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Content Marketing: BrightEdge Expands Platform with Content Atlas
Two New Products Give Marketers the Technology They Need to Win on the #ContentBattleground
SAN MATEO, CA - September 22, 2015 - BrightEdge today unveiled two new products, Content Atlas and Intelligent Experiences, at Share15, the industry event for digital marketers by digital marketers. The offerings work in tandem to create real-time visibility into an organization's content marketing program and allow marketers to easily communicate impact on revenue goals as well as curate a data-driven playbook to optimize content performance and ensure maximum results.
"Content marketers today are operating in a hyper-competitive landscape, and to win consumer attention they need a whole new type of technology. That's why we build on top of the web-wide insights of our Data Cube and the automated decision-making of our Data Quant," said BrightEdge CEO Jim Yu. "If Content Atlas is the 'what' and 'why' for marketing leaders, Intelligent Experiences is the 'how' for practitioners. It's all about driving content performance and these technologies are handing marketers the reins."
Content Atlas: Tying Content Performance to the Bottom Line
Many marketers struggle to run content marketing by the numbers and easily communicate the business impact of their efforts. According to a recent BrightEdge survey spanning 1,200 brands across several industries, 59 percent of marketing professionals say their content marketing budget is not aligned with actual performance. They've long relied on expensive consultants and the tedious process of manually cobbling together data across program components and phases of the customer journey, only to show limited scope and a flurry of marketing metrics to which other business stakeholders can't relate.
Powered by BrightEdge's Data Cube and Data Quant, Content Atlas enables marketers to access real-time insights on their content so they can easily communicate its impact on business results. For the first time, marketers can run content marketing by the numbers for any audience, automatically mapping content performance across the four key phases of the customer journey – awareness, consideration, purchase and loyalty – and comparing it against the competition. This in turn helps them validate investment in content that generates the greatest return and scale back or improve those that yield lower returns. Content Atlas displays all of this rich information in a multi-dimensional dashboard designed to make it easily shareable with company executives and other business stakeholders.
"As a marketer, I look at the digital tools and platforms that will give us the ability to measure and derive performance. We can then choose the tools that best drive revenue and have a place at the executive table," said Clay Stobaugh, EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Wiley. "The BrightEdge platform enables us to identify problems most people didn't know existed."
Intelligent Experiences: Designing a Content Playbook for Practitioners
Complementary to Content Atlas, Intelligent Experiences combines real-time visibility into content performance with suggested tactics and workflows to inform strategies that win on the content battleground. It builds on existing investments in digital content systems, including legacy CMS and e-commerce systems that automate workflow but fail to provide intelligence about actual content performance or an understanding of the customer experience.
Intelligent Experiences empowers practitioners to create more engaging, curated experiences for consumers. It delivers this intelligence based on the brand's content performance and their competitors' to help marketers remain ahead of the pack. It also provides a "content playbook" to target specific customer segments, identify gaps in content strategy and prioritize time and resources toward the ones that drive real business results. In addition to automatic prioritization of content opportunities, Intelligent Experiences generates suggested content elements — like keywords, visuals, links and more — to accelerate content optimization and get relevant, engaging content in front of top audiences.
"When running a complex content program, it can be challenging to produce polished content that will resonate with your audiences given how many minute, but important, details there are to consider — not to mention how much competition we're up against," said Jesse Farley, Online Marketing Strategist and SEO Manager at Cabela's. "What marketers need is a GPS that helps us leverage the massive amount of content performance data out there to produce strategic content that performs, and BrightEdge's technology provides that."
BrightEdge is the essential content marketing platform that transforms online content into tangible business results such as traffic, revenue and engagement. BrightEdge's S3 platform is powered by a sophisticated big data analysis engine and is the only company capable of web-wide, real-time measurement of content engagement across all digital channels, including search, social and mobile. BrightEdge's 1,200+ customers include global brands such as 3M, Microsoft and Nike, as well as 41 of the Fortune 100. The company has eight offices worldwide and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA.
Emily Busse
brightedge@launchsquad.com


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The team that has been most affected by the Warriors historic season is the Cleveland Cavaliers. Upon the arrival of LeBron James and the subsequent roster moves and despite LeBron himself cautioning patience towards a title, the expectation in Cleveland became "championship or bust" immediately. Last year started off choppy, but ultimately LeBron was able to will a team that had lost Kevin Love early and Kyrie Irving later to within 2 games of winning a championship.
As the years go on, however, the pressure mounts to reach the promised 'Land and the Cavs continue to feel that very pressure. The Cavs fired David Blatt despite being #1 in the East and with a better win % than they have now, added Channing Frye to their payroll despite a glut of forwards (including LeBron, who should play more at the 4) – and reportedly were trying to add Joe Johnson. These are all fine decisions that can be justified, but the Warriors being so far ahead of the race makes this year's efforts continue to seem futile which I believe is also contributing to the rumors of some of the locker room friction. Ultimately, it is unlikely the Cavaliers win a championship this season (not impossible) and I think that in that case it will be time for the Cavs to explore splitting up the Big 3 of LeBron, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving. Out of the three, the most frequent name that has popped up in trade rumors for a myriad of reasons has been Kevin Love. While I believe that the Cavs haven't been able to fully integrate Love in a basketball sense in a consistent way, I actually believe that the odd man out in this scenario might be Kyrie Irving.
Even before the rumors of tension between Kyrie and LeBron, I tweeted some things out that I still believe to be relatively true. All of these tweets were before Kyrie and LeBron played a single game together.
If you're Kyrie, ready to take over the league, you have to be a little miffed that you went from the focus of the franchise to not right?
— Daman Rangoola (@damanr) July 19, 2014
I wouldn't be SUPER enthused that no matter how much Kyrie grows over these next seasons; he's always little brother
In free agency next summer, Kyrie wants mgmt to go after player A, Bron wants player B. They sign B. That will get old
Kyrie is not old enough into his career to take a back seat to get some rings. That's where Love is now, in year 7 of his career
— Daman Rangoola (@damanr) August 25, 2014
Not saying he has a choice. And Kyrie should be happy. But there isn't a huge part of him hoping to lead them on his own?
At the end of the day, Kyrie Irving was an up and coming superstar in this league that was viewed as a franchise centerpiece. While injury trouble and his need to defer to LeBron in the current system have marred his reputation somewhat, I'm sure Kyrie and his management team feel that he should be a #1 option. Wasn't he supposed to be what turned around Cleveland's fortunes?
LeBron isn't to be blamed for this not working perfectly, either. With a player that has as high an IQ as LeBron, and with as large a stature as LeBron, it is inevitable that he will be the alpha dog on the team. Part of the reason he came back to Cleveland was to exert more control on the entire organization in contrast to what he was able to do with the Heat, which he has now been able to do, and the Cavs have gladly enabled that. In addition, a part of LeBron's game is to also dominate the ball and be involved in the direction of each play, another facet of LeBron's game that comes naturally to him. In this regard, I believe that Kyrie is not at a stage in his career that he can willingly give that power up, nor should he. This isn't on Kyrie, either. The best point guard that worked with LeBron in a complete sense was Mario Chalmers – a big shot maker that didn't need the ball and was a good defender. While Kyrie is a big shot maker, he both needs to dominate the ball and isn't a spectacular defender.
Moving forward, I think the Cavaliers management should maximize the return on Kyrie Irving this summer and try to go hard at a player with a similar style as Mario Chalmers and add to the team's depth. Kyrie's game will simply never be maximized on this team and I don't think any player at his stage in his career would give up his prime years willingly. Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen, Chris Bosh, and Dwyane Wade in recent years accepted more of a "shared franchise player" role only after spending time on their own playing at a high level. Kevin Love is there, and he'll figure it out – I think it's time to move on from Kyrie.
Power Rankings (LW in this case means for 2 weeks ago – no Power Rankings last week)
Warriors (59-6) [LW:1]
Spurs (56-10) [LW:2]
Cavaliers (47-18) [LW:4]
Thunder (44-22) [LW:3]
Raptors (44-20) [LW:5]
Clippers (42-23) [LW:6]
Celtics (39-27) [LW:7]
Hornets (37-28) [LW:15]
Heat (38-28) [LW:8]
Hawks (38-29) [LW:10)
Pacers (35-31) [LW:12]
Grizzlies (39-27) [LW:9]
Trailblazers (35-32) [LW:11]
Pistons (34-32) [LW:16]
Mavericks (33-33) [LW:17]
Rockets (29-30) [LW:19]
Bucks (29-38) [LW:21]
Jazz (31-35) [LW:14]
Wizards (30-35) [LW:18]
Bulls (32-32) [LW:13]
Magic (26-32) [LW:24]
Nuggets (28-38) [LW:20]
Timberwolves (21-45) [LW:25]
Pelicans (24-41) [LW:22]
Kings (25-40) [LW:23]
Knicks (28-40) [LW:26]
Nets (18-48) [LW:27]
Lakers (14-53) [LW:28]
Suns (17-49) [LW:29]
76ers (9-57) [LW: 30]
March 13, 2016 damanr
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The Estonian MoD said on Wednesday that starting from August 27 the airspace of the country will be reopened for training flights of NATO countries' aircraft despite an incident with a missile mistakenly launched by a Spanish military aircraft earlier in August.
On August 7, a Eurofighter Typhoon 2000 military aircraft belonging to the Spanish Air Force mistakenly fired an AIM-120 AMRAAM air-to-air missile while flying over Estonia's south. The missile traveled approximately 80 kilometers (49 miles) after which it allegedly fell in an abandoned area not far from the Endla Nature Reserve in central Estonia. The Estonian servicemen managed to find neither missile nor its fragments during careful searches in the area.
"To ensure the security of Estonia, it is necessary to carry out the NATO mission in our airspace in full volume, including training of combat maneuvers. Flights will be continued starting from August 27," the press service said, citing Defense Minister Juri Luik.
On August 17, the Estonian servicemen terminated the active searches for the missile.
NATO's Baltic Air Policing Mission aims at ensuring the safety of the airspace over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The mission was launched in 2004 when the three states joined NATO. As the Baltic states achieve not possess jets that could carry out air policing, NATO members' jets stationed in Lithuania, including Eurofighter Typhoon 2000, control their airspace on a rotational basis.


