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Although any job growth is welcome, economic development officials are increasingly concentrating on the types of jobs created. And engineering, so vital to the health of Rock River Valley's economy, is projected to see solid job growth, thanks in part to the region's deep roots in the field.
Although any job growth is welcome, economic development officials are increasingly concentrating on the types of jobs created.
And engineering, so vital to the health of Rock River Valley's economy, is projected to see solid job growth, thanks in part to the region's deep roots in the field.
"When discussing job growth, we always go back to Richard Florida's book 'The Rise of the Creative Class,' " said Janyce Fadden, president of the Rockford Area Economic Development Council. The book discusses how knowledge-intensive jobs are becoming increasingly valued in today's economy, and attracting "creative" workers is key to increasing an area's earning power and potential.
"The competition to bring wealth-creating jobs to our area is very intense," she said.
Between 2004 and 2014, the number of nonfarm jobs in the area is expected to increase more than 11 percent from about 166,000 to 185,500, according to projections from the Illinois Department of Employment Security.
According to the state data, the Rock River Valley is going to be a magnet for occupations such as schoolteachers, nurses, social workers and food service workers. Solid professions, and in some cases, well-paying.
From homes to roads
Engineering is categorized as a "creative class" profession; the number of engineers in Boone and Winnebago counties is expected to increase about 10 percent over 10 years.
Engineering is like health care in that it is a large field with numerous specialties. According to the state, the largest engineering specialties locally are mechanical, industrial, electrical, civil and electronics engineers. Trends in one part of the occupation have little to do with the others.
Many midsize and small manufacturers are outsourcing more and more of their design work to Asian firms in the continued effort to cut as much cost out of making a product as possible.
Civil engineering is relatively stable in the Rock River Valley but the clientele is changing. Many civil engineering firms have been busy in the past five years designing subdivisions because of the housing boom. That work has all but disappeared in the housing slowdown, which has left a record number of houses, both previously owned and newly built, sitting unsold.
Instead, civil engineers are gearing up for road projects, mainly because two of the area's municipalities with the roads in the worst condition — Rockford and Machesney Park — have passed sales-tax referendums in the past year to fund massive repairs.
While the area may be losing some industrial engineers and staying steady on civil engineers, Fadden thinks the long-term outlook for bringing in engineers is stronger than state projections because of the region's deep reserve of aerospace companies.
"When Northern Illinois University did a study on the aerospace industry, they found that this area has a number of advantages in attracting engineers," Fadden said.
Specifically, the study found the average wage paid by the area's engineering firms is slightly below the national average in aerospace, but that is offset by Rock River Valley's historically low-cost housing market.
Also, the area's aerospace companies, like the entire industry, are in a growth mode.
Hamilton Sundstrand — which makes electric power-generation, distribution and control systems, fuel and special fluid pumps, and propeller and engine control systems for the military and the world's two major airplane builders, Boeing and Airbus — is recruiting 150 more engineers to join about 1,000 engineers in its 2,300-employee Rockford staff.
Woodward Governor, which makes engine control systems for companies such as Caterpillar and General Electric, boosted its payroll in 2006 and 2007 to about 1,400 workers at its operations in Loves Park and Rockton. Almost 220 of those workers are in the company's engineering department, and about 60 percent of those are degreed engineers.
GE Aviation in Loves Park has 180 employees and is also looking for more. It makes components and systems for aircraft makers such as Brazil's Embraer.
And Ingenium of Rockford, the newcomer on the block, has grown from its founding by four former Hamilton Sundstrand executives in 2000 to more than 200 workers providing specialized engineering services through three companies, Ingenium Technologies, Ingenium Aerospace and Ingenium Testing.
Looking to youth for the future
But with so many aerospace companies growing here and around the world, the competition for engineers is intense.
Bill Kroll, director of systems and engineering at Hamilton Sundstrand, and Bill Gissal, human resources manager, said the company has expanded the number of colleges it visits at career fairs, is offering signing bonuses for prospective workers and even bonuses for workers who alert the company to candidates it hires.
Kroll said it's the level of technology the company is developing that draws many workers to the company. Aviation Week & Space Technology ranked Hamilton Sundstrand as the No. 2 aerospace company in the nation in terms of technologically challenging jobs.
"That's a draw for us. The people that come here know they are going to be working on cutting-edge technologies," Kroll said.
Still, Gissal said the company is sometimes outbid by aerospace companies in larger markets when recruiting.
"We can get pretty close, but we can't always match what they'll get elsewhere," Gissal said. "They don't always take into account the cost of living."
Miki Leombruni, senior human resource consultant at Woodward Governor, said sometimes it's an even more uncontrollable factor that keeps engineers from choosing the Rock River Valley.
"We'll get resumes from California and Florida, but then they'll go online and look at the weather here, and we never hear from them again," she said.
Woodward has expanded the number of career fairs it visits as well, hitting many of the Midwestern colleges with engineering programs — University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Northern Illinois and the University of Illinois. But they'll look as far as Georgia Tech.
Woodward and Hamilton Sundstrand search far and wide for engineers because the numbers coming out of United States colleges are slowly declining, while engineers coming from countries such as India are increasing at shocking rates. While U.S. colleges will turn out about 75,000 engineers this year, India alone will graduate 750,000, according to industry estimates.
There are a few programs at the elementary and secondary levels aimed at increasing the interest in engineering careers. The Rockford Chapter of the Illinois Society of Professional Engineers has been organizing a Mathcounts competition for the past 25 years. This year, it drew sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders from 10 area schools, including Belvidere Central Middle School, Concordia Lutheran in Machesney Park, West Middle School in Rockford and Winnebago Middle School.
At the high school level, Northern Illinois and Rock Valley College co-sponsor an annual bridge building competition where teams of four students each design and assemble a small-scale bridge using Balsa wood and glue.
And Woodward and Hamilton Sundstrand, along with companies such as Exelon Nuclear, Haldex Hydraulics and Freeport's Honeywell Micro Switch division, are financial sponsors of the area's four robotics programs, in which students work with engineers and machinists to build a robot suited for a specific task.
Assistant Business Editor Alex Gary may be reached at email@example.com or 815-987-1339.


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Know Everything About Punjab
GDP and Per Capita Income of Punjab
According to the latest figures available, the GDP of Punjab is 4.33 Lakh Crore. This page provides information about per capita income of Punjab, GDP of Punjab, contribution of various sectors like agriculture and manufacturing in the GDP of state and the change in these figures during past few years. A brief comparison of these figures with some of the other states of India and the national average is also given. All the figures presented here are according to the data released by Economic and Statistical Organisation, Punjab. The page is divided into following two sections:
GDP of Punjab
Per Capita Income of Punjab
GDP of Punjab
The gross domestic product or
GDP of Punjab is 4.33 Lakh Crore
(433660 Crore or 4336 Billion) at current prices for the year 2016-17. At the constant prices of year 2011-12, the GSDP of Punjab for 2016-17 is 3.51 lakh crore and the growth rate of GSDP for this year is 6.51%. For the year 2016-17, the per capita net state domestic product or per capita income of Punjab is Rs. 1,31,112 and it was 119640 for the previous year. The following table shows the figures at the current prices (2016-17).
GDP Category
Gross State Domestic Product (In Rs. Lakh Crores)
Net State Domestic Product (In Rs. Lakh Crores)
Per Capita Net State Domestic Product (In Rs.)
1.31 Lakh
1.19 Lakh
1.08 Lakh
NOTE: The correct term is Gross State Domestic Product or GSDP, not GDP. But as the common people mostly use the word GDP, so we are using the same term for the ease of understanding of common man.
