What the the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series Chicago?
When Jim Cornelison overdoing the National Anthem is the biggest blow of Day 1 of ACWS Saturday, the first America's Cup venue on freshwater has issues.
With light winds from the west, falling within the "wind shadow'' of Chicago's downtown skyscapers, only a late provisional race sailed. Light winds from the west were the one fear course designer Iain Murray had beforehand.
For racing to begin, wind needed to be at least 5 knots within the race area. That did not happen until later.
Crowds waited out the lack of wind long enough to watch a provisional race Saturday in the America's Cup World Series at Navy Pier.
So the thousands of spectators packed on the east end of Navy Pier and the thousands more on hundreds of boats outside the perimeter of the race area–a line east from the Jardine Water Purification Plant to the breakwall then west to Monroe Harbor–waited and baked in 90-degree-plus sun.
With no official races Saturday, a provisional race sailed Friday counted as Race 1.
SoftBank Team Japan won Friday's provisional race in 15 minutes, 30 seconds for 10 points. Emirates Team New Zealand now leads Oracle Team USA, 251-241. Japan, is fourth with 213. The 35th America's Cup is in June 2017 on the Great Sound of Bermuda.
The highlight of the Friday's provisional race was a lowlight: USA capsized early and finished a distant sixth, last (five points).
While waiting on wind, Oracle Team USA spent much time near Navy Pier within view of the grandstand Saturday in the America's Cup World Series at Navy Pier.
"We've done that a couple times and are getting better at recovery,'' USA skipper Jimmy Spithill cracked.
USA provided a diversion during the waiting Saturday with a flying pass-by tight to Navy Pier to give fans something while they baked.
Any chance of an official race ended by 3 p.m. Saturday. However, there was enough wind to hold a provisional race later. It will only become official is similar conditions exist Sunday.
However, Sunday is forecast to be far different with a blow from the north/northeast.
Saturday's provisional race finally sailed at 3:45 p.m. to give the thousands who waited, the majority of the original crowd, something to see.
The course was reset. The start was east of DuSable Harbor, most of the racing off Monroe and DuSable harbors, and the finish by the southeast corner of Navy Pier.
New Zealand won handily in 18:58 with the USA a distant second.
The trick for sailing in light winds to find a way to lift the hull off the water, which radically reduces drag and ups speed.
It was an inauspicious start for the first freshwater venue for the oldest trophy in international sports (since 1851).
SPECTATORS (BOAT): Boaters are restricted north of a line off the water treatment plant, east of the Chicago breakwall and south of a line out from Monroe Harbor.


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Thumbs up for all
Thumbs up to Poofberry's owner Diane Carr, who is spearheading this year's Mason's Mission fundraiser. Mason Bain, 2, is a gorgeous, smiling toddler whose health challenges require therapies and equipment not covered by insurance and which his parents can't afford without help. The July 20 event, planned for the Nonantum, which is donating the space, will raise much-needed funds for Mason. It's also yet another example of how this community takes care of its own.
Thumbs up to Justice for Mary supporters for creating the Walking Mary Home event, held July 7th on the anniversary of Kennebunk teen Mary Tanner's death. The walkers followed the route Mary took that night, and other than being another opportunity to show their support for Mary's family and coming together for each other, the walk was yet another step toward keeping her case alive and finding her killer.
Thumbs up to the founders and members of the Wells Ogunquit Center at Moody for celebrating 10 years of being there for the community. While people said it wouldn't work, the founders ensured that not only would it work, but it would thrive. Next week they'll spend three days celebrating that success, and it's certainly well-deserved.
Thumbs up to the Wells Rotary and the chambers in both Wells and Ogunquit, the Wells and Ogunquit police departments and various town officials for coming together at the end of June to once again welcome the foreign workers for the summer. With tourism the lifeblood of the area — and the foreign workers keeping many tourism-related businesses staffed — it's great to see everyone go out of their way to make workers feel welcome.
