It has been confirmed that IBM will be pulling out of Cell development, with their current PowerXCell 8i to be the company's last entrance in the technology.
The Cell Processor was originally the brain child of 'The Father of PlayStation' Ken Kutaragi. It was later co-developed by Sony, IBM and Toshiba; making its way into the PlayStation 3, TV's and super computers.
Featuring a central general-purpose processor, the Cell includes a number of co-processing units with internal memory, known as SPUs. Greatly increasing performance, the Cell's SPUs have been notoriously difficult to develop for, with a number of developers, such as Naughty Dog, making significant breakthroughs of late.
IBM's most recent development in the Cell Processor's design is the PoweXCell 8i, which is featured in the second most powerful supercomputer in the world; Roadrunner.
However, this is where Cell will end for IBM. The company's Vice President David Turek, told German website Heise Online that the planned 32 SPE Cell processor will not be made.
However, Turek did explain that features of the Cell would continue to be moulded into other processor designs. With the future looking like it's taking a GPU route, a hybrid technology is the direction IBM will developing.
So what does this mean for Sony and the PlayStation 4? It has long been understood that the platform holder wants to use the Cell processor once again, allowing them to take advantage of this generation's research and to make the transition into the next much smoother.
Will this change with IBM pulling out of their own development? Not necessarily. Sony can still hire IBM to create a Cell Processor for their next console, without IBM being involved in their own internal development outside of the PS4. So don't start counting Sony's chickens just yet.
If IBM is pulling out Cell then trying to develop powerful CPU+GPU hybrid then it's good.
PS3 is still in it's 3rd year. IBM still has 7 years to develop a CPU+GPU hybrid for the PS4. There's still a lot of time for IBM's development.
Well there's no seven years, as development would have to be finalised around 2012 with a launch to be in the next couple of years. A 10 year life-scale doesn't mean the new console won't launch during that ten-years, just like the PS1 and PS2.
Plus the problem with moving away from the Cell is backwards compatibility with PS3 games.
I've always thought cell was an arcane architecture at best. Crunching bits means very little if the architecture is so unwieldy that no one can utilize the power of the processor. Any technology that relies on concurrent programming in order to take advantage of it is going to suffer, because concurrent programming is the one the most difficult things a programmer can do. Add that to the fact that programming is already one of the most difficult fields and you've got yourself a recipe for disaster.
So what does this mean for Sony and the PlayStation 4? I dunno, a 16 SPU Cell? Three 8 SPU Cells? A Sony developed 32 SPU Cell? Something new made by IBM? Perhaps by some other company?
Time will tell, and there's no hurry. There's a new xBox coming up, probably years earlier this time, I'm more interested in those specs. And other figures:) Meanwhile, in consoleland, 'Cell exclusives' are simply the best looking games with the bar being raised evey few months & no end in sight. MotorStorm, Heavenly Sword, Uncharted, Ratched&Clank, GT5:P, MGS4, WipEout HD, LBP, Killzone 2, Uncharted 2…God of War 3, Heavy Rain, The Last Guardian, GT5, Agent and that's just the start, not bad for a 8 SPU Cell machine.
Edgar: "No one can utilise the power" is now a moot argument. Naughty Dog has utilised the power, as has Sony Santa Monica, and many other teams. The PS2 was more difficult to develop for than the PS3's Cell and it has had many advantages. Sure, it's tough, but it's seeing gains now.
Plus, development won't necessarily get easier – studio's needed to be forced into developing for parallel processors, because it was coming sooner rather than later.
Edgar, I don't think you know what you're talking about. The Cell is proven to be very powerful. It's being used in scientific research to fight cancer, calculate black holes, by the military, by other labs to crunch numbers and render quicker. And Game Developers working with it exclusively are puting out amazing results. You are simply wrong.
Yes the Cell is based on old architecture – but that doesn't mean that architectural design is flawed. It is in fact parallel processing – what supercomputers have been doing since the 70's. Kutaragi's vision was realized due to nano-scopic miniaturization that allows you to build a nine chip parallel processing architecture on a base of (i think it is now) 1.75cm*1.75cm.
As Johnno correctly points out the Cell isn't just used for the PS3 and it was never IBM's intention that it should solely be for the PS3 – hence 'Road Runner' and the generation of 'cell blade' servers that IBM build.
You are also incorrect to assume that parallel processing is nay more difficult than sequential coding. Often, sequential coding is put through a software program that transforms it into parallel processing scripting anyway (ie. it divides the scripting into lots of small packets to be distributed simultaneously to the 6 dedicated SPU's in the PS3's cell or the 8 * (no. of Cells on each blade * no. of blades) dedicated SPU's in a Cell Blade server.).
As we have seen with the recent exclusives (Uncharted 2, KillZone 2, etc.) – the PS3 is able to generate graphical output that the xbox360's 3 threaded core sequential system just can't match. Graphical output is usually measured by Flops (floating point calculations) per second. The xbox360 can generate 1 Tetraflop a sec. The PS3 can generate 2.2 Tetraflop per second (we are talking about the throughput of the complete system here – not the processors alone).
As for the future – A hybrid cpu/gpu cell? That would certainly be welcome in a PS4!!
Who the hell is waiting 10 years for a PS4? Freaks……………….
Consoles keep the same hardware for a long time, while computers always change. IBM not supporting it anymore makes since. Actually I'm surprise they lasted this long!
Patrick Sean: That's two whole developers that have managed to master cell, and even then only with a lot of funding from Sony. Numerous other developers have complained about the complexities of developing for the cell processor. Given that most cross platform games actually look better on the supposedly weaker XBox 360 I think they have a good point. Who knows perhaps Sony will continue to make harnessing cell easier with better tools, but for now I personally remain unconvinced that Cell is a better route than more traditional architectures.
Johno: The applications you bring up are scientific applications. Scientific applications tend to do their work through brute force calculations. What this means is they will attempt different permutations in order to solve a problem. Each permutation is usually a simple enough calculation, but the sheer number of permutations necessary to solve the problem makes finding the answer very computationally expensive. In those cases parrallel computing is actually very beneficial and fairly easy to implement in software. Obviously the cell processor is very well suited to these kinds of applications. Unfortunately we're not talking about scientific applications. We're talking about video games, and in many cases parallel computing just isn't well suited to the problem. Often times you will need one result before you can move onto calculating another, and in those instances it becomes very difficult to use parallel computing. Synchronizing results is very difficult, I know I've had to do it a number of times in my own work. That being said there are definately certain parts of video games that lend themselves very well to parallel computing; such as graphics rendering. That's why most video cards come packed with up to 128 small engine cores. Unfortunately the PS3's cell processors can't be easily utilized for graphics rendering. Instead the PS3's cell processors are used for the business logic of the game, and business logic almost never lends itself to parallel computing. Full Disclosure: While I am a Software Engineer, I don't work in the Video Game industry. I am restating what I've read when I say that cell is hard to utilize in graphics rendering, and I'm not speaking from personal experience. If a seasoned PS3 developer finds this to be false please correct me.
Darth_Oblivion: Have you done parallel programming? I have. In fact I consider myself to be rather good at it, but that doesn't mean I don't recognize the complexities inherent in doing concurrent programming. You suggest that scripting languages can take care of this. It's true that there are some declarative scripting languages like SQL that will actually take advantage of multiple processors when executing your statements without burdening the developer. Unfortunately declarative languages are typically only useful at very niche operations, i.e. SQL is very good at fetching data from a database. With video games you will need to use a much more powerful and general purpose programming language, typically C and C++. The need to remove the complexities of parallel computing has not been lost on companies like Microsoft. I am interested in Microsoft's experimental programming language: Axiom. By the way when I said Cell was Arcane I didn't mean it was old. I meant that Cell is difficult to harness. One more note FLOPS is a measurement of Floating Point Operations Per Second. Due to the cpu intensive nature of floating point operations they are rarely used in video game development. Typically video games use math libraries that use integer math, so no graphical output is not measured in FLOPS.
clearly the people who keep mentioning that ps3 development is getting better have no clue at all about what it takes to make all those pretty things that they see in the naughty dog video games. The difference between Uncharted 1 and 2 is not in the programming but time and money spent moving little bits around the processors. Doing this is not beneficial in the long run (cause in order to get better results you had to keep spending more and more money and more and more time) especially when there are obviously easier ways of achieving the same result. The problem that the cell had is the its a one trick pony and it didn't even do it well.
Correction to my previous post. The incubation language at Microsoft that is intended for parallel computing is called Axum, not Axiom.
Owen: What you're saying is not actually correct. Uncharted cost around the same as any other video game developed, and due to ND's strict development time, probably less – around $30million.
What makes the difference at ND is their developers – they are some of the best in the industry, and this shows in the fact that the PS3 development team ICE is in-house with them (ie. ICE=Naughty Dog). ICE develop the EDGE tools for all PS3 developers, and so every breakthrough ND make on the Cell, they put into these tools.
They've made a whole bunch of breakthroughs and moved much of their GPU work onto the SPUs. And this is the only way games like Killzone 2 and Uncharted 2 can look this good on the PS3, and better than on the 360. Since the PS3 has an underpowered GPU compared to the 360, the PS3's only advantage is the Cell. So the fact that the PS3 can have better looking games even with a "crapper" GPU – shows that with the Cell, they can get great results.
Though there will be better ways in the future, the Cell's design and lessons will be something IBM will be implementing into new Chip designs for some time.
Edgar: Just a point – "Unfortunately the PS3's cell processors can't be easily utilized for graphics rendering." – this only isn't wrong, it's contradictory to reality.
What you say now is what they thought in 2007. But since then, developers have been putting most of their GPU operations onto the Cell – something that no other Chip design has been able to do (at least in the console space) – and something that IBM will be continuing with hybrid designs.
PS3 will be around for a very long time. For Xbox360 I believe they will have to come out with a Blueray version sooner or later and do some major engineering fixes regarding issues. We have still lot of lead way to play in before anything better is required for long time since the home video source is lock at 1080P. The question is even if a PS4 gets develop will the graphic quality be noticeable or that much better. HD now is 1080P and will be the standard for many many years. People are still in the process of upgrading there TV. We have reach a plateau when it comes to graphics and not go into the cost expenditure of high end GPU's that are currently only available for PC's in the 300 to 600 dollard range. Sony and Microsoft still have to recuperate much of the RND and loss from the sales of the current systems. I don't believe we will see a new system in the next 4 years if not more.
Just thought I'd mention that the waster gamer blog has copy pasted your post.
Cell is dead – the lessons from Cell will continue.


