Designing your basketball jerseys are easy if you choose the right manufacturer and you know the essential design tips, helping you make your basketball jersey design become a reality. Top manufacturers will provide you with easy online tools which provide you with complete design flexibility, so you can remain in control of your own design from start to finish.
The first tip is to look at the various basketball jersey basics available, from here you can start your own design, adding your own colour and overall finishes to create a unique jersey which will help your team stand out, make them identifiable on the court and create team unity, so that they can succeed moving forward.
Once you have the basic jersey idea, then you want to focus on your team name. How big do you want it on the jersey, where do you want it placed? These are important decisions. You want to ensure that your team name is prominent, which brings you to your jersey colours.
The next essential design tip is to choose your team colours with care, place them on the jersey bearing in mind that you want your team name to really stand out. If your team colours are blue and light blue, it is worthwhile focusing on the lighter blue for the jersey, so you can make the name prominent with black or dark blue, so it really stands out at all times.
With the colour of the jerseys selected and your design complete, you now want to pay very close attention to the fonts you use. Remember your manufacturer gives you complete design flexibility, but your design includes the overall style of the jersey, the colour combinations you choose and then how you make your team stand out. Fonts must be chosen with complete care and the best tip you will learn is to ensure you choose an easily readable font that makes your team name easily identifiable at all times.
Remember you are going to want to leave space for your logo. The logo should be predominantly placed. Most teams choose the front top or right side. Then you want to look at the overall design to ensure that your design is simple. Don't make the mistake of getting too complicated with the design. Choose your colours, your fonts and your overall design based on what will work best for you.
Once you have chosen how you want your basketball jersey to look, you want to focus on your manufacturer. Only work with manufacturers with years of industry knowledge and experience. Choose a manufacturer which is known in the industry, they should have a professional and proven image for providing superior quality products that are long lasting and made with attention to detail.
Speak to your manufacturer about the quality of fabrics that they use. You want your players to be able to move with ease and without any restrictions. Basketball players are constantly on the move and they want to be able to move freely. This means that fabric is essential to provide comfort and also be made from a breathable material so the players remain comfortable at all times.
Some of the final design tips to focus on when designing your customized basketball jerseys is to choose a company that will work with you, help you with your overall design and provide you with a fast turnaround time so you can have the jerseys in your hand within the shortest period of time.
Sometimes you're probably having these bad days – committing too many turnovers, coach is yelling at you, telling you that you've made bad decisions while all you want is to improve your game. Want to avoid these situations and dramatically improve your performance? – Read the following tip carefully.
Making the right decisions on a basketball game is one of the most important aspects a player must consider. It doesn't matter if a player runs faster or jumps higher than any one else on court, if he turns the ball too often he will simply end up sitting on the bench.
Take Steve Nash for example, he is not taller or faster than other talented NBA players, yet, he was selected the NBA MVP… The secret is all about decision making skills.
(1) An athletic ability is great – it will definitely give you the opportunity to play, however smart decision making skills will keep you on the court.
(2) While your team is on the offense, coach expects you to read the game and identify opportunities to take shots. All that, while you listen to his or hers' instructions.
(3) Smart basketball players are those who think fast and quickly analyze the game, in order to find these opportunities that will enable them make the right decisions.
Well, dribbling is easy for you as is following coaches' instructions. Now, following coaches' instructions from the bench while dribbling isn't that easy.
(1) Spell the A-B-C, not that difficult. Don't stop dribbling.
(3) When you master this drill, add your first name, age, phone no. etc. – everything backwards.
This exercise will help you think while you execute other basketball tasks. It will help you to perform better on the court.
Football points can be scored in many different ways, including catching a pass over the goal line, carrying the ball over the goal line, tackling a football player in his own end zone, or a kicker kicking the football through the goal posts on the opposing side. The football team with the highest score when the game is over is the team that wins the game. American football is also played in other countries outside the United States. Their are National football leagues that are in Sweden, Isreal, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom as well as Mexico, and a few that are in Pacific Island nations. The NFL had a developmental league in Europe from 91-92 and 95-06.
American football history can be found in the early versions of soccer and rugby. Both types of games have origins in different types of football that was played in the UK from the mid 19th century, in which the ball was run over a line or the ball was kicked at the goal. American football as well as soccer is played with 22 players on the field that they play on. Some terms from player positions from soccer are used today in American football such as fullback and halfback.
Rugby and American football do have a few major differences, some of the rule changes were started by Walter Camp who people would call the Father of American Football. Some of the Major changes that Walter Camp made were down and distance and line of scrimmage as well as the rule of down and distance. College coaches like Glen Pop Warner, Amos Alonzo Stagg and Knute Rockne in the late 19th and 20th centuries changed the gameplay by intoducing the forward pass. College football grew in popularity and was the dominant version of football for the first part of the 20th century. College football had a huge national audiences with the football Bowl games. College football had big rivalries as it does today in the United States.
From the year 1892 the origin of professional football can be traced back to, with a $500 contract to play football William "Pudge Heffelfinger played football for the Allegheny Athletic Association playing against the Pittsburgh Athletic Club. The american Professional Football started in 1920. The first football game was played in 1920 in Dayton, Ohio on the 3rd of October with the Triangles winning the game by a score of 14-10 against the Columbus Panhandles. Two years later the football league changed the name to National Football League which is known as the NFL and would become the major league of American football. Professional football eventually became a national phenomenon after starting out the sport in the US industrial towns and Midwestern towns. Football after it's NFL Championship Game in 1958 grew in popularity, the game that was known as the "Greatest Game Ever Played. The American Football League also known as the AFL started in 1960 a rival football league to the National Football League, with the pressure it put between the two football leagues before the merger of the two leagues is how the start of the Super Bowl game began. The Super Bowl turned out to be the most watched television event each and every year in the United States.
As a former Division I men's head and assistant basketball coach and coach mentor, I receive emails daily asking for advice on how to enter the college coaching profession.
1. How to become a graduate assistant coach at programs all over the country.
The key is to get to know as many assistant and head coaches at all levels, especially Div. II and III. Each year they have at least one opening on average for a new graduate assistant. Learn about these through word of mouth.
2. Top 3 things you can do now to get your foot in the door.
First you must hire or befriend a mentor, someone who has already accomplished what you desire. You can build a huge network by learning from this mentor and that is the key to getting college jobs.
4. Five things you need to learn that will help you get a job this spring.
Make a commitment to do everything it takes to accomplish your goal, make financial sacrifices, contact as many coaches as possible in the next three months, learn to accept rejection, make sure your effort matches your desire.
5. How to get Tom Crean, Coach K, Sean Miller to return your notes and emails!
The key is to begin a handwriting campaign to 100 coaches at all levels and positions in the NBA and NCAA basketball. This will help you deal with rejection but also begin to build relationships.
Ask yourself this question before contacting me however; How bad do you want it? If you truly desire this career, set your sets high, set goals, and be willing to do anything it will take to accomplish your goal.
Illegal blocks – chop blocks, block in the back, etc.
Slow down the game – make sure you see what you call. It's better to get the call right than to rush it.
Position, position, position – coaches and fans hate when a call is made 30 yards away from a play; and you know what – so do good officials. Be in the correct position to make a call or to observe the play. This is easier said than done and takes practice and good field mechanics. KNOW WHERE YOU BELONG – AND BE THERE.
Communication – solid communication with your other officials is extremely important. This starts with a pre-game dialogue. Talk about key aspects of the game, kicking game – position duties during kickoff and scrimmage kicks, measurements,etc. just to name a few.
Whistle in Your Mouth? Do not officiate with a whistle in your mouth – chances are this is going to get you into trouble sooner or later by blowing an inadvertent whistle and if you do – own it, get over it, and learn from it. It happens at all levels!
Read and study the rules – just about every chance you get. It's every official's job to know the rules – not just the referee or umpire. Sooner or later when communicating a call with the other officials you may be asked for clarification. And sooner or later if you do this long enough your position is going to change – you may find yourself as the referee (white hat) one day. Know the rules and learn them. I will start covering some of the key rules in a future posting.
Lastly – have fun, an open mind, and always learn from what you did during the game. Keep a journal of what happened during each game, and set goals for yourself!
We all know that playing around with your small kids is really essential for you. It helps you stay fit and healthy. You can even come closer to your kids by spending some quality time with them. This article is going to deal with some crucial information regarding portable basket ball hoops. They are quite popular worldwide. But most of the people prefer using them in the summer season. Cold weather can really have a negative effect on your basketball hoop.
I would like to suggest you that if you are having a nice portable hoop then you need to winterize it in the best possible way. Unless you protect the whole base properly you will never be able to play basketball in the best possible way. By doing this, you can easily enjoy a game of basketball in the winter season. The plastic material can crack down if you don't pay proper attention towards it. So, you must carry out proper steps in this regard.
Now, let us discuss some key tips and instructions in this regard. Make sure you pay proper attention towards these points.
• The first thing that you need to do is to allow the water to dissipate from your hoop's base. It would allow the entire equipment to dry out in the best possible way.
• Now, you can consider filling up your hoop's base with a lot of sand. It wouldn't allow the base to freeze or breakdown in low temperature. According to me, it would definitely gain more stability in the scheme of things.
• Now, you need to remove the basketball net in a proper way. Storing it inside your house is the best option available with you. It should not get wet at any cost.
• I would like to tell you that covering the basketball hoop with a huge trash bag is really essential. It would not allow the water to penetrate inside. Once you have done this you can seal the entire bag some tape. I am sure it is a great alternative for all of you.
So, these are a few key tips that would help you prevent your basketball hoop from getting damaged. If you are planning to play basketball this winter season then you need to pursue all these guidelines and take a few safety tips in to consideration. Read this article carefully for further information. I am sure you would benefit a lot from here. Enjoy a lot while playing a game of basketball with your family and friends.


