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Study Finds 'Fecal Veneer' on Gym Holds
August 11, 2014 Dougald MacDonald
"Poo"
8/11/14 – The next time your gym partner says "That's a crappy hold!" she may mean more than size or texture. In a study published this summer in Current Microbiology, researchers found that every gym hold they tested had traces of microorganisms associated with fecal matter. The analyses "suggest the presence of a fecal veneer on indoor climbing wall holds," the report said.
Researchers swabbed the surface of three holds each from four unnamed gyms in New England and North Carolina in 2011. The 12 holds tested were all at the start of the routes, and each had not been washed in at least a month. DNA extracted from the swabs was analyzed for the presence of microorganisms of various types.
The study's lead author, Dr. Suzanna Bräuer, associate professor of biology at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, explained that the microbes present on the holds are associated with the general environment (especially soil), human sources (skin and mouth), and feces (either human or animal).
The study found that the proportion of microbes from environmental sources was higher than that found in similar studies of microorganisms in other indoor environments, compared with human sources. "Because human-associated microbial communities typically contain a higher abundance of human pathogens and/or opportunistic pathogens, one might infer that climbing holds potentially pose less of a health risk compared to other indoor environments," the study concluded.
But what about that fecal veneer? Dr. Bräuer, a climber who frequents a gym with her husband, said in an email that, "Although it's impossible to say from our study, I would think that the most likely source of the fecal bacteria would be dog or animal feces. If the hold did contain human fecal material, and IF the E. coli were pathogenic, it would pose a major threat. I think that's very unlikely, but again it's impossible to tell from the type of data that we collected. All we know is that E. coli were strongly present. I would guess this would be from outdoor sources."
In other words, the most likely source of the fecal material on gym holds is whatever climbers stepped in at the crag—which they then tracked into the climbing gym and onto its routes.
What can climbers do about it? The study noted, "While this does not necessarily represent a significant risk, climbers should take precautions, for example, by washing their hands both before and after climbing." Washing the soles of shoes also may help—with the practical benefit of increasing the rubber's stickiness. And, as Dr. Bräuer noted, "My colleague and coauthor Dr. Erik Rabinowitz believes strongly that climbing gyms should wash holds more frequently."
Date of report: June 2014
Sources: Current Microbiology (June 28, 2014), Dr. Suzanna L. Bräuer
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Home Opinion The sensible 4-4-2 West Ham should use to face Swansea
The sensible 4-4-2 West Ham should use to face Swansea
Max Willow
There is probably no better time for Slaven Bilic to settle on the formation that saved our skins in the second half of our last game against Hull.
After an abysmal first half in which we were totally outplayed by our enthusiastic visitors, Bilicmade some crucial alterations in the formation and player placements for the 2nd half. The use of two strikers resulted in a marked improvement in our playing performance, and both Andre Ayew and Michail Antonio were unlucky not to get on the score sheet.
While still being a long way from ideal, we at least looked competitive, and should have won the game comfortably. Ayew's ability to keep pace with Antonio seemed to demonstrate that this striker combination may be the best available for the present time.
In fairness, Andy Carroll won most of his aerial duels, but he had no one in support to pick up his second ball. While he should be congratulated for his work effort, did Carroll ever really look close to scoring?
If Bilic continues to instruct Dimitri Payet and Manuel Lanzini to supply Carroll with the perfect delivery, then we are surely doomed. Payet and Lanzini are both natural play-makers, but when employed as wingers, they often remain in static positions on the flank, seriously diminishing their individual creativity and chances of scoring/assisting themselves.
If Payet is instructed to lie as a deep central attacking playmaker, then all sorts of possibilities will open up. Lanzini's efforts in recent weeks have been well below what we have become accustomed to. From a central or left sided midfield position, we should be expecting to see him launching on those diagonal dribbles into deep-lying holes.
One of the problems that have occurred this season, is that Payet and Lanzini have often run into each other's paths. If Payet sees Lanzini running towards him, it is his responsibility to move laterally to act as a decoy in dragging central defenders away from a middle area just outside the box.
This will provide the space and time that Lanzini needs to make some sort of direct and/or indirect impact. BY analogy, Lanzini should be supplying Payet, which will enable him to strike on goal.
This upcoming game is just ripe for Bilic to give the talented Tony Martinez some playing time. He has a good chance to continue on his merry goal scoring efforts in the U23 team. Having just scored a hat-trick last week, Martinez's confidence will probably be at an all-time high. Better to let him loose against a struggling Swansea, than to delay him for the more difficult New Year games against Leicester and the two Manchester clubs.
Perhaps, in young Martinez, we have the potential striker that Bilic has been looking for all season. It may also be a good time to give young Domingos Quina (arguably the most talented player at West Ham) some playing time, with the caveat of not exposing him to too much physical threat at the tender age of 17.
In putting together a starting line up for the Swansea game (below), I had two major objectives in mind. Clearly we need the three points from a game which, theoretically, is ours for the taking. More importantly, on January 7, we have a huge FA Cup 3rd Round challenge against Manchester City. At this stage of proceedings, the FA Cup remains the only realistic (albeit, unlikely) route to the Europa League. A win against Manchester City would be a huge confidence builder for the rest of our season.
For much of his managerial tenure at West Ham, Bilic has adopted the philosophy of attacking from defence, using the highly favoured 4-2-3-1 formation. When the best, in-form players are available, this approach has often been successful, but not now.
At this time we do not have the solidity or stability to adopt this formation. If Bilic makes the sensible move of pushing Cheikhou Kouyate back into a four man midfield, together with Lanzini, Payet, and Mark Noble, we have a realistic chance of creating good goal scoring opportunities for the likes of Andre Ayew, Martinez and Carroll, as well as the exciting and dynamic Michail Antonio.
In addition let us not forget how well Payet, Lanzini and Noble can strike a ball from open-play, in addition to Kouyate's aerial heading prowess. Until we can obtain the services of a right back, the likes of Edimilson Fernanades, Harvard Nordtveit and a very useful Alvaro Arbeloa should be able to do enough to plug up the space created by moving Kouyate into his more natural midfield spot.
While Bilic is more likely to start the game with Andy Carroll up front, he should be given 30 minutes to do something. The same principle also applies to Lanzini; if he can't put more than a few passes together, then for heaven's sake, give Martinez or Fernanades a decent chance. It is high time for Bilic to start showing some of the insight and creativity we know he has, otherwise, he could end up in the same situation that has beset Alan Pardew.
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On my way back, I saw Joshilyn Jackson, who was blinking in the late afternoon sun like a baby owl, so of course I immediately accosted her, because of the enormous fangirl crush I have on her. She looked a little panicked for a second, then graciously invited me to have coffee with her. Since my hands were already shaking just a teensy bit, I decided to forgo the caffeine and in true New Englander style have a raspberry lime rickey. Brunonia Barry joined us with her husband and friend, and they sat around discussing dialects and the fact that I apparently swallow my consonants when I speak. If you are a writer or a reader in any way shape or form, you totally get based on those last two sentences that for a moment I was completely convinced I was dreaming.
Joshilyn spoke at the author's dinner that night, and the entire crowd was completely mesmerized. (Joshilyn does not swallow her consonants. She lives in Georgia, and they go on for a country mile.) The table I was at was madly in love with her, when they weren't crushing on Erin Morgenstern, who I have been crushing on for years because of her Flax Golden tales, which I have repeatedly advised you to read. If you've ignored my advice, you are still in luck, because she's written a little book called The Night Circus which debuted at something like number two on the NYT best-seller list. (That would be writerly irony right there.) Hop it and get a copy.
It may have been that I was under Salem's spell, but truly, I've decided I need a pair of these. For the sake of my writing. Really.
Every summer, my family rents a beach house in Connecticut. The cottages have changed over the years, but they are always within the same three block radius. The past two years we've rented the same place, and in my eyes, it's a keeper. It has old, faded furniture neither the kids nor the dog can do much damage to. It has an adequate supply of wine glasses and a wide front porch. And it has books in every single room.
It's the first house we've ever rented — in over twenty years — with such a big supply of reading materials. The owner's taste seems to run toward mysteries, but every year we find a new treasure — a wonderful children's book, a magazine we haven't heard of, a small collection of poetry — and I get a small surge of pleasure from just holding it.
But on the beach itself, my experience was the opposite. I noticed more and more people with electronic readers. There was no way to tell what they were reading, no way to strike up a conversation over a copy of The Help or The Affair or a sense of kinship over a quiet, less well-known book. No way to be surprised that the distinguished looking older gentleman is absorbed in Twilight, and the young, bleached blonde preteen is devouring The Sun Also Rises. No way for the lifeguard to approach the babe in the bikini with a pickup line about the novel she's holding. If reading is a solitary experience, the anonymity of the E-reader's cover makes it even more so. Depending on your point of view, that can be a good or a bad thing.
What's your feeling on E-readers? Do you relish the privacy they provide, or see it as a loss?
I used to be fierce.
Not as fierce as Linda Hamilton in T2, although I coveted her biceps. Just fierce enough.
I landed an exciting job, with a boss who was tough and expected me to be too. The first time I came back with a story that didn't have the hard questions answered, he made it very clear that what I had wasn't good enough. If I wanted my story to run (and wanted to get paid) I need to call back my source. And call again. And again, until I got the answers I needed. It was difficult and terrifying and somewhat exhilarating, and I had more than one person hang up on me. I don't think it ever got any easier, but it changed me in a good way.
I also fell in with fierce friends, women who thought nothing of hopping on the back of a thousand pound beast and sailing it over a four-foot fence, of galloping DOWN a hill with a broken arm, of marching into the boss's office and demanding a promotion. If you wanted to hang with them, you needed some backbone. And while I can't honestly say I cleared too many four-foot fences, I managed to hold my own.
And then I had kids. With my first pregnancy, not much changed. I still made the tough calls, rode until I was about eight months pregnant, power-walked two miles a few days after the emergency c-section (Can I tell you what a bad idea that was?). I took my baby on interviews, hired someone to watch her a few mornings a week so I could write, took care of the horses with her strapped to my back.
With the second child, I rode for about five months — much more cautiously. I'd fallen in love with baby breath and fat baby knees by then, and since I couldn't bring two kids on interviews, and hated to leave them, I found other writing jobs I could do around their schedules. The horse died, and I didn't get another. I traded hanging out at the barn for hanging out at preschool. I stopped asking the tough questions.
I agreed, and we talked about how we'd like to say something. How we'd like to honk the horn, even, but we won't, because it wouldn't set a good example. It wouldn't be polite. It would be too fierce.
It's a dumb small thing, but it got me thinking. Those friends of mine, the ones I made in my twenties and love dearly, are still fierce. They (mostly) have chosen not to have children, and are doing well in their careers. They are lovely women, all of them, but you cross them at your peril. You might cut them off in line once, and they'd let it go. Twice, they'd say something. The third time, you wouldn't have to worry about driving, because you wouldn't have any knees.
It's not that my mom friends aren't fierce in their own ways. They're fabulous women and I'm lucky to have found them. Hurt their kids, and they'd kill you without thinking. But on a day-to-day basis, they're like me — busy making sure everyone is getting along, everyone is happy, everyone has friends. Too busy being civilized to be ferocious.
Last year, I reconnected with my old boss. He threw me a few softball assignments, and I loved it — a part of my brain that had been unused for too long kicked into gear. But after those articles were completed, I decided to hold off on doing more for a while. The deadlines were a big part of it , for sure, but there was something else, something I couldn't quite put my finger on. And then it came to me — I was getting a big old adrenaline rush from chasing down sources and asking a few tough questions. I was feeling fierce, which isn't always compatible with raising well-behaved children.
I'm speaking for myself only here — I'm sure there are plenty of moms who are still just as fierce as they ever were. For some reason, the few I know have only one child, and manage to keep a balance between the challenging careers they have and the quality family time they need. More than one child, and something seems to have to give.
It's a luxury to have time to think about something like this, but it's come up a lot recently in stuff I've been reading. Justine Musk has done a few posts that made me think, like this one, and this one here. And John Scalzi recently wrote about the different ways male and female bloggers are treated — in part because there is the perception that women are too gentle or nice or not fierce enough to fight back.
I've passed a few barns recently and thought hmm. I could take a quick lesson, and nobody at home would be the wiser. I've held off on getting back into riding for a bunch of reasons, (the money! the time!) but one is that I'm not sure I want to watch my daughter take the chances I did, both stupid and smart. I don't want to put her at risk. I want to keep her safe, and if I start riding again, she'll want to too.
But what message does it send to always play it safe, to (almost) always be polite, to avoid asking the hard questions? Is being fierce a good thing, or a bad? Does it change as you get older? What do you think?
In the meantime, if you've liked me on Facebook (and you have, haven't you? And made all your friends and relatives do the same?) you'll have heard about the gaping loss several libraries are facing due to the recent flooding. I can't imagine not being able to take my kids to check out books — the library is the first place we visit in any new town, and we've met life-long friends doing so. If you'd like to help, author Kate Messner has pulled together the information on her web site. My kids chose to donate toward a purchase of Where the Wild Things Are, which seems particularly fitting since my house is Wild Thing free most days lately. Except for Harley. And even he's depressed.