Thumbs up to the Brick Store Museum and new director Cynthia Walker for throwing wide its doors and welcoming the community in on its 78th anniversary and every other day. There is a fresh, new wind blowing new life into the museum, and Walker and Archives Associate Manager Leanne Hayden are to be given credit for that.
Thumbs up to the Ogunquit Rotary for putting together its 40th annual two-cent sale, scheduled for July 17. The event raises a whopping $12,000 or so for the organization, which uses it to buy such things as beach wheelchairs for the town, a bicycle for EMTs, fund scholarships, donate to local nonprofits and help with events the Rotary holds at the Wells Ogunquit Senior Center. That's what we call a win-win for the community.
And finally, a big thumbs up — or should it be wings? — for the unidentified angel who stopped last week when no one else would to save 17-year-old Gabrielle Smith. Smith, who was on her way to work when she started to choke on crackers she was eating, said she would have died if not for a woman in a silver sedan who pulled over and gave her the Heimlich maneuver. Smith didn't catch the woman's name, and wants her to know how grateful she is. We'd like the Good Samaritan to know that what she did was easily the coolest thing we heard all week, and worthy of the biggest thumbs up we can offer.
— York County Coast Star

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国連世界情報社会サミット(World Summit on the Information Society : WSIS)
委員長の私設諮問委員会
準備委員会委員長
Document: WSIS-II/PC-2/DOC/3-E
Original: English
President of the PrepCom of the Tunis Phase
REPORT ON THE WORK OF THE GROUP OF FRIENDS OF THE CHAIR
The Group of Friends of the Chair (GFC) was created in accordance with the decision of PrepCom-1 (Hammamet), and following discussion within the WSIS Bureau, in order to prepare a document to serve as a basis for negotiations in PrepCom-2.
The membership of the Group comprised representatives from six governments from each region, plus five regional coordinators and the two host countries. The secretary-general of the ITU and a representative of the secretary-general of the UN participated as ex-officio members of the group. Non-member governments participated in the meeting as observers.
The Group held 6 meeting days between 22 October 2004 and 11 January 2005. Some 2.5 days of the meetings were held as "special sessions" with participation open to all stakeholders. In addition, members of the Group took part in consultations to discuss the work of the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms (TFFM), on 16 November 2004 (am) and in the week beginning 7 February 2005.
The Group worked on the assumption that the outcome of the Tunis phase would be one document in two parts. To facilitate the work, the document was split into a Political Chapeau and an Operational Part.
The Group developed drafts on the basis of contributions from all stakeholders, as well as discussions during the meetings. Contributions to the work of the Group and drafts of the rolling texts are available on the Group's website at http://www.itu.int/wsis/gfc/.
The two annexes to this document present the current versions of the Political Chapeau (Tunis Commitment) and Operational Part (Tunis Agenda for Action). Chapter two of the Operational Part, on financial mechanisms, is provisional and may be further revised ahead of PrepCom-2. These documents are presented for the consideration of PrepCom-2 as a possible basis for negotiations.
Annexes:
Political Chapeau (Tunis Commitment)
Operational Part (Tunis Agenda for Action)
[Political Chapeau / Tunis Commitment
IDEA TEXT
From Geneva to Tunis
1. We, the representatives of the peoples of the world, have gathered in Tunis from 16-18 November 2005 for this second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to reiterate our unequivocal support for the Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action adopted at the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in December 2003. We reaffirm our desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, international law and effective multilateralism, and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, so that people everywhere can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, to achieve their full potential and to promote sustainable development, to improve quality of life, to eradicate poverty and to attain the internationally-agreed development goals of the Millenium Declaration.
Key Principles 5. We reaffirm our resolution in the quest to ensure that everyone can benefit from the opportunities that ICTs can offer, by recalling that governments, as well as private sector, civil society and the United Nations and other international organizations, should work together to: improve access to information and communication infrastructure and technologies as well as to information and knowledge; build capacity; increase confidence and security in the use of ICTs; create an enabling environment at all levels; develop and widen ICT applications; foster and respect cultural diversity; recognize the role of the media; address the ethical dimensions of the Information Society; and encourage international and regional cooperation. We confirm that these are the key principles for building an inclusive Information society, the elaboration of which is found in the Geneva Declaration of Principles.