Sector Wise GDP of Punjab
The gross state domestic product is classified into three main categories - primary, secondary and tertiary. The primary sector includes agriculture, livestock, forestry & logging, fishing, mining and quarrying. The contribution of this sector is 29.27 percent. The contribution of secondary sector is 24.20% and it includes manufacturing, electricity, gas, water supply & other utility services and construction. The tertiary sector mainly includes services and these are categorized as trade, hotels & restaurants, transport, storage & communication services, financial services, real estate, public administration and other services. The contribution of this sector is 46.53%.
In Punjab, agriculture sector is the biggest employer, which employs around 39% workers of the state according to 2011 census. But the contribution of this sector to the gross state domestic product is only 17.23%.
The following graph shows the contribution of different sectors in the GDP of state:
Per Capita Income of Punjab
per capita income of Punjab is Rs. 1,31,112
according to the figures at current prices for the year 2016-17. This figure is satisfactory when compared with the all India average, which is 1.03 lakhs. But the state, which was once a leading state in terms of per capita income, is now far behind from many other states like Gujarat, Maharashtra, Haryana, Kerala, Uttarakhand etc. The following graph shows the per capita income of Punjab and the other major states of India.
GDP of Punjab
Per Capita Income of Punjab
Agriculture In Punjab
Cabinet Ministers of Punjab
Finance Minister of Punjab
Punjab Vidhan Sabha
Punjab GK
Population of Punjab
Punjab Lok Sabha Seats
Districts of Punjab
Literacy Rate In Punjab
Universities In Punjab
Railway Routes In Punjab
First CM of Punjab
Villages In Punjab
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Time to ring in the new year...on the blog of course!
If you are like me, you return to your littles next week.
Part of me is excited (I've missed them).
Part of me is sad (I'll miss "me time").
But despite my emotions 2016 is continuing.
Here is what I prepared (a short 2 weeks ago) for us to learn about when we return tomorrow!
Resolutions OR in terms of 1st graders Goals.
This book does a great job at explaining what a resolution is in first grade "terms".
{If you don't have the book, find a great read aloud HERE on YouTube}
We read it Monday and make our own resolutions after learning how and why we make them.
Together, we make two class resolutions or goals. We also made a personal goal we could keep during this new year.
{Last year's example}
We like to get artsy so we will create our first craftivity of the new year with our new goal!
This year my goal is to promise to take care of others.
To reach my goal I am going to giving them more medicine.
This year my goal is to promise to exercise.
To reach my goal I am going to play football.
We normally don't spend too much time talking about the new year.
In the past I have also used this sheet to briefly discuss why we celebrate the new year.
This quick little sheet your kiddos can fill out that helps them look back on last year and forward to the coming new year!
Find it in my TPT store where you can download for FREE!
Make sure to look around while you are there because everything in my store is 20% off today and tomorrow!
Happy New Year to you and your family!


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Paige's response
While editing the Gazette's opinion section, I may have had a discussion with Bob Nemanich ("Type cast," cover story, Jan. 17) about reintroducing wolves in Colorado. But his claim that I don't like him, and that I told him he'd never get a letter published in the pages, is untrue.
We frequently ran letters contradicting our editorial positions at the Gazette, as any regular, fair-minded reader knows, and I tried to run a representative sample of the feedback we received. My personal feelings about a letter writer what little I was able to generate based on an e-mail or phone conversation had nothing to do with the selection process.
The challenge with some regular letter writers Phil Kenny is a good example is that they develop a sense of entitlement to your space and become petulant when they can't publish at will. I gave Phil plenty of ink over the years, as did my predecessor, turning him into a local celebrity of sorts. But I balked when he began demanding star treatment and complete editorial control.
Editing letters is an inexact science, and no one who takes the time to write a letter likes to see it cut or altered in any way. But it's a part of the process (even for professionals). And on balance, during my five years on the job, I think I did our letter writers more good than harm. I always saw them as the important part of the section that they are.
Sean Paige
Colorado Springs
Forget happy talk
Ralph Routon's summary of the Fort Carson town hall meeting ("Expansion: Future on the line," Between the Lines, Jan. 17) is excellent. The "happy talk" version of the proposed expansion in all its phases can now be laid to rest.
There is a major downside to what is coming. I would quibble with the assertion that there is nothing we can do to prevent the full force of the expansion.
It would take a huge effort to reverse the decision of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure. I give two examples where that has been done: One is the New Mexico reversal on the closure of Cannon Air Force Base. In Maryland, there were some major modifications made.
As a practical matter, there is a slim chance that public sentiment here would ever give rise to a demand by city and county officials to call for reversal of the BRAC expansion, or even to modify it in any meaningful way. However, the other expansion that is proposed is not yet a done deal.
The troops for it do not even exist yet. The "Grow the Forces" plan is still a work in progress. The 2008 election could bring about some political changes that could scuttle the project. Even if it goes forward, there is ample time for our city and county to say we just can't afford to accept another major expansion.
Maybe there is a potion that could be slipped into the water so we could have a chance to stem this tide. (Just kidding.) If it's going to happen, we need a major grassroots movement, and it's time to get started.
Bill Sulzman
Colorado Springs
Give 'em dirt
Anthony Lane's article about the proposed Corral Bluffs OHV area ("A not-so-distant grumble," News, Jan. 10) did a great job of highlighting the stereotypes on both sides.
Many opponents of the park seem to have "celebrate diversity" bumper stickers or T-shirts (as I do), so I'm confounded by the position that El Paso County should create another open space like the other 15,000 acres already dedicated to non-motorized use.
I don't ride horses, and while I've seen the damage hooves and poop can wreak on a trail, I support open-space areas for equestrians. Nor do I play golf, rock-climb or have a dog, but I love that there are opportunities for these activities in my city. If we were all the same, this would be a very boring place.
Within a few days, 1,500 off-road riders signed a petition supporting this park, knowing they would bear the costs through registration and use fees, with no help from general tax dollars. There's a huge demand (18,000 registrations in El Paso County) and fewer riding opportunities after the Hayman fire and other closures.
The proposed park is not a place to rip a natural landform to shreds; it's a place to enjoy an afternoon in the sun with friends or family. Properly designed trails can greatly mitigate environmental impact, and the people riding them are your neighbors, the guy at church or the family at the grocery store. MTV loves to make bikers look like bad guys, but the reality here is a little more mundane.
Off-road riders are usually open-space advocates as well, because we love the outdoors. It's too bad if ignorance or intolerance prevent the reverse from being true, or stop all of us from seeing how much more alike we are than different.
Ned Suesse
Colorado Springs
Houston, we have ...
This is in response to Gail L. Vaught ("Life vs. life," Letters, Jan. 17). Can you please tell me what planet you are living on? Is it Planet "Make Believe," or possibly the one most Christian right/Bush supporters are from, Planet "I don't have a clue"?
Let's first tackle your comment on those who are pro-choice and also animal-rights activists. Have you ever heard the term "apples and oranges"? That is exactly what you are comparing. Talking about pro-choice, we speak about a fetus, which literally means still in the womb. Talking about an animal mistreated or killed, you mean an animal that has been born. Big difference! Being pro-choice and an animal-rights activist, I would support aborting an animal fetus if the mother's life is jeopardized.
Next, let me explain the difference between "had" and "has." To say Saddam "had" weapons of mass destruction implies the past. It also implies he no longer has them. Your president told the world Saddam "has" weapons of mass destruction; this implies the present. If you say someone has WMD, but that "someone" does not, then by every definition, that's a lie, which has sent close to 5,000 American soldiers to their deaths along with hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghan men, woman and children.
You say your president was misinformed. This is what separates him and his supporters from the rest of the world. Have you ever heard of "the buck stops here"?
Finally, during Clinton's administration, this country experienced its largest economic expansion in history. During Bush's administration, millions have lost their homes and hundreds of thousands worldwide have lost limbs and life. But we can start to breathe a little easier as the true reign of terror that has gripped the world these past eight years will soon end.
