MUSKEGON — Five new board members, plus goals and strategies for 2009 — including the goal of increasing the number of women- and minority-owned businesses — have been announced by Cindy Larsen, president of the Muskegon Area Chamber of Commerce.
Named to the 15-person board are Ed Garner, Muskegon Area First; Tracy Bailey, Huntington Bank; Larry Hines, Hines Corp.; Mike Olthoff, Nichols Paper and Supply; and Jason Piasecki, Qonverge.
Outgoing board members are Camille Jourden-Mark, Michigan's Adventure; Bob Cutler, Muskegon Brake; and Gary Post, Port City Construction & Development Services LLC.
"We are proud to have the area's most respected business leaders on our board guiding our activities," said Larsen.
Wes Eklund, president of Fleet Engineers and chairman of the chamber's board of directors, said the most valuable chamber assets are its volunteers.
"These individuals have invested their valuable resources; their time and talent to support a cause they believe in — the mission of the chamber," said Eklund.
The Muskegon Area Chamber has a full slate of goals for 2009 and strategies for achieving them. As in previous years, the chamber publishes the goals set by each of its committees, which include Government Affairs, Community Promotions, Diversity, Ambassador, Entrepreneur and Events. The chamber has over 1,200 members representing all sectors of the Muskegon area economy, according to Larsen.
This year, the chamber published all of the committee's goals and strategies in one comprehensive document — the 2009 Strategic Plan, which can be found on its Web site, www.muskegon.org. On the home page, open the drop-down menu under About the Chamber and click on Community Leadership for a link to the 2009 plan.
The first goal listed is "increase the utilization of and help to grow women and minority-owned businesses," and the first strategic step toward that goal will be to update and place online the Women- and Minority-Owned Business Directory.
Larsen said the directory has been online in the past but a whole new system was recently put in place for the chamber database, so the directory has to be updated before it is added. Updating that information has to be done "the hard way," she said, by canvassing the business community to find out which businesses are women- and minority-owned.
"That's not information you can easily get your hands on," said Larsen.
There are a number of strategies spelled out for achieving the first goal, including "Promote Business Case for Cultural Competency."
Larsen said competency in this case is being "astute and inclusive," to support the "concept of making sure we are a community that's welcoming to all."
There is an obvious business case in that, she noted: "If you have a product you're marketing, you have to be sure your marketing message appeals to all cultures or you might be missing a huge segment of the potential customer base."
For example, there might be a lot of buying power in the Hispanic community, "so making sure you have information (about your product) available in Spanish could be very important."
To help increase the numbers of minority professionals in Muskegon County, the chamber will host two multicultural meet-and-greet events, one focused specifically on interns at area businesses and organizations.
Another major goal is to provide chamber members with opportunities to develop relationships with elected officials. Strategies in support of that goal will include a tour hosted by the chamber for elected officials from other communities.
Larsen said the Muskegon Area Chamber has organized tours of the Muskegon area in the past for appointed government officials, such as city managers and township supervisors, but not for elected officials. She said they are expanding the focus to include elected officials throughout the Muskegon region because the chamber is a county-wide organization and "there were a lot of new people elected into local offices this year."
"We want to go beyond the city manager and township supervisor," and "make sure we're inviting people who are new to office — anyone who is interested in finding out more about what's happening in Muskegon County today."
"We'll do that when the weather is nice. We traditionally do things like that in the spring and early fall," said Larsen. In the past, the chamber has brought in tour groups comprised of members of specifically targeted individuals, such as business owners in Grand Rapids and real estate sales professionals.
"The best way to sell Muskegon is to show Muskegon," said Larsen. "We can talk about it all day long, but when people actually see the changes that have taken place, that's when they get excited about the future of our community."
Another goal will be to influence government to "make pro-business decisions, creating a positive climate for economic success." A strategy in support of that goal is to advocate for state-of-the-art infrastructure locally, which she said includes the Muskegon airport, public transit, wastewater treatment, and more.
Infrastructure provides access to commerce, so there's a connection between the level of commerce a region can support and the infrastructure there, Larsen said.
Larsen also noted that infrastructure today includes telecommunications.
Infrastructure is more important than ever, she added.
"Especially right now, in light of the Obama stimulus packages that are being discussed. What we want to do, in our government affairs committee, is make sure we get as much of that infrastructure support dollars into our community as possible, for the benefit of business."
Too often, said Larsen, people in general "take for granted how important community infrastructure is in helping business to succeed."


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''Mental health'', ''adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)'', ''neuroscience'' and ''self-regulation'' are just a few terms enjoying attention in Early Years (EY) arenas at present, with leadership teams, teachers and education consultants each attempting to make sense of them and apply them to their practice. You may well be thinking that this is a positive step for the workforce and that policy-makers are seeing sense. Unfortunately, it is not that simple.
This article (the first of two) will explore a key reason why, which affects everyone who has children or who educates and cares for them in a professional context – this being self-regulation (SR).
In England, the revised Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Early Learning Goals (ELGs) met with much criticism, given its reduced emphasis on physical development and, particularly, the introduction of self-regulation (SR). Without labouring this point too much, introducing a weighty concept like SR without aligning it to urgent revision of workforce qualifications, training and CPD will prove damaging to children and practitioners alike.
Getting It Right for Every Child (2012).
The Curriculum for Excellence is great. We don't see it as curriculum but a right, so it is addressed in our trilogy of documents (Building the Ambition, Growing Up in Scotland and Getting It Right for Every Child). We never use one without the other.
But, while reading through these documents it occurred me that all this (much needed) emphasis on nurture, healthy attachments and reciprocity will all but disappear when children start school. The 2017-2018 school year saw the introduction of the Scottish Government's tablet-based National Standardised Assessment (SNSA) with Primary 1 children required to sit a test in literacy and numeracy.
In England, we are currently faced with the re-introduction of the Baseline Assessment in England in 2020, at the beginning of the reception year (the equivalent of Scotland's P1). How on earth can these totally meaningless, irrelevant and abstract tests be deemed an accurate picture of children's ability? Especially as they cause deep distress in children who are far too young, can barely read (if at all) and often have sensory integration difficulties or have experienced trauma?
All these – and much more, shape a child's neurological development and subsequent behaviour, indeed they are at the child's core sense of self. Despite the growing raft of advice outlining the damage caused by early testing on mental and emotional health on a nation of children already struggling to cope, coupled with intense campaigning and reviews, both the P1 SNSA and England's Baseline Assessment will be going ahead.
No labelling and more understanding please!
It seems that our governments are interested in pushing academic subjects over and above the nurturing the mental health of children. The ''behaviour management'' policies and practices that follow are therefore inevitable. We are hence left with the ''naming and shaming'' of children through strategies that serve no other purpose than to achieve compliance through fear of this humiliation This insistence on labelling children does not lead to good outcomes for the child; instead it perpetuates a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Being pressured to read, write and reckon at an increasingly younger age is causing stress and anxiety in children. This must stop. Earlier this year, the mental health charity, Young Minds wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister, stating that pupils' well-being should be considered as important as academic achievement, calling for full funding of well-being initiatives. While some settings are taking the initiative and building in time to connect with children to better nurture their psychological well-being, there is a lack of encouragement from policy-makers and school for them to do so. This results in few settings daring to put greater emphasis on nurturing children's psychological well-being over academic outcomes because quite simply, it is not viewed as important enough.
We need to see emotional vocabulary above those academic outcomes – alongside self-regulation. We need our children to feel happy, secure and to be resilient before we can expect any of those academic outcomes to be attained, especially at such an early age.
Watch out for Part 2 of this blog, in which Mine Conkbayir explains the healthy development of self-regulation (SR).


