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What Millennials Want Is Good for Your Business
by Jennifer Robison
Millennials have a few discrete workplace demands
Gallup finds those demands are linked to better business outcomes
Change your culture to fit millennials' needs and you will increase profit
Gallup's extensive workplace research shows that millennials and their elders are more alike than they are different, but where they're different, they're very different.
As millennials age and gain positions of greater authority, they'll bring differences to the C-Suite with them. That will change business itself.
Is that a good thing?
To be frank, yes.
To be more specific, yes, and leaders should be glad. Because what millennials demand of the workplace is good for business.
As millennials age and gain positions of greater authority they'll bring differences to the C-Suite with them. That will change business itself.
What Do Millennials Want?
Though all workers have 12 basic needs for workplace engagement, Gallup's research about millennials finds that they tend to particularly value certain aspects of the employee experience:
1. Millennials don't just work for a paycheck -- they want a purpose.
For millennials, work must have meaning. Their compensation is important and must be fair, but they're motivated more by mission and purpose than paycheck.
2. Millennials are not pursuing job satisfaction -- they are pursuing development.
Purpose and development drive this generation, and they expect opportunities to learn and grow.
3. Millennials don't want bosses -- they want coaches.
Millennials expect their managers to coach their performance and to value them as people and employees. That requires real relationships, not command-and-control management.
4. Millennials don't want annual reviews -- they want ongoing conversations.
Annual reviews are too infrequent and focus too much on the recent. Millennials need feedback on their current performance, not incidents from the past.
5. Millennials don't want to fix their weaknesses -- they want to develop their strengths.
Fixating on their weaknesses won't inspire millennials to perform. Naming and aiming their strengths will - weaknesses never develop into strengths, but strengths develop infinitely.
6. Millennials don't want a job -- they want a good job.
Millennials want to contribute to an organization that values their strengths and gives them the chance to do what they do best every day. To a millennial, their job is their life.
An Analytical Light
Their elders can gripe -- and have -- that millennials' demands of their workplace sound entitled and narcissistic.
But those demands are also good for business. Very good.
Let's look at the list above in light of Gallup analytics.
Purpose: Gallup finds that one in three employees worldwide strongly agree with the statement, "The mission or purpose of my organization makes me feel my job is important."
By doubling that ratio, business units could realize a 34% reduction in absenteeism, a 41% drop in patient safety incidents and a 19% improvement in quality. Just a 10% improvement in employees' connection with the mission or purpose of their organization would result in a 12.7% reduction in safety incidents, an 8.1% decrease in turnover, and a 4.4% increase in profitability.
Development: The primary reason people quit a job is for "career growth opportunity." Replacing them can cost 150% of each employee's annual salary. And The Society for Human Resource Management says the average U.S. annual turnover rate in 2016 was 18%.
Coaches: Managers account for 70% of the variance in their team's engagement, but only 15% of workers, globally, are engaged and just 23% say their bosses provide meaningful feedback.
Ongoing conversations: Performance reviews inspire only 14% of employees to improve, and just two in 10 employees strongly agree that their performance is managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work.
Strengths: Gallup research reveals that the most effective leaders are always investing in strengths. Further, workgroups that receive strengths-based development see 14% to 29% increase in profit and a 10% to 19% increase in sales.
A good job: Gallup's State of the American Workplace report shows that most employees say it's "very important" to have a job that permits greater work-life balance and personal wellbeing.
Meanwhile, 63% believe it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that they could find a job as good as the one they have -- and 51% are actively looking for a different job.
Millennial Math
Those numbers are neither entitled nor narcissistic. They're just numbers. Just math -- but it's the math of organizational performance. The math of money.
But it's not the only math -- poor management costs the U.S. between $960 billion and $1.2 trillion per year in productivity lost to disengagement, according to Gallup research. Globally, the cost approaches $7 trillion, or 9% to 10% of GDP.
So, focus on your brand's purpose and aligning workers with it. Develop employees with good coaching. Draft policies that allow people to integrate work and life.
It isn't caving to millennials' demands.
It's how you get performance improvement -- and business results.
Learn more about what employees want and need to stay engaged with your company:
Download our employee experience perspective paper.
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See how we can work with you to develop your millennials into your future leaders.
Jennifer Robison is a Senior Editor at Gallup.
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Billericay's Harry Wheeler says Glenn Tamplin will remain involved in "football side of things"
Article by Luke Lambert: Harry Wheeler says Glenn Tamplin will remain involved in the Billericay Town first team after the owner posted a cryptic message on social media.
The Billericay manager and owner said on his Twitter account that he would be coming off social media and 'hand over lots of other things for three months' due to stress.
Tamplin said:
"To all at Billericay football club and fans, I have made a decision to come off twitter and hand over lots other things for 3 months as I'm really feeling the stress and getting feelings like when I burnt out so I can't let that happen .. honesty best policy."
Tamplin was not on the touchline as Billericay drew 2-2 with Merstham at the AGP Arena on Tuesday night.
But assistant manager Wheeler says he expects Tamplin to return for Saturday's match at Staines Town.
"Glenn will be around," said Wheeler.
"He is taking a break from certain things but not the football side of things. The football is his release and his escape. He has come off Twitter as that can be counterproductive at times and it is good for him to focus on the football. He will be there on Saturday. He wasn't there last night as he needed to get a few things in order first but he will be around, certainly."
Article by Luke Lambert, The Echo

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\subsection*{Spectrum of kink excitations.} Small perturbations around the
kink take the form $e^{-\gamma t}g(x)$.  Linearization of Eq.(\ref{model})
with respect to $g(x)$, for $\eta(t,x)=0$, gives

\begin{equation}\label{geq}
\gamma g(x)=-\frac{d^{2}}{dx^{2}}g(x)+
            [4-\frac{6}{\cosh^{2}(x)}]g(x) \;\;,
\end{equation}
which looks like a stationary Schr\"odinger equation for a potential well
problem. The eigenvalues and eigenstates can be tabulated as~\cite{jackiw}

\begin{eqnarray}\label{spectrum}
 \gamma,\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\;  && g(x)  \;\;,\nonumber\\
 0,\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\; && F'(x)=\frac{1}{\cosh^{2}(x)}  \;\;,\nonumber\\
 3,\;\;\;\;\;\;\;\; &&
                B(x)\equiv\frac{\sinh(x)}{\cosh^{2}(x)}\;\;,\nonumber\\
 4+k^{2}, && g_{k}(x)\equiv
 e^{ikx}[1+\frac{3ik\tanh(x)-3\tanh^{2}(x)}{1+k^2}]\;\;,
\end{eqnarray}
where $k$ is a real momentum. The zero mode ($\gamma=0$) is separated by a
gap from the first excited state ($\gamma=3$).

\subsection*{Naive perturbation theory (NPT).}

Let us consider the response of the kink to a solitary perturbation
$\eta(t,x)=\delta(t)\psi(x)$. Let the unperturbed state be
$\phi(t<0,x)=F(x)$; integration of Eq.(\ref{model}) over time in an
infinitezimal neighborhood of $t=0$ results in the initial configuration
$\phi(0^{+},x)=F(x)+\psi(x)$.  The function $\psi(x)$ can be expanded in
the basis (\ref{spectrum}) as $\psi(x)=\tilde{\psi}_{z}F'(x)+
\tilde{\psi}_{B}B(x)+ \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}dk\;\tilde{\psi}(k)g_{k}(x)$.
If $\psi(x)$ is sufficiently small, such that Eq.(\ref{model}) can be
linearized around $\phi(t,x)=F(x)$ for $t>0$, then the perturbed field is
well approximated by

\begin{eqnarray}
\phi(t>0,x)&\approx&
F(x)+\tilde{\psi}_{z}F'(x)+e^{-3t}\tilde{\psi}_{B}B(x)+  \nonumber\\
&&\int_{-\infty}^{\infty}dk\; e^{-(4+k^{2})t}\tilde{\psi}(k)g_{k}(x) \;\;.
\end{eqnarray}
After a sufficiently long time, as compared to the relaxation time of the
first excited state equal to $1/3$, the field relaxes to

\begin{eqnarray}
&&\phi(\infty,x)\approx F(x)+\tilde{\psi}_{z} F'(x)\approx
F[x+\tilde{\psi}_{z}]\;,\nonumber\\
&&\tilde{\psi}_{z}=\frac{\int dx\;F'(x)\psi(x)}{\int dy\;F'(y)F'(y)} \;\;.
\end{eqnarray}
The kink is shifted to a new position, the shift is given by a projection
of the initial perturbation $\psi(x)$ onto the kink's translational zero
mode.  However plausible it may sound, this result is not very accurate
even for small perturbations. The reason is that the spectrum
(\ref{spectrum}) is relevant for perturbations around the initial kink at
the origin but it becomes less relevant as the kink drifts to its final
location at $-\tilde{\psi}_{z}$. The excited states in (\ref{spectrum})
are not orthogonal to the zero mode $F'[x+\tilde{\psi}_{z}]$ of the final
kink.

