You're standing in a crowded room. Someone pushes into you from behind. You feel a surge of irritation, even anger. Who is this careless oaf who can't respect your personal space? You turn around to express your indignation, only to discover that the offending party is actually a good friend of yours who has bumped into you accidentally or, perhaps, even on purpose and is not smiling at you as you find yourself on the receiving end of a good-natured prank.
Your anger evaporates in an instant.
But why? The bump was no less of a bump on account of the person who bumped you. But the bump was never the issue at all. What was at issue was your ego, resenting the perpetrator who failed to show you respect.
It's almost always ego that is the real perpetrator in any fight. Change one little detail and our irritation or anger vanishes. But when we feel our ego has been affronted, heaven help the offending party.
A man woke up one Sunday morning convinced that it was Monday. No one could tell him otherwise, and all the evidence his family and coworkers rallied made no impression upon him whatsoever. On Monday he asserted it was Tuesday, and on Wednesday he insisted it was Thursday. He refused to entertain the notion that he might be wrong and that everyone else might be right.
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package org.apache.hadoop.hive.llap.registry;

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.Resource;

public interface ServiceInstance {

  /**
   * Worker identity is a UUID (unique across restarts), to identify a node which died & was brought
   * back on the same host/port
   */
  public String getWorkerIdentity();

  /**
   * Hostname of the service instance
   *
   * @return
   */
  public String getHost();

  /**
   * RPC Endpoint for service instance
   *
   * @return
   */
  public int getRpcPort();

  /**
   * Management endpoint for service instance
   *
   * @return
   */
  public int getManagementPort();

  /**
   * Shuffle Endpoint for service instance
   *
   * @return
   */
  public int getShufflePort();

  /**
   * Address for services hosted on http
   * @return
   */
  public String getServicesAddress();
  /**
   * OutputFormat endpoint for service instance
   *
   * @return
   */
  public int getOutputFormatPort();

  /**
   * Return the last known state (without refreshing)
   *
   * @return
   */

  public boolean isAlive();

  /**
   * Config properties of the Service Instance (llap.daemon.*)
   *
   * @return
   */

  public Map<String, String> getProperties();

  /**
   * Memory and Executors available for the LLAP tasks
   *
   * This does not include the size of the cache or the actual vCores allocated via Slider.
   *
   * @return
   */
  public Resource getResource();
}

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Hadamard's maximal determinant problem, named after Jacques Hadamard, asks for the largest determinant of a matrix with elements equal to 1 or −1.  The analogous question for matrices with elements equal to 0 or 1 is equivalent since, as will be shown below, the maximal determinant of a {1,−1} matrix of size n is 2n−1 times the maximal determinant of a {0,1} matrix of size n−1.  The problem was posed by Hadamard in the 1893 paper in which he presented his famous determinant bound and remains unsolved for matrices of general size.  Hadamard's bound implies that {1, −1}-matrices of size n have determinant at most nn/2.  Hadamard observed that a construction of Sylvester
produces examples of matrices that attain the bound when n is a power of 2, and produced examples of his own of sizes 12 and 20.  He also showed that the bound is only attainable when n is equal to 1, 2, or a multiple of 4.  Additional examples were later constructed by Scarpis and Paley and subsequently by many other authors.  Such matrices are now known as Hadamard matrices.  They have received intensive study.

Matrix sizes n for which n ≡ 1, 2, or 3 (mod 4) have received less attention. The earliest results are due to Barba, who tightened Hadamard's bound for n odd, and Williamson, who found the largest determinants for n=3, 5, 6, and 7.  Some important results include
 tighter bounds, due to Barba, Ehlich, and Wojtas, for n ≡ 1, 2, or 3 (mod 4), which, however, are known not to be always attainable,
 a few infinite sequences of matrices attaining the bounds for n ≡ 1 or 2 (mod 4),
 a number of matrices attaining the bounds for specific n ≡ 1 or 2 (mod 4),
 a number of matrices not attaining the bounds for specific n ≡ 1 or 3 (mod 4), but that have been proved by exhaustive computation to have maximal determinant.

The design of experiments in statistics makes use of {1, −1} matrices X (not necessarily square) for which the information matrix XTX has maximal determinant.  (The notation XT denotes the transpose of X.)  Such matrices are known as D-optimal designs.  If X is a square matrix, it is known as a saturated D-optimal design.

Hadamard matrices
Any two rows of an n×n Hadamard matrix are orthogonal. For a {1, −1} matrix, it means any two rows differ in exactly half of the entries, which is impossible when n is an odd number.  When n ≡ 2 (mod 4), two rows that are both orthogonal to a third row cannot be orthogonal to each other.  Together, these statements imply that an n×n Hadamard matrix can exist only if n = 1, 2, or a multiple of 4.  Hadamard matrices have been well studied, but it is not known whether an n×n Hadamard matrix exists for every n that is a positive multiple of 4.  The smallest n for which an n×n Hadamard matrix is not known to exist is 668.

Equivalence and normalization of {1, −1} matrices
Any of the following operations, when performed on a {1, −1} matrix R, changes the determinant of R only by a minus sign:
 Negation of a row.
 Negation of a column.
 Interchange of two rows.
 Interchange of two columns.
Two {1,−1} matrices, R1 and R2, are considered equivalent if R1 can be converted to R2 by some sequence of the above operations.  The determinants of equivalent matrices are equal, except possibly for a sign change, and it is often convenient to standardize R by means of negations and permutations of rows and columns.  A {1, −1} matrix is normalized if all elements in its first row and column equal 1.  When the size of a matrix is odd, it is sometimes useful to use a different normalization in which every row and column contains an even number of elements 1 and an odd number of elements −1.  Either of these normalizations can be accomplished using the first two operations.