Michael McMahon
Colorado Springs
Bush's world
President Bush and his Republican Party really live in their own little world, don't they? They can stand in front of America and say with a straight face that our economy is strong. Here are three fairly recent George Bush quotes:
August 2007: The U.S. economy is "thriving."
October 2007: "This economy is strong and is setting all kinds of records."
And amazingly, just this month: "This economy is on a solid foundation."
To say things like that, Republicans must think we all live with our heads buried in the sand.
Consider: Standard & Poor's 500 index fell nearly 10 percent in the first 18 days of 2008, and the NASDAQ nearly 12 percent, shaping up to be the worst January on record. The Dow has fallen more than 2,000 points since October. Inflation has risen the largest amount in 17 years. New housing starts in 2007 fell to the lowest level in 27 years. Foreclosures are up 72 percent over last year.
In December 2001, gas in Colorado was $1.10; in December 2007, the average price was $2.92. Also in Colorado, 498,000 residents are living in poverty, an increase of 26.1 percent over 1999-2000. From 2000 to 2006, most Americans saw their real income go down.
Unemployment is up. Foreclosures are up. Wall Street is down. Bush and the Republican Party have failed America. Whereas the major Republican presidential candidates have always stood behind George Bush, I believe a vote for a Republican in November is certainly a vote for more of the same.
Steve Plutt
Lake George
The real world
Replying to Eric Verlo ("Collateral damage?" Letters, Jan. 17): Women in Islam hold a special spot just below that of men, for those who know what the Quran says. It is the misled (on purpose, I fear) traditionalists who are in error.
There is not a thing wrong with educating young women. Education is humankind's (women or men) only way to move forward and have peace for all. Far too many Islamic societies try to keep women (and men) uneducated so they can not find the truth. Greg Mortenson is a fine example for all of us who wish for peace for all.
As for Cuba being an example of social justice, why do its people try to escape to secular capitalism (America)? Could it be Cuba-style communism is not a box of chocolate? Why do so many flee to America if it is such an evil place? They come here to raise a family. As for Cuba, surely you know they can't even feed their people.
I lived in the Republic of Turkey for eight years on Army duty assignments. I speak Turkish. I visited Turkish friends at weddings, barbecues, etc. Discussed Islam with their holy men. So until you've been there, done that, please see someone for your hate, or in the long run it will eat you up and you will find no peace.
One last thing: Mr. Mortenson did invite the elders to hear what education for the young women was about no religious talk. Know what, Eric? The fundamentalist holy men not only let him teach, but left him alone to do so.
Me? Why, I like an educated woman. She can help me to grow. Sorry that you fear educated women. Guess they give you a cow, huh?
George A. Hutton
Betty Williams and Michael McCarthy ("Stop expansion," "Armpit watch," Letters, Jan. 17) hit the nail on the head in questioning celebration of Fort Carson expansion. Sadly, "Support the troops" for many in this town simply means, "Bring 'em on! Cha-ching!"
Developers, homebuilders, the construction industry and other growth profiteers salivate, but no one is adding up the huge cost burden for our community, including regional transportation, utilities and stormwater infrastructure along with jobs programs and other human services for struggling enlisted families.
Meanwhile, our city's economy is becoming less diverse and more dependent on the war machine. We'll find ourselves in the very uncomfortable position of weighing our desire for peace against a local economy that depends on the continued waste of billions of dollars on war. And make no mistake, the average citizen will not benefit from the mythological prosperity of this expansion. In fact, he'll find his pocket being picked even more than it has been in the past to cover all the externalized and uncounted costs of community growth.
Growth doesn't pay; it costs!
Dave Gardner
Colorado Springs


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The Evening Standard – 8 April 2011
It was over cheese and biscuits that the conversation took an unexpected turn. Up until then my three ex-clients and I had been chatting about the usual things that four men who hadn't seen each other for several months would discuss: holidays, their snotty-nosed offspring and various recent British sporting failures. Continue reading


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Michelle Obama Hilariously Breaks Down Why Melania Trump's Inauguration Gift Exchange Appeared So Awkward
The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
These are definitely fighting words.
After Floyd Mayweather Jr. said that Conor McGregor gets a pass for being cocky because he's white, the UFC featherweight champion blasted the retired, undefeated boxing legend, even challenging him to knuckle up.
"Floyd Mayweather, don't ever bring race into my success again," McGregor wrote as part of a scathing Facebook post over the weekend. "I am an Irishman. My people have been oppressed our entire existence. And still very much are. I understand the feeling of prejudice. It is a feeling that is deep in my blood."
He went on to challenge Mayweather to a fight, but putting the pay scale way in the favor of himself over "Money" for what he reasons was a lackluster sendoff from boxing in Mayweather's win over Andre Berto this past September.
"80/20 split purse in my favor seen as your last fight bombed at every area of revenue," McGregor continued.
He added: "At 27 years of age I now hold the key to this game. The game answers to me now."
His scathing comments come in response to Mayweather telling FightHype.com that he wasn't able to get away with being arrogant because he's Black.
"And what's so crazy, I don't really know the McGregor guy, never seen him fight," Mayweather said. "I heard his name actually from one of the runners that works for our company, a little kid named Ken Hopkins. He's a runner and takes care of a lot of the daily business. Whatever we need, he takes care of. He's a cool little kid. I like him and he does MMA. He told me about the guy McGregor. They say he talk a lot of trash and people praise him for it, but when I did it, they say I'm cocky and arrogant. So biased! Like I said before, all I'm saying is this: I ain't racist at all, but I'm telling you racism still exists."
In separate news, TMZ is reporting that police are investigating McGregor for an Instagram photo that he posted of himself with a gun last week. To that, McGregor explained on his Facebook account that he had the weapon to rehearse for a "potential upcoming film role."
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The former FLOTUS also explained to Ellen Degeneres how Barack stepped in and saved the day.
"When my teacher asks me a question thinking I'm not paying attention, but I get it right."


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A couple of weeks ago I wrote on Choice with reference to an Opinion piece by Age Editor Lucy Beaumont, who had stated "Women don't have a choice when the health system can't deliver."
I responded with the claim "There is only one *choice*, that a woman either accept the work her body is doing, or accept the medical intervention." I stand by this statement, as far as the basic natural processes in that amazing childbearing continuum are concerned.
However ...
[Yes, life is complex. There are no simple answers]
... There are a whole lot of choices in childbearing that most women don't know much at all about. Most come under the banner of 'routine' or 'standard' actions by health professionals, and most are done with little discussion and not even a pretense of informed decision making. These include:
. group B Streptococcus screening and subsequent antibiotic treatment in labour
. the induction of labour
. assessment of size of an unborn baby
. assessment of fetal wellbeing
. antenatal prophylactic Anti-D immunoglobulin for Rhesus Negative women
. assessment of dilation of a cervix
. time taken and progress in labour
. 'management' in Third Stage, and blood loss
. measurement of blood loss
. Vitamin K for newborn babies
. Hepatitis B Vaccine for newborn babies
A woman who simply accepts the standard care in this set of issues, and many more, may find that she has, in reality, no choice. She gets swept up on a production line conveyor belt.
Learning how to take responsibility for your own decision making probably begins before conception. Reliance on the little blue line with pee-on-the-stick pregnancy diagnosis rather than quietly accepting changes that come with early pregnancy; imagining that bonding is enhanced via the blotchy grey image on a computer screen, while paying no attention to the timeless event of 'quickening'; ... these technological advances while being very useful for a few, are probably setting most women up so that they follow each other like sheep going down the shute towards their ultimate fate.


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Note: This blog piece was written October 20 2015 but has been migrated onto a new site. This particular piece was part of a series of blogs by guest writers on their social media personas. This one is mine.
My first experiences with social media were limited to adding university pals much in the same way I collected passport stamps. Then, like an intelligence agent, sifting through the photos my camera-happy friend tagged me in. Other than that, my timeline was a bit of a ghost town.
