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November 22, 2011 Berlin Transportation, Press Release
Bombardier sponsors the 2011 General Assembly of the Latin American Association of Metros and Subways
Bombardier Transportation is presenting its world class rail solutions for Mexico and Latin America at the 25th General Assembly of the Latin American Association of Metros and Subways (ALAMYS). The event takes place in Guadalajara City, Mexico from today until November 24.
Bombardier is featuring its comprehensive portfolio of innovative, eco-friendly and technologically-advanced rail solutions which enhance passenger comfort. During ALAMYS, Bombardier will show the BOMBARDIER INNOVIA 300 family of fully automated smart mobility solutions including Monorail, Advanced Rapid Transit and Automated People Movers. The BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 650 state-of-the-art rail control solutions that maximize the use of rail infrastructure and equipment will also be on display.
As a provider of a complete range of propulsion and control equipment for all types of rail vehicles, Bombardier will present the BOMBARDIER MITRAC technology that sets the standard of reliability and sustainability. Also, with its full scope of Services, Bombardier Transportation representatives will be on hand to demonstrate how market-leading expertise can deliver efficient, competitive and sustainable rail operations by helping customers minimize their operational costs and maximize revenues through extended asset lifetime.
"People around the world are beginning to think differently about their transportation needs and options, and are increasingly looking to rail for longer-term solutions", said André Navarri, President and Chief Operating Officer, Bombardier Transportation. "As the industry's rail technology leader, we have developed a full portfolio of proven and future-oriented city-focused public transport solutions."
"Balancing the need for mobility and the impact of the world's transportation systems on the environment, competitiveness and quality of life has become a pressing issue in all regions of the world. More and more cities, including in Latin America, are adopting new and sustainable modes of rail-based mass transportation," Navarri added.
Bombardier Transportation began establishing a manufacturing footprint in Mexico almost twenty years ago. Today, with sites in Ciudad Sahagun, state of Hidalgo and Huehuetoca, state of Mexico,it designs, manufactures, and provides maintenance services to metro, light rail, Advanced Rapid Transit, train, locomotives and other rail vehicles.
"Bombardier Transportation is the most important supplier of rolling stock in the Mexican market, with more than 70 per cent of all the passenger rail vehicles in service today in Mexico. We are delighted that ALAMYS is holding its exhibition in Mexico where we can demonstrate how our innovative rail solutions are shaping the future of mobility," said Raymond Bachant, President, Bombardier Transportation, North America.
The Smart Mobility BOMBARDIER INNOVIA 300 Fully Automated Systems
The driverless turnkey systems INNOVIA 300 family of fully automated transit systems, including Monorail, Advanced Rapid Transit and Automated People Mover are the emerging game-changing solution to smart mobility, transporting hundreds of thousands of passengers safely, efficiently, comfortably and reliably to their destinations.
The newest technology of Bombardier's turnkey solutions is the INNOVIA Monorail 300 system. Cost-effective to introduce and not requiring major infrastructure or civil works, it offers transport capacity up to 50,000 passengers per hour per direction (pphpd). Whether transporting visitors to out-of-town destinations, or offering high capacity, frequent services for more densely used inner city routes, the INNOVIA Monorail 300 ensures passengers experience the ultimate in modern ride comfort.
The INNOVIA Monorail 300 system is becoming the choice of many city planners and transit authorities. Bombardier is currently executing two high profile orders for the INNOVIA Monorail 300 system: a contract to supply a 24 km system for São Paulo, Brazil and a contract to supply a 3.6 km system for the prestigious King Abdullah Financial District in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
BOMBARDIER CITYFLO 650 Communication Based Train Control (CBTC)
With the state-of-the-art CITYFLO 650 communication-based automated train control system, the INNOVIA 300 family is setting the standard worldwide. The CITYFLO 650 solution is a radio based, moving block ATC system which uses a reliable two-way radio for train-to-wayside communication transmitting vital information to trains, and train position information to the wayside. CITYFLO 650 comprehensively fulfils the requirements of a communication-based system in a transit environment. The system can be employed with driver or driverless depending on the customer requirements. It uses the most advanced technology in the world and fully complies with the North American PTC requirements. The CITYFLO 650 solution has been in operation since 2002 with 13 systems in revenue service worldwide and eight more in various stages of implementation. CITYFLO 650 is one of the most widely used CBTC systems.
World Leader in Propulsion and Controls
Bombardier Transportation is the world's leading provider of propulsion and control equipment for rail vehicles. The solutions set the standard of reliability and sustainability. Bombardier Transportation provides the complete chain of propulsion and control equipment for all types of rail vehicles. BOMBARDIER MITRAC technology is the core of our product portfolio and includes traction converters, auxiliary converters, drives and electronics. MITRAC equipment has been created with a clear ambition to boost customer competitiveness and to provide true revenue generating solutions. MITRAC powers some of the world's most reliable fleets because we are uncompromisingly optimizing the reliability of all our propulsion and control products. Our consistent energy efficient design of each propulsion and control technology contributes strongly to a more sustainable mobility.
A Full Suite of Services to Optimize Rail Assets
Bombardier Transportation provides a full suite of after-market services to help its customers optimize management of their vehicles and assets over their entire lifetime. We are the first choice for reliability, availability, maintainability and safety. Bombardier Transportation can provide total fleet maintenance to cover all operator needs. Our service does not end with system delivery; we also repair, maintain and solve obsolescence problems when these appear. When the assets reach high operational costs (high energy consumption, poor reliability and high maintenance costs) the alternative of refurbishing and modernizing the vehicles can become the preferred option.
Bombardier has an extensive global logistics network and excellent long-term international relationships with system suppliers. With the benefit of our global purchasing power we have what it takes to offer operators real support with material sourcing or equipment and system overhaul. Expertise, creativity, market knowledge and vision are just some of the reasons why Bombardier Transportation is setting the industry pace in providing the most innovative and cost-effective rail services solutions in today's market.
About ALAMYS
ALAMYS is the Latin American Association of Metros and Subways founded in 1986 by 11 signing countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico, Portugal, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. It has 41 members, including Mexico City's Collective Transport System Metro; the Electrical Urban Transport System of Guadalajara and Metrorrey from Monterrey City, amongst others. For more information visit http://www.alamys.org/
Bombardier Transportation, a global leader in rail technology, offers the broadest portfolio in the rail industry and delivers innovative products and services that set new standards in sustainable mobility. BOMBARDIER ECO4 technologies – built on the four cornerstones of energy, efficiency, economy and ecology – conserve energy, protect the environment and help to improve total train performance. Bombardier Transportation is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and has a presence in over 60 countries. It has an installed base of over 100,000 vehicles worldwide.
A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from commercial aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, systems and services, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2011, were $17.7 billion, and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD). Bombardier is listed as an index component to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America indexes. News and information are available at www.bombardier.com or follow us on Twitter @Bombardier.
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Can They Shut Down the WTO?
It Has been two weeks Today since the Dawn As soon as I awoke before sunrise to connect the blockade that closed down the opening meeting of the WTO. Since leaving jail, I have been reading the press policy and attempting to sound right out of this divergence between what I understand happened and what's already been reported.
For once at a political demonstration, when we Chanted"the world is seeing" We were telling the facts. I have never seen so much press attention onto a political activity. But nearly all of what's been written is really incorrect that I can not decide when the terrorists in question ought to really be charged with conspiracy theories or simply just incompetence. The accounts also have pontificated endlessly on several broken windows, and mostly ignored the Immediate Action Network, the team that successfully coordinated the non violent direct actions that fundamentally demanded tens of tens of thousands of folks. The authentic story of that which made the activity a victory just isn't being told.
