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Thomas Falkner
Surgeon; b. Oct. 6, 1707; d. Jan. 30, 1784
Falkner, THOMAS, b. October 6, 1707; d. January 30, 1784. He was the son of Thomas Falkner, a Manchester apothecary, and obtained his education at the Manchester grammar school. Later on, having studied medicine under the well-known Dr. Richard Mead, he became a surgeon and practiced at his native place. His own health being delicate, he was advised to take a sea-voyage, and being acquainted with a ship chaplain on board the "Assiento", a vessel trading with Guinea and carrying slaves thence to Buenos Aires, he accepted an invitation to accompany the vessel as surgeon. This was in or about 1731. On reaching Buenos Aires he was so ill that the captain was compelled to leave him there in the care of Father Mahoney, the superior of the Jesuit College. Here he not only recovered his health, but was received into the Church, and on May 15, 1732, entered the Society of Jesus, becoming a member of the Paraguay province. Having spent some time at the Jesuit College of Cordoba de Tucuman, he went as a missionary to the Puelches, near Rio Legundo. His knowledge of medicine and mechanics procured for him considerable influence among the Indians, and in 1740 or soon after he was sent to assist Father Strobel in his successful mission to the Patagonian Indians at Cape San Antonio. For more than thirty years he labored among the Patagonians until 1768 when the Jesuits were expelled from South America. He then returned to England where, in 1771 or 1772, he joined the English province of the Society. He was appointed chaplain to Mr. Berkeley of Spetchley, and here, in addition to his priestly labors, he wrote an account of his Patagonian experiences, which was published at Hereford in 1774 under the title "A Description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America, with a grammar and a short vocabulary, and some particulars relating to Falkland's Islands". The book as published was not his original work, but a compilation by William Combe, who used Falkner's papers. Kirk (see below) quotes a remark by Rev. Joseph Berington: "Mr. Falkner was a man of a vigorous mind, well exercised in various points of science, and had he been allowed to tell his story in his own way, stored as his mind was with anecdotes and incidents, on which he delighted to dwell, we should have had from him an amusing and interesting performance. But his papers were put into the hands of the late Mr. Robert Berkeley of Spetchley, who extracted from them the whole spirit of the original. He made them what they are." But though Mr. Berkeley wrote the preface, the responsibility for the taming process must rest with Combe. Even in its emasculated form the book was successful, and was translated into German, French, and Spanish. Another account of the Patagonians due to Father Falkner is found in the works of Thomas Pennant, who described his essay as "formed from the relation of Fr. Falkner, a Jesuit, who had resided among them thirty-eight years". On leaving Spetchley, he became chaplain to Mr. Berington of Winsley in Herefordshire, and afterwards to the Plowdens of Plowden Hall in Shropshire. After his death, which occurred at the latter place, the Spanish Jesuits, who had known him in South America, were very anxious to obtain his unpublished works, which included treatises on the botanical and mineral products of America, and "American distempers as cured by American drugs". It is stated by Fr. Caballero, S.J., that he had also edited "Volumina duo de anatomic corporis humani".
EDWIN BURTON

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The show went SO well! It was so well planned, so many wonderful people came!
I was lucky enough to get a table at the end- so I could put my dress form to the side which meant more room for the stuff on the table.
I've been invited to their Holiday event- and I'm thinking I just might say yes!
I got a few custom orders at the show, and this week they just keep rolling in- thanks so much guys!
I love, love, love that I am finally working for myself, sewing and creating, my ultimate dream job.
Her mama, Kim, asked if I could make Leah an apron with matching dolly for her 1st birthday like 3 months ago. Her birthday is fast approaching- so I got busy!
Don't you just love the little yellow pockets?
The fabric is from the "juicy blossoms" line by quilting treasures. It's just so perfect for this project!
Seeing how she is just so cute, I thought I'd show you the back.
Happy happy birthday little miss Leah!!!
Juniper & Laurel needed boyfriends.
When I picked out the fabrics from my stash- I couldn't believe I found matchy matchy plaid and corduroy.
After sewing these guys up and turning them right side out, I couldn't help but think that they look a bit like lumberjacks.
Danny says I'm crazy. That they don't look like lumberjacks at all.
"I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, I sleep all night and I work all day..." Monty Python anyone?
Love her strawberry dress and houndstooth legs!
So glad a had a scrap of one of my very favorite collections- Dizzy Birds by Alexander Henry.
Red and aqua paisley? Aqua argyle? So cute!
This is Laurel. She's in the orchestra. They just had a big concert and her mom is letting her wear her fancy dress after school, so long as she practices her cello. She pretends not to like to practice because she doesn't want everybody to think she's a nerd, including her mom.
She is very passionate about music.
Her white ruffle is really baby headband elastic- it's so pretty, I wish it wasn't so expensive!
Do you think she's a nerd?
This is Juniper. Don't call her Junie, only her BFF Laurel can call her that.
I always melt at the details.
I dreamed up this skirt all on my own. No kidding- I figured out how to make it just how it was pictured in my head. It may have taken an entire day to do so, but I did it!
And that ruffle? Yeah. I found that at the japanese dollar store. Yes, a japanese dollar store exists, and it's one of the most amazing stores ever. I was a kid in a candy store- I need to go back and find some more treasures!
Can you even stand these shoes?


The best thing about the colder weather is definitely coming home, going into your bedroom, and wrapping yourself up in a huge blanket to make a human cocoon that you will stay in until you go outside again. Winter can be brutal, and there's nothing better than a cozy bedroom to hang out in during those months. But making your bedroom super cozy is about more than just adding a few blankets and pillows – it's a whole vibe that you create with decor, furniture, and colors.


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Q: More elegant way to wait for a method result (with timeout) in Java 6 I'm trying to find a way in Java 6 to wait for a result from a method that reads the database waiting for some information.
The actual code is very similar to this:
Result result = getSomeResult();
Long maxTries = 10;
Long sleepTimeInMs = 2000; // 10 tries and 2000 ms for each call is 20000 ms of timeout in total

int tries = 0;
while (tries < maxTries && (result == null || result.isProcessing())) {
    Thread.sleep(sleepTimeInMs);
    result = getSomeResult();
    tries++;
}

In the code above, I'm not just waiting for a result; I'm waiting for a not null result and in a specific condition (not processing).
Thanks!

A: this is a way to make delay to run a part of code, you can make a delay on it
        new Handler(Looper.getMainLooper()).postDelayed(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
          //the action you want to do after reading database
        }
    }, delay_time);

or you can make your method for reading database "async"

