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Being Strategic in Quiet Times: Green Bay's Charles Guthrie
By Charles Guthrie, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Seldom in the high-pressure, fast-paced world of intercollegiate athletics do we find ourselves in a quiet period, a period that not only allows for, but arguably invites reflection, learning, relationship building, depth, and uninterrupted attention to detail. These moments challenge us to resist our well-conditioned reflexes that all too often urge us to constantly remain in high gear.
In an industry in which demands are relentless and expectations immense, with stakeholders seeking updates, decisions, and progress yesterday and not a moment later, the enormity of this challenge cannot be understated. However, I have come to firmly believe that slowing down, particularly during the ebb of the tide, is a more expedient route to strategic thinking, idea generation, and enduring excellence.
Build Positive Working Relationships with Internal and External Constituents
Building positive working relationships with internal and external constituents is a critical aspect of my position and one of the most enjoyable, yet it can be difficult to dedicate as much time as I'd like to this area when activity levels are high and attention is being pulled in many directions. Thus, during quiet periods, I actively seek to formally and informally nurture relationships with student-athletes, coaches, staff members, community members and friends of the program.
When schedules aren't as chaotic and everyone has a bit more time to breathe, my 90-minute weekly meeting with members of my senior leadership team tends to involve deeper, more nuanced, more creative, and notably more forward-thinking exchanges. While we still dedicate time and energy to updating one another on current events and department happenings, we are intentional about using these gatherings to think big, plan for future events and prepare against anticipated developments.
In our conversations with one another, we commit to raising tough questions and considering opposing ideas, with the hope of reducing the decision-making bias and risk that is more difficult to minimize during time-pressured periods. Respectfully sharing diverse viewpoints increases the likelihood that situations will be assessed from multiple angles, engenders mutual respect, and communicates a message of openness that can and should be carried throughout the department. It is during the quiet periods that these critical perspectives are often best processed.
While my senior leadership team meets each week, weekly meetings with coaching staff members simply isn't feasible given the realities of coaches' day-to-day responsibilities, as well as my own calendar, so I make a concerted effort to check in with coaches in a manner that has little to do with performance assessment and a great deal to do with a genuine interest in hearing about coaches' time outside of the competitive environment.
These informal, relatively short conversations often tell me far more about the challenges and opportunities facing a particular coaching staff and/or sports program that any formal meeting I might be able to schedule. They also, by virtue of their more personal nature, do far more to generate trust, engagement, and understanding, elements that are critical to advancing the larger goals of the department.
Prepare for a Crisis Situation
As we have all seen within and beyond the intercollegiate athletics sphere, it is the unseen or unanticipated crises that can quickly overwhelm us, testing our decision-making and strategic thinking abilities in ways that render us unable to adequately respond. Consequently, at Wisconsin-Green Bay, a considerable amount of time during quiet periods is spent identifying and preparing for potential crises.
We work to stay abreast of crisis situations happening elsewhere within intercollegiate athletics and the larger higher education landscape so that we can better position ourselves to manage similar situations, should they arise on our campus. Much has been written, for example, about the need for increased awareness and support of student-athlete mental health, and incidents of sexual assault on NCAA member campuses have rattled all of us with a connection to college sports.
During quiet times, knowing what we know now, my colleagues and I ask ourselves if what we're doing today will prepare us for the uncertainty of tomorrow. Hopefully, by front-loading a crisis management approach with a strong emphasis on readiness and preparation, we increase our chances of staying ahead of troublesome issues.
Assess the Intercollegiate Athletics Landscape
There are events that we readily classify as crisis situations based on our familiarity with events of an identical or similar structure, yet there also previously unseen events and developments that we simply imagine will be problematic should such events and developments one day occur. Earlier this year, a number of reputable sources reported that student loan debt is now the highest ever, with more than 44 million borrowers collectively owing $1.5 trillion in the U.S. alone. The enormity of student loan debt, a product of increasingly high tuition rates, relatively stagnant wages, and decades of unchecked behavior by banks and lenders is, likely to have a lasting economic impact, which should give all of us pause.
At Wisconsin-Green Bay, like so many other campuses outside of the Power Five, our athletic program is partly subsidized through a university-issued student athletic fee. Perhaps not surprisingly, I support the notion that athletics positively contributes to the university in a myriad of ways and that the general student population benefits, to some degree, by existence of the athletics operation. Yet, I cannot help but wonder, as student loan debt shows little sign of shrinking, at what price point does a student athletic fee become inappropriate?
As the value of a college degree becomes subject to even greater scrutiny, and as an aging population and declining birth rate creates underpopulated cities and towns, how will we tackle the implications of lower enrollment figures? What will affordability concerns and declining enrollment mean for athletic subsidies?
Are we prepared to generate the revenue needed to sustain operations? Are we willing to adjust operations in a way that significantly reduces expenditures? How might athletic department priorities shift if and when financial pressures mount to a degree not yet previously experienced?
Similar questions come to mind when I think about the often outsized role television contracts have in college sports. Increasingly viewers are ditching traditional cable and satellite television for internet-streaming services. What does this mean for those at the upper echelon of college athletics? What does this mean for those of us who are likely to feel the ripple effect of any changes to those at the top?
Are we prepared for disruption in this area? If not, what should we be doing at a campus, conference, and national level to ensure a level of stability? During quiet times, it is these larger issues that cause me the greatest consternation. As athletic department leaders, we must work collaboratively to address these and other questions, the answers to which will undoubtedly, if not immediately, lead to transformative and substantive change.
Step Away