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In 2008 and 2009, Ms Barlow served as Senior Advisor on Water to the 63rd President of the United Nations General Assembly and was a leader in the campaign to have water recognized as a human right by the UN. She is also the author of dozens of reports, as well as 18 books, including her latest, Blue Future: Protecting Water For People And The Planet Forever and Boiling Point, Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse and Canada's Water Crisis.
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Few hotels have made a bigger splash in the luxury family travel world than The Four Seasons Orlando at Walt Disney World in 2014.
Luxury brands have slowly been encroaching upon the borders of Lake Buena Vista, the area around the Walt Disney World parks, but the Four Seasons Orlando came to town determined to be one of the only five-star Mobil properties in Florida and to raise the stakes.
The Four Seasons feels intimate by comparison to other Orlando resorts targeted to hold thousands of park-goers or convention attendees. It is meant to lure luxury travelers into a secret, magical enclave from maddening crowds.
The design of the resort is exceptional and every bit as magical as the castle seen from its balconies. The lobby chandeliers, intended to evoke park fireworks greet you flanked on either side by the meticulous, multi-hurricane vase floral centerpieces for which the Four Seasons is known.
The showcase of the resort is a 5-acre pool area called Explorers' Island that rivals any luxury resort pool complex I've ever seen, not in an obvious and over-stimulating way like an Atlantis resort, but a well designed escape to offer a family with children of every age a fun and relaxing day poolside.
Explorer's Island is divided into for main areas. The initial pool offers poolside cabanas, a zero entry, and a tiny waterslide appropriate for preschoolers.
The next section offers the Kids For All Seasons kids' club, which is complimentary for hotel guests and is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day. Outside the kids' club is the entrance to two water slides, fuse ball, pool tables, and other outdoor games families can enjoy together.
The next pool area is the Splash Zone, offering children's cabanas in the form of white canvas teepees and a water park of various squirting fountains. The area lights up at night in various colors to give it a different feel.
The final pool area was deigned for older children and teenagers. The Hideaway Club adjacent offers its own ice cream parlor (but stick with the gelato off the lobby at Lickety Split) and arcade and video games. The lazy river ends here.
The adult-only pool is a tranquil haven for those traveling without children or those whose children are enjoying the free kids' club. Pool attendants will provide colorful mini alarm clocks to place on your longer to tell everyone to leave you alone in complete quiet. Otherwise, expect the attendants to offer to clean your sunglasses or bring you a cocktail.
Although it is a full service resort with tennis courts, golf, fitness facilities, yoga classes most people will have questions about the Disney parks as that's really the most common form of exercise for grown-ups while visiting Orlando.
To clarify a few things, the Four Seasons Resort Orlando at Walt Disney World is within the grounds of the Disney World Resort and is as close to the parks as many official Disney resorts are. Four Seasons guests, however, do not qualify for Disney resort benefits: mainly access to extra hours at the parks (early openings and late closings for guests of the Disney World resort) or an extra 60 days to book ride reservations using the Fast Pass Plus system.
Acquainting one's self with this system is a process. Opposite the concierge station at the Four Seasons is a desk, staffed by incredibly seasoned Disney vacation planners who can assist with all park-related questions. They have the ability to book your fast passes and load your stored reservations on Magic Bands that you can purchase at the resort to wear into the park in place of a ticket. I have never been able to stump them with my questions.
Open a My Disney Experience account as soon as you choose your travel dates. The best dining reservations inside the Disney parks book months in advance. Call the Four Seasons Disney desk as soon as you book your room to get suggestions for dining reservations and booking your fast passes based on your family's interests and the ages of your children.
The guests of the Four Seasons access the park by taking Four Seasons motor coaches to the four different parks, and they are quite comfortable and run on a set schedule. Other options include taxis, Uber, and private car companies the concierge can arrange. Guests transferring to the Magic Kingdom arrive at the Transportation Center and must take either the monorail or a boat to reach the park entrance.
Even the most standard rooms are very generous in size and make it very easy for a family destination. Most rooms include a king bed as well as a queen-sized sleeper sofa. The innovative open format of a walk-in closet that also serves as a hallway bathroom proves to be very functional for closet storage and there's built-in storage in the main room along with a Nespresso machine and mini fridge for waters and drinks.
I encourage you to pay for a park view room, as the balcony views are an incredible way to enjoy the sunset over the grounds below and the Disney parks in the horizon. Guests with this view can also see fireworks from their balconies.
As a family, we find the mellow vibe of the resort pools as relaxing as a family could need, but the spa is definitely worth some time alone. If parents want to experience a treatment together while their children are at the kids' club, there is no common wet area for both sexes, only a large lounge with an ample display of chocolates and brownies to share in front of fireplaces.
The women's spa is beautifully designed around the motif of purple flowers—seen everywhere from glittering tile mosaic walls to candles lit around the bathroom vanities.
There are innovative extras in the spa's wet areas including an electronic, customized shower experience that has varying lights, sounds, water temperatures, and pressures. I was too scared to hit a button that had the word Arctic on it. The Rejuvenating Oxygen Facials are designed before a night out, but the Fire and Ice Facial is a popular choice, too.
The combined hair and nail salon is adjacent to the spa and also offers hair and nail treatments for children, like knight and princess packages complete with wands and swords.
Orlando is filled with vacationing families, and so many restaurants near the Walt Disney World resort feel like every one of those families is dining with you at the same time. The Four Seasons excels at catering to its guests without losing any of the standards set by their properties in their other resort locations. All of its restaurants' environments are equally strong for adult-only or family meals, which is something most other Disney resorts can't boast.
Capa is a Spanish influenced steakhouse and tapas bar on the penthouse level of the building, offering excellent, though distant, views of the fireworks at Epcot, Hollywood Studios, and Magic Kingdom, the closest park. Coordinate your dinner reservations so that you can step onto the Capa balconies and enjoy the views between courses.
Capa, only open for dinner, manages to be a cosmopolitan oasis within the Disney World resort. Even though it feels very adult with its stunning red and black design to mimic the ruffle the flamenco dancer's skirt, Capa can still cater to its younger guests. The tapas choices, in particular, are innovative and fit for foodies.
Ravello offers breakfast and dinner, as well as the most pleasant character meal at the Disney resort: The Good Morning Breakfast With Goofy and His Pals. The breakfast is every Thursday and Saturday morning and occasional Tuesdays during high season. Goofy, Mickey, and Minnie Mouse greet guests while enjoying an expansive breakfast buffet.
PB & G is a Southern inspired restaurant situated between the adult and family pools offering innovative twists on American comfort food. Plancha offers Cuban inspired food inside the clubhouse at the Four Seasons golf course, Tranquilo, designed by Tom Fazio that is an Audubon nature area.
To experience Walt Disney World based at the Four Seasons is to set a precedent you must meet every future visit to the Orlando theme parks. We can't get enough. Fortunately, the resort's departure lounge and adjacent locker rooms allows guests a convenient way to enjoy every last minute using the resort's pools.
The Four Seasons managed to raise the stakes of the guest experience, amenities, and hotel design and earned every bit of the first (and only) Mobil five-star award in Central Florida.
Robin Hutson is the Editor of Luxe Recess: For Parents Who Like Really Nice Hotels, covering the family experience at the world's best properties.