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The Turnbull government has announced plans for legislation to compel tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google to unscramble the encrypted communications increasingly used by terrorists and criminals to thwart the efforts of security organisations and the police.
The government's intention to expand telecommunications security legislation to include 'over the top' application and service providers – many of whom are international technology companies – should be welcomed, particularly if the legislation includes the requirement for a warrant to be served prior to encrypted material being decrypted.
Whilst delivering the national security statement on June 13, the Prime Minister highlighted how terrorists and criminals were utilising encrypted electronic communications.
"Encryption for example is a vital piece of security for every user of the Internet, protecting all of us as we go about our lives, from shopping, to banking, to chatting online," Mr Turnbull said.
"And of course, they [the messages] reside there even after they've been deleted for varying periods," he said.
Mr Turnbull is very aware of the need for consumer privacy and electronic security.
But he is equally aware of the need for intelligence and law enforcement agencies to have the tools necessary to carry out their jobs.
Australia's telecommunication laws were updated earlier this decade (Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011) to force carriers and internet service providers (ISPs) to preserve stored communications, when requested by certain domestic authorities (such as the AFP), or when requested by those authorities acting on behalf of nominated foreign countries.
This means a warrant is needed before the police or security agencies can force carriers or ISPs to monitor, capture and store website use, data transmissions, voice and multimedia calls, and all other forms of communication over the digital network.
However, there remained concern that the changes made to the Telecommunications Act 1997 and Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 did not adequately address services and applications provided by "over the top" service providers, like Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google.
The government's track record on telecommunications reform has had its ups and downs recently. The bungled Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Amendment (Data Retention) Bill 2015 outraged privacy advocates because it gave access to stored metadata, without a court order, to more government departments and agencies than is reasonable. And ultimately it is questionable whether personal information is protected from being discovered when metadata is released.
A key reason why the government's telecommunications reform agenda has been supported in some instances and strongly criticized in others has been its failure to adequately separate national security and serious crime-related legislation from that dealing with other matters, including trade, commerce and consumer law, as well as copyright and intellectual property protection.
"It has always been accepted that in appropriate cases, under warrant, there can be lawful surveillance of private communications," Senator Brandis said.
Australia is not alone in its efforts to ensure that legislation keeps pace with technology. The legislation follows in the footsteps of the United Kingdom's Investigatory Powers Act 2016 and New Zealand's Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act that was passed in 2013.
The complexity of what the government seeks to achieve should not be underestimated.
There are a large number of 'over the top' apps and service providers that operate from jurisdictions that are not likely to support the new security legislation. Does this mean that the government might look to block these 'over the top' services that repeatedly fail to unscramble encrypted electronic communications when ordered by a court?
There is also the issue of encrypted virtual private network (VPN) connections, which might be argued are different to messaging and other electronic communications applications.
The new security legislation should be clearly written and targeted to provide security organisations and the AFP with a vital tool in their fight against threats to the nation and serious crime.
It is equally important that the new security legislation does not provide unwarranted and unacceptable outcomes including the opportunity for big corporations, multi-nationals and the myriad of local, state and federal government departments and agencies to gain access to private encrypted communications in circumstances other than that provided for by existing legislation.


Warren Buffett is unlike most CEOs in terms of sheer wealth and how he thinks about doing business for his fellow Berkshire Hathaway shareholders.
For decades, the 88-year old billionaire has stressed the virtues of long-term investing and championed the pursuit of hidden value in an often ginned up stock market. Buffett has also made it no secret that he has a burning distaste for quarterly earnings reporting.
By executives focusing on making a quarterly earnings number — which is compiled by usually biased Wall Street analysts — Buffett believes it comes at the expense of instituting the correct decisions for the long-term health of the business.
Even after all these years of following the Oracle of Omaha, it may be striking to some to hear Buffett proclaim Berkshire has no company-wide budget and doesn't prepare monthly earnings reports. The behavior is remarkable, especially compared to the numerous quick buck artists that continue to man corporate C-suites.
Talk about Buffett sending a clear message to the well-paid executives occupying the comfy C-suites at other public companies. Most CEO's, however, are simply unable to put Buffett's long-termism into practice.
Pick your reason as to why.
For starters, countless big corporations link compensation plans of their top executives to earnings per share growth and stock price performance versus competitors. Hence, top executives are inclined to do everything they can — from buying back stock to temporarily cutting back on marketing expenses — to "make" an earnings number each quarter that pleases the Wall Street wolves.
But, those actions could come at the expense of long-term value creation. No matter, said top executives will be retired and rich when that long-term arrives — right?
Berkshire Hathaway's culture, set by Buffett and long-time partner Charlie Munger, precludes it from living in the today as most leading executives usually do.
Meanwhile, many executives are obsessed with how their stock price performs each day. If the stock puts in a few bad weeks, the executive team could try and cook up ways to boost the stock temporarily (see possible actions above). Again, Buffett is not concerned with short-term movements in Berkshire Hathaway's stock mostly given confidence in the businesses (and their managers) and investments he owns.
And hey, Buffett's track record when it comes to value creation is virtually unmatched.
Buffett isn't the only prominent CEO to rail against quarterly earnings reporting. Blackrock's Larry Fink, a vocal opponent, and former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi are keen on releasing earnings every six months. In August 2018, President Donald Trump said he had asked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to study a six-month reporting system.
No updates from the Trump administration or SEC have been forthcoming.
But it's likely the system of quarterly earnings reporting will be revised as it creates undue market volatility and fosters bad practices inside companies. Business news TV networks cringe at the prospect (say goodbye to that stream of quarterly CEO interviews…), but shareholders of big and small companies should view it favorably.
Yet again, the Oracle is dead on.


