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Jack Alan Rose
Jack Alan Rose 68 of Visalia lost his fight with a long time illness on December 28th 2021. Jack was a life long resident of Visalia. He graduated from Redwood High School in 1971 and attended the College of the Sequoias for two years where he attained an Associates of Science Degree. After completing school, Jack, followed his father's footsteps and became a Finish Carpenter. Jack always enjoyed a challenge and prided himself with his finished product. He especially enjoyed building staircases, the more curves the better! The majority of his work could be considered art. Jack was preceded in death by his Father Samuel Dawson Rose and his Mother Ruth Lilly Rose both of Visalia. Jack is survived by his Brother Terry Rose of Visalia, his three sons, Jeremy Rose of Visalia, Dawson Rose of Washington and Derek Rose of Washington. Jack also had four grandchildren. At the request of Jack, no services will be held. In lieu of donations the family asks you make a contribution to a cancer charity of your choosing. Services have been entrusted to Salser & Dillard Funeral Chapel. Memorial Tributes and condolences may be offered by logging onto www.salseranddillard.com.
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by The Episcopal Diocese of Northern California The Office of the Bishop would like to thank Lisa Sargent, Ordination Process Coordinator, for her service to the diocese and to our staff. She was hired to streamline and regulate the ordination process and associated paperwork. Having accomplished this, Lisa will be moving on from this position at the end of January 2016.
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Operation UNITE's "Celebrate Successes in Prevention and Education" Coalition Awards luncheon scheduled for 11 am to 12:30 pm on Tuesday, February 17, at the Eastern Kentucky University Manchester Campus has been CANCELED due to the prediction of hazardous winter weather coming into the region. It will be rescheduled.
Two of America's top officials in the effort to reduce drug use and its consequences will help Operation UNITE recognize and "Celebrate Successes in Prevention and Education" throughout southern and eastern Kentucky at a luncheon on Tuesday, February 17.
Michael Botticelli, acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), and Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in the National Institutes of Health, will join Kentucky's Fifth District Congressman Harold "Hal" Rogers at the celebration, which begins at 11 a.m. at Eastern Kentucky University's Manchester Campus.
The public is invited to participate in the celebration. There is no charge to attend, but because lunch will be served an RSVP is requested by Thursday, February 12, to Gina Muncy at gmuncy@centertech.com. On-site registration will start at 10:30 a.m.
As ONDCP director, Botticelli is responsible for the National Drug Control Strategy, which outlines efforts to reduce drug use, manufacturing and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. This strategy places an emphasis on community-based prevention programs, diverting non-violent drug offenders into treatment instead of jail, and expanding access to substance abuse treatment.
Congressman Rogers, whose vision created UNITE in 2003, is recognized as a national leader on drug-related issues.
"UNITE's unique approach to place equal emphasis on education, treatment and enforcement has been heralded as a model for the nation," Smoot said, noting an annual National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, hosted by UNITE, is regarded as the largest collaboration of professionals and stakeholders addressing substance abuse issues.


…means paying the bills, distributing the revenue, and dreaming of the day that success arrives and those first two jobs wither away.
As an expat entrepreneur, paying and collecting is a multinational affair. My business and personal life have footprints in three countries (NL, UK, US), so there are six payment pathways that have to be maintained, along with strict separation of business and personal flows (above from a lecture I give on organizing expat businesses). The complexity is a result of trying to collect and pay locally, minimizing cross-border currency flows to avoid bank and exchange charges.
Check current balances and pending charges on each account.
Reconcile and forecast upcoming demands on each account. Rent, taxes.and utilities are fairly constant, but Visa charges are always a surprise. ABN has no on-line account access and always deduct in full, so I have to leave a cushion for it.
Flush money through the accounts with minimum international transfers: even SEPA charges ~30 euro overhead per transfer.
Pay all rents and bills. I never carry more than 10% of your monthly income as monthly debt, and generally pay off everyone.
Update the business records and ledger book, then transfer receipts and instructions to my bookkeeper and accountant.
It takes about half a day each month, but I just accept the overhead. I'm not as good at dogging receivables as I am doing diligence on payables, so stabilizing, collecting, and enhancing revenue is probably my biggest challenge (opportunity for improvement).
Fortunately, the jobs are increasingly there and the flux of deal flows is increasing, but monetizing that environment and invoicing aggressively remains a job in itself. It's a bit discouraging sometimes because it all still feels hand to mouth: there is about 10% excess each month which doesn't leave a lot for rainy days, dinners out, or vacation.
That said, I do like building the new business: chasing cool idea, working with great people, having strategic and business control, keeping what I win. But, early on, it's also a lean existence, and it can feel acute in two ways.
A lot of work that I put into the business doesn't come back to me as cash. It goes into "sweat equity" to build assets an networks, paid into loans and expenses that come back as stock or tax credits, ploughed into new clients that can flip to paying customers. It makes me much more conscious of costs, and whether they are investment or expenses, of how I productively spend my time and resources, and about creating value for myself and others with the things I do.
I rub elbows with a lot of successful folks in the course of fundraising and contracting, and do get hungry for the same opportunities and accessories that success has brought them. I know that they worked hard for what they have: finding good ideas, years of diligent execution, finally closing a lucrative exit. It reminds me to take small rewards, to play for the long game, and the importance of giving back some day.
I'm reading All the Devils Are Here, a wonderful history of the financial crisis and the events and personalities that created it. I'm struck by the envy and resentment that permeates the Money Culture, the animosity and jealousy between have's and have-not's in competitive organizations.
It feels more characteristic of what I experienced in corporate life than of how my entrepreneurial life plays out now. My relationships with suppliers, partners, and investors are synergistic and supportive: I respect their skills and resources and value the contributions that they are making to my efforts. It's not so competitive and I can't imagine taking advantage of them the way characters in the book would.


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Q: ¿Alguien sabría hacer un algoritmo de forma iterativa (usando while) para la siguiente definición?
Quiero hacer un algoritmo iterativo a partir de la definicion que me han dado. Lo tengo hecho con recursión con memoria, lo comparto por si ayuda:
public static Integer eje4ConMemoria(Integer d1, Integer d2, Map<Tuple2<Integer, Integer>, Integer> memoria) {
    Integer result = null;
    Integer a = d1;
    Integer b = d2;
    Tuple2<Integer, Integer> t = Tuple.create(a, b);
    if (memoria.containsKey(t)) {
        result = memoria.get(t);
    } else if (a < 2 && b < 2) {
        result = a + b * b;
        memoria.put(t, result);
    } else if (a < 2 || b < 2) {
        result = a * a + b;
        memoria.put(t, result);
    } else {
        result = eje4ConMemoria(a / 2, b - 1, memoria) + eje4ConMemoria(a / 3, b - 2, memoria)
                + eje4ConMemoria(a - 2, b / 4, memoria);
    }

    return result;
}

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Lebanese Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, condoles Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi about the martyrdom of the chief of Supreme Political Council Saleh Al-Samad.
Yemen's Ansarullah leader, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, received condolences from the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in the martyrdom of President Saleh Al-Sammad, who was martyred by US-Saudi airstrikes in Hodeidah Province last Thursday.
"I'm and my brothers in the Lebanese leadership extend our deepest condolences to you about the martyrdom of the courageous leader, President Saleh Al-Sammad, may the God have mercy on him," the message of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says.
Sayyed Nasrallah said in a cablegram that the martyr Saleh Al-Samad was always present in the battlefields, pointing out that this crime and the other crimes against the civilians constitute evidence of the injustice and brutality of Saudi-led aggression.
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Arkansas Razorbacks outfielder Andrew Benintendi (16) on deck during the NCAA College baseball World Series against the Miami Hurricanes on June 15, 2015 at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha, Nebraska. Miami beat Arkansas 4-3. (Andrew Woolley/Four Seam Images)
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What Did the President Know, and When Did He Lie About Knowing It?