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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness training
Cultural awareness training for public sector employees and board members.
It is important to be aware of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, history and experiences to work in a culturally informed way.
Cultural awareness training is mandatory for public sector employees and board members under Commissioner's Instruction 29. The Commission's training resource is an engaging and interesting way to meet this requirement and learn about the world's oldest continuous culture.
While the resource was created for the public sector, it is relevant and useful for other government entities.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the content in the resource may contain voices and images of deceased people.
The resource has 4 sections: family; education; country; and work and takes about 30 minutes to complete.
Each section includes historical and contemporary information with audio and images to increase your knowledge and encourage reflection, with questions to check your understanding.
At the end, you are asked to provide your name and work email address so confirmation of completion can be sent to you. You may need to provide this email to your human resources team.
Start the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness training now.
While the resource was developed on Whadjuk Noongar country, it aims to reflect common beliefs and shared experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across Australia. It has been endorsed by the Aboriginal Advisory Council of Western Australia.
The resource supports the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people action plan, one of 6 plans under the Workforce Diversification and Inclusion Strategy for WA Public Sector Employment 2020-2025.
Cultural awareness training is mandatory
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness training is mandatory for everyone who works in the public sector for more than 3 months, and for public sector board members.
This requirement is set out in Commission's Instruction 29.
Public sector agencies and boards can use this resource or their own training resource to meet this mandate.
It is important to keep appropriate records of this information and many agencies coordinate this through their learning management systems.
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Public sector agencies and boards that wish to place this training resource on their internal learning management systems can download the relevant Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) file:
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Employees and board members who cannot access this training on their agency's learning management system can access it on WA.gov.au. In this circumstance, agencies and boards need to establish reporting processes to keep accurate records of compliance.
A record of completion is emailed to employees and board members who provide a name and email address at the end of the online training. Agencies may wish to request employees and board members to forward this email to their human resources team or other contact to record completion.
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Hiding in Plain Sight: 24 New Beetle Species Discovered in Australia
By Knvul Sheikh
This image shows the 24 new species of Australian Trigonopterus beetles. (Image credit: Alexander Riedel)
This story was updated at 3:52 p.m. ET on Jan. 28.
Lying among hundreds of beetle specimens in museum collections across Australia was a treasure trove of unidentified weevils, including as many as 24 new species, according to a new study.
Most of the beetles were collected almost 30 years ago, but they remained unnamed until Alexander Riedel, a curator at the State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, and Rene Tänzler, a biologist at the Zoological State Collection in Munich, both in Germany, started cataloging them and stumbled across 24 new species that have now been added to the weevil genus Trigonopterus.
All of the newly described weevils are restricted to small areas of tropical rainforests along the east coast of northern Queensland, Australia. Part of the reason for their isolation may be their lack of wings, which has prevented them from spreading, the researchers said. The new beetle species are also easily overlooked because they live on fallen leaves and dead wood, feeding on leaf litter, bits of palm fronds and other rainforest plants, basically recycling plant material, the scientists added. [Image Gallery: Shimmering Metallic Beetles]
"There are millions of species on our planet with whom we co-exist," Riedel told Live Science. "What's most exciting for me is to make a few of these new forms of life visible to others as well. And, of course, this has practical implications for national parks and so on, because if you realize that there are lots of species endemic to the region, then there is special value in protecting it."
Still, it is not unusual to discover this many new weevil species in Australia, Rolf Oberprieler, an entomologist at the National Research Collections in Canberra, Australia, who was not involved in the new study, told Live Science in an email.
There are hundreds more beetle specimens in the Australian National Insect Collection, and Oberprieler estimates that the real number of beetle species in Australia may be more than 20,000 — five times as many as have been cataloged.
Tropical rainforests are known for their high biodiversity, and many contain species that are unknown and not yet named by scientists. Insects, and especially beetles, make up a large proportion of this undiscovered life on Earth, Riedel said. He has been cataloging Trigonopterus beetles from rainforests across Australia, Indonesia and New Guinea.
It is likely that Trigonopterus weevils originated in Australia because it is the oldest landmass in the region, Riedel said. This is why putting a name and face to as many of the beetles in the area as possible is important to the study of their evolution.
However, the process of studying and cataloging Trigonopterus weevils is difficult.
"They are small, and they all look the same!" said Chris Reid, an entomologist at the Australian Museum in Sydney who studies a different family of beetle and was not involved in the new research. "Normally, they are folded up very tightly and pretend to be seeds, and are very hard to dissect."
Riedel and his colleagues had to depend on both dissection and DNA sequencing to name the new species. But there are many more beetle specimens that they had to omit because either the morphology was too similar or the researchers did not get the opportunity to sequence the beetle's DNA yet. The researchers hope that their study will spur additional fieldwork needed to arrive at a more comprehensive understanding of the Australian Trigonopterus fauna and their evolution.
The findings were published today (Jan. 21) in the open-access journal ZooKeys. High-resolution photographs of each species, along with its scientific description, also will be uploaded to the Species-ID website, the researchers said.