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Becoming a PCMH: How one physician transformed his practice
James L. Holly, MD describes how stayed ahead of the curve by transforming his group into a patient-centered medical home.
Ever since James L. Holly, MD, began practicing family medicine in 1975, dictation and transcription frustrated him as a means of recording what transpired during patient visits. In 1998, two years after forming a group practice, he convinced his partners to invest in a $650,000 system for electronic health records.
"Everybody laughed at us," recalls Holly, 72, co-founder and chief executive officer of Southeast Texas Medical Associates LLP, or SETMA for short, which consists of 44 multi-specialty providers and operates six clinics in the Beaumont area. "Needless to say, they stopped laughing a long time ago."
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Leveraging the latest technology has been one of Holly's fundamental best practices for preparing to transform his group into a Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Other principles entail building partnerships between individuals and their personal physicians, and when appropriate, involving patients' family members in the decision-making process.
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Within this framework, the personal physician becomes a patient's first advocate in navigating the maze of comprehensive and continuous care, taking responsibility for ongoing medical needs as well as arranging care with other qualified professionals. This continuum includes all stages-from preventive services to acute and chronic care to end-of-life choices. "We believe that 'medical home' is the future," Holly says, referring to the "triple aim" in health care-enlisting patients as collaborators in their own care to improve outcomes and lower costs.
Holly led his 13-partner group in the efforts to receive PCMH recognition from four entities-The Joint Commission, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) Tier III, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission (URAC). "We wanted to learn everything we could, and we discovered that each one gave us more insight," he says.
In 2008, Holly and his partners formalized The SETMA Foundation, which assists eligible patients in covering co-payments and other medical expenses that may hinder them from obtaining care. Each year, the partners have contributed $500,000 to the foundation. The funds are used to provide for the care of SETMA patients, when it is needed, outside the medical group.
To make quality improvements in practice operations and patient care, Holly believes physicians need to generate computerized reports measuring their current performance against national standards. In other words, he suggests: "Face where we are, even if it's not where we want to be." Harnessing the "power of analytics" is the first step in setting goals on the road to progress.
Seven years ago, the practice began publishing quality metrics for each provider on its website. The statistics, updated quarterly, show how each physician performs in managing panels of patients. "Our patients are transparent with us, so we ought to be transparent with them," says Holly, adjunct professor of family and community medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and clinical associate professor in the department of internal medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center in Bryan, Texas.
Altering the dynamics of patient interactions is also a central component of the medical home model of care. By listening to a patient-and treating the whole person, not simply the disease-a physician can instill a sense of value, or worth, "which is the first thing necessary for successful treatment," Holly explains. Feelings of hope and trust then fuel the power to make profound changes. "That's all that a medical home is."


