What would happen if boundaries were clearly defined? By defining an area of freedom you get rid of the problems above, or at least you greatly minimize the risk of their occurrence. You can always break the rules and then beg for forgiveness, but most importantly you eliminate the risk of decision paralysis. Clear policies empower people (assuming that there's anything left for them to decide) and improve self-organization.
Delegation Board is a tool created by Jurgen Appelo. It was first described in his book, Management 3.0, which I highly recommend (and all of his other works). The idea is quite simple. You draw a matrix and put decision areas in rows and levels of delegation in columns. It's up to you what you will have in rows. This is specific to your environment and duties. What should be in columns is defined by Jurgen, but it's not sacred – if you need something else, change it as we did (if you keep reading you'll find out what the changes were). This defines, from the point of the decision maker, what level of delegation she wants to have.
On the left hand side is Tell ("I make a decision and inform you about it"), in the middle there's Agree ("Let's make the decision together") and on the right there's Delegate ("You make a decision and you don't even have to tell me about it"). There are other levels between those, so it's not black and white – sometimes you want to make a decision but with the input of others, or you just want to be a part of decision making process as an advisor, but not decision maker. All of it is on the board. If you want to know more, please visit this site.
Our process was simple – firstly, we tried to determine the actual level of delegation for each of the key decision areas. We haven't used the Delegation Poker game also suggested by Jurgen. We simply talked about how it is right now. Then our manager confirmed it or moved it left or right. After all it is up to him to define those boundaries, isn't it?
Don't Tell – A makes a decision and… That's it.
Consult – A has a decision ready but shapes it based on B's input.
Agree – Decisions are made with equal authority between A and B.
Inquire – B makes a decision and seeks buy-in from A.
Delegate but Inform – A passes off a decision to B without influencing it, B communicates the decision to A.
Delegate – A passes off a decision to B without influencing it and doesn't even care about the decision.
Wow, 9 levels. That's a lot, but we needed that. At least in case of the team of managers that I am a part of. Level 0 was used in one case – decision about amounts of raises. The decision whether to give the raise or not is consulted, but the amount is kind of secret and only our Head knows exactly what it is. Level 7 was used for instance in case of holidays – we may decide by ourselves, but we have to inform our Head that we plan to take a leave.
For me as a team member it was helpful to clarify some decision areas, as they were not well defined before. As a manager I was able to communicate my expectations. My Team Leaders were surprised by the level of trust I was throwing on them. I was striving to Delegate wherever I could.
One team has done this exercise with the Product Owner. Lots of misunderstandings popped out during the meeting, which was a good thing, because now they could be addressed. The team and PO started to work on those for the sake of a better future.
Delegation Board was also implemented inside development teams. Interesting observation is worth noting here. In our company, the Team Leader is a part of a team – she's a Team Member with line management responsibilities. It's important to understand one thing – when Team Leader is delegating something to the team, this means that the Team Leader, as a part of a team, may be involved in process of decision making. For instance, if a Team Leader delegates technical decisions to the team it means she can (but doesn't have to) take part in talking about them. In case of other levels, the person in this role must be involved in some way.
In conclusion – I would recommend the approach to anyone who wants to set the boundaries of self-organization. Without these limits, people do not know what they can and can't do. As a result, we may be disappointed to find that some things do not happen by themselves, or someone crosses an invisible boundary that was not clearly set or communicated. It is also a good tool for facilitation – it sparks really interesting discussions!
It's a good idea to hang a Delegation Board on a wall and work on shifting responsibility to the right – towards Delegation. This builds autonomy and requires trust. Values that, I believe, are good to live by.


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It has been quite some time since my last update. The last two weeks of my life have been spent in the Sierra Tarahumara mountains and the Barrancas Del Cobre. The region is remote and rugged. Modern amenities are few and far between; internet access, yea right.
The dirt track I followed out of Alamos is only accessible via four-wheel drive or via bicycle powered by a determined masochistic touring cyclist. The route to Alamos from Mazatlan is a toll road sporting a blissfully wide shoulder. The miles of tarmac passed quickly as I rushed to find the route less travelled.
I am currently in Creel and very short on time. I've been out of civilization for quite a while. As a result, my time here has consisted of chores long neglected and recuperating in the comfort of a dormitory complete with hot showers.
This post will provide a tiny glimpse into the blissful chaos of the last three or so weeks of this epic adventure. I am still trying to absorb all that has happened. The mountains here, and more so the people, have made this portion of my journey one I doubt will be topped. In the coming weeks, I hope to tell the individual stories in more detail. But, for now, this snapshot must suffice.
Climbing mountains is insanely difficult yet so much fun. I was often left exhausted though still smiling on the inside. Climbing mountains to the point of near collapse strips a person of past and future directly depositing them in the moment. Even the worst of crimes can be forgotten after a grueling six hour climb up the cliffs of a canyon. Like being led to believe you are camping for free only to be charged your maximum daily budget, usually reserved for food, after you have already been there for three days.
I experience my first cyclone. In this part of the world, cyclone is the name given to a hurricane. For days it stormed; rain, thunder, lightning, and hail. Most of the time it wasn't problem. One storm however, was particularly severe. On the top of a mountain I sat eating lunch watching clouds the color of death approach from all sides. I was literally surrounded. Those ominous clouds finally let loose a volley of hail the size of quarters. Then, it turned to rain. In mere moments I was soaked through and freezing cold. This situation, alone atop a remote mountain in a lighting storm wet and at risk of hypothermia, could have had a horrible ending. Luckily, I found an adobe house belonging to a Tarahumara family. They invited me in, fed me, and allowed me to sleep on the floor.
Now that I've covered the moments that were not so great at the time – though still amazing experiences and stories – I'll get to the good stuff. Perhaps the best part of my experience on this entire trip has been the people. And the people of Mexico are some of the kindest most caring I have ever met.
Food, shelter, water, and companionship; all provided for in abundance by the people in the above photos and so many more that I was not able to photograph for whatever reason. This portion of my journey would have been MISERABLE had it not been for these wonderful individuals. I cannot thank them, and everyone else I've met along the way, enough. With future updates I'll reveal the stories behind these encounters. They are remarkable.
The people behind the steering wheel of my gravest threat on this journey, the automobile, have treated me with nothing but kindness. They wave. They beep friendly hellos. And they often provide respite from my challenge with treats. In the above photo, a driver traveling in the opposite direction asks, over the screeching of his brakes as he comes to a sudden stop, "Tu quires platanos?" Why yes I would! He darts across four lanes of traffic gifting me this bunch of bananas.
Sometime later, the driver of a motor bike with a wooden box on back pulls over in front of me. He signals me to stop. Then, he unlatched the clasp of this odd container and raising its lid reveals a plethora of delectable sweet breads. He gives me my choice of three.
Moments like these happened over, and over, and over. People passed me bottles of water. They offered rides thinking this crazy guy riding a bike on the shoulder of a highway must need help! I was given a safety flag for the back of my bike to make me more visible to traffic. The people here go above and beyond to help those who seem like they could use it.
I turned over 4,000 miles!
I swam in hot springs.
I was often reduced to expressionless exhaustion. Even after only riding downhill! Then again, this was no ordinary downhill. The descent into Urique required hours of careful attention lest I careen off a cliff to my death. I also experienced depression as deep as the canyon I was in. Traveling for weeks through the mountains unable to speak the native language was particularly difficult. It was not until I reached Creel, where I now sit, after three weeks of riding that I was able to have a conversation in my native language with a native English-speaking person. For the two weeks I was in the mountains, I did not speak english at all.
For every low, there is a high. I experienced the highest of highs. I was as happy as I have ever been. It is only through the contrast of the loneliness and depression that the highs can be so sweet.
I very much enjoyed my time in this region. I am also glad to be back on pavement where my bike is truly at home. It was never designed for the rigors of the road I just traveled making my effort even greater.
I also long for the comforts and people of home as I have now been gone for over four months. I realize my far-fetched dreams of Canada to Argentina in one go are not realistic. My meager budget will barely see me even to Panama. Though, I am ok with this. I now spend more time dreaming of home than I do of Panama. Mainly because I am well past the half-way point of my journey. Momentum is now nearly enough to see me through to my long-awaited goal.
Glad to hear you're doing well. That's some amazing country you've been passing through.
Looks like a great ride. I look forward to hearing more. A stopover at home should give some time to prepare for all the great dirt tracks ahead of you in South America.


