Through playful learning, the children develop early literacy, basic math and fine motor skills that will help them become better prepared to learn in kindergarten classrooms. They are also given opportunities to practice other skills which are essential to school readiness, such as cooperation, taking turns, and perseverance.
The Bridgeville – South Fayette Rotary's donation will help purchase materials used in the library programs that specifically assist in the Youth Services program as well as fill Kindergarten Readiness Bags with supplies and books to send home with each child for further skill reinforcement.
We thank Karen Verduci for attending our meeting and explaining more about this program. It was so exciting to see how passionate she was about helping young children learn how to read!
Rotarian, Glenn Schillo pictured her with Karen Verduci.


November 09, 2016 16:47 ET | Source: Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc.
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 09, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMEX), a pioneer in the field of deep-ocean exploration, reported results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016.
Performed contracted offshore services for our shipwreck business partner, using Odyssey technology and marine personnel, resulting in revenue of $2.9 million.
Increased revenue 98%, or $1.4 million, compared to the same quarter last year.
Decreased net loss 53% to $2.1 million compared to $4.6 million in the same quarter last year.
Increased the total amount of cash available to Odyssey from Epsilon Acquisitions to $6.0 million from $3.0 million through a revised debt instrument with no additional increase in collateral. Epsilon is an investment vehicle controlled by Mr. Alonso Ancira, who is the chairman of MINOSA's parent company, AHMSA.
"We continue to support the environmental approval process on the "Don Diego" project through our Mexican subsidiary, and we look forward to moving the project forward in the near future. Plans have been completed, and the team is prepared to begin the next phase of the project as early as Q1 2017," said Mark Gordon, Odyssey Chief Executive Officer and President.
"While we await approval on the "Don Diego" project, we have focused on improving our financial discipline and results while securing offshore marine contract work to leverage our assets and technical team to generate cash flow. Our third quarter revenue results more than doubled our revenue from last quarter and were 97% higher than the same quarter last year. In addition, our Mexican partner, through Epsilon Acquisitions, agreed to provide additional funding to Odyssey.
Total revenue in the third quarter was $2.9 million, a $1.4 million increase over the revenue in the same period a year ago and was derived from the performance of expedition marine survey services. The majority of revenue in the same quarter last year was generated from the sales of recovered cargo inventory items as well as from providing equipment and personnel to a third party offshore operator under a services agreement that generated $0.1 million of expedition revenue.
Marketing, general and administrative expenses decreased by $0.4 million from $2.6 million in 2015 to $2.2 million in 2016 primarily as a result of (i) a reduction of $0.2 million of personnel and related expenses, (ii) a $0.3 million decrease in additional director fees, which were paid with equity in one of our subsidiaries in 2015, (iii) a $0.3 million increase in share based compensation amounts predominantly due to the departure of the previous chief financial officer, and (iv) $0.2 million of general corporate overhead reductions.
Operations and research expenses increased by $0.6 million from 2015 to 2016 as a result of (i) a reduction of $0.7 million of Dorado Discovery charter related expenses from 2015, (ii) $2.3 million increase in marine services associated with the charter revenue earned this quarter and (iii) $1.0 million gain on sale of assets of which $0.9 million is a non-cash gain on the sale of a remotely operated vehicle to a vendor.
The net loss in the third quarter of 2016 was $2.1 million or $(0.28) per share, as compared to a net loss of $4.6 million or $(0.60) per share in the same year-earlier quarter.
Consolidated financial statements as well as the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three months ended September 30, 2016, are available on the company's website at www.odysseymarine.com as well as at www.sec.gov.
Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. (Nasdaq:OMEX) is engaged in deep-ocean exploration using innovative methods and state of-the-art technology. The company has numerous projects in various stages of development around the world from both our own portfolio as well as through third-party contracts. For additional details, please visit www.odysseymarine.com.
Odyssey Marine Exploration believes the information set forth in this Press Release may include "forward looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. Certain factors that could cause results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements are set forth in "Risk Factors" in Part I, Item 1A of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 30, 2016. The financial and operating projections as well as estimates of mining assets are based solely on the assumptions developed by Odyssey that it believes are reasonable based upon information available to Odyssey as of the date of this release. All projections and estimates are subject to material uncertainties, and should not be viewed as a prediction or an assurance of actual future performance. The validity and accuracy of Odyssey's projections will depend upon unpredictable future events, many of which are beyond Odyssey's control and, accordingly, no assurance can be given that Odyssey's assumptions will prove true or that its projected results will be achieved.


Most cells cannot divide indefinitely due to a process termed cellular senescence. Because cancer cells need to escape cellular senescence in order to proliferate and eventually form tumors, it is well accepted that cellular senescence is a powerful tumor suppressive mechanism. In addition, since several molecular changes that are observed in senescent cells occur in somatic cells during the aging process, investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying cellular senescence will also allow us to better understand the more complicated aging process. Thus, molecules that regulate cellular senescence represent potential therapeutic targets for the prevention/treatment of cancer as well as the fight against aging.
Our work is directed at unraveling the role of caveolin-1 as a novel mediator of stress-induced cellular senescence. Caveolin-1 is the structural protein component of caveolae, invaginations of the plasma membrane involved in signal transduction. Caveolin-1 acts as a scaffolding protein to concentrate, organize, and functionally modulate signaling molecules within caveolar membranes.
Our laboratory was the first to demonstrate that caveolin-1 plays a pivotal role in oxidative stress-induced premature senescence. We found that oxidative stress upregulates caveolin-1 protein expression through the p38 MAPK/Sp1-mediated activation of the caveolin-1 gene promoter. We also demonstrated that upregulation of caveolin-1 protein expression promotes premature senescence through activation of the p53/p21Waf1/Cip1 pathway by acting as a regulator of Mdm2, PP2A-C, TrxR1 and Nrf2. Moreover, we found that caveolin-1-mediated premature senescence regulates cell transformation and contributes to cigarette smoke-induced pulmonary emphysema, directly linking caveolin-1's function to age-related diseases.
Taken together, our findings indicate that caveolin-1 plays a central role in the signaling events that lead to cellular senescence. Our current main research interest is the identification, at the molecular level, of novel signaling pathways that link caveolin-1 to oxidative stress-induced premature senescence and the characterization of their relevance to aging and age-related diseases using both cellular and animal models. These investigations will provide novel insights into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying aging and cancerous cell transformation and will identify novel molecular targets that can be exploited for the development of alternative therapeutic options in the context of age-related diseases, including cancer.


