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Because some students live in disadvantaged and/or high crime communities, they can suffer "war zone" levels of traumatic stress. The Quiet Time program is an evidence-based approach for reducing stress, improving performance and literally saving lives.
Violence, drug use, sexual assault: constant exposure to these realities of some communities contribute to profound traumatic stress, especially in the developing minds of children. As a result, epidemic-level numbers of young people find it difficult to learn and succeed in school and in life. You can see the devastation in their eyes. Too often, this stress leads to mental and physical health issues such as anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, insomnia, eating disorders and even suicide.
Teachers and administrators suffer too. Their stress leads to burnout and high turnover and accelerates a downward spiral of schools and communities that already have the odds stacked against them. The David Lynch Foundation's Quiet Time program is so consistently effective in reducing stress and violence and improving academic performance in under-resourced schools, that the recognition – and demand – are growing worldwide.
For example, a recent study by the University of Chicago Crime and Education Labs of three Quiet Time programs at high schools on the city's south side found that students in the TM treatment group collectively had 30-50% fewer arrests than those not receiving treatment. There was also a marked increase in school attendance. This study will soon expand to New York City, where Quiet Time will be implemented in eight public high schools over the course of five years, ultimately reaching more than 3,500 students.
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What is the Shipping API?
The AuctionInc Shipping API is a web service providing an XML interface to our shipping engine technology. By integrating our API, your customers can utilize the shipping rate technology we have developed without ever leaving your web site. With one call to our API, you can offer your customers accurate comparative rates for multiple shipping options across multiple carriers and services for one or more items for both domestic and international destinations.
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What specifically does the Shipping API provide?
For a specified origin and destination and given item characteristics for one or more items, our Shipping API returns accurate shipping rates per service for one of more requested carrier services. For multiple items, our packaging engine intelligently packages items into one or more packages and bases the returned rate on the number of resulting packages required.
Is there a requirement for configuration/shipping preferences to be set up and stored in AuctionInc to utilize the API?
These calls do not rely on any saved shipping settings/preferences in AuctionInc; instead, all the necessary information to calculate and return accurate ratings is contained within the XML that you send to us. No configuration setup in AuctionInc is required to make XML Settings (XS) calls. This call type is appropriate for Web Service Providers, integrators, etc, as the customers of these providers do not need to interact directly with the AuctionInc site, and as multiple sellers are supported.
Ecommerce vendors may establish and save various shipping preferences in their AuctionInc account, including carrier services to rate, handling charges, discounting, and a variety of other settings. For those who wish to utilize saved settings-based (SS) calls, these pre-defined shipping preferences allow for a higher level of versatility and flexibility in customizing the shipping rates provided by your API calls, while at the same time cutting back the amount of data you need to send to us in your calls. SS calls are appropriate for our "retail" customers, who are selling on one site and integrating our rates into their ecommerce store.
Programmng Skills are necessary in order to implement this API, in particular experience with programming for the Internet and with web site development tools and techniques. You must be able to gather the necessary data for the XML request, construct and parse XML, send a POST request, and probably most importantly, utilize the results of your API appropriately in your web site or product.
Any Programming Language can be used to utilize the Shipping API, including Visual Basic, Perl, ASP, java, PHP, C++, etc. The only requirement is the ability to construct, send and parse the XML which comprises the data which is exchanged between you and us.
XML and HTTP are the two essential protocols which are required to utilize the Shipping API. XML is a simple, platform independent, very flexible text format protocol for exchanging information. HTTP is the standard protocol for transferring World Wide Web documents, including XML documents.
All Shipping API users must first register for an account with AuctionInc at www.auctioninc.com. On the registration page, select the Shipping API under Ecommerce Tools as your product type. Please familiarize yourself with our pricing policies for the Shipping API before you register. If you already have an AuctionInc account, you can add a subscription to the Shipping API from My Account => Product Subscriptions. The AuctionInc Shipping API includes rating availability for supported international carrier services at no additional charge.
After you complete registration or subscription sign-up, you are given an Account ID. This Account ID must be included in all API calls to the AuctionInc Shipping API. This access key will always appear on your Product Subscription page.
For customers who are planning to make Saved Settings or Single Seller ("SS") calls, please complete the Setup Wizard in order to store your shipping preferences. These preferences will be used in conjunction with the data received from your API call to determine the shipping services and rates returned. You may edit these settings at any time by logging into your AuctionInc account and going to Control Center => Settings => Shipping Settings.
Each request is composed of XML elements that specify the request parameters (e.g., the properties of one or more items to be rated). The specific elements required for each of the two call types (configured and non-configured) is provided in detail in API Methods, and the details on each element are specified in the API Schema.
To initiate a Shipping API call, you will make an HTTP request. This request will consist of a standard HTTP �POST� request, made up of the request, request header fields, and the message body. The message body of this request will be the Shipping API Request XML.
The URL to post your request to is http://api.auctioninc.com/websvc/shire.
For every successful POST initiated by you, we will transmit back a HTTP response. The Shipping API response XML will be returned in the message body of this HTTP response. You will then need to parse this response, using the techniques available to you in the language you are using. The elements returned in the response for both call types (Saved Settings and XML settings) are specified in API Methods document. The details on these elements is specified in the API Schema document. After you parse the response, you will then of course want to manage the data returned in whatever way is appropriate for your particular web site or application or, if an error is returned, to take the appropriate action.
Saved Settings-based (SS) calls require pre-configuration of shipping preferences prior to making calls, but in exchange for this additional step, some features are supported which are not available when making XML Settings (XS) calls.
The Request XML is made up of two main elements: the RequestHeader and the RequestBody. Both of these elements are contained within an Envelope root element. The RequestHeader contains the AccountID element, which is used to identify the caller, reference any saved preferences, and provide for accounting data. The RequestBody will contain an element for the method call (along with a version number), and inside that element additional nodes or elements will supply any necessary arguments to support the method invoked.
The HTTP response code should first be tested for "200 OK" to ensure that your API call was successfully invoked.
There are two general types of errors that could occur.
Type 1 Errors indicate invalid or improperly formatted xml to make the Shipping API call. The error node will appear at the root Envelope level.
These errors need to be handled by correcting the problem and resending the XML request.
Type 2 Errors are for a particular carrier service which for some reason is unable to provide rates for a given item/destination. The error node will appear inside the Carrier node. These errors can be handled by you according to your preference.
We have an SDK available for php (most useful for SS integrations) that you can download. This will handle the communications to and from the API, the creation of your outgoing XML and the parsing of our incoming XML. Your remaining tasks will essentially be to gather the necessary item data from the items in your cart, and to integrate the returned rates back into your cart.
We offer plugins for many popular third-party shopping carts including WooCommerce, WP eCommerce, X-Cart, Magento, and Zen Cart that integrate our SS API. These modules support virtually all of our API capabilities, and greatly enhances the capability of the native shopping carts to provide accurate comparative calculated shipping. You can learn more about our plugin modules here.
In order to keep to a minumim the number of API calls you make, you should cache the results you receive and only make additional calls if there is a change in the data to be sent.
Instead of providing the shipping rates by default to your users, we suggest that you require the user to take a positive action, such as clicking on a "Calculate Shipping" button, in order to view rates. This will control the number of unwanted views and thus keep your frequency of API calls to a minumum.
