text: Shutterstock.com Careers Leadership IT professional careers: is being a generalist a dead end option? William Turgeon @itworldca Published: June 11th, 2015Recently, I have been involved in several discussions with IT pros who were seeking employment and a common theme appeared to come up in most of the discussions.Everyone wanted to know if there was any future in becoming an IT generalist, rather than specializing in a single track. In some cases this came about because they were having a difficult time finding a position in their particular specialization. In others, their old specialization was no longer in demand, and usually, this was because the product the specialization was based on either no longer existed, or had been supplanted by a better product that did the same thing – only better!In either case, this pointed out to me the danger of becoming too highly specialized. We all know that no matter what you choose as an Area Of Competency (AOC), you are going to have to learn the fundamentals initially and then learn all the details that make one a specialist in any given track.Of course, it does not end there. Anyone who has been in the IT profession for longer than a year or so, has already discovered the one thing that everyone in IT either loves with a passion, or hates with equal fervor:"To be good at whatever you do in the IT profession, you can NEVER stop learning!"So, we all realize that no matter what your AOC is, there is always the possibility that it will become outmoded, or change so much that your initial training is useless. The question now is – 'Does that also apply to being a generalist?' Of course it does, only more so!!As an independent consultant for a large portion of my 30+ years as an IT professional, my experience has shown me three things:For any given engagement, a client will usually look for a specialist in whatever technology they are currently dealing with.Those individuals that specialize too heavily in a particular technology to the exclusion of others, almost invariably cripple themselves technically because no matter what the AOC, it is invariably dependent on some other technology to operate efficiently.Every project needs at least one individual with a generalists' training and outlook. Maybe not as the prime mover, but at least very close to whomever is in that position.Generalists are often looked down on by the specialists because they do not have the depth of knowledge in any one specialty that most specialists do. However, what most specialists fail to realize is that being a successful generalist is far more difficult than specializing!You see, while the specialist has to learn their individual specialty in depth, a generalist has to cover a much broader spectrum of knowledge. True, they do not cover that broad spectrum to the depth that a specialist does in any given area, but they have to know enough about a very wide spectrum of subjects to know HOW and WHY they interact the way they do, and WHAT can be done to make different applications work efficiently together in a given environment. Related Articles Security analytics — a new hope for security, or just hype? How writing has benefited me as an IT professional As a quick example, a couple of years ago, I was brought into a situation at a mid-sized company whose IT infrastructure was having problems on an increasingly frequent basis. The problem as described to me was that the primary file server, an SBS machine, had to be rebooted every evening – otherwise the clients' email would lock up part way through the following day!Because email was a critical element in that clients' business, they had brought in an Exchange expert to look into the situation. After reviewing the clients' system, his recommendation was to install a second Exchange server and cluster the machines so that if one machine failed, the other would continue operation seamlessly. This solution was estimated to cost the client about $20,000.00.I was brought in as a second opinion. When I reviewed the situation, I found that Exchange was not at fault at all! It was crashing because the Active Directory structure that Exchange depends on for proper operation was itself completely unstable. The domain controllers were not syncing correctly which caused problems for Exchange. But even this was not the root cause of the problem. The DCs could not sync properly because as the system had grown over the years, the client had simply added more switches and 'daisy-chained' them together. As both workstations and servers were spread over several switches at each of two locations, creating massive 'choke points', there was no way that Active Directory would EVER be able to sync correctly.That is a classic case of a specialist who either could or would not look beyond his specialization. Spending the $20K on the solution that the specialist recommended would not have solved the problem – only compounded it. It took a generalist who had knowledge of Exchange; Active Directory; AND routing & switching to use a mixture of all of those skills to resolve the problem.So being a generalist means that one has to understand the basics of a lot of separate AOC's and know how they integrate and what they need to work together efficiently. The generalist will often not know the specific commands or techniques used in implementing specific features in a product, but he DOES know that the feature exists and in general, what it requires to function efficiently. Knowing that a specific function exists, he/she can always look up the specific command or implementation process.The generalists' big advantage over most specialists is that they have an understanding of the fundamental requirements and interactions of most of the AOCs involved, not just a single one, and thus can often resolve problems that specialists are not equipped by their training to do.Although most IT professionals do not realize it, the need for IT generalists is much greater than most people are aware of, and the few well-trained ones that are available are rarely out of work. Unfortunately, being a generalist is much more difficult than specializing because one cannot focus on a single given area exclusively, but instead must continually 'keep up' on the broad spectrum of technologies that make up the IT profession.Being a generalist is an AOC that will NEVER die, but it IS a difficult one to master! Careers, Leadership cips blog, IT careers, IT jobs, IT skills, specialists


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IPU Mission Supports Egypt on Parliamentary Election Law
GENEVA, Switzerland, January 11, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- An IPU expert mission to Egypt will work with authorities there on revising a law governing parliamentary elections ahead of new polls for the lower house of parliament in the coming weeks.
The mission on 13-14 January is part of on-going IPU support to Egypt in efforts to build a democratic society.
The team of experts specializing in electoral processes, women's political participation and an MP from the UK, will provide advice on a range of issues. This includes putting in place the most reliable measures to elect a greater number of women to the Egyptian parliament. Egypt currently has only 15 women MPs, representing 2.0 percent of the total number of parliamentarians.
The Arab country uses a mixture of both proportional representation and first-past-the-post systems to elect members of parliament. Quotas and reserved seats are often the most effective ways to ensure a more representative parliament.
The Egyptian parliament is amending the law governing parliamentary elections, due to be finalized in the coming weeks, after a new constitution was approved last month.
The revised law will need to be accompanied by other measures to ensure increased women's political participation. These include efforts to raise electoral awareness among the public on voting for women, training women candidates on campaign methods and ensuring media cover of women candidates on the hustings.
Bahrain, DRC and Maldives on Table as IPU Committee on Human Rights of MPs Meets - The human rights abuses of MPs in Bahrain, Maldives and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) will be among cases examined by IPU's Committee on the Human Rights of Parliamentarians due to meet between 14-18 January.
The five-day session will include also a hearing with parliamentary authorities in Bahrain on the case of Matar Ebrahim Matar and Jawad Fairuz Ghuloom on allegations of arbitrary arrest, detention and ill-treatment. Fairuz is also among 31 opposition activists whose Bahraini citizenship was revoked last November.
The hearing follows a resolution adopted by IPU at its 127th Assembly in Quebec City last October voicing concerns at attempts to stifle opposition in Bahrain and at the lack of accountability over alleged ill-treatment of the two MPs.
The Committee will also follow-up on the findings of an IPU human rights mission to Maldives carried out last November to gather first hand evidence on allegations of ill-treatment, detention and harassment of 19 opposition MPs. It had already expressed concerns at continued political violence and intimidation of MPs since the onset of the political crisis in February 2012, and at the absence of prosecution of those responsible.
The human rights body will also seek further action on the cases of two opposition MPs from the DRC, Eugène Diomi Ndongala and Pierre Jacques Chalupa, having expressed deep concern over their situation in a resolution adopted at IPU's Assembly in Quebec in October.
83 cases concerning 233 parliamentarians in 39 countries from across the world have been lodged before the Committee involving disappearances, breach of freedom of expression, harassment, politically motivated criminal charges, unlawful arrests and detention and other human rights abuses.
The IPU Committee, established in 1976, also has before it a number of long-standing, unresolved cases of concern, including disappearances of MPs in Eritrea, Belarus and Rwanda. Other cases involve high profile politicians such as Sam Rainsy in Cambodia, Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia, Fawzia Koofi in Afghanistan and Jatuporn Prompan in Thailand.


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Our roof shingles do a lot for us in terms of protection and comfort. They ensure we stay comfortable during the winter and summer months, as well as keep us protected against inclement weather and outside elements. Because of this, it's important that when your roof is no longer performing as it should, it gets replaced right away. But when should roof shingles be replaced? Below are signs that you need shingle roof replacement service.