just wanted to have a quick ask if Mode 8 is present in Bennu at all - if not natively then via a DLL or extension of some kind. Most of my systems cant handle proper 3D (some unity programs simply wont run at all) so raycasting is ideal for me! If not then no biggie, just wanted to check.
Thank you, but sadly those wont work on my laptop - there isnt much documentation on Yeti3D and trying to run any of the example minigames at a higher resolution (640*480, 800*600) simply crashes, and with M8EE my laptop doesnt seem to be capable of doing anything but rendering cubes and spheres - it cant load the MD2 models. Like I said, it simply wont run many Unity3D games, it's not really a gaming laptop.
And search in forum for more resources too..
Hmm, thanks l1nk3rn3l. I tried both of those modes and on my virtual machine (VirtualBox running windows XP, on my macbook), BURNINGSVIDEO mode worked okay, although it didnt load any textures.
I've now managed to get the regular OpenGL version displaying models on my Macbook (outside the virtual machine), although for some reason it wont load any of the GUI text. Also, my laptop wont work with any kind of image formats aside from .jpg! .tga and .pcx wont load.
Can you use regular write() and writeint() to display things on screen when using M8EE?
1.Use wmware is excelent virtual machine search in google..
3. other option ... use a live cd from linux, create a persistent live cd in usb ... then use wine from linux to run bennu..
Also, are there any tutorials on making basic games/projects with M8EE?
hmmm, okay. Thanks for the advise so far!!
So Ive had a few weeks trying to get M8EE working in some ways, including virtual machines and wine, but sadly my Macbook wont render .bsp files so I don't think it's going to happen.
However, I've had some positive results with Yeti3D - I think it's because it uses software rendering, which my virtual machine is able to do Often virtual machines don't have access to hardware acceleration, which would explain the issues with M8EE. I also like that with Yeti3D I'm able to use regular write/write_int commands that I'm familiar with.
I'd like to ask a few more questions, if that'd be okay?
1) So, the highest resolution is 320*240 scaled up to 640*480 using the MODE_2XSCALE. However, on the Google code archive for Yeti3d (https://code.google.com/archive/p/yeti3dplusplus/downloads), there is something called "yeti3d 700x500 resolution example".
What kind of system has a 700*500 resolution?!
If there's a way to make Yeti3D a bit higher resolution, I'd love to try it.
2) I see that Yeti3D comes with a level editor, however I find it really difficult to use. Is it possible to load any other forms of level into Yeti3D? like levels youd use with Quake 1 or Quake 2 perhaps?
3) Thirdly, I can't seem to figure out how to make collisions between entitys, haha. I can see that in the mariokart example game there are collisions between marios kart and the trucks, as they move when hit. Not sure how to do this?
1) I'm interested in this project, but Im a little worried about if I'll be able to get it to run on my Virtual machine. Will there be a software rendering mode?
I realise this will make higher poly counts very slow but I intend to make a low poly 3D game, so it should be fine.
2) Will this be able to load in .bsps or other kinds of level? I think a proper level editor would save a lot of headaches.
Thanks so much for your continued support!!!
1) What kind of system has a 700*500 resolution?!, If there's a way to make Yeti3D a bit higher resolution, I'd love to try it. ?
nop, soon html5 will be supported (very fast in all platforms) ..
bennu3d supports bsp maps... , cartagena3d too..
1) I see. Was just interested, it'd be nice to have it in a larger resolution.
2) Thanks for pointing out the Yeti3D editors readme.txt, I didn't see it before!
3) When I said collisions, I meant to stop the entity moving on collision. I tried using the method I know of, by saving the entity.x and entity.y to a pair of variables and then resetting to them on collision (entity.x=oldx; entity.y=oldy; ) but had no luck.
Also i've just tried Cartagena3D with both VirtualBox and Wine - it crashes with either of them (on Virtualbox it says it cant find a dll or something), so I don't think I'll be able to use that on this laptop, sadly. I'll have to find a language with a software rendered 3D mode or stick with Yeti3D.
yeti3d will be updated soon ... with new resolutions..
the file include a lot examples "YETI3D R26 11 2012 A.rar"


Some 24 members attended this meeting which commenced with a fascinating talk on advertising on Mauchlineware by Jane Bowen with help from Ian McFeeters, all backed up with displays by members. Following this we walked the few steps down the High Street to Bonhams Saleroom to view the annual Sewing Sale. This contained the last few lots from the collection of our late Secretary, Barry Kottler, as well as plenty more Mauchline. Robert Bleasdale and his team had laid on an excellent buffet lunch for us, enjoyed sitting on and at future auction lots!


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Glass meets art Sunday at Biloxi Visitors Center
Aquatic and nature-inspired hand-painted glass will be the centerpiece of an opening reception Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Biloxi Visitors Center.
Biloxi native and artist Deborah Jordan Sackett will display her one-of-a-kind, enchantment-inspired pieces that include functional glassware, serving trays and platters, as well as a collection of holiday items such as Christmas and butterfly ornaments and trinket boxes.
"I am a pastel artist with a strength in illustration arts," Sackett said. "I have chosen to use glass as my medium of expression in the arts, and I paint for those who value individual and truly qualitative items on sustainable products."
Each item is exclusively designed with non-toxic water-based paints, cured, then oven-fired, adding durability to each piece, making a professional product highly resistant and dishwasher-safe.
Sackett creates her trademarked Authentic American "sackettdoodles" at her private creative arts studio, Sky Spirit Studios. Founded in 2009 with a heart for custom designing on glass and porcelain, the space allows Sackett to create unique items that can be customized and personalized.
And the name sackettdoodles? "When William and I married, he learned I did unique doodle art on my sons brown lunch bags everyday so they would discover them at school, hopefully, leaving a lasting memory of that day," Sackett said. "Thusly, art on brown sacks was hilariously translated to sackettdoodles."
The opening reception at the Biloxi Visitors Center, 1050 Beach Blvd., is free and will include refreshments, music by Pianist Ken Leonard and pieces on exhibition for purchase as holiday gifts.
See samples of the artist's work
City Council meeting: The Biloxi City Council today voted to hire an appraiser to begin evaluating properties for a proposed new main entrance for Keesler, at Division Street and Forrest Avenue. Councilmembers also heard public comments and discussed proposed redistricting for the 2017 municipal elections, but took no formal action. To see photographs from the meeting, click here.
Traffic update: Traffic in Biloxi is expected to pick up with the approach of the Thanksgiving holiday and Black Friday. To see an update on road construction through the city, click here.
Picture this: The city's online photo and video archive has been updated to include hundreds of chronological albums containing thousands of pictures from a host of city gatherings. To see the online archive, which also links to the city's Facebook and YouTube platforms, click here.