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Silver & GOLD PRICES traded in virtually the same range as yesterday. Comex gold lost $4.70 (0.4%) to $1,195.90. The SILVER PRICE closed unchanged at 1613.2 cents. Unchanged — don't know why but an "unchanged" always makes me flinch. May be just my superstition, but in my mind an unchanged day is often followed by a big move, one way or th'other.
Silver and GOLD PRICES can break out of this range only by closing over $1,225 & $16.80, or by falling through $1,190 & $16.00. Noticeable is their refusal to fall even in the face of their weakness. That hints of buyers lurking at lower prices, and close by.
Finally, if silver & gold prices want to break down, why does that GOLD/SILVER RATIO fail to move higher? Y'all look for yourselves on the right, How many times has the ratio validated that downtrend line? But it does stand above its intertwined 20 & 50 DMAs, so momentum is upward.
Hot ziggety! I am so grateful for global warming! If 'tweren't for global warming, we'd all be froze stiff as a pike for sure. Susan & I are iced in again today. Ain't safe hardly to walk outside, much less drive. Not that I could drive up these hills anyway, not with an 8-wheel drive vehicle.
Stocks remain in full retreat, tho they rose a leetle today. Dow scratched up 38.82 (0.21%); S&P500 eked up 2.51 (0.12%) to 2,101.40. Direction is down, down. Dow in Silver & Dow in Gold jiggled up a bit, but nothing to amount to anything.
Big story today was the US dollar index. Jumped up 54 basis points (0.56%) to 95.99. This marks a double top with January's 95.85 high. Most likely that's the end of the move, but it could extend I suppose. It's hard for me to follow the dollar index, since my sympathies, judgement, & morality all find it loathsome, but then, I feel the same about all fiat currencies.
Back to the point: this would be a prime place for the dollar index to fall hard. The euro, a kind of mirror image of the US dollar, fell 0.51% to a new low (I might as well tape-record that statement & play it back every day to save myself the trouble of saying it again) at $1.1025. Yen fell 0.39% to 83.23, but remains locked in that same range. No move yet.
Several of y'all asked who was the person I had been reading who shed new light on the monetary question? Fellow named Keith Weiner. You can read two devastating and devastatingly logical articles. "Falling Interest Rates Destroy Capital" is found at http://bit.ly/1DQMPCm. Other is "The Swiss Franc Will Collapse" at http://bit.ly/1Ekb5lr. Neither of these contains any recipe forcentral banker joy.
I have to run build a fire. I'm about to lock up and freeze solid!


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Zune este un brand Microsoft pentru un dispozitiv mobil de redare a fișierelor multimedia, software-ul asociat, precum și a unui serviciu online pentru achiziționarea și stocarea fișierelor media. Dispozitivul lansat pe piața din Statele Unite, un model de 30 GB,  costând 249.99 de dolari americani a fost lansat în data de  14 noiembrie 2006.

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package org.apache.flink.state.api.input.operator;

import org.apache.flink.annotation.Internal;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.ExecutionConfig;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.Function;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.util.FunctionUtils;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeutils.TypeSerializer;
import org.apache.flink.api.java.tuple.Tuple2;
import org.apache.flink.configuration.Configuration;
import org.apache.flink.runtime.state.KeyedStateBackend;
import org.apache.flink.state.api.runtime.SavepointRuntimeContext;
import org.apache.flink.state.api.runtime.VoidTriggerable;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.InternalTimeServiceManager;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.InternalTimerService;
import org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.KeyContext;
import org.apache.flink.util.CloseableIterator;
import org.apache.flink.util.Collector;
import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Base class for executing functions that read keyed state.
 *
 * @param <F> The type of the user function.
 * @param <KEY> The key type.
 * @param <N> The namespace type.
 * @param <OUT> The output type.
 */
@Internal
public abstract class StateReaderOperator<F extends Function, KEY, N, OUT> implements KeyContext, Serializable {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	protected final F function;

	private final TypeInformation<KEY> keyType;

	protected final TypeSerializer<N> namespaceSerializer;

	private transient ExecutionConfig executionConfig;

	private transient KeyedStateBackend<KEY> keyedStateBackend;

	private transient TypeSerializer<KEY> keySerializer;

	private transient InternalTimeServiceManager<KEY> timerServiceManager;

	protected StateReaderOperator(F function, TypeInformation<KEY> keyType, TypeSerializer<N> namespaceSerializer) {
		Preconditions.checkNotNull(function, "The user function must not be null");
		Preconditions.checkNotNull(keyType, "The key type must not be null");
		Preconditions.checkNotNull(namespaceSerializer, "The namespace serializer must not be null");

		this.function = function;
		this.keyType = keyType;
		this.namespaceSerializer = namespaceSerializer;
	}

	public abstract void processElement(KEY key, N namespace, Collector<OUT> out) throws Exception;

	public abstract CloseableIterator<Tuple2<KEY, N>> getKeysAndNamespaces(SavepointRuntimeContext ctx) throws Exception;

	public final void setup(
		ExecutionConfig executionConfig,
		KeyedStateBackend<KEY> keyKeyedStateBackend,
		InternalTimeServiceManager<KEY> timerServiceManager,
		SavepointRuntimeContext ctx) {

		this.executionConfig = executionConfig;
		this.keyedStateBackend = keyKeyedStateBackend;
		this.timerServiceManager = timerServiceManager;
		this.keySerializer = keyType.createSerializer(executionConfig);

		FunctionUtils.setFunctionRuntimeContext(function, ctx);
	}

	protected final InternalTimerService<N> getInternalTimerService(String name) {
		return timerServiceManager.getInternalTimerService(
			name,
			keySerializer,
			namespaceSerializer,
			VoidTriggerable.instance());
	}

	public void open() throws Exception {
		FunctionUtils.openFunction(function, new Configuration());
	}

	public void close() throws Exception {
		Exception exception = null;

		try {
			FunctionUtils.closeFunction(function);
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// The state backend must always be closed
			// to release native resources.
			exception = e;
		}

		keyedStateBackend.dispose();

		if (exception != null) {
			throw exception;
		}
	}

	@Override
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public final void setCurrentKey(Object key) {
		keyedStateBackend.setCurrentKey((KEY) key);
	}

	@Override
	public final Object getCurrentKey() {
		return keyedStateBackend.getCurrentKey();
	}

	public final KeyedStateBackend<KEY> getKeyedStateBackend() {
		return keyedStateBackend;
	}

	public final TypeInformation<KEY> getKeyType() {
		return keyType;
	}

	public final ExecutionConfig getExecutionConfig() {
		return this.executionConfig;
	}
}

