I was keen to incorporate some drama into my usual visual art/craft making workshops due to the venue. This came in the form of role play, I know from past projects that pre-school age children love it.
Each week the children took on the role of a differnt animal and did whatever that animal might do in a day. The first week was "A day in the life of a spider". We made a giant web using bright coloured wool, caught some flies and made a nest.
Next we were birds, we flew around, gathered nesting materials and built a nest (from wool and paper etc) we then layed some eggs that we made from clay. We were very excited when one of our eggs started to hatch, we reformed one of the clay eggs into a chick. Last we had to find some worms (wool again) to feed our hungry chick.
Last in the series was "A day in the life of a jellyfish". We became jellyfish by making a costume from an umbrella will tissue tenticles.
Primary 6 have been learning the art of willow weaving. They tried a number of designs before settling on their wigwam shape. This artwork has been causing a stir in the playground, everyone can't wait to see it in it's full glory.


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La playa de Peña Doria es una playa aislada, excepto en la  bajamar que se une con la Playa de La Cueva y rodeada de acantilados, está situada en el concejo asturiano de Cudillero y pertenece a la localidad española de Oviñana. La playa está protegida dentro del paraje natural de la costa occidental y está catalogada como Paisaje protegido, ZEPA y LIC.

Descripción
Es una playa de bolos, con fuerte oleaje, lo que la hacen poco adecuada para el baño.

Para su localización hay que llegar a uno de los dos núcleos de población más cercanos que son Oviñana y Riego de Abajo. El acceso es el mismo que para la playa vecina por el occidente que es la Playa de La Cueva y la bajada es por otro camino, también similar al zigzagueante de acceso a La Cueva.

No tiene ningún tipo de servicios y se puede llevar la mascota. Las actividades recomendadas son la pesca submarina y la recreativa a caña. Se recomienda tomarse con calma la bajada y subida del largo camino zigzagueante hasta la playa.

Referencias

Peña Doria
Espacios naturales de Asturias

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Caltech's Architectural Heritage: From Spanish Tile to Modern Stone
"Romy Wyllie's history of Caltech's architecture is instructive, tragic, and challenging. It shows us how American architects of the early twentieth century like Goodhue and Kaufmann were able to shape a clear, firm, harmonious environment, a wonderful place, and how their successors later in the century came close to destroying it. It is the genius of the place that counts, the noble garden."
—Vincent Scully, Professor Emeritus History of Art, Yale University
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Romy Wyllie is an interior designer and co-founder of the architectural tour service at the California Institute of Technology for which she was named an Honorary Alumna. She previously taught architectural history and interior design at the Harrington Institute of Design in Chicago. For six years she was managing editor of the Journal of Geology at the University of Chicago. Her many published articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, and the New Republic.
The campus of the California Institute of Technology was destined for architectural greatness when, in 1915, the university's visionary founder, astronomer George Ellery Hale, retained one of New York's preeminent architects, Bertram Goodhue, to devise a master plan for 22 acres of orange groves in what was then rural Pasadena. That elegant plan still resonates in the contemporary oasis of buildings each beautifully, and often whimsically decorated with sculpture, wrought iron, and ornate tile work. Well-known architects Myron Hunt and Elmer Grey in 1910 had begun the original campus buildings in a Spanish Colonial style but it was Goodhue's eclectic "planted patios and shaded portales, sheltering walls and Persian pools" that set the tone for the campus' illustrious architectural future.
Throughout the first half of the century, Caltech's nearly continuous expansion would spawn such architectural jewels as the Athenaeum, a combination Italian villa and Spanish hacienda; Greene and Greene's bungalow-style student union; Dabney Hall, a southwest pueblo decorated in a Mayan theme; and the gardens of landscape architects Beatrix Ferrand and Florence Yoch who thoughtfully mixed the campus' Mediterranean themes with its natural California setting.
Rare photographs of lost and altered buildings portray an early Pasadena with ambitious plans to become a cultural mecca. Contemporary images reflect the Institute's continued dedication to a rich architectural future. Well researched and informative, this book details the organizational and architectural elements that have made Caltech a model for scientific institutions the world over and communicates the inspirational effect the campus' architecture has had on its scientific achievements.
3 reviews for Caltech's Architectural Heritage: From Spanish Tile to Modern Stone
Robert Winter Professor Emeritus of the History of Ideas, Occidental College – November 17, 2019
"A work of immaculate scholarship that is highly readable, this book tells for the first time the fascinating story of the architectural development of Caltech, one of America's greatest academic institutions."
Dr. Harold Brown Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC – November 17, 2019
"A University's campus–its buildings, its landscaping, its style, embody its history, its aspirations and its relation to the surrounding community. Romy Wyllie's "Caltech's Architectural Heritage" deals perceptively with these elements which provided the physical environment in which Caltech's research and teaching evolved and flourished."
Vincent Scully Sterling Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Yale University – November 17, 2019
"Romy Wyllie's history of Caltech's architecture is instructive, tragic, and challenging. It shows us how American architects of the early twentieth century like Goodhue and Kaufmann were able to shape a clear, firm, harmonious environment, a wonderful place, and how their successors later in the century came close to destroying it. Failing one of the Institute's famous explosions, nothing much can be done about the Library, but the architects who are now studying Caltech's future should keep this book in mind. It is the genius of the place that counts, the noble garden."
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Q: Detecting touches with stacked Views & passing Touch events from a UIScrollView I'm trying to close a pop-up menu if the user selects anywhere EXCEPT with-in the bounds of the pop-up itself. In other words, they select the background, the pop-up closes.
I currently have a RootViewController that loads a UIView with a bunch of other UI Elements.
At one point, a pop-up (custom) menu is rendered - this is a separate UIViewController with associated .xib. Its loaded on the screen by:
    SectionsChooserViewController *cv = [[SectionsChooserViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"SectionsChooserViewController" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
    cv.view.frame = CGRectMake(584, 391, 314, 346);
    cv.delegate = self;

This view occupies only a small portion of the screen. So added detect code for touches to this view will only register the callback if you're ON the view.
If I don't handle touches in the "SectionsChooserViewController" and instead implement the touchesBegan in the rootViewController (which loads the "SectionsChooser...") it doesn't get called for 90% of the view because the UIScrollView's that I have seem to register the touch and not pass it on.
Is there a way to make the UIScrollView pass the touch event?
Edit: At least I think the UIScrollView's are taking the touch event. I'm not sure - I have nearly 20 UI Controls on the page.
Edit: Ok, it is the UIScrollView. If I turn off interaction-enabled on both scrollView's the UIView will get the touches, but this breaks the UIScrollViews - so that won't work.