Victor J. Borer, 97, of Albion, NE, passed away Monday, May 23, 2016 at Boone County Health Center in Albion.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 26, 2016 at St. Michael's Catholic Church in Albion, with Fr. Stan Schmit officiating. Interment will follow at the parish cemetery with military rites by American Legion Post #162 and V.F.W. Post #736 of Albion. Visitation will be from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church with a 7:30 p.m. wake service.


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My quite random afternoon spent making Trapped in a Box has resulted in me spending quite a lot of time thinking about the game. I want to add a branching narrative to it – the overall story will remain the same, but as you spend time dodging slime, I want to enable the player to explore different aspects of the story. I want the core gameplay to remain the same, trying to read while dodging slime. The question is: how best to do this.
So I put together three mock-ups of the game, which would allow the player to choose a branch based upon a key phrase. The first two are simply putting the decision above the platform, meaning the player has to jump to activate it. The third way is to use the Q and E keys to decide.


BSK has an innovative method of pan broiling steak for HG/BSK's infrequent red meat meals. BSK uses an old cast iron pan, weathered and seasoned by many years of use. The pan is pre-heated to a high temperature. The room temperature New York Strip (Whole Foods, BSK's source for beef and chicken) sizzles and sears in the hot pan. Then, BSK BSK turns the heat a point between medium and high. BSK then begins turning the steak over, letting it cook for no more than forty seconds on a side. The result is the best steak ever. Rare for HG. Medium rare for BSK, The steak is nicely browned but not charred. BSK believes cooking steak at sustained high heat results in a charred piece of meat. And, char is almost pure carbon and not good for you. Many New York steak houses melt butter over the steak but HG prefers heated olive oil flavored with lightly browned garlic HG's side dish is canellini beans heated with oil and garlic (yes, HG is a glutton for garlic). No beans for BSK, but HG is happy to share BSK's endive salad with a blue cheese vinaigrette. Malbec, Cahors, Beaujolais or any other potent red wine is the chosen beverage. (The mystery of this meal is BSK's impeccable timing which remains a secret known only to her).
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As elearning designers, we don't always have the final say on what goes into the courses we build. That level of decision-making is usually left up to our clients or stakeholders. This can result in information-heavy courses, making it more important we provide learners with supporting resources outside the course.
A recent study by UC San Diego suggests that knowing the ending of a story may actually help us enjoy the story more—not less—than if we didn't know the ending.
Evidently, knowing the story ahead of time creates a greater comfort level that enables us to better enjoy the process and actions leading up to the ending.
If you include the course menu or slide titles, then you're already creating a kind of course spoiler. Headings and titles help reassure learners where they are in the course, and where the course is headed. That visual reassurance can also be repurposed into a job aid.
The only thing missing is a concise, actionable summary of those headings. Let's look at an example.
One of my favorite job aid spoilers comes from Mackie. Mackie makes pro audio equipment. That means their user manuals are designed for musicians—the only group with shorter attention spans than sales people.
If you're Mackie and you're selling expensive audio equipment, you have an interest in making sure your customers get the most from their purchase.
Mackie gets it, and most of all, they understand their audience. How?
The user manual then drills down into audio settings, options, tutorials and troubleshooting.
Question: Does this one-page job aid spoil the rest of the manual? Does it invalidate the instructional and technical design efforts that went into creating the other 99% of the manual?
No way! The manual's even more valuable because users now have a working context for how those details apply to their specific needs.
And that's exactly why this model can help us design better courses.
Seems so simple, right? But how many e-learning courses provide handouts or job aids that summarize just what the learner needed to know to begin working? The good news is Studio '09 makes creating these resources really easy.
Using Presenter 09's Attachments feature, you can easily insert one or more spoiler job aids into your course.
The attachments can be .pdf, .doc or .txt files and can be accessed at any time during the course. Attachments can be anything you like: lists, how-tos, dos and don'ts or just a chapter or course summary learners can print and take with them after the course.
Engage makes it easy to condense course slides into concise interactions. Using any of the 10 interactions, you can quickly highlight the most relevant points in your course.
What's cool is how you can publish Engage as a standalone interaction.This means you can share the files across your corporate intranet, company web site or learning portals.
Is this something that could work with your courses? Would your stakeholders support giving learners a spoiler-type job aid at the beginning of the course? At the end?
Is there a difference to receiving job aids at the beginning of a course versus receiving them at the end of a course?
And if you're already doing something like this, how about sharing some examples with the community? Post your links in the comments section below, or in the forums.
Please I need some Help with printing certificate at the end of the training. When you finish a training and pass the test appear a windows with printing option. At this moment you can print the certificate typing your name, but continue open the same windows with the same print option. For that other student in the same machine can print another version of certificate. How can I set the windows to close after click print option. I know that after click finish the windows close, but I need close when click print. Please help me.
Great example, Michael! The pyramid interaction is ideal for Bloom. Adding it to the example list:-) Thanks!
I seem to get the 404 error when I clicked on the Bloom's Taxonomy Job Aid link, anyone else faced the same problem?