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ECF: Berlin's First Aquaponic Container Farm
Aarti Mehta-Kroll investigates Berlin's new aquaponic "container farm" concept…
Prototype of ECF's Container Farm concept in Berlin
I have a friend who only buys fresh produce when it is in season. When green beans are in season she'll buy them by the kilo and use them in soups, salads, casseroles and every other dish imaginable.
At any other time of year she'll steer clear of the beans grown and brought over from places like Kenya and Israel. "Imagine what they must do to keep these products fresh on the long journey here. I'd rather wait until they are harvested in Germany."
Many restaurants in Berlin and elsewhere have started to recognise and respect people's desire to eat meals made from ingredients grown on farms close to the city – and indeed many farms have been happy to accommodate the growing trend. Yet one company has recently gone one step further by creating a farm right in the city – nope, not the well-known Prinzessinnengarten, but ECF Farmingsystems, who have taken up residency in a brewery in Tempelhof-Schoeneberg.
The space in question belongs to the Malzfabrik, a former Schultheiss brewery that stopped producing beer in 1996. It was bought by Real Future AG, who have refashioned the sprawling, red-brick factory into a space for events, artists and entrepreneurs like ECF Farmingsystems, who have harnessed the age old practice of aquaponics to make large-scale, year round-food production in cities like Berlin a reality.
Aquaponics has been used around the world in different forms for centuries, but its employment in commercial farming enterprises is relatively recent. In this system, fish and plants are paired together in a symbiotic relationship with each helping the other grow.
Fish swimming in tanks excrete waste that is rich in nitrates that serves as a food source for plants growing on top of the tank which absorb the nitrates and carbon dioxide in the water, thereby creating a liveable environment for the fish. With the right technology, these systems have the potential to produce a substantial amount of food, and many see this as an opportunity to reduce transportation costs and localize food production in urban centers.
ECF Team [L-R]: Nicolas Leschke, Karoline vom Böckel and Christian Echternacht
I met two of ECF's founders, the friendly and surprisingly youthful Nicolas Leschke and Christian Echternacht, when I stopped by at their company headquarters (the third is Karoline vom Böckel, pictured). Nicolas, dressed in jeans and a tee, was walking his dog while Christian – kitted out in workmanlike overalls – was putting together one of the company's Container Farms. They told me how ECF, like many entrepreneurial endeavours, came about as a result of a series of serendipitous events.
Nicolas was managing Malzfabrik for Real AG when Managing Director Frank Sippel came to him with a proposition. Sippel had learned about a Swiss company called Urban Farmers that had created an aquaponic farm using an old shipping container.
He wanted to bring this to Malzfabrik. The container farm, known as Rostlaube (which translates as "rust bucket", with "laub" also meaning "leaves" or "foliage") was installed in June 2011 and quickly received press coverage – which brought it to the attention of Dr. Werner Kloas and his team at the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries.
"He told me that due to the difference in water and nutrient levels required by fish and plants, classic aquaponics cannot be used on a commercial scale," said Nicolas. Fortunately, Dr. Kloas had a way around this problem: a patented system called ASTAF pro that is specifically designed to integrate classic aquaculture with classic hydroponics.
In this system, biofilters capture the nitrates excreted by the fish converting them into fertilizer. This regulates the nutrient level in the water which can then be reused by plants. Soon after meeting Dr. Kloas, Nicolas, in partnership with Christian, joined hands with the Leibniz Institute to create and sell commercially viable aquaponic systems.
ECF's current container farm, which is open to the public.
ECF currently has two products on the market: Container Farms and City Farms. Their Container Farms, fitted with the ASTAF pro system, can yield 100kg of fish and 300kg of vegetables during one growing season (April or May till the beginning of October).
They can easily be set up almost anywhere, like in a parking lot or on a rooftop, and Nicolas describes the container farms as a "lifestyle product…ideal for restaurants or schools as it could serve an educational or marketing function."
Members of the public are welcome to visit and explore the Malzfabrik Container Farm. In fact, up to two hundred people have the opportunity to adopt a fish – one of the perches that live in the tank – until the end-of-season grill party, when sponsors will gather together at Malzfabrik to enjoy the season's harvest.
In March 2014 the group received a seven figure sum in financing. This sum plus investments from a couple of investors is helping to construct the city's first proper aquaponic farm (which will also be the largest in Europe) and for ECF to move on to the next level of growth. This farm would be in operation throughout the year and could yield 25 tons of fish and 35 tons of vegetables annually. From the beginning of 2015 ECF will be supplying restaurants directly with fresh fish and vegetables and Berliners will be able to visit and stock up on some of the most local, sustainable produce in the city.
The construction site of ECF's aquaponic farm, which will be the largest in Europe. Image by ECF.
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"Heaven Let Us Down" is a drumstep song by Pegboard Nerds with some vocals lent by Koda. It was released on October 23, 2017, and is included as the fifth track of Monstercat Uncaged Vol. 3. The song is Pegboard Nerds' forty-third original release on the label and Koda's first official release.
The song originally had a Drum and Bass drop instead of a Drumstep drop, but was scrapped as this was the final result.


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Q: Keyboard shortcut view for OS X application? I've seen this kind of UI in several different apps:

I'm not sure if there's an open source project that does something similar (I've searched all over github but haven't found anything), but I'd like to verify my approach on implementation before getting started (since I'm a cocoa noob).
I can subclass nstextview, and have the special character grey background as a background. Then, on keydown, update that background image to be the appropriate image. Then, I'll need to do some kind of big switch statement/reverse lookup of the keycode to the string representation of what was pressed and use that.
Does that make sense?

A: There are several open source implementations of this kind of control. Two notable ones are ShortcutRecorder and MASShortcut. Neither of them look exactly like this particular example but it shouldn't be difficult to customize them visually. The hard stuff (translating key codes, registering shortcut handlers, etc.) is done for you by these libraries, so they would be a good starting point.

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Hello everyone! I am really excited as this is my first blog post.
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Here you will find my clients' sessions, as well as my little family's adventures, our everyday photos; our travels and road trips; everything from baking to merry making.


