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Before filming on 'Sunshine' started over one year ago now, director Danny Boyle was keen to give the eight actors a taste of what it would be like to be a real team of astronauts.
As we join the film, these characters have been together for many years- both on their mission in space and previously in training on Earth- and Danny wanted to make sure that when filming started the actors operated as a team. He also wanted to school them in science and sci-fi as well as give them some real flight experience.
All eight actors lived together in one house. They spent 24 hours a day with one another in order to fast track their team bonding. They all learned to SCUBA dive and did some underwater training to give them an idea of what it feels like to float and be forced to move slowly in the way you would do in space. They each learned to fly a plane on a £15 million flight simulator. And they were each taken up, individually, in a plane to experience Zero Gravity. It worked. Within weeks they really were thinking like the crew of the Icarus II.
We've got a new video showing each of the actors' reactions to being in Zero G.


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Q: Antonym for ameliorate I have been searching online for a particular word; that approximates to an antonym of ameliorate. I am after a specific word.

ameliorate verb
to make better
Synonyms ameliorate, amend, better, enhance, enrich, help, meliorate, perfect, refine, upgrade
Related Words correct, emend, rectify, reform, remediate, remedy; edit, fine-tune, redraft, refurbish, rehab, rehabilitate, revamp, revise, rework; beef (up), boost, fortify, intensify, reinforce (also reenforce), strengthen; fine, hone, polish; retouch, touch up
Near Antonyms damage, endamage, harm, hurt, impair, injure, spoil, tarnish, vitiate; blemish, blight, deface, disfigure, flaw, mar; diminish, lessen, lower, reduce
Antonyms worsen

The word is eluding me... it sounds like detiliorate.. not deteriorate. My example is, probably, misleading, as my searches on google are not throwing up any alternative words.. So I'm probably way off base.
Anyone know the word I am trying to remember?

A: exacerbate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  exacerbate
      v 1: make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain" [syn: {worsen},
           {aggravate}, {exacerbate}, {exasperate}] [ant:
           {ameliorate}, {amend}, {better}, {improve}, {meliorate}]
      2: exasperate or irritate [syn: {exacerbate}, {exasperate},
         {aggravate}]

A: I don't think there is an antonym that ends with an -iorate because the words ameliorate and meliorate derive from a single stem (see below). The closest etymological antonym is aggravate
ameliorate comes from French meilleur and ameliorer - the direct French antonym for this word is aggraver meaning 'to make worse'.

A: After I posted this, I remembered the word!
deleterious

del·e·te·ri·ous adjective \ˌde-lə-ˈtir-ē-əs\
  : damaging or harmful
Synonyms
  adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, dangerous, harmful, detrimental, evil, hurtful, ill, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, noxious, pernicious, prejudicial, wicked
  Antonyms
  anodyne, benign, harmless, hurtless, innocent, innocuous, inoffensive, safe
  Related Words
  hostile, inimical, unfriendly; contagious, deadly, infectious, infective, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, poisonous, venomous; insidious, menacing, ominous, sinister, threatening; hazardous, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing, parlous, perilous, risky, unsafe, unsound; nasty, noisome, unhealthful, unhealthy, unwholesome; destructive, fatal, killer, lethal, malignant, ruinous
  Near Antonyms
  advantageous, beneficial, useful; favorable, good, propitious; curative, healthful, healthy, helpful, palliative, remedial, salubrious, salutary, wholesome; secure, sound; benignant; noncorrosive, nondestructive, nonfatal, noninfectious, nonlethal, nonpoisonous, nonpolluting, nontoxic, nonvenomous

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This is an interactive LED map I made of San Francisco. I built a 96 pixel x 96 pixel custom LED screen that can act as a computer's external monitor. I also made a plywood sheet with holes cut out in the shape of San Francisco. The grid of holes (almost) perfectly matches the grid of LEDs behind it, allowing light to shine through. Because the light shines through a thin layer of plywood, what light you can see is dependent upon the viewing angle. Here, the center of the map is directly opposite the camera, so the central pixels appear brightest. Some of the outer pixels cannot be seen directly - you are only seeing the reflection of individual LEDs off of their respective plywood holes.
Clockwise from top left: - The plywood screen set slightly apart from the LED display. - The rear of the LED display. It is composed of eighteen 32x16 LED panels, wired together for data and power. Power runs vertically (three columns), while data runs horizontally (six rows). Each row of data plugs into the receiver card (the left green board), which is connected via ethernet to the sender card (the right green board) which in turn can be connected to any computer. - Close-up of the plywood grid. Holes were drilled by a Shopbot Alpha CNC router. There are over 7000 of them. - Close-up of the LED grid. You can see slight deviations in the uniformity of the grid where different panels meet.
Here you can see the interactive nature of the map. What the map displays is basically up to your imagination. It can show video or static images. Clockwise from top left: - A representation of San Francisco's fog moving in. This is actually a kinetic map - it runs a .gif continually. - San Francisco neighborhoods - San Francisco apartment rental prices. - Major San Francisco roads. This is also a motion graphic. Soon it will be able to show major traffic routes in real-time.