This is typcially simply the origin location of the seller. If you want to support drop-shipping, you will need to collect item origin for each item.
The carriers and carrier services that each seller wants to support. In most cases your seller will want to offer the same services for all items; however, if you want to support "on-demand" services, you will need to allow your sellers to link services to items. The private carriers charge differentially based on how the shipment is delivered to the carrier ("entry method") so this needs to be collected. We provide custom rates for DHL and require the seller's DHL account number. We support a wide variety of carrier "special services" such as Delivery Confirmation, some or all of which you may wish to support. Maximum package weight and dimensions can be optionally included; if not included, service maximum weight and dimensions will be used to determine package splits.
Data on the items in your cart, i.e., quantity, weight, optionally dimensions, optionally declared value (for insurance), along with any item-linked characteristics such as origin code or on-demand services.
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Harry Abend: Assembled Environments 1958-2017
29 Jun 2017 – 26 Aug 2017
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Organic Industry. The Assemblage of Found Objects in Harry Abend's Work
by Juan Ledezma
In 1961, remarking on the neo-avant-garde production of artists who he included in the landmark exhibition The Art of Assemblage at New York's Museum of Modern Art, curator William Steitz declared assemblage an untested "medium." "It is to be expected," he added, "that it should be the carrier of developing viewpoints for which orthodox techniques are less appropriate." The roaring expansion of what Steitz described as a looming "wave of assemblage" confirmed the aptness of this remark. Yet such a confirmation was not only provided by the work of North American artists, who back then created composite artifacts to engage the complexity of their consumerist "collage world." [1] It also came from other latitudes and in the form of proposals confronting another history and different cultural conditions.
The work of Harry Abend provides a prime example. The Venezuelan sculptor adopted assemblage techniques in 1958, at the start of his creative practice. Like the artists to whom Steitz referred, such as Schwitters, Duchamp, Raushenberg and Tinguely, Abend resorted to these techniques as the formative elements of a new medium, the conduit through which to project questions that conventional craft alone would fail even to raise. Indeed, Abend engaged sculpture and assemblage as two distinct, when not opposite, endeavors, the separate trajectories of which he would reunite in the form of a single, albeit two-sited formal inquiry. He used sculpture proper, on the one hand, to produce organic forms made up of wood and other natural materials, yet most often by means of formats and techniques—stacked progressions and serially repeated carving strokes—that betray an industrial ethos. The assemblage of found industrial objects provided the means for a converse strategy: inflected by supple shapes, arching articulations and dense overlays, Abend's artifacts consistently incorporate an organic quality. Thus the artist's broadened practice has pivoted on the tension between nature's organic constructions and the constructed organizations of industry. Foregrounded, dismantled, and then tackled from shifting vantage points, this tension has equipped him with the tools to illuminate, question and, therefore, bridge the gap between our historically conditioned grasp of nature and our daily encounter with urban, built environments—the second nature of social experience.
"Second nature" is the term that Georg Lukács and Walter Benjamin adopted to address the relation between modern life and the forms built around it by the engineering logic of new technologies. These authors claimed that the constructed settings of urban life had rigidified into a meaningless environment, the prison-house of subjects deprived of the capacity to transform it. According to Benjamin, art provided the means to revert that situation: the newly introduced principles of montage would redeploy the rigid structures of second nature as a sensorial compound of unexpected connections; they would allow modern artists to create a field, both haptic and optical, where the artificial surroundings of modernity would take on some of the capacity to signify which "first nature"—nature in the strict sense—had held in pre-modern time periods.[2]
Assemblage could be approached from Benjamin's critical model. This is clearly the case in the work of Abend, as it recycles the technical apparatus of second nature in objects that reset its original contents. Yet the artist's reconstructive method goes a step further by privileging eroded, scoured surfaces—surfaces on which the formative forces of first nature have left an indexical mark, providing them with sensuous immediacy. Abend has thereby tack-welded a redemptive system, a compound of forms that revert the mastery of technology over nature, for it is now nature that shapes and reclaims dregs of technology. It bears repeating that this reversal of forces is itself flipped over in Abend's sculptural craft. By cutting, incising, and deploying posts of wood according to the structural and serial postulates of technical reason, the artist has there proposed an organic post-minimalism that is informed, like other variants of this art tendency, by an industrial code.
In Abend's assembled objects, weather-beaten forms bear the rusted marks of a natural history; in the carvings, organic forms take on the condition of cultural historicity. The latter works acknowledge that nature is never just itself; it always already appears as a historical construct. This is even more patent in the Venezuelan context, where first nature's resources have shaped the concepts through which the nation perceives its own construction. First nature has done this overwhelmingly, foreclosing the need—and perhaps also the possibility—to enlist sound collective relations in the construction of second nature, the social world.[3] So it is that Venezuela has become a country of natural excess and social paucity, a situation that local artists have adverted and confronted in their distinct time periods.
Jesús Soto hoped to redress this imbalance by providing the country with a sound "idea of structure," whereas Abend, who always dodged the influence that kinetic art had on his generation, proceeded to gauge the relation between the natural world and its counterpart, transmuting industry and the organic into one another along a complex, split sculptural narrative. Against the backdrop of kinetic art, Abend's work appears like a critical counterstrategy. It is in fact with prescient cogency that El Gancho (Hanger), the piece that inaugurated the series in 1958, includes a structure whose serial unfolding (circle, two ovals, circle) is cut open by a corrosive force. The thud of progress, all-pervasive in the developmentalist context of this work's assembly, comes to a halt that in its abruptness resonates with the country's current conditions. Such conditions confirm that we indeed are in dire need of structure, yet one whose contours remain to be forged along a process of reconstruction that could, like Abend's proposal, accommodate disparate alternatives and contrasting viewpoints. And that will certainly require artistry.
[1] William Steitz, The Art of Assemblage, exh. cat. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1961).
[2] Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Its Mechanical Reproducibility," Grey Room 39 (Spring 2010): 11–37.
[3] For a good, yet not entirely developed interpretation of this process, see Fernando Coronil, The Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1997)
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A late, wet and windy game away at Amersham for Ladies' 6s
25 February 2017, 16:00, Amersham & Wycombe College
Ladies' 7s 0 - 3 Amersham & Chalfont Ladies 5s
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It was a strong start by Hawks, plenty of possession and a few good opportunities at goal, but sadly we couldn't finish it. We defended strongly but, unfortunately, they got in a lucky goal. A fantastic hit from Annabel in defence saved another goal but by half time we were 0-2 down. Delphine was injured with a hit on the ankle and limped off. We were down to a bare 11 players. We wish Delphine a speedy recovery.
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Lara is the principal oboist of the Pasadena, Santa Barbara and New West symphonies, and also performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphony, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Musica Angelica, and many more. She holds a doctoral degree from the University of Southern California, a masters from the California Institute of the Arts, and a bachelors from the University of Oregon.
Originally from Corvallis, Oregon, Lara moved to Los Angeles in 2002 to study with renowned oboist Allan Vogel. Pursuing freelance work alongside her academic pursuits, she eventually became a regular in the recording studios, and has performed solo oboe and English horn on over 200 motion pictures. Some credits include Star Wars episodes VII-IX, Rogue One, an American Pickle, the new Mulan and Lion King, Incredibles 2, Coco, Marriage Story, Ready Player One, Sing, Finding Dory, Frozen 2, Bridge of Spies, Big Hero 6, and Avatar.
She has also been privileged to record with several legendary artists, appearing on albums by Barbra Streisand, Neil Young, Celine Dion, the Who, Seth MacFarlane, Leslie Odom, Jr., Trisha Yearwood, Jimmy Eat World, Ke$ha, and Alice Cooper. She has also appeared on television with Prince, Mariah Carey, and Andrea Bocelli.