The authorities, in safeguarding their barbarous and Stupid mishandling of this circumstance, have said that they were"not ready for your violence". In fact they have been unprepared for its non violence and the amounts and devotion of this non violent activists — although the blockade had been organized at open, public meetings and that there wasn't anything regarding our plan. My instinct is that our version of company and decision making was really foreign for their own picture of exactly what represents leadership they literally couldn't see what had been going on facing those. When authoritarians think concerning direction, the graphic inside their heads is of 1 person, usually a guy, or perhaps a tiny group taking a stand and telling others what to accomplish. Ability is concentrated and requires life threatening.
In contrast, our version of electricity was Decentralized, and direction has been spent from the category all together. Everyone was permitted to create their own conclusions, and also the concentrated structures were for co ordination, perhaps not restrain. Because of this, we had great flexibility and endurance, and lots of individuals were motivated to acts of courage that they might not have been arranged to accomplish.
Here Are Just Some of the key Facets of our Version of coordinating:
In the days and weeks ahead of the bockade, Thousands of individuals were awarded non violence training — a 3 hour class that united the real history and doctrine of non violence with true to life training through role plays staying calm in tense situations, together with non violent approaches, reacting to brutality, and making decisions together. Thousands also experienced a second-level practice in prison prep, solidarity plans and approaches along with legal facets. At the same time, you will find aid trainingsand trainings in blockade approaches, street theatre, meeting facilitation, along with different skills. Although a lot tens of thousands of men and women participate at the blockade who hadn't attended at least one of these homework, a nucleus of bands existed that have been well prepared to manage police brutality and who might offer a heart of immunity and potency. And in prison, I watched lots of circumstances that played just like the roleplays. Activists could safeguard members of these own group out of being spat or removed using approaches introduced at the trainings. The solidarity approaches we'd become a true block into the performance of this system.
Frequent Agreements
Each player at the activity was requested to Accept this nonviolence recommendations: To keep from violence, verbal or physical; perhaps not to take firearms, maybe not to create or use illegal drugs or alcohol, and maybe not to ruin land. We were requested to agree just for the aim of this 11/30 actions — perhaps not to register to these as a life philosophy, and also the group confessed that there was a lot of diversity of opinion all over several of those tips.
Spokescouncils
The participants at the activity were Each class has been permitted to create its own conclusions around the way that it would take part in the blockade. You will find classes carrying street theatre, the others preparing to lock to structures, groups together with banners and giant puppetsothers only ready to connect arms and nonviolently block delegates. Within each class, there were also generally many people willing to risk arrest along with many others who'd be their aid people in prison, in addition to a medical person.
Affinity classes were coordinated in to clusters. The region around the Convention Center has been separated to ten segments, and affinity clusters and groups focused on put up particular segments. At the same time, some bands were'flying classes' — liberated to proceed to where they were needed. Most this is co- ordinated in Spokescouncil meetings, at which Affinity Groups each delivered a representative that was permitted to talk to that group.
Used, this Type of business Supposed that classes can proceed and respond to fantastic flexibility throughout the blockade. When your call went out for more folks in a certain locale, an affinity group may check the amounts holding on the point at which these were choose if to proceed. When up against teargas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and horses, individuals and groups could check their own capability to hold out against the brutality. Consequently, blockade traces held at the face of incredible authorities violence. If one set was trapped away by petrol and nightclubs, still another could go into their own place. Yet there is also room for all those folks at the middle, awful lungs/bad backs affinity set to put on lines in areas which were relatively calm, to socialize and dialogue with the delegates we return, and also to encourage the labour march that attracted tens of thousands of thousands of thousands throughout the area in mid day. No centralized leader might have co ordinated the spectacle in the middle of the insanity, and not one has been needed — that the organic, autonomous company we'd demonstrated a lot better and potent. No authoritarian figure might have forced individuals to put on a blockade lineup while being tear — but enabled people free to create their own conclusions didn't opt to do so.
Consensus Decisionmaking
Spokescouncils and working classes engaged in DAN made conclusions by consensus a process which permits every single voice to be heard also stresses respect for minority opinions. Consensus was a portion of their non violence and prison trainings and also we left a tiny endeavor to also offer you a few exceptional training in meeting facilitation. We failed to translate consensus to mean unanimity. The single mandatory agreement was supposed to behave within the non violent tips. Beyond this, the DAN organizers place a tone that appreciated freedom and liberty on conformity, and worried co ordination as opposed to pressure to correct. Thus, as an instance, our prison solidarity stategy involved residing in prison at which we're able to make use of the pressure of our numbers to shield people from being designated for thicker charges or even maybe more barbarous therapy. However, nobody has been forced to remain in prison, or forced to feel guilty for bailing out until others. We understood that every individual has their particular requirements and life circumstances, which was crucial was to have taken actions at any degree we all can. Had we forced visitors to remain in jail, most might have resisted and felt resentful and mistreated. Because we did not, as people felt enabled, not manipulated, so the huge majority chose to allow them to keep inside, and lots of individuals pushed themselves far beyond the bounds of exactly what they'd expected to complete.
Vision and Spirit
The activity comprised artwork, dancing, Party, song, ritual and magical. It had been a demonstration; it had been an Up-rising of a fantasy of authentic prosperity, a party of imagination and life And link, that stayed joyous facing brutality and attracted living The imaginative forces which may truly counter people of control and injustice. Most People attracted the potency of their own spiritual training to the actions. I watched Buddhists turn off mad delegates with lovingkindness. We Witches headed Rituals prior to the actions and in prison, also predicted on the weather of nature to Let's. I had been given Reiki when ill and also we celebrated Hanukah without a Candles, however merely the blessings and also the narrative of this struggle for religious freedom. We discovered that the soul to sing inside our own cells, to dancing some stunt dance in The holding mobile, to laugh at that hundred little humiliations the prison inflicts, To comfort one another and pay attention to one another intense moments, to make use of our Timing with each other to keep on organizing and teaching and imagining the Flourishing with the particular movement. For me personally, it was among the very profound religious Experiences of the own life.
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And mica's back with another Candy Kit tutorial and review! *clap clap clap* this time it's the Meiji Takoyaki DIY candy kit! I actually have high expectations on this because it's Meiji, so! I properly took pictures this time, and will be writing a tutorial and later on my verdict on the candy!
So first, lez go ahead and open the candy and see what we got!
So we got 4 packets, a spoon/mixer, and the takoyaki mold!
Once you've poured everything, give it a good 1 to 2 minutes before flipping the takoyaki's over.
You've got your own candy Takoyaki set!
You can buy these in Trinoma, I think 2nd floor beside the escalator, there's a food bin stall and they sell a bunch of candy kits and you can get this for only 180 php!
Or you can also order online from amazon and from candy kit stores!
Thank you for visiting and hope you visit again!


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Fashion > Celebrity Style
Chloë Sevigny, the Original Street Style Icon, on Personal Style and How to Get Her Look
by Lynn Yaeger|edited by Elizabeth Taufield
Chloe Sevigny Vogue
Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, 2002
Ms. Sevigny looks back in a decades-spanning book.
When Chloë Sevigny was in Tokyo a few years ago, she came upon a fan book that some enterprising Japanese teenagers had made about her. "I was flattered but aghast!" she recalls, adding ruefully that the paparazzi photos in the book were hardly the most attractive.
Thus was born the retrospective album Chloë Sevigny (Rizzoli), a compilation of photographs, tear sheets, scrapbook pages, and other highly personal ephemera curated by the actor, designer, occasional Vogue model, and original street-style icon, due out this month. "It's about reclaiming my image. I thought, Let's do a modest book—if one can do a modest book of oneself," she says, laughing. "It's pretty shameless! But I wanted to keep the price under $40 so the kids can buy it."