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ABB to help train Azerbaijan's new oil and gas engineers
15 Jan 2015 | News, Oil & Gas
ABB UK has signed an MoU with Baku Higher Oil School (BHOS) to develop training for oil and gas personnel in Azerbaijan. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) sets out the first steps of a long-term collaborative partnership that aims to give the university access to technology and engineering expertise. The office in Azerbaijan is supported by ABB's UK operation.
ABB's involvement in the deal is aimed at raising the awareness among local graduates of the benefits of a career in oil and gas control and instrumentation engineering. Azerbaijan needs to increase its base of skilled engineers if it is to grow its engineering sector. The collaboration between ABB and the BHOS supports education by giving tomorrow's engineers' exposure to real, cutting-edge technology.
Rustam Gasimov, ABB's general manager, Azerbaijan said, "ABB's involvement in the project signals the company's commitment to shaping the next generation of industrial engineers."
The MoU was signed in front of a delegates from the British embassy including:
· Professor Charles Hendry (www.gov.uk/government/people/charles-hendry) MP, the UK trade envoy to Azerbaijan
· H.E. Irfan Siddiq, OBE, HM Ambassador to Azerbaijan
· Swiss Ambassador
· Senior members of the school including the Rector, Elmar Gasimov
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Professor Hendry highlighted ABB's 20 year involvement in the country observing that ABB "provides most of the automation and control systems for the oil and gas assets in the region." Professor Hendy said, "It is clear that ABB and Baku High Oil School are passionate about 'up skilling' and re-investing in education and training. They have both decided to take the skills challenge to the 'next level' by collaborating in this new training facility. I am pleased to attend the event today and to witness this MoU 'signing' – proving that ABB and Baku High Oil School really are 'Partners of Choice'."
Partnerships such as this enable even greater collaboration and stronger, more successful ventures between Azerbaijan and the UK. Martin Grady, general manager for ABB's Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals business in the UK said, "By collaborating with the BHOS, we are effectively investing in our own future, by making sure that there is a stream of bright young engineers familiar with ABB's broad range of technology and solutions. One of the biggest problems is finding enough suitably qualified engineers to fill the ever growing range of opportunities the sector can offer. Obviously if engineering in Azerbaijan flourishes, then we flourish too."
ABB has had offices in Azerbaijan since 1995 and has experienced periods of rapid growth to support high demand in systems and services from oil, gas and power industries. ABB supports the control, safety and electrical systems for the majority of BPs assets in the area. It now has more than 90 employees in Azerbaijan across various disciplines and is continuing to expand in all areas from product supply to systems and service support and consulting services.
ABB has had a training facility in Azerbaijan to support the nationalisation program and upskill resources in the area for over 10 years.
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The 1928 Ilford by-election was a parliamentary by-election for the British House of Commons constituency of Ilford, London on 23 February 1928.

Vacancy
The by-election was caused by the death of the sitting Unionist MP, Sir Fredric Wise at the age of 57 on 27 January 1928 following a sudden heart attack. He had been MP here since winning the 1920 Ilford by-election.

Election history
The constituency was created for the 1918 general election and had been won by Unionists at every election. The Unionists did not come close to losing the seat as the progressive vote had remained evenly split between Liberal and Labour. The result at the last General Election was

Candidates

On 3 February 1928, the Ilford Unionist Association chose 50-year-old Sir George Hamilton as their candidate to defend the seat. He had won the 1913 Altrincham by-election, holding the seat and sat as Unionist Member of Parliament (MP) for Altrincham. He served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions from 1919 to 1920. He held the seat until 1923 when he was defeated by the Liberal candidate. He was then defeated at Lincoln at the 1924 general election. He was the son of a prominent Church of England cleric, the Venerable George Hans Hamilton, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne then Northumberland, Canon of Durham and his wife Lady Louisa Hamilton.
In February 1927, the Ilford Constituency Labour Party had selected C R de Gruchy as their candidate to challenge for the seat. He was a graduate of Oxford University, where he had been Chairman of the University's Labour Club.
Since John Morris stood down in November 1925, the local Liberals had been without a prospective candidate. On 3 February 1928, the Ilford Liberal Association adopted 45-year-old Arthur Comyns Carr as their candidate to challenge for the seat. He was the prospective candidate for neighbouring Romford. He first stood for election in 1918 in St Pancras South West against a Conservative opponent who had received the Coalition Coupon and fought the same seat again in 1922. At the 1923 general election he won Islington East turning a Unionist majority of nearly 4,000  into a Liberal majority of 1,632  but he lost the seat at the general election of 1924. He was the son of J. Comyns Carr, a dramatist and art critic. His mother, Alice Laura Strettell (1850–1927) was a novelist.
There were rumours of a fourth candidate, E.A. Hailwood. He had fought the 1927 Southend by-election, the 1928 Faversham by-election and the 1928 Northampton by-election as an Independent Unionist in quick succession. Hailwood had been critical of Stanley Baldwin the Prime Minister. However, at his last outing, he had been threatened with violence by Unionist Party members which may have influenced his non-participation here. When nominations closed on 15 February, it was to reveal a three-cornered contest between the three main parties.

Campaign
Polling Day was set for 23 February 1928, just 27 days after the death of the former Member of Parliament, allowing for a short campaign. This would have assisted the Labour candidate de Gruchy, as unlike the other two candidates who had only just been selected, he had been in place for 12 months.

On 7 February, the King's Speech was read out in parliament, which provided a focus for the issues of the campaign. All three party leaders, Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald and David Lloyd George sent public letters of support to their own candidates. On 15 February, the former Prime Minister and Liberal Leader H. H. Asquith died.

Result
The Unionists held the seat, but there was a massive 13.6% swing to the Liberals. The Labour vote share remained the same but the party fell to third place.

Aftermath
Hamilton held the seat, defeating Comyns Carr again at the following General Election. The Liberal further reduced the Unionist majority by half;

References

See also
 List of United Kingdom by-elections
 United Kingdom by-election records