There is a lure to quiet periods, a temptation to use them to engage in as much observation, listening, and strategic planning as resources will allow. Yet, occasionally, quiet periods call for a physical and emotional distance. While different in design, these periods have the potential to be highly rewarding. They offer a much-needed opportunity to rest and restore one's physical and mental health and come back to the work with fresh eyes. I truly believe, and advocate to my team, that sometimes in the quiet periods, the most strategic move is to do nothing more than embrace and experience the quiet.
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A condition of conference membership requires schools to license their rights to the conference, which distributes revenue equally among member institutions, and should, in theory, benefit the schools. But women's gymnastics and men's lacrosse are both niche sports which enjoy large, loyal fan affinity and an increasing number of youth athletes. Imagine a situation where niche sports content is delivered directly to a growing market in places where the market and enthusiastic fan bases exist.
Washington State Cougars Strategic Planning Process (Part I)
As the Cheshire Cat in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland points out, "if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." In college athletics, it's easy to find many programs who are unable to define where they are today, much less where they hope to be tomorrow. Hence the critical importance
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Hitachi acquires GlobalLogic for $9.4bn in its latest push to digitalize
Published by BSIC on 11 April 2021 11 April 2021
GlobalLogic – privately owned
Hitachi – market cap as of 11th April: ¥4.97tn
On March 31st 2021, Hitachi announced its agreement to acquire GlobalLogic, a Silicon Valley-based software services company, for $9.4bn. This transaction values GlobalLogic at 37x forecasted 2021 adjusted EBITDA, while giving it an equity value of $8.5bn.
This acquisition marks the latest attempt by Hitachi to boost its digital and software capabilities through strategic acquisitions. The company has also been divesting from a number of its listed subsidiaries in order to simplify its business and reduce its exposure to low-margin, slow growth businesses. This is also in-line with the overarching trend in Japan, with most industrial conglomerates attempting to simplify and re-focus their businesses through divestitures and carve-outs of non-core assets. While the logic behind this transaction is sound, it remains to be seen how the integration of this acquisition fares, especially considering the very high multiple paid.
About Hitachi
Hitachi, Ltd. is a multinational Japanese conglomerate based in Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1910 by electrical engineer Namihei Odaira, Hitachi built its reputation on the robustness, reliability and innovation of its products, which enabled it to become one of the world's largest diversified manufacturers of industrial machinery.
Market Capitalization of Hitachi and Competitors
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The Japanese industrial giant operates in six segments (IT, energy, industry, mobility, smart life, automotive systems business) across Asia, Europe and North America, offering a highly diversified product portfolio that spans from construction machinery to information and telecommunication systems.
The company has been undergoing years of reforms in order to push into fast-growing fields and transform the Japanese conglomerate into an IT and infrastructure specialist. Hitachi's strategy has two main prongs: the acquisition of companies with software or digital capabilities, and the sales of listed subsidiaries in traditional low margin, capital intensive businesses. For example, in line with previous pioneering investments in futuristic industries, in July 2020 Hitachi completed a $6.8bn acquisition of Swiss ABB's power grid division to tackle the rise of renewables and distributed energy. Furthermore, Hitachi has been significantly investing in services to help other companies modernize and digitalize manufacturing through its advanced IoT platform Lumada. On the divestment side, the Tokyo-based firm withdrew from a $26bn U.K. power project in September and disposed of some of its hardware and industrial businesses viewed as slow-growth, including Hitachi Chemicals. It is also currently in the process of weighing bids for its Metals unit, which manufactures industrial and automotive components, and is considering further divestitures of its construction business.
Annual revenues for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 amounted to $81.15bn (¥8,767.3bn), slightly down from the reported consolidated revenues of FY2018 which amounted to $87.75bn (¥9,480.6bn). Moreover, net income dropped from ¥222.5bn to ¥87.6bn causing a steep fall in the Japanese firm EPS from ¥230.47 to ¥90.71 over the same period.
About GlobalLogic
GlobalLogic is a leading digital engineering services company which offers digital transformation solutions and software engineering services. Headquartered in San Jose, California, and with over 20,000 professionals across 14 countries, GlobalLogic integrates "chip to cloud" software product engineering technology with vertical industry expertise. This allows it to help its clients design and build cutting-edge software, platforms and digital solutions, with the goal of maximizing their performance and efficiency along with developing new sources of revenue.
GlobalLogic's origins can be traced back to Induslogic, which was founded in 2000 as a provider of outsourced software and product development services. In 2006 Induslogic merged with Bonus Technology, a New Jersey-based software engineering services company, creating the first truly global outsourced product developer at the time: GlobalLogic. Backed by a Series B funding round of $12.5m, the Silicon Valley-based company then acquired Lambent Technology, an offshore software development firm headquartered in Nagpur, India, and embarked on a series of growth-oriented acquisitions and ownership transitions involving several private equity firms and private investors. Key investors include Apax Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Partners Group, the latter two owning 45% each of GlobalLogic. The company now serves over 400 firms across key industries including healthcare, communications, consumer and retail, financial services, manufacturing and automotive. Some of its high-profile clients include Volvo, McDonald's, Samsung and HP.
In the fiscal year ended in March 2020, GlobalLogic reported over $771.1m of revenues, rising by 20% from FY2018, and $179.5m of adjusted EBITDA, representing an EBITDA growth of 23% from the previous year. The estimated annual revenues for the fiscal year ending in March 2021 are approximately $850m, as demand for digital transformation services significantly accelerated during Covid-19.