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Fitch Cuts U.S. Outlook to 'Negative'
Fitch affirms its 'AAA' rating on the U.S. debt, but revises its outlook to "negative" because of declining confidence in the sustainability of government finances.
Antoine Gara
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Monday affirmed its 'AAA' rating on United States' long-term debt but revised its outlook to "negative" because of declining confidence in the sustainability of government finances.
The change follows the failure of the Congressional Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to agree on a $1.2 trillion deficit reduction plan earlier in November, and puts the federal government's triple-A rating under increasing risk.
In August,
lowered its rating on U.S. debt by one notch to 'AA+', the first downgrade from 'AAA' in the country's history. Also in August,
maintained its top rating for the U.S. government debt -- a view it has held since 1917 -- but placed the rating under "negative" status, signaling a potential cut in the future.
In its report released Monday, Fitch said its negative outlook indicates a 50% chance of a downgrade in the next two years. "Failure to reach agreement in 2013 on a credible deficit reduction plan and a worsening of the economic and fiscal outlook would likely result in a downgrade of the U.S. sovereign rating," the agency said in its statement.
In addition to uncertainty over the ability of Congress to reach agreement over spending cuts, Fitch cited increasing questions over tax receipt projections as a result of lingering unemployment and slow economic growth.
As for the $1 trillion in spending reductions that will be triggered automatically if Congress can't reach a consensus, Fitch wrote, "Further deficit reduction will not be credible if it relies solely on further cuts in discretionary spending rather than reform to entitlements and taxation."
Presently, Fitch calculates that the U.S. government's debt will exceed 90% of gross domestic product and that interest costs on the debt will eclipse 20% of tax revenue by 2020. Those debt levels and a GDP growth rate below 2.25% in coming years would challenge the triple-A rating, Fitch said.
In November, third-quarter GDP was revised downward to 2% from a first estimate of 2.5%. Meanwhile, the U.S. budget deficit grew to $1.3 trillion or 8.7% of GDP as of the fiscal year ended in September - the third highest level of indebtedness relative to output since World War II, only eclipsed by 2009 and 2010.
After the U.S. debt downgrade by S&P in August, yields on 10-year notes fell below 2%, reaching record lows as fears of a recession and the eurozone sovereign debt crisis pushed investors to seek safe haven in U.S. bonds. Since 2007, the amount of Treasury debt sold to investors has doubled to $9.7 trillion according to government statistics.
Fitch said it will shortly publish updated projections of growth and the government's fiscal position, however 'in the absence of material adverse shocks' that may come from Congressional deficit reduction plans or the 2012 presidential elections, it doesn't expect any ratings action or a resolution to its negative outlook until late 2013.
Presently, Fitch calculates that the U.S. government's debt will exceed 90% of gross domestic product and that interest costs on the debt will eclipse 20% of tax revenue by 2020. Those debt levels and a GDP growth rate below 2.25% in coming years would challenge its AAA rating, Fitch said.
In November, third quarter gross domestic product was revised downward to 2% from a first estimate of 2.5%. Meanwhile the U.S. budget deficit grew to $1.3 trillion or 8.7% of GDP as of the fiscal year ended in September - the third highest level of indebtedness relative to output since just after World War II. In 2011, the deficit narrowed from levels reached in 2009 and 2010 as the government implemented programs to help the economy recover from the worst recession since the Great Depression.
After the U.S. debt downgrade by S&P in August, yields on 10-year Treasury notes fell below 2% to record lows as fears of a recession and Eurozone crisis overcame increasing credit risk and pushed investors to the safety of Treasuries. Since 2007, the amount of Treasury debt sold to investors has doubled to $9.7 trillion according to Treasury statistics.
Fitch plans to publish updated projections of growth and the government's fiscal position shortly but it doesn't expect any ratings action or a resolution to its negative outlook until late 2013. This view assumes an "absence of material adverse shocks" that may come from congressional deficit-reduction plans or the 2012 presidential elections.
-- Written by Antoine Gara in New York
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Parents say school closures setting wrong example to children
Annie Davidson
Published: 6:45 AM February 4, 2009
SCHOOLS are teaching their pupils bad lessons for the future when they close because of snow, a parents' group has claimed.
Margaret Morrissey, of campaign group Parents Outloud, said an emergency plan needed to be created which would allow more schools to stay open when bad weather hit.
Mrs Morrissey spoke out after a second day of school closures across the UK due to heavy snow, including 221 in Essex.
Although it was business as usual at many schools it was still estimated that some two million youngsters missed lessons across the country.
Mrs Morrissey said: "We are giving children the message that when things get difficult you should just stay at home and have fun.
"Then, when they keep taking sick days from work when they grow up we wonder why.
"Perhaps after this we should be looking down and looking at (health and safety) regulations and perhaps asking the Government to make some provision so we don't have to apply them quite as rigorously.
"The next occasion could be some years ago but it would be better to be organised and prepared.
"In my day all the children sat in the hall and you had the headteacher and one or two others reading to the children, doing quizzes, all those kinds of things.
"It was great fun, you were at school, you did get to go in the playground, you did get to play in the snow, we were taught things like not to make snow balls out of ice, all the things you have to learn as you grow up."
She also highlighted the difficulty for working parents having to find childcare at very short notice.
"It can be lots of fun (being off school) but it is not so much fun sitting at work worried sick what you are going to do with your children when the teachers are off," she said.
"When the teachers are off school they are still getting paid but a lot of parents who have to have a day off work lose a day's pay."
Mrs Morrissey added: "Lots of people will probably respond and say what is wrong with having some fun and I would say nothing is wrong with it and equally what is wrong with kids having a few days away with their parents?" referring to strict rules which govern children missing school in term time which can lead to parents being fined if they do not have permission from the headteacher.
In Essex, there were 450 schools closed on Monday which did not include private schools, nurseries, adult education centres and schools in the Southend and Thurrock areas. Yesterday that number had dropped to 221.
A spokesman for education authority Essex County Council said that every headteacher made an individual decision about whether their school should open but based this on guidelines issued by the council.
He said: "The decision rests with the headteacher of each school and closure is a last resort but they must have due regard for health and safety implications as well as the fact that some parents may need to arrange childcare.
"Pupil safety is the key factor and that includes getting home from as well as to school - for example on Monday when heavy snow was forecast in the afternoon it had to be considered about the effect on children going home."
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Aaron Davidson owns Cronometer, a Revelstoke based startup. The company grew out of his nerdy obsession with a cult diet. (Jake Sherman/Revelstoke Review)
B.C. man turns nerdy hobby into a million dollar startup
Aaron Davidson left behind a six figure corporate job to find meaning in the mountains of Revelstoke
Jake Sherman
Apr. 6, 2018 5:30 p.m.
Behind Aaron Davidson's humble and unassuming brown eyes is a reverent humanism. In 2011 Davidson left behind a six figure corporate job in Ireland developing software for a major company in search of love, meaning, fulfillment, and the possibility of a new beginning. At the time he was poised, prepared, and determined to make a change in his life, but uncertain of just what that might be.
In a strange twist of fate, and perhaps a sign that Davidson had been right to leave behind the high paying job he says gave him grey hairs, three months after the now 39 year-old software developer left his corporate gig in the bustling metropolis of Dublin, the CEO of the company he worked for was indicted by the United States of America for money laundering and fraud. It left him and others he worked with shocked. But after some serious soul-searching, and a whole lot of working on the side, Davidson ended up turning a nerdy obsession with a cult diet into a million-dollar startup with about 10 employees and a projected growth of about 80 per cent for the next fiscal year.
For the digital nomad who's never really settled in one place for very long, Revelstoke has become home base, and Cronometer, an open source hobby and obsession, has turned into a career.
Today, at any one time, Davidson says there are thousands of people using his app, and that 1.6 million people have created accounts. He says people are adding accounts at a rate of over 2000 a day.
Because of that, his company that helps people monitor their nutrition — telling them based on how much they exercise, how many calories they need to consume to stay healthy — is projected to make a million dollars in revenue this year, up from around $600,000 last year.
RELATED: Cronometer looks to lead the way in nutrition tracking
Subclinical magnesium deficiency: a principal driver of cardiovascular disease and a public health crisis https://t.co/oF3BzfAYYR
— Cronometer (@CRONoMeter) April 1, 2018
Davidson says Cronometer is projected to grow to 1.2 to 1.5 million in revenue next year.
The local entrepreneur was born in Penticton, moved to Edmonton at age one, and spent time in the Northwest Territories and Northern B.C. before settling in Kamloops where he went to Jr. High and high school.
At 17 Davidson left Kamloops to pursue an education in Computer Science at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
He spent six years there where he graduated with a Master's.
Davidson wrote his thesis on artificial intelligence and playing poker.
After he graduated he was interested in doing a PhD, but didn't have a topic. At the time his former supervisors had a biotech company and offered him a job. He took it.
Davidson worked there developing bioinformatics software for about a year.
Over time the company changed direction and decided to commercialize the poker A.I. Davidson had developed under his thesis supervisors during his time in university. As a result they ended up building a Texas Hold'em tool so you could play against the A.I. and learn to be a better poker player.
A year later he was headhunted and ended up with an offer from one of the biggest online poker companies in the world. That brought him to Dublin where his life changed direction.
Davidson spent four years there. But all the while his ex-wife had never been able to work on his work visa. So he decided it was her turn to live her dream, and Davidson walked away from his "stressful high paying job in a giant company of 800 people," to pursue meaning in the mountains. First in Canmore, and later in Revelstoke.
For about five years previous to that decision Davidson had been interested in what he calls a "nerdy diet" known as Caloric Restriction with Optimal Nutrition. The basic idea behind it is that you can prolong your lifespan by limiting the number of calories you consume in a day. However, you still need to satisfy your body's basic nutritional requirements. In his effort to live healthy, he couldn't find any software available to monitor his caloric input against his output; so he decided to build his own.
His open source software (which he developed on the side of his day job) grew organically, and Davidson maintained it as a hobby until eventually he decided to launch it as a formal service.
"It had grown, and I was getting a lot of e-mails. So I relaunched it as a service. It was really ugly and basic, but I started migrating users over to it. It was making a couple grand in revenue a month by the end of that year, but it wasn't going to pay rent," said Davidson.
At the same time as Davidson had begun to monetize the service, his friends who he had worked for in Edmonton, (but who had also been bought by the Irish company Davidson worked at) were laid off when the company went under during its criminal investigation by the U.S. government. So they decided to put their minds together and start a Seattle based startup that lasted about two years. All the while Cronomoter ran neglected in the background, but doubled in size each year.
Davidson then ended up working in another startup, and again left Cronometer running on its own. Still, Cronometer continued to grow. In fact, it grew another 60 per cent that year.
All of it was organic, and word of mouth. It made him realize that he had a business, and that he'd have to devote some serious time to it.
"It's been like a rocket ship," said Davidson. "That's how you know it's a good business."
So he moved to Revelstoke, bought a house in the Big Eddy, and decided to take Cronometer on full time.
Now, downtown Revelstoke has became cronometer's home base, and it could be just one of many budding and succesful tech startups to call our little valley home over the next decade.
@Jnsherman
jake.sherman@revelstokereview.com
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Terry Chambers: XTC's powerhouse drummer meets Caropop
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'She's Not There' and other great debut singles
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Gary Brooker, R.I.P.
Gary Brooker of Procol Harum has died, according to an obituary on the band's website. Ugh. He had one of the great, soulful voices in...
Ethan Russell and his close-ups with the Beatles, Stones and Who
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He has worked with the Symfonia Warsovia, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, and the Virtuosi di Praga. He currently works with the Solisten Europeen Luxemburg (since 2002), and has been a member of the Camerata Bregenz chamber orchestra since 2005. As a soloist, he has performed in almost every major European city, as well as in Japan; he has also played at a number of music festivals at home and abroad (for instance, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival). His activities in the field of chamber music are extensive. He has engaged in artistic partnerships with, for example, the cello players Arto Noras, Raphaёl Perraud, and Boris Barac, as well as with Bernoit Fromanger – flute, Sun-Yung Park – piano, and the dancer Nina Corti. He is a member of the Karinovo Trio (with Ján Timčák – violin, and Tomáš Nemec – piano), and since 2002, of the Trio Talich (with Marie-Pierre Vendôme – violin, and Jan Talich – viola). He has worked with the French Joachim Quartet since 2006.
Marek Brezovský: Piano Sonata No. 1 "The Way"
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"For once the little girl is victorious," says Mary Whalen Leonard of her portrait outside a principal's office.
Sometimes in life you have to take a beating — literally or figuratively — to stand up for the truth, yourself, a loved one, or something you truly believe in. And it's always worth the cost of that battle, as this girl's triumphant smile, even with that shiner, celebrates.
"My recollection of working out this picture with Norman [above] is one of laughter and fun. He showed me the sketch and wondered what I thought about it. I got it. It was about role reversal. For once the little girl was victorious, and it did not matter that she had a black eye. That was the mark of the trophy!