Been a while since I've done some of these… Let's look for some more. Enough of the movies…we need to get back to a series. Let's see… Enough of the space themes and science fiction. Time to get back to a series that personifies more about Japan… And what better way to do that than samurai?
How about samurai plus kawaii young schoolgirls in underage romance?
If you look deep enough into Japanese culture, you eventually find out it has its own set of folk heroes, similar to the United States or any other culture for that matter. Individuals who have basis in reality but have become such a symbol of modern myth and tall tales that they've become legendary. One of the greatest of those in Japanese culture was Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi, an infamous one-eyed samurai from Japan's feudal era who served under the Tokugawa shogunate as the premiere samurai in the Yagyu clan. Aside from being a legendary swordsman, probably the most remarkable thing about Yagyu Jubei is the fact that there's very little actually known about him, either in his upbringing, why he inexplicably left the Tokugawa court for 12 years and seemed to vanish entirely during that time period, or even how he lost his eye. The fact that his own clan had no records of either time period is even more shocking. As a result, he's a subject of popular fiction in what happened during those gaps in history.
This short series (13 episodes again…although they actually manage to fill these ones up pretty well) doesn't touch so much on the 12-year absence (that's saved for the follow-up series to this one) as the end of his life. In this series, Yagyu Jubei was known as the greatest swordsman in the world…even in history…and had such legendary skill that every other samurai in the world became totally obsessed in mind, body, and even soul in trying to defeat him to prove themselves as the greatest. This obsession is so great that it dominated both them and generations after them, carrying on through the centuries even after Yagyu Jubei's death, as the spirits who failed to cross blades with him now seek for him to become reincarnated so they can have their "shot at the title". This series focuses on the Ryojoji clan in particular, which I'm not sure is purely fictional or not, and their undying leader who not only dominates the thoughts of the modern day clan into wanting to fight Yagyu Jubei's descendant, but actually possesses the strongest warriors of the clan to try and do the deed himself.
Luckily for her, Yagyu Jubei's wimpy, untalented samurai assistant from when he was alive, Koinosuke, who refused to die for over 400 years (Don't ask…a lot of stuff like that in this series doesn't make sense) until he found Yagyu Jubei's descendant presents her with the "Lovely Eyepatch", an eyepatch that, as the name implies, is shaped like a heart. For the purposes of this anime, however, it's effectively "the Mask", because whenever Jiyo puts it on she immediately morphs into an adult badass samurai so strong and skilled she can defeat opponents without ever crossing her blade with theirs and strike them with such force the mere "air" deflected by her blade hits them with the power of a cut.
Yet in spite of that fact, Jiyo is such a pacifist and so opposed to being a samurai that she hates this revelation and longs to be free of the "curse" of having to be Yagyu Jubei's descendant, and continuously tries to shirk the eyepatch in spite of the fact the enemies won't keep coming and she can beat them without killing them. She longs for her own life separate from this reincarnation and fate set for her, which confounds her ability to be able to fight off these ever-escalating foes. Yet at the same time, as the fights progress, it becomes clear every time Jiyo defeats a member of the Ryojoji clan, she also "frees them from the curse"…letting them forget their grudge and move on with their lives, making fighting the "morally right" thing to do in this situation, so it seems. Hence, if she wants to actually do the "right" thing, she has to keep fighting in order to "free" her own opponents. Things get even worse when it turns out the guy at school she's falling for, a boy named Shiro, is actually the twin brother of the head of the Ryojoji clan and in spite of his rejection of their "philosophy", feels himself compelled to battle her as he himself is a master with the sword and wants the "honor".
Sounds pretty badass, right? We're in for a lot of violence and action with some drama mixed in, right?
However, that's only part of the series. The rest of it is…pretty much complete batsh't crazy random wackiness.
Until now the series has seemed pretty serious from what I said, but it's insane. The only other animes I've ever seen with more fourth wall humor is "Excel Saga" and "FLCL", and that's saying a lot. There's these three guys at school named Boss, Oozaru, and Kozaru (and yes, the latter two look like monkeys) who form their own little gang who are constantly going on hare-brained and progressively-more-insane schemes that often intersect with Jiyo and the plot. They progressively defy more of reality, Boss' own shirt keeps changing in literally every scene what it reads, and they even comment on the fact that when they're not essential to the plot the animators draw them poorly. Speaking of which…most of the side characters in this story are so intentionally drawn bad that it almost looks like something out of a Lewis Carroll story. Both villains and heroes. And some of the reactions are so crazy and wild, as well as the things both sides do…at times this just turns into an off-the-wall comedy. Like one of the former bad guys just suddenly breaking into a random song about how he loves life while the rest of the cast angrily chases after him trying to get him to "focus". Not once, mind you…but twice.
Yet remarkably, it gets rather serious at some points too. Turns out Jiyo's father is haunted by a rather bad event in his past. He used to be far more devoted to his work when his wife was still alive, but that changed one night when he was working late and his daughter called him, saying her mom (his wife) was sick and to come home. He ignored it, because the doctor she went to said it wasn't serious and that she'd be better shortly. When he finally got home…he found his daughter had been lying next to his dead wife for an indeterminate length of time.
I mean…damn. That's pretty powerful for any anime I've ever seen, especially a 13 episode one. But wait…there's more! Naturally, he becomes a stay-at-home dad after this and it takes him months to rebuild his relationship with his daughter, and after that he distrusts doctors worse than Mel Gibson's character distrusts vets in "Signs". Yet at one point, it just so happens one of Jiyo's opponents that she defeats is a woman who looks identical to his dead wife and Jiyo's dead mother. And eventually, Jiyo's dad meets her and begins to fall for her. But at one point, when she jumps in to try and help Jiyo out, she gets badly wounded…possibly mortally…and Jiyo's father has no choice but to swallow his fear and get the courage to take her to a doctor to get treated in spite of what happened in his past when he finds there's no way he can bind up her injury himself. That's also pretty deep.
So, in a series that has lots of wacky humor as well as action and genuine drama, it has to be good…right?
Er…well, for the most part, yeah. Yet amazingly, for all the stuff going for it, it's not as great as it could be.
This series seems a bit "unfocused". It has parts that are wacky, parts that are dramatic, parts that are full of action, and parts that are a little sad…but they never seem to "work together" well. While it doesn't seem nearly as "padded" as other 13 episode series I've looked at, it does seem to waste time a bit. It doesn't seem to know when's a good time to focus on action and when's a good time to focus on comedy or inner drama. It does to an extent…but not a great one.
A lot of the episodes seem to be the same thing repeated, especially the fights with the bad guys. Similar to "Final Fantasy Unlimited", we wait and wait for Jiyo to put on the eyepatch…and then the fight is over in an instant. The only fight she really has any trouble with is the last one, and even that's kind of bad. They do have the "added threat" that if Jiyo doesn't defeat an enemy quickly, she's in danger because her soul can only take being in the body of Yagyu Jubei's descendant for so long before she risks losing it to him completely, so that added element was at the end, but…still, it didn't seem too great.
Yet the greatest drawback of the series is in the main character: Jiyo. This girl is such a whiner. In spite of the fact she's constantly attacked by people out to kill her, in spite of the fact she finds out she's doing these people a favor by beating them, and in spite of the fact that when push comes to shove if she decides to wear the eyepatch she can beat them all with ease and put an end to this…she keeps moping, whining, and complaining about wearing the eyepatch. I mean…good gravy…I expected this for an episode or two early on, but every single episode she does it. She has to be the most obnoxious, clueless, and daydreaming twit I've ever seen in my life. When a bunch of guys pull their damn swords on you and you know full well that you'll beat them without doing any lasting damage to them…that you'll actually be setting them free…and you still not only hold out putting the eyepatch on but actually let them beat you once or twice, nearly killing you in the process, because "Waa-waa-waa! I don't wanna be a samurai! I wanna be a schoolgirl!"…you're a moron! You think she'd keep the eyepatch around just for self-defense at least, but no! She doesn't even want to do that! Not even when she knows full well people will be out to kill her! How childish can you be? Does she think if she ignores this problem they'll "go away"?
Other letdowns include the fact that Koinosuke is a wimp. You'd think a feudal samurai alive for 400 years would have something going for him…but no, he pretty much just screams and hides and gets Jiyo the eyepatch from time to time. I know he's partially there just for comic relief…but it doesn't work out a lot. Plus his dub is just awful.
To me, these things really bring down the series. Is it good enough to watch once? Yes. Is it good enough to pop in more than once? Eh…if only Jiyo was a more likable character, I'd say yes. But having to sit through her rather nonsensical angst more then one time is a stretch for anyone. But if you got the time and money to spare…I'd check it out at least once, because it'll be fun the first time.
It may not be Yagyu Jubei's descendant, but it's got one or two moves you won't find anywhere else in 400 years.
What You Should Do With This DVD: Witness the great Yagyu Jubei reborn one last time, then commit it to the great beyond with fond memories.