Editor's Note: This story was updated to correct Chris Reid's field of study. He researchers a different family of beetle, not a different genus of weevil.
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Personal Proclivity of Judges Plays a Role in Cases
Courts should have the discretion to tailor orders to individual circumstances. But one can't rule out that the proclivity of judges plays a role in cases
Courts should have the discretion to tailor orders to individual circumstances. But one can't rule out that the proclivity of judges plays a role in cases
By Gregg Herman, Family Lawyer
As a sports fan, it's frustrating to watch Olympic events that have subjective scoring, such as gymnastics and my favorite, synchronized swimming (is that really a sport?). It is so much easier to determine winners and losers where the results are objective, like in swimming and track and field.
Similarly, in law, it is easier to advise clients where the rules are objective, such as "Maintenance terminates on remarriage." Where the rules are subjective, such as how long and how much maintenance should be paid, the "scoring" is highly subjective and much, much more problematic.
It's rare that a discretionary order, such as maintenance, is reversed on appeal. It's even rarer that the Wisconsin Court of Appeals goes to such length in reversing the order that it takes special concern to assure that on remand, the prevailing party on appeal can have a new judge hear the matter.
Both occur in the recent appellate court opinion in Lemke v. Lemke, No. 2011AP1974 recommended for publication.
Vocation Expert Isn't Credible
Ricky and Lisa Lemke were married in 1983. Except for a very short time when Lisa worked at a fast-food restaurant, she didn't work outside the home.
In 2005, shortly after the divorce was filed, Lisa and her children were involved in a serious automobile accident.
The parties were divorced in 2007. They stipulated all issues except the questions of child support and maintenance.
Rock County Circuit Court Judge John Roethe awarded significant family support for three years.
Just before the three-year period passed, Lisa moved to extend the family support order as permanent maintenance. By this time, Roethe had retired and Judge Kenneth Forbeck was assigned to the case.
Forbeck concluded that Lisa's family support should terminate with no maintenance. Lisa appealed.
The District IV Court of Appeals found that Lisa was entitled to permanent maintenance, as Ricky failed to provide medical evidence which challenged Lisa's medical evidence.
The only vocational evidence the Court of Appeals determined to be relevant and credible was testimony that Lisa was unable to sustain employment and that this inability was permanent. The vocational expert whom Judge Forbeck found credible considered Lisa an able-bodied person, capable of unrestricted activities with the exception of being a nurse.
Reserve Judge Charles Dykman's decision for the panel determined that this opinion was without substance because it contradicted the only medical testimony. The court noted that though appellate interference with a trial court's credibility determination is rare, Forbeck's credibility determination was clearly erroneous. As a result, the court reversed, with instructions to set permanent maintenance.
In addition, Lisa asserted that Forbeck erred by using his personal experiences with ailments he believed to be similar to hers as a basis for his decision.
The Court of Appeals determined that the only possible relief for her complaint was through the use of Wis. Stat. § 801.58(7), which allows a party to file a request for substitution of the judge on remand.
Judge Brian Blanchard's concurrence agreed with the majority's decision in all respects, except for the issue of substitution.
Blanchard's argument was that neither party raised the topic of substitution. Therefore, he would leave potential substitution issues, if any, to the parties on remand, and to the circuit court as issues might arise, rather than leaving it up to Lisa to decide if the issue she identified was significant enough to require a substitute judge when the case was remanded.
Proclivity of Judges Plays a Role in Cases
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this case is the effect of the judge's personal experience.
Most orders in this area of law are discretionary and only reversed if outside the range of discretion. That range is highly subjective and one judge's sense may differ remarkably from another judge's feel for that range.
It is precisely fear of that unknown subjectivity that causes lawyers to recommend compromises as settlements to their client.
Since the law allows judges a range of results, the personal proclivity of the judge necessarily plays a role.
One common example is the question of when a mother of a young child should be required to re-enter the work force or face imputed income for "shirking."
A female judge who took a six-week maternity leave before returning to the bench might very well reach a different answer than a male judge whose wife stayed home with the children until the youngest started school full time. Is either outside this subjective range of reasonableness? Probably not, but the order may very well depend on the judge's personal experiences.
Another example is the effect of alcoholism on maintenance. In DeLaMatter v. DeLaMatter, 151 Wis. 2d 576, 445 N.W.2d 676 (Ct. App. 1989) the Court of Appeals held that refusal by an alcoholic spouse of medically recommended treatment is a relevant factor in the court's maintenance decision.
Yet, in Hacker v. Hacker, 2005 WI App 211, 287 Wis. 2d 180, 704 N.W. 2d 371, the court distinguished DeLaMatter by finding that the wife did not refuse treatment for alcoholism, but that treatment had not been successful. Since every treatment plan for alcoholism includes a requirement to refrain from using alcohol, wasn't the wife's use of alcohol in contravention of her treatment plan equivalent to a refusal to cooperate with treatment? Would it surprise anyone to learn that the judge in the Hacker case had a relative who struggled with alcohol issues?
With human dynamics being as complicated as they are, courts need to have wide discretion to allow orders to fit the individual circumstances of each case.
In doing so, judges, being human beings, are going to bring their personal life experiences into play as those experiences shape their beliefs and philosophies.
When they go too far is very much a subjective judgment call, much as in gymnastics or synchronized swimming.
The only solution for lawyers who advise clients who "play" in areas of grayness is to find compromises and reach settlements, rather than the risk the personal proclivities of the assigned judge.
Gregg Herman is a Family Law attorney with Loeb & Herman, S.C., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He is certified as a specialist in family law trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is a past chair of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association. His law firm website is www.loebherman.com.
Reprinted with permission from the author, as it appeared in August 10, 2012 edition of the Wisconsin Law Journal.


