The consumer division of BT has confirmed that it will shortly launch a new BTInfinity 300 ultrafast broadband package using Openreach's fastest Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) product, which will offer download speeds of up to 300Mbps (20Mbps uploads) from £50 a month.
The new product has been mooted for a while, although other ISPs have balked at the idea of launching such a service due to the potentially significant additional capacity costs that it could attract. On top of that the native FTTP service only has a tiny coverage and, according to Recombu, has now been enabled at just 159 UK telephone exchanges (around 100,000 premises covered).
However BT itself states that the new 300Mbps service will "initially be available" within 50 exchange areas where FTTP infrastructure has been deployed to date.
At present BT's top FTTP based Infinity package offers speeds of up to 160Mbps (launch details), which costs £35 inc. VAT per month and includes unlimited usage plus all of BT's usual bits and bobs (unlimited BTWifi hotspot access, internet security etc.). But you'd be hard pressed to find this FTTP service listed on their summary of consumer products anymore, it seems to be hiding.
It should be noted that some consumers covered by the slower up to 80Mbps FTTC technology are slowly gaining access to the ultrafast premium FTTP service through FTTP-on-Demand (FoD), although this can cost thousands of pounds to install and its roll-out has around a year left to run.
Similarly McDonald said that FoD is "only a business product right now" (i.e. 36 month contracts) and as yet no consumer variety has been confirmed for BT Retail's product portfolio, although it is being considered.
At this stage we don't know the full details but it's worth mentioning that the cost of this new service will come in addition to standard line rental. It's not a cheap service but then £50 for 300Mbps, assuming BT can deliver the capacity to it, isn't too bad is it? The real problem is getting the connection installed since it's either not available to most people or would be very costly through FoD.
In the current financial climate, how many businesses will be prepared to make a commitment for three years: indeed, how many customers would commit to a tie with one provider for that period of time?
Plenty of businesses would commit to 3 years in fact. This is vastly cheaper than what we spend on our leased lines and they are all 3yr contracts. I'd say this is definitely in the reach of smaller bushinesses, not your local tearoom sure but certainly a lot.
This is aimed at proper businesses DTMark, not the ones that expect they should be able run their business on residential cheap as chips provision.
As Chris says a great alternative to leased line.
What is the contract length for the FTTP (300/20) product from BT Retail?
We don't know the final details yet but I expect it might be 36 months, which means BT Retail would have to sell it as a "business" product.
Yep nothing more than a backwards corporation with a bunch of cry babies that work for them.
Shame they're capping the upload to 20Mb given the product they're purchasing from Openreach to sell on is 330/30Mb.
I may be tempted by this if it is released as FTTPoD. Will look into it.
I assume that as it is "from" will be a monthly limit package, i wonder what the unlimited price will be (if there is an unlimited package).
Shame about the 20Mb upload also, would had thought that would had been significantly higher.
If a rumour I hear is even faintly accurate, Virgin will indeed be "announcing" something in the near future which will more than compete with this.
What else would you expect? Not everybody falls for BTs poor telecom services, if BT can even offer them. Many users will finally see how backwards BT is with its old copper technology, a dead end road (execpt for FibreFred). Its fibre-on-demand is hardly more than a publicity stunt, overpriced, unavailable to this very day in most parts of the country.
That's right, its just me a singular person that can see the benefits of VDSL, if you just ignore that most countries in the world have or are also taking this same path you could almost be right.
You don't like BT that's fine, you'll just have to wait for another telco to rollout next gen services to the majority of the UK, might be in for a bit of a wait tho….
Considering FTTPoD will cost thousands just to be installed i see no reason why the moaning will stop. Pointless product which no consumer will want. As to benefits of VDSL, it would be nice if BT actually allowed for any of them instead of crippling the upload speeds. FTTC is even a joke as it stands with the rollout behind and plenty of areas which were promised service still with nothing. (EG parts of the South West and Scotland).
I'd pay the money but there is no way i'd commit to 3 years maybe 1 but not a chance of 3.
This is just a publicity stunt, because its not even available in most parts of the UK.


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Herd, Animals & Grazing
Herds: Adding, Editing, and Viewing
Learn how to: add, move, and delete a herd; find a herd on the map and view herd history
Add A Herd
To add a Herd under the Herds, Animal and Grazing section,
Click the "Herds" tab at the top of the screen, then select at the upper right, the green button marked "Add herd".
Thereafter, add the herd name, number of animals and the first date this herd was together. Thing you can edit on the record are the herd symbol, the last weigh date, average weight, target average daily, weight gain, and dry matter intake.
If you have an Excel spreadsheet of animal ID tags and/or weight records, you can also upload your information in the chat box located at the bottom right of the screen. It will be uploaded by the team.
When the information are filled in, click the "Add herd" green button to save the herd. When you click this button, you will be prompted to "Click to select the pasture" the herd is currently grazing, along with the grazing start date.
Delete A Herd
From the "Herds" tab, click the herd to delete.
Click "Delete". The icon is shaped like a trash can.
A pop-up window with a warning message displaying "Confirm deletion" will show, click "Delete" again.
View Herd Information
At the top of the screen, click the "Herd" tab. Then, click the herd you want to view.A spreadsheet will appear showing Animal ID, weights, DMI, and other information.
View Herd History
From the "Herds" tab, click the herd to view history for.
Click the "View herd history" icon shaped like the letter "i."
From the herd history page you can see a graph of animal weight over time, as well as the grazing history on the right side of the page.
Find A Herd On The Map
From the "Herds" tab, click the herd you would like to locate.
Click the "Show In Map" icon. The icon is shaped like a white box with two arrows located in the corner of the thumbnail image of the pasture the herd is currently grazing.
The display will zoom to this pasture in the map view.