The kids she is referring to are the legions of very young people who are infatuated with Sevigny and her various well-documented fashion incarnations—skater! Deadhead! urchin!—and, by extension, the raffish cultural landscape of the 1990s, when she first came to everyone's attention. Sevigny thinks this recent fascination with the nineties is only natural. "It's because they can't remember it!" she says. "When I was their age, I was obsessed with the seventies." The grainy photos in the book have an undeniably nostalgic appeal—in those antediluvian days we were still communicating largely without the help of computers, instead relying on the ancient machinery of typewriters, Polaroids, and Xeroxes. "My generation is the last one that came of age before the Internet," Sevigny says. "I can't make a Dropbox to save my life."
And maybe, she posits, this longing for authenticity is a reaction to our current hypercorporate Zeitgeist. "Everybody is obsessed with good taste now," she says, "but the nineties was about good taste/bad taste. I wanted the book to reflect a sort of non-taste—the freedom to not be sexy or glamorous all the time; more like a wild-in-the-streets kind of thing."
On this particular afternoon, Sevigny is only mildly wild in the streets, clad in an elongated vintage Comme des Garçons dress, a vintage A.P.C. hat that she likens to "an old Kangol—I'm obsessed with the home-girl thing," and, on her wrist, a 1960s gold Rolex she purchased "when we wrapped Big Love—a gift to myself." Her beloved platform boots are an Opening Ceremony replica of a pair of Junior Gaultiers. "These are my second pair—I split the platform dancing at Sway. I'm a stomper!"
She has always been a vintage addict, but newer fashions excite her as well—currently she (like the rest of us) is craving those velvet pants from the Vuitton spring 2015 runway; she also thinks J.W.Anderson is up to some interesting things. And of course she has her own line with Opening Ceremony, designs that often sport oddly delicate floral flourishes—Sevigny counts among her influences Little House on the Prairie, claiming that she spent her formative years swathed in calico, even sleeping in a nightcap.
Sevigny says that all her life she has grappled with what clothes mean, what kinds of fashion tribes she is aligning herself with, what she is trying to say through her ensembles. And though the book encompasses so many of her moods (look hard—there's even a documented Laura Ingalls Wilder moment!), there is one image that is sadly missing, an item that could be the Ur-garment in the Sevigny playbook. "When I was five, my mom got me a Wonder Woman bathing suit," she says. "I wore it every single day."
Here, 6 ways to channel Sevigny's iconic look.
Superdry vintage logo rainbow tee, $40; superdry.com; Frame Denim Le Garçon mid-rise slim boyfriend jeans, $220; net-a-porter.com; American Apparel unisex suspender, $18; americanapparel.net; Topshop smock leather mule clog, $90; us.topshop.com
Photo: (Clockwise from top left) Courtesy of Superdry; Courtesy of net-a-porter.com; Courtesy of American Apparel; Courtesy of Topshop
Topshop PU black pleated midi skirt, price upon request; For information: topshop.com; Alexis Fernanda off-the-shoulder fringe top, $298; intermixonline.com; Ben-Amun Byzantine gold-plated cuff, $515; net-a-porter.com
Photo: (Clockwise from left) Courtesy of Topshop; Courtesy of Intermix; Courtesy of net-a-porter.com
Lanvin golden ball choker necklace with black ribbon, $960; neimanmarcus.com; Dsquared2 short dress, $576; yoox.com
Photo: (From left) Courtesy of Neiman Marcus; Courtesy of yoox.com
Nicolas Kirkwood studded metallic-leather pump, $720; modaoperandi.com; Michael Kors Origami Sheath dress, $1,795; farfetch.com; My Diva's Closet 4.5-inch-wide white satin ribbon hair bows, $5; mydivascloset.com
Photo: (From left) Courtesy of modaoperandi.com; Courtesy of farfetch.com; Courtesy of mydivascloset.com
Gianvitto Rossi suede lace-up mesh tall boot, $1,595; bergdorfgoodman.com; Grizas long-sleeved velvet dress, $165; julesb.co.uk
Photo: (From left) Courtesy of Bergdorf Goodman; Courtesy of julesb.co.uk
Moschino Cheap and Chic pleated stretch-poplin playsuit, $625; net-a-porter.com; Monsoon penzance multilayer bead necklace, $45; us.monsoon.co.uk; Vans canvas Sk8-Hi, $60; vans.com
Photo: (Clockwise from left) Courtesy of net-a-porter.com; Courtesy of Monsoon; Courtesy of Vans
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Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Emergency Management
by Darren E. Price Wed, December 21, 2016
Responding to disasters is a critical function for first responders and the emergency management community. Rotary and fixed-winged aircraft have traditionally performed disaster response missions, such as overhead damage assessments, reconnaissance, and missing person searches. However, with the advancement of unmanned aircraft systems, there is an opportunity to perform conventional aerial missions in a safer, expeditious, and cost-effective manner.
Emergency managers are tasked with protecting the communities they serve – through planning, training, exercises, and technology. However, one technology has yet to be fully leveraged: unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Advantages & Uses
Rachel Finn and David Wright of Trilateral Research & Consulting LLP in London, UK, published a 2014 study stating that, "UASs have a 'niche' in performing the three Ds: dull, dirty, and dangerous work." Additionally, in 2003, Aviva Brecher at the U.S. Department of Transportation's Volpe Center offered that UASs can be deployed on demand, have flexibility in tasking, have plug and play capabilities for their payloads, can support high-resolution cameras, and can cover remote areas. These are but a few examples of the advantages and potential uses for UASs.
One advantage offered by UASs in comparison to rotary and fixed-winged aircraft is their ability to obtain unique observation angles that are not practical or otherwise possible via conventional means. UASs can be, and have been, used for a variety of missions, including agricultural inspections, assessing critical infrastructure, determining building and structural integrity, and conducting preliminary damage assessments. Recent real-world examples exhibiting the use of UASs for emergency management-related missions include UAS use to aid in:
Recovery efforts by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the October 2015 flooding in South Carolina;
Relief efforts in the aftermath of magnitude 7.8 earthquake in Nepal in April 2015;
Missing person searches; and
Damage assessments at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from the March 2011 earthquake and resultant tsunami that struck northern Japan.
Additionally, collapsed buildings pose an especially hazardous situation for emergency responders due to the instability of the structures. The use of UASs provides an alternative to sending emergency responders into an unstable building environment to determine its stability, with the added benefit of being able to provide real-time audio/video and environmental sampling. Not only does there appear to be an emerging interest in using small UASs for structural assessments, a 2014 article published in the Journal of Field Robotics noted that experiments have indicated that small UASs have been able to enter the hot zone of contaminated areas and begin transmitting usable data within 16 minutes. This is a significant finding as this timeframe is considerably faster than what traditional hazardous materials or radiological monitoring teams can accomplish.
In addition to traditional emergency management missions, the use of UASs represents a force multiplier for fire departments that deploy an air reconnaissance chief (ARC) during fire response operations. As an example, the current policy of the Fire Department City of New York (FDNY) is to deploy a battalion chief, operating as the ARC, for high-rise business and residential fires, as well as for building collapses. The activation of an ARC can also occur for multiple alarm fires, weapons of mass destruction incidents, special events, and incidents spanning large geographic areas that are otherwise inaccessible. The role of the ARC is to provide an overhead scene assessment (e.g., imminent hazards, structural integrity, location[s] of building occupants) to the incident commander (IC) on the ground. This assessment is critically important to the IC, as it will assist with guiding the priorities, objectives, strategies, and tactics comprising the incident action plan. The deployment of a UAS would decrease the time necessary to obtain an on-scene assessment or situational awareness, thereby expediting the sharing of incident information (e.g., live video feed, telemetry) with incident command posts and emergency operation centers.