- Older Roof: Typically, when our shingle roofs are 20 years or older, its time to consider getting a roof replacement. This is due to the fact that the roofing material can be worn out, plus there have been many advances in roofing in the last 20 years.
- Neighbors Are Upgrading: Another sign that its time to replace your shingles is that all of your neighbors are getting new roofs. They could be getting new roofs for a lot of reasons–a big storm affected their roof, they want to add more curb appeal because they are selling their house, etc. It's worth looking into if your neighbors are taking the plunge.
- Shingle Issues: There are a ton of stuff that can happen to our shingles. Roof shingles can become cracked, they can buckle, or curl, and they can go missing from heavy winds or just bad installation work. Whatever the reason, a whole section of shingles that are missing or cracked is not a great sign for the health of your roofing system.
Just like you need a plumber to install tankless water heaters, you need a roofer to repair shingle roofing. If you have a shingle roof and need assistance, call Assurance Roofing at 502-228-7717 for residential roofing in Goshen and Louisville, KY.


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Cook Strait Between New Zealand's North and South Islands – December 10th, 200941.2S 174.4E
The Cook Strait separates the North and South Islands of New Zealand, connecting the Tasman Sea on the west with the South Pacific Ocean on the east.
To the south the coast runs runs 30 km along Cloudy Bay and past the islands and entrances to the Marlborough Sounds. To the north the coast runs 40 km along Palliser Bay, crosses the entrance to Wellington Harbour, past some Wellington suburbs and continues another 15 km to Makara beach.
Cook Strait is one of the most dangerous and unpredictable waters in the world. At its narrowest point 23 km separate Cape Terawhiti in the North Island from Perano Head on Arapawa Island in the Marlborough Sounds. Counter-intuitively, at this point the South Island coast lies further north than that of the North Island.
Other points of interest visible on the North Island in this image include Lake Taupo, the large body of water near the top, snow-capped Mount Ruapehu south of the lake, and the also snow-tipped Mount Taranaki (also known as Mount Egmont) on the left edge.


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The 2404 1/4 DIN unit is a high stability controller with an extensive range of options. Either PID, ON/OFF or Motorized valve control can be configured, satisfying both electrical and gas heating applications amongst others.
A setpoint programmer with up to 16 segments is available.
The controllers accept a range of plug-in modules, heating, cooling, or process outputs, analog retransmission, second process value input and remote setpoint.
An advanced PID control algorithm gives stable 'Straight-line' control of the process. A one-shot tuner is provider to set up the initial PID values and to calculate the overshoot inhibition parameters. In addition an adaptive tuner will handle processes with continually changing characteristics.
Up to four process alarms can be combined onto a single output. Alarms can be full scale high or low, deviation from setpoint, rate of change or load failure alarms.
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The Martine Performing Arts Series is funded by a grant from the James J. Martine Faculty Development Endowment. Named after a longtime former English professor, the endowment funds activities designed to improve the quality of teaching and learning within the core curriculum at St. Bonaventure.
The series expands the arts curriculum beyond the classroom walls, said Sabina, offering students a convenient, no-cost way to experience a variety of performing arts genres. Faculty in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts select the artists, choosing performances that complement the arts curriculum at SBU.
All performances are free for St. Bonaventure University students, faculty and staff. The series is open to the public as well, although general-public tickets are limited and there is a nominal per-person fee of $5 for each event held at the Quick Center. For ticket information, call the Quick Center Box Office at 716-375-2494.
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Ecocapsule: Live off the borders
Ecocapsule is the way to independent living.
Meet a smart house powered by solar and wind energy. It allows people to reach world's frontiers with the luxuries of a hotel room. The "egg" can serve as a micro-house, cottage, pop-up hotel or even as a charging station for electric cars. Ecocapsule's spherical shape has not only been purposely designed to minimize energy losses: The minimalistic retro-cool design is simply beautiful..
Our team has been focusing on every detail of the interior, exterior and technology for years. As a result, we have won several prizes and created a huge buzz over media when Ecocapsule was first revealed. Its development is now in hands of a separate company, so for more information please visit the project's website.
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Friends of Moku'ula and Maui Nei Native Expeditions are offering 2016 West Maui high school graduates two Akoni Akana Po'okela Scholarships in the amount of $500 each–one for each gender.
Akoni Akana was the first executive director of Friends of Moku'ula. After his death in 2011, a scholarship fund was established to perpetuate a vision of sharing Native Hawaiian culture and history, cultivating spiritual practices in a new generation, and encouraging stewardship and a work ethic that will benefit our youth as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow.
To apply for one of the scholarships, high school seniors are being asked to submit a written statement that describes how they will use the scholarship award to advance their education – specifically whether they will pursue Hawaiian cultural arts, dance or music, enrolling in courses at a college or university, or enrolling in a vocational school.
Scholarship requests can be submitted by email to: firstname.lastname@example.com or mail to: 505 Front St., Suite 221, Lahaina, HI 96761 (Attention: Program Director). Full legal name, contact information and signature by the student should be included. Scholarship requests must be submitted no later than March 28, 2016.
Additional information can be found by calling the Friends of Moku'ula office at 808-661-3659 or visiting Mokuula.com/events.
Friends of Moku'ula is a nonprofit cultural organization that was established in 1995 to cultivate awareness of the Hawaiian culture through restoration, preservation, education and revitalization of Moku'ula Island and Mokuhinia Pond in Lahaina.
Maui Nei Native Expeditions is a program of the nonprofit cultural organization Friends of Moku'ula. By creating educational programs and operating authentic Hawaiian cultural tours, Maui Nei is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the royal Hawaiian complex of Moku'ula Island and Mokuhinia Pond located in the National Historic District of Lahaina. Maui Nei grew out of community interest to conserve the historic site's natural and cultural resources, while educating residents and visitors on the significance of this sacred place and Lahaina's historic landmarks.
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Always Tired? Innovative Withings Aura Smart Sleep System Can Help You Sleep
Unveiled at the Spring 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the Withings Aura Smart Sleep System has all the indications of a gadget that might actually help consumers.
According to the National Institutes of Health, 50 to 70 million Americans have sleep problems ranging from intermittent trouble sleeping to chronic sleep disorders. Sleep problems diminish health, safety, alertness and productivity. The Withings Aura tracks not only your sleep movements but also your environment and uses programmed sound and light combinations to help you wake up and fall asleep. It pairs with an iPhone app to chart your sleep data in user-friendly graph format.
The Smart Sleep System monitors your sleep experience and actively works to improve it. It uses the science of light and sound to work with your body clock and circadian rhythms and improve sleep. Scientist have known about the effect of light on sleep and well-being as evidenced by the use of special lights to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The Withings Aura uses LED lights and a flat, comfortable under-mattress motion sensor mat to track your sleep, plus a bedside unit to monitor environmental variables. The bedside unit also has an alarm clock and Bluetooth. It is supposed to let users know if their sleep cycles are not working properly, and help them sleep and wake up better.
The sleep sensor is a highly sensitive pad that slips under your mattress or mattress cover. It monitors sleep patterns and patterns including body movement, heart rate and breathing. Withings claims it can monitor this data even from underneath a standard-thickness mattress. It uses these measurements to calculate your sleep rhythms from waking to REM sleep and lighter sleep. Users specify a wake-up time range, and the Aura sensor determines when you are in the right sleep state to wake up best within that time frame.
The bedside device, which looks a little like a cruise ship's vent horn, records the sleep environment of your room, including noise levels, temperature and light levels. It uses its multicolored LED dimming-light technology and special wavelengths of light to maximize user's own sleep cycles. Certain light wavelengths stimulate melatonin, the body's natural sleep hormone.