The concept of 'alternative medicine' is a misnomer at best and confusing at worst. Medicine is still working on cures for diabetes and cancer but with continued research will come close within the next 10 years or so. Doctors are now able to pinpoint the exact location of an illness or a disease and what medicines to use to deter the effects of the illness or disease.
I have patients come to me with information that they have found on the Internet about their illness and how to treat it. I encourage my patients to learn as much as they can about their own symptoms and illnesses so that they can improve their health.
Most Americans who consult naturopathic providers would probably jump at the chance to consult a physician who is well trained in scientifically based medicine and who is also open-minded and knowledgeable about the body's innate mechanisms of healing, the role of lifestyle factors in influencing health, and the appropriate uses of dietary supplements, herbs, and other forms of treatment, from osteopathic manipulation to Chinese and Ayurvedic medicine.
Men can safely use over the counter antifungal treatments such as Monistat even those these products are labeled "for vaginal use." Over the counter medications like Monistat are marketed to women because genital yeast infections are much more common in women than in men.
As the battle for our own survival continues, medicines intended for controlling illnesses have moved into categories that just treat symptoms while our own natural defenses battle for supremacy, or introducing cures that cause side effects which can be more harmful than the disease.


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"The Price on Everything Is Love": How a Detroit Community Overcomes a Lack of City Services
Jessica Ramirez in front of the storefront that houses Detroiters Helping Each Other (DHEO)
Photo by Kevon Paynter
A range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts address basic needs, from health care to food access, that are going unmet by local government agencies.
By Kevon Paynter
A multitude of voicemails and text messages from desperate neighbors flooded Jessica Ramirez's cell phone on a brisk morning in October 2013. Winter was coming.
Using social media to reach potential donors as well as those seeking help, Ramirez created a makeshift donation center on the sidewalk outside her Southwest Detroit home. There, the community organizer and her neighbors handed out warm clothing to children and recycled beds, dressers and microwaves to new mothers who needed furniture.
When school began the next year, she was at it again, donating reams of school supplies she had collected from businesses and individuals. "Everything was being done out of my home when I started," Ramirez says.
Recognizing her efforts, the property manager of an abandoned local storefront gave her use of the facility. That's when her charitable acts became a community shop—Detroiters Helping Each Other (DHEO)—where kindness and generosity, not money, is the currency of exchange. Their motto: Teamwork makes the dream work.
"I would love to see us not need this anymore," she says.
"In the meantime it's showing people the community still cares."
Decades of economic and population decline, a depleted tax base, and critically underfunded city services have forced Southwest Detroiters to self-organize, establishing a local network of goods and services to fill in for missing city services. The result is a range of neighbor-to-neighbor efforts, like DHEO, that seek to address broader needs that are going unmet by local government agencies.
The Congress of Communities, for example, is a charitable programming organization that, among other things, offers anti-domestic violence trainings to Southwest Detroit residents in 2010. The trainings aimed to improve public safety at a time when it took police nearly an hour to arrive at a crime scene.
A coordinated effort called Detroit Mowers Gang organized volunteers with gloves and protective eye gear to mow overgrown grass in the city's abandoned lots and public playgrounds. The so-called weed vigilantes get together every other Wednesday to do what the city doesn't, calling itself a "crafty crew" that refuses to let budgets and bureaucracy stand in the way of unruly grass on a playground getting cut.
And the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, organized educational programs for youth and adults, and operated a food co-op to ensure Detroiters had access to affordable, nutritious and culturally appropriate food. Its ongoing work includes a food council that promotes a sustainable food system and advocates for food justice and food sovereignty in the city.
"The price on everything is love, man," says Rico Razo, a native Southwest Detroiter and a former mayor-appointed district manager tasked with ensuring city services respond to residents' needs.
"It's spreading love through giving with the hopes that the people they're helping out—if they catch someone else who's on hard times—that they pay it forward. That's the model that [DHEO] rolls with. I think it's been successful."
"The community takes care of itself without the suit and ties."
Three years ago, the city of Detroit named DHEO "Organization of the Year" for its role helping families recover from a fire that burned seven homes to the ground, just blocks from Ramirez's home. Her generosity has extended beyond helping people in need. She collected a U-Haul truck of dog food to feed 369 of her neighbors' dogs and donated straw to keep their kennels warm during Detroit's cold months.
She shares stories about DHEO's work on social media, so that donors can see who they're helping.
She vets people who say they are in need to make sure no one is taking undue advantage of the community's generosity. "We do our homework," she says.
She has asked for a police report in the case of a family replacing items they say were taken in a home burglary or documentation when a family asked for a donated bed to keep their children out of Child Protective Services.
But Ramirez says a family's inability to produce any of those things won't be a hindrance to receiving help. And ultimately, the organization relies on trust between neighbors in the community and the social networks that underlie it.
"Yeah, they get stuff for free," Ramirez says. "But we can call recipients up and say 'come volunteer.' If they're able-bodied, we tell them 'hey go cut the elderlies' grass' or 'show up to a community feeding event.' And they show up," she says.
Razo said that for the longest time when the city cut back on services, including trash pickup, streetlights, and lawn maintenance, he saw self-organized community initiatives and nonprofits offer food and healthcare to people in need. After-school programs and summer jobs for high school students emerged as well as job training and job readiness efforts.
City and state government services are rebounding but the hope is they won't threaten what neighbors have already built to save their communities.
Rather, Razo said he believes the city should look to them and partner with them to remove some of the burden and empower them to continue. He's said he running for state representative to the Michigan Legislature on a platform that seeks to bolster Detroit's community-based sharing economies, especially by integrating them into city services.
"They don't do it for us," Ramirez says of business and city government. "The community takes care of itself without the suit and ties."
This article was funded in part by a grant from the Surdna Foundation.
Kevon Paynter is a former Surdna reporting fellow for YES!
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I have been having a few issues with mouse clicks not registering, and accuracy of selections.
Do you use anything special? I wonder if I should upgrade?
At home I personally use the Mionix Naos 7000 and I absolutely love it. Fits my hand perfectly, quick access to DPI-switching, wonderful weight, and a solid click-action. I pair it with my extra large HyperX Fury S Pro mouse pad. I honestly can't say enough good about this combination; the mouse is glorious and the mouse pad ensures that said mouse glides across the surface in a heavenly fashion.
Note, these are my personal views and not to be construed as endorsements by TechSmith.
It does not have a tilt wheel, and while that'd be a "nice-to-have," it's not something I use in my day-to-day computer use.
I'm currently using a Logitech G502 Proteus.
It started out as a Logitech G 400. It's a fully programmable gaming mouse. You can set up five different profiles I believe. I only use one.
You can change the sensitivity and dots per inch on the fly which is really nice. When I start doing intricate work I turned the dots per inch down real low so I have to move the mouse a lot to move the cursor just a little.
I have two buttons on the side programmed for making the web browser move forward one page or backward one page. That's handy at times.
I've got good sized hands with long fingers. This is a nice big mouse that fits my hand well. It's also a weighted mouse that I install all the weights so it's very stable. At least to me, I prefer it heavy.
Being a gaming mouse the buttons are clicky. They're not real loud but they make a little noise. They're supposed to be extra heavy duty because there designed for gaming. The mouse comes with a five year warranty. The mouse scroll wheel does have a left and right scroll feature. I'm going to show you an image of the mouse programming software.
Okay looking at the image now I see it's actually three profiles that you can create. But you can set 5 dpi sensitivity levels in your profile. So basically, I'll use the 6450 dpi setting on my 2560 by 1440 monitor most of the time. And if you look in the image where it says dpi up in dpi down that's where you change your settings. As you can see my highest setting is 8300 and my lowest is 200. You can do some pretty precise things at 200 dpi in Photoshop. I use that setting almost never. But when I need it it's really cool to have it available.You set all the dpi settings yourself, so if 300 makes more sense for you, so be it.
I mentioned that it started out as a G 400 gaming mouse. That was roughly 7 years ago I believe. The left click button started getting a little funky not working every single time I clicked. This was about three years after I purchased it. I called Logitech and they sent me a brand-new G500 mouse. Because it was a brand-new mouse the five year warranty period started all over. A while back that mouse had a left click button issue. I called up Logitech and they upgraded me to a new G502 Proteus. I had to mail them back the original one and they covered postage. I think I paid around 50 bucks for the original one. This newest one is still under warranty for the next four years. Putting me under warranty for the last 11 years with the mouse I really like. I'm not sure how you beat that. I saw on Amazon there's a new G502 Proteus something or other for $80. Or you can buy one like mine for around $40. If it were me I would buy the $40 version because of a button fails you're going to get the newest version when it does for free.
Or find something you like better.
This long-winded endorsement is brought to you by Dragon NaturallySpeaking and my new SSD drives. Dictating into your computer with your voice is the only way to fly. The program works so much better on my SSD I'm going to be using it a lot more.
Good luck with whatever mouse you choose.
I got to thinking about it and I still have the original mouse that was giving me trouble. And what it was was that on occasion when I left clicked it wouldn't work.
Well there's this feature called surface tuning. What you do is you start it and you move your mouse around in a figure 8 on your mouse pad. While the software takes readings.
I never did that before but I've done that with the newer mouse. So I broke out the old mouse this morning and hooked it up. It's actually a G 500. It's been so long since I looked at it I was thinking it was a 400.
Well lo and behold the thing seems to work perfectly fine. I use it for quite a while and it didn't seem to miss a lick. I think it just wasn't tracking quite accurately on the things I was trying to click on. I actually like the feel of the newer one better so I stuck it back in the box. These gaming mice are supposed to last for well over a million clicks without fail. I couldn't understand why two of them let me down but I never surface tuned either one of them.
Here's what the surface tuning interface looks like.
One other thing you're going to want to adjust. You can choose a polling rate for the mouse. Which is how many times the mouse reads the surface it's being moved across. The default is 500 times a second. There's arguments in the gaming world whether it's important to be that high or not. If it should be higher, etc. and so forth.
A standard non-gaming mouse generally reports 125 times a second. I have mine set to 250.
Why is that significant? In my Adobe programs where there is numerical values that you can adjust. You can hover your cursor over those values, left click and drag to change them.
Take this Photoshop Elements example where I'm hovering over the radius value of Gaussian blur.
When the polling rate is set to 500 or higher. Adobe has a hard time picking up the cursor. It took me quite a while to figure out what was going on when I first got my gaming mouse. I would click and drag and nothing would happen. I would have to rub back-and-forth before anything would happen. It was very frustrating. I even resorted to breaking out the cheap mouse that was shipped with my computer. People in the Adobe forums couldn't tell me what was going on. It took me forever to solve it.
Anyway, I wanted to give you a heads up. Knowing you've got one on the way.
I'm using a Logitech MX Master 2S on my laptop and a Microsoft Designer Mouse on my desktop. Both are bluetooth enabled. I've had no issues with either of them.


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Glomstenen eller Glumstenen är ett flyttblock på Morups Tånge vid Glommen i Morups socken i Falkenbergs kommun i Halland. Stenen nämns redan i berättelsen om kung Harald Hårdrådes örlogsfärd 1061-62 och vidare i berättelsen om kung Håkon Håkonsson krigståg till Halland på 1250-talet. Innan fyren byggdes på Morups Tånge användes Glomstenen av fiskarna för orientering. Stenen fungerar som vindskydd vid havsfågelskådning, då det kan blåsa rejält.

Glomstenen ligger på udden norr om Morups Tånge dvs strax norr om Glommens hamn.

Glomstenens budskap

Stenen har ett inhugget budskap om havsytans medelnivå i september 1816. Textens författare är den bekante Hallandshistorikern och professorn Sven Peter Bexell, kyrkoherde i Grimeton och Rolfstorp. Sedan början på 1700-talet hade det pågått en debatt om den så kallade vattuminskningen i haven. Somliga menade att det var landet som steg upp ur havet, medan andra föreställde sig att havsvattnet  uppslukades av hål i oceanbotten. En tredje gissning föreslog en kontinuerlig avdunstning av havsvattnet. Minskningen var, och är, ett långsamt förlopp. I Bottenviken är vattenståndsändringen nära en centimeter om året, i Sydsverige mindre än en millimeter om året. På Anders Celsius förslag markerade man havets nivå med daterade ristningar längs kusterna. Någon riktig förklaring av fenomenet skulle dock inte komma förrän långt in på 1800-talet då det kunde förklaras som  en landhöjning efter istiden.

Bexell hade funnit gamla uppgifter om vattennivåer i Halland, som inte stämde överens med de nivåer han kunde iaktta. Han mätte havsytans nivå vid Glumstenen i september 1816 och för framtida forskning lät han hugga ut resultatet i stenen. Bexell skriver i sin  Hallands historia och beskrivning:

Med våra måttenheter blir Bexells medelhöjd 1528 millimeter. Han anger höjden på en tredjedels linie när, det motsvarar en millimeter i våra mått. Var "detta märke" är uthugget är dock okänt. Någon uthuggen markerad referensnivå kan inte urskiljas på stenen. Men begreppet "märke" skulle kunna uppfattas så att hela den synliga stenen utgör "märket". Stenen hade ju tjänat som sjömärke i hundratals år. Övergången mellan stenen och den underliggande markytan blir i så fall den referensnivå som Bexell använt när han mätte medelhöjden över havsytan på en millimeter när.

Några ytterligare Bexellska forskningsinsatser om vattuminskningen är inte kända.

Referenser

Externa länkar
Morup 11:1 stenen på RAÄs webbplats

Falkenbergs kommun
Flyttblock i Sverige

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The Storybook App is an immersive experience that will reintroduce readers to the characters and the original story line. Similar to other popular book applications, the storybook will engage readers with accessible interactive elements that enrich the reading experiences – for example, with a swipe of your finger you will be able to shatter a dark knight or control a fairies flight path. The experience is supported by beautiful imagery of the environments and characters of the film.
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The game is a fast-paced, 3rd person runner style game. It is a fresh take on the 'runner on rails' style of gameplay found in popular iOS titles such as Temple Run. Battle story based opponents, all while jumping and dodging hazards in the environment. The game follows the story arc of the film. Players will have the opportunity to play as Snow White, the Huntsman in Act 1 & 2, and a combo of both Snow White and the Huntsman in Act 3. All locations are based on the vibrant film locations such as the Dark Forest, the Sewers, the Castle, the Beach, and the Enchanted Forest.
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In Snow White and the Huntsman a breathtaking new vision of the legendary tale begins. Kristen Stewart (the Twilight saga, On the Road) plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil Queen Ravenna (Oscar® winner Charlize Theron of Prometheus, Hancock) who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined was that the young woman who has escaped her clutches and now threatens her reign has been training in the art of war with a Huntsman named Eric (Chris Hemsworth of Thor, The Avengers) who was dispatched to capture her.
Sam Claflin (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) accompanies the film's cast of international superstars as William, the young duke long enchanted by Snow White's defiance and innate purity. He is joined in this quest by dwarves accompanying Snow White and the Huntsman on their fantastical journey.
The epic action-adventure is brought to the screen by Joe Roth, the billion-dollar blockbuster producer of Alice in Wonderland, producer Sam Mercer (The Sixth Sense) and, in his feature-film debut, acclaimed commercial director and state-of-the-art visualist Rupert Sanders.
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Work hard, play hard: Harvest Wine Weekend uncorks Oct. 19 through 21! Peer behind the curtain as winemakers open up barrel rooms and tasting rooms in celebration of the new wine harvest. This Oct. 20 and 21, more than a hundred wineries are kicking up their heels and sharing great meals. A Harvest Wine and Pie Pairing will take place Oct 20 to 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Harmony Cellars featuring pies courtesy of Linn's of Cambria; Castoro Cellars is offering a Harvest Festival Crab Dinner on Oct. 19; Grey Wolf Cellars will host a Harvest Ho Down with live music and prizes for best Halloween costume on Oct. 20, and Tooth and Nail Winery is throwing a wicked castle party with live music Oct. 20 and a Paint Bar art class on Oct. 21 (see a wealth of events at pasowine.com).
Happy as a clam: The Pismo Beach Clam Festival Wine Walk has been going on for 72 years—can you believe it? Taste the tradition with a three-day event dedicated to all things clammy. It kicks off Oct. 19 through 21 with live music, food trucks, kids' activities, local wine, and plenty of hot bread bowls brimming with creamy clam chowder. Learn more at pismoclamfestival.com ... SLO Mexican food restaurant Taqueria Santa Cruz will open a second location on Foothill Boulevard near the Cal Poly SLO campus. The taqueria also has a spot on Monterey Street, and boy is it ever crowded! Hopefully this new locale will allow a bit more breathing room for burrito buffs ... Paso's LaZarre Wines is opening its first tasting room at farm-to-table restaurant Thomas Hill Organics in Paso Robles. Yes, you heard right! The business will move into the space vacated by Seven Oxen Estate Wines, which is now located in Tin City off Ramada Drive in Paso Robles.
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Bring a taste straight from New Orleans to your table with this Paleo Gumbo recipe. There must be as many kinds of gumbo as there are families in south Louis iana! Maybe more, because each one has its own recipe, using chicken, duck, sausage, beef, seafood and vegetables, depending on what's available in their refrigerator. We "think" you're going to love this paleo version!
In a large soup pot cook bacon until fatty parts start to crisp then add, onion, celery, red pepper and garlic until the mixture is tender. Set aside.
In the same pot prepare the almond flour and coconut flour in 2 tablespoons of butter and stir constantly until flour is a light brown.
Add the veggie/bacon mixture you already cooked back into the pot, coating and cooking for another minute or so.
While preparing the vegetables, brown the sausage in a cast iron skillet with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Cut into discs or half discs and set aside.
Season the chicken with salt, pepper and Italian seasoning, and brown in the cast iron skillet with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Chop the chicken into 1 inch or so squares and set aside.
Open all cans of seafood, drain and set aside liquid.
Add the seafood liquid, canned tomatoes, broth, carrots, Italian parsley, and spices and bring to a boil. Cover, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
Add the okra, return to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes.
Add seafood, chicken and sausage and return to a boil.
Reduce heat and simmer for 5–10 minutes or until the raw shrimp is cooked.
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Life has been really busy for me. I'm wrapping up the last week of classes, coordinating schedules and funding for a curriculum project I'll be piloting in the fall and preparing for my next week with my teacher and mentor, Jack Canfield. As exciting as things are right now, I'm looking forward to a long stretch of unscheduled time that begins the first week of June!
But first, I have a June 1st deadline to meet for my first book. The book is my story of transformation through several significant relationships in my life. It spans over fifty years of my life and goes beyond the physical realm.. As I do my last read through before submitting it to the publisher, I am clear about the contrast between where I was and where I am today. As challenging as things have been at times, I am grateful for the lessons learned, the skills acquired, and wisdom gained as well as for the people who have supported me on my journey.
But it takes forever to find a way out.
I fall in...it's a habit...but now my eyes are open.
There is a hole deep in the sidewalk.


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Il doppio del torneo di tennis Austrian Open 1994, facente parte dell'ATP Tour 1994, ha avuto come vincitori David Adams e Andrej Ol'chovskij che hanno battuto in finale Sergio Casal e Emilio Sánchez 6-7, 6-3, 7-5.

Teste di serie

 David Adams /  Andrej Ol'chovskij (campioni)
 Sergio Casal /  Emilio Sánchez (finale)
 Diego Nargiso /  Udo Riglewski (secondo turno)
 Cristian Brandi /  Federico Mordegan (semifinali)

 Jon Ireland /  Jack Waite (quarti di finale)
 Sander Groen /  Mark Keil (quarti di finale)
 Patricio Arnold /  Roberto Saad (quarti di finale)
 Filip Dewulf /  Tom Vanhoudt (secondo turno)

Tabellone

Finale

Parte alta

Parte bassa

Collegamenti esterni

Austrian Open 1994


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6912th ESG Lineage and Honors History Of the 6912 Electronic Security Group (ESG) Lineage. Constituted and activated as 6912 Radio Squadron, Mobile on 8 May 1955. Redesignated as: 6912 Security Squadron, 1 Jul 1963; 6912 Electronic Security Group, -1 Aug 1979. Inactivated on 15 Jul 1988. Assignments. 6910 Security Group, 8 May 1955; 6910 Radio Group, Mobile, 1 Sep 1956; 6910 Security Wing, 1 Jul 1962; European Security Region, 31 Jan 1970; United States Air Force Security Service, 30 Jun 1972; Electronic Security, Europe (later European Electronic Security Division), 30 Sep 1980-15 Jul 1988. Stations. Landsberg AB, West Germany, 8 May 1955; Bingen Kaserne, West Germany, 30 Jul 1955; Templehof Central Airport, West Germany, 1 Jul 1959-15 Jul 1988. Service Streamers. None. Campaign Streamers. None. Armed Forces Expeditionary Streamers. None. Decorations. Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards: 1 Jul 1975-30 Jun 1977; 1 Jul 1977-30 Jun 1978; 1 Jul 1978-30 Jun 1979; 1 Jul 1979-30 Jun 1981; I1 Jul 1982-30 Jun 1984.. Lineage, Assignments, Stations, and Honors through 15 Jul 1988. Emblem. Approved on 21 Oct 1980. Emblem 6912th ESG I was ecstatic the day I received a telephone call from MGen Skip Burns, Commander of USAFSS asking if I would accept the job as Commander, 6912th SS in Berlin. My job in the Pentagon was Chief, SIGINT Branch. I had been in the assignment for just short of four years (the magic tour length) in the Pentagon. And, I had just returned from Berlin a few weeks before with other Air Staff delegates to investigate a CINC USAFE complaint. I fell in love with the 6912th mission. My boss in the Pentagon said I could accept the position if I could find a replacement. I told him that he need not worry because my staff was totally capable of anything I was doing. But, a replacement was available and I got the orders to go. Four years in the Pentagon is enough for anyone and I was ready. My family was thrilled to death. They had never been to Europe and to get an assignment to Berlin was frosting on the cake. Once it was known that I was going to Berlin, I got a call from the Chief of A Group. Ms Ann Carachristy (sp?) - a very nice lady who later became Assistant DIRNSA. She invited me to the agency for some briefings. The briefings were excellent and provided detail of the mission and plans for the future. I was appreciative. Appreciative that is until she got to the primary thrust of the briefing. The plan, according to the agency, was to move the AF out of the Marienfelde site to Teufelsberg under the Army. The 6912 was to become an administrative organization until phased out. She said Mari was in a hole. They even had diagrams of the Mari mission at Tberg. And, get this, USAFSS had agreed to the plan. Remember, I was still at the Air Staff. You can guess what happened. I had been around this business for many years and loved it, but that ignited my spark. It was obvious that we had to stop this plan. We had to get the local theater users into this and show them that "Mari was not in a hole." If the USAFE folks agreed with me and I was to show the world that Mari was not in a hole, we had a chance. That was my plan before I departed NSA that afternoon and headed back to the Pentagon. For this reason it was imperative that the 6912th come up with some great things within their mission. We needed to design briefings that showed the interaction capabilities within the unit, the synergism of their products and the fact that the European command was not about to loose this resource. It took a while and a lot of hard work, but it worked. CINCUSAFE said that "the 6912th was his eyes and ears to the East." I took a lot of joking about that, but it is true. Off we went to Berlin. My family and I were all so excited that we didn't even get a nap on arrival. We got on a Berlin Bus and toured the city. What an experience. The next morning was a Saturday so I decided to tour the units. My first stop was the Radar Operations section at Tempelhof. Wow, did this hit me as a giant interactive instrument for the other sites, Mari and Tberg. To be honest, I got lost in the Radar Operations building trying to find the operational site. After a short visit at Tempelhof, I caught a staff car to Mari and then to Tberg. Adrenalin ran faster with each visit of the sites. What a mission and what talented people. One could not ask for anything more. The base commander and his staff were another matter. The 7350th Air Base Group had the notion that they owned the 6912th and that everything we did was accountable to them--from personnel, logistics, administrative, to operations and even command, an amazing and thoroughly misguided notion. The people in the 6912th were treated like second class citizens. Although the base commander, in time, became a real supporter, he was initially of the opinion that the 6912th was his and he had control of it. And sadly to say, some members of the 6912th believed the same thing. It didn't take long to figure this one out. I totally excluded the 7350th from all unit activities. The officers and senior NCOs were told that we were a unit under the USAFSS and we answered to no one but our chain of command and that I would answer to the 7350th ABGroup. It worked. We were the reason the 7350th was in Berlin. In time they realized that and supported us very well indeed. Right in the middle of these efforts a USAFSS Chief Master Sergeant visited us with orders to transfer all my cops to the 7350th. I invited him to visit my office and when he confirmed that this was indeed his objective, I invited him to leave Berlin that day. This about blew my mind. Obviously, I first called the USAFSS Commander, then followed it up with a message which completely overturned the objective of transferring my cops to the base. All the other cops in all USAFSS units were being transferred to the various host command units except those in the 6912th. By the way, this Chief Master Sergeant later became a great friend of mine and we still to this date work together on various projects. A wonderful guy sent on a lousy mission. We developed a unit briefing that became the talk of Europe. We were invited to many organizations and functions to include the French, Russian, and, of course, the British. The USCOB sent visitors by the dozens to see us, as did the Ambassador and the CINCEUR. We even talked with the Russian Warsaw Pact chief and members of his staff. Members of Congress visited as well. The 6912th was finally recognized for what it was, "the" unit in Berlin. We soon won the Outstanding Unit Award -- the first for the 6912th, after all those years. One of our most famous programs, aside from the "synergistic effect of Comint, Elint, and Radint" was our Tactics Reports. Many will remember these reports. The operational commands were enormously appreciative of them. In fact information in these reports was used to train our fighter and bomber pilots. The agency had a fit, calling the production of the reports illegal and giving away too much. Later in time, the agency actually boasted about these reports and their utility. I will leave it at that while you all recall the major efforts and skills required to develop and report such information. A truly outstanding product vital to the operational forces. We had the most talented people in all of the USAF. We were all very proud. One issue became a serious issue. Other AF and Army personnel could visit East Berlin. We could not. This seemed unreasonable. I contacted the security folks in the Pentagon and asked a simple question - "why?" They did not have a very good answer. We went back and forth on that question for a few weeks, and finally we won. Our folks were finally able to visit East Berlin. There are many other stories about our assignment with the 6912th. Suffice to say that the men and women of the 6912th were a cut above other AF personnel. We did the job, we came back the next day for more and we did it right every time. In the Ballard Blue Jeans Buffet we all let our hair down. We were all proud of what we did. And, we had a right to be. Things got a little less hectic during my third year in Berlin and I applied for another year there. The command approved it. One Saturday afternoon I was lying in bed reading a book when the telephone rang. It was from MGen Doyle Larson, an old friend who was Commander of USAFSS. 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Instagram Exploring Revenue Sharing for Content Creators
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Instagram is exploring the possibility of rewarding users who create content on the photo sharing service with a portion of the revenues generated from advertising on the Facebook-owned app.
"Content is incredibly important on Facebook and Instagram," said Carolyn Everson, vice president for global marketing solutions at Facebook. "We want to be a major distribution platform and we are trying to find different ways to help content producers monetise that content. We are exploring revenue sharing models."
Instagram already boasts 400m active users, and its current growth rate is actually faster than Facebook was at a similar point in its lifespan. Advertisers who make use of Facebook are increasingly crossing over onto Instagram, generating content for both platforms.
According to eMarketer forecasts, Instagram will be a major source of revenue growth for Facebook too, bringing in ad revenues of £1.19bn in 2016, or 15 per cent of Facebook's total ad sales for the year.
Instagram has already unveiled a suite of tools to help businesses differentiate themselves from regular users on the platform in a bid to help drive ad revenues. The new tools, revealed earlier this week, include offering advertisers more in-depth analytic tools and enabling customers to contact businesses directly via the app, rather than posting public comments on photos and videos.
A revenue sharing model for some of the service's key content creators would help Instagram maintain its popularity as a platform, ensuring that key influencers remained active, while Facebook increased advertising on the app. Whatever model the service chooses to adopt, it's clear that Instagram will be central to Facebook's future plans.
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Israel intercepted a truck bound for the Gaza Strip that was carrying 450 liters of a banned chemical known to be a central component in the production of rocket fuel. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – Israel intercepted a Gaza Strip-bound Palestinian truck with 450 liters of a banned chemical called TDI, known to be a central component in the production of rocket fuel, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Monday.
In the West Bank, Israel's border crossing authority found the truck's registered contents of so-called "soybean oil" to be suspicious and conducted a preliminary chemical test, which showed the liquid was actually unidentifiable. After confiscating the materials and sending them to a lab for further testing, it was clear the material was TDI, a liquid prohibited from entering Gaza due to the Hamas terror group's intent to use it for rockets. Israeli security authorities have opened an investigation into the incident.


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Mr. Tamburrino serves as the Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness. His responsibilities include assisting the Under Secretary and the Principal Deputy in the oversight of the Personnel and Readiness enterprise, as well as managing the day-to-day operations of the Office of the USD (P&R).
Prior to this appointment Mr. Tamburrino served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy. His responsibilities included policy and oversight of civilian personnel plans, policies, and programs that affect over 740,000 defense employees worldwide. Mr. Tamburrino's portfolio spanned the full spectrum of the Human Capital Lifecycle to include talent acquisition, development and sustainment, performance management, strategic workforce and succession planning, leader development and Senior Executive Service Leadership Programs and the Civilian Expeditionary Workforce (CEW). Mr. Tamburrino is also responsible for policies and program guidance for the Department's 136,000 non-appropriated funded employees worldwide.
Mr. Tamburrino was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in February 1997 and has 27 years of Federal Service.
Mr. Tamburrino served as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Fleet Readiness and Logistics) from December 2006 through December 2010. He was the senior civilian responsible for policy, program and resource allocation for world-wide U.S. Navy Readiness and Logistics and served as the Chief of Naval Operations' (CNO) principal advisor for the management of the civilian executive cadre.
Mr. Tamburrino served as the Executive Director, Naval Sea Systems Command from May 2005 through November 2006. In this capacity, he served as the senior civilian in the Navy's largest System Command with direct responsibility for a professional and industrial workforce numbering over 83,000 with an annual operating budget of $30B+.
Mr. Tamburrino served as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Resources, Requirements, and Assessments) from February 2003 through April 2005. In this capacity he was the senior civilian advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on all issues related to the development of the Navy Program Objective Memorandum, Department of the Navy Strategic Planning and related issues.
Mr. Tamburrino was selected as the Deputy Program Executive, Submarines in July 1998, and was appointed as the Executive Director of Team Submarine, serving as the senior civilian within that organization. In this capacity he provided oversight to the Seawolf and Virginia Class Submarine new construction programs as well as life cycle support to the entire active submarine Fleet. Mr. Tamburrino also served as the Chairman of the NAVSEA Change Committee and was responsible for directing the implementation of command-wide efforts such as e-business strategies and a re-vamp of the professional support services contracting processes.
In February 1997, Mr. Tamburrino was selected for appointment to the Senior Executive Service (SES). Mr. Tamburrino's initial assignment was as the Director, Cost Engineering and Industrial Analysis, Department of the Navy, Naval Sea Systems Command. In this capacity he supported all Navy shipbuilding, and associated weapons and systems, programs in terms of cost engineering, economic analysis and related issues.
Mr. Tamburrino was employed by EG&G, Inc, Wellesley, Mass. from 1983 through 1989 where he held various management positions in financial/contract management and strategic planning. He started his civilian service in 1989 and held various positions within the Submarine Combat Systems Directorate of the Naval Sea Systems Command. In 1991, he assumed responsibility as the Deputy Program Executive Officer, Submarines for Acquisition and Financial Management. In the spring of 1996, Mr. Tamburrino was selected as the Deputy Program Manager for Submarine Combat Systems, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) where he was charged with the modernization of the SSN688/SSBN 726 Class Submarine combat systems to meet the Navy missions of the 21st Century.
Mr. Tamburrino attended Officer's Candidate School in Newport, RI and was commissioned as an Ensign, United States Navy in December 1977. Following commissioning and various Navy schools, he reported to USS Sam Rayburn (SSBN 635(B)) in September 1978 where he qualified as a Submarine Warfare Officer and Strategic Weapons Officer. Subsequently, he reported to the Naval Submarine School, Groton, Conn. for duty as Department Head, Strategic Weapons Training Department. Mr. Tamburrino left active duty Naval Service as a Lieutenant in July 1983.
He attended the New York Institute of Technology and graduated in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. Mr. Tamburrino holds a Master's in Business Administration degree from Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He is a graduate of the Program Managers Course, Defense Systems Management College, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and is a Certified Material Professional.
Mr. Tamburrino's naval decorations include the Navy Achievement Medal (two awards), Meritorious Unit Commendation and Sea Service Deployment Ribbon. Mr. Tamburrino was awarded the Navy Civilian Meritorious Medal in 1996 and Navy Superior Service Medals in 2003 and 2005. He was awarded the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive in September 2001 and was recognized with the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Executive in both 2004 and 2009 – one of only two Navy Executives to be recognized twice at this level. Mr. Tamburrino was also recognized with the Department of Defense 52nd Annual Distinguished Civilian Service award in November, 2007.
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CSU looks to education summit
by Kalina Laframboise January 8, 2013
The Concordia Student Union will start campaigning for student involvement in order to hold a vote related to the provincial government's upcoming education summit scheduled for mid-February.
The CSU will launch a website within the next two weeks that will allow students to pitch their concerns with higher education and specifically the governance of Concordia. In order to reach out to as many students as possible, the CSU chose to have undergraduates participate online and vote on positions proposed by fellow students.
To submit a position, students must support their claims with academic research consisting of three articles. According to VP external Simon-Pierre Lauzon, who is co-ordinating the initiative, the CSU will help individuals with research if they request it.
The website will also allow for discussion of the proposals put forth on the four themes to be discussed at the summit including quality of post-secondary education, the accessibility of higher education, the governance and financing of universities, and the contribution of research establishments to the development of Quebec. Then students will have the opportunity to vote on what they believe should be conveyed to the provincial government at the summit.
The Parti Québécois promised the education summit would address the concerns and issues that arose during the student strike movement. Lauzon hopes the CSU will compile 10 proposals per theme, allotting for a total of 40 positions to represent the opinions of the undergraduate student body at Concordia.
One concern is the participation of students. In order to meet quorum, at least 450 students must participate in the vote and it must be done by the end of the month. The CSU will encourage students to participate by campaigning in classrooms, buildings, online, with posters and purchasing advertising space.
"Everybody is going to hear about it if they are anywhere on campus," said Lauzon. "We're hoping two to three thousand people participate."
Student Senator Wendy Kraus-Heitmann said she is worried about the details of the campaign proposal, stating it posed "major problems as written" and that she is concerned with time constraints. In an email to Lauzon, she suggested that the CSU hold a series of town halls and bring positions and stances by the Fédération étudiante universitaire du Québec to students for them to vote on. The lack of time will make it less likely to hold a "meaningful" consultation according to Kraus-Heitmann.
Lauzon said that certain student faculty associations, specifically the Arts and Science Federation of Associations and the Engineering and Computer Science Association have already taken steps to contact their students to voice opinions. In September, ASFA's executive took a strong stance in ensuring Arts and Science students would be heard in the upcoming conference.
While the CSU will not be present at the education summit itself since it is invite-only, Concordia students will be represented by the FEUQ. The results of the vote will be communicated to the university association so that Concordia-specific concerns may be voiced at the summit. Lauzon clarified that the CSU may also send a memo to the organizers of the summit if there is something they feel wasn't addressed by FEUQ.
Some students like Mike de Sévigné, an independent student at Concordia, don't have any concerns he wants brought to the summit.
"I've always been happy with what I have," said de Sévigné. "But I do hope they [the government] listen to the concerns of other students and fulfill those needs."
The PQ has not yet set a date for the summit.
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This Tesla owner says he mines up to $800 a month in cryptocurrency with his car
Tesla owners speak to CNBC about how they've used the internal computer and battery power of the car to mine cryptocurrencies.
San Francisco-based Siraj Raval mines ethereum by hooking up graphic processing units directly to the Tesla car battery.
Siraj Raval has tried just about every way there is to mine for cryptocurrencies from his 2018 Tesla Model 3.
He's run free bitcoin mining software on his Apple Mac mini M1 and powered the computer by plugging an inverter into the 12-volt power socket located in the center console of his car.
He's also hooked up interconnected graphics processing units or GPUs to the "frunk" of his Tesla, running these machines off the car's internal battery.
Though it risks voiding his car warranty, Raval says it's worth it.
When the price of ether peaked in 2021, he claims he was netting as much as $800 a month.
Bitcoin miner Alejandro de la Torre said that ultimately, mining from a Tesla is just like connecting to any other power source.
"The main component is the price of the electricity. If it's cheaper doing it through an electric vehicle, then so be it," said de la Torre.
How to mine for crypto with a Tesla
Back in 2018, Chris Allessi — who tells CNBC he was Wisconsin's first-ever electric car dealer — decided to tinker with his Tesla.
This is nothing new for Allessi, also known as K-Man on his YouTube channel, who builds custom electric cars in his free time and bills himself as a modern-day Doc Brown, the character from the film "Back to the Future" who retrofits a car into a time machine.
"I like electricity. I like zapping stuff, building stuff. You give me an electric motor, I give you a finished product," he said.
Similar to Raval, Allessi has tried out a couple of different ways to transform his Tesla Model S into a crypto mining rig.
In industry speak, crypto mining is the energy-intensive process in which machines around the world contribute their computing power to the overall network, in order to create new coins and validate transactions of existing tokens. They do that by running specialized software that crunches complicated math equations. To participate, essentially all you need is a computer and power.
Allessi has tried mining for bitcoin by plugging a Bitmain Antminer S9 — a type of mining rig specifically used to mint the world's most popular cryptocurrency — directly into his car battery, with the help of a power inverter. The inverter adjusts the voltage of Tesla's electric battery to a level that's compatible with his Antminer.
Allessi has also successfully used the vehicle's internal firmware to mine for altcoins.
"It was no big deal," he said of the process. He used the built-in computer and screen in the car to navigate to a web page that he had set up specifically to mine for the popular privacy token monero. "I could run the mining program within the browser," Allessi explained.
Of all the techniques that Raval has tried, he said the most profitable involves a mix of hacking into Tesla's internal computer, plus plugging GPUs directly into the car's electric motor.
"It's a computer with wheels…It's so simple to hack into this computer car," Raval said, who describes the process as essentially hijacking the car's internal firmware to allow for extra power usage.
Tesla hacker and crypto miner Thomas Sohmers argued this step isn't necessary.
"The car is already built to deliver over 100 kilowatts, and anything connecting to the car is going to be a fraction of that. There's no need to do what [Raval] says he's doing. It doesn't make technical sense," said Sohmers.
From there, Raval tethers five GPUs to his Tesla battery, and he runs a hashing algorithm to mine for ethereum.
Professional-grade miners tell CNBC that, in theory, the logistics check out.
"The mechanisms are all there," explained Whit Gibbs, CEO and founder of Compass, a bitcoin mining service provider.
"You have a power source, you have space, you have the ability to add cooling. There's certainly enough power provided by the battery to fire up an ASIC and run it," continued Gibbs.
Profitable but worth the hassle?
Whether Tesla crypto mining proves profitable has a lot to do with when the driver bought their vehicle.
Allessi, for example, purchased his car before Jan. 2017, meaning that he was grandfathered into a scheme where he has free and unlimited supercharging for the life of his vehicle.
In 2018, he estimates that over a 60-hour window, he would make $10 worth of bitcoin, all of which was at a profit, because he didn't have to pay for power.
But even though it was profitable, it was hardly worth it, he says.
"Why would you want to put that kind of wear and tear on a $40,000 to $100,000 car?" he said. "And right now, even though the price for bitcoin has gone up dramatically, so has the difficulty level…In the same amount of time with the exact same equipment, I'm probably looking at $1 or $2 worth of bitcoin."
Mining for monero proved similarly fruitless.
"Did it work? Yes. Did it mine anything worthwhile to be able to be profitable in any way, shape, or form? No," explained Allessi.
Raval is more optimistic about the earning potential for his Tesla.
Even though he has to pay to charge his vehicle, Raval says the battery itself is "bar none," so he is able to get a lot of bang for his buck.
Raval's car gets 320 miles per charge, and it takes about $10 to $15 to charge it. If he drives it for a few hours on a daily basis, it needs a charge once every one-and-a-half weeks, putting his monthly bill at anywhere from $30 to $60.
Raval estimates that he mines roughly 20 hours a day off his Tesla battery. Though the price of altcoins like ethereum are prone to volatility, Raval has baked in other backstops to ensure profitability.
For one, he stakes his ethereum on "Midas.Investments," a custodial crypto investment platform that offers him an annual percentage yield of 23% on his investment. He also never cashes out to U.S. dollars so that his crypto nest egg keeps growing.
Raval buys his GPUs used off eBay as well, which helps to save money.
Taking all of these steps into account, Raval says that over the course of 2021, he earned anywhere from around $400 to $800 a month, making the venture profitable, even during crypto's doldrums.
Sohmers, who says he was the first to crack into the Model 3 in 2018, tells CNBC that profits that high just aren't possible.
"The best estimate I would have for the hashrate for the GPU in the Model 3 would be around 7-10 MH/s. Currently, at 10 MH/s, that would generate revenue of about $13.38 worth of ether, before any expenses," Sohmers told CNBC.
Allessi tells CNBC that he doesn't bother with mining anymore.
"The difficulty is so high…I could make more money working at McDonald's," he said.
Allessi did offer one alternative. "If you're working for a company, you'd be better off hiding a miner up in the drop ceiling than you would be mining with a car," he said of siphoning free electricity from an employer.
But for Raval, mining cryptocurrencies off his Tesla isn't just a gimmick. Instead, it is a big part of his plan to make his Tesla a fully autonomous robotaxi that earns crypto anytime it's not driving.
Although Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has touted the potential for vehicles to become autonomous robotaxis, Teslas today are still far from being able to drive themselves. Nonetheless, Raval believes in this future.
"It will use its earnings, from both transportation services and cryptocurrency mining services, to pay for its own expenses, like repairs, electricity costs, and upgrades, as well as invest them into a diversified portfolio of emerging crypto-community networks," he said.
CORRECTION: The article has been updated to reflect the fact that Siraj Raval has only tried mining for ethereum and bitcoin. Some of the technical details about the way Raval hacked his car have also been corrected. The story has been amended as well to include additional voices that call into question Raval's mining method.
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New Delhi: He is armed and she is fabulous. She serenades people every evening with her voice and he knocks them out of the ring with just a hook.
Bollywood heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor and femme fatale Anushka Sharma were in the national capital on Tuesday to promote their upcoming, Anurag Kashyap directed, 'Bombay Velvet'.
In an exclusive interview with NewsMobile, the cast of Bombay Velvet revealed all about their difficulties with their characters in the movie.
On being asked about the difficulties faced about carrying off all those heavy costumes, Anushka said, "Talking about the difficulties I would like to share that there were three girls around me who helped me with the managing of those heavy costumes, now I am not getting into other problems I had in wearing those costumes but yes it was very difficult to carry them but now I feel glad that it looks so nice on the screen."
She shared that it was fun at times to carry such kind of costumes but on a general note, she could not carry them all the time as she has no patience.
When Ranbir was asked how he felt that his uncle recently received the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award, he said, "First of all I feel extremely proud that we have received three Dada Saheb Phalke awards within my family. We had a lovely ceremony at the Prithvi Theatre where all our friends, family, actors, directors and almost everybody came and congratulated him. It feels great to know that I belong to such a great family who made such a large contribution to the film industry."
"When I was doing the voice over I realised the value of Shashi Kapoor in the film industry, he did commercial films, independent films, international films. He was the one who encouraged the theatre culture in India. He started Prithvi theatre with his wife Jennifer Kendal," the actor added.
When asked about his opinion over his choice of doing Bombay Velvet as it seemed a risky move on his part, Ranbir replied: "Every film is a risk. There is no set formula for a film. Very early on in my career I had decided that if I want to make a career in the Hindi film industry, I couldn't follow somebody's path. I needed to be part of films whose characters and stories I engaged with.
"If I can see something great in it, then I can do it with conviction. So when I do a film like Besharam, I don't have that kind of conviction. With Besharam may be I did, trying to do what other people do. But with my other choices, I am trying to empower myself with originality, with something new that challenges me as an actor. The risk factor is very exciting."
When asked about their marriage plans Ranbir said, "Everybody loves to be in love, I guess no one has any objections to it. Yes I do believe 'Mohabbat Buri Bimari Hai' and yes I do have that 'Bimari' but for now but I have no plans to get married, I am just focusing on Bombay Velvet for now and then will be focusing on upcoming projects."
When Anushka was asked the same question she quickly replied, "Ranbir is not having any plans so how can you expect me? I am much younger than him. It's definitely not on the cards; I have a long way to go before I get married."
Lastly when Ranbir was asked whether he had a dream role in mind for which he is eagerly waiting, he shared, "Yes I am very ambitious, I have to do a lot. I have to work with a lot of directors, I want to do a biography on Kishore Kumar, then Sanjay Dutt and most importantly I want to play a role of a villain. You have to keep surprising yourself, keep trying to do something different, so that the audience doesn't get bored of you."
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JCB and BNP Paribas announce joint venture
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(L-R) Bertrand Gousset and David Miller signing the joint venture agreement.
JCB has entered into a new joint venture partnership with BNP Paribas Lease Group to provide retail and wholesale financing solutions to European markets.
David Miller, JCB's managing director for financial solutions, says the construction equipment manufacturer wants to boost customer support as it continues to grow rapidly.
"We also want to improve the financing support available to JCB dealers," he adds.
"The creation of our new JCB Finance joint venture in Europe is an important milestone, enabling us to meet these aims in a number of key markets for JCB products."
Besides providing flexible facilities to support dealer inventory and demonstration equipment requirements, JCB expects the new joint venture to create new sales opportunities for JCB machines in Europe through its BNP Paribas range of leasing and retail finance programmes.
In 1994, JCB and BNP Paribas created their first joint venture to finance JCB's French sales. Since then, the partnership has grown in Europe and recently in India and North America.
The joint venture, 50.1% of which is held by BNP Paribas and 49.9% by JCB, will initially offer retail financing solutions for new and used JCB machines in France, Spain, Italy and Germany, with additional services and coverage planned for the future.
Bertrand Gousset, BNP Paribas's managing director of equipment and logistics solutions for international business, says the new partnership affirms the long-standing relationship between the two companies.
"Accompanying JCB in its development initiatives is a challenge we are happy to take up. Together, we will build new financing solutions that will allow us to create and shape the future of this high-growth sector," Gousset says.
JCB sold over 72,000 machines in 2007, a 30% sales increase over the previous year. It manufactures 290 different machines including Loadall telescopic handlers and the Teletruk forklift for the industrial sector.
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Lemurs, and therefore Madagascar, are fascinating for a number of reasons. Madagascar is the only place in the world one can find these incredible (and adorable) creatures in the wild. Lemurs are primates, and share a common ancestry with monkeys, apes and humans. However, lemurs are the only form of primate found on Madagascar, calling back to a time where all primates resembled the curious creature. When Madagascar broke off from the African continent around 160 million years ago, lemurs on the island were left without natural predators. Lemurs had no environmental reason to evolve by the time monkeys appeared 20 million years ago, and have remained thus until today.
This fascinating bit of evolutionary history contributes to Madagascar being labeled one of the four major regions that primatologists study, along with both North and South America, southeast Asia, and all of mainland Africa. Though it is only one of ninety two countries with a wild primate population, it contributes to twenty one percent of all primate species.
Thanks to their ancient relation to other primates, including humans, studies conducted on lemurs examine their social behavior and ecology. The nearly sixty different types of lemurs present on the island give us different insights into evolutionary adaptations. Much like the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador, Madagascar acts as an isolated natural laboratory in which to study a nearly completely different ecology.
And that, our friends, is the deal with lemurs.