Writing is a challenging but requisite skill at university and other life situations. At university, essay writing is generally challenging to first-year students across disciplines or faculties. This study therefore describes the writing challenges of the Faculty of Social Sciences students at the University of Botswana. To that end, this study asks the following research questions: (1) What writing tasks are first-year students in the Faculty of Social Sciences given? (2) What problems do the students encounter when writing essays in the Faculty of Social Sciences? (3) What kind of assistance do students receive on writing essays? This article is underpinned by the English for Academic Purposes genre analysis framework. All in all, the findings of this study point to the need for a more intensive writing programme for first-year students at the University of Botswana in which both faculties and the Communication and Study Skills Unit will cooperatively assist students with writing. Students' responses clearly indicated the need for such collaboration.
Writing is a challenging but requisite skill at university and other life situations. At university, essay writing is generally challenging to first-year students across disciplines or faculties (Ahmed 2010; Nesi & Gardener 2012; Nkateng 2013). In the light of that, this study describes the writing challenges of the Faculty of Social Sciences students at the University of Botswana. At the University of Botswana, essays are written in English, the official medium of instruction at the university and other levels of education in Botswana. As second language learners, Botswana students across all levels struggle to write in English. To address this problem, the University of Botswana offers compulsory Communication and Study Skills courses to all first-year students. Briefly, these courses teach subject-specific academic and professional communication topics using relevant teaching and assessment approaches selected by the lecturers who teach them. These courses are informed by the English for Academic Purposes (EAP) discipline. To provide context for this study, it is important to note that Botswana is a Southern African country located between South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.
This article is underpinned by the EAP genre analysis framework. EAP is a branch of the English for Specific Purposes (ESP) discipline (Robinson 1991). ESP is goal directed and propounds that learners do not learn the English language for the sake of it. They learn it because they use it in their specific professional or academic lives. EAP's foci are language and associated institutional and disciplinary practices, such as referencing and writing, which people need to undertake to study or work in English medium higher education. The main objective of EAP courses is to teach the language, both general academic language and subject-specific language, as well as language-related practices such as summarising and writing introductions. EAP courses usually focus on the process of writing – planning, organising, presenting, rewriting, and proofreading. Typical writing skills that are the foci of EAP include research and using sources, writing different text types as well as different genres and using an appropriate style with some degree of accuracy.
Discourse community according to Swales (1990) refers to a community in which a particular type of written text is shared. Swales posits that in a discourse community, the language medium is mainly a written text, that the use of language is essentially functional and that in a discourse community people become members of the community of their own will. According to Swales (1990), examples of genre include research papers, essays, theses, letters, poems, recipes and news broadcasts. Many genre-based studies have analysed genre structure or the different rhetorical moves that conform to the genre, lexico-grammatical features or the function of tenses in the genre, the use of nominalisation, the type of vocabulary and textualisation or the conventional use of specific linguistic features in certain genres.
Rather than treat different disciplines as singular discourse communities with the same writing conventions, this study focuses solely on the Faculty of Social Sciences under the guarantee that most recent research has focused on tasks from a single discipline (e.g. Braine 1989; Carson 2001). Again, different researchers have found that there are different variations across disciplines (Bazerman 1981; Becher 1987). Furthermore, lecturers in different faculties of the universities expect students to write according to the expectations of their host faculties. Healey (2000:173) claims that 'there is a strong perception among [academic] staff that there are significant differences among disciplines in what academics do and how these activities are described and valued'.
According to Hyland (2000), students' needs must be clearly researched and it should be borne in mind that different subjects may have different needs at different levels in different institutions or countries. With that in mind, the authors of this article undertook this research with the objective of addressing the students' writing problems. Congruent with this objective is the notion that the central role of the EAP lecturer or course designer is to find out what learners need, what they have to do in their academic work or courses and help them to do that better in the time available. Secondly, EAP recognises that tertiary students possess different learning needs, which cannot be addressed by teaching them the same type of English language (Coffey 1984).
What writing tasks are first-year students in the Faculty of Social Sciences given?
What problems do the students encounter when writing essays in the Faculty of Social Sciences?
What kind of assistance do students receive on writing essays?
Seventeen essays written by Faculty of Social Sciences first-year students in their various departments were examined. The essays were reviewed and analysed using Swales's (1990) genre analysis framework of moves as a guide. Swales notes that there is a regular pattern of 'moves' and 'steps' that appear in a certain order in the majority of introductions investigated. A move then becomes 'a unit that relates both to the writer's purpose and the content that s/he wishes to communicate' and 'a step is a lower level text unit than the move' (Dudley-Evans & St. John 2003:89). Most importantly, the objective of this study was not to analyse the essays under investigation at the 'text' level but only at the level of the 'move'. To analyse the essays, the organisation of the whole essay and its sections were examined, the purpose and style of writing the essay were identified and language features were studied too. To cater for inter-rater reliability, the two authors first individually read the essays and identified emerging patterns in terms of the organisation of the essays, their purpose and style and language problems. Then the authors met, compared their assessments and came up with a rubric, which they then used again to re-scrutinise the essays.
The sample of students in this study was conveniently selected from the lecturers' classes. The students were conveniently sampled in the sense that they were easy to reach by their lecturers who are the authors of this study. There were no specific criteria required to select the students, and all those willing to submit their essays were encouraged to do so. Eleven of the 17 students were voluntarily engaged in face-to-face interviews to get their views, experiences and problems they encounter when writing essays. The lecturers announced that any students interested in participating in the interviews could volunteer but only 11 agreed. The open-ended interview questions asked the students to identify the writing assignments or tasks they were required to do in the Social Science Faculty, to indicate why they were or were not satisfied with their writing, to identify the problems they encountered when writing academically, how much and what kind of assistance they received in writing academic essays and what they thought could be done to assist them to improve their writing. For ethical considerations, the students were asked to volunteer to participate in the research and they were also assured that information obtained from their essays and interviews would not be divulged without their consent and that it would mainly be used for the purpose of this study. The interviews, each of which lasted for approximately 20 min, were recorded and later transcribed by the authors.
Firstly, the findings of this study should be accepted against the understanding that essay writing is not the only type of writing done in the Social Sciences. Other types of writing include reports, research papers, literature reviews and case studies.