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Academic Dune Article(s)
Postby Naib » 18 Nov 2017 14:42
I just came across this article in the MOSF Journal of Science Fiction.
http://publish.lib.umd.edu/scifi/article/view/247/23
Re: Academic Dune Article(s)
Postby georgiedenbro » 01 Dec 2017 11:37
I mustered up the will to read it, although I admit I skimmed some of the paragraphs. Ultimately there is a difficulty in applying some abstract theory to fit into a book like Dune because, unlike some other fiction, Frank already has a comprehensive worldview behind the story. One doesn't need to find some system to use to interpret Dune: the book itself instructs you in how to interpret it. So better than finding some specialist theory to try to apply, I would suggest the best strategy would be to learn from Frank how to read his books.
Here's an example, from near the end of the essay:
It would also be intriguing to see how Paul's role as a charismatic leader and Kwisatz Haderach complicates the proposition by Hardt and Negri (2000) that we should rule out the possibility of "a single power and a single center of rationality transcendent to global forces, guiding the various phases of historical development according to its conscious and all-seeing plan" (p. 3). That is not to say, of course, that Paul is in control of every single event or sees every single outcome. The events of Dune Messiah and Children of Dune, the third novel of the series which focuses on Paul's children, certainly remove that possibility.
This is a good example of trying to inspect some exterior academic theory in relation to Dune. Why do this, when the relationship between Paul and the rest of the Empire is at the heart of the book already? The clauses written here are both fence-sitting propositions that 'suggest' things on topics where Frank has already spelled it out.
This is the concluding statement:
No single, all-seeing individual may orchestrate the concert of imperial forces; but occasionally, a charismatic and powerful individual such as Paul Muad'Dib Atreides has the ability to break through systems, shift paradigms, and change the paths of those forces.
Even the phrasing of this proposition is problematic, because it suggests some kind of dilemma between suggesting that the environment dominates, or that one individual can dominate. The example of Dr. Kynes (among many others) should have already made it clear that there's no possibility of dividing of the subject from the environment. They are tied together, and the question is how much effect different individuals within it have. And when they change it, it changes them. The's the whole problem of the oracle, of shaping the future but having it lock you in right with it. If you want my personal opinion I'd say that Frank's ultimate point is that any individual has the capability to shape the environment, but that we often don't see those effects immediately. Like the slowly shifting dune, people can be seen as the grains of sand, individually indistinct but still participating in a huge, unstoppable shifts.
Not sure who I'm arguing against, really. If they had wanted to explore the issue they should have just come to Jacurutu to chat with us :/
Postby Freakzilla » 02 Dec 2017 08:18
I got about half way through it and stopped, not knowing why. But I think you nailed the reason.
distrans
Postby distrans » 02 Dec 2017 22:11
right on the verge where philosophy becomes to abstract to keep my interest but I managed to finish the read just the other day
those closing remarks you cite were quotes from The Tleilaxu Godbuk in Dune Messiah and a poor way to wrap up what seemed to me to be that application of "assemblage theory" in order to deconstruct the work into bite sizes needing individual address. he should have left off his work at this point...
Manuel DeLanda's (2006) assemblage theory gives us the tools and lens through which the intricate nature of imperial power is demonstrated in Dune. However, this only begins to scratch the surface of the possibilities of how both assemblage theory and Hardt and Negri's (2000) Empire can be applied to the series as a whole. A more in-depth analysis of the multitude of assemblages that appear in Herbert's world-building could offer promising insights into his portrayals of religion and the politics of the masses. Moreover, the capitalistic nature of the spice trade and the Spacing Guild are ripe for an analysis based upon the issues of capitalism and globalization discussed in Empire. It would also be intriguing to see how Paul's role as a charismatic leader and Kwisatz Haderach complicates the proposition by Hardt and Negri (2000) that we should rule out the possibility of "a single power and a single center of rationality transcendent to global forces, guiding the various phases of historical development according to its conscious and all-seeing plan" (p. 3).
paul represents the truly novels introduction into the multitude of "things" from which an imperium has available to reorder its society from as was stated, and seemingly forgotten
No human being before had ever received both Mentat and Bene Gesserit training... Combining these two already-formidable components with Paul's initial spice consumption, the philosophies and religion of the Fremen, his personality as a Duke's son, and his final consumption of the Water of Life could not fail to create an entirely unique entity that could not have been created or predicted by any of these elements individually. [3]
charismatic's are nothing new...
the kwisatz haderach was...
try this,
read the footnotes then each passage they refer to...
In constructing his argument about the Vitality struggle, DiTommaso (1992) makes several claims about the operations of history in empire building, and how Paul is oriented to history, but his interpretation of history within these contexts is faulty. For instance, he states that the Vitality struggle is a conflict between the Imperium and Arrakis as entities that are different in degree, not in kind (DiTommaso, 1992, p. 313). Paul comes to power by operating within the system of the already established empire, the control of which, DiTommaso claims, "naturally encourages a lowering of race consciousness and a slowing of history" (1992, p. 313).[1]
[1] Ironically, Hardt and Negri (2000) would posit almost the exact opposite: imperialism creates a perception of difference (among many lines, including race and ideology) as it develops a nationalized identity of "the people" (p. 128-129). Thus the Reverend Mother calls the Fremen "those people" and speaks of them as monstrous.