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La Model 19 è un'autovettura prodotta dalla Buick nel 1910. Nell'anno successivo fu sostituita da un modello simile, la Model 21, che restò in produzione fino al 1911.

Storia

Model 19 (1910)
La Model 19 era dotata di un motore a quattro cilindri in linea da 4.179 cm³ di cilindrata che erogava 28,9  CV di potenza. Il propulsore era anteriore, mentre la trazione era posteriore. Il moto alle ruote posteriori era trasmesso tramite un giunto cardanico. Il cambio era a tre rapporti. La carrozzeria, che era disponibile in due versioni contraddistinte da passi differenti, era disponibile solo con corpo vettura torpedo. In totale, ne furono assemblati 4.000 esemplari.

Model 21 (1911)
Nel 1911 la Model 19 fu sostituita dalla Model 21. Il motore della nuova vettura manteneva la cilindrata del predecessore, ma erogava 40 CV. La Model 21, a differenza della Model 19, era offerta anche in versione roadster. La Model 21 è stata assemblata in 3.000 esemplari.

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Model 19

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Discussion in 'MacBook Air' started by ISJB, May 11, 2015.
I got a new MacBook Air last Fall (around October-November 2014), and it is running 10.9.4. Would upgrading to Yosemite slow it down? I don't really want to download it if it'll slow my computer at all.
Is there any reason to upgrade?
Also, if I do upgrade, will it delete everything from my computer?
I got a new MacBook Air last Fall (around October-November 2014), and it is running 10.9.4. Would upgrading to Yosemite slow it down?
No, it runs about the same as Mavericks. Also, if you're still on 10.9.4 there isn't any reason not to at least update to 10.9.5.
Since that review there's also the Photos app as well as an improved Look Up feature.
I wouldn't think so. I haven't noticed any issues or slowing down on my 2013 Air. In fact, in some regards it feels a bit snappier. I also particularly like the new features they added with Yosemite in an effort to further utilize the Apple ecosystem.