Digital transformation has become increasingly a priority for organizations everywhere and the pandemic has catalyzed the demand's expansion for new data-driven business models. Indeed, Digital transformation (DX) investment is growing at an accelerated pace globally. The International Data Corporation forecasts that, despite a global pandemic, direct digital transformation investment is still growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.5% from 2020 to 2023 and is expected to approach $6.8trn as companies build on existing strategies and investments. Moreover, it is predicted 65% of global GDP will be digitalized by 2022 driven by products and services from digitally transformed enterprises. However, many organizations lack the knowledge and experience to develop new digital platforms and they are also short of talent able to design new interaction models and digital experiences, such as new digital ways of shopping or new models for delivering and receiving healthcare. Companies as GlobalLogic are growingly filling this void, making them extremely attractive to traditional engineering services companies.
Hitachi's acquisition of GlobalLogic is one of the biggest acquisitions in the product engineering services space. The engineering services space has been seeing significant M&A activity during the last few years. Looking at the table down below, the biggest deals in the sector have been Capgemini's $4.1bn acquisition of Altran in 2019, and DXC's $2bn acquisition of Luxoft in the same year.
The Hitachi-GlobalLogic deal is also a part of a wave of M&A and Restructuring operations to transition the enormously diversified Japanese conglomerates into their specialist core businesses.
Since the introduction of Japan's corporate governance code in 2015, Hitachi has been one of the first Japanese traditional conglomerate giants to liquidate non-core businesses (especially to PE funds) and reduce its number of listed subsidiaries, in order to become an IT and infrastructure specialist.
Hitachi and GlobalLogic have agreed on an equity value of $8.5bn and an enterprise value of $9.5bn, at 37 times this year's forecasted adjusted EBITDA, with an EV/Revenue multiple of 7.9x. Hitachi is planning to fund the transaction through cash and bank loans.
Hitachi will acquire GlobalLogic through the "reverse triangular merger method": in other words, SPC (a subsidiary established by Hitachi for the purpose of the acquisition) will be merged with and into GlobalLogic. Once the companies are merged, Hitachi or SPC will provide cash to the shareholders of GlobalLogic after which all the outstanding shares of GlobalLogic will be cancelled. All the shares of SPC held by Hitachi will be converted to common shares of GlobalLogic, the surviving company.
A reverse triangular merger is more easily accomplished than a direct merger because the subsidiary has only one shareholder—the acquiring company—and the acquiring company may obtain control of the target's nontransferable assets and contracts. In this way, Hitachi will acquire 100% of the outstanding shares of GlobalLogic and the latter will become wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi.
The deal is expected to close by the end of July 2021 and is subject to customary conditions and regulatory approvals.
Deal Rationale
Hitachi's acquisition of GlobalLogic will help accelerate the 110-year-old Japanese industrial heavyweight's mission to transform itself into a global leader in digital services. The acquisition of GlobalLogic is part of Hitachi's 2021 mid-term plan, which involves a commitment to invest $9 billion to strengthen the digital capabilities of the company's various businesses including IT, energy, industry and mobility.
This deal follows a recurring theme of hardware companies reforming themselves as enterprising software firms. For example, in 2018 chip maker BroadcomInc bought enterprise software company CA technologies for $18.9 billion. Hardware is characterised as a highly capital-intensive, low-margin business with low growth. In contrast, software development businesses are seen as a good entry point into a wide range of high growth sectors including autonomous vehicles and mobile devices. Demand for data-driven business models has risen even further as a result of the pandemic as companies with strong foundations in digital services and data analytics were able to leverage these competencies to gain a competitive advantage in a year where global supply chains were upended, and customer interaction went virtual. Hitachi identified that it did not possess the necessary capabilities to undergo a digital transformation on its own and like many other established companies looked elsewhere to find a partner to help propel its mission forward. Although Hitachi continues to be a primarily industrial products-focused company, this deal is just a part of their ongoing business overhaul as the company has also recently sold off other hardware and industrial businesses viewed as slow-growth, such as its power-tool and chemical businesses.
Hitachi hopes to take advantage of GlobalLogic's strong digital engineering capabilities as well as their established design skills and vertical industry expertise in order to develop software for new products and digital experiences. CEO of Hitachi, Toshiaki Higashihara, said "the synergy of GlobalLogic's leading experience design and innovation with Hitachi's expertise in IT, operational technology, and products, will help us realise our goal to be the leading digital transformation innovator in social infrastructure worldwide." Hitachi sees a potential to create synergies in the automotive systems business, in particular, as this is the industrial sector in which the two companies experience significant overlap; Hitachi automates plant machinery and GlobalLogic helps digitize cars.
Hitachi hopes the acquisition will strengthen the digital portfolio of Lumada and propel its global expansion plans forward. Lumada forms Hitachi's advanced digital solutions and services business which focusses on creating value from customer data and accelerating digital solutions. Lumada derives about 70% of its revenue from Japan while over half of GlobalLogic's clients are in the US and around one-third in Europe – this will contribute to an international push for the company. Hitachi's head of services and platforms, Toshiaki Tokunaga, said at the deal announcement that GlobalLogic's global reach with over 20000 employees in India, Europe and the US could result in the Lumada business getting more than half its revenue outside Japan.
Nikkei leaked the acquisition on March 31st during market hours, leading to Hitachi trading down 7.3% that same day – the sharpest daily fall in more than a year. Hitachi then confirmed the acquisition after the market closed. There was a brief rally when trading resumed the following day with Hitachi up 2.5%, but this seems to have been just a temporary relief after the 7.3% decline the previous day. Investors were likely uncomfortable with the multiple being paid and the need to realise significant synergies.
Credit Suisse advised Hitachi while Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan advised GlobalLogic.
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Q: How to use IBMIoTF for node.js in a WebApplication? I tested the IBMIoTF in a node.js server and it worked well.
IBMIoTF you can find here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ibmiotf
Now I want to use the IBMIoTF in a WebApplication and I notice this little note in the documentation: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ibmiotf#load-the-library-in-browser
Load the library in browser
load iotf-client-bundle.js or iotf-client-bundle-min.js from the dist directory
I also took a look into the http://browserify.org/, but I am not able to get it working.
It is able to load the library in the index.html
<script src="libs/iotf/iotf-client-bundle.min.js"></script>