It is essential first, though, to note the ways in which Paul himself is also an assemblage that cannot be predicted or controlled by the old system. DiTommaso (1992) argues that Paul's abilities and status as the Kwisatz Haderach separate him from the Spacing Guild, the Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit by a difference in degree (p. 316). He views Paul's abilities as simple extensions of the same "awareness-spectrum" that the Spacing Guild uses, increased by a combination of the Mentat training from Thufir Hawat and the Bene Gesserit training from his mother, Jessica. Furthermore, because Paul resorts to using his position as a Duke within the Imperium in his dealing with Shaddam IV, DiTommaso (1992) claims that he merely works within the already-established system and does not in any way constitute a break. There is no denying the importance of Paul's background, the training that is the foundation of his development, or his connections to the institutions of the Spacing Guild, the Mentats, and the Bene Gesserit.
Nevertheless, if we view Paul's abilities as only an intensification of each institution we risk ignoring the novel ways these elements interact with each other. No human being before had ever received both Mentat and Bene Gesserit training. These two elements alone, powerful in their own rights, would interact in unpredictable ways, feeding off and building from the properties of each element to create entirely new abilities.[2]
[2] It may be important to the overall interaction of the various components that make up Paul as an assemblage to note that Jessica disobeyed her Bene Gesserit by having a son instead of a daughter, and that by giving Paul Bene Gesserit training she is the one who makes the first paradigmatic break from the old system, in which Bene Gesserit training is for women only.
Combining these two already-formidable components with Paul's initial spice consumption, the philosophies and religion of the Fremen, his personality as a Duke's son, and his final consumption of the Water of Life could not fail to create an entirely unique entity that could not have been created or predicted by any of these elements individually. [3]
[3] Also a task meant only for women, specifically for women who are Bene Gesserit trained and intend to become Reverend Mothers.
Paul embodies multiplicity in other ways as well, particularly by virtue of his many names. According to Deleuze and Guattari (1987),
the proper name (nom proper) does not designate an individual: it is on the contrary when the individual opens up to the multiplicities pervading him or her, at the outcome of the most severe operations of depersonalization, that he or she acquires his or her true proper name. The proper name is the instantaneous apprehension of a multiplicity. (p. 17)
That name, here, is Muad'Dib, which encompasses and gestures toward the multiplicity of Paul's identity: Paul, Duke, Fremen, Usul, Lisan Al-Gaib, Kwisatz Haderach, and eventually Emperor. The name Muad'Dib signals the assemblage of Paul, the many elements and relations of exteriority that make him who and what he is. As Deleuze and Guattari explain: "Lines of flight or of deterritorialization, […] becoming-inhuman, deterritorialized intensities: that is what multiplicity is" (1987, p. 11). [4]
[4] Defined by DeLanda (2006) as the process of destabilizing the internal homogeneity or boundaries of an assemblage (p. 12).
Paul begins to deconstruct Shaddam's empire when he changes the relations of exteriority with the Spacing Guild... As Paul states to Shaddam, the Guild only permitted him to mount the throne on the assurance that the spice would continue to flow. This balance of power changes in the final chapter, with Paul. When Shaddam threatens Paul with an armada of ships from the Great Houses of the Landsraad ready to attack at any moment, Paul does not respond to the Emperor, but to the two Spacing guildsmen in the room, ordering them to "Get out there immediately and dispatch messages that will get that fleet on its way home" (Herbert, 1965, p. 475). The guildsmen respond by explaining that they do not take orders from him. In order to gain their attention, Paul threatens to destroy all spice production on Arrakis: "The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it," explains Paul (Herbert, 1965, p. 477), and therefore the Spacing Guild is now also under his control. [5]
[5] Or, as the Baron Harkonnen says in the 1984 film version: "he who controls the spice controls the universe."
Paul breaks apart and rebuilds Shaddam's Imperium in other ways as well. When he removes the Sardaukar from power, and announces that he will turn their prison/training planet Salusa Secundus into a "garden world, full of gentle things" (Herbert, 1965, p. 488), he eradicates the Galactic Imperium's only other real method of enforcement outside the bureaucratic structures of the Spacing Guild. Instead, Paul replaces the Sardaukar with his Fremen forces, leading the Reverend Mother to burst out in fear and horror: "You cannot loose these people upon the universe!" (Herbert, 1965, p. 488) when she senses the coming jihad. Paul responds: "You will think back to the gentle ways of the Sardaukar!" (Herbert, 1965, p. 488). This further highlights the difference Paul envisions in the way his forces with interact with the empire and the universe at large. By making the Fremen one of the most significant components of his empire, Paul also restructures the ceremonial and expressive elements of the assemblage. The Fremen religion becomes a new method for enforcement and obedience as their sacred histories and rites influence the expected behavior, language, and hierarchies of all the people in the empire.
Furthermore, these ritual aspects are not material components, but are highly important as expressive elements that sacralize, historicize, and justify both Paul's power as emperor and the actions of himself and his followers (this is especially true in Dune Messiah, in the case of his sister who is called St. Alia of the Knife[6]).
[6] Alia is often seen giving speeches or sermons about her brother's philosophies and godhood, and is described as "a Reverend Mother without motherhood, virgin priestess, object of fearful veneration for the superstitious masses" (Herbert, 1969, p. 68).
In addition, in Shaddam's empire, religion had little influence or importance (perhaps none). While the Bene Gesserit are in some ways a religious group similar to an order of nuns, who seed messages of their beliefs within the myths and religions of all the worlds they contact (through a project called the Missionaria Protectiva, which left seeds within the Fremen religion making it possible for Jessica to claim support and safety), these religious elements have little to no effect on the governmental organization or bureaucracy of Shaddam's empire. [7]
[7] Defined in the Appendices of Dune as "the arm of the Bene Gesserit order charged with sowing infectious superstitions on primitive worlds, thus opening those regions to exploitation by the Bene Gesserit" (Herbert, 1965, p. 524).