Because the oboe "just wasn't quite hard enough," Lara also plays the baroque oboe and the theremin, the former because of her love for early music and the latter because of her love for the haunting, singing quality of the instrument. Lara starting playing the theremin at the age of 17 and has performed in Carnegie and Disney Halls on the instrument, and also as a soloist with the San Diego Symphony. She has also done some recording on the theremin and can be heard on several episodes of "the Simpsons."
Lara lives in North Hollywood with her husband, Ben, a trombonist and teacher, and their two small children, Cyrus and Roxana. She is an active member of the American Federation of Musicians, and is a titled officer of the Recording Musicians Association.
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What are the acoustical cues to sound source location and what are their physical bases?
How are the acoustical cues represented and transformed in the activity patterns of neurons in the various nuclei of the ascending auditory pathway?
How are the neural representations of the cues used by observers to determine location?
How do each of these aspects of hearing develop?
I use a multidisciplinary approach to tackle these questions employing both experimental and theoretical techniques including human and animal psychophysics, extracellular physiology, signal detection and information theory, systems identification techniques, acoustic transfer function measurement and modeling, digital filter design and estimation, acoustic signal design, and physiological systems modeling.
Fig. 1 Illustration of a frontal section through the brainstem showing the ascending pathways through the nuclei of the superior olivary complex that are believed to be responsible for encoding interaural level differences (ILDs). Neurons of the lateral superior olive (LSO) receive bilateral inputs from both ears. The input from the ipsilateral ear via the spherical bushy cells (SBCs) is excitatory (open symbols) but the input from the contralateral ear via the globular bushy cells (GBCs) of the contralateral anteroventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) is inhibitory (filled symbols) due to the additional synapse in the ipsilateral medial nucleus of the trapezoid body (MNTB). The interplay of the ipsilateral excitation and contralateral inhibition confers on LSO neurons sensitivity to ILDs. LSO neurons send excitatory projections to the contralateral inferior colliculus (IC) and dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus (DNLL) and inhibitory projections (not shown) to the ipsilateral IC and DNLL. The color bar and shading indicates the tonotopic organization and shows that the neurons comprising the MNTB and LSO are sensitive to predominantly high frequency sounds.
Jones HG, Brown AD, Koka K, Thornton JL and Tollin DJ (2015) Sound frequency-invariant neural coding of a frequency-dependent cue to sound source location. J Neurophysiol 114:531-539.
Brown AD, Stecker GC and Tollin DJ (2015) The precedence effect in sound localization, J. Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol (JARO), 16:1-28.
Greene NT, Mattingly JK, Jenkins HA, Tollin DJ, Easter JR and Cass SP (2015) Cochlear Implant Electrode Effect on Sound Energy Transfer within the Cochlea during Acoustic Stimulation, Otology & Neurotology 36:1554-1561.
Mattingly JK, Greene NT, Jenkins HA, Tollin DJ, Easter JR and Cass SP (2015) Effects of Skin Thickness on Cochlear Input Signal using Transcutaneous Bone Conduction Implants, Otology & Neurotology 36:1403-1411.
Beutelmann R, Laumen G, Tollin DJ and Klump GM (2015) Amplitude and phase equalization of stimuli for click evoked auditory brainstem responses, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 137: 71-77.
Greene NT, Anbuhl KL, Williams W and Tollin DJ (2014) The acoustical cues to sound location in the Guinea pig (cavia porcellus), Hearing Research 316:1-15.
Tringali S, Koka K, Jenkins HA and Tollin DJ (2014) Sound Location Modulation of Electrocochleographic Responses in Chinchilla with Single Sided Deafness and Fitted with an Osseointegrated Bone-conducting Hearing Prosthesis, Otol & Neurotol 36:678-686.
Deveze A, Koka K, Tringali S, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2012). Techniques to improve the performance of a middle ear implant: Effect of different methods of coupling to the ossicular chain, Otology & Neurotology, 34:158-166.
Thornton JL, Chevallier KM, Koka K, Lupo JE and Tollin DJ (2012) The conductive hearing loss due to an experimentally-induced middle ear effusion alters the interaural level and time difference cues to sound location, J Assoc Res Otolaryngol, 13:641-654. (Journal cover figure).
Lupo JE, Koka K, Hyde BJ, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2012) Third window vibroplasty with an active middle ear implant: Assessment of physiological responses in a model of stapes fixation in Chinchilla Lanigera, Otology and Neurotology, 33:425-431.
Jones HG, Koka K and Tollin DJ (2011) Postnatal development of cochlear microphonic and compound action potentials in a precocious species, chinchilla lanigera, J Acoust Soc Am 130:38-43.
Jones H, Koka K, Thornton J and Tollin DJ (2011). Concurrent development of the head and pinnae and the acoustical cues to sound location in a precocious species, the Chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger), J Assoc Res Otolaryngol., 12:127-140.
Koka K, Jones H, Thornton JL and Tollin DJ (2011) The acoustical cues to sound location in the adult Chinchilla: measurements of Directional Transfer Functions (DTFs), Hear Res, 272:135-147.
Lupo JE, Koka K, Thornton JL and Tollin DJ (2011) The effects of experimentally induced conductive hearing loss on the spectral and temporal aspects of sound transmission through the ear, Hear Res 272:30-41.
Tringali S, Koka K, Deveze A, Ferber AT, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2011). Intraoperative adjustments to optimize active middle ear implant performance, Acta-Otolaryngologica, 131:27-35.
Deveze A, Koka K, Tringali S, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2010). Active middle ear implant application in case of stapes fixation: A temporal bone study, Otology & Neurotology, 31:1027-1034.
Oliva AM, Salcedo E, Hellier J, Koka K, Tollin DJ, Restrepo D (2010). Toward a mouse neuroethology in the laboratory environment, PLoS ONE 5(6): e11359. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011359.
Tsai JJ, Koka K and Tollin DJ (2010). Roving overall sound intensity to the two ears impacts interaural level difference discrimination thresholds by single neurons in the lateral superior olive, J. Neurophysiol. 103:875-886.
Tollin DJ, McClaine L, and Yin TCT (2010). Short-latency, goal-directed movements of the pinnae to sounds that produce auditory spatial illusions, J Neurophysiol 103:446-457.
Tringali S, Koka K, Deveze A, Holland NH, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2010). Round window membrane implantation with an active middle ear implant: Effects on performance of round window exposure and transducer tip diameter, Audiology & Neurotology 15:291-302.
Tollin DJ and Koka K (2009). Postnatal development of sound pressure transformations by the head and pinnae of the cat: binaural characteristics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 126:3125-3136.
Lupo JE, Koka K, Holland NJ, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2009) Prospective Electrophysiologic Findings of Round Window Stimulation in a Model of Experimentally-induced Stapes Fixation, Otology & Neurotology, 30:1215-1224.
Koka K, Holland NJ, Lupo JE, Jenkins HA, and Tollin DJ (2009). Electrocochleographic and mechanical assessment of round window stimulation with an active middle ear prosthesis, Hearing Research. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2009.08.009.
Al-Sheikh Hussein B, Matin M, and Tollin DJ (2009). All-pole and all-zero models of human and cat head related transfer functions, edited by Mark S. Schmalz, Gerhard X. Ritter, Junior Barrera, Jaakko T. Astola, Franklin T. Luk, Proc. of SPIE Vol. 7444, 74440X1-11, SPIE doi: 10.1117/12.829872.
Tollin DJ and Koka K (2009). Postnatal development of sound pressure transformations by the head and pinnae of the cat: monaural characteristics, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125:980-994.
Tollin DJ, Ruhland JL, and Yin TCT (2009). The vestibulo-auricular reflex, J. Neurophysiol. 101: 1258-1266.
Dent ML, Tollin DJ, and Yin TCT (2009). The influence of sound source location on the behavior and physiology of the precedence effect, J. Neurophysiol, 102:724-734.
Tollin DJ, Koka K, and Tsai JJ (2008). Interaural level difference discrimination thresholds for single neurons in the lateral superior olive, J. Neurosci. 28:4848-4860.
Koka K, Read HE, and Tollin DJ (2008). The acoustical cues to sound location in the rat: measurements of Directional Transfer Functions, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123:4297-4309.
Moore J, Tollin DJ, and Yin TCT (2008). Can measures of sound localization acuity be related to the precision of absolute location estimates? Hear. Res. 238:94-109.
Tollin DJ and Yin TCT (2005). Interaural phase and level difference sensitivity in low-frequency neurons in the lateral superior olive, J. Neurosci. 25:10648-10657.
Greene NT, Jenkins HA, Tollin DJ, and Easter JR (2017) Stapes displacement and intracochlear pressure in response to very high level, low frequency sounds, Hear Res 348:16-30.
Brown, AD and Tollin DJ (2016) Slow temporal integration enables robust neural coding and perception of a cue to sound source location, Journal of Neuroscience 36:9908-9921.
Brown, AD and Tollin DJ (2016) Time-varying distortions of binaural information by bilateral hearing aids: Effects of nonlinear frequency compression, Trends in Hearing 20:1-15.
Banakis-Hartl RM, Mattingly JK, Greene NT, Jenkins HA, Cass SP and Tollin DJ (2016) A preliminary investigation of the air-bone gap changes in intracochlear sound pressure with air- and bone-conducted stimuli after cochlear implantation, Otology & Neurotology 37:1291-1299.
Greene NT, Mattingly JK, Banakis-Hartl RM, Tollin DJ, and Cass SP (2016)Intracochlear pressure transients during cochlear implant electrode insertion, Otology & Neurotology 37:1541-1548.