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Abstract: This article explores the potential of open-access videos available on the Internet as a data source to identify key areas in a rather broad topic in an international context. In order to understand the latest trends relating to a global issue, the study focuses on "global health," which is a growing interdisciplinary concept across health studies, international management and public policy research. By focusing on a video of a high-profile panel discussion in particular, the study also exemplifies main features of MAXQDA to assess the dialogues made by different speakers in the video. In doing so, the article considers key aspects related to the use of the existing videos and the nature of panel discussion, and how a combination of online videos and CAQDAS can pave the way for further research.
3.3 Discussion about a big issue: What is "global health"?
In order to explore the latest situation relating to global health, the following section examines a video entitled "TICAD V Official Side Event: High-Level Panel 'From Okinawa to Tomorrow'". The panel discussion in this video clip was organized as a side event of the "Tokyo International Conference on African Development" (TICAD V), held in Japan in June 2013, and the video was subsequently published on YouTube by JCIEGlobalStudio as an official video from the event. This video was selected for this study from approximately 60 video clips that I collected for a broader research agenda for public-private interactions on global issues. It provides an ideal setting for the analysis of a wide-ranging discussion since the panel consists of experts in global health, but of different backgrounds. Therefore, the content of the discussion is very extensive reflecting each speaker's expertise. The panel discussion involves six speakers: a moderator and five panelists. They are affiliated with different global-health organizations. Table 1 outlines the profiles of the speakers.
However, which way would suit most depends on the frequency of language switching and the length of talk in a different language. If language switching occurs only once or very few times in a video, the second option, i.e., transcribing in the original language (Japanese in the case of this video), and then providing a literal translation in English on the transcript can be useful to grasp what the speaker said at a glance, as shown in Figure 1.
As many qualitative researchers are well aware, coding in a qualitative study tends to be a long process. Sharon BONG (2002) warns that there is a pitfall that researchers might regard coding as an end, rather than a means of theory building. As Raymond LEE and Nigel FIELDING (1996) argue, the prime aim of coding is data reduction. Therefore, simply indexing or coding line by line does not necessarily achieve conceptualization (SAILLARD, 2011). In analyzing a video of a panel discussion on a complex topic in particular, it is crucial to understand what each speaker is trying to say, and grasp a key point of the argument. In this study, MAXQDA's codeline browser was operated after careful coding in order to obtain a comprehensive view of the codes assigned to the transcription. The codeline browser visualizes the structure of a document and overlaps of codes in different paragraphs. This feature is very useful throughout the analytical process of a panel discussion in terms of assessing the flow of conversation as well as each speaker's discussion points. It illustrates how the discussion was organized, how the focus of the discussion shifted, and what codes were associated with each speaker, in a sequential manner. For the transcription of the panel discussion, this was done by coding each speaker's part with a relevant name, such as "Moderator," "Speaker A," "Speaker B," and so on, in the document. Figure 2 shows the code line for the selected codes assigned to the document.
Now we will look into what the speakers talked about in relation to several issues in global health, and how often they referred to the topic/issue during the discussion; in other words, the associations between each speaker and different codes, as well as the frequency of the codes in the document. In doing so, the code relations browser is used. It is one of MAXQDA's visual tools, which indicates the frequency of the overlaps by the size of the square/circular nodes in a chart; it can also show the frequency numerically. The latter visualization is shown in Figure 3.
In Figure 3, the speakers are listed on the x-axis, while the four main codes, namely "investment," "technology," "policy issues" and "communities" and their sub-codes, are included on the y-axis. Sub-codes can be hidden/shown by clicking a plus/minus button at the top of the code. In Figure 3, only the sub-codes for "communities" are shown to demonstrate this. The value created by the code relations browser can be exported to an Excel file to obtain the total number of codes, as Table 2 shows.
As the code relations show, overall the code group "policy issues" took up the biggest proportion of codes than the other main codes. Since the code category of "policy issues" is rather broad, it is now necessary to examine each sub-code in this category in more detail through the code-subcode-segment model. This model is one of the free-mapping tools, which are called MAXMaps in MAXQDA. The model investigates instances of sub-codes within a main code. In its standard format, the model displays the main code and its sub-codes in a radial symmetry connected by simple straight lines, but the diagram can be re-arranged by adding text, changing lines and moving objects. Less important sub-codes can be hidden in a different layer, or simply deleted. In Figure 4, six sub-codes in "policy issues" are activated. Each sub-code is connected to coded segments (shown as small, shield-shaped objects). The content of a segment can be viewed by hovering over a shield, so that it is easy to grasp what was actually said by a speaker in the exact place where the code is assigned.
Grounded on the results obtained through MAXQDA, a conceptual map can be drawn using MAXQDA's code theory model. There are two ways to execute this: 1. drag codes onto the map one by one, or 2. drag a main code and its sub-codes onto the map together. In this project file, all of the main codes mentioned above are organized under the first-level code with the broad code name "key issues in global health." Thus, this parent code, together with all of the attached memos, was selected for insertion into the map window, and then they were reorganized on the map browser, as Figure 5 shows. Figure 5 still shows memos for reference purposes, but these can be hidden or deleted for clearer visual presentation.
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Canyon Lake is a neighborhood in Quail Valley. There are 198 homes for sale, ranging from $37K to $2.7M.
In February 2019 the housing market in Canyon Lake is a balanced market, which means there is a healthy balance of buyers and sellers in the market.
There are 7 schools in Canyon Lake. There are 3 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, 1 high school and 1 private & charter school. Canyon Lake has above average elementary schools.
There are 198 homes for sale in Canyon Lake, 13 of which were newly listed within the last week. Additionally, there are 7 rentals, with a range of $1.9K to $4.5K per month. Canyon Lake has low crime risk.


in my opinion...: Costa Rica Day 2: Fish! Not So Good!
Costa Rica Day 2: Fish! Not So Good!
My day started very early today with some gastro-intestinal distress and a small earthquake. Really. Dan and I came to the conclusion that it must have been the fish we had for lunch the day before at the Las Vegas resturant in Sierpe since we both had the same thing and he also was having to make frequent trips to the bathroom. So if you eat at the Las Vegas, do so with caution.
The small earthquake was very surprising this morning. I was awoken just before 5 AM by some birds screeching and about a minute after that there was a little rumbling, the bed shook slightly, all the water from the rain the night before came off the leaves and I heard coconuts start hitting the ground. "Watch out for falling coconuts" indeed.
So yesterday I had noticed that the grounds of the lodge were covered with holes surrounded with mound of dirt. They are made by land crabs nick-named "halloween crabs" because of their orange and black coloring. I have become absolutely fascinated by them.
So as soon as it is light I'm sitting on the front pouch of my cabing, camera in hand, zoom lens attached, waiting for a good sized specimen to pop out of its hole. The one I've got my eye on is about half-way out of its hole, just checking out the area, while I'm checking it out, when Da Monkeys arrive.
Having the monkeys over for breakfast is the greatest thing EVAH! They are white-faced Capuchins. They're coming for the red fruit of the palm tress on the property. When they see me and the camera they are unsure what it is and are a little shy. They keep an eye on me for a bit, then decide I'm not a threat and leave just one guard on me. Finally I'm able to get up and move around slowly without them sounding the alarm. The dogs are another matter, though.
Dan and Holly have two dogs. A German Shepard named Lassie, and a Beagle-mix named Daisy. Both of them are friendly, well-behaved girls that like to have their bellies scratched. When the monkeys spot them both dogs are still lounging around on their beds at the side of the lodge waiting to be fed. One of the monkeys saw the dogs and jumped up and down the branch a few times and screeched in alarm. Then it settled down to watch the dogs, showing its teeth. Interesting behavior.
Another monkey came over, they chatted amongst themselves for a few seconds then both turned and showed their teeth to the dogs. Like that's going to intimidated a German Shepard. About that time Lassie noticed the monkeys in the tree and charged under the limb, barking and jumping. There was several seconds of this noise and mayhem until all the animals realized they couldn't reach each other, then went their separate ways.
Marc and Illianna showed up shortly afterwards and we all had breakfast, then we saw them off back to Haiti. I rushed to the bathroom. It should be mentioned here that the lodge has no hot running water in the showers. Consequently, showers are cold! Not a good idea in the morning.
I decided to go for a walk. There was no way for me to get lost or hurt since there are paths and roads all around. As isolated as the village of Sabalo and the lodge is, there are people all around living and working small farms and ranches. So I set off down the road to Sabalo village. I wandered around the area for a couple of hours with the dogs until I had to race back to the lodge to use the bathroom again.
After lunch Holly fired up the 4-wheelers and we went in search of a jungle pool fed by a mountain waterfall she had found recently. Because of the recent unusually heavy rains the road was blocked by a fallen tree and faster than usual stream. So we parked the Quads and hiked into the forest. The dogs proved very useful in helping us find what little trail there was since they had been there before with Holly. There were signs all around us of recent flooding because of the heavy rains. Trees were down and the ground vegetation was washed flat. We could also hear the water running but couldn't see it until we, literally, almost fell into the fast stream that wound across the path.
When we reached the waterfall is was, as promised, a wonderful scene. I had only seen the like in movies before. Surrounded on 3 sides by high canyon walls, with the water plunging over a 12-15 meter cliff into a shallow pool. Once I finally fell in, the pool wasn't more than about chest deep. The water was cold! So cold it makes you gasp; I wasn't expecting that at all. The pool also wasn't very large. About 3 times the size of a good sized jacuzzi. The current from the waterfall spun you around and around. It was fun!
So after doing that for a while and trying to get Daisy to swim we headed back. I thought I was going to have to make emergency pit stops a couple of times but I was able to control myself until I reached the lodge.
I read the rest of the afternoon, on the back porch of my cabin, until dinner time. I saw a python in a tree and tried to get some pics. This is one of the best ones. Regrettably none of the python shots turned out very good. I should have tried to get closer.
Dan made it back before the rain hit and had dug around and found a remedy for our "little problem." Hopefully it will work.
The rain hit hard again a little after 5 PM and continued most of the night. After dinner I read till about 9 PM then called it a night.


Robert Redding is an Orange County based painter inspired by the evolution of land use and the spaces at the center of humanity that possess elements of fringe or the "outsider." Taking a purposefully street-level view, Redding's compositions envelope the viewer, inviting them to walk up and into them, to peak over the fence and see what is on the other side. Never are his paintings void of the presence of nature, always encircling and pushing into organized, man-made spaces.
Redding has developed his craft over several years as a textile designer working within the surf/skate industry. He now has a full-time painting practice based out of the Logan Creative arts complex in Santa Ana.