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What Is Joint Employment? New DOL Rules Take Effect in 60 Days
Blog Employment Law Spotlight
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This week's post is Family Feud Style. Name Three Things That Sound Like They Would Be "Joint Employment" But Are Not:
1. Long-haired, easy-going product tester at the local wacky tobacky dispensary.
2. Note taker at an orthopedist's office.
3. The guy on radio ads for non-approved supplements claiming to relieve joint pain who says – really, really fast – "These statements not approved or validated by the FDA."
Each of those jobs has something to do with joints, but that's not what the Department of Labor (DOL) means when it addresses "joint employment."
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), more than one person can be an employee's employer, and when there's joint employment, both employers are fully liable for any minimum wage or overtime owed to the employee. So, when is a business a joint employer?
On Sunday, the DOL issued new rules for determining when a business is a joint employer under the FLSA. The new rules take effect in 60 days. Here's what you need to know.
Four-Part Balancing Test
When an employee's work is for the benefit of both the W-2 employer (such as a staffing agency) and another business, the determination of whether the second business is a "joint employer" is made by evaluating whether the second business:
Hires or fires the employee.
Supervises and controls the employee's work schedule or conditions of employment to a substantial degree.
Determines the employee's rate and method of payment.
Maintains the employee's employment records.
It's a balancing test, and no single factor is dispositive.
Actual Control Is Required; Reserved Control Is Not Enough
The new regulations focus on actual control, not merely the right to exert control. This is different from the common law test.
Under the new regulations, the potential joint employer must actually exercise control. Merely reserving control can be relevant, but only if the business actually exercises control in at least one of the four ways. Standard contract language reserving a right to act is not sufficient to demonstrate joint employment.
Different Test for Independent Contractor Versus Employee
The test for joint employment will now be different from the test for Independent Contractor vs. Employee. To determine whether someone is an employee or an independent contractor under the FLSA, the key question is whether the worker is economically dependent on the potential employer. But according to the new regulations, once the worker is someone's employee, economic dependence is not relevant to determining whether there is a second or "joint" employer.
Ordinary Sound Business Practices Are Not Evidence of Joint Employment
The regulations also provide assurance to businesses that wish to impose rules to preserve brand standards, ensure compliance with the law or instill sound business practices. Those types of actions, according to the DOL, are not evidence of joint employment.
For example, the following actions by a potential joint employer do not make a finding of joint employment more likely:
Operating as a franchisor or entering into a brand and supply agreement, or using a similar business model.
Requiring the primary employer to comply with specific legal obligations or to meet certain standards to protect the health or safety of its employees or the public.
Monitoring and enforcing contractual agreements with the primary employer, such as mandating that primary employers comply with their obligations under the FLSA or other similar laws.
Instituting sexual harassment policies.
Requiring background checks.
Requiring primary employers to establish workplace safety practices and protocols or to provide workers with training in matters such as health, safety or legal compliance.
Requiring the inclusion of certain standards, policies or procedures in an employee handbook.
Requiring quality control standards to ensure the consistent quality of the work product, brand or business reputation, or the monitoring and enforcement of such requirements, including specifying the size or scope of the work project, requiring the employer to meet quantity and quality standards, and imposing deadlines.
Imposing morality clauses.
Requiring the use of standardized products, services or advertising to maintain brand standards.
Providing the employer with a sample employee handbook or other forms.
Allowing the employer to operate a business on its premises (including "store within a store" arrangements).
Offering an association health plan or association retirement plan to the primary employer or participating in such a plan with the primary employer.
Jointly participating in an apprenticeship program with the primary employer.
FLSA Only
The new regulations apply to the FLSA only. Other agencies may impose different standards. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is expected to issue its own regulations shortly to address when there is joint employment under federal labor law, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is expected to consider issuing its own new standards for determining whether joint employment exists under federal anti-discrimination laws.
Standards issued by the NLRB or the EEOC may be similar or may be materially different.
Reliance on the New Rules Provides a Defense
These new rules will apply to DOL investigations of FLSA compliance matters. It remains to be seen whether the federal courts will apply these rules too, but, importantly, the rules provide for Portal-to-Portal Act reliance.
That means employers are entitled to rely on these regulations as a defense to any joint employment claim. The regulations provide several examples of scenarios in which joint employment does and does not exist. Employers should review those scenarios and model their relationships accordingly.
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Membrane and lipid biology (1)
The Journal of Cell Biology (1)
Yu-Jie Chen
Reticulon protects the integrity of the ER membrane during ER escape of large macromolecular protein complexes
Yu-Jie Chen, Jeffrey M. Williams, Peter Arvan, Billy Tsai
The Journal of Cell Biology (2020) 219 (2): e201908182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.201908182
Escape of large macromolecular complexes from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), such as a viral particle or cellular aggregate, likely induces mechanical stress initiated on the luminal side of the ER membrane, which may threaten its integrity. How the ER responds to this threat remains unknown. Here we demonstrate that the cytosolic leaflet ER morphogenic protein reticulon (RTN) protects ER membrane integrity when polyomavirus SV40 escapes the ER to reach the cytosol en route to infection. SV40 coopts an intrinsic RTN function, as we also found that RTN prevents membrane damage during ER escape of a misfolded proinsulin aggregate destined for lysosomal degradation via ER-phagy. Our studies reveal that although ER membrane integrity may be threatened during ER escape of large macromolecular protein complexes, the action of RTN counters this, presumably by deploying its curvature-inducing activity to provide membrane flexibility and stability to limit mechanical stress imposed on the ER membrane.