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A review of the statements and documents voted regionally after Annual Council 2018.
Leaders hope declaration may clearly communicate what Adventists stand for.
Delegates express both support and concern for the implications of the motion.
Event marks a step further in the reunification of two branches of Adventism.
Room honors the memory of renowned evangelist and mentor C. D. Brooks.
General Conference treasury staff highlight encouraging trends in 2017 at Spring Meeting.
Adventist Church Spring Council opens with a message of encouragement.
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Remember when you could tell what time of day it was by what was on TV, or at least on the VHF channels?[1]
In the United States, because of shortages of space on the radio dial, and the fact that AM radio could travel hundreds of miles, some radio stations were restricted to daytime only or having other restrictions to allow older stations to continue to cover larger areas.
Such restrictions were never applicable to television, however. Television stations were allocated by community, and the allocations were based on engineering estimates that would prevent two stations on the same channel within their reach, or even an adjacent channel. Television stations were licensed for 24 hour operations, 7 days a week if they wanted to be on that much. Notwithstanding this, in most communities up until the late 1970s or 1980s there wasn't enough programming available to have anything in the early morning, and most stations went dark during early morning. For more information about them, see American Television Stations.
From The Sixties through The Nineties, there was remarkably little variation in network TV schedules for commercial networks. Weekdays looked like this (all times U.S. Eastern):
5 AM - 7 AM: Local news programming aimed at farmers and early-rising business people. There were quite a few stations that didn't bother to start broadcasting until 6:45 AM, and even a few that let the network morning show start them off at 7 AM. A religious interlude usually started off the day after the national anthem.
7 AM - 9 AM: Morning news and talk shows (Today, Good Morning America) produced by the network, with approx. five minutes per half-hour of local-affiliate time for local news and weather. Until 1982, CBS ran a general newscast for an hour, followed by Captain Kangaroo before joining the network morning show race full time.
9 AM - 10 AM: A talk show, or local programming. This is where Donahue and Live with Regis aired for many years in many places. (Note that Live was originally a locally-aired production called "The Morning Show").
10 AM - noon: Game shows produced by the network. The Price Is Right was the only daytime game show from this era to survive the Interregnum in The Nineties.
Noon - 12:30 PM: Local news or public interest programming.
12:30 PM - 3 PM: Soap operas, produced by the network.
3 PM - 6 PM: Syndicated talk shows and kids' shows (either syndicated, as is the case with most animation, or locally-produced). Also until the late 90's, networks would air the occasional Afterschool Special.
6 PM - 6:30 PM: Local news.
6:30 PM - 7 PM: National and world news, produced by the network.
7 PM - 8 PM: Syndicated game shows or second-run sitcoms (also syndicated). This was where Evening Magazine ran on Group W stations (as well as a few others that bought into the pool) in The Eighties, as well as Entertainment Tonight and the seemingly-indestructible Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy block.
8 PM - 9 PM: The first hour of Prime Time. Usually contained "family-friendly" sitcoms due to the Watershed. Although the watershed is now gone, the perception of 8 PM as a "family hour" persists. All shows in Prime Time are produced by the network.
9 PM - 10 PM: Second hour of Prime Time, and historically the biggest free-for-all in this whole iron grid. It can have edgier sitcoms or any type or drama, from a Buddy Cop Show to a prime-time soap.
10 PM - 11 PM: The third and last hour of Prime Time. Seldom comedy; almost always drama or (for a later decade) a news magazine.
11 PM - 11:30 PM: Local news.
11:30 PM - 1 AM: Late night. Dominated in the 1960s and 1970s by NBC's The Tonight Show; the ABC news program Nightline, launched in 1980, was the first serious competitor. CBS subsisted on action drama repeats and shows rejected for prime time and made-for-TV movies in this slot (notwithstanding the one season Pat Sajak hosted a talk show for them) until they poached David Letterman for The Late Show in the early 1990s. Stations that did not have a network show running in this slot would play an old cheap movie (the kind that Mystery Science Theater 3000 liked to riff on) after the local news, and then go dark and show the test pattern until the 5 AM farm report. In The Eighties, infomercials changed that because they were willing to temporarily pay the cost of running the station to hawk their products.
Sometime in The Nineties and almost simultaneously, the networks moved the start of late night back 5 minutes to give affiliates more commercial time on the late local news without having to cut High School sports coverage or the Yet Another Baby Panda story.
This occured during the First Gulf War.
1 AM - 5 AM However if the network carried a newscast like ABC's World News Now, CBS's Up to the Minute or the late great NBC Nightside (which was just either a half-hour or ninety minutes of an earlier taped newscast) looped over and over and the stations didn't want to dig up their own programming, this is where it went, followed at 4:30 AM by an evening news-like morning newscast.
Note that this schedule only applies in the Eastern and Pacific time zones, which correspond roughly to the East and West Coasts respectively, and some areas further inland. This is because the two main television production centers in the United States, New York City and Los Angeles, are in these time zones. For Central time (which is generally Chicago but includes basically everything west of Atlanta and Indianapolis, and east of Denver and El Paso), subtract an hour from everything. Mountain Time uses the Central Time schedule by taping the east coast feed and playing it back at the appropriate time. And now you know what "8/7 Central" means.
In most cases, the schedules for Central and Mountain time were the same. The main differences in the Central/Mountain schedule were that the national newscast aired in the 5:30-6 p.m. slot and syndicated programs aired in the 6:30-7 p.m. slot with prime time beginning at 7 p.m., local news at 10 and The Tonight Show and other late-night shows starting at 10:30. There were some execeptions. KAKE-TV in Wichita, Kansas, would run network news from 5 p.m. to 5:30 and local news from 5:30 to 6, then have back-to-back half-hour syndicated shots at 6 and 6:30. KMVT in Twin Falls, Idaho, which at the time was the only station in its market, ran programs from NBC, CBS and ABC and took advantage of its location in the Mountain Time Zone to air an extra network program (or two) in the 6-7 p.m. time slot.
The morning schedule for Central and Mountain time was the same as Eastern time because shows such as Today, Good Morning, America, The Price is Right and the soaps were recorded and played back at the corresponding time slot in the Central and Mountain zones, a practice that continues today. In fact, if you look during a morning news show, the notation during a breaking news event will say "Live Eastern Time." Viewers in all other time zones are likely seeing the event on tape delay.
On Saturdays, the morning hours after the farm report would be filled with network-produced Saturday morning cartoons, with the odd locally produced kids' show mixed in. The afternoon had sporting events, and Prime Time was mostly sitcoms and The Wonderful World Of Disney.
On Sundays, the mornings would have political shows (Meet the Press, Face The Nation, Issues And Answers etc.) and religious programming. The afternoon would have sports in season. Prime Time started an hour earlier, at 7 PM. The extra network programming was either an extra family hour or, in the case of CBS, 60 Minutes.
Things started changing in The Eighties and continued mutating through The Nineties. The FOX network booted with much less network programming than the older networks—only two hours of Prime Time (four, then three, on Sunday.) and the occasional talk show. The original excuse was that it was a start-up network; but things never changed (although for a couple years the network experimented with 10pm Sunday programming, low ratings and affiliate pressure forced them to dump it). Fox would eventually score sports programming and become a serious competitor to the original three networks, but they would never have over-the-air national news, daytime soaps, or the 10 PM hour of Prime Time.
The earliest years of Fox were uninspiring, since both hours of Prime Time were family hours and Fox was unsure how to do that kind of program. But then, the requirement that there be a family hour was removed. This allowed Fox to be the model for its own version of the standard schedule, one that other new networks would follow. Here is the short version:
5 AM - 9 AM: Either a local morning newscast, commonly known under Fox's uniform title of Good Day, or other syndicated programming. In many markets the Fox affiliate had formerly aired mainly religious programming before the idea of affiliating with a successful fourth network was commercially viable, and continued to do so in this timeslot to satisfy longtime viewers. Stations that didn't air news or religious programming often ran cartoons here.
9 AM - 3 PM: Local and syndicated programming. As an example, on WTTG Washington in The Eighties, this would consist of a few hours of sitcoms sourced from Viacom, followed by old movies (they especially liked the old Penny Singleton Blondie movies). These days you're more likely to find Judge Judy clones or, at worst, infomercials.
3 PM - 6 PM: Syndicated talk shows, cartoons, or kids' programming. During the Fox Kids era, the 2-5 PM block was network.
6 PM - 8 PM: Local and syndicated programming. Usually more sitcoms, though some Fox stations have started running news here.
8 PM - 9 PM: Prime Time. Can be any genre.
9 PM - 10 PM: Prime Time. Usually a drama.
10 PM and later: Local programming. The first hour of this on the big-market Fox stations is usually the 10 O'Clock News. Some Fox affiliates which were formerly Big Three affiliates or strong news operations also run 11pm newscasts.
Meanwhile, in The Nineties, cable became common in American households. This meant that people could watch TV without watching the broadcast networks at all. This hit both broadcast stations and networks, forcing both to lower their costs, and cut into such network staples as the Variety Show and Saturday morning children's programming. At the same time, all of the major television networks ended up in the hands of, or connected to, movie studios. Before this happened, the networks tried hard to get viewers to stay home instead of going to the movies. Now, the people making network programming also made the movies and wanted viewers to go watch them. This intensified the Friday Night Death Slot and all but killed Prime Time programming on Saturday.