A: You might be able to use [super touchesBegan:withEvent:] to help solve the problem.
Depending on what your trying to do you might be able to use UIGestureRecognizer to capture the touch events.
UITapGestureRecognizer *doubleTapGestureRecognizer = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc]
                        initWithTarget:self action:@selector(handleDoubleTap:)];

doubleTapGestureRecognizer.numberOfTapsRequired = 2; //change value to 1 for single taps
[self addGestureRecognizer:doubleTapGestureRecognizer];

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Autonomous underwater bot helps protect marine parks
By Matt Johnston on Sep 8, 2020 12:16PM
Source: University of Tasmania
Gathering better insights than scuba teams.
Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) have been successfully used to monitor changes in marine parks off the coast of Tasmania, providing better insights to inform future management than human diving teams.
The autonomous drones were equipped with multibeam sonar to map the sea floor around the Bicheno region including the Governor Island Marine Reserve, two-and-a-half hours north of Hobart.
The study by the University of Tasmania's Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) covered areas of rocky reef in the region, where invasive long-spined sea urchins have been increasing in density in recent years, lead researcher Dr Nick Perkins said.
"With the AUV, we could collect high-resolution imagery of the sea floor to depths greater than 30 metres, which are not typically sampled by methods such as scuba diving," he said in a statement.
"GPS locations for each image are also collected which can then be matched to multibeam maps.
"This allowed us to track the changes to rocky reef ecosystems through time, gave us valuable insights into changes in biological communities across a wide range of depths and allowed us to match barrens' occurrence to different levels of reef complexity."
Barrens occur where urchin populations have exploded, resulting in destructive grazing of kelp forests.
The study, published in the scientific journal PLoS ONE, indicated that the absence of fishing in the Govern Island Marine Reserve over the past 30 years has helped the region develop stronger resilience to barren formation.
"In 2016, barrens inside the reserve covered less than one percent of the rocky reef surveyed, while sites outside the reserve had from three to 10 percent barrens cover in that year," Perkins said.
"This may be because southern rock lobster, the urchin's main predator, exist in higher densities and at larger average sizes where fishing is excluded, which results in increased urchin predation."
However, while areas of the marine reserve may be more resistant to the initial establishment of the barrens, the study suggests there was no difference in the rate of barrens growth once they begin forming.
"The overall barren cover doubled over the five-year survey period regardless of whether areas were protected or not, which raises serious concerns around the likely longer-term trajectory of barren formation, especially as previous IMAS research shows that, once established, recovery of barrens habitat is problematic," Perkins said.
Insights from the study can be combined with the detailed 3D maps generated by multibeam sonar surveys to produce further insights on how the complexity of the underwater terrain further impacts barrens development.
"We found that using multibeam seafloor mapping in the study areas enabled us to map out the spatial variation in reef depth and surface roughness, and to use this to more accurately predict where urchin barrens are more likely to form," Perkins said.
"It's technology that could be used over large sections of coastline to contribute to urchin management approaches currently being undertaken by the Tasmanian Government, such as informing where commercial urchin harvesting may be best targeted to help control the expansion of barrens."
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Cheryl C. Durwin: Pandemic may change high-stakes testing for college admissions
May 2, 2020 Updated: May 3, 2020 11:02 a.m.
Cheryl Durwin, professor of psychology at Southern Connecticut State University
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The coronavirus pandemic has created a domino effect in education that may permanently alter how SAT and ACT tests influence college admissions decisions.
School closures across the country in mid-March occurred at the same time that high school juniors typically take the SAT and ACT tests. The SAT is postponed until August and may become an online test at that point. The ACT is postponed until at least June. Because of these changes, many post-secondary institutions have dropped the tests from their admissions requirements for the high school graduating class of 2021.
Over the past several weeks, nearly 20 colleges and universities have adopted test-optional admission policies. Some institutions, such as Boston University and the University of California system, have done so for class of 2021 applicants. Tufts University and other institutions will try a test-optional policy for a few years.
But many institutions have permanently adopted a test-optional policy. Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State University had already been considering a test-optional policy when current disruptions in SAT and ACT testing accelerated their decision. And in coming weeks, other schools are likely to become test-optional either temporarily or permanently. This is in addition to more than 1,100 colleges and universities that had already been test-optional, according to the National Center for Fair and Open Testing.
This pandemic may be the turning point in the importance of high-stakes tests for college admissions. Many institutions already de-emphasize test scores as a way to improve equity in admissions, especially for underrepresented groups. Trying to predict college success from a collection of academic and non-academic factors is tricky business. Research typically shows that together high school GPA and test scores explain only a small proportion of the variability/differences among first-year students in their GPA.
The adoption of temporary test-optional policies has created a unique opportunity for researchers to determine the level of importance of SAT and ACT scores on college success. What happens if studies show that institutions can predict first-year college success just as effectively without these tests?
In the post-pandemic world, many more institutions may decide to become test-optional, and as a result, high school students may opt not to take the SAT or ACT. Standardized tests would assume a smaller role in college admissions.
But the tests won't go away for good, and they shouldn't. No single indicator by itself can accurately predict a complex outcome like college success. I teach my students that we should never make a decision based on a single score. We need to take all data into account.
The rush to adopt test-optional policies due to COVID-19 may lead colleges and universities to look at the qualifications of applicants differently. They may place less emphasis on test scores and more on the overall picture of a student's potential.
Cheryl C. Durwin, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Southern Connecticut State University with an expertise in the area of educational psychology.


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Gary Mekikian is an American entrepreneur and investor who is the co-founder and CEO of M&M Media Inc., a Los Angeles-based media technology company.  Prior to M&M Media, Mekikian also co-founded International Integration, Inc. also known as i-Cube; answerfriend, Inc., which became Inquira; and GATeIC, Inc.

Mekikian is a co-organizer of  LA2DC.org, a Los Angeles-based organization whose mission is to raise awareness of modern-day genocides and the Holocaust, and to eliminate genocide as a war tactic.

Mekikian has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California and an MS from Stanford University, and he holds patents in media technologies and medical devices. Mekikian is a member of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business MSx Alumni Advisory Board. He collaborates with Stanford University professors Dr. William Barnett and Dr. John Roberts to write and teach case studies on entrepreneurship, information technology, semiconductor industry, and the mobile internet.

Education
After attending Hollywood High School for two years, Mekikian earned an electrical engineering degree from University of Southern California and an MS from Stanford University.

Career

Early ventures
In 1993, after working at Hewlett-Packard Company as a sales engineer, Mekikian joined the founding team at International Integration Inc., also known as i-Cube, which went public in 1998. i-Cube was acquired by Razorfish, Inc. in 1999.

Mekikian began working with Dr. Deniz Yuret, a researcher in Natural Language Processing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Sundar Subramaniam, a co-founder of i-Cube, to found answerFriend, Inc., which developed commercialized web based question-answering technologies. In 2002, answerFriend merged with another natural language processing technology company, Electric Knowledge, to form InQuira. In 2011, Oracle Corporation acquired Inquira.

In 2006, Mekikian co-founded GATeIC a semiconductor IP company.