Development Orientation 6. We recognise that knowledge is vital to human existence and that strengthening diffusion and exchange of knowledge would contribute to economic, social and cultural development, and help all countries reach the internationally-agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration.
7. Furthermore, ICTs have made it possible for a vastly larger population than at any time in the past to join in sharing and expanding the base of human knowledge, and contributing to its further growth and application to education, health and science. ICTs have enormous potential to expand access to quality education, to boost literacy and universal primary education, and to facilitate the learning process itself and thus lay the groundwork for a fully-inclusive and open information and knowledge society.
8. We also recognize that, [just as] the ICT revolution can have a tremendous positive impact as an instrument of sustainable development[, in the absence of an appropriate enabling environment at national and international levels, it could reinforce and increase existing social and economic divisions, widen the gap between rich and poor countries, between regions, and between individuals-including between men and women].
9. We reaffirm our commitment to removing all obstacles to bridging the digital divide, particularly those that hinder the full achievement of the economic and social development of countries and the welfare of their citizens, in particular, in developing countries.
Alternate 9. We urge states to take steps to assist in overcoming obstacles to bridge the digital divide, particularly those that impede the full achievement of the economic and social development by the population of the affected countries and hinder the well-being of their population.
10. We shall strive unremittingly, therefore, to promote universal, ubiquitous, equitable and affordable access to ICTs for people everywhere, to ensure that the benefits are more evenly distributed between and within societies, and to bridge the digital divide in order to create digital opportunities for all.
Alternate 10+11: We shall strive unremittingly, therefore, to promote universal, ubiquitous, equitable and affordable access to ICTs for people everywhere, to ensure that the benefits of the Information Society are more evenly distributed among and within societies, and to bridge the digital divide in order to create digital opportunities for all. In so doing, we shall pay special attention to the roles and special needs of all countries and all segments of society and we reaffirm the commitments taken in this regard in the Geneva Declaration of Principles.
11. To that end, we shall pay special attention to the roles and particular needs of all countries and all segments of society, and reaffirm the commitments taken in this regard in the Geneva Declaration.
Alternate 11A To that end we shall pay special attention to the role and particular needs of children, young people, women, marginalized and vulnerable groups of society including migrants, internally displaced persons and refugees, unemployed and underprivileged people, minorities and nomadic people, people with disabilities, poor people, particularly those living in remote, rural and marginalized urban areas, indigenous peoples, people of developing countries, countries with economies in transition, Least Developed Countries, Small Island Developing States, Landlocked Developing Countries, Highly Indebted Poor Countries, countries and territories under occupation, and countries recovering from conflict or natural disasters.
Alternate 11B To that end, we shall pay special attention to the role and particular needs of the youth, women and older people and to the special situation of indigenous peoples. We also recognize the role and special needs of marginalized and vulnerable groups of society including the disabled, migrants, internally displaced persons, refugees, underprivileged and poor people and of people of countries facing adverse economic situations, geographic isolation, occupation, conflicts or natural disasters.
Further commitments We hereby undertake further commitments to …*
Resource mobilisation, including human resources We commit ourselves to mobilising resources, including human resources, to ….*
Participation and international cooperation 12. We are convinced that our goals can be accomplished through the involvement, cooperation and partnership of governments and all stakeholders and that international cooperation and solidarity at all levels are indispensable if the fruits of the Information Society are to be shared equitably by all.
Conclusion 13. Our efforts will not stop with the conclusion of the Summit. The emergence of the global Information Society to which we all contribute provides increasing opportunities for all our peoples and for the global community that were unimaginable only a few years ago. We must harness these opportunities.
14. [We strongly believe that full and timely implementation of decisions we took in Geneva and in Tunis, the establishment of appropriate follow-up mechanisms thereto, and closely integrating this process in the overall strategy embodied in the Millennium Declaration-through openness, inclusiveness and transparency; promotion of co-operation among stakeholders; and flexibility-is the way to achieve this goal. We therefore reaffirm our strong resolve to develop and implement an effective and sustainable response to challenges and opportunities of building a truly global Information Society that benefits all our peoples.]