, but how can I create a object instance in the angular module?
Option 1
I am not able to use require in a WebApplication.
var config = {
                       "org": "THEORG",
                       "id": "IOT_WEB_APPLICATION",
                       "auth-key": "THEKEY",
                       "auth-token": "THETOKEN",
                       "type" : "shared"
               };

var IotClient = require('ibmiotf');
var iotClient = new IotClient.IotfApplication(config);

In this situation I get
angular.js:14110 ReferenceError: require is not defined

Option 2
I also tried to use a object, I found in iotf-client.js file.
  module.exports = {
    IotfDevice: _IotfDevice['default'],
    IotfManagedDevice: _IotfManagedDevice['default'],
    IotfGateway: _IotfGateway['default'],
    IotfManagedGateway: _IotfManagedGateway['default'],
    IotfApplication: _IotfApplication['default']
  };

and did a implementation like this in my controller:
var config = {
               "org": "THEORG",
               "id": "IOT_WEB_APPLICATION",
               "auth-key": "THEKEY",
               "auth-token": "THETOKEN",
               "type" : "shared"
             };
var iotClient = new IotfApplication(config);

Here I get:
angular.js:14110 ReferenceError: IotfApplication is not defined

These options didn't work, but how to create a instance for the IBMIoTF?
Can anyone help me?

A: You need to browserify the ibmiotf as part of your buildprocess:
1. in your package.json add dependency to ibmiotf npm
2. do npm install
3. add a script command to your package.json for browserify/uglify like this
"scripts": {
"build": "browserify your.js | uglifyjs -m -c warnings=false > bundle.js"
}

*do npm build, this will produce a bundle.js with all your javascript files and the dependencies specified to bundle.js

*Include the bundle.js in your web html file. ...<script src="bundle.js"></script>

*in "your.js" do something like this
var config = require(YOURCONFIG);
var deviceType = "YOURDEVICETYPE";
var appClient = new client.IotfApplication(config);
appClient.connect();
appClient.on("connect", function () {
console.log("Connected");
appClient.subscribeToDeviceEvents(deviceType);
    });
appClient.on("deviceEvent", function (deviceType, deviceId, eventType, format, payload) {
        console.log("Device Event from :: "+deviceType+" : "+deviceId+" of event "+eventType+" with payload : "+payload);
    });