\subsection*{Improved perturbation theory (IPT).}

 An appropriate choice of perturbation theory may improve the accuracy.  Let
us consider again the single kick $\eta(t,x)=\delta(t)\psi(x)$ and let us
rewrite the initial perturbed field in the following form

\begin{equation}\label{balance}
\phi(0^{+},x)\equiv F(x)+\psi(x)=F(x-\xi^{+})+\mu(0^{+},x) \;\;.
\end{equation}
The above equation is just a tautology, unless we impose a constraint on
the function $\mu(0^{+},x)$. We require the function $\mu(0^{+},x)$ to be
orthogonal to the zero mode of the kink at $\xi^{+}$,

\begin{equation}\label{orto}
0=\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}dx\; F'(x-\xi^{+})\mu(0^{+},x) \;\;.
\end{equation}
This orthogonality implies that $\mu(0^{+},x)$ can be expressed as a
combination of the excited states in the complete set (\ref{spectrum})
shifted to $\xi^{+}$,

\begin{equation}\label{expansion}
\mu(0^{+},x)=\tilde{\mu}_{B}\; B(x-\xi^{+})+
             \int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}dk\;\tilde{\mu}(k)\;
                                         g_{k}(x-\xi^{+}) \;\;.
\end{equation}
So far we have made no approximation. The perturbative approximation is
defined by the assumption that $\mu(0^{+},x)$ is sufficiently small, so
that Eq.(\ref{model}) can be linearized in $\mu(t,x)$ around
$F(x-\xi^{+})$.  The linearized solution is given by

\begin{eqnarray}\label{memory}
\mu(t>0,x)&=&\tilde{\mu}_{B}e^{-3t}B(x-\xi^{+})+  \nonumber\\
&&\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}dk\;\tilde{\mu}(k)\;e^{-(4+k^{2})t}g_{k}(x-\xi^{+})
\;\;.
\end{eqnarray}
After a sufficiently long time $\mu(\infty,x)=0$ and the initial condition
on the R.H.S. of Eq.(\ref{balance}) evolves into $F(x-\xi^{+})$. Thus
$\xi^{+}$ is the final position of the kink after perturbation.

 To find $\xi^{+}$, let us project Eq.(\ref{balance}) on the zero mode
$F'(x-\xi^{+})$. Using Eq.(\ref{orto}) and the fact that $F(x)$ is
orthogonal to $F'(x)$, we obtain

\begin{equation}\label{tu}
\int^{+\infty}_{-\infty}dx\;F'(x-\xi^{+})[F(x)+\psi(x)]=0
\;\;,
\end{equation}
which can be further rewritten as

\begin{equation}\label{cond}
U(\xi^{+})+
\int^{+\infty}_{-\infty}dx\;\frac{\psi(x+\xi^{+})}{\cosh^{2}(x)}=0 \;\;,
\end{equation}
where $U$ is the smooth, antisymmetric and monotonic function

\begin{equation}\label{u}
U(\xi^{+})=
2[\frac{1}{\tanh(\xi)}-\frac{\xi}{\sinh^{2}(\xi)}] \;\;.
\end{equation}
Already from the general form of (\ref{cond}) it is clear, that $\xi^{+}$
is not linearly dependent on the magnitude of the perturbation $\psi(x)$.
This response is nonlinear although we use a sort of perturbation theory.

\subsection*{Numerical simulation.}

Before we proceed with general discussion, let us consider some
quantitative examples and compare IPT predictions with direct numerical
simulations of Eq.(\ref{model}). We take the perturbation in the form

\begin{equation}\label{psi}
\psi(x)=-\frac{A}{\cosh^{2}(x-y)} \;\;,
\end{equation}
where $A$ is the amplitude and $y$ the localization of the perturbation.
Eq.(\ref{cond}) takes the form

\begin{equation}\label{A-ksi}
A=\frac{\sinh^{3}(\xi^{+}-y)
        [\frac{1}{\tanh(\xi^{+})}-\frac{\xi^{+}}{\sinh^{2}(\xi^{+})}]}
       {2[(\xi^{+}-y)\cosh(\xi^{+}-y)-\sinh(\xi^{+}-y)]} \;\;.
\end{equation}

  Fig.1 illustrates the dependence of the response $\xi^{+}$ on the
amplitude $A$ for a central perturbation with $y=0$. IPT works well up to
$A\approx 1$, or up to soliton shifts comparable with soliton size. Fig.2
shows the data for $A=0.2$ and $y$ varying in the range $-2<y<2$. If the
perturbation hits to the right of the kink, $y>0$, and is such that the
kink is driven to the right, $A>0$, the response is amplified because the
perturbed kink is flowing towards the source of the perturbation. This
positive feedback, which is missing in NPT, explains the asymetry in
Fig.2.

  For some $y$ Eq.(\ref{A-ksi}) does not have a unique solution
$\xi^{+}=\xi^{+}(A)$ in the whole range of A. This usually happens for
$|A|>1$, when the perturbation theory is not reliable a priori. As an
example, Fig.3 illustrates the response for $y=2$ and $A>0$. The
theoretical function is not unique around $A\approx 1.3$. Numerical
results coarse grain over this singularity.  The perturbation (\ref{psi})
with $y=2$ creates a virtual antikink-kink pair just to the right of the
original kink (\ref{kink}). The result is a kink-antikink-kink
configuration.  For a weak perturbation ($A<1.3$) the antikink annihilates
with the right kink, leaving the original left kink shifted a bit to the
right. For $A>1.3$ the antikink annihilates the original left kink, the
net result is a huge shift to the right ($\xi^{+}>A$), much larger than
that expected from NPT. This is again the positive feedback of Fig.2 but
in a caricaturely enhanced form. This is a genuine nonlinear response and
it is amusing to find that IPT does capture its essential features.

\subsection*{Response to subsequent perturbations.}

$\xi^{+}$ is the position the kink relaxes to after a sufficiently long
time. Before the final equilibrium is reached, the function $\mu(t,x)$,
see Eq.  (\ref{memory}), carries information about the initial
perturbation. This information is lost after roughly $1/3$ units of time,
which is the relaxation time of the breather $B(x)$ (\ref{spectrum}). As
an example, let us consider the kink perturbed by the noise

\begin{equation}\label{noise}
\eta(t,x)=\delta(t)\psi(x)+\delta(t-T)\psi(x) \;\;,
\end{equation}
where $\psi(x)$ is given by (\ref{psi}) with, say, $y=0$ and $A>0$. At the time
$t=T$ the field is hit for the second time,

\begin{eqnarray}
\phi(T^{+},x)&=&F(x-\xi^{+})+\mu(T,x)+\psi(x)=        \nonumber\\
             && F(x-\xi^{++})+\bar{\mu}(T^{+},x) \;\;,
\end{eqnarray}
while it still remembers the first perturbation $\mu(T,x)$.  Repeating
steps leading to (\ref{cond}), one obtains

\begin{equation}\label{plusplus}
U(\xi^{++}-\xi^{+})+\int_{-\infty}^{+\infty}dx\;
\frac{\psi(x+\xi^{++})+\mu(T,x+\xi^{++})}
     {\cosh^{2}(x)}=0 \;\;.
\end{equation}
There are two limiting cases. If $T=0$ the two kicks add up to a solitary
perturbation $2\psi(x)$. If the function $\xi^{+}(A,y)$ is a solution of
Eq.(\ref{A-ksi}), then the final shift of the kink can be expressed as
$\xi^{++}(T=0)=\xi^{+}(2A,0)$. In the limit $T=\infty$, the kink has
enough time to settle down at $\xi^{+}(A,0)$ after the first perturbation
before it is shifted by the second kick to
$\xi^{++}(T=\infty)=\xi^{+}(A,0)+\xi^{+}[A,-\xi^{+}(A,0)]$.  The two
shifts are different, $\xi^{++}(T=\infty)>\xi(T=0)$. Fig.4 gives numerical
results for various values of $T$. The limit $\xi^{++}(T=\infty)$ is
essentially achieved for $T$ greater than the relaxation time of the
breather mode (\ref{spectrum}), $T>1/3$. For shorter intervals $T$ the
memory function $\mu(T,x)$ in Eq.(\ref{plusplus}) cannot be neglected.

  The second kick probes the position of the kink at the time $T$ after
the first perturbation. Roughly speaking, the kink remains unshifted for
$T<1/3$, it jumps to $\xi^{+}(A,0)$ for $T>1/3$. The $\delta(t)$-like time
shape of our impulse may be good approximation for impulses lasting less
than $1/3$.

