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Posted on 12th June 2012 at 12:29 pm by Babel
Rapid Growth of LTE has led to Increased Demand for Conformance and Operator Acceptance Testing
Fleet, Hampshire, UK – 12 June, 2012 – Anite, a global leader in wireless device testing technology, today announced that 7Layers, an international group of independent test laboratories, has selected Anite's LTE device test solution for its conformance and operator acceptance testing in the U.S.
7Layers' customers, targeting the US market, expressed their preference for the test laboratory to use Anite's LTE device test solution as it offers leading test coverage for both PTCRB/GCF conformance and carrier specific testing. This is of special value for the American operators presently driving the roll-out of LTE services. 7Layers selected an Anite LTE system to extend the capability of its testing laboratory in Irvine, California. Anite's leading LTE protocol system will help 7Layers ensure that its customers rapidly qualify for and comply with demanding certification programs of American LTE operators. 7Layers has been working with Anite for over ten years, providing validation endorsements for Anite's test systems to industry bodies such as PTCRB and GCF, and using Anite's 2G and 3G device testing solutions at a range of its global facilities.
"7Layers has been instrumental in driving forward the industry test regimes in North America and we have been working at the forefront of LTE device certification," said David Bissonette, CEO at 7Layers Inc. "The LTE market in the U.S. has exploded and there is a huge increase in demand for conformance and operator acceptance testing. By adding Anite's LTE device test solution to our current range of LTE test-equipment, we can even better support our customers in having their mobile devices quickly tested and consequently accepted by leading carriers.
"The LTE market is gathering significant momentum in the U.S. and it is crucial that test laboratories in the region, such as 7Layers, have systems that will allow them to keep pace," said Mike Bonin, Managing Director of Anite's Handset Testing Business. "We're delighted that 7Layers has selected Anite to progress their goal of assisting their customers in launching new LTE mobile devices to the market in record time."
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That looks like Schitt... got another view?
It's hard to tell from the photo if there is any slope in that valley (doesn't look like it has any though). If it does not have slope then a cricket is needed.
A flat valley is not good, even though it may not be leaking now.
Substantial damage will result if not corrected.
I remodeled a house just a few months ago with a roof similar to that, cost to repair the rot, termites, wall, roof, floor, ect was >$12K.
Every time I have seen that type of roof drainage it's on a house with a room addition. Look for other problems such as in the foundation.


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Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B. Hayes brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform. Safe liberalism, party loyalty, and a good war record made Hayes an acceptable Republican candidate in 1876. He opposed Governor Samuel J. Tilden of New York. Although a galaxy of famous Republican speakers, and even Mark Twain, stumped for Hayes, he expected the Democrats to win. Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tilden won the popular vote for president on 07 November 1876 by a 250,000-vote margin.
With the country still reeling from the Civil War and the election cutting to the heart of continuing sectional conflict, a peaceful resolution was crucial. Southern Democrats in Congress were dealing with Hayes' lieutenants, suggesting a basis of compromise. If Hayes would withdraw federal troops where they remained in the south -- South Carolina and Louisiana -- they would support the selection of Hayes as President. Congress declared Hayes the victor on 02 March 1877, just two days before his term began.
Hayes pledged protection of the rights of Negroes in the South, but at the same time advocated the restoration of "wise, honest, and peaceful local self-government." This meant the withdrawal of troops. Hayes hoped such conciliatory policies would lead to the building of a "new Republican party" in the South, to which white businessmen and conservatives would rally. Many of the leaders of the new South did indeed favor Republican economic policies and approved of Hayes's financial conservatism, but they faced annihilation at the polls if they were to join the party of Reconstruction. Hayes and his Republican successors were persistent in their efforts but could not win over the "solid South."
Hayes' power was sapped not only by the circumstances of his election and charges of his participation in the "bargain," but also by his pledge, made in advance of his election, to serve only one term. Because of his determination not to relinquish to Congress any of his prerogatives, he clashed repeatedly with members of his own divided party on appointment matters and with the resurgent Democrats on Presidential authority to deploy Federal troops in supervision of elections. The Democrats, during the first half of his term, controlled the lower House of Congress; during the last half, both Houses.
In spite of international crises such as the Virginius Affair, contention with Great Britain over the Alabama Claims, and problems with France over a projected canal in Panama, the strength of the Navy continued to decline. By 1879, only 48 of the Navy's 142 vessels were available for immediate service, and these were obsolete wooden or old ironclad ships. Naval technology had stagnated in the United States, illustrated by the fact that there was not a single high-power, long-range rifled gun in the entire fleet.
Richard W. Thompson, an elderly Terre Haute lawyer known as the "grand old man" of Indiana politics, served Rutherford B. Hayes as Secretary of the Navy. The career of Richard W. Thompson, minor Indiana politician who was famed in his region as an orator and who served the Whig and Republican parties in routine fashion, had more length than distinction. Thompson had played a pivotal role in the 1876 election, suggesting that an electoral commission decide its outcome.
Richard Wigginton Thompson - born on 9 June 1809 in Culpepper County, Va.-left Virginia in 1831; lived briefly in Louisville, Kentucky; and, later that year, settled in Lawrence County, Ind. There, he taught school, kept a store, and studied law at night. Admitted to the Bar in 1834, he practiced law in Bedford, Ind., and served for four terms in the Indiana Legislature from 1834 to 1838. He served as President Pro Tempore of the Indiana Senate for a short time and briefly held the office of Acting Lieutenant Governor. In the Presidential Election of 1840, he zealously advocated the election of William Henry Harrison. Thompson then represented Indiana in the United States Congress, serving in the House of Representatives from 1841 to 1843 and again from 1847 to 1849. Following the Civil War, Thompson served as judge of the 18th Circuit Court of the state of Indiana from 1867 to 1869.
In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes appointed him Secretary of the Navy. A lack of naval training at that time was not thought a serious handicap to the cabinet officer, because the navy was small and not particularly active. Nonetheless, the secretary was said to have taken his duties seriously and filled the post with greater success than his past experiences as an administrator would have indicated. On the whole he was an active and loyal supporter of the administration's policies.
Upon visiting a navy yard and inspecting a ship he is said to have noted, "Why, the durned thing's hollow." This might have been an apocryphal story. He held that office until his resignation December 21, 1880.
Thompson was tempted by an offer tendered by Ferdinand de Lesseps to become chairman of the American committee of the proposed Panama Canal, at a salary of $25,000 yearly. Somehow Thompson could not quite resist the offer and accepted while still in his cabinet post, but he resigned immediately thereafter. Hayes named Thompson as the head of the American Committee of the French Panama Canal Project in 1881; afterwards he was director of the Panama Railroad Co. 1881-1888. After sitting on this committee, Thompson returned to Indiana, where he died in 1900.
"By the year 1880 the navy had fallen to a pitifully low ebb," noted Frank M. Bennett, the historian of the nineteenth-century American steam navy. "Repairs were no longer possible, for space for more patches was lacking upon almost every ship of ours then afloat.. A sense of humiliation dogged the American naval officer as he went about his duty in foreign lands; in the Far East, in the lesser countries along the Mediterranean Sea, and even in the sea ports of South America, people smiled patronizingly upon him and from a sense of politeness avoided speaking of naval subjects in his presence."
In an Oscar Wilde comedy written at the time, an American lady who despaired of her country because it had neither curiosities nor ruins was consoled with heavy irony because "you have your manners and your navy."