Operational part of the final document / Tunis Agenda for Action / Tunis Plan of implementation
5. We reaffirmthat, through the cooperation and partnership of all stakeholders, it will be possible to succeed in our challenge of harnessing the potential of ICTs as a tool to achieve the development goals of the Millennium Declaration and thereby to continue improving the social welfare and development of all human beings.
IDEA DRAFT TEXT SOURCES
Chapter One From principles to action: A summit of sustainable solutions -
General implementation strategies 1. We recognise that it is now time to move from principles to action, by encouraging stakeholders to take the Plan of Action one step further, identifying those areas in which progress has been made in implementing the commitments undertaken in Geneva, and by defining those areas where further efforts and resources are required. G/OS
National e-strategies 2. We acknowledge the leading role of governments in implementing the WSIS Action Plan at the national level. We encourage, as appropriate, those governments that have not yet done so to elaborate comprehensive, forward looking and sustainable national e-strategies, as an integral part of national development plans, including poverty reduction strategies, in partnership with other stakeholders[, by 2008]. G
Regional and international implementation 3. We value regional and international integration efforts as a contribution to the development of the global Information Society, and strong cooperation within and among regions is indispensable. The regional dialogue should contribute to national capacity-building and to the development, as appropriate, of national e-strategies and, regional implementation strategies. South-South cooperation shall be enhanced in order to foster knowledge sharing. G/OS
4. Exchange of views and the sharing of effective practices are essential to implementing the Geneva decisions at the regional and international levels. To this end, efforts should be made to provide and share useful knowledge and know-how, related to the elaboration, monitoring and evaluation of national e-strategies and policies, as appropriate, in order to bridge the digital divide. G/OS
International co-operation G/OS
WSIS targets 6. We are committed to achieving the indicative targets, set out in the Plan of Action, that serve as global references for improving connectivity and access in the use of ICTs in promoting the objectives of the Plan of Action, to be achieved by 2015, and to using ICTs as a tool to achieve the development goals of the Millennium Declaration, by: G
a. mainstreaming and aligning national e-strategies across national action plans, as appropriate, [with in-built time-bound measures/if possible, by 2008], aimed at achieving the development goals of the Millennium Declaration;
b. designing and implementing enabling policies and a regulatory environment that is supportive of ICT entrepreneurship and that promotes investment and the mobilisation of domestic resources;
c. building the ICT capacities of people and improving educational programmes to allow greater access to ICTs;
d. promoting community volunteerism in the ICT4D sector;
e.promoting public policies aimed at making/providing/ensuring affordable accessibility to hardware as well as software to populations living in developing regions, in particular in rural areas;
f. improving access to the world's health knowledge, in areas as diverse as global cooperation in emergency response, to reaching health professionals and individual citizens to improve healthcare and quality of life;
g. establishing monitoring and early-warning systems, using ICTs, to forecast and monitor the impact of natural and man-made disasters. G/OS
Indicators 7. The Geneva Plan of Action identifies international performance evaluation and benchmarking, taking into account different national circumstances, as an important aspect of the follow-up and evaluation. We applaud the initiatives taken in this area, including by those key stakeholders involved in the statistical measurement of ICTs who have joined forces to create a global Partnership on "Measuring ICT for Development". We encourage national statistical offices to assist these efforts by providing data and technical support. OS/G
Partnerships 8. We recognize that our goals can be accomplished through the involvement and cooperation of all Information Society stakeholders. We encourage continuing co-operation between and among stakeholders to ensure effective implementation of the Geneva and Tunis decisions, for instance through the promotion of Multi-stakeholder partnerships including Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), in a joint effort and dialogue with less developed countries, donors and actors in the ICT sector. G/OS
Stocktaking 9. We commit ourselves to evaluate and follow-up progress in bridging the digital divide, taking into account different levels of development, so as to reach internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, and to assess the effectiveness of investment and international cooperation efforts in building the Information Society. We encourage all WSIS stakeholders to continue to contribute new and updated information on their activities to the WSIS stocktaking database, which was launched in October 2004 by the WSIS-ES and will be maintained by ITU, so that it becomes a valuable tool, beyond the conclusion of the Tunis Phase of the Summit. G/OS