This is the modern version:
5 AM - 7 AM: Local or network news. In some markets the local news begins now at 4:30 AM to provide some kind of update to those viewers who come in from a really distant city and have a long commute into work (say, Petaluma into San Francisco, or Harvard, Illinois into Chicago). Can go to as early as 4 AM on special days like snowstorms or major news events.
Sunday mornings usually have religious programming at this time, or further, though as religious networks gain more steady footing the network stations usually air news or infomercials here.
7 AM - 9 AM: Network news with interruptions for local news
Note: Usually the lower-tier network stations of The CW or My Network TV (unless they're in a major market or carry The Daily Buzz, a national morning program) have thrown in the towel and air mainly infomercials between 5 AM and 9 AM to make something out of literally nothing. Educational and informational programming, which has taken over for children's programming abandoned to the niche cable networks and PBS, also airs within this time to satisfy license concerns.
9 AM - noon: Talk shows—by anybody. CBS is the sole exception, running the current version of Let's Make a Deal at 10 AM, and The Price Is Right at 11 AM.
During weekends, local stations usually air outdoors, travel and locally-produced home programming in these slots once they get their Edutainment obligations out of the way.
Noon - 12:30 PM (or 11 AM for some stations): Local news. Very, very light content (think your local community theater promoting their umpteenth run of Our Town in a sit-down setting with ferns) and Mr. Food, and in rural markets this is still where the farm and market rundown airs.
12:30 PM - 3 PM: Soap operas (from the network) or reality shows (syndicated or local), or more daytime talk shows as the networks cancel more soaps, of which there will only be four remaining as of the start of January 2012.
3 PM - 5 PM: Syndicated game shows and talk shows.[2]
5 PM - 6:30 PM: Local news. The early hour is usually devoted to consumer topics and health news.[3] start their news period at 4 PM. Eastern!
6:30 PM - 7PM: National news (from the network). (5:30 to 6 p.m. Central).
7 PM - 8 PM: Syndicated or local programming (6:30 to 7 p.m. Central due to prime time beginning an hour earlier). (Also, some stations may air a summary newscast at 7 PM for late-travelling commuters.)
Also, 60 Minutes on CBS Sundays.
8 PM- 11 PM: Prime Time from the network. Usually, it's laid out as if the Watershed still holds, but the content no longer has to fit. Reality shows are as common as dramas and sitcoms now. For Fox and The CW, Prime Time ends at 10 PM. With the rise of TiVo and DVR's, 10PM has become a major trouble spot for the Big Three networks as viewers use this time to catch up on early shows that were roadblocked by other network shows they like and unable to be watched live.
11 PM: Local news. (10 PM C/M)
11:35 PM - 3 AM: Late night programming. Networks with successful late night talk shows and news shows may air them this late. Networks with unsuccessful talk shows and news shows will likely have those shows preempted or delayed by local programming. CBS goes to 1:35 AM with their shows, while ABC ends at 1:05 AM, and NBC is the latest at 2:05 AM (though technically as seen below it just leads into a repeat of the fourth hour of Today at 2:05 AM if a station goes by the default NBC schedule).
3 AM - 5 AM: Infomercials, risqué local or syndicated programming, and the sorts of programs that used to come directly after the local news. For CW and MyNetworkTV, this slot is often filled with dating shows, programming purchased by local companies for late night talent shows, and Shepard's Chapel, which is three hours of Bible studies. If the stations decide not to go this route, ABC and CBS continue to distribute their overnight newscasts to affiliates, while NBC throws on a same-day replay of the Kathie Lee/Hoda hour of Today and CNBC's Mad Money. On weekends, ABC and CBS leave it to the affiliates to fill the time (usually with off-network runs of dramas, movies, and Filler programming such as one of Byron Allen's 20 infotainment shows), while NBC repeats that weekend's Meet the Press, Filler programming from WNBC about expensive open houses and dining in New York City, and 18-week-old episodes of Dateline NBC. When a sufficient number of channels have content at this hour — and most cable is 24-hour — broadcast stations lose out if they shut down, and find themselves experiencing technical difficulties in the digital age if they don't leave the transmitter on, even with just rolling radar or color bars.
NBC caused a huge uproar in 2009 when it ran The Jay Leno Show at 10 PM Eastern because it was very much like The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, only more evenly distributed. (Viewers at 10 PM are less likely to go to bed before the show is over.) People predicted that NBC would destroy network television this way, even though that hour is currently completely unused by two of its competitors (three if you count My Network TV, and you probably shouldn't). This violation took at least a temporary toll on NBC, though. (Moving Law and Order: Special Victims Unit an hour earlier severely hurt its ratings, because it ran in what is otherwise a de facto family hour.) As expected, this failed miserably — not because Leno's show lost money (it was so cheap to produce that it couldn't lose money as long as a few advertising spots were sold), but because Leno's ratings were killing the late local news on NBC's affiliates. When the affiliates threatened to dump Leno and put either syndicated content or their late news in the 10 PM hour, NBC blinked, cancelled the primetime Leno show, and paid Conan O'Brien millions of dollars to go away so that Leno could get the Tonight Show back. Some people believe this is what Leno wanted all along, or at least after NBC forced him to "retire" from the Tonight Show.
↑ Pepperidge Farm remembers.
↑ This was still 6 PM during the Turn of the Millennium and is still the case for some stations, but these are becoming the exception in The New Tens rather than the rule.
↑ Some stations in The New Tens
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Is it time to get rid of value stream maps? The first-ever value stream map of a value stream mapping event reveals mountains of waste. The lead-time to achieve actual improvement has increased by 425 percent!
Some are calling this a "Lean crisis." Others are calling it a "Lean disaster." Whatever the name, the real problem is the same as the perceived problem. Yikes! How often does that happen?
The burning platform is no longer burning! It's been extinguished by an a tidal wave of non-Lean thinking. Oh, the humanity! This is the worst thing I've ever witnessed.
Lean management experts finally recognize the problem and are rushing to produce A3 reports to determine the root cause of the problem and identify countermeasures. But will anyone listen? Will companies implement the countermeasures?
The very survival of Lean management is at stake.
Can you point me in the direction to where I can read more about this?
Hi Barney – This post was intended to raise awareness (through a bit of satire) of a problem that has been around for a long time but remains largely ignored. That is, the bureaucratization of Lean overall – and especially in relation to specific tools such as value stream maps – which makes improvement go slow, rather than as it should be: fast. I've written about this in Better Thinking, Better Results and the REAL LEAN and Kaizen Heart and Mind books series, and also in a recent blog post "Lean Heresy." Bureaucratization (or corporatization) of Lean adds complexity and greatly slows down improvement. The one regret that nearly every leader has is: "I wish we would have gone faster." Bureaucratizing Lean guarantees that will always be leaders' regret.
I used to be responsible for a 3-shift operation at Pratt & Whitney in Connecticut and did not experience many problems. Sure, union members and their reps were skeptical of Lean and worried that management had ulterior motives such as layoffs. In general, I find union members are no more of a problem than physicians or professors when it comes to Lean. Anyone who knows little about process improvement is skeptical, mainly because they fear bad outcomes that will affect their work or livelihoods. I have long been of the opinion that union leaders need to understand REAL LEAN and hold management accountable for practicing that (vs. Fake Lean). Doing so would be better for everyone.
Defining the problem is important here. It's not that VSM is bad. It's that it often takes too long or gets bogged down in software. I've done mapping in every company imaginable and it's never taken more than a day. Even at a massive gold mine. It always yields valuable and important insights. As an analogy, I kinda like my dentist to examine every tooth and maybe take an X-Ray before drilling at random. It does become a problem if the dental examination takes hours. Also – A reasonable amount of bureaucracy is good. It especially helps in a large distributed company where there can be lots of scrutiny, and potential wasted effort.
I agree; defining the problem is important. The problem I sought to narrowly define was when: 1) a tool becomes the thing that people focus on most; 2) when this focus turns the tool into something never intended (VSM events); and 3) when people do not recognize there is a problem – meaning, 1) and 2) – and, in particular, improvement going very slowly. This indicates that Lean principles and practices have been altered by normal management practices, where going slow is seen as OK.
Just goes to show that anything can be improved. Value Stream mapping is just a tool in the evolution of Lean. Everything must improve or die. In 50 years I expect even VSM will be a dinosaur in the annals of lean thinking.
As I have understood, I find it interesting that Mike Rother wrote about "Learning to see" fifteen years ago, where the VSM method were thoroughly described, now in "Toyota Kata" underlines that we shouldn't analyze too much, but start working with the improvements. "Set up Vision and Target Condition, list obstacles, go through PDCA and develop countermeasures on the process you want to improve". As I understand this, we should develop a quite rough VSM to show the big picture, and then choose a part of the Value Stream to go into in more detail with an improvement process. Eventually choose two processes and develop a cross functional VSM between them. Is it right understood that this could bring us down to a Kaizen, where we make small everyday improvements, managed by improvement teams, working with their own challenges, instead of big improvement projects managed by expert teams outside the line organization working with the whole Value Stream as a project? Are we too keen on Pareto analyzes based on statistical proofs, the cost/value analyses and big projects itself instead of, in fact, doing everyday improvements?


