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Lucrative stimulus contract for green jobs in New Orleans goes to group with least to offer
Posted on April 8, 2010	by Sharon Kramer
This new weatherization training center was set up by Louisiana Assocation of Community Action Partnerships, using federal money — a move that gave the group an edge in getting federal stimulus money.
April 6th, 2010 | Posted by Brentin Mock
By Brentin Mock – staff writer – For more than 30 years, a federal program to weatherize homes of low-income families has been a fairly low-budget, low-profile affair in Louisiana. In recent years, the state has hired an association of non-profits to do the work on the side as they run other public-benefit programs with considerably higher budgets.
But the weatherization program here attracted a lot more attention – and a tremendous amount of money – a year ago with the passage of President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Instead of the normal $1million to $2 million a year, the stimulus package set aside $50 million for Louisiana. Yes, the feds wanted to see a sharp increase in the number of houses fixed up – from a few hundred to more than 1,600 a year – but just as importantly, they wanted to see new jobs created to carry out that work. And because the work will ultimately save on energy costs, those new positions would have the added benefit of being considered "green jobs," making good on another Obama pledge.
In the end, low-income families get their attics insulated, windows and doors sealed with weather stripping and caulk, light fixtures fitted with fluorescent bulbs, air conditioners cleaned, exhaust fans installed and windows covered with sun screens. The residents also are to be educated on efficient energy use, such as using the provided fans sometimes in place of air-conditioning.
The way the state tried to fulfill these goals is a study in strong-arm tactics by non-profits, well-intentioned bungling by state bureaucrats and ill-informed intervention by Washington officials. In New Orleans in particular, the effort has left the program exclusively in the hands of a relatively small outfit while shutting out better-equipped organizations that promised to match the money with millions more.
In New Orleans, the program has created almost no new jobs and didn't come close to hitting its goals in the opening months.
"There's been a concern that all of this money will be spent on I don't know what, but I haven't seen any evidence of it making an impact on people I've worked with, " said Darryl Malek-Wiley of the Sierra Club of New Orleans.
Existing coalition not happy with newcomers
To understand where the money has gone, you need to start with where it came from and follow the tortuous path to the end.
The U.S. Energy Department has been handing grants to states for the weatherization-assistance program for decades. The program is overseen here by the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, the state organization responsible for helping low-income families with their housing needs.
Rather than doing the work itself as it had done for years, the finance agency hires an outside administrator in 2007, the Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships. That group is a coalition of more than 42 "community action agencies," federally designated non-profits that were established to provide services to low-income families.
But with the unprecedented one-time allocation coming from the stimulus package, the state finance agency decided to do things differently last year and open the work to to more bidders.
"This was supposed to stimulate new business and new job growth, so with that spirit, our mission was to open it up as much as we could." said Jeff DeGraff, spokesman for the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency.
Members of action-agency associations were told informally about the new open process and didn't initially object, said Charlette Minor, the finance agency's weatherization manager. Representatives of the association even attended a public roundtable discussion in March 2009 with other non-profits, where the finance agency [b1] was brainstorming the best use of the new money, she said.
However, the association did express disagreement two months later, at a May hearing. And that's where the trouble started.
"We really don't need to start recreating the wheel," association representative Chris Dunn said, according to a transcript of that hearing. "We need to go with what we have and expand on it."
Things got uglier and more territorial after the meeting, at least as far as the New Orleans share was concerned, said Kristin Gisleson Palmer, former executive director of Rebuilding Together New Orleans, which was interested in participating in the work.
The statewide association of agencies is represented in New Orleans by Total Community Action, a venerable group that also provides the community with such services as Head Start early childhood education, job counseling, transportation for the elderly and disabled and homeless prevention.
Gisleson Palmer said in an interview that she was confronted by James Wallace, the weatherization manager for Total Community Action, after the May meeting.
" 'This is our money and this is how we're going to use it and we'll tell you how many units you do, if we decide to work with you,' " recalled Gisleson Palmer. "He just came off as if he was the only one entitled to the money."
Likewise, the leader of another local environmental organization remembered an unpleasant encounter with Wallace.
Will Bradshaw, executive director of Green Coast Enterprises, held a phone conference for those applying for the state stimulus money, hoping to get them to agree to a unified approach. He invited Wallace who "expressed some reservation," Bradshaw said, but ultimately decided to join the call.
Wallace stayed on the call long enough to tell the group that Total Community Action would not be participating in their collaborative before hanging up. Asked if Wallace exited respectfully, Bradshaw said, "not particularly."
"I think TCA in particular thought something was being taken from them that was rightfully theirs," Bradshaw said. "If you look at the history of TCA, they have been doing this for a very long time. So I think there was this sense that they were being threatened by these new organizations that were suddenly trying to get involved with weatherization."
The president of the coalition, Jane Killen, did not respond to requests for an interview, nor did Total Community Action's leader, Thelma French. And though Wallace was interviewed about the program in general, his organization did not make him available later, after Gisleson Palmer and Bradshaw described their situations with Wallace.
Spreading the money to get more money
Despite the objections from Wallace in particular, and the statewide association in general, the state sent to Washington a plan for spending the money that included several new non-profits.
For the New Orleans area, the plan included:
The Salvation Army, working through its recently launched EnviRenew program that does green home renovations for low-income families;
Catholic Charities, which through its partnership with Providence Community Housing is working toward building and repairing thousands of houses for disadvantaged families since Katrina;
Rebuilding Together New Orleans, a non-profit known around the city for its work in restoring and preserving the unique residential landscape of the city, also with a focus on poor families;
And Total Community Action, which had been weatherizing 50 to 60 houses on average annually in the 27 years it has been participating in the weatherization program .
The non-profits saw the stimulus funds as an opportunity to expand home repair work they were already doing. They knew that the stimulus was a one-time grant, but they had plans to stretch the money – and to create more jobs as an associated benefit. For instance, the Salvation Army included a commitment to create a $250,000 revolving fund for contractors, and Rebuilding Together New Orleans pledged millions from its parent organization, Rebuilding Together Inc., to match the stimulus grant.
"The regional nonprofits were selected first because LHFA realized they were the best suited to leverage these funds," Gisleson Palmer said. "In New Orleans, and those areas affected by the hurricanes, you really have to do holistic rebuilding. So the repairs we could make with these dollars would have been much more intensive and complete."
"We already have construction staff on hand, which means we don't have to subcontract out this work, which adds another layer, and more bureaucracy, and more money from what you can spend on weatherization work. We were able to quickly utilize these funds and put the money to work immediately from within an existing construction framework, and LHFA realized that."
The plan was sent to the U.S. Energy Department, where it was met with an unexpected buzz saw of objections.
The feds want answers and explanations
The addition of new non-profits led federal officials to come back with a flurry of questions: Why do you need new contractors? Why can't the coalition already in place do the work? What role will the existing association have in overseeing the program?
The letter sent from the Energy Department to the state finance agency in July said that the association already in place "must receive preference." If the state decides to go with someone else, the letter said, officials need to explain why they decided the program "will be run more efficiently by bringing on entirely new contractors rather than by utilizing the knowledge and experience of its current contractor"
Minor, finance agency's weatherization program handler, wasn't prepared for this reply. She said her office was in touch regularly with the Energy Department's state liaison, Robert DeSoto, who was well aware that Louisiana was pursuing an expansion of its pool of contractors. Contacted by phone, DeSoto said he couldn't speak without permission of his agency's public-affairs officer.
Energy public affairs officer Jen Stutsman said, "There was a preference toward existing providers because we believed they had the infrastructure already in place."
Still, that didn't exclude new contractors, she said, as long as the state explained the need. In fact, other states have done just that, expanding beyond their traditional base of community action agencies.
The letter from her bosses gave another reason the Energy Department preferred the association. It involved green – the kind you take to the bank.
The previous year's weatherization plan prepared by the state and approved by Washington provided "a significant funding increase" that let the association build a new training center. That approval was given with the understanding that the association was getting ready to train more workers who would be needed when the stimulus money was released, it said.
A few months later, the state relented. Rather than supporting its initial strategy of 36 contractors and fleshing out the need for new blood, it submitted a new plan to Washington that included only the association's network, representing 20 community action agencies. In September, the state signed a contract with the Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships, which allocated $4.2 million for Total Community Action to do the work in New Orleans.
The New Orleans-area groups left out were confused and frustrated.
"It never was revealed to us where the decision came down from as to how it had to happen, as opposed to what the state wanted," said Capt. Ethan Frizzell of the Salvation Army.
Gisleson Palmer, who recently won election to the New Orleans City Council, said the decision to re-direct funds to the community action groups was purely political, saying the statewide association applied pressure. The community action agencies "went behind closed doors and lobbied the Department of Energy, or at least that's how it was told to me," Gisleson Palmer said. "They came down and yanked it from us …. Meanwhile, we were not given the opportunity to lobby, or speak to DOE or anything like that."
Stutsman, the Energy Department spokeswoman, said that's just not so. However, she said the association was included in a meeting with state and Energy Department officials where the new plan was crafted.
In federal reporting required by the stimulus award, the statewide coalition has reported that it created 107 jobs with the federal money and retained another 121.
What they've done with the money they have used?
"Most activities have continued to support the ramp up of workforce and infrastructure," reads the report, available on recovery.gov. The area where coalition officials describe the jobs created reads more like a plan for the future: "The ARRA funds will allow subgrantees to expand the weatherization workforce … the expansion will also foster more partnerships and increase the number of vendors and suppliers."
Some of the jobs created have been in the very offices of the statewide association itself. In the front of its new training center are dozens of cubicles and offices for its expanding staff. Killen has said publicly that her central staff grew from a few in 2006 to 22 now. New trucks and vans are parked outside, prominently displaying the decal of the Louisiana Association of Community Action Partnerships.
"They now had money to create a business to hire competent people," said James Gilmore, who as vice president of the finance agency in 2007 signed an agreement with the statewide association to be the state's weatherization program administrators. "They hired an attorney. They were able to hire a CPA. At the time, they were just a loose network. When they got the administrative funds, they became an organization with a staff. They became a business."
New Orleans outfit triples its workload
While there may have been a framework for the statewide coalition to distribute money to its partners, there was not one in place at Total Community Action – or at least not one that was able to help it comply with new regulations that came with stimulus money. And its record shows a history of poor paperwork and a lack of openness in contracting.
As Gisleson Palmer alluded, the agency has no staff for performing weatherization duties; it has historically subcontracted the work.
The new money came with the provision that each community action agency choose the subcontractors through a bid process, and it required that they pay a prevailing wage. The agency wasn't familiar with either of those policies.
When told that, Stutsman said, "I can't comment specifically on New Orleans, but we believed that the local providers working on this in previous years would have the necessary infrastructure in place and that's the extent of what I know of it."
Total Community Action began running its weatherization program in the early 1980s. From then until last year, it was only responsible for no more than about 60 houses a year. The stimulus contract is for 549 houses through 2012. As with other recipients of stimulus money, it has 18 months to show it can handle the load, otherwise the contract terms will change.
Wallace, the local agency's weatherization manager, said it took some time just to get himself and two staffers familiar with how to issue and receive bids and what the implications were of other new regulations. That delayed the start of weatherization work for at least a month, he said. Wallace bemoaned the extra paperwork, pointing out "there's no more money in it for TCA."
Its contracts have never been bid, instead handed out to a few of its own preferred providers – "People who have been doing weatherization work for TCA for the last 10 or 12 years," Wallace said. "They're just small guys and females. They may be just two- or three-person entities."
Last June, in a management review report from the statewide association, Total Community Action received a "satisfactory" for its service delivery, management practices, technical activities and administrative operations, but were graded as "below average" for its maintenance of client files. A subsequent overall management review of its work for the last few months of 2009 was upgraded to "superior."
"I wouldn't say it was one of the best in the world," said Gilmore, the former finance agency vice president. "But based off the numbers of people in New Orleans needing assistance, they did the best they could."
Wallace shrugged off any concerns about the capabilities of his organization.
"All that is important is that TCA has continued to do this work for a number of years, regardless of if it was the guy on the corner who sat on the steps who did the work, or somebody else," he said. "TCA has never had a problem, as I know about it, with a misuse of funds.
"[Our contractors] have to sign a paper that says they have not been disbarred, and have not had any problems with any previous federal contractors, and they are not somebody who's been indicted. But if TCA is using the money as it should, and getting reports in, and getting audits then everything works out fine. That's why we still do this."
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"Changes in construction methods have caused US buildings to become perfect petri dishes for mold and bacteria to flourish when water is added. Instead of warning the public and teaching physicians that the buildings were causing illness; in 2003 the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, a think-tank, and a workers comp physician trade organization mass marketed an unscientific nonsequitor to the courts to disclaim the adverse health effects to stave off liability for financial stakeholders of moldy buildings. Although publicly exposed many times over the years, the deceit lingers in US courts to this very day." Sharon Noonan Kramer
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We just got a wee pup for our children for christmas!!
They thought he was awesome…..so his name is Awesome!!!!
would love to see a photo of him, I think rottie pups are sooo cute.
might be a difficult name when his training starts, which is very important for rotties. What part of NZ are you from?
Awesome is what everyone will call him when hes older, he is the kids pup, they may not call him awesome knowing that is his given name, but thats what he will be…awesome! i dont think I need to change his name at all.
PS they must be very young?
Cannot think of a better name or a Rottie pup. Congratulations.


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Ernest Callenbach
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Ernest William Callenbach
Ernest Callenbach in 2008
(1929-04-03)April 3, 1929
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, U.S.
April 16, 2012(2012-04-16) (aged 83)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Main interests
Soft energy path
Natural history literature
Cooperativism
Vernacular design
Ernest Callenbach (April 3, 1929 - April 16, 2012) was an American author, film critic, editor, and simple living adherent.[1] He became famous due to his internationally successful semi-utopian novel Ecotopia (1975).
Born into a farming family in Williamsport, Pennsylvania,[2] Callenbach attended the University of Chicago, where he was drawn into the then 'new wave' of serious attention to film as an art form. After six months in Paris at the Sorbonne, watching four films a day, he returned to Chicago and earned a Master's degree in English and Communications.
Callenbach then moved to California. From 1955 to 1991, he was on the staff of the University of California Press (Berkeley). A general copywriter for a number of years, he edited the Press's Film Quarterly from 1958 until 1991.[2] He also occasionally taught film courses at U.C. and at San Francisco State University.
For many years Callenbach edited the Natural History Guides at the U.C. Press. He began to take environmental issues and their connections to human value systems, social patterns, and lifestyles just as seriously as he had taken film. He was heavily influenced by Edward Abbey. Callenbach talked publicly about being influenced, during work on his novel Ecotopia, by numerous streams of thought: scientific discoveries in the fields of ecology and conservation biology; the urban-ecology planning movement, concerned with an approach to urban planning; and the soft-energy movement, championed by Amory Lovins and others.[3]
Callenbach is known as an author of green books, namely as author of the ecological "utopias" Ecotopia (1975) and Ecotopia Emerging (1981), and also The Ecotopian Encyclopedia (1981), Bring Back the Buffalo! (1995), and Ecology: A Pocket Guide (1998). (While his first novel popularized the term "ecotopia," the term was actually coined by the ethnographer E. N. Anderson.)[4]
In terms of concepts of human involvement with the ecology, as well as some of the economic and social concepts, the Ecotopia books are related to what is known as the sustainability movement.[3] Callenbach's Ecotopian concept is not "Luddite" -- he does not reject high technology, but rather his fictional society shows a conscious selectivity about technology. In Ecotopia ecologically compatible high-technology exists besides postmaterialistic attitudes and lifestyles.[5] As an example, with its emphasis on personal rather than impersonal interaction, Callenbach's Ecotopian society anticipates the development and liberal usage of videoconferencing.
Indeed, for all his involvement with print publishing, Callenbach remained quite interested in visual media. Aspects of his book Ecotopia in some ways anticipated C-SPAN -- which came into being a few years later -- because in the story the daily life of the legislature and some of that of the judicial courts is televised in this fictional society, and televised debates (including technical debates concerning ecological problems) meet a need and desire among citizens.
Callenbach was a part of the circle of West Coast technologists, architects, social thinkers, and scientists which included Ursula K. Le Guin, Sim Van der Ryn, Peter Calthorpe, Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly, J. Baldwin, and John Todd.[6] As with some of these others, he was often a speaker, discussion panellist, and essayist.
In 2006 Callenbach introduced the story of a real-world community movement in Japan that is reminiscent, in its aims and practices, of his Ecotopian society. He visited Japan and investigated the Yamagishi movement. He found that it encompassed some three dozen intentional communities founded on the same underlying principles: living an ecologically based integration of people with agriculture (pig, cattle, and chicken livestock raising, and organic-vegetable and fruit farming), and living a social life based on principles of democracy, mutual understanding, support, and health. Each individual settlement is referred to as jikkenji ('demonstration community for the world').[7]
In 2009, Callenbach was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Freiburg.[8]Freiburg is noted for its renewable energy industry and has been called a "green utopia".[9] He died of cancer on April 16, 2012 in Berkeley, California.[10]
" ...if you reflect on our change from thoughtless trash-tossing to virtually universal recycling, or from the past in which smokers didn't hesitate to blow smoke in anybody's face to our present restrictions on smoking in public places, it's clear that shared ideas about acceptable or desirable behavior can change markedly. Such changes occurred without anybody getting arrested in the dark of night. Further changes will come... "
Living Poor With Style (New York: Bantam, 1972)
Ecotopia (Banyan Tree Books, 1975)
Italian translation: Ecotopia (Castelvecchi Editore, 2012)
Ecotopia Emerging (Banyan Tree Books, 1981)
The Ecotopian Encyclopaedia for the 80's: A Survival Guide for the Age of Inflation (Berkeley: And/Or Press, 1981)
A Citizen Legislature (Bookpeople, 1985; rev. ed. Imprint Academic, 2008)
Publisher's Lunch (Ten Speed Press, 1989)
Ecology: A Pocket Guide (U. of California Press, 1998; rev. ed. 2008)
Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less (Berkeley: Ronin, 1993). ISBN 0-914171-61-5
Living Cheaply With Style: Live Better and Spend Less, Second edition (Berkeley: Ronin, 2000). ISBN 1-57951-014-0
Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (U. of California Press, 2000)
Ernest Callenbach "Ecotopia in Japan?," in: Communities 132 (Fall 2006), pp. 42-49.
R. Frye, "The Economics of Ecotopia," in: Alternative Futures 3 (1980), pp. 71-81.
K.T. Goldbach, "Utopian Music: Music History of the Future in Novels by Bellamy, Callenbach and Huxley," in: Utopia Matters. Theory, Politics, Literature and the Arts, ed. F. Viera, M. Freitas, Porto 2005, pp. 237-243.
R. Meinhold, "Ecotopia", in: Paul B. Thompson and David M. Kaplan (eds.) Encyclopedia of Agricultural and Food Ethics (2013), pp 548-551
U. Meyer: "Selling an 'ecological religion'. Strategies of Persuasion in Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia". In: M. Lotz, M. van der Minde, D. Weidmann (Hrsg.): Von Platon bis zur Global Governance. Entwürfe für menschliches Zusammenleben. Marburg 2010, pp. 253-280.
H. Tschachler, "Despotic Reason in Arcadia. Ernest Callenbach's Ecological Utopias," Science Fiction Studies 11 (1984), pp. 304-317.
Ernest Callenbach's website
Works by or about Ernest Callenbach in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Callenbach's - non-religious - Earth's Ten Commandments at the Wayback Machine (archived 18 January 2008)
Interview with James Heddle on YouTube
Ecotopia in the News
Article by Scott Timberg
Tomgram: Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline (Includes his final written work; "Epistle to the Ecotopians")
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^ a b Woo, Elaine (25 April 2012). "Ernest Callenbach obituary: Author of novel 'Ecotopia' dies at 83". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012.
^ a b Callenbach, Ernest. ""Life in a Desirable Future," a talk at the Rubenstein School for Environment & Natural Resources at the University of Vermont". Retrieved 2013.
^ Reinventing Anthropology, Dell H. Hymes, Vintage Books, 1974, page 264
^ Meinhold, Roman (2014). "Ecotopia". Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. pp. 548-551. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-6167-4_295-5. ISBN 978-94-007-6167-4.
^ Kirk, Andrew G. (2007). Counterculture Green: the Whole Earth Catalog and American Environmentalism. University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-1545-2.
^ Callenbach, Ernest (2006). Ecotopia in Japan?, in: Communities 132, Fall 2006; Rutledge, Missouri; pp. 42-49.
^ "Ehrenpromotion Callenbach - Englisches Seminar". University of Freiburg. Retrieved 2011.
^ Watson, Nick (13 June 2008). "Vauban - a green utopia?". BBC News. Retrieved 2011.
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New Valeo Tech @ssist: all Valeo technical information just two clicks away
Following interviews conducted with 600 retailers and mechanics in seven countries (Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Spain and the United Kingdom), Valeo is announcing the launch of Valeo Tech @ssist.
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Thanks to Valeo Tech @ssist, easily accessible from valeoservice.com, finding the right Valeo product reference has never been faster or more intuitive. By using the TecDoc1 database, mechanics can find Valeo product details with ease, including technical features, automaker compatibility information and product images.
Users can search by vehicle type (brand, model or version), Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) or product. To increase the speed with which users get access to parts, Valeo has included an autocomplete2 feature for input fields.
2. All technical information in one place
Valeo's technical information, including technical service bulletins, instructions and installation videos are now available in a single location for immediate consultation.
Valeo has observed that the ability to search for technical information specific to each spare part is essential for its partner users. That is why Valeo Tech @ssist provides access to technical information based on product references to increase efficiency and reduce risk of errors.
3. On-demand training modules
Training is crucial in the increasingly technology rich sector of automotive maintenance. And yet, in 73% of independent garages, not a single employee has received training of any kind in the last 12 months (GiPA repairer survey, 2017). Ongoing training for professionals is particularly challenging due to a lack of time and the difficultly of interrupting mechanics' everyday routines.
To overcome these limitations, Valeo has made online training modules available via Valeo Tech @ssist.
(1) Available in Germany and the United Kingdom from September 2018 before a wider international launch.
(2) Predicts results in real time based on the first two letters as the user types.
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In other words, Google, while attempting to keep a thin veneer of impartiality and privacy, is censoring content based on political ideology and has released private user data. As always with ethics scandals, we are looking for a Jupiter-to-Pallas transit... Jupiter for publicity and Pallas for ethics, generally accompanied by a major outer-planet transit which represents a significant change in status.
Using Sep 4 1998 for Google, transiting Jupiter at 23 Scorpio is trine Google's Pallas at 26 Pisces.
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What is a fossil?
How deep do you have to dig to find fossils?
Where can I see fossils in San Diego County?
Did dinosaurs ever live in San Diego County?
How do you know how old a particular fossil is?
Fossils are the remains and/or traces of prehistoric life. The critical factor is age. Fossils have to be older than 10,000 years, the generally accepted temporal boundary marking the end of the last Pleistocene glacial event. Fossil remains include bones, teeth, shells, and wood. Fossil traces include footprints, burrows, impressions, molds, casts, and coprolites.
Fossils are found in the sedimentary rock layers in which they were originally buried. So, the question really is, where do these layers occur? The sea cliffs at Torrey Pines State Reserve provide excellent exposures of 48-50 million year old fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks. The fossils in these rocks occur right at the surface because erosion has done the "digging" for us.
Since fossils occur in sedimentary rock layers, wherever sedimentary rocks are found there is a potential for fossil discovery. As mentioned above, the sea cliffs at Torrey Pines State Reserve offer good opportunities to observe fossils. These fossils generally consist of Eocene-aged (48-50 million years old) shells of estuarine snails and oysters. Because the fossils are in a state reserve there is no collecting allowed. However, this protection ensures that we and future generations will continue to be able to discover and enjoy these paleontological remains.
Yes. Dinosaur remains have been found in Cretaceous-aged (70-75 million years old) sedimentary rocks as exposed at Sunset Cliffs, La Jolla Bay, and Carlsbad. The types of dinosaurs represented by these local fossils include hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur) and nodosaur (armored dinosaur).
The age of a fossil can be determined by several means. One method, called superposition, is based on the position of a fossil in a stacked sequence of sedimentary rock layers. The fossils in the lowest layers are older than the fossils in the upper layers. This method does not give an absolute age for the fossil, only a relative age (older or younger). Absolute age of a fossil is determined by radiometric dating -- a method that relies on the natural radioactivity of certain elemental isotopes. Different isotopes have different rates of radioactive decay and these rates are constant. This constancy of decay rates serves as a "radiometric clock" that allows geochronologists to analyze samples and measure the relative quantities (ratios) of "parent" to "daughter" isotopes. These ratios provide a means for determining when the "radiometric clock" started and therefore the age of the rock layers associated with the fossil.
The Science of "Jurassic Park"
In the movies "Jurassic Park" and "The Lost World," scientists cloned dinosaurs from DNA found in prehistoric blood-sucking insects preserved in amber. How real is this premise?
Will extinct dinosaurs ever be brought back to life ?
How were dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" created ?
Could you find and insect in amber with a blood meal still in it ?
Would there be DNA left in the fossilized insect's last meal ?
If DNA from blood were inside an insect, could it be removed ?
Could a dinosaur be made from a piece of dinosaur DNA ?
If scientist were able to get the entire genetic code for a dinosaur, could the dinosaurs then be recreated ?
Has any kind of fossil DNA ever been found?
Will extinct dinosaurs ever be brought back to life?
With today's technology it is impossible to recreate extinct dinosaurs. It is extremely unlikely that scientists will ever be able to bring them back to life. Only with a quantum leap in scientific understanding could such a project be successful.
How were dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park" created?
In the movie, researchers find fossilized blood-sucking insects that had bitten living dinosaurs. Soon afterward, these insects were caught in oozing tree sap that fossilized into amber. The scientists in the film extracted dinosaur blood from the fossilized insects and used the DNA in the blood to recreate dinosaurs.
Could you find and insect in amber with a blood meal still in it?
Scientists really do study ancient insects fossilized in amber, but none have ever been found with blood inside them. Most of the amber found with insects trapped inside is not old enough to have been around when the dinosaurs lived between 65 and about 210 million years ago.
Would there be DNA left in the fossilized insect's last meal?
DNA is very fragile and deteriorates over time. Even if a blood-engorged insect was found, the blood would have to have been perfectly preserved over millions of years so the cells could be extracted in good condition. Finally, for the DNA to be viable, the insect must have died before it got a chance to digest the blood.
If DNA from blood were inside an insect, could it be removed?
If a good piece of amber were found containing an insect full of dinosaur blood, the blood cells would have to be separated from the insect's cells -- a difficult process. (Also, there is no guarantee that the insect's last meal was from a dinosaur). If this were accomplished, scientists could use a new technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to replicate the DNA enough times to work with it. Such technology, developed in the last decade, is now used in laboratories around the world.
Could a dinosaur be made from a piece of dinosaur DNA?
Even if it could be determined that the DNA recovered was from a dinosaur, there would still be problems. Since DNA deteriorates over time, very little of a creature's complete genetic materials, call the genome, would be likely to be left after more than 65 million years. The genome of such a complex creature as a dinosaur is made up of billions of pairs of building blocks called nucleic acids -- the primary form of which is deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). These acids are grouped into genes, which in turn are strung together into chromosomes. If you imagine the genome as a book, the chromosomes are chapters, genes are sentences and the nucleic acids are the alphabet. At present, the most that could be hoped for would be to find perhaps two or three hundred nucleic acid pairs, or less than one millionth of the genome -- not nearly enough to "read" the genome as one would a book.
If scientist were able to get the entire genetic code for a dinosaur, could the dinosaurs then be recreated?
Even if the entire genome of a dinosaur were somehow discovered, it would be found out of order, in tiny pieces. Literally, billions of nucleic acids would have to be combined correctly, like putting together an enormous jigsaw puzzle where each piece was shaped exactly alike. The genetic code is only one of many crucial factors that go into creating a living creature. Without interactions between the DNA and products supplied by the mother, a creature would not develop and you would merely have chemicals in a test tube.
New technology has made research on fossil DNA possible, but no dinosaur DNA has ever been found. At the American Museum of Natural History, researchers have extracted the sequenced DNA from a termite that lived 25 to 40 million years ago, long after the end of the age of dinosaurs. Other scientists have found fossil DNA from other insects and plants.


My Logitech mouse is not working perfectly lately and I have decided to replace it with a new Logitech G600 mouse. The old mouse is a Logitech G500 with symptoms of the so-called "double click problem". In brief, the mouse responds with a double-click each time you single-click. Well, maybe not every time, but I estimate half of the clicks are regarded as double-clicks. That can be disastrous and may cost dearly when playing poker or even worse when investing in my case. It's also quite annoying when surfing the internet, highlighting text, capturing screen shots, playing games (like building in the wrong places at SimCity) and clicking all sorts of buttons. For all these reasons I opted for a Logitech G600 replacement mouse, which won't break the bank.
The Logitech G600 mouse can be found for 70-80 euros or 65 pounds, shipping included. Surprisingly, there isn't significant price difference between online and retail stores. Yet, I grabbed mine from an Ebay seller that offered the Logitech mouse for 55 euros! That is even cheaper than a brand new G500, my broken Logitech mouse!
I usually do a lot of research before spending my hard-earned money on anything, even for items with a price tag less than 10 dollars. In this instance though I didn't spend much time reading reviews about the Logitech G600 or watching video reviews. Given my overall satisfaction of other Logitech products, it didn't take much research before convincing myself to buy the specific Logitech mouse. I could have watched the following 30-minute video review, but I was too busy searching for the lowest price available.
On the other hand Logitech mouses are not perfect. They do wear out. The Logitech G5's tracking beam that I bought in 2006 failed a couple of years ago and its replacement, G500, is experiencing the double-click issue I described above.
The double-click problem of the Logitech mouse is so common for this particular model, that there are many helpful posts online about how to fix your double-clicking mouse by yourself (Do-It-Yourself repair)! Of course that fix will void the warranty, so you'd better contact Logitech first before reaching for the screwdriver. Although I did open my Logitech mouse, I didn't go through the whole process and re-assembled it, so that I can continue working until my new Logitech mouse arrives!
My previous experience with malfunctioning Logitech products was a Logitech remote control. The control's infrared beam was dead after a year or so. I sent an email to Logitech support attaching a video back then, where I explained the problem. I held the Logitech remote control next to a random (Samsung) remote control pointing to the web camera and pressed some buttons on both devices. It was pretty obvious that the Logitech remote wasn't transmitting anything (How To Test a Dead Remote Control using a Digital Camera). Logitech support confirmed the device's fault and sent me a new remote without me returning the faulty one or charging me for shipping! Two thumbs up for Logitech support!
Another device that has failed is the Draytek router I recommended in the past!
Maybe I should have checked my Logitech G500 receipt before removing the screws. Logitech usually offers 3-years warranty for their mouses, so I might have got a replacement for free. Honestly I don't remember when I bought the faulty Logitech mouse. This time however I am making sure I don't forget when I bought my Logitech G600 mouse with this very blog post! Hopefully I won't be linking back to this article in the next 3 years!
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TEDxUCLA 2019: Time
How badly do you want something?
by Marques Johnson
About Marques
Marques Johnson is the first winner of the John R. Wooden Award at UCLA, where he helped lead the Bruins to Coach John Wooden's 10th and final NCAA Men's Division I basketball championship.
As a professional athlete, Marques played seven seasons with the Milwaukee Bucks, followed by seasons with the Golden State Warriors and the LA Clippers.
Today you can find Marques back on the Milwaukee Bucks as a basketball analyst, and he continues to give back to the Milwaukee community through positive philanthropic endeavors.
I played basketball here at UCLA for John Wooden. (Cheering) (Applause) Yeah. (Cheering) (Applause)
I was on his tenth and final national championship team. I should have kept that net; it's probably worth a lot of money nowadays. He won 10 championships in 12 years. He coached some of the all-time greats, like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, like Bill Walton.
Talking about time, he was meticulous with his time and practice — every minute was accounted for. He had some great sayings too, like, "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail," and "Make every day your masterpiece," and "Be quick but don't hurry." He also had these philosophical building blocks that he used to form the pyramid of success.
Now, I was a 17-year-old freshman straight out of Crenshaw High — (Laughter) does that look like the kind of guy that needs to learn how to tie his shoes or put his socks on — which he taught us at UCLA — or interested in philosophical building blocks? Probably not, not at that time.
But I was a basketball player at Crenshaw too, and a real good basketball player. And when I got to UCLA, I was only the fourth-ranked player out of five recruits that came in in 1973. Just the fourth best out of five guys. And I thought I was pretty good.
And I say that to you to tell you that I was not some winner of the genetic lottery, that success for me as a basketball player was no foregone conclusion, that things were challenging when I first got here. Let me give an example of how challenging they were.
My first week in practice, I matched up against Keith Wilkes, and every day, Keith Wilkes is just working me, using me; he's blocking my shots. I'm so frustrated by the end of that first week that I call home to my mom and dad, crying on the phone — I'm 17 years old. And I'm crying and crying.
My momma's like, "What's the matter?" I was like "See, I told you all I shouldn't have come to UCLA, I should have went to UCSB" — no offense UCSB. (Laughter) "I told you I should have went to UCSB. I'm in over my head; I can't play here."
And my dad, in that direct way of his, said, "What's the problem?" And I said, "Keith Wilkes, Dad. He's blocking every shot I take." And my dad, without hesitation, said, "Keith Wilkes? He's the best forward in America — you're going to be fine." (Laughter)
Now, don't you just hate when people assume that the success you achieved is because somebody gave you something or because you got a lucky break? Don't you just hate that?
I mean, have you ever noticed a duck on the water, right? You watch that duck kind of zipping back and forth, floating on air, just moving and grooving; there's that duck making it look so easy. (Laughter) Yeah. But would you look beneath the water, what do you see? You see those little duck feet, (Laughter) those little duck feet just moving back and forth, moving back and forth, working hard.
So I'm here today to tell you that I don't care what it is, what you're doing, who you are; you're not going to have success unless you're willing to put in the work. And the easier that you make it look, trust me, the harder you've got to put in that work.
See, my dad, speaking of work, he was the hardest working man that I know. I mean, this guy taught school during the week. He welded in the Long Beach shipyards at night when we needed extra money, and we had five kids, so we always needed extra money. So he was always welding. On the weekends, he'd cut hair at Pete's Barber Shop on 79th and Western, and then he still found the time to coach my youth basketball teams. That's my dad.
See, when I was in my early 20s, I had this complex because I didn't think I'd ever be able to measure up to being the kind of man that my dad was. Then about 20 years later, I'm working UCLA radio, doing basketball games; I'm working at ESPN TV, doing basketball games, traveling all around the country; I'm a part-time assistant for the University of Alabama, Birmingham, flying there four, five times a month, working with their players — and then it dawned on me: I got three jobs like my dad had three jobs. (Laughter) And of my six kids that played basketball, I coached each and every one of those in youth basketball. So thank you, Daddy, for being a great role model. (Applause) (Cheering)
Now look, we can wish, hope, pray for greatness all we want, but unless we're willing to put in the time, it's not going to happen. There's a guy by the name of Malcolm Gladwell. He took a lot of flak for that 10,000 hours of practice to be great stuff, and I am not really here to debate that, but he said something else that really resonated with me that has universal application.
He said, "Natural ability requires a huge investment of time in order to be made manifest." "Natural ability requires a huge investment of time in order to be made manifest."
Now, when I was at UCLA, I had the reputation of being one of the hardest working guys around. I was the first guy to have my own personal trainer, this guy right here, Malek Abdul-Mansour. He looks like he'll get you in shape, don't he? That was my personal trainer. I was one of the first to have one. And we did everything we could to get me better; we were relentless.
You know, you didn't have to cajole me or convince me to get out on the floor or on the court or on the track — I love working out. Let me say this, if you want to be good at something, find something that you don't necessarily have to love, but you've got to enjoy it, you've got to like it.
See, I had this roommate when I was at UCLA, right? This guy right here, Big Rich. Big Rich was 6'10", best shooter in college basketball, immensely talented. We were roommates in college, teammates at UCLA at the same time. And I would always badger Big Rich about working out: "C'mon, man, we've got to work out, go to the gym, go to the track, work with Malek."
Now, he was lounging in our apartment on our brown bean bag chair. Anybody out here have a bean bag chair back in college? You know what those are? All right, a few of you do, okay. On the bean bag chair, he's strumming this little finger instrument called a kalimba -— poom, poom, poom — just chilling. And I'm like: "C'mon, Rich, we've got to work out, man, we've got to do something, get with Malek."
And Rich looks up to me and says something that I'll never forget. He looks up to me and says, "Marques, look, man, you play basketball because you like playing basketball. I play basketball 'cause I was tall, and I had to play basketball. Now leave me alone!" (Laughter) And I left him alone.
But he was right. I played because I loved the game. And I used to always think that I had this burning drive and desire to succeed that was borderline obsessive. But then it hit me later on, Was it really a drive to succeed or was it a fear, right? A fear of not only failure, but just being mediocre, a fear of mediocrity. And that word, fear — it's a great acronym that I love: False, Evidence, Appearing, Real — false evidence appearing real.
So now, when I was at Crenshaw High School, my high school coach, Willie West, taught me about hard work better than anybody else — other than my dad. But it's something else that he taught me. See, he taught me that I lacked the confidence in myself.
See, back in those days, we didn't have the internet, we didn't have Google or YouTube or anything like that, so what we learned about other players from around the country was from what we read about them in magazines like Street & Smith and Parade magazine, so I'd read about guys like Tom LaGarde, and Jeep Kelly and Wesley Cox, and see, I've got this magic magnifying mind, so you put a meatball in my mind, it comes out a meatloaf.
And so I blow things up totally out of proportion. I'm thinking these guys are God's gift to basketball. How could I compete with these guys? And that fear is creeping in. What I didn't realize was that I was probably just as good, if not better, than any of those guys at that particular time.
But that fear was something that I had to embrace. And it served me well, especially here at UCLA, my senior year — a couple of things happened. They were starting the John R. Wooden Award, given to the best player in college basketball. He'd retired a couple of years earlier. Also they were bringing back the dunk shot. The dunk had been banned for 10 years — a 10-year hiatus, banned in 1966, coming back in 1976.
I got with my guy, Malek, and Malek, in that Neptune, New Jersey, cadence of his said, he liked to clear his throat, "Yo man, listen, man! For you to win this award, man, you got to go out there, man, and dunk everything, man." He was doing the eyes like that too. "You've got to dunk everything." So that's what we worked on, me dunking everything.
So my senior year, I came out, and I was the dunking fool. I dunked forward. (Cheering) I dunked backward. (Cheering) (Applause) I dunked off of one feet; I dunked off of two feet. I dunked on people, around people, through people — I was a dunking fool. I was a dunking maniac. (Laughter) (Applause)
I had 63 dunks by the end of my senior year. (Cheering) (Applause) Thank you. Thank you. But that was the most in college basketball. No other team had that many dunks. I had 63 by myself. (Laughter) And yes, I was the first winner of the John R. Wooden Award as being the best player in college basketball in 1977. (Cheering) (Applause)
So now it's time to move on to the NBA. So I'm the third pick of the Milwaukee Bucks. Now, for most basketball players, being the third pick, you'd be like enamored, that'd be the best thing that could ever happen to you. But I'm a "glass half empty" kind of a guy, so I was a little ticked off because I am the Wooden Award winner, I'm College Player of the Year — I should be number one.
But at the same time, there's that fear again: Am I going to be good enough? Am I going to be just another guy? Am I going to be mediocre? So I got that ego that wants to be number one, but I've got that fear. So I'm like this egomaniac with an inferiority complex. (Laughter) And that's a tough place to be. (Laughter)
So I get with my guy, Malek; we work out. So by my second year in the NBA, I'm first-team All-Pro, which means I am one of the five best players in the world. I spend another five years with the Milwaukee Bucks. I deal with some personal demons, but have some productive years also.
And now it's time to get traded to Los Angeles, right? So now it's time to get traded to Los Angeles, and I'm coming home, and my family and friends get a chance to see me play. Any athlete can tell you that's one of the greatest joys you could experience: coming back home.
Except I wasn't coming back home to the Lakers, the glamour franchise of this city, with Kareem and Magic and Showtime — voila! — and all that, see. (Laughter) Voila! — that's Magic. See, I was coming home to the most dysfunctional franchise, maybe, in sports history — the Los Angeles Clippers.
So I was going to be … (Laughter) No, see, this is mid-'80s. So I was going to be seated on that iron throne, right? But it was going to be the king of the Clipper World. (Laughter) A crown for a king, you see — that's what was going to happen to me.
So what happens? I break my hand the first day of practice. I have a terrible year my first year as a Clipper. I just sucked. Got with Malek during the off-season; my second year, I made the All-Star team. Third year — okay, I'm having another great year, worked hard.
That year I struggled coming out the gate, then my 10th game, November 20, 1986 — never forget that day — I was hitting shots, couldn't miss, I was on my way to 40 or 50 points. I got a rebound, went to push the ball up the floor, and there was my teammate, Benoit Benjamin, standing right in front of me. I run smack-dab into Benoit's stomach, like a big dumb oak tree, just standing there — number double zero — that's the last thing I remember seeing, double zeros.
I ruptured a disc in my neck. I get paralyzed for three to four minutes, seemed like longer, but three to four minutes in my upper body. They carry me off the court in a stretcher with a neck brace around my neck in an ambulance. So the rest of that season, I didn't play, didn't know if I'd ever play again, got a lot of medical opinions that said maybe, maybe not.
And then something else happened. Six months later, May of 1987, around this time of the month, my son, Marques Johnson Jr., drowned in a swimming pool accident. Yeah. So now, career is pretty much over, tragic drowning of my son.
So I do what you would expect in a lot of situations like that: man, I just lose it. Drugs, alcohol, guilt, resentment, anger — all those things walking around. I just wasn't a good person to know at that time of my life.
And so what happened? Well, what happened — those life lessons I learned from my dad, from my high school coach, Coach Wooden, from Malek, from other great mentors in my life and my mother, they started to sink in, and I had to redirect some of that energy, you know, some of that investment of time, and not to the physical but to the psychological, to the inner healing, to the spiritual, to the emotional.
So I got into recovery for the alcohol and drugs, I got some grief therapy for the death of my son, I got therapy for other issues I was going through, and I came out on the other side. I came out on the other side.
Now, Coach Wooden has another saying that I love. He says: "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best you're capable of becoming." I love that by Coach Wooden.
But I also love something else that I heard. See this young man right here? You might recognize him. I work for the Milwaukee Bucks now — that's Giannis Antetokounmpo, that's the "Greek Freak," all right? (Cheering) (Applause)
Four years ago, when I first started working for the Bucks, on New Year's Day, he came up to me — he calls me Ol' School — "Ol' School, I saw a video of you, and I want to get buckets like you; that's my New Year resolution. (Laughter)
So I reminded him of that four years later, New Year's Day this year: "You remember what you told me four years ago, New Year's resolution?" We laughed about it. "What's your New Year's resolution this year?" And he looked at me, and he said, "To be the best version of myself." One of the top five players in the world, 24 years old: "To be the best version of myself."
I mean, look, life is a long, tough road, path with twists and turns, and ups and downs, and joy and tears and all that, but I'll tell you what, man, if we just make the effort to become the best versions of ourselves, then we're on the right track. Thank you. (Applause) (Cheering)


Problem solving underpins the play of any roleplaying game, regardless of genre. Whether that means overcoming foes with superior tactics, answering a tough riddle or discovering the secret room concealing fabulous treasure, all involve overcoming a difficulty with your friends. Nowadays, a fantasy RPG devotee has many choices in which to indulge problem solving with his fellow enthusiasts. The trend over the last decade or so has been leaning toward the heroic game. After all, who doesn't want to roleplay a hero? Heroes are very good at resolving a crisis, whether through force of arms, might of magic or otherwise. Here is where the HackMaster game sets itself apart from other fantasy roleplaying games. The HackMaster game is about more than just playing a hero that fixes troublesome predicaments. Indeed, HackMaster allows for heroic play – play long enough and you will experience such a game. But HackMaster includes another element overlooked by the other games – the journey to becoming a hero.
In HackMaster, players begin running characters generally little better than the local commoner. True, some may be head-and-shoulders above their fellow man, but this is the exception rather than the rule. Most HackMaster characters even have one or more weaknesses that make the road to hero even more difficult. The challenge of the game is to overcome difficult situations with a band of allies, none of whom are overly exceptional. To find a literary example of this type of story, one need not look far. Arguably (if not factually) the most popular fantasy story of all is such a tale. In Tolkien's The Hobbit, the main character (as well as his dwarven companions) is a plain everyday person. One of the reasons we love this story is because we can identify with Bilbo; he's just like us. We root for him as he overcomes the odds on his journey to becoming one of the most storied heroes of Middle Earth. The Hobbit is about the journey to becoming a hero. This is also the essence of HackMaster.
Certainly, playing a roving band of superheroes a la the Justice League has its place, but arguably this is far less heroic than a commoner rising to the challenge. True heroism comes from overcoming the odds and risking life and limb in a perilous situation not the faux valor that comes from defeating supervillains when the chance of failure is slim or none. Does our society not love the story of the everyday man that saves a child from a burning building or rushing river? In HackMaster, your character will be asked time and time again to display true heroism, to overcome personal and situational deficiencies and rise to the challenge. This is not to say that other games are not fun, but I submit to you, gentle reader, that the journey from hero to superhero is less rewarding (and therefore less enjoyable) than the journey from average to hero to superhero. In HackMaster the most atypical thing about your character vis-à-vis society is his will to strive against the odds and make his mark in the world.
If problem solving is the essence of roleplaying, then the journey to hero is the ultimate method of play. The multiplicity and diversity of available quandaries in HackMaster-type play unquestionably exceeds those of the 'begin play as hero' types of game. Why bother ensuring your character carries enough rope when your party wizard can simply conjure some? With every move, from positioning in combat, to how rooms are searched, to equipping properly and so-on, if your characters begin as everyman, you'll need to think through each and every aspect of play. Your characters will need to work as a team and plan to overcome obstacles. And when you do prevail, you will experience a feeling of exhilaration like no other – knowing you succeeded by relying on your wits and gaming skill rather than the sheer awesome power of your character. This is what sets this game apart. Play HackMaster for a few sessions and you will realize that this is the last fantasy roleplaying game you will ever need.
The world of HackMaster needs heroes like you – steel your nerve, ready your wits and answer the call!
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About	UN_@dmin	2018-09-05T06:05:57+00:00
Philippines Pioneer Advertising Company
Everything you need to know about the country's pioneer out – of – home media company.
United Neon was founded in 1937 and was one of the first companies in the Philippines to introduce commercial signs.
1950's Building Landmarks
The company specialized in making signboards and rooftop neon signs. In the 1950s, some early rooftop signs were located along Roxas Blvd., Plaza Lawton, and in front of the Philippine Post Office. The "Cafe Puro" pot replica became a landmark in those days.
Taking a Stand
United Neon believes that as part of our conviction and self-regulation, it should not advertise liquor and cigarettes. While sales went down initially after the company implemented its new policy, sales eventually rebounded and grew. Starting the 1960s at no. 4 in terms of size, the end of the decade saw United Neon grow to…
Late 1960s to Early 1970s Garners Awards and Recognition
United Neon won the Most Spectacular Award in the 1966 National Advertising Week, received the Excellence in Outdoor Ad in the 1969 National Advertising Congress, and won the 1st Prize in the Neon Category in 1st Annual Outdoor Advertising Awards in 1972.
Resilience Amidst a National Situation
When billboards all over the country were dismantled during the Martial Law in the Philippines, the company's founders decided to move into the photocopy business.
Renewal of Initiatives
The upshot of the EDSA Revolution saw the revival of out-of-home (OOH) advertising in the country. With a renewed determination and newfound initiatives, United Neon expanded its business by broadening the reach of its OOH services all over the Philippines.
Photographic Paved Way to Growth
The company experienced exponential growth as photographic material in billboards gained popularity.
Early 2000s A Rise in Demand
The company saw an increase in billboard requirements and creative executions as clients continually recognized the advantages and benefits of out-of-home advertising.
Advertising runs on wheels
The third generation actively participated in the leadership of United Neon.
Keeping up with technology
United Neon took its out-of-home media business to a whole new level by adding digital LED billboards to its lineup of services.
Entering the digital scene
Partnerships with digital and technology partners were established.
Towards Multimedia
The company continues to grow as it keeps abreast of the trends in advertising and technology. It has introduced digital services into its product and service portfolio – connecting OOH to online and mobile.
Making Lives Meaningful
United Neon's culture is anchored on its purpose of positively impacting people. All our organizational and business endeavors shall have its foothold on "making lives meaningful."
To be an innovative media company that influences its stakeholders to make lives meaningful through our channels and programs.
Making lives meaningful by helping people live purposeful lives, enriching relationships and inspiring everybody to take challenges as opportunities for growth.
Love Others as You Love Yourself
that leads to excellence
Learning & Developing
in Innovation
Love others as you love yourself.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: 'Love thy neighbour as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these.
-Mark 12:30-31
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
-Mahatma Gandhi
HUMILITY THAT LEADS
TO EXCELLENCE
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interest of others.
-Philippians 2:3-4
"Humility is the foundation of all virtues."
-Confucius
LEARNING AND DEVELOPING
Where there is no guidance the people fall, But in abundance of counsellors there is victory.
-Proverbs 11:14
"If you want to enrich days, plant flowers; if you wish to enrich years, plant trees; if you want to enrich eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others."
-Samuel Truett Cathy
AGILITY IN INNOVATION
The sovereign Lord is my source of strength, He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain.
-Hab 3:19
"Innovation is key. Only those who have the ability to change with the market and innovate quickly will survive."
-Robert Kiyosaki
UN Media Group
Our industry partners allow us to keep up with the trends and regulate our business according to industry standards. The alliance that we have with these organizations is crucial in helping us respond to issues and concerns.
We are partnered with like-minded organizations that share our vision for service. Working with them allows us to promote the public good and help in nation building through our media.
United Neon is a proud member of
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Algorism is the technique of performing basic arithmetic by writing numbers in place value form and applying a set of memorized rules and facts to the digits. One who practices algorism is known as an algorist. This positional notation system has largely superseded earlier calculation systems that used a different set of symbols for each numerical magnitude, such as Roman numerals, and in some cases required a device such as an abacus.

Etymology
The word algorism comes from the name Al-Khwārizmī (c. 780–850), a Persian mathematician, astronomer, geographer and scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, whose name means "the native of Khwarezm", which is now in modern-day Uzbekistan. He wrote a treatise in Arabic language in the 9th century, which was translated into Latin in the 12th century under the title Algoritmi de numero Indorum. This title means "Algoritmi on the numbers of the Indians", where "Algoritmi" was the translator's Latinization of Al-Khwarizmi's name. Al-Khwarizmi was the most widely read mathematician in Europe in the late Middle Ages, primarily through his other book, the Algebra. In late medieval Latin, algorismus, the corruption of his name, simply meant the "decimal number system" that is still the meaning of modern English algorism. During the 17th century, the French form for the word – but not its meaning – was changed to algorithm, following the model of the word logarithm, this form alluding to the ancient Greek . English adopted the French very soon afterwards, but it wasn't until the late 19th century that "algorithm" took on the meaning that it has in modern English. In English, it was first used about 1230 and then by Chaucer in 1391. Another early use of the word is from 1240, in a manual titled Carmen de Algorismo composed by Alexandre de Villedieu. It begins thus:

which translates as:

The word algorithm also derives from algorism, a generalization of the meaning to any set of rules specifying a computational procedure. Occasionally algorism is also used in this generalized meaning, especially in older texts.

History
Starting with the integer arithmetic developed in India using base 10 notation, Al-Khwārizmī along with other mathematicians in medieval Islam, documented new arithmetic methods and made many other contributions to decimal arithmetic (see the articles linked below). These included the concept of the decimal fractions as an extension of the notation, which in turn led to the notion of the decimal point. This system was popularized in Europe by Leonardo of Pisa, now known as Fibonacci.

See also
 Algorithmic art
 Positional notation
 Hindu–Arabic numeral system
 History of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system
 Johannes de Sacrobosco

References

Numeral systems
Algorithms

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Cyberbullying continues to become the individual terrorism of the online world without any end in sight. With the U.K.'s National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children recently citing some sobering statistics, you can also see how much of a worldwide problem cyberbullying has become. In the NSPCC figures, cyberbullies now target one out of every five children online.
Yet, many websites with open forums say they do their best to combat personal harassment. But in that above U.K. report, it was found that a Q&A site called Ask.fm continues to allow postings of personal threats on a horrific scale. Those posts continue despite the suicide of a British girl after anonymous comments on that same site incited her to drink poisonous bleach.
It's led to a call in boycotting the Ask.fm site until they do something about the threatening comments continuing to be posted there. And despite this being in the United Kingdom, the United States continues to see similar cyberbullying on Facebook, Twitter and other social media circles.
What would happen if everybody decided to boycott sites that allow this practice? Would it make any difference, or is it impossible for many websites to track down those who aim to victimize others under a pseudonym?
Calls for boycotts have always been done in the United States with variable degrees of success. The least effective seem to be boycotts that target things in entertainment. Despite calls not to watch a particular TV show or not buy products that sponsor those shows, far too many renege on those promises and end up watching or buying those products anyway.
It's clear that social media is now the daily go-to entertainment choice for many members of the family. Any call to boycott places like Facebook or Twitter today would be like denying food or water to the world population.
This probably explains why there hasn't been superior methods in cracking down on cyberbullying on social media. If there was any thought people would avoid those sites in protest over cyberbullying, massive prevention tools would be put in place.
It shows that boycotting really isn't the answer to correcting cyberbullying on social media. The real problem is placing what's already there in context and getting teens to report abuse so it isn't ignored.
We already know that Twitter and Facebook take personal threats seriously and will take action if it's reported. Unfortunately, there may be far too many kids afraid to report it out of fear of repercussion, hence why reports of kids being bullied on social media never end. It gives impetus for parents to continually look in on what their kids are doing in the social media universe.
Here at uKnowKids, our popular app lets you monitor what your kids are doing on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as text messages on their Android phones. When your kids become afraid of personal threats and boycotts are impossible, we ultimately let you become the protectors as we know you want to be.
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Biosecurity is about keeping your horse healthy. It is the principles, actions, precautions and protocols that protect the health of animals by preventing the transmission of disease through physical barriers and hygiene practices.
AEF and the Alberta Veterinary Medical Association (ABVMA) joined forces on a proactive approach to biosecurity in the horse industry. With funding from the Growing Forward II, we updated the Equine Biosecurity Policies and Best Practices book, and gave over 20 biosecurity workshops/presentations across the province, which took place in 2014 with over 6,000 in attendance.
Standard Operating Procedures/protocols (SOPs) help ensure everyone who is using a facility and/or engaged in a horse's care is aware of the expectations and implementation of biosecurity standards. Following are sample SOPs that you can customize to your equine facility. Use these SOPs as a start of a documented biosecurity program that can be reviewed by facility users, horse owners, service providers and your veterinarian.


C:\dev\test\javafx-gradle\gradle-javafx-plugin\src\main\groovy\org\bitbucket\shemnon\javafxplugin\tasks\JavaFXDeployTask.groovy: 31: unable to resolve class com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.PackagerLib @ line 31, column 1. * What went wrong: import com.sun.javafx.tools.packager.PackagerLib Execution failed for task ':gradle-javafx-plugin:compileGroovy'.
I didn't have the correct JAVA_HOME environment variable. When I set it, everything worked. Perhaps this should be mentioned in the instruction.
It's a prerequisite of Gradle.
note that the first option, the 'java' on the path, mist be the java from the JDK not the JRE that the JDK also installs.


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Q: query a named single cell range vba I am trying to select a single cell value in an excel spreadsheet named "AtwickShortfall" as follow
StrSql = "SELECT  AtwickShortfall FROM [" & Glob_WsheetNameTradeLogOpsActions & "$AtwickShortfall]"

obviously does not work; can someone tell me the correct syntax ?
AtwickShortfall cell value is the sum of other values in the speadsheet; there are no tables in this spreadsheet at all.
UPDATE 1
tried this syntax
StrSql = "SELECT [AtwickShortfall]  FROM [" & Glob_WsheetNameTradeLogOpsActions & "$]"

I get an error "No value given for one or more required parameters"
UPDATE 2
after amending my code as per @Dick Kusleika answer I now have this code
StrSql = "SELECT * FROM [AtwickShortfall]" ' & Glob_WsheetNameTradeLogOpsActions & "$AH34]"

   Debug.Print (StrSql)

   Set RecSet = ConnObj.Execute(StrSql)

   If Not (RecSet Is Nothing) Then
      With RecSet
         If Not (.BOF) And Not (.EOF) Then
            Debug.Print RecSet.Fields(0).Value
            Else
              'UdtKpi.HornInjMeterSum = 0
            End If
         End If
      End With
   End If

no errors but the recodset is empty (BOF is true); the value of AtwickShortfall is a formula that gives 0 at the moment. I also tried to remove the formula and fill the cell with 0 but same result: recordset BOF is true
UPDATE 3
I found a solution but please have a look at the screenshot below

cell AtwickShortfall  is the one that I have now added a value of 125 on the column AH why this code work ?
StrSql = "SELECT Atw FROM [Operational_Actions$AH33:AH34]"

why it recognize the "atw" as a header of the range I gave??
If I change the above query to
StrSql = "SELECT Atw FROM [Operational_Actions$AH34:AH34]"

I get an epty recordset; It does not make sense how excel works to me; note that I have not implemented the worksheet data, it has been given to me

A: I think because the named range is at the workbook level (rather than worksheet level) that you can't specify what worksheet it's on. It's looking for a worksheet level named range when you specify the worksheet. This worked for me.
Sub getcell()

    Dim cn As ADODB.Connection
    Dim rs As ADODB.Recordset

    Set cn = New ADODB.Connection
    cn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=\\99991-dc01\99991\dkusleika\My Documents\testadonamedrange.xlsx;Extended Properties=""Excel 12.0 Xml;HDR=NO"";"

    Set rs = cn.Execute("select * from [AtwickShortfall]")

    Debug.Print rs.Fields(0).Value

    rs.Close
    cn.Close
    Set rs = Nothing
    Set cn = Nothing

End Sub

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