In fact, I resisted social media at every turn. I thought it was vain, superficial, and most egregiously, gave us a false sense of connectivity with other humans (and the occasional cat).
Now, I spend my days blogging about the importance of an online presence and even worse, I help people find their inner twitter bug. Gross!
So I am of two minds. On the one hand, I am a huge judgmental naysayer. On the other hand, I am incredibly motivated by our interactions via social media. It has become a huge source of information for my consulting and I think, made me a little braver. With that inherent rebelliousness and a now an actual business need to use social media – I've decided to give my social media persona a name. Her name is: Miley Coyote. The meaning of social media is not love or hate – its those rare moments where the two come together to share a new meaning altogether.
The 9 Golden Rules of Being Wile E. Coyote: Committed for Life
The creator of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Chuck Jones, had 9 golden rules when producing each episode. Stay with me. To understand Miley Coyote we must first look at the coyote (moon howling is obligatory).
- The Road Runner cannot hurt the coyote.
- No outside force can harm the coyote except the backfiring ACME products.
- Coyote was driven only by his fanaticism – otherwise he could stop at anytime.
- The only dialogue is "beep beep".
- The Road Runner can only be on the road.
- All the action can only take place in the setting of a generic southwest American desert.
- All materials, weapons, tools, or products used must be purchased from ACME Corp.
- Whenever possible, make gravity coyote's biggest challenge.
- The coyote is always humiliated by his failures rather than injured.
These rules not only dictate how the world of this cartoon works, but also how the characters can be expected to behave inside it. So why is this cartoon so engaging? Is it because each episode is predictable and therefore we don't have to use our noggin or is it for some other reason? Before we explore that further let's look at a creature far less appealing with a seeming disregard for anything shaped like a rule.
An Unlikely Advocate
Miley Ray Cyrus has been dubbed a social media dominatrix. Her behaviour on and offline is not dictated by the social rules set forth for any of the "normative" roles she is partakes in: female, pop star, fashionista, celebrity. Like a horror movie, we enjoy the gore, fear, and suddenness of it all.
But wait! A dominatrix follows rules as well, she just creates them herself and enforces them on willing participants. A horror movie still scares us even though the genre is as predictable as an episode of The Road Runner. Why? Because both require two things:
- Willing submission for the pleasure of involuntary reactions
- Suspended disbelief
In horror movies (you can make the kink comparison yourself I'm sure), despite us knowing whats waiting for us, we allow ourselves to fall into a space of submission. We want to be startled, scream, see gore beyond what we could handle in real life, and feel the suspense and fear of the characters themselves. In order to have these reactions (in fact, which we pay money to have) we have to suspend our disbelief. We have to believe the coyote will continue to hunt the Road Runner despite numerous injuries and a track record of irrefutable failure. We have to make room for the irrational decision of the lead character to go into the creepy basement where the noise is coming from.
So how does this apply to social media?
Credibility Isn't Cheap
Coyote is the masochist to Miley's sadist. Is social media not just the same thing? A balance between pain and pleasure, love and hate, appropriate and inappropriate? But how did these two characters become credible sources of this behaviour? Consistency. Sure, Miley flaps around like she makes her decisions via magic eight ball but the truth is, her social media persona is as formed, as branded, as committed as Wile E. is to the rules of Chuck Jones. The credibility of a persona relies on key indicators that amount to an authentic being. The most important one being consistency.
This is no easy thing. Yes, sometimes being on social media can feel superficial and disconnected. The way I see it – it's a costume in a play. I ask people to give me willingness to submit and I ask people to suspend their disbelief. But I do it in exchange for a story. I use my persona or character as a vehicle to communicate complex relationships. Even if it is to demonstrate the complex relationships we have with ourselves. In the space where Miley and Coyote come together we learn about the similar truths existing in seemingly contradictory characters. Some of the most abstract art produces the most authentic feelings.
Sometimes I rant, sometimes I share content I feel strongly about, sometimes I laugh at the very things that inspire me, sometimes I choose to leave out a very specific element of myself to make the story stronger. My in between truth – I am an explorer. I do not sit comfortably in the middle. I need to engage every part of myself on every platform available to me. I just don't like to do it all at the same time.
My brand is Miley Coyote. Whats yours?


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Pastel on paper drawing of a dramatic cliff likely somewhere in southern Utah's red rock geological wonderlands, 17 1/2" by 22" (23 1/2" by 29 1/2" in original metal framing), signed at lower center in pencil and inscribed there "Utah 1969". Despite numerous efforts I have been unable to decipher the signature though I suspect it to be by a listed or recognized artist. The drawing shows it was created by a talented hand, and the rich colors make for a most attractive landscape work. The drawing is laid directly against the glass which is not an ideal framing situation, so I would recommend shipping this under glassine paper between boards, and the buyer can then decide whether to reframe. Allow for reflections at top of some images.
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Fingerprint checks on prospective teachers will come to a halt Tuesday when time runs out on the state's teacher certification law.
The law expires that day, making Florida the only state in the nation without teacher licensing standards.
And without a law on the books, the FBI will have to discontinue the fingerprint checks that were begun last year and that officials say have turned up 838 teacher applicants in the state with some criminal record. Of those, 38 were serious enough for the applicants' licenses to be denied, according to state officials.
"It's kind of scary," said Don Griesheimer, director of teacher certification for the Florida Department of Education.
"I saw the rap sheet on one person. It was mostly bad checks, but when I held it above my head it was so long, it was still touching the ground," Greisheimer said.
"Without fingerprinting, we just have no idea who is applying."
The problem stems from Gov. Bob Graham's veto of legislation that would have continued the state certification requirements after the Oct. 1 sunset. Graham was not satisfied with the new bill approved by the Legislature last spring, saying the standards were not tough enough on veteran teachers.
His veto, however, allows the current state law on teacher standards to lapse altogether.
In an attempt to keep the state covered, Graham and the Cabinet have voted to extend the certification standards administratively. However, critics say the rules will be meaningless because only the Legislature -- not the executive branch -- has the power to pass laws.
"In the absence of law, the standards have no meaning," said John Ryor, executive director of the Florida Teaching Profession-National Education Association. "You have meaningless rules and no law on which to base those rules."
Besides, administrative rules are simply not enough to get the FBI to continue the 20,000 fingerprint checks made last year in Florida, Greisheimer said.
"The required authority for federal records checks ceases to exist as of Oct. 1," said Allen Spradley, fingerprint manager for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
"They can pass an administrative rule to continue the (certification) process if they so elect," said Spradley. "But that rule will not meet the requirement to get federal services."
Greisheimer has said that without the checks and standards, Florida could become a haven for "misfit" teachers.
Many school systems, including those in Broward and Palm Beach counties, take fingerprints of all new teacher applicants in their districts. However, only a small percentage of the prints are sent to law enforcement officials for review.
Students are not without any protection from undesirable teachers. Florida has strict statewide guidelines for revoking certificates of teachers for anything ranging from misconduct to criminal acts, Greisheimer said, but those rules are reactive. They do nothing to keep less than desirable teachers from coming into contact with students in the first place.


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On Friday, March 11, 2016, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded approximately $32 million to public housing authorities, resident associations and non-profit organizations to help provide and retain service coordinators to assist public housing residents find jobs and become economically secure.
This funding, allocated through HUD's Resident Opportunities and Self-Sufficiency-Service Coordinators Program, will provide public housing residents with the support they need to access employment, identify existing community resources and connect to educational programs.