SAP Ariba is now part of SAP. For up to date information and jobs, please see the SAP profile.
** SAP Ariba jobs are cool. Recruiting scams are not.
"the best place to work."
people became lazy because of taking care of them very well.
our product managers have no idea about the product.
our architect's cant design because the product manager doesn't know what he wants.
our employees busy enjoying the above benefits, not working for at least 4 hours a day.
will advice if there is some stability, each boss is busy in org change, no one is taking their job seriously because they don't know how long they will be in that position, and some leaders are giving stupid innovation idea just to use the budget.
I applied through other source. The process took 4 days. I interviewed at SAP Ariba (Bengaluru) in December 2013.
The interview consisted of 4 F2F interviews and a written test consisting Core Java (Mostly threads few questions on Junits and selenium (Automation testing)).
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending SAP Ariba Live in Amsterdam. It was a celebration of Purpose, Success and Diversity as well as a meeting of some of the greatest minds in Procurement, Supply Chain and eCommerce. I've been to a few of these events now, but this one was by far the best.
While 83% of procurement leaders in a survey by SAP Ariba said digital transformation will be impactful to supply chains in 2018, only 5% said they already have "highly automated" processes. The survey was conducted in partnership with the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.
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A variety of campgrounds and bush camping are available in this 106,000ha National Park in the south of the ACT.
Honeysuckle Campground has access to the historic Honeysuckle Tracking Station site. A walking track connects to Booroomba Rocks/Orroral Ridge.
Orroral Campground has a linkage to Orroral Heritage Walking Track network.
Mt Clear Campground has access to Naas Valley to Horse Gully Hut walk.
A seven night limit applies at all Namadgi campgrounds. You will need a camping permit for wilderness areas in Namadgi National Park. Bookings for these permits must be made in advance at the Namadgi Visitor Centre.


