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Good news for folks who thought that simply forcing a buddy to use their phone to call in airstrikes when overwhelmed by Zombies was a dumb use of Xbox Smartglass; it appears Capcom has more in store for Dead Rising 3. According to the three-quel's executive producer Josh Bridge, in an interview conducted by Siliconera, Smartglass users will also be treated to an exclusive side story and bonus missions only accessible through the (primarily) Xbox One's companion mobile app.
When asked whether or not Dead Rising 3 would require its own unique app, Bridge said that, "it's part of an upcoming version of the Xbox SmartGlass app and will function much like the current version. After you launch the app, it notices that Dead Rising is currently being played, press a button, and in kicks our phone. It actually skins your phone to be like the phone from the game's universe."
Getting down to the specifics on extra content, access to bonus missions will play out as follows: "You'll get calls from a character that are only on the SmartGlass device. So if you don't have SmartGlass, you won't get those calls from that guy. Which also means you won't get those missions."
Bridge also goes on the mention that the character's story is interwoven into the main campaign, but that those who don't take part in the additional content won't feel left out in any way. Players won't miss out on any of the central campaign by skipping over on the extra content, but he still sees the secondary story as a worthwhile accompaniment to the core narrative.
While the good news is that Smartglass does function on devices other than specific ones running Windows OS, the bad news is that not everyone has access to the companion app. Coming out of a generation that features tactics such as retailer-exclusive pre-order bonuses that angered many fans looking to own the entire contents of the games they were purchasing, this may not go over so well; especially with people who don't own smartphones, tablets, or otherwise have access to Smartglass. Of course, there's always the possibility this content will end up as DLC for a few bucks sometime down the line. You didn't think publishers were going to nickel-and-dime you any less next generation, did you? I sure didn't.
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While small businesses of all kinds have been hurt by the pandemic, business owners of color have been more acutely affected. Between February and June of 2020, the rate of business closures among Latino and Asian business owners was twice that of white owners, and the closure rate of Black-owned firms was almost four times as high.
Community-based microlenders target their lending to businesses that are not served by banks. The six microlenders that comprise the Microfinance Impact Collaborative – Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana, Ascendus, Dreamspring, Justine PETERSEN, LiftFund and Accion Opportunity Fund – make 75% of their loans to business owners of color, and 61% to businesses owned by low- and moderate-income individuals. Recognizing unprecedented circumstances, these lenders have taken action to help by rescheduling and deferring loans and extending additional credit, among other measures. Many community-based lenders now face their own financial challenges as a consequence. EBA Fund will empower these crucial institutions by purchasing existing loans, providing capital for new lending. The Fund has already begun to purchase loans from the CDFIs; with the funding agreements now in place it is on pace to purchase 1,000 small business loans by February of 2021.
The Fund's design emerged from ongoing work of the Microfinance Impact Collaborative, which is convened and supported by the Aspen Institute's Business Ownership Initiative, to identify and implement strategies to scale microlending in the United States. The Fund builds on a strategy developed by Revolve Asset Management, a firm founded by former staff members of MIC member Accion Serving Illinois and Indiana. Revolve is serving as the fund manager. Support for the initial testing and design work that led to the creation of the EBA Fund was provided by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.
"We know that Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), and microlenders in particular are critical to getting capital to entrepreneurs of color. The challenges these lenders have historically faced in raising the right kinds of capital have only been exacerbated by the impact of the COVID pandemic. We spent two years designing the EBA Fund business model, so we were able move rapidly to launch and respond to the unique challenges of the pandemic," said Joyce Klein, Director of the Aspen Institute's Business Ownership Initiative and Chair of the EBA Fund board of directors.
"The Citi Foundation is proud to have supported the launch of the EBA Fund and its work to unlock greater access to capital for small businesses owned by people of color and those in underserved communities," said Brandee McHale, Head of Citi Community Investing and Development and President of the Citi Foundation. "Enabling CDFIs to expand their scale and reach to address evolving needs is an effective way to support communities disproportionately impacted by the pandemic, and help ensure an equitable recovery for populations at risk of being left behind."
"The EBA Fund will help provide critical support, create opportunities, and expand access to capital for minority owned small businesses and small-businesses in low-income communities," said Tahreem Kampton, Assistant Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer at Microsoft. "We're pleased to partner with the EBA Fund to help build a more diverse and equitable playing field and we look forward to the opportunities that this investment will help create."
"Woodforest has a long-standing commitment to collaborate with organizations that bring innovation to CDFIs. The EBA Fund is an exceptional, and timely example of what we can accomplish together. This Fund will help ensure liquidity and capital is there for minority-owned businesses that have been hit the hardest during the pandemic," said Jay Dreibelbis, President and CEO, Woodforest National Bank.
Of the loans purchased to date, 78% are to entrepreneurs of color, 38% to women entrepreneurs, and 78% to entrepreneurs in low-income communities. The Fund's goal is to purchase $50M in loans from the six Microfinance Impact Collaborative members, and then to expand to purchase loans from other community-based lenders.
"The EBA Fund is truly innovative and could be transformational for microlenders nationwide," states Robert F. Boyle, Founder and CEO of Justine PETERSEN, "It's this very type of forward thinking and doing that will allow mission lenders to thrive."
"To ensure access to capital for women, Latinx and Black business owners, we need to re-imagine how to best capitalize Community Development Financial Institutions. The EBA Fund is an example of how we can collectively come together to re-imagine a new approach for our future and in so doing, address the triple challenges of liquidity, credit risk and sustainability during and after the pandemic," said Paul Quintero, CEO of Ascendus.
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Often companies do start large programs with Agility at the core. This is wrong! Start small instead! Large transformation programs is a symptom of the Doom Loop ( Good To Great — Jim Collins ). Little cocoons implemented one by one that will create be awe-inspiring for others to join is key. You can't force people to embrace the culture of Agility!
It's not only the Business that must be involved! It's all your stakeholders! Often we have come across organizations in which the users are NOT represented in any form … still the Business is!
Don't get us wrong! We are NOT saying that Business must be kept away! We have said that you need proxies for all of the stakeholders or even better … your stakeholders themselves (which is far more preferable, but much more difficult).
Don't elect fake Product Owners, people that have no vision, that do not know the services and/or products. You must have engaged people, people with opinions, people who are open-minded, real representatives.
Form small teams not exceeding 9 people. Let them come to you! Remember: To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Don't force them to join. Should you decide that you know better, and then you put your Agility journey at stake forever.
Manuals and books are inspiring. They must remain at that level: inspiration! No prescription! Scrum says that you must have standup meetings. Otherwise, you are not scrumming. What the heck? scrumming! What is that? Agility says that you must communicate continuously (well, it says it differently: The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation and Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project. ) Daily Scrum Meetings help communicate. That's it. If that works for you, fine! If something else works for you, that's fine too!
Organizations that have embarked the Agile journey must be trained! This is a necessity. Then come dozens of consulting companies all promising the Holy Grail, all with the best of breed consultants that have run myriads of projects. You must winnow the truth from falsehood.
Enough of these silly "Agile Games"! Enough of all these presentations and marketing material! This is crap and needs to be treated as such.
If you really want to get results, you need to head to these fellows who have kept a (very) tight connection with the technicality  of Software Development and who have been immersed in Agility for many years. Only these people have the true capability to try, check, adapt for your organization.
Stop the Powerpoint Consultants at the entrance door! Really! There is really more to DSM, Demo and Retro!
You must abandon certainty and accept adaptability. One must accept that predictive processes are not appropriate to Software Development. You must favor adaptive processes instead.
Any reporting, any measure that is based on items from a predictive process is nonsense. Any thought that requirements can get fully elaborated is junk. Accept it so that you can take the next step.
Most companies tend to believe that Agility comes with predefined feedback loops. This is only partially true. Yep, Scrum has retrospectives. Sure, SAFe has Inspect & Adapt. But this is only the tip of the iceberg. It's the whole functioning that must be all inscribed in a feedback loop. Feedback Loops must be fractal in Agility — Pat Boens .
Feedback loops must be possible for all your stakeholders, not only for the members of the Development Team.
The best way to see how feedback loops might be implemented is extend the shadow of the future (aka "You build it; you run it" of Amazon, or "The Kharma Factor of Facebook"). And yes, DevOps is a very groovy way of doing just that!
Companies have a sad tendency to standardize and to generalize.
It's not to say that you should not standardize! It's about saying that standardization comes AFTER you have something to standardize, something out the door!
Have the damn thing up and running, and then standardize! But wait a minute! Do not go ahead unless you know that standardization is not about the how, at least in contexts of agility! It's about the what, about inputs and outputs! Focus on what must be produced and consumed. Let the people make the eating! Otherwise, you will never be able to adapt your processes to the current context.
It's not unusual to see people in the organization who step forward when starting an Agile initiative.
Make sure you can distinguish the ones who simply see the Agile initiative as an opportunity to boost their career from the ones who are really willing to help (and work) towards the Hedgehog Concept of the company.
We call them silverbacks, people acting more by bravado than by real understanding and deep knowledge. Run away as they are really dangerous animals.
The longest march starts with a first step and this first step, in Agile, is to start from the bottom! It's OK not to be fully agile in a first phase.
Like in rugby where a team fixes objectives 20m by 20m, progress towards an end goal, little by little. Try, analyze, fix. Loop!
Taking all the challenges at once is a terrible mistake, still we have seen this pattern many times.
There is a heavy temptation for large organizations to go offshore to get a (much) cheaper workforce. This is fed as a vicious circle: projects are late, over budget … we need to remain within our envelope, we need to get more people, cheaper! This combined with the will to lower development costs … at all cost (sadly enough).
Then the company feels it needs to try something different: Management wants to try Agility!
With L(i)VID we have set a quick (and somewhat cramped) categorization of offshore and we rapidly came to the conclusion that offshore (even nearshore) is not for the ones starting an Agile initiative: you must have attained a performed or even managed maturity level in Agility before trying to go this path.


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Q: varargs and the '...' argument Consider the method declaration:
String.format(String, Object ...)

The Object ... argument is just a reference to an array of Objects. Is there a way to use this method with a reference to an actual Object array? If I pass in an Object array to the ... argument - will the resultant argument value be a two-dimensional array - because an Object[] is itself an Object:
Object[] params = ....; // Make the array (for example based on user-input)
String s = String.format("%S has %.2f euros", params);

So the first component of the array (Which is used in the String.format method), will be an array and he will generate:
[class.getName() + "@" + Integer.toHexString(hashCode())]

and then an error because the array size is 1.
The bold sequence is the real question.
This is a second question: Does a ... array/parameter have a name?

A: The situation you are describing is going to be fairly rare: most of the time, your varargs items will be Strings, or numbers, or Widgets... it will be unusual for them to be Objects (which could be anything) or arrays.
But if the varargs argument is a bunch of Objects or an array type, then your question does arise: you can pass it a single array and then how will the compiler know whether you meant to pass an array (the one you provided), or an series of 1 item which it should PUT into an array for you?
A quick test shows the answer:
public class TestClass {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Object anObject = new Object();
        Object[] anArray = new Object[] {anObject, anObject};
        System.out.println("object1 = " + anObject);
        System.out.println("array1 = " + anArray);
        takesArgs();
        takesArgs(anObject, anObject);
        takesArgs(anArray); // is this the same as array1?
        takesArgs(anArray, anArray);
    }

    public static void takesArgs(Object... stuff) {
        System.out.println("The array was " + stuff);
    }
}

The result of executing (your exact numbers will vary:
object1 = java.lang.Object@3e25a5
array1 = [Ljava.lang.Object;@19821f
The array was [Ljava.lang.Object;@addbf1
The array was [Ljava.lang.Object;@42e816
The array was [Ljava.lang.Object;@19821f
The array was [Ljava.lang.Object;@9304b1

So the answer is that in ambiguous cases it treats what you passed as the array instead of creating a new array to wrap it. This makes sense as you could always wrap it in an array yourself if you wanted the other interpretation.

A: From the docs on varargs:

The three periods after the final
  parameter's type indicate that the
  final argument may be passed as an
  array or as a sequence of arguments.

So you can pass multiple arguments or an array.
The following works just fine:
class VarargTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Object[] params = {"x", 1.2345f};
    String s = String.format("%s is %.2f", params);
    System.out.println(s); // Output is: x is 1.23
  }
}

A: You can just pass an array:
public void foo(String... args) {
}

String args[] = new String[10];
foo(args);

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Broadband networks rank among the most important infrastructure assets of our time—for purposes of economic development and competitiveness, innovation, workforce preparedness, health care, education, and environmental sustainability. In the brief 25 years since the advent of the commercial internet, broadband access has become foundational to the American economy and participation of everyone in the U.S. in our democracy.
The criticality of broadband was illustrated when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the U.S. economy. Households with fast connections were able to continue working and attending classes online. Unconnected households found themselves more cut off than ever. If there were ever any doubt about the centrality of broadband to the national interest, the devastating pandemic erased this doubt. Yet the United States faces persistent gaps in broadband availability and affordability—as well as a troublingly noncompetitive broadband ecosystem in which most communities are served by only one or, at best, two high-speed broadband providers.
The persistence of these gaps demonstrates that private-sector investment alone is not closing our digital gaps. In rural areas of the country, in particular, there exists insufficient return on investment for private capital; as a result, broadband deployment does not emerge absent some form of public support. In less rural areas, competition is rare because return-on-investment challenges deter new investors from competing against existing monopolies and duopolies.
Given these difficult economics, even the most optimistic estimates are that only a third of American homes have access to all-fiber-optic networks. Fiber represents the holy grail of communications infrastructure, recognized as a future-proof technology for facilitating the bandwidth needs of homes, businesses, schools, libraries, institutions, and government agencies—and a necessary platform for advanced wireless services that require fiber to deliver high speeds.
How, then, can America's communities secure the benefits of fiber-optic infrastructure?
Public-Private Collaboration
Our answer is that local governments need not accept a binary option of waiting for the private sector to solve the problem—which the private sector already would have done if it made business sense—or taking on the challenge entirely as a public enterprise. Rather, public-private collaboration can disrupt this binary and give communities options. Indeed, in recent months and years, a range of collaborative public-private models—involving various levels of risk-sharing—have emerged and proved worthy of emulation.
In some of the most promising of these partnerships, the public entity funds, builds, and owns the underlying communications infrastructure and the private entity does the rest: It provides the electronics and service over that infrastructure and deals with the complexities of running a broadband business. This Public Infrastructure/Private Service model puts the locality in the business of building infrastructure, a business cities and counties know well after a century of building roads, bridges, and utilities. The model leaves to the private sector most aspects of network operations, equipment provisioning, and service delivery.
The level of risk (and potential reward) can be calibrated under the partnership terms to suit local conditions and community goals.
The Public Infrastructure/Private Service Model
Dark fiber is fiber-optic infrastructure that is not yet "lit" or put into use by a service provider.
"Public Infrastructure/Private Service" is shorthand to describe this model, and in most cases the public infrastructure is dark fiber. But in some cases, the infrastructure might be conduit for housing the fiber; in others, fixed-wireless technologies might supplement the fiber if local conditions warrant. In rare cases, the public fiber infrastructure might include the electronics, forming a public "lit" network over which partners can provide services over virtual circuits.
And alternative emerging approaches among other kinds of entities confirm the model, demonstrating the wisdom of the separation of function according to the partners' capabilities and the most efficient allocation of responsibilities. For example, the collaborators could be private-private, public-public, and even cooperative-cooperative—but playing the same basic roles, with one providing infrastructure and the other providing service.
The Public Infrastructure/Private Service model leverages the best capabilities of the public and private sectors. In this model, cities and counties do what they've always done: finance and build basic infrastructure, manage rights-of-way, and maintain that infrastructure over long periods of time—ensuring that the entire community benefits from the infrastructure and that government functions can happen over fiber that connects municipal offices, libraries, public safety agencies, and schools.
At the same time, private entities do what they traditionally do well: run a business, engage in sales and marketing, handle customer service, and adapt to changing technologies and customer preferences. In some cases, public or cooperative entities ably perform these service roles in a partnership with their infrastructure collaborators.
This emerging model presents a scalable option for communities that lack the expertise or interest to operate communications networks or act as internet service providers themselves but want to own and control the core communications assets in their community as a means of securing the benefits of the broadband internet.
It should always be the prerogative of local community leaders to make their own decisions about whether and how to address the need for broadband in their communities. The Public Infrastructure/Private Service model is an option to add to their menu of choices: a pragmatic, community-driven, pro-market, pro-business approach to advancing broadband in communities where solutions have not already emerged.
CLIC represents a wide range of public and private interests that support the authority of local communities to make the broadband Internet choices that are essential for economic competitiveness, democratic discourse, and quality of life in the 21st century.
A new paper—authored by the Coalition For Local Internet Choice (CLIC) and published by the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society—defines and describes the model (and related variations, such as private-private and public-public) from both a business and a technical standpoint, and it summarizes case studies across the country of partnerships solving problems today. We provide a strategic overview of the basic Public Infrastructure/Private Service model and its variants, together with a framework for public-sector entities to consider as they evaluate potential technical approaches and levels of risk-sharing. And we address the key legal issues that arise in public-private partnership deals.
Fiber Now For America's Future
Fiber optics represent the most scalable long-term broadband infrastructure option. For purposes of capacity, reliability, and scalability, fiber-to-the-premises is superior to all other broadband technologies. Despite some industry marketing claims, fiber-to-the-premises is superior to even the best of all theoretical wireless technologies. Fiber infrastructure represents a long-term, prudent investment for a public entity with significant potential use and impact.
But fiber will not reach everywhere unless communities actively pursue it. Rural regions, other low-density populated areas, and low-income areas of cities have seen far less investment in 21st-century broadband networks than have more densely populated, higher-income areas of the United States. This is part of the reason the economies of these areas can stagnate, young people depart for more promising locations, and communities decline.
We know that fiber is America's future. Public Infrastructure/Private Service: A Shared-Risk Partnership Model for 21st Century Broadband Infrastructure is a guide for communities that are ready to start shaping their digital destiny.
Joanne Hovis is president of CTC Technology & Energy, where she heads the firm's work in public broadband strategy, network business planning, market analysis, and policy. Joanne advises cities and states regarding how to build strategy and opportunity for public–private partnerships in broadband. She led the CTC teams that developed first-of-their-kind public-private broadband collaborations for the cities of Tacoma, WA, Westminster, MD, and Lexington, KY; the states of Alabama, Delaware, and Kentucky; and the Urbana-Champaign Big Broadband consortium. Joanne also serves as CEO of the Coalition for Local Internet Choice and on the boards of Consumer Reports, the Fiber Broadband Association, and the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society.
Jim Baller is president of Baller Stokes & Lide, PC, a national law firm based in Washington, D.C. He represents clients in a broad range of communications matters nationally and in more than 35 states. He was the founder and president of the US Broadband Coalition, a consortium of more than 160 organizations of all kinds that forged a national consensus on the need for a comprehensive national broadband strategy and recommended the framework reflected in the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan. The Fiber to the Home Council has recognized Jim as "the nation's most experienced and knowledgeable attorney on public broadband matters.
David Talbot, Principal Analyst & Researcher at CTC Technology & Energy, is an experienced researcher and analyst who conducts a range of analytical, research, and needs assessment tasks. Prior to coming to CTC he was a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, where he researched and wrote reports on municipal fiber and related topics. He previously worked as a senior editor and chief correspondent at MIT Technology Review, where he frequently covered internet, communications, and energy technologies and policies.
Cat Blake, Civic Technology Analyst at CTC Technology & Energy, works with clients to develop infrastructure and funding strategies to meet community needs and performs a range of research and writing tasks related to civic technology and digital equity. Cat is currently working with nonprofit Generation West Virginia to support communities in the state as they seek to expand access to broadband. Recently, she helped develop a new broadband funding plan for the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs. A University of Virginia graduate, Cat came to CTC from Next Century Cities, where she was a Senior Program Manager.
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Chevrolet SS May Live Beyond Life Span Of Holden VF Commodore
by Manoli Katakis
— Apr 25, 2013
A report from Carsguide is indicating that the Chevrolet SS, the American twin of the Holden VF Series Commodore, will live beyond 2016 — the year the Zeta-based Commodore is expected to cease production, if market demand is strong enough. This means that the Adelaide plant would temporarily assemble three vehicles — the SS, Holden Cruze and another global vehicle that has yet to be announced. It's also out of the realm of possibilities that Holden would continue to build limited-run VF-Commodore SS-V models alongside the Chevy for a short time.
Considering it's still only 2013, we'll have to see how things actually play out.
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Chris D says:
Can we please get an SS configurator already?!? How about even a color palette? Something, anything! What's the hold-up on pricing this thing?
Yabadabadoo says:
I get the feeling GM has something big planned with the Chevelle, El Camino SS in the future…
Nigol T. says:
I don't know if GM realizes it but they have an arsenal of ammunition and could pretty much bring back anything like the "VEGA" and it would be an instant hit. Literally, skies the limit, it's scary!!!!!
Nigol, Lets hope your right, you are right the sky is the limit and the ball is in there court, now bring it…
Hafeez H says:
I hope it lives on
I would not get all wrapped up in old names outside of El Camino. Putting a Chevelle name on a car over the Impala would be something GM may take issue with.
The SS on the Zeta will live on only as long as it takes to get the new in the works out. 2-3 years at best.
Names like Fiero, Vega and the like are dead and will not come back. Too much baggage.
Chevy has many good things coming but in the competitive market we have there are no sure things and even the home runs only last a short time anymore. The key to Chevy and GM's future it to keep the system in place to continue putting out the hits. Even it if it not a home run a double and triple is nothing to be ashamed of. Not any one company can hit them all out.
Bob Lutz put in place a system that enables the people who work at GM to do their jobs the best they can with out having to have 14 people sign off on common sense things like fixing poor door gaps or other issues. While many want to make the Volt his legacy there the fact is the system of taking the red tape out of many areas of car development is where his true legacy is. Mark Ruess also has learned and is getting more and more bold like Uncle Bob..
I would watch the plant where the Camaro and Cadillac Alpha cars are built and I hope they plan to move the next gen SS there. It would free them up for many more options. They could continue to build the Alpha based car also in Australia too for their market but we would not have to worry about the exchange rate. .
America won't want this. Car is way too generic looking, it has that "Suddenly it's 1999" look to it. Plus it's far too overpriced compared to other RWD cars in the market.
You can get a Charger R/T with an 8 speed trans and a kick-a__ Hemi for $29K.
jzEllis says:
As much as I like the Idea of the SS sedan, I agree with every point you made. I just don't think the SS has what it takes to be a major player in the market. It's biggest fault is the styling. Just like the GTO (which I also own and love) GM should have brought over a HSV varient and left everything as is. Instead the watered it down and raised the price.
Hopefully it does well, but with the pseudo "Styling Renascence" big RWD American cars are enjoying, the SS may as well be a Camry vs the others…
This car will be DOA. The time for a Chevy G8 has already come and gone. Too big, too pricey, generic name, brand-engineered; this reeks of the "old GM". Besides, the General already has a "performance sedan" in the Caddy CTS V-series. I give the SS a two year span, tops.
Not really noticeable badge engineering when the twin car is sold on the opposite side of the world. It's not like were talking about the Sunfire and Cavalier in term of badge swapping.
The CTS-V costs ~$30000 more than the SS will so it isnt comparable.
Saying it is too big and too pricey? It's basically a more practical Camaro SS
Grawdaddy says:
They are comparable; they're both mid-size cars that who's strongest selling feature is HP.
Also, we don't even have an MSRP for the SS yet. Considering the CTS-V starts at $64,515 USD, I want to know what makes you think a car like the SS is going to retail for $30K to $35K USD?
At their core, sure they have similarities (like boasting high HP, both have 4-doors, roughly the same size, rwd, 6.2L-though on has a S/C strapped to it). But that's like saying food is food, whether you are eating tofu or kobe beef, both provide protein so they achieve the same.
The CTS-V is a luxury car with 35% more power.
The SS supposedly only has one option, a sunroof. So lets say the SS is $40k+1000 for that lonely option. The CTS-V can become $75000 pretty quick, and most CTS-V, new, sitting on lots are optioned out closer to the top end rather than the base MSRP.
I also said "~$30000" as in roughly $30000 more.
The G8 GXP was $40k, and sure this car has a more limited availability, but then again, GM will import as many as dealers need. Maybe this car will go for $45k to put it in line with the Charger and undercut the 300 SRT. But that is still $20-30000 cheaper than a CTS-V sedan. twenty-thousand… You can buy a nice winter car for that much and keep the SS garaged.
A 2SS Camaro is what? $35k before being optioned. Do you think the SS sedan will cost $20k more? $25k more? $30k more? Than it's 2-door lot brother
"Do you think the SS sedan will cost $20k more? $25k more? $30k more?"
Well why not? The SS is already better looking than the Camaro, it has a better interior, it offers paddles instead of a manual, and it's more practical sedan that has a better DLO than the Camaro ever had.
Also, I imagine the Camaro is pitched as being more pedestrian and more 'affordable', whereas the SS will have limited supply for it's few years. Let's not forget the SS will only be had with a V8; something that the Camaro only offers at $32K USD bare bones.
Something that looks as good on the inside as the SS with a V8 and being exported from Oz isn't going to be available for Camaro 1SS money.
bronc624 says:
I agree with the people who say the styling is too bland. Every time I see a Charger, I wonder who will pay a lot more money and get an SS instead. Decent car under the skin, and it will become more so if and when they switch to the new V8 and transmissions. But the exterior screams basic family sedan and the price does not match that.
What car would I want, Charger or SS. Well after a test drive I am fairly certain I would know as would countless others… My guess the SS would stand out in driving dynamics in a significant way over a Charger… The SS is a good looking vehicle, yea it needed more refinment in exterior design but over all I like it…
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The Eastern Ontario Regional Network (EORN) has proposed a $213 million (CAD) public-private partnership that would reduce the number of cellular dead zones throughout the region.
The EORN is seeking support from both the provincial and federal governments to fill the gaps in cellular coverage in Eastern Ontario. The proposal was submitted today to Ontario Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli and Rural Affairs Minister Jeff Leal.
About one quarter of the area where there are homes, businesses or major roads in the region cannot access any cellular services.
Depending on the cell carrier, another 28% to 40% of the area has inadequate capacity to provide high quality mobile broadband service given the demand, which continues to grow.
The gaps in cellular service stem from market failure in rural areas that don't generate enough revenue to support the development of adequate services. The partnership would reduce carrier costs when building out the required infrastructure.


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Pursuant to paragraph 11.1(1)(b) of the Financial Administration Act, the Treasury Board of Canada herby provides notice that the definition of the Radio Operations Group effective March 18, 1999 as published in Part I of the Canada Gazette on March 27,1999 is revised as follows upon the effective date of the Police Operations Support Group, May 15, 2014 .
The Radio Operations Group comprises positions that are primarily involved in the operation of electronic equipment to communicate information for the safety of life at sea, the protection of the environment and the efficient movement of marine vessels, and to monitor radio aids to marine navigation, and the provision of associated advisory services.
Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, for greater certainty, it includes positions that have, as their primary purpose, responsibility for one or more of the following activities:
the operation of radio communications equipment at Marine Communications and Traffic Services Centres or on Canadian Coast Guard ships as a radio operator acting in a relief capacity;
the performance of vessel traffic services at a Marine Communications and Traffic Services Centre;
the planning and development of standards and procedures and the management of communications networks dealing with radio operations and with the delivery of vessel traffic services and flight information services;
the development, direction and delivery of associated training and evaluation programs, and the issuance of certificates through legislative delegation;
the analysis and evaluation of proposals from NAV CANADA and other flight information service providers; and
the leadership of radio operations and vessel traffic services at Marine Communications and Traffic Services Centres.
Positions excluded from the Radio Operations Group are those whose primary purpose is included in the definition of any other group or those in which one or more of the following activities is of primary importance:
the operation of radio equipment aboard Canadian Coast Guard ships as defined in the Ships' Officers Group;
the operation of electronic equipment for the purpose of making and analyzing ionosphere measurements;
the maintenance and repair of electronic and associated electro-mechanical or electrical equipment;
the operation of meteorological communication networks; and
the provision of a marine information service within a Regional Marine Information Centre;
the planning, development, conduct or management of telecommunications operations in support of police operations;
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 25, medical 2014
CONTACTS: Peter Hamm, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, 202-296-5469
Tara Peters, American Cancer Society, 732-887-2920
Tricia McLaughlin, Legacy, 202-454-5560
Gregg Tubbs, American Lung Association, 202-715-3469
Retha Sherrod, American Heart Association, 202-785-7929
Kelly Jakubek, American Medical Association, 312-464-4443
Robert Raible, American Dental Association, 202-789-5166
Brittany Wright, Oral Health America, 312-836-9900
Leading Health Groups Urge Major League Baseball to Prohibit Tobacco Use at Ballparks and on Camera
WASHINGTON, DC – Nine major medical and public health organizations have written to Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association urging them to agree to a complete prohibition on tobacco use at ballparks and on camera.The groups sending the letter are: American Cancer Society, American Dental Association, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Medical Association, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Legacy, Oral Health America and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. View the full text of the letter.
The letter was sent following the death of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn from cancer that he attributed to his longtime use of chewing tobacco. Tony Gwynn's death has generated significant media coverage about the use of chewing tobacco in baseball.
"Major League Baseball and the Players Association can honor Tony Gwynn's memory by agreeing to a complete prohibition on tobacco use at ballparks and on camera. Our organizations urge you to do so without delay," the letter states.
"Use of smokeless tobacco endangers the health of Major League ballplayers. It also sets a terrible example for the millions of young people who watch baseball at the ballpark or on TV and often see players and managers using tobacco."
In 2011, Major League Baseball and the Players Association agreed to some restrictions on smokeless tobacco use, including prohibitions on carrying tobacco tins in uniforms and on using tobacco during televised interviews. But "these are not sufficient to eliminate smokeless tobaccouse in public settings or to prevent more players from becoming addicted to these deadly products," the letter states.
The letter was sent to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark.
All Baseball Fans
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Deborah Stagner specializes in education law, litigation and appeals at Tharrington Smith. She also advises school boards and local governments on election and voting rights matters, including redistricting.
Ms. Stagner received her undergraduate degree in political science from the University of Kansas in 1992. She attended the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she was a published staff member of the North Carolina Law Review and earned her J.D. with honors in 1997. Prior to joining Tharrington Smith in 2000, Ms. Stagner served for three years as a law clerk to Chief Justice Henry E. Frye of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She has been licensed to practice law in North Carolina since 1997 and is admitted to practice before all federal courts in North Carolina and the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Stagner is a member of the Education Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association, the North Carolina Council of School Attorneys, and the National Council of School Attorneys. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Council of School Attorneys since 2015 and was elected to serve as Chair for 2020-2021.
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United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, 2003
United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, 2003
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 2000
National Council of School Attorneys
North Carolina Bar Association, Education Law Section
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North Carolina Council of School Attorneys, Region III Representative 2014-18; Officer 2019-present
NCSBA Spring Law Conference – A Fair Hearing: The Duty to Remain Impartial and Illegal Reasons for Board Actions (2015)
Law Institute for Teachers (LIFT) – Violence in the Schools, co-presenter with Tom Stern (2008, 2010, 2011)
NCSBA Fall School Law Conference – Charter Schools and Virtual Charter Schools: Litigation and Funding issues, panel member (2013)
NCSBA Fall Law Conference – Elements of the ADA: Recent Issues in Litigation over Dual Employment Positions (2013)
NCSBA School Board 101 – Open Meetings Law (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
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The Twisted Logic of the Iran Debate
Obama has won but so has Iran	Sep 15 2015
To follow the inverted logic of the furious debate over the Iran nuclear deal has been an adventure in Wonderland where Alice learns that down is up and up is down. Opponents argued that we
should hold out for a better deal. After holding fast against six nations for 18 months, surely Iran will be only too obliging to return to the table. Or, why don't we just toughen the sanctions? Never mind that
our partner nations would abandon both us and the sanctions in disgust if the U.S. were to back out of the deal. But the agreement "paves Iran's path to a bomb" in 10 to 15 years warns Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Somehow that's the danger, not that Iran would set its centrifuges spinning again now if there is no deal.
Dick Cheney and daughter Liz wrote an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal to report that a deal that is designed to block all pathways to a nuclear weapon "will actually accelerate" nuclear proliferation because of "America's unwillingness to stop the Iranian nuclear program". How's that again? Because preventing Iran from continuing its nuclear development will see "nations across the Middle East work to acquire their own weapons". Pretzel logic.
The topsy-turvy illogic that we should just demand a better deal has been voiced by many in Congress, many of them probably not even aware during the past 18 months, punctuated by disputes and walkouts, that the grudging negotiations were taking place. "Congress should reject a bad deal", say ads from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. "We need a better deal". Up pops Joe Lieberman, without portfolio but somehow given a podium in the media to say that "because of its depleted economy" Iran will come running back to the table because they "need an agreement more than we do". Lieberman then took the reins of United Against a Nuclear Iran, a supposedly bipartisan group belied by its advertising.
For its part, the Obama administration didn't play it straight. Much like Obamacare, false promises were uncovered one by one — that there is no "anywhere, anytime" guarantee; that a request must be filed to inspect a newly suspected site, setting in motion a 24-day process giving Iran ample time to sweep evidence under the rug; that Iran will ludicrously inspect itself at the Parchin military base.
(The Parchin "bombshell" — The Wall Street Journal — that is "utterly humiliating" — The Washington Post — was a phony issue, though. For a facility widely suspected of involvement in nuclear weapon development, self-inspection is of course a joke, but it isn't news. "In his television appearance the Ayatollah ruled out military bases", we reported April 13th. "It must absolutely not be allowed for [the IAEA] to infiltrate into the country's defense and security domain under the pretext of inspections," he said.)
These surprises gave the opposing camp a steady resupply of ammunition and it got nasty. Netanyahu views the U.S. Congress as his own lobby and has engaged in persistent meddling with U.S. policy. He set about contacting American Jews directly and telling them the deal would give Iran "hundreds of bombs tomorrow" and turn any terrorist group backed by Iran into a "terrorist superpower". Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, has gone through the back door to meet with some 60 senators and representatives to lobby against the accord. Netanyahu told the Jewish community he rejects the deal "because I want to prevent war". Obama told everyone that all that would be left as the alternative to the deal is war.
This succeeded in splitting the Jewish community into opposing factions that one called "fratricide". Several Democrats in districts with large Jewish populations broke with Obama and sided with Netanyahu, most prominently New York Senator Charles Schumer. Brooklyn's representative Jerry Nadler, also Jewish, stayed with Obama and received death threats.
Countering the Israeli campaign, "Cabinet members and other senior administration officials talked directly with more than 200 House members and senators", reported The New York Times. "The president spoke personally to about 100 lawmakers…called 30 lawmakers during his August vacation". What may have worked better still was the visit here by diplomats from all five partner nations in the deliberations — Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia — to deliver a message to on-the-fence Democrats that this is the best deal they can expect and there won't be another.
too great expectations
Iran has been living under increasingly tough sanctions for the past decade. In the talks they showed an unyielding resolve to hold out unless one after another concession was granted. The concern on our side of the table was that they would quit the talks, meaning the end of the interim accord that halted their nuclear activities while negotiations took place, and resume nuclear weapon development with a "breakout time" — the time needed to produce enough enriched uranium to make one bomb — estimated at a mere two to three months. The six nations opposite Iran at the bargaining table reasoned that a regime of restrictions and inspections — some for 10 and some for 15 years and beyond — is better than the status quo ante that existed before the interim accord.
only buying time
The abiding fear is that the agreement, by allowing Iran to keep a sharply reduced number of centrifuges spinning and to continue research, will enable Iran to become a threshold nuclear state a "screwdriver's turn away" from producing a bomb when the 10-15 years are up. The one-year breakout time initially brought about by the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) restrictions, will by then have withered away to zero. Those complaints somehow expected that the U.S. and partners could have and should have exacted from the Iranians a prohibition that would extend into perpetuity, conditions to which no sovereign country would have acceded. Their view is that end of restrictions somehow legitimizes Iran as a nuclear proliferating state.
But there are no requirements for the western nations to allow Iran to do as it pleases when restrictions lapse. All options are then available to us if Iran reverts to its nuclear ambitions.
Far more troubling is the return to Iran of its own funds frozen by the West, variously spoken of as $100 billion to $150 billion. It sets up a scenario in which we are left with nothing but have to trust Iran — exactly what the Obama administration has promised not to extend. Iran's economic health will be restored, the sanctions will have been lifted, the arms and ballistic missile embargoes ended, so what is left to hold Iran to the deal? The "snap-back" sanctions? Will Europe give up the profitable trade with Iran that will have grown up by then? Will Russia and China and the other nations that cooperated with the U.S. on sanctions be willing to injure their economies once again by sanction reinstatement? That leaves nothing but trust that Iran will see the deal through, and that is a pipe dream.
Iran will mock our naïveté and return to its plan to become the hegemon of the Middle East enforced by its nuclear blackmail weapon. We will then be one or two presidents further along, possibly much more concerned with a militaristic China, so who can say whether we will then be willing to attack Iran? Restored to health, Iran will have built up its defenses and weaponry such that it could become much more difficult to cripple the nuclear program or the country than now.
Mostly lost in the fierce debate were the consequences if the United States — the country that pressed the hardest and led the talks — were to walk away from our own deal. This would have told the world that the U.S. cannot lead, has become too dysfunctional to get a job done. There is the danger that allied and friendly countries, seeing the handwriting of realpolitik on the wall, might defensively seek to improve relations with China. There's apprehension that this in turn would play into China's hand to weaken or replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, a huge diminishment for the U.S.
But not much heed is paid to that. The mindset is far more parochial. It is stunning that, among the hundreds in Congress, there is so far no Republican who will decide for him- or herself to vote for the accord. That all march in lockstep says their vote will be entirely political with no regard for whether their act may not be in the interest of the nation. Otherwise, surely someone would step forward to break ranks.
a war strategy?
Worse, we are in a new moment of our democracy in which the losing side of a law's passage sets about to destroy the law in other ways. Don't like Obamacare? Then plot to block its funding, for example. As Obama looked close to getting enough votes to prevent Congress surmounting his veto, Sen. Bob Corker, Republican of Tennessee and Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, began leading a move to vote for a new set of sanctions against Iran for supporting terrorist groups in the Middle East. There is little doubt that Iran would view removing one set of sanctions and imposing another with a different label as one and the same, and grounds for breaking the deal — fulfilling the Republican objective. In fact, Iran has already made that clear in two provisions of the JCPOA (paragraphs 26 and 37) in nearly identical words, "that if sanctions are reinstated in whole or in part, Iran will treat that as grounds to cease performing its commitments under this JCPOA in whole or in part."
In March, fellow Tennessee Republican Senator Tom Cotton lined up 47 senators to sign a letter to the Ayatollah and Iranian leadership warning them that the United States cannot be trusted. Corker has decided to prove him right. These moves to deliberately break the deal beg the question of whether what this faction really has in mind is to trigger war now as the better option.


Last month, the paper conservators at the Amon Carter travelled to Montreal for the 44th Annual Conservation Meeting organized by the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) and the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property (CAC). The meeting featured numerous talks covering multiple disciplines in conservation, including books and paper, photographic materials, paintings, textiles, objects, and so on. There were also hands-on workshops focusing on new conservation techniques, networking receptions, discussion groups, exhibitions, and various other activities related to the historical and cultural areas of Montreal.
Conservation techniques are constantly evolving with the development of new technologies and materials. Jodie Utter, conservator of works on paper, and I, paper conservation fellow, had the chance to attend a workshop on the application of rigid Gellan gels used for conservation treatment. Gellan gel is a nontoxic biopolymer produced naturally by a microorganism. In conservation, the gel is formed in sheets of varying thickness and sizes for controlled wet treatments. The gel, when placed over paper, pulls soluble degradation products out via osmosis. Compared to other treatment methods, it is a gentle process that minimizes changes in the surface of the paper.
During the workshop, we made several batches of Gellan gel in different concentrations. We also tested gels with different additives like alkali and reductive bleach on aged and discolored paper samples provided by the organizers. Take a look at the pictures below to see the Gellan gels in action.
Luckily, I won a bag of Gellan gum in a drawing at the end of the workshop! Needless to say, we are excited to practice some of the techniques we learned at the workshop in our own lab.
Above: An excited Jodie watching the preparation of Gellan gel.
Above: Mixing the different ingredients needed for a batch of Gellan gel.
Above: Placing a sheet of Gellan gel on a discolored sample.
Above: Removing the Gellan gel after "washing" a discolored sample.
Above: A sheet of Gellan gel showing the discoloration removed from the paper sample after 15 minutes.
Above: Discolored used sheets of Gellan gel.
Above: Gellan gum for the Amon Carter's lab!


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On the occasion of their Raid 2013 the team L'Alliance Francophone made an interview with yoyo@home.
LAF: Could you introduce the team that is in charge of the project ?
yoyo: Behind this project is the Rechenkraft.net e.V. non profit organization. Rechenkraft is German for â??computing powerâ?.
In 2001 the internet presentation and forum Rechenkraft.net was born. Information about nearly all distributed computing projects are collected and discussed in the forum. In 2004 we decided to create a non profit organization and did our first foundation meeting. Since 2005 Rechenkraft.net is an official registered non profit organization. Our main goal is to spread the idea of distributed computing towards people who spent there computing resources and to scientist which have not enough money to by a super computer or high performance cluster.
In 2005 we decided to change the internet presentation into a wiki. Since 2007 we are awarding the Seal Of Approval to distributed computing projects to show new people which projects are worth to donate to. Since 2007 we are also an official partner of the WorldCommunityGrid.
We take part in Boinc workshops, scientific conferences and are contact partner for Germany TV- and radio stations and newspapers. We run the yoyo@home and RNA World Boinc projects and supported the Constellation project (e.g. to buy the first server). And we meet each other also in real life.
Currently there are 71 member in the Rechenkraft.net e.V. non profit organization, from different Boinc teams (even some without any team) and from different countries.
LAF: Where is the project localized ?
yoyo: The project is a German project. I'm living in Berlin and the server is a rented server, so I doesn't really know in which town the server is located.
LAF: When and how was the idea of the project born ?
I contribute to distributed computing projects since 1996, a time before SETI@home and before Boinc. In 1996 it was the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project where my computer contributed to an account of a colleague. In 1997 I joined the RC5-56 and DES challenges of distributed.net and in 1999 the RC5-64 challenge.
2007, more than 10 years after I contributed to my first project, I wanted to know how the server side of a distributed computing project works. How workunits are distributed and so on. I joined the Boinc mailing lists to see what happens behind the scenes and read the documentation. Than Christian popped up and provided a fully configured Boinc server virtual machine. So I downloaded this VM and in March 2007 a Boinc server VM was running on my 1.6GHz, 500MB Ram Windows XP Laptop and distributed UPPERcase workunits.
Since I didn't know how to name the project, I just used my nick name appended with @home.
In June 2007 David Anderson announced the Wrapper, to run legacy applications in Boinc. I decided to check the Wrapper approach with the distributed.net client, which is available for a lot of operating systems and has many configuration possibilities. So after a weekend this was also running and the project was born.
After my wife switched the laptop off we decided to put the project to the Rechenkraft.net server. Than big teams joined and had fun with a race, but not the server :(. I was sitting on the airport, waiting for a flight, and checked the Boinc server. But the server was gone. I entered our team chat and asked what happened. The workunits went very short and thousands of racing computer where requesting work every minute. So the server was overloaded and the Boinc part was stopped. Still sitting on the airport we decided to rent an own server for yoyo@home and collected the money for renting the server for a year. 2 days after this the server was up on the new box and running.
In November 2007 the evolution@home project was started in yoyo@home. We have a long lasting relation to its author.
In March 2008 the Muon project got wrapped in yoyo@home.
In 2008 the ECM project was the next one, which is a base for a lot of number theory factorization projects.
In 2010 the Euler project got wrapped and afterwards the Harmonious Trees project.
LAF: In a few words, how would you define it ?
yoyo: It is a project which wraps existing (or new) computing projects into the Boinc world. In this case the project profits from the large Boinc community. The project application can be available as binary or in source code to be wrapped into a Boinc application.
It is not specific to any scientific direction. Currently it is mathematics, evolutionary research and particle physics.
LAF: What is the percentage of progress of different projects, how many years expected ?
The OGR project (with different ruler length) is running since 2007. Currently we run the 27 rulers. Yoyo@home provides ~ 20% of the OGR computing power. The project will finish in ~ 1 year.
Evolution@home doesn't really have an end. It is a simulation of mutations. The goal is to get as much as possible simulations. I think yoyo@home provides more than 90% of this project.
Muon will finish probably in 2015. I assume yoyo@home contributes 30% of this project.
ECM, there will be forever the need of integer factorization. So this project might run forever. yoyo@home contributes up to 70% to the ecm effort of the various subprojects.
The Euler project was already finished. It was nearly 100% done on yoyo@home. We verified all already found solutions and found a lot more. The results were published for open access.
HarmoniousTree will finish in the next days. It was entirely done in yoyo@home. Afterwards we will not start the next node level, we will first consolidate the results in a scientific paper.
LAF: Do you have any other ideas of projects ?
yoyo: I have some ideas. But since the project is done in my spare time, I don't want to talk about it until it is finished.
LAF: Have you thought about creating an application to the GPU ?
yoyo: Yes, I have though about it. But I think there will be no GPU application in the near future. Keep also in mind, that not all algorithm run faster on GPU than on CPU.
LAF: Does the application have any issue ?
yoyo: In short: ECM might use up to 1.8 GB of RAM and evolution@home doesn't have checkpoints. Beside this the applications are running very smooth.
LAF: In some days, our team will make a run on your project : What do you think about it ?
yoyo: I'm very happy to have one of the team with the most power on yoyo@home. A team, which was one of the first in one of the first races which crashed the yoyo@home server, which than leads to an own yoyo@home server.
You should always keep in mind, that yoyo@home runs 100% based on donations and in my spare time after my fulltime employee job. There are not millions of Euro of funding and no full time people who work for this project. So pleace bare with me if the server is not power full enough and if I don't react minutes after a problem.
At the end I want to say, that help is always welcome. Help to compile the applications on different operating systems. Help to enhance the screen saver. Help to enhance the applications. Help to search for additional projects which are worth to bring them the Boinc power. Help to create new projects in yoyo@home. And of course donations to run the server and join Boinc workshops and scientific meetings.
If you have any idea or want to provide help or want to run your own project (or know somebody who has a project) in yoyo@home, contact me.
LAF: Thank you for this interview.
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