand to accelerate HD video decoding and enhance the picture quality.
Tul said the board would ship next week, but it didn't provide pricing information. ®


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In the October 1949 issue of National Geographic, there were five articles related to polar exploration. The Top of the World map, first published in October of 1949, offers a truly unique view that features the Arctic Polar Region at its center. This beautiful map is both a cartographic masterpiece and a fresh look at the world.
Coverage Area: Arctic polar region, northern US, Canada, northern Europe, northern USSR


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
1892 - 1973
Historical Period:
The 20th Century and Beyond
Bernhard Knollenberg practiced law for twenty-two years in New York City before leaving to direct the Yale University Library in 1938. He was the senior deputy administrator of the United States Lend-Lease Administration in Washington, D.C., and later a Division Deputy in the O.S.S., during World War II. Thereafter, he dedicated his time to historical research and writing about the American Revolution. He is also the author of Washington and the Revolution; Pioneering Sketches of the Upper Whitewater Valley: Quaker Stronghold of the West; and Franklin, Jonathan Williams, and William Pitt. Bernhard Knollenberg died in 1973.


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You need to allow up to 4 hours at the venue.
There will be the opportunity to buy still photos on the day, prices starting at £15. A damage waiver will be offered to all participants during the sign in process. The participant is not covered for damage unless they take out this waiver, and could be liable for an excess of up to £5000 per vehicle. The cost of the waiver is £25 for 1 car and £5 for every other car driven and will cover you for accidental damage costs. It will not cover damage caused as a result of the driver willfully disobeying the instructor or wilfully driving outside the limits imposed.