Coppell Baseball Association is continuing the Challenger Baseball program and will be forming a team this spring. This program is for young athletes with disabilities, who are interesting in learning and playing the game of baseball. The team will consist of any boy or girl, age 7- 18, with special needs. Our goal is to put together a team to play in our fall and spring baseball seasona. The Challenger team will practice once a week and have a game on Saturday.
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Women Targeted on Twitter
by Kait Scalisi | May 18, 2015 | News, Sex Stories
By Kait Scalisi, MPH
Towards the end of 2014, Women, Action, Media (WAM), a nonprofit dedicated to building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in media, became an authorized reporter on Twitter. This status allowed them to monitor, report, and follow-up on instances of harassment experienced on the platform. From over 800 reports of harassment, WAM discovered disturbing patterns in online behavior and Twitter's response. They published their findings and recommendations this week.
Women experience significantly more and more severe forms of online harassment. WAM sought to quantify this data with a pilot study assessing the types and frequency of harassment. In three weeks, WAM processed over 800 reports and sent over 300 to Twitter. From there, Twitter took action on 161.
Examining the nearly 400 genuine harassment reports led to some interesting findings. These include
Bystanders play a huge role in reporting online harassment. Over 50% of reports received were submitted by someone other than the person being harassed. Most of these reports mentioned only one receiver of harassment.
Ongoing harassment is a problem. Nearly one-third of reports dealt with on-going harassment and over two-thirds mentioned having reported this problem to Twitter in the past. However, most harassing accounts were reported only once, indicating there's a lot of jerks out there.
Hate speech and doxxing (releasing someone's private information) were the most common forms of harassment. Together they accounted for nearly half of all reports. An additional 19% of reports did not fall neatly into any category.
Twitter took action in 55% of reported cases. In most cases, accounts were suspended. Only one account was deleted.
Twitter was more likely to take action on reports of hate speech. Twitter was much less likely to take action for other forms of harassment though they showed no favoritism towards longstanding accounts.
The reporting process is complicated. Harassment receivers must provide URLs, not screenshots. This makes it difficult to capture instances of harassment in which the perpetrator "tweets and deletes." Reviewing reports involves in-depth communication and may be triggering to reviewers.
There are four major challenges of proving harassment. These include: context, interpretation, mode, and format of evidence.
Taken together these conclusions highlight the need for more oversight and accountability for alleged harassers as well as updated policies. As a result of the results, WAM also made six specific suggestions.
More broadly and clearly define what constitutes online harassment and abuse.
Update the abuse reporting interface, using researched and tested trauma-response design methods.
Develop new policies which recognize and address current methods that harassers use to manipulate and evade Twitter's evidence requirements.
Expand the ability for users to filter out abusive mentions
Hold online abusers accountable for the gravity of their actions.
Diversify Twitter's leadership.
The report itself may not be super surprising if you've paid attention to online harassment incidences over the last few years. REgardless, the report is vital as its the first piece of well-researched evidence quantifiying how online harassment is going down- and what to do about it.
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While the FDA recommends lifting the lifetime ban on gay men donating blood (HuffPost Politics), the CDC dedicates $185M to prevent HIV among trans individuals and MSM. (Edge Boston)
Patients More Likely to Get HPV Vaccine After Electronic Health Record Prompts
Millennials More Tolerant of Premarital Sex, But Have Fewer Partners (Time)
Survey Says Teens Skip Birth Control Because They Fear Parental Judgment (CNN)
Military Sexual Assault Claims: 1 in 20 Lead to Jail Time (Military Times)
Illinois Legislature Advances Gender Identity Protection Bill (HRC)
Campus Sexual Assault Rates Are Up, But It's For a Good Reason: More Victims are Coming Forward (Slate)
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2015 Women of Color National Call to Action Summit and Conference, May 20.
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1. With the rack in the middle position, preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F). Line a 30 x 43-cm (12 x 17-inch) baking sheet with parchment paper, allowing the paper to overhang 2 opposite sides. Butter the paper.
2. In a small saucepan, melt the butter in the water. Let cool partially.
3. In a bowl, combine the flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, beat the eggs with the sugar and vanilla using an electric mixer until the mixture is thick and falls from the beaters in ribbons. With the mixer on low, add the dry ingredients, alternating with the butter mixture and the sour cream.
5. Spread the batter evenly over the baking sheet. Bake until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Let cool partially. Unmould with the paper (to help keep the cake moist). Let cool on a rack.
6. Trim the edges of the cake to straighten them. Cut into 2 rectangles 30 cm (12 inches) on their longest side.
1. In a bowl, toss the strawberries with 30 ml (2 tablespoons) sugar and the Grand Marnier. Let macerate for about 15 minutes.
2. In another bowl, whip the cream with the remaining sugar until stiff peaks form.
1. Lay 1 cake rectangle on a rectangular serving plate, paper side up. Remove the paper. Top with half the whipped cream and strawberries. Cover with the second cake rectangle. Remove the paper. Top with the remaining whipped cream and strawberries. Serve immediately.
2. Note: You can make this cake with other berries, such as raspberries, blueberries, blackberries and ground cherries.


Minions is a 2015 American computer-animated comedy film. Pierre Coffin and Kyle Badla directed the movie and produced by Chris Meledandri and Janet Healy. Also, The film stars the voices of Coffin (as the Minions, including Kevin, Stuart, and Bob), Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan and Jennifer Saunders. While Heitor Pereira composed the sound track. In addition, Claire Dodgson edited the movie.
Minions are small, yellow creatures who have existed since the beginning of time. On June 11, 2015, the movie released in London. The budget invested was $74 million. While the box office collection is $1.67 billion. Minions became the highest-grossing animated film of all time in 12 markets and Universal's highest-grossing film of all time in six.


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Q: Unable to locate element using selenium (Python) I have been trying to find a button a click on it but no matter what I try it has been unable to locate it. I have tried using all the driver.find_element_by... methods but nothing seems to be working
from selenium import webdriver
import time

driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path="/Users/shreygupta/Documents/ComputerScience/PythonLanguage/Automation/corona/chromedriver")
driver.get("https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus")
driver.maximize_window()
time.sleep(5)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[data-track-note='chart-click-data']").click()

I am trying to click the DATA tab on the screenshot below

A: Here is the logic that you can use, where the script will wait for max 30 for the Data menu item and if the element is present with in 30 seconds it will click on the element.
url = "https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-confirmed-cases-since-100th-case"
driver.get(url)
driver.maximize_window()
wait = WebDriverWait(driver,30)
wait.until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"a[data-track-note='chart-click-data']"))).click()

A: You can modify your script to open this graph directly:
driver.get("https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-cases-covid-19")
driver.maximize_window()

Then you can add implicitly_wait instead of sleep. An implicit wait tells WebDriver to poll the DOM for a certain amount of time when trying to find any element (or elements) not immediately available (from python documentation). It'll work way faster because it'll interact with an element as soon as it finds it.
driver.implicitly_wait(5)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector("a[data-track-note='chart-click-data']").click()

Hope this helps, good luck.