Welcome to joseki farm (alpha)!
Play a move in the upper-right corner of the board. Your opponent will respond. If you play a move that is not joseki, you will fail instantly.
When you think it is time to play away from the upper-right corner, press the "pass" button. The sequence ends when both players pass.
For each move you play, you will harvest some fruit. You get more fruit for playing moves you have not played recently. Try to harvest as much fruit as possible!
When you complete a sequence, you will harvest a lot of bonus fruit! But if you fail a sequence, some of the fruit in your basket will be lost.
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Q: QMenu activated multiple times I was playing around with the Qt demo browser example mentioned here and noticed an anomaly when I tried making a minor change to the bookmark handling code.
My intention was to make the bookmarks in the toolbar open up in a new tab instead of the existing tab. It works perfectly for the bookmarks that are located directly on the bookmarks tab. But the bookmarks inside a folder are the ones which are behaving weirdly.
I modified the BookmarksToolBar::activated SLOT in the bookmarks.cpp to open the url in a new tab instead of existing tab. That's when I noticed that the SLOT is being called multiple times, the count being equal to the number of times the menu is rendered. i.e, the first time a menu item is activated, the SLOT is called once, the next time an item is activated, the SLOT gets called twice and so on.
I thought there must have been multiple signal-slot connections and thus I checked on the BookmarksToolBar::build() method where the signal-slot connection is done and found that the control flow enters the method only once. I am finding it hard to figure out how the SLOT is being called multiple times.
The project is question is an example project 'Tab browser' which comes with Qt and can be accessed by clicking on 'Examples' on the Qt-Creator welcome screen. Thus I did not post any source code here.
Any guidance or help in understanding the cause for this anomaly and possible solutions to fix it would be appreciated.

A: Found the cause of the  problem and solution myself. The root of the problem is in modelmenu.cpp.
Apparently the ModelMenu::createMenu method connects the QMenu::triggered and QMenu::hovered signals to SLOT each time the method is called. The SLOT triggered emits the signal ModelMenu::activated.
Using Qt::UniqueConnection should solve the issue.
Replacing this:
connect(menu, SIGNAL(triggered(QAction*)), this, SLOT(triggered(QAction*)));
connect(menu, SIGNAL(hovered(QAction*)), this, SLOT(hovered(QAction*)));

With this:
connect(menu, SIGNAL(triggered(QAction*)), this, SLOT(triggered(QAction*)),Qt::UniqueConnection);
connect(menu, SIGNAL(hovered(QAction*)), this, SLOT(hovered(QAction*)),Qt::UniqueConnection);

Fixed the problem. Just leaving this here hoping this would help someone in future.


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Q: i3wm multi-monitor error while moving displays I am trying out i3wm with 2 displays and when I logged in for the first time my displays were swapped around. This doesn't happen with Gnome 3. So I used arandr (GUI tool that generates xrandr commands) to swap my displays so that I can move my mouse across the screen as normal. When I save the change it swaps the monitors and allows me to move my mouse across the 2 displays but the click areas are the opposite.
Eg: If I have chrome on the left display, it would only register click events around the same area on the right side.
Below is a screenshot of how my displays look when I login for the first time (DVI-D-1 should be left and DVI-I-1 should be right).
Below is the xrandr command I run to swap my displays
xrandr --output DP-1 --off --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0 --rotate normal --output DVI-D-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off

Here is the output of the GPU
lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 680] (rev a1)

A: Quick answer
xrandr --output DVI-I-1 --auto --output DVI-D-1 --auto --left-of DVI-I-1

Detailed Answer
I got help from the i3 IRC chat room and they explained that my previous command shown below only 'corrected' a not present offset. Therefore,  I needed to switch the devices 'logically' in order to fully implement my swap. Because my devices already had the correct resolutions set, I just used the --left-of option but you may need to set the --mode and any other options. Your Mileage May Vary.
xrandr --output DP-1 --off --output DVI-I-1 --mode 1920x1080 --pos 1920x0 --rotate normal --output DVI-D-1 --primary --mode 1920x1080 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --output HDMI-1 --off


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We just returned from the wonderful AMA Waterways River Boat Cruise that you helped us to plan. As you recall this was our first time on a river cruise so we were not really sure what to expect.
First, I want to say a BIG thank you for making this recommendation!!!
Your attention to detail and above and beyond fast response time is much appreciated. You did a great job listening to what our priorities were and helping us to narrow down the choices to come up with a trip that was a real custom fit for us.
You took all the guess work out of the planning process and made us feel very secure and confident that we had made a great choice. Our experience on AMA was even more amazing than you predicted.
We are extremely satisfied with your service, so much that we want to book our next cruise with your help.
I can't wait to talk again to start planning.
Thank you so much for being a part of making our dream vacation come true!
We had a fabulous vacation in Ireland and want to say a big thank you! All the arrangements went seamlessly and we especially liked our driver. He and my mom changed the itinerary one day to visit a different part of the country and it was just beautiful.
The hotel was situated in a great location and we enjoyed having breakfast provided each day. The rooms were very nice and the pool was refreshing. Flights were on time and comfortable.
It was great to spend time with our daughter and she really had fun having her grandmother visit. You'd never know she's 87!
After final payment for our cruise, a particular room combo opened up that would be perfect for our family. The lower level supervisors denied our request to upgrade, but Deb kept up the fight and we eventually did get the room upgrades we desired. We had a fabulous time and enjoyed the cabins. I was so pleased we booked an 11-day cruise with her before we even completed this one!
I called Deb to organize a last minute family vacation. She was a pleasure to work with! She gave me 3 great options. All within my timing and budget. She created the ideal itinerary for me and my family.
We had a wonderful time and we will use her time and time again for any of our travel needs. She is a true professional! I highly recommend her.
Just recently married, my wife and I used Deb to plan our honey moon vacation as well as our hotel package for our wedding guests. Through out the whole process, Deb proved to go above and beyond to make sure our plans were perfect. She listened to what we wanted and got right on it (even when we changed our minds more than a few times). The way that she really cared about our vacation and hotel experience was clearly evident and helped make our trip the trip of a lifetime. We will be using her for any future travel plans and I strongly recommend her!
I contacted Deb to assist me in finalizing the details of a trip to Rio de Janeiro for Carnival. She was extremely prompt in all correspondence and assisted me with some tricky ticket bookings. Brazil is not known for speedy communications, but she managed to get me everything I needed right away. I would recommend her to anyone looking for an experienced and kind travel professional. I can't wait to book my next vacation through her!
Deb! You have managed to become my superstar travel agent in such a short time - my birthday couldn't have been better! Thank you for booking my room at the stunning Le Meridian in Tampa for my Giraffe Experience and blowing me away with the phenomenal rates at the new SLS in Vegas, which was beyond stellar! Not only are you a gem to deal with, you also manage to stay within my budget - As I said before, you are a SUPERSTAR! Thank you again for meeting all of my last minute requests and making each special occasion even more amazing than the last!
I want to thank you SO much for everything. You made this trip so easy to plan and it was amazing. Alaska was like nothing I had ever seen. My mother loved working with you and you made it all so easy for us to plan. I appreciate everything so so much! It was a million times easier than trying to plan that all on our own. Hope all is well and to be planning more trips through you in the future !!! Thank you Deb.
Deb, cannot thank you enough for orchestrating our UNFORGETTABLE Mediterranean trip to Spain, France, and Italy. Onboard and on shore, our group was blown away by your service and expertise -- felt like VIPs, with surprise and delights every step of the way. No worries, just WOWs. Cannot wait to book the next!
First, we wanted to extend a very sincere thank you to everyone who joined us on our first Clean Cuisine Cruise onboard the Celebrity Constellation. We owe an extra special thank you to Deb Fogarty from Be Well Travel Cruises for the over-the-top job she did organizing everyone and everything. The cruise was such fun and such a success that we are already planning the next one!
It was our family's first time on Celebrity and it turned out to be the perfect fit for Clean Cuisine as they are currently the only cruise line offering "SPE Certified" cuisine, a program designed to enhance the nutritional quality of meals, without compromising taste (which is exactly what we strive to do with Clean Cuisine!) And I must say, the food was absolutely amazing---they even had a smoothie bar! We will share more details about the unique Celebrity food options in the near future when we announce the date for our 2nd Clean Cuisine Cruise. In the meantime, if you think you might want to join us on for the next one please be sure to email .
Mom and I just got home….I am missing the cruise! What a blast. We were so fortunate to make such special friendships with each other and laugh so much. My cruise sisters are forever a part of me now. Deb is to be thanked for instigating new found friends and memories. Ivy is an amazing woman, who I could listen to for hours and hours; what a special person she is!
Everyone, please keep in touch. Deb, where will the next cruise be?
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Q: using a while loop with an input and submit button to echo out in php the number of times they enter I figured out my PHP script using a while loop, now I want to incorporate an input and submit button to have a user pick a date of the month from 1-31 and when they input a date I will have PHP echo out "hello" that many times they entered.
I just cant figure out how to tie it in with an input and submit button so as not to make my code hard coded, I want to make it dynamic.
Here is my code:
<form method="post" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>">
   Enter the date of the month: <input type = "text" name ="Enter the date of the month">
   <input type = "submit" name="submitDate">
</form>