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The creative side of software development attracted Shalom Keynan to the profession. Now director of application development for Boston Heart Diagnostics, he is still fired up about improving patient care through software creation. To keep the ideas and projects flowing, however, he faces the challenge of hiring and training developers to handle mobile, cloud, microservices and other new technologies.
"Every morning, I feel very excited to get to work because I know I will discover new ways to build better software," Keynan said. "That's what motivates me, and I think my excitement and openness to new ideas motivate my development team."
A day in Keynan's work life largely consists of engagements with application development team members, who aren't just developers. The team includes marketing, clinical researchers, scientists, developers, software QA and, most importantly, users of the applications in a project.
While Keynan uses some outside consultants for design work, most development is done internally. The team builds and manages a wide range of health care applications, such as apps that generate personalized reports for specific physicians and patients and physician and patient web portals.
Over the past decade, he and his team have had to increase their mobile development skills to meet the demand for smartphone, tablet and custom mobile device applications. Getting into mobile started a domino effect. "Creating applications for mobile has taken us deeper into the cloud and recently into building microservices," said Keynan. In most cases, he's worked on training his existing team on the skilss needed for these new technologies.
Skills shortage? What to do?
When recruiting developers, Keynan has not seen a shortage of developers, but too few developers with the skills he needs. In some cases, he's taken another approach to hiring. "I looked for the qualities we need in a developer, instead," he said. These qualities include the following:
• Can the developer learn quickly?
• Does her resume show initiative and motivation?
• Does he engage in conversation and sharing ideas easily?
If these qualities are present, a lack of specific advanced skills may not matter. "If you ask me to choose between the developer who knows everything and a developer who learns quickly, I would choose the second one," he said. "Technologies evolve quickly, and that's why that quality is so important."
Advice for job seekers
Keynan advises job-hunting developers to cultivate an understanding of how to relate business objectives and user needs to app requirements. Understand the business needs. Listen carefully and understand who the consumer is. To deliver what is needed, an insightful approach is as important as technology knowledge.
In too many projects, Keynan said, the user sees the end result and says: "You built what we told you to, but that's not what we wanted."
Retaining developers
When it comes to retaining employees, Kenyan thinks managers should empower them by sharing responsibilities. "No manager can master everything," he said. Work in tandem with other developers, not in a separated, top-down way. Also, make sure that team members share their knowledge with each other. "Being exposed to others' techniques makes people excited about work." Keep in mind that boredom and developer turnover go hand-in-hand.
Most importantly, Kenyan said, team managers can retain developers by showing them how their work makes a difference in people's lives. "That feeling that I'm helping people is what gets me to work each morning," he said. "It's an important motivator."
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Angelina Jolie And Marianne Pearl Take Their Kids Out
May 8, 2007 May 3, 2007 by admin
Angelina Jolie took her son Maddox on a playdate with a hostage widow Mariane Pearl's son, the woman she plays in her latest role.
The 31-year-old actress admits she was nervous when Mariane, whose journalist husband Daniel Pearl was murdered by Pakistani militants in 2002, sent her a note suggesting they take their children out.
The actress, who portrays Mariane in the film "A Mighty Heart," revealed, "I was really nervous, thinking, 'She's such an intelligent European woman – what are we going to do together?' So we went to this serious existential play, it seemed like the right thing and it was supposed to be okay for kids."
Angelina admits they left early when Maddox, five, and Pearl's son Adam, four, got bored with the show.
Angelina revealed: "Adam and Mad got antsy, and finally halfway through, to each other's relief, we were both like, 'Do you want to get out of here?'"
"A Mighty Heart" is based on Mariane's memoirs about the horrific terrorist incident. Brad Pitt produces the film, which is set to be released in September.
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Buying in bulk, but will take any and all grapes (either color) you may want to sell. Let me know what you want for them and how many you're selling. Details: Buying Either color type, any ql. For each whole grape (0.20) I'm paying 50i, or 5s per 1k. Grapes between 0.10 and 0.19, I'll offer 25i per grape/2.5s per 1k. Grapes below .09, normal harvest rates of 1s per 1k apply. Depending on quantity, and your location, I may be able to pick up, but would prefer for you to deliver. Delivery/pick-up arrangements to be discussed once I know how many grapes you'll be selling. ::Update:: Closing the topic for now, I'm still buying if you're selling though, so just send me a PM.
Hi all, I'm in need of more sap and/or syrup, and willing to pay 50i per 1.00 weight. This works out to 22.5c for a full small barrel, but if selling by the barrel (with the barrel), I'll round this up to 25c per full barrel! This should cover costs of the barrel and still pay you about 4x's the going rate for harvesting! This price is for any ql maple sap/syrup you may have, and any full quantities over 1.00 weight. Please keep in mind, I need whole weight, so if it is between 1.01 or 1.99, it will still be considerd 1.00 for pricing. Delivery is preferred, please let me know how much you have to sell, and we'll work on the details from there.
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Cyber Command and Control (C2)
Tech solutions... AFCEA's Defensive Cyberspace Operations Symposium
Artificial intelligence (AI), automation and the cloud have the potential to support Command and Control (C2) in the cyberspace domain government and industry leaders said during a panel discussion at the annual Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association's Defensive Cyberspace Operations Symposium in Baltimore.
Greg Duchak,
Deputy Assistant
"Our cyber environment is contested," said panel moderator, Greg Duchak, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command and Control, Communications, Cyber, and Business Systems. "Our ability to command and control our forces and work with others in this contested cyber environment will make the difference between mission success and failure."
Rounding out the panel were Misty Blowers, cyber research leader at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Rome Labs; Terry Carpenter, services development executive at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DIA); Army Colonel Paul Craft, Director of Operations for the Joint Force Headquarters — DoD Information Network; and Dan Prieto, strategic executive at Google Cloud.
Duchak said there are no one-size-fits-all solutions to approaching C2 in defensive cyber operations (DCO), but there are critical, interrelated challenges that must be addressed.
"We need to design approaches to C2 that work well for DCO," he said. "We need to know ourselves and to know our adversary. This means we need solid situational awareness (SA). We (also) need to focus on making mission C2 more agile so it can adapt to circumstances even in a cyber degraded environment, and we need to understand the link between DCO and our ability to exercise mission C2 in all domains."
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Misty Blowers
Terry Carpenter
Colonel Paul Craft
Dan Prieto
Speed is Essential
Craft and Prieto described the similarities and differences between the cyber domain and the other warfighting domains.
"The major difference between cyber and land, air, sea, and space is that the cyber domain is a man-made domain and it can be changed," said Craft.
Because the cyber domain can be changed, maintaining SA and C2 of the terrain and what an adversary might be doing is exceptionally challenging, he said.
The speed at which adversaries are able to adapt is much greater in the cyber domain than in physical domains, Prieto said.
"Adversaries can easily modify malware in under 24 to 36 hours," Prieto said.
Craft agreed: Speed is key to C2 in DCO.
Events occur in cyberspace in seconds, he said. The amount of data that can be taken is dependent on how fast data can be removed, moved, or modified within the network before cyber defenders can react.
"The speed at which we can operate the network, the speed at which we can change or maintain the network, the speed at which we can secure and actively defend the network —and therefore make decisions at speed — will require some sort of artificial intelligence so that the computer provides options for when we have to have a DoD level, or even commercial, decision made," Craft said.
Carpenter, who is responsible for delivering integrated enterprise services and data systems to the warfighter, said a large amount of data is constantly being acquired, and DOD requires different and novel ways to make the data consumable and usable by the warfighters.
"When you talk about petabytes of data and the analysis that has to go on, we have to provide tools that are just as responsive," he said. "But there is a lot of challenge and risk in the way we build those applications for the C2 functions. We have to think about how to provide better tools to the user community."
Prieto reflected on the paradox of maintaining C2 with the exceptionally large volume of data that saturates DOD's systems. "On the one hand, you are flooded with data, you are slow to knowledge — because of the overwhelming amount of data," he said. "You are looking for needles in haystacks."
Technology to Support Cyber C2
Carpenter said he wants to help the operator gain situational awareness (SA) faster, and automation, AI, and cloud are important elements to get to the desired end state.
"How can I help the operator to discover faster? We want to improve the speed with which the operators can discover things. So they don't have this huge lag time in trying to sort through the big data," Carpenter said.
Carpenter also emphasized the need to look for ways to streamline the development and adoption process for
C2 tools. "There is an appetite I have never seen before, for trying new things, to automate, to make it more predictable and to leverage things like artificial intelligence and machine learning," he said.
Blowers agreed AI will be an essential weapon in the cyber fight. "Because of the advancements are adversaries are making in this (AI) arena, it is imperative we also develop cyber autonomous capabilities so that we can be sure to be competitive in a future conflict," she said.
The panel explored how cloud adoption might help with the path to improve C2 in DCO.
"When you think about cloud, the opportunity is to move to a more modern, secure, consistent, scalable environment, without having to make all the upfront investments yourself," Prieto said. "That is what is on offer from cloud service providers."
"Cloud needs to be an agnostic underpinning on everything we do," Carpenter said. "More importantly, though, I listen to the warfighter, I listen to the folks trying to deal with this new domain."
Duchak agreed that the goal of moving to the cloud must be connected to the warfighting functions. "Cloud is more than just efficiencies; it's about improving operations," he said.
A Joint Effort
Craft said the solution to the C2 for DCO question will only come through teamwork. "Teamwork includes working with our industry partners, working with academia, working with other agencies and combat commands and services," he said.
Although the path forward still has many unknowns, Craft said the desired goal for C2 in DCO is a secure network.
"In the end we will have a secure network, we will know where all the data is, and we will know that it is secure and actively defended," he said.
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To achieve the 7000's amazing performance, Dri-Eaz engineers developed Advanced Crossflow TechnologyTMto maximize energy utilization. At the same time, the unit's built-in sensors constantly monitor real time performance data to automatically calculate ideal operating parameters – such as fan speed and cycle duration – in real-time.
The astounding thing about the 7000 is its XL category-busting performance in a unit that matches the size of an Evolution and weighs just 102 pounds! With an amazing 130 pints/61.5L per day tested water removal at AHAM (80°F/60% RH) and 235 pints/111L at max (90°F/90% RH), plus 40% better low-grain performance than competitive units, the 7000 is truly the top performer.
But the 7000Xli is also an operator-friendly machine. The control panel displays inlet and outlet temp and RH in real time. No obscure codes are used here! Plain English text (and three other languages) provide clear operational information. Best of all, with its integrated oversized pump basin, the 7000 has been designed to prevent accidental spills when moving the unit off the job.
The 7000 XLi greatly simplifies cleaning and maintenance. Simply remove four bolts and the cover easily lifts off to fully expose the coils and the heat exchange block for cleaning. And of course, the Legendary rotomolded housing is practically indestructible.
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Relaxation is the state of being free from tension and anxiety. Some of us say that we just need to loosen up, unwind a bit and let go. A scientist would define relaxation, "to restore a system to equilibrium or balance". I prefer to use the scientific definition because it is inline with the healing force. That is, to bring our system back into balance or homeostasis.
Relaxation is a learned response and must be done systematically to reap its full benefits. When we enter the deeper stages of relaxation, we get a substantial cognitive boost, our cells repair or regenerate themselves, and our body reaps physiological benefits. With this in mind, the key is be able to bring your whole being into a relaxed state.
As I mentioned in the last blog, to relax we need to have a few things in place.
A stable and comfortable body. If the body is comfortable, then it is easier to relax.
A process that is repeatable and systematic.
This is the most known to everyone. This happens when we let go of bodily tension. One great way to release physical tension is to exercise with stretching. Yoga is one such example and a great way to release physical tension.
2. Nervous System relaxation for our central and peripheral nervous system.
This is a bit more complex practice and relies on the ability to breathe diaphragmatically.
When we use our diaphragm muscle to breath rather than our chest muscles, we keep stress in check. It balances the inner organs, regulates heart rate, blood pressure, gastrointestinal motility and our overall vital energy.
Do you consider yourself overly emotional? Emotional Relaxation brings stability in our moods. It is managed by our desires. When we get what we want we tend to be happy, when we don't, we create a negative emotion. We can manage our emotions by paying attention to the source of all our desires—our wants and needs. Other practices to consider to relax emotionally is to let go of chronic negative feelings by journaling, self talk, finding the root cause, working with the physical body through yoga asana because the mind and body are one.
Mental Relaxation builds resilience. A tense mind is one that is disturbed, distracted and stupefied. To overcome the three conditions of a tense mind, we can use the practice of mindfulness and meditation. Learning to direct and focus our awareness allows a mind to be relaxed—clear, tranquil and one pointed. These are the three qualities of a person who is established in being.
Do you know your purpose in Life? To know your purpose in life you experience spiritual relaxation. You are established in being and are able to take action on what you set out to do. Seeing yourself with a purpose in life allows you to connect to your core of being and then no matter what obstacle falls on the path, you have the resilience to move on without much difficulty. Spiritual relaxation is managed with meditation and should be learned with a systematic method to give sustainable results.
What is the outcome of relaxing into being on all 5 levels?
When any of these levels are out of balance we experience a mind hijack and become out of balance. When we learn to focus our awareness— a sequence to focus the energy of our mind— we are able to access and experience all 5 levels.