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Barriers to Implementation
There are numerous barriers that complicate the use of UASs for disaster response, including public perception (i.e., privacy concerns), current Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rules and regulations, and a general lack of organizational policy structure. Although none of these areas is insurmountable, they nonetheless represent challenges for agencies considering the use of UASs within the United States. Among various barriers that exist, two of the more challenging ones are privacy concerns and the current FAA restrictions on the use of UASs by government agencies.
Privacy concerns have been raised that the domestic use of UASs may infringe upon the right to privacy afforded under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Recognizing public concerns about the use of UASs to conduct domestic spy missions, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proactively assigned the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the Privacy Office to lead a working group ensuring the domestic use of UASs does not violate individual rights to privacy. The Obama Administration has taken this a step further through the issuance of a 2015 presidential memorandum that recognizes the need to promote innovation and "economic competitiveness" regarding the domestic use of UASs, while at the same time providing protections for privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
An additional barrier complicating the use of UASs for disaster response missions in the United States is the FAA restrictions on the use of UASs by government agencies. There are processes for emergency requests, but the typical turnaround time to obtain a non-emergency Certificate of Waiver or Authorization (COA) for government agency UAS use is approximately 60 days. Even with a one-time emergency waiver, the timeframe required to obtain a COA is mission prohibitive for real-time response to disasters and presents a significant barrier to agencies that may be interested in using UASs for immediate disaster response missions. Furthermore, the interpretation espoused by the FAA – that a UAS operated by a civilian hobbyist is not an aircraft, but one operated by a government agency is – represents a clear contradiction in logic that must be addressed if UASs are going to be used to their full potential.
Decision Guide for Emergency Managers
With an opportunity to be on the leading edge of the UAS revolution, it is an exciting time to be in emergency management. The field of emergency management should move forward with the establishment of UAS programs for disaster response by embracing UAS technology and the many benefits it offers for mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery mission operations. Although the necessity to regulate the use of UASs in the national airspace system is recognized, such regulation cannot stymie the implementation of UAS programs for government agencies, especially for programs focused on public safety functions such as disaster response.
The author's Naval Postgraduate School master's thesis, entitled "Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Emergency Management: A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners," contains a guide in the appendix that serves as a tool to help policymakers and practitioners determine the need and feasibility of implementing UAS programs in their agencies. It also serves as a practical job aid that leads policy makers and practitioners through various decision points to consider when assessing the need and feasibility of a UAS program.
Elements of this article were previously published in the June 2016, International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Bulletin, the official monthly newsletter of the IAEM.
Darren E. Price, MA, is an emergency manager and regional supervisor with over 30 years of public service, including 15+ years in emergency management. He is a graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security Master's Program, where his thesis, "Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Emergency Management: A Guide for Policy Makers and Practitioners," was an outstanding thesis award nominee.
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We will see you on track with our beautiful pink livery for the Chinese Grand Prix on October 18th!


Wake Forest University Press, the major publisher of Irish poetry in North America, will host a "coming of age" party on Tuesday, March 18. The press is celebrating 21 years of publishing poetry. The free evening of Irish poetry and music will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor reading room of Carswell Hall. Peter Fallon, an Irish poet, will read his poetry.
For those interested in the future of the arts, Wake Forest will host "The Arts in the New Century" symposium March 20-22. Poet Rita Dove, Time magazine music critic Michael Walsh, composer Joan Tower and the North Carolina Museum of Art's executive director Lawrence Wheeler will be among the event's 18 speakers. The symposium will open with a talk by art critic and collector Lucy Lippard on Thursday, March 20, at 7 p.m. in Scales Fine Arts Center, Room 102. The symposium will continue on Friday, March 21, and Saturday, March 22, with four panel discussions addressing important issues in the arts. Sessions are scheduled at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. each day in the Scales Center's Brendle Recital Hall.
As part of "The Arts in the New Century" symposium, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove will read from her poetry at 4:15 p.m. Friday, March 21, in Brendle Recital Hall. Those registered for the symposium will have reserved seats to hear the former poet laureate of the United States, but remaining seats will be free to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
The first-round NCAA basketball game between Wake Forest and St. Mary's will be shown in the Benson University Center's Pugh Auditorium on Friday, March 14, at 7:55 p.m. If Wake Forest wins, the Sunday, March 16, game will also be broadcast in Benson Center.
While many college students spend Spring Break at the beach, more than 60 Wake Forest students are helping with community service projects across the country. As part of Wake Alternative Break, teams of 10-12 students are teaching children on a Sioux reservation and in inner-city Boston, providing meals for low income AIDS patients in Washington, D.C., and working in other locations. They will return Sunday, March 16.


Dogs vary in size and physique and there is no set size for each breed and measuring is not always so easy .
The following information is a guide to help you to measure for Hide and Collars items.
Neck measurements for a traditional flat buckle collar, should be taken with a soft tape measure, middle of the neck and place two fingers between the measure and the neck (not slack). With smaller dogs and a fine coat, one finger should be sufficient. Do not be tempted to add, as you can see in the picture the tape is not slack. This is the size to order and this will be the middle hole on the collar.There will be holes on either side for adjustment. Be sure to mention if your dog is young and still growing and I can make allowance for growth.
If you have a collar that fits your dog well, you can lay this out flat and measure from the buckle (where the leather sits around the buckle) to the hole you fasten the collar on, this is a good guide for me to work from.
For Adjustable half checks collars, measure under the chin,behind the ears and a firm measurement is needed close to the skin. Do not place any fingers under the tape or add on to this measurement. The measurement given will be length of the leather section of the collar (mid adjustment) the chain adds 11cm(4″) allowing room for the collar to go over the dogs head and to give the checking action. Be sure to mention if young dog with growing to do.
For Show set half checks take the measurement up under the chin, behind the ears and quite firm, so as not to come over the head. This will be the length of the leather section of the collar. The chain adding 11cm (4″) to allow the collar over the dogs head and to check.
For Slip collars take the measurement around the widest point of the dogs head, around and over the ears, as these collars slip on over the head. Then add on 8cm (3″) for the collar to slip comfortably over the dog's head and have a tag end with ring for the lead to clip onto.
For Round ID collars These collars slip over the head and sit nicely at the base of the neck. The measurement to take is around the widest point of the dogs head, around and over the ears, the slide this down and if it is sitting comfortably where you would like it to, then this is the size to order. You don't want it too loose.
For Braided Kangaroo ID Collars This style of collar clips together so the measurement needs to be taken mid to base of neck where you would like the collar to sit, not too loose that it would slip over the dogs head. The measurement given is the total length of the ID collar.


School of Art, Architecture and Design.
Since 2001, Joan Love has been a senior lecturer and first year Co-ordinator on BA (Hons) Interior Architecture & Design at Leeds Beckett University, UK. She became a Senior Fellow of the HEA in 2015 and is a Member of The Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) and Interior Educators (IE).
In 1988 Joan worked as an interior designer for two large London based architecture and design practices, Austin-Smith: Lord and DEGW. After moving north in 1994, she worked as a freelance designer for Braithwaite & Jackman, architects, Leeds, and subsequently went onto form her own design practice.
Joan has a detailed and working knowledge of the needs of young people with autism, and she has attended the National Autistic Society conference yearly, since 2007. Her on-going research explores innovative, art-based approaches within the early stage of design development, specifically, over the last 5 years, encompassing sensory spaces for autism.