Colour: Deep copper with an oily texture. Lots of fatty beads sticking to the glass.
Nose: Dried figs and dates. Dark bitter chocolate and winter seasonal beers with plenty of roasted malt and oranges. Christmas pudding and Turkish delight. An empty cigar box leaves a whiff of aromatic balsa wood. Meringue and bread-pudding with raisins and mace or nutmeg.
With water: Roasted nuts, definitely some almonds, and milk chocolate. A decent measure of vintage white port.
Taste: Sweet spices. Cinnamon has the lead. Again dark winter beers and nuts. Sweet apple sprinkled with cinnamon. Calvados isn't that far away. Chocolate cake and rye. Some red wine tannins and a distant tobacco note.
With water: Chocolate pudding with raisins and dates. Cinnamon and rock sugar. Or rather golden syrup.
Finish: Sweet malt, bread-pudding and nut chocolate.
Wow. This might be the dram of 2018. I rate this one significantly higher than the 1961 Longmorns when it comes to intrinsic quality as a drink. It retained a far better balance and isn't as bone-dry as the twin set of whiskies. Refill sherry casks are a far better alternative for maturing whiskies 30 years or longer. The 1974 vintage is simply a great Glenrothes.


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Q: /etc/hosts file doesnt forward to localhost for subdomain begins with www On my desktop I use  /etc/hosts file like as below for developing purpose
127.0.0.1   a.example.com
127.0.0.1   www.a.example.com
127.0.0.1   adsense.a.example.com
127.0.0.1   foto.a.example.com