"In a single day, the capital's media climate has been transformed," writes Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz. Reporters are outraged by recent revelations that President Bush received warnings prior to Sepember 11 of possible terrorist hijackings -- warnings which he has previously denied receiving.
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The Pentagon's PR Guru
Stephen J. Hedges profiles the Rendon Group, the PR firm now working for the Pentagon in the "war on terrorism." Company owner John Rendon, who calls himself "an information warrior and a perception manager," has gotten rich working in places like Panama, the Balkans, Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the secrecy surrounding his work makes it difficult to assess what, if anything, Rendon is actually accomplishing. "They're very closemouthed about what they do," says Kevin McCauley, an editor at O'Dwyer's PR Daily.
Chicago Tribune, May 12, 2002
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Militarism's Lethal Logic
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett says it's "virtually a certainty" that terrorists will inflict "a major nuclear event" on the United States sometime soon - probably in New York or Washington. "What makes Buffett so pessimistic?" askes commentator James Pinkerton. "Maybe he read the Capitol Hill testimony of Undersecretary of State Charlotte Beers before the House Appropriations Committee on April 23." Beers wants to spend $595 million on public relations to address seething anti-U.S.
Los Angeles Times, May 10, 2002
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Congress Told $595 Million Needed For Propaganda
Submitted by Laura Miller on May 1, 2002 - 12:00am
U.S. Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs chief Charlotte Beers told a House subcommittee she needs $595 million to "improve and magnify the ways in which we are addressing people of the world--not necessarily other world governments--but people," O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports. Her request represents a five percent increase for the public diplomacy budget. "That outreach is especially targeted at 'disaffected populations' in the Middle East and South Asia, where a poor perception of the U.S.
O'Dwyer's PR Daily, May 1, 2002
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Coverup at the World Trade Center?
Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on April 26, 2002 - 12:00am
In their resignation letters, the top two members of the Ombudsman Office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have accused the agency of covering up the existence of deadly pollution in the area of the destroyed World Trade Center towers in New York. Emergency workers who were sent to the scene and residents of Lower Manhattan are developing serious, and in some cases, life-threatening respiratory ailments and other health problems.
Environmental News Service, April 26, 2002
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Beer and Terror Don't Mix (But What About Buying Gas For An SUV?)
Submitted by Laura Miller on April 22, 2002 - 12:00am
"Take an ad suggesting that doing illegal drugs can lead to terrorism and add the word 'beer' and what do you get?" Advertising Age asks. "As the Office of National Drug Control Policy discovered some very angry beer wholesalers and brewers." The ad copy in dispute reads "Last night, I met the guys for beers, went out for dinner and helped gun down 21 men, women and children." The White House drug office says the ad is part of a series showing how illegal drugs finance terrorism and is not meant to make a connection between alcohol and illicit drugs.
Reuters, April 9, 2002; Advertising Age, April 22, 2002
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EPA Boots a Whistleblower
The resignation of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ombudsman Robert Martin ends his long-running battle to preserve his office and its ability to independently investigate cases where the agency mishandled Superfund sites. His resignation came on the heels of actions taken by EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman to disband his office, including sending agents to confiscate his files and his computers, and to change the locks on his office.
Project on Government Oversight, April 20, 2002
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U.S., Oil Companies Oust Climate Change Scientist
The Bush administration, Exxon-Mobil and other energy companies successfully connived behind the scenes to oust climatologist Robert Watson from leadership of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nation's international scientific panel on climate change. Meanwhile, an extensive research survey published in March confirms that global warming is already affecting life on earth.
The Guardian (UK), April 20, 2002
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Burying Your Lede
An increasing number of observers are reaching the conclusion that the Bush administration covertly backed the recent attempted military coup in Venezuela. As Josh Marshall points out, there is "something odd and perplexing about the drifting accounts being provided by administration officials. Every day there's a new detail.
Talking Points, April 18, 2002
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U.S. Denies Role in Venezuelan Coup
In the aftermath of the failed coup against populist Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Bush administration officials have admitted that they "met several times in recent months" with leaders of the coup "and agreed with them that he should be removed from office." Those meetings, and the haste with which the White House proclaimed its support for the military-installed regime, have prompted suspicions that the U.S. helped instigate the coup.
New York Times, April 16, 2002
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Olympic Gold Medalist to Speak at Catholic Youth Mega-Event
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Olympic sprint king Jason Gardener, who won Gold at the 2004 Games in Athens, is a confirmed speaker at this month's Flame Congress – a national youth event taking place at Wembley Arena on Saturday, 24 March.
Gardener, part of Great Britain's victorious 4×100 relay team in Greece, will address over 7,000 young Catholics from the Dioceses of England and Wales.
The list of confirmed speakers has been released by event organisers CYMFed, the Catholic Youth Ministry Federation.
Also speaking at Wembley arena are 28-year-old Paralympian Stef Reid, who has held the World Long Jump record since 2010, and rower Debbie Flood, a two-time Olympic silver-medalist.
Two young Kenyan athletes will also share their stories – Lorna Kusa Simbi, a 19-year-old boxer from Korogocho and Abdi Rauf Dimas, a member of the Kenyan national Karate team.
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Because of Labuan Airport's relatively low elevation of 101 feet, planes can take off or land at Labuan Airport at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
Labuan Airport (LBU) currently has only 1 runway.
The furthest airport from Labuan Airport (LBU) is Tefé Airport (TFF), which is nearly antipodal to Labuan Airport (meaning Labuan Airport is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Tefé Airport), and is located 12,304 miles (19,801 kilometers) away in Tefé, Amazonas, Brazil.
The closest airport to Labuan Airport (LBU) is Lawas Airport (LWY), which is located 33 miles (53 kilometers) SSE of LBU.
In addition to being known as "Labuan Airport", other names for LBU include "Lapangan Terbang Labuan" and "纳闽机场".
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Q: Finding execution context information about an Eclipse plug-in I am using the Reflections library in the Eclipse plug-in I am currently developing.
Apparently everything is fine when the plug-in is deployed as a bundle in Eclipse (i.e., its jar is dropped in the plugins folder of Eclipse), but when the plug-in is executed during development (Run As/Eclipse Application), I need to add to the search paths of the Reflections library the output folder (e.g., 'bin') from the project where the plug-in was executed.
Then my question is if there a way to know, at plug-in activation time, the following:
- if the plugin has been deployed as a bundle, or if it has been executed in the context of another Eclipse instance
- the output directory of the project from where the plugin was launched (in case of the plug-in being executed from another Eclipse instance). So I could add that output directory to the Reflections library.
This is rather more a hack than an ideal solution, but it is the only workaround that has occurred to me until now to make Reflections work properly, given that I do not want to hardcode the output folder of my development project in the code.  (if someone knows how I could use Reflections without having to set the output folder when in developing mode, that would be highly appreciated also).

A: You might have to investigate how PDE works with JDT to create a runtime eclipse.  I know when it launches an eclipse from a workspace, it sets a -dev option that includes extra bin/ classpaths.  It might set some flags or properties as well.
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Ajaokuta steel plant won't be ready before end of Buhari's tenure
Olamilekan Adegbite, minister of mines and steel development has said that the Ajaokuta steel plant will no longer be ready in 2022 as earlier promised.
Addressing state house correspondents in Abuja on Thursday March 31, Adegbite said the federal government had before the pandemic, successfully convinced Russia to complete the steel facility but could not proceed with the negotiations.
This include a $2 million fee for technical audit required to ascertain the state of the facility before work would begin.
The Minister added that while the government moved to continue the negotiations with Russia after the lockdown, its progress was stalled again due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Adegbite also promised that the federal government would initiate irreversible processes to ensure the resumption and eventual completion of the steel facility after Buhari's administration.