Our small, unique hotel offers you an opportunity to relax in one of NE Scotlands most peaceful and picturesque seaside villages. With only a handful of local residents it truly offers the quiet destination to enjoy the sounds of the sea. Be it the beauty of a flat calm sea or being engulfed in the power of a storm, we offer a year round experience.
Pennan is on the North East coast and is only 10-20 minutes from local amenities in Fraserburgh or Banff, towns steeped in local fishing history, both with local fishing fleets.
The hotel offers a private eating experience, where the owner/chef takes pride in delivering a menu based on the seasons and availability, all sourced locally. The charming, rustic restaurant can comfortably seat up to 20 people.
Our staff are here to ensure that your stay is a memorable one, we offer a warm and friendly experience for the weary traveller. The rooms are well maintained, airy and bright encouraging that peaceful feeling.


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Sergei Semionovich Troitsky
This is not an essay about sexuality, but about biography and history, and honouring the actual lived experience and wishes of those who have departed this life before us.
On May 2 Public Orthodoxy published my "Conjugal Friendship," which summarizes and comments upon Father Pavel Florensky's 1914 "Friendship" and its inspiration, his earlier relationship with the deceased Sergei Troitsky. The explosive reactions that ensued compelled me to write a sequel, "Conjugal Friendship: An Appeal for a Conversation." This appeared on July 5 on the University of Toronto Press Journals Blog.
None of the respondents who took me to task for my interpretation of "Friendship" produced a single sentence from Florensky's text to show me where I had gone wrong. They appeared to base their arguments on no more than pious conjecture.
No one who excoriated my portrayal of Florensky's relationship with Troitsky took into account my dependence on Avril Pyman's 2010 biography, Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius, or her reliance on the letters and diaries of the principal actors in the story.
In an effort to make my sources more easily accessible to an online readership, Orthodoxy in Dialogue published extensive excerpts on September 14 from Florensky's "Two Worlds," "Friendship," and "Jealousy." These figure as letters two, eleven, and twelve in his epistolary The Pillar and Ground of the Truth. The explanatory notes that preface and follow the passages from PGT encapsulate Pyman's narrative of how Florensky, Troitsky, and their contemporaries viewed the relationship between Florensky and Troitsky, its description in "Friendship," Troitsky's impulsive and apparently unconsummated marriage to Florensky's sister, and Florensky's equally impulsive marriage after what he considered to be Troitsky's betrayal.
Given that Boris Jakim's translation of PGT appeared thirteen years before Pyman's biography, we can understand the confusion surrounding the identity of its unnamed dedicatee and addressee among English-speaking commentators. Much less understandable is Father Andrew Louth's perpetuation of this confusion in his 2015 Modern Orthodox Thinkers, where he lists Pyman's biography as one of his sources for Florensky. Louth writes of the terms of endearment with which PGT abounds: "It seems to me clear that no one in particular is intended…it is rather a literary device to draw us into a conversation…." Earlier in his chapter on Florensky, Louth traces an entirely unremarkable trajectory of theological studies→marriage→ordination, no different from that repeated tens of thousands of times over by young priests the length and breadth of Russia.
Yet the record suggests a much more tortuous route from the life of a seminarian in love with his roommate to marriage, ordination, and fatherhood.
Without Pyman's biography we in the West would barely know of Troitsky's existence, let alone the nature of his relationship with Florensky. She correctly surmised that, absent a biography that frankly embraced all the complexities of Florensky's personality, life, and relationships, a hagiographical impetus would gain momentum to suppress or even bury certain uncomfortable facts in the life of a man widely, and rightfully, regarded as a saint—facts which alone provide the key to a full understanding of his crowning literary opus, Pillar and Ground, with its thematic culmination in "Friendship."
In Russia Florensky's own grandson, Igumen (priest-monk) Andronik (Trubachev), is his main biographer and the custodian of his legacy. To Father Andronik and the Father Pavel Florensky Foundation for Science and Orthodox Culture (Фонд науки и православной культуры священника Павла Флоренского) we owe an immeasurable debt of gratitude for their ongoing work to publish his grandfather's lesser known writings, as well as a multi-volume biography entitled Path to God (Путь к Богу).
Yet this brings us to a stark case in point in the erasure of Sergei. Just yesterday Toronto Journal of Theology asked me to review Jakim's brand new translation entitled Pavel Florensky: Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909. As I skimmed through it quickly this morning my eyes fell upon a footnote which the translator confirmed to me as coming not from himself but from Father Andronik: "Sergey Semyonovich Troitsky (1881-1911 [sic]) was perhaps Florensky's closest friend. He was married to Florensky's sister, Olga." What makes this "perhaps" extremely odd is Florensky's own text to which the footnote refers: To my uniquely cherished friend, Sergey Semyonovich Troitsky. "Uniquely cherished" signifies cherished as none other.
Odder still is that, when Florensky delivered "Dogmatism and Dogmatics" at the Moscow Theological Academy two days before his 24th birthday, not only was the speech's "uniquely cherished" dedicatee years from being married to Florensky's sister, but he was in fact half of a couple with Florensky himself. We can easily imagine the young seminarian on that day in January 1906, his eyes glistening as he searches the audience for his beloved, his face beaming, his heart pounding in his breast as he pronounces his public declaration of love: To my uniquely cherished friend, Sergey Semyonovich Troitsky!
The elision on Father Andronik's part is hardly suprising. In volume two of his Path to God, he writes that Florensky addresses PGT's dedication—the letter entitled "Two Worlds"— "to S.S. Troitsky as to a dear friend" (к С.С. Троицкому как к дорогому другу), rather than "to his dear friend" (к своему дорогому другу). The nuance in Father Andronik's choice of words seems significant: we can infer from his phrasing that Troitsky was but one dear friend among many, any of whom could have stood in for PGT's dedicatee.
In Jakim's introduction to Early Religious Writings the erasure of Sergei is complete: he neither mentions Troitsky in his biographical sketch of Florensky nor in his summary of the very essay that Florensky lovingly addresses to him.
Florensky's exclusive friendship with Troitsky—in which they regarded themselves as each other's спутник жизни, sputnik zhizni, "satellite of life" or more literally "co-wayfarer of life," an expression normally applied to one's husband—spanned almost the entire period covered by Early Religious Writings. By Florensky's own account, the "earthquake of the soul" of falling in love with Troitsky and planning the rest of their life together—Troitsky once wrote that "Pavlia and I have sometimes talked ourselves into a state of hallucination describing such a life to one another"—imparted to him a depth of serenity that he had never known before. In a 1905 article he wrote:
Once [Sergei] and I had to wait with the railway guard all the cold night long in his shelter at the station. Drained by two sleepless nights and chilled to the bone, I involuntarily let my head fall on my friend's knees and drifted off to sleep. In my sleep he appeared to me as an Archangel and I knew he was shielding me from all evil powers. Perhaps, in that cold night, hungry and exhausted, I was completely at peace for the first time in my life.
Nine years later, in 1914, Sergei was dead. Pavel was a married man, a priest, a new father. He finally brought to publication The Pillar and Ground of the Truth, which begins by addressing Sergei in these words:
My meek, my radiant friend! Our vaulted room greeted me with coldness, sadness, and loneliness when I opened its door for the first time after my trip. But, alas, I entered it alone, without you. But you are not with me, and the whole world seems deserted. I am alone, absolutely alone in the whole world. My Brother! You who share my soul. Torn away and lonely, I am nevertheless with you. Rising above time, I see your clear gaze; once again, I speak to you face to face. It is for you that I write down my discontinuous thoughts. On quiet autumn nights, in holy hours of silence, when a tear of rapture sparkles on my eyelashes, I will secretly begin to write down for you schemata and pitiful fragments of those questions which we so often discussed together. And I, after all, am nothing more than a pupil who repeats after you the lessons of love.
May Sergei Semionovich Troitsky's memory be eternal, on earth as it is in heaven. Father Pavel would have wanted it no other way.
Giacomo Sanfilippo (formerly Peter J. SanFilippo) is a PhD student in Theological Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, Trinity College, University of Toronto, and an editor at Orthodoxy in Dialogue. His dissertation will focus on Father Florensky's "Friendship" and its biographical, social, cultural, and historical context. Earlier in life he completed the course requirements for the MDiv at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. He was a priest from 1988 to 2002. He volunteers with child cancer patients and their families at SickKids Hospital.
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Hollowell up for two awards
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Soo Greyhounds overage Mac Hollowell is one of six finalists for each of two prestigious, Ontario Hockey League awards.
The Niagara Falls, Ont., product has been nominated for both defenceman of the year (Max Kaminsky Trophy) and overage player of the year (Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy).
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Both of those awards are among six voted on by OHL member clubs.
Announced on Thursday night, Morgan Frost is one of 20 league nominees (one from each team) for the Red Tilson Trophy as the OHL's outstanding player for the 2018-2019 season.
That award is voted on by OHL writers and broadcasters.
Meantime, Hounds head coach John Dean is up for the Matt Leyden Trophy as coach of the year.
Matt Villalta is a finalist for the goaltender-of-the-year award. Former Hound Joseph Raaymakers of London is also a finalist.
Greyhound nominees didn't make the final list of six for either rookie of the year or most sportsmanlike player.
Teams are asked to submit one nominee from their club for consideration. The first stage of voting was by conference, with only the top three nominees from each conference advancing to the final ballot.
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Reforms proposed to student fee process
Some say streamlined; others say unnecessaryStudent government leaders debated Wednesday over whether proposed changes to the student fee process streamline the procedure or unnecessarily strip power from elected officials.Currently, CSU students have the power to suggest to the Student Fee Review Board
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–– an arm of the Associated Students of CSU –– that fees be increased to fund the creation of particular programs. After SFRB reviews the proposals throughout the academic year, they bundle them up into a "Long Bill" for the Senate's review in the spring. Senators can pass, fail, or amend the bill to their liking.
In May 2011, for example, then-ASCSU Vice President Jennifer Babos won the approval of both student groups for a $4 fee increase –– equaling about $189,600 a year –– to increase awareness campaigns and educational programming about interpersonal violence.
The two groups' recommendations weigh heavily on how CSU President Tony Frank introduces the student fee increase proposals to the CSU System Board of Governors, which authorizes their implementation. A divided student opinion on a given fee increase proposal "ultimately erodes the credibility that we as students have in forming decisions regarding student fees," said ASCSU Vice President Joe Eden.
Should Eden have his way, the opportunity for a divide won't present itself in the future.
"If Bill 4202 is passed, the way student fees are evaluated by students will be a more involved process with regards to how student representatives [Senators] are informed throughout the process," he said in an email to the Collegian. "Rather than voting on a Bill of recommended fees put forth by the Student Fee Review Board at the end of the year, Senators will approve a process by which fees will be evaluated in the fall, and the process will be revisited in the spring."
The end result, he explained, would be a unified voice between SFRB and Senate, with the latter stripped of its ability to directly amend student fee increase proposals. Bill 4202 makes it so that they can only recommend changes.
"So in effect, it becomes an honesty between SFRB and Senate … If, per se, we don't like that increase, what backing does senate have … ?" said College of Liberal Arts Sen. Halden Schnal. "I feel like there's a lot of potential for politics in this."
Eden said SFRB would listen to Senate's advice.
" … This process is not going to be a 100 percent perfect. This is an improvement tenfold on what the whole process. But, again, if you get into the issue of mandating that they have to take all of (Senate's) proposed increases or decreases in fees, then why have (SFRB) exist to begin with?" Eden said. "Because ultimately, (SFRB) exists so that you personally don't have to go through line by line and evaluate every single fee."
College of Business Sen. Josh Shaughnessy echoed Schnal's concerns, wondering why SFRB couldn't be kept in an advisory role to advise Senate on the best course of action.
"Just like any CEO has advisors, but it's still the CEO who would make the decision," he said.
Eden again pointed to SFRB's expertise in the subject of student fee increase proposals and reminded senators that 50 percent of SFRB members were reserved for senators.
Shaughnessy later voiced his support for Bill 4202, eased by the fact that senators could participate in SFRB and take advantage of its proposed independence.
Since the proposed legislation is an amendment to the ASCSU Constitution, it requires two-thirds of the Senate's approval during two separate sessions. In between those sessions, Bill 4202 will be sent to Senate committees for discussion.
The earliest that it could be passed is Sept. 12.
"If the bill in its current form were to be brought before the Senate, it would pass, because it is indeed in the best interest of the students," Eden said. "But if there are any changes to it in the (Senate) committees I'm not sure it will pass."
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The riders had to cope with some rain today in the first half of the 43km long race. Yesterday's winner Tuguldur Tuulkhangai opened the debate upon entering the Nadamu Arena after 5km, and found Sainbayar Jambaljamts and Myagmarsuren Baasaankhuu again willing collaborators. German Philipp Bertsch tried what he could to keep up with the trio, but to no avail. The three Mongolians, riding for different teams, were gone. They wouldn't stay together for long, though. At the km 12 mark Jamba attacked and immediately opened up a gap. Like yesterday, Tugulduur seemed to be struggling more than the others on the climbs. Baasaankhuu noticed that also, and would drop the yellow jersey himself for second place. It was all over a minute behind the flying Jamba, however, who after several podium places scored his first ever stage win in Xiwuqi. Moreover, he's in the lead overall. Tomorrow he needs to defend a time bonus of 1"11" over Baasaankhuu and almost three minutes over Tuulkhangai. Can the promising youngster pull of an upset tomorrow and win the 2016 Genghis Khan MTB Adventure?
The women's competition is even far less certain. For the second consecutive day, Tuvshinjargal was unable to drop Tserenlham and had to sprint for the stage win. Chiara Eberle was again no match for the two Mongolians today, yet she stays in third place. Last year, Eberle was outstanding on the final 100km stage, but it will be hard to still find a way to defend her title.
In the KOG, Zhang Zenlong -second in the Grassland Marathon in the morning - is still in green, but he will need to watch out tomorrow for Alexey Chakhlov, Wang Lidong and Wang Guolong.