The sound programs contained in the bedside unit replicate the body's natural circadian rhythm frequency and pattern to relax you as you fall asleep and stimulate you as you awaken. The sensors in the bedside unit correlate with the under-mattress sensor mat to determine what conditions existed when you woke up overnight. You can then use this information to try and eliminate sources of sleep disturbance. The changing light colors are designed to reinforce hormonal cycles that tell the body when to sleep or stay awake.
The Withings Aura System includes the HealthMate iPhone app, which puts together all the collected data and displays it in graphic form. Users compare their recorded sleep stages and disturbances with their sleep environment and their personal sleep-wake cycles. The app combined with the Aura equipment creates a 360-degree well being experience, according to Withings.
Compared to wearable sleep tracking gadgets like the Jawbone UP and Beddit, the Withings Aura collects much more detailed information. It works automatically and is always present in your sleep environment. The Aura is also 100 percent dedicated to sleep without the activity tracker capabilities in the FitBit and Jawbone.
The early verdict, according to reviewers at Forbes, Trusted Reviews and tech gurus C-Net, the device shows promise in addressing insomnia. It doesn't just track sleep; it actively works to increase your rest every night using light and sound. Withings claims users will notice better sleep within days or a few weeks of starting use.
CES 2014 attendees certainly found it very interesting. The Withings Aura received a CES Innovations Design and Engineering Award at the 2014 show. Due for release in Spring 2014, the Withings Aura will cost $299, with a second mattress sensor for your partner costing $129. It sounds like a gadget that needs to be used and tested before making a final judgment on its usefulness. (Update: The sleep system is now available at many major retailers including Amazon here.)
As a lifelong insomniac, I say "Challenge Accepted!"
Sources: Forbes, TrustedReviews, C-Net, CES 2014


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There's a place far away lost in the mountains where humans can see the beauty and power of nature. This waterfall is called "tombo d'agua" (English language doesn't have a right translation), it's located in atlantic rain forest of a small town, Morretes.
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We process and hold your information in order to provide you with public services. This notice explains, in general terms, how we use and share your information. Information may be collected on a paper or online form, by telephone, email, CCTV or by a member of our staff, or one of our partners.
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text: December 12, 2013 by Lucien van der Walt Alternative scan: "Motsoaledi News", October 2003 – Phambile Motsoaledi Community Project / ZACF This is an alternative scan from another source of Motsoaledi News, October 2003: get the PDF here. Share this:PrintTumblrLinkedInPinterestRedditEmailPocketTwitterFacebookLike this:Like Loading... Related About Lucien van der Walt I teach at Rhodes University, the Eastern Cape. I'm 10th generation South African, born and bred. I have long been involved in union education, and have a background in social movement and left-wing activism, the Workers' Library and Museum, the Anti-Privatisation Forum, and the National Health and Allied Workers Union (NEHAWU). I've presented or published 450+ papers, including conferences and workshops, co-edited 4 journal specials (on global and African labour history, and the left), and produced five books. Southern Africa editor for the 2009 'International Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest' (Blackwell). I won the 2008 international 'Labor History' PhD thesis prize, and the 2008/2009 Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) award for best African dissertation, for my thesis on South African anarchism, syndicalism and black militants. I have also done research in Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. View all posts by Lucien van der Walt →


text: The Doll House tour: You must see (and maybe move into?) this manic pixie dream home #Homes & Tours#geeky#pink#videos#weird houses Updated Oct 12 2015 (Posted Sep 1 2015) Megan Finley Horowitz meggyfin The moment I saw this video pop up on Facebook feed, I thought "the Homies must needs see this!!!" This tour is of a home called "The Doll House" in Hollywood. And yes, it's wholly appropriately named. As you can see above, this house is complete with a set of built-in bunk beds with a "Welcome Motherfuckers" sign over them. But there's so much more! This is a place where dreams come true. Just look at this house tour… The Facebook post that alerted me to this space of pastel pleasantry stated that — get this — that pink-haired goddess named Kelly Eden is looking for a roommate. WHAT!? You mean for $925 a month/no pets, I could live in a real life doll house? Too bad I have pets… and my own apartment… sigh. Okay, one more photo of this magical home, and then I'm off to start building my own motherfucking bunk beds. Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Megan Finley Horowitz When Megan's not writing, traveling, and sleeping, she's eating like the fate of the world depends on it. (You're welcome, world!) You can snoop into her personal life over on her website The Dash and Dine! @meggyfin @thedashanddine @meggyfin PREVIOUS What Buddhism can teach you about cleaning up cat hair NEXT How to share BDSM with a vanilla partner Show/Hide comments [ 6 ] Oh my god. I think I'm going to have to make a sign that says 'Welcome Motherfucker' that's jut too awesome! Reply I <3 this chic so much! I have a super similar 1940s settee with a super similar yummy fabric! And my hairless cat loves to sit on it and reflect upon his day… 😉 Reply Well, this is pretty much my decor life goals. <3 Actually, my personal style — while definitely feminine and cute like this — is a bit more subdued, and I'd probably start to feel a little over-whelmed living in a place like this for too long. But props to Kelly! She obviously loves it and damn, she can work an aesthetic. Also, I kinda wanna be friends with her after watching that video. Reply She has definitely achieved some of my decor goals, though like you, I think my taste is comparatively subdued. I might go nuts in an entire home done in that loud aesthetic, but I'd at least love to have one room done thus. X) I had no idea of her existence before today, but I also want to be friends with her! Oh, man…. Reply She was on one of TLC's newer bride shows. They take your personal style and payment down a little bit but don't lose your true essence. If I'm Remembering correctly she's a pretty fabulous unicorn back piece. Reply SHUT UP this is everything. Reply Join the conversation Cancel ReplyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. No-drama comment policy Part of what makes the Offbeat Empire different is our commitment to civil, constructive commenting. Make sure you're familiar with our no-drama comment policy.


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A preschool is one of the stepping stones when it comes to your child's education and overall growth. The school sets a base for the further learning and education and is hence extremely important. This is why one must be careful when it comes to choosing a preschool for your child. However no matter how good the school is, your child may find it difficult to adjust to it. There are many tips and suggestions that you can follow to help your kid adjust to preschool. They are given as follows:
1. Visit the preschool with your child and stay there in the initial days
The first and most important tip to help your child adjust to preschool is to visit the school with him/her everyday and stay there for the initial few days. This will help your child by making him more comfortable and will ease his fears. Once he gets comfortable, you can stop staying there. This also helps as it lets you see what curriculum is being followed and talk to teachers about the routine and other learning related things.
2. Prepare your child in advance
It is very important to prepare your child for preschool in advance so that it doesn't come as a major shock. Once you talk about the school, the child will get familiar with it in advance and won't face much problems getting comfortable. He must have a positive image of the school in mind so that all fears are erased.
3. Try to pick up and drop off your child everyday or during initial days
Rather than booking a transportation service, it is better to drop off and pick up your child from school every day or atleast in the initial few days. This will let your child feel the comfort of someone familiar when going off to school and when the school ends. Also, if the child is reluctant to go to school, this will reduce the anxiety and fears.
4. Talk to the child about the day on an everyday basis
Another thing that you can do to help your child adjust with the preschool is to talk to him about his day on an everyday basis. This will help him share his thoughts and experiences and this will encourage him to go to school every day. Encourage your child for his good efforts so that he looks forward to the preschool and doesn't take it as something to be afraid of.
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Promoting and Sustaining Public Trust in Exposure Science
The vision of exposure science articulated in the preceding chapters requires broad public support for gathering information on human and environmental exposures. That support involves understanding the aims of exposure science and a perspective that exposure science is integral to decision-making, including developing mitigation and prevention strategies that advance societal goals and objectives. If support is to weather the inevitable challenges, it is critical that researchers and stakeholders share values of and expectations for exposure science. In addition, appropriate safeguards and definable ethical standards to protect volunteers who give their time for exposure research are needed. Those considerations illustrate that the long-term success of human and environmental exposure science requires that attention be focused on the ethical and societal issues raised by modern research practice.
