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DAWN'S STORY
She's a busy mum-of-four juggling a part-time job with children from toddler to teenager. But that hasn't stopped Dawn Warttig adding another role to her hectic life – volunteer driver.
And far from complicating things, it has introduced another welcome dimension to her family, with her young daughters enjoying the interaction with guests and vice versa.
The 38-year-old was already aware of the difference a little kindness and company could make to an older, isolated person through her previous job as a Women's Royal Voluntary Service coordinator for meals on wheels and community transport.
So when she moved from the city of Stirling to a village in the countryside, she knew she wanted to contribute to the local community. She soon spotted Contact the Elderly posts on the Village of Kippen Facebook page and, once alerted to the charity's work, set about offering her services.
Becoming a driver was the perfect role and for the past five years – with a break for maternity leave – she has been one of the charity's volunteer chauffeurs, initially serving Stirling and now with the Kippen 2 group.
"Some people can write off elderly people and don't see them as people who have had a full life before we have known them," she said. "But I just love hearing their stories.
"Very often they have really exciting, cool tales to tell and I find that really interesting. I love hearing about people and the lives they've had, getting to know them and they, in turn, get to know you and your family."
Dawn, a receptionist, has sons Euan (18) and Harry (6), daughters Lola (7) and Belle, aged two, and would encourage other mums to get involved.
"Don't let the fact that you're a busy mum, with lots on, put you off because it's only a couple of hours a month and it's so worth it. None of it is insurmountable and if the children can be included the guests just love that, having younger people to chat to makes their day. Lola loves getting involved too. One Christmas she designed and hand-delivered Christmas cards to the guests in our group. I was volunteering right up until two weeks before I had the baby. Later I took Belle out with me and the guests shared in that. It just shows it really doesn't take much to make such a difference. "
Rosie Abernethy2019-07-17T09:27:58+00:00
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Basic Life Support (BLS) Classroom is a traditional Instructor led course that covers one and two rescuer CPR for adults, children, and infants. Proper use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and Bag Valve Mask (BVM) is covered along with what to do if someone is choking. A written test will be administered along with a skills assessment during the course.
A 4-hour traditional instructor led course that covers one and two rescuer CPR for adults, children and infants. Proper use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) is covered along with what to do if someone is choking. A written test will be administered along with a skills assessment during the course.
BLS Renewal Renewal of the 2-year Basic Life Support (BLS) Class. This is a traditional Instructor led course that covers one and two rescuer CPR for adults, children, and infants. Proper use of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) and Bag Valve Mask (BVM) is covered along with what to do if someone is choking. A written test will be administered along with a skills assessment during the course.
Take the course online. This course covers the same material as the classroom based course, but allows you to complete it at your own pace. Once you complete the online portion, you will need to schedule complete a practice/skills session. Upon successful completion of your skills session, you will receive your AHA certification card for BLS for Healthcare Providers that is good for 2 years. Upon completion of the online you have only 60 days to complete your skills session.
All courses require registration. Have a group of 10 or more people? We will come to you for your classes. Travel fees may be applied.
All participants must have the required AHA student textbook. Renewing participants needing a textbook may purchase one for an additional fee.
Online courses do not include a book. The online is accessible for up to two years from the activation date and counts as your 'book'. If you would like to purchase a physical book, it will be at additional cost.


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Certification doesn't guarantee performance. Performance depends on the budget, the capability and the commitment of those involved in running it. Certification only guarantees that the cause of faults is not poor process design.
Poor performers and bogus certifications lower the reputation of the certification and damage the reputation of all certificate holders. Bogus certifications arise from choosing scope and controls to be accredited.
Some threats fall out of the scope of information security: Human error; Incompetence; Fraud; Corruption.
Certification guarantees that the cause of poor results is not poor process design. This is equivalent to the Managed level. Using metrics you can bring you security processes all the way to the Optimized level of capability.
Achievement of Business Goals rely on market conditions, competition, seasonal changes, costs, pricing, workforce skill, innovation AND It relies as well on Quality Goals and Security Goals. Quality Management is used to maintain and improve business processes output. Security Management is used to keep Quality despite errors, accidents and attacks.
Security Goals depend on: Business Needs and Limitations: These are security needs and limitations derived from the organization's mission and goals. Compliance Needs and Limitations: These are emergent needs and limitations derive from applicable laws and regulations. Technical Needs and Limitations: These are needs and limitations derived from using information technology. Compliance is normally more a limitation or an obligation than a need; on the other hand compliance can improve trust of clients and other third parties in the organization. Technical is normally more a limitation than a need; patching for example is totally unrelated to business, it is related to the way information systems are engineered. Access Control (not mentioned in the slide) is a technical implementation of the business need for information systems to be used for business purposes by authorized users.
Business objectives are the specific expression of general business goals.
Security objectives are a specific expression of business, compliance and technical needs and limitations.
Security Targets are a way to gauge if the management systems is successful or not. Without security targets (that can be considered a way to express risk appetite) it is not possible to tell a successful ISMS from a failed one, as incidents are unavoidable. One incident means the ISMS has failed? Normally no, but How many incidents (and how severe) it takes to declare the ISMS a failure?
With ISM3 the distribution of responsibilities is granular and specific.
How many controls have to fail before an ISMS is called a failure? If there can be several different reasons, some external for Incidents, Is it possible to tell an ISMS that performs poorly from another that performs correctly?
3. ISMS Certification  Why companies go for ISMS certification?  The main reason is that they want to show they are serious about information security  This doesn't necessarily mean that they are serious about information security.
4. ISMS Certification  What is certification good for?  It is a driver for implementation of better ISM practices.
5. ISMS Certification - Trust  Establishing trust relationships.
6. ISMS Certification - Trust  A way to evidence the organization's stance on security;  A part of a contract to ensure commitment by one of the parties to security management;  A selling point for vendors;  A possible requirement for outsourcing providers;  A mechanism to ensure mutual understanding of the services obtained from an security outsourcing provider.
7. ISMS Certification - Trust  Trust relationships with Third Parties, like Partners, Customers and Suppliers.
8. ISMS Certification - Challenges  Challenges (1/3)  Certification doesn't guarantee performance. Performance depends on the budget, the capability and the commitment of those involved in running it.  Certification only guarantees that the cause of faults is not poor process design.  Poor performers and bogus certifications lower the reputation of the certification and damage the reputation of all certificate holders.
14. ISMS Certification - Challenges  Challenges (2/3):  Some threats fall out of the scope of information security: – Human error; – Incompetence; – Fraud; – Corruption.
16. ISMS Certification – Challenges  Challenges (3/3):  Certification alone doesn't take capability levels beyond "Managed": – Undefined. The process might be used, but it is not defined. – Defined. The process is documented and used. – Managed. The process is Defined and the results of the process are used to fix and improve the process. – Controlled. The process is Managed and milestones and need of resources is accurately predicted. – Optimized. The process is Controlled and improvement leads to a saving in resources.
17. ISMS Certification - Summary  Certification doesn't guarantee performance.  Bad performers damage the reputation of all certificate holders.
18. Traditional approach to security: "We want to prevent attacks from succeeding". With this approach, to be secure means to be invulnerable. An incident is any loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. You look at a piece of data and think: Is it confidential, has it got integrity, is it available?
19. ISM3 Approach "We want to guarantee that our business goals are met". With this approach, to be secure means to be reliable, despite attacks, accidents and errors. An incident is a failure to meet a security objective resulting from accidents, errors or attacks. Using ISM3 you look at a piece of data and think: What properties of this data must be protected for it to have business value?
23. ISM3 Business Focus  Business Goals – Fundamental to the existence of an organization. Resilience depends on security objectives.  Security Objectives are derived from business, compliance and technical needs and limitations. This are the goals of the ISM.  Security Targets measure the achievement of security objectives in business terms.
24. ISM3 - What needs protection?  Business Objectives examples:  Paying taxes in time;  Invoice all products and services provided;  Keep any records needed to pass successfully any audit, like a tax audit or a software licenses audit.  Security Objectives.  Security Targets.
25. ISM3 - What protection is needed?  Business Objectives.  Security Objectives examples:  Business needs and limitations: "Secrets should be accessible to authorized users only"  Compliance needs and limitations: "Repositories with Personal information have to be registered with the Data Protection agency"  Technical needs and limitations: "Systems are as free of weaknesses as possible"  Security Targets.
27. ISM3 - Continuous Improvement What you can't measure you can't manage. What you can't manage you can't improve. ISM3 uses PDCA per process & Metrics for continuous improvement.
28. ISM3 - Continuous Improvement Security Targets. Process Management Metrics:  Activity.  Coverage.  Update.  Availability.
32. ISM3 compared to ISO27001 Criteria ISM3 ISO27001 Maturity Levels Five No Organizational Model Process owner Customer Roles Responsibilities TPSRSR Processes Management / Not Management Link between Business Goals and Information Security Information qualities: - Access Control - Durability - Quality - Priority - Compliance - Technical Security Objectives - Attacks - Errors - Accidents Security Targets Incident: Breach of a security objective Information qualities - Confidentiality - Availability - Integrity - Attacks Incident: Breach of CIA.
35. ISM3 compared to ISO27001 1. Incidents Happen, ISO27001 or no ISO27001. 2. Security is a negative result (No Incidents equals Security). 3. But if just One Incident happening meant the ISMS has Failed, then all ISO27001 would be Failures. 4. How can you tell a successful ISO27001 from a failed one? Can that depend on a single Incident? How many Incidents are too many? 5. How can you improve cost-effectively an ISMS if you don't know when good is good enough?
36. ISM3 Flexibility  ISM3 is adaptable to organizations with different missions and contexts.  ISM3 is adaptable to organizations with different resources.  Security investment is driven by business need.  Some organizations may not have a huge budget for Information Security ( 20 / 80 Rule).  Maturity levels describe different levels of sophistication of ISM systems.  Organizations can identify appropriate processes, choose a level suitable for them, and show implementation progress.
38. ISM3 Maturity Levels (examples)  ISM3 Level 1 - Significant risk reduction from technical threats, for a minimum investment in essential ISM processes.  For organizations with low Information Security Targets in low risk environments.  ISM3 Level 3 - Highest risk reduction from technical threats, for a significant investment in Information Security processes.  For organizations with high Information Security Targets in normal or high-risk environments.  ISM3 Level 5 - Highest risk reduction from technical and internal threats, for a high and optimized investment in Information Security processes.  For organizations affected by specific requirements (such as utilities, and financial institutions) with high Information Security Targets in normal or high-risk environments.
42. Advantages of ISM3 Maturity Levels make easier to prioritize and optimize investment in information security. ISO9001 compatible certifications; Some companies can't make big investments. It is well known that 20% of investment can give 80% of the results, but there is no way to show this. ISM3 levels 1 to 3 can help here. It scales to small and big organizations. The use of separate process in every environment prevents using procedures for restrictive environments all over the organization.
43. Advantages of ISM3 It supports explicitly the outsourcing of security management and operations processes. The results for each process are defined and the responsibilities to perform each process are defined too.  It provides metrics, that help to manage the processes, measure the success and improve the ISM system. It is possible to achieve capability levels beyond Managed. It provides Information Security Governance guidance.


Four members of APS were named to the annual "30 Under 30 in Science" list published by Forbes magazine. With the tagline "Inventing the future from the atom up," the magazine released its slate of winners in all fields of science. Each year, the magazine features 600 young innovators in 20 categories selected from thousands of nominations by a panel of judges.
Deep Jariwala, 29, will be an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania starting in 2018. He is finishing his postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology in nano- and atomic-scale materials science. Jariwala received his Ph.D. in 2015 from Northwestern University and has been a member of APS since 2012. Jariwala received an APS 2017 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award.
Prineha Narang, 28, is an assistant professor of Computational Materials Science at Harvard University. Her research interests include excited-state and ultrafast optoelectronic materials, atomic-scale engineering, imaging and sensing technologies. She received her Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and has been a member since 2013.
Liang Wu, 29, is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Berkeley working on topological insulators and the optical response of materials. He has been a member since 2011 and won an APS 2017 Richard L. Greene Dissertation Award. Wu received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and will join the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in July 2018.
You Zhou, 29, is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. His research is in experimental condensed matter physics and materials science. Zhou has worked on new materials for fuel cell applications and transistors that mimic synapses in the brain. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard and has been a member of APS since 2011.


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CAS-CIAC Adding 10 Inductees To Hall of Honor
CHESHIRE, Conn. – The CAS-CIAC Hall of Honor will add 10 distinguished honorees to its ranks at a ceremony on Thursday, April 11, 2019 at the AquaTurf Club in Southington. The 10 honorees, Jerry Auclair, Bill Baron, Alan Bookman, John Daly, Jean Kenney Daly, Bob Ford, George Ford, Paul Hoey, Pat Llodra, and Barbara Startup were selected for their exceptional service to the Connecticut Association of Schools – Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Brief bios of the honorees can be found below.
This marks the fourth induction class for the CAS-CIAC Hall of Honor which was established to honor individuals who have made significant long-term contributions to CAS-CIAC. Tickets to the event honoring the inductees are available to the public and can be purchased at http://casci.ac/4254 and additional information about the Hall of Honor is available at http://CIACsports.com/hallofhonor. Please contact the CIAC for additional information about the event or for more bio information on the honorees.
CAS-CIAC Hall of Honor Honorees:
Jerry Auclair has been a highly-decorated educator and administrator for decades and served CAS-CIAC in numerous capacities. He was principal of Somers, Southington, and Darien High Schools during his career where he was recognized as Connecticut High School Principal of the Year. He served in nearly every leadership position within CAS and CIAC including president of CAS, and also received a CAS Citation.
A Connecticut coaching legend, Bill Baron has been a fixture in the cross country and track & field communities for decades. Along with his stellar coaching career, he has served CAS-CIAC as a longtime committee member and meet director for the CIAC cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field championships, with his leadership helping provide excellent championship experiences for athletes.
Dr. Alan Bookman has been an exemplary educational leader in a variety of roles at CAS-CIAC and as both principal and superintendent in Glastonbury. He has served as both high school principal and superintendent in Glastonbury, while also providing valuable leadership on many committees and boards for CAS-CIAC, including a tenure as CAS president, and vice-president of the CIAC Board of Control.
John Daly (will be honored posthumously) served as the second Executive Director in CAS-CIAC history, leading the organization for nearly 20 years. After serving as principal at Masuk High School he assumed leadership of CAS-CIAC in 1969 helping lead through a pivotal era in its history, including playing a key role in the merging of CIAC and CAS into one organization, before retiring in 1989.
Jean Kenney Daly was a pioneer as a female administrator and was also instrumental in promoting girls athletics. She was a coach, teacher, and then principal at Stonington High School where she helped launch the school's girls sports programs. She was named Connecticut High School Principal of the year, and was the first woman to serve as chair of the CIAC Board of Control and also had a term as CAS Board president.
Bob Ford (will be honored posthumously) was a highly valuable contributor to CAS-CIAC in numerous capacities. He was a basketball official, an Assistant Principal at Glastonbury and then Principal at Ellington High School where he served as member and leader of numerous CAS-CIAC committees. He later joined CAS-CIAC as Director of Development, establishing the CAS Foundation which still supports many CAS-CIAC initiatives.
George Ford (will be honored posthumously) was the father of Connecticut High School swimming officials. He founded the Connecticut Swimming & Diving Officials Association and refereed many CIAC Championships. He also served as the state swimming rules interpreter and officials consultant for the CIAC Board of Control. He is one of few Connecticut representatives chosen for the NFHS Hall of Fame.
Paul Hoey has been part of CAS-CIAC history for nearly four decades. He served as a volunteer for many boards and committees while Principal at East Granby, Rocky Hill, and Newington High Schools. He joined CAS-CIAC as Associate Executive Director in 2004 helping lead the organization and move it forward, and has continued serving as a mentor for leadership transitions within the organization since retirement.
There is virtually no position or achievement in education Pat Llodra has not earned during her distinguished career. During a 12-year tenure as Principal of Northwestern Regional School she served on multiple CAS-CIAC committees including a time as chair of the Board of Control and was voted High School Principal of the Year in 2002. She twice was honored with a CAS Citation and spent three years as CAS Assistant Executive Director.
Barbara Startup was a fixture as an athletic administrator and CAS-CIAC contributor. She spent 20 year as the CIAC Tournament Director for the girls volleyball and was the director for the softball tournament for seven years. She also represented the athletics directors on numerous sport committees as well as the CIAC Board of Control during her career as an administrator at Enfield, Avon, and Glastonbury.
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Rooftop amenities is a concept fast emerging in apartment dwelling in cities. Conceived from the need for optimum space utilization in a building to accommodate luxury needs amidst constraints, rooftop facilities have now become a redefining statement in premium living. Builders and developers are now bringing into play innovative rooftop concepts to facilitate an enhanced living experience.
Below listed are the 5 prime rooftop amenities to look for in your dream apartment.
Infinity pools on the roof deck are all the rage in luxury apartments these days. Swimming sessions under the starlit night sky overlooking the cityscape is an enticing prospect to look forward to in one's home after a tiring day.
Working out in a rooftop gym enclosed by glass panels with a view of scenic surroundings will be much more enjoyable than exercising inside a suffocating room downstairs. Your workout regime is sure to get interesting in a breezy rooftop gym with panoramic sights around.
Terrace gardens integrate the functional purpose of utilizing unused space and converting it as a comfortable area for relaxation and leisure as well as adding to the aesthetic value of the building.
A gaming zone is another innovative approach for utilizing rooftop space for the recreational purpose of the inhabitants. A half basketball court or facilities for board games make a great addition to the rooftop by encouraging the inhabitants to spend their leisure time in the open.
Dedicated party areas on the roof bring all the fun and leisure upstairs without causing disturbance to fellow neighbors downstairs. From birthday parties to weekend family get-togethers, rooftop party areas let you enjoy the evening while also soaking in the scenic views.
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Support ALL Good Female Writers
mks_monsters at 7:30AM, June 29, 2018
joined: 6-7-2017
I hate pointing fingers and giving bad rap, but I'm truly… shocked. I tried applying to a web publishing company that claims it helps get female comic writers and artists out there. I was excited to apply, but for months I heard nothing. I did some research and to my astonishment, I discovered they only help out female writers and comic writers who write steamy romance and X-rated comics where all the main protagonists are women.
I'm angry not because of what they do support, but because of the false advertisement and stereotyping of female comic writers. There is nothing wrong with steamy romance or writing X-rated work with female leads, but there is something wrong when you claim you support all female comic writers, when in reality, you support one kind. We lady comic writers are just like gentlemen comic writers: we can write ANYTHING that comes to our imagination not just about love or naughty stuff. And we shouldn't have to have female protagonists (or gay male protagonists) to prove our work is progressive, original and can captivate an audience.
And what really leaves a bitter taste in my mouth is that the group was run by a woman. Like… Is support for your fellow sisters? Is this a group that includes ALL women comic writers? Is this really pushing forward the idea that women can write anything men can?
I think in today's day and age, this is not right. Either change your slogan on which kind of comics you help publish or start opening the doors to ALL women comic writers like you claim you do.
Any other ladies here had a similar experience?
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ozoneocean at 5:33AM, June 30, 2018
Interesting. I never knew that such things happened.
I hope you don't mind but I put this in the General Discussion area :)
I hate the thought of people being pushed into writing only one type of thing.
It always annoys me when people tell me "men write about this sort of stuff and women write about that"
Or that certain genres are for men and others are for women. "Boys movies and chick flicks". Those people need to die.
Be my guest. And really, I am glad other people agree. Being truly progressive means being open to anything and everything. Another good example is let's just say you have a gay protagonist, does it mean they HAVE to have a love interest to flaunt how gay they are? No because while gay people want to be loved, they have other hopes and dreams too. Plus, it's important to show that they go through the same things we straight people do like kissing a lot of frogs before finding the prince/princess. Heck, they even wind up in toxic relationships. That is why I hate maintstream BL. I love GOOD WELL WRITTEN characters. I don't care about which way they swing, what pronoun they identify with, what colour they are or which God they pray to.
ashtree house at 12:39PM, June 30, 2018
joined: 1-15-2015
I have no problem with romance or steamy, mature content.. but I thought the big stereotype was that women **only** wrote that stuff, and was not good for anything else. I feel like this would only be reinforcing the stereotype.
I, for one, am not a big romantic and succkkkk at writing romance haha.
KimLuster at 3:30PM, June 30, 2018
Funny. I've sorted wanted to create some x-rated stuff but can't bring myself to do it, for some outdated reasons (worried about how I'll be perceived, etc…)
bravo1102 at 6:04AM, July 1, 2018
I know a few writers who made conscious decisions to write porn just so they could get the help to break into writing.
Another sort of backed into it. He wrote a porn piece that took off and found its way into a anthology. He's since expanded it into a novel and it found a publisher and an audience.
And I researched the whole bodice ripper romance genre and wrote a few scenes and was going to go that route before veering off into webcomics. There are such things as fantasy romances that have some pretty racy scenes. I was reworking Searsha's story along those lines but hit a stone wall.
And I had a full female pseudonym with bio all prepared.
The other big thing is Young Adult fantasy and horror. That's also easy to break into with just the right piece. And of course I hit another stone wall. Perfect ideas but no firm way to get from here to there in the story.
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mks_monsters at 5:29AM, July 9, 2018
Yeah, but it's one thing to do it because you want to and another to have to do it to get noticed around here. Art is supposed to be a form of free speech. If I want to make clean comics that are more action oriented, I will.
ashtree house wrote:
I am a big romantic, but I like writing about it on my own time and I really hate it when I am excluded just because I don't write like that.
mks_monsters wrote:
One of the reasons I went from high epic fantasy to silly satire of exploitation sci-fi was to get noticed.
Look at the last two pages of Go a Viking Joked about it: "No readers so all boobs, all the time."
I made a conscious choice against my better judgment and background so that I had readers if I ever decided to do less racy silly stuff.
And I found out I enjoyed doing it despite myself.
Fantasticbrick at 5:30AM, July 18, 2018
Transparency would be a big help. I can understand if a publisher or company has a set style or theme they want to keep to since it might work for them but advertising it as such is important. Otherwise it wastes everybody's time.
That goes for all job descriptions tbh.
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rickrudge at 6:03PM, Nov. 7, 2019
Last year, I traveled to Tokyo with a good friend of mine. He is quite an American expert about anime, manga, and hentai. He's even had a voice-over commentary on some anime DVDs. However, I'm not a fan, but really wanted to visit Japan. He took me to a giant comic book convention, Comiket in a huge hall at a place simply called Tokyo Big Sight.
One thing that really struck me was that 85 percent of the tables there were with female cartoonists trying to sell their books. I wasn't able to see a lot of them and wouldn't be a good judge, but it seemed like they covered all sorts of various genres. I certainly didn't see anything that would be thought of as porn or adult. Japan is a lot more straight-laced that we here in the States are led to believe.
As for me, I've always enjoyed drawing underground comix with lots of drugs, sex, and violence. When I moved to the Duck Webcomics, I realized that my kind of stuff wasn't going to be read by just any viewer. They would need to be signed-in to see my adult stuff. So, I've actually king of mellowed out my comix so that it's merely mature, than adult.
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Lithos Design chose Salone del Mobile to introduce for the first time their new models and two important novelties: bathroom furniture cladded with natural stone and ventilated facades, widening what the team may provide designers with.
The last Salone del Mobile edition meant change.
At the important showcase of Salone del Mobile, Lithos Design chose to launch not only their latest marble coverings but also a completely new and innovative concept.
Indeed, with the "Aquae", "Barcode" and "Drappi di Pietra Outdoors" collections, Lithos Design team decided to widen what they design and they are mostly known for, interior marble coverings, adding a new range of models to them and giving a new meaning to the same concept of coverings.
And that's how the "teti" model was born!
A freestanding element emerging and becoming an actual piece of furniture, covered with natural stone and decorated with some patterns of ours.
The first one to come to life has been "strato teti", introduced at Milan Design Week with "strato", one of the latest four textures from the "Le Pietre Incise" collection.
The "strato teti" freestanding washbasin from the "Aquae" collection at Salone del Mobile, also with the "quadre luce" textured wall lamps from the "Complementi Luce" collection.
A completely new and innovative concept adding a new function to marble coverings: creating furniture tracing a stylistic dialogue in a space.
Let's imagine a freestanding washbasin clad with a natural stone covering, also used to clad a wall and a wall lamp. With three elements, a total marble look is created, designing decorative connections among all the elements.
A total marble look showing how the same textured marble covering may be applied to many elements of a space.
At the same time, we step forward also in the marble coverings design.
The "Barcode" and "Drappi di Pietra Outdoors" collections introduce an important passage in the company production, showing for the first time outdoor marble coverings.
So, not only indoor marble coverings but also outdoor ones, following the desire to create ventilated facades in natural stone with patterns that meet a wide range of decorative styles: from minimal to more catching and bright ones.
The "zero.3" marble ventilated facade from the "Barcode" collection, displayed at The International Bathroom Exhibition.
A brand new concept that may be expressed with the same "Drappi di Pietra Outdoors" collection, seen as the perfect metaphor for the widening of our production: indeed, two of the most well known indoor wall textures from the indoor "Drappi di Pietra" collection have been chosen to become the two textures of this new outdoor collection, giving the possibility to use them not only indoors but also outdoors, designing facades that are able to catch the eye of passersby and stand out in a urban landscape.
The "organza outdoors" marble ventilated facade from the "Drappi di Pietra Outdoors" collection, on show at Salone del Mobile.
Two important novelties for the company history: a change that is a breath of fresh air confirming an innovative path the company has always been pursuing, never limiting their creativity and desire to move ahead, adding always new aims to experiment, achieve and overstep in a never-ending perspective to do better.
For those who missed Lithos Design booth at the International Bathroom Exhibition or for those who would like to live what they experienced during Milan Design Week again, here it is a virtual tour of our booth and a short video about the novelties displayed this year.


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Animated graphics for the inauguration of the Max Planck Center
Max Planck-University of Twente Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics
The Max Planck-University of Twente Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics was founded in 2017. The Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and two research groups from the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands, cooperate in a pioneering center for the study of complex fluid dynamics.
Further information -> Link to the Max Planck page (German)
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Secret Cold War Tests in St. Louis Raise Concerns
If there were any doubts about the Satanic U.S. government cutting loose weaponized H5N1 this should dispel them: Kudos to Jim Salter and AP for having the balls to publish this
By Jim Salter
ST. LOUIS (AP) —
Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.
In keeping with the Deadly force Laws of individual States that will cover this type of attempted murder, all individuals associated with these Satanic programs should be hunted down and summarily executed - extra-judicially by citizens concerned for their lives and the lives of their families, this includes the virologists that have weaponized H5N1 and other viruses and bacterium that are designed to mass kill populations - no quarter, no mercy
After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.
In the mid-1950s, and again a decade later, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, at schools and from the backs of station wagons to send a potentially dangerous compound into the already-hazy air in predominantly black areas of St. Louis.
Martino-Taylor
Local officials were told at the time that the government was testing a smoke screen that could shield St. Louis from aerial observation in case the Russians attacked.
But in 1994, the government said the tests were part of a biological weapons program and St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities that the U.S. might attack. The material being sprayed was zinc cadmium sulfide, a fine fluorescent powder.
Now, new research is raising greater concern about the implications of those tests. St. Louis Community College-Meramec sociology professor Lisa Martino-Taylor's research has raised the possibility that the Army performed radiation testing by mixing radioactive particles with the zinc cadmium sulfide, though she concedes there is no direct proof.
But her report, released late last month, was troubling enough that both U.S. senators from Missouri wrote to Army Secretary John McHugh demanding answers.
Aides to Sens. Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt said they have received no response. Army spokesman Dave Foster declined an interview request from The Associated Press, saying the Army would first respond to the senators.
It is indeed unfortunate that these bastards cannot be killed with the very same chemicals/viruses/bacterium that they sprayed on unsuspecting U.S. citizens
The area of the secret testing is described by the Army in documents obtained by Martino-Taylor through a Freedom of Information Act request as "a densely populated slum district." About three-quarters of the residents were black.
Spates, now 57 and retired, was born in 1955, delivered inside her family's apartment on the top floor of the since-demolished Pruitt-Igoe housing development in north St. Louis. Her family didn't know that on the roof, the Army was intentionally spewing hundreds of pounds of zinc cadmium sulfide into the air.
Only 67 years have passed: Remember this Americans?
Three months after her birth, her father died. Four of her 11 siblings succumbed to cancer at relatively young ages.
"I'm wondering if it got into our system," Spates said. "When I heard about the testing, I thought, 'Oh my God. If they did that, there's no telling what else they're hiding.'"
Mary Helen Brindell wonders, too. Now 68, her family lived in a working-class mixed-race neighborhood where spraying occurred.
The Army has admitted only to using blowers to spread the chemical, but Brindell recalled a summer day playing baseball with other kids in the street when a squadron of green Army planes flew close to the ground and dropped a powdery substance. She went inside, washed it off her face and arms, then went back out to play.
Over the years, Brindell has battled four types of cancer — breast, thyroid, skin and uterine.
"I feel betrayed," said Brindell, who is white. "How could they do this? We pointed our fingers during the Holocaust, and we do something like this?"
Martino-Taylor said she wasn't aware of any lawsuits filed by anyone affected by the military tests. She also said there have been no payouts "or even an apology" from the government to those affected.
The 5th Estate has avoided the "chemtrails" issue in the past, however we are now taking a closer look
The secret testing in St. Louis was exposed to Congress in 1994, prompting a demand for a health study. A committee of the National Research Council determined in 1997 that the testing did not expose residents to harmful levels of the chemical. But the committee said research was sparse and the finding relied on limited data from animal testing.
It also noted that high doses of cadmium over long periods of exposure could cause bone and kidney problems and lung cancer. The committee recommended that the Army conduct follow-up studies "to determine whether inhaled zinc cadmium sulfide breaks down into toxic cadmium compounds, which can be absorbed into the blood to produce toxicity in the lungs and other organs."
Satanic, eugenicist bastards like H5N1 weaponizers Yoshihiro Kawaoka and Ron Fouchier need to be hunted down and eliminated for their weaponization of H5N1 and their complicity with the U.S. government in the planning of the depopulation of the Earth - it is regrettable that they can not be executed with the doomsday virus they have created, along with their masters
But it isn't clear if follow-up studies were ever performed. Martino-Taylor said she has gotten no answer from the Army and her research has turned up no additional studies. Foster, the Army spokesman, declined comment.
Martino-Taylor became involved years ago when a colleague who grew up in the targeted area wondered if the testing was the cause of her cancer. That same day, a second colleague confided to Martino-Taylor that she, too, lived in the test area and had cancer.
Martino-Taylor decided to research the testing for her doctoral thesis at the University of Missouri. She believes the St. Louis study was linked to the Manhattan Atomic Bomb Project and a small group of scientists from that project who were developing radiological weapons. A congressional study in 1993 confirmed radiological testing in Tennessee and parts of the West during the Cold War.
"There are strong lines of evidence that there was a radiological component to the St. Louis study," Martino-Taylor said.
Blunt, in his letter to the Army secretary, questioned whether radioactive testing was performed.
"The idea that thousands of Missourians were unwillingly exposed to harmful materials in order to determine their health effects is absolutely shocking," the senator wrote.
McCaskill agreed. "Given the nature of these experiments, it's not surprising that Missouri citizens still have questions and concerns about what exactly occurred and if there may have been any negative health effects," she said in a statement.
Martino-Taylor said a follow-up health study should be performed in St. Louis, but it must involve direct input from people who lived in the targeted areas.
"Their voices have not been heard," Martino-Taylor said.
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Just yesterday, there was some concern that LTE-Advanced modems, while adding a whole lot of speed to your mobile device (assuming a capable network), would also be adding some bulk. This will surely happen, but luckily, technology always finds a way to get smaller and smaller, and today Broadcom proved that trend by showing off the world's smallest LTE-Advanced modem yet.
The new modem is the Broadcom BCM21892, which is aiming to really put some pressure on the competition, especially Qualcomm. The BCM21892 is planned for use in top-of-the-line smartphones and tablets, combining a full cellular baseband with a world-band radio, and all at a size 35% smaller than the competition.
In addition to the smaller size, the modem will offer LTE speeds up to 150Mbps (on networks that can handle it), as well as Voice over LTE (VoLTE). The big news there is that Broadcom claims the modem will be able to offer VoLTE services that use 40% less power than a WCDMA call. That's big news for those of us looking to ditch the old standard for voice calls and move to full VoIP networks (like the fabled Google Wireless carrier).
The bad news is that we shouldn't expect to see this modem in devices until 2014, when it hits full production. So, Qualcomm and other mobile modem makers have some time to catch up.
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced the industry's smallest 4G LTE-Advanced modem. Designed for the 4G LTE market, Broadcom's multi-mode, multi-band solution – the BCM21892 – delivers the features, power and performance capabilities for the development of next generation 4G LTE smartphones and tablets. Broadcom will showcase its 4G LTE innovations at the upcoming Mobile World Congress show in Barcelona, February 25-28. For more news, visit Broadcom's Newsroom.
Compliant with all 3GPP specifications, the BCM21892 combines a full-featured cellular baseband with a world-band radio in a footprint that is approximately 35 percent smaller than current industry solutions. Advanced power management techniques save up to 25 percent of the power typically consumed during data transmissions to the network. The new modem also supports LTE Category 4 speeds of 150Mbps1, operates in any 3GPP network and performs seamless hand-offs between the various 4G LTE, 3G and 2G interface technologies.
1 LTE Category 4 speeds of 150Mbps in 20MHz of spectrum or through carrier aggregation of multiple smaller spectrum bands Executive Vice President and General Manager, Mobile and Wireless Group. "Broadcom's 4G LTE modem will also help carriers drive new 4G LTE features, such as carrier aggregation, into commercial networks."
-- A baseband with support for all current 3GPP standards technologies including LTE FDD and TDD, LTE-Advanced with carrier aggregation, HSPA+, TD-SCDMA and EDGE/GSM.
-- An integrated world-band radio that can support virtually any designated 3GPP LTE frequency band and combination, a critical capability as operators prepare their networks for 4G LTE roaming. The radio also deploys advanced power management techniques that can save up to 25 percent of the power typically used when sending data to the network.
-- A Voice over LTE (VoLTE) solution that enables high-definition voice calls over a mobile broadband connection – a key requirement of operators as they transition from legacy networks. Broadcom's VoLTE service consumes approximately 40 percent less power than a comparable WCDMA voice call.
-- Enhanced interoperability with Broadcom's wireless coexistence technology, which minimizes the possibility of radio interference between Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 4G LTE, and enables carriers to provide a richer Wi-Fi offload experience.
-- Ability to interface with a broad range of stand-alone applications processors, allowing OEMs to design the 4G LTE solution into a wide variety of mobile devices.
Ahh, there we go. I knew that Broadcom were going to bring some big guns. This is one hell of a shot across everyone's bow. Broadcom is looking to get in on the advanced market, which is great as they can build some great hardware for communication.
Almost every router has a Broadcom chip in it so I'm expecting good/ great things from them on the mobile device front. Hopefully soon we'll have powerful phones that can last as long as an old flip phone.
well there goes that 5GB limit in a nano second,, good bye verzion, good by ATT, you wana bet these greedy carries wont enlarge that 5gb to maybe 10gb w/out a price increase!


This file photo shows the Elk River Wind Project, Kansas' biggest wind farm, located along U.S. 400 in southeastern Butler County.
On Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission could end a two-and-a-half year internal planning effort when it considers regulations for wind power turbine towers and systems.
Commissioners will consider a text amendment to county code that allows and regulates large commercial wind turbines through the county's conditional use process. The public hearing on the text amendment will be at the 6 p.m. time slot the commission reserves for issues expected to garner public comment.
The proposed text amendment addresses a gap in the county's regulatory language, which came to light when NextEra Energy of Florida applied for a conditional use permit to install two meteorological towers to measure wind speeds in southern Douglas County. The application caused considerable comment from area residents concerned about the building of towers near their property.
In response, the County Commission has approved a series of moratoriums on wind-generated energy systems since December 2013. The last, which expires July 31, was approved in April. Commissioners also asked for a staff review of wind energy, which was presented at a work session in February 2014.
The text amendment before commissioners on Wednesday is a revised version of one presented in April. Like the first version, the measure establishes a two-tier approach to regulating wind generation towers. Smaller turbines generating 50 kilowatts or less for personal or small commercial on-site use would be considered through the county's building permit process.
When the amendment was first considered in April, Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning staffer Sandra Day said many of the large tower turbine regulations, such as setback and public notification requirements, were borrowed from the county's conditional use permit for communication tower regulations.
Commissioners tabled the item so that staff could further flesh out language on small turbine use and to have planning staff review whether the county could expand protest petition rights for large commercial applications beyond what is required by state statute. Commissioners also expressed interest in reviewing the county's revenue potential from large commercial wind towers.
The text amendment's original language required that public hearing notifications be mailed to all property owners in the county's unincorporated areas within a 1-mile radius of a property on which a wind tower was proposed. However, only those living within 1,000 feet of the property would have the right to sign a protest petition challenging its approval, a move that would require all three commissioners to vote in favor of the application.
The revised text amendment before commissioners retains the 1-mile notification but doesn't expand protest rights to those property owners beyond the 1,000-foot radius. However, staff wrote in a report to commissioners that the County Commission has the authority to give protest petition rights to those living in a 1-mile radius. That would create the possibility of two separate protest petitions, both of which could force a supermajority vote, staff wrote.
As for revenue possibilities, staff wrote that commercial wind towers were eligible for lifetime property tax exemptions before 2015. Therefore, counties negotiated payment in lieu of taxes arrangements with their owners. The Kansas Legislature has now changed the law and those towers approved after Jan. 1, 2017, are eligible for only a 10-year tax exemption. Staff wrote it was not yet known what effect the statute change would have on the county's right to negotiate payment in lieu of taxes agreements with wind turbine owners.
The text amendment establishes the conditional use permit application process for developers, which requires a general concept plan, defined construction phasing, the amount of property to be disturbed or cleared and forbids transfer of the conditional use permit without the County Commission's approval.
The proposed conditional use permit language addresses the visual, noise, soil erosion, water quality, cultural heritage and infrastructure impacts of proposed towers.
The conditional use permit would stipulate that towers be set back from adjacent property lines a distance equal to 110 percent of the tower's height plus the length of blades and that no residential structures can be closer to towers than 1,500 feet.
The conditional use permit would also cover the decommissioning and removal of towers. Applicants would be required to maintain a surety bond with the county as payee to ensure towers would be removed.
• Consider a resolution regulating the placement of political signs in county easements, forbidding placing signs 300 feet from an intersection or 20 feet from a road.
• Consider an employee longevity program that will reward employees with five or more years of service and add Veterans Day to the county's holiday list.
The Douglas County Commission meets at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. To see the commission's entire agenda, visit douglascountyks.org.


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Breaking some Myths about Shahid Afridi
Posted by Q at Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Pitched (12)
Shahid Afridi's career can easily be divided into two phases; the first phase was when the team tried to make the world believe that he is a batsman who can bowl a bit, and the second phase was when the world was made to believe that he is a bowler first and then a batsman.
No other cricketer has suffered more due to this confusion. Not only were the board, coaches, management, and other players confused about what Shahid Afridi is, he himself probably was, and is, confused about it as well.
Despite all this, there should be no confusion about one fact. The fact that Afridi is one of the biggest match winners ever produced by Pakistan.
Here are some myths about him, which his critics love to bring up every now and then, and the related facts, which prove that the myths are not really true.
Myth #1: The Walking Duck
Critic Speak: "Kitni baar zero pe out hua hai yaar!"; "He has the most ducks in ODIs"...
Question: So how many ducks does he really have in ODIs? And how often does he get out on a duck?
Fact: He has 29 ducks in ODIs, which is the 2nd highest number of ducks after Sanath Jayasuriya. His 29 ducks in 356 ODI innings means that Afridi gets out for no score on average every 12th innings.
Does anyone know what that means? i.e. getting out for a duck every 13th innings? How does that compare with other cricketers? The answer is in the table below.
(the table was created before the 3rd ODI against Australia, hence it shows 355 ODI innings for Afridi)
There are some interesting names in there of batsmen who get out on a duck more often than Shahid Afridi does, such as Chris Gayle, Andrew Symonds, Brendon McCullum, Younis Khan, Herchelle Gibbs, to name a few.
Moreover, out of the 88 innings in which Afridi has batted at number 7, only 5 have resulted in a duck. That number is less than the number of ducks that others have registered batting at 7, including Chris Harris, Ian Healy, Wasim Akram, and Kapil Dev.
While at number 8, Afridi has registered 3 ducks in 34 innings.
Myth #2: Once in 10 time wonder Part 1
Critic Speak: "Yaar 10 innings ke baad ek score karta aur phir 10 matches aur free me khelta hai"; "It is no big deal if he scores once every 10 innings" ...
Question: So does Afridi really score only once in 10 innings? Has he really performed with the bat in only 10% of the 356 ODI innings he has ever batted in?
Fact #1: Well the fact is that Afridi has scored 30 runs or more in 94 ODI innings. That is a 30+ score in every 4th ODI innings. I have used a benchmark of 30 because that is what I believe refers to as a good average for a bowling allrounder.
Fact #2: In 88 ODI innings at number 7, Afridi has scored 27 or more runs in 24 innings (every 4th innings). And in 34 ODI innings at number 8 he has scored 24 or more runs in 12 innings (every 3rd innings).
I have used the numbers 27 and 24 because those are the respective average scores of batsmen who have scored over 1,000 runs at number 7 and over 650 runs at number 8.
I really think that this shows that Afridi does fulfil his role with the bat more often than not.
Critic Speak: "He is not a match winner. He fails more often than not, and hardly wins games for Pakistan" ... "haan toh 10 match ke baad ek match jitda diya toh kaunsi badi baat hai"...
Question: So does Afridi win any matches for Pakistan? Does he win 1 in 10 games for Pakistan?
Fact #1: Afridi has 32 man of the match awards, the most by any Pakistani and the 3rd highest in the world, in 384 ODIs. That means that he wins a man of the match award in every 12th ODI, meaning he puts in a match winning performance every 12th ODI.
That is a match winning performance more often than all Pakistani cricketers (barring the opening duo of Saeed Anwar and Aamer Sohail) that have won at least 10 man of the match awards in ODIs.
Fact #2: Pakistan has won 212 out of the 384 ODIs that Afridi has played in, i.e. a 55% success rate. His batting average in matches won by Pakistan is 30, a good 7 runs more than his career average of 23. 5 out of his 6 ODI hundreds and 27 out of his 36 ODI 50s have come in matches that Pakistan has won. In those 212 ODIs that Pakistan has won, Afridi has taken 271 wickets at an average of 25.3, which is a remarkable performance for a spinner. That average is a good 9 runs less than his career average of 34. All of his four 4-wkt hauls and nine 5-wkt hauls have come in matches that Pakistan has won.
Now tell me, if those aren't figures of a match winner, I wonder what are!
Myth #4: He is not an allrounder
Critic Speak: "chalo bowling theek kar leta but batting me bilkul bekaar hai"... "he is not fulfilling his role as a bowling allrounder"... "he does not deserve to bat at 7"...
Question: So does Afridi fulfill his batting role at number 7 or 8?
Before I present the facts, let me state that Afridi is the most scrutinized number 7 or 8 in the world. No other cricketer who regularly bats at 7 or 8 is scrutinized as much and as seriously as Afridi is. For a large part of cricket history, batting was the role of numbers 1-6, wicketkeeping the role of number 7, and bowling the role of numbers 8-11. It is a more recent phenomenon that wicket keepers and bowlers are required to contribute with the bat.
Fair enough, a bowler or keeper who can bat well at number 7 or 8 gives an ODI team more batting depth.
Fact #1: Out of all ODI number 7s in the world, Afridi has the 3rd highest runs tally and the best strike rate. His average among all batsman who have scored at least 1,000 runs in ODIs while batting at number 7 is the 10th best in this world. And that is out of hundreds of cricketers who have batted at number 7 for their team.
If anything, that outlines consistency really.
What is the role of a number 7 in an ODI? To either save a sinking ship when coming in at 100 odd for 5, or to accelerate at the end of an innings when coming in at 200 odd for 5. You can't expect much of Afridi in the former situation, but in the latter situation, it works more often than not. And why should you expect anything from Afridi when your frontline batsmen have failed?
Fact #2: Out of all number 8s in the world with at least 650 runs, Afridi has the 7th best average, and the best strike rate.
The man bowls, the man bats, the man fields, and the man also leads from the front. What else does one want?
Take Afridi out of the eleven and you will require four players to fill his shoes. One to bowl and pick up wickets, one to smash it around, one to field, and one to keep the chips up when they are down!
Do you really know anyone who can replace him?
I don't!
Labels: ODI cricket, Pakistan cricket, Q, Shahid Afridi
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Junaid Ahmed said...
good facts n figures
Faheem Azam said...
Cricket ki tareekh aapka shukriya adaa karti hay.. for busting the myths.
asim khan said...
feeling blessed as Afridi's Pakistani player, people should think positively and thanks for such myth busting article...
zarrar malik said...
I disagree with this post in every aspect of the way......Firstly i think author has not played cricket at any formidable level, and his analysis is based on being a fan rather than a cricketer....Secondly no. of ducks are considerably higher when you play as an opener, since the ball seems and moves and bowlers and fielders are fresh....when you bat down the order, ball looses its hardness and therefore its easier to score. Hence afridi has minimal ducks batting no. 7....Check dhoni he hardly get out batting at no. 6. But if he opens i am sure he will struggle...Hence his record in test is not the same...
Also must point out all the stats you have put in: are the overall stats....Not the recent stats....He has aged terribly, you can't live in the past....You have to put his recent performances rather than when he was at 18 years old....He didn't take a single wicket before australia for seven games....And didn't score any runs in excess of 30 for god knows how long.......So his inclusion in the team baffles me....In cricket form is everything...if you look at the stats, wasim and waqar should still be playing, along with inzamam and mohd yousaf....Why are they not playing? Check their stats....they are amazing.....Hope i have made a point here......Cricket is a huge Research and Development (R&D) project....Youngsters will get valuable experince...and hence will get better.....Older players can't get better.....as they hit a brick wall.....One more question for you....If an older player is scoring the same amount of runs, compared to a younger player...who will you choose...????
For me he has past it....he is not the same player....some youngster should be given a chance instead of him.....I think its time to let him go, and bring in the new breed of cricketers......I know you like him but everything has to come to an end.....
Coming to me, i have ample experience in English county....
LOL... Zarrar Malik, just the fact that you don't know who I am goes to show how much cricket knowledge u actually have :-) ...
It is ok to disagree... everyone is entitled to their opinion.. yet facts always speak louder than opinions..
Have a good day...
Lalit Magazine said...
Excellent fact based analysis. It cannot be disputed that Shahid Afridi is definitely a great cricketer and a match winner to boot.
What does cricket knowledge has to do with anything with knowing someone......???? Even if you are Afridi himself in the flesh, i really don't care and i am sticking to what i believe in....And beside nowhere it says who wrote this article...
On top of that i have level 2 coaching badges....ECB has given me a certificate, which proves i know a thing or two about cricket...
And to put icing on the cake, i did my PhD in probabilistic based data mining from one of the top universities in the world....I know every thing about numbers and stats and how misleading they can be...How many false negatives and positives each stats based algorithm generates.....The overhead of correcting them...Apriori, Eclat et. al are well renowned algorithms to name the few....
Let me put a fact for you.....
Afridi didn't take one wicket before Australia, in 7 matches on spinning tracks, and need i mention he is a spinner...........Further didn't score once in excess of 30.....Besides he didn't turn the world on its heads against Australia as well.....Cricket is form based sport, not stats...His form is shocking....Misbah sat out because he didn't perform in the last 3 ODIs, why not afridi..??? Why these double standards??
And please don't point out the performances of yesteryears...As i said on that basis all the players like waqar, wasim, inzamam should all be playing.......
My interests are only for pakistan and have no personal beef with anyone.....just want to express myself with the knowledge i have.....Cheers
Once again Zarrar Malik Sahab, U can argue against the stats all you want, but getting personal is not on. U did, hence I did. Mr. Stats guru and all, the fact that u dont know who wrote this article once again shows your attentional for detail, or rather lack of it...
And since u r such a stats master, why don't u tell me who was Pakistan's best bowler in the ODI series against Australia?
In case u find it difficult to find the answer, Ill help you and tell you that it was Afridi... highest num of wkts, best ave, and best econ rate in the 3 ODIs...
It is ur opinion that he is over the hill... his more recent bowling form suggests otherwise..
Lol, i am not getting personal with anyone. I also mentioned that in my last post....You put a stat for me, and i put a counter stat.....Where is the personal grudge... I for one don't see it....???
Secondly i have no idea who you are, to me it doesn't make a difference at all....If you think i should NOT contradict you on the basis of your reputation (Mind you, i still don't know who you are, and i really don't care, even if you are Mr Cricket)...I will still contradict you.....Because my knowledge contradicts with your research.......Maybe i am way to westernized, and don't care about reputations anymore.....Since everyone is equal here.....And you point where you see something is wrong without hesitation.....
Coming back to your new stats against australia.......This is in the absence of Ajmal, Hafeez, Junaid, and irfan is making a comeback. Further wahab got injured half way through....I honestly think all four of these players are better bowlers than afridi. And if they were playing bar Irfan....they will do really well.....Australians are one of the worst against spin, in all the test playing nations...Even then afridi can't make us win one game against them....With a brand new bowling attack, he being the only experienced bowler should be the highest wicket taker, ...If he isin't, i don't see why he should be playing cricket at all......Does it make sense, sahab???. I honestly do think Because its the job of experience players to perform every time....Can you imagine Sangakara, Jaywardene out of form and not performing every other match....?? They have to otherwise they will retire themselves.....
IF you say he is the only choice left, i disagree with that as well.....Cricket takes time...as i said in the earlier post as well...its a R&D project....You go out there and get hit....go back to the drawing board and rectify your mistakes and go back again...and so on, until you come out the other end as established player......
This is my last post....i don't see Afridi beyond the world cup anyways....He is taking a place in the team where a youngster should be making its mark......Time is nigh....Don't believe in superstars, he is not one...... Cricket is a team game and not an individual game.....The recent test had no superstars but a team....and the result is there for us to see........
"Firstly i think author has not played cricket at any formidable level" - that was u getting personal malik sb :)
frank palmeri said...
The different games that had made the player Shahid Afridi look out from the rest was that he has enormous potential to make quick runs and Shahid Afridi sixes are famous in International Cricket.
Biography of Shahid Afridi


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        this.eventCanvas._elem.before(this.plugins.highlighter.highlightCanvas.createElement(this._gridPadding, "jqplot-highlight-canvas", this._plotDimensions, this));
        this.plugins.highlighter.highlightCanvas.setContext();
        var h = document.createElement("div");
        this.plugins.highlighter._tooltipElem = d(h);
        h = null;
        this.plugins.highlighter._tooltipElem.addClass("jqplot-highlighter-tooltip");
        this.plugins.highlighter._tooltipElem.css({position: "absolute", display: "none"});
        this.eventCanvas._elem.before(this.plugins.highlighter._tooltipElem)
    };
    d.jqplot.preInitHooks.push(d.jqplot.Highlighter.init);
    d.jqplot.preParseSeriesOptionsHooks.push(d.jqplot.Highlighter.parseOptions);
    d.jqplot.postDrawHooks.push(d.jqplot.Highlighter.postPlotDraw);
    function a(m, o) {
        var j = m.plugins.highlighter;
        var p = m.series[o.seriesIndex];
        var h = p.markerRenderer;
        var i = j.markerRenderer;
        i.style = h.style;
        i.lineWidth = h.lineWidth + j.lineWidthAdjust;
        i.size = h.size + j.sizeAdjust;
        var l = d.jqplot.getColorComponents(h.color);
        var n = [l[0], l[1], l[2]];
        var k = (l[3] >= 0.6) ? l[3] * 0.6 : l[3] * (2 - l[3]);
        i.color = "rgba(" + n[0] + "," + n[1] + "," + n[2] + "," + k + ")";
        i.init();
        i.draw(p.gridData[o.pointIndex][0], p.gridData[o.pointIndex][1], j.highlightCanvas._ctx)
    }

    function g(A, q, m) {
        var k = A.plugins.highlighter;
        var D = k._tooltipElem;
        var r = q.highlighter || {};
        var t = d.extend(true, {}, k, r);
        if (t.useAxesFormatters) {
            var w = q._xaxis._ticks[0].formatter;
            var h = q._yaxis._ticks[0].formatter;
            var E = q._xaxis._ticks[0].formatString;
            var s = q._yaxis._ticks[0].formatString;
            var z;
            var u = w(E, m.data[0]);
            var l = [];
            for (var B = 1; B < t.yvalues + 1; B++) {
                l.push(h(s, m.data[B]))
            }
            if (typeof t.formatString === "string") {
                switch (t.tooltipAxes) {
                    case"both":
                    case"xy":
                        l.unshift(u);
                        l.unshift(t.formatString);
                        z = d.jqplot.sprintf.apply(d.jqplot.sprintf, l);
                        break;
                    case"yx":
                        l.push(u);
                        l.unshift(t.formatString);
                        z = d.jqplot.sprintf.apply(d.jqplot.sprintf, l);
                        break;
                    case"x":
                        z = d.jqplot.sprintf.apply(d.jqplot.sprintf, [t.formatString, u]);
                        break;
                    case"y":
                        l.unshift(t.formatString);
                        z = d.jqplot.sprintf.apply(d.jqplot.sprintf, l);
                        break;
                    default:
                        l.unshift(u);
                        l.unshift(t.formatString);
                        z = d.jqplot.sprintf.apply(d.jqplot.sprintf, l);
                        break
                }
            } else {
                switch (t.tooltipAxes) {
                    case"both":
                    case"xy":
                        z = u;
                        for (var B = 0; B < l.length; B++) {
                            z += t.tooltipSeparator + l[B]
                        }
                        break;
                    case"yx":
                        z = "";
                        for (var B = 0; B < l.length; B++) {
                            z += l[B] + t.tooltipSeparator
                        }
                        z += u;
                        break;
                    case"x":
                        z = u;
                        break;
                    case"y":
                        z = l.join(t.tooltipSeparator);
                        break;
                    default:
                        z = u;
                        for (var B = 0; B < l.length; B++) {
                            z += t.tooltipSeparator + l[B]
                        }
                        break
                }
            }
        } else {
            var z;
            if (typeof t.formatString === "string") {
                z = d.jqplot.sprintf.apply(d.jqplot.sprintf, [t.formatString].concat(m.data))
            } else {
                if (t.tooltipAxes == "both" || t.tooltipAxes == "xy") {
                    z = d.jqplot.sprintf(t.tooltipFormatString, m.data[0]) + t.tooltipSeparator + d.jqplot.sprintf(t.tooltipFormatString, m.data[1])
                } else {
                    if (t.tooltipAxes == "yx") {
                        z = d.jqplot.sprintf(t.tooltipFormatString, m.data[1]) + t.tooltipSeparator + d.jqplot.sprintf(t.tooltipFormatString, m.data[0])
                    } else {
                        if (t.tooltipAxes == "x") {
                            z = d.jqplot.sprintf(t.tooltipFormatString, m.data[0])
                        } else {
                            if (t.tooltipAxes == "y") {
                                z = d.jqplot.sprintf(t.tooltipFormatString, m.data[1])
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
        if (d.isFunction(t.tooltipContentEditor)) {
            z = t.tooltipContentEditor(z, m.seriesIndex, m.pointIndex, A)
        }
        D.html(z);
        var C = {x: m.gridData[0], y: m.gridData[1]};
        var v = 0;
        var j = 0.707;
        if (q.markerRenderer.show == true) {
            v = (q.markerRenderer.size + t.sizeAdjust) / 2
        }
        var o = b;
        if (q.fillToZero && q.fill && m.data[1] < 0) {
            o = c
        }
        switch (o[e[t.tooltipLocation]]) {
            case"nw":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left - D.outerWidth(true) - t.tooltipOffset - j * v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top - t.tooltipOffset - D.outerHeight(true) - j * v;
                break;
            case"n":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left - D.outerWidth(true) / 2;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top - t.tooltipOffset - D.outerHeight(true) - v;
                break;
            case"ne":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left + t.tooltipOffset + j * v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top - t.tooltipOffset - D.outerHeight(true) - j * v;
                break;
            case"e":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left + t.tooltipOffset + v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top - D.outerHeight(true) / 2;
                break;
            case"se":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left + t.tooltipOffset + j * v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top + t.tooltipOffset + j * v;
                break;
            case"s":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left - D.outerWidth(true) / 2;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top + t.tooltipOffset + v;
                break;
            case"sw":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left - D.outerWidth(true) - t.tooltipOffset - j * v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top + t.tooltipOffset + j * v;
                break;
            case"w":
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left - D.outerWidth(true) - t.tooltipOffset - v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top - D.outerHeight(true) / 2;
                break;
            default:
                var p = C.x + A._gridPadding.left - D.outerWidth(true) - t.tooltipOffset - j * v;
                var n = C.y + A._gridPadding.top - t.tooltipOffset - D.outerHeight(true) - j * v;
                break
        }
        D.css("left", p);
        D.css("top", n);
        if (t.fadeTooltip) {
            D.stop(true, true).fadeIn(t.tooltipFadeSpeed)
        } else {
            D.show()
        }
        D = null
    }

    function f(k, j, n, m, l) {
        var h = l.plugins.highlighter;
        var o = l.plugins.cursor;
        if (h.show) {
            if (m == null && h.isHighlighting) {
                var i = h.highlightCanvas._ctx;
                i.clearRect(0, 0, i.canvas.width, i.canvas.height);
                if (h.fadeTooltip) {
                    h._tooltipElem.fadeOut(h.tooltipFadeSpeed)
                } else {
                    h._tooltipElem.hide()
                }
                if (h.bringSeriesToFront) {
                    l.restorePreviousSeriesOrder()
                }
                h.isHighlighting = false;
                h.currentNeighbor = null;
                i = null
            } else {
                if (m != null && l.series[m.seriesIndex].showHighlight && !h.isHighlighting) {
                    h.isHighlighting = true;
                    h.currentNeighbor = m;
                    if (h.showMarker) {
                        a(l, m)
                    }
                    if (h.showTooltip && (!o || !o._zoom.started)) {
                        g(l, l.series[m.seriesIndex], m)
                    }
                    if (h.bringSeriesToFront) {
                        l.moveSeriesToFront(m.seriesIndex)
                    }
                } else {
                    if (m != null && h.isHighlighting && h.currentNeighbor != m) {
                        if (l.series[m.seriesIndex].showHighlight) {
                            var i = h.highlightCanvas._ctx;
                            i.clearRect(0, 0, i.canvas.width, i.canvas.height);
                            h.isHighlighting = true;
                            h.currentNeighbor = m;
                            if (h.showMarker) {
                                a(l, m)
                            }
                            if (h.showTooltip && (!o || !o._zoom.started)) {
                                g(l, l.series[m.seriesIndex], m)
                            }
                            if (h.bringSeriesToFront) {
                                l.moveSeriesToFront(m.seriesIndex)
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
})(jQuery);

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