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If you have a souped-up system that doesn't seem to work as fast as it should, then look no further than the hard disk. In this Daily Feature, Deb Shinder discusses techniques you can use to ensure that you're getting the most out of your system.
Optimizing your hard disk performance
by Debra Littlejohn Shinder in CXO
on August 2, 2001, 12:00 AM PDT
As computers become more powerful, with processors in the gigahertz range and memory prices falling, you will find the performance bottleneck in your system is hard disk access. Although you may not be able to afford expensive, high-speed SCSI disk arrays for your computers, there are ways to optimize disk performance, thus increasing overall system operation. In this Daily Feature, I will take a look at some of the ways you can ensure that you're getting all you can out of your hard disks.
File systems and performance issues
Windows 2000 supports the FAT16 (FAT), FAT32, and NTFS file systems. There are a number of good reasons to use NTFS on all your disk partitions. File encryption, file compression, disk quotas, file level security, and other Windows 2000 features require NTFS; you cannot use these features on partitions formatted in the FAT file systems. Because NTFS is a more powerful file system, it does carry more system overhead. However, in most cases, the small performance difference is outweighed by its advantages.
Formatting vs. converting
What many people are unaware of is that you can increase disk performance by doing a clean format in NTFS. Windows 2000 allows you to convert a FAT or FAT32 partition to NTFS, but a converted disk will not perform as well as one that has been formatted in NTFS. Thus, if you have a choice between converting and formatting, you may want to save your data and format the partition in NTFS.
Be sure to back up any data on the FAT/FAT32 disk before you format it in NTFS, because formatting causes you to lose all the data on the partition.
NTFS performance tuning
By disabling unneeded features and functions, you can improve the performance of NTFS. For backward compatibility, NTFS creates a corresponding "eight-dot-three" filename (MS-DOS type name) along with the long filename you give a file. If you are not sharing files with 16-bit operating systems (MS-DOS, Windows 3.x) or applications, you don't need this feature. Disabling the automatic creation of short names will eliminate the overhead required to perform this task and enhance performance. Another NTFS feature that can be disabled for improved performance is the automatic update of the time/date stamp (last access update) when a directory is traversed. Both of these performance-tuning modifications require that you edit the Registry. Always exercise caution when making direct changes to the Registry.
The performance hit caused by last access updates may not be significant on small NTFS volumes but can be noticeable on large volumes.
From the Run command on the Start Menu, type Regedit or Regedt32 and access the following key (see Figure A):
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\
You can enhance performance by editing the Registry to disable unneeded NTFS features.
To disable short filenames, change the value of NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1. To disable last access updates, change the value of NtfsDisableLastAccessUpdate to 1. If the entry is not already present, you will have to create it.
Dynamic disks
Windows 2000 supports the creation of a new disk type. The traditional way of organizing disks is to divide them into partitions (called a basic disk). This new disk type, which goes by the name of dynamic disks, supports software RAID levels 0, 1, and 5. These RAID levels provide fault tolerance and can also increase performance. The fault tolerant RAID levels (1 and 5) are available only on Windows 2000 Server, but Windows 2000 Professional allows you to create striped volumeson dynamic disks.
By default, disks are configured as basic disks. To convert a basic disk to dynamic, open Disk Manager (right-click My Computer, select Manage, and select Storage | Disk Management in the left console pane). Right-click the disk in the right pane and select Upgrade To Dynamic Disk. Note that you cannot reverse the process and downgrade to basic without losing all data on the disk.
Performance effects of striped volumes
Striped volumes (RAID 0) do not offer any fault tolerance benefit. The purpose of creating a RAID 0 volume is to enhance disk performance. A striped volume spreads data across two or more physical disks, which make up one logical volume, in stripes. Throughput is increased, because the operating system can access both disks simultaneously. Striped volumes offer the best performance of all Windows 2000 volume types.
Disk fragmentation
Fragmentation is one of the most common reasons for a slowdown in disk performance. A disk becomes fragmented when files are deleted and new files are written to the disk, because the new files may not be stored in contiguous clusters. This increases the seek time because the system must find all the "pieces" of the file that are scattered in different physical locations on the disk.
A disk defragmentation tool rearranges the data on the disk so that files are made up of contiguous clusters. Windows 2000 Professional includes a Disk Defragmenter tool, accessed via the Computer Management console or through Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools. You should use the Disk Defragmenter tool to analyze your disks on a regular basis (as shown in Figure B) and defragment when necessary. This can significantly speed disk performance.
You should analyze disks regularly and defragment them when needed.
Monitoring disk performance
If you suspect your hard disk(s) is the bottleneck that is slowing down your system's performance, you can use Windows 2000's built-in Performance tool to monitor disk performance.
The Performance tool is accessed via Start | Settings | Control Panel | Administrative Tools in Windows 2000 Professional. The Performance tool includes two parts: System Monitor and Performance Logs and Alerts. Use the System Monitor to set up monitoring of disk-related performance data.
There are two performance objects to be concerned with:
LogicalDisk, which monitors performance for individual partitions/volumes, as designated by drive letter C, D, E, etc.
PhysicalDisk, which monitors performance for individual hard disks, as designated by number 0, 1, 2, etc.
In Figure C, you see that you can select from a list of counters for the specified object.
You can monitor performance data for logical disks (partitions) or physical disks.
By default, in Windows 2000, the PhysicalDisk counters are activated, but you must activate the LogicalDisk counters before System Monitor can use them. This is done with the Diskperf command.
At the command line, enter the following:
diskperf –yv
This activates counters for logical disks (volumes, as designated by the v switch). To deactivate them (which you should do after you finish using them, since activated counters themselves create a slight performance hit), enter diskperf –nv (y indicates yes, or on; n indicates no, or off). The physical disk counters can be turned on and off using a d switch with the y or n instead of a v.
For detailed information on using the disk counters to monitor disk performance, see Chapter 30, "Examining And Tuning Disk Performance," in the Windows 2000 Professional Resource Kit.
Disk bottlenecks are common culprits when your Windows 2000 Professional machine's performance slows down. There are several actions you can take to optimize disk performance and increase the overall speed with which your computer performs disk-related tasks. In this Daily Feature, I have explained some steps you can take to ensure that your disks are operating at maximum efficiency.
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DEBRA LITTLEJOHN SHINDER is a technology consultant, trainer and writer who has authored a number of books on computer operating systems, networking, and security. These include Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook, published by Syngress, and Computer Networking Essentials, published by Cisco Press. She is co-author, with her husband, Dr. Thomas Shinder, of Troubleshooting Windows 2000 TCP/IP and the best-selling Configuring ISA Server 2000, ISA Server and Beyond and Configuring ISA Server 2004. \ \ Deb is also a tech editor, developmental editor and contributor to over twenty additional books on subjects such as the Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 MCSE exams, CompTIA Security+ exam and TruSecure?s ICSA certification. She formerly edited the Brainbuzz A+ Hardware News and currently edits Sunbelt Software?s WinXP News (www.winxpnews.com) and Element K's Inside Windows Server Security journal. Her articles are regularly published on TechRepublic?s TechProGuild site and Windowsecurity.com, and have appeared in print magazines such as Windows IT Pro (Windows & .NET) Magazine. She has authored training material, corporate whitepapers, marketing material, and product documentation for Microsoft Corporation, GFI Software, Hewlett-Packard, DigitalThink, Sunbelt Software, CNET and other technology companies. \ \ Deb currently specializes in security issues and Microsoft products; she has been an MCSE since 1998 and has been awarded Microsoft?s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) status in Windows Server Security. A former police officer and police academy instructor, she lives and works in the Dallas-Ft Worth area and teaches computer networking and security and occasional criminal justice courses at Eastfield College in Mesquite, TX.
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Viral meningitis case confirmed at Blue Ridge Middle
A case of viral meningitis has been reported at Blue Ridge Middle School in Greer.
Viral meningitis case confirmed at Blue Ridge Middle A case of viral meningitis has been reported at Blue Ridge Middle School in Greer. Check out this story on greenvilleonline.com: https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2017/10/13/viral-meningitis-case-confirmed-blue-ridge-middle/763171001/
Anna Lee, zlee@greenvillenews.com Published 4:59 p.m. ET Oct. 13, 2017 | Updated 4:53 a.m. ET Oct. 14, 2017
Greenville County Schools will interview applicants for positions such as bus drivers, bus aides, custodians and food service workers today (Tuesday) at Wade Hampton High School.(Photo: File)
A case of viral meningitis was confirmed at Blue Ridge Middle School in Greer Friday.
Greenville County Schools spokeswoman Beth Brotherton said a student has been diagnosed as recovering from viral meningitis after first being diagnosed with unspecified entero virus.
She said the disease was discovered when the student went to a follow up appointment.
"Viral meningitis is much less serious than bacterial meningitis, does not spread easily, and is not airborne, so there is no requirement from the Department of Health that schools receive official notification or that they notify their families," Brotherton said in a release Friday afternoon.
"As a precaution, custodial staff will perform a thorough sanitizing and cleaning of the affected classrooms and the common areas in the school," she said.
Parents were also notified in a message Friday afternoon to make them aware of the symptoms, Brotherton added.
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I have written in my tree a markdown file in build rootdir (wondering about a /doc directory?) guiding how to build a kernel using RHEL / CentOS containers.
Wondering if would you be interested to merge it into your tree.
wondering about a /doc directory?
We had a documentation directory in the build script repository some time ago, but later it was fully moved to armbian/documentation.
how to build a kernel using RHEL / CentOS containers.
Are there issues building packages and full images using "./compile.sh docker" or you didn't test this method?
Ooooo that's pretty very well organized!!! Will clone and send the PR over there.
> Are there issues building packages and full images using "./compile.sh docker" or you didn't test this method?
I have not tested, because I was not in need and also documentation stated that it does not work.
Would be willing to give a try in the future, if wanted.
Which is a dependency to my howto, due to default image size issues.