Also commenting on gold mining in Zamfara state, the minister said the government had halted mining activities in the area.
He added;
"We try to nip them in the bud wherever they rear their heads.
"With the community reporting to us, we have a quick intervention force. We can't be proactive; it is too expensive to maintain. But we have a quick intervention force.
"If we hear any mining happening in any nook and cranny, we move in there and dislodge them. Those that are arrested, we confiscate their equipment and they are prosecuted."
Adegbite also said Nigeria has attained self-sufficiency in barite production and would no longer need to import from October 2022.
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But that doesn't mean that SEO strategies are one-size-fits-all. The terms you want to rank for are also terms that e-commerce sites rank for; so, instead of your B2B service, Google Shopping widgets and online stores dominate the search results. For example: Your company designs and fits wet rooms for large commercial projects and new construction, such as hotels and high-rise apartment buildings; so, you want to target architects, developers, and consultants involved in big building projects... but many of your best keywords return results like this: E-commerce search results can confuse B2B searchers, at which point one of two things will happen: (1) You lose website traffic because you're appearing so lower down the page than you otherwise would; (2) The traffic you get isn't the traffic you want, because they're B2C customers who will never convert. You need to use your traffic effectively, position yourself correctly for search, create the right content, and make sure that you have relevant converting actions. Use your traffic effectively Of course, not all traffic is good: You want the people who land on your service pages to be as likely to convert as possible. would likely not result in the conversion you're looking for, the amount of traffic it gets from B2C searchers adds authority to your site and sends positive ranking signals to Google. Create the right content Like your title tags and meta descriptions, your on-site content needs to clearly communicate a B2B offering. Create content that your target audience will value. Calls to action that encourage people to further explore your offering, such as a video or a case study, allow you to demonstrate the nature of your business offering. B2B search marketing is all about understanding the nuances of your end customer and where to ideally place your brand in order to convert that customer.
We all know that our search engine optimization (SEO) efforts must adhere to some fundamentals. But that doesn't mean that SEO strategies are one-size-fits-all. In fact, one of the most challenging situations for B2B digital marketers is to have their business buried among search results that are B2C-focused.
You have a business that specializes in providing a B2B product or service, but all of your keyword search terms return results that are B2C. The terms you want to rank for are also terms that e-commerce sites rank for; so, instead of your B2B service, Google Shopping widgets and online stores dominate the search results.
The result? High bounce rate, irrelevant traffic, and low conversion percentages.
E-commerce search results can confuse B2B searchers, at which point one of two things will happen: (1) You lose website traffic because you're appearing so lower down the page than you otherwise would; (2) The traffic you get isn't the traffic you want, because they're B2C customers who will never convert.
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Design Your Own VoIP Solution with a Blackfin® Processor—Add Enhancements Later
David Katz, Tomasz Lukasiak, Rick Gentile, 和 Wayne Meyer 下载 PDF
The age of voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) is here, bringing together telephony and data communications to provide packetized voice and fax data streamed over low-cost Internet links. The transition from circuit-switched to packet-switched networking, continuing right now at breakneck speed, is encouraging applications that go far beyond simple voice transmission, embracing other forms of data and allowing them to all travel over the same infrastructure.
The VoIP challenge to the embedded-system designer is to choose a processing solution that is cost-effective, easy to deploy, and scalable in performance across market spaces. A "sweet-spot" embedded-solution approach is to design with a platform that can implement a low-channel-count basic VoIP solution, yet retain plenty of capacity for value-added capabilities and services—like video, music, imaging, and system control. The discussion below makes the case that the Blackfin processor family from Analog Devices offers just such an attractive solution.
Today's voice networks—such as the public switched telephone network (PSTN)—utilize digital switching technology to establish a dedicated link between the caller and the receiver. While this connection offers only limited bandwidth, it does provide an acceptable quality level without the burden of a complicated encoding algorithm.
The VoIP alternative uses Internet protocol (IP) to send digitized voice traffic over the Internet or private networks. An IP packet consists of a train of digits containing a control header and a data payload. The header provides network navigation information for the packet, and the payload contains the compressed voice data.
While circuit-switched telephony deals with the entire message, VoIP-based data transmission is packet-based, so that chunks of data are packetized (separated into units for transmission), compressed, and sent across the network—and eventually re-assembled at the designated receiving end. The key point is that there is no need for a dedicated link between transmitter and receiver.
Packetization is a good match for transporting data (for example, a JPEG file or email) across a network, because the delivery falls into a non-time-critical "best-effort" category. The network efficiently moves data from multiple sources across the same medium. For voice applications, however, "best-effort" is not adequate, because variable-length delays as the packets make their way across the network can degrade the quality of the decoded audio signal at the receiving end. For this reason, VoIP protocols, via QoS (quality-of-service) techniques, focus on managing network bandwidth to prevent delays from degrading voice quality.
Packetizing voice data involves adding header and trailer information to the data blocks. Packetization overhead (additional time and data introduced by this process) must be reduced to minimize added latencies (time delays through the system). Therefore, the process must achieve a balance between minimizing transmission delay and using network bandwidth most efficiently—smaller size allows packets to be sent more often, while larger packets take longer to compose. On the other hand, larger packets amortize the header and trailer information across a bigger chunk of voice data, so they use network bandwidth more efficiently than do smaller packets.
By their nature, networks cause the rate of data transmission to vary quite a bit. This variation, known as jitter, is removed by buffering the packets long enough to ensure that the slowest packets arrive in time to be decoded in the correct sequence. Naturally, a larger jitter buffer contributes to more overall system latency.
As mentioned above, latency represents the time delay through the IP system. A one-way latency is the time from when a word is spoken to when the person on the other end of the call hears it. Round-trip latency is simply the sum of the two one-way latencies. The lower the latency value, the more natural a conversation will sound. For the PSTN phone system in North America, the round-trip latency is less than 150 ms.
For VoIP systems, a one-way latency of up to 200 ms is considered acceptable. The largest contributors to latency in a VoIP system are the network and the gateways at either end of the call. The voice codec (coder-decoder) adds some latency—but this is usually small by comparison (<20 ms).
When the delay is large in a voice network application, the main challenges are to cancel echoes and eliminate overlap. Echo cancellation directly affects perceived quality; it becomes important when the round-trip delay exceeds 50 ms. Voice overlap becomes a concern when the one-way latency is more than 200 ms.
Because most of the time elapsed during a voice conversation is "dead time"—during which no speaker is talking—codecs take advantage of this silence by not transmitting any data during these intervals. Such "silence compression" techniques detect voice activity and stop transmitting data when there is no voice activity, instead generating "comfort" noise to ensure that the line does not appear dead when no one is talking.
In a standard PSTN telephone system, echoes that degrade perceived quality can happen for a variety of reasons. The two most common causes are impedance mismatches in the circuit-switched network ("line echo") and acoustic coupling between the microphone and speaker in a telephone ("acoustic echo"). Line echoes are common when there is a two-wire-to-four-wire conversion in the network (e.g., where analog signaling is converted into a T1 system).
Because VoIP systems can link to the PSTN, they must be able to deal with line echo, and IP phones can also fall victim to acoustic echo. Echo cancellers can be optimized to operate on line echo, acoustic echo, or both. The effectiveness of the cancellation depends directly on the quality of the algorithm used.
An important parameter for an echo canceller is the length of the packet on which it operates. Put simply, the echo canceller keeps a copy of the signal that was transmitted. For a given time after the signal is sent, it seeks to correlate and subtract the transmitted signal from the returning reflected signal—which is, of course, delayed and diminished in amplitude. To achieve effective cancellation, it usually suffices to use a standard correlation window size (e.g., 32 ms, 64 ms, or 128 ms), but larger sizes may be necessary.