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Mercy es una sección de comuna que forma parte de la comuna haitiana de Los Cayos.

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Los datos demográficos contemplados en este gráfico de la sección de comuna de Mercy son estimaciones que se han cogido para los años 2009,2012 y 2015 de la página del Instituto Haitiano de Estadística e Informática (IHSI).

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Luke Edward Hall's collaboration with Emporio Sirenuse for this summer 2018 gave birth to this beautiful, playful, sweet set of plates. Luke's faces are his iconic theme. This time they are multiplied endlessly into a pattern. Six different colours, three stronger hues and three pastel ones, to decorate your table, walls. The perfect present for a special friend.


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Eur J Pediatr. 2014 Jul;173(7):953-8. doi: 10.1007/s00431-014-2275-9. Epub 2014 Feb 14.
Comparison of a high-flow humidified nasal cannula to nasal continuous positive airway pressure in children with acute bronchiolitis: experience in a pediatric intensive care unit.
Metge P1, Grimaldi C, Hassid S, Thomachot L, Loundou A, Martin C, Michel F.
Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, APHM, North Hospital, Aix-Marseille University, 13915, Marseille, France.
The objective of the current study is to compare the use of a nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) to a high-flow humidified nasal cannula (HFNC) in infants with acute bronchiolitis, who were admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) during two consecutive seasons. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of all infants admitted to a PICU at a tertiary care French hospital during the bronchiolitis seasons of 2010/11 and 2011/12. Infants admitted to the PICU, who required noninvasive respiratory support, were included. The first noninvasive respiratory support modality was nCPAP during the 2010/11 season, while HFNC was used during the 2011/2012 season. We compared the length of stay (LOS) in the PICU; the daily measure of PCO2 and pH; and the mean of the five higher values of heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), FiO2, and SpO2 each day, during the first 5 days. Thirty-four children met the inclusion criteria: 19 during the first period (nCPAP group) and 15 during the second period (HFNC group). Parameters such as LOS in PICU and oxygenation were similar in the two groups. Oxygen weaning occurred during the same time for the two groups. There were no differences between the two groups for RR, HR, FiO2, and CO2 evolution. HFNC therapy failed in three patients, two of whom required invasive mechanical ventilation, versus one in the nCPAP group.
We did not find a difference between HFNC and nCPAP in the management of severe bronchiolitis in our PICU. Larger prospective studies are required to confirm these findings.
Acute Disease
Blood Gas Analysis
Bronchiolitis/therapy*
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Don't demonise beggars. It won't solve the problem of homelessness
People do not choose to end up on the streets. Only by treating them as human beings can we help to prevent it
A homeless man in central London. Police are increasingly targeting 'professional beggars'. Photograph: Jill Mead/The Guardian
Tue 4 Sep 2018 08.06 EDT
Last modified on Tue 4 Sep 2018 12.51 EDT
Homelessness has increased 170% since 2010 and more people are on the streets. And we are using a 200-year-old law to lock up homeless addicts for begging, in some cases sending them to already overcrowded prisons.
Vigilante groups are even naming and shaming rough sleepers they believe to be "professional beggars".
The police reaction? Arrest, caution, lock them up. Lock people up and fine people with no money. What do the police think they are going to do when they come back on to the streets? Yet the level of debate rarely rises above "should we give to beggars or not?"
There is an industry worth hundreds of millions of pounds, made up of charities and public bodies that is very keen for you to give money to them and not the people in need. It's a thriving sector employing some very well-paid people, and it has an agenda – using its ingenuity and creativity to sustain itself. Meanwhile, there's a guy on the street who has no home who you just walked past.
How to help homeless people – without feeding a habit
Researching a BBC Radio 4 documentary, The Truth About Britain's Beggars, recently, I met people begging in Brighton who were using legally acceptable phrasing on their signs: they can't directly ask for money, or even use a hat, as this is defined as aggressive begging and they can be arrested.
Everywhere I went people spoke about the so-called professional beggars who drove BMWs. Most hadn't actually seen them and had no evidence of their existence.
I met a guy in Brighton who makes about a fiver a day – the most he has ever made is £30. He doesn't see anyone making a comfortable living from begging. Even Brighton police told me that their response doesn't feel right.
In Cambridge, a police sergeant told me he felt his role was to make life as uncomfortable as possible for beggars. Luke, a homeless man I met there, a former chef, is now an addict with mental health issues. He's been arrested 17 times and jailed twice (not for begging but for breaching orders banning him from begging).
Why are we so uncomfortable when destitute people hold their hand out? Because their need is ugly
The sergeant had little sympathy. Someone who I saw as really ill was, in his eyes, "an adult capable of making his own decisions". In other words, Luke had a choice and had chosen this existence, and the police felt they had every right to arrest him every time he came back on to the streets because society was uncomfortable and wanted him to find a solution.
I told the Cambridge sergeant I thought this cycle of begging and prison wasn't working.
I was told that people on the streets are going to spend their money on drugs. Luke said: "I try not to spend it on drugs." He tries. Who reading this wouldn't want something to warm the cold out of their bones, or the damp from the pavement? I challenge anybody to spend a week in Luke's shoes and not feel the urge to find some pain relief. I certainly needed drugs when I was homeless and sleeping rough more than a decade ago. I'd beg and steal to get my fix.
There's a lack of our own sense of morality when we judge a group of people who are largely mentally ill in this way. We seek to dictate what those who are on the street can spend their money on.
SureStart schemes close and funding dries up for community projects, leaving vulnerable people even worse off. These cuts are a war being waged against incredibly vulnerable people.Why are we so uncomfortable when destitute people hold their hand out? Because their need is ugly. So we dehumanise them. If we ignore the person and just give money to charity, assuming the money will help them, we are avoiding the issue – the same happens if we arrest them.
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Sometimes, rather than engaging, we look away, hoping someone else will deal with it. In Torquay, I met a business owner who, with the support of the head of the local chambers of commerce, is running a campaign naming and shaming people, claiming they are professional beggars – one homeless man, a heroin addict who sleeps in a doorway, had been "outed". Later, he was attacked with a hammer – he felt this was a result of the campaign.
Those mythical beasts in their BMWs are driving policy and the reactionary politics of our citizens. More people are begging and our fear drives us to perpetuate stereotypes and spread rumours. It can lead to violence. It definitely leads to an unhelpful police response and a huge waste of public money. Money that could have been spent on a solution instead.
We should all get involved – and accept homeless people and people begging. We mustn't demonise or criminalise them. We don't have room in our prisons, for a start. We have to press for change, for services that support them so they don't have to beg in the first place.
The Truth About Britain's Beggars, presented by Mark Johnson, founder of User Voice, is on BBC iPlayer Radio


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 * Author:      Christian Weber (ChristianWeber802@gmx.net)      *
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#include <errno.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <syslog.h>
#include <time.h>

#include "com.h"
#include "NotificaThor.h"
#include "logging.h"

static FILE *flog   = NULL;
static int  logmask = LOG_MASK(LOG_CRIT) | LOG_MASK(LOG_ERR) | LOG_MASK(LOG_INFO);