They all work except www.a.example.com it doesn't forward to localhost.
Could you explain why? and any workaround?
I use Ubuntu 10.10. Thanks

A: What do you mean with "They work"? Where? In a browser? On the console?
What is the output of
host www.a.example.com

or
dig www.a.example.com

on the console?

A: Some theories:

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*The www.a.example.com record is seperated by tabs as opposes to spaces for the rest, or visa-versa. In theory, the host file should accept either tabs or spaces, but ubuntu might be picky.

*Something else in your host file is taking precedence over www.a.example.com. Is there an entry for *.a.example.com

*Does www.a.example.com contain any unicode characters? If you display it with cat, less or more on a terminal doe it look funny?

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Gas pumps hit with malware are leaving commuters with more than a just full tank
Security Flaw Allows Hackers to Track and Listen to Children's Smartwatches
Texting Scam Promises New iPhone 11 Pro
Here we are, half-way through December. It's almost time to start playing luggage Tetris in the trunks of our cars and head off to our Holiday destinations (hopefully somewhere warm). Last stop? The gas station of course, need to fill up the tank before we head out.
Unfortunately, quite a few stations are pumping more than just gas.
Cybercriminals are attacking North American merchants who operate gas stations and pumps, attempting to upload "point-of-sale (POS) malware on their networks." VISA is aware of the situation and publicly stated that its security team has investigated incidents that span across five separate fuel dispenser merchants.
The attacks are meant to gain "access to fuel dispenser merchants' networks," where they could deploy the malware, collect payment card data, and upload it onto a remote server.
This has worked in several instances due to a "weak spot in how gas stations and gas pump operators work," according to the VISA Payment Fraud Disruption team.
Card readers on gas pumps don't always support chip transactions. In fact, most of them do not, which means they are susceptible to cybercriminals as data from the card's magnetic strip is sent to the station's main network, and intercepted.
Outdated technology leaves back-doors unlocked and easily accessible to hackers. This is a perfect example.
VISA has stated that these incidents began during the Summer months and several were traced back to a cybercrime operation "known as FIN8".
The easiest way to avoid stolen card information at the pump in this case is for fuel dispenser merchants to "encrypt card data while it's being transferred across a network or stored in memory," OR "shift to a chip card acceptance policy."
VISA is hoping that fuel merchants realize the importance of "devices that support chip wherever possible," so the likelihood of these attacks are decreased.
Starting in October 2020 fuel dispenser merchants will be required to install chip readers on their gas pumps. If card fraud happens after that date, "liability for any card fraud would shift from card issuers to the merchants."
A little incentive to upgrade their technology.
We still advise any of those who are traveling, not just this holiday but always, be vigilant when using outdated devices. Utilizing the cashier is always a safer option if you're trying to keep your financials secure at the pump.
If you need assistance with cybersecurity services contact DarkHound at [email protected]
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Q: SQL Server: Round values of dynamic columns I have a question relating to round values from dynamic columns.
I am dynamically (Over past X days) creating a list of player with their daily score and I would like to round these scores with this kind of format ROUND(Score, 2). Here is my query:
DECLARE @Column AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
        @SQL    AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

SELECT  [Player], [Start], [Average]
INTO #DbTemp1
FROM [PlayerScoreByWeek]
WHERE [Start] >= DateAdd(DAY, -7, GETDATE())

SELECT @Column = STUFF((SELECT ',' + QUOTENAME([Start])
                    FROM        #DbTemp1
                    GROUP BY    [Start]
                    ORDER BY    [Start] FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'),1,1,'')

SET @SQL = 'SELECT [Player],' + @Column + '
                INTO #DbTemp2
                FROM
                (
                    SELECT [Player], [Start], [Average]
                    FROM #DbTemp1
                ) AS SourceTable
                PIVOT
                (
                    AVG([Average])
                    FOR [Start] IN (' + @Column + ')
                ) AS PivotTable
                ORDER BY Len([Player]), Player
                SELECT * FROM #DbTemp2'
EXECUTE(@SQL)

The current output is as follows:
Player    2014-02-24    2014-02-25    2014-02-26    2014-02-27    2014-02-28    2014-03-01    2014-03-02
------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------
Carl       26.21654      55.1542       12.29612      29.16546       32.4556      21.1485        48.3652
Gene       46.13444      29.3298       16.31642      12.86592       65.6235      52.8525        31.5915
Kim        25.69554      39.5986       32.23184      34.55685       59.2125      12.2316        29.1242

And this is the desired output:
Player    2014-02-24    2014-02-25    2014-02-26    2014-02-27    2014-02-28    2014-03-01    2014-03-02
------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------    ----------
Carl        26.22          55.15        12.30         29.17          32.46         21.14        48.37
Gene        46.13          29.33        16.32         12.87          65.62         52.85        31.59
Kim         25.70          39.60        32.23         34.56          59.21         12.23        29.12

Given that the columns are created dynamically it is not possible to use the round function inside the '@SQL' query.
Thanks for your help !

A: Create another variable for your outputs - eg:
DECLARE @Column AS NVARCHAR(MAX), @Output nvarchar(max), @SQL    AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

SELECT  [Player], [Start], [Average] INTO #DbTemp1 FROM [PlayerScoreByWeek]
WHERE [Start] >= DateAdd(DAY, -7, GETDATE())

SELECT @Column = STUFF((SELECT ','+ QUOTENAME([Start])
                FROM        #DbTemp1
                GROUP BY    [Start]
                ORDER BY    [Start] FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'),1,1,''),
       @Output = STUFF((SELECT ', round('+ QUOTENAME([Start])+',2) as ' + QUOTENAME([Start])
                FROM        #DbTemp1
                GROUP BY    [Start]
                ORDER BY    [Start] FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'),1,1,'')

SET @SQL = 'SELECT [Player],' + @Output + '
            INTO #dbTemp2
            FROM
            (
                SELECT [Player], [Start], [Average]
                FROM #DbTemp1
            ) AS SourceTable
            PIVOT
            (
                AVG([Average])
                FOR [Start] IN (' + @Column + ')
            ) AS PivotTable
            ORDER BY Len([Player]), Player;
            select * from #DbTemp2'
 EXECUTE(@SQL)