Although human exposure studies typically present only minor risks to research volunteers, several studies have sparked controversy. For example, the Children's Environment Exposure Research Study (CHEERS), a proposed study that was intended to examine how children may be exposed to pesticides and other household chemicals generated considerable mass-media interest and contributed to fears that children would be placed at increased risk. The concerns prompted the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to cancel its plans for the study (Resnik and Wing 2007). Reactions to the proposed study resulted in raising the bar for the conduct of observational exposure studies and led to the publication of Scientific and Ethical Approaches for Observational Exposure Studies (EPA 2008), which provides guidance for conducting observational studies. The CHEERS study, together with other controversial studies, highlight a number of ethical and societal issues that need to be navigated successfully to achieve the committee's vision for human and environmental exposure science.
In this chapter, the committee addresses considerations related to the promotion of public trust in exposure science. Although none of the issues dis-
cussed is peculiar to exposure science, how they present themselves can pose special challenges for observational studies. That is particularly true of ethical issues associated with ubiquitous technologies—new personal and environmental monitoring tools—whose use and availability are expected to become more prevalent. As technologies evolve our capacity to detect chemicals and other stressors at increasingly lower levels is outpacing our capacity to interpret what the findings mean for health, subclinical effects, or even for elucidating potential exposure reduction strategies, creating scientific and ethical challenges for society.
Exposure-science research may involve observational studies of humans and the environments in which they live. The ability to conduct exposure studies in all populations, particularly among the most vulnerable (for example, the elderly, children, and the infirm) is critical to understanding and preventing harmful exposures and risks in society. As with all research involving human subjects, it is vital that measures be implemented at the beginning of a study to protect the rights and welfare of participants (volunteers). In cases that lack such protections, research subjects may be needlessly placed at increased risk, which can threaten not only their well being but the long-term success of human and environmental exposure-science research.
All exposure-science research involving human subjects must be reviewed and approved by an appropriate institutional review board (IRB) and be consistent with national ethics standards. Many of the ethical considerations that should guide the conduct of observational exposure studies are discussed in the recent EPA report Scientific and Ethical Approaches for Observational Exposure Studies, which provides well-defined and documented procedures for conducting exposure-related research. That report describes two primary elements for human-subject protections: review by an impartial IRB and informed consent of research subjects.
High standards of ethical conduct in human-subjects research are enforced by multiple oversight committees or review boards, which examine both scientific and ethical details of the proposed research. IRBs include appropriate medical and scientific experts who are not directly involved in the conduct of the research and who do not have any personal interests in the study. They also have members outside the scientific community. In deciding whether a research study is acceptable, IRB members are asked to consider whether or not the foreseeable risks to participants are appropriately minimized and acceptable in light of the potential benefits to participants and to society.
The process of seeking informed consent of participants is a second key element of ethical conduct in research. Informed consent ensures that subjects give their voluntary and informed consent to be participants in a research study.
In addition to consenting to participate in a study, participants can consent on whether or not they want their results (Morello-Frosch et al. 2009). (Additional discussion is found in the section, Returning Research Results.) Researchers conducting observational exposure studies are expected to seek permission from research subjects who must be informed about the goals of the research, the specific procedures involved, and the potential benefits of and risks posed by participation. That kind of communication does not end when a research subject signs a permission form or otherwise indicates his or her willingness to participate. As a study progresses and new findings are discovered, investigators are expected to communicate to research subjects any changes that have been made in the study protocol. It is through such regular communication that consent to participate is reaffirmed. If an important risk is detected, the investigators are also obliged to report it to the participants and the funding agency involved.
Typically, observational studies that do not involve efforts to mitigate human exposures present minor risks to the people who participate as research subjects. However, in addition to minor burdens associated with the collection of exposure data, without full communication such studies may also increase participants' exposure in unintended ways, for example, by promoting an unwarranted sense of protection to subjects through their wearing of exposure-monitoring devices. Observational studies can also present risks related to the unintended disclosure of private information; for example, release of medical records might impair a person's ability to obtain employment. To address those possible risks, investigators should strive to ensure that data are protected and that research subjects understand any potential risks associated with their participation.
The committee acknowledges in addition to observational exposure studies, there are intentional dosing studies that can involve potential increases in harmful exposures. For example, a study conducted in London, England, had asthmatic volunteers walk routes with low and high exposures to air pollution (McCreanor et al. 2007). In another study, men suffering from congestive heart failure were exposed to high concentrations of diesel exhaust, which has been linked to an increased risk of a coronary event (Mills et al. 2007). Such studies raise additional ethical considerations (see NRC 2004); but these studies fall outside the scope of this committee's charge.
It is critical that scientists conducting research with human subjects not have conflicts of interest that may impair their ability to conduct the research ethically. Financial relationships with industry sponsors of research should be disclosed to IRBs and other research-oversight boards, such as university committees on conflict of interest. Sources of research funding should be disclosed to potential volunteers when they are approached to participate in a study, as should any financial relationships of the investigators with commercial entities that may be affected by the outcome of the research. Such disclosures can promote public trust by increasing transparency and giving study volunteers the opportunity to assess the full array of potential benefits and risks associated with their participation in the research.
Public trust must be promoted to foster support for exposure-science research. Mass-media coverage of higher-visibility studies has at times mischaracterized key aspects of study design, reinforcing distrust of regulatory agencies and fueling concerns about the identification of human and environmental stressors. To maintain public confidence in the integrity of exposure science, innovative forms of public engagement are required. They should foster public understanding of the purpose, benefits, and limitations of human and environmental exposure-science research and its potential contributions to public health.
Engaging the public through education may be needed to improve understanding of how exposure-science studies have made great strides in identifying and reducing harmful exposures. Examples are described in earlier chapters and in a recently published series of exposure-science digests (Graham 2010). These and other exposure-science studies have contributed to greater understanding of the health effects of hazardous environments and have helped to reduce the likelihood of future adverse exposures.
Exposure scientists should engage members of the public in identifying and addressing relevant health concerns. To advance that goal, it is critical that members of the public be able to access information from human and environmental exposure studies. Although exposure studies are often intended to serve as the basis of regulatory policy, the data that they produce may have relevance for other purposes. In particular, members of the public may find results of exposure studies useful in addressing local environmental conditions—for example, in modifying local planning or zoning ordinances or blocking construction of new facilities on the basis of data showing that the community will be burdened by increased exposure to environmental stressors. Exposure information may also help members of the public in making personal choices about their environments, including their behaviors, diet, housing, employment, or the purchase of personal products, and can be used by community organizations and individuals to provide input to decisionmakers.
Exposure science can help communities to identify and address differential, cumulative, and emergent exposures. Community members can be among the first to identify an exposure of concern. Once the design of a community-based exposure study begins, community members may be found to have a wealth of information about the exposures of potential concern. Communities are all too often the "subjects of" health studies and have little input into the problems to be studied. Recognizing potential community knowledge and adopting a spirit of openness in disseminating exposure-related data are pivotal for building trust. Correspondingly, conducting exposure studies in the absence of
community input or failing to maintain communication with affected communities may greatly diminish public confidence in exposure science and reinforce distrust of scientists engaged in this work (NRC 1989; 1996). Engaging members of differentially affected communities is critical for increasing public trust and improving stakeholder participation in exposure science. Federal and private funding agencies have been providing increased support for community-engaged exposure studies, recognizing that this contributes to improving study results through better recruitment and retention of study participants and through dissemination of study results to diverse public audiences (Brown et al. 2012).