<?php
    $x = 1;
    while($x<=31){
        echo "hello<br>";
        $x++;
    }
?>

A: your gonna need isset function of php to accept your html user input.
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Patriots 2019 Training Camp Guide – Wide Receivers
Steve Balestrieri
July 16, 2019 at 8:00 am ET
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The Patriots have many questions heading into the 2019 season at wide receiver. Julian Edelman returns, the Super Bowl LIII MVP is still at the top of his game but at 33, one has to wonder how much longer he can perform at a high level.
After him, the situation gets murkier. Phillip Dorsett has been fine whenever his number has been called but his production really could use an increase. Demaryius Thomas's numbers have been steadily going down the past several years and now he's coming off of an Achilles injury. Josh Gordon is suspended indefinitely and no one knows if he'll be allowed to play this year.
The Patriots drafted N'Keal Harry in the first round of the draft this spring and expectations with him are high. But rookie wide receivers have struggled to make an impact here in the past. Braxton Berrios had a very strong spring but spent his entire rookie season on IR. Maurice Harris and Dontrelle Inman are coming on to try to carve out roles for themselves after playing for the Redskins and Colts respectively.
So, the opportunities are there for several players to carve out roles for themselves once training camp opens. There are 12 players that should be vying for reps, and possibly 13 if Thomas is ready to go. Gordon is forbidden to enter the facility or work out with the team during his suspension. Let's take a look at who is in good shape and who has a lot of work to do at the wide receiver position
Check back with PatsFans.com as we'll go thru the entire roster as our primers for training camp continue before the heavy lifting starts on July 25.
Current roster – Julian Edelman, Phillip Dorsett, N'Keal Harry, Matthew Slater, Demaryius Thomas, Braxton Berrios, Maurice Harris, Dontrelle Inman, Damoun Patterson, Jakobi Meyers, Ryan Davis, Gunner Olszewski, Josh Gordon (suspended)
Locks – Edelman, Dorsett, Harry, Slater
Bubble – Berrios, Thomas, Harris, Inman, Meyers
Long Shot – Patterson, Davis, Olszewski, Gordon
Discussion – Edelman, Dorsett, Slater, and Harry are all locks. Obviously, the conversation starts with Julian Edelman. Yes, Edelman is 33 but if you watched him in the Super Bowl he was uncoverable. The Rams threw several different defensive backs on him and nobody could lock him down. I watched him thru all three days of minicamp and he looks ready to go again.
Dorsett was getting plenty of reps early last year but lost those after Gordon was brought in. The hope here is that he'll be able to replicate what he did last year, and with an additional year in the system, be able to add to it.
Slater is a WR in name only but is a Special Teams' captain and one of the best at what he does both on and off the field. Harry is a first-round draft pick who has incredible upside but is just a rookie. With a first-round draft pedigree, he's automatically on the 53-man roster.
This is where it gets interesting. Berrios had a very strong spring but is in no way a lock at this point. He has a long way to go but is definitely trending in the right direction. The smaller but quick slot receiver recognizes the opportunity in front of him. Mike Reiss of ESPN has written that Berrios has already reported into camp. The hope is that he could fit into that Danny Amendola role in the Patriots offense.
Harris likewise had a very strong spring, catching nearly everything thrown his way with a few nice highlight-reel catches during minicamp. Can he do it again when the secondary players are allowed contact? Inman, on the other hand, didn't have a good week at minicamp. He didn't catch a single pass in team drills during the three sessions. He has a lot of ground to make up.
Meyers is an interesting addition. A former QB turned WR, Meyers has good size for the position, (6'2, 203) with very good hands, tight route-running and the willingness to go into contested areas. He doesn't have great top-end speed but could be an oversized slot receiver. What was intriguing about him was that during a side session with Tom Brady, Brian Hoyer, and Josh McDaniels, during minicamp, Meyers was brought in with Harry to work on route selection. May end being nothing, but it could mean they have a plan in mind for him.
Patterson was on the practice squad a year ago but along with Davis, and Olszewski are all facing long odds of making the roster.
In a perfect world, Gordon would get reinstated and Thomas would come back better than new. But we don't live in a perfect world and the fact is, the Patriots can't rely on Gordon being reinstated any time soon, if at all. And Thomas may end up on PUP to begin the season. That means other players will have to step up….Questions, questions. This will make training camp and the preseason so compelling this summer.
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Mono: Unsafe At Any Speed
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So, that's the 5 most popular (give-or-take) Mono applications for Linux. Not a single one of which doesn't have a significant amount of references to non-ECMA namespaces.
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Where, oh where, is the ECMA-compliant Mono source code?
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De Icaza is extremely punctual in announcing these Mono releases. However, there is one release which he hasn't spoken about for more than a year - and which, I think, he would like everyone to forget about.
Licence to Use Microsoft Moonlight and Mono Not Possible?
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ECMA is seemingly unable to offer answers regarding Microsoft Moonlight and Mono
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JavaScript revision aims for browser cohesion
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ECMA has released the final draft of the Fifth Edition of its scripting language, with Adobe, Microsoft and Mozilla coming together to make all browsers work with a more open standard. The JSON object encoding format is now supported.
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Ejacs: a JavaScript interpreter for Emacs
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"Ejacs is an Ecma-262 compliant JavaScript interpreter written entirely in Emacs Lisp. It should work in GNU Emacs versions 22 and higher..." via http://code.google.com/p/ejacs/
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ES4 is Dead. Long Live ES4!
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Miles Bader: «Hopefully, an alternative...» --
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ISO Fantasy
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There has been much rejoicing recently at the process whereby, apparently, an ISO committee takes full control of OOXML. But you know, that story is entirely irrelevant. It will have no effect on what implementors of OOXML, including Microsoft, should or will actually do. The story's ending will I think be mostly tawdry.
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What Really Happened at the BRM for OOXML & Who Attended
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The details are out now. Jomar Silva, a delegate from Brazil, which voted No, has now done what he said he would do and has posted what he saw and heard at the BRM.
OOXML v 2.0: things only get worse
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OOXML, or the infamous ISO/IEC DIS 29500, is crawling towards the Ballot Resolution Meeting to see whether it can make the status of International Standard. Now ECMA, the body which hastily (to say the least) decided to make it an industry standard and presented it to ISO with a "fast track" procedure, has reviewed the comments of the national bodies, made a proposal for addressing them.
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On timing and developers'ethic
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"...I am aware that I'm making a very long story short here. But I'm doing this on purpose: the conspiracy that Bruce refers could be summarized as Novell engineers hijacking Gnome to serve their own corporate needs, and the problem is, these needs are aligned with the ones of Microsoft. [...] The most important lesson of this is that what matters is the format, not the application. The format creates the network effect and captures users, unless it is open and standard. [...] Apparently some would still like us to believe OOXML is an open standard. Make no mistake, OOXML is not an open standard, just like Christmas is not Easter."
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GNOME: the cowboy project
"What is the relationship between the GNU Project and the GNOME desktop suite? GNOME itself claims to be a part of the GNU Project. But its relationship with the organisation is not the same as that of other software projects which are part of GNU..."
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Low standards
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I'm surprised there hasn't been more attention in the press today on the comments made by Martin Bryan, outgoing convenor of the ISO JTC1/SC34 WG1 (the working group overseeing the progress of ECMA 376 - Microsoft Office Open XML - through the ISO standardization process).
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In a memo sent following his last meeting as head of the working group on WG1, which is handling Microsoft's application to make the Word format an ISO standard as ECMA 376, outgoing Governor Martin Bryan (above), an expert on SGML and XML, accused the company of stacking his group.
Notes from Portugal on the July 16th Meeting on Ecma-376
"We've seen now reports from Italy and Portugal of what some are describing as a kind of ballot-stuffing on the part of Microsoft and supporters to get Ecma-376 approved as an ISO standard. Trust me when I tell you that you haven't heard the half of it yet. I feel safe in saying that you will never hear the phrase "fast tracking" again, without remembering what you are about to read."
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Q: How to get a list of installed apps in iOS11 using Swift 4? I want to get list of the apps installed on the users device in iOS 11 using Swift 4. But I'm unable to find a place where such functionality is documented. Is it even possible in iOS 11 ?