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King's People
Professor Edith Hall
Professor of Classics
edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk
Since being awarded the Hellenic Foundation Prize for her Oxford doctorate (1988), Edith has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and London Universities. She has published twenty books. She is Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chairman of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She has won funding for research from the AHRB, the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, and has just been awarded a Humboldt Research Prize. She appears regularly on BBC Radio, and has acted as consultant to professional productions of ancient drama at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Northern Broadsides, Theaterkombinat and other professional companies. Her personal website contains further information: www.edithhall.co.uk.
Research Interests and PhD supervision
Ancient Greek Social and Intellectual History
Ancient Greek literature
Ancient Greek and Roman Performance Culture
Tragedy and Comedy
Ethnicity, gender, and class
The Reception of ancient Greece and Rome
Professor Hall would be interested in supervising PhD students in any of the areas mentioned above.
For more details, please see Edith's full research profile.
A People's History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain 1689-1939 01 March 2020
Teaching Classical Civilisation in Britain 01 January 2020
Tony Harrison, Poet of Radical Classicism 01 January 2020
New Light on Tony Harrison 03 January 2019
Greek Theatre and Performance around the Ancient Black Sea 01 January 2019
Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life 03 May 2018
Classical epic and the London fairs, 1697-1734 01 January 2018
American Communist Idealism in George Cram Cook's The Athenian Women (1918) 01 January 2018
Beyond the Limits of Art and War Trauma:: David Jones' In Parenthesis 01 January 2018
Classics in our ancestors' communities 01 January 2018
Professor Edith Hall discusses philosophy as a verb on BBC Radio 3


Images are on display at Huntington Beach Public Library.
David Freeman, who describes himself as a photo activist, invites people to look deeply into his images on display at the Windows Gallery in the Huntington Beach Central Library and Cultural Center.
That's how he hopes to touch hearts and change minds about homeless people.
"Our citizens need to be made aware of who these people are," the Long Beach man said of the men and women depicted in portraits taken of street people around Southern California.
The exhibit, titled "I Am Somebody," runs through Thursday, Feb. 28 at the library, 7111 Talbert Ave., Huntington Beach. The title is reminiscent of the 1950s poem "I Am – Somebody" that is associated with the civil rights era and often referenced by the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
At 77, Freeman, a retired businessman, focuses his photographic skills on homelessness.
Local churches have hosted his work, most recently in September at First Congregational Church of Long Beach. The Windows Gallery at the library is a space hosted by the Huntington Beach Art League.
Hours vary: Monday, 1-9 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, 1-5 p.m.


James Tapscott, the Melbourne-based Land & Light artist, is happy to announce plans for "TRAVERSION", an illuminated sculpture to be located at the iconic "Bridge of 15 Bridges" on the Herengracht Canal in Amsterdam from the end of November through to the end of January 2019.
TRAVERSION will be part of the seventh Amsterdam Light Festival, where local and international artists take visitors on a journey along 30 original artworks created especially for the event.
Tapscott's TRAVERSION will be composed of two vaulting arches of fine mist, one on either side of the famous bridge, illuminated with white light of subtly differing colour tones. "I want to give the feeling, when you pass through on a boat, that you are moving through different spaces, from cool to warm," said Tapscott.
'TRAVERSION' will echo the effect of looking through one bridge tunnel to the next. The site has a unique and interesting visual rhythm, as you look down each road or canal you see multiple bridges lined up in the distance – hence the name "bridge of 15 bridges".
"My work is determined by the site itself," said Tapscott. "The place determines the idea, the idea determines the materials and the materials determine the approach and its language". Rarely using colour, Tapscott's Land And Light art is particularly concerned with the 'genius loci', and the narratives that emerge at a littoral edge where land meets water and water meets light.
The translucent sculpture is meant for pedestrians to enjoy too; they will see boats emerge through a curtain of warm mist at the end of the tunnel, as if from another world. The mist will hang in the air, floating above the water, intensifying the emotional timbre of the space.
Edition #7 of the 53-day Amsterdam Light Festival revolves around the theme 'The Medium is the Message', a famous statement by the Canadian scientist Marshall McLuhan. The role of light in conveying a message and the city of Amsterdam as a medium for telling stories will be central to the festival of 2018/19.
Earlier in 2018 Tapscott showed "Vivisection" at the DARK MOFO festival in Hobart. Also this year, his "Diaphanous Bloom" was installed in Shenzhen, China, in association with Art Front Gallery and United Art Projects. Tapscott is also working on a large-scale public artwork for Perth, Australia, and his studio's design-arm is completing a hospital commission for 200 timber wall-light fixtures called SOLID.
Tapscott's best-known artwork "Arc ZERO-Nimbus" was installed at the Japan Alps Project, orchestrated by Fram Kitagawa in 2017, and is in many ways the parent of TRAVERSION planned for Amsterdam.
A 6-meter walk-through ring set over a wooden bridge in a forest, "Arc ZERO-Nimbus" was illuminated by two layers of soft LEDs, creating ever-changing play between light and liquid, and turning the negative space of the ring into a diaphanous crystalline O.


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Q: extracting zip files with powershell I am trying to extract a zip file to then be downloaded by remote people.  Once extracted I will have a script that installs the package but I need to use a compressed folder and the remote users don't have 7zip or anything like it.
I have this but I keep getting an error -
$shell = new-object -com shell.application
$zip = $shell.NameSpace("C:\name.zip")
foreach($item in $zip.items())
{
$shell.Namespace("C:\temp\name").copyhere($item)
}

The error I am getting is below -
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At line:5 char:43
+ $shell.Namespace("C:\name").copyhere <<<< ($item)
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (copyhere:String) [], RuntimeException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

There are other issues with the code but this is a work in progress, I will fix the hard coding of values once I can get it to extract.

A: Does your extract path exist ("C:\temp\name")? To be clear, both of the items in that path should be directories.
That should be a path that already exists. If it doesn't you get that error.


Competition in sport can be fun but the competitive element should not extend beyond that into the social aspects of a club. No one should have to prove themselves through initiation rituals or feel excluded by social hierarchies.
Getting back into netball has been the highlight of my time at SOAS but has previously been a source of fear at other establishments. Many university sports have long-standing traditions of initiations which range from peer pressure to excessively drinking to sexual assault. These are all done in the name of bringing the teams closer together. First years are often told that, whilst everyone hates it, everyone does it and that when they progress out of first year, they will do it to the new first years themselves. These traditions are hugely alienating to many people who may want to simply play the sport or join a community. Not only this, but socials seem to be largely focused on drinking, going out and hooking up with random boys. Rarely are there any openly queer people or trans people. For a university in the centre of London, with a huge percentage of international students, clubs are often dominated by white people who make up a disproportionate majority of teams' committees.
As a university who prides itself on being self-aware, inclusive and diverse, are SOAS sports more inclusive? Has SOAS Netball found a way to create comradery without initiations? Whilst we haven't completely, we are trying to fight the stereotypical university sports teams experiences. Over the past few years SOAS Netball, in particular, has swelled from having one team to having three teams, a recreational squad and open sessions for queer people! This makes Netball the most active womxn only society at SOAS, with three training sessions per week and at points up to four matches and a social.
So what are we trying to do?
We are lucky to have a vocal mass of LGBTQIA+ people which has meant that more and more people have started to feel comfortable in coming out. It also means that SOAS Netball is not just an accepting space for LGBTQIA+ people but one in which they can thrive. We also have a social secretary, Roshni White-Saini, which means that the onus of organising socials doesn't fall to the captains. By having a specific person to organise these socials, a sufficient amount of time and energy goes into organising events that are inclusive and not entirely centered around drinking. One of the key changes this year has been the addition of an independent welfare officer to our committee, Holly Ogborne.
As the new pastoral/welfare officer for SOAS netball, I'm hoping that the role can provide a channel for people to easily access help with any issues they're encountering, whether that is within SOAS Netball or otherwise. It should hopefully also provide another level of accountability to the society as it seeks to become even more inclusive for its members and prospective members. I'm inspired to do this role because of my experience as a member of SOAS Netball so far. I was sure of who I was before coming to university but not confident that I was worth other people's time and friendship. Netball, especially in my second year, became somewhere where my confidence grew; I was accepted and supported even though I wasn't always the life and soul of the party or what I thought others expected me to be. I only realised how much Netball had helped in my growth at the end of year Sports Ball when I looked back at what I was like before the year began and how much I'd grown. Though my experience hasn't been perfect, the committee has always sought to learn and improve how the society is run, and we should continue to do so.
This year and in years to come I hope Netball can have a similar confidence-building effect for other womxn who join. This can only happen if we continue on the path of becoming more inclusive and develop an atmosphere of encouragement and acceptance. Competition in sport can be fun but the competitive element should not extend beyond that into the social aspects of a club. No one should have to prove themselves through initiation rituals or feel excluded by social hierarchies. I hope this year, and in future years, sports clubs can be places where everyone feels equal and included just as they are.
Representation is important everywhere and, in SOAS Netball, we believe that sports societies should model themselves on more political societies, with democratic elections and accountability, because our sports club is a community as well as a grouping of individuals who want to play the sport. At university, sport can be a crucial outlet for people, with many students having mental health issues, sport can be a great help and therefore people must strive to make them as inclusive as possible.
SOAS Netball is a community of womxn who support each other so, as we grow, we must become as self-aware and as accountable as, for example, the feminist society or LGBTQIA+ society etc.