M&M Media / Trebel Music
In 2014, after a patent was issued on a new method of delivering and monetizing digital media on mobile and desktop devices, Mekikian co-founded M&M Media, Inc., a digital music distribution company that released the Trebel Music app to reduce digital media piracy by specifically targeting a demographic which uses piracy as a form of digital media consumption.

Genocide Awareness and Prevention
In 2015, the descendants of the Armenian genocide around the world commemorated the 100 anniversary of the first genocide of the 20th century.  Mekikian, along with a group of American-Armenians, organized an event called LA2DC, a coast-to-coast, running and cycling, relay marathon. The mission is to increase awareness of modern-day genocides, and to stop genocides as a war tactic. Over a thousand athletes ran and cycled non-stop, from Los Angeles to Washington DC, to deliver a petition to Congress - a message of gratitude to Americans and others who worked to prevent genocides, and rescued the survivors. Mekikian and colleagues authored the petition which was delivered in a relay baton to Congressman Adam Schiff who read it on the floor of the House of Representatives on May 20, 2015.

Bibliography
Prof. William Barnett and Gary Mekikian, (2013) Mercado Libre, Leadership and Managing People, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Gary Mekikian and Prof. John Roberts, (2009) Note on IT Services Industry, Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Gary Mekikian and Prof. John Roberts, (2009) Tata Consultancy Services, Globalization of IT Services, Economics,
Prof. William Barnett and Gary Mekikian, (2008) Creating Qualcomm, Organizational Behavior, Entrepreneurship,'' Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Strep A: Scots urged to be 'patient' with pharmacists when buying antibiotics
Glasgow lockdown: What are new coronavirus restrictions for Scots in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire?
Scots living in Glasgow and western parts of the country have been ordered not to enter neighbouring households as lockdown measures are re-imposed to tackle a rise in coronavirus cases.
2nd Sep 2020, 6:49am
A new colourful billboard in Glasgow's East End, in a nod to the coronavirus lockdown. Picture: John Devlin
Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the measure, which came into force at midnight, after 66 new positive tests were recorded in the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area yesterday.
It is feared that the virus has been spreading in and between households in the area.
The tightening of regulations came as it was separately announced travellers from Greece would be required to self-isolate at home for 14 days on arrival in Scotland. The measure comes into effect from 4am tomorrow.
Susan Aitken is the leader of Glasgow City Council. Picture: John Devlin
Visiting other households
The regulations on visiting other households will affect about 800,000 people living Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire. The measures are in place for a fortnight, but will be reviewed in a week.
"The rise in new Covid-19 cases in all three of these local authority areas is of significant concern and these figures remind us all that the virus has not gone away," Ms Sturgeon said yesterday. "We are at a stage of this
pandemic where we must all act with extreme caution.
"Following discussions with local public health officials and local authorities, it is necessary to ask people in Glasgow, West Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire to limit their contact with other households.
"People living in these areas should not meet with other households in indoor household settings for at least two weeks, except where they are providing essential care and support, or have formed an extended household.
"People can continue to meet other households outside and in other settings, but I would ask everyone to be extra vigilant, to follow all guidance and to isolate and book a test if they have any symptoms."
Indoor visits
The restrictions will affect 633,120 people living in Glasgow, 95,530 in East Renfrewshire and 88,930 in West Dunbartonshire.
Indoor visits to hospitals and care homes will be limited to essential visits only to protect the most vulnerable. Outdoor visits to care homes are permitted by three people from a maximum of two households, in line with current guidance.
Those households who have formed an extended household and people providing care and support, such as caring for an elderly family member or delivering shopping, will be allowed to continue to meet indoors with enhanced hygiene measures in place.
'Test no substitute for self-isolating'
Ms Sturgeon said: "I want to emphasise that getting a test – and even getting a negative result – is not a substitute for self-isolating.
"If you have symptoms, or if you are contacted by our Test and Protect team and told to do so, you will need to self-isolate. "I understand this will not be welcome news for people living in Glasgow, East Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire, but it is necessary to help us limit the spread of Covid-19. Acting now gives us the time and the space to protect people and get more control over the virus."
It has emerged that 135 of the 314 new cases in Scotland over the past two days had been in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken said last night: "I would rather Glasgow doesn't have to go back into even these limited restrictions, but it is vital that we move quickly to stop any outbreak before it gets out of hand.
"We must all now follow these new guidelines. None of us wants to see our schools or businesses close again and this early intervention will help prevent more drastic measures having to be taken in future."
The daily incidence rate of Covid-19 is now almost 33 new cases per 100,000 people in West Dunbartonshire, 22 in Glasgow and almost 19 in East Renfrewshire. The rate for the rest of Scotland is just over ten.
Lockdown measures had previously been re-imposed on Aberdeen last month.
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This page is a brief summary of placement information in mathematics for students admitted to Dartmouth. Detailed information can be found on our Canvas site: 2020's (public), 2021's, 2022's .
By late July, every incoming first-year student should have received an email concerning Math Placement.
If you do not receive an email before orientation, please contact Professor Shemanske.
As detailed in the email, all math placement issues will be handled via the Math Placement System hosted on Canvas.
If you have previously taken an exam (AP, IB (HL), or British A-level), refer to the placement diagrams below for an overview, and to the Canvas pages 2020's (public), 2021's, 2022's for further explanation.
If you have not taken such an exam, but have acquired a background which you think merits advanced placement and/or credit, you can take our local placement exams which can also award advanced placement and credit. Local placement exams for credit and/or placement will be available on the Canvas site during the first week of August. Every credit/placement exam must be completed by noon on September 6, 2018 to ensure correct placement before enrolling in classes.
Taking the department's placement exam can only provide you with more options; you cannot receive a lower placement by taking the department's exam, so you are strongly encouraged to take it if you have taken some advanced mathematics in the past. It is often the case that students midway through their career decide to add a minor or second major and discover they need credit for a calculus course as prerequisite. It costs you very little time right now, but the potential payback is enormous.
Also, as mentioned in the information mailed to you over the summer, it is in your best interest to review prior to attempting these exams. You can try them only once, and if you fail a placement exam, the default placements will stand. This is not negotiable.
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The History of Tarbone Ranch
Tarbone Ranch was founded by Ken and Tammy Cook. The property has been specifically managed for big game beginning when they built their home on it in 1995. The property was then high fenced in 2006, and has been a hunting ranch ever since. Ken had a passion for wildlife management as well as his career in fishing. The Cooks have lived on this land since 1996 and continue to do so even after Ken's passing in early 2016. The Cook family now continues Ken's legacy of love for wildlife and the outdoors by managing the property the way he taught them. They look forward to guiding hunters for years to come.
Ken Cook's Biography:
After graduating Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Zoology he worked for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation as a Fisheries Biologist. A change of career occurred in 1983 after Ken won the first Super BASS tournament. The $100,000 prize money allowed him to pursue professional angling as his next dream.
Since that time, Ken enjoyed a career of fishing tournaments and marketing products for his sponsors while at the same time helping thousands of others understand and enjoy the sport of bass fishing.
Lived from February 2, 1947 to January 8, 2016
Hometown: Meers, OK
Education: B.S. Degree from Oklahoma State in Zoology.
Former Occupation: Fisheries Biologist, 13 years, Professional Bass Fisherman
Angling Hero: Jason Lucas, he wrote about bass fishing before it was cool.
Inducted into the BASS Fishing Hall of Fame 2010
1991 BASSMASTER CLASSIC Champion
Fourteen Time BASSMASTER CLASSIC Qualifier
Chosen among Top 35 Anglers of All Time by BASS in 2005
Named one of the top ten most "fan popular" anglers by Bassmaster Magazine.
Top 50 on B.A.S.S. All-time Money Winner's List
SIX-Time B.A.S.S. Champion
Three Time World Champion Angler
B.A.S.S. Classic, 1991
U.S. Bass World Champion, 1985
American Angler Grand American Champion, 1980
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Q: Reductions for regular languages? To reason about whether a language is R, RE, or co-RE, we can use many-one reductions to show how the difficulty (R, RE, or co-RE-ness) of one language influences the difficulty of another.  To reason about whether a language is in P, NP, or co-NP, we can use polynomial-time many-one reductions to show how the difficulty (P, NP, or co-NP-ness) of one language influences the difficulty of another.
Is there are similar type of reduction we can use for regular languages?  For example, is there some type of reduction $\le_R$ such that if $L_1 \le_R L_2$ and $L_2$ is regular, then $L_1$ is regular?  Clearly we could arbitrarily define a very specific class of reductions such that this property holds, but is there a known type of reduction with this property?
Thanks!