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The # 1 cause of an intermittent ABS ? TC light is a problem with one of the 4 wheel speed sensors or their respective connector(s). You said that your code reader showed no codes. What model of code reader do you have?
What model of code reader to you have?
Okay, that model code reader only reads OBD 2 codes and not ABS. Do this: ask your auto parts store to connect their ABS scan tool and check the ABS codes. Then you will know which sensor it is. Now it may be a wiring/connector issue at a particular sensor or the ABS module itself. Most Auto parts stores will do this as a courtesy and for no charge.
A wheel speed sensor or connector will cause that traction active message also.
I see, well get the ABS codes checked when you can.
Thank you!! I will leave this session open for a few days just in case you have any follow up questions.
Hmmmm, did you call more than one store?
Could installing a new wheel speed sensor cause p2004 to come up on my check engine light?


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Aces High is a 1976 war film starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter Firth, Christopher Plummer and Simon Ward. The film, which is an Anglo-French production, is based on the 1928 play Journey's End by R. C. Sherriff with additional material from the memoir Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis. It was directed by Jack Gold. The screenplay was written by Howard Barker.

Aces High turns the trench warfare of Journey's End into the aerial battles fought above the Western Front by the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in 1917. The film covers a week of a squadron where the high death rate puts an enormous strain on the surviving pilots. Many characters and plot lines are loosely based on those of Journey's End: the idealistic new officer who is killed at the end, and whose sister is the girlfriend of his tough but alcoholic commanding officer, the kindly middle-aged second-in-command (known as "Uncle" by the younger officers) who is killed on a dangerous intelligence-gathering mission ordered by the top brass, and the officer whose claims of neuralgia are taken to be cowardice.

Plot
In October 1916, fighter ace John Gresham (Malcolm McDowell) speaks to the senior class at Eton College. A year later, new recruit, 2nd Lt. Croft (Peter Firth), arrives at Gresham's temporary base in northern France. Gresham had been his house captain at Eton and is also the boyfriend of Croft's older sister.

Gresham relies on alcohol to continue flying because of severe combat stress. Faced with being responsible for the safety of Croft (and the potential impact his loss would have on his sister), Gresham drinks even more heavily. Croft is forced to learn quickly on how to survive - both in the air and on the ground - because aerial combat and squadron etiquette are both merciless. In his week-long rite of passage from naive schoolboy to military pilot, his youthful adoration of Gresham is replaced with respect as he comes to understand the severe strain endured by his commanding officer.

By the end of the week, Croft seems to have acquired the necessary combat skills when he shoots down his first plane. However, he is suddenly killed in an air-to-air collision with a German aircraft. Back at base, Gresham sees an apparition of an uninjured, smiling Croft through his office window. After the image fades, Gresham orders the next young replacement pilots to be brought in for his inspection.

Cast
(Name in brackets for the equivalent character in Journey's End.)

Production

Development
The idea for the film came from producer Benny Fisz, who had served in the RAF in the Second World War, who pitched the idea of remaking Journey's End to British director Jack Gold. Although initially wary of it being an aviation film, Gold agreed after Howard Barker revised the screenplay. Gold said he was attracted to the film because "That was innocence, extreme youth, marred lives of these pilots who knew they are going to die. And we could show not only chivalry  and bravery but also the fear." "What interests me is human relationships," said Gold. "Aces High has aerial battle scenes but they're not just thrown in. It has songs but they're not just cue music. They do tell something about the characters."

The movie was co-financed by EMI Films.

Casting
Peter Firth and Christopher Plummer joined Malcolm McDowell, who agreed to appear in the film because Gold had such a good reputation among actors at the time.

Filming
The shooting schedule took seven weeks with one week for rehearsal. Exteriors were shot in Spain and Southern England with principal photography at Booker Airfield, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, as well as St Katharine Docks and Eton College. Interiors were completed at Pinewood Studios.

The production paid close attention to authenticity with First World War era equipment being used throughout the film such as the airfield facilities, barracks and motor transport. The depicted squadron (known as 76 Squadron) is loosely based on 56 Squadron, which flew the S.E.5 that regained Allied air superiority in mid 1917.

Some scenes are based on real RFC stories, such as pilots choosing between jumping to their deaths or burning alive in their aircraft (as they were not issued parachutes). The juvenile mess room songs and young pilots "public school" attitudes capture the fatalistic attitudes of the time, when the life expectancy of a new pilot could be measured in weeks.

Aerial sequences

Although the film reused some aerial sequences from The Blue Max (1966) and  Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), the producers shot their own flight scenes. All British S.E.5s were heavily modified Stampe SV.4s, a Belgian two-seat trainer that first flew in the 1930s. Sinclair's plane was a period Avro 504.

German aircraft were all adapted post-WWI aircraft except for a replica Fokker E-III . The reproduction is seen when it is brought down intact and its pilot given a toast by his British counterparts. Production stills show Malcolm McDowell (Gresham) posing with a Bristol M.1C but this particular plane does not appear in the finished film.

Director Jack Gold later recalled "It was very difficult to obtain those planes. Sometimes we used models or archive footage. Action sequences in the air were very difficult to make and they were also very much tied with story. I had great assistant in Derek Cracknell and great specialist for special effects."

Release
The film was not shown in US cinemas. HBO premiered it in 1979.

Reception
Film historian Michael Paris saw Aces High as another of the period films that attempted to "de-mystologise" warfare. Film archivist and historian Stephen Pendo saw the "good aerial photography by Gerry Fisher" as the strength of a film that played more as "standard fare".

Legacy
The song "Aces High" by Iron Maiden is named after and inspired by the film, although takes place during the Second World War, whereas the film takes place in the First World War. Iron Maiden frequently name songs after war films.