Emerging and Current VoIP-Based Applications
Because the high-speed network as a whole (rather than a dedicated channel) is used as the transport mechanism, a major advantage of VoIP systems is the lower cost per communication session. Moreover, VoIP calls allow network operators to avoid most interconnect charges associated with circuit-switched telephony networks; the additional infrastructure required to complete a VoIP phone call is minimal, because it uses the existing network already in place for the home or business personal computer (PC). Yet another reason for lower costs is that data-network operators often haven't used all the available bandwidth, so that the additional VoIP services currently incur an inconsequential additional cost-overhead burden.
VoIP users tend to think of their connection as being "free," since they can call anywhere in the world, as often as they want, for just pennies per minute. Although they are also paying a monthly fee to their Internet service provider, it can be amortized over both data and voice services.
Besides the low cost relative to the circuit-switched domain, many new features of IP services become available. For instance, incoming phone calls on the PSTN can be automatically rerouted to a user's VoIP phone, as long as it's connected to a network node. This arrangement has clear advantages over a global-enabled cellphone, since there are no roaming charges involved—from the VoIP standpoint, the end user's location is irrelevant; it is simply seen as just another network-connection point. This is especially useful where wireless local-area networks (LANs) are available; IEEE-Standard-802.11-enabled VoIP handsets allow conversations at worldwide Wi-Fi hotspots without the need to worry about mismatched communications infrastructure and transmission standards.
Everything discussed so far in relation to voice-over-IP extends to other forms of data-based communication as well. After all, once data is digitized and packetized, the nature of the content doesn't much matter, as long as it is appropriately encoded and decoded with adequate bandwidth. Because of this, the VoIP infrastructure facilitates an entirely new set of networked real-time applications, such as:
Analog telephone adapters
Multicasting
A Closer Look at a VoIP System
Figure 1 shows key components of a VoIP system: The signaling process, the encoder/decoder, the transport mechanism, and the switching gateway.
Figure 1. (a) Simplified representation of possible IP telephony network connections.(b) Signaling and transport flows between endpoints.
The signaling process involves creating, maintaining, and terminating connections between nodes.
In order to reduce network bandwidth requirements, audio and video are encoded before transmission and decoded during reception. This compression and conversion process is governed by various codec standards for both audio and video streams.
The compressed packets move through the network governed by one or more transport protocols. A switching gateway ensures that the packet set is interoperable at the destination with another IP-based system or a PSTN system. At its final destination, the packet set is decoded and converted back to an audio/video signal, at which point it is played through the receiver's speakers and/or display unit.
The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) seven-layer model (Figure 2) specifies a framework for networking. If there are two parties to a communication session, data generated by each starts at the top, undergoing any required configuration and processing through the layers, and is finally delivered to the physical layer for transmission across the medium. At the destination, processing occurs in the reverse direction, until the packets are finally reassembled and the data is provided to the second user.
Session Control: H.323 vs. SIP
The first requirement in a VoIP system is a session-control protocol to establish presence and locate users, as well as to set up, modify, and terminate sessions. There are two protocols in wide use today. Historically, the first of these protocols was H.323*, but SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) is rapidly becoming the main standard. Let's take a look at the role played by each.
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) H.323
H.323 is an ITU standard originally developed for real-time multimedia (voice and video) conferencing and supplementary data transfer. It has rapidly evolved to meet the requirements of VoIP networks. It is technically a container for a number of required and optional network and media codec standards. The connection signaling part of H.323 is handled by the H.225 protocol, while feature negotiation is supported by H.245.
SIP (Session Initiation Protocol)
SIP is defined by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) under RFC 3261. It was developed specifically for IP telephony and other Internet services—and though it overlaps H.323 in many ways, it is usually considered a more streamlined solution.
SIP is used with SDP (Session Description Protocol) for user discovery; it provides feature negotiation and call management. SDP is essentially a format for describing initialization parameters for streaming media during session announcement and invitation. The SIP/SDP pair is somewhat analogous to the H.225/H.245 protocol set in the H.323 standard.
SIP can be used in a system with only two endpoints and no server infrastructure. However, in a public network, special proxy and registrar servers are utilized for establishing connections. In such a setup, each client registers itself with a server, in order to allow callers to find it from anywhere on the Internet.
Transport Layer Protocols
The signaling protocols above are responsible for configuring multimedia sessions across a network. Once the connection is set up, media flows between network nodes are established by utilizing one or more data-transport protocols, such as UDP or TCP.
UDP (User Datagram Protocol)
UDP is a network protocol covering only packets that are broadcast out. There is no acknowledgement that a packet has been received at the other end. Since delivery is not guaranteed, voice transmission will not work very well with UDP alone when there are peak loads on a network. That is why a media transport protocol, like RTP, usually runs on top of UDP.
TCP uses a client/server communication model. The client requests (and is provided) a service by another computer (a server) in the network. Each client request is handled individually, unrelated to any previous one. This ensures that "free" network paths are available for other channels to use.
TCP creates smaller packets that can be transmitted over the Internet and received by a TCP layer at the other end of the call, such that the packets are "reassembled" back into the original message. The IP layer interprets the address field of each packet so that it arrives at the correct destination.
Unlike UDP, TCP does guarantee complete receipt of packets at the receiving end. However, it does this by allowing packet retransmission, which adds latencies that are not helpful for real-time data. For voice, a late packet due to retransmission is as bad as a lost packet. Because of this characteristic, TCP is usually not considered an appropriate transport for real-time streaming media transmission.
Figure 2 shows how the TCP/IP Internet model, and its associated protocols, compares with and utilizes various layers of the OSI model.
Figure 2. Open Systems Interconnection and TCP/IP models.
As noted above, sending media data directly over a transport protocol is not very efficient for real-time communication. Because of this, a media transport layer is usually responsible for handling this data in an efficient manner.
RTP (Real-Time Transport Protocol)
RTP provides delivery services for real-time packetized audio and video data. It is the standard way to transport real-time data over IP networks. The protocol resides on top of UDP to minimize packet header overhead—but at a cost; there is no guarantee of reliability or packet ordering. Compared to TCP, RTP is less reliable—but it has less latency in packet transmission, since its packet header overhead is much smaller than for TCP (Figure 3).
Figure 3. Header structure and payload of an RTP frame.
In order to maintain a given QoS level, RTP utilizes timestamps, sequence numbering, and delivery confirmation for each packet sent. It also supports a number of error-correction schemes for increased robustness, as well as some basic security options for encrypting packets.
Figure 4 compares performance and reliability of UDP, RTP, and TCP.
Figure 4. Performance vs. reliability.
RTCP (RTP Control Protocol)
RTCP is a complementary protocol used to communicate control information, such as number of packets sent and lost, jitter, delay, and endpoint descriptions. It is most useful for managing session time bases and for analyzing QoS of an RTP stream. It also can provide a backchannel for limited retransmission of RTP packets.
Media Codecs
At the top of the VoIP stack are protocols to handle the actual media being transported. There are potentially quite a few audio and video codecs that can feed into the media transport layer. A sampling of the most common ones can be found in the sidebar on the last page of this article.
A number of factors help determine how desirable a codec is—including how efficiently it makes use of available system bandwidth, how it handles packet loss, and what costs are associated with it, including intellectual-property royalties.
Blackfin VoIP Collateral
Unlike traditional VoIP embedded solutions that utilize two processor cores to provide VoIP functionality, Blackfin processors provide a convergent solution in a unified core architecture that allows voice and video signal processing concurrent with RISC MCU processing to handle network- and user-interface demands. This unique ability to offer full VoIP functionality on a single convergent processor provides for a unified software development environment, faster system debugging and deployment, and lower overall system cost.