\subsection*{ Higher order time derivatives. }

 IPT can be generalized to models with higher order time derivatives. For
example, a modification

\begin{equation}
\partial_{t}\phi\rightarrow
\partial_{t}\phi+\alpha\partial^{2}_{t}\phi
\end{equation}
on the LHS of Eq.(\ref{model}) changes the initial conditions after the
perturbation $\eta(t,x)=\delta(t)\psi(x)$ to:
$\phi(0^{+},x)=F(x)\;,\;\partial_{t}\phi(0^{+},x)=\psi(x)$. The perturbed
field can be written as
$\phi(t>0,x)=F(x-\xi^{+})+(A_{1}+A_{2}e^{-t/\alpha})F'(x-\xi^{+})+R(t,x)$.
$R(t,x)$ can be expanded in the excited states which decay with time. For
$\xi^{+}$ to be the final kink position, $\phi(\infty,x)=F(x-\xi^{+})$, we
must demand $A_{1}=0$. This constraint plus the initial conditions result
in the following equation for $\xi^{+}$

\begin{equation}\label{alpha}
U(\xi^{+})+\alpha
\int^{+\infty}_{-\infty}dx\;\frac{\psi(x+\xi^{+})}{\cosh^{2}(x)}=0 \;\;,
\end{equation}
which is very similar to Eq.(\ref{cond}). It is important to realize that
the $\alpha\rightarrow 0$ limit of Eq.(\ref{alpha}) does not give
Eq.(\ref{cond}), which holds for $\alpha=0$. The more general model is
discontinuous at $\alpha=0$.

  We have performed several numerical simulations to test
Eq.(\ref{alpha}).  The accuracy is the same as for $\alpha=0$.

\subsection*{IPT and skyrmions in 2+1 dimensions.}

  Once IPT has passed the tests for kinks, it would be interesting to
check how it works in higher dimensional models. Let us consider the
diffusion equation in the $\vec{x}=(x_{1},x_{2})$ plane

\begin{equation}\label{diff}
\partial_{t}\hat{M}=
P_{\hat{M}}[-\frac{\delta W}{\delta\hat{M}}
                     +\hat{\eta}(t,\vec{x})]\;\;,
\end{equation}
where $\hat{M}(t,\vec{x})$ is a unit ($\hat{M}\hat{M}=1$) magnetization
vector, $P_{\hat{M}}$ is a projector on the subspace orthogonal to
$\hat{M}$, $W=\int d^{2}x\;w$ is the static energy functional with the
energy density

\begin{eqnarray}\label{w}
w&=&\frac{1}{2}\partial_{k}\hat{M}\partial_{k}\hat{M}+
    \frac{1}{2}a_{1}( M_{1}^2+M_{2}^2 )+    \nonumber\\
&&\frac{1}{4}a_{2}[ (\partial_{k}\hat{M}\partial_{k}\hat{M})^{2}-
                    (\partial_{k}\hat{M}\partial_{l}\hat{M})^{2} ]
\end{eqnarray}
being a sum of the exchange, easy axis anisotropy and Skyrme energy
densities respectively. The energy is minimized by the skyrmion
configuration~\cite{wjz-np}

\begin{equation}\label{skyrmion}
\hat{F}(x_{1},x_{2})=
\{ \sin[q(r)]\cos\theta, \sin[q(r)]\sin\theta, \cos[q(r)] \}
\end{equation}
where $(r,\theta)$ are polar coordinates in the $(x_{1},x_{2})$ plane and
$q(r)$ is a profile such that $q(0)=\pi$ and $q(\infty)=0$. $q(r)$
has been determined by a shooting method for $a_{1}=1$ and $a_{2}=0.1$,
the result is shown in Fig.5.

  The initial field after the perturbation
$\hat{\eta}(t,\vec{x})=\delta(t)\hat{\psi}(\vec{x})$ is a bit complicated
because of the projector on the RHS of Eq.(\ref{diff}).  At any point
$\vec{x}$ the integration of Eq.(\ref{diff}) around $t=0$ gives the
initial perturbed magnetization

\begin{eqnarray}\label{mplus}
&& c_{-}\equiv \frac{\hat{\psi}}{|\hat{\psi}|}\hat{F} \;\;,\;\;
   c_{+} \equiv \frac{c_{-}+\tanh(|\hat{\psi}|)}
                     {1+c_{-}\tanh(|\hat{\psi}|)} \;\;,      \nonumber\\
&& \hat{M}(t=0^{+})=
   c_{+}\frac{\hat{\psi}}{|\hat{\psi}|}+
   \sqrt{\frac{1-c_{+}^{2}}{1-c_{-}^{2}}}\;
   P_{\frac{\hat{\psi}}{|\hat{\psi}|}}[\hat{F}] \;\;.
\end{eqnarray}
Similarly as for kinks, compare Eqs.(\ref{balance},\ref{tu}), the final
position $\vec{\xi}^{+}$ of the skyrmion can be found from the condition
that the initial perturbed field is orthogonal to the $k=1,2$
translational zero modes of the final skyrmion

\begin{equation}\label{condition}
0=\int d^{2}x\;
  \hat{M}(0^{+},\vec{x})
  \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{k} }
  \hat{F}(\vec{x}-\vec{\xi}^{+})\;\;.
\end{equation}

  We performed numerical simulations of Eq.(\ref{diff}) for the kick
$\hat{\psi}(\vec{x})=-0.3 \frac{\partial}{\partial x_{1}
}\hat{F}(\vec{x}-\vec{y})$ with $\vec{y}=(y_{1},0)$ restricted to the
$x_{1}$-axis. As a result of the perturbation the skyrmion was shifted to
a new position at $\vec{\xi}^{+}=(\xi^{+}_{1},0)$. The function
$\xi^{+}_{1}(y_{1})$ is presented in Fig.6. The maximum of the function is
shifted to the right and the minima are shifted to the left as a result of
similar positive feedback as in Fig.2.

  IPT works well for skyrmions in $2+1$ dimensions. The model (\ref{diff})
can be generalized to, say, Landau-Lifshitz equation with dissipation.
Modification of the LHS of Eq.(\ref{diff}),
$\partial_{t}\hat{M}\rightarrow\partial_{t}\hat{M}+
 \lambda \hat{M}\times\partial_{t}\hat{M}$, changes
$\hat{M}(0^{+},\vec{x})$ but the condition (\ref{condition}) remains the
same.

\subsection*{Remarks.}

The theory outlined above can be upgraded to a fully fledged theory of
soliton diffusion driven by a random noise. Another possible line of
development is a generalization to the case of dissipative
multisolitons~\cite{jd}.

\acknowledgements

J.D. would like to thank Nick Manton for a comment which initiated his
work on this project. J.D. was supported by a UK PPARC grant.