Connection of the maximal determinant problems for {1, −1} and {0, 1} matrices
There is a one-to-one map from the set of normalized n×n {1, −1} matrices to the set of (n−1)×(n-1) {0, 1} matrices under which the magnitude of the determinant is reduced by a factor of 21−n.  This map consists of the following steps.
 Subtract row 1 of the {1, −1} matrix from rows 2 through n.  (This does not change the determinant.)
 Extract the (n−1)×(n−1) submatrix consisting of rows 2 through n and columns 2 through n.  This matrix has elements 0 and −2.  (The determinant of this submatrix is the same as that of the original matrix, as can be seen by performing a cofactor expansion on column 1 of the matrix obtained in Step 1.)
 Divide the submatrix by −2 to obtain a {0, 1} matrix.  (This multiplies the determinant by (−2)1−n.)
Example:

In this example, the original matrix has determinant −16 and its image has determinant 2 = −16·(−2)−3.

Since the determinant of a {0, 1} matrix is an integer, the determinant of an n×n {1, −1} matrix is an integer multiple of 2n−1.

Upper bounds on the maximal determinant

Gram matrix
Let R be an n by n {1, −1} matrix. The Gram matrix of R is defined to be the matrix G = RRT.  From this definition it follows that G
 is an integer matrix,
 is symmetric,
 is positive-semidefinite,
 has constant diagonal whose value equals n.
Negating rows of R or applying a permutation to them results in the same negations and permutation being applied both to the rows, and to the corresponding columns, of G.  We may also define the matrix G′=RTR.  The matrix G is the usual Gram matrix of a set of vectors, derived from the set of rows of R, while G′ is the Gram matrix derived from the set of columns of R.  A matrix R for which G = G′ is a normal matrix.  Every known maximal-determinant matrix is equivalent to a normal matrix, but it is not known whether this is always the case.

Hadamard's bound (for all n)
Hadamard's bound can be derived by noting that |det R| = (det G)1/2 ≤ (det nI)1/2 = nn/2, which is a consequence of the observation that nI, where I is the n by n identity matrix, is the unique matrix of maximal determinant among matrices satisfying properties 1–4.  That det R must be an integer multiple of 2n−1 can be used to provide another demonstration that Hadamard's bound is not always attainable.  When n is odd, the bound nn/2 is either non-integer or odd, and is therefore unattainable except when n = 1.  When n = 2k with k odd, the highest power of 2 dividing Hadamard's bound is 2k which is less than 2n−1 unless n = 2.  Therefore, Hadamard's bound is unattainable unless n = 1, 2, or a multiple of 4.

Barba's bound for n odd
When n is odd, property 1 for Gram matrices can be strengthened to
 G is an odd-integer matrix.
This allows a sharper upper bound to be derived: |det R| = (det G)1/2 ≤ (det (n-1)I+J)1/2 = (2n−1)1/2(n−1)(n−1)/2, where J is the all-one matrix.  Here (n-1)I+J is the maximal-determinant matrix satisfying the modified property 1 and properties 2–4.  It is unique up to multiplication of any set of rows and the corresponding set of columns by −1.  The bound is not attainable unless 2n−1 is a perfect square, and is therefore never attainable when n ≡ 3 (mod 4).

The Ehlich–Wojtas bound for n ≡ 2 (mod 4)
When n is even, the set of rows of R can be partitioned into two subsets.
 Rows of even type contain an even number of elements 1 and an even number of elements −1.
 Rows of odd type contain an odd number of elements 1 and an odd number of elements −1.
The dot product of two rows of the same type  is congruent to n (mod 4); the dot product of two rows of opposite type is congruent to n+2 (mod 4).  When n ≡ 2 (mod 4), this implies that, by permuting rows of R, we may assume the standard form,

where A and D are symmetric integer matrices whose elements are congruent to 2 (mod 4) and B is a matrix whose elements are congruent to 0 (mod 4).  In 1964, Ehlich and Wojtas independently showed that in the maximal determinant matrix of this form, A and D are both of size n/2 and equal to (n−2)I+2J while B is the zero matrix.  This optimal form is unique up to multiplication of any set of rows and the corresponding set of columns by −1 and to simultaneous application of a permutation to rows and columns.  This implies the bound det R ≤ (2n−2)(n−2)(n−2)/2.  Ehlich showed that if R attains the bound, and if the rows and columns of R are permuted so that both G = RRT and G′ = RTR have the standard form and are suitably normalized, then we may write

where W, X, Y, and Z are (n/2)×(n/2) matrices with constant row and column sums w, x, y, and z that satisfy z = −w, y = x, and w2+x2 = 2n−2.  Hence the Ehlich–Wojtas bound is not attainable unless 2n−2 is expressible as the sum of two squares.

Ehlich's bound for n ≡ 3 (mod 4)
When n is odd, then by using the freedom to multiply rows by −1, one may impose the condition that each row of R contain an even number of elements 1 and an odd number of elements −1.  It can be shown that, if this normalization is assumed, then property 1 of G may be strengthened to
 G is a matrix with integer elements congruent to n (mod 4).
When n ≡ 1 (mod 4), the optimal form of Barba satisfies this stronger property, but when n ≡ 3 (mod 4), it does not.  This means that the bound can be sharpened in the latter case.  Ehlich showed that when n ≡ 3 (mod 4), the strengthened property 1 implies that the maximal-determinant form of G can be written as B−J where J is the all-one matrix and B is a block-diagonal matrix whose diagonal blocks are of the form (n-3)I+4J.  Moreover, he showed that in the optimal form, the number of blocks, s, depends on n as shown in the table below, and that each block either has size r or size r+1 where

Except for n=11 where there are two possibilities, the optimal form is unique up to multiplication of any set of rows and the corresponding set of columns by −1 and to simultaneous application of a permutation to rows and columns.  This optimal form leads to the bound

where v = n−rs is the number of blocks of size r+1 and u =s−v is the number of blocks of size r.
Cohn analyzed the bound and determined that, apart from n = 3, it is an integer only for n = 112t2±28t+7 for some positive integer t.  Tamura derived additional restrictions on the attainability of the bound using the Hasse–Minkowski theorem on the rational equivalence of quadratic forms, and showed that the smallest n > 3 for which Ehlich's bound is conceivably attainable is 511.