As an example, the ADSP-BF537 Blackfin processor family provides the necessary degree of integration and performance, with low power consumption, for VoIP deployment. It features multiple integrated serial ports (for glueless connection to audio analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) converters), an external memory controller, a parallel peripheral interface (PPI) for LCD or video encoder/decoder connectivity, and a 10/100BaseT Ethernet MAC. If necessary, a second Ethernet MAC can be accommodated via the external memory interface.
A complete communication channel—including voice and networking stack—uses less than 75 MIPS of the processing bandwidth. With ADSP-BF537 performance at up to 600 MHz, there is plenty of available processor "horsepower" to spread across a VoIP product portfolio, as features such as multimedia compression or decompression become necessary. In contrast, competing dedicated VoIP choices are typically performance-limited and offer little or no ability to add features or differentiation.
For VoIP applications, Blackfin-based designs target high-quality, low-channel-count VoIP solutions—with processing headroom to accommodate added features such as music, video, and image transport, as well as overall system control. Here is a sampling of available VoIP offerings, ranging from open-source solutions to high-volume OEM reference designs:
Blackfin/Linphone
A Blackfin VoIP system can be designed using open-source software based on μClinux, the embedded version of the popular GNU/Linux OS. One such General Public License (GPL-licensed) IP-phone package, called Linphone—based on the SIP suite—has been ported to μClinux for Blackfin processors, allowing the Blackfin reference design to communicate with any SIP-compatible endpoint. In a public network with the proper SIP servers and gateway infrastructure, this system can even be used to connect to phones on a PSTN node. For voice encoding and decoding, the current Blackfin implementation of Linphone supports: G.711 (A-law and m-law), GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications), and the Speex audio compression format.
The main components used in the Blackfin Linphone reference design are:
Linux TCP/IP networking stack: includes necessary transport and control protocols, such as TCP and UDP.
Linphone: the main VoIP application, which includes Blackfin-based G.711 and GSM codec implementations. It comprises both a graphical user interface (GUI) for desktop PCs and a simple command-line application for nongraphical embedded systems.
oRTP: an implementation of an RTP stack developed for Linphone and released under the LGPL license.
oSIP: a thread-safe implementation of the SIP protocol released under the LGPL license.
Speex: the open-source reference implementation of the Speex codec. Blackfin-specific optimizations to the fixed-point Speex implementation have been contributed back to the mainline code branch.
Unicoi Systems Blackfin-Based Fusion Voice Gateway
The Fusion Voice Gateway (Figure 5) is a complete Voice Gateway/Terminal Adapter Reference Design from Unicoi Systems. With router functionality and full-featured SIP telephony running on a single-core Blackfin Processor, the Fusion Voice Gateway allows for quick time-to-market for terminal adapters.
Figure 5. Blackfin-based Fusion Voice Gateway from Unicoi Systems.
The Fusion Voice Gateway features robust functionality, including G.168 echo cancellation and multiple G.7xx voice codecs. The Fusion reference design also includes full-featured telephony and router functionality by combining an Internet router, a 4-port Ethernet switch and VoIP gateway functionality.
Unicoi Systems Blackfin-Based Fusion IP Phone
The Fusion IP Phone from Unicoi Systems is a complete software/silicon solution that offers a full-featured platform supporting current and emerging IP phone standards, and has expansion capabilities for product differentiation.
The Fusion IP Phone Reference Design reduces BOM cost as well as the time and complexity often associated with developing an IP phone. Designed around the ADSP-BF536, the reference design software delivers the critical processing (e.g., real-time operating system, call manager, voice algorithms, acoustic echo cancellation for full-duplex speakerphone), communication protocols (TCP/IPv4/v6, SIP, RTP, etc.), and peripheral functions (LCD and keypad controllers, etc.) required to build a basic or advanced IP phone.
Blackfin BRAVO VoIP Reference Designs
The Analog Devices Blackfin BRAVOTM VoIP and Videophone reference designs are complete system solutions for OEMs building feature-rich, high-performance, low-cost VoIP desktop phones, videophones, and telephone adapters. The designs include the complete suite of software for VoIP applications, all controlled by a comprehensive set of application program interfaces (APIs) for customization and control of core system functions.
For audio, the designs support multiple G.7xx audio codecs, G.168-compliant network echo cancellation, and acoustic echo cancellation for enhanced audio clarity. Optionally, RF transceivers can be included in the design to provide wireless audio capability. The designs support both H.323- and SIP-compliant software stacks.
On the video front, the BRAVO Broadband Audio/Video Communications reference design (Figure 6) provides up to 30 frames per second of common intermediate format (CIF) color video, including support for ITU-standard H.263 and H.264 video codecs, picture-in-picture, high-resolution graphics with overlay, alpha and chroma keying, and antiflicker filtering.
Figure 6. Blackfin BRAVO Broadband Audio/Video Communications reference design, functional diagram.
Clearly, VoIP technology has the potential to revolutionize the way people communicate—whether they're at home or at work, plugged-in or untethered, video-enabled or just plain audio-minded. The power and versatility of Blackfin Processors, working with a wide variety of standards, will make VoIP increasingly pervasive in embedded environments, creating value-added features in many markets that are not yet experiencing the benefits of this exciting technology.
*To be exact, the task of session control and initiation lies in the domain of H.225.0 and H.245, which are part of the H.323 umbrella protocal.
Media Codec Standards
Introduced in 1988, G.711—the international standard for encoding telephone audio on a 64-kbps channel—is the simplest standard among the options presented here. The only compression used in G.711 is companding (using either the m-law or A-law standards), which compresses each data sample to an 8-bit word, yielding an output bit rate of 64 kbps. The H.323 standard specifies that G.711 must be present as a baseline for voice communication.
G.723.1 is an algebraic code-excited linear-prediction (ACELP)-based dual-bit-rate codec, released in 1996 to target VoIP applications. The encoding time frame for G.723.1 is 30 ms. Each frame can be encoded in 20 bytes or 24 bytes, thus translating to 5.3-kbps or 6.3-kbps streams, respectively. The bit rates can be effectively reduced through voice-activity detection and comfort-noise generation. The codec offers good immunity against network imperfections—like lost frames and bit errors. G.723.1 is suitable for video-conferencing applications, as described by the H.324 family of international standards for multimedia communication.
Another speech codec, released in 1996, is the low-latency G.729 audio data-compression algorithm, which partitions speech into 10-ms frames. It uses an algorithm called conjugate-structure ACELP (CS-ACELP). G.729 compresses 16-bit signals sampled at 8 kHz via 10-ms frames into a standard bit rate of 8 kbps, but it also supports 6.4-kbps and 11.8-kbps rates. In addition, it supports voice-activity detection and comfort-noise generation.
The GSM speech codecs find use in cell-phone systems around the world. The governing body for these standards is the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Standards in this domain have evolved since the first one, GSM Full Rate (GSM-FR). This standard uses a CELP variant called regular pulse-excited linear predictive coder (RPELPC). The input speech signal is divided into 20-ms frames. Each frame is encoded as 260 bits, thereby producing a total bit rate of 13 kbps. Free GSM-FR implementations are available for use under certain restrictions.
Speex, an Open Source/Free Software audio compression format designed for speech codecs, was released by Xiph.org, with the goal of being a totally patent-free speech solution. Like many other speech codecs, Speex is based on CELP with residue coding. It can code 8-kHz, 16-kHz, and 32-kHz linear PCM signals into bit rates ranging from 2 kbps to 44 kbps. Speex is resilient to network errors, and it supports voice-activity detection. Besides allowing variable bit rates, Speex also has the unique feature of stereo encoding. Source code is available from Speex.org that includes assembly-level optimization for narrow-band compression, as well as a Blackfin-based echo canceller.