Open discussion is necessary if community members are to have input into problem formulation and ultimately to benefit from research findings. The groundwork for such discussion lies in effective multidirectional communication among all stakeholders, including members of affected communities, scientists, public-health agencies, and policy-makers (Chess et al. 1988; NRC 1989, 1996; Lundgren and McMakin 2009). Effective communication underlies all stages of research, from identifying the stakeholders who should be at the table to understanding how research findings can best be shared with community members. Outreach and engagement not only provide the vehicle for disseminating the results of exposure studies but provide the opportunity for researchers to listen to community members so that they can identify preferred approaches and formats for dissemination. Such information may assist communities in developing new public-health interventions, environmental policies, or community-development initiatives to reduce harmful exposures.
A trend in public-health research is the engagement of affected communities and populations through the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR). Members of differentially burdened and exposed communities have turned to CBPR as an approach to communicate their environmental-health concerns to scientists and promote collaborative research. As part of CBPR, community-based organizations use their grassroots activism and resources, "expert local knowledge", and university partners to develop a framework for studying differential health effects at the local level (Wilson et al. 2008; Baron and Wilson 2011). Critical to this approach is an effort to put scientific knowledge into practice by dissolving traditional boundaries between knowledge and action. CBPR acknowledges the community as a unit of identity and builds on community strengths and resources to facilitate more equitable partnerships that involve power-sharing and community empowerment (Israel et al. 1998).
Many community-based environmental justice and health organizations exist across the United States, for example, West Harlem Environmental Action, in New York City; Concerned Citizens of Tillery, North Carolina; Alternatives for Community and Environment, based in Boston, Massachusetts; and the Environmental Health Coalition, in San Diego. Many of these organizations have
engaged in community-driven research to obtain locally relevant exposure data on a variety of environmental health issues, including air pollution in metropolitan areas, housing stock, burden of pollution from industries, locally unwanted land uses, transportation issues, and industrial animal production (Shepard et al. 2002). Using CBPR, they and other organizations have leveraged their local knowledge in collaboration with university partners to develop a framework for addressing environmental health and justice issues at the local level (Wilson et al. 2008). Using that approach, community-based organizations have become more involved in creating research agendas that advance the goals of differentially affected communities (see for example, Box 6-1 which describes the role of CBPR in reducing adverse exposures and advancing the health of the community of Spartansburg, SC).
BOX 6-1 Case Study of Exposure Justice and Community Engagement: ReGenesis in Spartanburg, SC
The city of Spartanburg is in northwestern South Carolina and has a population of 40,000, about 50% black and 50% white (EPA 2003, 2006). This former "textile town" has undergone a transformation with its revitalized downtown and a concentration of international business firms within the city limits (EPA 2003, 2006; Fleming 2004). However, the Arkwright and Forest Park neighborhoods, just beyond the city's downtown, are two predominantly black neighborhoods with a combined population of almost 5,000 residents that has not benefited from the revitalization efforts (EPA 2003, 2006; Fleming 2004). The closing of local mills and plants and the lack of zoning regulations and land-use controls (EPA 2003, 2006; Fleming 2004; Habisreutinger and Gunderson 2006) left the population poor (25% in poverty) and underemployed (10% unemployment) (EPA 2003, 2006).
The two neighborhoods are affected by environmental exposures. For example, the residents were exposed to a 40-acre International Mineral and Chemicals (IMC) fertilizer plant (a Superfund site); the Arkwright dump, a 30-acre former municipal landfill (a Superfund site); the Rhodia chemical plant (in operation); the Mt. Vernon textile mill (in operation); and six brownfields (EPA 2003, 2006; Fleming 2004; Habisreutinger and Gunderson 2006; ReGenesis 2008). About 4,700 people lived within 1 mile of the IMC site and 200 within 0.25 mile of the landfill (EPA 2003, 2006; Fleming 2004; ReGenesis 2008). Those exposures have been associated with a high rate of cancer—particularly bone, colon, and lung cancer—and high rates of respiratory illnesses, adult and infant mortality, miscarriages, and birth defects (EPA 2003, 2006; ReGenesis 2008). In addition, neighborhood residents had a poor transportation infrastructure, inadequate sewer and water services, lack of access to medical care, public-safety issues, few economic opportunities, and declining property values (EPA 2003, 2006).
In 1997, Harold Mitchell, a resident concerned about the environmental contamination in his community, began organizing community meetings to discuss environmental justice and health issues (EPA 2003, 2006; Fleming 2004; ReGenesis 2008). The meetings empowered local residents and motivated efforts by the government and industry to clean up the contaminated Superfund sites and brownfields. This community-driven collaboration became known as the "ReGenesis Project". ReGenesis built an environmental-justice partnership with the city of Spartanburg, the county, the EPA Region 4 Office of Environmental Justice, the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Spartanburg Housing Authority, the county's Community and Economic Development Department, local industry, and the University of South Carolina to address environmental effects on local health and adopt strategies to revitalize the Arkwright and Forest Park neighborhoods (EPA 2003, 2006).
With help from EPA Region 4, in 2000 ReGenesis was designated a national demonstration project of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice, giving it access to financial resources, technical experts, and information (EPA 2003, 2006). With that designation, new funding was made available, and local, state, and federal agencies began to understand that action was needed in the Arkwright and Forest Park neighborhoods to improve public health (EPA 2003, 2006). Spartanburg County was awarded additional funding through EPA's Brownfield Initiative to perform site assessments of the brownfields (EPA 2003, 2006; Habisreutinger and Gunderson 2006; ReGenesis 2008). The brownfields assessment found contamination and led to government agencies' providing additional funding to clean up the sites for redevelopment (EPA 2003, 2006; Habisreutinger and Gunderson 2006; ReGenesis 2008). The success of ReGenesis in working with its collaborative partners for assessment, cleanup, and redevelopment of brownfields and other industrial sites also led to additional efforts to improve the health-promoting infrastructure of the Arkwright and Forest Park neighborhoods.
The CBPR approach allows the research process to increase a community's ability to study differential and cumulative exposures, address environmental justice and health issues, and increase engagement of minority-group and low-income stakeholders (Minkler et al. 2006; Wilson et al. 2008; Baron and Wilson 2011). For example, CBPR was used to obtain community-generated dietary consumption data for subsistence anglers in the East River of New York. These data, together with fish tissue contaminant concentration data were used by EPA in calculating risk estimates for exposures to contaminants in fish (for example, cadmium, mercury, and dioxins) consumed by the local, ethnic populations, when no appropriate dietary assessment data were previously available for this high-risk group (Corburn 2002). Members of the community were essential for collecting this consumption data given the cultural and language barriers of
the anglers. Similarly CBPR has been used to help assess farmworkers' pesticide exposures and associated health effects (Acury et al. 2001); a particularly difficult population to study given their transience and changing occupational status, language barriers, and questions regarding immigration status. Kamel et al. (2001) used community collaboration (working with the Farmworker Association of Florida and relying on the members' expertise) to identify and recruit a valid sample of farmworkers for an epidemiologic study.
The new research paradigms and exposure-monitoring technologies described in the preceding chapters will magnify current debates about exposure science and pose additional challenges in maintaining public trust. The potential for increasing private-sector involvement in this field of research may raise additional concerns about personal privacy. Future studies may seek to relate environmental exposure data to other large databases, including data on cellular-telephone use, global positioning system location, food consumption, and consumer shopping patterns. Although it may not be possible to anticipate the full array of challenges that lie ahead, several important issues can be identified now.