Maximal determinants up to size 21
The maximal determinants of {1, −1} matrices up to size n = 21 are given in the following table.  Size 22 is the smallest open case.  In the table, D(n) represents the maximal determinant divided by 2n−1.  Equivalently, D(n) represents the maximal determinant of a {0, 1} matrix of size n−1.

References

Combinatorial design
Matrices
Unsolved problems in mathematics

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"The hard riding, the real nerve tonic that tones up the individual for the emergencies of war, must usually be obtained outside of drills and prescribed duties." This excerpt is from "The Regimental Hunt Club" , an article from the 1912 Rasp, the Cavalry's yearbook.
Ordinarily officers did drill work for 2 – 4 or more hours each day, working in the school on everything from riding without stirrups or reins, jumping, lateral work and suppling horses. No activity provided the opportunity nor the incentive to ride out for a run over rough country on a regular basis, until hunting became a regular part of officer training.
Hounds varied. In 1909 the Eleventh Cavalry Hunt was established at Fort Oglethorpe in Georgia. The Hunt started with a draft of six couples of American hounds. A draft of 4 couples of English Hounds and two couples of American Hounds from Millbrook Hunt in N.Y. were added before long.
At Fort Riley, hounds of various kinds were kept for hunting coyote and other game. An article in The Rasp 1912 includes photos of Russian Wolfhounds and Grey Hounds at Fort Riley. The first Foxhounds for the Cavalry School Hunt were drafts of English Hounds from Genesee Valley donated by Major W. Austin Wadsworth, M. F. H.
At Fort Sill, Oklahoma, packs of hounds were kept for running coyotes well before the beginning of the Artillery Hunt. Two packs were kept until the beginning of WW1 when the ability to hunt and keep a pack was diminished. But in 1926 the hunt was reorganized and 12 couple were added to the remaining hounds. Later 10 couple of cross bred American – English hounds were added.
The Infantry School Hunt at Fort Benning, Georgia, began with private hounds but eventually hounds of American, English and French lines were donated by the Cavalry School Hunt. Some of these hounds had been part of the pack of the Coblenz Hunt.
Hunting became an integral part of an officer's life. It was available at a very reasonable fee and at some Forts, such as Fort Riley, it was a required part of the riding school curriculum. Hunting was valued as sport, entertainment, and for it's contributions to morale.
Boys like adventure and danger. It sounds like from the excerpt that hunting provided the reason or reward for all the drilling. I know that there are many factors that go into the lack of boys in the English disciplines, but could this be it? There's no danger? No adventure? But how could our modern industry bring this back? Maybe not hunting per se, as establishing a pack is beyond the ken of most of us, but an emphasis on the adventure of horses. We have disciplines that seem to fit the bill: eventing, polo and polocrosse, and games. Is it a matter of packaging? Or is there something about these events that is still too confining for the wild spirit of man?
Fox Hunting is still very much alive and well in the U.S. today with many male and female members. It is odd, but many people are not aware of this. Shortly after we moved to our current home, my wife and I, derssed in full hunting attire, were loading our horses on the trailer when our neighbor stopped by. He asked where we were going to find a fox hunt around here and we told him about a mile behind his farm. He had lived there for three years and had no idea.
You raise such a good point/question. One of my favorite sites is The Society of the Military Horse http://www.militaryhorse.org/ and I've wondered if the men who are members there might have some insight for us about boys and horses.
I don't know many boys who want to spend lots of time perfecting their style on a horse. All the attention to detail that is required for English riding is usually not in the realm of a boy's interest. However I do see a lot of boys in my neck of the woods (AZ) who love to rope. Perhaps the interest is in conquering the immediate challenge without all the "small stuff".
Not many boys are interested in getting the dandruff out of their horse's mane, or learning to braid, or doing any of that "hair" stuff.
You might be right that it's partially the packaging. Some years ago George Morris wrote how no boy wants to have to wear the same outfit as his sister ( my words). But I suspect it's even more than that. The boys I've met with horses are far more interested in cutting to the chase (no pun intended). If we could figure out how to do that, how not to sweat the small stuff and how to let boys keep an identity…. would we attract them to the sport we love? It's a sport that has been taken over by the female part of our world and females can be pretty overwhelming!
I wanted to mention, in fairness to the Hunts in America… most of them welcome Pony Club and many of them have a lower fee for them and even set special days aside for Pony Club. But of course you have to live near enough to a hunt to participate, so that part is not always easy. My daughter will tell anyone that once you hunt, your riding life takes on a totally new tone.
We're fortunate that the U.S. has not gone the way of the U.K. There isn't anything more gorgeous than the Hunt, well turned out and enjoying the day. Your neighbor misses a great tradition.