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Charter Communications is a cable, internet, and telephone company in the United States with a portfolio of brands for both consumers and enterprises. The Spectrum Enterprise portfolio includes networking and managed services solutions, including Internet access, Ethernet and managed network services, voice and TV solutions, managed application, cloud infrastructure and managed hosting services.
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01/27/2023 | 08:29am EST Message : (in thousands except ARPU and penetration, unaudited) 2020 1,976 486 56.6% $ $ 582 (70) (65) 290 254 See footnotes on page 5. 1 2020 551 $ 40.0% Adjusted EBITDA(i) is a non-GAAP term. See page 4 for the reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA(i) to net income attributable to Charter shareholders as defined by GAAP. All percentages are calculated using whole numbers. Minor differences may exist due to rounding. See footnotes on page 5. 2 ($ in millions; unaudited) Capital expenditures, excluding line extensions $ Core cable(p) 3 2020 $ 71 $ (1,461) (388) See page 2 for detail of the components included within Adjusted EBITDA (i). The above schedule is presented in order to reconcile Adjusted EBITDA (i) and free cash flow (i), non-GAAP measures, to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in accordance with Section 401(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. See footnotes on page 5. 4 Notes Passings represent our estimate of the number of units, such as single family homes, apartment and condominium units and small and medium business and enterprise sites passed by our cable distribution network in the areas where we offer service. These estimates are based upon the information available at this time and are updated for all periods presented when new information becomes available. Customer relationships include the number of customers that receive one or more levels of service, encompassing Internet, video and voice services, without regard to which service(s) such customers receive. Customers who reside in residential multiple dwelling units ("MDUs") and that are billed under bulk contracts are counted based on the number of billed units within each bulk MDU. Total customer relationships exclude enterprise and mobile-only customer relationships. Penetration represents residential and SMB customers as a percentage of estimated passings. 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Enterprise PSUs represents the aggregate number of fiber service offerings counting each separate service offering at each customer location as an individual PSU. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income attributable to Charter shareholders plus net income attributable to noncontrolling interest, net interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock compensation expense, other (income) expenses, net and other operating (income) expenses, net such as special charges and (gain) loss on sale or retirement of assets. As such, it eliminates the significant non-cash depreciation and amortization expense that results from the capital-intensive nature of our businesses as well as other non-cash or special items, and is unaffected by our capital structure or investment activities. Free cash flow is defined as net cash flows from operating activities, less capital expenditures and changes in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures. 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manufactures and distributes aluminum and steel components used in carpentry, locksmithing and building. The Company also refurbishes office buildings and factories.
This is due to the fact that the company has around 46 EUR per share in net liquidity. Unfortunately, the 2011 report is not yet available, but some preliminary figures can already be accessed for instance here.
If we adjust the P/E for cash we would get a corresponding lower PE of around 5.2 for 2011.
What we can see here is a generally growing profit (with some minor hiccups), an unspectacular but very stable Net margin between 4.7% and 6.4% and Mid teen ROEs and ROICs.
The business is highly cash generative. Despite the growth achieved, over the last 13 years, on average 12-13 EUR free cashflow per share have been generated. Around half of that has been paid out as dividends, the other half has accumulated on the balance sheet (in 1999 Installux still had a tiny amount of net debt).
Also the balance sheet is cleaner as clean, no goodwill, no pension liabilities and no operating leases as far as I could see.
We have a consistently growing and profitable business with very low volatility, attractive ROE and ROIC and a valuation of 2x EV/EBITDA and 5x P/E adjusted for cash (7.8 unadjusted) which produces a large amount of free cashflow despite growing nicely over the years.
Installux is processing aluminium, i.e. shaping and forming and coloring it to be used in shops, for windows etc. Interestingly, despite the fluctuation in aluminium prices, they seem to be able to pass on price changes relatively quickly.
Their clients are mostly "corporates" like building contractors etc., they run a small retail segment which however doesn't seem to be very profitable at the moment (Roche Habitat).
A Net margin of 4-6% is Ok, but does not indicate a big moat. The relatively high returns on equity and invested capital seem to be the result of a relatively low fixed asset base required to run the business.
So the business seems to be nothing special, but produces double digit returns on invested capital which is quite good and is not really cyclical.
In the last 13 years, Installux roughly doubled its sales and profits, so one could not say that this is a shrinking or dying business either.
The current CEO Christian Canty seems to be in charge since 1987 and has bought the company according to the company history website in 1991. They made small acquisitions along the way but nothing spectacular. He is 65 years old and might not continue forever. However his son, Christophe age 38 seems to be already working in the company as a director.
He holds 50% plus some shares and has been buying smaller amounts of shares for instance in 2010 (1500 shares according to the annual report).
I haven't found a disclosure how much he pays himself, but with a total of +12 mn salaries for all 450 employees, there is not a lot of space for a large CEO salary. Additionally they don't issue any options or new shares to directors.
It is interesting to read Canty's "press communication" which seems to be issued in irregular intervals. Another one can be found here.
It becomes clear how cautious he approaches exports and how hands-on he comments on the loss of his smallest division, Roch Habitats. One gets the impression that the "boss" is in control of things.
I also didn't find any hint that any improper transactions etc. have been made between the CEO as majority owner and the company.
So why is the stock so cheap ?
– no investor relations at all, on their homepage you neither find a share price nor a link to the annual reports or quarterly news. This is the first time that I see a company homepage of a listed stock which basically denies the existence of its share….
– no trading volume. On a "good" day, 100 shares are being traded. prices jump around a lot between auctions.
– small free float: The CEO Christian Canty owns 50% of the shares and three 5% packages of French institutions are disclosed in the 2010 annual report. No international shareholders as far as I could see.
– even on Bloomberg, you cannot find links to recent news, reports etc. Also the historical numbers are screwed up. In their historical earnings database they show a profit per share of 175 EUR in 2004 per share instead of 17,50 EUR.
With a stock like Installux, one can take a rather simple approach. As we have seen, the business is cash generative. So if we assume that they just continue to produce around 5.5 mn profit a year and discount this with 10%, we would get a valuation of 55 mn EUR. Plus the 14 mn cash on hand would make a conservative "no growth" valuation of around 230 EUR per share.
Of course we do not have something like a "catalyst" here, on the other hand at least based on historical volatility, a 10% discount rate might even be too high.
Another way to look at this would be: At the moment one can buy Installux at ~80% of book value. The earn 15% on Assets ex cash so one is buying at close to 20% effective ROE (ex cash) which is really really good !!!!
Nevertheless, Installux has easily outperformed the CAC 40 even before dividends.
+ if Installux would continue growing at approx. historical growth rates, the stock should be much more expensive.
– however no catalyst in sight other than a slowly growing dividend which might help in the long run. So this is for the patient investor.
For the portfolio will start to accumulate shares at my usual rules (max 25% of daily volume).
– relatively good blog post 2 years ago on a French value blog which doesn't seem to be active any more. He concludes that the stock is very solid and extremely cheap.
Great write up from Nate at Oddball about Precia SA, a potential hidden champion from France.
AIRE KGaA published their annual report 2011 yesterday.
The NAV slightly increased from Q3 2011 to EUR 21.30 per share.
The most interesting news however is to be found on page 5: From the initial 65.6 mn EUR potential investment commitments, only 2.4 mn EUR seem to be now relevant, as most of the other commitments did expire or will expire soon.
At year end 2011, AIRE had almost 22 mn EUR in cash on hand, representing around 5,20 EUR per share. The buyback announced this week, will use only up to 5 mn EUR, so we can expect some further buy backs soon.
So for the time being, despite the insider issues discussed, I think the value of the shares should be strongly protected to the downside.
For the portfolio, I will continue to sell down until a 5% weight is achieved (from ~7%). However, due to the low volume this might take a while.
First of all thanks to all the readers who send me interesting investment cases, I really appreciate this, especially if you already include some "homework".
One reader recommende to me to look at Kloeckner and Co SE, the German steel trading company as this might be a cheap investment.
As Kloeckner was Ipo'ed in 2006, we only have data for one cycle. I would in general prefer for cyclical stocks being able to look at 1999-2011 data including the 2001-2003 period to have two cycles to analyze.
If we look at a "6 year historical" P/E, this would be around 7-8 x average earnings which would be OK, but not overly cheap. Compared with Buzzi for instance, which trades at 3x average earnings over the last 10 years, Klöckner looks relatively expensive.
– VERY NEGATIVE: The CEO even managed to increase his salary in 2011 despite the very disappointing 2011 results and the dilutive capital increase. This does not look like an "alignment" of interest between shareholders and CEO.
Summary: As a contraririan "reversion to the mean" play, Klöckner is relatively expensice, compared to Buzzi for example. The business model itself seems to be very risky, especially the financing of invetory thorugh capital market debt. So for the protfolio, Kloeckner is not an interesting candidate, as there are in my opnion better value alternatives in the "contrarian" stock segment.
SEB wants to save itself by opening just for one single day on May 7th.
It will be interesting to see how this works out on May 7th. To a certain extend I find it relatively unfair, as this move punishes traditional fund savers, which might not know about this or have not enough time to react.
I am not sure, if the SEB Immoinvest itself would be a good special situation right now. According to the details of the "offer" , they will collect all orders from now on.
If the orders are less or equal existing liquidity (30% of the fund), they will pay out all orders, otherwise they will not pay out anything. So no "odd lot" tendering for the small guys, it is just "all or nothing".
For me it is extremely difficult to assess how many people will redeem, my assumption is that all institutional ones more or less have to submit orders.
At current prices of 40 EUR, the upside would be some 30% whereas the donside would be the old price of around 34-35 EUR. So one has to assume at least a 50% chance of reopening to make this a positive exected value investment.
If one observes the current debate at the moment, there are is a lot of criticism for the Euro as a concept in general.
If [Ireland/Spain/Greece/Italy/Portugal] would have their own currency, all problems could be easily solved just by a little devaluation and everyone would be happy again.
As the "poster child" for this example, many pundits than refer to the Icelandic example and how well Iceland is doing these days.
Star economist Steven Keen for example is promoting a similar approach in this Interview in Ireland, where even his Irish host seems to have a problem in understanding how this really should work.
Argentinia is the well documented poster child of what can go wrong with its own currency. Despite a commodity led export boom, devaluation of 80% and more they still didn't really manage to turn the ship around. Many observers attribute this to widespread mismanagament and corruption, but at least in the case of Greece one could expect the exact same outcome. However without any chance from additional exports and natural resources.
As far as I know, banks were not the problem in Argentina, but the lack of trust in leadership and rampaging inflation following the devaluation despite price controls etc.
Also an interesting case. Hungary was on "convergence path" with the Euro. The following devaluation brought many Hungarians on the brink of bankruptcy, because everyone had financed everything in EUR or CHF anyway, so devaluation actually backfired big time.
Since then a nationalstic Government tries to achieve some sort of "Silent Nationalization" through special taxes on foreign owned companies (see Magyar Telekom, which i owned but sold due to this risk).
As most of the foreign currency loans were granted by bank subsidiaries of Italian, German and Austrian banks, the Hungarian Government did not have to stabilize banks in a significant way.
The Uk did the full program: Quantitative easing (several times), deficit spending (a lot), devaluation and achieved some significant inflation. Nevertheless, the UK is already in a double dip recession .
So also in the UK, the own currency including the full instrument case doesn't seem to be the silver bullet, at least in a time frame of 3-4 years time.
So what can a value investor learn from this ?
– politicians are not completely stupid. They will be aware of this.
– one should never forget: Real (positive) change only happens in the time of crisis.
As one of the readers commented yesterday, one of my special situation investment, real estate investment company AIRE KgAA issued a 10% buy back tender offer yesterday after close.
This is of course good news in general, as this was one of the catalyst events I was looking for.
Based on my initial investment thesis from Decemeber 2010, we are currently at the "mid case" scenario.
1) Why was it launches just before the publication of the annual report ? Normally, the annual report came out always on the last day of April. Do they want to fix the price now because there is unexpected good news (e.g. a written off project came back to life) ?
The insider aspect really worries me, as this could also go into the other direction. So my current reaction is to start to exit the position from today, even if this is what AIRE KgAA or its major shareholders are trying to achieve.
The tender offer itself is an "Odd lot" type of offer, with the "odd lot" being 100 shares which will be accepted 100%, above 100% there will be only a partial repurchase based on the total amount tendered.


The simple fact that a "filkers" category exists says to me that notable filkers, and I don't think anyone can argue that you're not a notable filker, get pages about them...seems like a no-brainer to me.
Yeah, that was my thinking on the subject. If you have an article on filk, the article must have referential links to the most well-known or influential of the filkers. I haven't read that entry, but leaving Tom Smith off of a discussion of filk seems rather like leaving Washington out of the whole formation of the United States story. You COULD do it, but something would be missing.
But wouldn't it be grand if we could talk about the Presidents of the United States and skip over George W. Bush completely?


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The Bolshoi simulation
A virtual world?
The more complex the data base the more accurate one's simulation is achieved. The point is though that you have to capture scientific processes through calorimeter examinations just as you do in the LHC.
So these backdrops are processes in identifying particle examinations as they approach earth or are produced on earth. See Fermi and capture of thunder storms and one might of asked how Fermi's picture taking would have looked had they pointed it toward the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster?
So the idea here is how you map particulates as a measure of natural processes? The virtual world lacks the depth of measure with which correlation can exist in the natural world? Why? Because it asks the designers of computation and memory to directly map the results of the experiments. So who designs the experiments to meet the data?
How did they know the energy range that the Higg's Boson would be detected in?
The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made ("bolshoi" is the Russian word for "great" or "grand"). The first two of a series of research papers describing Bolshoi and its implications have been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. The first data release of Bolshoi outputs, including output from Bolshoi and also the BigBolshoi or MultiDark simulation of a volume 64 times bigger than Bolshoi, has just been made publicly available to the world's astronomers and astrophysicists. The starting point for Bolshoi was the best ground- and space-based observations, including NASA's long-running and highly successful WMAP Explorer mission that has been mapping the light of the Big Bang in the entire sky. One of the world's fastest supercomputers then calculated the evolution of a typical region of the universe a billion light years across.
The Bolshoi simulation took 6 million cpu hours to run on the Pleiades supercomputer—recently ranked as seventh fastest of the world's top 500 supercomputers—at NASA Ames Research Center. This visualization of dark matter is 1/1000 of the gigantic Bolshoi cosmological simulation, zooming in on a region centered on the dark matter halo of a very large cluster of galaxies.Chris Henze, NASA Ames Research Center-Introduction: The Bolshoi Simulation
Snapshot from the Bolshoi simulation at a red shift z=0 (meaning at the present time), showing filaments of dark matter along which galaxies are predicted to form.
CREDIT: Anatoly Klypin (New Mexico State University), Joel R. Primack (University of California, Santa Cruz), and Stefan Gottloeber (AIP, Germany).
THREE "BOLSHOI" SUPERCOMPUTER SIMULATIONS OF THE EVOLUTION OF THE UNIVERSE ANNOUNCED BY AUTHORS FROM UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Scientists have generated the largest and most realistic cosmological simulations of the evolving universe to-date, thanks to NASA's powerful Pleiades supercomputer. Using the "Bolshoi" simulation code, researchers hope to explain how galaxies and other very large structures in the universe changed since the Big Bang.
To complete the enormous Bolshoi simulation, which traces how largest galaxies and galaxy structures in the universe were formed billions of years ago, astrophysicists at New Mexico State University Las Cruces, New Mexico and the University of California High-Performance Astrocomputing Center (UC-HIPACC), Santa Cruz, Calif. ran their code on Pleiades for 18 days, consumed millions of hours of computer time, and generating enormous amounts of data. Pleiades is the seventh most powerful supercomputer in the world.
"NASA installs systems like Pleiades, that are able to run single jobs that span tens of thousands of processors, to facilitate scientific discovery," said William Thigpen, systems and engineering branch chief in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at NASA's Ames Research Center. See|:NASA Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulations
See Also: Dark matter's tendrils revealed
Links to this post Labels: Calorimeters, Fermi, Fukushima, Muons, SNO, SuperKamiokande, Tscan, Virtual Reality, Xenon
The Developmental Jet Process
As a layman I have been going through the research of those better educated then I in order to construct a accurate syntactically written developed scientific process as I have become aware of it. This is what I have been doing for the last number of years so as to get some idea of the scientific process experimentally driven to this point.
Theoretical development is important to myself, as well as, the underlying quest for a foundational perspective of how we can push back perspective with regard to the timeline of the universe in expression.
This has to be experimentally written in the processes we now use to help formulate an understanding of how the universe came into being by examining local events with the distribution of the cosmological data we are accumulating. A Spherical Cow anyone?
Jets: Article Updated An update here as well, "Two-Photons: Data and Theory Disagree"
I do appreciate all those scientist who have been giving their time to educating the public. This is a big thank you for that devotion to the ideal of bringing society forward as to what we as a public are not privy too. As too, being not part of that 3% of the population who are far removed from the work being done in particle research.
Almost a year ago, I had an e-mail exchange, and planned a phone call, with Maria Spiropulu of CMS. She looked particularly excited about something and the mortals may be learning what the cause was today.
CMS turned out to be much more "aggressive" relatively to the "conservative" ATLAS detector and it has already provided us with some hints. But what they published today, in the paper called: See: CMS: a very large excess of diphotons
Measurement of the Production Cross Section for Pairs of Isolated Photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
The integrated and differential cross sections for the production of pairs of isolated photons is measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC. A data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 36 inverse picobarns is analysed. A next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculation is compared to the measurements. A discrepancy is observed for regions of the phase space where the two photons have an azimuthal angle difference, Delta(phi), less than approximately 2.8.
Tscan ("Trivial Scanner") is an event display, traditionally called a scanner, which I developed. It is a program that shows events graphically on the computer screen.
It was designed to be simple ("trivial") internally, and to have a simple user interface. A lot of importance was given to giving the user a large choice of options to display events in many different ways.
Tscan proved to be a very useful tool for the development of fitters. A particularly useful feature is the ability to show custom data for every photpmultiplier tube (PMT). Instead of the usual time and charge, it can show expected charge, scattered light, likelihood, chi-squared difference, patches, and any other data that can be prepared in a text format.
See:Trivial Scanner
Credit: Super-Kamiokande/Tomasz Barszczak Three (or more?) Cerenkov rings
Multiple rings of Cerenkov light brighten up this display of an event found in the Super-Kamiokande - neutrino detector in Japan. The pattern of rings - produced when electrically charged particles travel faster through the water in the detector than light does - is similar to the result if a proton had decayed into a positron and a neutral pion. The pion would decay immediately to two gamma-ray photons that would produce fuzzy rings, while the positron would shoot off in the opposite direction to produce a clearer ring. Such kinds of decay have been predicted by "grand unified theories" that link three of nature's fundamental forces - the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces. However, there is so far no evidence for such decays; this event, for example, did not stand up to closer scrutiny.
CMS Physics Results
The Plot Of The Week - Z Plus Jets
B-Quark Jets: Keys To New Discoveries
CMS Bosons!
Two Jets, Two Protons, Nothing Else
A Short Story Of Dijet Resonances
New CMS Results On Dijet Resonances
2010 ion run: completed!
What Does the Higgs Jet Energy Sound Like?
Links to this post Labels: Atlas, CMS, Jet Quenching, Lighthouse, Quark Gluon PLasma, Spherical Cow, Tscan
ICECUBE Blogging Research Material and more
In regards to Cherenkov Light
Thinking outside the box See: A physicist inthe cancer lab
Ackerman became interested in physics in middle school, reading popular science books about quantum mechanics and string theory. As an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she traveled to CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, to work on one of the detectors at the Large Hadron Collider, the most powerful particle collider in the world. Then she spent a summer at SLAC working on BaBar, an experiment investigating the universe's puzzling shortage of antimatter, before starting her graduate studies there in 2007.
Linking Experiments(Majorana, EXO); How do stars create the heavy elements? (DIANA); What role did neutrinos play in the evolution of the universe? (LBNE). In addition, scientists propose to build a generic underground facility (FAARM) ...
Dialogos of Eide: Neutrinoless Double Beta DecayCOBRA · CUORICINO and CUORE · EXO · GERDA · MAJORANA · MOON · NEMO-3 and SuperNEMO · SNO+. See Also:Direct Dark Matter Detection.
Also From my research:
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay
A first look at the Earth interior from the Gran Sasso underground laboratory
Mysterious Behavior of Neutrinos sent Straight through the Earth
ICECUBE Blog put up some links that I wanted to go through to see what is happening there. Their links provided at bottom of blog post here. Each link of theirs I have provided additional information in concert while I explore above.
Cherenkov light: Not just for physics anymore (Symmetry)
First planes at the Pole (The Antarctic Sun)
The magical neutrino (the guardian)
Computing from the end of the Earth (insideHPC)
Entertaining with IceCube (Lekue)
Links to this post Labels: Faster Than Light, Gran Sasso, IceCube, SNO, SuperKamiokande, Tscan
What Does Information Mean in Science?
Only time will tell if Einstein was correct when he said, "But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed."
The March 29 burst changes everything," said co-author Dr. Stan Woosley, University of California, Santa Cruz. Just as the Rosetta stone helped us understand a lost, ancient language, this burst will serve as a tool to decode gamma-ray bursts. It's now known for certain that at least some gamma-ray bursts are produced when black holes, or perhaps very unusual neutron stars, are born inside massive stars, according to the team.
Most certainly it is not without scientific value that I would say that all means to measure information, has to have a "simplistic modality" with which science garners it's view about and is correlative too. So in this sense, this program although dating back too, December of 2007, it's values are still retained.
So with this regard to the article and program below, information was an entropic realization in the expression of this universe. What are the constituents that form the state of the universe?
I enjoyed the humor as it manifested with this group of people. If anything is to help one remember the context of this information it always seems to be deeper entrench in memory if it can be light hearted and funny, as I found this hour and half to be.
WATERLOO, ON, December 17, 2007 - A recent panel discussion about 'The Physics of Information' from Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), will air across Canada on CBC's 'Quirks and Quarks' radio program. The Public Lecture will be broadcast via CBC Radio One on Saturday, January 5th from 12:06 to 1:00pm.
The program includes four top scientists who gathered in Waterloo, Ontario, in early December to hold a discussion for general audiences about the very essence of information and how this might inspire fruitful new approaches to some of the hardest problems in modern physics. Over 600 people attended to learn how a greater appreciation of information relates to the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, the beginning of the universe and our understanding of black holes. The insights were surprising, enlightening and even controversial.See: The Physics of Information: From Entanglement to Black Holes
http://streamer.perimeterinstitute.ca/mp3/885c534d-2140-496a-8f73-6db23b011504.mp3
Now also, within this context, if one were to think of the ? and where all four forces joined, then what said this state prior too, cannot be allotted to the energy "before compartmentalization." Is this not how us humans crystallize the way in which we experience this reality? That at birth, and with some now, such centering, in weighting the sensory categories, help to define what existed scientifically as a concept of what begins, begins as it did in the beginning of this universe.
This perspective may be confusing for some, but until you see emotive values expressed as artistic renditions that are evoked by Kandinsky as he did in his artwork, or, others who evoke this "cross wiring" as to how sounds and color associate, then how is it what gathered in the human perspective to allot reality the way it is? A "sensory adaptation" to methods to which we define aspects of the reality and seek to embed methods to which we measure that reality.
Wassily Kandinsky-Yellow, Red, Blue
1925; Oil on canvas, 127x200cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
September 18, 2009–January 13, 2010Pioneer of abstract art and eminent aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) broke new ground in painting in the first decades of the twentieth century. His seminal pre–World War I treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art), published in Munich in December 1911, lays out his program for developing an art independent of one's observations of the external world. In this and other texts, as well as his art, Kandinsky strove to use abstraction to give painting the freedom from nature that he admired in music. His discovery of a new subject matter based solely on the artist's "inner necessity" occupied him throughout his life.
Also.....
The term "Composition" can imply a metaphor with music. Kandinsky was fascinated by music's emotional power. Because music expresses itself through sound and time, it allows the listener a freedom of imagination, interpretation, and emotional response that is not based on the literal or the descriptive, but rather on the abstract quality that painting, still dependent on representing the visible world, could not provide.
So it is a question then in mind that what began in the very beginning of this universe, also is closely related to what and how we began as we evolved toward the manifestation from another pre-existing state headed toward materialization in the bodily functions, according to this evolution, are standard in expression.
Credit: Weiqun Zhang and Stan Woosley
This image is from a computer simulation of the beginning of a gamma-ray burst. Here we see the jet 9 seconds after its creation at the center of a Wolf Rayet star by the newly formed, accreting black hole within. The jet is now just erupting through the surface of the Wolf Rayet star, which has a radius comparable to that of the sun. Blue represents regions of low mass concentration, red is denser, and yellow denser still. Note the blue and red striations behind the head of the jet. These are bounded by internal shocks.
Human after all, yet capable of experiencing the reality and factoring all measure of, as a truth verification for all that arrive here. An" internal recognition" of an "outward expression into reality." If one cannot follow the sequence of evens here, then how is it we can ever ask what begins anew, that the jets them self emit actionable qualities for the new reality? Pushes back time to some beginning. These attributes are measurable quantities that are signaled by, and are represented in the valuations portrayed on the tscans.
See:Picture of the Week
So we use measurable methods in which to calculate time in the milliseconds when at that time such expressions amounts too, and exhibits, all of the fundamental forces and the methods to their expressions.
Supernova Starting Gun: Neutrinos
.....Next they independently estimated how the hypothetical neutrinos would be picked up in a detector as massive as Super-Kamiokande in Japan, which contains 50,000 tons of water. The detector would only see a small fraction of the neutrinos. So the team outlined a method for matching the observed neutrinos to the supernova's expected luminosity curve to figure out the moment in time--to within about 10 milliseconds--when the sputtering star would have begun emitting neutrinos. In their supernova model, the bounce, the time of the first gravitational waves, occurs about 5 milliseconds before neutrino emission. So looking back at their data, gravitational wave hunters should focus on that point in time.
Links to this post Labels: Tscan
Spherical Cows
Cartoon Model of a SNR(Supernova Remnants)
When scientists refer to a spherical cow, we are poking fun at ourselves. We are admitting that some of our models or descriptions of things are far more simple than the actual object, like to say that a cow has a spherical shape. The phenomena we study are often complex, and including too many details can hinder, rather than help our understanding. Often it is useful to study a simplified model which contains only the most important general characteristics. Such a model can be more easily studied using numerical or analytical methods and then compared to observations.
As an example of this kind of thinking, say we were aliens trying to understand "humans", a strange race of beings recently discovered on a small planet orbiting a medium-sized star. We might divide them into two groups, one which grows facial hair (men), one which does not (women). Within each group there is a lot of variety - each human in the first group group can have facial hair in a wide range of colors and textures, for example. However, we think that there is some underlying reason for the gross characteristic of having or not having facial hair. We might then make more observations to try and understand why this is so. These further observations might uncover more similarities (humans in the first group have both an X and a Y chromosome while humans in the second group have two X shaped chromosomes) that are more fundamental. In astronomy we try to do the same thing.
See:Spherical Cows There is a older version here.
Now of course you must know the reason for this article and the subsequent explanation for it. I do expand this article to show some of the current understanding I have as I do my own research, and find how scientific measure is being attributed to our new views of the cosmos as observers. The measure now being reduced to computerizations.
The researchers studied cows visible on Google Earth Photo: GETTYCows automatically point to the north-Telegraph
Now I came across this article at Cosmic Variance by reading a blog posting written by Mark.
Now from my perspective as I see often at Cosmic Variance "this method used" not only by Mark, but Sean Carroll as well. It is a sort of poking fun at the news article that was written. Ones I am starting to become familiar with, as I read my local paper. The information from a science perspective is being generated to the public.
Should I become a cynic? Should I blur the lines on scientific method? Hold the scientific method against someone with a religious background, other then a humanistic one, and a sceptic to boot? Naw! I shall not be that way, and the way some others in science deal with each other. I shall respect who they are ,for who they are.:)Not my place to judge them.
Now, is the technique used by these researches in the New Scientist article sound in it's evaluation? I leave that up to you to decide and continue from the perspective I wish to share on my blog.
See:The Geometrics Behind the Supernova and it's History
It captures my attention for this reason, and another, which is a trait I myself seemed to fall under. This is in terms of geometrical recognition, as the bubble, circle, whatever your fancy, to illustrate the supernova's action and it's remnants distributed into space. I have such examples to illustrate as one tries to marry the theorists to the science in a phenomenological way.
See:Central Theme is the Sun as a related posting and subsequent comment for further elucidation of how we now see in space.
Note: This comment below was remove from that comment section.
Plato on Aug 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am
Resistance is futile:)
Generally the SNR looks different "in each of these different wavelengths", just like you and I look different to another human being (who looks at the visible light) then we do to a bee or a snake (who are able to detect ultraviolet and infrared light, respectively).
I am not sure if this is the same with regard to the Glast perspective that is opening up our "new window of the Universe?"
JoAnne sometime ago showed this in relation to the computerize methods used to chart measures on how we may now see the sun for example, in Gamma ray. The "Tscan method" was used in regard to Neutrino research.
Just so you know at what scale most certain.
It is important that the chosen highlighted paragraph written in that comment section and repeated here, be seen in this light, and compared to computerize models attained from our methods of measure.
While the idea here,I am moving away from the spherical cow, by recognizing the way in which observers now see the cosmos as we implement our methods of measure using computerized techniques.
Geometrical expression as I have come to understand is my own unique way in which geometrical expression is thought of, and I gave examples here of a discredited person and their research in regards to sonoluminescence, as an example of this feature to map the SNR explosive values. It is only by analogy which I give this relation to help one see this expression in the vacuum of space, as well as leading evolutions in regard to an example of M87 in it's is unfolding.
The Lighthouse example can be seen here as well, and in this relation Glast measures would help to serve us to see this "new window of the universe" in the way it measures and compartmenting the computerized charting as we observe from this new perspective.
Update:The value of a spherical cow
Links to this post Labels: John Bahcall, Lighthouse, Neutrinos, Spherical Cow, SuperNova, SuperNovas, Themis, Tscan
Images of Super-Kamiokande events from tscan
The Navier-Stokes equations are also of great interest in a purely mathematical sense. Somewhat surprisingly, given their wide range of practical uses, mathematicians have yet to prove that in three dimensions solutions always exist (existence), or that if they do exist they do not contain any infinities, singularities or discontinuities (smoothness). These are called the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problems. The Clay Mathematics Institute has called this one of the seven most important open problems in mathematics, and offered a $1,000,000 prize for a solution or a counter-example.
SETH LLOYD — HOW FAST, HOW SMALL, AND HOW POWERFUL?: MOORE'S LAW AND THE ULTIMATE LAPTOP
His stunning conclusion?
"The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. This is because conventional laptops use many degrees of freedom to store a bit whereas the ultimate laptop uses just one. There are considerable advantages to using many degrees of freedom to store information, stability and controllability being perhaps the most important. Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. A typical state of the ultimate laptop's memory looks like a plasma at a billion degrees Kelvin — like a thermonuclear explosion or a little piece of the Big Bang! Clearly, packaging issues alone make it unlikely that this limit can be obtained, even setting aside the difficulties of stability and control."
Ask Lloyd why he is interested in building quantum computers and you will get a two part answer. The first, and obvious one, he says, is "because we can, and because it's a cool thing to do." The second concerns some interesting scientific implications. "First," he says, "there are implications in pure mathematics, which are really quite surprising, that is that you can use quantum mechanics to solve problems in pure math that are simply intractable on ordinary computers." The second scientific implication is a use for quantum computers was first suggested by Richard Feynman in 1982, that one quantum system could simulate another quantum system. Lloyd points out that "if you've ever tried to calculate Feynman diagrams and do quantum dynamics, simulating quantum systems is hard. It's hard for a good reason, which is that classical computers aren't good at simulating quantum systems."
Bold emphasis added by me.
The issue of computer language would have been to reveal the deeper implications of the cosmos, while we entertain the "phase changes the universe will go through." While we may think of the blackhole used as a weapon on April fools day, what use the Ipod in Mission Impossible III if it were to melt into a superfluid and bring forth all the ills of the past? It 's in the supefluid state that all of the information of the past makes it's way again into this universe, and supplies the dark energy for the current state of the Universe?
Plato said:
Hey I got one for you. You remember mission impossible. Well in this case, your only able to use the ipod once, then it turns into a super liquid.
While we consider newer technologies what use to "see the sun in a different way" now that we understand the range of "the window of the universe" now incorporates gamma ray detection, it forces upon us the end result of Tscan compiled data?
The Tip of the Pyramid and Quantum Gravity
Michio Kaku:
I like to compare it to wandering in the desert, and stumbling over a tiny pebble. When we push away the sand, we find that this "pebble" is actually the tip of a gargantuan pyramid. After years of excavation, we find wondrous hieroglyphics, strange tunnels and secret passageways. Every time we think we are at the bottom stage, we find a stage below it. Finally, we think we are at the very bottom, and can see the doorway.
One day, some bright, enterprising physicist, perhaps inspired by this article, will complete the theory, open the doorway, and use the power of pure thought to determine if string theory is a theory of everything, anything, or nothing.
Links to this post Labels: Faster Than Light, Seth Lloyd, SuperKamiokande, Tscan


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Wolves will not risk Michael Kightly or Sylvan Ebanks-Blake at Sunderland
Wolverhampton Wanderers manager Mick McCarthy has no intention of risking further injury to Michael Kightly and Sylvan Ebanks-Blake by rushing them back too quickly.
The pair both returned after lay-offs at Old Trafford on Wednesday night and turned in creditable performances in a 1-0 Carling Cup defeat to Manchester United.
Yet McCarthy has already ruled the pair out of contention for his starting line-up at his old club Sunderland on Sunday.
"They won't be starting," he said. "In Kightly's case, it is impossible for someone back after six months out to play 70 minutes at full pelt, then another 70 on Sunday. It is great that they have played but we will have fresh legs in the team."
Kightly had hip and foot operations in the summer, while Ebanks-Blake has been out with a hamstring injury.
It could be argued McCarthy's reluctance to push the pair – plus Jody Craddock and Kevin Foley who also turned out at Old Trafford – highlights the strength of his squad.
However, the former Republic of Ireland chief admits there is a far more pragmatic reason.
"It is not a question of being content with a place on the bench," he argued. "It is nothing to do with ability. It is because they aren't fit enough."


This eloquent statement, a salute to the horses they breed and race, graces the indoor arena owned by Gary and Dee Hoovestal of Helena. The image conjured by the words suggests a rider bowing to his steed- an appropriate gesture for all who know and love everything equine.
A honeybee flits from one flower to another in your garden. Instead of waving the bee away, step back and allow it to do its work because bees are important to our livelihoods. According to the American Honey Producers Association, bees pollinate one-third of the food we eat. Without bees we wouldn't have that food. For us here in North Central Montana, the good news is that the honeybees at Smoot Honey Company, Inc., are here. They arrived back in Montana from their winter home the first two weeks of April.
Yanuszka's thoughts, calculated and collected, have hardly dimmed even into her nineties. She's a quiet headliner in her own right, though not an open book, until she verbally pages through decades of her life. And then, there is no shortage of source material especially when she recalls the 1940s; that part of her work was so concealed, even she didn't know what she was doing.
Her "nuggets of the past" are compelling.
She knew the slogan: "Loose lips, sink ships," which indicated there was no conversing about your employment experience or what you did.
Home owner Terry Johnson's life reads like a Western narrative: log cabins and agriculture. Growing up on two small ranches homesteaded by his grandfathers outside of Deer Lodge, Johnson says, "It's rough terrain over there. But I had agriculture in my fingers early on." As a child, he grew vegetables, participated in 4-H, and raised hogs and chickens. Eventually, his family donated one of the family's original log cabins to the Deer Lodge Historical Museum.


Isabelle Faust gave a short and unusual encore that she kindly announced: an Amusement by French composer Louis-Gabriel Guillemain.
Chung and the Dutch Orchestra were back for a most remarkable "Eroica". The 2nd movement of the Symphony, the Marcia funebre, in Beethoven's beloved C minor, was outstanding, with its multiple fugatos and a superb climax. The Scherzo allowed for a short "break" before the extraordinary Finale, with its "pointillist" and fugal treatment of the theme. What an excellent evening!
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Manhole covers are points of access for the sewerage industry. They are the slabs of metal usually associated with the dirty and smelly world of drainage. This is not the best picture, and you might already wonder what in the world can be beautiful about this?
Art is such a powerful form of expression and lately people have started to experiment with unconventional methods introducing new techniques and avant-garde concepts. From coffee artists, 3D digital artists to dirty car art, this new wave of creativity is transforming the face of the world. As you might have already guessed, the sewerage industry has also found a way to embellish these iron pieces into beautiful designs creating a statement of the industrial heritage.
This global movement has grabbed the attention of our drainage surveyors, so we would like to share with you some of the most beautiful manhole covers across the world.
These iron sculptures are so diverse, and so easily integrated into the contemporary urbanism that people walk past manhole covers without even noticing them. Nonetheless, they reflect the values and the trends of the society so it's great that people are now appreciating more of these extraordinary artworks which are just beneath our feet. Nowadays, there are a few books published showcasing manhole designs, and there is even a new buzz on social media using the #drainspotting hashtag. However, we voted that the most fun and unconventional way of promoting the manhole covers is with this new craze of guerrilla printing firstly adopted by Raubdruckerin, who literally prints clothing and bags with these urban industrial designs.


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The weather which once again brought Londonderry to a standstill for most of yesterday morning is thankfully set to end today, culminating in a high of 12 degrees this Saturday.
School closures, traffic jams and delays followed a night of heavier than predicted snowfall on Monday evening into Tuesday morning. Blizzard like conditions affected higher ground and areas between Ardmore and Newbuildings saw more than half a foot of snow fall in just under an hour causing snow ploughs to try and clear the area for the first time this Winter.
Londonderry was hardest hit in terms of school closures with a total of 31 schools closed yesterday morning. Both Foyle and Lisneal Colleges were closed and several private bus companies were forced to suspend their services for the morning rush hour due to often treacherous road conditions.
Local primary schools were also hit hard and on the city side both the Fountain primary school and the Model school were forced to close. The Waterside experienced similar difficulties with the Oakgrove, Ashlea, Listress and Newbuildings all unable to open their doors.
City of Derry airport managed to stay open throughout the morning but there were flight delays and bus routes across the county were also affected with the Ballymena to Limavady service being forced to stop at Kilrea. The morning train services from Londonderry to Belfast also experienced between a one and two hour delay.
The morning rush hour also proved difficult for those travelling from the Waterside to the city side and vice versa as difficult conditions at both ends of the Foyle Bridge caused traffic jams which took more than an hour to clear in some places as heavy tailbacks caused a domino effect. Motorists were advised to use the Craigavon bridge where possible.
Derry City Council advised that civic amenity sites at Park, Claudy and Glendermott Road had to remain closed but were pleased to announce that most local parks and museums were able to remain open with the exception of the Foyle Valley Railway.
The recent bad weather follows two months of intermittent snowy and icy weather but this week's snowfall is in sharp contrast to March 2014, which although wet at the beginning of the month was warmer and drier than average as a whole.
From today though temperatures are set to climb gradually and will reach balmy double figures by the weekend. And forecasters do not predict a return to icy conditions for the rest of the month before the offical start of Spring on March 27.


Preheat a skillet to medium heat. Remove the chorizo from the casing and cook over medium heat until cooked through, about 8 minutes. Remove from heat and transfer chorizo to a paper towel lined plate to drain and cool.
Mix the cream cheese and chorizo.
Stuff each jalapeno half with cream cheese mixture. Wrap with half a strip of bacon and secure with a toothpick.
Prepare the grill for direct cooking. Place peppers onto the grill and cook for 8-10 minutes, turning frequently. Baste peppers with Stubb's Original Bar-B-Q sauce in the last 2 minutes of cooking.
Alternatively, cook in the oven for 25-30 minutes at 350°F, adding the Bar-B-Q Sauce during the last 10 minutes of cooking.


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Microsoft Employee Giving Program is changing lives and helping young people follow their dreams
By	Larry Carroll	 31 October, 2016 Microsoft News Center Staff
Not long ago, Kiara Blue found herself at a precipitous crossroads. She had always dreamed of a career in technology, but as a young woman of color, she felt isolated among fellow students who didn't look like her, and she didn't see how she'd ever be able to repay the cost of college.
"I was feeling alone, and rapidly sinking into debt," she recalls. "So, I ran. I ran from college and I fell into a cycle of dead-end jobs, living paycheck to paycheck, desperately hoping for something different."
Microsoft's trailblazing Employee Giving Program has helped transform the lives of people like Blue, whose hopelessness ended when she found Year Up. The organization seeks to bring low-income young adults out of poverty and into a professional career in a single year — and it's one of more than 31,000 nonprofits that Microsoft employees have supported since 1983.
Microsoft matches each employee's donations to nonprofits and contributes $25 for every hour an employee volunteers. The program has brought more than $1 billion to nonprofits' efforts to help people around the globe and raised a record-setting $125 million last year alone.
"Fostering employee giving is a great source of employee pride and morale, and it's one way our employees can personally contribute to our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more," says Mary Snapp, a corporate vice president and head of Microsoft Philanthropies.
The Employee Giving Program and other efforts by Microsoft Philanthropies "invest our greatest assets — our people, technology, grants and voice — to advance a future that is for everyone, where the benefits of technology, and the opportunities it can open, reach those who need it most," Snapp says.
Part of what changed Blue's troubled trajectory was Jacky Wright, Microsoft's Seattle-based vice president of IT Strategic Services. Wright serves on the board of Year Up Puget Sound in Washington state and mentored Blue as the young woman worked her way through the program.
Wright says when she was younger, she never realized she could pursue a career in technology; she "fell into computer science" after spending years in school without any exposure to it at all.
"Now, the ability for me to be a role model, to move the dial and expose young adults to this world — possibly one that could lead to rich careers that are a way out for people born less fortunate — that is really important to me," she says.
Kiara Blue and Jacky Wright share a laugh as they catch up in the lobby of Wright's Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures)
Year Up, a nonprofit supported by individual employees through the Microsoft Employee Giving Program as well as Microsoft Philanthropies, provides low-income young people a year of professional skills training, internships and other development opportunities. These young people receive a stipend that allows them to focus on the program without having to work in a full-time job on top of it.
Wright has helped many of them land jobs, increasing diversity in corporate ranks. About 80 Year Up participants intern at Microsoft each year, and Wright hopes to see that number soon reach 200.
"I take my role and responsibility as a woman of color in technology very seriously," she says. "What can I do to affect change? The way to do that is through education."
Blue, who says she was raised in "one of those towns you pass through to get to something better," is grateful for the help she received from Wright and Year Up. She landed a Microsoft internship working for Xbox and is now a risk analyst at Expedia.
"Jacky is an incredible woman; I appreciate her offering insight when I had issues in my life," Blue says. "Thanks to huge efforts from Microsoft's Giving Campaign, a ton of Year Up students not only have the financial support and access to higher education, but are also welcomed into different departments by managers who are genuinely invested in their personal and professional success."
She adds: "When a person is given the chance to flourish without compromising themselves, they get the chance to showcase their best self."
To Wright, few professional triumphs can compare with the pride of watching someone like Blue blossom. "She is a really intelligent, really sharp young lady who started college but never finished, and was in a rut when she joined Year Up," explains Wright. "But she would take three or four bus rides just to get to the program — she was so highly motivated."
They've become really close, which has been "such a rewarding experience," Wright says. "We forged a relationship that helped her navigate what she had to do to have a better life."
Just over 2000 miles away, Kevin Sheck is leading another effort to help close diversity gaps and inequities in the technology industry. A St. Louis-based technical account manager of Premier Support, the 16-year Microsoft veteran not only volunteers between 500 and 800 hours per year, he also maximizes the company's match on donations, directing $15,000 to a youth program he helped create.
"For me, it is doing something I love to do for the benefit of others," he says of STEM 2U Youth Programs, a volunteer-led organization that encourages kids' interest in science, technology, engineering and math through robotics, clubs, camps and more. "The greatest impact you can have on diversity is to help youth explore what they can accomplish before biases limit their possibilities."
Microsoft employee Kevin Sheck helped create STEM 2U Youth Programs, a nonprofit that helps get kids excited about robotics and other technology. (Photo by Kristie Deeter)
Sheck estimates that his efforts have reached about 200 school children, many of them like one 5th grade boy who began the program recently. "He was walking around, not knowing what to do, very quiet," he says. "I stopped what I was doing and said, 'Let's go look around together.' I spent a few minutes with him, getting him started."
He recalls the boy's animated response to seeing the Lego bricks that STEM 2U uses in its program. "Suddenly, he was off and running!" he says. "When his mother came to pick him up, he said, 'Mom, I'm not done yet!' That breakthrough happened in one hour."
The moment was just one of the many ways the thousands of nonprofits that benefit from the Employee Giving Program are making a difference in the world, doing everything from providing shelter and helping international refugees to protecting forests.
"Dana, Emily, Joey, Matthew, Diana, Paige, Ella — these are not just names, but real kids directly impacted by the Microsoft Giving Campaign," Sheck says, listing off students he's mentored. "Every parent knows the joy of helping their own child learn and grow as a person. Now imagine the joy of helping tens, even hundreds of children learn and grow, to achieve more."
The Employee Giving Program's matching contributions "make it possible to provide programs that are accessible to all youth, regardless of their individual financial situation," he adds. "The company multiplies our impact from providing both volunteer time and money to organizations that are in need of both."
On the surface, Sheck and Wright may seem to have little in common with Anne Disabato — with the exception of their place of employment. A Seattle-based technical account manager, she joined Microsoft out of college, relocating from Chicago, and has been with the company for two years.
Microsoft employee Anne Disabato, left, and fellow Emerging Leader volunteer Laura Mickelson transplant baby tomatoes to prepare for a sale to benefit Seattle Tilth Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands. (Photo courtesy of United Way)
But one of the reasons she wanted to work for Microsoft, she says, was "because they are such strong corporate citizens." When a nonprofit fair came to Microsoft and presented various options, Disabato found herself attracted to an organization known worldwide for helping communities.
"United Way had an Emerging Leaders program that was geared toward someone like me, someone new to the community who wants to volunteer but isn't sure what commitment level they're ready for," she explains. "For me, that was a good way to sample things and figure out where I fit in."
Working with United Way of King County in Washington state, Disabato says she immediately took to the way the organization is "treating the symptoms and causes of inequality by making an impact at a policy level and a city level to solve the problems systematically."
Through the Emerging Leaders program, she has volunteered at such places as North Helpline Emergency Services & Food Bank, Plymouth Housing Group's Pat Williams apartments (assisting the homeless) and the Marra Farm Giving Garden (growing fresh, organic produce for local food banks). These days, she co-chairs the Emerging Leaders volunteer committee.
"A lot of young people who work at Microsoft are focused on their work, but we are gifted with the ability to understand technology," says Disabato, who has overseen a growth in volunteers from 80 to the current 1,200. "And even in small doses, we can use that to make a huge impact on our communities."
Disabato considers the Employee Giving Program a powerful opportunity to help people who need it.
"It's incredible to have a company culture that not only encourages you to give back, but will fund it," she says. "You can find what you're passionate about, and just go for it."
Lead image: Jacky Wright stands with some of the people who landed Microsoft internships through Year Up: John Orbino, Tomas Abebe, Bashir Abbas, Angelie Mendoza, Tyler Bonnevie, Steven Tran and Kiara Blue. (Photo by Scott Eklund/Red Box Pictures)
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Curator Jodi Hauptman gives NYC-ARTS a tour of the exhibition "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty," on view at the Museum of Modern Art through July 24, 2016.
A visit to Bowne & Co. Stationers and Bowne Printers at the South Street Seaport Museum for a conversation with Master Printer Robert Warner.
A behind the scenes look at the lives of three dancers from American Ballet Theatre: Calvin Royal III, Skylar Brandt, and Stella Abrera.
Through June 11, the New York Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert present the second NY PHIL BIENNIAL, a wide-ranging exploration of today's music by an array of contemporary and modern composers. The biennial brings together an international roster of composers and performers for concerts presented on the Lincoln Center campus and in venues throughout the city.
A behind the scenes look at the lives of three dancers from American Ballet Theatre. A tour of the exhibition "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty," on view at the Museum of Modern Art through July 24, 2016. And a trip to LongHouse Reserve, on the eastern end of Long Island, for a conversation with its founder Jack Lenor Larsen, an internationally known textile designer, author, and collector.


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Q: Issue regarding Graphics 2D drawString I have written my own Pie chart class and have decided to add a displayValues() which basically displays values, one of the parameters is Direction which is my ENUM consisting of LEFT, RIGHT, TOP, BOTTOM.
Basically the drawString will draw according to the Direction. The other parameter is also the padding between the String and the Pie Chart.
Everything is going well however the issue comes up when I want to create a padding when direction == LEFT.
Issue being that I cannot set the drawString(String str, getX() - 10, int y) as the string will still go inside the chart.
I would like to be able to keep the padding from right to left as opposed to the usual left to right. Is this possible?
Here's what I'm trying to get at:

A: Where g is your Graphics object, use
int textWidth = g.getFontMetrics().stringWidth(str)

to get the width of the text you want to draw. Then you can replace the getX() - 10 with getX() - textWidth - 10, which will position the text so that the end of it is 10 pixels to the left of getX(), as desired.

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December 6, 2017 December 7, 2017 / typicaljenn
When I was younger I used to make fun of my mom for watching All My Children, a soap opera from the 1900s that I found to be absolutely ridiculous. People would disappear and reappear at random, story lines became more outrageous or were repeated using different people, and there was always the possibility of an affair between friends. Pfft, garbage. "I don't know how you watch this crap", I would say to my mother, a comment that got me in trouble for my use of the word "crap" (which is probably why I curse so much now). Anyway, the point is my mom watched crap.
And here I sit, more than 20 years later, preparing to give you the rundown on a show where people disappear and reappear at random, story lines become more outrageous or are repeated using different people, and there is always the possibility of an affair between friends. (I'm not my mom. I'm not my mom. I'm not my mom)
That's right. Vanderpump Rules is back and their reality is better scripted than ever! We're only one episode in but already half of the casts' lives are in peril and the other half still has the rest of the season to go. And just like their writers did for the season premiere, let's go ahead and dive right in.
So how about that Scheana? I'm not paranoid or anything but last season I couldn't help but feel like Scheana's sole purpose on the show was to annoy me. All she did was whine and cry and performed circus tricks for acceptance, all while simultaneously staring at herself in a mirror and ignoring her husband. A mere few months later and Scheana 2.0 has a new boyfriend, is now friends with Lala, and no longer speaks to Katie and Stassi. In fact, the days of Scheana crawling behind Katie are so over that she makes it a point to tell Katie that she isn't invited to her birthday party. In addition to reinventing her attitude she's also reinvented her apartment; she took it from a Scheana shrine with an occasional photo of Shay peppered in and turned it into a Scheana shrine with a bedroom that's been converted into a walk-in closet. "A dream come true" she proclaims.
Katie and Stassi seem to have adjusted to life without Scheana. Stassi has a new apartment and is back with her ex-boyfriend, Patrick. Katie is enjoying married life, reassuring us viewers that her and Schwartz are headed for the ultimate in #couplegoals – death. Mazel tov. However, before they can get there Schwartz (finally) has some business to attend to: making the restaurant Tom Tom happen with Tom Sandoval. How hard could it be? Incredibly if Tom Sandoval has any say in it, which he believes he has all the say in it. It turns out the deal Tom squared was offered was an investment deal that made each Tom a 10% owner with an investment of $100K. Sandoval isn't quite clear about how this works and while at SUR, voices his concerns to Ariana regarding Ken and Lisa's control over the whole project. And just around the corner, Ken and Lisa sit, overhearing every word. (Dun dun dun!) As expected Lisa is pissed and it looks like Sandoval may have blown this whole thing.
Good job, Sandoval. Surprisingly that wasn't even the biggest fuck up of the episode. Nope. It's Scheana's birthday party and everyone is there; even people you forgot were on the show once. First, Scheana introduces her new boyfriend, Rob, to Lisa and boasts "this is all I've wanted for 10 years" to which Lisa responds by shutting her down and reminding her that she WAS married at one point and not to discount that. THEN former SURver Faith tells Brittany how beautiful she is, then proceeds to tell James that she slept with Jax and could be pregnant. (Dun dun dun!) Sandoval has already heard this rumor and could have easily called Jax about it but the party seemed more like the perfect place to discuss it. Jax, who's had so many nose jobs he's starting to sound like he has permanent allergies, denies the allegations because he's Jax. It gets back to Brittany and the episode ends with Brittany threatening to take the dogs and leave him if the rumor is true.
Other things that happened were James' girlfriend is back, Kristen got a combined total of one minute of air time, Jax and Brittany live down the hall from Katie and Schwartz, Ariana cut her hair, Sandoval did not know nostalgia was a word.
Speaking of words it's time to play "What's the Word?" But because this is 2017, the year that declared war on me, they've all decided to recycle the word "literally". No worries, we still have two more episodes to go before we have to guess the official word or phrase of the season.
In the meantime we have so much more to figure out: did Jax cheat on Brittany? Is Faith pregnant? Will Tom Tom still get to be part owners of Tom Tom? Will they say more words so the game I invented won't be a total loss? Find out next week on the continuing story of Typical Jenn writes about Vanderpump Rules.
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I will be the new Education and Community Outreach Coordinator. This is something I'm very happy to do, and to be a part of it will also give me a really good opportunity to continue doing the work I love while padding my resume some more to eventually become a park ranger. I'm super thankful to LHIP for giving me the opportunity to get my foot through the door and be something more than what I originally thought I could be. Now I have the opportunity to help make people like me do something similar, and be a part of something bigger than themselves. This internship was a bit of a gamble, but the investment has paid off huge. Everything right now in my life is fitting together so well, like a puzzle I can do with my eyes closed. While I do like talking about myself, I think I'm just going to end it here before it becomes too much. I hope everyone else in the program got what they were looking for.


corn (Also, Wesley's expression in the picture just cracks me up!).
Russ and I went on a date night Sunday night to one of our favorite Des Moines spots, Malo. We both had a taco and a salad. It was the perfect amount of food and oh so tasty!
I'd planned Tuesday as the day I took Wesley to our local amusement park, but the weather was rainy. So, we hit up Village Inn for breakfast, enjoyed a trip to Target, and played some play-doh instead. We're still going to the amusement park next week, though!
I need to be a better steward of my time, and going through a 7 Habits of Highly Effective People training this week was a good reminder of that. I have an online calendar and a blog calendar, but I don't often sit down and purposefully plan out my weeks, so I'm starting that. I picked up all of these planner goodies at the Target dollar spot, and I'm excited to start August off on the right foot.
I also got a Pebble Time smart watch this week. I don't need a full out Apple Watch, I don't work out enough or run enough to need a work out watch, so I think the Pebble Time is a good fit for me. It does notifications for calls, texts, FB messages, and more. It also tracks steps and a few other things. So, if you are in the market for a fit bit, I'm selling mine and all the super pretty bands I have on Poshmark. If you use code: JKAYY when you download the Poshmark App, you'll get a $5 shopping credit.
Wednesday is National S'Mores Day! I'm pumped to share a fun s'mores recipe with you along with these lovely ladies!