The episode of Blackadder Goes Forth titled "Private Plane", during the aerial sequence, reuses scenes from Aces High.

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

 Beck, Simon D. The Aircraft Spotter's Film and Television Companion. Jefferson, North Carolina, 2016. .
 Carlson, Mark. Flying on Film: A Century of Aviation in the Movies, 1912–2012. Duncan, Oklahoma: BearManor Media, 2012. .
 Orriss, Bruce W. When Hollywood Ruled the Skies: The Aviation Film Classics of World War I. Los Angeles: Aero Associates, 2013. .
 Paris, Michael. From the Wright Brothers to Top gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1995. .
 Pendo, Stephen. Aviation in the Cinema. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1985. .

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2nd year, I set my self the target to brake later on just 1 corner so that times improved just a little each time.
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I was at Thruxton for the weekend, with the MSA/GoMotorsport promoting grass roots motorsport, I now understand that it is only Formula-1 where the pit lane girls have been withdrawn. It was a good weekend, hot though.
Next day out Blyton Park for another trackday/test session.
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Quite a few test days under the belt now and really getting to know the car. It continues to go well with no major breakages.
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Some pics from last time out at Blyton.
That's it for a while as work and finances dictate and I want to pull the lump to fit LSD/ratio change box + new turbo and a re-map is required for all that. Looks like that will be end of play for this year and I'll spend the time addressing the issues I have with heat and a few other mods to geo.
Ratty has performed far better than expected and I've learnt a lot about how the car and I behave when really pushed..... I think I've gotten better in the seat and hope to get my full licence for next year.
Was it raining on that last pic, plus I like the air brake cool.
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MF tells me the red dusting is usual when running at max efficiency. Tuned for maximum burn We can't get any more out of this combo and I have a pile of bits ready to swap out. Uprated gearbox with LSD and gearing, new clutch setup, latest MoFo T3 for this current lump and a host of other small changes I need to make.
Learnt a lot about the car and my abilities this year ..both need improvement but it has performed very well. I'm really quite suprised just how well it went.
I have done 8 full track days and a couple of sprints. Pushed the car to max regularly with 30min + sessions and for the most part she's stayed together.
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These real activities for us as a team is always a special event, because there is the possibility to talk personally face to face and not only about the Internet. We take this very seriously because we also see the person behind the voice from the Internet. Of course the air shows stand at all on first place, but there remains nevertheless over and over again a special event if itself our team or also members of other teams can exchange personally. In the following a few activities of our team.
Ein großes Highlight für den Leader unserer Freunde, den Virtual Turkish Stars, war ein Zusammentreffen mit einigen Piloten ihrer Vorbild Kunstflugstaffel, nämlich den echten Turkish Stars.
Hier im Bild sind Dutchman und die Nummer 2 der Turkish Stars (Fatih KIZIL) zu sehen. Die Virtual Turkish Stars haben ein ganz besonders Geschenk ihrer echten Vorbilder erhalten, einen Fotorahmen mit den Unterschriften aller Piloten der echten Staffel, während die Virtual Turkish Stars ein grosses Poster erstellt haben, auf welchem die virtuellen Piloten alle unterschrieben haben.
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Ioana Raluca Olaru (* 3. März 1989 in Bukarest) ist eine rumänische Tennisspielerin.

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Olaru wurde im Alter von sieben Jahren von ihren Eltern mit dem Tennisspielen vertraut gemacht. Für ihr Spiel bevorzugt sie den Sandplatz. 2003 trat sie erstmals bei ITF-Turnieren an, 2004 gewann sie ihren ersten Doppeltitel.

Sie stand 2005 bei den Juniorinnen im Finale der French Open, das sie gegen Ágnes Szávay verlor. An der Seite von Amina Rachim erreichte sie dort auch das Doppelfinale, in dem sie Szávay und Wiktoryja Asaranka unterlagen.

Ihren ersten Titel auf der WTA Tour gewann Olaru 2008 in Taschkent, als sie mit Olha Sawtschuk im Endspiel Nina Brattschikowa und Kathrin Wörle mit 5:7, 7:5, [10:7] besiegte.
2009 erreichte sie im Einzel das Finale von Bad Gastein, das sie gegen Andrea Petković mit 2:6, 3:6 verlor.

Am 26. Februar 2011 gewann sie ihren zweiten WTA-Doppeltitel, als sie im Finale von Acapulco zusammen mit Marija Korytzewa die spanische Paarung Lourdes Domínguez Lino/Arantxa Parra Santonja mit 3:6, 6:1, [10:4] bezwang.

Seit 2007 hat Olaru zudem 16 Partien für die rumänische Fed-Cup-Mannschaft bestritten, von denen sie sechs gewinnen konnte.

Nach ihrem Scheitern in der Qualifikation des WTA-Turniers in Acapulco im Februar 2015 tritt sie auf der Tour nur noch im Doppel an.

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Q: Same Form based authentication for two applications Using Spring Security We have an existing legacy web application(Servlet+jsp+spring+hibernate) and we are going to develop some new features of the application using a new stack (angularjs+Spring mvc). Currently suggested approach is to register a new servlet and develop the new features in the same codebase, so the authenticated users will have access to the new functionality we develop in the system. Is there a better way of doing this as a two different web applications (without SSO) ? Can two web applications be secured under the same form based authentication settings ?

A: From the point of Spring security and angularjs, authenticating via form is just an http POST with content type being application/x-www-form-urlencoded. One difference is the response to a non authenticated request, for one response should be a http redirect (jsp, to a login page), one with an unauthorized code (for angularjs). That could be handled with a custom AuthenticationFailureHandler or on the client side. A similar difference may occur for the successful login redirection.

A: I think architecture and security usability is very important before dive into something.
If both apps use same login, then I assume the newer application is more likely a service oriented application. Ex: RESTful
Authorization may be an issue. Ex: Legacy app is used by user set A, new one is used by both user set A and B.
Otherwise you can use a shared database for example MongoDB to store your login info i.e token.
When you log in, return that token and use for the other service via angular client. When you log out remove any token for that user session. You may also need to concern about token expiration.
However you have to refactor your legacy system in someway to use a token. If it is not possible, you can use session sharing which is handled by the the container if the the both apps are running under same container. Ex: Tomcat. But now it may very hard to integrate with a native mobile app if you are hoping to do so.
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