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VERIFY: Answering common questions about Inauguration Day history
Current Inauguration Day precedent isn't as... precedented as you may assume.
Author: VERIFY, Jason Puckett, Terry Spry Jr., Linda S. Johnson, Nashwa Bawab
Published: 6:26 PM MST January 20, 2021
Updated: 6:26 PM MST January 20, 2021
Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States earlier Wednesday, assuming the office held by now-former President Donald Trump.
Inauguration Day is a long-held tradition in the United States, and often becomes the topic of a number of fun facts and precedents people commonly like to recall.
But which fun facts are confirmed? What's the history behind Inauguration Day?
The VERIFY team looked at a number of common Inauguration Day questions so you can know what's true behind the day's history.
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Have all presidential inaugurations been at the Capitol?
No. There have been 17 inaugurations that weren't held on Capitol grounds.
The Architect of the Capitol, who erects the inaugural platform and coordinates much of the event's physical arrangements, says the presidential oath of office has been taken at the U.S. Capitol 55 times in 72 inaugurations. They haven't updated the page for Wednesday's inauguration yet, so now it's 56 times in 73 inaugurations.
Of the 17 times the inauguration has taken place outside of the Capitol, the White House has been host to it six times. It has been at the Old Brick Capitol where the Supreme Court now stands once, it's taken place elsewhere in Washington twice and it's occurred outside the nation's capital city seven times.
Those seven times it's been outside of Washington, D.C., include the very first inauguration when George Washington took the oath of office in New York City, before Washington was the capital, and when Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office on a plane in Texas following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The first president to be inaugurated at the Capitol in Washington was Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third president.
Has the inauguration always been on January 20?
No, that's not always been the case either. It used to take place later in the year.
Both the Library of Congress and the White House show Washington was sworn in as the first U.S. president on April 30, 1789. He was inaugurated for his second term on March 4, 1793, which the library says was the official date of inauguration at the time. Sure enough, its index of inaugurations shows most presidents for more than 100 years were inaugurated on March 4.
March 4 was established as Inauguration Day in order to allow enough time after Election Day for officials to gather election returns and for newly elected candidates to travel to the capital. It was established before the Constitution was written, when the Confederation Congress that operated under the Articles of Confederation chose March 4, 1789, as the date it would hand off powers to the new government established by the Constitution and thus the date the Constitution would take effect.
But there was an opportunity to cut down the length of the lame duck period with the improvement of technology in travel and counting. The 20th Amendment moved the date to January 20 in 1933. Franklin Roosevelt was the first president sworn in on that date in 1937, his second of four inaugurations.
The standard date for inaugurations has remained January 20 ever since.
Have there been other instances where an inauguration lacked a crowd? Or even lacked a ceremony?
Yes, the VERIFY team was able to find at least 10 such instances. All of which were under pretty extraordinary circumstances.
Eight of those times were in the case a vice president took the oath of office after the president died. Some of these occurred within the White House, some were in other parts of Washington, D.C., or still others took place outside of the nation's capital.
One of the remaining two times was when Gerald Ford took the oath of office following Richard Nixon's resignation. Ford took the oath in the East Room of the White House following the Watergate scandal.
The last instance is probably most similar to Biden's inauguration in why it's an extraordinary swearing-in. Roosevelt's fourth and final inauguration, in 1945 while the country was still in the midst of World War II, lasted just 15 minutes. The parade and festivities were cancelled because Roosevelt wanted to conserve money and manpower for war (he spent about $2,000 of the $25,000 budgeted for inauguration). Roosevelt also wanted to keep it short because he was suffering from heart failure.
While Biden isn't looking to conserve money or manpower, he did want to keep crowds away because of the pandemic, and the inauguration was further locked down by the threat of violence.
What powers do presidents have on Inauguration Day?
Once they're sworn in, presidents have access to all the powers of the office. And typically, they do use it.
The White House press secretary's Twitter account announced on January 20, 2017, that Trump had signed on his first day a waiver so James Mattis could serve as secretary of defense, two formal Cabinet nominations to send to the Senate and a proclamation for a national day of patriotism.
Additionally, a White House press release cataloging the first week of Trump's presidency mentioned that he signed an executive order on Affordable Care Act regulations and froze agencies from making new regulations before his Cabinet nominations could take their posts.
That last one is actually a common move for presidents in their first day in office. Similar memorandums were made by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton to begin their presidencies.
A page from Obama's White House also mentioned he signed executive orders and memoranda on his first day in office.
But since Inauguration Day is typically filled with pageantry, usually the president doesn't have time to do everything they want to on the outset of their term. As the White House press release suggests, many of the president's Day One actions really become actions they take in the first week.
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Did Someone See a Huge Mountain Lion in Chichester, New Hampshire, or Was It a Bobcat?
Chio Acosta
Chio Acosta Published: September 1, 2021
JHaviv
Is it a Bobcat or a Mountain Lion? The Controversy Continues
To be honest, I would not know the difference between a Bobcat and a Mountain Lion. Both would freak me out, so I hope I don't run into either of them.
Apparently, there is a long-running controversy about whether the Mountain Lion is really gone from our area.
According to Fish and Game, they haven't been around our area since the late 1800s. But despite that, several sightings are reported each year.
One of the latest sightings
Lindsay Holden of Chichester believes she knows what she saw, and it was a mountain lion, according to concordmonitor.com.
Holden shared news of the sighting on her Facebook saying "I know the controversy, but definitely saw one, from behind, with a long, thick tail this morning at the edge of my field heading into the woods. Certainly not a bobcat (had one of those here last summer). A clear view of him."
Sighting Are Up
Pat Tate, a wildlife biologist with New Hampshire Fish and Game, tells concordmonitor.com, "there is a very low possibility of seeing them [mountain lions] in the Eastern States. The most common species (seen) is the bobcat, and, people, in their eyes, say they see a mountain lion."
There have been lots of sightings and even people submitting photos to Fish and Game but the photos always turn out to be bobcats.
I don't know, I believe Lindsay Holden, and I hope there are more sightings in the area, just not my area.
There was a mountain lion that was hit by a car in Connecticut 10 years ago that had traveled here from the Western states in search of a mate so it's not impossible.
Given that Mountain Lions are very large, like 70 to 80 pounds, and have claws I do not want to see one. I have seen what my 6-pound cat has done to my favorite chairs with her claws. Please someone get a picture?
and speaking of animals this is pretty interesting
LOOK: 30 fascinating facts about sleep in the animal kingdom
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People from NH Show Off Their Monster Fish Catches