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"Tesla's Legacy and Impact on the BioCharger"
By Jim Girard
I am often asked who inspired me to build the BioCharger. Nikola Tesla. I was first introduced to the works of Nikola Tesla in 1986 at an organic farm conference. From that point on, I began to read everything I could about this mystical person. Tesla, the man who was courted by billionaires and famous people, yet died penniless in his motel room. The man who was but a whisper in the history books, contributed to the 20th century more than any other human.
His pioneering work in radio led to many patents later to be stripped away by Marconi. This led to the Great Radio Controversy that lasted over 40 years, until after Tesla died. Later, as in a footnote in this great American tragedy, the Supreme Court and the patent office reinstated Tesla, the original inventor of radio. No great announcement, no rewriting of history books, no royalties on use of his technology by RCA, just a minor detail.
His battle with Edison over AC versus DC power was equally tragic. Also known as the "War of the Currents". His AC motor design brought electricity to the world. His original agreement with Westinghouse would have made him the richest man in the world. Tesla rescinded his deal with George Westinghouse to protect his friend. All told he sold it for $250,000. Later GE and Westinghouse Inc, both owned by JP Morgan, made and continue to make billions of dollars a year.
His pioneering work in High Voltage High Frequency Transformers are legendary and to this day has never been repeated. His dream of transmitting power using radio waves and no wires became fully realized. The man who wrestled lightning bolts from the sky. Still black and whites photos of this mythical machine that produced 135 foot lightning sparks 12,000 off the top of Pikes Peak in 2 hours. It was seen and heard 26 miles away. This was in 1899, before radio, before TV, before cars.
Tesla's last hurray was in 1901 in Wharencliffe, NY. He again built a massive transmitter like he had in Colorado Springs and attached a large antenna on top of it to eliminate the lightning discharges. Rumor had it he lit up the Eastern Seaboard as if it was day in the middle of the night. Once JP Morgan realized what Tesla built, Morgan realized he would be out of business. Power, anywhere without wires would make his AC system with electricity using wires obsolete. To make things worse for Morgan, it could not be metered. Anyone with an antenna could pick it up for free. He could not take control of the technology and charge for it. This signaled the end of the love affair with Tesla. After Morgan pulled out, Tesla was finished. No one ever invested in him again. Although certain benefactors paid for Tesla's hotel room he lived in and helped meet any financial obligations, he died alone, penniless.
At this point, the FBI had serious interest in Tesla and confiscated all of his belongings including notes, and research. Conspiracy theories are abound with what happened to his research.
His over 600 patents covered motor design, wireless transmission, efficient lighting, power transmission, radio, turbines, ignitions systems for cars and many more.
These stories about Tesla still drive me today. The world of possibility. We see this energy all around us. Literally, 100 lightning strikes on the planet every second for the taking. What did Tesla understand that science has not found? The future will only know.
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Mallard's Road
December 21, 2019 10:30 am - 5:00 pm
"When losing your heart means finding yourself"
This film is a romantic comedy from Cloud Horse Media Production, starring Wicahpi Bison and Albert Two Bears III. Other cast members include Roy Dean Martinez, Eugene Black Calf, Allyssa Comer, Jaxon Apple, Fred Menard, and Emily Bull Bear.
Rolly Lamoreaux, a young Lakota man living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, just can't seem to find true love.
Constance Talking Crow, an urban Lakota woman living in New York City and struggling with her identity, returns to the reservation.
Mary Flys at Night is a young widow trying to raise her son and find her heart again.
What happens when these three lost people come together is a comedy of errors and a journey of discovery about what really matters in love and life.
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Recommended for general audiences
A discussion from the cast and crew will follow each screening. Showtimes are below:
Saturday, Dec. 21, 2019
Tickets are $6 for adults and $3 for children (ages 14 and under). Call 605-394-6923 to purchase tickets. Concessions available.
"Mallard's Road" was nominated for "Achievement in Film" at the LASkins Film Fest.
(Left to right): Tilda Long Soldier-St. Pierre, Shannon Wray, Mark St. Pierre
A Daniel G. Snethen Film
Executive Producer Tilda Long Soldier-St. Pierre
Associate Producer Shannon Wray
Written and produced by Mark St. Pierre, author of "Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story" (University of Oklahoma), "Walking in the Sacred Manner" (Simon & Schuster) and "Of Uncommon Birth" (University of Oklahoma).
Produced in Cooperation with Reel Jobs Film School
Original Score by Keith Secola
Director of Photography and Editor Trevor White Dress
LONGER DESCRIPTION
Mallards' Road examines the inherent struggle of survival in isolation where there are no taxi cabs, banks or even reliable cell service; a place where the central hubs of the community are its schools and its post office. It is the universal story of love, loneliness and even death which transcends time, culture and geography. The setting is embedded within the beautiful panorama of the Oglala Lakota Reservation of southwestern South Dakota but the struggle and characters are universal and could be found anywhere in time or history.
In Mallard's Road we follow the story arc of two Lakota women, one a widowed mom, the other a foreigner in her own land, intertwined with that of a 30-something-year-old Lakota man yearning for love, earnestly seeking wisdom and fulfillment through traditional Lakota philosophy.
All the foibles of human-kind are illuminated both humorously and tragically. The audience sees perhaps for the very first time a realistic glimpse of what life really is like in Indian Country without having to wade through the stereotypic poverty and Hollywood back-lot caricature of Native America. Instead, we get to know real people, who not only act, direct, do sound capture, hold a camera, edit film and write, but who also live on the Pine Ridge Reservation in established homes, experiencing the same struggles as everyone everywhere. At the same time, we also are witness to deeper, more spiritual, cultural nuances not typically portrayed in documentary or feature films from Indian Country.
Mallards' Road is real and gritty. The landscapes are breathtaking. Everything you see and hear is authentically Pine Ridge, from the dogs to helping a turtle cross a road, to the vintage cars and the buffalo pastures, to the country cemetery and the political rally in a church basement. All of it is real and vivid and reinforces the concept of community, resilience, hope, culture and everything that is paramount to survival.


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Mad Mind Studios conducted a consultation with the owner of Spa on Rodeo. They wanted individuals to be able to view their website and see the type of the work they do as well as the relaxing, luxurious, experience they provide in the spa. In order to achieve this, the Spa on Rodeo needed a new marketing strategy to solidify their standing as the best spa in Los Angeles. The challenge was to communicate to the target consumers that their services are of the best quality in the industry.
A new brand identity was successfully achieved for the Spa on Rodeo by creating a new online presence. We created a customized website design, developed a new logo, implemented SEO and analytics through social media platforms, and personalized all of their stationery.


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Q: div not updating correctly with jquery I'm hoping as I type out this question I'm going to see something obvious I missed, but just in case...
I did something similar to this a year ago, and it works great on another site, and i went line for line on code, but for some reason this time it isn't working. The behavior should be when I click on a link, it will load a div with external content, instead, it is going to the root of my site like http://www.example.com/#internet-div
Here is the code I am using:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#all-insights-link").click(function(){
        $("#all-div").load("/insights-category-divs/all-categories-tab");
    });
    $("#internet-insights-link").click(function(){
        $("#internet-div").load("/insights-category-divs/internet-tab");
    });

});

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A: "/insights-category-divs/all-categories-tab" and "/insights-category-divs/all-categories-tab" don't reach a file because there is no file extension and .load() requires a file. It should read something like:
$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#all-insights-link").click(function(){
        $("#all-div").load("/insights-category-divs/all-categories-tab.html");
    });
    $("#internet-insights-link").click(function(){
        $("#internet-div").load("/insights-category-divs/internet-tab.php");
    });

});

A: Anthony C was correct in the comments, I needed to add event.preventDefault() to my code, and make sure it appied only to that class. Final code looks like:
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".-categories a").on("click", function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
});
$("#all-insights-link").click(function(){
    $("#show-content-div").load("/insights-category-divs/all-categories-tab");
});
$("#internet-insights-link").click(function(){
    $("#show-content-div").load("/insights-category-divs/internet-tab");
});

});