This standard, developed in 1990, was the first widely used video codec. It introduced the idea of segmenting a frame into 16 × 16 "macroblocks" that are tracked between frames to establish motion-compensation vectors. It is mainly targeted at videoconferencing applications over ISDN lines (p × 64 kbps, where p ranges from 1 to 30). Input frames are typically CIF (352 × 288) at 30 frames-per-second (fps), and output compressed frames occupy 64 kbps to 128 kbps for 10-fps resolution. Although still used today, it has been largely superseded by H.263. Nevertheless, H.323 specifies that H.261 must be present as a baseline for video communication.
This codec is ubiquitous in videoconferencing, outperforming H.261 at all bit rates. Input sources are usually quarter-common intermediate format (QCIF) (176 × 144) or CIF at 30 fps, and output bit rates can be less than 28.8 kbps at 10 fps, for the same performance as H.261. So whereas H.261 needed an ISDN (integrated-services-digital-network) line, H.263 can use ordinary phone lines. H.263 finds use in end markets such as video telephony and networked surveillance, and it is popular in IP-based applications.
Tomasz Lukasiak
Rick Gentile
Wayne Meyer
Wayne Meyer是ADI公司微加工产品部门营销经理。他拥有将近二十年的半导体行业工作经验,从事过ADI Blackfin处理器的产品营销,还曾为Motorola (Freescale) Semiconductor工作过。Meyer先生拥有德克萨斯州达拉斯南卫理公会大学电子工程学士学位和德克萨斯州奧斯汀圣爱德华大学工商管理硕士学位。
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I am also blessed with great friends and family as almost all of the pieces in today's outfit were gifted to me by friends and family. Got to run now but thank you for stopping by and reading. Have a great week and see you next week. xo.
What a lovely and fitting dress, and smile too. Greetings!
Lovely look Elsie. The lip color looks great on you. Thanks for the reminder, we must count our blessings more often than we do.
You look Beautiful and playful here in this pic. I love this Smile!
Great colour in your dress , perfect with the bush surroundings. Have a good week.
Such a beautiful dress. I love the pictures.
Capu Capu is the order of the day in our world now. We are trying to grab all the things in this world that we don't even need at all.We focus on getting worthless stuffs and we forget to be greatful for the important things God has blessed us with. Thanks for the reminder that GOD has really blessed us by even waking up each morning and take a breathe. Lovely outfit and the colour combo is superb.
Hi Elsa! Counting our blessings put things in perspective. Your dress and shoes match so perfectly. And isn't it nice when you wear gifted items? I so enjoy it!!!
You're so right!! Sometimes we forget how blessed we are.


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Newport Beach & Company and the Newport Beach Film Festival launched their first groundbreaking international collaboration: the Picture Perfect campaign, a dynamic and robust program in the United Kingdom February 2-6, 2015. The Picture Perfect campaign was the most significant and successful international marketing program in Newport Beach & Company's history.
The three-part campaign promoted leisure travel to Newport Beach, California, Newport Beach Film Festival's notoriety to the film industry and incentivized tour operators to book holidays to the destination.
Consumer Program: The program generated awareness and promoted leisure travel to Newport Beach, California, as the United Kingdom is one of the top inbound international travel markets for the destination. An exciting mobile Newport Beach experience traveled the streets of London over five days with 10 stops throughout densely populated areas where locals frequent and districts where travel agents and media hubs are located. Visitors who entered the truck were encouraged to take a "selfie" and tag #pictureperfectNB to engage the truck visitors' social media database. The Picture Perfect Sweepstakes offered a lucky winner a dream vacation to Newport Beach including two round-trip international flights, compliments of Air New Zealand, hotel stay for nine nights, an all-access VIP pass to the Newport Beach Film Festival (including walking the red carpet on opening night), airport transfers, $500 Fashion Island shopping gift card and a $200 dining certificate. Movado, an additional sweepstakes partner, offered luxury watches for seven sweepstakes runner-ups and promoted the campaign at point-of-sale in more than 50 shops. To drive visitation to the truck, Newport Beach & Company conducted an in-market media blitz which included a media breakfast, radio interviews broadcasted around the country, and media appointments to introduce the destination to top-tier media.
Newport Beach Film Festival Program: The Picture Perfect campaign supported the Newport Beach Film Festival's strong ties to the United Kingdom. Newport Beach Film Festival historically has premiered several notable U.K. films, and dedicates an entire evening each year to spotlight and celebrate the overseas film industry. Strategically executing the campaign during the winter and during BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, Newport Beach Film Festival honored THE IMITATION GAME for Outstanding Contributions to Global Cinema for Best Picture and Best Ensemble Cast. In partnership with The Weinstein Company and Screen International, the Newport Beach organizations hosted a glamorous Newport Beach-branded reception at the ME London Hotel, to present the award. The cast and crew, including Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, film industry affiliates, top-tier media and luxury tour operators attended, securing a mix of high-profile influencers.
Travel-Trade Program: Newport Beach & Company executed a travel-trade program to engage travel agents and tour operators to book a Newport Beach holiday for their clients during the campaign. To add further incentive to participate, every tour operator who books a vacation to Newport Beach was entered into a sweepstakes to win a dream vacation to the destination.
The resulted garnered more than 10,000 sweepstakes entries, 600,000 social media impressions, 330,000 print circulation, three hours of radio interviews and much more. The grand totals for the campaign resulted in 600 million impressions with a PR value of $5 million. Success!


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Qatar ExxonMobil Open tournament director Karim Alami accepts Doha's ATP Tournament Of The Year award in the 250 category.
Doha Honored With ATP 250 Tournament Of The Year Award
Players selected tournament in 2019 ATP Awards
The Qatar ExxonMobil Open in Doha concluded another spectacular tournament on Saturday by receiving its Tournament of the Year award in the 250 category from the 2019 ATP Awards. The tournament awards, voted annually by ATP players, recognise the leading standards set across events on the ATP Tour.
The tournament has claimed this award for the third time in five years. Held in the opening week of the ATP Tour season, Doha has set high standards since its inception in 1993 and under the guidance of former player Karim Alami, the tournament continues to build its reputation for its superb facility, world-class hospitality and welcoming fans.
"On behalf of the Qatar Tennis Federation and all the team involved in the organisation of the event, I want to express how delighted we are at being selected once again as the ATP 250 Tournament of the Year," said Alami. "Our goal has always been to deliver an event that meets the highest organisational standards, while providing players and their support teams, sponsors, officials, guests and spectators with warm conditions and attention to detail that make them 'feel at home' during their time in Doha. Winning the ATP 250 tournament award for the third time confirms we have been successful in consistently meeting those standards. It is a great honour that the ATP and ATP players continue to show their recognition and appreciation for the efforts made by everyone involved.
"None of this would be possible without the endless support from our Title Sponsor, ExxonMobil, all our valued sponsors, the support of the Qatar Tennis Federation Board of Directors, the State of Qatar institutions and organisations and the ATP. We promise to continue delivering a very special event and it is our wish that all players come and share a wonderful week with us in Doha year after year."


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New Platjan Bridge needs P221 million extra
By Utlwanang Gasennelwe
The new 110 million pula Platjan Bridge currently under construction and due for completion in August this year will thereafter remain a white elephant, information reaching Weekend Post suggests.
The bridge is being constructed across Limpopo River between South Africa and Botswana border. From the bridge, there is a 30 km bad road which leads into the country through Lekkerport hamlet into Bobirwa region which will render the bridge useless. As a result, the bad pathway needs an extra whooping 221 million pula to make it tarred for the multimillion pula bridge at the border to be more beneficial.
Government said to have promised to build the road donkey years ago and that they are dilly dallying on the matter and non-committal. An engineer on site confirmed to Weekend Post separately during media tour organised by SPEDU that he foresee the bridge, upon completion in 2 months turning into a white elephant. He said this in relation to the issue of broken-down road form the bridge to Lekkerport junction.