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Shipbuilding / Marine Trades and Advanced Manufacturing Institute at NEIT
The Shipbuilding / Marine Trades and Advanced Manufacturing Institute (SAMI) was established by New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) to train workers hired by regional manufacturers. Students participate in an intensive, customized 300-hour machinist training program.
"It's especially fitting to recognize the key role that New England Institute of Technology plays in training unemployed Rhode Islanders for challenging and rewarding careers in advanced manufacturing," said Governor Gina Raimondo in October of 2016. "I'm excited to celebrate the hiring of the 150th graduate of New England Tech's Shipbuilding/Marine and Advanced Manufacturing Institute. Because of the substantial investments we've made in skills training, our partnership with New England Tech and the support of about 100 employers that have hired SAMI graduates, Rhode Island is positioned to lead a new industrial revolution in advanced industries."
SAMI was developed through grants provided by the United States Department of Labor, the Governor's Workforce Board of Rhode Island, the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training, the Rhode Island Foundation and Champlin Foundations. SAMI's goal is to train skilled entry-level individuals who are reliable and productive workers and connect them with local employers.
"The Department of Labor and Training and the Governor's Workforce Board are proud to partner with New England Tech to train Rhode Island workers to use the cutting-edge equipment found on today's high-tech manufacturing floors and learn valuable skills that many local manufacturing companies want," said DLT Director Scott Jensen. "DLT is committed to implementing the Governor's skills agenda, delivering innovative job training to ensure that manufacturing remains a vibrant part of the Rhode Island economy for generations."
Other agencies that have contributed to the success of the SAMI program include the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association, netWORKRI American Job Centers, The Workforce Partnership of Greater Rhode Island and Workforce Solutions of Providence/Cranston.