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Lovejoy executive produces Dead Inside with Doozer's Lawrence and Jeff Ingold.
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Norman recently guest starred on Living Biblically and Alone Together. She is repped by TalentWorks, Management 360, and attorney Derek Kroeger.
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Joey King, Jack Kilmer and Andrea Savage are starring in Summer '03, a coming-of-age indie written and being directed by newcomer Becca Gleason.
Paul Scheer, Erin Darke, Stephen Ruffin and June Squibb are also starring in the ensemble piece that began shooting Tuesday in Atlanta.
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In this tutorial, I will be discussing with you the significance of different data types used in LabView and their working. You might have seen in previous tutorials that different data type blocks have different colors i.e. strings type indicators and constants have pink color. After the introduction to different data types, I have written an example program and at the end of the session you are provided with a mini exercise to do it by yourself, so that you can make you concepts of data types clear.
Data types as the name suggest represents the type of the data or variables that can be used in LabView. Data type is a very important term to be kept in mind while programming in LabView. In a VI every data type has unique color which can't be mixed or interconnected with other. For example, if a data variable is of type integer then the indicator connected to display its value must also be of type integer, otherwise the VI will give you an error or it may not connect the two blocks in the first place. If you are a programmer of any other programming language you must be familiar with the term data type. However, in this tutorial we assume that you are a beginner and let me explain a little about types of data.
In programming the most common data types are Integer, Float, Boolean, Double, Array, and String. Whereas, in LabView, an addition data types namely waveform and errors are also introduced. Each data type has a specific type of data stored in it, i.e. an integer type variable can only store and display integer type data and a string type can never be connected to a float indicator. Float however can store only floating point data types.
Now on the block diagram click right and from the function palette select Numeric and then Numeric constant and on the front panel click right and from control palette select Numeric and then Numeric Indicator.
If the color of the associated block of the indicator on the block diagram is blue, it shows that the indicator is of integer type. But if it is other then blue then we cannot connect it to an integer type data constant.
Right click on the indicators block on the block diagram select representations and then select long as shown in the figure below. This action will convert the indicator into integer data type too.
Now, connect the associated block of the numeric indicator on the block diagram with the numeric constant already present there through wires. The resulting diagram will look like one shown in the figure below.
Figure 2: Integer constant and indicator.
Changing the value of the constant will change the display value in the indicator too. This was simple, now let's see how to place floating point data type blocks. Float is also a numeric data type. Double and float are similar to each other, just float means a generalized precision floating point data, whereas double means double precision floating point data.
From the function palette select numeric and then double numeric constant. Also, place a numeric indicator on the front panel to display its value. If both of the blocks are of orange color connect them with a wire otherwise, change the data type to double by right clicking on the block select representation and then select double precision as described above for integers. The resulting diagram will look like the one shown in the figure below.
String is also a data type. We have used string indicator and constant in previous tutorials. Let's drop a string constant and indicator along with thses two block pairs.
Do yourself: Use you knowledge from the previous tutorials and place a string indicator and string constant on the same VI.
After you do the above task the VI will look like the one shown in figure below.
NOTE: Always give labels to the blocks in order to remember the purpose or use of the block in the future.
Let me show you first how to label a block. Right click on the block you want to label. Select visible and then check the label item in the dropdown menu. It will allow you to right on the place above the block.
Coming back to the data types, another type of data is Boolean data type. Boolean is a logical type of data. It only gives output in the form of 0s and 1s or False and True. If the output of a specific condition is true i.e. the switch is on, a button is pressed, or the output of an equal to 0? (Used in previous tutorials) function block is 1 then the Boolean indicator will give true as a data type. From the control block on the front panel select Boolean and then select vertical slide switch.
The purpose of this switch is to provide a true (when on) and a false (when off) to the Boolean indicator. But where is the Boolean indicator. An LED can act as a Boolean indicator. From control palette select Boolean and then select Round LED, this LED will blink whenever we turn the switch on.
Connect the respective blocks of Boolean through a wire and label them accordingly, as shown in the figure.
Another data type is 'Arrays', I will not discuss them in detail because we have a separate tutorial about arrays, and you will learn about them in detail in the coming tutorials. The color of the array depends on the type of constants or data we want to store in an array.
In an array we can store integer, double, string as well as Boolean constants. Right now we are using a double type array. Don't wonder how I did that I will explain arrays in detail in the upcoming tutorial, just skip it right now. See the figure below, it shows an array data type.
It will pop a respective indicator in the front panel. Right click on the array block in the front panel and from numeric select numeric constant and drop it inside the array block. Doing so will change the color of the associated array block in block diagram.
Try to explore and use waveform data type by yourself.
Hint: You can use the waveform graphs charts from the control palette in the waveforms sections build waveform block from the function palette to fulfill the task. Don't panic, I will be using graphs and charts in the upcoming tutorials.
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Read up on 6.1 (Gravitational Force & Field) & 6.2 (Gravitational Potential) of your text (Hamper).
Copy & answer Exercises 1-5 of Lesson 6.1 (Hamper) in your notes.
Copy and solve Exercises 28, 29, 30 of page 131 of the Giancolli text.
Are you using only the Giancolli's text book?? and it's the purple one right?
How if I am using the HL book?? Is it still the same questions?
Hey guys, please read the instructions again (and more carefully this time...hehehe).
Alan: Hamper is the 'purple book'.
Jack: They are the same questions. (Don't worry, I made sure. hehehe) See you guys tomorrow.