A: There is a very natural model of finite-state reduction, namely the most general finite-state transducer -- one input tape, one output tape, non-deterministic, transitions can be labelled with arbitrary regular sets (with empty strings) on both the input and output side. This can be shown equivalent to Henning's single-symbol operations, but allows for much more intuitive reductions, still within the finite-state realm. The ambiguity Henning speaks of is just the non-determinism.
You can even allow such a transducer to have secondary storage (like a Turing Machine, pushdown automaton, etc) as long as there is a uniform constant bound on the size of the secondary storage.
Taking that a step further, you can use transformations that do arbitrary computations, but again show that the size of memory needed over all inputs is uniformly bounded, that is, there's a $k$ not depending on the input that limits the size of all memory used. Thus you can use pseudo-code, Java or whatever formalism you like, including forking, that is, non-determinism -- as long as you have:

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*one input and one output tape/stream

*both streams processed in a single pass

*total memory is uniformly bounded across all forks/threads

In other words, you don't have to model finite-state transformations with transitions on a finite graph, which is a very brittle and finicky programming model. You can use any convenient programming formalism or model with any structuring of memory you like, as long as it satisfies those criteria.
In fact, I propose that as a sort of finite-state equivalent of the Turing-Church thesis. Not quite as crisp as the Turing-Church Thesis in the world of recursive functions, but very useful.

A: In general, for reductions to be a useful reasoning concept, we need to require that the reduction function is easy enough to compute that it can be done within the same resource constraints as the complexity class we're ultimately interested in. Because the class of regular languages correspond to the very weak computational model of finite-state machines, any permissible reductions would have to be similarly weak.
More precisely, we'd need to consider reductions that can be expressed as finite state machines themselves: something like a machine with a state drawn from a finite set, where each transition (determined by the current state and the scanned input symbol) can either be to move to the next input symbol or output a given output symbol.
Another way to express these transformations is that they are the functions that can be programmed using only a finite number of global variables each of which has a finite value set, with a "read one symbol" command, a "print one symbol" command, and a basic set of control structures (if, goto, while, switch, do-while, and non-recursive subroutines).
Arguing through such reductions would clearly work, but since they are so restricted, I think it will often be just as hard to convince oneself that the reduction one has in mind is permissible as it would to be to argue from first principles that the initial language is regular.
This might be different if there were a more natural model for FSM transformations -- perhaps some kind of output-annotated regular expressions. But it's not clear to me exactly that would work, since regular expressions can be ambiguous. Perhaps speaking about "one-many reductions" could make it work, though.

A: The important property that guarantees such reductions make sense is composition: a polynomial-time reduction works because the composition of an P/NP/co-NP Turing machine with a P machine is again a P/NP/co-NP machine.
We can define composition for finite state automata too: see Wikipedia on finite state transducers. Then $L_1\le_R L_2$ iff there is a finite state transducer mapping words from $L_1$ to words from $L_2$ and words from $\Sigma_1^*\setminus L_1$ to words from $\Sigma_2^*\setminus L_2$. This reduction satisfies your requirements.
Of course, you can do similar things with all other kinds of automata, or really anything where you can define composition. For composition to exist, you need to be able to represent functions from words to words, which is why we needed to work with transducers instead of classic finite automata.


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Avianca officially signed a labor agreement today with the the union representing nearly half of its pilots that "includes a substantial increase in the gross income of pilots and co-pilots," according to the airline. As announced last week, the deal will increase the salary of the nearly 800 pilots in the union by 11.5%, which is double the 2016 inflation rate in Colombia.
The deal between the Bogota-based carrier and the Organization of Avianca Aviators (ODEAA) will govern labor relations effective immediately through 2020 and averted the potential of further action by union members that could disrupt operations.
The urgency of negotiations between two sides rose when the ODEAA agreed on March 14 to forego a full strike and extend talks for an additional 20 days. Previously in a move deemed "Cero Trabajo Suplementario" (zero overtime), pilots in the union had refused to work overtime, a practice that Avianca and many airlines rely on to ensure flights can operate on time.
The ODEAA had been seeking a pay raise that would make the earnings of its members commiserate with other pilots in the region, according to Reuters. The news agency reported that some pilots in the region make up to $11,500 USD per month while those flying for Avianca earn around $6,000 each month.
Avianca had reportedly offered a 7.25% raise for 2017. This was higher than last year's 5.75% inflation rate, the metric typically used to gauge cost-of-living increases for many workers in Colombia, but well below what the pilots were seeking.
"Our salary structure is not determined by the best-paid country in the region, but rather it must take into account the purchasing power of each country where we operate, as is done in any global company," stated Avianca in a letter to ODEAA earlier this month, according to Reuters.
The deal puts to rest the potential for pilots to strike and will normalize the overtime provisions. The public statement from Avianca announcing the signing of the agreement did not specify the full extent of the new terms.
The union had also been concerned about the effect that Colombia's recent national tax reform would have on the take-home pay of its pilots. But Captain José María Jaimes, president of ODEAA, said today that the new agreement has sufficiently addressed the issues of its members.