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Transitory Objects: A Conversation with Marina Abramovic
November 1, 2001 by Zoe Kosmidou
Marina Abramovic was born in Belgrade and studied at the Academies of Fine Arts in Belgrade and Zagreb. In 1975 she moved to Amsterdam, where she lives and works today. Her first solo works involved tests of endurance, and her work in performance and video further developed into a well-known collaboration with her partner Ulay. The pair's extended exploration of the nature of human relationships ended with their famous break-up: they walked from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China, to meet for the last time at a middle point. She is currently a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Kunst in Braunschweig, Germany. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including Documenta 7 and the Venice Biennale (in 1976, 1993, and 1997, when she won the Golden Lion award for her installation Balkan Baroque), as well as the Biennial exhibitions of Sydney (1979 and 1983), Obidos (1993), Lyon (1995), and Istanbul (1995).
Soul Operation Rooms, 2000. View of participatory installation in Athens, Greece.
Many of her recent works invite viewers to participate, as in Soul Operation Rooms, recently installed in the Kapatos Gallery in Greece. The home-like space was, as the artist stated, "equipped with the necessary apparatuses for the cleaning, curing, developing, and vanishing of the different abilities of the soul." These apparatuses (standing in for the home's furniture) included a "soul operation table," a "time energizer," a "nature spirit telephone (regenerator of the astral balance)," a "reprogramming levitation module," an "auto-telepathy device," and "blending-in coats." For the soul operation table, viewers were instructed to remove their clothes, climb a ladder, and lay on their backs on the table, "facing one of the color fields" for an hour, in order to receive the energy of that particular color. For the "reprogramming levitation module," the viewer was invited to lie naked in a copper bathtub filled with dried chamomile flowers, with a quartz crystal mounted at the head. The participatory installation was concerned with the symbolic properties of objects and materials such as flags, metronomes, crystals, whistles, and casseroles.
Abramovic's new work, The Hero, will be shown in the "Directions" series at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, from November 15, 2001 through February 18, 2002. The video installation is concerned with memorialization and is dedicated to the artist's late father, a Yugoslav national hero.
Zoe Kosmidou: In your performance/installation Soul Operation Rooms, you touch on most of the issues that you were concerned with in your previous performances. Is there a continuity between your performance work and your installations, in terms of what you intend to convey to the audience?
Marina Abramovic: First of all, I would like to explain that as a general approach, I divide my work into two categories: one is the artist body and the other is the public body, when I expect the public to do the performance. In this performance, I have shared with the public many different tasks, but no aggression, disturbance, or violent act was involved. I liked the Kapatos Gallery space because it is like an apartment with a door that can be closed after you enter it, and there is no normal furniture inside it. The transition of the public at the entrance is important, because they have to put on a white coat and get into another state, the state of the performer.
Boat Emptying/Stream Entering-Snake Eyes-Snake Mouth, 1996. 3 TVs, 3 Japanese umbrellas, and 3 laser disc players with discs, dimensions variable.
ZK: How does it feel to observe others performing in your place and in the setting of your space?
MA: It feels like being out of place, I feel out of function. But the way that I set the whole environment, the atmosphere, and the instructions that I leave for the audience are meant to be the next step of my work, which is not to be present at this kind of event. The public has to take a more radical responsibility.
ZK: What does being the spectator of your own work involve? Do you see it as an installation?
MA: In this work, since the artist is removed, the transitory objects, as I call them, have to function in my place in order to trigger the experience of others. I set up everything in such a way that my presence is not needed. There is also the question of mortality. What happens when the artist is dead? We have to depend on our own resources and not the resources of the artist anymore. I feel that I have to prepare this transitional stage for the public to take over and still have the experience, as I used to, in this kind of installation.
The Sink, 1995. Copper and water, 39 x 18.5 x 18.9 in.
ZK: So this is actually a stage of transition. You remove the artist body and replace it with a sculptural installation that will take its place?
MA: Yes, but at the same time, I am still performing, dealing with the future restrictions of my own body when I am absent, or in a wheel chair, or I can't walk. I have to be ready for this situation, and the public should be ready to take over.
ZK: Why did you choose to present this show in Greece? Did the space inspire Soul Operation, or did you remember something else from your previous visit here?
MA: Actually, it was a combination of things. I have shown this kind of work twice in museums in Europe, but I wanted to show this particular one in Greece for the first time, because people here know me mostly through my live performances. This is one reason. The second reason is that this work fits into the space very well. I hardly ever work in galleries; I always prefer to be in museums and cultural institutions, because I do not like the idea of showing just objects. What attracted me here was the idea of the space of this gallery, where the installation would fit as a whole. I wanted also to use familiar objects with traditions and rituals that will not look foreign to the Greek public. You have the incredible Mount Athos next door and such a rich tradition. I use chamomile and have sage cooking in the pot, because when I visited Hydra in '92, I was inspired by the sage leaves that were spread on the floor of a church. When I asked why they did that, I was told that the leaves were used to purify the space. For the Venice Biennale, I had used a bad smell, so I thought, let's change that odor into something positive. I created the environment and waited to see what would happen. And then the public had a fantastic reaction, it really became part of their experience. This is very, very important to me. So, I feel that I owe something to the public here and I want to come back.
Black Dragon: Chrysocolla Pillows, 1989-90. View of participatory installation.
ZK: You are using minerals and crystals. How do their attributes contribute to your work?
MA: For me, the choice of materials is very important. I chose functional materials in relation to the body. Copper has magnetic energy, and minerals such as amethyst, hematite, clear quartz, blue quartz, and green quartz have important qualities in relation to the body and the mind. Lately, I am interested in magnets, because the energy of the magnet has been known for a long time. I wanted to create something about energy flow. I started with a project that I just finished in Japan called The Dream Hotel, in a 17th-century house owned by the Japanese government. At the entrance the public has to wash with hot herbed water and then dress in clothes with magnetic parts attached. Then they enter into four bedrooms with different colored lights-red, green, blue-and are closed into coffin-like boxes where they sleep and dream. The magnets create a kind of balance of the energy in the body, in relation to the axis of the planet. We also have the "dream book" where we write our dreams, and we plan after 10 years to create an international "dream library." We have forgotten how to dream, and I believe that it is very interesting to ritualize our daily lives. The only ritual we still have is drinking coffee. Everything else is lost. For me, the energy of the magnet makes you relax and makes the ritualization of daily life more possible.
Balkan Baroque, 1997. Performance and video installation at the Venice Biennale.
ZK: The artist is the central figure in your work; how does your use of animals work in that context?
MA: The center of my work is the body. I take my own body as the subject, object, metaphor, the main material, and the instrument. I step out from my personal self to a higher self and always try to transform the personal matter into the universal. The message is that everyone in the room can see reflected in me a mirror of their own selves. In this way I become the center of the artwork.
I use animals in order to say specific things. For instance, if I use snakes, it is because they are the oldest symbol. The snake was a positive symbol for the creation of the universe; then it became a negative symbol, which I believe is very unjust. I would like to give back the early meaning of the snake by using it again, by taking away the evil mythology, negativity, and fear. I also use horses and dogs-whatever I choose, I give back its true meaning. I use a very different range of objects and materials such as my own blood, human hair, and the hair of Korean virgins. The important thing is the mix, which gives the special meaning to the work. I can't really consider myself as a performing artist, or a sculptor, a video or installation artist. Everything is done about the body in order to bring ideas around it.
ZK: That means that you care mostly about the symbolism of the materials or "transitory objects" that you use. Do political or gender concerns enter your work? What about the notion of transition?
MA: Yes. With relation to the body, I care about the symbolism in order to make things clearer. I am also interested in ritual. I study rituals in all different countries. Rituals do a mental job in another state of reality, and I learn from them. For me, it is always the idea of bridging the West and the East in order to get the experiences and ideas that I translate into my own language and give back to the people. In the West we are disconnected from the sense of time, the sense of ourselves, the sense of energy. It is like the head is not connected with the rest of the body.
I have hardly done anything political. I stay away from politics because I believe that an artist is an artist, a politician is a politician, and each one has to do his own work.
The installation Communist body, Fascist body was more like a metaphor of something else. I met Ulay, this man with whom I fell very much in love, on my birthday, and he was born on the same day. We lived together, and one day we looked at our birth certificates. They almost looked the same, except that mine had a government stamp with a star and his, a stamp with a swastika. We staged a performance by setting two different tables into parallel positions: my table was covered with pages from a Russian newspaper, toilet paper for napkins, and dishes, cups, and knives made of cheap aluminum. On the table there was Russian champagne and caviar.
Ulay's table was covered with a white damask tablecloth, damask napkins, porcelain dishes, crystal champagne glasses, silver cutlery, German champagne, and caviar. On a third table our birth certificates were displayed, and 10 meters behind the two tables, a mattress with a white linen sheet and a red blanket was placed. Eleven guests were invited to come before midnight. We slept on the mattress covered by the white linen sheet and red blanket. It was like two opposites coming together in a symbiosis. Our fathers were enemies, and I was in love with the enemy. This was a situation of questioning the absoluteness of life.
The Hero, 2001. Color video on DVD with sound. 17 minutes.
Many people thought that the Balkan Baroque performance (Venice Biennale, 1997) had a political meaning, but it was completely referring to my family story. I thought that it was a transcending condition (just as every work is). Killing is a shame, and by washing the bones it was an exodus from this condition. Once you have killed, it's done, you can't wash. I am against violence in general.
Gender is an interesting point. I used to work on my own before I met Ulay. Then we performed together in a symbiosis and we became hermaphroditic. After he left, I wanted to work with the female energy, but at the same time not as a feminist. I don't like the idea of women exhibiting separately from men. For me, art does not have a gender. Art is art, despite the gender of the artist.
Transition for me is traveling. By traveling I mean that I am open to all situations, because habits kill art. I don't have a family, a child, or a husband to wait for me, and I can be ready in three minutes to go anywhere. I hate to work in a studio because it is like a cage; you go there everyday and you try to do some work. But good ideas don't come everyday on a regular basis. You have to be open to adventure and at the same time, prepare for life, take care of yourself.
ZK: You are from one culture, which you carry with you to other parts of the world. What is the outcome of meeting with other world cultures? Do you believe that through art, people can break national bounds and borders?
MA: Meeting with other cultures is very essential to me. They open my eyes to different things. I don't believe in national borders. I don't feel like a Yugoslav artist, I don't feel like a Dutch artist when I live in Holland, I am not a European artist, I am not anyone. I think that the planet is my studio.
Zoe Kosmidou is a contributing editor for Sculpture, based in Athens.