Universities and design schools have a responsibility to ensure that the education of future designers enables design for special populations, in this case specifically children with autism. This paper presents a case study of an autism defined experimental teaching-led design project, within a first-year university Interior Architecture course, on which the author is a tutor. It draws on the author's extensive working knowledge of autism issues, incorporating mediation between SEN schools and design students, and employing research informed teaching. The project involves a new local free school for autism, at a temporary site. The experiment is designed to challenge students, emphasising the importance of understanding how primary research, accessed directly from the end users, informs progressive design thinking. It attempts to influence their design work in subsequent years at university and in practice, and facilitate bridging the gap between academic research and real-life application. This paper seeks to identify how an autism defined project, focussed on student-centred learning and encompassing choosing sessions with children with ASD, can be taught in the first year of undergraduate study. Further, it aims to analyse how the teaching styles and content of a partially 'live' community design project impact on the participants. This is achieved by describing the details and challenges of the project together with the interactions between the students and the school. It concludes that the project adds value to the student experience, builds student confidence and eliminates pre-conceived ideas surrounding autism. It shows that design can be an interactive process between university and special schools. Equally, the pitfalls of a live project of this nature are highlighted, as is the need for modification before similar projects are reproducible as viable educational models.
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Bogdashina, O. (2003). Sensory Perceptual Issues in Autism and Asperger Syndrome: Different Sensory Experiences - Different Perceptual Worlds. London, UK: Jessica Kingsley.
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Furniss, L. (2015). Beyond Discipline - Design Practice and Design Education in the 21st Century (pp 5). Birmingham, UK: Strategic Creativity research lab.
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Mostafa, M. (2014). Architecture for Autism: Autism ASPECTSS™ in School Design, Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research, 8(1), 143-158.
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PhD Statistics (2015) University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA. "Statistics in the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann Treespace" Advisor: Ruriko Yoshida.
 Unit Co-Instructor: University of Bristol Genomic Medicine iBSc. R tutorial unit.
[2014 Fall] Assistant Instructor—STA 701: Advanced Statistical Inference I. Grader—STA 623: Theory of Probability. University of Kentucky.
[9/2012] Quantitative Initiative for Policy and Social Research, Univ. of Kentucky. Invited presentation: Introduction to R.
Fine-scale DNA ancestry analysis pipeline developer and consultant.
Development of novel computational approach to the study of phylogenetic data.
Statistical consulting for faculty and graduate students.
Application of spline fitting techniques to historical climate data.
Development of simulations and visualizations for use in teaching introductory level General Relativity courses.
Manipulation and analysis of genetics datasets.
Weyenberg, G., Yoshida, R., and Howe, D.
Weyenberg, G., Huggins, P., Schardl, C., Howe, D.K., and Yoshida, R.
Nye, T. M. W., Tang, X., Weyenberg, G., and Yoshida, R.
Weyenberg, G. and Yoshida, R.
In Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology, Kliman, Richard, ed. (2017) Elsevier.
In Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical Methods for Modern Biology, Robeva, Raina, ed. (2015) Elsevier.
[6/2016] American Society of Human Genetics. Poster: Chromosome painting for arbitrary sample collections.
[8/2014] Joint Statistical Meetings. Presentation: Kernels in Phylogenetic Tree-Space.
[8/2013] Joint Statistical Meetings. Presentation: Nonparametric Estimation of Phylogenetic Tree Distributions.
[11/2012] Statistical Computing Seminar, Univ. of Kentucky. Presentation: Functional Programming in R.
[6/2012] Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies, Penn State Univ. Poster: Automatic Detection of Gene-tree Outliers Using Kernel Density Estimation.
 UT-KBRIN Bioinformatics Summit. Univ of Tennessee & Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network, Cadiz, KY.
 Algebraic Methods in Systems and Evolutionary Biology. MBI, The Ohio State Univ.
 Successful Data Mining in Practice. Richard De Veaux. ASA Short Course.


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title: Is there a way to check off when we complete a step in a goal?
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Technically, there currently is no way to do this. The listing of steps is more for helping you plan then for actually managing the process. There are a multitude of productivity tools that will be able to do that much better than we will.

All that being said, if you want to try and keep track of it, you do have one option. Since the list is plain markdown, you can add a strike through to show that it's done. Click edit on the goal and on the step you've completed you can add `~~` around the line.

For example:

1. \~\~Do this thing\~\~

When you save it, it should have a line through it.

1. ~~Do this thing~~

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Continuing the trend of posts about family it wouldn't be right of me not to include Lassie, my 5 year old Border Collie. I first met Lassie when she was born but it was 6 weeks later when Robert was with me that he picked the same dog from the bunch amd gave her the name Lassie. She was born in Co Mayo, on the west coast of Ireland and made the journey back to Dublin with me just before Christmas 2010 in a small box that I had till I left Ireland.
I got Lassie just after I retired from the Defence Forces and she became my constant companion as I went to college and started work in the airport. My last pet was actually my sisters dog so Lassie was the first pet I owned myself. For the next 4 and a bit years long walks down the park were a daily part of my routine. I met some wonderful people while walking in the park and Lassie met some great doggie pals. I am still in touch with them and they regularly ask how Lassie is doing.
One of Lassies best pals is a little terrier called Pippa, they were neighbors and went everywhere together. Luckily when I was working shift my neighbour would bring Lassie and Pippa to the park and let them have a run around. It is the one thing Lassie misses, being able to get off her leash and run with her pals. But she does have a new pal now, her adopted brother, Bozley. Ever since we arrived in America Lassie and Bozley have got on great. Of course getting a dog to the USA isn't just a case of arriving at the airport, like everything else it took advance planning. I started the planning in August for a November flight, getting Lassie rabies shots, blood tests, buying a crate and booking place on flight.
Lassie always either slept on the bed or on the floor so the crate was just a piece of furniture until the day of the flight. Unfortunately dogs travel cargo so I had to let Lassie go with the airline early. In fairness Aer Lingus were superb, even coming up to me on the plane before take off to let me know Lassie was on board and looking good. With the stress of me emigrating it was nice of the airline to do that for me.
I love my dogs, it's not just Lassie but Bozley as well now. We go on walks everyday and generally have fun. The 2 dogs follow me everywhere, and I mean everywhere! I wouldn't have it any other way as they are both part of the family, are loved by us both and well looked after. Next week will be a challenge for Bozley as he goes in for an operation to have his leg removed but with Lassie there to help him and our love he will be in good hands.
I make no apologies but I am a dog person and there were times when things didn't look so good that Lassie would come over, just lie beside me, rest her head on my leg and look up at me and then I would know everything was going to be ok.
Have a great weekend folks and have fun. It's time for me to go and enjoy some time with my wife and dogs. I will be back on Monday with an update on how my return to playing football after nearly 20 years away from playing.


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How to introduce television to toddlers (without turning their brains to mush) – Part 3
Danya Banya June 18, 2013 0
(Image source)This is the third part of my guide on 'How to introduce television to toddlers (without turning their brains to mush)'. If you missed them, you can find the first part here and the second part here.
So having decided when to introduce television, the next question is which shows are best?
There seemed to be a lot of what I consider "bad" first TV shows:
Goodies vs Baddies – there are lots of these sorts of TV shows aimed at preschoolers that seem just darn right scary for young toddlers – I'm talking the superhero variety.
Overcoming all odds – these shows showed something going wrong, like a lorry's brakes failing, and everyone working together to overcome this problem. Except that after watching one or two of these type of shows, JJ became very scared. She didn't want people to be in danger. She couldn't understand that it was just a story.
Bad behaviour which backfires with a lovely moral at the end – this sort of storyline seems innocent enough, until you realise that younger kids don't necessarily understand the morals, and instead are watching and emulating the bad behaviour.
A bunch of nameless shapeless characters saying loop loop de loop doop – kids seem to get entranced by these shows. There's one that goes for half an hour. Seriously, half an hour of loop loop loop. I can't help but think that this is a wasted learning opportunity, that this time could be better spent.
Any show where the frame length is too short – this is the case with most modern day cartoons. It makes swish viewing to have many scenes and "camera angles", but unfortunately young children can't keep up.
We wanted shows that were more than just mere babysitters. We wanted shows that would be appropriate for a highly impressionable young toddler, that would educational, loving and fun, that would encourage her sense of adventure, that would be worth the time spent watching.