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The nation's highest accolade for youth, the Singapore Youth Award (SYA) honours exceptional young people who enrich the hearts and souls of the community and bring distinction to the nation.
Singapore Youth Award 2019 winners: Leading Change, One Wave at a Time
Seven youths were conferred the Singapore Youth Award (SYA), the nation's highest accolade for youths on Nov 3, 2019.
They range from a marine scientist who is passionate about the conservation of giant clams to a music conductor inspiring children from all backgrounds to enjoy and pursue music. They are from varied backgrounds, but one thing is similar - our SYA 2019 recipients have made their mark in their respective fields, while being inspiring role models through their determination and contribution to society.
Coming from all walks of life, the SYA 2019 recipients are (from left to right): Dr Neo Mei Lin (marine scientist), Francesca Phoebe Wah (teacher and founder of non-profit organisation, BLESS), Cho Ming Xiu (founder of youth mental health non-profit organisation, Campus PSY), Alecia Neo (visual artist), and Sujatha Selvakumar (lawyer and chairperson of SINDA Youth Club).
The other two SYA recipients, who were unable to attend the ceremony, are Kahchun Wong, 33, Chief Conductor of Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, and Sheik Farhan Bin Sheik Alau'ddin, 22, National Silat Athlete.
For 33-year-old Alecia Neo and 32-year-old Cho Ming Xiu, their successes were driven by their desires to help communities around them. To them, the term 'loved ones' extends beyond friends and family.
From a young age, Alecia developed a compassion for those with disabilities, having watched her parents become caregivers for family members. She champions inclusivity in Singapore through her work in arts and her art platform, Unseen Art Initiatives, socially engaging communities.
During her acceptance speech at the Istana, she spoke tearfully about her recent involvement with ground-up initiative, 'PleaseStay' Movement, started by a group of Singaporean mothers who lost their children to suicide.
"Young people today face numerous challenges as society becomes more demanding. We need to tell young people that help is available, assure them of our unconditional support and make help accessible," said Alecia.
Similarly, Cho Ming Xiu started Campus PSY in 2016, a non-profit organisation that promotes awareness of mental well-being, driven by his desire to help people struggling with mental health issues and change the attitudes towards them.
He shared his desire to increase efforts to provide support for young people: "Through our work at Campus PSY, we had the privilege to journey with many inspiring young volunteers who have overcome their own mental health challenges.
"Our dream is that one day, our young people will no longer be afraid to seek help for their mental issues, and they will all be equipped with the knowledge and skillsets to support their peers."
The other SYA 2019 recipients also shared stories of resilience in their personal journeys.
For Francesca Wah, 28, her experience of growing up in a lower-income family inspired her to help others in similar situations.
"At the age of 23, I saw unmet needs in the community. I wanted to level the playing field for the less privileged, but I had my doubts. I wondered if I am able to lead a charity on top of my job as a teacher.
"My fears were great, the challenges were daunting, but the needs were greater," said Francesca.
With that conviction, she founded Bringing Love to Every Single Soul (BLESS), a non-profit organisation that works with low-income families living in rental communities. The online gifting platform allows the public to "shop" online to bless someone. She manages BLESS while working as a full-time teacher.
Sujatha Selvakumar, 34, attributed her resilient self to her father's background.
"I learnt resilience from my dad who came from a rural village in Bodinayakampatti in India. He managed to overcome poverty and make a life that he is proud to call his own. Being in Singapore, I have no excuse to not be the best version of myself," said Sujatha.
Sujatha is committed to driving positive changes in the society by empowering youths and women. She also goes beyond her duties as a lawyer to refer those in need to social workers, support schemes and help aid financial assistance.
"Being an Indian female, the kind of challenges I may have faced or the opportunities I may have had access to would have been very different if I were not in Singapore. The Singapore Youth Award will definitely encourage me to undertake and deliver more successful projects," said Sujatha.
At the Presentation Ceremony, Guest of Honour Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat highlighted how youths are contributing importantly to Singapore's growth.
Referring to the SG Youth Action Plan, he highlight the five values that youths care about: inclusiveness, fairness, care for the community, sustainability, and continuous progress.
"Being tech-savvy, better educated, and living in the heart of Asia puts you in very good stead. But above all, I am confident in Singapore's future because our young people have the right values and drive. They showed the right values and drive to learn and explore, to excel and achieve, and to care and serve – whether it is for people, for the environment, or for life on earth."
In a society that prioritises the grind, these SYA 2019 recipients take it up a notch by being selfless, having the heart to serve, all while empowering the community around them. The world works hard, but they work harder. It all almost seems impossible, yet they make it seem effortless.
Like Francesca said, let us all "Start by doing the necessary, next do the impossible, and soon you will be doing the impossible."
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The Aura 11 is a pedestal model from the Varde Ovne's collection of Aura stoves. Standing 1100mm (43 inches) tall, the stove is also the tallest in the Aura range. It was obviously inspired by the Aura 1 model and has the same output (5.5kW), efficiency (78% Net) and controls including a small lever on the top left of the stove (over the glass) which accurately controls the air movement. It too features the clean burn technology and Airwash system (Secondary and Tertiary) which keeps the large glass window clear by preventing creosote accumulation. And just like other stoves in the Aura range, the Aura 11 is made from high quality and exceptionally durable steel, and has cast iron door with cool touch handle and cast iron top. It is also available with top or rear flue outlets which means that it can be flued from both the top and rear.
The Aura 11 caught my attention with its unorthodox design which in a way makes it a functional piece of furniture. Despite its decorative look, however, the manufacturer made no compromises when it comes to performance. Also, I find the Aura 11 just as practical and easy to use as its conventional counterparts. I am aware that there are cheaper stoves of comparable quality but since it is in the centre of our living room, I wanted for it to add a touch of class to the existing decor.


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Building Council Endorses David Chiu for Assembly Member
Supervisor Answers Questions for Building Trades Readers
Delegates to the SFBCTC voted to endorse Supervisor David Chiu for Assembly District 17 in the 2014 election. Chiu was part of the young and 'progressive' group of Supervisors elected in 2008 that includes Eric Mar, John Avalos and David Campos.
Chiu was endorsed by the SFBCTC in 2012 and re-elected. His only announced opponent so far is Supervisor Campos. While neither will be termed-out until 2016, they both are running to succeed Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, who will be termed-out this year. Ammiano was elected and re-elected with about 85 percent of the vote in the District where 55 percent of voters are registered Democrats and 37 percent are independent.
Prior to serving as Supervisor, Chiu served as a criminal prosecutor at the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and as a civil rights attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. In 1999, he founded the public affairs technology company Grassroots Enterprise, where he served as Chief Operating Officer until 2008.
Chiu is endorsed for State Assembly by Laborers Local 261, Sheet Metal Workers Local 104, Plumbers & Pipefitters UA Local 38, Operating Engineers Local 3, and the Northern California Carpenters Regional Council. He is endorsed by Assemblymember Phil Ting and former Assemblymember Fiona Ma, as well as SF Supervisors Malia Cohen, Jane Kim, Eric Mar, Katy Tang, and Scott Wiener.
Below is a Q&A with Mr. Chiu.
Tell us about your record of delivering for the working men and women of the building trades.
When I ran in 2008 for the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, our City Hall was not as functional as it could be, and I committed to change city government to work better for all San Franciscans, particularly for working families. Over the past five years as the President of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, I'm proud of the progress we have made in changing the tone at City Hall and effectively delivering results.
As we have recovered from the Great Recession, it has been among my very top priorities to create more jobs and build more housing. I worked with labor to craft the agreement and cast the decisive vote that allowed the Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment project to move forward; in addition to revitalizing San Francisco's Southeast neighborhoods by creating more than 10,000 permanent jobs to build 10,500 housing units, I fought to ensure that the developer provided over tens of million of dollars for affordable housing and on-the-job workforce training. We are also creating tens of thousands of housing units and jobs with the approval of the Park Merced and Treasure Island projects, among many other projects that are in the housing pipeline.
I'm proud of the work we've done together to invest in our city's infrastructure. In my second year in office, I spearheaded the Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response bond, to rebuild neighborhood fire stations, upgrade the emergency firefighting water system, and construct our City's new Public Safety Building. I've championed the Central Subway, which will create an underground subway to connect San Francisco's northeast neighborhoods. On our waterfront, I sponsored the legislation to build our new Cruise Ship Terminal and Exploratorium. These projects are building a 21st century San Francisco and creating jobs at the same time.
If elected to the Assembly, what will be your priorities to help working families and the women and men of our building trades?
I look forward to continuing to prioritize creating jobs, building housing, and investing in our city's infrastructure and public transit. To do that, we must create opportunities and improve conditions for the working women and men of labor. First, we need to invest in key industries that will create opportunities for workers that are still challenged in our current economy, such as manufacturing and construction. Second, we need to ensure career pathways for all Californians by providing greater resources for workforce development in California's schools and colleges, strengthening connections between our schools and our companies, and improving our state's workforce development services. Third, we need to protect workers from abuse, by connecting workers with information about their rights and benefits, and ensuring a well-functioning Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.
What are your thoughts on union apprenticeship programs?
Union apprenticeship programs are the most effective means of training our future construction workforce for success. Training workers to be prepared for higher-end and self-sufficient jobs is critical for ensuring that California's workforce is competitive for our state's future. Prior to my time in public office, I served on the board of a nonprofit that worked to build English as a Second Language programs in the construction field. As President of the Board of Supervisors, I have witnessed how apprenticeship programs and construction skills development programs like CityBuild go a long way towards making sure our city's workforce is prepared for the future. On-the-job training is vital to providing career pathways for the next generation of California's workers and critical to the long-term interests of our state. As an Assemblymember, I will work hard to defend and expand our existing apprenticeships.
Do you support High Speed Rail?
I have been very supportive of the proposal to build High Speed Rail. The vision of connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles in 2½ hours, of fostering economic development between all cities in between, and reducing traffic congestion up and down California is very compelling. I also support the Transbay Transit Center Project as a transportation and housing project that will transform downtown San Francisco by creating a "Grand Central Station of the West," establishing a modern transit hub connecting eight Bay Area counties and eleven regional transit systems. All that being said, as the most recent court ruling pointed out, we need to make sure the project is well-thought out, properly financed, and has a business plan for success.