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Rob Wittman on Immigration
Oppose amnesty; wrong to reward illegal behavior
Illegal immigrants are breaking the law. I know that it is wrong to reward this illegal behavior by granting amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens within our borders.
I will work for more funding to increase the number of Border Patrol officers and Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents.
Employers should have an easy and effective way to verify the residency status of employees. Employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens must be held accountable. Source: 2008 House campaign website, robwittmanforcongress.com , Apr 1, 2008
Support fence construction where most illegal aliens cross
I will work to secure our borders by supporting fence construction along portions of the border where most illegal aliens cross, a wider "virtual fence" of surveillance cameras, motion sensors, and other high-tech surveillance devices, and the increased presence of more Border Patrol officers.
Illegal immigrants are breaking the law. I know that it is wrong to reward this illegal behavior by granting amnesty to the millions of illegal aliens within our borders. Source: 2008 House campaign website, robwittmanforcongress.com , Mar 8, 2008
End Birthright Citizenship; no more anchor babies.
Wittman signed H.R.1868
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to consider a person born in the United States "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States for citizenship at birth purposes if the person is born in the United States of parents, one of whom is:
a U.S. citizen or national;
a lawful permanent resident alien whose residence is in the United States; or
an alien performing active service in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Acknowledge the right of birthright citizenship established by section 1 of the 14th amendment to the Constitution, regarding a person born in the United States.
The amendment made by subsection (a)(3) shall not be construed to affect the citizenship or nationality status of any person born before the date of the enactment of this Act.
[OnTheIssues note: This bill would change the existing interpretation of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which currently defines as a US citizen any person born within US territory. This bill intends to remove the right of illegal aliens to gain US citizenship by bearing children while in the country illegally; the issue is known by bill supporters as "anchor babies"]
Source: Birthright Citizenship Act 09-HR1868 on Apr 2, 2009
Rated A+ by the ALI, indicating a strongly anti-amnesty stance.
Wittman scores A+ by ALIPAC, Americans for Legal Immigration
ALIPAC supporters have a diverse range of opinions, yet we are united in the belief that more should be done to reduce illegal immigration. ALIPAC supports those that legally immigrate, but we DO NOT support any amnesty, visa expansion, or "Guest Worker" program designed to reward illegal aliens or legalize their presence in the US. We support a peaceful, non racist, rule of law approach to resolving illegal immigration. America is a land of generous and caring people, but our hospitality and values are being strained and abused by those who are willing to break the law and take our jobs and our tax dollars. America's illegal alien population will begin to shrink instead of grow if we support candidates that will reflect the will of the vast majority of American citizens.
FOUR POINT PLATFORM: "Simply enforce our existing immigration laws!"
Secure Our Borders
Crack down on employers that intentionally hire illegals
Remove incentives and rewards to illegals such as licenses, welfare, and other taxpayer benefits
Enforce our existing laws and deport illegal aliens when convicted of crimes or detected during routine law enforcement activities.
Source: ALI website 10-ALI on Nov 2, 2010
Voted YES to ban DREAMer immigrants from military service.
Wittman voted YEA Gosar Anti-DACA Amendment to H.R. 5293
Congressional Summary: The House voted on an amendment by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) to H.R. 5293, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2017. The amendment would prohibit funds from being used to extend the expiration of, or reissue a new expiration date to, the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVNI) program.
Recommendation by Heritage Foundation to vote YES:(6/16/2016): The MAVNI program is a pilot program authorizing "military services to recruit certain legal immigrants whose skills are considered to be vital to the national interest." However, a DoD memo has made it clear that DACA/DAPA recipients are eligible under this program, essentially opening up a pathway to amnesty for illegal aliens who enlist. By ensuring that this guidance ends, DOD will no longer be able to enlist illegal immigrants through MAVNI.
Recommendation by the ACLU to vote NO: (6/28/2011): The DREAM Act promotes fundamental fairness for young people by allowing access to affordable post-secondary education and military service opportunities, regardless of immigration status, and would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, have lived here for at least five years and have graduated from high school. The DREAM Act could result in billions of dollars in additional tax revenue from tapping the potential of DREAM-eligible students and future service personnel. Since September 11, 2001, more than 69,000 immigrants have earned citizenship while serving, and more than 125 who entered military service after that date have made the ultimate sacrifice in war by giving their lives for this nation.
Legislative outcome: Failed House 210 to 211 (no Senate vote) Source: Congressional vote 16-H5293 on Jun 16, 2016
Increase both high-skill and family-based visa caps.
Wittman co-sponsored the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act
Legislative Summary:This bill increases the per-country cap on family-based immigrant visas from 7% of the total number of such visas available that year to 15%, and eliminates the 7% cap for employment-based immigrant visas. It also removes an offset that reduced the number of visas for individuals from China. The bill also establishes transition rules for employment-based visas from FY2020-FY2022, by reserving a percentage of EB-2 (workers with advanced degrees or exceptional ability), EB-3 (skilled and other workers), and EB-5 (investors) visas for individuals not from the two countries with the largest number of recipients of such visas. Of the unreserved visas, not more than 85% shall be allotted to immigrants from any single country.
Explanation from the Countable.US: Under the current immigration system, immigrants from any one country can claim no more than 7% of the 140,000 employment-based green cards issued annually to foreign nationals working in the U.S. This significantly disadvantages immigrants from larger countries that more immigrants come from.
For example, China (population 1.3 billion) and India have large backlogs of workers wishing to immigrate to and work in the U.S., but they have the name visa caps as countries such as Iceland or Estonia (population 1.3 million), which have both much smaller populations and far fewer citizens seeking to immigrate to the U.S.
The net effect of this is that immigrants from India and China can face decades-long waits, averaging 2-3 times the wait times for immigrants from other countries, for green cards, and many have to return home because they can't get permanent residency; meanwhile, countries such as Iceland and Estonia never come close to reaching their visa limit caps.
Legislative outcome Roll call 437 in House on 7/10/2019 passed 365-65-2; referred to Committee in Senate 7/9/2019; no action as of 1/1/2020. Source: S.386/H.R.1044 19-HR1044 on Feb 7, 2019
Declare English as the official language of the US.
Wittman co-sponsored declaring English as the official language of the US
This bill declares English as the official language of the United States, establishes a uniform English language rule for naturalization.
The United States is comprised of individuals from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds, and continues to benefit from this rich diversity.
Throughout the history of the United States, the common thread binding individuals of differing backgrounds has been the English language.
Federal Representatives of shall have an obligation to enhance the role of English as the official language of the Federal Government.
The official functions of the Government of the United States shall be conducted in English.
All citizens should be able to read and understand generally the English language text of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the laws of the US.
All naturalization ceremonies shall be conducted in English.
Source: English Language Unity Act (H.R.997) 2007-HR997 on Feb 12, 2007
Allow immigration bans from non-cooperating countries.
Wittman voted NAY NO BAN Act
The National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants Act (NO BAN Act) imposes limitations on the President's authority to suspend or restrict aliens from entering the US. It also prohibits religious discrimination in various immigration-related decisions, such as issuing a visa. The President may temporarily restrict the entry of any class of aliens after determining that the restriction would address specific and credible facts that threaten U.S. interests such as security or public safety.
GovTrack.us analysis (4/21/21): President Donald Trump instituted a travel ban on eight countries: Chad, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, and Yemen. The Supreme Court upheld the travel ban 5-4 in the 2018 decision Trump v. Hawaii. Trump's travel ban was popularly nicknamed "the Muslim ban" by its Democratic critics since most of the countries it applied to were majority Muslim, and because Trump as a 2016 candidate had indeed proposed a Muslim ban. Regardless, President Joe Biden rescinded the policy on his first day in office. Currently, federal law bans any person from being discriminated against when entering the U.S. on the basis of five characteristics: race, sex, nationality, place of birth, or place of residence. The NO BAN Act would add another category: religion.
Rep. Tom McClintock in OPPOSITION: President Trump invoked this authority against countries that were hotbeds of international terrorism and that were not cooperating with the US in providing basic information about travelers coming from these countries. The left called it a 'Muslim ban.' What nonsense. Without this authority, the president would have been powerless to take simple, prudent precautions against terrorists and criminals from entering the US.
Legislative Outcome: Passed House 218-208-3 on April 21, 2021, rollcall #127; introduced in Senate with 42 co-sponsors but no further Senate action during 2021. Source: Congressional vote 21-HR1333 on Feb 25, 2021
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Even as its flagship LS400 sedan went on sale in 1989, Toyota was already considering the next steps for the Lexus brand. Plans included a new entry-level sedan to replace the underwhelming ES250 and a new midsize sedan, the GS, to slot between the existing ES and LS models. The most interesting development, however, was the conception of a Lexus coupe.
Big premium coupes and convertibles like the Mercedes-Benz SEC and SL, Jaguar XJS, and BMW 6-Series occupied a small but lucrative market. They sold in modest numbers, but well-heeled buyers were willing to pay a sizeable premium for their distinctive styling, making such cars very profitable. They also served as style leaders for their brands, adding luster to the rest of the line.
Several other automakers had recently tried to break in to the high-end two-door segment with mixed results. Cadillac's Pininfarina-styled Allanté roadster and Buick's two-seat Reatta had failed to lure buyers away from the established European leaders despite significantly lower prices. The Cadillac Eldorado and Lincoln Continental Mark VII lacked the cachet or sophistication to appeal to BMW or Mercedes buyers, while Honda's Legend coupe was more of a two-door sedan than a posh sports coupe. Still, the coupe market remained a tempting target.
Nissan, which launched its Infiniti brand in 1989, had clearly thought the same thing. Shortly after the debut of the Q45 sedan, Nissan introduced an Infiniti coupe, the M30. An Americanized version of the Japanese-market Nissan Leopard, the M30 was upright and fairly sedanish, combining bland styling and unexceptional performance. Unsurprisingly, it made no particular impression on coupe buyers and Infiniti dropped it in short order.