A total of $1,224, 000 will awarded to the following housing authority agencies in Connecticut:
• Housing Authority of the City of Hartford: $492,000
• The Housing Authority of the City of Norwalk (NHA): $246,000
• Housing Authority of the City of New Haven: $486,000
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43 Rockaway Ave Valley Stream, NY
141 S Franklin Ave Valley Stream, NY
everything here is made fresh daily. They have a large selection of cakes, cookies and pastries. If there is something you want and do not see it, just ask and they will accomidate you.4
This place has amazing cakes. They have models of cakes for your wedding. They are gorgeous. They also have amazing cookies and pastries. amazing bakery!5


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Norfolk Coast Path Guided Trail Holiday
Guided Trail
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Activity types:
Choosing the level of your walks
Our easy grading system shows whether a region offer gentle strolls or more challenging routes to help you choose the right holiday for you. Difficulty is measured on many factors such as distance, ascent/descent, terrain, weather and more. There's no magic formula, but from our experience we grade our walks 1 to 5 (where 1 is easy and 5 hard). Our challenger holidays require a high level of fitness and stamina.
Holiday overview
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The Norfolk coastline is a designated area of outstanding beauty, internationally renowned for its prolific bird life. It has some of the finest salt marshes and sand dunes in Europe. Famous nature reserves passed on our route include Holme Dunes, Scolt Head, Blakeney and Cley Marshes.
Price includes:
- 6 nights' Full Board en-suite accommodation with all meals
- The services of an experienced HF Holidays' guide
- All luggage transfers and transport is provided on walking days
You'll stay at two comfortable hotels, which are located at the start and end of the route.
Caley Hall Hotel, Old Hunstanton - 3nts
The original manor house at Caley Hall dates back to 1648 and was home to the Le Strange steward from 1842-57. The stables and outbuildings were converted to provide 40 comfortable and well equipped chalet style bedrooms in 1976. Close to Old Hunstanton beach and near to Hunstanton Golf Club, Caley Hall Hotel is the ideal location. All rooms have digital flat screen television (with radio channels) and alarm clock, WiFi, direct dial telephone, tea and coffee making facilities, iron and ironing board and a hairdryer
Cliftonville Hotel, Cromer - 3nts
This magnificent Edwardian Grade II listed seaside hotel has been welcoming visitors to Cromer since 1897. It is located on Cromer's west cliff. WIFI is available throughout the hotel. Flat screen TV with Freeview including radio channels, tea and coffee making facilities, hair dryer, direct dial telephones,
On occasion we may need to change the accommodation listed above. If this happens, your replacement accommodation will be of the equivalent standard or higher. In the rare instance this is not possible, we will contact you in advance.
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Day 1: Arrival Day
Check-in is available at the Caley Hall Hotel from 1500 and your leader will meet you for a welcome meeting prior to your evening meal.
Day 2: Hunstanton to Brancaster
Leaving Hunstanton, with its famous striped cliffs, we pass through Holme Dunes where The Wash meets the North Sea. Look out for the flowers of the early and southern marsh orchids and marsh helleborines in the dune slacks. The Dunes are renowned for rare birds, especially in spring and autumn when migrating birds are blown off course by strong easterly winds; there is a useful visitor centre. From Thornham we head inland through a lonely landscape, before approaching Brancaster, a popular sailing centre. It once had a regular sea trade in coal and grain and what is believed to have been one of the largest malthouses in the country. 10 miles (16km) with minimal ascent.
Day 3: Brancaster to Wells next the Sea
From Brancaster we head into Nelson country, a world of birds, creeks, wind and sky. England's famous hero, Horatio Nelson was born at Burnham Thorpe in 1758 and the area oozes the maritime theme, with inns such as the Nelson, the Victory and the Trafalgar. We can imagine him as a young lad rowing his boat along the creeks and through the reed-beds that we pass. At Burnham Deepdale we follow the wide sweep of the sea bank stretching towards Scolt Head and Gun Hill before the marvelous vista of Holkham Bay opens up before us. It is the largest nature reserve in England and Wales, comprising grazing marsh, salt marsh, sand dunes, woodland and foreshore. We finish in Wells next the Sea. 12 miles (19km) with minimal ascent.
Day 4: Wells next the Sea to Blakeney
As we leave Wells next the Sea, salt marshes begin to dominate the landscape as we walk along paths of springy turf. The flint village of Stiffkey is only 1km off our footpath and famous for its cockles and a former parson. The cockles known as 'Stewkey Blues' used to be gathered by the women of the village, but the fishery declined in the 1950's. The parson Rev Harold Davidson was involved in a famous scandal in the 1930's. Spending much of his time in Soho, Davidson became known as the 'prostitutes parson'. He embarked on a campaign to clear his name which involved appearing in a music hall, sitting in a barrel on Blackpool's Golden Mile, and in a lion's cage in Skegness. He died after been mauled by a lion. Continuing along the coast is Morston village and as the footpath zig zags alongside Agar Creek, the cobbled cottages of Blakeney come into view. 8 miles (13km) with minimal ascent.
Day 5: Blakeney to Weybourne
We walk along the top of the sea bank, curving out towards Blakeney Eye with stunning views and a sense of solitude. Cley next the Sea with its distinctive windmill was a port where wool from Norfolk sheep was shipped to the Low Countries in the 13th century. It provides one of the many places along the trail where a well-placed tearoom might tempt us to linger. From Cley the sound of waves is our constant companion and exquisite vegetation such as sea holly and yellow horned poppy may be spotted. The shingle of Weybourne Hope signals we are nearly at the end of our day. The water is extremely deep and is the only place on the Norfolk coast thought to be deep enough for submarines to approach in World War II. A short walk brings us to Weybourne, an old-world village with flint houses. 8 miles (13km) with minimal ascent.
Day 6: Weybourne to Cromer
Our final walk commences with an energising cliff walk to Skelding Hill and the old coastguard lookout. The views are impressive, as we start our descent to Sheringham. Sheringham is renowned for its lobsters, crabs and whelks, and fishermen still set their crab pots as they have done for generations. With no natural harbour the boats are hauled up on to the beach with their catch. Beeston Hill marks the end of our coastal walking for a stretch as we head inland up to Beacon Hill with views back through woodland to the sea. Walking through the forest we reach the highest elevation in Norfolk at 105 metres (346ft). Dropping back to the sparkling sea of Cromer, a short walk along the front takes us to Cromer pier where we can celebrate our journey's end. 8 miles (13km) with 700ft (210m) of ascent.
Day 7: Departure Day
The itinerary may be subject to change at the discretion of the leader with regard to the weather and other external factors
By train:
The nearest station to the start of the holiday is at Kings Lynn. There are direct trains every hour from London King's Cross to Kings Lynn, with the journey taking 1hour 35 minutes.
Our first hotel is located in the village of Old Hunstanton, a 25-minute drive from Kings Lynn train station. To reach Old Hunstanton, you can either take the Coasthopper bus, which takes 40 minutes; or a taxi. There may be taxis available outside the train station but it is a good idea to book one in advance.
Timetables for the Coasthopper bus can be found at: www.coasthopper.co.uk or by phoning: 01553 776980
Our last hotel is in Cromer approximately 450 metres from Cromer railway station. The hotel staff will be happy to arrange a taxi transfer where required. Cromer is situated on a branch line with hourly trains to Norwich; journey time around 45 minutes. From Norwich there are regular trains on to London and the rest of the UK.
By car:
You can leave your car in the hotel car parks whilst you are resident at each hotel, but you cannot leave your car at either hotel for the duration of the holiday and therefore you will need to move your car halfway through the holiday. Your leader can help you manage this.
We propose that you drive your car to the start of the walk on Tuesday morning and then leave it in the car park at Wells next the Sea (small charge payable locally). At the end of the day we will return you to Wells next the Sea so that you can then continue the drive to your hotel in Cromer.
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If at eight weeks prior to the start of the holiday a sharing partner is unavailable, a single room or room for single occupancy with associated supplement will be allocated to you instead.
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Unlike hurdles, parkour manages to make the idea of running and jumping over things actually look pretty cool. Unless you're watching a parkour run from the perspective of someone racing over obstacles down the side of a steep mountain in China, that is — then it becomes absolutely terrifying.