A: Its not possible to get list of all the installed apps, perhaps you can try with particular app's deep link and canOpenURL(_:)
like if you want to check if whatsapp is installed or not the device then you can try with url "whatsapp://" or if you want to check whether fb is installed or not then you might try "fb://" with canOpenURL(_:) and it will return yes/no based on the result found.

A: As suggested by @milan-manwar, you could use canOpenURL(_:). However this API has been deprecated in iOS 10, because it can be used to spy on users. The whole thing is described for example at this blog. Twitter had used this API before to spy on people. That's why you really should not do this.

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In the present case study, a care encounter between an older multilingual (Farsi/Swedish/English) Persian woman and staff in an ordinary, Swedish residential home is investigated. The woman is perceived as suffering from dementia symptoms, but has not received any formal diagnosis of the disease. More specifically, the study focuses on how the womans contributions in her mother tongue, Farsi, are responded to by a carer, who is also multilingual and speaks Swedish as a second language (L2), but has a very limited knowledge of Farsi. The data consists of recorded material from a mundane morning activity in the residential home, as the woman is undressed and prepared to go to the shower. The method employed is conversation analysis, and the study addresses the interactional outcome of this type of multilingual encounters, highlighting the way the establishment of mutual understanding is negatively affected by the fact that the participants do not or only to a limited extent share a common language. Analysis of the data shows that most of the womans contributions in Farsi are responded to in L2-Swedish by the carer, primarily by means of seven different response practices: soothing talk, instrumental talk, minimal responses, explicit expressions of understanding, mitigating talk, questions, and appraisal. The findings are discussed in light of new demands on Swedish (and Western) care- and health care systems to adapt to the increasing number of multilingual, older people, who will become residents in care facilities and attend day centers within the coming years.


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Not often I shoot/process in same day. I took (1) photo Feb 16, 2017. Been enjoying my 16stop filter as it mostly sits in the bag. Decided to start playing with it more.
This was shot as the sun was setting so the light was moving from foreground to background. I had actually wanted more golden light on the water but I was enjoying the beach and waited too long. Ran up and set up this shot…10min later, viola. Considering the swell was approx 20′ this is a far cry from the crashing waves at the time. Quite a different feel and mood from the chaos of the surf.
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Looking out for your employees is the greatest vote of confidence you can give them. Without them how will you meet your goals for profitability and growth? Investing in your employees will increase productivity and reduce turnover expenses and at the same time resulting in a competitive labour market. Your compensation plans will be more tax effective and create loyalty within the organization.


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David K.A. Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda Participated in NYU CSAW 2019
David K.A. Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda were invited to participate as judges at NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Sixteenth Annual Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Competition, November 6-8, 2019 at the MetroTech Center in Brooklyn, NY. RiskEcon® Lab @ Courant Institute has proudly co-sponsored this competition since 2018.
Academic entrants of all levels, from Post-Doctoral fellows and Ph.D. candidates to high school students took part in the three-day cybersecurity event, which was made up of several distinct competitions including the following:
Applied Research Competition
Embedded Security Challenge
Hack 3D
HackML
Logic Locking
Policy Competition
Red Team Competition
Security Quiz
David Mordecai and Samantha Kappagoda joined the panel of judges for the HackML competition, while Dr. Mordecai also served as a judge for the Applied Research competition.
The HackML competition challenged teams to design new, more powerful backdoor attacks on neural networks, and to develop novel defenses and detections. The Applied Research award reviewed papers on any topic related to the application or implementation of security technologies or security systems published or camera-ready between September 1, 2018 and August 31, 2019.
About CSAW
CSAW, established at NYU Tandon School of Engineering (originally Polytechnic Institute of New York) in 2003, is the largest student-run cyber security event in the world, featuring international competitions, workshops, and industry events. Competitions are developed by undergraduate and graduate students associated with the OSIRIS Lab and the Center for Cyber Security at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in collaboration with student teams from across the globe. These students represent some of the leading security programs and academic institutions worldwide. The CSAW competition now runs annually in five other countries; at the Grenoble INP-Esisar in France, the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, the Ben-Gurion University and University of Haifa in Israel, NYU Abu Dhabi in Mena and University Iberoamericana Mexico City in Mexico. For more information, visit: https://www.csaw.io/.
About NYU Tandon School of Engineering
NYU Tandon School of Engineering is a comprehensive school of engineering, applied sciences, technology and research, and is rooted in a 165-year tradition of invention, innovation and entrepreneurship. The institution, founded in 1854, is the nation's second-oldest private engineering school. In addition to NYU's main campus in Manhattan, NYU Tandon in downtown Brooklyn also offers programs at sites throughout the region and around the globe. Globally, NYU Tandon has programs in Israel, China and is an integral part of NYU's campus in Abu Dhabi. NYU Tandon's mission is to excel as a leading high-quality research institution engaged in education, discovery, and innovation with social, intellectual, and economic impact in the New York region, the nation, and the world. For more information, visit: https://engineering.nyu.edu.
About RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics
The mission of RiskEcon® Lab @ Courant Institute is the development of experimental testbeds and analytics that employ high-dimensional datasets from innovative sources by applying a range of computational and analytical methods to commercial and industrial sensor networks and edge computing embedded systems, focusing primarily on research and development (R&D) of remote- and compressed- sensing, anomaly detection, forensic analytics and statistical process control. By employing applied computational statistics within the context of robust and scalable data analytic solutions, the goal is robust and reliable integration of machine learning with signal processing for measurement and control, in order to conduct research fundamental to large-scale, real-world questions in risk and liability management.
RiskEcon® Lab enables, facilitates and coordinates academic research focusing on these patterns and trends, through the development of commercially-viable, analytic applications employing computational statistical tools in conjunction with innovative and non-traditional data structures. In addition, the lab's activities involve the advancement of applied mathematical statistics and computational economics, through interdisciplinary post-doctoral, postgraduate, graduate research and education in data science and social computing. RiskEcon® Lab for Decision Metrics was established in 2011 at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of New York University (NYU). Courant is considered to be one of the world's leading mathematics educational and scientific research centers, and has been ranked first in research in applied mathematics. RiskEcon® Lab is the cornerstone of the Computational Economics and Algorithmic Data Analytics (CEcADA) cooperative at New York University, established concurrently in 2011. For more information, visit: https://wp.nyu.edu/riskeconlab/.