/*
 * Print log message.
 * Parameters: level  - Level of logging (see syslog).
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void
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{
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		if( flog == NULL )            // syslog
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		else {
			time_t t            = time( NULL);
			char   *date_string = ctime( &t);

			date_string[24] = '\0';

			fprintf( flog, "%s - ", date_string);
			vfprintf( flog, format, arg_list);
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	if( method & LOGGER_DEBUG )
		logmask |= LOG_MASK(LOG_DEBUG);

	if( method & LOGGER_STDERR )
		flog = stderr;
	else if( logfile != NULL ) {
		if( (flog = fopen( logfile, "a")) == NULL ) {
			openlog( "NotificaThor", LOG_PID, LOG_USER);
			thor_ferrlog( LOG_ERR, "Opening logfile %s", logfile);
		}
	}
	else
		openlog( "NotificaThor", LOG_PID, LOG_USER);

	return;
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void
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	if( flog == NULL )
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	else
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	return;
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An Early Sighting of the In-House Counsel I
[Every year, I assign to my legal history students an article that appeared in a long-defunct business magazine from the first decade of the twentieth century, Arthur Sears Henning, "What a Legal Department Does," American Business Man 1 (October 1907): 185-88. It should be read with some skepticism, as the author is, in effect, selling a product here, and his biggest selling point for business executives is the prospect of acquiring needed professional expertise without the inconvenience of professional autonomy. Still, I know of no other reportage of the emergence of in-house counsel comparable to that on the contemporaneous rise of the corporate law firm. While your Legal History Bloggers take an end-of-the-year break, I'll serialize the article today and the next two days.]
"Referred to the legal department."
So runs the cryptic legend that spells the way of modern business. It threads the maze of operations between department and department of the great corporation, it broods over the relations between competitors, between employer and employee, between seller and buyer, between the governing people and the company governed. It is the meat in the courteous letter of reply you receive in relation to your complaint; it is the burden of the newspaper interview in which the magnate comments on a policy that has been called in question.
It becomes at once the apotheosis of modern business caution, of modern business sagacity and economy and foresightedness.
The general manager of the great industrial or commercial concern inscribes the notation on the documentary exhibits of a big transaction, dictates a letter explaining the situation with which he is confronted and dispatches the whole matter to the department of law experts. In due course of time the documents return to the desk of the general manager with one more paper attached—an opinion defining the rights of all the parties concerned, laying down the law and advising the policy that may with good judgment be pursued.
In the complex state of twentieth-century commercial operations no transaction is too insignificant to receive, at some stage of its history, the attention of the law department; no new step too sure and confident to be taken without the support and guidance of the preceptors of legal rights and usage.
The statistics compiled by the Chicago Bar Association show that about 1,000 attorneys in this city alone are attached to the law department of big mercantile and manufacturing concerns. More than one hundred business houses have fully organized legal bureaus that handle all litigation and legal negotiations from colossal contracts down to garnishment proceedings.
A law department is as necessary to a properly organized business to-day as is its credit department or its army of foreign buyers. The volume of business that passes through its hands is proportioned to the volume of business of the house. Transactions valued at millions of dollars in the year's aggregate stand or fall on the decisions that are called forth by: "Referred to the legal department."
The rise and development of the legal department as a recognized entity in the conduct of a concern is a chapter in the history of the systematic specialization of up-to-date business. Time was when it sufficed a merchant or a manufacturer to consult a general practitioner of the law for the cure of his legal troubles—a general practitioner who, at the same time, served many merchants and manufacturers and other individuals.
But the times have changed. Now, instead of the lawyer who serves the many clients, it is the one client served by the many lawyers. And, by the same token, are the lawyers no longer the general practitioners of old, but highly specialized experts, each in one particular field relating to the needs of the concern by which he is employed. Likewise are legal fees passing out of the dealings of the commercial world. Nowadays a lawyer is on the pay-roll of a company at the regular salary, working for his raise and promotion like each of the other employees.
Dan Ernst at 3:30 AM


I really like the Muppets. Like REALLY like them.
Back in 2010 my cousin was working at Epcot in Orlando. So we went to Disney to celebrate Christmas with her. It was the coldest week I've ever spent in Florida, but that didn't matter - my new favourite attraction was inside.
Muppet*Vision 3D...I think we must have seen that show five times on Christmas alone, my cousin and I at Hollywood Studios. She humoured me, and then humoured me some more. I just saw new things each time and I couldn't get over its awesomeness.
So you'll understand why I am SO excited the release date for Muppets Most Wanted is almost here! I can't wait to see Kermit and Gonzo and Fozzy. I'm also pretty stoked to see Ricky Gervais and Tina Fey too.
Would you like to see Muppets Most Wanted before it hits theatres?
A special screening is taking place this Wednesday, March 19th. Enter using the Rafflecopter below!
Please note this screening takes place at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Toronto. Four tickets available to one winner. Transportation to the venue and refreshments are not included. Winner will be chosen Monday morning and will have to respond to email by 3 p.m. - if you enter, please check your email Monday morning!
I loved the Muppet's growing up and have the DVD's I watch with my son, I would love to take him to see this in the theaters.
I've loved the Muppets since I was a kid and would love to take my family.


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How Business Leaders Can Help Their Teams With Mental Wellness: An Interview With Jessica Abo
Making The Best Of The Messy World Of Marketing Campaign Measurement
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My Q&A About Ad Fraud With A Skeptical CMO
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How To Manage A Crisis With No End In Sight
The Virus, Privacy And Google Are Making Digital Marketing Better
How B Corp Classy Has Helped Nonprofits Raise $ 1 Billion For Good Causes In 2020
Consumer Psychology Lessons From Carnival
Snacklins: A Fun Lesson In Rebranding During Good Times (Just Ask Mark Cuban Or Rachael Ray...)
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Salesforce Chief Marketing Officer Stephanie Buscemi Departs
Marty SwantForbes Staff
I'm a staff writer and editor covering marketing, advertising and technology.
Stephanie Buscemi, chief marketing officer of SalesForce, speaks during the opening keynote at the ... [+] 2019 DreamForce conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., in November 2019.
Salesforce Chief Marketing Officer Stephanie Buscemi is leaving the company.
According to a Salesforce spokesperson, Buscemi will be replaced by Sarah Franklin, who most recently was Salesforce's GM of Platform. Franklin—who leads the company's developer initiatives—brings a "combination of technical expertise and creativity to the CMO role." According to Salesforce's website, Franklin has also focused on making careers in science and technology more accessible to women and minorities and in 2014 launched Trailhead, a learning platform that now has more than 2.5 million users.
"Change is constant, and our biggest leaps of growth are with change," Buscemi wrote in a tweet this afternoon. "After 6.5+ years, I've decided to leave @Salesforce for the next phase of my journey."
After joining Salesforce in 2014 as SVP of marketing for the company's Analytics Cloud, Buscemi held a number of other roles including COO of Analytics Cloud and EVP of product and solutions marketing before becoming EVP and CMO in 2018. As CMO, Buscemi led the company's team of 1,700 marketers and was named by Forbes as one of the World's Most Influential CMOs in 2020.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, Buscemi helped transform Salesforce's large events strategy from being focused on in-person events to virtual versions. And in May, she helped unveil Work.com, which features a variety of technology solutions—including those to help with contact tracing and employee management—for companies navigating the changing world.
In an interview about how the company is adapting amid the Covid-19 crisis, Buscemi said the virtual events allowed Salesforce to reach tens of thousands more people than they would have with an in-person event.
"I think it would be tone deaf right now to have marketing be business as usual," she said in May. "It's not business as usual. So talking to customers about Work.com enables us as marketers to be more relevant."
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'Pitch Perfect' Lives! There's Now a 'Cups' Tap Dance
Amanda Bell 10/17/2013
Remember when Anna Kendrick whipped out her multitasking wizardry in "Pitch Perfect" and then everyone went "Ooh! Ahh! Maybe I can do that, too!" Then, those who just couldn't were instead left to hear the song play out on the radio every hour on the hour as a constant reminder that their hand-eye coordination was just not good enough for "Cups"?
Well, here's a festive alternative: Tap it out, G!
So basically, some big-time Broadway dancers recently got together and choreographed a "Cups" tap dance number that syncs up with the instrumental portions of the song to bring an all-new level of awesome to the tune.
Of course, these moves are probably no easier to replicate than all that cup bouncing, stacking and switching, but at least it's got the prettiest of views!
And please don't blame Anna Kendrick if this becomes your kiddo's newest never-ending obsession, k? It's totally a better use of their time and energy than figuring out the next brill Snapchat pic or Instavideoing a kitten or whatever young people are doing these days. 'Cause apparently that's been an issue for her.
Dear parents that I meet, I know that sigh, and before you even say it, I'm very very sorry that your child won't stop doing Cups.
— Anna Kendrick (@AnnaKendrick47) August 20, 2013
Meanwhile, do stay tuned for more from the aca-awesome Bellas themselves as "Pitch Perfect 2" has been given the green light by Universal Pictures and is expected to land in theaters sometime in 2015. No plot details on the sequel are out just yet, but you can bet it'll be a musical ride!