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Next-gen endpoint detection and response firm Cybereason wanted to test two hypotheses: first, that hackers are ignoring free information in the underground forums; and second, that bots have become more sophisticated and dangerous than is often believed.
To do this, it set up a sophisticated honeypot system that masqueraded as a financial services company. For the first hypothesis, it dropped remote desktop protocol (RDP) access credentials for three servers on dark markets and paste sites. The passwords were complex, but everything needed to break in was dropped in plaintext, with the cover story of a lucky skiddie who found the information but didn't know what to do with it. He was giving away the information to build trust and foster goodwill.
The first hypothesis was proven. Nobody touched or attempted to use the credentials. "They might as well not have existed," Cybereason's senior director for intelligence services, Ross Rustici, told SecurityWeek. Hackers no longer trust the markets near the surface of the dark web, probably considering them to be full of government agents and security researchers. Instead, they work in closed forums in the deep web where access to outsiders -- and hacker newbies -- is difficult.
Or they work alone, without relying on untrustworthy human-to-human interaction, and with greater reliance on bots. This was the second purpose on the financial services honeypot -- to gauge how sophisticated these bots have become.
This part of the project had two phases. The first was to set up additional RDP services with weak passwords, and, writes Rustici in an associated blog, "we opened up several other services to see which ports were scanned the most and if there was a large difference in functionality once they broke in."
Within two hours of creating the weak RDP services, he told SecurityWeek, "they got popped by a bunch of different stuff probably using rainbow tables." It was what he expected -- simple bots, scanning, brute forcing, and performing the rudimentary tasks that would help the operator decide to incorporate the network into a botnet or keep the credentials for future use.
"But then we got lucky," he said. "One particular bot not only popped the box, but then started doing exploit analysis right off the bat." This bot was essentially a complete and automated hacking kit. It did a network recon. "It tried to figure out where it was, and what the machine name was. It created false user names and accounts, so the attacker would have sustained backdoor access into the system should the weak password get changed or somebody try to take out the initial intrusion."
This was an aggressive and stealthy bot. It was aggressive in the speed and extent of its functions, and stealthy through its use of PowerShell scripts. "The attacker had cobbled together a bunch of PowerShell scripts, a bit of Python and a couple of open source utilities (MimiKatz and probably Netcat) and, within minutes, it could pretty much own every node on the network without the hacker having to get into the network and get dirty. It did everything that a normal intrusion would take hours to do, and essentially reduced the dwell time on the endpoint from 2 hours (which would be average) to minutes."
Only the use of MimiKatz and Netcat would provide easily visible red flags for the defenders; but Rustici commented, "It all happens so fast and largely quietly that it would probably be missed by 50% of the controls currently on the market." Basically, the bot broke in, looked around, dropped its own backdoor and withdrew in minutes and without human interaction.
"Two days later," Rustici told SecurityWeek, "we saw a human come into that network using one of the created accounts and start poking around on the box and looking for specific information. He already had the road map from the bot. He knew what he was looking for -- and so he just literally popped up the RDP, went in and then started pulling files back. He then installed a mail program and emailed himself 3 GB of exfiltration.
"It was interesting," he added, "because although you see a lot of bot activity, it's rare you see interaction between a human and a bot and how cybercriminals are monetizing this brute force access that they're getting through scanning the web. The way they moved into the environment also shows how much data the bot gathered and how useful that data was to whoever was using it."
Cybereason still has, he said, "some sleuthing" to do. Is the bot, "run and operated by a group that is selling access on the deep web closed forums based off the information they pull back, or was it the same person operating the bot who came in and stole the data?" The two-days delay between the bot and the human activity could just be a cooling off period, it could be the length of time taken to sell on the data, or it could be an indication of the number of genuine networks popped by the bot -- with what was to all intents and purposes a financial services company bumped towards the top of the list for further exploitation.
What is almost certain, however, is that we will see more of this type of automated hacking in the future. "I think the attack method is already commoditized," says Rustici. "I think we got lucky in that we saw it happen so quickly after we opened up the ports, I think we got a little unlucky in the fact that we didn't see more of it. The scripting and the automation is the way that both attackers and defenders are going -- it's the only way that you can keep up with the amount of devices that exist online -- the attack surface that you either have to defend or penetrate."
As access to specific information becomes more valuable, he added, "you're going to see a lot more people take this approach rather than the traditional DDoS botnet type activity that bots are more generally associated with -- especially with monetizing DDoS getting harder and the industry getting better at mitigating it. I think we are going to see a lot more actors move towards this type of automated recon. They can either sell the information or do some doxing and try to hold the whole network to ransom in new ways beyond the traditional ransomware infection."
In short, automated intrusion and reconnaissance is the natural evolution of hacking methodologies: "It's sort of worming 2.0 -- and I think we are going to see a lot of people playing with this kind of technology."
Boston, MA-based Cybereason raised $100 million in Series D funding from SoftBank Corp in June 2017. This increased total investment in the firm to $189 million since its inception in 2012. It raised $25 million in Series B financing and $59 million in Series C financing, both in 2015.