Meet Calen Chan, tackling the Skyladder parkour run on Tianman Mountain in China. It's almost three football fields long, with an average angle of 45-degrees. One misstep and Chan not only risked snapping an ankle, but tumbling down these concrete stairs. And as if this run wasn't already challenging enough, he did the whole thing with a GoPro camera in his mouth to record his descent. No wonder all the tourists in his path scrambled to get out of the way. [YouTube via Likecool]
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Daughters of The American Revolution had
John Horn presented the History of The Canal
at the Minerva Library on Saturday, May 2, 2015.
The Sandy and Beaver Canal Association
displayed canal history at the
East Liverpool Ohio Pottery Festival on
June 12 and 13, 2015, at the Thompson house.
This display was in memory of Jack and Ester Lanam,
Richard S. Thompson, and June Rigamonty.
These past members were very important
to the history of our organization.
The picture is of Mrs. Richard S. Thompson and Richard Thompson's sister, Mrs. Roxanna Parsons
On Thursday, August 20 2015, 7:00 p.m. at
New Lisbon Presbyterian Church, 111 East Chestnut Street, Lisbon, Ohio 44432,
Lenore Sechler presented for the Lisbon Historical Society, "Lost Towns of Sandy and Beaver Canal". The presentation was well received.
Johnny Appleseed Festival,
September 18, 19, 20, 2015
Lisbon, Ohio
Boy Scouts helped set up tent.
At Lepper LIbrary John Horn presented "Brief History of Sandy and Beaver Canal and
Camp McKinley History with Post Cards".
The presentation was well received.
10:00 a.m. Saturday, October 17, 2015
Furnace Hollow Canal Hike
Meeting Place is
Boy Scouts Camp McKinley
37748 Furnace Road
Lisbon, Ohio,
The hike was well received.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Elkton Festival
12:00 noon - 4:00 p.m.
Building next to covered bridge


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Understanding corporate finance: raising finance: the cost of borrowing: hybrid debt
Hybrid debt
Certain types of borrowing are often referred to as 'hybrid' debt, because there have both debt- and equity-like features. The most common example is debt that is convertible into the shares of the issuing company. This type of debt shares many of the features of Cumulative Redeemable Participating Preference Shares (CFM11020).
Convertible debt
A borrower may reward a lender by letting the lender convert the debt into shares of the borrowing company. This might be attractive if the value of the shares is likely to rise above that of the debt.
The shares of a company just starting up are likely to be of little more than par value at the outset. But they may increase in value as the business develops and its profit-making potential becomes clear. Suppose the company borrows £10,000 and the shares have a value of £1 at the outset, but over the five years of the borrowing they increase to be worth £5. If the company decides to reward the lender by letting the lender share in this increasing value, it might offer to convert the loan into shares at an agreed rate. Thus, if it agreed to offer one share for every one pound of lending, at the end of the period of the loan the borrower would receive 10,000 shares, which would be worth £50,000.
If these really were the terms of the borrowing then it is expensive borrowing! The reward being offered is substantial if the lender could go on to sell the shares issued for cash. The borrowing company would need to take into consideration the effect of the issue of shares on the control of the company. Would the issue of 10,000 shares mean that the original shareholders lose control of the company? On the other hand, the company may have been such a poor risk at the outset that this was the only way of enticing a lender to lend.
Convertible debt typically carries a low interest rate, because the holder is compensated with the ability to convert the debt to shares.
There are many variations of convertible debt. Some convertible securities are mandatorily convertible on maturity into the issuing company's shares. Such securities are usually short-term debt offering a high yield.
Or a convertible bond may only allow the investor to convert if the share price increases by a certain amount in a specified period, in which case it may be known as a contingent convertible.
Exchangeable debt
Instead of being convertible into the shares of the borrowing company itself, the debt may be convertible into the shares of another company, perhaps in the same group.
Debt linked to value of shares or other assets
Instead of being convertible into shares, the return on debt may be determined by reference to a change in the value of shares, or a general index such as the FTSE, or some other type of property, and the amount to be paid back fluctuates accordingly.


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Don't Ask Me ... I Don't Know has been around now for about 10 years posting Blues LP's, some CD's and whatever else I feel like. Your help in filling requests or with LP rips are always very welcome and greatly appreciated. Enjoy the music but don't forget to support the artists and labels.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Lightnin' Hopkins - Flash Lightnin' Volume One
Early tracks from Lightnin" recorded in 1954 for the Herald label. Maybe his most creative period. When this lp came out in 1985 these tracks had not yet been released on vinyl.
Volume 2 might be posted sometime in the future.
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Thank you thery much, also for lyrics into the cover.....hard to find !!!
- August 16, 2009 at 5:02 PM
- dick said...
you are a god!
- August 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- ramson said...
Lightnin' Hopkins - Flash Lightnin' Volume One
Yeah!..this recordings are simply great!
Many thanks!
- September 1, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- howstean said...
Recorded for Herald, not Gold Star - an amazing session !
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March 13, 2014
November 02, 2014
Honolulu Museum of Art
Exhibition Overview
Drawn primarily from the Honolulu Museum of Art's collection and supplemented with some loans, Natural Unnatural Supernatural focuses on themes of nature (landscape, seascape, animals, birds, insects, flowers, etc.) as artists have depicted them, ranging from "naturalistic" representations to images that are unnatural in terms of color or activity to others that are surreal in the way appearances and expectations are altered.
The installation is divided into sections dealing with individual subjects, and historical works from earlier periods are juxtaposed with contemporary works. A section on water includes Joseph Raffael's Water Painting IV, which is almost photorealistic. A landscape section comprises Claudio Bravo's drawing of rocks paired with Linda Connor's photograph Rocks, Ka'u Desert, Hawaii, as well as works by Tom Uttech, Masami Teraoka, Neil Welliver, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Robert Lobe, Allyn Bromley, and Satoru Abe.
The middle section of the gallery is devoted to animals. A salon-style wall of dog images in all media includes works by William Wegman, Ed Ruscha, Esther Shimazu, Marvin Israel, Gwynn Murrill, Jean Dubuffet, Michael Mazur, a Han dynasty tomb figure of a dog, and a ceramic figure of a dog from Veracruz in ancient Mexico. Another section is about cats, particularly big cats (e.g. lions, tigers), pairing Melissa Miller's painting Leopard's Dance with the two late 18th- to early 19th-century inlaid marble leopards attributed to Francesco Franzoni and Antoine-Louis Barye's bronzes of a walking tiger and walking lion, as well as a bronze sculpture of a bobcat by Gwynn Murrill, and Hawai'i artist Joey Chiarello's newly completed ceramic tiger. Beth Cavener Stichter's huge ceramic wall sculpture of a goat, which is mechanized so that air blows from its mouth and moves a pinwheel, is a focal point of the space. Another wall about birds has a spectacular monumental watercolor of a condor by Walton Ford, as well as paintings by Hunt Slonem and Rebecca Morales.
Many more works depict reptiles, deer, monkeys, and insects, including the site-specific installation Transcendental Infestation by Maui artist Michael Takemoto. Flowers and plants round out the gallery, including a section of Thomas Woodruff's Apple Canon, a painted bronze sculpture of a magnolia branch by David Bates, and the museum's popular painting of peonies by Henri Fantin-Latour.


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Danity Kane frontwoman Dawn Richard released a cover of Katy Perry's new single "Dark Horse" today.
The track is definitely different from the original, but Dawn added her own flavor to the mix.
Listen Below:
This is what Dawn had to say about the track . . . "It's always fun to be in the lab with Noisecastle III. We were working on the Danity Kane project and decided to randomly take a break and this happened lol… For sh*ts and giggles… Something only the hearts can appreciate. We always do things with our little twist. Done in true heart music form."
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Brown Bag Thursday: What's In Your Desk?