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package io.fabric8.openclustermanagement.api.model.multicloudoperatorssubscription.apps.helmrelease.v1;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnyGetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAnySetter;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonInclude;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonProperty;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonPropertyOrder;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Container;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ContainerPort;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.EnvVar;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.IntOrString;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.KubernetesResource;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.LabelSelector;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.LocalObjectReference;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectMeta;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PersistentVolumeClaim;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.PodTemplateSpec;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ResourceRequirements;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.Volume;
import io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.VolumeMount;
import io.sundr.builder.annotations.Buildable;
import io.sundr.builder.annotations.BuildableReference;
import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.ToString;
import lombok.experimental.Accessors;

@JsonDeserialize(using = com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer.None.class)
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
@JsonPropertyOrder({
    "apiVersion",
    "kind",
    "metadata",
    "altSource",
    "chartName",
    "configMapRef",
    "digest",
    "insecureSkipVerify",
    "secretRef",
    "source",
    "version"
})
@ToString
@EqualsAndHashCode
@Setter
@Accessors(prefix = {
    "_",
    ""
})
@Buildable(editableEnabled = false, validationEnabled = false, generateBuilderPackage = false, lazyCollectionInitEnabled = false, builderPackage = "io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.builder", refs = {
    @BuildableReference(ObjectMeta.class),
    @BuildableReference(LabelSelector.class),
    @BuildableReference(Container.class),
    @BuildableReference(PodTemplateSpec.class),
    @BuildableReference(ResourceRequirements.class),
    @BuildableReference(IntOrString.class),
    @BuildableReference(io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference.class),
    @BuildableReference(LocalObjectReference.class),
    @BuildableReference(PersistentVolumeClaim.class),
    @BuildableReference(EnvVar.class),
    @BuildableReference(ContainerPort.class),
    @BuildableReference(Volume.class),
    @BuildableReference(VolumeMount.class)
})
public class HelmReleaseRepo implements KubernetesResource
{

    @JsonProperty("altSource")
    private AltSource altSource;
    @JsonProperty("chartName")
    private String chartName;
    @JsonProperty("configMapRef")
    private io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference configMapRef;
    @JsonProperty("digest")
    private String digest;
    @JsonProperty("insecureSkipVerify")
    private Boolean insecureSkipVerify;
    @JsonProperty("secretRef")
    private io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference secretRef;
    @JsonProperty("source")
    private Source source;
    @JsonProperty("version")
    private String version;
    @JsonIgnore
    private Map<String, Object> additionalProperties = new HashMap<String, Object>();

    /**
     * No args constructor for use in serialization
     *
     */
    public HelmReleaseRepo() {
    }

    /**
     *
     * @param altSource
     * @param chartName
     * @param configMapRef
     * @param digest
     * @param insecureSkipVerify
     * @param secretRef
     * @param source
     * @param version
     */
    public HelmReleaseRepo(AltSource altSource, String chartName, io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference configMapRef, String digest, Boolean insecureSkipVerify, io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference secretRef, Source source, String version) {
        super();
        this.altSource = altSource;
        this.chartName = chartName;
        this.configMapRef = configMapRef;
        this.digest = digest;
        this.insecureSkipVerify = insecureSkipVerify;
        this.secretRef = secretRef;
        this.source = source;
        this.version = version;
    }

    @JsonProperty("altSource")
    public AltSource getAltSource() {
        return altSource;
    }

    @JsonProperty("altSource")
    public void setAltSource(AltSource altSource) {
        this.altSource = altSource;
    }

    @JsonProperty("chartName")
    public String getChartName() {
        return chartName;
    }

    @JsonProperty("chartName")
    public void setChartName(String chartName) {
        this.chartName = chartName;
    }

    @JsonProperty("configMapRef")
    public io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference getConfigMapRef() {
        return configMapRef;
    }

    @JsonProperty("configMapRef")
    public void setConfigMapRef(io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference configMapRef) {
        this.configMapRef = configMapRef;
    }

    @JsonProperty("digest")
    public String getDigest() {
        return digest;
    }

    @JsonProperty("digest")
    public void setDigest(String digest) {
        this.digest = digest;
    }

    @JsonProperty("insecureSkipVerify")
    public Boolean getInsecureSkipVerify() {
        return insecureSkipVerify;
    }

    @JsonProperty("insecureSkipVerify")
    public void setInsecureSkipVerify(Boolean insecureSkipVerify) {
        this.insecureSkipVerify = insecureSkipVerify;
    }

    @JsonProperty("secretRef")
    public io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference getSecretRef() {
        return secretRef;
    }

    @JsonProperty("secretRef")
    public void setSecretRef(io.fabric8.kubernetes.api.model.ObjectReference secretRef) {
        this.secretRef = secretRef;
    }

    @JsonProperty("source")
    public Source getSource() {
        return source;
    }

    @JsonProperty("source")
    public void setSource(Source source) {
        this.source = source;
    }

    @JsonProperty("version")
    public String getVersion() {
        return version;
    }

    @JsonProperty("version")
    public void setVersion(String version) {
        this.version = version;
    }

    @JsonAnyGetter
    public Map<String, Object> getAdditionalProperties() {
        return this.additionalProperties;
    }

    @JsonAnySetter
    public void setAdditionalProperty(String name, Object value) {
        this.additionalProperties.put(name, value);
    }