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Ceramics (1415)
Porcelain (1271)
European decorative arts (746)
Vessel (584)
Asian art (510)
Dish (vessel) (474)
Vase (217)
Worcester (187)
Sèvres (95)
Meissen (76)
Chelsea (37)
Jingdezhen (36)
Inorganic material (412)
Soft-paste porcelain (368)
Hard-paste porcelain (293)
Bone china (34)
Enamel (27)
Gilding (17)
Worcester Royal Porcelain Company (188)
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres (87)
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (80)
Chelsea Porcelain Factory (36)
Bow Porcelain Factory (23)
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory (19)
Vienna State Porcelain Manufactory (16)
Wedgwood Manufactory (16)
Vase (15)
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East Asian (62)
Chinese export (58)
Rococo (39)
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Applied Arts of Europe (771)
Arts of Asia (562)
Arts of the Americas (103)
Londonderry Vase, 1813
Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
Incense Burner in the Form of a Duck, Song dynasty (960–1279), 12th century
King Vulture, 1734
Johann Joachim Kändler
Ewer, c. 1745
Real Fabbrica della porcellana di Capodimonte
Gaming Set, c. 1735
Du Paquier Porcelain Manufactory
Urns (Set of 8), 1999
Pair of Cups, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Yongzheng reign mark and period (1723–1735)
Oil or Vinegar Cruet, c. 1737
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
Jar with Tubular Handles, Peonies, "Endless Knot," Pendant Balls, and Pendant Lozenges, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong reign mark and period (1736–1795)
Plate from the Duke of Clarence Service, c. 1792
Worcester Royal Porcelain Company
Platter, c. 1800
Plate, c. 1750
Arita-Ware Kakiemon Floral-shaped Bowl, late 17th/early 18th century
Bottle-Shaped Vase, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Trumpet Player, c. 1760/70
Vienna State Porcelain Manufactory
Soup Bowl, c. 1750
Large Bowl with Lotus Scrolls (interior) and Overlapping Petals (exterior), Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), early 12th century
Plate, 1760/70
Tripod Dish with Handles, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Dish with Dragons Writhing amid Floral Scrolls, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Zhengde reign mark and period (1506–1521)
Tea Bowl, c. 1750
Teacup, Coffee Cup, and Saucer, c. 1770
Plate, 1780/1800
Bowl, c. 1780
Porzellanmanufaktur Frankenthal
Bowl with Medallionsof Butterflies, Peonies, Chrysanthemums, Peaches, Plums and Orchidsf Butterflies, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), spurious reign mark of Yongzheng (1723–1735), overglaze painting perhaps added later
Dinner Plate, 1796/1810
Chinese export porcelain
Centerpiece: The Scarf Dance (Surtout: Le jeu de l'écharpe), 1901/02
Elephant Candelabrum Vase (Vase à Tête d'Eléphant), c. 1757-c. 1758
Jean-Claude Duplessis
Cup, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Cup in the Shape of an Archaic Bronze Vessel with Lizards, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th/19th century
Dish with Paired Dragons, Cloudscrolls, and Flaiming Pearl, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Jiajing reign mark and period (1522–1566)
Plate, c. 1721/25
Cup, 1750/70
Flattened Teapot (Bianhu), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), mid–17th century
Soup Plate from the "Hope Service" Made for the Duke of Clarence, c. 1792
Vase (Vase à Oreilles), c. 1754
Circular Box with Peacocks, Peonies, and Auspicious Motifs, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Wanli period (1573–1620)
Teapot, 1882
Mezzetino, c. 1765
Franz Anton Bustelli
Conductor for the Monkey Band, c. 1765
Standing Guanyin on Stylized Clouds, Early 20th century
Goat and Bee Cream Jug, c. 1745
Chelsea Porcelain Factory
Dish with Peonies and Leaves, Song dynasty (960–1279)
Wedgwood Manufactory
Tureen with Cover, c. 1787/90
Seated Guanyin, Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Boat-Shaped Dish, c. 1820
Vase with Stylized Flowers and Vines, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
Ewe and Lamb, 1752/54
Bow Porcelain Factory


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Don't Play Through the Pain: Alternative Exercises for Injured People
by Cynthia M. Johnson, MA
En Español (Spanish Version)
No one wants to take a break when they are injured. Time away from your sport or activity means missing something you enjoy along with its health benefits. But you should also not ignore your injuries. Here's how you can stay active and not make your injury worse.
Time to Heal
Most injuries need time to heal, but time can be the hardest thing for an athlete to give.
The key to healing is patience. Going back to sports or activities too soon can make your injury worse. You should only go back to your sport when your doctor, trainer, or physical therapist says it is safe.
There are other activities that will let you rest the injured area while still getting exercise. You just might find a few new ones to love. Here are just a few:
An ankle sprain can cause time out from many sports and activities. You can keep fit by doing things that rely on the upper body, such as rowing.
You can also do strength training exercises like leg curls or leg extensions. Just make sure you do not put stress on your ankle.
Knee injuries can be serious. Trying to keep going when you have one could make it worse or result in lasting damage. Talk to your doctor or trainer to find out if cycling or riding a recumbent bike will make your injury worse. If not, these might be good activities, because they take the weight off your legs. If your knee injury is more serious, think about jumping into the pool for a workout.
Trying to play through a pulled muscle or tendon is tempting. You may not feel the injury as much when your muscles warm up. It is better to take a break.
Hamstring injuries are very common, often because of fast starting, stopping, or a change of direction. If you pull a muscle, you need to let it rest. Follow RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) to ease symptoms.
One way to work up a sweat using only upper body muscles is to toss around a medicine ball with a partner. Toss it back and forth for 20 or 30 minutes without running around. You will workout using your abs and shoulder muscles.
An aching Achilles tendinopathy has caused problems for many athletes. So, if you feel pain, do not ignore it. Take a break from all sports that make it worse, such as running or activities that involve running. Using a rowing machine is a good way to stay fit while resting your Achilles tendon. You may be able to use an elliptical trainer as well.
Players of racquet sports know about elbow pain. If tennis elbow starts to get in the way of your sport, take time off to let the injury heal. You can keep running and doing interval training, such as adding plenty of short bursts of speed and side-to-side movements to stay in top tennis shape.
Hurting your shoulder can make it hard to do many sports. You do not want to serve, swim, swing, or throw with a shoulder injury. It may even hurt to swing your arms when running.
Do not do any overhead movements or put your arm in a position that causes pain. You can return to your sport when your doctor, trainer, or physical therapist says it is safe. Do as much lower-body weight training as you are able. Try running, cycling, stair climbing, and even rowing.
When You Cannot Run
Running is the basis of many fitness programs. It produces effective cardiovascular results. But it is also an activity that you may need to stop when you have a sports injury. You cannot mimic the effects of running, but you can come close by using a stair climber or elliptical trainer.
Circuit training also helps runners who are taking time off the road. Have 10 or 12 weight machines that you want to use and go through them in a pattern. Do one set on each machine with less weight than you would usually use.
There are many more safe and effective exercises you can do when injured. You may need to try a number of them to find the right one. Working with a physical therapist or personal trainer may help.
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Basic knee injury prevention. American College of Sports Medicine website. Available at: http://forms.acsm.org/tpc/PDFs/35%20Ireland.pdf. Accessed June 23, 2021.
Resistance training and injury prevention. American College of Sports Medicine website. Available at: https://www.acsm.org/docs/default-source/files-for-resource-library/smb-resistance-training-and-injury-prevention.pdf. Accessed June 23, 2021.
What are sports injuries? National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases website. Available at: https://www.niams.nih.gov/health-topics/sports-injuries. Accessed June 23, 2021.
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November 3, 2010 at 7:23 AM (PT)
Condolences to the family and friends of former COX MEDIA GROUP/TULSA Production and Promotions Assistant JEFF BUCKLEY, who passed away on MONDAY morning, NOVEMBER 1st. He was just 43.
JEFF's funeral is set for FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5th at 1p at Moore Funeral Home at 51st and Memorial in TULSA. There is no viewing or graveside service planned.
BUCKLEY leaves behind two young children -- ANNA and MICHAEL. BUCKLEY's wife, SUSAN BUCKLEY, currently works for COX MEDIA GROUP in the traffic and continuity department. In lieu of flowers, a trust fund will be set up for his children.