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VALPARAISO, IN— Engineered Rigging leveraged the extended reach of its fleet of knuckle-boom cranes and creative engineering to help install a new high-performance package sorting system at a global shipping company's facility in the Midwest. The heavy lift experts designed and fabricated a 30-ton, self-propelled hybrid lifting solution (see photo below) that safely moved along a self-erecting track and crisscrossed the sorting facility's exposed superstructure — while millions of packages flowed below.
The main challenge Engineered Rigging faced was that 50 percent of the vast two-story facility was constructed of open structural steel that could not support the weight of a mobile hydraulic crane. The plant also featured concrete-covered steel members that could not be disturbed. Further complicating matters, the facility continued to sort packages on the first floor, directly below the conveyor being replaced.
"The contractor did not know how it was going to remove the old conveyor or position materials to build the new sorting system," said Engineered Rigging's President Christopher Cox, P.E. "Their team envisioned having to build an enormous, costly and labor-intensive scaffolding system to lift materials."
Instead, Engineered Rigging applied unconventional thinking to develop a heavy lift solution that could be operated remotely and would not require scaffolding—two features that improved safety. Their creative design could also efficiently reposition itself when needed which was an important time-saving benefit.
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The company's engineers spent five months designing and fabricating a mobile lift system that maximized the capabilities of its fleet of PM 65 SP knuckle boom cranes. These cranes use a compact counter-weight system that requires a footprint that is a fraction of the size of most cranes. They also feature high-tech electronic monitoring via a Stability Power System, dynamic load control and real-time diagnostics. The onboard computer system can manage millions of operations per second, which guarantees immediate response from the machine to maximize control and productivity.
The crane's 70-foot reach was critical to accessing every part of the package sorting facility. Engineered Rigging positioned three cranes inside the facility to achieve a 150-diameter swing radius without interference. This extended reach meant less time wasted repositioning cranes which expedited the lifting of materials. A fourth crane (see photo left) located outside the building lifted equipment and supplies to the elevated worksite.
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Another unique aspect of Engineered Rigging's hybrid lift solution was its mobility. Normally, knuckle boom cranes are stationary — mounted to a truck, floor or roof. In many places onsite, there was no floor, just an open cavern traversed by the old package conveyor, and the roof wasn't strong enough for a crane.
To solve that problem, Engineered Rigging fabricated 200 feet of steel track, in 10-foot by 10-foot sections, each weighing 3,000 pounds. The cranes positioned this self-erecting track along the exposed steel superstructure, thus dispersing the weight and providing a platform upon which the cranes could secure themselves prior to a lift. It took roughly five hours for a knuckle boom crane to self-erect up to seven pieces of track then move along the 70 feet of track to relocate.
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To move the cranes along the track, Engineered Rigging designed and fabricated a steel, four-legged outrigger for each crane. These outriggers attached to and folded up around the cranes for relocation. Positioned underneath each outrigger was wireless, remote-controlled electric robot. Six onsite operators used the robots to move the cranes along the track. When correctly positioned for a lift, the operators unfolded the outriggers and secured the crane to the building's steel framework. The entire assembly weighed approximately 30 tons. If a crane came to the end of the track, it could reach behind itself (or vice versa), pick up a piece of the track, and place it in front, thereby accessing a new part of the facility.
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Spontaneity, Movementism and Leadership Methods
by Comrade Victor Hampton, Revolutionary Initiative
General reflections on emerging movements
Since the financial collapse of 2008, monopoly finance capital has used the structural crises of government deficits and debts – exacerbated to a great extent by the massive corporate and financial bailouts from 2008 onwards, but rooted in monopoly capitalism's long-running dependence on state support – to launch an unprecedented transfer of wealth from the masses to the monopoly bourgeoisie, through bailouts and privatizations, to the rising cost of living and all-around attack on wages.
The roll back of redistributive measures and legislative concessions to the masses has awoken a sense of indignation among the people. There is ample evidence of this across the globe, from the recent uprisings in Greece, Spain and Italy, to the mass mobilizations of students in Chile, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Quebec around the cost of education, to the upsurge in the United States demonstrated through the Occupy movements and the Wisconsin General strike. With continued imposition of these 'austerity' packages, there is an undeniable and escalating disenchantment and hostility to the lot of bankers, captains of industry and the politicians facilitating this theft. Even polling firms serving the bourgeois press acknowledge that increasing numbers of people are coming to the realization that the problem lies in the political and economic structures that these actors are working through. There is a rising tide of anti-capitalist thought and expression among the masses and this is an extremely positive and important development.
As the crisis continues to unfold, new opportunities for building struggles will present themselves. These will occur on various fronts, with each struggle having its own particularities and expressing its own demands. There is no single terrain of struggle and we must build to be present in as many of these struggles as possible, without losing our footing in long term base-building projects in the oppressed and exploited masses. All of these are spaces and opportunities to carry the mass line and win workers and others masses over to the idea that radical social transformation must occur in order for these problems to be decisively resolved.
Of course, communists are and should be present in these aforementioned 'movements' and spaces, recruiting from the most advanced elements of these movements but we must also strive to contribute positively to the development and strengthening of these movements in their analysis and action. We must learn from these movements, constantly analyze the mood, desires and inspiration of the people who are fighting and from this, bring a broader analysis of what the problems are and what needs to be done. However, we need to be involved in these struggles in order to understand their sentiments and thinking and to be able to make political interventions. So what should communist involvement in these mass struggles look like? The long experience of the International Communist Movement provides many lessons for correct methods of organizing the masses and for engaging spontaneous movements which serve as an orientation for us. Some of these lessons remind us to ensure the following:
1. Engage with, don't worship, spontaneity