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Comcast Launches X1, A Next-Generation Cloud-Based Video Platform, In Utah
Comcast, a global media and technology company, today announced the launch of its cloud-based interactive television experience, the X1 Platform from Xfinity, across Utah.
Unlike any other video service available today, X1 is a cloud-based platform that transforms TV into an interactive and integrated experience. It integrates the largest collection of video with social media features, interactive apps, web content and more in one easy-to-navigate, sleek viewing experience. The launch of X1 is part of Comcast's ongoing and evolving effort to take advantage of its powerful network and IP technology to constantly bring new innovations to market.
"The X1 Platform is a huge leap forward for us and transforms traditional television viewing into an entirely new entertainment experience," said Comcast Regional Vice President Kyle McSlarrow. "X1 uses cloud-based technology to make the TV smarter, richer, and more personalized, and allows us to deliver new features to our customers faster than ever."
New X1 features and capabilities available to customers in Utah today include:
Visual, Sleek User Interface: A modern user interface that enables one-click access to programs and a highly visual guide to entertainment options and related information.
Faster, More Personalized Search and Discovery: A personalized viewing experience with recommendations based on search input and previously watched shows and movies. They also have the ability to search simultaneously across live TV, Xfinity On Demand and DVR recordings – and see the last nine programs watched across all services with a single tap on the remote control.
In-Home Convenience: The ability to watch DVR recordings from any room in the house and simultaneously record up to four shows while watching another.
Social Integration and Customized Apps: An expanding selection of tailored-for-TV apps, including traffic, weather, voicemail, and a sports app to track multiple games at once and check the latest scores, standings and schedules while watching a favorite show. X1 also includes a selection of Web-based apps, including Facebook and Pandora.
In addition, the X1 Remote App lets customers use motions, gestures, and voice commands to control their TVs with their Apple handheld devices. For example, customers can use voice commands to navigate the guide and search for content; swipe their iPhones to page through the interactive TV guide and program personalized short-cuts and favorites ("Quick Links"); and shake their device to pause Xfinity On Demand content.
X1 will initially be available to new Xfinity Triple Play customers and will become available to additional customer segments in the future. The X1 Platform is currently available in more than a dozen markets, and Comcast plans to launch the service in all remaining markets by the end of the year.
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The Smaller The Device, The Greater The Attention Of The Mobile-TV Viewer
Mobile-TV viewers are more focused on TV content when viewed on their smartphones than on larger devices, according to new study findings.
Viewers performed unrelated multi-tasking on other electronic devices during only 14 percent of the occasions on which they viewed TV programming on smartphones. This compared to 27 percent for tablet viewing, 31 percent for computer (desktop and laptop) viewing and 34 percent of the television-set viewing occasions, according to study participants.
At the same time, viewers watching a TV show on a smartphone also were more likely to engage in online activities related to that show-– such as looking up show information, or posting about the show on social networks. Such activity occurred during 21 percent of the television set viewing occasions, 27 percent for tablet viewing occasions, 31 percent for computer viewing occasions and 39 percent of the smartphone viewing occasions.
These findings come from additional analyses of the study conducted by Boston-based market research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey for the Council for Research Excellence (CRE), a diverse group of senior-level research professionals from throughout the media and advertising industries dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of audience measurement methodology.
The study, "TV Untethered," was launched in November 2012 to understand if and how mobile media devices--tablets, mobile phones and laptops-– impact overall television viewing behavior.
Other new findings:
Mobile TV viewers tend to be younger (mean age 35), higher income professionals with graduate degrees, and reflect more ethnic diversity than non-mobile-TV users;
The portion of overall TV-viewing devoted to mobile devices decreases for older mobile-TV users – 28 percent for users ages 15-to-24, 18 percent for ages 25-34; 12 percent for ages 35-49; and 8 percent for ages 50-64;
Mobile TV viewers are often heavy overall TV viewers and are more likely than non-mobile-TV viewers to be TV show opinion leaders and to use social media to talk about TV.
The CRE previously disclosed study findings that 64 percent of smartphone-TV viewing occurs in the home-- reflecting some simultaneous viewing with TV sets, which continue to dominate in-home viewing at 90 percent. The top drivers of in-home mobile viewing cited by participants are content and device availability, family dynamics, device preference and inertia. Mobile-TV viewers do most of their out-of-home smartphone-TV watching (23 percent) at work. By contrast, only 14 percent of computer-based TV viewing occurs at work. Convenience, portability and filling downtime are the top drivers of out-of-home smartphone viewing.
The study was overseen by the CRE's Media Consumption & Engagement Committee, co-chaired by Joanne Burns, Head of Research for 20th Television, Fox; and Laura Cowan, Research Director, LIN Media.
"This research suggests greater audience measurement needs to be directed at smartphone viewing," Burns said. "People are bringing devices from room to room, and out of the home, and on their commutes. TV sets still rule in the home, even for the younger demographics -- but elsewhere, and even in the home for multi-taskers, smartphones are becoming an important device for viewing professional TV content. It all goes to convenience and portability; more people are watching more TV – everywhere – and increasingly on smartphones."
The full report on the latest "TV Untethered" study findings can be found (under "New Research") on the Media Consumption & Engagement Committee page at the CRE website.
Posted at 10:27 AM in Apps, Breaking CE News, Communications, e-Commerce, Gaming, Home Theater, Video, Mobile Electronics , Smart TV, Television, Trends, Video, Wireless | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
LG Begins Selling First OLED HDTV In The U.S.
LG Electronics today announced the first U.S. availability of the revolutionary new OLED HDTV, combining the pinnacles of picture quality and design to deliver the ultimate in display technology for home entertainment.
As LG's exclusive OLED TV launch partner, Best Buy today began selling the 55-inch class (54.6-inch diagonal) LG CURVED OLED TV (Model 55EA9800) at the Richfield store. In the coming weeks, Magnolia stores inside Best Buy in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and San Antonio will display and begin selling the thin new premium TV at a suggested price of $14,999. Over the summer, the new TV is expected to roll out to select Magnolia inside Best Buy locations nationwide.
The U.S. launch solidifies LG's early lead in the OLED TV race. Global demand for OLED TV is expected to grow to more than 7 million units by 2016, according to DisplaySearch. LG is the first company to commercialize both the flat screen OLED TV, which has been sold to consumers in Korea since January, and the innovative new CURVED OLED TV, which began sales in Korea in April.
For Best Buy, being first to launch OLED TV in the United States supports the retail giant's leadership strategy focused on offering the latest and greatest technology products.
Exceptional Picture Quality and Design
At only 0.17 inches (4.3 millimeters) thin at the edge of the screen and weighing less than 38 pounds (17.2 kilograms), the new OLED TV produces astoundingly vivid and realistic images thanks to LG's proprietary WRGB technology. The unique WRGB four-color pixel system features a white sub-pixel that works in conjunction with conventional red, green and blue pixels to create the perfect color output. LG's exclusive Color Refiner delivers even greater tonal enhancement, resulting in images that are more vibrant and natural than anything seen before.
The LG CURVED OLED TV is the world's first OLED TV to achieve THX® Display Certification, signifying that it passed more than 600 THX laboratory tests to ensure it delivers the picture quality of a professional post production display.
With its gently curved screen, the new LG CURVED OLED TV represents a unique design statement for discerning high-end consumers. This represents the first major design change in the industry since the widespread introduction of flat-panel TVs to the consumer marketplace more than a decade ago. With more than five years of research behind developing the optimal curvature, the LG CURVED OLED TV delivers an IMAX-like viewing experience in the home.
For more information on the LG CURVED OLED TV, visit http://www.lg.com/us/oled.
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Next Generation TV Market Insight 2013
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Next Generation TV Market Insight" report to their offering.
LCD manufacturers are experiencing profitability deterioration which can no longer be neglected. As a solution, companies are finding a breakthrough by realizing a large-size high-resolution LCD panel screen and commercializing OLED television technology which might lead to the fourth "Big Bang" in the market.
At the same time, ultra-high resolution TV and large-size screen TV over 50 inch is being competitively launched to dominate the next generation technology market, as the price of large LCD panel continue to drop to a level where large TV preferring customers are able to afford, the market for super large, high-resolution (4K2K:UHD) TV over 50 inch in size is growing in a rapid speed.
LCD panel manufacturers have experienced a severe profit deterioration caused by rapid price decline and economic downturn. In order to increase glass efficiency from a current level of 90%-95% to a level of 95%-98%, MMG (Multi Model Glass) was used to produce models of different size simultaneously from a single piece of circular glass plate. As extra-large MMG panel of maximized efficiency started to be developed and mass produced, the sales of new size panel and set product started to expand in the global market, starting from China.
The resolution of a display is rapidly improving to ultra-high definition to produce clearer picture as processor, memory and display device technology develops. The change is not just a simple transition of TV screen resolution but it is a fundamental change and innovation of clouding computing such as broadcasting system, network, contents and imaging technology.
The era of 4K2K (UHD) TV is to come faster than expected as consumers are aware of the value of high-resolution since they are already accustomed to devices like smartphones and as LCD panel manufactures are trying to break through the market with large-size panels. The current FHD (1920x1080) resolution is insufficient in providing high-resolution images for large-size panel of above 50 inch. The keyword for the next generation display technology which Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China focus on is not the state-of-the-art technology but production capacity and process technology.
In the future TV market, deposition technique that is suitable for large-size high-resolution (over 4K2K) having mass production yield rate of conventional LCD level will become the standard technique for OLED and will be the key factor determining the success and failure of the business.
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Smart TVs Outflanked By Tablets and Smartphones, Say Early Adopters
Smart TVs are getting a thumbs-down from early adopters, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics' Digital Home Observatory. The study, "Online Video Lead Adopters Bypass the Smart TV with Personal Devices", offers an in-depth examination of how the behavior of eight advanced user households has changed over the past three years as new connected TV technologies have arrived. Even though half of the sample had acquired a smart TV over the past three years, no one was found to be using it as their main source for connected media entertainment since they found tablets, smartphones and other connected TV devices easier to use. Early adopters who have not purchased a smart TV yet were concerned that these products were not ready to deliver an adequate experience, and were happy to continue using other connected devices instead.
One participant noted: "The smart TV is limited in apps and doesn't allow you to easily search. I had a battle between the PS3 and the smart TV in which one to use, and the PS3 won."
"OEMs and app developers are failing to provide smart TV users with apps and services that enhance the TV experience," says Taryn Tulay, Senior Analyst in the User Experience Practice. "Furthermore, an intuitive remote that works fluidly with the UI and provides ease of text input with an integrated touchscreen is imperative to consumers finding the apps and services functional on a TV."
The study concludes that while traditional TV will continue to play a key role in domestic lifestyles, people will increasingly rely on the convenience of personal devices and OTT TV/video services to support their entertainment needs.
Methodology: Strategy Analytics undertook eight in-depth in-home observation interviews with connected TV and multi-device owners who were previously interviewed in 2010. The latest research was conducted in March 2013 in San Diego, CA, and London, UK.
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Q: SwitchMap not working as intended in Angular I have a search service returning results, if the user submits twice, only the last search should return results.
I have the following code in a service, view (updated elsewhere) has all the post body info needed for the request.
This method is called from elsewhere in the code using this.searchService.getResults()
getResults() {
    const view: SearchView = this.getCurrentSearch();
    if (!view.query || view.query === '') {
      return;
    }