Implementation of the Geneva and Tunis Plans of Action 10. In order to assure the sustainability of the WSIS process after the completion of its Tunis phase, we agree to establish an implementation mechanism for the Geneva and Tunis Plans of Action, based upon co-operation among governments and all stakeholders, with the overarching goal of helping countries and societies to achieve the development goals of the Millennium Declaration. To that end, for each Action Line in the Geneva and Tunis Plans of Action (as identified in the Annex), a team of stakeholders will work together to promote implementation. We request the UN Secretary-General to nominate, from among existing UN bodies or specialised agencies, those that will [moderate/coordinate] the work of each team, based on respect for their mandates and leveraging on their expertise, and within their existing resources. G/OS
11. The [moderator/coordinator] of each team identified in the Annex should periodically prepare a report on the implementation of the Geneva and Tunis Plans of Action based upon the information provided by, and the outputs from collaboration among, stakeholders, focussing particular attention on the progress towards achievement of the internationally-agreed development goals of the Millennium Declaration, and submit it to [a defined coordination body]. The [head of a defined coordination body] will submit regular reports to the UN General Assembly, following its existing rules of procedure.
[Options for a defined coordination body (with participation of representatives of all stakeholders):
ITU/WSIS-ES;
"existing UN division" (within UN DESA) for following-up major UN conferences;
Newly-created UN Inter-agency task force, HLSOC-type, (supported by a 2-3 person secretariat);
Newly-created UN ICT Task Force-type forum (supported by 2-3 person secretariat);] G/OS
Chapter Two + Financial mechanisms [for meeting the challenges of ICT for development]
TFFM mandate 12. We thank the UN Secretary-General for his efforts in creating the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms (TFFM) and we commend them on their report.
13. [Mandate of the TFFM] G/OS
Scale of the problem 14. We recognise the existence of the digital divide and the dilemma that this poses for many countries, which are forced to choose between many competing demands for development funds. We recognise the scale of the problem in bridging the digital divide, which will require huge investments in ICT infrastructure and services, and capacity building, over many years to come. TFFM Back-ground
15. We agree that the financing of ICT for development needs to be placed in the context of the growing importance of the role assigned to ICTs, not only as a medium of communication, but also as a development enabler, and a tool for the achievement of the development goals of the Millennium Declaration. Findings 2, 4
Effectiveness of existing financial mechanisms 16. In the past, financing of ICTs in developing regions has been closely related to the business cycles of the ICT industry. A significant influx of financial resources in the ICT sector, as well as governmental mobilization, in many developing countries has had visible results: in less than 15 years, more than a billion people have gained access to telephones (fixed and mobile), and sometimes to computers, the Internet and other means of sharing information. TFFM Findings 1, 6/G
17. We note that this investment has had the greatest development impact where ICT markets have been opened and private sector participation has been encouraged and where governments were aware of the importance of public policies aimed at bridging the digital divide. Findings 3/G
18. We recognise that attracting investment in ICTs has depended crucially upon a supportive enabling environment for business and an ICT policy and regulatory environment that encompasses [open entry,] fair competition and market-friendly regulation. Findings 3-5/G
19. We note that the vast majority of financing of ICT infrastructure and services has come from the private sector and that North-South flows are increasingly being augmented by South-South co-operation and domestic financing. Findings 5-7/G
20. Multilateral and bilateral public donors are redirecting public resources to policy reforms and other development needs, including the mainstreaming of ICTs in the development sectors. We note that this reflects the growing importance of private sector investment in infrastructure. Nevertheless, we encourage multilateral and bilateral public donors to consider also providing more financial support for regions in need. Findings 7, 8, 9, 12/G
Improvements and innovations of existing financing mechanisms 21. Although there are many different funding mechanisms for ICTs for Development, we note that there is sometimes a mismatch between needs and available funding. TFFM Findings
6-11/OS
22. We recognize that there are a number of areas where the current approaches to ICT for Development financing have devoted insufficient attention to date. These include: C1
a. ICT capacity-building programmes, materials, tools, educational funding and specialized training initiatives; C2.1
b. Communications access and connectivity for ICT services in remote rural areas, small island developing states and other locations presenting unique technological and market challenges; C2.2