After a lot of research, previewing and discussing, here are the shows that we choose for our daughter's first television experiences.
1. Playschool
Now if you've ever watched Playschool you'll know that they don't have the budget to advertise. So no, this is not a sponsored post! Lol. I just really love this show. Approaching it's 50th anniversary, this is a classic show that I fondly remember from my own childhood, although the reason that I recommend this as a first kids' TV shows is not for nostalgia.
Almost the entire show is shot with the cameras in the same location, with very long frame lengths, sometimes minutes. This gives very young children a chance to see what's going on for themselves. They can watch the entire scene in much the same way they would a live play. When they do change sets, the camera usually pans, and usually this is done from left to right – the way that you read a book.
The presenters are a mix of sex, race and age, and they all speak English with an Australian (or in the case of Jay, kiwi) accent. They spend most of the show talking directly to the camera, asking questions throughout, making it feel interactive. They sing a mix of traditional and newer nursery rhymes that have rhyme, alliteration, rhythm. They dance in a fun way, that encourages audience participation, using all parts of the body. Playschool also use a relatively small collection of dolls, teddy bears and other toys to tell the stories, much in the same way that a child would use the toys in their own home to role-play with. When they tell a story, whether from a book or in a role-play format, they skip over or retell sections that may be scary or encourage bad behaviour.
Playschool promotes a broad idea of what the normal family is. In addition to the presenters being from diverse backgrounds, they also show families that are rich and poor, that live in the city and the country, that have one parent or two, that live in a house or an apartment. They show short clips of real Australian families doing real things.
And the craft! The craft makes my heart sing. Playschool encourages affordable, often recycled materials, with lots of imagination and colour. Perfection is not the goal. They usually focus on process over product, and include lots of sensory play.
The only episode that I question is one where they introduce the concept of death. Whilst they cover the topic tactfully, personally I still don't feel this is Playschool's place. They don't know the unique situation of each viewer.
The other episode where I think they are toeing the line, is one where Morris (one of the teddy bears) goes to a disco dressed in nothing but leather chaps and a leather cap. Probably something that can wait beyond toddler years. But I'll let them off on that one. He does look adorable!
For our family, we didn't allow any TV at all whilst our daughter JJ was a baby. We started letting JJ watch Playschool when she was one and a half years old, and this was the only show that she watched for the next eight months. She would ask to role-play the different presenters "Daddy, you Andrew. I Karen." and she even named some of my shoes after presenters – some orange ones were Essie's shoes and silver ones were Justine's shoes. JJ was given a Jemima doll for her birthday which quickly became her prized possession. In fact, it still is her most cherished doll.
But eight months later, it was time to introduce another TV show, and after careful consideration we chose…
2. Guess How Much I Love You
Guess How Much I Love You is a thirty three part series of the adventures of the protagonist Little Nut Brown Hare, his father Big Nut Brown Hare, and his friends Little Field Mouse, Little Grey Squirrel, Little Redwood Fox, and so on.
One of the reasons why we chose this show as our second show is the illustrations. They are lovely, and still retains the feel of the original picture book, which we had read previously at home. But the main reason is the kind messages that prevail throughout this series. Messages of love, friendship, playfulness, innocence, consideration, bravery, kindness.
Big Nut Brown Hare is the parent that I want to be. He encourages without pushing. He helps without stifling. He is, for me, a perfect example of attachment parenting. Little Nut Brown Hare is so secure in his relationship with Big Nut Brown Hare, that he is able to go forth with confidence, exploring his world around him, forging wonderful caring friendships.
The only negative that I can see in this show is that it is somewhat unAustralian. The animals, the flora, the weather, are all things that my daughter will not get to experience in our home. But, having said that, she does still need to learn these things, and this has been a lovely medium.
And so, for the next four months, JJ watched a combination of Playschool and Guess How Much I Love You. JJ started to learn the episodes by rote, and the role-playing evolved to include this new shows characters and themes. One morning, when my eyes were refusing to open even though I had a little one trying to pull off the covers, she lent over me and whispered "Mummy, I love you the world" and with that small sentence my heart exploded. But, sooner or later (and in our case it was four months later), the time came to introduce show number three…
3. Charlie and Lola
If Big Nut Brown Hare is the parent that I want to be, then Charlie is the older sibling that I hope that JJ will become. And Lola, well Lola is the preschooler that I think JJ is already turning into. She is cheeky, funny, adventurous, mischievous, kind, unrestrained and occasionally self-centred.
We were first introduced to Charlie and Lola via Lauren Child's books – which are wonderful. I believe that children view TV shows differently if they have seen the characters in books first. Go to your library and borrow a few.
There are seventy four shows in the series, and some of them deal with some complex issues that require the maturity of an older toddler. I'm glad that we waited until JJ was almost two and a half before introducing some of these concepts. Concepts such as death of a pet, superstitions, being left out, getting lost and being afraid of the dark. Charlie and Lola deal with these concepts really well, but I still don't think I'd want my under two year old to be pondering these topics.
My main criticism of Charlie and Lola is Lola and Lotta's grammar and pronunciation, which although adorable, is extremely very not correct Charlie at a time when my daughter is learning to speak.
When JJ was nearing three years old, she was showing enough maturity and desire to broaden her repoitoirre. We started including shows like Angelina Ballerina (both the original series, and the Next Steps series), Mike the Knight, Giggle & Hoot, Disney's Cinderella (although we had to reassure her that the cat wouldn't catch the mice for the first half dozen times or so times) and most recently, The Octonauts (which she's become a tad obsessed about).
Our biggest challenge now is how to shield our youngest daughter Bee from television without denying JJ. At 9 months old, whenever Bee hears the television being turned on, she speed-crawls to the loungeroom, and pulls herself up to standing on the coffee table, with eyes glued. She would love to watch alongside her sister. But, I'm doing my best to prevent this. For now, we can distract Bee by playing with her in another area of the house. But I can see that this will be a bigger challenge as time goes on.
One idea that I have, is to shift JJ's TV watching time to during Bee's nap-time, but I haven't yet implemented this. Question to all the second (or third, or fourth) time mums out there – how do you juggle it? Help!
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The ptyget package is a toolset for running programs in various ways under pseudo-terminals, making programs exhibit their "interactive mode" behaviours in circumstances where they would normally operate in non-interactive mode.
It is, incidentally, notable for exemplifying a very early version of, and one of the few published instances of, Bernstein's own never-published "redo" build system. dependon, a command to be found in the .do files in the package, is a clear precursor to redo-ifchange.
ptybandage is what people usually want in a login session. Its primary use case is making programs that are sensitive to whether their standard inputs, outputs, or errors are connected to terminals operate that way even though they are in fact in shell pipelines, or have their standard file descriptors redirected to file.
It takes a command to run (which has to be a proper external command, of course) and runs it in such a way that it thinks that its standard input, output, and error are attached to a terminal, connecting those through to ptybandage's original standard input and output. The command's standard output and error are merged into ptybandage's standard output.
It deals with the nuances of running under job control shells, ensuring that a terminal STOP character not only stops ptybandage but also stops the program running attached to the inner terminal.
ptyrun is what people usually want in TCP network servers. Its primary use case is remote execution environments that have not themselves set up terminals, running programs that don't operate as desired when there's no terminal.
It doesn't expect to be running under a job control shell, and if the command being run receives a stop signal it is simply restarted.
nobuf is what people usually want when redirecting standard output to file. Its primary use case is making programs that use the C library's "streams" operate those streams in line buffered mode, the default for the standard input and output streams being block buffered mode if they are not directed to a terminal. Block buffered mode is not useful for (say) a program that generates output progressively, line by line, where one wants to watch that output happen by monitoring additions to the file it is directed to.