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This course is designed to provide an introduction to First Aid and resuscitation for those with no formal training and to provide the annual skills update for holders of the First Aid at Work and Emergency First Aid at Work certificates. The course covers those aspects of First Aid, which may be required in potentially life threatening situations, such as - breathing, resuscitation and shock.
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One of my best experiences this season was the opportunity to once again attend the SnowSports Industry of America's SnowShow held at the end of January on the floor of the Denver Convention center and the two-day OnSnow Demo held at Copper Mountain afterwards. Just me and 18,000 pals checking out or showing off what will be offered to enhance next year's sliding experience for us all.
Beanies and gloves were donned, fabric swaths were examined, bindings clicked open and shut but most of all nearly every manufacturer large and small had next year's skis and snowboards spread over acres in a nearly endless gleaming array.
The Denver show is an opportunity to soak in the colors and fresh factory aroma, flex the camber, sightline the profiles, and marvel at the technology that is embodied today in these once humble wooden planks. They are still mostly wood at their heart, whether it is poplar, paulownia, bamboo or beech; but the materials and the technology that is now integrated around that core is an amazing thing to behold. And it's easier than ever to see the advances because the engineers are so proud of their efforts that they have made them literally transparent.
Naked Skis and other Trends for Next Season.
If you have slaved away in the high tech basement of product development, laminating and carving unlikely new shapes, snipping pieces of titanal and wrapping everything you can find in carbon stringers, matrix and mesh; after all that it does not suffice to merely describe your masterpiece in a brochure; you want to make sure it can be seen through clear top sheets. For example here is the Scott SuperGuide with its 45 degree carbon layer laid enticingly atop a Paulownia core, the whole package in full and glorious view.
It's mostly muted colors and geometry for now, but graphics variously inspired by Munch, Manga and Hieronymus Bosch will have their day again. The pendulum swings both ways.
How low can the weight go?
All this use of carbon and other innovative materials is an expression of the industries obsession with making skis so light that they may one day just float away if left untethered. Compressed helium could be next; hey wait a second, I think I have an off season project to pursue, let's keep that quiet for now. But as I discovered firsthand the industries efforts have paid off. When I picked up even the biggest sticks on display in Denver, it defied belief how light, almost insubstantial they felt in my hand; and yet, on the snow all but the most touring specific models have the dampness and lack of chatter that several years ago was only achieved with wall to wall sheets of metal. DPS was an early adopter of carbon technology and now carbon and similar materials are ubiquitous; whether as long strands, square grids or a Kevlar type mesh extending into tip and tails that are now only millimeters thick between their topsheet and P-tex base. In most mid to wide all-mountain skis the only metal sheet to be found is limited to the area directly beneath the binding; and you guessed it there's a window in the top to see it.
Companies are also reducing weight through changes in the shape of their ski tops. Now there may be a raised central rib which has a shoulder making the ski thinner at the edges thus eliminating some of the mass, as with Volkl's V-werks. The Fischer Ranger series has a dome shaped top, aka Aeroshape (aviation terminology is always a crowd pleaser) which takes advantage of the fundamental strength of an arch to transfer force to the edges while eliminating material from the sidewalls.
Alright, that's enough of me floundering around in a discussion of ski engineering. Other trends struck me as well. The effort to reduce ski weight seems to coincide with an increasing focus on the industry's only current growth market: the niche of backcountry skiing and touring. If park and twin tip designs ruled before; today more money is being spent by consumers on equipment that can take us into the untracked woods, couloirs, and cornice drops of our dreams; which hopefully will not end in the oblivion of a tree well or beneath tons of avalanche debris. After these purchases are made, then how much they are actually used, how many miles of pristine powder is slayed, these are more difficult figures to track, and perhaps irrelevant Now each company seems to have its own pre-cut climbing skin and often its own branded tech or frame binding on display. For two years I have skied only on Dynafit or similar pin bindings and when I was at Copper for the on-snow demo this year I found vastly more models of skis that were set up with Dynafits or G3 Ions than last year; and not just the ultra-lights but many of the big mountain chargers as well.
Of all the possible buying tips for new equipment nothing is as important as testing the product before you buy. Take advantage of Demo Day anytime one is held or do a demo rental if you can. I got to attend the big one. This for me is the ultimate testing opportunity and I set myself a grueling pace but still did not get on all the skis I wanted. I did my exhausted best in order to bring back a thorough report to you all; the pleasure was mine to be sure. And speaking of reporting back, my status as a member of the media did make for some interesting interactions; already a little wide-eyed and overwhelmed by all that what was on display in Denver I would occasionally approach the gleaming altar of one of the big manufactures, let's say Monumental Worldwide, and feel their eyes sliding down my chest to my badge emblazoned like a scarlet letter with the word PRESS, such luminaries might then bestow me a catalogue with a stingy lack of grace. Actually they always coughed up a catalogue because otherwise I wouldn't go away. Tough vibe for sure at times in the fluorescent glow of the convention center, and me just a simple country boy. It was more convivial later as the beer taps opened, but I didn't really feel right until I had the skis on my feet and not just in my hands. I did still get a ton of info though and honed my wish list before heading to Copper Mountain on Monday and Tuesday.
Conditions were mixed but great for testing everything but deep powder. I tried over twenty pairs of skis but there were still way too many I missed. Aside from trends I've mentioned already, I had a general sense that even wide skis are showing more carve again and less surf. My favorite ski was still the Fischer Ranger 108 which I bought last summer on the basis of last year's demo and is unchanged this season. I also tried their 98 width but even making fast turns on groomers I saw little advantage over its big brother. With their light weight and torsional strength fat is now slim; the widths are stepping back from 110 plus except for truly powder specific skis but skis in the 105 mm range (that being their width in the middle, the waist) can perform brilliantly in all conditions. This is aided by the trend back toward longer flatter tails, while there may still be plenty of rise/rocker at the tip, maybe as much as 30 cm before the camber and effective edge begins, this is less often the case at the end of the ski where the twin tip used to be so pronounced. So, you can still float on powder or plow through crud but the tail is there for power in your turn.
And Now To my Favorites.
As I said the Fischer Ranger 108 Ti remains my go-to all conditions ski, thoroughly supplanting my previous one-quiver ski, the Rossignol Soul 7. I can take them anywhere and if I draw a lot of puzzled stares riding the shuttle between Snowshoe and Silver creek, so be it. I'm ready for any storm and never again have to worry about a squirrelly tail that will lose its grip and spin me out at 45 mph on hard pack. I also love the way these initiate a turn, if I press forward into the wide stiff nose the ski immediately responds to dodge an obstacle in the trees or commence an heroic arc on corduroy.