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Tom Brady showed his frustration and it's again time to wonder if the Patriots' reign is ending
Tom Brady and the New England Patriots lost to the Houston Texans on Sunday night. (Tim Warner/Getty Images)
Mark Maske
Sports reporter covering the NFL
December 1, 2019 at 11:54 PM EST
The road to the Super Bowl in the AFC no longer goes through Foxborough, Mass. Not at this point, at least.
The New England Patriots lost their grip on the top seed in the AFC playoffs Sunday night in Houston. Their offensive struggles continued, and quarterback Tom Brady's frustration was on vivid display. Their usually mighty defense also had its issues and the Patriots lost to the Texans, 28-22.
"I think we're all trying to do a good job out there," Brady said at his postgame news conference. "I give them credit. They played well. We didn't make enough plays. This wasn't a great game."
Indeed it wasn't. The defeat dropped the Patriots to 10-2. The Baltimore Ravens have the No. 1 seed for now. They improved to 10-2 with their narrow triumph at home over the San Francisco 49ers earlier Sunday, and they hold the tie-breaker advantage after beating the Patriots in Baltimore last month. The Patriots' lead over the second-place Buffalo Bills in the AFC East was trimmed to a single game.
What to know from NFL Week 13: The Ravens are closers, the Patriots are lacking, and the Browns are cooked
Brady had three touchdown passes, two of them to running back James White, and threw an interception in a 24-for-47, 326-yard passing performance. The Patriots made a late push. They scored two touchdowns in the game's final four minutes and nearly recovered an onside kick in the final minute after Brady's touchdown pass to wide receiver Julian Edelman. But it was too little, too late.
"We'll see if we can get to a good place and put ourselves in a good position," Brady said. "We've got a tough one this week [at home Sunday against the Kansas City Chiefs]. It's a long flight home. We'll try to get ready and get back at it."
Brady's exasperation with the offensive inconsistencies showed during the first half when the NBC cameras caught him yelling and gesturing as he left the field, then tossing his helmet into the air in disgust as he reached the sideline. While on the sideline, Brady could be seen telling Edelman and fellow wideout Phillip Dorsett: "Listen up. We've got to be faster, quicker, more explosive."
The Patriots' pass protection isn't the biggest issue now, with left tackle Isaiah Wynn back in the lineup. This is on Brady and his receivers.
"He is holding the ball longer, I think, than he has at any point this season," analyst Cris Collinsworth said on the NBC telecast during the second half. "And yet they're not getting the separation."
As NFL's Black Monday approaches, these eight coaches are on the hot seat
After a dropped pass by tight end Matt LaCosse, Collinsworth said: "The routine plays aren't routine any more."
Brady, at 42, too often has looked his age this season. There are no reinforcements on the way. Tight end Rob Gronkowski has remained in retirement and no longer is eligible to play this season. The Patriots do not appear inclined to re-sign wide receiver Antonio Brown, who remains under investigation by the NFL and could be placed on paid leave even if he is signed by a team.
It could be time, yet again, to wonder if the Patriots are done, if they will fall shy of a seventh Super Bowl title with Brady and Coach Bill Belichick. Will Brady, whose contract voids after this season, do the practically unthinkable and consider playing elsewhere next season, assuming that he continues playing? Is this finally it for the Patriots' reign?
It always has been clear that whenever it finally crumbles for the Patriots, it probably won't be pretty. Brady has said that he wants to keep playing into his mid-40s. Belichick is known for getting rid of players a year too early rather than a year too late. Over the years, he has unceremoniously parted with some of his greatest players and his best team leaders. Will it be any different with his greatest player of all?
But, then again, counting out Belichick, Brady and the Patriots has been a futile exercise for two decades. Does anyone really want to count them out now and risk being wrong again? It's not like this is a 6-6 team. It's a 10-2 team. Yes, it would be a formidable task to have to go on the road and beat quarterback Lamar Jackson and the Ravens in the AFC title game. The Ravens are on an eight-game winning streak and own victories over the Seattle Seahawks, Patriots, Texans and 49ers. Jackson could be the league's MVP.
But would the task be any more daunting than last season's, when Brady and the Patriots went to Kansas City in January for the AFC championship game and beat quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the NFL's MVP, and the Chiefs en route to a Super Bowl triumph over the Los Angeles Rams? Just when you think it's impossible for the Patriots to go to another Super Bowl or win another Lombardi Trophy, that's when it will happen.
Steelers criticize Browns Coach Freddie Kitchens for 'Pittsburgh started it' shirt
On Sunday night, however, the Patriots mostly were overmatched to end a week in which they had a long list of ill players, to the point that they utilized two team planes to travel to Houston to separate the sick players from those who were well.
"I think guys just battled hard," Brady said. "I think you deal with a lot of adversity over the course of the season. I don't think that had any effect on the game. Trying to figure out how to do a better job for 60 minutes is what's most important. I'm proud of the guys the way they fought through the week. We played against a good team on the road. And when you don't play good, you don't win. So we didn't deserve it."
Texans Coach Bill O'Brien, a former Patriots assistant, beat Belichick for the first time in six tries.
"It's huge," Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson told NBC after the game. "It's a big one, especially for this organization, this franchise, the city, for us this year. I mean, we can play with the top team in the NFL. ...That's the GOAT. Especially for me, before he hangs it up, I had to at least get one. The first two, I was 0-2. He got me. I had to get this one."
Watson threw three touchdown passes for the Texans, who improved their record to 8-4. He also scored a touchdown after taking a trick-play option pitch from wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins. It officially was ruled a touchdown catch for Watson since Hopkins's pitchout went forward.
Watson and the Texans made the Patriots appear vulnerable. But with the Patriots, appearing vulnerable during the regular season does not always translate to being beatable when the games that matter the most arrive.
"We're battling," Brady said. "We're trying as hard as we can. Hopefully we can make enough plays…. It all remains to be seen. You can make a bunch of predictions and so forth. But that's not what it's about. It's about going out there and doing it. A lot of guys made some plays tonight. We'll try to build on it and see if we can do better next week."
Kirk Cousins went from bust to bargain this season
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The Redskins are finally showing signs of promise. That's even more reason to let Bruce Allen go.
Dolphins pull off wackiest NFL trick play of the year, a punter-to-kicker touchdown
A 17-game NFL season is too timid. Here's how the league can really go for it.
Live updates and highlights can be found below.
Another Brady-to-White TD
Tom Brady threw his second touchdown pass of the night to running back James White, an 11-yarder this time. The Patriots failed on a two-point conversion try. (Texans 28, Patriots 15 with 3:42 left in the 4th quarter)
.@TomBrady finds @SweetFeet_White for their second score. pic.twitter.com/ZW6nsr2kf6
— New England Patriots (@Patriots) December 2, 2019
Watson scores trick-play TD
The Texans added to their lead with a trick-play touchdown that ended with quarterback Deshaun Watson diving to the corner of the end zone after taking a forward pitch from wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins on what amounted to an option play. Technically, it was a six-yard pass from Hopkins to Watson, since Hopkins's pitchout went forward. The play began as a reverse, with Hopkins carrying the football and Watson trailing him. Hopkins made the pitch. Watson grabbed the football and sprinted toward the end zone, then dove and extended the ball over the goal line. (Texans 28, Patriots 9 with 9:53 left in the 4th quarter)
THE TRICKERY!@deshaunwatson | #NEvsHOU pic.twitter.com/POBDFCMZXu
— Houston Texans (@HoustonTexans) December 2, 2019
Pats get a TD