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Nairobi Commuter Network
Service: Railway Master Plan
Client: Kenya Railways
Period: 2017 – Ongoing
GPO developed the Commuter Rail Master Plan for the Nairobi Metropolitan Region. The project has the objective of carrying out a modernization and expansion of under-utilized railway transport infrastructure facilities within Nairobi in order to attract passenger traffic from the roads and, therefore, reduce congestion and create an efficient and affordable mass rapid transit transport system for the city. It will integrate rail transport with other modes of transport, such as road and air transport.
The new Commuter system will have the capacity to handle 60 million passengers annually, compared to the current 5 million passengers. It will provide modern stations, a renovated rolling stock fleet, upgraded tracks and signaling systems. Trains will have higher speed, safety, comfort and reliability. New stations such as Pipeline, Umoja, Githurai and Donholm will be constructed.


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Q: Dynamic videos on videojs I need to use videojs to show some videos. An usual video declaration looks like this (for 2 videos on this example):
var videos = [
        {
          src : [
            'http://demo.dealerpro.net/Images/Sites/577/videos/HondaHands.mp4'
          ],
          poster : 'http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r217/Carnifreekshow/Asus%20Orion%20Repair/before_zps12ce48a2.jpg',
          title : 'Honda. The Power of Dreams.'
        },
        {
          src : [
            'http://1eb9cddbb30a65a675d4-91fe7d858d3e9c59dcdfd3e789416fbc.r56.cf1.rackcdn.com/Sites/577/commercial.mp4'
          ],
          poster : 'http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r217/Carnifreekshow/Asus%20Orion%20Repair/before_zps12ce48a2.jpg',
          title : 'Thanks for Making Us #1'
        }
      ];

I have the src, poster and title information of some videos on another array, and I need to declare it dynamically depending on some filters. I need to do something like this:
            for (var index = 0;index<totalVideos;index++)
            {
                var videos = [
                {
                    src : [
                        sourceArray[index]
                    ],
                    poster : posterArray[index],
                    title : titleArray[index]
                }

                ];
            }

But this is not working, anyone know how can I declare videos dynamically to be used on videojs?

A: I managed to resolve it, below is my solution:
    var totalVideos = 3;//put the ammount of videos you want to dynamically add

    /*You need to fill this arrays with the information of your videos*/
    var arrayTitles = new Array(totalVideos);
    var arraySources = new Array(totalVideos);
    var arrayPosters = new Array(totalVideos);

    var videos = new Array(totalVideos);
    for (var index = 0;index<totalVideos;index++)
    {
      var theVideo = {
        src: [
          arraySources[index]
        ],
        poster: arrayPosters[index],
        title: arrayTitles[index]
      };
      videos[index] = theVideo;
    }

After this you can start working with the videos variable with videojs. In my case I'm doing a filter, so when you select an option you just see the videos that were selected on the filter.