}

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Licensing of Nuclear Materials for Use on the High Seas and in Antarctica
See the memorandum from J. R. Wolf to N. Bassin dated September 18, 1979. NRC's authority under the Atomic Energy Act is not restricted to the territory of the United States. The Commission has the authority to regulate licensed materials of U.S. ships on the high seas and U.S. bases in Antarctica.
Your proposed letter to Commander Vogt makes an assumption, which we regard as erroneous, that NRC authority under the Atomic Energy Act is restricted to the territory of the United States. While our authority arguably may not attach unless there is some territorial connection at the outset, our interest and jurisdiction once acquired can reasonably be invoked to regulate the use and possession of byproduct and special nuclear material until it has been terminated by virtue of licensed transfer, disposal, or export. This approach to jurisdiction is manifest in those provisions which distinguish between domestic distribution ("… to any person within the United States …") and foreign distribution ("… for a use which is not under the jurisdiction of the United States.") (AEA Section 57c; see, also, AEA Sections 103d and 104d). Note that the latter clause refers to the United States in a juridical rather than a geographic sense. AEA Section 82 does differentiate between distributions of byproduct material between persons "outside the United States" on the one hand and "within the United States" on the other. However, even here, there is no bar to exercising regulatory jurisdiction outside territorial limits where the initial distribution is under AEA Section 81.
In construing the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, it has long been our view that the Commission is authorized to license activities beyond continental limits so long as the activities are subject to United States jurisdiction. This jurisdiction may extend to United States citizens upon the high seas or even in foreign countries when the rights of other nations or their nationals are not infringed. On this basis, according to our legal memoranda files, the AEC found no limitation upon the Commission's power to exercise authority over the N. S. Savannah upon the high seas. Our prior licensing of the Navy to possess radioisotope thermal generators reflects a similar construction of the Atomic Energy Act. Moreover, the exercise of regulatory authority to protect the health and safety of the public (AEA Section 2e) is no less necessary outside territorial limits, particularly if the materials subject to regulation continue to present potential hazards to United States citizens.
For these reasons, we advise that you process the applications in the same manner as you would process applications for activities that are restricted to the territory of the United States. We note, however, that under the Antarctic Treaty, 12 U.S.T. 794, TIAS 4780, procedures have been established for the formulation of measures regarding questions relating to the exercise of jurisdiction in Antarctica, Article IX 1. (e). We should perhaps inquire of the Department of State regarding any measures as may have been adopted under Article IX, in order to assure that the exercise of NRC jurisdiction there is appropriate.
Regulatory references: Atomic Energy Act