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Review: Craig Wright's "The Pavilion"—old lovers meet at a high school reunion and unload 20 years of baggage—at Cinnabar Theater through September 22, 2013
Sami Granberg (left) and Nathan Cummings portray old lovers who encounter one another at a high-school reunion in "The Pavilion," Craig Wright's bittersweet comedy which opens Cinnabar Theater's 41st season. Photo" Eric Chazankin
Can you turn back the clock on love and start over? That's just one of the questions raised in Craig Wright's delicate drama The Pavilion, which opens Cinnabar Theater's 41st season. Emmy nominee Wright, who also penned episodes for TV shows like "Six Feet Under" and "Lost," is no stranger to the difficult but endlessly fascinating state of human connection and creating characters that embody the walking wounded. The Pavilion, written in 2,000 and directed by Tara Blau, delivers many laughs amidst the universally familiar pain and frustration of love gone sour. The play's psychological acuity represents a slight but welcome shift in Cinnabar's programming.
The Pavilion is enacted by three main characters and is set around a 20th high school reunion in Pine City, a small town that feels a lot like old Petaluma. Sami Granberg and Nathan Cummings portray old lovers, Keri and Peter, who encounter one another at a high-school reunion. Keri is now married and her life as a bank employee who escorts people to and from their safety deposit boxes is as stagnate as her marriage. Peter is a big beefy likable guy, a therapist who's in need of therapy himself. He's in a relationship but has come to the reunion hoping for another chance at love with Keri whom he abandoned twenty years ago after getting her pregnant. Peter's betrayal of Keri altered both of their lives for the worse and he wants redemption.
As the Narrator, Jeff Coté starts the play off philosophically by setting its context as the slow forward march of time. He also adroitly plays a surprising number of secondary characters at the reunion who nudge Peter and Keri through their interactions. Aided by Coté's mastery of gestures, these humorous encounters reveal a motley collective of broken and warped souls at the Pine City reunion.
Under the feigned joviality of reconnection, everyone wants something. Peter is most honest about his sense of dissatisfaction about where life has led him. He is desperate to salvage lost love which he has fantasized will be his only real shot at happiness in this life but he must first get Keri to talk with him. The clock stopped for Keri emotionally when she made the painful decision to terminate her pregnancy. Twenty years later, she is still childless and anguished, and she claims she wants nothing to do with Peter. A bevy of push pull signals reveal otherwise though. The burning questions—will reconnecting heal their old wounds or inflame them? Will talking about what transpired and the mistakes that were made free them to move on with their lives separately, or, will they find happiness ever after with each other?
Cinnabar Theater's Tara Blau directs an exceptional dramatic journey which is well worth the price of admission (which is about half of what you'll pay elsewhere). Joe Elwick's set is a wonderfully simple slice of small town nostalgia— a wooden dance hall, the Pavilion, with just a few tables and mood-setting Japanese lanterns whose backdrop is a picturesque lake. To one side, there's a garden and swing. The Pavilion, ironically slated for destruction right after the reunion, holds a special place in the hearts of those former students and suggests the fragility of the past.
In Wayne Hovey's capable hands, the beautiful lighting becomes a vehicle of great transformation, capable of evoking a myriad of moods and the magic of shooting stars.
From the beginning of the play, the Narrator (Coté ) functions as an all-seeing poetic consciousness capable of tracking the movements of the universe, from the enormous cosmos right down to the development of the little pavilion that is human consciousness and further down to this particular moment in Pine City High's history. Philosophically, every person becomes a lens through which the whole reflects itself and every passing moment a unique outgrowth of this unique universe. It's impossible to erase the past and start over but Peter imagines he is entitled to happiness and begs the Narrator to intervene and stop the inevitable.
Jeff Coté (left) and Sami Granberg star in "The Pavilion", a romantic new play
that opens Cinnabar Theater's 41st season. Coté is the Narrator and he comically plays a number of secondary characters—male and female— at a 20th high school reunion. Granberg plays Keri, who has been seething since high school over being abandoned when she got pregnant. Photo: Eric Chazankin
Petaluman Nathan Cummings steps into the role of Peter with ease. Here's a guy who screwed up royally years ago and Cumming makes him fascinating as he ruminates dreamingly on why he's entitled to another chance and how he'll become a better man through love. His shining moment comes when he takes to the pavilion and serenades Keri with "Down in the Ruined World," a ballad which he delivers with intention.
Sami Granberg creates a resonant Keri—in a red satin dress, she's still a youthful looking woman but she is frozen in bitterness and resigned to her fate.
The Pavilion is one of the most engaging plays I've seen at Cinnabar. The story is laced with the pathos of regret and there's no easy answer to the emotional wreckage that has emerged…the acting is genuine and it all rings true.
Details: The Pavilion ends September 22, 2013. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Cinnabar Theater is located 3333 Petaluma Blvd. North, at the intersection with Skillman Lane, Petaluma, CA 94952.
Tickets: $25 for adults and $15 for ages 21 and under. Significant discounts available as part of a ticket package. Purchase tickets online at www.cinnabartheater.org, or call 707.763-8920
Monday through Friday between 10 AM and 3 PM. Tickets may also be available at the door, but advance purchase is recommended. Seating is general admission but the theatre is open about 30 minutes prior to each performance.
September 14, 2013 Posted by genevaanderson | Theatre	| Cinnabar Theater, Craig Wright, Eric Chazankin, Jeff Coté, Joe Elwick, Nathan Cummings, Sami Granberg, Tara Blau, The Pavilion, Wayne Hovey | Leave a comment


Amazing Castle Maze: More then 140 ft. of exploration & adventure. Large viewing panels throughout create a perfect setting for an exciting game of hide &seek with their parents. Easily handles 180 to 200 children per hour.


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The Worst Villains of Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop has some of the best storylines compared to many other anime series. The team, different antagonists, and the challenges the crew face are some of the elements that make this series worth watching. Some story arcs make this anime memorable and almost everyone from the late 90s remembers it.
With the best well-written crew and one-episode setting, the anime has some of the best-written antagonists. However, there are some villains in the anime that was too lame and worst to be a part of the series. They either made no sense or were just too weak to be a villain. In this article, we will be mentioning some of the worst villains of Cowboy Bebop.
Abdul Hakim's greatest flaw is that he is squandered potential. A wanted fugitive on the run from the authorities, he has assumed a new face to throw them off his trail amidst his dealings ~ one which the bounty hunters discovered regardless.
The stagnancy of this identity renders what could have been an intriguing, psychologically thrilling villain for Spike to go up against another faceless payday to claim. Despite his overall banality, he would be responsible for introducing Ein to the crew, a faithful canine companion and playmate for Ed.
Domino Walker
is among Spike's least threatening contracts. He is a mushroom dealer who has accrued a long list of enemies for his trade, creating more threat for the cowboy and his allies between him and those holding a grudge than his actual target themself.
Walker is physically unfit and poorly armed, relying on his surroundings to escape the bounty hunters. He is so incompetent that it was ultimately Ed who defeated him, pouncing on his chest and insisting she had claimed the bounty. Correctly assessing her gullibility, he negotiated his freedom for the products of his briefcase.
Chessmaster Hex
had put his schemes into motion decades ago, finally unraveling them toward the end of his life where he would not have to suffer the consequences of his actions. He was built up as a mad genius, especially seen through the way he was able to best Edward (known for her intelligence) in Chess.
However, when Spiegel converged on the signal of Hex's chess game, it was revealed that the old man was only what his title implied; a Chess master. He had lost his malice long ago, leading to a disappointing episode conclusion with an unsatisfying payoff.
Teddy Bomber
What began as a decent concept quickly devolved into a novelty. Despite the devastation that Teddy visited on his surroundings, he was constantly foiled by Spike, only to be thwarted by the true antagonist of the episode – his cowboy rival, Andy.
The Bomber's incessant cries to be noticed cheapen the forced political message he later conveyed to the officer in the van hauling him off to prison. While a radicalized extremist is a solid foundation to work from, he was not nearly credible enough of a threat to be considered a good villain.