Secondly, only first-year essays were analysed and issues of writing in the Social Sciences discussed in this article are confined to the findings from that level only. In addition, the essays reviewed in this study came from students from different departments of the Faculty of Social Sciences, and thus the findings are not subject-specific. As already indicated, the sample of students in this study was conveniently selected from the authors' classes.
Another one indicated that she was not sure about the types of essays they wrote, but they had been asked to discuss reasons why one of the political parties in Botswana engaged in some activities. Another student indicated that they did a lot of essay writing and that the type of writing tasks they did depended on the types of questions they wrote. Other students indicated that they were given essays where they had to define key terms, while others said they were given questions where they had to go out to collect data or research. All in all, 59% (n = 10) of the 17 essays analysed were discussion type essays. Discussion essays require students to discuss issues surrounding a particular topic, usually that are debatable or open to argument. Given that students who participated in this study came from different departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences, it is possible that they were required to write different types of texts or essays in their various departments. However, it is important to note that almost all of those who were interviewed pursued the same programme of study, degree or academic plan.
Another objective of this study was to analyse the organisational structure of the essays in terms of purpose, style and language features. Ahmed (2010) states that a coherent essay consists of an introduction, a thesis statement, rhetorical support and a conclusion. The authors of this article expected that the students' essays would have all these three parts. All the 17 essays had an introduction, defined key words, provided relevant topics and provided a conclusion. Most essays were introduced with the following statements: 'the aim of this essay is …' or 'the purpose of this essay is to …'. Interestingly, in most essays, the purpose of the essay was not concordant with the development of the essay. These findings suggest that students need to develop the skill of writing creative introductions in order to make their essays more interesting or scholarly.
Students also confused essay writing with report writing. For example, in one essay the student wrote an abstract and called it an introduction. Another essay was subdivided like a research report with headings and subheadings such as 'abstract', 'introduction and background', 'theoretical framework', 'findings' and 'recommendations'. This suggests the need to ground the students in genre-based pedagogy so that they can distinguish the different writing genres in their discipline.
It seems that the Faculty of Social Sciences students need guidance on the process of writing and that feedback should be given during each stage of the process so that the students can appreciate the systematic development or unfolding of ideas during the writing process. One of the interviewees indicated that they only got feedback after marking or when they were asked to resubmit the essay. Therefore, stage-by-stage feedback is highly recommended.
Plagiarism was another common problem in the essays, and students did not acknowledge their sources.
These findings suggest that writing support given to first-year students should be more organised. This further suggests the need for collaboration between the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Communication and Study Skills Unit (CSSU), which offers academic writing advice.
In summary, the findings of this study show that first-year Faculty of Social Science students who participated in this study confirmed that they wrote essays more than other types of writing. Although students perceived their writing to be generally good, the findings suggest that they confused essay writing with other forms of writing such as report writing. They also acknowledged making writing errors, most of which included challenging skills of paraphrasing, quoting and referencing. Other common writing problems at the University of Botswana related to paraphrasing are overlong sentences normally caused by comma-splices, run-on ideas and redundancy. These sentence writing problems seem to be caused by mother tongue interference in writing. All in all, the findings of this study point to the need for a more intensive writing programme for first-year students at the University of Botswana in which both faculties and the CSSU will cooperatively assist students with writing. Students' responses clearly indicated the need for such collaboration.
Several implications arise from the findings of this study. Firstly, the students were asked to identify different types of writing they did in their faculty or respective departments. As shown in the findings section, they gave divergent answers to this question, although they all agreed that most of the time they wrote essays for continuous assessment. This suggests that the students were not well acquainted with the various writing genres in their discipline. In order to address this confusion, it is important to make the students aware right at the beginning of their studies that different courses require different written assignments. Zhu (2004) shares the same sentiment.
Students should also be made aware of common English as Second Language (ESL) writing errors or problems such as 'understanding the topic', 'quoting', 'paraphrasing', 'referencing', 'arranging ideas', 'lack of vocabulary' and 'linking paragraphs'.
Writing courses and instructors could help second language learners further develop teamwork skills. In cooperative groups, members must know how to negotiate a common task as well as their individual responsibilities, how to provide input and feedback on others' work, and how to reach consensus when conflicts arise.
Finally, in conjunction with content lecturers, it is imperative for the CSSU to develop writing materials that will help the Faculty of Social Sciences learners acquire some of the genres that they will be required to understand and eventually produce as part of their academic studies or research. Based on this analysis, they could design EAP teaching materials, which would enable students to use certain linguistic and stylistic strategies that could enable them to become accepted members of their discourse communities.
The findings of this study have unearthed very important issues that need to be considered in an attempt to provide writing support for the Social Sciences ESL students and by extension students from all university faculties. Firstly, the findings showed the need to raise students' awareness of different writing genres and their integral differences and uses. Secondly, a more organised writing course is imperative through collaboration between content lecturers and CSSU lecturers. The two should conduct a needs assessment and syllabus review and use the results to design a fully fledged writing skills course for Social Science students and by extension for all faculties. For example, the analysis of essays in this study revealed that there was a need for students to be taught referencing, in-text citations and the use of paraphrasing. This study further recommends research investigating types of writing done in all faculties of the University of Botswana and in all departments in each faculty. The research may unearth the discrepancies existing between content courses and EAP in terms of the type of content and relevant approaches of teaching the essays and other writing genres. This interdisciplinary research can be conducted by both content lecturers and CSSU lecturers.
We are deeply indebted to students who participated in this study as respondents and to colleagues who offered advice during the conference where this article was presented. This study would not have been possible without their help.
Both J.M.M. and U.M.N. agreed to write on this topic and to design the study. U.M.N. was responsible for collecting the data after both of them had agreed on the method and procedure of data collection. Both of them analysed the data. J.M.M. was more responsible for putting the article together, and both of them edited and finalised it.
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Bei den IV. Olympischen Sommerspielen 1908 fanden vier Wettbewerbe im Segeln statt. Austragungsorte waren für die drei kleineren Bootsklassen der Solent vor Ryde auf der Isle of Wight und für die größte Bootsklasse auf dem Firth of Clyde vor der Westküste Schottlands. Geplant war auch eine Regatta der 15-Meter-Bootsklasse, das jedoch wegen fehlender Anmeldungen gestrichen werden musste.