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2016 JAMES WHITE AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCED
Congratulations to this year's winner of the James White Award:
David Cleden
for the story
"Rock, Paper, Incisors"
David will receive £200 and his story will be published in a forthcoming issue of Interzone, the UK's leading science fiction magazine. The winner was announced at the BSFA Award Ceremony held tonight at Mancunicon.
Commiserations to the shortlisted finalists:
Trina Marie Phillips – Deadly Dance
Jason Kimble – If Only Kissing Made It So
Morgan Parks – Let the Bells Ring Out
Matt Dove – (Perhaps The Answer Is) That We Question At All
Jon Lasser – Wreckwalkers
And thank you to all the authors who took part in this year's competitions. As noted before, we received a record entry and the competition was close.
Announcing the award, and speaking for fellow judges Ruth EJ Booth and Ian Sales, Neil Williamson said:
"The James White Award was created not just in commemoration, but to celebrate and encourage fresh, exciting voices in genre. So the judges were delighted this year to find such imaginative stories amongst the shortlisted titles. The winning story was not only well-realised, but had a genuine and striking spark of originality that piqued the curiosity of the judges. With its cohesive storytelling and confident execution, David Cleden's "Rock, Paper, Scissors" was a clear winner for the whole panel."
Thank you to our judges, to those who contributed to the work of the award, everyone who has donated this year and to Interzone and the BSFA for their continued support of the award.
The James White Award will open to entries again in June 2016. Keep an eye on this website or our Twitter feed @jameswhiteaward for more details.
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Uncharted Territory
Posted on February 1, 2021 By Judd Lifschitz
Last Monday I was among the lucky ones – I received my first vaccine shot. It was not an easy task to find a location dispensing the vaccine shots and to get an appointment. I was lucky.
Though the United States governments (federal, state and local) have had ten months to prepare for the vaccination of the public and while science miraculously performed the "impossible" during those same ten months and produced multiple effective vaccinations, our governmental apparatuses have utterly failed to construct effective information and delivery systems critical to the vaccination of the public and defeating Covid-19. As a result, I fear that many who are unable to navigate the utterly confusing, inefficient, and ineffective "system" (if you can call it a system) will give up and remain unvaccinated. This is especially concerning at a time when more infectious mutants of the Covid-19 virus are spreading throughout the world.
The following article from today's Washington Post demonstrates the dire situation.
Vaccine rollout gets 'below an F' grade
By Robert McCartney
Canceled appointments. Insufficient doses. Contradictory eligibility rules. Infuriating websites.
Multiple mishaps have mangled the region's rollout of vaccine doses that an exhausted citizenry expects will end the pandemic. The problems, also evident nationwide, add to the list of failures that the world's richest country has compiled in a year of battling the coronavirus.
"If I were a teacher, I'd give [the effort] whatever is the grade below an F," said Kavita Patel, a physician at Mary's Center in Prince George's County and a former White House policy director in the Obama administration.
Much of the fault for the debacle lies with the Trump administration, which once again dumped responsibility onto state and local authorities for a national task that a centralized system would have handled better.AD
"I was surprised that the federal Operation Warp Speed of the previous administration did not include plans for the last 12 inches of the vaccine effort — getting doses into arms, arguably the hardest logistical path in the process," said Michael P. McDermott, president of Mary Washington Healthcare in Fredericksburg, Va.
Coronavirus vaccination appointments canceled in D.C. region as health officials confront scarce supply.
But our state and local authorities also share the blame. Despite months of advance notice that vaccines were coming, they failed to manage public expectations about how long it would take to procure the vials of vaccine to administer.
They also did not build user-friendly IT systems so people could easily schedule appointments.
They changed eligibility requirements in the middle of the process, partly under Trump officials' prodding.
The result is that political and bureaucratic snags have dimmed the glow, for now, of the historic scientific achievement of developing vaccines in record time to protect against a new and deadly disease.
The problems are typical of others that have bedeviled the U.S. coronavirus response and led many abroad to experience a novel feeling about the country they once admired: pity.
In the spring and summer, we had similar delays and difficulties in launching testing and contact-tracing programs. Although the Washington area has done better overall than much of the country, the shortcomings reflect decades of underinvestment in public health.
What to know about the coronavirus vaccine rollout in D.C., Maryland and Virginia.
"There has been no centralized, well-considered plan," said J. Stephen Jones, president of the Inova hospital system in Northern Virginia. "It's clear evidence that we have chosen as a nation to forgo public health, and we are paying the price today."
All three of the region's top leaders — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) — did damage control at news conferences last week.
They pleaded with the public to show patience, saying they couldn't do much until the federal government sped up its delivery of vaccine doses to them.
Hogan: "The plain truth is that for at least the near future, the demand for vaccines will continue to far exceed the supply that will be available to us."
Northam: "The biggest challenge that we have . . . is the supply."
Bowser: "We will continue to have less vaccine than we need."
All true, but questions remain. Why didn't they warn the public ahead of time of how long it was going to take to get vaccinated? Why did they widen eligibility without having enough vaccine and, thus, give false hope to hundreds of thousands of people who weren't at the front of the line to get shots?
"Expectations were never managed well," said J.B. Holston, chief executive of the Greater Washington Partnership. "The public clearly was led to believe that once vaccines were available, it would be really clear who they were available for and how to sign up. That didn't happen."
Most nursing home workers don't want the vaccine. Here's what facilities are doing about it.
Authorities expanded eligibility before they were sure of procuring enough vaccine doses to meet demand, partly because the Trump administration, in its waning days, urged states to include the elderly in addition to top-priority groups such as front-line health-care workers.
"This was a parting shot of the Trump administration," said Marcus Plescia, chief medical officer of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. "Governors started to feel pressure [to expand eligibility]. What our members found was, once the governors are feeling pressure, there's not much you can do. There's reason and science, and then there's politics, and you've got to respond to all of them."
The eligibility rules were especially chaotic in suburban Maryland. In Montgomery County, people 65 and older are able to get vaccinated at the county's hospitals and pharmacies, where state rules apply. But the cutoff is 75 and older at the county's health department facilities because Montgomery wants to be sure the most vulnerable population is vaccinated first.
In a liberal suburb, latest pandemic challenge is distributing vaccine equitably
At a facility in Prince George's County, where state guidelines allowed for any Maryland resident to sign up, large numbers from outside the county did so. That led County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) to cancel nonresidents' appointments, to ensure that her own constituents got first crack.
In Northern Virginia, Inova canceled thousands of vaccine appointments last week when the stateabruptly changed its distribution method and cut its delivery of doses to Inova from 19,500 in one week to zero the next.
For many residents, the biggest frustration has been spending hours at the computer trying to schedule appointments on unwieldy websites that weren't designed to account for different priority groups and other features of the coronavirus vaccination process. It is necessary in many cases to seek appointments on a hodgepodge of websites, such as those for the state, county, individual hospitals and pharmacies.
Northam said Virginia will develop a statewide system for people to schedule appointments. Earl Stoddard, Montgomery's emergency management director, said he hoped Maryland would do the same.
Again, that's a need that should have been anticipated.
West Virginia, which has one of the nation's best records so far in getting shots into arms, has drawn praise for, among other things, using a single, transparent website for scheduling appointments. As we continue flailing, perhaps we need to rethink all those jokes about how our mountainous neighbor is supposedly so backward.
We need to do better. Lives are at stake.
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The Coronavirus pandemic; uncharted territory for mankind. We are all caught in the midst of this storm. A world of unknowns. What, When, If, How… the questions we ask ourselves again and again as we search for a matrix within which to understand, to gauge,to plan and to predict what tomorrow, next week, next month will bring. One thing is certain – we are in uncharted territory for all of mankind.
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jUST WHEN YOU THINK ITS OVER….
a step forward
a Child's lesson
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Leading Health & Safety at work
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The Health & Safety Executive HSE has just released new guidance notes. This guidance sets out an agenda for the effective leadership of health and safety. It is designed for use by all directors, governors, trustees, officers and their equivalents in the private, public and third sectors. It applies to organisations of all sizes
So I thought that this week I would introduce you to this guidance as The Wilkins Safety Group support the HSE in their bid to help you find the best ways to lead and promote health and safety in your business.
We also have our regular glimpse at a couple of the latest HSE court cases in the hope that they make you look at your business and consider what you can
do to improve the safety there.
This week's 2 recent HSE case look at:
The company's failings in this case has put many workers at risk to the exposure of asbestos
The fall inflicted serious injuries on the man, including bleeding on the brain, a fractured spleen and fractured ribs.
Leading Health & Safety at work.
Protecting the health and safety of employees or members of the public who may be affected by your activities is an essential part of risk management and must be led by the board.
Failure to include health and safety as a key business risk in board decisions can have catastrophic results. Many high-profile safety cases over the years have been rooted in failures of leadership.
Health and safety law places duties on organisations and employers, and directors can be personally liable when these duties are breached: members of the board have both collective and individual responsibility for health and safety.
By following this guidance, you will help your organisation find the best ways to lead and promote health and safety, and therefore meet its legal obligations.
The starting points are the following essential principles. These principles are intendedto underpin the actions in this guidance and so lead to good health and safety performance.
Essential principles
Strong and active leadership from the top:
visible, active commitment from the board;
establishing effective 'downward' communication systems and management structures;
integration of good health and safety management with business decisions.
Worker involvement:
engaging the workforce in the promotion and achievement of safe and healthy conditions;
effective 'upward' communication;
providing high-quality training.
Assessment and review:
identifying and managing health and safety risks;
accessing (and following) competent advice;
monitoring, reporting and reviewing performance
Benefits of good health and safety
Addressing health and safety should not be seen as a regulatory burden: it offers significant opportunities. Benefits can include:
reduced costs and reduced risks – employee absence and turnover rates arelower, accidents are fewer, the threat of legal action is lessened;
improved standing among suppliers and partners;
a better reputation for corporate responsibility among investors, customers and communities;
increased productivity – employees are healthier, happier and better motivated.
Costs of poor health and safety at work
HSE statistics reveal the human and financial cost of failing to address health and safety. Each year:
Millions of working days are lost due to work-related illness and injury.
Thousands of people die from occupational diseases.
Around a million workers self-report suffering from a work-related illness.
Several hundred thousand workers are injured at work.
A worker is fatally injured almost every working day.
Organisations can incur further costs – such as uninsured losses and loss of reputation.
Legal responsibilities of employers
Health and safety law states that employers must:
assess risks to employees, customers, partners and any other people who could be affected by their activities;
arrange for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of preventive and protective measures;