The Patriots finally have a touchdown, courtesy of a 12-yard pass from Tom Brady to running back James White. The touchdown came on a third-and-10 play. Earlier on the drive, the Patriots converted after two penalties created a first-and-30 predicament. New kicker Kai Forbath missed an extra-long extra point after the Patriots initially lined up for a two-point conversion and took a five-yard delay-of-game penalty. (Texans 21, Patriots 9 with 11 seconds left in the 3rd quarter)
Texans pouring it on
The Texans are pouring it on against the Patriots. Deshaun Watson's third touchdown pass of the night came on a 35-yard strike to wide receiver Kenny Stills. That came on the very next play after an apparent 35-yard touchdown catch by Will Fuller was overturned by an instant replay review, which negated the catch and ruled the play an incompletion because Fuller lost control of the football at end of the play. (Texans 21, Patriots 3 with 5:41 left in the 3rd quarter)
*Forrest Gump voice*
We love you, KENNY!@KSTiLLS | #NEvsHOU pic.twitter.com/69c1v4dQ40
Pats fail on fourth down
The Patriots failed on a fourth-and-one try from the Houston 42-yard line when Tom Brady threw incomplete to wide receiver Mohamed Sanu. NBC officiating analyst Terry McAulay said on the broadcast that he felt defensive pass interference should have been called on the play. Sanu also failed to get the ball past the first-down marker on his third-down catch. (Texans 14, Patriots 3 with 7:08 left in the 3rd quarter)
Offensive woes continue for Patriots
The struggles of the New England offense continued on the opening possession of the second half. The Patriots punted after Tom Brady was sacked on third down by blitzing Texans cornerback Bradley Roby. Earlier, Roby would have had his second interception of Brady of the night but it was nullified by a defensive holding penalty on Roby. (Texans 14, Patriots 3 with 12:31 left in the 3rd quarter)
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Halftime in Houston
The Patriots are in jeopardy of losing their grip on the No. 1 seed in the AFC playoffs with four games left in the regular season. They trail the Texans, 14-3, at halftime in Houston. A loss would drop the Patriots' record to 10-2. The Baltimore Ravens upped their record to 10-2 earlier in the day with their victory at home over the San Francisco 49ers, and hold the tiebreaker advantage by virtue of their victory over the Patriots last month. It has been a struggle, again, for the New England offense. Tom Brady has thrown for only 82 yards on seven-for-19 passing in the first half. He showed his frustration and could be seen telling wide receivers Julian Edelman and Phillip Dorsett on the sideline during the first half: "Listen up. We've got to be faster, quicker, more explosive." Brady threw an interception that set up a Houston touchdown. The Texans also crafted an 88-yard touchdown drive against the mighty New England defense. Deshaun Watson had two first-half touchdown passes for the Texans. (Texans 14, Patriots 3 at halftime)
Texans extend lead
Even the sturdy New England defense is failing the Patriots now. The Texans extended their lead with a 13-play, 88-yard drive, culminating with a 13-yard touchdown pass from Deshaun Watson to tight end Darren Fells. (Texans 14, Patriots 3 with 6:21 left in the 2nd quarter)
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Brady showing frustration
It has been a season-long struggle for the New England offense and Tom Brady is showing his frustration tonight. The NBC cameras caught him gesturing and yelling as he left the field and tossing his helmet into the air on the Patriots' sideline. He also had a sideline conversation with his receivers, apparently about the need to get more separation from the Houston defenders. The Patriot just punted to end a possession on which Brady had a 13-yard scramble for a first down. It was not exactly Lamar Jackson-like. (Texans 7, Patriots 3 with 13:13 left in the 2nd quarter)
Texans convert pick of Brady into TD
The Texans converted an interception of Tom Brady into a 14-yard touchdown pass from Deshaun Watson to running back Duke Johnson. Cornerback Bradley Roby provided the interception by cutting in front of rookie wide receiver N'Keal Harry on a short pass. Roby returned the interception to the New England 6-yard line but was given a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for removing his helmet while still on the field. No matter. The Texans still cashed in and have the lead. (Texans 7, Patriots 3 with 38 seconds left in the 1st quarter)
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Pats settle for opening-drive FG
The Patriots are on the board with a 23-yard field goal by their new kicker, Kai Forbath. It was a good opening possession for the New England offense, aided by a personal foul on the Texans' Barkevious Mingo. But the drive stalled at the Houston 5-yard line as Tom Brady threw a third-down incompletion into the end zone. All of that came after the Patriots forced a punt by the Texans on the game's opening possession. (Patriots 3, Texans 0 with 7:04 left in the 1st quarter)
Patriots look for 11th win of season
It has been a sickly week for the Patriots, who have a lengthy list of sick players entering their game Sunday night at Houston.
Offensive tackles Isaiah Wynn and Marcus Cannon, cornerback Stephon Gilmore, linebackers Jamie Collins and Dont'a Hightower and safety Patrick Chung were among the Patriots players listed as questionable on the team's injury report due to illness. The Patriots reportedly took two team planes to Houston to keep sick players separated while traveling from those who are well.
The Patriots are attempting to improve their record to 11-1 as they seek the top seed in the AFC playoffs in their pursuit of what would be a seventh Super Bowl title with Coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. The defense continues to lead the way, and the inconsistencies of the offense remain the issue. The Patriots scored 10 points off a blocked punt and an interception by Gilmore in last Sunday's 13-9 triumph over the Dallas Cowboys in rain-soaked Foxborough, Mass.
Reinforcements are not on the way. Tight end Rob Gronkowski remains in retirement and now is not eligible to play this season. The Patriots do not appear interested in re-signing wide receiver Antonio Brown. Brady will have to find a way to make things work with his current supporting cast. He had to rely on rookie wide receivers N'Keal Harry and Jakobi Meyers against the Cowboys, with veteran wideouts Mohamed Sanu and Phillip Dorsett on the inactive list for that game. Sanu, Dorsett and Julian Edelman are listed as questionable for this game.
The Texans lead the AFC South, with a record of 7-4, and have not played since a Nov. 21 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in a Thursday night game. Deshaun Watson seemingly has fallen behind fellow quarterbacks Lamar Jackson of Baltimore and Russell Wilson of Seattle in the league MVP race, but continues to have a standout season with 20 touchdown passes, seven interceptions and a passer rating of 103.4.
Houston's star wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins will try to get open against Gilmore, if Gilmore is not too sick and indeed plays, after Gilmore held the Cowboys' Amari Cooper without a catch last Sunday.
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Abstract: Web-based laboratories are systems that enable students to conduct actual laboratory experiments anywhere at anytime via the Internet. The emergence of the web-based laboratories is an innovative advancement in engineering education and indicates the trend of distant learning. In this paper, we aim to exploit the philosophy and development of designing an efficient, secure and convenient web-based laboratory for a two-degrees-of-freedom (2DOF) helicopter. In particular, we will discuss issues related to the hardware and software structures, network communications, audio and video feedback as well as camera control systems of the web-based laboratory. We will also present the design and implementation of a series of linear and nonlinear controllers for the 2DOF helicopter through the web-based laboratory. The physical structure of the 2DOF helicopter makes it an ideal platform for implementing and evaluating control strategies such as proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control, fuzzy control and state space feedback control. The system is appropriate for all levels of university education and research. The web-based laboratory is currently being utilized in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. The system is particularly beneficial to part-time students, who are unable to access to the laboratory facilities during normal operating hours. Feedback and comments from the students are very positive. © 2005 TEMPUS Publications.