Look under your file folders, next to the stapler, or in your bottom desk drawer on top of, say, last year's annual report. What are you eating at work and where are you hiding it?
One reader wrote in to tell us she's been to busy at work to stop for a full brown bag lunch. Instead she snacks on food she keeps in her desk drawers. Another reader asked me for recommendations on good desk food. Help!
We're on a hunt for food that will be happy to hang out in a desk drawer for a while. Seems it has to be something that won't be too aromatic, attracting attention or alarm from co-workers. Finger food would be great. We're interested to see if the food will be healthy (home made granola!) or is it really Snickers that satisfies best for that afternoon snack?
There's something funny about the juxtaposition of it all: paper clips, chapstick, tangerines. So we want to see pictures of your food drawer too. Snap a picture of your office snacks in situ and post them on Flickr, tagged with "deskfood" and "atkitchen."
Me? I've got a half eaten pack of almonds, two clementines, pink Bubble Yum (bad habit, I know) and a limoncello cake I snagged from a gift basket last week and keep meaning to bring home. Tell us your desk food picks.


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CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HIMSS Foundation and the HIMSS Nursing Informatics Community announce a new acquisition - The Online Journal of Nursing Informatics (OJNI). The February 2014 issue debuts at HIMSS14, available online and on a new website.
OJNI is a free, international, professional, peer-reviewed electronic journal that is published quarterly and supports all functional areas of nursing informatics. OJNI, launched in 1996, with readership spanning over 49 countries, focuses on nursing informatics in all practice settings. OJNI is committed to addressing the theoretical and practical aspects of nursing informatics as it relates to the field of nursing.
Dee McGonigle, PhD, RN, FACCE, FAAN is the founder of OJNI and served as the OJNI editor in chief from 1996-2013, and spearheaded the new relationship between OJNI and the HIMSS Foundation. McGonigle has championed OJNI as a volunteer-led effort committed to enhancing nursing informatics knowledge for nurses working in diverse settings.
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Waiting for my younger sister to wake up in the hospital. I wanted to take my baby brother down to the park to play. Waiting for him to put his shoes on, my mum was telling me to watch out for him. Exiting the door my mum said "Bye"
we replied "Goodbye."
Walking over to the stairs, my baby brother stop and looked at me.
" What's wrong? " I asked.
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So we walked over and pressed the button. While we were in the elevator I was telling him to stay by me and don't wander off.
When we got there we walked over to the park. " Weeeeeeee!!!" He said when he was going down the slide. While I i was sitting there he came up to me and said I want to go back now. So we walked up the stairs and went to the elevator. When we were about to go, he said "My jacket is at the park."
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So I stood there in silence. While I was standing there I saw the elevator come down and I saw a women come down. I asked her " Have you seen a little boy"
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Acceleration vector based on accelerometer, gyro and magnetometer?
In some of your older code (the 6DOF project http://
I'm wondering if there are any functions in the FreeIMU lib that does the same and incorporates the magnetometer?
I need the best estimate of acceleration possible using these three sensors.
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- 2011-11-17 by alan rorie
The getQ() function will return a quaternion which represents the orientation of the FreeIMU board with respect to the World computed using the fusion between accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer.
If you are not experienced with quaternions you can just use the getYawPitchRoll() function which will returns the Yaw, pitch and roll angles as computed from the sensor fusion.
|alan rorie (alan-kec) said :
Thanks so much.
Excuse my potential misunderstanding here but those are returning the orientation not the acceleration, right?
If the board is rotated onto its side but not moving I'll still have a reading from either of those functions.
I need to extract velocity and position information, I know the that the double integration causes errors, but I only need position for a short period and distance. I'm hopping it will work.
Ah.. ok. I misunderstand your question. So, you wanna know the dynamic acceleration. I explained this in a blog post, see http://
|alan rorie (alan-kec) said :
Thanks, I'll try implementing that in processing, looks like it should be easy to do.
Will this dynamic acceleration be effected by rotation?
Or will I still need to subtract out the acceleration component related to rotation?
The output of the function I linked above will return the dynamic acceleration relative to the sensor frame, so if you integrate that it will be speed or displacement relative to the sensor frame. In order to compute them in the world frame you'll have to rotate that vector using the sensor fusion orientation. You can read about quaternion multiplications with vectors with this document http://
|alan rorie (alan-kec) said :
Hello Fabio --
I implements your code above in porcessing:
void getDynamicAcc() {
float[] g= {
0.0, 0.0, 0.0
g[0] = 2 * (q[1] * q[3] - q[0] * q[2]);
g[1] = 2 * (q[0] * q[1] + q[2] * q[3]);
g[2] = q[0] * q[0] - q[1] * q[1] - q[2] * q[2] + q[3] * q[3];
float[] dynAcc= {
rawAcc[0] - g[0], rawAcc[1] - g[1], rawAcc[2] - g[2]
and I'm wondering if you would be kind enough to verify my calculations:
[0] 0.045540933
[1] 0.58828443
[2] 0.80633926
[3] -0.040799923
[0] -244.0
[1] 0.0
[2] 0.0
dynamic acceleration=
[0] -243.87856
[1] 0.012215115
[2] 0.99252295
Also, while I understand, in theory, the matrix calculations in the paper you refereed to me are, the implementation is honestly, beyond my ability.
I'm wondering if you might have a code snippet that can preform this calculation?
I've learned so much working with your code.
Thanks so much for all you awesome help.
The code I linked says: "@param acc the readings coming from an accelerometer expressed in g" .. you are not passing raw accelerometer data in g. Check the datasheet of your accelerometer to understand how to convert raw readings to g. Look for "LSB/g". (LSB = Least significant bits).
|alan rorie (alan-kec) said :
Hello Fabio -
Thanks for your continued guidance.
The accelerometer I'm using is the ADXL345. I read up on the specs as you recommended and discovered that the scale factor I needed to use to convert the raw acc data in g depended on the sensitivity.
So I went poking through FreeIMU.h and FreeIMU.cpp and implemented the setRangeSetting function. Using that I sent the sensitivity to +-4g at 10bits of resolution. So based on some further reading I determined that the scale is found by dividing the total range (8g) by the max number represented in 10bits, that is 8/1024=0.0078.
So I updated getDynamicAcc to scale the incoming acc data:
void getDynamicAcc() {
float S=0.0078;//scale factor to convert from raw acc data to g
float[] g= {
0.0, 0.0, 0.0
g[0] = 2 * (q[1] * q[3] - q[0] * q[2]);
g[1] = 2 * (q[0] * q[1] + q[2] * q[3]);
g[2] = q[0] * q[0] - q[1] * q[1] - q[2] * q[2] + q[3] * q[3];
float[] dynAcc= {
rawAcc[0] - g[0], rawAcc[1] - g[1], rawAcc[2] - g[2]
Now that values I'm getting are:
[0] 0.048809517
[1] -0.4581384
[2] 0.8866772
[3] 0.03911991
rawAccleration (now in g I hope);
[0] -0.1248
[1] 0.038999997
[2] -0.9906
dynamic acceleration=
[0] -0.0023987591
[1] 0.014349561
[2] 0.0015745759
These values were taken while the IMU was stationary, and seem to make more sense to me.
The rawAcc for X slight (the chip is on a slight tilt), negligible for Y and close to -1 for Z, while the dynamic acc is close to 0 for all three axis.
Do these numbers look more reasonable for you as well?
Again, thank you so very much for your continued support, I'm learning so much with your help and slowly moving this project along.
> Do these numbers look more reasonable for you as well?
Yes, much better. ;-)
Calibrating your accelerometer will give you even better results.
Google for the following documentations:
AN3182: Tilt measuring using a low-g 3-axis accelerometer.
AN3192: Using LSM303DLH for a tilt compensated electronic compass.
both by ST.