Toyota had several options for developing a Lexus coupe: First, they could do as Mercedes had with its S-Class coupes and simply create a two-door coupe or hardtop version of the LS400 sedan, although the LS400 was so stylistically conservative that the results would likely have been disappointingly bland. A second alternative was to create a Lexus version of the Toyota Soarer, a home-market rival of the Leopard, but the existing Z20 Soarer was then nearing the end of its design cycle; it had bowed in early 1986 and its basic themes dated back to the first-generation Soarer, launched in 1981. The third and most promising option was the most challenging: creating something wholly new and better suited to American tastes.
Understanding the preferences of the U.S. market had always been a challenge for the Japanese automakers, whose designers and engineers often had very different values than did their American customers. In the sixties and early seventies, Nissan had benefited (whether they appreciated it or not) from the insights of Yutaka Katayama, head of NMC USA, whose tastes were more in line with those of the American market. Toyota, for its part, decided to seek American help and in 1964 had hired Strother MacMinn, a teacher at the Art Center of Pasadena, California, to train the company's Japanese designers.
From the beginning, MacMinn had warned Toyota management that it was going to be very difficult for the company's designers to truly grasp American priorities without actually experiencing day-to-day life in the U.S. In 1973, the company took that advice to heart and established a new U.S. subsidiary called Calty (from "California Toyota") Design Research Inc., originally based in a warehouse in El Segundo, California, just south of the Los Angeles International Airport. The first production design to emerge from Calty was the second-generation (A40) Toyota Celica, which proved very successful in the U.S. market.
In 1978, shortly after the A40 Celica went on sale, Toyota relocated Calty to a new studio in Newport Beach in Orange County, California. The design subsidiary hired a new chief stylist, Ford veteran David Hackett, and began recruiting young designers like Dennis Campbell, hired in 1980, and Erwin Lui, hired shortly after graduating from the Art Center in 1982.
Since Calty's staff was relatively small, generally quite young, and located thousands of miles from the more conservative environs of Detroit or Toyota headquarters, the California studio had always demonstrated a certain flair for the avant garde. With that in mind, it's perhaps slightly less surprising that Campbell and Lui, whom Hackett assigned to the coupe project, created their initial design studies using plaster-filled balloons rather than pencil and paper, yielding a curvaceous, organic shape that decisively rejected both the angularity of the outgoing Soarer or the sedan-like shape of the W124 Mercedes SEC. Even after the basic shape was established, much of the design work was done with clay models rather than flat renderings.
Toshihiro Okada, head of Toyota product planning back in Japan (and the project leader for the two previous Soarers), was not thrilled with either the unorthodox approach or its early results, but he gave Campbell and Lui permission to develop the design into a full-size clay model. To their relief, when they presented the clay to him six months later, he was very pleased with it, as was chief project engineer Seihachi Takahashi, who would become an important ally.
The problem with allowing designers to indulge themselves or pursue unusual directions is that at some point, their work must be translated into a producible car. Usually, automotive stylists are expected to work within the bounds of a specific 'package' of fixed dimensions and engineering parameters; in many cases, the designers don't even begin until after the package has been established and validated. That approach ties designers' hands, but it also helps to ensure that the results of their work will fit the intended platform and allow room for sundries like engines, fuel tanks, and passengers.
The Lexus SC's curvaceous shape posed significant production challenges for Toyota, although we think the results were well worth the effort. The inboard lights are the high beams, which were separated from the main beams for space reasons. Despite its sleek looks, the SC's coefficient of drag was not quite as good as that of the LS400 sedan: 0.32 (or 0.31 with the optional rear spoiler) for the coupe, compared to 0.30 or 0.29 for the sedan.
Although Campbell and Lui had pushed their original design concept as far as possible, they fully expected that they would have to make compromises further down the road. That's an inevitable part of the process, but it can have painful results; the history of automotive design is littered with examples of attractive concepts that were weakened, if not ruined, in the translation to production reality.
In this case, something very unusual happened: Takahashi was so passionate about the original design that he became determined to build it with as few changes or compromises as possible, even where the original design was significantly off-package. It would be no easy task; the coupe's complex curves were extremely difficult to render in steel and some of the planned components — like the LS400's 1UZ-FE V8 engine — simply didn't fit. The narrow, grilleless nose didn't provide enough radiator exposure and didn't leave enough room for even compact projector-beam headlights.
The Z30 Lexus SC shares its basic double wishbone suspension layout with the later A80 Toyota Supra, although the actual geometry and tuning were significantly different for each application. Note the very long front doors; they have unique dual-pivot hinges to enable rear passengers to get in and out in confined spaces. This feature was introduced on the previous Z20 Soarer, not sold in the U.S.
The finished design was not identical to the original clay, but considering how far the original design had pushed the envelope of production feasibility, the final product remained surprisingly close to the original and in some respects even improved on it. It was a remarkable achievement.
With some notable exceptions, big coupes tend to look sportier than they drive, aimed as they are at well-heeled and often older customers. However, the earlier Z10 and Z20 Soarers had used substantially the same chassis and engines as the contemporary Toyota Supra and thus were fairly athletic, more akin to the BMW E24 6-Series than big American personal luxury coupes. The new coupe would continue in that tradition, being as much GT as luxury car; Toyota even hired race car driver Danny Sullivan to help the engineers fine-tune the suspension.
Although the coupe had some mechanical commonality with the LS400/Celsior platform, the two cars did not share the same platform, at least by Toyota's reckoning; they had separate chassis codes. (A shorter version of the coupe platform would be used for the next-generation Toyota Supra, although that too had its own chassis code.) Because of the coupe's challenging shape, even the shared components often differed significantly. For example, the coupe version of the 1UZ-FE engine had a different air cleaner assembly to fit the tighter engine bay and adopted an unusual variable-speed hydraulic cooling fan. The coupe would also be available with the new JZ-series inline six and a manual transmission, neither of which was offered at all on the sedan.
Japanese Soarers had always made a big selling point of high technology, so the Z30 Soarer would be available with (inter alia) adjustable shock absorbers, air suspension, a complex active suspension, and four-wheel steering. The Lexus version was less complex, presumably in an effort to keep the price down, offering only steel springs and conventional dampers. However, ABS was standard equipment, as were big vented disc brakes.
Even the normally aspirated six had nearly as much power as the outgoing Soarer's turbocharged six (shared with the U.S.-market Supra Turbo), which was useful because the new coupe was no lightweight. Even the SC300 weighed more than 3,400 lb (1,550 kg) and a loaded SC400 was close to 3,700 lb (1,675 kg). (The JDM 4.0GT-Limited with active suspension was heavier still.) However, the SC was at least 200 lb (90 kg) lighter than an LS400 sedan and had shorter gearing for better acceleration.
Other than badging, the only obvious difference between the Lexus SC300 and SC400 is that the SC300 has standard 15-inch wheels rather than the SC400's 16s. Six-cylinder cars are somewhat lighter than V8s. Until 1997, they could be ordered with a five-speed manual transmission; the manual was rarely ordered (although manual-shift cars are prized today) and was canceled toward the end of the model run.
While their suspensions were tuned for a sporting feel, neither the Lexus SC nor its Toyota counterpart lacked for luxury features. The Lexus coupe offered much the same equipment as the LS400 sedan, including its distinctive electroluminescent instruments. Soarers were even more lavishly equipped, with standard digital instrumentation and options still largely unknown in the U.S., such as GPS navigation, an in-dash television receiver, and a backup camera.
American press reaction to the Lexus SC400 was resoundingly positive. Most critics liked the sleek styling and were impressed with the coupe's performance: 0-60 mph (0-97 km/h) in 7 seconds or less and a redline-limited top speed of 145 mph (233 kph). That was on a par with the Mercedes 560SEC and BMW's outgoing M6/M635 CSi and more than a second quicker than an Lexus LS400 sedan. The six-cylinder SC300 was predictably less impressive with automatic, but with the five-speed could perform nearly as well as the V8 cars and helped to cement the SC's position as a luxury GT rather than a plush cruiser.
The SC's handling sent a similar message. The LS400 was hardly a barge, but it had sacrificed ultimate cornering precision for plush ride quality. The coupe took the opposite approach; it had almost Germanic body control at the expense of a ride that was perhaps a little too stiff for the average Lexus customer. The SC was too big and heavy to be a nimble slalom-carver like a Volkswagen GTI, but it had impressive grip and superb balance. Surprisingly, both Car and Driver and Road & Track found the SC400's brakes somewhat over-matched by its weight; the SC300 stopped better despite smaller discs.
Whatever they thought about the ride, Lexus customers had no reason to complain about the price. When the Lexus SC400 went on sale, its starting price was $37,500, actually cheaper than a 1992 LS400. The 1993 SC300 started at only $31,100, which was a veritable bargain in this rarefied class. Despite the stiffer ride, the coupes were just as solid and well-assembled as the sedan, which made them among the highest-quality automobiles in the world.
The Lexus SC was 191.1 inches (4,855 mm) long on a 105.9-inch (2,690mm) wheelbase, 6.4 inches (163 mm) shorter than the sedan on which it was based. SC400s, like this one, originally had 250 hp SAE (187 kW), climbing to 260 hp (194 kW) for 1996. For 1998, American SC400s received the new VVT-i engine from the LS400, still displacing 3,968 cc (244 cu. in.), but now making 290 hp SAE (216 kW) and fitted with a five-speed automatic. This powertrain was not offered on the Z30 Soarer, where the V8 was discontinued around the time the new engine bowed on export cars.
The Lexus SC sold well at first, although it was not a runaway hit. First-year U.S. sales amounted to 12,695 SC400s and almost 8,000 SC300s, which was not bad by coupe standards, but well short of the new Cadillac Eldorado, which was comparably priced but less polished and considerably less powerful. Worse, sales of the Lexus coupe sank almost every year. Combined production fell to a little over 16,000 in 1993 and just under 12,000 in 1994, dropping to around 5,000 units a year by 1996. A modest but unappealing facelift in 1997 didn't help, nor did the addition of a more powerful V8 engine and five-speed automatic in 1998. In 2000, its final year, the SC sold only 631 units in the U.S.