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Assessment Officer (NGO Jobs) at IMPACT Initiatives
IMPACT Initiatives Full Time Kampala, Kampala, Uganda , 00256 Kampala December 6, 2022 - February 6, 2023 Ngo Jobs in Uganda
BACKGROUND ON IMPACT AND REACH
REACH was born in 2010 as a joint initiative of two International NGOs (IMPACT Initiatives and ACTED) and the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT). REACH's purpose is to promote and facilitate the development of information products that enhance the humanitarian community's decision making and planning capacity for emergency, reconstruction and development contexts. REACH facilitates information management for aid actors through three complementary services: (a) need and situation assessments facilitated by REACH teams; (b) situation analysis using satellite imagery; (c) provision of related database and (web)-mapping facilities and expertise.
IMPACT Initiatives is a humanitarian NGO, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The organisation manages several initiatives, including the REACH Initiative. The IMPACT team comprises specialists in data collection, management and analysis and GIS. IMPACT was launched at the initiative of ACTED, an international NGO whose headquarter is based in Paris and is present in thirty countries. The two organizations have a strong complementarity formalized in a global partnership, enabling IMPACT to benefit from ACTED's operational support on its fields of intervention.
We are currently looking for an Assessment Officer to support our team in Uganda.
Department:REACH
Position: Assessment Officer
Contract duration:6 months with possibility of extension
Location: Kampala
Starting Date: 09.01.2023
Uganda is currently hosting more than 1.5 million refugees and asylum seekers, the largest number in the region. Most have fled civil unrest and conflicts in neighbouring countries of South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Somalia, and Burundi. Refugee flows into Uganda are likely to continue due to ongoing conflicts, violent wars, unrest and human rights violations in neighbouring countries.
The vast majority of refugees are hosted in settlements in 12 refugee-hosting districts in northern and mid/south-western Uganda, while 5% of them reside in urban Kampala.
In Uganda, the response coordination is held by UNHCR and by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). The Uganda government, in coordination with the humanitarian partners, has granted a welcoming policy for all asylum seekers. The asylum seekers, once registered as refugees, receive a piece of land in one of the refugee settlements and a monthly general food assistance from WFP.
In the past years Uganda has been affected by a general decreasing of humanitarian funds that have triggered a prioritization of the humanitarian assistance.
Under the line management of the IMPACT Research Manager, the Assessment Officer is responsible for the implementation of IMPACT's research cycles in country, including the preparation, data collection, analysis, drafting, dissemination and evaluation stages. Throughout research cycles, the Assessment Officer engages with partners (under the supervision and direction of the Research Manager) to promote their participation and maximize their impact. He/she also ensures an efficient and transparent use of resources required for project implementation. This can include the direct supervision of assessment teams.
In his/her mission, the Assessment Officer will be hosted by IMPACT's global partner ACTED and will fall under the direct responsibility and management of ACTED's Country Director and his/her delegates for all Administrative, Security, and relevant Logistics and Finance issues. S/he will therefore fully abide to ACTED's Security, Administration, and relevant HR, Logistics and Finance rules and regulations.
The Assessment Officer is responsible for overseeing the planning, implementation and follow up of one research cycle to which s/he is assigned, in close coordination with other team members and with relevant external partners.
Research Planning
Ensure that required secondary data review and/or analysis has been conducted in preparation of an assessment;
Design research approaches and methodologies according to IMPACT's requirements and principles as well as partners' information needs;
Compose and construct, in close coordination with GIS and data teams, qualitative and quantitative data collection tools;
For each research cycle, prepare ToRs and ensure their validation by HQ before any data collection begins;
Ensure relevant stakeholders and partners are engaged in research design and planning.
Research Implementation
In close liaison with field officer (s), monitor data collection, ensuring its correct implementation in line with agreed TORs and in alignment with IMPACT quality standards;
In close liaison with field officer (s), support assessment logistics, including with partner organizations, identifying assessment areas, facilitating design workshops, managing joint data collection processes under the supervision of the Research Manager and in collaboration with the Field manager, and facilitating joint analysis workshops;
In close liaison with field officer (s), Ensure regular situation updates on data collection are produced and circulated to line manager and relevant colleagues, updates with external counterparts to be agreed with the Research Manager. Provide support and follow up on identified challenges during the data collection process;
Ensure that the line manager and IMPACT HQ research department are alerted to any issues that prevents full implementation of the methodology agreed in the approved TORs. Ensure that all changes to the methodology are documented throughout implementation, and that any change is formally validated by IMPACT HQ;
Ensure that all collected data is stored in line with IMPACT's Data Management Guidelines and with the ToRs;
In close liaison with the data officer and the field officer (s), ensure that data is revised and cleaned, and that all revisions are recorded;
In close liaison with data colleagues, ensure data analysis on primary and/or secondary data as per ToRs, ensuring that meaningful techniques are used to analyze the data collected;
Ensure that data and its analysis are validated by IMPACT HQ before product drafting stage;
Ensure that data and its analysis do not contain personal information and are validated by IMPACT HQ before sharing to external parties.
Drafting of Research Products
Ensure the drafting of timely and accurate outputs that consolidate the analyses from each research cycle into relevant products such as factsheets, reports, briefs, presentations, etc which comply with IMPACT's quality standards;
Ensure that products accurately reflect the information collected and that information is conveyed in a way that maximizes their impact in line with their intended use;
Liaise with relevant GIS colleagues to ensure effective spatial representation of research findings in maps or interactive web-portals, as relevant;
Follow the designated timeline of reports to be submitted to project partners and donors under the supervision of the Research Manager. Ensure that delays or identified challenges for specific assessments are reported in writing and orally in a timely manner;
Maintain regular communication with country Management and IMPACT HQ on progress and deadlines for written products;
Ensure that all written products are validated by IMPACT HQ before external release.
All external engagement activities of the Assessment Officer will be guided and supervised by the Research Manager.
Ensure that relevant partners are consulted and involved at all stages of research cycle: assessment preparation; data collection; data analysis; review of research products; product dissemination; and lessons learnt;
After consultation and under the guidance of the Research Manager, represent IMPACT in relevant meetings/ working groups;
Follow up on issues identified by partners or during meetings / working groups;
Promote an active use of datasets and research findings by partners and the broader humanitarian community for their decision making;
After validation by Research Manager and under its supervision, present research findings to relevant third parties in order to enhance their use and impact;
Ensure that all partner engagement and all external relations are clearly documented and communicated with the line manager and relevant colleagues;
More generally, contribute to the creation of a positive image and overall credibility of the organization, notably through the application of IMPACT's mandate, ethics, values and stand-point with regard to other actors.
Knowledge sharing and learning processes
In coordination with country management, support the conduct of monitoring and evaluation for each Research Cycle, as specified in the research ToRs and in line with IMPACT Guidelines;
Generate and document robust lessons learned at the end of each Research Cycle;
Ensure knowledge and learning processes are shared with other Units and teams within mission, and with HQ;
When required, provide feedback to appropriate global organizational knowledge learning tools.
For relevant projects, ensure compliance to project cycle management requirements and guidelines at all phases.
Before project start, under the guidance and supervision of the Research Manager, ensure the organization of a kick off meeting and the availability of key project management documentations to plan the efficient use of assets, financial and human resources;
In close coordination with line management, finance and grants colleagues, monitor and regularly update the use of assets, financial and human resources, in full compliance with IMPACT's guidelines; this includes maintaining an oversight of budget availability and expenditure for assessment activities;
Ensure that project deliverables and requirements are tracked, met and complied to;
Ensure that any issue in relation to project implementation is reported to the line manager, finance and grants colleagues, and HQ;
Ensure that a project completion meeting is held and documented for all relevant projects;
Support the line manager, finance and grants colleagues in drafting of relevant project narrative and financial reports;
Other tasks as requested by supervisors.
Internal Coordination
Actively participate in regular team meetings;
Ensure regular coordination and exchange with relevant colleagues;
Data Confidentiality and Protection
The Assessment Officer will maintain the strictest confidentiality on all data collected and related processes, ensuring full compliance with IMPACT's data protection policy and SOPs. He/she will actively take measures to prevent the unauthorized sharing of any information and data belonging to IMPACT and its partners or collected during his/her assignment with IMPACT.
Academic Excellent academic qualifications, preferably including a Master degree in relevant discipline;
Research skills Masters and proven experience with complex research methods. Excellent analytical skills and capacity to contextualize and interpret the data. Familiarity with qualitative analysis is required for this position – either through the saturation grid system or with software such as MAXQDA.
Software skills Proven knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite, to include Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Skills in R, SPSS and/or STATA or other statistical analysis software are an advantage but not essential. However, this person must be familiar with statistical outputs and able to interpret them. Experience with InDesign / illustration software is an asset.
Familiarity aid system Familiarity with the aid system is required;
Years of work experience At least 1-2 years of relevant working experience;
Communication/reporting skills Excellent written and verbal communication; excellent writing skills for effective reporting.
Level of independence Proven ability to work independently on defined tasks under clear guidance from line manager.
Cross-cultural work environment Ability to operate in a cross-cultural environment requiring flexibility; the person shall be culturally aware and able to establish effective relationship with a multicultural team.
Experience in geographical region Past experience in Uganda and East Africa is desirable.
Language skills Fluency in English
Salary defined by the IMPACT salary grid; educational level, expertise, hardship, security, and performance are considered for pay bonus
Additional monthly living allowance provided in country by IMPACT's partner ACTED
Food and lodging provided at the organisation's guesthouse/or housing allowance (depending on contract length and country of assignment)
Transportation costs covered, including additional return ticket + luggage allowance
Provision of medical, life, and repatriation insurance + retirement package


Urban and contemporary London-based art company, Beautiful Crime has opened BCC, the Beautiful Crime Concept shop, in Covent Garden, London.
The BCC store (and the first of its kind, the owners' claim, in the art industry) provides art lovers the opportunity to purchase rare works from established artists such as Jonathan Yeo, Tracey Emin, Mat Collishaw, Banksy, Eine, Jamie Reid, Charming Baker and Anthony Micallef as well as from emerging artists. As well as these, other products, such as T-shirts and books, are also be available.
The Beautiful Crime Concept Store will be open until December 29 and during that time will be hosting a series of interactive artist events and Q&As which visitors can get involved in such as Mug Shot My Face and Paper View.
Artist Russell Marshall will be at BCC taking personalised mug shots of anyone wishing to create one of themselves. Marshall is known for his highly skilled screenprinting of famous icons' portraits and mug shots, including David Bowie, Steve McQueen and Elvis. Marshall's works will also be available for sale at BCC. A photo-session by Marshall where he will create individual polaroid mug shot portraits which he will also signed, and costing £10, will take place on Saturday 14, December from 12 – 5pm.
On Tuesday December 3, in the Paper View event, Marc Hagan-Guirey discusses his unique art of Kirigami in a Q&A session with acclaimed art critic, author and former Tate board member, Cedar Lewisohn at the store from 7pm – 8.15pm. Hagan-Guirey will discuss how he turns a single sheet of paper into breathtaking works of art. The demonstration will take you in to a miniature world. Places are limited, please RSVP to info@beautifulcrime.com with Paper View as the subject.
Also available during opening hours there will be an adult pair of angel wings and a miniature pair of angel wings for children on one of the walls of the BCC store, for many interactive photo opportunities for visitors to the store.
Published on December 1, 2013.


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The Beginner's Guide – A Step-By-Step Approach to the Programming Language Swift
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Have you heard about Swift ios?Do you wish to explore more about it? You have landed at the right place! This post will give you complete details of Swift ios and why developers most focus on it. Additionally, we will share the best platforms that will help beginners learn everything about iOS development, mobile app programming, and details on how you can use this amazing programming language.
What Does Swift Means?
Comparing Objective-C and Swift iOS
Beginner's Path to Learning Swift
Swift is a multi-paradigm, general purpose, and compiled programming language designed for iOS, tvOS, watchOS, OS X, and Linux development by Apple Inc. The language is a substitute for the Objective-C language that was suggested as the most popular language for building apps for ecosystem devices from Apple.
Swift is named after the Swift bird, which is one of the fastest flying animals in the kingdom. The language was developed as a faster substitute to Objective-C. In addition to speed, Swift also offers other benefits such as safety, ease of learning, interactive, needs less code, and more other things.
Let's check Swift ios and Objective-C languages in detail to have a better understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of both of them.
As compared to Objective-C language, Swift comes with simpler syntax. This makes it convenient for beginners or people coming from other programming languages. This language is a core of different languages Rust, Objective-C, Ruby, C#, Python, CLU, and Haskell. Hence, if you are a programmer coming from other platforms or languages, you will find some similar concepts in Swift.
Furthermore, Swift is quite easier to read and maintain as compared to Objective-C. In the latter language, you need to maintain two code files for each class you define – an implementation file with a.m extension and a header file with a.h extension. Sometimes, alterations made in one of the files affect the other. Hence, you need to ensure to keep the files in sync. Just like other languages, C#, Java, JavaScript, and more, Swift manages with a single file.
The syntax of Objective-C is quite verbose. It is somewhat different from other types of programming languages. If you come from another programming language, you will be able to comprehend the second piece of code with slight differences to how variables are announced in other programming languages. Even if you are a beginner, then it is quite easy to intimidate the codes.
Though Swift is a new programming language, its adoption and popularity are increasing faster as compared to any other language. Presently, it is one of the most popular languages to develop for Apple devices. Khan Academy, Lyft, Sky Guide, Yahoo Weather, Hipmunk, Strava, Linkedin, and Clear are some of the popular apps built with Swift. It is because Swift is an open source platform.
Presently, there is a compiler for it for Linux. It is a big setup from Objective-C that could be used on a Mac OS machine. The language was introduced under the Apache 2.0 license that means developers can use it even in commercial products.
It is still speculative and new, but rumor has it that Google might consider Swift a 'first class' language in Android development. So, this is good news for those who are using Swift for porting the app to Android that won't need obtaining additional skills. Uber and Facebook are also apparently looking forward to Swift to create their central operations.
An advantage of Swift is that it can be used as a server-side as well as forward-facing language. It is a beneficial product for companies like Facebook, where servers and apps can speak to each other seamlessly and it offers the company a wider scope to write APIs for services.
Swift iOS is still evolving and it would be really interesting to see what it grows to be and how it will be used in the future. After its announcement, the developers from Apple have continued working on it, resulting in incremental versions. It is soon expected that Swift 3.0 version will be announced soon. The main aim of its introduction is to offer users portability. This means to make it more portable to other platforms.
No matter what the future have in hold for this language, its popularity and growth have increased lots of job demands. It is a good time to be and become a Swift developer.
You can learn Swift through multiple resources. Here we list some of the resources that would be useful to you.
Apple Documentation – The best place to start with is the Swift website itself. The site will provide you with details about the language as well as keep you notified about the latest developments. Moreover, you can learn Swift from the free Swift book from Apple. You can download iBooks for offline reading or read it online.
Apple hosts the World Wide Developer Conference each year, where it announces new changes and devices to their SDK. It holds different talks that teach developers the ways to implement the newly introduced technologies and libraries. Such videos are available at the WWDC website.
You can get tutorials on iOS and Swift development from popular blogs like AppCoda, NSHipster, and Ray Wenderlich.
Newsletters are great to keep up with the up-to-date news on Swift and to discover great tutorials and articles on iOS and Swift development. Swift Weekly, iOS Dev Weekly, and This Week in Swift are some of the great newsletters to follow.
Moreover, you can find some premium and free courses online to learn about Swift.
Swift iOS is a new programming language that overcomes the limitations of the most popular language, Objective – C. Beginners can learn more about it through online courses, Swift website, blogs, newsletters, and other resources mentioned in this post. Also, if you wish to develop an app in Swift iOS but do not have much knowledge about it, then you can always contact the expert developers at AIS Technolabs.
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Me...I was a church bus kid. My sisters and I sat by the window every Sunday morning anxiously waiting for the bus to pull in our driveway. An hour or two of unconditional love from people who knew our struggles. We lived for it.
Our parents started out very active in the church we grew up in. Things went downhill after their divorce and my mom continued to struggle with prescription medications. She was in a true opioid crisis. She struggled so much that she began selling drugs out of our home as a business. I couldn't have friends over. My house was the drug house. But every week, the church bus came without fail. If the doors to the church were open I was there. My sister and I even went to the mother-daughter banquet. Our mother wasn't there. No one blinked an eye. We received a few sympathetic hugs but we soaked it up. Yes, we were embarrassed, but if the church was open that meant we were safe and fed. The church treated us like we were meant to be there. I felt like my presence was a blessing to them rather than a bother. I felt like we belonged there no matter what they knew about our parents or how badly we smelled of smoke.
We attended every youth event (and even other meetings we had no business being at). We were never turned away. In fact, our youth minister ended up becoming our foster parent and eventually obtaining full custody. He and his wife took my sister and I both in so we could stay together and not get separated. My foster parents were good about loving people wholly. I came from a very small community where people of other cultures and racial backgrounds were not welcome. That always felt very wrong to me. They reassured me my feelings were correct that it's not ok to think that way and that church was my safe place to come and pursue those instincts and just be myself. They really encouraged memorizing scripture. I never knew how much it would come back to me regularly when I went home and felt unloved. That was truly part of my 'saving grace.' For me, it was so important to hear scriptures and songs in repetition. To this day I cannot remember what I had for lunch but can quote scripture for reference when needed.
We moved to Fishers in 2002 from California. My husband is from Fishers. We had friends and family that went to a different church, but we were trying to find our own way. That's when we found Grace. What we liked at Grace is we could go at our own pace. We ended up having 4 kids in 4 years and took in our nephew during that time too. We wanted a church with lots of resources and were not overwhelmed with the chaos that is the Lurton family. We are a very energetic creative group of misfits. We have tried out several different ministry avenues in our 15 years there and lots of small groups, but the great thing is that it never runs out. Try another, try something different, try out this group, try this one. If this one doesn't fit here's another one. If that doesn't fit your stage of life...try another. It's endless. There is a fit for every single person.
I also love the sermons that keep us engaged and pursuing the Kingdom in whole new ways. We experience it ourselves, but so do our children. Their leaders each have a different story, a different experience. All unique. Each one has a new way of helping us get through raising 4 sons. The legacy of addiction ends with me and this church is helping my kids understand that we are their parents, but God is their eternal father.
When we moved from California we decided that we were not going to live in the Christian bubble socially anymore. That's been great, but how in the world do I answer the questions people outside the bubble have if I don't seek counsel from those in my church and stayed engaged? Just like Tony Compolo says...we should follow Jesus without embarrassing God. I would majorly screw this up without help. Truth is, I sometimes still do, but I just go back and try again and try again and try again until my day is up.
If you find the right church, you have a group of people reminding you that you don't have the right to hold on to things you shouldn't. You can't afford to. There's too much at stake. And...you have people like Tim Ayres telling you why it's important and why it's relevant today. Digging deeper than our minds can comprehend, into stories we've heard over and over possibly our whole lives. If we don't have that then the Bible can become just a bunch of parables that aren't really relevant and ones we can't relate to today. We really need to hear the big fish story at a deeper level. We just do. We can begin to tell ourselves Jesus was part of an ancient book full of stories that may or may not be true and begin to believe the media and mainstream culture. We can tell ourselves "Jesus didn't have school shooters and terrorists and people hurting people just to make the news" I would tell them come and see how relevant these stories truly are to your life. Come and find out how the apostles got through it then, and how do we do it today.
I wish everyone knew is that church is not like the Wizard of Oz. There's nothing 'magical' about the building or the people in it. A loving church doesn't care where you've come from or what you've done. They care about the stirring inside you. They push you to ask deeper questions. Until a person knows who they are and who's they are, they can be so greatly disappointed by what the world hands them. The world just cannot fill that void no matter how wonderful your childhood is. The world will try, but every time it's so temporary and the void just comes back. Once you reconcile your relationship with your heavenly father, the church seeks to push you to a greater understanding of his love for you. It's not enough to know that God created you. Even humans can create people. The church reminds you He takes great delight in you. For a child living in a drug home with very little to eat you don't really feel like much of anyone takes delight in you let alone rejoices over you. Once you feel loved at that level then you will begin to feel the stirring of the soul that the Bible speaks about. It's not magical... it's necessary. It gives you the strength to overcome, strength to persevere, strength to do the right thing when all you really want to do is what's easy because you are so, so tired.
One last thing...my whole life I've had an addicted mother and an abusive stepfather. I'm not sure I really truly knew my mom. Our childhood was a mess with those she surrounded us with. Setting boundaries as an adult has been a necessity. I identified myself as an overcomer with a mother who was horrible to my siblings and I. I have trained my children based on this childhood. (Everyone is a Comer. You then choose to be a "BeComer", An "OverComer" or "Succumber". It's your choice, but the road will look very different down each one.) This month that journey ended. My mom lost her battle after an accidental overdose and passed away the beginning of January. No funeral, no one around. Sad way to end. True healing came after women's bible study a few weeks ago. We were talking about the prodigal son. I have heard that story my whole life and was actually kind of bummed to do it again. That study and proceeding lesson was life-changing for me when they played "Come To The Table". I've also heard that song lots of times and seen it in concert. This day was different. I was completely overwhelmed with the conviction that after everything my mother had done, she was now at the feet of her father where she was completely healed. Her seat was equal to mine at the table. She is now healed of addiction and all the lifelong manipulations. I had already forgiven her, but a weight had been lifted. She is no longer behind me, beneath me or the prodigal daughter and I the GOOD daughter. Her seat is secure and I can't wait to see her again someday. THAT is something that would have NEVER happened had it not been for my church. I belong to so many groups in our community, but none could help me heal like my church. SHOW UP. God will do the rest.
Can't begin to tell you how touched was by your testimony.Thank you for sharing. So proud of you for the woman you are.


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Michael z Bubna-Litic, též Michael Bubna z Litic nebo Michael hrabě z Bubna-Litic (22. dubna 1864 Doudleby nad Orlicí – 17. února 1949 Doudleby nad Orlicí), byl český šlechtic.

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Michael z Bubna-Litic byl český šlechtic pocházející ze starého šlechtického rodu Bubna-Litic. Po úmrtí jeho otce Otakara spravovala majetek jako poručnice matka Emilie a to až do konce roku 1886, kdy Michael dosáhl plnoletosti. Mezitím v roce 1882 složil maturitní zkoušku na gymnáziu v Rychnově nad Kněžnou a na podzim téhož roku se stal posluchačem právnické fakulty pražské Karlo-Ferdinandovy university. V roce 1885 svá studia ukončil a stal se ročním dobrovolníkem 13. dragounského pluku prince Evžena Savojského. V roce 1887 složil důstojnickou zkoušku u 7. dragounského pluku prince Viléma Pruského a byl povýšen do hodnosti poručíka jezdectva v záloze. V téže době dosáhl zletilosti a stal se plnoprávným držitelem majorátu Doudleby-Horní Jelení. Roku 1889 byl převelen k 8. dragounskému pluku a roku 1906 byl převelen do zálohy.

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Michael
Čeští šlechtici
Lidé z Doudleb nad Orlicí
Narození 22. dubna
Narození v roce 1864
Narození v Doudlebech nad Orlicí
Úmrtí 17. února
Úmrtí v roce 1949
Úmrtí v Doudlebech nad Orlicí
Muži


Georgie (our older cat) now tolerates Marcus—here they are just waking up after sleeping together on our bed.
Although I managed to get my weight back within my target range around the end of October, I've not managed to keep it there.
Long term, random fluctuations are about ±3 pounds, but there is an upward drift of about 3 pounds a year that I need to resist.
My goal is to lose five pounds and keep them off—staying in the middle of my target range, but this may be harder to achieve than I had originally envisioned three years ago when I started on the weight-control effort.
November and December had me riding an average of only 3.29 miles a day—over the whole year about 3.6 miles a day. In a week, my exercise will go back up, as I'll be cycling to campus five times a week, for winter and spring quarters. That guarantees me 4.6 miles a day average, which will get me off to a good start. But summer and next fall's sabbatical will probably reduce the exercise hours again.
My family did get in a nice walk yesterday (about 5.6 miles with 580 feet of climb).We had mapped out 3 possible routes before we went for the walk, with different turnaround points depending on how tired we felt. We ended up taking the middle of the three.
We started from home, walked to the end of Escalona, along the bike path to Harvey West Park, then took the Harvey West trail and Pogonip Creek trail to the Pogonip, up through the Pogonip to the Spring Trail, then back down the Spring Trail, Spring Street, and Laurent Street to home. It's been years since I've walked in the Pogonip, and I've never walked the Harvey West and Pogonip Creek trails before. They were very quiet and shady—we saw a lot more walkers on the Spring Trail and on the trails near Golf Club Drive.
Somewhat surprisingly, my wife, who does the most walking of any of us on a daily basis, was the slowest of the group. My son and I walked at abut the same pace, with his youth compensating for his lack of routine exercise.
One of my more popular posts has been Where you get your BS in CS matters, which looked at a report on which universities sent students on to PhD programs in computer science. Choosing a college for undergraduate studies based on reputation or rankings is always problematic, because the ratings generally measure the wrong thing (usually size, wealth, and reputation, rather than educational quality).
Choosing a grad school is also difficult. Reputation for research quality matters more for choosing a grad school than for an undergraduate, because grad students are expected to do research and their future careers may be highly affected by the reputation of their advisers or grad schools. But overall reputation is not enough—reputation within a subfield is what matters most.
An important question for students applying to grad schools to ask is whether the places they are applying to (or are accepted at) will provide a rich environment for the sort of research they want to do.
When I was applying to grad schools (44 years ago), I made the mistake of looking only at overall reputation, and chose the math department at Stanford. The first year in math grad programs consisted of three subjects: real analysis, complex analysis, and abstract algebra (I believe that math grad program have not changed this focus in the past 4 decades). After I passed my comprehensive exams (3 grueling 6-hour exams), I started looking for a thesis topic and an adviser and realized that no one in Stanford's math department at the time did the sort of math I enjoyed (discrete math: combinatorics and graph theory). Luckily, Stanford's computer science department had four faculty in those fields, and the CS department there accepted my application for a transfer. As it turned out, I didn't end up doing combinatorics, graph theory, or any of the mathematical computer science subfields—I flirted with a lot of subjects (including computer music) and my thesis was in computer-aided design for VLSI.
Grad school applicants nowadays don't have to make my mistake—they have access to much more information and much finer-grained information about grad programs than was easily available 40 years ago. One resource worth looking at is CS Rankings, which ranks computer science programs based on publications in some of the top conferences in computer science. In addition to the raw rankings (which can be highly misleading), the website also provides pie charts that give the breakdown of the publications by field.
For example, UC Berkeley is ranked top of the UC system and the pie chart shows particular strength in robotics, vision, and machine learning. UC Santa Barbara is ranked as number 26, with particular strengths in security, databases, and electronic design automation (EDA).
But the particular method used is problematic, because of the reliance on a small number of conferences. For example, UCSC's strength in bioinformatics is not visible, because most of the publications are in biology journals (and glam journals like Nature), not in the two conferences that the rankings use (RECOMB and ISMB). Conference publications are the main coin of the realm in most of CS, but not in bioinformatics, where journal publications rule. UCSC's strength in storage systems is also not well represented, because FAST and USENIX ATC (two of the major conferences in that field) are not included.
The CSRankings.org method has some weird artifacts (like rewarding short author lists that exclude students and postdocs) and can be gamed in various ways. Indeed, the ranking of institutions has changed enormously in the last two weeks, as departments have scrambled to up their averages by including affiliated faculty with high weighted publication counts and exclude those with low ones.
Despite the rather serious limitations of the CSrankings.org method, it is a more informative and useful system for comparing grad schools than ones like US News and World Report's, which seem to bear almost no relationship with reality, being based almost entirely on hearsay reputation.
The best thing to use the CSRankings for is to look for what fields an institution is strong in (keeping in mind that many fields are not properly represented by the selection of conferences) and what faculty are publishing highly in the conferences that the CSRankings organizers think are important. Grad school applicants should follow up by looking at the web pages of the faculty in the subfields that interest them (and check to make sure that the faculty are still there—people move around and a strong subfield 5 years ago may be missing now as faculty moved to industry or other academic positions).
After a discussion in the comments of Ron vs Vgs for pFETs and nFETS with Michael Johnson, I decided to design my own breakout boards for SOT-23 surface-mount FETs, with the possible use of them in the class-D amplifier lab in place of the through-hole TO-220 FETs we've been using.
I picked a couple of 30V FETs (one nFET, one pFET) whose data sheets indicated that they would have adequately low on-resistance with a gate voltage of only 2.5V (–2.5V for the pFET), so that the FETs could be controlled by a 3.3V logic signal with no problems. I ended up picking PMV20XNER for nFET (14.9¢ in 100s) and SSM3J332R for pFET (12.4¢ in 100s).
My board is not nearly a square inch of copper—the entire board is only 15mm × 12.5mm, and only half of that is used for heatsinking the drains. I used the back of the board for radiating heat and provided thermal vias around the drain pads to connect the front and back. The footprint for the pads is one provided by the manufacturers for wave soldering—I thought it would be easier for had soldering than the much smaller pads used for reflow soldering.
The gate connections are on the outside, the source connections just inboard of them, and the shared drain in the middle. The board is basically symmetric with respect to nFET and pFET, but I labeled the two sides so that there would be less variation in how students soldered them up.
The bypass capacitor is close to the FETs (much closer than the students ever got on a bread board), so we should see less noise injection back into the power rails than we've seen in the past. The resistance of the source and drain traces adds another 5mΩ of resistance to the H-bridge, which is not too bad—the beardboard probably adds more like 50mΩ.
If I understood their website correctly, I should be able to get 10 copies of the tiny board panelized in a 6×7 array (so 420 boards after I cut them apart) for only $4.90 from Smart-Prototyping.com. Of course, I'm in a hurry, so I ended up paying an extra $23.79 for shipping with DHL, so the order costs $28.69, or <7¢ a board. I also ordered 10 40-pin right-angle male headers (enough for 80 boards) for $4.11 from AliExpress, raising the price to 12¢ a board.
With the transistors, each half H-bridge will cost under 40¢ in 100s—much less than the approximately $1.37/half H-bridge that the separate TO-220 FETs cost.
The difference in cost is not important for the course ($2 a student), so my main consideration is whether the students will learn more by doing some surface mount soldering with a fixed cMOS half-H-bridge design or by continuing to wire up separate transistors on the bread board (making the usual student errors of getting the pinout wrong or general miswiring). There is still plenty of room for error on the half H-bridge: swapping transistors, getting 2 nFET or 2 pFET instead of one of each, putting the whole board in backwards to short the power supply through the body diodes, …. .
The SOT-23s can't dissipate quite as much heat as the TO-220s, but we'll probably not have much heat to dissipate in reasonable designs. With a 5V supply, 8Ω load, and 73mΩ on-resistance, the power dissipation in the pFET should be only about 28mW and the nFET even less—way less than the 500mW or so that I expect the boards to be able to handle. Shoot-through current is mainly what the students will need to worry about, as that can get quite high with the low on-resistances of both the nFET and the pFET.
I've ordered the boards and parts to test out using the SOT-23 FETs and half-H-bridge boards. If they work out well, I'll probably rewrite the class-D lab to have students do a little surface-mount soldering (SOT-23s are about the simplest intro).
My son has joked that I don't have an electronics hobby—I have a hobby of characterizing transistors. There is an uncomfortable amount of truth in that assertion—I spend more time measuring things with my tools than building things.
Today I wanted to characterize all the nFETs and pFETs that I have, so that I could choose the right ones for the class-D amplifier lab in spring quarter—also to see whether the on resistances were as low at the data sheet claimed.
I used just the Analog Discovery 2, some 10W resistors (to make the 24Ω load), and a Schottky diode as a fly-back diode (because the power resistors have a fairly large inductance). I chose the load so that the power supplies on the Analog Discovery 2 would not exceed their 2.1W limit. In the past I've used a wall wart with a higher current limit to do power FET tests, but I figured that the 400mA test current was enough for what I wanted to do today.
The setup for measuring the pFETs.
I swept the gate voltage with a 1-second ramp, turning the transistor on abruptly but off slowly. I determined the gate voltage just from the timing, as I used the two oscilloscope channels to measure the drain-to-source voltage Vds and the drain current Id.
The results of measuring the pFETs. Only the low-threshold IPP45P03P4L11AKSA1 turns on at –3.3V. The funny knees in the curve around 10Ω are where the test jig switches from being roughly constant current (~400mA) to having a current dependent on Ron (Vds is no longer nearly 0).
To get the on resistance, I fit the data from –10V to –9V with a straight line and used that straight line at Vgs=–10V to get the value.
IPP45P03P4L11AKSA1 is no longer available, but NTD2955-1G and IRFU9024NPBF still are—it's too bad that they aren't really turned on at —3.3V. Perhaps I should get myself some IRLIB9343PBF pFETS and test them—they supposedly have a very low threshold and reasonably low Ron. They cost a bit more, but they do have the longer leads that allow breadboarding. I looked at the data sheet for the IRLIB9343PBF, and it does not look very promising—the resistance shoots up at about –5V. The SPP15P10PLHXKSA1 looks more promising on the datasheet.
I have a lot more nFETs than pFETs, so I tested all of them also. The circuit is essentially the same as for the pFETs, just swapping the voltage sources and turning the fly-back diode around. I also changed the direction of the ramp, so that I was still turning on the FET abruptly and off slowly.
The nFETs clustered more than the pFETs did, with three outliers.
One of the outliers, IPU50R950CEAKMA1, is a high-voltage nFET. It has both a high threshold and a high Ron, but it can handle much larger voltages than the others—it was intended for switching rectified mains voltages (about 350V), but I've not used it yet. The other two outlier nFETs (2N7000TA and TN2106N3-G) are not power FETs—I had to switch to a 48Ω load to measure them, to avoid putting too much current through them.
The AOI514 and AOI518 parts are obsolete. The NTD4858N-35G is still available, but it has very short leads, and we had problems last year with them popping out of the breadboards. The NTD5867 is now only available as a surface-mount part, but the PSMN022-30PL,127 is still available and has long leads that work in the breadboard.


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Wild rally on the road for third straight time; Ducks fall to 0-2 under Boudreau
ANAHEIM, Calif. - The top-ranked Minnesota Wild pulled off another rally on the road.
Nick Johnson scored the go-ahead goal with 5:31 left in the third period, and Casey Wellman and Pierre-Marc Bouchard scored 32 seconds apart in the second period, leading the Wild over the Ducks 5-3 on Sunday night.
This was the third straight road game for Minnesota in which it overcame a two-goal deficit to win. It also was the 11th time this season that Minnesota has won when its opponent scored first, the most in the NHL.
"We have a group of guys in there that are not going to quit, they're not going to give up and look for excuses," rookie coach Mike Yeo said. "One thing we can really credit our success with is that we try not to get wrapped up in the score. We just know that it's about the next shift, going out and playing our game. All it takes is one play to get us right back in there."
Josh Harding, who took over in net for an injured Niklas Backstrom after the first period of Minnesota's 4-2 win over New Jersey on Friday night and stopped all 22 shots he faced, made 24 saves against the Ducks in his first start since Nov. 25 while rookie Matt Hackett served as his backup.
Dany Heatley scored a power-play goal and Kyle Clutterbuck added a short-handed empty-netter with 10.2 seconds left for Minnesota in the opener of a five-game trip. Matt Cullen had three assists for Minnesota against his former club.
The victory put the Wild atop the overall NHL standings with 37 points. They are off to their best start in the franchise's 11-year history at 17-7-3, and have won four straight and nine of 11—a stretch that began with a 3-2 win over the Ducks on Nov. 13 at Anaheim.
"It's easy to say it, but we're kind of walking the walk a little bit," Cullen said. "You preach: 'Stay with it, stay confident, stay with the game plan and it's going to come.' We're finding a way to stick with it, stay positive on the bench and play our game. That's a huge key for us."
Anaheim is 0-2 since recently deposed Washington coach Bruce Boudreau replaced Randy Carlyle behind the bench. The Ducks, who have won just three of their last 21 games, squandered a 2-0 lead just two nights after blowing a 3-0 advantage in Boudreau's debut—a 4-3 overtime loss to Philadelphia.
"It's tough when you're up 3-0 and 2-0 in these games and lose both of them," reigning MVP Corey Perry said. "We got away from our game plan again, and once we do that, we're not the same team. We were sitting on our heels and turning the puck over."
Ryan Getzlaf, Saku Koivu and Cam Fowler scored for Anaheim and Jonas Hiller made 31 saves in his 200th regular-season game. Teemu Selanne, the Ducks' career leader in goals, assists, points, power-play goals, game-winners and games played, had two assists in his 800th regular-season game with the club.
Fowler tied it at 3 with 9:15 to play. But Johnson got his fourth goal of the season when he converted a centring pass from Clutterbuck as Johnson and defenceman Luca Sbisa both crashed into Hiller. The puck went in off Johnson's skate, but a brief video review allowed the goal to stand up.
"It's a tough play," Sbisa said. "The guy threw it to the net, I tried to control the guy's stick and had his stick up. But it went off his skate and in. I've got to try to maybe be more to the inside of him and kept him behind me. It's frustrating when you lose on a goal like that. That wasn't the best play on my part, but I've got to learn from that."
Wellman, playing in his third game of the season following his recall from Houston of the AHL last Monday, tied it 2 at 15:18 of the second when he converted Cullen's centring pass.
"We're not playing solid in our own end, and that's why we're not winning," Hiller said. "We were playing well the first 10 minutes, because we were fighting hard, and then we relaxed again. You can have all the skills, but if you're not working hard in your own end, you're not going to win any games."
The Wild took the lead moments later when Bouchard beat Hiller high to the glove side with a 17-foot backhander. At that point, Boudreau called a timeout to settle his team and lift their spirits.
"I said to them: 'Don't hang your head. You look like you're a beaten crew,'" Boudreau said. "If you can't face adversity in hockey, you're not going to get anywhere. Pull up your socks and get mad, rather than feeling sorry for yourselves.' When they got the third goal, it was like, 'Oh, woe is us.' So you've got to get that mindset out of them right away and be able to say: 'Let's go get it back.'
A 5-on-3 power play late in the first enabled Minnesota to come off the mat, after Bobby Ryan was sent off for interference and Toni Lydman joined him in 33 seconds later for high-sticking Devin Setoguchi. Heatley beat Hiller on a screened 35-foot slap shot between the circles with just 3.2 seconds left in the period and the Wild still on a two-man advantage.
"That one stemmed from a turnover where you've got to get the puck out of your end when you get the opportunity. Good teams do that, and we didn't," Boudreau said. "Then we take the high-sticking penalty, and then made the mistake of chasing with 4 seconds to go in the period. It comes right back to the slot, where there's nobody covering Heatley—and everybody knows what kind of a shot he's got. Consequently, it goes in."
Notes: Of the eight head coaches in Ducks history, Boudreau is the third to lose his first two games. Ron Wilson won on his third try, and Craig Hartsburg on his fourth attempt. ... This was the first time in their 17 wins this season that the Wild allowed more than two goals. ... Minnesota has won four straight on the road for the first time since a five-game stretch in March 2007.