Unlike ptybandage, it does not affect standard error. The C library's semantics for standard error are that it is always in not buffered mode, so forcing it not to be block buffered is unnecessary. Programs that look to standard error to decide whether they are "interactive" will not see a terminal if standard error is redirected. Conversely, ptybandage cannot arrange to keep standard output and standard error separate.
Like ptyrun, it doesn't have any special handling for job control.
This is the Ginsu knife (it slices, it dices, it never rusts) that Dan has been talking about in comp.unix.wixards/internals for some time now. It is a mind-blower.
What can I say? It slices, it dices, it washes dishes, it walks the dog. It "just works", meaning that if you follow the directions you'll get a working package without any pulling of hair or gnashing of teeth or other standard porting activities.
The old Ginsu knife pty is now spelled ptybandage, which is a synonym for ptyget ptyio -t ptyspawn; pty -d, for attaching network programs to pseudo-ttys, is now spelled ptyrun, which is a synonym for ptyget ptyio ptyspawn; and nobuf is a synonym for ptyget ptyio -r ptyspawn -23x. I've split off the session management features into a separate package.
That separate package was the "sess" package, implementing Bernstein's ideas about session management.
Of course, Google Groups still has the original comp.sources.unix postings. Enjoy shell archives; these are how we used to share our programs with the world, before curl $URL|bash came along and eliminated both portability and human middle-men in one fell swoop.
The aforementioned FTP site at ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/ptyget-0.50.tar.gz has long since been shut down. Bernstein himself has no documentation on his WWW site, nor any indication that the package even still exists. However, it does and the source archive is still published as ptyget-0.50.tar.gz there.
Dru Nelson publishes both pty version 4 and ptyget in source form using GitHub.
There are a few problems with the original packages. One is that they are written in a programming language that effectively does not exist this century. C 1999 and C 2011 compilers are a lot stricter about function declarations (missing and K&R style), const-ness, and other stuff. There are also two long-since defunct BSDisms in the package that prevent it from compiling and working on most modern operating systems: a pseudo-terminal ioctl that sets a "remote mode" that doesn't exist any more (outwith OpenBSD), and the 1980s-style pseudo-terminal device names (again only to be found on OpenBSD nowadays). The "remote mode" is a particular difficulty — nobuf relies upon it.
Paul Jarc publishes two differently fixed versions of ptyget that attempt to deal with the two long-since defunct BSDisms.
The Daniel J. Bernstein softwares all-in-one toolset has similarly adjusted versions of the tools.
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A leading innovative delivery and leaflet distribution company, in London, approached us to complete a 'must win' distribution contract. They were the incumbent provider, and had been since 1985. We provided a combination of writing, design, bid management services and strategic advice.
A leading innovative delivery and removals company in London approached us to complete a 'must win' distribution and portering contract. They were the incumbent provider, and had been since 1985, but had not previously tendered for the work. We provided a combination of writing, design, bid management services and strategic advice to help them retain their position as market leader in their region.
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Hunter's Moon
Chuck Logan
Hunter s Moon Harry Griffin is a loner who s witnessed some of war s rawest moments A survivor he is guided in all things by his unfailing loyalty and honesty But a tragic altercation in Minnesota s North Woods th
Title: Hunter's Moon
Author: Chuck Logan
Harry Griffin is a loner who s witnessed some of war s rawest moments A survivor, he is guided in all things by his unfailing loyalty and honesty But a tragic altercation in Minnesota s North Woods that leaves a young man dead and suspicions of murder hanging in the air tests Harry s courage as never before Nothing could have prepared him for the eerie silence that hasHarry Griffin is a loner who s witnessed some of war s rawest moments A survivor, he is guided in all things by his unfailing loyalty and honesty But a tragic altercation in Minnesota s North Woods that leaves a young man dead and suspicions of murder hanging in the air tests Harry s courage as never before Nothing could have prepared him for the eerie silence that has fallen over the incident, the challenge to his nerve, and the raw carnality of his best friend s wife.Digging for answers in a town ready to lash out in fear of the dark secrets he is moving ever closer to, Harry ignores the signs of danger at his own peril Until it all ignites in a fire of unexpected betrayal and a bloody settling of accounts.
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About " Chuck Logan "
Chuck Logan is an author of crime drama and veteran of the Vietnam War, who lives with his wife and daughter in Stillwater, Minnesota.He is best known for his series of novels featuring the character Phil Broker, an ex Minnesota police officer Logan s novels include Hunter s Moon, Absolute Zero, Vapor Trail, Homefront, and After the Rain Homefront is now a major motion picture starring James Franco and Jason Stratham.
It's never good to find yourself asking, "When is this thing gonna end?" After enjoying a sweet buildup in the first quarter of the novel, I strolled into the Valley of Plot Doom, where my frustration at seeing no clear path out was augmented by the author's weak attempts to build characterization in minor players. By the time the story got back on track, I was tuckered out. There were definitely a few pleasant moments along the journey -- scenes in which two major characters have the requisite [...]
Lisa Dunckley
What a wild ride! Harry Griffin is a 10 year sober Vietnam veteran. He tends to solve problems with swift violence—this has led to him saving people's lives and forming fierce and fast friendships with the people he's saved. He hasn't spoken to fellow alcoholic and former best friend Bud Maston in a year, but when Bud calls and says he just got married and is having a ceremony that he wants Harry to attend, oh, and they're all going deer hunting first—Harry, and Bud, and Bud's wife's son, Ch [...]
Steve Payne
The author is suffering from too vivid an imagination. Certain sections, especially the ending were so convoluted it made it difficult to read. I finished the book because I wanted to see what happened but I can't say I was sad to see it go.
Jean Doolittle
We have lots of good writers in Minnesota and reading books with a local setting is always a kick. That was some of my motivation for continuing to plow through this book, along with a perverse pleasure in some of the excruciating verbosity. Logan can turn a colorful phrase, but so OFTEN he shouldn't have. Take this phrase--sounds like prose poetry until you take it apart and say, "What???" "His hazel eyes had mellowed--had left tough and were hitchhiking toward wise--but they could still sting [...]
Carolyn (in SC) C234D
I read this several years ago and don't remember details. At the time I noted "Hard to evaluate. A good yarn but a shade too violent, and hard to follow at times. The main character goes off the wagon after ten years, to get the edge he needs to handle all the crap that's going on. His old best friend calls him for help. Harry winds up killing a teen-aged boy to save his friend's life. But who is pulling the strings? Some lines from the book that I liked:"He sounded to me like an experiment wher [...]
what appears to be a "simple murder" turns out to be a more than convoluted mess of characters, entangled over the years—though no one knows it at the time. A bit hard to follow all the 20+ characters, but really this was an engrossing book. Surprising twists (multiple) at the end; 1996 hardback recommendation of Debbie, a Staffer @ Madison County Public Library, Berea; 4 out of 5 stars; maybe should be 3 out of 5 because all the characters were hard to follow; 392 pgs.; read 11 Aug 2014/# [...]
Qazyman
This is a story that drowns under the weight of wasted words. The beginning was well constructed and the ending was action packed. In addition, the characters were interesting and deep, but the middle of the story rambled endlessly, and really didn't have a strong connection to the story. I hoped that the story would come together, as some parts were fun to read, but it just didn't happen.
Rebekkila
It was a good story and moved pretty quickly for the most part. One thing that really bothered me was the protagonist's dental hygiene habits. He abuses his gingiva and probably the underlying tooth structure with over aggressive brushing, often times brushing until his gingiva(gums) bleed. Remember your toothbrush bristles should not splay out or be tipped in red!
Madiha
Reading this was kinda rocky road. The starting is slow and dull, but it starts to build up fast and gets good and then takes a nose dive again. The plot has a lot of suspense and it leaves you guessing when you do get engaged. There were moments I'd yawn and moments where I wouldn't put it down. The ending is good. So all in all, its an okay thriller, worth reading if you can borrow.