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by Will Smith June 10, 2020 Entertainment
To mark the 50th anniversary of hosting the Summertime Olympics, the Olympic Park Munich will be placing on a huge sporting celebration from 11 to 21 August 2022 as it welcomes the European Championships – the most significant event to get place at the Olympic Park considering that the 1972 Summer season Olympics. In excess of the yrs the Olympic Park has witnessed many sporting highlights, including the 1974 FIFA Football Entire world Cup, the 1988 UEFA Soccer European Championships and the 2002 European Athletics Entire world Championships as properly as 30 more globe championships, a dozen European championships and the 2013 X Online games. The Olympic Park Munich has also performed host to concert events by some of the most legendary names in songs, from the Rolling Stones and AC/DC to Pink, Coldplay, Ed Sheeran and Rihanna.
All in all a lot more than 14,000 situations have been held at the Olympic Park Munich since it opened in 1972, but none have been as significant as the European Championships. "We are delighted to have been chosen to host this multi-activity function bringing with each other athletes from throughout Europe. Our group has labored really tricky to reach this, from the bidding method to the negotiations and the funding. I would like to just take this chance to thank the German countrywide government, the regional government of Bavaria and Munich town council. We are looking ahead to a superb anniversary calendar year," comments Marion Schöne, CEO of the Olympic Park Munich.
The architects of Munich Olympic Park were visionaries – building a multi-functional park in the heart of Munich that has hosted a lot more than 14,000 occasions. Having said that, due to the fact the summertime of 1972, none of those people occasions will assess to August 2022, when much more than 4,000 athletes from throughout Europe will descend on the Bavarian capital to compete for far more than 150 medals in 10 disciplines. So considerably six athletics have been verified: ATHLETICS, Biking, Golf, GYMNASTICS, ROWING and TRIATHLON.
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The sustainability of the European Championships 2022 is also certain. Applying pre-current infrastructure, the impression of the Championships on the surroundings will be minimalised. This eco-friendly ethos is further improved thanks to the shut proximity of the venues and great public transportation links concerning the Munich Olympic Park and downtown Munich.
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Yoga and Pilates Benefits – What are they?
This question is often asked by those who are thinking of studying Yoga or Pilates for the first time, or those who are just curious, as to what these two forms of exercise are. So just what are the Yoga and Pilates benefits, when you make a decision which discipline that you would like to follow.
There is however, nothing to stop you following both, working them alongside each other, or doing some exercises from one, then the other to suit your preferences.
Some people, will do mainly Yoga, with one or two Pilates sessions added in once or twice a week, others will reverse the process.
It really depends on what you want to get out of the two disciplines.
What are the differences between Yoga and Pilates?
Yoga is an ancient form of exercise that focuses on strength, flexibility and breathing to boost physical and mental wellbeing. The practice originated in India about 5,000 years ago, and has been adapted in other countries in a variety of ways.
Both disciplines can use a mat. Whilst it is usual to use one for Pilates, a mat when doing Yoga exercises is more comfortable than just using the floor.
If, however you require your body to be strengthened and toned, then Pilates would be your choice. However, whilst both Yoga and Pilates can help you in building more strength, Yoga does not place as much emphasis on building strength and toning as Pilates does.
If, however you wish to do exercises to help you relax, then Yoga would seem more preferable than Pilates.
The main components of yoga are postures (a series of movements designed to increase strength and flexibility) and breathing.
Hatha Yoga – a basic form of Yoga, the classes are slow moving, requiring you to hold your breath for just a few breaths.
Vinyasa Yoga – this would suit those that like artistic movement, as this flows linking both breath and movement, in a way that reminds you of dance movements.
Other forms of Yoga include, Hot Yoga, Yin Yoga, Lyengar Yoga, Bikram Yoga and Kundalini Yoga to name but a few.
For the beginner there are a number of gentle exercises which you can start with, that are slow as well gentle.
Whilst some Yoga exercises can be done on a mat, Pilates exercises are always done on a mat. If, however you are undecided about Pilates and wish to try out some of the exercises first, you could always use a rug.
If, however you find that you are comfortable with the exercises you can then buy a mat. A ball is also used in some of the routines.
However, Pilates can be done with no equipment whatsoever. It just depends on how deep you wish to go, just a few core exercises getting a flatter tummy, or the whole hog to impress your partner.
Both Yoga and Pilates Benefits, do have some similarities with regard to improving your health.
Are there any health benefits to Pilates? Those who practise regular Pilates exercise believe that it can improve posture, muscle tone, balance and joint mobility.
Classed as a muscle strengthening activity, this can help you to maintain a healthy weight.
For those who wish to lose weight using Pilates, these exercises should be combined with a healthy diet and activities such as walking and swimming.
Pilates can improve your general fitness and well-being, it is also believed to relieve stress and tension.
Yoga helps you to relax in a recognised way by improving your physical and mental health.
Research has shown that not only do regular sessions of Yoga help stimulate your immune system, it can also help with conditions such as…..
And a number of other related illnesses.
Pilates has something to offer people of all ages, levels of ability and fitness. It does not matter whether you are a beginner or an elite athlete.
Age, level of fitness and ability are no barrier to Pilates.
Yoga is a more gentle form of exercise, which apart from a mat does not require any other form of equipment. But some teachers do use a varied array of extra kit.
Some forms of Yoga are more physical demanding and power related these can get you very hot and sweaty.
Yoga is now commonplace in leisure centres, health clubs, schools, hospitals and surgeries.
With all forms of exercise if you do have any doubts about your health then do seek medical advice first.
Both Yoga and Pilates benefits, will help you to achieve, a healthier you, enabling you to feel more relaxed and generally enjoying that feel good factor.
Practising both will enable you to get the right balance of benefits.
Whichever you choice, or both if you like, enjoy the experience and well-being, that either or both will bring.
Before you begin any form of exercise it is advisable to do some form of warm up exercises first.
PLEASE, DO SEEK PROFESSIONAL ADVICE FIRST.
Which ever activity you choose, enjoy it, be healthy and happy.
Speak to any person who practices Yoga or Pilates, they will all claim that the regime which they are a devotee of, offers a number of outstanding physical benefits, these include Yoga Pilates Weight Loss.
To lose weight you normally need to create a deficiency in your calorie intake, this means burning off more calories than you consume.
It is surprising that Yoga Pilate Weight Loss does not involve the burning of numerous calories. But the gentle exercises that are involved on both Yoga and Pilates, help to achieve weight loss in different ways.
The programs which you undertake when studying either Yoga or Pilates, or indeed both, as some do, can assist you in losing weight as you learn to appreciate the functioning of the body, also to understand it better.
Created by Joseph Pilates in the 1920's, the exercises use a mat, and can include the use of balls, resistance bands and rings. It is actually a program designed to tone the body, this in turn improves core strength, flexibility, co-ordination and muscle control.
In addition it also believed to promote better respiration, and a stronger back whilst increasing the circulation.
which uses poses or postures combined with controlled breathing and a spiritual mind set. The regular use of these postures helps keep the body, strong, loose and flexible.
The spiritual side of Yoga, which has its origins in Eastern philosophy, is intended to help the practitioner or student to be more mentally aware and balanced.
As a fitness regime Yoga continues to grow in popularity, with its combination in one practice, of emotions, presence of mind, and movement all connected by controlled breathing, many of these exercises can be carried out in small doses. Such as when you sit at your desk whilst taking a break from your computer.
There are a number of variations in the exercises or postures which are used in Yoga, differing forms also appear, you can do gentle, soothing practices which soothe both mind and body. You can also carry out power postures if you wish.
It is highly unlikely that you will lose weight by the torching of calories in either Pilates or Yoga. Yoga power burns for example will cause you to lose only three hundred to four hundred calories in an hour.
However as was stated earlier both Yoga and Pilates give you a new understanding of your body. It has been suggested in research that by doing Yoga exercises on a regular basis, you become more aware of what you eat. It is also believed that Yoga helps you to understand what your body is telling you, thus reducing the likelihood of overeating when you are stressed.
There have been no studies carried out which support losing weight by doing a series of Pilates exercises. However as Pilates is designed to build muscle, this in turn could help to burn off more calories. Becoming aware of your improved physique, could encourage you to not only eat less, but to be careful about what you do eat.
Do not be fooled into thinking that you will lose weight by just doing Yoga or Pilates exercises, you will need to have a calorie reduced diet, and also take part in other activities such as swimming and walking.