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From magical fairy house village to wooded walking trails with water views, from butterflies to caterpillars, as well as spectacular flora and fauna to boot, this special place takes one away in mind, body and spirit.
By Ken WaltzSports Editor
One of the magical and majestic trolls at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay. Ken Waltz
BOOTHBAY — As someone who who been captivated by the myth and mystery of Bigfoot since the age of eight, I had no idea I would finally get to meet him literally in my own backyard — in a spectacular and beautiful garden setting, no less.
It turns out these beings with mighty big feet also have a love and close relationship with Mother Nature.
As a lifelong Midcoast resident, there are so many places I have yet to visit in my own neck of the woods. That is, until the trolls, in this case, my ever-elusive Bigfeet, came calling.
After hearing so much about the beauty and splendor of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, my wife, Sarah, convinced me to head to the special place that has flora, fauna, flowers, butterflies, bees, caterpillars, acres of walking trails, a quaint fairy house village and, now, of course, magical, majestic and mesmerizing — as well as larger than life — trolls.
They are, as it turns out, not hairy, but plenty woody.
Thanks to the vision of Danish artist Thomas Dambo, the already-amazing botanical gardens now includes a fun, oversized and completely enthralling new set of whimsical inhabitants. Dambo's "Guardians of the Seeds" is crazy good.
Besides the incredible bridges, waterfalls, brooks, water spouts and all manner of fauna, the botanical gardens are home to these giant wooden beings, with "bushy" beards, hilarious spikey hair and big feet. Very big feet. Not that Bigfoot, which I wished had made a guest appearance at the gardens during my stay, but impressive creations made of all manner of discarded wood.
Dambo lives and works in Copenhagen. Building and creating with wood since the age of five, he has become one of the fastest-growing personalities in the Scandinavian art world. A self-labeled "recycle art activist," his trolls are on the list of the most significant attractions in Denmark and can be found worldwide, not only telling a story of sustainability, but one of global connection.
The trolls, which are several stories tall and massively wide, were built on-site with Dambo's team, with help from botanical gardens' staff and more than 150 volunteers. The trolls, which essential blend into the landscape, as well as tower over and stick out from their background (if that is possible), took about two months to create.
The theme of "Guardians of the Seeds" is to teach and take one on a adventure, a real-life treasure hunt. Those who visit all five trolls in the gardens uncover the clues to the hidden treasure.
The trolls teach why every part of the tree is important to the entire forest. As the brochure to "Guardians of the Seeds" states, "Our Maine woods are filled with secrets and stories — uncover them by looking and listening closely to all the life in the forest."
And for about three hours one recent Thursday, my wife and I did just that. It was vacation bliss with a few of my favorite bigfooted friends.
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I am using JBoss 4.2.1.GA, JBossMessaging 1.3.0.GA, JBossWS 2.0.0.GA and JBossEsb 4.2MR3.
I have read the readme.txt.
This example is not compatible with JBossAS 4.2.1.GA?
I have tested in 4.2.0.GA and I have gotten the same problem.
From the error you're getting, it would appear as though this step has not been executed.
I know this works on AS 4.2.0 assuming you've made the right "patches" to the JBossWS 2.0 component.
The target deployIntros don´t exist.
Are you running it from the "install" directory?
It assumes you have already installed JBossWS 2.0 into your AS 4.2.0 instance as well. The instructions for JBossWS "native" 2.0 installation can be found in "docs\Install.txt" for the JBossWS distribution.
My installation of ESB MR3 has been incomplete.
I have installed WS 2.0.0.GA and in /esb/install run ant deploy.
I haven´t run ant deployIntros.
but if it is causing you troubles you can always perform this task manually.
Add this before the "inject" element for the "WSEndpointHandlerDeployer" bean.
need to stop and restart the the App Server.
e) Copy soap.esb/jbossesb-soap.jar to jbossws.sar.
5. Start the JBoss App Server.
They used to be described in the webservice_producer example but were removed in favor of the automated "ant deployIntros".
unfortunately I don't succed deploying the quickstart example webservice_producer with "ant deploy". I use jbossesb-4.10 with jboss-6.1.0.Final as application server. It seems that it is deployt twice. How can I prevent that? Thanks for any help.
2011-09-15 09:19:09,827 INFO [org.jboss.remoting.transport.coyote.CoyoteInvoker] (HDScanner) Using org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol for http (coyote) invoker protocol handler.
2011-09-15 09:19:09,827 INFO [org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.gateway.JBossRemotingGatewayListener] (HDScanner) JBoss Remoting Gateway listener 'listener' started.
2011-09-15 09:19:09,858 INFO [org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.gateway.JBossRemotingGatewayListener] (HDScanner) JBoss Remoting Gateway listener 'listener' started.
2011-09-15 09:19:09,936 INFO [org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.gateway.JBossRemotingGatewayListener] (HDScanner) JBoss Remoting Gateway listener 'listener' stopped.
2011-09-15 09:19:09,983 INFO [org.jboss.soa.esb.listeners.gateway.JBossRemotingGatewayListener] (HDScanner) JBoss Remoting Gateway listener 'listener' stopped.
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: jboss.naming:application=Quickstart_webservice_producer is already installed.
Deployment "vfs:///C:/jboss/jboss-6.1.0.Final/server/default/deploy/Quickstart_webservice_producer.esb" is in error due to the following reason(s): java.lang.IllegalStateException: jboss.naming:application=Quickstart_webservice_producer is already installed.
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.jboss.remoting.MicroRemoteClientInvoker).
Exception in thread "main" org.jboss.remoting.transport.http.WebServerError: '"
The server processes the "print-before" action and fails in the "JBossWSAdapter" action.
How can I find out which libraries I need for the server project and for the client project? I can not include all libraries from ..\jbossesb-4.10\lib, ..\jboss-6.1.0.Final\lib, ..\endorsed\jboss-6.1.0.Final\lib, jboss-6.1.0.Final\common\lib and from deployments, because that is too much for the ide and there might be conflicting versions.
ESB 4.10 was tested with the AS 6 release that was available at the time : 6.0.0.Final. It has not been tested at all with 6.1.0.Final.
thank you for the answer. So I will try it again with JBossAS 6.0.0.Final.


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Landmark desegregation case on education commemorated during Cinco de Mayo
CONEJOS/ALAMOSA — The nation's earliest and longest-unheralded victory in the war against educational segregation took place in the San Luis Valley between 1912 and 1914 and the big winners were Alamosa's children.
On Saturday, District Judge Martin Gonzales took the stage at the celebration of Cinco de Mayo in Alamosa to discuss the impact of the suit, the first of its kind in the nation funded by grassroots efforts.
In 1914, The Denver Catholic Register called the decision "historic," noting that it "was the first time in the history of America that a court fight was made over an attempt to segregate Mexicans in school." The suit grew from grassroots concern for equal education of Alamosa's children.
Lying unnoticed from 1914 to 2016 and labeled Francisco Maestas et al vs. George H. Shone et al, the suit dates back to 1912 when Alamosa was still part of Conejos County. Ten-year-old Miguel Antonio Maestas was forced to walk seven blocks from his home on the north end of Ross Avenue to the "Mexican" school building at the intersection of Ninth and Ross and some children had to walk even farther.
The McKinney directory of Alamosa listed the "Mexican Preparatory School" as being at Ninth and Ross. There was no telephone number.
On Sept. 2, 1913, Maestas went to the Superintendent of Schools and asked to enroll his son. The request was refused and Maestas was told he had to enroll his son in the "Mexican School." Land for the school was purchased in 1909 for a building to serve only "Mexicans" and was documented as such. The school board ordered all "Mexican" children to attend the school, no matter how far they had to walk.
Maestas filed suit and was soon joined by fellow Hispanics, who contributed whatever they could, along with the Sociedad Protectiva de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU) and the Catholic Church.
Despite the fact that the area had long been part of the United States and the persons involved were born here, the reference was repeatedly made to "Mexican" children versus "American" families. It was assumed that "Mexican" children could not be educated in English and the school board maintained it was doing them a favor, giving them their own school.
Parents pulled their children out of school and educated them at home, an action Gonzales compared to the battle of Puebla, Mexico on May 5, 1862 in which a poorly equipped band of Mexicans and mixed breed persons thwarted the well-equipped and supported French to win freedom from their rule.
After a lengthy trial, District Court Judge Charles Holbrook, a southerner, determined that the plaintiffs had made a sufficient case for admittance of the students and issued an order to the school board and superintendent to admit the children to the public
school most convenient to their homes. Holbrook stated that "in the opinion of the court … the only way to destroy this feeling of discontent and bitterness which has recently grown up, is to allow all children so prepared, to attend the school nearest them."
That ruling stood and still stands.
Because of that, Attorney Nicolas Sarmiento took the microphone and announced that a committee has been formed to erect a monument to Maestas v. Shone. Support is encouraged and public donations are accepted and may be made in care of the Sangre de Cristo Heritage Area.
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Q: Bellman - Ford algorithm in "Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Edition" by CLRS(Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein)
I am reading "Introduction to Algorithms 3rd Edition" by CLRS.
There are the following sentences in this book:

The Bellman-Ford algorithm solves the single-source shortest-paths problem in
  the general case in which edge weights may be negative. Given a weighted, directed graph $G = (V, E)$ with source $s$ and weight function $w : E \to \mathbb{R}$, the
  Bellman-Ford algorithm returns a boolean value indicating whether or not there is
  a negative-weight cycle that is reachable from the source. If there is such a cycle, the algorithm indicates that no solution exists.

I think maybe there is a solution for some vertex $v$ even if there is a negative-weight cycle that is reachable from the source.
Please see the above picture.
There is a solution for $v$ and $\delta(s, v) = 5$.
Why does this algorithm give up finding the distance from $s$ to $v$?

A: Bellman-Ford computes the shortest path from the "source" $s$ to all other vertices. If there's some vertex $k$ for which $d(s, v)$ is undefined (because of a negative-weight cycle, for instance), then the problem is unsolvable, because a solution consists of shortest paths to all vertices. In your example, there's no shortest path from $s$ to the topmost vertex, as running around the triangle multiple times can always "shorten" the path.

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Any position on research drawing on Moodle community forum posts?
Do computers in schools help students learn?
Re: Any position on research drawing on Moodle community forum posts?
In fact, we have given extracted moodle.org forum data to researchers for analysis in the past (after ensuring the research was appropriate to invest that effort).


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November 11, 2015 by ppmhungary
Last summer, in the blistering heat of mid July, the above spot for Hyundai's Tuscon model of SUV was shot at the little-known location of the Tököli Airport in Tököli, Hungary (a stone's throw from Budapest). The heat, and the flat terrain were ideal for the complicated undertaking of shaping the sand tunnel, or 'sand circuit' (watch the clip!) that the Hyundai skillfully drives through. If you were in Hungary last summer, you know it was an especially hot one, with temps before and during the shoot hovering around 50 Celsius, which is over 100 Fahrenheit.
You would think that would put a lot of pressure on the stunt driver, but professional Zoltan Gulyas Kiss managed to maneuver through the tight curves in forward, virtually kissing the walls with the side-view mirror – and reverse (that is reverse, not the film played backwards) without a single blunder over his day of shooting, only aided by a custom-made seat belt and handbrake. Mother Nature, however, could not be counted on to be so agreeable. The shoot was delayed by a flash storm that destroyed part of the tunnel. This was, however, quickly reformed and the project was finished without any further complications.
With this complicated, highly technical production – and one people are responding to, with over 6 million YouTube views – it can be safely said that film production in Hungary is more than just amazing backdrops and scenery.