Returning Research Results
A difficult challenge in exposure studies concerns whether, when, and how to return exposure information to study participants (Schulte and Singal 1996). That issue can be raised at both at an individual level and a community level and can be especially difficult in contexts in which exposure studies take a long time, there may not be a direct relationship between researchers and subjects, or if the exposure data do not provide clear insights regarding the potential health effects, sources, or pathways of exposure. Questions about the return of personal exposure information will become more common as new collection methods obtain "personalized" forms of exposure data. Such data might be collected with ubiquitous monitoring devices, such as personal cellular telephones (see discussion in Chapter 5). As the volume of data collected continues to expand, exposure scientists need to consider the most appropriate approaches for reporting information on a multitude of exposure sources, some of which might be ambiguous with regard to importance, might be sensitive, or might pose personal risks to individual participants (for example, in legal proceedings) (Deck and Kosatsky 1999; Morello-Frosch et al. 2009). In addition to returning exposure data to participants, consideration will need to be given to how to place the data into context with respect to whether there are potential health implications or a need for people to take action to reduce exposures.
At the present time there is little guidance for scientists and academic-community researchers on reporting back individual and community-level expo-
sure data to study participants (NRC 2006). For example, few precedents exist for reporting biomonitoring data back to individuals when little information is available for interpreting health implications (Morello-Frosch et al. 2009). Morello-Frosch et al. identified distinct frameworks used by scientists for reporting back biomonitoring results. For example in the clinical approach, that is biomedically driven, reporting individual biomonitoring results is based on whether the risk relationship between exposure and health effects is understood. With CBPR, sharing of individual and community-level exposure data are encouraged between researchers and participants because it is believed that these data can have an impact beyond individual health, including in allowing communities to understand sources and potentially reduce exposures.
There appears to be movement in favor of addressing the issue of reporting-back exposure data in the recruitment and consent process of research studies. The ethical issues of reporting back exposure data will become more complex as data are increasingly integrated, reinforcing the need to address the rights of study participants before, during, and after studies are conducted. This is particularly true if exposure samples are to be stored for use after a study is completed (Morello-Frosch et al. 2009).
Engaging Affected Communities
As noted above, there are numerous challenges related to how scientists engage differentially burdened and exposed populations to address health disparities. With increasing recognition of the importance of social and ecologic stressors in human health, how we engage these populations in multiple aspects of exposure science—before, during, and after exposure studies—takes on even greater importance.
To be effective, community engagement must be multidirectional, with sources and receivers of information in constant communication with each other. Because scientists and the public may have different perceptions of risks (see, for example, Slovic et al. 2000), those responsible for communicating risks identified through exposure science need to understand stakeholders' values, concerns, and perceptions. Failure to recognize the differences and address them appropriately can cause failures in communication. In addition, the social context in which communication occurs and the extent to which sources of information are trusted play a critical role in how information is understood (Slovic et al. 2000; Miller and Solomon 2003).
Studying Susceptible and Vulnerable Populations
Ethical issues associated with exposure studies that involve susceptible and vulnerable populations—such as children, economically disadvantaged populations, the infirm, and workers—will continue to present challenges for the field of exposure science and the rest of environmental health. With the increas-
ing reliance on chemicals in products and improvements in our knowledge about mixtures, cumulative exposures, and exposures at different life stages, the field of exposure science will be challenged to perform ethical studies that involve and will ultimately protect susceptible and vulnerable populations. There will be a greater demand for this type of research to advance the state of knowledge while balancing the needs of those populations and to perform exposure research that is beneficial and produces high-quality data that can be used to reduce and eliminate human exposures.
Protecting the Natural Environment
Protecting and maintaining the integrity and health of ecosystems is critical because human society depends on natural processes and goods provided by natural ecosystems. As discussed in Chapter 1, ecologic systems support human health and well-being. Thus, even from an anthropocentric perspective, alterations of natural ecosystems that reduce their capacity to provide ecologic services may harm current populations or future generations. This perspective is distinct from the continuing discussion within environmental ethics regarding the need to extend the traditional boundary of societal concerns, which center on human concerns, to include nonhuman elements of our world (Des Jardins 2012).
To the extent that human health and ecologic health are inextricably linked, agencies that fund exposure-assessment studies will need to consider the long-term value of funding studies that focus on ecologic and environmental consequences of exposure even when direct effects on human health may be unclear. This approach reflects growing awareness that our global ethical responsibilities extend beyond humans and include the nonhuman elements of ecosystems. In addition, environmental stewardship is essential for supporting the full array of ecosystem services on which human health and well-being depend. Although budgetary pressures may make it difficult to advocate for studies of environmental exposure, advancing exposure science requires recognition of the interconnectedness of human health and ecologic health.
In developing practical approaches to societal challenges that will increase public support for exposure science, researchers conducting exposure studies should be mindful of the guiding values that shape their research. The investigation of environmental problems is an inherently ethical undertaking entwined with competing societal and political values. A researcher's choice to investigate a particular toxicant or geographic location, for example, validates a set of societal concerns about specific risks, irrespective of the eventual outcomes of the research. In addition, the limitations of public resources for research require federal agencies and the researchers that they support to be good stewards of the
resources and to choose to pursue problems that have the potential to improve public health. Studies of human exposures can create new legal and ethical obligations, both for those who have created an environmental hazard and for those who are exposed.
Human and environmental exposure-science research can seem distant to the public. Those who are familiar with exposure science have tended to view the field as driven largely by regulatory and political agendas. In addition, however, there is a need to convey to the public the rich array of information generated by human and environmental exposure science. With the development of smart phones and ubiquitous sensing, providing such information through monitoring of exposures is becoming more feasible. We elaborate on the need for transparency and engagement below, following the general theme of moving from source to dose.
1. Sources—We believe that people have a right to learn about sources of environmental exposures that potentially affect their health and well-being or the health of the ecosystems on which they depend. As with all research for public good, the exposure science community needs to make sure that ways are found to educate people about sources of exposures that may affect their health and well-being.
2. Ambient and indoor concentrations—People also have a right to know about exposure concentrations in all the microenvironments that they inhabit, and there is a reciprocal duty for researchers and others involved in the translation of scientific data to educate people about ambient concentrations that may affect their health.
3. Personal actions and exposures—People have a right to know how their own personal actions affect the environmental exposures that they encounter and how behavioral changes can reduce these exposures. To the extent that exposure assessment has traditionally been driven largely by regulatory purposes, there is a need to reorient the focus of exposure assessment to engage a more diverse set of stakeholders in decisions about the direction of human and environmental exposure science. Needs for translation of exposure science to educate citizens extends from informing people about how they can change their behaviors to improve personal health to informing those responsible for sources of harmful exposures how they can reduce harmful emissions and thereby contribute to improving environmental and public health.
4. Body burdens of exposure—With the advent of "-omics" technologies, we anticipate a wealth of information on body burdens of exposures. People who supply such information have a right to know about the body burdens of exposure that they carry, and it is incumbent on those collecting exposure data to educate people who have donated the data about their potential consequences.
Those values are consistent with another major theme in our report, namely, that exposure science needs to move beyond the assessment of ambient exposures to the characterization of dose. Emerging surveillance technologies will soon allow ubiquitous, large-scale monitoring of body burdens from multiple exposures. Although individual citizens will have different levels of interest and resources for learning about their environmental exposures, embracing the above values will help to ensure that exposure science engages a broad and diverse group of stakeholders who are interested in learning more about their personal exposures.
To be deserving of the public trust entails a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of integrity in exposure-science research. Scientists engaged in exposure assessment need to structure their studies in a way that is respectful of research volunteers and minimizes the potential for harm to people who make their research possible by voluntarily participating in exposure studies. When conducting participatory research, scientists should engage affected communities and populations in order to generate useful exposure information that stakeholders can use to reduce and eliminate their exposures and improve community health.
As we prepare for a time when new exposure-monitoring technologies and research paradigms expand the traditional scope of exposure-assessment studies, it is critical to anticipate ethical challenges that will present themselves. Several of the challenges stem from the collection of increasingly individualized data, which can present greater risk for research volunteers or create an expectation that results of potential importance will be returned to individual participants. The expanding scope of exposure-assessment studies may also create opportunities to provide citizen-volunteers with exposure data that they would find useful in reducing their personal exposure to environmental stressors. Scientists conducting exposure-assessment studies and the agencies that support their work should consider how to anticipate and respond to these challenges so as to maximize the global impact of human and environmental exposure science and sustain public confidence in the integrity of this evolving field of research.