Thriller - Harry Griffin, recovering alcoholic, gets a 3AM call from his drunken AA sponser, Bud. Millionaire Bud wants Harry to join him and his new stepson on a hunting trip in Stanley, MN, the source of Bud's family fortune. Bud's new wife makes a play for Harry, her son tries to kill Bud and is shot by Harry, her daughter attacks Harry. Wheels in wheels - fast and exciting.
Jeff Dickison
Very uneven first book by Logan. Parts of the book are powerfully written and parts make little sense at all. The plot set-ups are often clumsily written and some of the characters logic are completely illogical. There is some ability here but it needs to mature.
Laraine
This was Logan's first book and while it was a fairly good read, it was not up to his other books IMHO. Have South of Shiloh set up to read nextd I will have read all of Logan's books, most of which I have rated very highly.
Hunter's Moon was not nearly as well-written as other books by this author, but it was still an interesting read.
Logan's debut novel is a real page turner. A loner in upper Minnesota, stumbles into a towns dark secret.
A decent bit of crime-based entertainment, with just enough twists to keep it interesting. Though there were some aspects that stretched by suspension of disbelief to the breaking point.
Pretty good beach book.
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You are invited to join us for a casual walk to the end of the Macedon Butterfly Trail for sunset, followed by a stroll back at twilight. Bring the kids and explore!
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Welcome to Golden State CDC
Golden State CDC is your preferred SBA 504 Lender
Keith Colter
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Keith Colter, MBA is a seasoned SBA lending executive, who has led SBA departments and developed comprehensive loan policies and procedures to manage portfolio risk. Colter serves as Credit Manager at Golden State CDC.
Colter is the former Chief Lending Officer of SBA & Small Business Services (SBS) at Business Partners, LLC. Prior to BPLLC, Keith was Chief of Finance for the Los Angeles District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) where he provided final approval on 7(a) loans submitted by banks and credit unions, and 504 loans submitted by CDC's.
In 2013 he graduated with honors from Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington. He holds an MBA in Operations Management and Finance from Babson College; has a B.S. in Manufacturing Engineering Technology from California State University at Los Angeles and holds a Certification in Real Estate Investing from UCLA.
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At least 40 million Americans each year suffer from chronic, long-term sleep disorders, and an additional 20 million experience occasional sleep problems. Neurotherapy is a powerful tool for regulating sleep. Health professionals around the world report significant improvement in a large percentage of their clients using neurotherapy to treat chronic long-term sleep problems. It is important to note that neurotherapy is not just neurofeedback, other modalities have also been shown to be very effective.
What are the most commonly reported sleep issues that improve with neurotherapy training?
Neurotherapy regulates sleep by training the brain to regulate itself in terms of over arousal, under arousal and unstable arousal. The arousal levels are indicated after each commonly reported sleep issue.
Neurotherapy often helps these problems as it improves brain regulation. These are common reports: A 75 year-old reported that she "...slept like a baby for the first time in 25 years" after neurotherapy. Parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) often say it's easier to get their kids to sleep. Depressed clients remark they have a much easier time getting going in the morning.
The brain regulates sleep. Neuroscience has established the role of neuromodulator systems in the brainstem that play a role in maintaining awake states - and conversely, help the brain sleep.
Training the brain using neurotherapy - to decrease or increase low brainwave activity, or to increase specific activation patterns - appears to help the brain normalize sleep. Based on reports from a large number of licensed health professionals, the evidence shows that training the brain impacts sleep regulatory mechanisms and people sleep better.
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For a while now, I have practically remained voiceless when it comes to this cultural phenomenon "Black Lives Matter". I think I've been silent out of fear, just because I didn't want to be cast as one of "those" people, but then I realized that I indeed have a voice, an opinion and quite frankly I am hurt. I grew up in a world where the lines the separated black and white really didn't seem to exist. Most of my friends growing up, and even here recently are white, or of another race than myself. For a while, I really didn't feel like black people took me seriously. It was like they thought I was in this little oasis of "being white", "talking white", "acting white" and let us not forget "dressing white". However, I only associate with people now who understand that preferences and behaviors do not follow the social constructs of race and or gender... so I've gotten over that and now I can stand with my fellow Black people and talk about this.
Violence is a huge no-no for me, wholeheartedly. I'm a talker, a negotiator, a planner... but I am not a fighter by any means. I'm 21, and the only gun I have ever touched is a water gun or a BB gun that one time when I pretended to be a Boy Scout. I've never been confronted with gun violence in my life, however, this is a situation that literally could've happened to anyone.
I really hate the fact that people in general don't realize just how precious life is. We are given one opportunity to make all of our dreams come true, and the fact that someone can try and justify taking someone's opportunity, regardless of race, is completely and utterly wrong. How a piece of metal that's supposed to be used for self-defense, can literally take the most precious thing ever invented from someone, literally makes me want to throw up.
Since America is so yearning to pull Christianity into everything, let me quote a scripture from Luke 12:48, "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." Let's take Alton Sterling out of this situation and think about the job description of a police officer. When did the job description of a police officer become to execute people? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the job of a police officer to protect PEOPLE, meaning white, black, blue, purple and fuschia from danger? I'll wait for the correction of their job description... Ok, let's add Alton, Sandra, Eric, Tamir, Trayvon and Emmitt back to the equation.
If a police officer were to kill one Black male, and this type of slaughter never makes national news again... I honestly wouldn't be typing this. However, this in its most basic form has become a destructive pattern. White police officers are killing black people. But they obviously have a type. It's the black man that to them hasn't accomplished anything, won't accomplish anything and to them, is a menace to society. I'm so sorry, but when I was 4 years old my father told me to NEVER judge a book by its cover. If America would just open it's eyes to see that racial crime is at its core terroristic. While we are focused so hard on the killing of our people by a religious group, let's turn around and see the fact that people who have birth certificate, driver's license and social security number, and not to mention are working for our city, state and federal governments are killing their own people.
What's the world going to say when the next victim of this police brutality has a crystal clear criminal background, has a 401K and doesn't own a gun... but just so happens to be a black man? I can only visualize myself in situations like this... What if that was me, or my brothers, my cousins, my uncles, my father? Someone who I know and the people around them know that this isn't ok?
America needs to tract back to kindergarten. In kindergarten I learned the most valuable lesson of my life, NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER. It's so sad that so much death, oppression, suffering, murder and now neglect has been the result of us failing to understand that easy, easy lesson.
After Pulse, I really didn't think I could feel any more oppressed as a human being. Like I already have one strike for who I choose to love. However, knowing that something as basic as the color of my skin can cause me to lose my life when it's in the hands of the right person is causing me a special form of anxiety.For a while, I have been able to justify counteracting my friends and saying, "Well technically All Lives do Matter." However, at this point... Black Lives Matter, that's all I can say.


As automakers strive to eliminate the safety-related challenges in new vehicles, a whole new breed of transportation is attempting to overcome its difficulties. Electric vehicles have safety problems that differ depending on the driveline and fuel being used, and Swedish automaker Volvo is trying to move ahead of the curb on tackling those problems.
Volvo is attempting to make its battery-powered cars as safe as other new cars by focusing on automatic monitoring of battery status, encapsulating the battery and protecting it effectively during car accidents, according to a news article .
As a North Charleston personal injury lawyer I think it's important to focus on car safety while looking ahead at the future of vehicles. There have been nearly 20 million vehicles recalled this year, and it's important to reduce that number looking forward.
Volvo will be installing existing safety system from their non-electric vehicles in their electric cars, while enhancing safety systems for the new features. As a South Carolina car accident attorney , I'm glad companies are working toward greater safety in their vehicles. Hopefully, the early tests will prevent car accidents and make drivers safer in the future.