    this.checkPermissions(view).subscribe(searchView => {
     //do some stuff
     this.cacheService
       .cachedPost(this.url, searchView, () => {
        return this.http.post(this.url, searchView);
      })
      .switchMap(res => this.pageTransform(res))
      .subscribe(
        // results here
      );
   });
}

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From running tests I can see that if I fire 3 searches in quick succession, they all resolve, whereas I only want the last to.

A: That's because you're calling the method getResults() multiple times which creates multiple Rx chains and all of them are processed. If you want switchMap to work correctly you need to keep a reference to only one chain and push values to it:
private search$ = new Subject();

private searchSubscription = search$
  .switchMap(view => this.checkPermissions(view)
    .concatMap(searchView => this.cacheService.cachedPost(this.url, searchView, () => {
      return this.http.post(this.url, searchView);
    })
    .concatMap(res => this.pageTransform(res))
  )
  .subscribe(...);

getResults() {
  const view: SearchView = this.getCurrentSearch();

  ...

  this.search$.next(view);
}

I didn't test this code for obvious reasons but I think you'll get the point. Also don't forget to unsubscribe in ngOnDestroy() with this.searchSubscription.unsubscribe().


Results for the June 23 event are in and the group of former jockeys raised $310,000, easily topping the record $254,000 raised at Parx Racing last year. The total puts the amount raised by the group to well over $1 million.
The PDJF makes monthly payments of $1,000 to 60 former jockeys who suffered catastrophic racing accidents with 40 either pari or quadriplegics. Most of the remainder suffered severe brain injuries.
The all volunteer group, Jockeys and Jeans came together for a jockey reunion at Tampa Bay Downs in early 2014 and decided to make it into a fundraiser and donate all proceeds to the Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund. President Barry Pearl said this year's sold out event is likely the richest single fundraiser in the history of Thoroughbred racing.
The track solicited event sponsors and held a poker and golf tournament in which Hall of Fame riders participated. Thirteen attended to honor six permanently disabled jockeys. Edgar Prado flew from his Maryland base to compete with other successful riders and six of the track's past leading riders in the first All Star Jockey Challenge. Prado, who leads the eight active Hall of Fame riders in victories with over 7,000, got up in the final stride to win aboard Superstar Bea. Barry Butzow, the horse's co-owner, donated his share of the purse, bringing the total raised in the race to $19,000.
Jockeys and Jeans is officially announcing that its 2019 annual fundraiser is set for Santa Anita and in 2020 will move to Churchill Downs.


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They're trying to "protect marriage" with this dreck?
Filed under: equal marriage — jesurgislac @ 3:21 pm
Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Alliance Defense Fund, Brian Camenker, civil rights, Crystal Dixon, David Parker, Deerfield High School, equal marriage, Estabrook Elementary School, Greg Harris, human rights, iProtectMarriage, Jennifer Huntington, June Sheldon, Mark L. Wolf, Mass Resistance, Massachusetts, Michael S. Miller, North Newton High School, Proposition 22, Proposition 8, San Jose Evergreen Community College, stupid arguments against same-sex marriage, ToBeGlad Day, ToBGLAD Day, unfogged, University of Toledo
You cannot protect marriage by denying marriage to same-sex couples. That should be clear from the basics.
I was linked to this site ("iprotectmarriage.com", geddit?) via Ben Wolfson at Unfogged, whom I blame for everything. Here are their facts:
For centuries, marriage as a legal, civil and religious institution between a man and a woman has protected children and society in every country and culture.
Granted for the sake of argument, but why is that being put forward as a reason why marriage as a legal, civil and religious institution between two men or two women can't be allowed to protect children and society in the US? Are these people so busy "protecting marriage" they've lost track of what marriage is all about? Evidently. How sad.