• Federal agencies that support human and environmental exposure science need to develop educational programs to improve understanding of exposure-assessment research. The programs need to engage members of the general public, specialists in research oversight (such as members of IRBs), and specific communities that are differentially burdened by environmental toxicants.
• Federal agencies and professional societies should develop programs to assist exposure scientists in navigating the complex terrain of human-subjects research. Changing regulatory requirements demand that exposure scientists stay current with IRB expectations. Better communication between exposure scien-
tists and regulatory specialists can help to ensure that the expectations are transparent to those engaged in exposure-science studies.
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Debugging eeprom layout changes is annoying. I need to figure out how to hook up GDB to my keyboard.
Hot damn, I found the issue. I was looking, and looking, comparing the code line by line for the past week or so. Everything seemed to be fine on the code side. The order of plugins in the #Kaleidoscope sketch were correct. Every plugin had the correct settings after upgrading the firmware, except one. Comparing where the settings for that one plugin were stored at, I noticed a 2-byte shift. However, everything _after_ it was at the correct location...
...so we swapped it with something. Ok. But _what_. We could only swap with another 2-byte allocation, and _no_ other plugin allocated two bytes. Nor 2x1. And anything prior to it was fine aswell.
So I did what you need to do when faced with something that simply can't happen: look at the assembly. And boom, there it was: an extra call to requestSlice, which I completely forgot about because _it is not in a plugin_! It's from the keyboard device itself.
The keyboard device plugin (which lives in another namespace) allocates two bytes for keyscan interval setting. This happens after the plugin allocations, but before `Kaleidoscope.setup()` finishes. So when I moved the 2-byte allocation from the plugin's `onSetup()` to after `Kaleidoscope.setup()`, it got allocated after the device's own slice, instead of just before it. They got swapped.
Why was the device's keyscan rate correct then? Oh, boy, this is where it gets funny.
It was correct, because with the swap, it ended up being an invalid value, and the firmware auto-corrected that on boot.
Add to this the fact that the plugin that _exposes_ this setting does not allocate space itself, so I did not consider neither the plugin, nor the setting itself as possible sources.
I really need to teach the firmware to tell me what it is allocating space for, so these kinds of problems would be obvious immediately.
This whole ~week of debugging could've been saved if I remembered that the device allocates too, and that this allocation happens outside of the onSetup chain, but before Kaleidoscope.setup() finishes.
That's quite a lot to remember. I don't fault myself for forgetting all of that. But damn.
#keyboard #firmware development is certainly eventful at times. :)
However, we now have another interesting thing happening: with this newly fixed firmware, the EEPROM layout is correct. If I set this particular setting, the correct location gets changed. So far so good.
So I restore the EEPROM dump I made before. I dump it again - no difference, good. I unplug and re-plug the keyboard, so plugins reinitalize themselves. The problematic setting is wrong. In the EEPROM too. The correct location has the wrong value. WTF.
After re-plugging, setting the same value for that setting only, or restoring only the first ~16 bytes of EEPROM, and then re-plugging the keyboard again does not exhibit this issue anymore. It only seems to happen once. And it always goes to the same wrong value.
Completely baffling. I'd love to be able to GDB this.
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Belwood, Belgatos, Surmont & Nearby Sales First Half 2018
What's going on with the real estate market in the Belwood, Belgatos, Surmont, and nearby areas of east Los Gatos? Here's a quick update of the year to date listings and sales activities, taken from the MLS.
Right now, there are 6 properties for sale in the neighborhood. That's more than what has been normal in recent years. The stats for these active listings are as follows:
Average list price $2,286,333
Average square footage 2,906
Average lot size 16,194
Average days on market 19
Average price per SF $800.92
Average age 49
There is only one pending sale, and no properties at all in the area which closed in June. We had steady rate of sales closed earlier in the year: three in February, two in March, five in April, two in May.
For those tracking the absorption rate, which is the rate at which homes would sell if no new properties come on the market, this is a bit of a surprise. Zero homes (sold / closed in the last 30 days) divided by 6 active listings = an infinite months supply of inventory. Of course, it is not truly that dire, since there were 2 closings in late May and there's one pending sale (went into contract June 15), but it does suggest that home buyers may have put the brakes on.
We are seeing this drop in sales activity across the valley in many areas, so it's not just this corner of 95032.
Is it just a big rise in inventory that is causing the market to stall out a little? In some areas, homes have continued selling at the same pace, but with fewer offers over the last 6 weeks or so. Those areas may not have had as large an inventory jump as we have seen on the east end of Los Gatos.
Here's a look at the inventory for single family homes for sale in 95032 with Campbell Union High School District (so Leigh or Westmont High) from July 2012 to July 2018.
Inventory is up, but not to an unprecedented degree. There were more in June, and June's inventory was not too different from most of the recent years (2014 and forward).
A holiday week is often slow, so I would encourage people thinking of selling to not get discouraged. Part of what we are seeing could simply be a seasonal trend – summer is normally a bit of a "slowdown" period in real estate, with things picking back up again in early to mid September. Last year we did not see seasonality at all, as the market was raging hot through December.
If you are interested in buying or selling a home in east Los Gatos or anywhere in Silicon Valley, please reach out to me and we'll find a time to talk and see if we might be a fit for working together.
Belwood, Belgatos, Surmont and nearby sales year to date
Real estate sales this year in the east Los Gatos areas including Surmont, Belgatos, Belwood of Los Gatos and homes close to Harwood but within the Los Gatos town boundaries have been small in number due to the extraordinarily tight inventory levels. Below are the closed and pending sales as reported in the MLS for this calendar year so far.
Of the nine closed sales, 5 sold for more than list price – most or all of these were multiple offer situations. The other four had a variety of situations: one was bank owned, one needed several hundred thousand in finishing work (there was no kitchen, there were no bathrooms, etc.). The one on Alerche sold "off market" and "off mls".
Interested in buying or selling a home in or near this pretty corner of Los Gatos? Please give me a call or send me an email today!
2012 Real Estate Report for Belwood, Belgatos and Surmont Areas of Los Gatos
How's the real estate market for the Belwood of Los Gatos, Belgatos and Surmont neighborhoods of Los Gatos? Today I present some detailed views of the state of the real estate market in 2012, viewed from several angles. This is a lengthy article, but one I hope my neighbors and would-be neighbors will find very helpful.
Inventory was low across all of Los Gatos and Silicon Valley, and turnover in this corner of east Los Gatos 9part of the 95032 zip code) is never high, so it's not surprising to learn that a mere 13 houses sold over the last year. Most home owners would like to know whether values are rising or falling, how tough it is to sell a house, and whether or not homes are selling over the asking price. We'll have a look at these questions, and more, using graphs I created from our local real estate multiple listings provider, MLSListings.com.
There were 13 closed sales in Belwood, Belgatos and Surmont plus 4 houses that did not sell in 2012
There were 13 sales of houses in 2013 – not too many for a neighborhood with more than 300 houses! There were four others which did not sell, however. One is currently for sale, and 3 more are cancelled, expired, or withdrawn. In every market, no matter how "hot", some homes do not sell. This is important to remember. Too many home owners get euphoric about the sales prices and multiple offers which they hear about. What's usually not considered is the "market rejection" that other properties get. It is a sobering balance to the multiple offer frenzy stories which one hears.
This first graph displays the closed numbers of sales by price point. This is helpful not just for sellers, but home buyers interested in purchasing here. Last week I got an email from a resident of Santa Clara County indicating a desire to see properties here with 2200 square feet or more available at under $1,000,000. Is that possible? Let's see.