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Preview for Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), 74th session, 13-17 May 2019
General information and media accreditation
Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), 74thsession
Chair: Mr. Hideaki Saito (Japan)
13-17 May 2019, at IMO Headquarters in London.
Accreditation and media access
Media wishing to attend plenary sessions but who do not have current and valid IMO media accreditation must download and complete the media accreditation form and return it to media @ imo.org with a letter of assignment. Any media attending the Committee will be required to show a valid form of ID.
Plenary sessions only are open to accredited media.
Already accredited? – If already accredited (and in possession of an IMO media pass) please email media @ imo.org if you plan to attend. Your existing pass will be activated.
Agenda and timetable – Please email media @ imo.org for provisional agenda and timetable.
Hours – Morning, 09.30-12.30 (break: 11:00-11:30); afternoon, 14.30-17:30 (break 16:00-16:30) Final report and working group reports are expected to be approved on Friday 26 October. Amendments are expected to be adopted on Friday.
Main agenda items
Highlights of particular interest to media include the following – please scroll down the page to read more:
Adoption of amendments to IMO mandatory instruments
Reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships
Implementation of the sulphur 2020 limit
Marine plastic litter action plan
Ballast water management (BWM) Convention implementation
Approval of guidance and other matters
Technical cooperation and capacity building
Seminar on ship recycling (10 May)
Working groups/drafting groups
The following working/drafting groups are expected to be established:
Working Group on Air Pollution and Energy Efficiency;
Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships;
Working Group on Marine Plastic Litter;
Drafting Group on Amendments to Mandatory Instruments;
Ballast Water Review Group.
1. Adoption of amendments
MARPOL amendments – Cargo residues and tank washings of persistent floating noxious liquid substances
MEPC is expected to adopt draft amendments to MARPOL Annex II to strengthen, in specified sea areas, discharge requirements for cargo residues and tank washings containing persistent floating products with a high-viscosity and/or a high melting point that can solidify under certain conditions (e.g. certain vegetable oils and paraffin-like cargoes), following concerns about the environmental impact of permissible discharges.
The draft amendments add new paragraphs to MARPOL Annex II Regulation 13 – Control of discharges of residues of noxious liquid substances, to require prewash and discharge of residue/water mixture generated during the prewash to a reception facility, for specific products, in specified areas (North West European waters, Baltic Sea area, Western European waters and Norwegian Sea).
MARPOL amendments – use of electronic record books
Draft MARPOL Amendments to allow for electronic record books to be used are set to be adopted, for Annex I – Oil Record Book Part I – Machinery space operations and Oil Record Book Part II – Cargo/ballast operations; Annex II – Cargo Record Book; and Annex V – Garbage Record Book; and Annex VI for records relating to Regulation 12 – Ozone-depleting substances, Regulation 13 – Nitrogen oxides (NOx) and Regulation 14 – Sulphur oxides (SOx) and particulate matter
The MEPC is also expected to adopt related Guidelines for the use of electronic record books under MARPOL.
MARPOL amendments – EEDI regulations for ice-strengthened ships
Another draft amendment to MARPOL Annex VI are set to be adopted, relating to the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) regulations for ice-strengthened ships, replacing the words "cargo ships having ice-breaking capability" with "category A ships as defined in the Polar Code".
IBC Code amendments
The MEPC is expected to adopt a comprehensive set of draft amendments to the International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code), including the draft revised chapters 17 (Summary of minimum requirements), 18 (List of products to which the code does not apply), 19 (Index of Products Carried in Bulk) and 21 (Criteria for assigning carriage requirements for products subject to the IBC Code). Consequential draft amendments to the Code for the construction and equipment of ships carrying dangerous chemicals in bulk (BCH Code) are also expected to be adopted.
NOx Technical Code 2008 amendments
The draft amendments relate to the use of Electronic Record Books, and Certification requirements for selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems.
2. Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from ships
IMO Initial GHG Strategy
The MEPC will discuss on how to implement the initial IMO strategy on reduction of GHG emissions from ships, which was adopted in April 2018. The strategy sets out a vision which confirms IMO's commitment to reducing GHG emissions from international shipping and to phasing them out as soon as possible. Candidate short-, mid- and long-term further measures with possible timelines and their impacts on States are listed. MEPC 73 approved a programme of follow-up actions up to 2023.
Under the identified "levels of ambition", the initial GHG strategy envisages, in particular, a reduction in carbon intensity of international shipping (to reduce CO2 emissions per transport work, as an average across international shipping, by at least 40% by 2030, pursuing efforts towards 70% by 2050, compared to 2008); and that total annual GHG emissions from international shipping should be reduced by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008.
Expected outcomes at MEPC 74
An Intersessional Working Group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships, meeting the week preceding MEPC 74 (7-10 May), will report to the Committee. Furthermore, a working group on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships is expected to be established during MEPC 74.
The MEPC is expected to approve the terms of reference and initiate the Fourth IMO GHG Study (the previous, Third IMO GHG Study, was published in 2014).
The Committee will discuss the procedure for assessing the impact on States of new measures put forward, for adoption, to achieve the aims of the strategy; and identify and prioritize short-term measures that would be on the agenda of upcoming MEPC sessions, with a priority given to mandatory measures that could enter into effect by 2023.
A draft resolution to invite Member States to encourage voluntary cooperation between the port and shipping sectors to contribute to reducing GHG emissions from ships will be discussed. Measures that ports can take include onshore power supply, provision for bunkering of sustainable low and zero-carbon fuels, incentives which promote low and zero-carbon shipping and support for optimization of port calls.
The Committee will also consider establishing a voluntary multi-donor trust fund to sustain the Organization's technical cooperation and capacity-building activities to support the implementation of the Initial GHG Strategy.
Feeding in to the process towards the adoption of a revised Strategy in 2023 will be the data collection system on fuel oil consumption of ships over 5,000 gross tons, which began on 1 January 2019. The Committee is expected to agree on methodology for conducting the analysis of ship fuel oil consumption data.
Further work on energy efficiency of ships (EEDI review)
The MEPC is expected to approve draft amendments to MARPOL Annex VI to strengthen the Energy Efficiency Design Index (EEDI) "phase 3" requirements.
At the last session, the possibility of bringing forward the phase 3 requirement to 2022 (from 2025), for certain ships, was discussed, as well as a proposal to increase the energy efficiency improvement to 40% (from 30%) for container ships.
The MEPC will also discuss the minimum propulsion power to maintain the manoeuvrability of ships in adverse conditions.
3. Implementation of the sulphur 2020 limit
IMO sulphur limit
The new lower 0.50% limit on sulphur in ships' fuel oil will be in force from 1 January 2020, under IMO's MARPOL treaty, with benefits for the environment and human health. The new limit will be applicable globally (in designated emission control areas (ECAs) the sulphur limit will remain at 0.10%).
The 1 January 2020 implementation date was adopted in 2008 and confirmed in 2016. IMO has been working with Member States and the industry to support implementation of the new limit, including the preparation of draft amendments to MARPOL Annex VI to support consistent implementation of the 0.50% sulphur limit and development of guidance and guidelines. MEPC 73 approved Guidance on the development of a ship implementation plan for the consistent implementation of the 0.50% sulphur limit under MARPOL Annex VI (MEPC.1/Circ. 878).
MEPC 74 is expected to approve draft guidelines and guidance documents, developed by the Sub-Committee on Pollution Prevention and Response (PPR 6), including:
2019 Guidelines for consistent implementation of the 0.50% sulphur limit under MARPOL Annex VI;
2019 Guidelines for port State control under the revised MARPOL Annex VI;
guidance for port State control on contingency measures for addressing non-compliant fuel oil;
MEPC Circular on the 2019 Guidelines for on board sampling for the verification of the sulphur content of the fuel oil used on board ships;
MSC-MEPC circular on Delivery of compliant fuel oil by suppliers, subject to approval by MSC 101 in June.
With regards to fuel oil quality, the MEPC will consider draft guidance for best practice for Member State/coastal States as well as a proposal for a bunker supplier licensing scheme.
The Committee will also consider proposals relating to the enhancement of the implementation of MARPOL Annex VI regulation 18, which covers fuel oil quality and availability.
Enforcement, compliance with and monitoring of the new sulphur limit is the remit and responsibility of States Party to MARPOL Annex VI. Most ships are expected to utilize new blends of fuel oil which will be produced to meet the 0.50% limit on sulphur in fuel oil, or compliant marine gas/diesel oil. Currently, the maximum sulphur limit in fuel oil is 3.50% globally (and 0.10 % in the four ECAs: the Baltic Sea area; the North Sea area; the North American area (covering designated coastal areas off the United States and Canada); and the United States Caribbean Sea area (around Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands)).
Some ships use exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) ("scrubbers"), accepted by their flag States as an alternative means to meet the sulphur limit requirement. The MEPC will consider proposals for a new agenda item, so that the Committee would consider to undertake an environmental impact assessment of discharge water from EGCS and to evaluate and harmonize rules and guidance on the discharge of liquid effluents from EGCS.
4. Marine plastic litter action plan
The MEPC will follow up on the IMO Action Plan to address marine plastic litter from ships adopted at the last session.
The MEPC is expected to, inter alia, develop the terms of reference for a study on marine-plastic litter from ships, based on the work carried out by a correspondence group that had been instructed to identify issues to be considered under an IMO study on marine plastic litter from ships; determine the most appropriate mechanism to undertake the study; and develop a regulatory framework matrix to identify all international regulatory instruments and best practices associated with the issue of marine plastic litter from ships.