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Q: Angular router redirects all router to blank page I have setup my angular router in a very simple way but none of the routes load any components and no matter what I do they all redirect to '' and load a blank page. The app-root component loads the nav bar at all times but none of the other routes work.
app.routing.module.ts
import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component';

const routes: Routes = [
  { path: '', redirectTo: '/home', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: 'home', component: HomeComponent },
  { path: '**', redirectTo: '/home' }
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class AppRoutingModule { }

app.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

// Import Material UI Components
import {MatButtonModule, MatCheckboxModule} from '@angular/material';
import {MatToolbarModule} from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import {MatCardModule} from '@angular/material/card';

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component';
import { ProjectsComponent } from './projects/projects.component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    HomeComponent,
    ProjectsComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    MatButtonModule,
    MatCardModule,
    MatCheckboxModule,
    MatToolbarModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

app.component.html

    <mat-toolbar color="primary">

      A Link
    </mat-toolbar>

  <router-outlet></router-outlet>

Note: when loading the default route it instantly redirect to /home
  but then instantly redirects back to '', which is blank. Manually
  typing in '/home' also instantly redirects to '', which is blank.

A: Suggested corrections:
app-routing.module.ts
import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component';

const routes: Routes = [
// [CORRECTION] The order in the array (here) is important.
  { path: 'home', component: HomeComponent },
  { path: '', redirectTo: '/home', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: '**', redirectTo: '/home' }
];

/*@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class AppRoutingModule { }*/

app.module.ts
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

// Import Material UI Components
import {MatButtonModule, MatCheckboxModule} from '@angular/material';
import {MatToolbarModule} from '@angular/material/toolbar';
import {MatCardModule} from '@angular/material/card';

// [CORRECTION] Import the array from app-routing.module.ts
import { routes } from './app-routing.module';
// [CORRECTION] Import RouterModule like this
import { RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
// import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component';
import { ProjectsComponent } from './projects/projects.component';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent,
    HomeComponent,
    ProjectsComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    //AppRoutingModule,
    // [CORRECTION] Add the imported array here like this
    RouterModule.forRoot(routes),
    //--
    MatButtonModule,
    MatCardModule,
    MatCheckboxModule,
    MatToolbarModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Should work fine now.

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Adin Hill leads the Roadrunners onto the ice for warm-ups.
Other than the goaltending swap, no changes have been made to the lines the team used in Friday night's overtime victory. Kyle Wood and Joel Hanley swap left/right.
Mario Kempe (20) and Kyle Wood (3) will be wearing their regular numbers again.
A very solid opening period for the Roadrunners again, outshooting the Rampage by a 13-3 count.
San Antonio opens the scoring off of an odd redirection to take a 1-0 lead with 7:41 left.
With 3:34 left to play in the first, a Mike Sislo shot squeaks through San Antonio's Spencer Martin; Laurent Dauphin jams the loose puck into the open net. Sislo extends his team-leading points streak to seven games; Michael Bunting extends his points streak to five games.
The Roadrunners fail to convert on three power play opportunities.
Dylan Strome hits the post, inches away from giving the Roadrunners a lead midway through the second.
Tucson outshoots San Antonio by a 12-7 count.
Laurent Dauphin shovels a loose puck home to tie the game 1-1 with 3:34 left to play in the first period.


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On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness
by Andrew Peterson | Book Review
It took a while to get going, but man did I love this book. I think the reason it may take readers a bit to get into it is it's greatest strength - it is different than most books. It has awesome secrets and cool bad guys and a fun story world, but it's also goofy. If you feel like you're not "getting" this book yet, just keep reading. I was richly rewarded for it. That said, I enjoyed this book a lot and found it humorous and quaint, but man once things started really going down I was so hooked! The other thing I LOVED about this book was the poetic prose. The silly stuff is all mixed in with beautiful epic writing you might find in a poem, but it was not purple prose that ever pulled me out of the story, just the opposite. When grand things in the story were being described or spoken of the language became higher, and when it was normal everyday stuff the humor will have you and your kids loving it. I've read in some reviews that the sense of humor didn't work for them in this book, but it worked for me and I think my kids will love it too. The way this book ended had me enjoying every word. The way the environment and how the characters felt in it and the unfolding of bigger things in the world... no spoilers here. By the end of the book I had fallen in love with it. I can't wait to read it again with the new knowledge of the story world I have. I bet I'll pick up on all kinds of fun little stuff. This is a bit strange, but I think the other reason I really connected with this book is because I have a lot in common with the author and the things he likes. I recently read his somewhat autobiographical book on being a creator called "Adorning the Dark" and it was like reading about me in many ways. So yeah, when authors write a story they would love - in this case it worked well for me. I loved this story and the things in it I could pick up on like the author's love for books and fantastical tales and diction that flows off the tongue in a way that brings beauty to the ears. Lastly, although some of the action felt a lot darker and a bit abrupt from how the book felt at first, it was great and added a lot to the story as you could feel the character's world get scarier and the stakes much higher. I really enjoyed this read.
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On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darknessby Andrew P...


Central Kansas SHRM - Hutchinson January Chapter Meeting - Better Health in 2019!
Hutchinson January Chapter Meeting - Better Health in 2019!
Chapter meeting fees discounted for members.
Chapter meeting fees charged for guests and members who are pending renewal and/or lapsed.
Choose this option if you've already prepaid for your monthly luncheons for the current year.
All payments MUST be made online. Central Kansas SHRM does not accept cash or checks for payment of event or membership dues.
NOTE: The meeting dates have moved to the second TUESDAY of the month, and we are meeting in the chapel!
Summary: In this session, we will cover the current definition of wellbeing, some cultural and environmental influences and the importance of developing an institutional culture of wellbeing for employees.