My current Rangers have a lot of life left in them, but were I to buy a second pair of skis this summer I would depart from my personal trends and return to a ski that felt old school to me and was narrower than anything I've bought in a while. The Rossignol Experience 100 SD is still wide by usual Southeastern standards but narrower than any of my other favorites this trip; narrower perhaps but also heavier with a trench carving edge that turned my runs into my own private giant slalom event, podium please.
If staying in-bounds this is the ski I would buy. With minimal rocker at tip and tail and a Carbon and Basalt matrix (so Rossi claims, a ski with stones I suppose) and lots of titanal to boot; this was a fast, firm ski with an active edge from tip to tail; at 182 cm it skied bigger than anything I tried. It's a burly, powerful, high performance ski and I want it.
Even if not my personal favorite the easiest ski to recommend of the dozens I tried might be the Scott Punisher 105 because of its versatility. It's still a wide ski at 105 millimeter but it actually felt smaller and more manageable than the Experience 100 did on earlier mach speed runs, so perhaps a little less heroic but still stable, fast, and chatter-free. These have less flotation than my Rangers but still plenty of lift and I'd feel confident on these skis in any conditions.
Other standouts were the DPS Wailer 106, basically in a tie with the Punisher but a better backcountry option; and the Icelantic Vangaurd which at 188 cm is the longest ski I've been on since 1978; good lord, if I'd had a ski this good back then, the damage I could have done. I also tried a fully rockered Dynafit Beast 108, there was not a lot of powder that day but when I took them into the narrow tracked out trees they slid through the gaps as if by instinct, mind you on groomers they were more like a sailor's first night on shore leave, but they are specific tools for a specific mission.
So there's my takeaway from an amazing few days; I wish I'd tried more boots but demoing boots takes more time than just bouncing from ski to ski. I will say thanks to Fischer again; the first day I wore my own Scarpas and only demoed skis that were mounted with tech bindings, so on the morning of day two I got into a pair of Fischer RC 4 120s which were an immediate solid fit so they let me keep them all day as I worked my way through the skis with alpine bindings. I can only imagine if I actually did the vacuum fit how good these boots would be, I'm sure I would own them for years. Next year they and many manufacturers may follow the lead of the Blizzard Cochise series and provide a sole that is compatible with tech or alpine binding set-ups, great news to me.
Well that's all for me folks, for now. I am not saying my season is over; I still may spend a few May days at the beach.
And when I say the beach, I mean some tailgating and late Spring corn at Arapahoe Basin. Y'all know what I'm talking about!
Thanks to everyone who's followed my articles this year, even the very long ones. Thanks beaucoup to Mike Doble, and to Kenny, and it was a pleasure to finally meet Brad, Joe, Sean and many old friends at the SkiSouthEast Snowshoe Summit this year.
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"The smallest ERP system known to man." That is what Anand Dubey, Alaska's director of enterprise technology, calls the homegrown alternative to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) application he created and dubbed the Virtual Manager.
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More states, cities and counties are becoming receptive to new ERP ideas. At the state level, Sood is seeing more interest in total application outsourcing. He points to a recent deal Maine announced that involves CGI Group Inc. hosting and maintaining the state's AMS Advantage ERP implementation in CGI's cloud environment, which Maine officials say offers the state a more predictable cost structure in the long term.
In smaller and mid-sized cities and counties, Sood expects to see increased use of software-as-a-service platforms, which are less customizable than the application outsourcing involving CGI and Maine, but provide economies of scale.
Also on the horizon are shared services through demand aggregation. For instance, the Canadian province of Ontario and several cities within it work with an ERP vendor on a combined solution. Smaller municipalities may also consider open source ERP solutions, which are starting to catch on in the manufacturing sector.
When Dubey became Alaska's ETS director almost three years ago, he wanted to know how much money his agency was spending on each of the services it provides. He was upset that it took the finance staff a week to get back to him with data from the old mainframe ERP system — and even then he still had difficulty discerning how his personnel spent their time.
Dubey set out to create a catalog of services and assets his agency provides. He then asked employees to dump their traditional time sheets and track all their work hours to specific service requests.
With the Virtual Manager, Dubey produces simple pie charts that break down services by day, month, year and how much the agency is spending on each service.
Dubey asks people to show him things they can do with a multimillion-dollar ERP program that he can't do with his five-screen Virtual Manager. "If someone tells me something I can't do, I think the program is agile enough that we could change it to be able to do it," he said.
Dubey's first goal was to gain acceptance of the tool within the ETS and then to proselytize other state agencies and CIOs around the country. But he admits that changing people's minds about ERP is difficult. Perhaps ironically, his state currently is considering the procurement of a massive ERP system.
Another unconventional approach is sharing ERP services between two public-sector organizations. Such an experiment is under way in Ohio's higher-education field between the University of Akron (UA) and Lorain County Community College (LCCC).
The organizations completed the project's first phase by installing a common Oracle PeopleSoft application for both schools. PeopleSoft was already in use at the UA, and Sage said it had the best architecture to handle multiple legal entities.
"Other ERP systems weren't designed to support multiple legal entities in terms of software licensing," he added. The LCCC had been using Jenzabar software and was in the process of looking at other ERP systems when the shared services deal was struck.
The next step will combine select business functions at the UA and LCCC to prove that combined administrative units can adequately serve multiple institutions. The ultimate goal is to create a stand-alone nonprofit organization and move the management of administrative functions to it.
City and county government officials are becoming savvier about what goes into a successful ERP implementation, said Adam Rujan, a partner with Plante and Moran, a Southfield, Mich.-based certified public accounting and business advisory firm.
After looking for ERP options that were less expensive and time-consuming, Roger Rick, IT manager for the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee, switched to a software-as-a-service version of 4gov from the agency's ERP software vendor the Customer-Driven Co. (CDC) Software. The authority now pays a fixed monthly subscription fee that includes system maintenance, backups, security upgrades and disaster recovery.
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The first motivation was that the city's previous software was 18 years old and both the software and hardware it was running on would no longer be supported, explained Sherri Flynn, Sparks' systems development administrator.
Recent work force cutbacks mean that she and a staff of just two other people have to support Agresso and 60 other city software applications. "Mainly we wanted our users to be able to create reports and work with it themselves without a systems administrator's help all the time," Flynn said.
Despite the trepidation about doing ERP implementations, Gartner's Sood stressed that there's still tremendous need in state and local government for the true functions of an ERP system. "Especially with the budgetary problems they are experiencing, there is a need to have deep insight into how revenue is being spent and the management of finances," he said.


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