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Home LATEST HEADLINES Kenya lobbies to get UN Security Council seat
Kenya lobbies to get UN Security Council seat
The government of Kenya which is seeking to win the seat has started lobbying countries to support Its bid to get a seat in United Nations (UN) Council.
UN General Assembly will next June take up votes to include countries in the council.
The president of the East Africa nation, Uhuru Kenyatta has been holding talks with leaders and representatives from over 18 countries for the last month.
President Kenyatta had held his last meeting with Caribbean Head of States under the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECC) and the Caribbean Community (CARRICOM), in Bridgetown Barbados.
According to Daily Nation, the President reached out to 10 leaders from the region, asking them to support Kenya's bid for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for the period 2021 to 2022.
The Security Council has 15 members with only five of them are permanent.
They include Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and the US.
These countries hold veto powers, meaning they can stop a substantive decision such as sanctioning a Head of State seen as a violator of global peace.
There will be one seat up for grabs for the African continent when the UN General Assembly convenes for a vote in New York in June 2020.
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A dental crown is essentially a "cap that is placed over an existing tooth. It is tooth shaped and used to restore a tooth to its appropriate size, strength and appearance. Dental crowns are permanently cemented into place and function as a natural tooth.
Broken, fractured or decayed teeth.
Large or broken down fillings.
A crown procedure in the past usually required two appointments. However, because of the advancement in technology we are able to do a crown in one visit. The crown is designed by CAD/CAM (see video). This offers the most advanced technology and allows us to pass on time-saving benefits to our patients. No more temporaries to worry about coming off or breaking. Using a computer, the new crown is designed and fabricated in our office. The finished porcelain crown is characterized to a custom shade and then glazed in a ceramic oven to achieve a highly smoothed surface that is resistant to staining and fractures.
However, there are times that individuals may need the traditional porcelain fused to metal (PFM) crown. This is because the patient has an extremely heavy bite or either the patient is a grinder. If this is the circumstance, then a two visit appointment will be necessary for this restoration.


Lake Park High School District of Roselle, IL was looking for ways to dramatically increase the energy efficiency at the East and West campuses and hired Performance Services to implement a guaranteed energy savings project. Implemented in two phases, energy upgrades at the high schools included new energy efficient vertical classroom units, controls system upgrades, lighting upgrades, and a cooling tower replacement. The Phase I project was completed in August 2016.
To further reduce energy costs, the District also completed a Phase II guaranteed energy savings project to finance two roof-mount solar PV systems at Lake Park West High School and Lake Park East High School. The combined 1.86 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) system will reduce electricity use by more than 2.2 million kWh. The school solar project is also distinguished as one of the largest solar installations with net metering in Illinois.
Solar renewable energy credits (SRECs) will become an income source for the District as they sell excess solar credits to utility companies that need them to meet certain energy use requirements. Expected revenue from excess solar renewable energy credits is projected to exceed $5 million over 25 years. Phase II was completed in March 2017.
District 108 has been working for years to model energy stewardship throughout our campuses with energy efficient lighting, HVAC systems and more. This solar project is an exciting and financially sound way to produce clean energy and provide a learning tool for our students.


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Partner with Care for Broadband Projects
[imgbelt img=skategraphic200.jpg]Towns considering partnerships as they go after federal broadband funding need to reckon with real differences between public and private interests.
by dyadmin February 10, 2010 June 29, 2010
Skaters in Montclair, New Jersey's Edgemont Park As Round 2 of federal broadband funding competition begins, many communities are getting back out onto the ice.
[imgcontainer left] [img:skateicepond373.jpg] [source]Baristanet[/source] Skaters in Montclair, New Jersey's Edgemont Park – As Round 2 of federal broadband funding competition begins, many communities are getting back out onto the ice. [/imgcontainer]
There's a new set of rules in place for Round 2 of the competition for federal broadband money (also known as NOFA 2). Some communities have decided to sit out the race and find, or raise, funds in other ways, but others are strapping on their skates and heading back out on the NOFA-2 ice.
One of those others, from rural Missouri, tweeted me: "Don't have a choice. We are sitting on the New Madrid fault. We NEED a public safety network in a strategic location."
NOFA 2 has given top priority to middle-mile projects (infrastructure projects that primarily connect data centers to each other rather than delivering broadband to end-users. Find a fuller definition here.) And it's also been announced that NOFA 2 will look with favor on applications that partner public and private interests.
Communities that are responding with plans for public-private technology partnerships should not take such efforts lightly or pursue them in haste. This promising approach is also fraught with challenges great enough to knock you off track.
Michael Johnston, Vice President of Internet Technology and Broadband at Jackson Energy Authority, a public utility in Tennessee, described some of these challenges. While Jackson isn't rural, Michael Johnston's extensive experience, both positive and negative, offers rare insights that rural communities can use.
[imgcontainer] [img:two-skater530.jpg] [source]Thomas Hawk[/source] Since telecos and rural communities operate with very different aims, public-private partnerships in broadband projects can be shaky. [/imgcontainer]
Jackson's current fiber network is a success story with 16,000 subscribers, but it had a rocky start. Johnston gives a blunt assessment of why communities, particularly local governments and public utilities "need to do a gut check before you go after broadband. You can't be a nice fluffy business person," he said.
Whether any applicant writes a proposal to get broadband stimulus and other government grant money or creates a standard business plan to secure traditional commercial funding, a broadband project will have to show how the network will be sustained financially after it's built. NTIA head Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), said in a recent speech, "We want these projects to be up and running five years or more after the government grant money has run out."
Communities need to ask themselves: What's the return on investment under normal, best case, or worst case scenarios? Understanding these forecasts is key to financial sustainability.
"Let's say we just borrowed $10 million with the assumption we'll get 100 new subscribers every month for a year," Johnston proposed. "What about the price of greater success? If you get 200 subscribers a month, what'll do you do? You need more customer service people, more technicians. Beating your 'take plan' is counterproductive if you can't get any more 'free' government money and you have to go to the bank for real money." In this respect, the business of broadband is as much about managing growth as curtailing losses.
The challenge of public-private partnerships
The public/private partnership for establishing community broadband service has become the Holy Grail for some, but it also can be the source of heartburn.
"Partnering with a telco does help because you have to be ready for the different world of telecom operations," said Johnston. But difficulties often arise, he said, because "you can have completely different goals that are at cross-purposes. The town or county wants to deliver services in places where it's currently not offered. The partner needs to make money."
It's essential that a lot of time – and strenuous effort, if necessary — be spent in frank conversation so that both parties thoroughly understand how the other's business works. Such discussions will spot where potential troubles may lie, troubles that could lead to irreconcilable differences. More positively, these talks will help to construct and evaluate a business model with clear knowledge of how it affects all partners.
UTOPIA, a collective of 16 rural towns building their own fiber network in Utah, took on debt via a bond and couldn't (by law) provide anything but the Internet pipe. Prior to NOFA, this had been a typical middle-mile project scenario. Service providers then connect to the pipe to build last-mile infrastructure that delivers services directly to consumers. UTOPIA makes money on fees from providers based on how many of their customers use the network.
[imgcontainer right] [img:skategraphic200.jpg] For smooth skating, it's best for public and private partners to reconcile their goals before putting a broadband project into action. [/imgcontainer]
"This kind of arrangement should be a winner, but it doesn't always work," Johnston said. "My plan says if the provider adds 100 customers per month, the total amount of fees from the provider that I get for those 100 subscribers pays off the monthly bond debt. But what if the partner doesn't add that many customers? The community has no leverage because private partners want the least number of customers to ensure the most profit."
There's a point in the profit and loss equation at which the cost for adding and supporting more customers doesn't produce enough of an increase in profit margins to justify the costs. From the service provider's perspective, acquiring more customers beyond this point can even cut into profits. If the community insists on getting its fee anyway for 100 customers, the partner leaves. "So obviously the community can't raise fees," Johnston said.
In other words, Johnston stresses that the respective returns-on-investment needs of public or nonprofit partners and commercial partners have to be reconciled – not always easy to do. The agencies awarding stimulus grants structured the rules to encourage applicants for middle-mile networks to form partnerships with institutions, such as schools and hospitals. By including institutions as part of middle-mile projects, the NOFA acknowledges that these institutions generate revenues to offset the potential fee-shortage scenario that Johnston describes.
The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) studies the economic and social development of the 21st Century community. The organization annually recognizes communities around the world for leadership in making their citizens' lives better, with broadband often playing a major role in this accomplishment.
ICF co-founder Robert Bell believes that public and private partners can work past their conflicting financial objectives. "It is important for the private and public sides of a partnership to enter the deal with their eyes wide open," Bell said. "Private companies want to gain access to markets; governments want to gain access to expertise and the assets of the provider." When the assets remain in the carrier's control or ownership, this leaves the carrier's [return-on-investment] issues with the carrier. That's a clean line of demarcation. Where a partnership creates shared ownership of assets by the public sector and private sector partners, things get more complicated, and both sides need to work out a wide range of issues well in advance.
One constant among successful community-owned and public/private broadband networks is the execution of sound business fundamentals. Communities, such as Jackson, Tennessee, may have struggled initially, but they eventually got on the right track once these fundamentals were put in place. Others, such as Wilson, North Carolina, focused very heavily on sound business practices from the start and subsequently are progressing very well.
Internet consultant Craig Settles, based in Oakland, California, is the author of Fighting the Next Good Fight: Bringing True Broadband to Your Community.
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by dyadmin, The Daily Yonder

Partner with Care for Broadband Projects

by dyadmin, The Daily Yonder
February 10, 2010

 [imgcontainer left] [img:skateicepond373.jpg] [source]Baristanet[/source] Skaters in Montclair, New Jersey's Edgemont Park – As Round 2 of federal broadband funding competition begins, many communities are getting back out onto the ice. [/imgcontainer]

There's a new set of rules in place for Round 2 of the competition for federal broadband money (also known as NOFA 2). Some communities have decided to sit out the race and find, or raise, funds in other ways, but others are strapping on their skates and heading back out on the NOFA-2 ice.

One of those others, from rural Missouri, tweeted me: "Don't have a choice. We are sitting on the New Madrid fault. We NEED a public safety network in a strategic location."

NOFA 2 has given top priority to middle-mile projects (infrastructure projects that primarily connect data centers to each other rather than delivering broadband to end-users. Find a fuller definition here.) And it's also been announced that NOFA 2 will look with favor on applications that partner public and private interests.

Communities that are responding with plans for public-private technology partnerships should not take such efforts lightly or pursue them in haste. This promising approach is also fraught with challenges great enough to knock you off track.

Michael Johnston, Vice President of Internet Technology and Broadband at Jackson Energy Authority, a public utility in Tennessee, described some of these challenges. While Jackson isn't rural, Michael Johnston's extensive experience, both positive and negative, offers rare insights that rural communities can use.

[imgcontainer] [img:two-skater530.jpg] [source]Thomas Hawk[/source] Since telecos and rural communities operate with very different aims, public-private partnerships in broadband projects can be shaky. [/imgcontainer]

Jackson's current fiber network is a success story with 16,000 subscribers, but it had a rocky start. Johnston gives a blunt assessment of why communities, particularly local governments and public utilities "need to do a gut check before you go after broadband. You can't be a nice fluffy business person," he said.

Whether any applicant writes a proposal to get broadband stimulus and other government grant money or creates a standard business plan to secure traditional commercial funding, a broadband project will have to show how the network will be sustained financially after it's built. NTIA head Larry Strickling, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), said in a recent speech, "We want these projects to be up and running five years or more after the government grant money has run out."

Communities need to ask themselves: What's the return on investment under normal, best case, or worst case scenarios? Understanding these forecasts is key to financial sustainability.

"Let's say we just borrowed $10 million with the assumption we'll get 100 new subscribers every month for a year," Johnston proposed. "What about the price of greater success? If you get 200 subscribers a month, what'll do you do? You need more customer service people, more technicians. Beating your 'take plan' is counterproductive if you can't get any more 'free' government money and you have to go to the bank for real money." In this respect, the business of broadband is as much about managing growth as curtailing losses.

The challenge of public-private partnerships

The public/private partnership for establishing community broadband service has become the Holy Grail for some, but it also can be the source of heartburn.

"Partnering with a telco does help because you have to be ready for the different world of telecom operations," said Johnston. But difficulties often arise, he said, because "you can have completely different goals that are at cross-purposes. The town or county wants to deliver services in places where it's currently not offered. The partner needs to make money."