Good luck,
|tusshar saigal (tusshar-s) said :
Fabio in your Free IMU library u have set the range to ? ie +-2g/+-4g/etc..
Can you help with this problem?
Provide an answer of your own, or ask alan rorie for more information if necessary.


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i have a function in which i pass the decimal and it return me back the currency according to localization. I need to reverse this function so that If i pass the output of the first function it return me back the decimal value
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I dont have the SQL EXPRESS installed instead I have SQL Standard Edition.
I have two SQL Server instances installed.
1- UserLT (this is sql 2000)2- UserLT\SQL2005 (this is SQL 2005 named instance)
But when i try to add a database to my VS website project I get the following error:
Connection to SQL Server files (*.mdf) require SQL server express 2005 to function properly. please verify the installation of the component or download from the URL: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkId=4925
I went in Tools>Opetions>DataBase tools>Data Connection>Sql Server Instance Name (blank for default)
and changed the "SQLEXPRESS" to "USERLT\SQL2005".
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I need a function written in vb to find the exact month difference between two dates.
For example
Start Date : 01/01/2010
End Date : 15/02/2010
then the difference value should be like this 1.5 i.e i need the difference in decimal value.
I have a file util.js and there some funtions in same file.
For example functions name are keyUp, keyDown, isNumeric, isAlphaNumeric
I have used these functions in aspx code behind in a textbox to restrict user that he may not be able to input any special character.
Before, I used the code directly in aspx file but I have do it for different textboxes therefore to avoid much coding in aspx file I created util.js and put all code in this file but how to use these particular functions in aspx file I couldn't find the way.
Anyone have idea. Do share with me.
I used the reference like this:
' Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="8pt" Onkeyup= "keyUp(event.keyCode)" Onkeydown="return isAlphaNumeric(event.keyCode);" onpaste="return false;">
I Am Continiously Getting Error For Following Line Of Code, It Work Fine In Other Database
Am I Doing Any Mistake
if (sh3itno != "" && dpsh3no != "")
string queryy = "SELECT [CHEQNO] FROM [SH3MAST] WHERE (([CHEQDATE] = " + chqdate + ") AND ([FAVOUR] = " + favour + ") AND ([CHQTYPE] = " + ctype + ") AND ([TRSTN] = " + trstn + ") AND ([TRBANK] = " + trbank + ") AND ([SH3ITNO] = " + sh3itno + ") AND ([DPSH3NO] = " + dpsh3no + "))";
OdbcCommand cmd3 = new OdbcCommand(queryy, connen1);
string chqno =cmd3.ExecuteScalar().ToString(); (Here Iam Getting Error)
tbl.Rows[i]["cheque no"] = chqno;
Stack Trace:
[OdbcException (0x80131937): ERROR [S1000] [Microsoft][ODBC Visual FoxPro Driver]Function name is missing ).]
System.Data.Odbc.OdbcConnection.HandleError(OdbcHandle hrHandle, RetCode retcode) +39
System.Data.Odbc.OdbcCommand.ExecuteReaderObject(CommandBehavior behavior, Strin
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I have the following SP which includes a temp table:
DECLARE @pos int
--create table to hold parsed valuesCREATE TABLE #list (val varchar SharePoint Blog - Admin web part - newBlogPostOnClient JavaScript function In the Admin Links web part in a default blog site, there are several links, the last one of which launches Microsoft Word and allows you to manage your posts from the Word blog template. Cool feature. But that web part is not configurable and I can't figure out how to duplicate that functionality. It appears to have 3 GUIDS that are part of the function, part of the last parameter looks like the Posts list GUID, but it is concatenated with another GUID. I want to either create my own web part or modify the XSL of the page to call the function, but I'm not sure what those other GUID parameters are. Does anyone know? The last one seems to be two of the separated by the # character.
In the Admin Links web part in a default blog site, there are several links, the last one of which launches Microsoft Word and allows you to manage your posts from the Word blog template. Cool feature. But that web part is not configurable and I can't figure out how to duplicate that functionality. It appears to have 3 GUIDS that are part of the function, part of the last parameter looks like the Posts list GUID, but it is concatenated with another GUID. I want to either create my own web part or modify the XSL of the page to call the function, but I'm not sure what those other GUID parameters are. Does anyone know? The last one seems to be two of the separated by the # character.
in datalist templatefield, i want to bind an imagebutton's visible property. the scenario is .. it is a picture comments page like one in facebook. if its your own comment, the delete button is shown, otherwise not. the problem is .. for the imagebutton i want to set visible = false, if the user logged in is the same user as the one who commented. how can i do that ? please help
currently im using this code on datalist databind event. but the label is returned as null
public bool set_visibility() { Label lb = DataList3.FindControl("Label7") as Label; if (lb.Text == Session["user_id"].ToString()) return true; else return false; }
findcontrol dosent return the control.
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An estimated 45% of the United States population will have televisions set to watch the superbowl today. CBS network has a pro-life commercial airing... staring a quarterback from the University of Florida, Tim Tebow. For thirty-seconds, Tebow's mother discusses how she was persuaded by doctors to pursue abortion while she was pregnant. Sticking to her religion, she kept the baby and he turned out to be her talented son. Paid for by 'the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family'. Thirty-second commercials during the Super Bowl are selling for $2.5 million to $2.8 million.
A woman's right for choice totally taking a step backwards for a few million dollars & people are so zombie-esque/retarted from the television, it could be hard to recognize what's going on here. This ad rlly makes the average person feel like every non-abortion is such a happy ending.
It's really not the issue of pro-choice that's making me want to burn all televisions,
and get real, commercial sports [fucking suck.]
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You might have read about dhcp-lb when I announced it a couple of weeks ago. It's a suite (sui generis :-) that is used to keep multi-path routing configured when you use dhcp up-links.
After it was tested at the Hospital where I used to work before, we noticed a problem and I decided to enhance the script over that discovery so I'm announcing dhcp-lb 0.02. Go get it from here.
Not much has changed, as a matter of fact. The thing is that you can tell dhcp-lb what static interfaces you are using besides the up-link. Those static interfaces are not involved in the multi-path routing (just yet), by the way... so if you have a provider that has a static configuration and another that uses dhcp, the script is not ready to handle that... but it will come... someday (hopefully in the rather not too distant future).
So, say you have interfaces eth1 and eth2 used for internet (dhcp) where eth2 has double the bandwidth of eth1 and a static connection to your intranet on eth0, the configuration file will look like this now:
dhcp-lb eth1 table-eth1 200 1
dhcp-lb eth2 table-eth2 201 2
static eth0
I also included some checkups for the configuration file (more than one space or tab can be used between the components of a configuration line, empty lines are welcome, etc.. but more checkups are still missing, I'm sure). Feel free to use it (and I thank you for using it if you do) and tell me how it goes.
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Emily Prud'hommeaux
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Additional Affiliations:
Extended faculty in the Computing and Information Science PhD program
Co-director of the Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (CLASP)
Affiliated faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) program
Research interests: Natural language processing and speech signal processing, with a focus on applications for clinical assessment, education, and augmentative and alternative communication.
Selected recent publications:
Terkik, A., Prud'hommeaux, E., Alm, C., Homan, C., and Franklin, S. 2016. Analyzing Gender Bias in Student Evaluations. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 868–876.
Vaidyanathan, P., Pelz, J., Prud'hommeaux, E., Alm, C., and Haake, A. 2016. Fusing eye movements and observer narratives for expert-driven image-region annotations. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye-Tracking Research and Applications, 27-34. (Best Paper Award)
Prud'hommeaux, E. and Roark, B. 2015. Graph-based word alignment for clinical language evaluation. Computational Linguistics, 41(4):549–578.
Rouhizadeh, M., Prud'hommeaux, E., van Santen, J., and Sproat, R. 2015. Measuring idiosyncratic interests in children with autism spectrum disorder. In Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 212–217.