Whilst certain styles of Yoga can provide you with a higher calorie burn off. These are not best suited to the beginner. Those new to Yoga, should begin with the learner or beginner classes, slowly working up to the more advanced classes.
As was said earlier, whilst Pilates can help you build muscle, please ignore the promises of those who promise that by doing Pilates you will experience a significant loss of weight.
Whilst it is a good idea to include in your general exercise and weight loss strategy, either Yoga or Pilates or both. It is also an idea to keep your focus on healthy foods, with sensibly sized portions.
You can alternate your Yoga/Pilates exercises with other forms of exercise, such as a visit to the gym or swimming pool.
Yes you can lose weight with Yoga and Pilates, but you must be aware that they are not just a one stop solution.
It is hoped that it is understood that the title to this post is somewhat general. Anyone who has suffered, or is indeed suffering, will understand that any article to reduce back pain with Yoga and Pilates, is bound to touch on stopping it and preventing it.
It is not surprising that some eight out of ten adults suffer from some form of back pain. In the majority of cases this is caused by poor posture, and the stress which is placed on our bodies every day.
Usually originating from the joints, muscles and vertebrae of the back, it is the result of aching, stiffness, tension or pain in these areas.
It is a known fact that Doctors and specialists recommend regular exercise and stretching to reduce back pain.
Many who suffer from back pain do exercises without consulting either a Doctor or a therapist, instead of relieving the problem, this can lead to making matters worse. However mild the pain, you should always seek advice, as to which exercises you should undertake before doing any.
A common mistake made by those who suffer from back pain, is by staying in bed, or resting too long when the suffering begins. This can hinder not help treatment. Back pain relief is more effective when the sufferer remains active, as this not only soothes, but strengthens the muscles, this can not only reduce, but prevent future occurrences.
Stretching and resistance exercises which are recommended to aid back pain relief are used by both Yoga and Pilates.
Using Pilates exercises can correct not only bad posture, but also relieve tight muscles. When Joseph Pilates originally created the exercises it was to help in the rehabilitation of injured athletes. These exercises are designed to help in the recovery from strain and injury to the back.
They have been proved to not only reduce aching, but to stop back pain permanently, when regular exercise is undertaken.
It is important however, that the right exercises are chosen, the idea being that not only are the muscles strengthened, but that by stretching out the tensions, any future muscle stress is prevented.
Shows you how to improve the alignment of your spine.
Makes you aware of your posture, by reducing the slouching habit.
Aids and improves your flexibility.
Here are three suggestions to relieve and stop back pain using Yoga.
Be very careful that you do not sit for too long.
When you do sit try to be more upright, do not slouch or lounge in your chair. When working at or on the computer sit upright with your back supported if need be.
Our bodies are not designed for us to sit about all day, in fact researchers say that we should spend at least two hours standing daily. If you do have to sit for long periods, either have a break and move about, or try one of two yoga poses, the tree pose or the chair pose. The body does need movement, try to do a little yoga when you are alone, it does not have to be a full blown workout.
As they say every little helps, as sitting badly encourages bad habits, in addition to back pain, this can lead to poor circulation, fatigue and poor digestion.
When we talk about improving your core strength, we do not mean just the abs, but the spinal muscles that keep you upright not forgetting the lower back muscles.
If you improve your posture more each day and by simple yoga practice gently work on your core, your core will slowly be strengthened. Holding your head more erect also helps.
Something that I do when I am sat the computer for a while, is to rotate the neck several times in each direction, I can often feel the muscles cracking when I do so. Make sure that you are sat upright and that the head is also held upright. Not saying that this is either Pilates or Yoga, just something that I do, that works. If desired you can even move the head backwards and forwards a few times.
To improve the health of your spine it is important that your yoga practice embraces all of the six movements of the spine. These include back banding and forward folding, as in the Cat/Cow pose. When doing both spinal twists and side bending do them to both the left and the right.
In addition to these poses, a balanced practice regime as we get older helps us to maintain our mobility and vitality.
As well as the suggested poses, breathing techniques and meditation, play a role in the management of pain.
If by practising yoga, the pain in your back increases, please seek specialist medical help.
Take regular exercise, such as going for a good brisk walk, or swimming.
Reduce stress levels to a minimum.
When you lift or carry, do so properly, by bending at the knees do not just reach forward to lift.
Always ensure that you maintain a good posture.
Do exercises designed to reduce, stop or control back pain.
When bending doing so awkwardly.
Injuries caused by sporting activities.
Carrying items which are too heavy.
Muscles being over stretched or strained.
Carrying too much body weight, so you need to diet.
When driving, doing so for long periods, without a break, to ease your muscles.
As can be seen by these few notes this is a complex subject, there are a number of poses, postures or exercises in both Yoga and Pilates which can help, there is not enough space here to be even begin to explain them.
This article is for information purposes only, any medical or practical advice needed must be sought from those qualified to give it.
To a back pain free future.
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Excitement Builds With One Month To Go!
Saturday, July 9th, 2016
Things are getting exciting with the 2016 Olympic Games just around the corner! Most countries are in the process of selecting their representatives. The Japanese men always seem to be the first squad announced, and their team is stacked: Kohei Uchimura, Ryohei Kato, Yusuke Tanaka, Koji Yamamuro and Kenzo Shirai. Wow. I would love to see this team stand atop the team medal podium as they did 12 years ago.
Five gymnasts on a team is certainly not enough, especially for the men who have 6 events to cover. It will be interesting to see if there is room on teams for specialists such as Louis Smith (GBR) and Ashton Locklear (USA). Both gymnasts could win medals on their respective events, pommel horse and uneven bars, but if they are to be selected then only 4 spots remain to cover the rest of the events. Some teams, such as the U.S. men, stack their weakest event (pommel horse) the best they can. On the other hand, the Belgians chose a women's team which bolsters their strength: the uneven bars.
Louis Smith (GBR), 2016 British Championships, PH AA
Ashton Locklear (USA), 2016 Pacific Rim Championships, UB TF/AA
I was happy to see Chris Brooks (USA) named to the Olympic team. Going 24-for-24 across nationals and trials is no mean feat, and his consistency deserved to be rewarded. I feel bad for Danell Leyva and Donnell Whittenburg, who didn't quite show the best versions of themselves. It's interesting that the selection committee chose to leave behind the only two guys who won medals at last year's Worlds!
Chris Brooks (USA), 2016 P&G Championships, HB Day 2
The FIG really dropped the ball (…or should I say missed their hands on the vault?!) by not giving a nominative spot to Larisa Iordache when she won bronze AA at the 2015 Worlds. Why should apparatus medalists receive a spot but not AA medalists? Even if you don't expect such a scenario to play out where an AA medalist comes from a team that is not in the top 12, couldn't that provision still be part of the rules? And it wasn't totally far-fetched anyway. It could have happened to Guilia Steingruber (SUI) and very nearly did happen to Manrique Larduet (CUB)….
Iordache and Catalina Ponor (ROM) both deserve to be in Rio and it's heartbreaking that there is only room for one. My sentimental favourite is Iordache. She carried a declining team the entire quad, and did so with awesome gymnastics and a delightful personality. Ill-timed injuries have forced her into this predicament. I do think that at this very moment, though, Ponor is the most deserving of this spot and the most likely to win a beam and/or floor medal. And we all know how rock-solid she is in competition!
Catalina Ponor (ROU), 2016 European Championships, BB TF
I was thrilled when the Canadian ladies exceeded expectations and finished in 5th place at the London Olympics. I think they can do it again! Ellie Black and Brittany Rogers are on the team again, and they will be joined by Isabela Onyshko, Shallon Olsen and Rose-Kaying Woo this time around. Scott Morgan will represent Canada on the men's side.
I love the way Belgium announced its Olympic team!
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Australia's prime minister says he is looking forward to meeting face-to-face soon with President Donald Trump three months after the pair's heated telephone conversation over an Obama-era refugee deal.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was speaking to reporters at the al-Minhad air base in the United Arab Emirates today after meeting in Afghanistan with Defense Secretary James Mattis and greeting Australian troops in the Middle East ahead of Veterans' Day commemorations.
Turnbull met in Sydney at the weekend with US Vice President Mike Pence, whose visit was intended to smooth over any lingering hard feelings after the prime minister's contentious phone call to Trump on January 28 over a refugee resettlement deal struck by the previous Obama administration.


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