have a written health and safety policy if they have five or more employees;
ensure they have access to competent health and safety advice;
consult employees about their risks at work and current preventive and protective measures.
Failure to comply with these requirements can have serious consequences – for both organisations and individuals. Sanctions include fines, imprisonment and disqualification.
Under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, an offence will be committed where failings by an organisation's senior management are a substantial element in any gross breach of the duty of care owed to the organisation's employees or members of the public, which results in death.
The maximum penalty is an unlimited fine and the court can additionally make a publicity order requiring the organisation to publish details of its conviction and fine.
Plan – Do – Check – Act
Step 1 – Plan
The board should set the direction for effective health and safety
management. Board members need to establish a health and safety policy that is much more than a document – it should be an integral part of your organisation's culture, of its values and performance standards.
All board members should take the lead in ensuring the communication of health and safety duties and benefits throughout the organisation. Executive directors must develop policies to avoid health and safety problems and must respond quickly where difficulties arise or new risks are introduced; non-executives must make sure that health and safety is properly addressed.
Core actions
To agree a policy, boards will need to ensure they are aware of the significant risks faced by their organisation.
The policy should set out the board's own role and that of individual board members in leading the health and safety of its organisation. It should require the board to:
'own' and understand the key issues involved;
decide how best to communicate, promote and champion health and safety.
The health and safety policy is a 'living' document and it should evolve over time, e.g. in the light of major organisational changes such as restructuring or a significant acquisition.
How it can be done
Health and safety should appear regularly on the agenda for board meetings.
The chief executive can give the clearest visibility of leadership, but some boards find it useful to name one of their number as the health and safety 'champion'.
The presence on the board of a health and safety director can be a strong signal that the issue is being taken seriously and that its strategic importance is understood
Setting targets helps define what the board is seeking to achieve.
A non-executive director can act as a scrutineer – ensuring the processes to support boards facing significant health and safety risks are robust.
For many organisations, health and safety is a corporate governance issue. The board should integrate health and safety into the main governance structures, including board sub-committees, such as risk, remuneration and audit.
The Turnbull guidance on the Combined Code on Corporate Governance requires listed companies to have robust systems of internal control, covering not just 'narrow' financial risks but also risks relating to the environment, business reputation and health and safety.
Step 2 – Do
Delivery depends on an effective management system to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health and safety of employees, customers and members of the public.
Organisations should aim to protect people by introducing management systems and practices that ensure risks are dealt with sensibly, responsibly and proportionately.
To take responsibility and 'ownership' of health and safety, members of the board must ensure that:
health and safety arrangements are adequately resourced;
they obtain competent health and safety advice;
risk assessments are carried out;
employees or their representatives are involved in decisions that affect their health and safety.
The board should consider the health and safety implications of introducing new processes, new working practices or new personnel, dedicating adequate resources to the task and seeking advice where necessary.
Boardroom decisions must be made in the context of the organisation's health and safety policy; it is important to 'design-in' health and safety when implementing change.
Leadership is more effective if visible board members can reinforce health and safety policy by being seen on the 'shop floor', following all safety measures themselves and addressing any breaches immediately.
Consider health and safety when deciding senior management appointments.
Having procurement standards for goods, equipment and services can help prevent the introduction of expensive health and safety hazards.
The health and safety arrangements of partners, key suppliers and contractors should be assessed; their performance could adversely affect yours.
Setting up a separate risk management or health and safety committee as a subset of the board, chaired by a senior executive, can make sure the key issues are addressed and guard against time and effort being wasted on trivial risks and unnecessary bureaucracy.
Providing health and safety training to some or all of the board can promote understanding and knowledge of the key issues in your organisation.
Supporting worker involvement in health and safety can improve participation and help prove your commitment.
Step 3 – Check
Monitoring and reporting are vital parts of a health and safety culture. Management systems must allow the board to receive both specific (e.g. incident-led) and routine reports on the performance of health and safety
Much day-to-day health and safety information need be reported only at the time of a formal review. But only a strong system of monitoring can ensure that the formal review can proceed as planned – and that relevant events in the interim are brought to the board's attention.
The board should ensure that:
appropriate weight is given to reporting both preventive information (such as progress of training and maintenance programmes) and incident data (such as accident and sickness absence rates);
periodic audits of the effectiveness of management structures and risk controls for health and safety are carried out;
the impact of changes such as the introduction of new procedures, work processes or products, or any major health and safety failure, is reported as soon as possible to the board;
there are procedures to implement new and changed legal requirements and to consider other external developments and events.
Effective monitoring of sickness absence and workplace health can alert the board to underlying problems that could seriously damage performance or result in accidents and long-term illness.
The collection of workplace health and safety data can allow the board to benchmark the organisation's performance against others in its sector.
Appraisals of senior managers can include an assessment of their contribution to health and safety performance.
Boards can receive regular reports on the health and safety performance and actions of contractors.
Some organisations have found they win greater support for health and safety by involving workers in monitoring.
Step 4 – Act
A formal boardroom review of health and safety performance is essential. It allows the board to establish whether the essential health and safety principles – strong and active leadership, worker involvement, and assessment and review – have been embedded in the organisation. It tells you whether your system is effective in managing risk and protecting people.
The board should review health and safety performance at least once a year. The review process should:
examine whether the health and safety policy reflects the organisation's current priorities, plans and targets;
examine whether risk management and other health and safety systems have been effectively reporting to the board;
report health and safety shortcomings, and the effect of all relevant board and management decisions;
decide actions to address any weaknesses and a system to monitor their implementation;
consider immediate reviews in the light of major shortcomings or events.
Performance on health and safety and wellbeing is increasingly being recorded in organisations' annual reports to investors and stakeholders.
Board members can make extra 'shop floor' visits to gather information for the formal review.
Good health and safety performance can be celebrated at central and local level
When leadership falls short
When board members do not lead effectively on health and safety management the consequences can be severe. These next examples mark issues for all boards to consider.
Competent advice, training and supervision
Following the fatal injury of an employee maintaining machinery at a recycling firm employing approximately 30 people, a company director received a 12-month custodial sentence for manslaughter. The machinery was not properly isolated and started up unexpectedly.
An HSE and police investigation revealed there was no safe system of work for maintenance, instruction, training and supervision were inadequate.
HSE's investigating principal inspector said: 'Evidence showed that the director chose not to follow the advice of his health and safety advisor and instead adopted a complacent attitude, allowing the standards in his business to fall.'
The managing director of a manufacturing company with around 100 workers was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment for manslaughter following the death of an employee who became caught in unguarded machinery.
The investigation revealed that, had the company adequately maintained guarding around a conveyor, the death would have been avoided. The judge made clear that whether the managing director was aware of the situation was not the issue; he should have known as this was a long-standing problem. An area manager also received a custodial sentence. The company received a substantial fine and had to pay the prosecution's costs.
A company and its officers were fined a total of £245 000 and ordered to pay costs of £75 500 at Crown Court in relation to the removal of asbestos. The company employed ten, mostly young, temporary workers; they were not trained or equipped to safely remove the asbestos, nor warned of its risk. The directors were also disqualified from holding any company directorship for two years and one year respectively.
Legal liability of individual board members for health and safety failures
If a health and safety offence is committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the organisation, then that person (as well as the organisation) can be prosecuted under section 37 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
Recent case law has confirmed that directors cannot avoid a charge of neglect under section 37 by arranging their organisation's business so as to leave them ignorant of circumstances which would trigger their obligation to address health and safety breaches.
Those found guilty are liable for fines and imprisonment. In addition, the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986, section 2(1), empowers the court to disqualify an individual convicted of an offence in connection with the management of a company. This includes health and safety offences. This power is exercised at the discretion of the court; it requires no additional investigation or evidence.
Individual directors are also potentially liable for other related offences, such as the common law offence of gross negligence manslaughter. Under the common law, gross negligence manslaughter is proved when individual
officers of a company (directors or business owners) cause death by their own grossly negligent behaviour. This offence is punishable by an unlimited fine and a maximum of life imprisonment.
This is just a summary of the guidance given by the HSE. For a full copy of their leaflet it is available at www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg417.htm.
Is there any subject you would like covered in this newsletter? Please contact us by phone 01458 253682, email or via our Facebook page or by Twitter and let us know
Taunton & Somerset CPD Group at The Lawns Taunton
Due to a clerical error last week, subscribers to this newsletter received an email aimed solely at the Taunton & Somerset CPD Group. We apologise if this caused any misunderstanding.
However, these CPD seminars are open to everybody and, should you wish to be included on all future TSCPD emails please let Martin Kent know, see below.
Well Martin Kent our Customer Relations Manager has taken on the challenge. Initially we aim to run monthly meetings hopefully then becoming fortnightly or even weekly as before, So Martin is looking for any speakers that may be interested in giving a 40 minute talk on a Wednesday Lunchtime. Please contact him.
The second of these new seminars is on Wednesday 24th May at 12-30pm at The Lawns Taunton.
We have a Speaker from the Thorn Lighting, and he will be giving a presentation about the recent changes to LG7 which we hope will be of high value to your business.
If you haven't already booked your place, or if you are not on the CPD Seminar mailing list but would like to be please drop Martin an email and he will deal with your request.
We are pleased to announce that we are in the process of being appointed as a British Safety Council approved Training Centre.
This will allow us to run Ofqual accredited qualifications. These Qualifications sit on the Regulated Qualifications Framework and include such courses as:
the CSCS Green Card which was developed in partnership with the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) for people wishing to apply for a CSCS card.
Level 2 & 3 Supervising Staff Safely mixed with Risk Assessment which is comparable to IOSH Managing Safely
There are more courses to follow in May and June – See below.
We are also looking to run some short Health and Safety awareness sessions to emphasise the need for improving your H&S procedures.
Also remember we are still available for running "In House" courses and are looking to add new training courses to our list.
See full list of upcoming courses