Why didn't the Lexus SC sell better? Rapid price escalation probably played a role. Like the LS400, the highly competitive initial price swelled rapidly, driven in large part by the strength of the yen relative to the dollar. By 1996, the SC300's price had climbed to more $44,000 while the SC400 started at more than $52,000. That represented 40% increase from their debut, tough to swallow for basically unchanged cars. We suspect that Lexus SC's sleek lines also left it in a difficult position in the marketplace. The SC400 was much racier than a big Benz or Jaguar coupe, perhaps a little too racy for conservative shoppers, but it was a little too big and too luxurious for sports car fans and the Lexus brand didn't have the sporting cachet of Porsche or even Corvette.
The JDM Toyota Soarer faced similar issues. The previous Soarers had been quite popular in the home market, but the Z30 represented a significant escalation in price, particularly in V8 form, and the previously booming Japanese economy was no longer so robust by the mid-nineties. Price was the likely downfall of the air suspension and active suspension variants, which were thoroughly impressive, but hideously expensive; a 4.0GT Limited with active suspension and 4WS cost twice as much as 2.5GT Twin Turbo and considerably more than a top-of-the-line Toyota Celsior, the JDM version of the LS400. Slow sales led to the demise of those models and the standard 4.0GT in August 1997, leaving the cheaper 3.0GT and 2.5GT Turbo. In partial compensation, the latter had been updated a year earlier with a single turbocharger and variable valve timing, yielding the same (probably underrated) 280 PS JIS (206 kW) as before, but significantly more torque. Sales remained poor.
Both the U.S. and Japanese markets were facing a similar issue: The market for all coupes was shrinking dramatically as buyers became infatuated with trucks and sport utility vehicles. High-end Japanese sports cars were dropping like flies — annual sales of the Z30's Toyota Supra platform-mate dipped below 10,000 units in 1995 and never recovered — and big luxury coupes were doing little better, leading to the demise (at least temporarily) of venerable nameplates like the Ford Thunderbird.
The first-generation Lexus SC and Z30 Soarer expired in July 2000, replaced that fall by a new Z40 model. Unlike its predecessor, the Z40 model was the work of Toyota's Brussels design center rather than Calty and the new was no longer a two-door coupe, but rather the first Lexus retractable hardtop. Dubbed Lexus SC430 in the U.S., it was smoothly styled but awkwardly proportioned and far less sleek than its bullet-like predecessor.
The Lexus SC430 was initially badged as a Toyota Soarer in Japan, but in late 2005, it became a Lexus in the home market as well, one of the first Japanese-market Lexus models. All versions were offered only with a V8 engine and five-speed automatic, shared with the contemporary Lexus LS430 sedan. The SC430 was slightly quicker than the previous SC400, but far less athletic, aiming for the same "relaxed sportiness" as its ill-starred contemporary, Ford's nouveau Thunderbird two-seater.
Like its predecessor, the SC430 sold relatively well at first — about 14,000 units per year in both 2001 and 2002 — and then dropped off quickly. By 2008, U.S. sales had fallen to fewer 2,000 per year. It expired in July 2010 without a direct replacement.
Although the Calty studio was not involved in the design of the SC430, the California studio has not been idle. Wayne Lui, the original Lexus SC's lead designer, went on to develop the edgy 2000–2006 Toyota Celica as well as the familiar space shuttle shape of the second-generation Toyota Prius.
The Lexus SC had far less impact than the LS400 and failed to set the standard for its class the way Mercedes' SL roadsters have defined theirs. Still, the first-generation Lexus coupe is on our short list of Japanese cars likely to become future classics. We must admit to being biased, for we consider the original SC400 to be the best-looking car the Japanese industry has yet produced and one of the finest automotive designs of the past two decades. Unlike a great many modern cars, it's neither derivative nor self-conscious — it just looks good.
Both the first-generation Lexus SC and Z30 Toyota Soarer have already developed a certain cult following. They were very solidly built and they're quite reliable considering their complexity. The electroluminescent instruments can be problematic and the V8 requires a new timing belt and water pump every 90,000 miles (145,000 km), but all of the available engines are nearly bulletproof. The Lexus SC/Soarer is far less troublesome than a contemporary BMW 8-Series or Jaguar XJ-S, which can easily become money pits. Furthermore, six-cylinder SC300s and 3.0GT Soarers can use nearly all of the performance parts available for the Supra, offering the foundation for a formidable luxury hot rod.
Over the years, Toyota has produced a number of unusual or out-there designs, not always to good effect, but none has been as radical as the Z30 SC/Soarer and, to our eyes, none has turned out nearly so well. More than 15 years after its birth, it's still in a class of one.
Since writing this article, we also did a more detailed piece on the Japanese-market Toyota Soarer.
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As one who owned a SC300 (acquired new in '95) as well as two first generation LS400s, your articles brought back a lot of memories.
When I was researching the purchase of my coupe, I noticed that virtually all of the road tests of the SC300 were manual transmission cars – yet, as you say in your article, they were impossible to find at a dealer. While the automatic was adequate, especially for this class vehicle, I always wondered what I missed!
The suspension was indeed stiffer than a typical Lexus but was by no means harsh. It is safe to say of its contemporaries in the model lineup that this was the one Lexus that cound handle!
Another novel detail in the car was a rather complex articulated door hinge so the rather long front door could open in less space than a simple hinge would allow.
In 1996 the Japanese market Soarer replaced the twin turbo engine with a much improved single turbo VVTi engine, which while officially rated at the same power, produced more torque at 2400rpm than the old twin turbo did at 4800rpm.
Aaron, there's a fair bit of information in (English :))on the JDM Soarer from Australia, NZ and UK. I'm curious about your use of the word "bowing", what do you mean by it? "Bow" is of course a homophone but none of the usual meanings can be deduced from context (at least, by me :)).
I bought my 5 speed manual, black '93 SC300 in July of 1993 – which at the time cost more than I made a year! I still own it today and it is virtually perfect and has just 40,000 miles on the odometer. I may never sell it – a wonderful car and a joy to drive. I have not done a single repair in almost 17 years, and right now all it needs are new trunk lid struts to be as perfect as the day I drove it home.
SC Owner – We have a '99 SC300 with about 88,000 miles on it and we love it. It's actually our second one. The first, a '98 SC300 got totaled so we went out and found the '99.
Like yours, the only thing ours needs is the trunk lid struts. Getting groceries in and out of the trunk is a pain when you have to hold the lid up with your head!
Yep – that is how I get groceries into my trunk too! Mine did not get out of the garage at all last year for various reasons. This year it gets new fluids, new tires and new trunk struts to give my head a break!
I lived through those tough times with the trunk lid ;-) I changed out the trunk struts a few months ago. Next I got four new Michelin PS2 tires for it and am loving having it back on the road. Now if I could just figure out how to retrofit that active suspension – shouldn't cost a lot more than my house.
What was your impression of the active suspension? I've never even seen a road test in English.
The 30 series Soarer was introduced in Japan in 1991. This was an entirely new car and followed in the footsteps of the 10 and 20 series Soarers which were effectively two door variants of the local Cresida saloon car.
The 30 series Soarer was built on the Supra platform with a slightly longer wheelbase and was released in 5 model variants.
JZZ30 – 2.5 litre inline 6 cylinder with twin turbochargers.
JZZ31 – 2.5 litre inline 6 cylinder normally aspirated.
UZZ30 – 4.0 litre quad cam V8 with coil springs and shock absorbers. Effectively a poverty pack V8 with velour seating, basic stereo, manual adjust column, manual seats and few luxury appointments.
UZZ31 – Same 4.0 litre engine but with TEMS (Toyota Electronically Modulated Suspension) which saw the car fitted with Tokiko gas shockabsorbers wearing air bags to replace the coil springs. Shock absorbers were electronically controlled with variable damping and the airbags wear also electronically controlled for height and firmness. Standard items included memory seats, memory electronic column, heated and folding mirrors, auto headlights, projection dashboard and traction control. Optional was the premium sound system controlled by a touch screen fully operation television and 12 stacker CD player.
The model culminated in the UZZ32. With all of the trimmings available on the UZZ32, but with computer controlled active hydraulic suspension.
Toyota did away with the shockers, springs and stabilizer bars and created a masterpiece in suspension design and geometry. With inbuilt G sensors to control pitch and dive, yaw sensors to control side to side body roll the system is truly an engineering feat that few manufacturers have even yet been able to out perform. Imagine a svelt luxurious sports coupe that cannot dive under the hardest of braking. It can't squat on take off and it canot body roll even under the most difficult cornering. Always stable, always perfectly balanced and poised. This example of automotive excellence ran a large hydraulic pump low down on the front of the engine. A single shaft running through the pump controlled hydraulic pressure in the front housing and then ran through into a smaller rear housing for the power steering. A series of nitrogen filled accumulators maintains constant pressure throughout the system, and fluid transfer is controlled by a very complex valve body unit fitted below and behind the left hand headlight assembly.
With speed controlled four wheel steering, the active Soarer remains one of the most amazing vehicles ever built. Due to the extremely high purchase price (nearly double the UZZ31 when released in Japan) sales were limited and in fact this car became the second shortest Toyota production run with only 873 examples finding their way onto the roads of Nagoya.
I currently run no 825 a 1994 UZZ32. It covers around 350 miles a week up and down the M1 in England and it is my 2nd 32. I intend to keep this one, it is nothing short of fantastic, the ride handling and performance perfectly matched. It has been 100% reliable with normal servicing. Everything works just like the day it left the factory, not bad for 21 years old.
I have a 97′ 300 with 241K on it, a 95′ 400 with 130K and a 95′ 300 5 speed with 68K on it. They are by far the best cars I have owned. I added a BC Racing coiler suspension to two of them and that makes an incredible difference in the handling. Body roll is pretty much non existent. There is so much support for the turbo Supra, this car is pretty cheap and easy to turn into a 800hp turbocharged monster. I will only spend about 5K to get the 5 speed up to around 700-800hp. The R154, V160 and CD009 transmissions work in the Sc to handle the upgraded power. The LS400 and Supra TT 4 piston brakes also fit with minimal modification to assist in stopping the beast after the single turbo upgrade.
I couldn't be happier with these cars!
There was only 815 UZZ32's produced.
I bought my Lexus 1993 SC 400 two years old in 1995….At the time it had 26,000 miles on it. Now close to 300,000 miles it is still cruising beautiful. My only wish would be to get the suspension corrected to try and get a better ride as I feel the bumps in the road a lot these days. I've had most of the suspension replaced thinking it would improve but I have been quite disappointed with the outcome. No obvious improvement. Just put some new Michelins on it but haven't noticed any noticeable improvement. Any tips from anyone would be great…..All in all I have and still love the car.
I'm not at all qualified to give mechanical or repair advice. The only thing I can say is that a deterioration in ride quality is generally attributable to a) tires; b) shock absorbers; and/or c) bushings, which on a car like the Z30 would include not only the suspension bushings themselves, but also the ones between the subframes and the body.
I can't help with parts, sorry!