c. Regional backbone infrastructure to link networks across borders in economically-disadvantaged regions; C2.3
d. Broadband capacity to Internet access at affordable prices; C2.4
e. Coordinated assistance for small countries; C2.5
f. ICT applications and content aimed at customers, communities and local institutions in the developing world. C2.6
23. Although central responsibility for coordination rests with national governments, we recommend that greater cross-sectoral and cross-institutional coordination on financing programmes should be undertaken, both on the part of donors and recipients. This should include also coordination between donor governments and business entities. C3 1/G
24. Accordingly, we recommend improvements and innovations in existing financing mechanisms, including: C3
a. Enhancing regional cooperation and creating multi-stakeholder partnerships; especially for trans-national infrastructure backbones; C3.1+2
b. Coordinating programmes among governments and major financial players to mitigate investment risks and transaction costs for operators entering less attractive rural and low income market segments; C3.2
c. Creating policy and regulatory incentives and more open access policies; C1A1+2
d. Identification and acknowledgement of the key role of ICTs in national poverty reduction strategies, and their elaboration in conjunction with e-strategies ; C1T1+2
e. Developing institutional and implementation capacity to support the use of national universal service/access funds, and further study of these mechanisms; Findings 10; C1A2, C2
f. Ensuring the relevance to developing countries of the information applications, services and local content delivered by ICTs; Findings 10; C1A2, C2
g. Supporting the "scaling-up" of ICT-based pilot programmes; Findings 14
h. Using ICTs in government as a catalyst for implementation of successful e-strategies; Findings 15
i. [Enabling tax, tariff, import, and business regulation policies designed to reduce risks and financial burdens for, and provide incentives to, ICT investors, start-up firms, and domestic financial resources;] C1T4
j. Helping to accelerate the development of domestic financial instruments including by supporting local microfinance instruments, ICT small business incubators, public credit instruments, digital solidarity and other innovations; C3.3
k. Building human resource and institutional capacity (knowledge) at every level for achieving Information Society objectives, especially in the public sector; Findings 16, 17
l. Encouraging business sector entities to help jump-start wider demand for ICT services by supporting local producers, programmers, artists and small businesses in the applications and content fields. Findings 13; C3.4
Digital Solidarity Fund 25. C3
+ Note: The text of chapter two is provisional, due to time limitations on the work of the Group of Friends of the Chair, and is subject to further revision ahead of PrepCom-2.
apter Three Internet governance [/ Internet-related public policy]
[to be discussed following release of the final report of the WGIG]
Chapter Four The way ahead
Follow-up mechanism for WSIS 26. To build an Information Society will require unremitting effort. We thus commit ourselves to keep fully engaged, nationally, regionally and internationally, to ensure sustainable follow-up to the implementation of agreements and commitments reached during WSIS process and its Geneva and Tunis summits. Taking into account the multifaceted nature of building the Information Society, effective cooperation among all stakeholders is needed, based on respect for their mandates and leveraging on their expertise. G
27. [We agree that the follow-up to Internet governance should be separated from the other issues and organized as outlined in Chapter Three.] G
28. We request the Secretary-General of the Summit to report to the General Assembly of the United Nations on its outcome. G
29. We request the Secretary-General of the United Nations to provide-with the collaboration of all stakeholders, and fully utilizing the existing coordination mechanisms within or related to the United Nations-sustained follow-up within the United Nations system to the agreements and commitments reached at WSIS and to ensure effective secretariat support. The Secretary-General of the United Nations is further requested to submit a periodic report to the General Assembly of the United Nations on those follow-up efforts. G
ACTION LINES [MODERATOR/COORDINATOR]
C1. The role of governments and all stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for Development --
C2. Information and communication infrastructure --
C3. Access to information and knowledge --
C4. Capacity building --
C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs --
C6. Enabling environment --
C7. ICT applications
E-employment
E-environment
E-science --
C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and local content --
C9. Media --
C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society --
C11. International and regional cooperation --
B. Objectives, goals and targets --
D. Digital Solidarity --
E. Follow-up and evaluation --


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Chardon High School Shooting: Lawsuits Likely
By Andrew Chow, Esq. on February 27, 2012 12:19 PM
One teenage student was killed, and four others hurt, in a shooting at Chardon High School in Ohio this morning. As with other school shootings, civil lawsuits are likely to follow.