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An impressive medieval castle, or the castle of St. Peter, is a fine example of 15th century, build by the Knights of Rhodes, and guards the entrance to Bodrum's dazzling blue bay, in which the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas meet, and has been converted into the Museum of Underwater Archaeology, with remains dating as far back as the Bronze Age.
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The reed is the most commonly associated plant to this thirteenth letter, Ngetal. The Ogham Tract[i] lists Ngetal as either the broom or the fern –and not as the reed- so this letter often causes confusion.
same list of letters[iii]. This of course is simply my own speculation. We may never know why Graves chose to list the thirteenth letter of the Ogham as the Reed, but it seems to have been further promoted by most writers that followed him.
Eryn Rowan Laurie, along with other reconstructionists, list this letter as being associated with the broom plant, but as noted many times before she does not see the Ogham as a tree alphabet at all but similar to the runes instead.
Nowadays, most do see Ngetal as being the Reed. We must remember that the Ogham's association with trees was likely initially mnemonic only. However, we do know that the Ogham was used for magic and likely for divination, but we cannot know for certain how the letters were utilized at all[iv]. The tree alphabet has become a tool used in such a fashion in modern days as it may have became over time a tool of power to the ancestors as well. For these reasons the reed seems to fit most comfortably within the list of the plants found in the Ogham today.
The reed is obviously not a tree at all. The Celts had many uses for the plant however. They often used it in the thatching in of the roof, which would have been the final step in completing any dwelling construction. The reed would also have likely been used for flooring material in winter. The reed rod was a type of measuring stick used by the ancestors as well[v].
James Frazer speaks of the king with the reed sceptre in the Golden Bough showing us that the reed is no ordinary plant. According to Graves the reed was used to make arrow shafts and this may be why it is named in the Battle of the Trees as the "swift pursuing" one[vi]. Liz and Colin Murray also associate the reed to the arrow and say that it is the letter of "direct action", "overcoming obstacles on a journey", and can be used as a spiritual weapon[vii].
Robert Graves further claims that the reed was a tree to Irish poets[viii]. The research of Nigel Pennick gives us compelling reasons to believe this. Pennick reminds us that the pen of Irish scribes was composed of reed and that, "The reed was also the material from which a sort of paper or papyrus, known to the Welsh as plagawd was made"[ix]. The reed was also used for braiding together baskets and could then be synonymous with Celtic knot artwork.
Ngetal in the Ogham Tract is also considered to be a few of healing. This listing –though more literally being those powers of the broom plant- is made by many Ogham teachers including John Michael Greer.
The reed is also associated with music. Historically it was used in wind instruments near the mouth piece to help create the music sound. This piece of the instrument is still called the reed today. A type of Asian giant reed is usually the preferred material for this construction nowadays, but some instruments still use the traditional reed grass[x]. It should also be noted that the reed sometimes appears as its own musical instrument in Celtic fairly tales.
Ngetal, the reed, is associated with higher learning, advancement, music, healing, action and art. It is this few that brings to us all of those gifts that makes us that most unique of animals.
The thirteenth letter, the reed, is the few of being divinely human.
It is said that the Cluricaune, an Irish fairy being, rides the reed through the air[xi].
The Cluricaune looks like a little old man appearing in "antiquated dress." He is usually found wearing a pea-green coat with large buttons and oversized shiny shoe buckles.
The Cluricaune apparantly likes to smoke and drink; making his beer out of heather. The Cluricaune smokes from a small kind of pipe which is sometimes still found by farmers as they plough their fields.
The Cluricaune is a trickster, but he is loyal to one particular family and will stay so as long as a single family member survives. Despite being a mischievous fellow, he usually has a degree of respect for "the master of the house." The Cluricaune will protect the home and ward off unseen dangers. He can be extremely upset if he is forgotten. however.
Like other fairy beings, the Cluricaune likes gifts to be left out for him. His connection to wine cellars seems a little suggestive. It is not unheard of for a Cluricaune to let the wine run out of a cask if he deems the household occupants covetous. The Cluricaune was basically a spirit world mobster.
The Cluricaune is said to be as, "ugly as a shrivelled apple", but he whistles at his work which he seems to enjoy immensely.
He rides through the air with "great velocity" on a reed shaft from place to place. It is said that those who ride with him may take days or even weeks to return home.
The stories of the Cluricaune remind us to be mindful of the spirits and to leave gifts for them. Whether these tales are contrived or whether they have a basis in truth -however unlikely or Otherworldly this may seem- there is always something to take away from these old stories.
Why a reed? If the story's make believe then what's the purpose of the reed in the tale if we are aware of the importance of plants to the ancestors? Why not another tree or branch? If the story does have a metaphysical foundation then what powers does the Cluricaune find within the reed? Is flight literal -or more likely- something far more metaphoric?
There may be more to the reed than meets the eye.
Reed grass may have an important role to play in the future of water treatment and organic sewage management[xiii].
The reed absorbs impurities from water and is used in small neighbourhood treatment ponds or marshes. "Treatment ponds are small versions of constructed wetlands which uses reed beds or other marshland plants to form an even smaller water treatment system"[xiv]. Micro organisms that live on the roots of the plant -or in the bed litter- treat the water that runs slowly through them.
The Stanley Park Storm Water Treatment Wetland in Vancouver is just such a project. The wetland was created to deal with the runoff of polluted rain water from the Stanley park causeway and from the Lion's Gate Bridge. The water was originally allowed to flow freely into the streams, Lost Lagoon, Beaver Lake, and into the Pacific Ocean itself[xv]. Now it is treated in a holistic manner to lessen any impact that may be caused from the runoff.
The marshland, "Acts as a settling pond, natural treatment and filtration system for storm-water run off". Large particles are first captured by a filtration system, then sunlight and micro organisms effectively tear apart contaminants. Slowly the water passes through deeper pools -and marsh staging areas- where reed grass and other native wetland plants break the contaminants down even further. The goal of the project is to, "Keep storm water contaminants in a controlled area so as to protect the surrounding area"[xvi].
The process of using reed beds for sewage treatment is actually quite similar. The water moves through the reed grass and the microorganisms that live in the roots and the litter break down the contaminants while utilizing the nutrients that are being offered in return.
The reed, as it turns out, is a very understated tree after all.
Not only is the reed a steed of the fairy kingdom, it is the bringer of music and healing, art and kingship, learning, advancement and action and it even possesses the ability to aid in the healing of the land.
Ngetal, the reed, the thirteenth few of the Ogham, is the teacher that always was and always will be. It grows just beyond the shore, and in doing so, exists partially in one world, and partially in the next.
[ii] For further discussion please refer to the White Goddess. Graves makes a complicated conclusion that the Song of Amergin and the Ogham were both devices referring to a Celtic tree calendar and to each other. Many accept the Celtic Tree calendar as fact however unlikely the reality of this notion is to scholars. I plan on talking about this more in the future.
[iii] The Broom and the Gorse are both non-trees already and would probably have similar or identical meanings in the Ogham as they are similar looking and are very closely related. We will return to these plants when we cover the seventeenth letter of the Ogham, Ohn.
[iv] If at all possible read Charles Graves' (Robert's grandfather) On the Ogam Beithluisnin which lists the appearance of the Ogham in many myths and legends. The copy I own is found in the Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom by Caitlin and John Mathews.
[v] Magical Alphabets by Nigel Pennick.
[vi] This is Robert Graves' version, there are many different translations.
[xi] Fairy Legends of the South of Ireland by Thomas Croker.
[xiii] Eyewitness Handbooks: Herbs by Lesley Bremness.
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Micro Tech Toolkit helped me repair my old dog!
Dog was worn out. Needed a heart valve job. Sent a team of trained ticks in through her nose with the toolkit. She is good to go!
It was doggone tricky, but with the help of the Micro Tech Tools, and some trained ticks, I succeeded.
Instead of tossing those ticks in the toilet, keep 'em in a tick jail. Fill it with rubbing alcohol: that makes them very cooperative and anxious to get early parole in exchange for doing any micro repairs needed around the house.
I had no idea ticks were good for anything but possum food. Thanks for the tip!