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Q: Understanding MongoMappers many relationship Ok, so firstly Im not very in the know when it comes to Ruby, Rails, Mongo or even ActiveRecord so I apologise if these questions are fairly basic. Firstly, I have an "Event" model and I have added a many relationship to my "Comment" model. Now it is my (basic) understanding of mongo (or any document db) that foreign key lookups (or whatever they are called in mongo) are not advised, instead opting for storing as much as possible in a single document. With this in mind I would expect to have a single Events collection with the Comment JSON/BSON embedded in each document i.e.
event:

{
 Title: "some event"
 Comments : [
    { user_id: [object id], comment: "comment"},
    { user_id: [object id], comment: "other comment"}
 ]
}

Instead I am seeing that a comments collection has been created as well as the event collection. Would this be the correct way to map this relationship, if so how do I stop the comment collection been created and instead have the info embedded directly into the event? My guess is that I have to tell my Comment mapping not to have a _id property and thus not belong to its own collection.

EDIT: I found out that what I was looking for here in my first question was to use MongoMapper::EmbeddedDocument instead of including MongoMapper::Document

Secondly, I want users to be able to flag themselves as "attending" or just "interested" an event, which I assumed would be modelled as an array of reference user_id's on the event. So I initially thought it would be mapped as two "many" relationships, but as far as I can tell the name of the constant I am passing to the many method is used to create the getter/setters, which wouldn't work for me if I had two many relationships for the same type.
In other words, if I have this mapping:
class Event
   many :users
end

Then it's my understanding that I will then have getters and setters generated for the users property. So I can do something like:
event.users << someAttendingUser
This is all good, and at this point in time I would want the reference to the user to be stored and not the whole user BSON (unlike with the comments example above). Now the problem is how do I do this when I have two many mappings to the user collection, as with my need for both "attending" and "interested" users?
So to summarise this rambling:

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*Sometimes I want to store many relationships directly as BSON in the orinal document, and not as a reference to a document in another collection. How do I do this?

*Sometimes I want to store many relationships of the same type on a document and I DO want them to be references to a document in another collection. How do I do this?
Hope this made sense, and I apologise if Im asking the obvious here.

EDIT 2:
Ok, well I really did search before asking this question, but it appears that I have now found the answer to both of my problems so I will close the question myself.
The second part required me to specify a class name option for the mapping i.e.
class Event
   many :attendees, :class_name  => "User"
   many :interested, :class_name  => "User"
end

A: Ok, well I really did search before asking this question, but it appears that I have now found the answer to both of my problems so I will close the question myself.
The second part required me to specify a class name option for the mapping i.e.
class Event
   many :attendees, :class_name  => "User"
   many :interested, :class_name  => "User"
end

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