5. Ballast water management treaty implementation
The International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships' Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004 (BWM Convention), entered into force in September 2017 and has, to date, been ratified by 81 countries, representing 80.76% of world merchant shipping tonnage. Amendments to the treaty, relating, inter alia, to implementation timelines, were adopted during MEPC 72.
The main focus for the convention now is on its effective and uniform implementation, and on an experience-building phase, with a focus on gathering data on application of the BWM treaty. The MEPC will consider proposals related to ballast water sampling and analysis, including revisions to the Data gathering and analysis plan for the experience-building phase associated with the BWM Convention (BWM.2/Circ.67), to incorporate a link to standard operating procedures.
The MEPC is expected to approve amendments to the BWM Convention and the Code for Approval of Ballast Water Management Systems (BWMS Code), concerning commissioning testing of ballast water management systems as well as amendments to the form of the International Ballast Water Management Certificate.
Also up for consideration are proposals in relation to the application of the BWM Convention to specific ship types, as well as exemptions under the Convention, including possible amendments to the Convention and/or development of guidance.
MEPC 74 will also consider proposals for approval of ballast water management systems that make use of Active Substances.
6. Approval of other amendments, guidance and other matters
Amongst other matters, the MEPC is expected to:
approve draft amendments, for future adoption, to the International Convention for the Control of Harmful Anti-fouling Systems on Ships (AFS Convention), to include controls on the biocide cybutryne.
approve four circulars containing new or updated guidance relevant to the assessment and carriage of chemicals in bulk, including the draft revised MEPC circular on the Guidelines for the provisional assessment of liquid substances transported in bulk.
approve the methodology to analyse the impacts of a ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil as fuel in Arctic waters.
approve the draft Guide on practical implementation of the pollution prevention and response treaties (OPRC Convention and the OPRC-HNS Protocol).
7. Technical cooperation and capacity building activities
In order to implement IMO's environment-related instruments, technical cooperation and capacity building activities have played a very important role at IMO.
During the MEPC, these TC activities, including several Major Projects, will be introduced and updates will be presented.
A new Global Partnership Project will be announced on Monday 13 May. Please email media[@] imo.org for details.
7. International Seminar on Ship Recycling (10 May)
International Seminar on Ship Recycling – Towards the Early Entry into Force of the Hong Kong Convention
Date: Friday 10 May 2019
Time: 1.30 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
Location: IMOHQ
The seminar, organized by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism of Japan in cooperation with the IMO Secretariat, aims to increase international awareness of the importance of the early entry into force of the Hong Kong International Convention for the Safe and Environmentally Sound Recycling of Ships, 2009 (Hong Kong Convention). Media should confirm if you would like to attend this seminar via media[@]imo.org
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DEFENSES NEVER REST
Alan Schmadtke, Sentinel Staff WriterTHE ORLANDO SENTINEL
The more Georgia Coach Mark Richt watched videotape of Purdue, the more he saw something scary -- like a reminder of a program where he coached for 16 years.
"This Purdue team reminds me a little bit of Florida State when I was there," said Richt, Georgia's third-year coach. "We were known for throwing the ball around and putting up a lot of points, but we had some great defenses that made a lot of plays for us. That's what I see when I look at Purdue . . . and the more I look at them, the more impressed I am."
Similarly, the more Purdue Coach Joe Tiller scouts Georgia, the more he said his offense needs to spend time tending to details. "All I hope," he said, "is that we can string together a couple first downs."
Despite a Georgia coach who has coached two quarterbacks to the Heisman Trophy and groomed David Greene to elite status and despite a Purdue coach who force-fed the passing game to the Big Ten and offered no apologies for doing so, defense defines Thursday's Capital One Bowl.
No. 11 Georgia (10-3) and No. 12 Purdue (9-3) are stubborn in different ways, but the defenses that carried them throughout 2003 should be a determining factor in how they begin 2004. Moreover, these teams attack offenses in much the same way. They like to rely on edge pass rushers, and they like to count on safeties helping out against the run.
"I see a lot of similarities," Tiller said.
The Boilermakers went through 2003 as one of America's most seasoned defenses, the spoils of coordinator Brock Spack's decision in 2000 to put five freshmen in his starting lineup. Purdue rode out its youth for two seasons before experience kicked in.
This year, Spack, who came to Purdue from Wyoming with Tiller in 1997, stuck a lineup on the field that counted eight seniors, four of them fifth-year guys. That meant not having to explain himself much in a huddle of elder statesmen.
"When they get to this stage, they pretty much understand," Spack said. "The biggest thing is during a game when you need to make adjustments, they can recognize what's going on and what we're doing wrong and what we need to fix."
There wasn't much that needed fixing. A series of final-drive breakdowns against then-unheralded Bowling Green in the season-opener forced the Boilermakers to set their jaw. They limited six opponents to less than 300 yards of offense, and over the final month, no team scored more than 16 points.
"Even the Michigan game [a 31-3 loss], our defense played pretty well," Tiller said. "I thought our defense really was consistent all year long. We just kind of sort of stayed the course."
Purdue limits opponents' running attacks to 95 yards per game and 2.7 yards per carry. Opposing offenses average 16 points and a 29 percent success rate on third down.
Chalk one up for the Over the Hill Gang.
"As you get older, you learn that the game slows down for you," Purdue weakside linebacker Landon Johnson said. "A couple years ago, we were young, running around trying to get to the ball. We were fast and we could run, and we made some plays.
"But now the game has slowed down. We see things we've seen a thousand times, and we know how a lot of situations are going to play out if we make the right decisions and just go attack them the right way."
Such a gear-down is just starting to happen for Georgia, whose reliance on experience ended after last year's Southeastern Conference title run. The Bulldogs knew last spring they'd have to lean on young contributors, but numerous injuries made them even younger as 2003 wore on.
"We're hanging by a thread with our personnel," coordinator Brian VanGorder said.
The Bulldogs lose only five scholarship seniors off this team. They'll start only two on defense against Purdue -- nose tackle Ken Veal and cornerback Bruce Thornton.
VanGorder's two-deep features 19 players with three or fewer seasons in the program. Sophomores Odell Thurman and Tony Taylor will start at linebacker. Two sophomores (Tim Jennings and Thomas Davis) start in the secondary.
"We didn't know we'd have so many injuries, but we knew we were going to be young," VanGorder said. "We approached it with enthusiasm. That's what you have to do."
It worked. Out of the gate, Georgia won 30-0 at Clemson.
"We pretty much knew we were good right then," rover Sean Jones said. "We thought Clemson was a pretty good offensive team."
VanGorder fashioned a defense based on speed and few risks. The goal is always to be in position to make a play -- then make the play.
"We have a combination of being physical and having a lot of speed," Jones said. "We're more than just fast."
As good as Purdue's defensive proved to be, Georgia is better in spots. Opponents average only 13.5 points and just 28 percent on third down. They run for slightly more yards (105.7) but pass for less (170.2 to Purdue's 195.5-yard average).
But like Purdue, Georgia endured some embarrassment. A fourth-quarter touchdown pass allowed LSU to beat the Bulldogs 17-10 in October, but LSU administered a 34-13 pounding in the Dec. 6 SEC Championship Game.
Where Richt saw a whipping, VanGorder saw five big plays that turned the tide and turned a young defense into a frustrated one. Negative emotions built.
The Bulldogs spent most of the past three weeks rebuilding. When they returned to practice after final exams, three days of two-a-days ranked somewhere between hard in-season practices and the intensity of preseason camp, Jones said.
A message was sent and received: Young defenders still are expected to uphold high standards.
Yet for Tiller, Georgia's success is downright scary.
"They're doing such great things with such young players," he said. "I'm not sure I went to see those guys when they grow up."
He shouldn't have to worry -- unless the Bulldogs grow up on Thursday.
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Poverty is a serious threat to a large part of Cambodia's population (one third of the population lives below the poverty line). It forces many parents to take their children out of school to survive. The children are sent to work in factories or to sell souvenirs to travelers at tourist locations to financially support their families. Once these children reach adulthood, they are very often forced to take on low-paid jobs due to lack of education.
Seametrey Organisation was founded 20 years ago, and the school has been running in its 9th year. From the very beginning, its goal has been to offer underprivileged families a quality education for their children and thus help them break the vicious cycle of poverty. Seametrey runs a Montessory nursery and a primary school. Previously Seametrey School was located in a rented house next door with an enrolment of 92 children, aged 1 to 14 and 10 youth who came part time to learn English and acquire general knowledge. Today Seametrey Children's Village in located in Tonle Bati, 30km south of Phnom Penh. The School moved in 2015 when the lease of the Phnom Penh building expired.
The school policy is social and cultural integration. Parents pay according to their income. Because of the fee structure, the school is partially self-sustainable. The guesthouse is a way to generate further revenues to help sustain, improve and develop the school.
Presently only Khmer teachers are being paid. International staff are unpaid volunteers. Volunteers come from all over the world and stay for anywhere between one month and one year. With the revenue from the guesthouse we hope to improve and extend the facilities offered to the children. We also need to raise money for the continual growth of our new school in Tonle Bati. A jam project has been set up to help achieve this goal. For more information, please visit www.kanikajam.com
Should you wish, we can arrange for you to visit the school in Tonle Bati, you'll learn more about the Seametrey NGO and the school. Muoy You, the NGO's founder and director, will be happy to show you around and answer your questions. More info about the Seametrey NGO can be found on its web site at www.seametreycambodia.org or on its Facebook page at www.facebook.com/seametreycambodia.