In the graph above, we find that three properties sold here between $800,000 and $1 million. We do not yet know from the data anything more about the houses, whether they were small, big, regular sales or distressed properties. A quick look at the MLS just now shows that all of the sold houses were regular sales except one, a short sale on Belwood Gateway which was in that lowest pricing tier (and which took about 2/3 of a year to sell).
Days on market or average days to sell in Belwood, Belgatos and Surmont area
Next, the average days to sell (meaning to have an accepted purchase offer or contract) for the houses on the market that did sell – not all of those offered in 2012 were purchased! (In every market, there are homes that do not sell. Most of the time it is because they are overpriced.)
From the time the house is showing on the MLS as active or available, how long until there was a ratified contract? In most cases, not long at all. For the lowest price group, the average days to sell is badly skewed by the short sale on Belwood Gateway – that one took 213 days to sell due to transactions falling through and the difficulties of getting a distressed property closed. When I eliminate the short sale from the mix, the average days on market for the other 12 properties was a very fast 17. The longest was 66 and the shortest was 2. The graph below shows the days on market of all sold houses by price point. Although it appears that the least expensive homes are the hardest to sell, that's not really the case. The short sale tilts the average.
Average list prices of Surmont, Belgatos and Belwood homes that sold in 2012
What about home values and pricing? Below, please find the average list price of properties by month. For most of 2012, the majority of houses for sale ranged between one million and $1.4 million. There are higher and lower priced properties, of course, but this range gives home buyers a general sense of area values for typical homes. Newer one, view lots, extra large homes or custom built properties will cost more. Houses on Blossom Hill Road, older homes, properties needing extensive renovation etc. will sell for less. Have a look: Continue reading


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Finding the Best WordPress Plugins
For you to understand the best WordPress plugins for your website, you should know first what plugins are. If you were a website developer for many years, you must be knowledgeable at different coding languages so that you can add functions to your website. If you think of something easy like adding a social button to the site like Twitter for example, you can do so with the use of the coding languages. You should write such piece of code or link to Twitter and then place an image on the many pages. It is now different with the introduction of the WordPress and the many plugins which are linked to it. All of the site builder and a developer needs to do now is to look for the plug-in and have this installed with just one click of the button.
You won't know why you need plugins until you plan the site and know the things that you need from your website. If you have a great idea about the functions that the site needs, you can then start to know the best WordPress plugins for its needs. So that you will know the WordPress plugins, you must know that there is nothing which they can't do. This is one open source project that means anyone can create any plugin that they like. This actually means that for each problem with the WordPress site, you will be able to find a great solution with the form of the plug-in. A lot of plug-ins are actually available for data capture and for SEO.
Also an important thing that you must remember is that you must not have more than one plugin that will do the same job. You will experience failure when you actually do this. There are many great plugins that you will be able to find out there but here is one that you must know.
You should have the Google XML sitemap plugin that creates an XML sitemap to help those search engines such as Google and Yahoo to better index your blog. Such sitemap would describe your site to the crawlers sent out by those search engines which means that the search engines would understand your pages and such would serve these pages to people who are looking for your content.
Know that the plugin does support all types of WordPress generated pages and also custom URLs and would notify the major search engines each time you make a new post or page. This plugin has been around for nine years and they have rated this highly in providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines without causing downtime to your site. This is certainly one of the best WordPress plugins which you need to take advantage of.


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Min Hyo Rin's Profile
민효린 / 정은란 / Jung Eun Ran / 闵孝琳
민효린 / 정은란 / Jung Eun Ran / 闵孝琳
Birth Place: South Korea
Birth Date: 1986-02-28
Height: 164cms
Popularity: (18 fans) Become a fan!
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Romance TownKorean DramaThe story of domestic help who work for rich households. No Soon Geum is one of these housekeepers; despite the master-maid heirarchy, she's bold, fearless, and unafraid of doing hard… [More]Status: Completed Released: 2011 Rating: 9.29/10 (17 Votes)
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House strips immigration restrictions
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- Immigration timing. // Hill;6/10/2009, Vol. 16 Issue 67, p30
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- Immigration law upheaval. Higgins, Michael // ABA Journal;Oct97, Vol. 83 Issue 10, p102
Looks at immigration law in United States. Effectiveness of Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act; Impact of the laws; Changes on immigration lawyers work.
- Green card notice. // New York Amsterdam News;7/30/94, Vol. 85 Issue 31, p2
Announces the deadline for the renewal of green card acquired before 1978. Contact information.
- Immigration reform generates a flurry of congressional bills. // New York Amsterdam News;4/1/95, Vol. 86 Issue 13, p2
Lists the key bills for achieving immigration reform introduced in the US Congress since January 1995. Details of the bills.
- Labor laws & obligation. Holt, James S. // American Nurseryman;08/01/97, Vol. 186 Issue 3, p58
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Views the legislation to control immigrants and their rights by both Democrats and Republicans across several states. Reaction of immigrants; Information about various legislations.
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- Immigration Legislation. // Congressional Digest;Mar1986, Vol. 65 Issue 3, p69
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On October 26, Mr. Ewen Walford Gillison visited Wuhan Union Hospital and gave a speech about the history of the hospital in front of hundreds of Union staff.
Dr. Tom Gillison, the grandparent of Mr. Ewen Walford Gillison, was a surgeon of Hankow Renji Hospital, the predecessor of Wuhan Union Hospital, and the first western surgeon in Wuhan. He became the first permanent medical officer of the hospital, since he commenced medical work in 1883.
At the time of the 150th Anniversary of Wuhan Union Hospital, the Gillisons came to Wuhan across the oceans from the UK to witness the great changes of the hospital.
Mr. Ewen Walford Gillison was born in the then Wuhan Union Hospital, and he left at the age of five. He's always been concerning about the development of the hospital, and even written a book about the history: Wuhan Union Hospital—The first 84 years.
During his presentation, he said he was very proud that the career of his grandparent has been well continued and developed.
Dr. Guobin Wang, the president of Wuhan Union Hospital, attended the lecture and expressed his warm welcome to Mr. Gillison.
(Article: DAI Danyun/ Photo: LIU Kunwei)


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Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz
Atsusi! Bonjour! Greetings!
I am Ella Regina Nathanael Alkiewicz of Nunatsiavut. I was born in Happy Valley, Labrador. My Anaana is Juliana Millicent Regina Nathanael of Hopedale. She lives in a convalescence home for the Autumn/Winter. I reside in western Massachusetts with my atuik Chris Alkiewicz and cat named Fat Albert. We have a panik, Regina Alkiewicz, who works in Boston. I'm a writer, teacher, journalist, & researcher. My first article was published in the latest issue of Inuktitut Magazine. Ilinniavunga Inuttitut and hope to learn more with everyone. I am excited to attend and will run an icebreaker event in between sessions. Come say hi and join me on social media.
Sessions in which Ella Nathanael Alkiewicz participates
- Home Sweet Home (Ice-breaker activity) Ella Nathanael Alkiewiez
- Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM | 15 minutes


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About us
We asked filmmaker Bertina Kramer to make a short video about the Boat Refugee Foundation. Who are we and what do we do? She went to Lesvos to discover our story and made two beautiful videos.
The result gave us a wow feeling. Yes, this is us. This is what we do, why we do it and the people we do it for.
Talent and resilience in Moria refugee camp
Refugees from many different countries reside in Moria refugee camp on Lesvos. Every refugee has his own story. A combination of all sorts of languages, religions and cultures come together in one camp. Despite all traumatic events, fortunately, we also see many beautiful things. People with a lot of talent!
Ward Hopstaken and Wendy Hoogendijk made three short films. Personal stories about three people in camp Moria. In the videos below, Wafaa (Syria), Hadi (Iran) and Stefan (Cameroon) share their story and the passion that gets them through this difficult time. Three special films about talent and resilience in Moria refugee camp.