Some of these spaces and movements can be relatively spontaneous, amorphous and sometimes limited in their scope (ie. issue based). This does not mean that they will necessarily stay this way, as many spontaneous movements and uprisings give birth to more radical, better organized movements. The Quebec student strike is an important recent example: in a mass movement built to combat a 75% tuition fee increase, the largest and most radical student union, CLASSE, has taken a principled line against Quebec's colonial 'Plan Nord' and has been able to navigate beyond the trappings of economism to develop the strike into a broader social movement and strike. This movement is a good example how a mass struggle can leap from a struggle around very limited demands into a more far-sighted and militant movement.
Spontaneously arising mass movements can often appear to lack structure and/or direction, but this does not necessarily mean that there is no leadership involved. In fact, this condition often makes such movements susceptible to direction and even misguidance from an organized presence operating within them. Such was the case with the involvement of the Liberal Party and the NDP in the mobilizations around the proroguing of the Canadian Parliament and the co-option of that movement as a result.
In the same vein, there will undoubtedly be (at least for a time) a political eclecticism that characterizes these movements and we enter in these spaces as one of many lines being presented, from anarchism to primitivism, from right-wing libertarianism to quasi or crypto-social democrats. These tendencies have their limitations, and there may even be reactionary currents within them. Revolutionary forces must be conscious of the class character of these spaces while cautioning against those who will opportunistically co-opt the energy of these nascent or spontaneous spaces for electoral ends or other purposes that are not in the interest of developing these movements and advancing their legitimate demands.
These spaces should be assessed appropriately when contemplating work with or within them and part of our mass line should always emphasize the need to have these struggles crystallize into independent people's organizations that can ensure the longevity and continuity of a struggle.
2. Communists must engage on a principled ideological and political basis
The participation of our cadre and party members in any of these movements should never be of the fleeting, opportunistic variety where we move through spaces simply to take advantage of the convoking of people these bring. Quite to the contrary, we should be sincere in our support for any movement that is genuine in its desire to challenge the crimes of capital and our political and ideological interventions should call out and educate the masses against the sorts of opportunists that routinely arise in these spaces. But more importantly, we should emphasize class analysis, democratic engagement with and highest possible political unity amongst the masses at a given conjuncture.
Some sections of the radical left point to these contradictions listed above and the imperfections of these spontaneous spaces as reasons for abdication. We should be reminded however that revolutionaries should be contesting as many spaces where the masses are present and where there is opportunity to win these masses towards revolutionary ideas, political struggle, and organizational forms. Winning these masses over to a revolutionary mass line and organizing them will help clarify the contradictions and scattered thoughts that they may have so that the real enemy becomes clear and the path towards liberation well defined. However, almost all spaces where masses are present are rife with contradictions and as such, the ideas of those masses in these spaces can be negatively influenced as a result. This is not a reason to retract from entering these spaces although reactionary ideas and leadership must be fought.
Our participation and the leadership style that we offer in these spaces can never be opportunistic – we must always talk direct and clearly with the masses with the guiding principles of our mass work and how to carry out work and ideological development among the people. We must deal with people's immediate grievances and issues but always project beyond them so that we do not fall into the trap of economism and parochialism.
3. Work to build up the organizational capacity of the masses
Building a movement naturally entails building organizational capacity amongst the masses. People's involvement in these organizational forms presents the opportunity for engaging ideologically with and among them. There should be little question that currently in most parts of the country, the people are not prepared yet to go to open war with the state. Yet every one of these struggles, and the intransigence and violence from government is an opportunity for the people to bear witness to the true character of state. Conversely, these movements also offer opportunities for revolutionaries to bring our analysis and developing program to the people as they engage in their struggle, where each activity and demonstration can contribute to their preparation for the next phase of struggle. While these preparations occur daily as the pitch of struggle heightens, the mass movements need a far greater development and accumulation of forces as well as greater coordination and coherence in order to make a qualitative progression in the tactics being applied against the state and its agents.
Of course, this will largely depend on the ability of the advanced segments of the working class to coordinate and carry out a strategy to develop the mass movement towards revolutionary struggle with the state. This strategy will have to be a multilayered strategy with legal and clandestine organizing, contesting spaces where the masses can be won away from bourgeois leadership to proletarian leadership, engaging in both legal and illegal work. The tactics employed in each area must be coordinated and are not mutually exclusive.
4. Strategically firm, tactically flexible
We enter into these movements with limitations, prior commitments of work and a strategic orientation for the mass movement – we should always balance the need for intervention in these emerging movements and developments with our previous commitments to the masses and building firm mass organization amongst the people. It will be through these organizations that mass activists are developed and that we will rally revolutionaries to the building of a Party. This necessarily implies that we are limited in our human and material resources and do not have the luxury to be omnipresent. The opportunists are highly skilled at swooping in to dominate any and all spontaneous mass movements and redirecting them to their narrow social democratic ends, and liquidating whatever is threatening to them. A revolutionary approach aims to nurture and guide spontaneity in order to create higher forms of organization and mobilization wherever possible.
Revolutionaries need to guard against the tendency to jump from issue to issue, diverting resources away from our constant work to other issues or movement which may dissipate or whose work may not fall within our plans. That being said, a truly revolutionary organization must have a sharp and critical eye so that organizational plans are not so rigid and static as to make them inflexible to emerging issues that should command our attention and participation.
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$.domReady(function () {

	log('## Document ready');

	// VARS -------------------------------------------------------------------
	//

	var
		$window = $(window),
		$body = $('body')
	;

	// Wait for 'polymer-ready'. Ensures the element is upgraded.
    window.addEventListener('polymer-ready', function(e) {
      var ajax = document.querySelector('core-ajax');

      // Respond to events it fires.
      ajax.addEventListener('core-response', function(e) {
        console.log(this.response);
      });

      ajax.go(); // Call its API methods.
    });
	// ACTIONS ----------------------------------------------------------------
	//

	// $elem.on('something', doSomething);

	//
	// FUNCTIONS --------------------------------------------------------------
	//

	// function doSomething () {}

});

}(window, $));