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All-New 2019 Audi Q8 Makes Global Debut
Published on June 6, 2018 in New Models by The Car Guide
Following the Q8 Concept of late 2016 and a recent mini-series of videos titled #Q8unleashed, the all-new 2019 Audi Q8 made its anticipated global debut yesterday at the Audi Brand Summit in Shenzhen, China.
It's another one of those coupe-style SUVs from Germany, and it offers seating for five, advanced connectivity, infotainment and driver assistance systems, as well as the promise of exceptional ride and handling.
Also: 2018 Audi RS 5 Coupé and Q8 sport concept: World Premieres in Geneva
Also: Audi Q8 concept, a new rival to the BMW X6
Sharp new design
As the brand's new flagship SUV, the Audi Q8 boasts incredible presence. It is wider, shorter and lower than the seven-passenger Q7, but thanks to a wheelbase of nearly three metres, the cabin is said to beat direct competitors in most relevant dimensions, including interior length and headroom. The rear seats can be adjusted fore and aft, while the luggage compartment under the power rear hatch holds up to 1,755 litres (with the seatbacks folded).
Aesthetically, the Q8 introduces Audi's new SUV design language for both exterior and interior features. Together, the octagonal Singleframe grille and large, highly contoured air inlets give the vehicle quite a bit of character. Same thing for the sloping roofline that ends in gently inclined D-pillars, while the pronounced wheel arches (for wheels up to 22 inches in size) and the black surface underlining the light strip between the taillights pay tribute to the Q8's quattro DNA.
Smarter MMI
Inside the 2019 Audi Q8, the all-new 10.1-inch MMI touch response display takes centre stage. With its black-panel look, it dissolves into a large, black inlay when switched off, creating a clean interior environment. In the dark, the optional contour light traces the design lines of the interior and provides backlight for the three-dimensionally lasered quattro badge above the glove compartment. The instruments are obviously shown in the fully digital 12.3-inch Audi virtual cockpit, which can be switched between two views via the multifunction steering wheel.
Back to the MMI unit for a moment: It features haptic and acoustic feedback and users will find it as intuitive as a smartphone, Audi says. Indeed, you'll hear and feel a click when your finger triggers a function. Additionally, with its logical and flat menu structure, the system allows fast access to various vehicle functions. It can be personalized using configurable and movable "favorites" buttons. Intelligent, natural-language control is also part of the experience, so if you say "I'm hungry" the Q8 will suggest nearby restaurants.
Other notable features inside the Audi Q8 include wireless charging for compatible smartphone devices and the optional Bang & Olufsen 3D Advanced Sound System.
What about performance?
On the road, expect world-class dynamics courtesy of standard quattro all-wheel drive featuring a purely mechanical centre differential that transfers power to the front and rear axle at a normal ratio of 40:60. When required, the majority of the power can be sent to the axle with better traction. Available all-wheel steering will enhance cornering performance.
An adaptive damping suspension comes standard, while the optional adaptive air suspension enables the various suspension and damping combinations that make up the Audi drive select modes, so you should cover ground comfortably and confidently even off-road. Speaking of which, there's up to 25 centimetres (10 inches) of ground clearance and hill descent control to back you up.
At this point, we don't know whether the 2.0 TFSI four-cylinder or 3.0 TFSI V6 engine (or both) will reside under the hood. What's certain, however, is that a new mild hybrid technology (using a lithium-ion battery and a belt alternator starter) will help recover power and feed it back into the battery. Interestingly, the start-stop range begins at 22 km/h.
The 2019 Audi Q8 is scheduled to go on sale in North America this fall and will primarily compete against the BMW X6 and Mercedes-Benz GLE Coupe.
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 Karl den tjocke, kung av Schwaben, Alemannien och Raetien 876–882 samt av Italien 879–882, romersk kejsare 881–888, kung av Östfrankiska riket 882–887 och av Västfrankiska riket 884–888 (född omkring detta år)