Jabril "SDJ Malik" the Drum Ninja joins Dan to talk about how he developed his drum line chops, applying these types of chops to the drum kit, how he has made a living with it into his mid-20's and more!
Jabril shows a handy warm-up and also demonstrates a crazy routine with stick tricks for Dan to try and emulate and … well, you can guess what happened!
Watch the interview, and then visit Jabril's website or social media channels!


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Posts tagged 'British Museum'
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum
The stories of Pompeii and Herculaneum are renowned throughout the world. The very mention of their names is synonymous, not with the towns standing on their site today (Ercolano, in the case of the latter), but with the catastrophic volcanic eruption from Mount Vesuvius in Southern Italy which totally obliterated these small Roman cities on 24 August, AD 79. It is an eruption which has gone down in tectonic history as one of the most devastating eruptions in the last two millennia, an event whose very details were captured in the contemporary writings of Pliny the Younger, as well as in the rich geological history which the layers of ash and pumice which spouted out of the volcano can now provide. However, perhaps the greatest irony of this eruption was that in causing the total destruction and devastation of two Roman cities, and then blanketing the burnt urban carcass in several metres of dense ash and pumice, the eruption had the converse effect of actually preserving, sometimes perfectly, a imprint of Roman urban life, providing one of the largest ever discovered archaeological hauls of Roman remains so rich and diverse in its breadth that it provides 21st century audiences with a truly unique insight into societal life some 2,000 years ago.
Pompeii today
It is this rich collection of excavated artefacts around which the British Museum's latest blockbuster exhibition, Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum, is centred, a singularly unique exhibition and a first of its kind, because so many of the pieces on show have never been seen outside of Italy before. The exhibition results from the direct collaboration between the British Museum and the Archaeological Superintendancy of Naples and Pompeii, and consequently some absolute gems of Pompeian and Herculenean society are now in London for the first time.
Concentrating on the daily lives of the Romans living in these doomed cities, the exhibition is cleverly curated so that the various items on display are grouped thematically into the rooms of a "house" in which they would have been found. In meeting this objective, the layout of the show is based on a reconstructed idea of what a real Pompeian house (the so called "House of the tragic poet") would have looked like. Consequently, after a large cinematic presentation which provides a well-animated introduction to the show, you start off in what would have been a Roman street, where various paraphernalia of trading life can be seen. Then, heading inside, you enter the atrium, the hall way of a Roman house which would have been flooded with light owing to the skylight which plunged through the centre of most Roman atriums. In this room, the objects on show included some stunning marble statues with barely a chip or scratch in sight, mosaics which would have lined the hallway floor reminding visitors to "Beware of the Dog", and frescoes depicting the possible Roman occupants of the houses – here what is thought to be the baker Terentius Neo and his wife.
To the right of the atrium, a gallery set out as the bedroom included some quite incredibly preserved Roman wooden furniture, including a rocking baby crib and a stool, as well as an elaborately carved bed stead (all now heavily carbonated). Meanwhile to the left, what would have been the salon area for entertaining included an explanation of what has since become known as the "Pompeian style" of interior design, which comprises exquisitely detailed mosaic flooring, and walls painted with highly realistic and often stylised frescoes in four principal styles, all sharing common themes of richly elaborate pattern together with boxes showing pastiches and scenes from life or mythology, as well as the use of deep colours, generally rich reds and golds and blues. I was completely awestruck at just how sophisticated Roman art was – the shadows and tone of human skin as painted on these frescoes rivals anything done in the renaissance, and makes the art of the medieval era, which of course came along hundreds of years after the Roman empire fell, look completely childish and naïve. As for the mosaics, some of the pieces on show were nothing short of astounding, not least a mosaic depicting sea creatures, with its incredibly realistic depiction of fish and other ocean creatures of every size and variety – I love the powerful composition with a staring octopus at the centre appearing almost to enter into battle with the lobster.
But perhaps my two favourite rooms of this "house" were the garden area, which came decked with some luscious garden frescoes, and the kitchen, which was packed with some incredibly contemporary looking cooking paraphernalia. I loved the tranquillity of the garden space, and can imagine how beautiful it must have been to stroll around colonnaded walkways, painted with these verdant green frescoes, depicting birds and lush plants, while at the centre a fountain would trickle, a sign of ultimate wealth in its extravagant use of precious water for entertainment.
As for the kitchen, I was astounded to see what had been discovered from Pompeii and Herculaneum – actual figs, ripe on the day of the eruption, now preserved as carbon forms under the ash; and a loaf of bread, still imprinted with the name of the slave who baked it! The utensils too were fascinating to see – what looks like a colander for straining vegetables, but punctured with holes forming their own elaborate pattern into the metal; and there too was a pot ingeniously conceived just for the fattening up on dormice (which would then be roasted and ate dipped in honey).
Colander detail
Carbonated bread
But after this fascinating stroll through Roman life, the inevitable ending to the story follows suit, like the inescapable tide of history washing over Roman life like the pyroclastic surge catapulted down the volcano, wiping out city life in seconds. The "death" part of the exhibition is as poignant as the "life" section is revealing. Particularly startling are the plaster casts of the dead, found in Pompeii. These casts were made from filling in the gap left in the hardened ash once the bodies underneath rotted away. What we had before us then wasn't an actual body, but a shadow of one; a poignant and again unique insight into the death of these now faceless humans, cowering away from the extreme heat at that moment of their instant death. Who could not be saddened by the sight of a whole plaster cast family, with the baby still shown laden in its blanket. And don't forget the dog – that poor animal met his fate in the same way too. Incredibly and moving stuff, that brings us face to face with the tragedy that was Pompeii and Herculaneum, AD 79.
This exhibition is a must see for anyone living in London or soon to visit. On until 29 September 2013, it still has a fair stretch to go, but be not complacent – it's extremely popular and advance booking is essential. You can get your ticket on the British Museum website. Unless you're heading Italy-way anytime soon, this exhibition comes highly recommended as a unique insight into a civilisation now dead, but not lost.
Grayson Perry: Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman
Pilgrimage to the British Museum. Ink and graphite, 2011 © Grayson Perry
There is not praise enough for this superb, unusual and highly original exhibition which is currently being held at the British Museum in London. Combining works from the British Museum's collection of ancient and historical importance, with the hyper-contemporary artistic musings of infamous cross-dressing artist, Grayson Perry, the British Museum has put on a show which departs radically from its mainstay shows of ancient China, ancient Lebanon, ancient Iran and so on. This utterly inventive exhibition is not only a refreshing change for the British Museum, but also for British contemporary art. For through Grayson Perry we have an artist who does not speak his mind for the sake of being controversial, but who, as a philosopher of our times, makes objective, shrewd and rational observations about the madness of today's society. And he does so not in a way that is patronising or judgmental, but through works which are accessible, original and imbued with a sophisticated yet unpretentious sense of humour. And thus, amidst the requisite hushed silence of a London gallery, giggles, chuckles and sometimes outright guffaws broke through the air as the attendees of the exhibition relished in the exquisitely imaginative creations of Perry's show.
Grayson Perry's teddy, Alan Measles
So what is the exhibition all about? Well, it basically gives Grayson Perry free reign to indulge in the unhindered realms of his imagination. Perry's show thus takes the audience on a "pilgrimage" into his imaginary world, a world which revolves around his childhood teddy bear, Alan Measles, as the central protagonist. As the "god" of this imagined reality, the little teddy bear is expressed in a variety of religious personae, from temple keeper to the enshrined teddy as Perry explores themes connected with notions of craftsmanship in faith and sacred journeys – from shamanism, magic and holy relics to motorbikes, identity and contemporary culture. In fact, Perry and his teddy went on their own pilgrimage as a precursor to the exhibition, taking a trip on a wonderful decorated motorbike, complete with it's own attached temple for Teddy, to Germany, the country which, in Perry's youthful fantasies, Alan Measles had been at war with, the brave warrior in his turbulent childhood imagination. As the pilgrimage is transposed from physical journey to metaphorical odyssey through the carefully curated exhibition, we are taken through a winding gallery space, fit to bursting with a tempting display of rich glossy potteries and gems of the British Museum collection, extravagant Perry designed tapestries and plentiful shrines to Alan Measles. At its completion, the pilgrim trail concludes at the foot of a richly decorated cast-iron ship, a memorial to all the anonymous individuals that over the centuries have fashioned the handmade wonders of the world.
London's homage to print: Part 2 – David Hockney Printmaker
My travel sketchbook: Canal View, Venice


Nearly 31 years ago, the Big Island of Hawaii changed entirely. The Pu'u O'o Vent, now a significant part of the complex plumbing system that defines the Kilauea Volcano, was born under fire on the evening of January 3, 1983. The flows that followed violently forced their way to the surface in a long and dramatic series of eruptions that have been nearly continuous to this very day. As the lava began to travel toward its ultimate end and a spectacular confluence the great Pacific Ocean, it surely would not go quietly into that distant night. Within the next eight years both the town of Kalapana, a classic island community and historic fishing village, along with the world-renowned black sand beach of Kaimu, would be among its greatest casualties. Indeed, Kilauea does not negotiate. She takes no prisoners.
Today, the city of Pahoa is facing a similar fate as lava flows from the same vent—and ironically the same eruption—have all but sealed the fate of tens of thousands of residents not only in the city of Pahoa, but the District of Puna as a whole. Locals are now beginning their final preparations for evacuation as the flow front entered the outskirts of Pahoa early this morning and evacuations have begun. Over the next few weeks keep those in mind who are bidding adieu to their homes, their property, and their entire way of life. Pray, my friends, for Puna.
Tonight, let us all raise our glasses to the Big Island of Hawaii and to the late and great city of Pahoa. To locals and strangers alike who have walked the streets of this funky little island town, and to those of us who call this dynamic and often scary island home. And even to those who have never been. It does not take a local to know that Hawaii is one of the most amazing places in the world. Paradise, however, comes with consequences.
Tonight, let us all drink to the mysterious and mystical land known as Puna. To the hippies and Hawaiians, to the haoles and the tourists, and all the other crazy and beautiful individuals that have fallen in love with this equally maddening landscape. From Poihiki to Kapoho and Ahalanui to Lava Tree, down to the banks of Kaimu and up the flanks of Kilauea herself. Let us remember the late nights at Uncle Robert's or timeless days spent upon the sun-drenched shores of Kahena. Let us drink tonight not only to the loss of one of the greatest of highways, but more importantly to the memories made and the good times time had along it.
The Hawaiians never say goodbye. Instead, they say A Hui Hou, so long for now. Until we meet again.


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T. Ditchi, E. Géron, J. Lucas, Y. Oussar
In the microwave range, we have developed an adaptive antennae for DECT telecommunications (see Figure 1). The advantage of using adaptive antennas is to deliver energy only where necessary then increasing the range or to avoid perturbation sources then improving the transmission efficiency. The system novelty consists in the algorithm used to calculate gains and phases required at each antennae from a goal obtained by an automatic estimation of the user position and needs through the DECT traffic.
Fig 1 : (a) Complete adaptive antennae system. (b) Obtained results for two users, one at 85° and the other at 115°.
We have gradually focused on the study of meta-materials for radio-communication applications . Meta-material are microstructure materials that have negative permeability and/or permittivity then exhibiting interesting characteristics such as forbidden propagation bands or phase propagation opposite to energy propagation. In the case of high frequency couplers for instance, conventional systems are made of two parallel lines of given length, the coupling factor directly depending on the gap between the lines and the operating bandwidth on the line length. We have shown that a structure made of one right-handed material line near a line made of consecutive right-handed and left-handed material cells, yields to a better coupling for a given gap which also depends on the number of cells as shown in Figure 2a. It has thus brought us to imagine and realize an electronically controlled coupler by PIN diodes which behaviour is presented in Figure 2b.
Fig 2 : (a) Measured coupling factor and transmission factor as a function of the number of cells at 2.45 GHz. (b) Coupling factor as a function of frequency when the PIN diode connected between cells 2 and 3 is commuted. The coupler factor goes from -4 dB to -8 dB in the bandwidth, around 2.45 GHz.
For obtaining such results, it has been necessary to well understand to propagation of electromagnetic waves in complex linear meta-materials. For that purpose we have developed mathematical tools for recovering the signal phase when it is unreachable by conventional instruments, especially in forbidden bands. Though Kramers-Kronig relations connects real and imaginary parts of a causal signal, we have preferred to work on an adaptation to amplitude and phase of such relations since it is more appropriate for propagation phenomena. As a result, Figure 3a presents a comparison between calculated and measured phases of a meta-material line. In the forbidden band the measurement shows erratic results whereas in the allowed band both calculation and measurement are in agreement. That also makes it possible to recover phase when only power measurements are possible as illustrated in Figure 3b.
Fig 3 : (a) Comparison between measurement and calculation. The measurement apparatus delivers erratic results below 1 GHz corresponding to a forbidden band. (b) Amplitude and phase comparison between a network and spectrum analyzers. The phase of the spectrum analyzer has been reconstructed from calculations.
We have also worked on various sensors using microwaves through OMICAGE ANR project and a topic that has began with the ARCOS project.
The aim of the first project was to measure the water content in wood-chips during the shredding. It has to be said that wood-chips are one of the best renewable energy source since they require only 3% of energy input and the potential production in France can be as high as 10% of all the energy needs. But water content has to be measured for the development of the wood-chip industry. Figure 4a presents our results for the OMICAGE ANR project, one of the first realization of that kind.
During the ARCOS project, we had developed an efficient cooperative system for determining a vehicle position on the road in order to limit the number of run-off-road accidents which leads to almost 30% of fatalities in France. However the system had some problems for practical industrialization, then we have continued to work on the subject to workaround those problems. Figure 4b shows some preliminary results. A patent application is currently under consideration.
Fig 4 : (a) Estimation of the water content in wood-chips during the shredding. The estimation error is only 5% for 4-s measurement. In the inset, a photography of our system into action in real conditions. (b) Estimation of a vehicle position by a cooperative approach to prevent run-off-road accidents. The estimation error is about 2 cm, a sufficient accuracy for real time position control and correction.


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Q: Form submission works on windows dev machine but not linux production server So i have a bit of a complex generated form happening which works fine on my windows xampp server but the dropdown field value is not retrieved after submission on my linux production server - any ideas why??
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    if($dropdown) {
        $f->addField('Dropdown',$dropdown['value'],$dropdown['label'])
            ->setModel($dropdown['model']);

    }

    // Button
    $b=$f->add('Button')->setLabel($label);

    if($dropdown) {
        $b->js('click', $f->js()->atk4_form('submitForm'));
    }
    else {
        $b->js('click')->univ()
            ->newWindow($this->api->getDestinationURL(
                                './details',
                                array('model'=>$model,'type'=>$type)
                                )
                        )
                        ->execute();
    }

    $block->add('HR');

if($f->isSubmitted()){
    $f->js()->univ()
            ->newWindow($this->api->getDestinationURL(
                                './details',
                                array(
                                        'model'=>$model,
                                        'type'=>$type,
                                        'field'=>'home_'.$dayShort,
                                        'value'=>$f->get($dropdown['value'])
                                        )
                                )
                        )
                        ->execute();

    }

}

the part that does work in windows but not linux is 'value'=>$f->get($dropdown['value']) near the end
any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks
Greg

A: When whatever thing works in Windows and don't work in Linux first thing to check out is upper / lower case letters in classnames and filenames.
In this particular case I guess your mistake is because you have addField('Dropdown'), but should have addField('DropDown') with uppercase D in "down".


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Pig in a scuba suit! I know she's licensed, damnit!
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Spring semester registration at the University of Delaware starts this week. And because I love doing scheduling and planning I could not wait to open up that spreadsheet I made Freshman year that detailed my coursework for all 4 years of college and see how on track I was.
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I really don't like that some of the University's policies prevent students from taking classes outside of their discipline. I want to take these classes because I believe they will be a benefit as someone who wants to run her own society improving start up one day. I'm not a school to earn a grade, I'm here to learn something that I can use later on in life. Why must a student jump through hoops to be able to expand their knowledge to include other topics?
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With that being said, I chose Introduction to Entrepreneurship as my elective for this spring. There's only 20 spots so I hope I can into the class. Fingers crossed!


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At first you might mistake the Wild Angelica for Goutweed, as the leaves are very similar, but there are several differences.
At the top of each seed-vessel there are two long, thin bristles which bend over, very much like those in the Goutweed.
The seeds of the Wild Angelica are quite a different shape from the Goutweed seeds.


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package me.kahlil.graphics;

import static me.kahlil.graphics.CoordinateMapper.convertPixelToCameraSpaceCoordinates;

import me.kahlil.geometry.Ray;
import me.kahlil.geometry.Vector;
import me.kahlil.scene.Camera;
import me.kahlil.scene.Raster;

/**
 * An object which traces a single ray and returns the corresponding color that should be rendered,
 * as defined by the ray tracing algorithm.
 */
abstract class RayTracer {

  private final Camera camera;
  private final Raster raster;

  RayTracer(Raster raster, Camera camera) {
    this.camera = camera;
    this.raster = raster;
  }

  /**
   * Traces the given ray, returning the corresponding color. Note, this is called with a ray that
   * points to the middle of a given pixel during the main ray tracing algorithm.
   */
  abstract RenderingResult traceRay(Ray ray);

  /** Returns the number of rays traced thus far by this particular ray tracer instance. */
  abstract long getNumTraces();

  /** Traces a ray through ith and jth pixel, returning a color for that pixel. */
  final RenderingResult traceRay(int i, int j) {
    Point2D inCameraSpace = convertPixelToCameraSpaceCoordinates(raster, camera, i, j);
    return traceRay(
        new Ray(
            camera.getLocation(),
            new Vector(inCameraSpace.getX(), inCameraSpace.getY(), -1.0)
                .subtract(camera.getLocation())));
  }
}

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