"Travelling from the nearest village from Platjan Bridge, is just a bad road. I bet the bridge will be useless, just to put it mildly," the engineer stressed out. In addition SPEDU Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Mokubung Mokubung concurred with the engineer as he raised the concern "a thirty (30) kilometre stretch of road, linking the bridge to serviced roads between Bobirwa and Selebi-Phikwe, and the rest of the Region – is not tarred."
The CEO however continued: "an additional 221 million pula is (therefore) needed for the construction of the road. The cost breakdown has been submitted to Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry (MITI) for consideration," though it appears government is not forthcoming. The bridge remains controversial as there has been a dispute also concerning the tender in relation to the construction of the bridge which dragged for some time before the actual project took off.
From 104 to 110 million: Bridge construction delayed, incurs more costs
Meanwhile, Gideon Msakwa, the resident engineer representing Wellfield Consulting Engineers, who was also the media tour guide, confirmed that the project has been delayed and obviously will incur more costs. When asked if the need for 3 months extension, from June to August this year, involve the cost over runs? Msakwa did not hesitate to avow: "Yes it does." He continued: The project cost, at inception stage was 104 million pula, we budgeted for 104 million and now we are at 110 million pula.
The project engineer justified that they were supposed to finish in June this year but were delayed for 3 months running the project now to August. Which means our targeted completion date is 30th August 2019, he said. He explained that "for the interest of everybody, what delayed us was we had a little bit of logistics problems with regard to acquisition of the primary materials.
We ended up sourcing most of our construction material from the SA side and so literally we were down for 5 months. I would say ground breaking was in January but we started in May losing 5 months." But as am speaking to you right now, we are standing on 85 million pula that is the value of the project which equates to the amount of work done to date, he said adding that the money will go to 110 million at the end of the project.
He stated that in terms of percentage wise, they covered about 80 to 85% as of now adding that "we are done with the main works. What we are doing now is called finishing down on the Botswana side and on the South African side."
60 Batswana employed at the construction of Platjan Bridge
According to the Wellfield Consulting Engineer, the construction of the bridge project, attracted a staff complement of 60 Batswana including the contractors' personnel and 4 supervisors (excluding 1 Zimbabwean). He explained the bridge construction as "a bilateral project by South Africa and Botswana."
"This Platjan Bridge is at Botswana's costs. This is a bilateral project and the agreement was that Botswana will construct the Platjan Bridge while SA on the other hand will construct the Ramotswa Bridge. So SA constructed the long constructed Ramotswa Bridge. We also now are completing our end of the equation," he said. Apart from Platjan Bridge, there are 2 more bridges that are being constructed in the country, that is, Kwazungula; and the other one is at Mohembo.
Specifications of the multimillion pula Platjan Bridge project
The resident engineer representing Wellfield Consulting Engineers explained the project specifications: "It's a 155 meters long bridge. The overall of the width of the bridge is 12.7 meters. From the existing bridge to the top of the new bridge is 7.5 meters. So all in all we are talking of a project, the overall length of the project is 560 meters."
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Cachapoal Province
Provincia de Cachapoal
Province of Chile
Square and cathedral in Rancagua
Cachapoal, in red, in the O'Higgins Region
Location in Chile
Coordinates: 34°13′S 70°47′W / 34.217°S 70.783°W / -34.217; -70.783Coordinates: 34°13′S 70°47′W / 34.217°S 70.783°W / -34.217; -70.783
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Coínco
Coltauco
Doñihue
Graneros
Las Cabras
Malloa
Peumo
Pichidegua
Quinta de Tilcoco
Requínoa
Rengo
Mostazal
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7,384.2 km2 (2,851.1 sq mi)
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Cachapoal Province (Spanish: Provincia de Cachapoal) is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins (VI). Its capital is the city of Rancagua.
The province is named after the Cachapoal river that flows through the province from east to west.
Geography[change | change source]
The Cachapoal province has an area of 7,384.2 sq mi (19,125 km2), the largest province in the O'Higgins region.[2]
Cachapoal is a landlocked province (it does not border the ocean) and is bordered to the north by the Santiago Metropolitan region, to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Colchagua province and to the west by the Cardenal Caro province.[2]
Places next to Cachapoal Province
Santiago Metropolitan region
Cardenal Caro province
Colchagua province
Most of the province is in the valley of the Cachapoal river; it is region where grapes are grown to produce wine.
Population[change | change source]
The people from the province are called Cachapoalino (women: Cachapoalina).
As of 2002[update] (last national census), there were 542,901 people living in the province, giving it a population density of 73.5 inhabitants/km².[2]
The largest city of the province is Rancagua, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 206,971 inhabitants, followed by the city of Rengo (30,891 inhabitants).
Administration[change | change source]
As a province, Cachapoal is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 17 communes (comunas). The city of Rancagua serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.
Area[2]
Population[2]
06101 14 Rancagua Rancagua 260.3 214,344 823.4
06102 1 Codegua Codegua 286.9 10,796 37.6
06103 2 Coínco Coínco 98.2 6,385 65.0
06104 3 Coltauco Coltauco 224.7 16,228 72.2
06105 4 Doñihue Doñihue 78.2 16,916 216.3
06106 5 Graneros Graneros 112.7 25,961 230.4
06107 6 Las Cabras Las Cabras 749.2 20,242 27.0
06108 7 Machalí Machalí 2,586.0 28,628 11.1
06109 8 Malloa Malloa 112.6 12,872 114.3
06110 9 Mostazal Mostazal 523.9 21,866 41.7
06111 10 Olivar Olivar 44.6 12,335 276.6
06112 11 Peumo Peumo 153.1 13,948 91.1
06113 12 Pichidegua Pichidegua 320.0 17,756 55.5
06114 13 Quinta de Tilcoco Quinta de Tilcoco 93.2 11,380 122.1
06115 15 Rengo Rengo 591.5 50,830 485.1
06116 16 Requínoa Requínoa 673.3 22,161 32.9
06117 17 San Vicente San Vicente 475.8 40,253 84.6
Total of the Cachapoal province 7,384.2 542,901 73.5
Provinces of Chile
↑ "Conozca a la Gobernadora". Gobernación - Provincia de Cachapoal (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 October 2016.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Región del Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2016.
Other websites[change | change source]
Territorial division of Chile (in Spanish)
Gobierno Regional de O'Higgins Official website (in Spanish)
Province of Cachapoal website (in Spanish)
Retrieved from "https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cachapoal_Province&oldid=8197296"
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" Calendula is the golden flower of to promote emotional warmth, tolerance and compassion, the flower of listening "
We were blessed with another beautiful evening, however the plants have been rather drained by the intense heat here in the garden, but we managed to rustle up a soothing herbal tea just for Women. This tea accompanied the delicious Calendula and Carrot cake we shared at the end of the meeting. I have to say I sweated buckets making this cake for the WI as they are know for being very good cake makers. It was lovely to have such a large group come to the Gathering Fields and I was touched by the engagement of our local community. So here I am happy to share the recipes and information for the Tea we blended.
Calendula - The magical flower for communication. It helps gut health, sluggish liver, breast congestion and breast lumps, ideal for a sluggish system, lethargy, fibroids, pelvic inflammation, thrush, lymphatic congestion and ovarian cysts. This herb really helps early menopausal symptoms and low self esteem. It is a great skin healer and perfect for fungal infections.
Mugwort - Lifts depression and anxiety, cleanses the womb and balances hormones, superb for Sciatica. an ideal herb to help us to bring clarity to our dreams.
Lemon Balm - Clears brain fog and aids concentration, very good for fever, it elevates the mood lifting depression and confusion. A very soothing herb for children.
Recipe: Take a small handful of each herb and place in a tea pot, add a small amount of cool water first then apply the boiling water this prevents the plant becoming to shocked. Let that stand for 25 mins the strain and drink . It can also be cooled and drunk as a cool drink.