It's essential that a lot of time – and strenuous effort, if necessary —  be spent in frank conversation so that both parties thoroughly understand how the other's business works. Such discussions will spot where potential troubles may lie, troubles that could lead to irreconcilable differences.  More positively, these talks will help to construct and evaluate a business model with clear knowledge of how it affects all partners.

UTOPIA, a collective of 16 rural towns building their own fiber network in Utah, took on debt via a bond and couldn't (by law) provide anything but the Internet pipe. Prior to NOFA, this had been a typical middle-mile project scenario. Service providers then connect to the pipe to build last-mile infrastructure that delivers services directly to consumers. UTOPIA makes money on fees from providers based on how many of their customers use the network.

[imgcontainer right] [img:skategraphic200.jpg] For smooth skating, it's best for public and private partners to reconcile their goals before putting a broadband project into action. [/imgcontainer]

"This kind of arrangement should be a winner, but it doesn't always work," Johnston said. "My plan says if the provider adds 100 customers per month, the total amount of fees from the provider that I get for those 100 subscribers pays off the monthly bond debt. But what if the partner doesn't add that many customers? The community has no leverage because private partners want the least number of customers to ensure the most profit."

There's a point in the profit and loss equation at which the cost for adding and supporting more customers doesn't produce enough of an increase in profit margins to justify the costs. From the service provider's perspective, acquiring more customers beyond this point can even cut into profits. If the community insists on getting its fee anyway for 100 customers, the partner leaves. "So obviously the community can't raise fees," Johnston said.

In other words, Johnston stresses that the respective returns-on-investment needs of public or nonprofit partners and commercial partners have to be reconciled – not always easy to do. The agencies awarding stimulus grants structured the rules to encourage applicants for middle-mile networks to form partnerships with institutions, such as schools and hospitals. By including institutions as part of middle-mile projects, the NOFA acknowledges that these institutions generate revenues to offset the potential fee-shortage scenario that Johnston describes.

The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) studies the economic and social development of the 21st Century community. The organization annually recognizes communities around the world for leadership in making their citizens' lives better, with broadband often playing a major role in this accomplishment.

ICF co-founder Robert Bell believes that public and private partners can work past their conflicting financial objectives. "It is important for the private and public sides of a partnership to enter the deal with their eyes wide open," Bell said. "Private companies want to gain access to markets; governments want to gain access to expertise and the assets of the provider." When the assets remain in the carrier's control or ownership, this leaves the carrier's [return-on-investment] issues with the carrier. That's a clean line of demarcation. Where a partnership creates shared ownership of assets by the public sector and private sector partners, things get more complicated, and both sides need to work out a wide range of issues well in advance.

One constant among successful community-owned and public/private broadband networks is the execution of sound business fundamentals. Communities, such as Jackson, Tennessee, may have struggled initially, but they eventually got on the right track once these fundamentals were put in place. Others, such as Wilson, North Carolina, focused very heavily on sound business practices from the start and subsequently are progressing very well.

Internet consultant Craig Settles, based in Oakland, California, is the author of Fighting the Next Good Fight: Bringing True Broadband to Your Community.

This article first appeared on The Daily Yonder and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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Gradele militare sunt treptele din ierarhia militară, prin care o persoană din cadrul forțelor armate poate promova de la soldat până la gradul de general sau amiral.

Gradele militare sunt un sistem  ierarhic de relații în forțele armate, poliție, servicii secrete sau a altor instituții organizate conform liniei militare. De obicei, uniforma indică rangul purtătorului prin  însemne particulare aplicate pe uniforma respectivă. Sistemele de clasare pe grade au fost recunoscute în cele mai multe istorii militare ca fiind avantajoase pentru operațiuni militare, în special în ceea ce privește logistica, comanda și coordonarea; pe măsură ce în timp, operațiunile militare au devenit mai mari și mai complexe, gradele militare au crescut și  sistemele de gradare militară în sine au devenit și ele mai complexe.

În cadrul forțelor armate moderne, utilizarea gradelor militare este aproape universală. Statele socialiste, în anumite perioade au desființat gradele militare (de exemplu, Armata Roșie 1918-1935, Armata Republicii Populare Chineze 1965–1988, și Forțele armate ale Albaniei 1966–1991), care au fost restabilite după  ce au întâmpinat dificultăți operaționale de comandă și control a forțelor armate.

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Multiple sclerosis is the ultimate player. First you see it, then you don't. If you are confused about MS, you are far from alone.
First, what it is not: multiple sclerosis is not the same as muscular dystrophy or cerebral palsy. All people with MS are not in wheelchairs. It's not a psychological problem.
1. MS is a neurological disease in which lesions form in the central nervous system, interrupting the transmission of signals to the rest of the body.
2. Relapsing/remitting MS, the most common form at onset, causes flare-ups followed by periods of remission. In addition, there are several types of progressive MS in which symptoms continue to worsen over time.
3. Symptoms vary greatly from patient to patient (and from day to day) and include fatigue, numbness, visual impairment, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, cognitive impairment, tremors, vertigo, pain, lack of coordination, paralysis, and blindness. From the mildest of symptoms to all out disability and everything in between, a typical case of MS is impossible to define. Though symptoms are often invisible, this is a serious medical condition.
4. MS is more common in women than men. Most people are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 45. Due to MRI, more children are being diagnosed with MS. We don't know the exact numbers because MS is not tracked by the Centers for Disease Control or any other federal agency.
5. There is currently no single definitive test for MS. Rather, it is diagnosed through patient and clinical history, a series of tests, and systematic elimination of other disease and conditions that mimic MS.
6. MS is not contagious. A genetic link is suspected. According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the risk of developing MS in the general population is 1/750, rising to 1/40 in anyone who has a close relative (parent, sibling, child) with the disease, but even though identical twins share the same genetic makeup, the risk for an identical twin is only 1/4—which means that some factor(s) other than genetics are involved. Research is ongoing regarding a wide variety of theories, one being that it may be a combination of genetics with an environmental trigger.
7. There are several disease-modifying drugs thought to slow progression, in addition to treatment for individual symptoms and relapses. A healthy diet and exercise are crucial to overall health.
8. MS is not a psychological condition, although depression is a common symptom. With its on again, off again nature and ever-changing symptoms, the emotional toll can be a hefty one.
9. MS itself is rarely fatal, but complications due to MS can be.
10. Some people with MS must leave the workplace due to severe symptoms. People living with MS who are forced into the individual insurance market are often rejected or priced out of the market, creating a serious financial hardship. Medications currently available to treat MS have no generics and are exorbitantly priced, forcing many patients to forgo their desired medical treatment.
11. MS has a profound effect on those who must live with it, or in its wake. Fortunately, many people with MS continue to enjoy an active lifestyle. We may have MS, but we are so much more.
Writer Ann Pietrangelo embraces the concept of personal responsibility for health and wellness. As a multiple sclerosis patient, she combines a healthy lifestyle and education with modern medicine, and seeks to provide information and support to others. She is a regular contributor to Care2.com's Reform Health Policy blog in Causes.
I have been taking it for 4 years and it has stopped the MS progression. It is cheap and easy to take. So cheap in fact your Dr may not want you to take it as there is no profit in it for him. The Pharma companies keep quite about it for the same reason but don't be put off. Check the facts for yourself and make up your own mind.