Zur Anwendung kam das Regelwerk der Yacht Racing Association, das jedoch ausdrücklich an jenes der im Jahr zuvor gegründeten International Sailing Federation angelehnt war. Jedes teilnehmende Land durfte zwei Boote entsenden, dabei spielte es keine Rolle, wo das Boot gebaut worden war.

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Das britische Boot "Heroine" war das einzige, das an diesem Wettbewerb teilnahm.

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Datum: 27. bis 29. Juli

Am Start waren fünf Boote aus drei Ländern.

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Datum: 11. und 12. August

An dieser Segelregatta nahmen nur zwei Boote teil, die "Hera" aus Schottland und die "Mouchette" aus England.

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Salary Lost by Team and Year to Time on DL
By Jeff Zimmerman Mar 1, 2010, 12:07am EST
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Since I have already looked at the salary lost to the DL for individual player totals and teams totals from 2002 to 2009, I will now look at the individual teams by year (injury information from Josh Hermsmeyer at RotoBlog.com) . Looking over the lists the only points I noticed was that the Mets and Dodgers did not do a good job of keeping their high priced players off the DL while the Chicago White Sox did an amazing job. Here is the top 20 teams and bottom 10 by total salary lost (link to a spreadsheet with all the teams and years for reference).
Rank Team Year Salary Lost Total Salary Percent of Salary Total Days Trips
1 NYM 2009 $54,962,101 $149,373,987 36.8% 1212 15
2 LAD 2008 $54,187,351 $118,588,536 45.7% 1229 15
3 ATL 2008 $42,020,997 $102,365,683 41.0% 1383 17
4 LAD 2005 $34,642,178 $83,039,000 41.7% 1315 15
5 NYM 2003 $31,106,582 $116,876,429 26.6% 823 13
6 NYY 2006 $30,146,569 $194,663,079 15.5% 904 12
7 NYY 2008 $30,023,543 $207,896,789 14.4% 1201 15
8 STL 2008 $29,089,973 $99,624,449 29.2% 1431 18
9 DET 2009 $28,369,717 $115,085,145 24.7% 832 9
10 SFG 2005 $28,003,711 $90,199,500 31.0% 450 8
11 NYM 2008 $27,458,235 $137,793,376 19.9% 1429 14
12 TEX 2002 $27,378,780 $105,526,122 25.9% 1282 14
13 ARI 2002 $27,114,166 $102,819,999 26.4% 1148 17
14 LAA 2009 $26,958,806 $113,709,000 23.7% 756 11
15 CHC 2006 $26,468,356 $94,424,499 28.0% 919 11
16 TEX 2004 $26,038,966 $55,050,417 47.3% 1496 18
17 NYM 2004 $25,330,376 $96,660,970 26.2% 1052 15
18 OAK 2007 $25,001,583 $79,366,940 31.5% 1111 14
19 ATL 2006 $24,891,291 $90,156,876 27.6% 1286 14
20 SEA 2009 $24,353,463 $98,904,166 24.6% 1030 14
231 PIT 2007 $1,724,722 $38,537,833 4.5% 381 7
232 STL 2004 $1,454,389 $83,228,333 1.7% 397 5
233 CHA 2005 $1,418,144 $75,178,000 1.9% 215 6
234 TB 2005 $1,385,350 $29,679,067 4.7% 511 10
235 CHW 2002 $1,235,731 $57,052,833 2.2% 175 5
236 MON 2002 $1,187,417 $38,670,500 3.1% 375 7
238 TB 2004 $904,778 $29,556,667 3.1% 252 4
239 CHW 2003 $778,056 $51,010,000 1.5% 118 4
240 FLO 2006 $533,817 $14,998,500 3.6% 189 5
Besides total amount lost, here are the leaders and laggards in Percent of Salary lost.
Rank Team Year Percent of Salary Salary Lost Total Salary Total Days Trips
1 CLE 2003 48.4% $23,498,650 $48,584,834 1317 14
2 TEX 2004 47.3% $26,038,966 $55,050,417 1496 18
3 TB 2003 46.0% $9,024,444 $19,630,000 599 10
4 LAD 2008 45.7% $54,187,351 $118,588,536 1229 15
5 LAD 2005 41.7% $34,642,178 $83,039,000 1315 15
6 ATL 2008 41.0% $42,020,997 $102,365,683 1383 17
7 NYM 2009 36.8% $54,962,101 $149,373,987 1212 15
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BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: The U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term this Monday, and one of the first issues to be considered is: Should juveniles ever be executed? Fifteen years ago, the high court ruled that states could execute offenders as young as 16 if they chose to. But attitudes appear to be shifting. And the case now coming before the court could end that practice for good. Tim O'Brien reports.
TIM O'BRIEN: It started as a burglary at this home in Fenton, Missouri, about 30 miles south of St. Louis, early on a September morning in 1993. It turned into a gruesome murder.
ED KEMP (Jefferson County Sheriff's Department): While in the home, the victim woke up, recognized both subjects. They bound her, put her in her own vehicle, transported her to a bridge, and threw her over alive.
O'BRIEN: Acting on an informant's tip, police arrested two young suspects: 15-year-old Charlie Benjamin and 17-year-old Chris Simmons were picked up at their high school a day after the murder. After first denying any involvement, Simmons later gave a tearful confession to police:
CHRIS SIMMONS (Confessing on Tape): I had her tied up. She walked out on the bridge and [I] tied her hands and feet together — pushed her off.
UNIDENTIFIED POLICEMAN: Who pushed her?
Mr. SIMMONS: I did.
UNIDENTIFIED POLICEMAN: Who?
UNIDENTIFIED POLICEMAN: You pushed her?
O'BRIEN: Simmons even re-enacted the crime for police.
UNIDENTIFIED POLICEMAN #2 (On Police Video): So, this about where you threw her off?
Mr. SIMMONS (Gesturing): Yeah.
O'BRIEN: Simmons's lawyer tried to get him to accept a deal: life in prison in exchange for a guilty plea. But Simmons wouldn't hear of it.
DAVID CROSBY (Defense Attorney): Here's a child that in Missouri couldn't buy a car because he's under age to contract, and yet he makes life-and-death decisions.
O'BRIEN: It was an open-and-shut case.
JURY FOREMAN (At Trial): We the jury find the defendant, Christopher Simmons, guilty of murder in the first degree.
O'BRIEN: The younger boy was sentenced to life with no parole. Simmons, 17, got the death penalty — the jury finding that the murder was aggravated in that it was committed to avoid detection and in the course of a kidnapping, another felony.
But a little over a year ago, the Missouri Supreme Court set aside Simmons's death sentence, reducing it to life in prison with no parole. The court held it violates this country's evolving standards of decency to execute anyone who was under 18 at the time of the crime — that it may have been permissible in the past, but that now it conflicts with the Eighth Amendment guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.
The decision squarely contradicts a 1989 Supreme Court decision allowing the execution of juvenile offenders.
While it is most unusual for a state court to rule that a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court has become outdated, the Missouri court's decision has generated broad support — including from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Raymond Burke is Archbishop of St. Louis.
Archbishop RAYMOND BURKE (Archdiocese of St. Louis): When a young person commits a crime, granted, the crime itself is horrible; the degree of culpability is normally less.
O'BRIEN: The decision of the rural Missouri jury to execute Simmons is also being second-guessed and criticized by 18 recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize, including former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Lech Walesa; also, South Africa's Desmond Tutu — and the Dalai Lama.
In a joint "Friend of the Court" brief, they contend, "The death penalty for child offenders is contrary to internationally accepted standards of human rights."
The American Bar Association, the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Association have also weighed in, also urging that Simmons be spared.
Dr. RICHARD RATNER (American Psychiatric Association): We have learned a lot more about the function and the structure, and the development of the brain.
O'BRIEN: Dr. Ratner says not only has the execution of juvenile offenders become less acceptable, but new research suggests the court also got it wrong back in 1989 when it first authorized the practice.
Dr. RATNER: And in a nutshell, it is that the brain has not really matured, you do not really have an adult brain until you are in your early 20s.
O'BRIEN: You have empirical evidence of that?
Dr. RATNER: Yes, we do.
O'BRIEN: Ratner says new, sophisticated Magnetic Resonance Imaging — MRIs like this — show that juveniles use a different part of the brain in the decision-making process than adults, making them more likely to act irrationally, less likely to appreciate the consequences of what they do.
The case of 17-year-old Lee Malvo has galvanized public opinion on the execution of juvenile offenders. Malvo was convicted of participating in a random sniper spree that left 10 people dead in the Washington, DC area two years ago. He escaped the death penalty in one trial, but could still face death in another if the Supreme Court allows it.
PAUL EBERT (Prince William County Commonwealth's Attorney): Well, I'm going to take a shot at him, yeah. We've pretty much made that decision.
O'BRIEN: In Virginia, no prosecutor has put more men on death row than Paul Ebert.
Mr. EBERT: I just don't see how you can say someone who is 18 and one month should be treated differently from someone who is 17 and nine or 10 months.
O'BRIEN: Prosecutors in Missouri told the jury that Simmons believed he could get away with murder — because he was a juvenile.
JOHN APPELBAUM (Jefferson County Prosecutor, in June 1994): He used his age as a sword, saying "Kids, you can get away with this because nobody will think we're capable of doing this."
Mr. APPLEBAUM (Today): He was talking to people, trying to incorporate them into his plot. It doesn't necessarily have to be Shirley Crook that night, that's what was so scary about this case. It could have been anybody.
PERTIE MITCHELL (Victim's Sister): And you know what they said? These boys went to school the next day and they were bragging about what they had done. They said, "Guess what we did last night? We beat up an old lady. And we took her out to the trestle and we pushed her off, and guess what she did? She went 'bubble, bubble.'" You think that didn't hurt us!
O'BRIEN: Who could do such a terrible thing? While prosecutors say the victim could have been anyone, Chris Simmons's mother says the perpetrator could have been anyone's son.
SHERYL HAYES (Defendant's Mother): We were caring parents for him. We did everything we could. We probably spoiled him. But there were things he was doing, I had no idea he was doing. It's broken my heart. You think about it every day. A lot of my thoughts is, if I could just turn time backwards and none of this had ever happened.
O'BRIEN: Two years ago, the Supreme Court, reversing itself, banned the death penalty for mentally retarded defendants. The court found a national consensus against the practice, noting the number of states opposing it had risen from two to 18. The trend is not quite so sharp with executing juvenile offenders: of the 37 states that allowed the death penalty in 1989, 12 prohibited the execution of anyone under 18. Nineteen of 38 states forbid it today.
While for the justices, whether that's "cruel and unusual" may be an issue of pure constitutional law. But the question of executing juvenile offenders is inescapably as "moral" as it is "legal." When it comes to the death penalty, how old is "too young"?
For RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, I'm Tim O'Brien in Fenton, Missouri.
ABERNETHY: Around the country, there are now 73 Death Row inmates who were under 18 when they committed their crimes. If the Supreme Court rules that executing them would be unconstitutional, their sentences would be reduced to life in prison. If the court rules it is not unconstitutional, Christopher Simmons could face execution by lethal injection.
TRUE NOTEBOOKS: A WRITER'S YEAR AT JUVENILE HALL by Mark Salzman
WHO OWNS DEATH? by Robert Jay Lifton and Gren Mitchell
WHEN THE STATE KILLS: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND THE AMERICAN CONDITION by Austin Sarat
ULTIMATE PUNISHMENT by Scott Turow
RELIGION AND THE DEATH PENALTY: A CALL FOR RECKONING edited by Erik.C. Owens, John D. Carlson and Eric P. Elshtain
NPR: Supreme Court Ends Death Penalty for Juveniles, March 2, 2005
Boston Globe: "Execution barred for juvenile killers" by Charlie Savage, March 2, 2005 (Subscription required)
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: USCCB, Other Religious Groups, Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Affirm that the Juvenile Death Penalty Violates 8th Amendment
Death Penalty Information Center: Roper v. Simmons
American Bar Association: Juvenile Death Penalty
Juvenile Death Penalty Update, March 4, 2005
— The updated version of this story.
Interview with Sister Helen Prejean, November 28, 2003
Huntsville: Death Capital, May 16, 2003
Maryland's Death Penalty, May 9, 2003
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Tell City Mayor Barbara Ewing and the Perry County Greenway Committee recently held a groundbreaking ceremony at Sunset Park in Tell City, the site of one of the trail heads for the new Tell City Riverwalk. Members of the Mayor's Office, the Greenway Committee, the Common Council, the public and contractors involved in the project were on hand to celebrate the ground breaking of this important project. When completed, the Tell City Riverwalk will wind approximately one mile down the scenic Ohio River banks in Tell City. J.H. Rudolph & Co., Inc. will be completing the preparation and paving work on the project, which is scheduled to begin June 22, 2010.
J.H. Rudolph & Co., Inc. employee Randy Schaefer came to the rescue of young Huntingburg resident, Joanna Ballard, while she was trying to cross Chestnut Street in the quaint Southern Indiana town last week. Schaefer towed the bike across a patch of freshly laid asphalt for Ballard, who was busy delivering the DC Herald on her brother's paper route in the neighborhood. J.H. Rudolph & Co., Inc. is working as a subcontractor for Crider & Crider on the project.
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Running a successful MSP is a time consuming business. For this reason, it makes sense to examine the minutiae of your daily tasks to identify any repetitive activities that could be automated.
Many of the small tasks that go towards running systems efficiently are simple but essential; things like keeping track of updates, checking backup jobs are running successfully and ensuring Internet security software is up to date. Neglecting these chores can lead to all kinds of glitches and problems – many of which will cause stress and potential issues with your client relationships.
The best strategy, therefore, is to accept that these tasks are never going away. Then you can work hard to build and configure infrastructures in a way that minimizes the time you have to spend on the routine stuff, whilst ensuring nothing crucial gets missed.
Here are three suggestions that will help you automate your repetitive tasks and free up your time for other aspects of running your MSP.
If you're still using local backup and antivirus software and have yet to investigate managed / cloud based alternatives, you are missing the opportunity to save time and earn significant ongoing income.
There is no need to be constantly remoting in to individual PCs and servers to fix virus issues when solutions exist which allow you to gain a central, dashboard view of Internet security across your entire client base.
Similarly, online backup is far simpler to manage from a distance than old-fashioned tape based systems and allows you to stay in control rather than relying on those on site to remember to change tapes and check logs.
Even if you edge your clients in the direction of managed services such as those mentioned above, there are sure to be elements of the IT infrastructure that need monitoring in the "old" way.
Luckily, software writers do plenty to make things easy for network admins. Software ranging from UPS control utilities to backup applications usually includes sophisticated notification functionality, which will tell you when there's something that needs attention. If you're not using it to its fullest extent, you're only increasing the frequency with which you have to remote in and check things manually or, worse, the frequency with which you miss opportunities to fix issues in a proactive way.
Staying current with patches and updates is essential to maintain stable systems, but every IT professional knows how laborious it can be.
Everything from checking patches in a test environment to deploying them in a timely way is both dull and time-consuming, and with everything from operating systems to browser plug-ins needing constant updating, it can feel like a battle that's impossible to win.
The solution is to convince your clients of the benefits of an integrated patch management system that can manage the testing and deployment of patches across the entire infrastructure. As well as helping you to ensure you don't miss anything, this can reduce the level of manual intervention required, and, in turn, the number of long evenings and weekends spent updating machine after machine.
With the right tools in place (of course we recommend GFI MAX RemoteManagement) these small changes to the way you do things can soon result in a time saving of a couple of hours a day. Extrapolate this over a year and across your team, and you'll soon realize that introducing extra automation can only be a good thing.
Do you find extra time in your day through automation? Which tools do you prefer to use? Share your advice in a comment below!


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Золоту медаль чемпіонки світу Ріс-Йоганнессен виборола в комадних паралельних змаганнях на світовій першості 2021 року, що проходила в італійській Кортіні-д'Ампеццо.

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As a former Army officer, he observed first hand the power of leadership as a "force multiplier." He understands the need for strong leaders in today's challenging world. He served as a company commander in the 7 in Europe and the United States. Added to his military service, in 1995 Kevin founded his own consulting company, VisionBound International, Inc. and has worked since then with public, private and education clients worldwide helping them improve leadership, communication, and customer service skills.
Kevin has combined his experience and content into the VisionBound Leadership Institute which provides a powerful and unique approach for developing leaders at all levels. Kevin's clients represent a broad, cross section of industries including K-12 and higher education, federal, state and civic government, military, health-care, education, aerospace, oil and gas, automotive, retail and technology. He is also a successful keynote presenter and has presented to his energetic programs to audiences large and small.
Kevin and his wife, Denise, live in Springville, Utah. They have four children and six grandchildren. Kevin likes to travel and enjoys gardening, traveling and many other activities.


Approximately 150 employers recruit at the Law Center every year.
This is an experiential clinical course in which students study the law and procedure applicable to the parole and pardon process and assist prisoners seeking early release before the Louisiana Board of Pardons and Committee on Parole. Students also provide assistance in other collateral, legal matters important for their successful community reentry. Topics relating to mass incarceration, punishment, the prison system, and criminogenic factors of recidivism are also covered in this course. Students learn effective lawyering skills such as interviewing and counseling clients, fact investigation, file management, and written and oral advocacy. This course is graded on the 4.0 scale. Participation requires the consent of the instructor. There is a mandatory Saturday orientation on the second or third Saturday of the semester.


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These days many people throw a party for a special birthday be it the 18th, 21st, 50th or onwards. No matter how young or old you are, birthdays are special and when you have a party you will want both yourself and your guests to remember it forever. You can do this by providing a photobooth which everyone can take their own photos of the occasion.
A photo booth allows you to have much more fun than you could have with a mobile phone camera. For a start there is the setting of the booth, which is out of the main stream party crowd so there are no strangers walking into the photo by mistake. We've all taken photos in crowd situations only to find a stranger's head, arm or back in the background and that really spoils it. With a booth there is no likelihood of this happening because it is set up in a way that offers privacy.
Then there are many props you can use to dress up and have some fun with. Parties should always be about having fun and good times. You and your friends can spend all the time you want on getting those special effects just right. Someone may wear oversized spectacles or even a moustache, another has a top hat, while yet another might prefer to hold an empty photo frame around their face. It's all good fun and you'll find a great deal of laughing goes on.
Having such special photos to download the next day will ensure the wonderful memories are kept bright for many years, if not forever. There are many ways to make a birthday party special; another way is to find snapshots from yesteryear and make a big collage of them. These are of great interest the older a person gets. It lets the younger generation see you as you were many years ago, at the age they are now.
Of course in these days of technology, many people copy the photos and make them into a digital display that can be shown either on the television or the screen of their laptop. The larger size makes them even more enjoyable to view, especially for those who forgot to bring their reading glasses.
You can keep all the photos taken at the photo booth and have them ready to show at your next birthday party. That will be fun, especially if the same people are invited. They can all enjoy looking at the difference in the fashions, hairstyles and other things that have happened over the years.
Having photographs of special occasions such as birthday parties is a wonderful way to ensure that the occasion is never forgotten and the memories can be enjoyed for many years.


Know Thyself. No thanks, Socrates. You can go on in your smug, fraternity party robe and dumb beard, leading the youth along that cynical path. You pre-Nietzschean Santa Claus of glib wisdom born from insights into the contrary of things—as if What-You-Don't-Know Avenue is the only rout to unproblematic knowledge! For academics, politicians, and many pharmaceutical scientists, this road may be a reliable highway. But for writers (or anyone else involved in imaginative or emotional forms of knowing), it's a nettled foot trail. It's jagged and hardly blazed. A better adage would be "Lose Thyself"—and everything else while you're at it—and then go looking for you (and everything else that's lost) in fiction.
As is often the case, I have two books on the go at once, and these particular books, more than any two I've read together in some time, are a dichotomy in subject, in writing style, and in thematic material.
Culling 99% of occurrences of these words: really, rather, just,quite, very, oh, so, well and suddenly. I said a silent prayer to the twin gods of Search and Delete.
There's not a day that goes by that I don't wish I was doing something else. I'm a writer so all I want to do is write. But I have a regular man's life. I have children. I have bills to pay. I have to work just like everyone else. I've spent years lamenting my 'situation'. If only I had a benefactor. If only I had a cabin in Vermont. If only I could win the MegaMillions. If only my book had hit the charts. If only the big ship would come in and take me away to the island of happy carefree artists. If only I'd stop and realize that this thinking is wrong.


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New Trucks Fine-Tune for the Future, Part I
By Glen Dickson
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 9:58 am
With a wave of new HD trucks hitting the road in 2010 and 2011, one might expect dramatically different designs or significant changes in the equipment assortment from legacy trucks. But, except for the adoption of specialized stereoscopic-3D camera rigs for sports coverage by ESPN and others, there hasn't been a dramatic breakthrough in production equipment in the past year.
So vendors launching HD trucks in 2010 have primarily been seeking incremental improvements, such as installing more-robust monitoring capabilities, providing better support of surround-sound audio, and future-proofing their routing infrastructure to handle whatever is the next step beyond 720p/1080i HD, whether it is stereoscopic 3D or full 1080p/60-fps production.
Camera technology has been stable the past three or four years, notes NEP Broadcasting CTO George Hoover, with small refinements but no brand-new high-end camera from any manufacturer. Grass Valley is starting to gain traction with its Kayenne switcher, introduced in 2009; Sony has a new version of its MVS-8000x production switcher, with the same user interface as previous boards. Although 100:1 lenses have been available for five years, he notes, there "is no 125:1 lens around the corner.
"The technology is nicely stable at the moment," he continues, "and this is according to what the manufacturers are doing. There is not a lot of turnover in hardware at the moment. The stuff is fairly new and working nicely."
The biggest pressure to upgrade comes in monitoring, where clients want to see a virtual-monitor wall with new flat-panel displays. In NEP's biggest trucks, it uses an Evertz MVP or Harris Centrio multi-image display processor, with a 350- to 400-input matrix feeding 40-50 30-in. flat-panel displays. In its smaller trucks, NEP typically uses an Evertz VIP multiviewer system with 20-in. monitors running as quad or six-way splits.
NEP, which launched two 3D trucks in 2010, normally "refreshes" existing units at their midlife point, about five years.
"That can be as simple as fixing the interiors and painting; there may be no major technology upheaval," says Hoover. "But, undoubtedly, things like EVS [servers], tape machines, and graphics need to be replaced, and the interior components of a truck get shop-worn. After 10 years, a truck is retired. We don't have anything here in HD that's older than 2003 [including the shells]."
Corplex is building on the success of its flagship Iridium truck with the 53-ft. Chromium, which should be completed in 2011. It has a similar ergonomic design, with production benches featuring integral LED monitors that can be raised, lowered, or hidden completely in the counter, depending on clients' wishes.
"It's a very successful stab at how we make the workspace more efficient and how we make it more flexible in a real practical way," says Corplex VP of Operations and Engineering Dave Greany.
Chromium will have an Evertz EQX router with re-legendable buttons and supporting control system, a product that Greany helped Evertz develop in 2008 when building Iridium. A new piece of gear is Evertz's EMR audio router, which can handle AES digital, analog, or MADI audio.
"It basically mates with the video system and allows you to do a lot of de-embedding and embedding in the video router," says Greany.
Listen Up: Embedded Audio Is Here
Embedded-audio technology, which can fit up to 16 channels of audio alongside the video streams in a serial digital interface, is becoming increasingly popular among network clients.
"That's where things are going," says Greany. "They've been doing it in Europe for quite some time, where most facilities are embedded audio. It cuts down on the infrastructure. For an EVS machine, you typically run 16 co-ax cables, eight in, eight out. Now you won't have any of those, just four or six video ins and outs for each EVS machine. That eliminates 16 wires per machine. Iridium and Chromium are both wired for 11 EVS servers, so that's 176 wires that you're eliminating, and all the clutter."
Game Creek Video also is investing in embedded audio, using it as a key part of the routing infrastructure for the two 53-ft. trucks it launched this year: Larkspur, supporting ESPN's college-football and basketball coverage, and Dynasty, handling MLB regular-season coverage for YES Network and the World Series for Fox.
"The big news this year for us was really embedded audio," says Jason Taubman, VP of design and new technology for Game Creek.
What's driving the use of embedded audio is a push by major networks to produce true surround-sound audio and deliver it to the home. Embedded audio makes that feasible by overcoming limitations in audio-channel capacity amongst various pieces of the production chain.
"Until recently, you could do surround only at the edge of a production, with music or an odd mic," explains Taubman. "The bottom line was that the production was a stereo production, and the reason for that was the channel capacity of devices like EVS machines and the routers, and the channel capacity to deliver audio to those devices. With embedded, for every EVS channel, you can deliver 16 channels of audio to it and receive 16 channels from it. With discrete audio, you could only get four channels from it. What embedded audio allows you to do down the road is full discrete production, where every sound channel is a 5.1 mix."
Using embedded audio has significantly reduced the cable count, allowing Game Creek to save 1,000-1,500 lb. per truck.
F&F Productions deployed embedded audio in its latest truck, GTX-16, which made its debut at the US Open tennis tournament for CBS.
"We added a lot more embedders and de-embedders in this truck, and a much larger AES level," says F&F VP of Engineering Bill McKechney. "We feel embedding and de-embedding is definitely the way things are going. Basically, for all the transmission, [the networks] want embedded audio. If it's available in a truck to use, they're going to use it."
Multichannel Audio Digital Interface (MADI) technology, which can fit 64 digital audio channels on one co-ax cable, is another effective way to streamline audio operations and is being used by both Corplex and Game Creek in their new trucks. Greany, along with several other mobile-production engineers, has pushed Wohler to create an eight-channel audio-monitoring speaker with a MADI interface. The new system will give truck users access to any of the 64 channels residing on a single MADI stream, all running off a single coaxial cable.
"I have 50 [speaker] units between Iridium and Zinc [its support unit], and, right now, I have to run four co-axes to each one," Greany explains. "That's 200 wires. If you could build a MADI-powered speaker that you could run one co-ax to and loop multiple channels, then you can run eight speakers off one co-ax, instead of 32 co-axes. So the amount of infrastructure would drop dramatically, yet the flexibility would go up.
"I spend a lot of time in production rooms, and people are all listening to the same things in different spaces," Greany continues. "Now I'm only feeding them once on the MADI output, and I don't have to eat up router outputs. We've got 400 router outputs just dedicated to speakers, and now I can effectively replace that with a handful of MADI buses."
Toronto-based Dome Productions is using a mix of MADI and embedded-audio distribution in its latest truck, Echo, a 53-ft. expando that launched in late October and is supporting NHL coverage for TSN and Rogers Sportsnet. Key vendors include Evertz, Calrec, and RME.
"We have a large amount of MADI distribution, as well as embedded audio through the router," says Dome Director of Engineering Mike Johnson. "We use MADI to bring audio signals to the audio console [a Calrec Sigma], and we take advantage of embedded audio to service the VTR and replay room as well as distribution and transmission. With the technology that exists within the Evertz router, we can adjust channels and embed channels in the router to meet changing requirements."
(Continues in Part II)


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If I refresh the page manually after the rows were added they are visible, but nothing happens if I don't refresh automatically.
I tried to use the a4j:support with onfileuploadcomplete and reRendering the PanelGrid which is the left panel that holds the rows.
Also tried to reRender the new rows themeselves.
Nothing seems to work. It doesn't refresh..
It seems that only the fileupload component doesn't refresh, the other buttons work great.
1. Re: FileUpload does not refresh the page/component on fileuploadcomplete.
support should be put to component as a facet and not to children list.
2. Re: FileUpload does not refresh the page/component on fileuploadcomplete.
3. Re: FileUpload does not refresh the page/component on fileuploadcomplete.
4. Re: FileUpload does not refresh the page/component on fileuploadcomplete.
Thank you! I'll try it first thing next week!


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ICC Sydney
ORIAS
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CAM GREENWOOD
CHIEF OF PASSION
Monsta Surf
Young, spirited and adventurous, 25 year old Cam Greenwood is the founder of the world's first socially conscious surf brand, 'Monsta Surf' - a business borne from a spirit of adventure and a global vision to inspire and empower people to 'live passionately' and launch fearlessly into a life of deep & purposeful adventure.
Discovering a love of surfing at age 16, Cam Greenwood decided to try his hand at shaping his first surfboard in the backyard of his parents Melbourne home. The passionate hobby soon sparked something far more purposeful - a socially minded vision which he explored on a life changing trip to Kenya, before returning to Australia to catapult his dream into a reality.
As a result, in late 2013 at only 20 years of age, Cam Greenwood launched the world's first socially conscious surf brand 'Monsta Surf' from the backyard of his parents home in Melbourne. Five years later the 'Monsta Surf Tribe' has expanded to over 40 countries across the world and has been able to find its own unique voice in an incredibly competitive and saturated marketplace with the brand now being recognised as the surf industry's first 'social enterprise'.
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Unlike a conventional knife sharpener, a DMT Sharpener won't develop grooves or hollows, and never needs dressing. They work perfectly well dry, but water may be used as a lubricant. Oil is not recommended.
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Acton senator's ranked-choice voting bill sees sizable support in hearing
Updated: 10/12/2017 06:21:56 PM EDT
Voter Choice Massachusetts Policy Director Greg Dennis (center) testifies at Thursday's hearing at the Statehouse. sun/jd capelouto
By J.D. Capelouto
Statehouse Correspondent
BOSTON -- Activists donning blue "Voter Choice Massachusetts" shirts packed a Statehouse hearing room Thursday and begged lawmakers to move forward on an Acton senator's bill to make "ranked choice voting" an option on ballots statewide.
Speakers at a hearing before the Joint Committee on Election Laws stressed their view that ranked choice voting -- which would give voters an option to rank several candidates instead of just one in an election -- is fundamental to increased involvement and diversity in politics.
"It's critical to the future health of our democracy that we encourage higher voter turnout and that our diversity is reflected in our elected institutions," said Sen. Jamie Eldridge, D-Acton, who filed the bill that would give any Massachusetts city or town the ability to use ranked choice in an election.
Eldridge did not testify because the Senate was in session.
"It's something that's very concrete, it's very practical and it's something that we can accomplish and we know can succeed," said Rep. Mike Connolly, a Cambridge Democrat who filed the House version of the bill.
Cambridge is the only city in Massachusetts that employs ranked choice, a system it enacted around 1940. Connolly said the system has "generally received very high reviews."
Locally, Lowell established ranked choice voting in the 1940s, but backlash led to a return to the traditional plurality system, according to Voter Choice Massachusetts, the lead activist group supporting the bill.
"Democracy is in decay and we're experiencing profound upheaval and divisiveness," said Voter Choice's Executive Director Adam Friedman. "Voters deserve better."
Friedman later added that the cost to implement ranked choice voting would be "minimal, negligible."
Proponents say ranked choice voting is a more inclusive and fair system because it gets rid of the so-called "spoiler effect," in which a third-party candidate can virtually take votes away from a similar candidate who would otherwise have a plurality.
"It gives a bigger voice to more independent thoughts and feelings," Joyce Isen, a member of the steering committee of activist group Our Revolution Concord Area, said in an interview. "You do get to vote your heart. You vote what you really want, what you really believe in."
In August the Concord group held an educational session with Voter Choice about ranked choice voting. Isen said they "feel very strongly positive about the issue."
Connolly said ranked choice would lead to more positive campaigning.
"When you encounter someone who may not be supporting you with their No. 1 choice, you still have an incentive to engage with people in a positive way" so they still rank you high, he said.
Connolly also suggested the bill could save money, since it would essentially get rid of the need for preliminary elections.
"Instead of having to go through primaries and preliminary elections, you can do a single election," he said. "In these tight fiscal times, that can be a benefit to local towns."
Last year, Maine became the first state to implement ranked choice voting, after residents approved it through a ballot question. In May, however, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court issued an advisory opinion that the system is unconstitutional and recommended a return to the plurality system. The Maine Legislature may vote on the issue in a special session later this month.
Residents came close to reinstituting ranked choice in 2009 when it was offered as a ballot question but failed, according to Eda Matchak, Lowell's elections director. Matchak declined to comment further.
Speakers reminded the committee that if Eldridge's bill is passed, it would still be up to municipalities to decide whether to institute the system.
"Each community will be allowed to determine which option they feel best works for their residents," Rep. Stephan Hay, D-Fitchburg, testified.
Voter Choice Massachusetts drew so many supporters to the hearing that the committee asked each of them to state their name and where they are from. The approximately 30 proponents came from cities and towns all over the state.
Connolly said he is "hopeful" that the bill will receive a favorable report and be signed into law this session.
"The momentum for this bill is simply incredible," he said.
Ranked choice voting was added to the official platform of the Massachusetts Democratic Party in June, though Eldridge said making sure that more people participate in elections "is a non-partisan issue."
"I look forward to working with my colleagues to pass this bill," he said.
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> Child sex offences committed by children or young ...
Child sex offences committed by children or young persons (sections 9-12) (offender under 18)/ Sexual activity with a child family member (offender under 18)/ Inciting a child family member to engage in sexual activity (offender under 18)
Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.13, Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.25, Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.26
Child sex offences committed by children or young persons (sections 9–12) (offender under 18), Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.13
Sexual activity with a child family member (offender under 18), Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.25
Inciting a child family member to engage in sexual activity (offender under 18), Sexual Offences Act 2003, s.26
Triable either way
Maximum: 5 years' custody
These are 'grave crimes' for the purposes of section 91 of the Powers of Criminal Courts (Sentencing) Act 2000.
For convictions on or after 3 December 2012 (irrespective of the date of commission of the offence), these are specified offences for the purposes of section 226B (extended sentence for certain violent or sexual offences: persons under 18) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003.
When sentencing offenders under 18, a court must in particular follow:
Sentencing children and young people – overarching principles
Sentencing children and young people – sexual offences
and have regard to:
the principal aim of the youth justice system (to prevent offending by children and young people); and
the welfare of young offenders.


Abstract: 在矽晶圓製造流程中,經過切片(Slicing)、晶邊圓磨(Edge Contouring)的程序後,矽晶圓的表面會產生鋸痕(Saw Mark)及損傷層(Damaged Layer)而影響到後續的矽晶圓加工製作流程,因此本研究嘗試利用自行研發的熱熔膠研磨墊搭配游離碳化矽磨料對矽晶圓脆性材料進行研磨加工,使矽晶圓的表面品質光滑平整同時也降低次表面損傷層深度。在自行開發的熱熔膠研磨墊方面,製作材料是使用熱熔膠熱固性高分子材料 Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate(EVA) 球型顆粒,製造流程主要透過熱熔膠塗佈機加熱使熱熔膠熔融成液態再以高壓噴霧塗佈方式使 EVA 膠液透過孔徑 0.5 mm 的膠槍形成微米級纖維絲並塗佈碳化矽磨粒(#8000)在纖維絲上;另外熱熔膠研磨墊的優點除了原料成本便宜之外還具有彈性可以緩衝研磨墊與加工物之間的作用力;最後經由研磨墊特性分析得到較佳的研磨墊為塗佈距離 20 cm 所製成的研磨墊,另外發現在纖維絲與無塵布之間存在適當熱熔膠薄層,可以產生緊密貼合的效果而不會在加工中造成研磨墊的脫落。本實驗參數設定有進給速率、研磨荷重、磨輪轉速、磨料濃度、研磨道次,晶片經過加工之後利用 SEM、AFM、TEM 、拉曼(Raman)等精密儀器觀察晶片表面及分析次表面微觀結構。在矽晶圓表面品質及次表面損傷層方面,經由實驗結果得知,在進給速率 0.5 mm/sec、研磨荷重 50 g、磨輪轉速 8000 rpm、磨料濃度 15 %、研磨道次 3 cycle 的實驗參數下,其表面粗糙度可由 Ra:41.91 nm改善到 Ra:2.45 nm、次表面損傷層厚度可降低至 150 nm,最後利用拉曼分析驗證有非晶質層(Amorphous Layer)的存在且估算厚度約10 nm。 During the silicon wafer manufacture procedure , after slicing and edge contouring , silicon wafer surface results in saw mark and damaged layer and affects the following manufacture procedure . This research tries to combine new hot-melt adhesive pad with free SiC slurry to grind silicon wafer which makes silicon wafer surface quality smooth and reduces subsurface damaged layer. In hot-melt adhesive pad aspect , the pad is made from thermosetting plastic materials(Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate) . Manufacture procedure of the hot-melt adhesive pad is to use hot-melt adhesive spray machine to heat hot-melt adhesive materials which become molten state and then use spray gun of 0.5 mm aperture to form hot-melt adhesive fiber by the high-pressured method and finally spread SiC particles(#8000) on hot-melt adhesive fiber ; the advantage of hot-melt adhesive pad , moreover , the cost of hot-melt adhesive material is cheap and it's elastic characteristic can cushion action force between pad and silicon sample ; finally , we can select the best pad to grind silicon sample by analyzing the hot-melt adhesive pad characteristic , and we find that hot-melt adhesive pad exist a suitable hot-melt adhesive layer to let pad sustain complete shape.The experiment parameters include feed rate , load , grinding speed , SiC concentration , grinding cycle , then use precision instrument (SEM , AFM , TEM , Raman) to examine silicon sample surface and analyze subsurface microscopic structure after grinding silicon sample . In silicon wafer surface quality and subsurface damaged layer aspect , according to the experimental result , when feed rate 0.5 mm/sec , load 50 g , grinding speed 8000 rpm , SiC concentration 15% , grinding cycle 3 times , surface roughness can be improved from Ra : 41.91 nm to Ra : 2.45 nm , and then subsurface damaged layer can be improved to about 150 nm , finally the silicon sample surface exists amorphous layer by using raman spectral analysis and computes it's thickness about 10 nm .