The Gathering Fields "Beautiful Herbal Body Cream for Women"
2.5 oz Fresh herbal of the women's tea infusion about 3oz. Strain it afterwards and set to one side to cool.
Melt beeswax on low heat. Then add coconut oil until melted, and then olive oil. When the mixture is all melted, pour it into blender and let it cool to room temperature. When cooled, measure out the "waters" ingredients into a measuring cup, turn the blender on high, and slowly pour in the waters into the blender. Stop the blender to stir and scrape sides as needed until fully emulsified into a fluffy white cream. Then add lavender essential oil and do the final blend. Store in glass jars, and keep out of direct sun and heat. Use it up - this is a fresh, perishable delight!


Claudia Benson is a fully qualified health kinesiology practitioner, registered as a full member under the Kinesiology Federation. Practicing kinesiology since 2002. The Kinesiology Federation is the principle regulatory body of professional kinesiologists which guarantees standards in training, insurance, code of ethics, supervision, and continuing professional development. Claudia annually takes courses to update her kinesiology skills and knowledge.
There is a choice of 2 London locations: in the City by Liverpool Street station, and East Finchley, North London. Plus at weekends – in Wirral, Merseyside.
Sessions are 50 minutes to an hour; session fee is £65.
I provide individuals with the remedy for, and respite from their deep stresses, and improve clients overall health, and contentment as well as improving function of the gut, organs, and other glands.
I also find the emotional and psychological stress and allergy, contributory aspects to any physical issues that the client is experiencing. e.g. Hormonal imbalances, IBS, skin conditions, insomnia, and anxiety are all exasperated by stress and allergy.
I take time and care and kindness to connect with my client's emotional issues that area affecting their overall health and are troubling them. I work hands on with individuals in the kinesiology session using acupressure, flower essences, essential oils, polarity magnets, and emotional stress release techniques that go back to the past where the stress originated at a previous time in the client's life.
For each session I take into account my clients' stated desired outcomes for the session and apply that to what can be read in their energy body in order to find out what kinesiology work is needed.
I coach patients during the session work, and use kinesiology muscle testing to discover what is really going on for them and to balance the subtle energy and psyche stress component of their complaints.
After a kinesiology session with me my clients care better equipped to overcome emotional and psychological stress and physical problems. They become a stronger person both inside and outside, lasting beyond the session.
In addition work can be done to reduce geopathic and geopsychic stress in the home as a separate consultation. Sometimes there are disturbances in the home or office environment that can be contributing to symptoms such as previous inhabitants' energy, neighbours, electromagnetic fields, nearby building work etc.
I always welcome any enquiries if you are wondering if my health kinesiology therapy can help you with your particular concern/s.
Health Kinesiology Professional Practitioner (HK UK Studies); TFH Practitioner (Touch For Health); ASK Kinesiology Nutritional Therapy Certification; Systematic Kinesiology Foundation, as well as annual Systematic Kinesiology courses as continuing professional development. CPCAB Counselling Skills; MTI Practitioner Diploma in Holistic Massage (Massage Training Institute); Emotional Freedom Technique, EFTI; Reiki Master (9th in line to Usui), Sekeim I,II. Geopathic Stress Dowsing and Geopsychic Stress Certificate, (British Society of Dowsers).
Appointments can be booked with Claudia directly – do please ring or email using the 'Send a message' form in Contacts Page.
Please contact Claudia Benson directly by phone on 020 7 272 4121 to arrange an appointment or email using the 'Send a message' in the Contact Page on this website.


Dashavatar - The Ten Incarnations of Lord Vishnu.
Lord Vishnu is the protector and preserver of the world and restorer of dharma. Dharma means peace and justice - its the order in the universe. Lord Vishnu is in charge of making sure that Dharma prevails in the universe.
"Whenever Dharma, or the situation of law and order, is endangered on this world, I shall incarnate onto this world to re-establish Dharma, law and order, and to protect the good people and to destroy the evil elements of the society….Lord Vishnu.
When in Avatar, God is like one of us….He is born on this planet, he grows up here and then when the time is right imparts His knowledge upon us. It is always easier to understand and appreciate someone who is one of us, someone who is among us - Its like when as a parent you are trying to teach good things in life to your child, the best way to do this is by example - by living a good life. Kids learn more by example and less by rules.
In the next coming ten posts I will post about each of these Avatars….
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On 10 June, 2015 we paraded our (ok it's a model) heroine Lydia Hardy through Chesham High Street in a sedan chair. Huge thanks to Chesham Bois Catholic Players for the loan of the magnificent costumes and to everyone who stopped to chat, waved or beeped their car horns at us!
Chesham – Buckinghamshire's first Fairtrade town!
On 29th March 2005 became the first Fairtrade Town in Buckinghamshire. The first certificate was officially handed to 'Chesham4Fairtrade' by local MP Cheryl Gillan at The Elgiva Theatre. In 2015, the town's Fairtrade status was renewed for the 10th consecutive year. Thank you to who have helped and supported along the way, and those who have bought Fairtrade locally!
Lydia Hardy, nee Priest (1755-1794) Chesham's early Fairtrade pioneer!
Born in Chesham in April 1755, Lydia was the daughter of Chesham carpenter, Nathaniel Priest.
In February 1771, when Lydia was 15, her father took out a short lease on a premises on Pillory Green (now The Broadway) which included a property with a woodshed and garden leading down to 'the brook'. Given the description of this property, this is most likely near where Oxfam is today, and is so far the only known address for Lydia Priest's time in Chesham.
In 1781, Lydia married Thomas Hardy who was a Scottish shoe-maker living in London. They moved to Piccadilly in 1791 to develop his shoe-making business. Not long after, Thomas was one of those who founded the London Corresponding Society, a radical group which supported 'universal suffrage' – or at least giving votes to all men.
Lydia also supported her husband in the anti-slavery campaign. The former slave and author, Olaudah Equiano stayed with them in London for a time. Lydia campaigned actively for the boycott of sugar from the West Indies – in a letter she wrote to her husband from Chesham in April 1792 while she was unwell, she asked about what was going on in Parliament over the slave trade. She also mentioned that other people in the town wereboycotting sugar from the West Indies. That same year, Chesham was one of many towns and cities which sent a petition to Parliament protesting against the slave trade (thanks to Alison Foster for this information).
Thomas Hardy was later arrested, charged with treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London. He was held in a small room with a window over the Western Gate (where the gift shop now stands outside the Tower of London main entrance!).
Lydia, heavily pregnant with their 6th child, often visited Thomas in prison. But on one occasion when she was at home, a mob gathered outside the Hardy's home in Piccadilly. They were celebrating an English naval victory over the French and were targeting anyone they saw as sympathetic with the French Revolution. They started to attack the property, and with the help of some neighbours, Lydia managed to squeeze through a rear window to escape the mob. However, her unborn child died as a result.
Shortly afterwards, on the 17th August 1794, while visiting Thomas in the Tower, she was seized with labour pains. The child was delivered still-born and Lydia died very soon afterwards. None of the Hardy children survived infancy.
Thomas and his colleagues were cleared of treason and released to great public jubilation. His carriage was pulled through the streets by those who came to celebrate his release. They stopped for a moment of silence outside Hardy's home. Soon after, Thomas went to visit his wife's grave. Lydia had been buried in the grounds of St. Martin-in-the-Fields (her remains were probably among those disinterred to make way for a new road constructed beside the church, Duncannon Street).
The memory of Lydia has been obscured by time and city development. But as an early campaigner for democracy and against the slave trade, she remains a Chesham heroine and one of Chesham's first Fairtrade campaigners. So, Chesham's Fairtrade status is perhaps over 200 years old!
Chesham Museum, CBS, PRO, DNB, Tower of London and David Vincent, Testaments of Radicalism: Memories of Working Class Politicians, 1790-1885, and Claire Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780-1870 and JR Oldfield, Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery.