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Q: django combine to query result and perform query on the combined query result on postgres I am trying to accomplish a query to determine the number of checkout and checkin in a day for an attendance that is unique to the employee without duplication of checkin and checkout, and picking the latest to be distinct.
In essence is combine 2 query result, and perform a query on the result.
Its much easier explained below.
I have 2 models:
class Employee(models.Model):
    fullname = models.CharField(max_length=30, blank=False)

class Attendance(models.Model):
    CHECKIN = 1
    CHECKOUT = 2
    ATTENDANCE_TYPE_CHOICES = (
        (CHECKIN, "Check In"),
        (CHECKOUT, "Check Out"),
    )
    employee = models.ForeignKey(Employee)
    activity_type = models.IntegerField(choices = ATTENDANCE_TYPE_CHOICES, default=CHECKIN)
    timestamp = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

And I have this 2 queries to obtain the unique CheckIn and CheckOut of the employee in the attendance.
unique_employee_attendance_checkin_today = Attendance.objects.filter(company=auth_employee.employee.company.id,
                                    activity_type=Attendance.CHECKIN,
                                    timestamp__date = today).order_by(
                                    'employee_id','-timestamp').distinct('employee_id')

unique_employee_attendance_checkout_today = Attendance.objects.filter(company=auth_employee.employee.company.id,
                                    activity_type=Attendance.CHECKOUT,
                                    timestamp__date = today).order_by(
                                    'employee_id','-timestamp').distinct('employee_id')

Assuming I have these records
Employee
{"id":1, "employee":"michael jackson",
"id":2, "fullname":"mariah carey",
"id":3, "fullname":"taylor swift"}

Attendance
{"id":1, "employee": 1,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 09:08",
"id":2, "employee": 2,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 10:13",
"id":3, "employee": 3,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 11:30",
"id":4, "employee": 2,"activity_type": 2, timestamp: "2017-12-05 15:13",
"id":5, "employee": 3,"activity_type": 2, timestamp: "2017-12-05 18:30",
"id":6, "employee": 2,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 19:13",
"id":7, "employee": 1,"activity_type": 2, timestamp: "2017-12-06 08:08"}

unique_employee_attendance_checkin_today - will output this result
{"id":4, "employee": 2,"activity_type": 2, timestamp: "2017-12-05 15:13",
"id":5, "employee": 3,"activity_type": 2, timestamp: "2017-12-05 18:30"}

unique_employee_attendance_checkout_today - will output this result
{"id":1, "employee": 1,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 09:08",
"id":6, "employee": 2,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 19:13"}

*

*Question no.1 is here:

I want to combine these 2 queries
unique_employee_attendance_checkin_today + unique_employee_attendance_checkout_today

and
I want to create a distinct for the employee, it will remove 2 of the records, so the output result will be like this.
{"id":1, "employee": 1,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 09:08",
"id":5, "employee": 3,"activity_type": 2, timestamp: "2017-12-05 18:30"
"id":6, "employee": 2,"activity_type": 1, timestamp: "2017-12-05 19:13"}

*Question no.2 is here:

and then do a query based on the result for activity_type = 1 (CHECKIN) and another for activity_type = 2 (CHECKOUT)
The question is above, which is how can i combine 2 queries result, and perform query on the combine queries based on the above requirements.

A: The combined query (latest attendance per employee/date regardless of type) could just leave the activity_type out completely:
unique_employee_attendance_today = Attendance.objects.filter(
    company=auth_employee.employee.company.id,
    timestamp__date = today).order_by(
        'employee_id','-timestamp'
    ).distinct('employee_id')

Now you can filter checkins out of that set in a nested query like:
Attendance.objects.filter(
    id__in=unique_employee_attendance_today,
    activity_type=Attendance.CHECKIN
)

This will only result in a single database query.

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Q Awards: Take That "bollocks" Idols, while Liam's at the zoo...
by Mike Diver October 31st, 2006
Take That (pictured) picked up a Q Idol Award at the magazine's annual awards bash yesterday, only be be called "bollocks" by fellow winners Arctic Monkeys. Ooooh, someone wash those boys' mouths out!
The Monkeys took home trophies in the Best Album and People's Choice categories. Their singer, Alex Turner, said of the reformed boyband:
"I'm not old enough to know a lot [about] them, but even I know that Take That were bollocks."
Noel Gallagher of Oasis - who won in the vategory of Best Act In The World Today - commented that a member of Take That had asked where his brother Liam was.
"One of Take That just said to me outside, 'Is your kid here?' and I went 'You'd have known about it if he was, mate'."
Whatever could he mean!? Noel later remarked that Liam was at the zoo, attracting the monkeys' attentions. The full list of winners is below.
Best New Act - Corinne Bailey Rae
Best Track - 'Crazy' by Gnarls Barkley
Best Video - 'When You Were Young' by The Killers
Inspiration Award - A-ha
Outstanding Contribution to Music - Smokey Robinson
Groundbreaker Award - Primal Scream
Icon Award - Jeff Lynne
Idol Award - Take That
Outstanding Performance - Faithless
Innovation in Sound - U2's The Edge
Classic Songwriter - Noel Gallagher
Lifetime Achievement Award - Peter Gabriel
Merit Award - Manic Street Preachers
Classic Song - 'Karma Chameleon'
Best Live Act - Muse
Best Album - Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not by Arctic Monkeys
The People's Choice Award - Arctic Monkeys
Best Act In The World Today - Oasis
Legend Award - The Who
The Q Award of Awards - U2

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Q: AppWidgetHost crash android.os.TransactionTooLargeException I'm working on a custom android launcher. After I add some widgets (Samsung gallery, Favourite direct dial), every time I restart the app I obtain a crash. This is the code:
public static final int APPWIDGET_HOST_ID = 128;

    public final class Launcher extends Activity {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        mAppWidgetManager = AppWidgetManager.getInstance(this);
        mAppWidgetHost = new AppWidgetHost(this, APPWIDGET_HOST_ID);
        mAppWidgetHost.startListening(); //Here it crash
        ...
    }
}

This is the error log:
    java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{custom.launcherpro/custom.launcher.launcher.Launcher}: java.lang.RuntimeException: system server dead?
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2305)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2363)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.access$900(ActivityThread.java:161)
    at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1265)
    at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
    at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:157)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5356)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:1265)
    at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:1081)
    at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
 Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: system server dead?
    at android.appwidget.AppWidgetHost.startListening(AppWidgetHost.java:166)
    at custom.launcher.launcher.Launcher.onCreate(Launcher.java:181)
    at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5426)
    at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1105)
    at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2269)
    ... 11 more
 Caused by: android.os.TransactionTooLargeException
    at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Native Method)
    at com.android.internal.appwidget.IAppWidgetService$Stub$Proxy.startListening(IAppWidgetService.java:465)
    at android.appwidget.AppWidgetHost.startListening(AppWidgetHost.java:162)

This happens on android 4.4 (but even on older android version)
What does it mean? How can I prevent it?
Thank you,
Vincenzo

A: See TransactionTooLargeException in the docs. If you look at the source for AppWidgetHost you will find this code mentioned in your trace:
ArrayList<RemoteViews> updatedViews = new ArrayList<RemoteViews>();
// ....
updatedIds = sService.startListening(mCallbacks, mPackageName, mHostId, updatedViews);

In this case the updatedViews is an array of RemoteViews. Those can be quite large if they contain a lot of images. Do you have some widgets with huge images in them or something?


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The content of this blog will be focused on notes from my Xamarin development experience. I'm once more returning to mobile development after a break having developed WPF apps for the last few years.
I was originally in mobile development fairly early on starting out with the Psion/Symbian platform around 2000 before moving onto the Microsoft .Net Compact Framework on PDA's and Embedded systems.
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Giovanni Domenico Paladini (Lucca, 1721 - Lucca, 1772) was an Italian painter.

Biography
He trained under Giovanni Domenico Lombardi. He painted figures, animals, and still-life. He was also an actor in comedies.

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1721 births
1772 deaths
18th-century Italian painters
Italian male painters
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Smartphones have evolved over the last decade, from a simple communication tool to high-quality portable multimedia devices. Long gone are the days of carrying separate devices for music & communication. With this technological evolution comes the need for earbuds that can provide you with a superior quality of sound. Today, let me introduce you to a hidden gem in the earbud industry, the Blue Ever Blue In-Ear 1001 headphones.
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74-3202a. State board of regents; establishment; composition; appointment; terms; qualifications; meetings; compensation and expenses. (a) There is established the state board of regents. The state board of regents shall be composed of nine members appointed by the governor, subject to confirmation by the senate as provided in K.S.A. 75-4315b, and amendments thereto. Except as provided by K.S.A. 46-2601, and amendments thereto, no person appointed to the state board of regents shall exercise any power, duty or function as a member of the state board until confirmed by the senate. Each member shall hold office for a term of four years, except as provided in subsection (b) for the first members appointed to the state board, and until a successor is appointed and confirmed. Terms of members shall expire on June 30. No person shall serve more than two terms of office as a member of the state board, except that this limitation shall not include the first term of office of any person appointed and qualified in accordance with subsection (b)(4).
(b) (1) One member of the state board of regents shall be a resident of each congressional district with the remaining members appointed from among all residents of Kansas, except that no two members shall reside in the same county at the time of appointment. Subsequent redistricting of congressional districts shall not disqualify any member of the state board from service for the remainder of the member's term of office.
(2) At no time shall more than five members of the state board of regents be members of the same political party.
(3) At no time shall any person who is an elected official or an officer or employee of any postsecondary educational institution be a member of the state board of regents.
(4) The first members of the state board of regents established under this section shall be appointed by the governor on or before July 1, 1999. Of such members, three shall have a term of office of four years, three shall have a term of office of three years, and three shall have a term of office of two years.
(c) The members of the state board of regents shall meet and organize annually by electing one member as chairperson, except that the governor shall designate the first chairperson of the state board from among the first members appointed.
(d) Members of the state board of regents attending meetings of the state board, or attending a subcommittee meeting thereof authorized by the state board, shall be paid compensation, subsistence allowances, mileage and other expenses as provided in K.S.A. 75-3212, and amendments thereto, for members of the legislature.
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The International Fascia Research Congress (FRC) was created by a multidisciplinary committee of basic science researchers and practicing health care professionals whose respective fields share a common focus and interest in the human body's soft connective tissue matrix. For the first time, the 2015 Congress also included veterinary aspects of fascia research. An important continuing initiative of the FRC is to foster understanding and collaboration among scientists working in fascia research and the various clinical professionals who address fasciae in their work with clients and patients. The FRC provides high quality conference settings where these usually diverse groups can learn from one another, gain insights that will inform and enrich their respective pursuits, and advance scientific inquiry and applied methods.
The International FRC has been held in Boston, Amsterdam, Vancouver and Washington, DC and has built a reputation for bringing cutting-edge fascia science to the research, medical and clinical communities.
Recent scientific research in the field of the human fasciae has resulted in several significant findings. Combined, the results from these worldwide research activities constitute a body of significant and important data. It is our shared vision that it is time to gather together all the latest and best scientific information about the body's connective tissue matrix.
The FRC continues to provide a regular collegial setting for the mutual benefit and collaboration of basic scientists, academicians, and professionals engaged in the many clinical practices where fascia is an important consideration.
A fascia is a sheath, a sheet, or any other dissectible aggregations of connective tissue that forms beneath the skin to attach, enclose, and separate muscles and other internal organs.
The fascial system consists of the three-dimensional continuum of soft, collagen-containing, loose and dense fibrous connective tissues that permeate the body. It incorporates elements such as adipose tissue, adventitiae and neurovascular sheaths, aponeuroses, deep and superficial fasciae, epineurium, joint capsules, ligaments, membranes, meninges, myofascial expansions, periostea, retinacula, septa, tendons, visceral fasciae, and all the intramuscular and intermuscular connective tissues including endo-/peri-/epimysium. The fascial system surrounds, interweaves between, and interpenetrates all organs, muscles, bones and nerve fibers, endowing the body with a functional structure, and providing an environment that enables all body systems to operate in an integrated manner.
Among the different kinds of tissues that are involved in musculoskeletal dynamics, fascia has received comparatively little scientific attention. Fascia, or dense fibrous connective tissues, nevertheless potentially plays a major and still poorly understood role in joint stability, in general movement coordination, as well as in back pain and many other pathologies. One reason why fascia has not received adequate scientific attention in the past decades is that this tissue is so pervasive and interconnected that it easily frustrates the common ambition of researchers to divide it into a discrete number of subunits, which can be classified and separately described. In anatomic displays, fascia is generally removed, so the viewer can see the organs nerves and vessels. This practice gives them no opportunity to appreciate the fascia, which connects and separates these structures.
The Fifth International Fascia Research Congress (FRC) will be held in Berlin, November 14 – 15, 2018. The conference theme will be: Connecting Key Issues: How Fascia Research Can Impact Health Outcomes. Simultaneous translation into German will be provided for all plenary presentations and parallel sessions.
An ongoing FRC objective is to foster understanding and collaboration among scientists working in fascia research and the clinical professionals whose work addresses fasciae. This conference is designed to facilitate intergroup interaction and sharing that will inform and enrich their respective pursuits, and advance scientific inquiry and applied methods.


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Scotland's "renewables powerhouse" ambitions: strategy seeks rush from oil and gas
Article by Kerry Hebden
The Scottish government has said to become a renewables powerhouse it must transition away from oil and gas production as "fast as possible".
THE Scottish government has laid out its vision of becoming a renewables powerhouse in its Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan – a set of priorities directed at transitioning away from oil and gas production as "fast as possible", while significantly scaling up renewable energy production to provide cheap, green electricity to power the country's economy.
Citing drivers such as an unprecedented uncertainty in global and national energy markets, high energy prices and the climate crisis, Scottish ministers said a failure to act now to deliver a "just transformation" of its energy system would "risk the kind of damage to industrial communities we saw in the 1980s."
Currently, over 90% of the 1,159 TWh of energy produced each year in Scotland is from oil and gas, 5% from primary electricity and just 1% is from bioenergy and waste. The vast majority of energy produced, around 896 TWh, is exported. Of the 161 TWh consumed by Scotland in 2020, renewable energy met around a quarter (26.7%) of the energy required for Scotland's heat, transport and electricity use.
However, the volume of available renewable energy in Scotland continues to grow. Michael Matheson, Scotland's cabinet secretary for net zero, energy and transport, said the country already has an enviable track-record in renewables, including Scotwind, the world's largest floating offshore leasing round.
Managed by Crown Estate Scotland, last year the independent commercial business granted rights to 17 projects to build wind farms in Scottish waters – over an area of 7,000 km2 – as part of Scotwind's leasing process. A total of just under £700m (US$853m) will be paid by the successful applicants in option fees and passed to the Scottish Government for public spending, said CES, but it is expected that once operational, the projects will raise billions more in annual rental revenues.
Scotwind is also seen as pivotal to Scotland's proposed aim of delivering 8 GW to 11 GW of offshore wind capacity by the end of the decade, a target set out in the country's offshore wind policy statement in 2020.
Among other notable key ambitions the draft strategy sets out is the expansion of onshore wind generation from 8.8 GW to 20 GW of capacity over the same period, and new investments into solar, wave, tidal deployment and hydrogen. Scotland are aiming for 5 GW of low-carbon hydrogen production by 2030, or the equivalent of 15% of Scotland's current energy needs, and 25 GW of hydrogen production capacity by 2045.
Little room for fossil fuels
In a future powered by renewables, Scotland sees little room for the oil and gas that has played an important role in the country's economy. Not only is the unlimited extraction of fossil fuels not consistent with climate obligations, but "our previous policy position of maximum economic recovery, is no longer appropriate", Matheson said.
It's also a matter of oil and gas in the North Sea becoming less plentiful and harder to extract, said Matheson "As an increasingly mature basin, production in the North Sea is already in gradual decline and is expected to be around a third of 1999 levels by 2035 and less than 3% of the 1999 peak by 2050," said the secretary. "This means that domestic production will effectively end within the next 20 years if we do nothing."
The draft strategy recommends no new exploration for oil and gas either offshore or onshore, and no coal extraction.
The position on accelerating the clean energy transition has sparked concern with industry bodies such as Energy Transition Zone (ETZ), and Offshore Energies UK (OEUK). OEUK said it welcomed the "commitment to develop a Scottish hydrogen economy" but was "concerned at the statement's suggestion of accelerating the decline in oil and gas production".
"We need to ensure that the final strategy acknowledges the continuing role of oil and gas in Scotland's energy security and economy," Jenny Stanning, OEUK's external relations director, said. "The plain facts mean we will need gas and oil for years to come."
Relying on nuclear is also out, the draft strategy reasserts, stating that as well as taking decades to build, new nuclear plants will do nothing to address the urgent imperative of driving down energy prices.
Aside from the benefits of ending reliance on fossil fuels, transitioning to renewable energy could also help create an additional 58,000 low carbon jobs by 2050, the draft strategy points out. Some projects are already underway – such as the deployment of a new digital offshore energy skills passport to support the transition of skills and jobs across the industry.
Left to its own devices, the speed and direction of the green transition reads as a done deal in the strategy, but pushing forward the planned changes relies a lot on action that the UK government must take. It's a situation that appears to cause much frustration with the Scottish government who make many references to the changes the UK must make in order for Scotland's plans to be successful.
"This strategy sets out clear policy positions and a route map of actions with a focus out to 2030 that the Scottish Government will take and the changes that the UK Government must deliver," the document says.
The draft strategy is open to responses until 4 April and a final version is expected to be published in late 2023.
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It is important that you listen, study and then do the action of the Five Elements mudra and Five Elements mantra together and rest in the nature of the Five Elements.
First, our motivation is very important in all meditation and all Dharma practice. Our motivation is not only for ourself but also to help all other sentient beings have liberation in this life time.
Then you think "I am doing this practice for the liberation of all sentient beings". Therefore your mind is clean and you have inner joy.
Secondly, it is important that you do the right posture of Vairochana or you sit with your back straight on a chair. Also, some people like the meditation posture. You choose what is best for yourself.
After we do the mudra of the Five Elements. This moves our energy and makes it stronger and stronger. When our energy is strong, we have good mental health and our body and Five Elements will be healthy. Then our physical body will be really healthy.
It is important to understand the Five Elements mudra; the Five Elements mantra and the Five Elements power. Each finger has a channel that carries one of the Five Elements and these go to the rest of our body.
The Five Elements mudra involves our thumbs and our fingers. The channel in our thumbs is the Earth element. Our index fingers are the Water element. Our middle finger is the Sky element. Our ring finger is the Fire element and our baby finger is the Wind element.
There are two ways we do the Five Elements mudra. I will show you.
One is the thumb that is earth, touches each finger. So when the thumb and index finger touch, it is the Earth touching Water. When the thumb and middle finger touch, it is the Earth touching the Sky. When the thumb and ring finger touch, it is the Earth touching Fire. And when the thumb and baby fingers touch, it is the Earth touching Wind. The second mudra is our fingers from both hands touch each other: thumbs touch; index fingers touch; middle fingers touch; ring fingers touch and baby fingers touch.
The Five Elements Mantra is: RAM, YAM, WAM, KAM, AH.
We use our mantra and mudra together, focusing on our channels in the outer, inner and secret levels. For example in the outer, you know there are Earth, Water, Fire, Wind and Sky. When this is very clean we are very healthy inside. More importantly is the inside of the physical body and we take good care of our Five Elements.
On the inner, if our body's Five Elements are going well then it is easy to do meditation. If our Five Elements are a bit changed or not in balance, people are sick, they are not mentally healthy and they have obstacles. This is the reason for these conditions.
You will be healthy, have better mental health and more wisdom if you remember all of the considerations of body, speech and mind; outer, inner and secret levels; the Five Elements and you have good concentration. You will be taking good care of yourself. And you will be able to help and bless others. You will be able to bless others because the energy in your fingers will be strong and positive. You choose how long to do this meditation. Take your time.
After you are finished it is very important to do dedication. Do dedication for our environment's Five Elements and this world, Mother Earth. And especially for our physical body and Five Elements to be doing well and are perfect. Dedication on the inner level is that all sentient beings are happy, are peace and have liberation mind. All the best.


The old East School was vacated in 1894 when a new school was built on Church Street in East Milton, designed by Boston architect Harrison H. Atwood. Two years later the name of the school was changed to Belcher School in honor of Colonial Governor Jonathan Belcher who had a home in Milton. In 1962 the school was torn down.


We at FCS staunchly believe that the purpose of Education is not to prepare the future professionals who not only can be productive for the economy but also to sculpture the civilians who will serve the fellow beings in need and despair. Who are sensitive, rational and well equipped with life skills along with technical knowhow. For which special Assemblies are held to celebrate the various significant Religions, Regional, National and Instructional days and events.


We are grateful to be living in downtown Boston and have loved every minute of raising our son and newborn daughter here."
Rishi Shukla and his wife Anita moved into the Downtown Crossing area in 2013 and quickly fell in love with the locale.
"Downtown Boston offered the perfect combination of location, culture, history and vibrancy. The idea of being within walking distance of the nation's oldest park, theaters, restaurants, coffee shops, fitness clubs, a grocery store and our son's school, in one of Boston's fastest growing neighborhoods, was and remains incredibly attractive," said Rishi. He added the five-minute drive to Logan International Airport, and being a quick walk to South Station for early morning business trips has been a great perk, too.
The Shuklas are also one of the many young families, who have moved into downtown Boston in recent years. As more and more families have moved into the area their community has grown. He added that along with enjoying the local green space like the Boston Common, his son enjoys watching all the cranes and trucks working on the various development projects.
"More and more young families are moving to downtown and many of our children are now classmates and friends," said Rishi. "it has made for a wonderful experience. We are grateful to be living in downtown Boston have loved every minute of raising our son and newborn daughter here. We look forward to many more great years ahead in Boston's most dynamic neighborhood."
Rishi is also a leader for the downtown Boston residential community as a founding member of the Downtown Boston Residents' Association, which was formed in 2014. The association has quickly grown to more than 450 members and is committed to engaging, informing and empowering residents by creating a forum for discussion on a wide range of topics.


The Army will be using machine learning software to predict when components on the Bradley Fighting Vehicle need maintenance.
Through an award facilitated by Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, the Army will be working with Uptake, a company that provides artificial intelligence solutions for industrial sector clients, to predict component failures, decrease the frequency of unscheduled maintenance and improve the productivity of repair operations.
"The Bradley already has sensors throughout it on major components of systems, so what we'll be doing is capturing that data that is generated all throughout the Bradley and then combining it with our software to provide insights on potential failures before they happen," said Matthew Lehner, a spokesperson for Uptake.
None of the company's software is uploaded to the military vehicle. The data from the sensors is transmitted to the cloud, where Uptake's software analyzes normal operational patterns and learns to predict failures.
The company will also leverage the billions of hours of operating data it has collected from the other industries it serves, Lehner said. "We have 230 million hours of data on diesel combustion engines, which is something the Bradley also has," he said.
The Uptake interface provides insight on individual vehicles. If a fault is found, then it is listed along with a fault code, a description, the severity (low, medium, critical), and the first and last occurrence of that particular fault.
The interface largely stays the same from industry to industry, but the machine learning models have to be changed and require a verification period before full deployment, Lehner said.
In 2016, the Army Materiel Command's Logistics Support Activity worked on a similar project with IBM that used the company's Watson artificial intelligence platform to help predict maintenance problems in Stryker combat vehicles.


Three showbiz veterans are out on the town telling stories tonight, and you should be there to hear them. Charlotte Rae, Charlotte Rampling, and Norman Lloyd will reminisce about their long and illustrious careers.
You know Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Garrett from the 80s sitcom The Facts of Life, but she has been in Broadway musicals, cabaret shows, and even did a comedy album. She'll be at Barnes & Noble at the Grove signing her biography The Facts of My Life.
French actress Charlotte Rampling was a model before her breakout roles in The Knack and How to Get It and Georgy Girl in the 1960s. She was recently awarded the César lifetime achievement award and will be chatting at the Aero about her film Night Porter.
Actor-producer-director Norman Lloyd turned 101 last week and has credits dating back to the 1930s to prove it. He will discuss his work with Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Charlie Chaplin at a screening of The Great Dictator in the Hollywood Heritage museum tonight.


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MassMutual Brings Chicago Into Free Term Program
NU Online News Service, Jan. 19, 2004, 1:13 p.m. EST -- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass., is including Chicago in its free ...
By Staff Writer | January 19, 2004 at 07:00 PM
NU Online News Service, Jan. 19, 2004, 1:13 p.m. EST – Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Mass., is including Chicago in its free term life program.[@@]
The program provides $50,000 in free, 10-year, level-term life insurance coverage for working parents between the ages of 19 and 42 in eligible communities.
Children of participating parents who die can use the proceeds to pay for almost any kind of formal schooling, including pre-school, elementary school, high school, vocational school, college and graduate school, MassMutual says.
MassMutual started offering the LifeBridge program in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and North Carolina in late 2002. It branched out into many other communities in 2003.
To qualify for the free coverage, parents must be permanent, legal U.S. residents in good health.
The parents must be working and show annual family incomes of $10,000 to $40,000 on their latest tax returns.
Legal guardians who meet the eligibility requirements also can apply for coverage.
Benefits will be paid to a trust administered by the MassMutual Trust Company F.S.B. on behalf of the children. The trust will make payments directly to the schools the children attend, MassMutual says.
John Molyneaux and the staff of Molyneaux Financial Group L.L.C., Chicago, are donating their time to offer the program locally.
Parents can get an eligibility form by calling 1-800-272-2216.


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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals
The State, Respondent,
Crawford Williams, Appellant.
Appeal From Richland County
Lee S. Alford, Circuit Court Judge
Unpublished Opinion No. 2007-UP-280
Submitted June 1, 2007 – Filed June 6, 2007
APPEAL DISMISSED
Chief Attorney Joseph L. Savitz, III, of Columbia, for Appellant.
Attorney General Henry Dargan McMaster, Chief Deputy Attorney General John W. McIntosh, Assistant Deputy Attorney General Salley W. Elliott, all of Columbia; and Solicitor Warren Blair Giese, of Columbia, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Williams appeals his guilty plea to voluntary manslaughter and assault and battery with intent to kill. He was sentenced to concurrent sentences of twenty-five years for the manslaughter and ten years for the ABWIK. Williams maintains his guilty plea was rendered conditional as a result of the trial judge informing Williams of his right to an appeal. After a thorough review of the record, counsel's brief, and Williams' pro se brief pursuant to Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738 (1967), and State v. Williams, 305 S.C. 116, 406 S.E.2d 357 (1991), we dismiss[1] Williams' appeal and grant counsel's motion to be relieved.
APPEAL DISMISSED.
HEARN, C.J., KITTREDGE, J., and CURETON, A.J., concur.
[1] We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.


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A mid-August game at Citi Field between the Pirates and the Mets involved good friends and good baseball. It also involved, in our section, a racial moment. Two young men brought a flag of the Republic of Korea to the game, standing quietly to display the flag each time Pirates' rookie Jung-ho Kang came to […] Read More
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On every baseball team there is always a kid who has a hard time judging fly balls. This is the guy who is so fixated on where the ball is that he never can figure out where the ball is going to be. So the coach puts him out in right field, where fewer balls […] Read More
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National Westminster Bank, Prince's Street, City of London. A view from Cornhill towards the National Westminster Bank, looking over crowds gathered outside the Royal Exchange and on rooftops of nearby buildings and the Bank of England, for the public proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Exchange.
Princess Elizabeth was formally proclaimed Queen on 8th February 1952, following the death of her father, George VI, on 6th February. An accession proclamation was published in the London Gazette on 6th February and in The Times on 7th February. The formal proclamation ceremony took place at St James Palace at 10:00am, when Elizabeth proclaimed herself Queen. After the ceremony, the accession proclamation was read to the public from the balcony of St James Palace overlooking Friary Court, and then in Trafalgar Square, Fleet Street, and the Royal Exchange, by the Garter Principal King of Arms and Officers of Arms
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"Headphone sound only on left channel"
I have tried 2 Apple Earpods (with 3.5mm) so I do not think the "quality" is the issue.
Maybe the headphone connector is not soldered correctly. Can you send me pictures of the headphone connector?
I got a unit back with this problem.
Try using (or borrowing) another pair of earphones that do not have controls built into the cord itself.
I encountered similar issues when using my Apple earphones (an iPhone accessory) with RetroStone. I believe the volume/function comtrol located on the cord that feeds the right-hand earpiece was weakening the audio signal. I swapped it for a pair of cheap Sony earphones and got good sound through both channels.
I hope you can try this and that it works for you.
niceHair is probably right, it can be the earphone that has a special audio jack that is not compatible with this basic one.
Can you test with other headphones and let us know if that fix the problem?
Then i wiggle them out a little - same result as with the expensive beat-pro headphone.
Would putting more solder (tin) on help?
I checked a bit and I think it's your left channel that does not reach the headphones.
I have headphones with same connector as the one in your picture, so it should work. You have sound on left when you wiggle them out a little because the L connector of your headphone touch the R channel when you wriggle it out.
So the problem can come from several places. I think it's probably one solder that is wrong on the left channel.
By chance do you have a multimeter to check continuity of the L channel? If no can you visually check the L pin on the wheel if it is soldered correctly ? The "L pin" on the connector seem to be soldered correctly.
Also I checked your solder picture again. It might be the R82 solder that is not correct. Because it makes a ball. Maybe it means that it is not touching both pads of the resistor correctly. Can you try resoldering it ? Check closely if the solder touch both pads.
This means the solder is not sticking to the pad, just very close. This can happen if the pad is not hot when the solder is applied.
+1 to earphones with remotes not working.
It's to do with some standard. Xperia Play has the exact same problem. If I remember there is an adapter you can get that might fix the problem.
The standards are CTIA and OMTP. OMTP seems to be more standard. I have ordered a converter and will test it out when it arrives in a couple of weeks. Until then using mic/remote-less earphones works.
I decided to do a little gaming with the retrostone today but with headphones. Both of my headphones use a mic, so they use four sections on the 3.5mm headphone connector. I get stereo sound during bootup and while in the menu when the music is playing.
However, when I play a game, the sound could be low, or non-existent or even coming out of speaker instead of my headphones. I thought it was software related, but if I back out my headphones of the jack about 1mm, I get sound in both ears. Not sure if it's stereo, but it's better than when the connector is fully inserted.
If everybody is having this issue, might be best to put this in the description that the use of wired headphones with mics aren't fully compatible with this device.


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Jürgen C. Heß (* 23. September 1943 in Allenstein, Ostpreußen) ist ein deutscher Historiker und Hochschullehrer.

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Jürgen C. Heß studierte Geschichte, Anglistik und Geographie in Kiel und Tübingen. Er wurde 1970 an der Universität Kiel zum Dr. phil. promoviert. Seit 1982 lehrte er als ordentlicher Professor für Neueste Geschichte an der Vrijen Universiteit Amsterdam. Sein inhaltlicher Schwerpunkt ist die Geschichte des Liberalismus in der Zwischenkriegszeit, insbesondere die Person von Theodor Heuss. 1976 erhielt Heß den Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preis für seine Untersuchung über die DDP, die 1978 als Buch erschien.

Veröffentlichungen
 Theodor Heuss vor 1933. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des demokratischen Denkens in Deutschland, Klett, Stuttgart 1973 (Zugleich: Kiel, Univ., Philos. Fak., Diss. 1970), ISBN 978-3-12-903690-7.
 Das ganze Deutschland soll es sein. Demokratischer Nationalismus in der Weimarer Republik am Beispiel der Deutschen Demokratischen Partei, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 978-3-12-910820-8.
 (Hrsg. mit E. van Steensel van der Aa): Bibliographie zum deutschen Liberalismus, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, Göttingen 1981, ISBN 978-3-525-35487-2.
 (Hrsg. mit Hanna Schissler): Nachbarn zwischen Nähe und Distanz. Deutschland und die Niederlande, Diesterweg, Frankfurt 1988, ISBN 978-3-88304-252-7.
 (Hrsg. mit Detlef Junker und Eike Wolgast): Heidelberg 1945, Steiner, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 978-3-515-06880-2.
 (Hrsg. mit Thomas Hertfelder): Streiten um das Staatsfragment. Theodor Heuss und Thomas Dehler berichten von der Entstehung des Grundgesetzes. Mit einer Einleitung von Michael F. Feldkamp, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 978-3-421-05220-9.
 Demokratisches Engagement. Beiträge aus drei Jahrzehnten, hrsg. von Herman Langeveld, Waxmann, Münster, New York, München, Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-8309-1337-5.
 Verfassungsarbeit. Theodor Heuss und der Parlamentarische Rat, Liberal-Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-920590-28-8.

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Zeithistoriker
Hochschullehrer (Freie Universität Amsterdam)
Träger des Wolf-Erich-Kellner-Preises
Deutscher
Geboren 1943
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Legendary rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd returns to Houston at Sam Houston Race Park. Their fiery brand of Southern style guitar rock heaven will be on full display and they will also be joined by The Randy Rogers Band and Whiskey Myers. The show is Saturday August 23rd.


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Endeavouring to Excite the Electorate
My latest piece on the Huffington Post is here.
Last week, members of our nation took part in a momentous event. We studied, we discussed, we stood in line, we cheered and we watched news coverage. We waved American flags and chanted "USA! USA!" We introduced our children and grandchildren to camera crews, telling reporters that we wanted to make sure that our children and grandchildren took part in this historic event. "We want them to be able to say they were here, at this moment," we said to the men and women with microphones.
We talked about the event afterwards, shared our thoughts, and posted and tweeted photographs. We spoke of national pride in what we've accomplished. We spoke wistfully and hopefully about what the future holds for our country. We talked of the budget, the economy and changing public-policy priorities.
What was this event that excited so many members of the American public? This is not a rhetorical question.
If you said the 2012 elections, or the presidential election, you're wrong, but I was so hoping that would be your answer.
Elections, even a high-stakes presidential election -- and when is a presidential election ever not high-stakes? -- do not capture the imagination of the American public. By and large we do not engage in a great debate, study the issues and the candidates, take off work to stand in long lines, wave flags, cheer and overtly discuss national pride.
No, when it comes to elections, many of us do not engage at all. Far too few of us exercise our hard-fought, fundamental right to vote. (More on that pesky right to vote in a moment). Instead, we throw up our hands and leave the "nasty business" of politics to others.
Those of us who do vote often do so somewhat begrudgingly. We sigh and complain about having a choice only between "the lesser of two evils." We bemoan the pervasive and pernicious influence of money in politics. We feel, not incorrectly, that politics is largely a game played only by those who can pay the price of admission.
Few of us speak about elections with the same enthusiasm of the actual event I was referring to -- the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavour. Last week, the Endeavour soared through the sky on the back of a 747 airliner. It captured our collective imagination. It was exactly what I read and heard it would be -- a space shuttle on an airplane -- but I still, for a moment, thought it was something wondrous. It represented the best of us, the most impressive strides taken by the best and brightest among us.
Few of us use words like "wondrous" or phrases like "captured our collective imagination" to refer to elections in our country. But in many ways we should. The American experiment in democracy is amazing. Every two, four or six years, we go to a polling place (or mail in a ballot) and anonymously pick our government representatives. We send those elected officials to city halls, state capitals and the District of Columbia to make laws that we hope embody sound public policy.
So why do we feel, at best, lackluster about this grand experiment? Why do those of us who exercise the right to vote feel less than enthused about the experience?
One reason is an issue I've mentioned above. The ubiquitous influence of money in campaigns means that moneyed interests play an outsized role in our electoral process. More than 30 years ago, in a case called Buckley v. Valeo, the Supreme Court found that political money is the equivalent of political speech. That opinion made it difficult -- and in many cases impossible -- to limit the amount of money spent by, in support of, or against political candidates. While the Supreme Court purported to uphold First Amendment rights, it actually harmed those rights by giving moneyed interests a megaphone through which they could drown out the voices of others. The Supreme Court only exacerbated the harm imposed by its flawed framework in Citizens United, when it ruled that corporations must be treated as identical to people for purposes of analyzing restrictions on campaign spending. When people and organizations can spend unlimited sums in the political marketplace, it actually harms, rather than bolsters, the breadth and depth of the political debate.
Another reason for our lack of excitement in the electoral process may be that our fundamental right to vote is under attack all throughout the country this election cycle. Under the guise of protecting voter fraud, conservative legislatures throughout the country have passed voter identification laws. Put most charitably, voter identification laws are a solution in search of a problem, as the fraud that would be prevented by these laws is nearly infinitesimal. We should be honest about what these laws are meant to accomplish. Voter identification laws overwhelmingly harm poor and minority members of the electorate who tend to vote democratic. Let's just say it: These laws are about eliminating the number of democratic ballots cast.
When our elected representatives play partisan games with our fundamental right to vote, the right that preserves so many other rights, it is not difficult to see why the elections that put those politicians in power are seen as less-than-wondrous events.
We can hope that the Supreme Court reverses course and state lawmakers stop enacting laws that burden the ability to vote. In the meantime, our main recourse, perhaps ironically, is at the ballot box. Although it may not be as awe-inspiring as watching a space shuttle glide across the clouds, let's treat the 2012 election as the vitally important event that it is.
By Jessica A. Levinson
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Q: How could I make this code more effective? I want to figure out a more effective way to create this program. Instead of if-else statements, could it be possible to use some other form of loop or statement?
Here is the code:
class apples {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    byte x, y;
    x = 15;
    y = 28;

    boolean state = (true || false);

    if (x == y) {
        System.out.println(state);
    } else if (x > y) {
        System.out.println(state);
    } else if (x < y) {
        System.out.println(state);
    } else {
        System.out.println(state);
    }

  }
}

A: The output is always true as || with true always results true.
remove this line :
boolean state = (true || false);

Change it to:
  boolean state = (x==y);
    System.out.println(state);

A: I'm assuming this is just example of what you want to do. If not, the code can be replaced by System.out.println(true); as rgettman mentioned.
The last else can of course never get executed, since numbers are equal, or one is bigger, so it can be removed:
if (x == y) {
    System.out.println("They are equal");
} else if (x > y) {
    System.out.println("x is greater");
} else {
    System.out.println("x is smaller");
}

An alternative to the if-then statements is:
switch (Integer.compare(x, y))
{
   case -1: System.out.println("x is smaller"); break;
   case 0: System.out.println("They are equal"); break;
   default: System.out.println("x is greater"); // case 1
}

Integer.compare is Java 7 and up, before that you'll have to use Integer.valueOf(x).compareTo(y)

A: To expand on what the comments are saying: In your if/else sequence, each conditional has the same execution block. Since the same output is achieved through several inputs (any of them being true would cause the output), you can condense this:
if (x == y) {
    System.out.println(state);
} else if (x > y) {
    System.out.println(state);
} else if (x < y) {
    System.out.println(state);
} else {
    System.out.println(state);
}

into this:
if(x == y || x > y || x < y){
    System.out.println(state);
} else {
    System.out.println(state);
}

Two notes here. First, the boolean expression x == y || x > y || x < y (for numeric types, like byte, and assuming the variables are defined), includes all possibilities-- x must be either equal to, greater than, or less than y. That means that x == y || x > y || x < y is always true, so there is no point to the else block.
The second note is that in general, when you have something like this, where the two execution blocks are the same code:
if(expression){
    doSomething();
} else {
    doSomething();
}

The doSomething(); code will always be executed, no matter what, so having the conditionals is not necessary and can simply call the code and be done with it.

A: You did not give much details on the logics around state.
Another way to write your program is to have a Map<Integer, Output>, do Byte.compareTo(anotherByte) and lookup in the Map to get your desired Output.

A: As others have noted:
boolean b = (true || false);

will always set b to true.  I believe that this is what you're looking for is something along the lines of:
public static boolean compBytes(byte x, byte y)
{
    return (x.compareTo(y) > 0) ? true : false;
}

But this will only work if you want < and == to both return false.  I think what you really want is:
public static int compBytes(byte x, byte y)
{
    return x.compareTo(y);
}

Then you can use a switch statement to handle the cases.


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ECRM & Apex-Brasil: Helping Brazilian Suppliers Enter the U.S. Market 1/20/2020
Apex-Brasil's Fernando Spohr presenting at ECRM's Trade Partner Organization Symposium
Among ECRM's international business development efforts is our outreach and education of trade partner organizations, or TPOs, whose members are looking to do business in the U.S. We work closely with these organizations to help connect their supplier-members with retailers at our category-based programs.
Apex-Brasil is an example of one of our TPO partners, and it works to promote Brazilian products and services abroad, and to attract foreign investment to strategic sectors of the Brazilian economy. We've partnered with Apex-Brasil for the past several years, and its supplier-members who have participated in ECRM Programs have seen more than $122 million in U.S. retail business during that time.
At ECRM's recent Trade Partner Organization Symposium in Chicago, dozens of representatives of agencies representing businesses in other countries gathered to learn about doing business with U.S. retailers during this day-long event, which included presentations from market research company IRI as well as major retailers and marketing service providers.
Fernando Spohr, Operations Manager - North America for Apex-Brasil, gave a presentation on how the organization works with ECRM to connect its supplier-members with U.S. retailers via its category-specific programs, as well as the success it's members have seen from this relationship. Below is an interview with Fernando by ECRM VP of Content Joseph Tarnowski, with some takeaways from his presentation.
ECRM: Please give an overview of what Apex-Brasil is and does.
Fernando Spohr: Apex-Brasil is the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency, and we work on promoting exports out of Brazil and the internationalization of Brazilian companies. We also seek to attract foreign direct investment into Brazil. One of the many things that we do is try to find opportunities and generate business for Brazilian companies overseas. I'm based in our office in Miami, which we oversees the U.S., Canada and Mexico. ECRM is one of the many initiatives that we do here in the U.S.
We've been working with ECRM for the past five years, and we're now entering our sixth year in 2020. We see this relationship as a great platform for the Brazilian companies to do business in the U.S., because the of the cost benefit of participating in one of these programs, where you have direct contact with buyers and networking opportunities that you usually wouldn't get in a traditional trade show. In coming to one of the ECRM programs, you're going to be able generate some business, and most importantly I think it's also a great learning opportunity about what it takes to be successful in the U.S. market.
ECRM: I know of one Apex-Brasil supplier-member in particular that used our platform specifically to learn how to rebrand for the U.S. market, and saw reat results from it.
Spohr: Exactly. Typically, participants are Brazilian companies that are ready to come to the market. But sometimes we, through our selection process, discuss what the companies seek to accomplish through participation. One company was ready to invest, but they wanted to attend for a particular learning purpose. So we accepted their participation and they came to get feedback from buyers about their product and branding, and learn what they would need to change to address the U.S. market. And after two years they came back to a program with a refreshed brand aimed at the U.S. market and now they're generating some business because of all the changes that they implemented based on those buyers' insights (click here to read more about this supplier).
ECRM: How does the ECRM and Apex-Brasil relationship work?
Spohr: We are the ones that actually pay for the Brazilian companies to participate in ECRM programs. And those companies then pay us a percentage of the total cost depending on how much they export, so the less to export the less money we spend. So that helps them a lot in terms of the cost of actually participating.
ECRM: And what kind of returns have they seen from participating in ECRM programs?
Spohr: Apex-Brasil invested a little bit more than $1 million throughout these five years, which compared to a traditional trade show, it's much less. For $1 million you probably could do two trade shows. During these five years we did more than 50 ECRM programs and generated more than $100 million in business for the companies, so you cannot beat that. And besides the business generated, they also learn how to improve their business -- not just for the U.S. market, but also to be more competitive even in the domestic market in Brazil. They learn what the competition is doing, what the buyers and the market here is asking for.
ECRM: Right. And you're learning not just from the educational sessions, but from the buyer meetings as well. You'll have anywhere from 50 to upwards of 80 meetings with buyers, and each time, not only are you pitching them products, but you're learning, you're picking a retailer's brains and learning from them. Plus, there's a lot of networking functions that provide additional opportunities of learning, both from buyers but also from other manufacturers.
Spohr: Exactly. They may be competitors in Brazil, but here they are pretty much learning from each other here. And that's part of what we do as well. We try to teach them a little bit about what they need to do, how they can improve and we encourage them to establish new contacts and do some networking during these events. So that's an opportunity that you won't get anywhere else. After the sessions, after the meetings, we have all the networking functions during which you can exchange information and make the buyer try to remember you so that you can come back to him or her later on.
ECRM: Another thing ECRM does that's different from a traditional trade show is work hand-in-hand with suppliers to prep them for our programs to make sure that they get the most from their experience. And then we're on site, in force, to help them with anything they may need while they're here at the session. It's a very high touch environment where you're not just getting a booth and then are left alone to fend for yourself.
Spohr: Yes. And this communication is going on all the time. Prior to the actual sessions, we are in constant touch with ECRM team, as well as with the specific contacts for each program. We participate in the conversations before each session to prep and after each session to recap, both with our supplier members and with ECRM. So it's not something that we pay for it and just show up. We're involved with our supplier partners and ECRM is a big part of that. We all work closely together so they can get the most out of each program.
If you are a trade partner organization, email me to learn how we can help your supplier enter the U.S. market: esavitch@ecrm.marketgate.com
Eric Savitch
SVP of International Business Development
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Academic slams US' shaky policy
NORMALIZATION: The US' cross-strait policy is undermining Taiwan's nationhood, while Japan's is more mature, panelists said at an exchange forum
By Max Hirsch / STAFF REPORTER
Sun, Sep 10, 2006 - Page 3
The US is preventing Taiwan from becoming a full-fledged nation, according to a panelist at an academic forum in Taipei yesterday.
Lin Cheng-yi (林正義), a researcher from the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica, said that a lack of support and pressure from the US was a major obstacle in Taiwan's normalization as a country.
"The Bush administration has gone from restraining just China to restraining both China and the government of Taiwan," Lin said.
While US policy on the Taiwan Strait was unsteady, Japan's approach to cross-strait affairs was "mature and stable," he added.
Lin made the remarks at a Taiwan-Japan academic exchange conference hosted by the Association of East-Asian Relations (AEAR), a quasi-official organization that facilitates exchanges with Japan in the absence of diplomatic ties. Academics from Taiwan and Japan gathered at the venue to present papers on Taiwan-Japan relations and security issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
Chen Wen-hsien (陳文賢), a professor of Taiwanese history at National Chengchi University, told the forum that there was a big gap between US President George W. Bush's pledge to safeguard Taiwan and actual support and protection.
"The US' lack of support hurts US interests in the region," Chen said, without elaborating.
He said that Taiwan's political development was unique in that the country democratized before normalizing as a nation first, whereas most democracies first came of age as nations before fully democratizing.
Amako Satoshi, a Japanese professor in the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, said that China's military was growing exponentially, and posed a substantial threat to Taiwan.
"It is widely hoped that Taiwan can build up its military [in response]," Satoshi said, adding that Taiwan should cooperate with the US on security issues.
In an interview with the Taipei Times, Lin denied reports that Taiwan wasn't taking its defense seriously.
"Taiwan is increasing its defense budget from 2.5 percent of its GDP to 2.8 percent," Lin said, adding that its latest initiative to buy F-16 jet fighters from the US demonstrated its resolve to strengthen its military.


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Our sectional garage doors are available with three levels of insulation (uninsulated, single-skin and double-skin), meaning you can protect your garage but still not break the bank. If you have an attached garage, we recommend the highest level as it's easy for cold air to seep in to your home.
The most reliable garage door we have on offer here is roller garage door. It offers great security levels, fantastic insulation and saves a ridiculous amount of space, all at an extremely reasonable price.
The roller is made up of multiple slats that roll round itself above the door opening. The door opens vertically and has no internal tracks thanks to the drum which the door tightly compacts itself around. This means that aside from a small box above the opening, there is no space taken up by the garage door, therefore you have more storage space than if you were to choose any other garage door.
One of our personal favourites here at ABi is the side hinged garage door as adds a bit of class to your home's exterior – they are particularly good for complimenting homes with a traditional look in rural locations.
Not only does it have aesthetic beauty but it is also mixed with some skilful engineering, meaning the doors are high performing, extremely durable and are a certainty to add some much-needed class to your home.
Just like the up and over garage door, the side hinged is pretty self-explanatory. The door is fixed on to a hinge and opens sideward which is very simple and hasn't changed since its creation, just like the up and over garage door.
If you require further information on any of our garage doors, accessories or services, don't hesitate to give one of our friendly team a call on 01709 318722.