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Where Men Win Glory
The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
by Jon Krakauer
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Published Sep 2009
Genre: Biography/Memoir
The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man's haunting journey.
Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan.
Though obvious to most of the two dozen soldiers on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered to keep this information from Tillman's wife, other family members, and the American public for five weeks following his death. During this time, President Bush repeatedly invoked Tillman's name to promote his administration's foreign policy. Long after Tillman's nationally televised memorial service, the Army grudgingly notified his closest relatives that he had "probably" been killed by friendly fire while it continued to dissemble about the details of his death and who was responsible.
In Where Men Win Glory, Jon Krakauer draws on Tillman's journals and letters, interviews with his wife and friends, conversations with the soldiers who served alongside him, and extensive research on the ground in Afghanistan to render an intricate mosaic of this driven, complex, and uncommonly compelling figure as well as the definitive account of the events and actions that led to his death. Before he enlisted in the army, Tillman was familiar to sports aficionados as an undersized, overachieving Arizona Cardinals safety whose virtuosity in the defensive backfield was spellbinding. With his shoulder-length hair, outspoken views, and boundless intellectual curiosity, Tillman was considered a maverick. America was fascinated when he traded the bright lights and riches of the NFL for boot camp and a buzz cut.
Sent first to Iraq — a war he would openly declare was "illegal as hell" — and eventually to Afghanistan, Tillman was driven by complicated, emotionally charged, sometimes contradictory notions of duty, honor, justice, patriotism, and masculine pride, and he was determined to serve his entire three-year commitment. But on April 22, 2004, his life would end in a barrage of bullets fired by his fellow soldiers.
Krakauer chronicles Tillman's riveting, tragic odyssey in engrossing detail highlighting his remarkable character and personality while closely examining the murky, heartbreaking circumstances of his death. Infused with the power and authenticity readers have come to expect from Krakauer's storytelling, Where Men Win Glory exposes shattering truths about men and war.
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"I am glad that someone is doing something about the cover ups that the military does... my son was killed, but they keep saying he accidentally shot himself when he went into a soldier's room who happened to have an illegal handgun. Once I keep pointing out things that didn't make sense,, they stop talking to me, and won't even send me a copy of the incident...said there is nothing I can do to them. I have tried so many avenues to say all I want is closure... I am glad that at least one mom got some type of closure. I commend you for being a good writer... may god bless and keep you safe..." - Pennie
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Informative and insightful
Krakauer once again uses the main character to give a humanistic story to challenge current societal systems. Character development is Krakauer's strength, and the Pat Tillman portrayal as a young man questioning his role and beliefs brings human nature into question. The blend of story telling interwoven with research allows for an important story to be told. As with all of his books, Krakauer forces the reader toward additional outside research to answer important questions.
Not badly written. Very interesting story! My disappointment is that he feels the need to constantly inject his anti-Bush opinions into this supposedly factual account of an American hero. Along with using incorrect facts to try to bolster HIS agenda. Loses a lot of credibility.
Author lies
The real clincher for the author's deceit is how his narrative is entirely different to Jessica Lynch's narrative before congress of her particular situation (YouTube). I don't know what to believe now and I may quit on it. Lots of republican bashing. Lots of profanity also.
Extreme Bush Bashing
Krakauer is so vehement in his Bush bashing, that the Pat Tillman story becomes a sub-plot. A less biased book would have been far more believable. The author's intense loathing of Bush leaves me wondering what is accurate in this novel and what is driven by his extreme political leanings. He basically wants to blame Bush for Tillman's death. I don't know what to think of Tillman as a person --was he a true hero as depicted or an obnoxious, arrogant SOB. Maybe a little of both. If you hate Bush you will enjoy this book. Otherwise don't bother.
Tim Kilcrease
Where Men Win Glory?
Kraukauer's title should contain a question mark. At least the reader would have an inkling of the monotonous and verbose political diatribe to come. It is nothing short of a false advertisement. The money is in the till and you have just purchased a slanted editorial wearing the clothing of a heroic biography. Don't waste your money on this one; if you want Krakauer's political views, just watch 60 minutes.
Tillman would be very disappointed
Krakauer has produced some good work. This book is not it.
Tillman is an interesting man and the details of the firefight that killed him and gripping. But Krakauer has an ax to grind, and he ruthlessly exploits Tillman's memory to do so.
You can see this coming early in the book when Krakauer spend 5 PAGES on a wildly misleading account of the 2000 election fight in Florida and Bush v Gore. It continues relentlessly, and soon the view of Tillman fades into the background as Krakauer's politics become the focal point of the book.
It's a real shame.
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Jon Krakauer Author Biography
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain-climbing. He is the author of best-selling non-fiction books: Into the Wild, Into Thin Air,Under the Banner of Heaven, and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman as well as numerous magazine articles.
Born in 1954, Jon Krakauer grew up in Corvallis, Oregon, where his father introduced him to mountaineering as an eight-year-old. After graduating from Hampshire College in 1976, Krakauer divided his time between Colorado, Alaska, and the Pacific Northwest, supporting himself primarily as a carpenter and commercial salmon fisherman. For the next two decades, however, his life revolved around climbing mountains.
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With SAP Jam Collaboration we want to provide collaboration to everybody, no matter where they currently are. Because the easier it is for people to work with their colleagues, independent of time-zones, locations or devices, the faster your organization will achieve their business results.
Therefore there are native mobile apps available for SAP Jam for both iOS and Android.
With all its capabilities that SAP Jam offers by now (modern intranet, collaboration groups, task, knowledge base, real-time messages etc.) it's essential that every user can customize their mobile app to fit the best for their main use cases.
For example, a field service engineer might want to be able to first get access to the company knowledge base, a sales rep might want to get to his account mgmt and deal room groups as soon as possible, or an employee of your finance department will want to access the intranet as their default home page.
In this blog, I'll describe how every user can customize the layout of their mobile app to their personal needs.
By default you see the buttons "Feed", "Groups", "Notifications", "Profile", and "More", with Feed being the first button on the left which is opened when launching the mobile app. The "More" button always provides you access to all the capabilities that didn't fit into the button row at the bottom. So even if you personalize your buttons, you will still be able to access all groups, documents, knowledge base articles and so on.
To customize the buttons and its order click the More button, then click the Edit button in the top right.
Now you can rearrange the icons on the bottom and if required replace them with icons that are available also at the top. For that just drag and drop them where you want them to be.
For example, click on the Notifications icon in the button bar and drag and drop them onto the Feed icon on the left.
This will replace the Notifications icon with the Home icon now.
With this approach you can exactly customize the button row as you like it.
Once you have personalized the buttons to your needs click the "Done" button in the top right to save your settings for the future.
For myself I put Home, Notifications, Messages, and Groups into the button row to always have access to the intranet home page and my collaboration groups, and to not miss any notifications or messages.
How does your app look like?
What capabilities are you using the most in your SAP Jam Collaboration mobile app? How have you arranged your buttons? How does your app look like? Have you maybe branded your mobile app? Let me know and leave a comment. And maybe I'll write another post on how to change the colors on the mobile app soon.
Christian… Excellent blog! This capability is one that our customers are asking for so we're very happy you have shared the best approach to personalize the mobile app and especially make "Home" the default.