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Home Chevron icon It indicates an expandable section or menu, or sometimes previous / next navigation options. Finance Contributors
This startup has a novel solution to the problem of recharging electric cars
John Voelcker,
Green Car Connection
Well, here's a novel idea for electric-car fans to kick off the week with.
Zero-emission cars powered by electric motors shouldn't use batteries that can be recharged, because a public charging network is "a dead end."
Instead, they should use flow-cell batteries that can be "refueled" in minutes at centralized filling stations.
This somewhat unusual thought, not surprisingly, comes from a company that proposes to build and sell vehicles with such batteries at some point in the future.
The "dead end" quote is part of a longer statement by Nunzio La Vecchia, the Chief Technology Officer of NanoFlowcell Holdings, and inventor of the NanoFlowcell technology for energy storage.
It's contained in a blog post, Full Speed Ahead Up a Dead End, on the NanoFlowcell website.
It starts by noting sales of electric cars have not met projections, and goes on to suggest that the current model of battery-electric vehicles and public and private charging stations is "close to collapse."
"Nobody wants to drive these vehicles," La Vecchia writes, because a comprehensive global network of public charging stations "supported by billions in grants (tax money)" doesn't yet exist.
The alternative scenario offered by NanoFlowcell uses what it claims is a "shoebox-sized" flow cell and two tanks, with a total capacity of 150 liters (about 40 gallons) of positive and negative liquid electrolytes.
They react inside the flow cell to produce electricity that powers electric motors to turn the wheels, just as in a battery-electric or hydrogen fuel-cell car.
The technology, the company writes, compares to an "incredibly heavy lithium-ion battery pack" weighing 700 kg (about 1,500 pounds).
It would require a network of fueling stations, but the company suggests it could easily be retrofitted to existing gas and diesel stations, especially since the bismuth-ion electrolytes are not combustible.
And the stations could produce the electrolyte locally—using principles of decentralized production known, it says, "since way before Coca-Cola."
The challenges of setting up any new fueling infrastructure are those presently faced by hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle proponents.
The technology for viable fuel-cell cars now clearly exists—as proven by Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota—and they run with water as their only emission.
Three challenges exist in propagating emission-free vehicles that run on hydrogen.
They are the cost and complexity of building high-pressure hydrogen fueling stations anywhere a driver is likely to want to travel; the relative cost per mile of hydrogen versus gasoline and electricity; and the wells-to-wheels carbon footprint per mile of vehicles running on hydrogen versus those using grid electricity.
The NanoFlowcell post doesn't go into those details, but operates more as a statement of principle.
"The refueling infrastructure for [the electrolytes] is considerably easier, faster and more cost effective to build," the article summarizes. "It adds up to just a fraction of the infrastructure costs of current electric mobility scenarios."
Despite some phrasing that bears the mark of having been translated into English from another language—NanoFlowcell is incorporated in Lichtenstein—it's worth reading as another alternative to the century-old gasoline combustion-engine paradigm.
While NanoFlowcell has shown several concept vehicles at various auto shows, we're not aware that any journalists have been able to test their cars for any length of time.
Read the original article on Green Car Reports. Copyright 2016. Follow Green Car Reports on Twitter.
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OKC Energy Names Steve Cooke New Head Coach
The Oklahoma City Energy named Steve Cooke as the team's new head coach and technical director on Tuesday, December 19.
Cooke's the second coach in OKC Energy history.
He coached for the Colorado Rapids, of Major League Soccer, at several levels of their organization.
Hear from the new head coach in the video above.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mets general manager Jared Porter sent graphic, uninvited text messages and images to a female reporter in 2016 when he was working for the Chicago Cubs in their front office, ESPN reported Monday night.
Porter sent dozens of texts to the woman, concluding with a picture of "an erect, naked penis," according to the report. ESPN said it obtained a copy of the text history.
BREAKING: Sunday's Thunder-76ers Game Postponed
The Thunder-76ers game scheduled for 6pm on Sunday night has been postponed, the NBA announced. That coming just about two hours before tipoff. The 76ers don't have the eight players they need to play the game due to health and safety protocols.
The 76ers played the Grizzlies Saturday and the Covid concerns stem from that game, per Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Thunder Rally from 22 Points Down to Beat Bulls in Overtime
The Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from a 22-point third quarter deficit to force overtime and beat former Thunder coach Billy Donovan and the Chicago Bulls 127-125 on Friday night at Chesapeake Arena in Oklahoma City.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander led the Thunder with 33 points and had 10 assists, including a nice spin move in the lane for a layup and foul with 16 seconds left.
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Home Disaster Barbecues, Weights, and Lots of Wine: Here's What Angelenos Are Buying Up...
Barbecues, Weights, and Lots of Wine: Here's What Angelenos Are Buying Up These Days
Several weeks into the stay-at-home order, panic buying has settled down—but local grocery, hardware, and big-box clerks offer a glimpse at our pandemic purchasing habits
Steven Blum
As the pandemic evolves, so too do our desires. In the beginning, we sought out rolls of toilet paper—a compulsion rooted in our longing for control over defecations, according to Freudian experts. Now, it seems, we've moved into less psychically fraught purchasing patterns. According to Walmart's CEO, we're currently in the "hair color" phase of panic buying. Sales of hair clippers and hair coloring products have, respectively, increased 166 percent and 23 percent year over year Nielsen estimates. We're attempting DIY buzz cuts and Zoom haircutting lessons, to varying degrees of success, all in an attempt to tame the frizz atop our heads, if not the thoughts inside them.
But are we still "panic buying"? In Los Angeles, despite the apocalyptic photos of barren shelves, the urge to stockpile has lessened over the last few weeks as we've settled, however uncomfortably, into our new normal. At the Pavilions in West Hollywood, a customer service representative said that she's seeing more "normal shopping" these days. At Food 4 Less in Hollywood, a checker said that customers seem to have calmed down. "People aren't panicking like they were before; they're just buying whatever we have on our shelves," she said.
Still, shortages remain: a clerk at the CVS on Third and Fairfax reported that all isopropyl alcohol, Lysol, Clorox, tissues, thermometers, and antibacterial soap were being snatched up by customers as soon as new shipments arrived. Employees at the aforementioned Pavilions and a Walgreens in Mid-Wilshire told a similar story.
Gloves and masks were sold out at Koontz Hardware in West Hollywood, but other trends were more intriguing: the store's barbecue sales were way up, as were sales of paint cans. "People definitely have a lot more time on their hands for home improvement projects," an associate says. At Anawalt Lumber in Hollywood, the most popular items were plants, soil, and vegetable seeds, according to a cashier. "Customers seem interested in anything they can grow themselves," she says.
So we're perilously cutting our own hair and sprinkling vegetable seeds into little pots around our apartments. Sounds like we need a drink. At the Rite Aid on Fairfax and Sunset, a worker says that customers are snatching up Zinc, vitamin C, and "lots and lots of wine." (Alcohol sales, as well as sales of cigarettes, have spiked nationwide since the coronavirus crisis, for fairly obvious reasons.) Wine is also on the menu at a number of markets that have opened inside restaurants around L.A., including at Kismet, Perch L.A., Sara's Market, Gwen, and Tender Greens. At All Time in Los Feliz, a $1,500 "Doomsday Fuck It Pack" of wine includes 12 bottles of the "highest end, allocated cellar shit, for a happy end of days."
When those last days come, at least we'll all be shredded: most dumbbells were sold out at local Targets and Walmarts, as were ab rollers and many resistance bands and yoga mats. (Instead, Target recommended I buy a ukulele kit, complete with a DVD instruction video, to "take care of your mind, body and spirit.")
As the crisis rolls on, headlines will likely announce new shortages as residents adjust to life without staples like ClassPass, Rudy's, and Musso & Frank. It'll be tempting to call these shortages a result of "panic buying," but hoarding essential goods is a "totally normal and adaptive behavior," according to Stephanie Preston, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Michigan. The act of stockpiling is well represented across the animal kingdom: squirrels hoard nuts, kangaroo rats hide seeds whenever it rains so they can dig 'em up later, and a Clark's nutcracker can hoard over 10,000 pine seeds every fall. It's also what humans do when they're anxious: in one study, subjects were more likely to take objects home with them when they were made to feel nervous.
"Suffering from hoarding disorder, stockpiling in a pandemic, or hiding nuts in the fall—all of these behaviors are motivated less by logic and more by a deeply felt drive to feel safer," says Preston.
So take heart, and don't beat yourself up too much for impulse purchasing a 36-pack of TP—or, you know, a ukulele.
Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that neuroscientist Stephanie Preston is associated with the World Economic Forum.
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Timberlake and Biel Are Having A Girl
by Roger Wink, VVN Music on January 22, 2015
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel are to become parents to a baby girl, according to reports.
While the superstar couple, who married in October 2012, have not confirmed the pregnancy, it has now been claimed that they are to welcome a daughter. A source told Life & Style that the stars are excited for their bundle of joy.
'They couldn't be more thrilled," the insider told the publication. "Jessica's getting everything set for their little princess."
The 32-year-old Total Recall actress is reportedly due in late Spring. But she is apparently wasting no time in getting the nursery ready in their Los Angeles home.
'She and Justin agreed on a jungle theme," the source continued. "They don't want frills or anything too feminine, so they commissioned an artist to paint the walls with wild animals, like elephants, zebras and monkeys."
Meanwhile Suit and Tie singer Justin is keen to put his own stamp on proceedings for his little girl. The 33-year-old is reportedly hoping to pass on his musical talent to his offspring.
'He's going to get his little girl a drum set and a guitar," they revealed, "because he wants her to share his passion for music."
While the couple are excited, as first time parents, they are understandably a little nervous about what to expect. But they are rumoured to have turned to close celebrity friends, including Justin's Friends with Benefits co-star Mila Kunis, who gave birth to her first child last year.
'Mila invited Justin to bring Jess over to play with her and Ashton's newborn, Wyatt," the source added.
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Good, bad news on PH human development index | Inquirer Opinion
Get Real
Good, bad news on PH human development index
By: Solita Collas-Monsod - @inquirerdotnet
The Human Development Report 2016/2017 was launched in Stockholm on Tuesday, with Sweden's prime minister and deputy prime minister participating at the launch, along with the top United Nations Development Programme official (Helen Clark) and the principal author of the Report (Selim Jahan). I was there for the ceremony, playing a minor role (discussant), and so I got to see Stockholm for the first time. I loved the place, but more about that later.
Let us take a look at what the Report's Human Development Index (HDI) says about the Philippines. The HDI is a composite index measuring average achievements in three basic dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and a decent standard of living.
First, the good news: The Philippines is one of the few countries—48 in all—out of 188 countries where the improvement of the HDI was faster between 2000 and 2015 than it was between 1990 and 2000. Why compare the two periods? Because the 2000-2015 period covers the UN Millennium Declaration, and the subsequent Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which 189 UN member-countries signed.
One would expect, therefore, that signing a commitment to achieve the goals would result in some increase in effort from these countries. The HDI growth rate in 2000-2015 does not demonstrate that effort. No wonder the MDGs were not attained. Did you notice, Reader, that everyone talks about the past 25 years—from when the Report began? Studiously ignored are the results of the MDG effort. And now we've got the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which have even more goals (17 to the MDGs' 8) and more targets (169 to the MDGs' 21).
The not-so-good news: The Philippine average annual HDI growth rate, 1990-2015, increased by only .01 percent from the pre-MDG (1990-2000) growth rate. It went from 0.60 percent growth rate to 0.61 percent. The growth rate in 2000-2010
averaged 0.72 percent (kudos to the GMA administration), but slowed to 0.39 percent in 2010-2015 (P-Noy's watch). Those are the figures. Don't blame the messenger.
The horrible news: Vietnam now outranks us in the HDI—115th place to our 116th place, with an HDI of 0.683 to our HDI of 0.682. (Norway has the highest HDI at 0.946, the United States and Canada are at 10th place at 0.920, and Sweden was apologetic about its 14th place, with 0.913 this year.)
Why is it horrible? Only consider, Reader: In 1990, our HDI was higher than Thailand's, Indonesia's, and Vietnam's. Thailand overtook us in 1992, and at the time I said that if Indonesia overtakes us, I would commit hara-kiri. Well, Indonesia overtook us five years ago, in 2011. I obviously did not carry out my promise, but I certainly thought then that we were safe from Vietnam, although I made no more rash promises.
All this is not to say I wish ill of our Asean neighbors. I don't. But if Vietnam, whose income per capita last year (measured in constant 2011 PPP $) was only three/fifths of ours, could do so well in human development, why can't we?
You know, Reader, our latest Philippine Development Plan (2017-2022) has as a target (still to be determined) the improvement of our ranking in the WB/IFC Doing Business Report. The previous plan targeted rank improvements in other international lists (the Justice Report, the Millennium Development Corporation, etc.). Perhaps it is time for us to do the same for our ranking in the HDI index, or even in the growth rate of that index. How about it, Ernie (Pernia)?
Now, why did I fall in love with Stockholm, Reader? Well, it is composed of islands connected by bridges, so one has a water view almost everywhere. But the romance started at the airport: Foreigners don't have to fill out any forms. Then I found that the 20-minute train to the city ran on clean, renewable energy. There are bike lanes everywhere. The driver of the taxi that took me to the hotel was an Iranian, whose son was studying medicine, and who had no complaints about discrimination. The prime minister takes public transportation, I was told. And the streets are safe at night.
Aside from living up to the goal of "no one left behind," Swedish friendliness was not put on.
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