A juvenile alleged gunman is in custody in connection with the Chardon High School shooting, but police have not identified the boy, ABC News reports.
The shooting happened about 7:30 a.m., when students were eating breakfast in the cafeteria, The Plain Dealer reports. The gunman walked in and opened fire without warning, students said.
"My friends were crawling on the floor, and one of my friends was bent over the table, and he was shot," one Chardon High School student told The Plain Dealer.
Five students were shot before a teacher somehow chased the gunman out of the building, Cleveland's WEWS-TV reports. One of the shooting victims died at a hospital, and four others are being treated for gunshot wounds.
The alleged gunman will likely face multiple criminal charges in connection with the deadly rampage. In addition, shooting victims and their relatives will likely later bring civil lawsuits to seek compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering, wrongful death, and other claims.
Civil lawsuits have followed other notorious school shootings, and have named various parties as defendants.
Victims and parents often begin by suing the school district, alleging school officials could have done more to protect students. For example, one lawsuit after a Los Angeles school shooting alleged the school district failed to follow its own policy of conducting random pat-downs and searches of students, KTTV reported.
Incidents like the Chardon High School shooting have also led to lawsuits against the gunman's parents. A suit filed after the Columbine shooting in 1999, for example, accused the gunmen's parents of failing to supervise their children. That suit was settled out of court, Denver's KMGH-TV reported.
Chardon High School Shooting: One Dead, Four Injured (ABC News)
Chardon High School student identifies shooter in spree that killed 1 (The Plain Dealer)
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Red Army Faction
Middle-class terrorists a "story looking for an author"
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How did a bunch of middle-class activists end up in a web of international terror and murder?
Stefan Aust has spent his career finding out, saying it was a once in a lifetime case of a "story looking for an author". The Baader Meinhoff complex examines in gripping detail the lives of a group of German revolutionaries known as the Red Army Faction (RAF). They began as protesters against war and the state in the sixties and ended up committing arson, bombings, murders and kidnappings. In prison they went on hunger strikes, and won sympathy when the authorities force fed them.
Some of the of the group died in prison – there were questions over whether it was murder or suicides? Two had shot themselves, one had hung herself – but even though they were closely guarded, no-one heard the shots or found them until the following morning.
At his festival session with Mark Sainsbury, Aust decribed this chapter of German history as "the most interesting and dramatic time after the Second World War".
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New Maryland Law Requires Board Of Physicians To Create Physician Profiles Accessible To The Public
Effective October 1, 2017, the Maryland State Board of Physicians ("MBP") is required to create and maintain a public practitioner profile for each licensed physician and provide appropriate and accessible links to the profiles from the Board's website. In addition to specified disciplinary information, the profiles must include the number of medical malpractice final court judgments and arbitration awards against the licensee within the most recent 10-year period for which all appeals have been exhausted, as reported to the Board (this information is reported by insurance providers). The profiles must also include medical education and practice information about the licensee, including (1) the licensee's medical school and date of graduation; (2) a description of any internship and residency training; (3) a description of any specialty board certification; (4) the name of any hospital where the licensee has medical privileges, as reported to the board; (5) the location of the licensee's primary practice setting; and (6) whether the licensee participates in Medicaid.
The new Maryland law is MD Code, Health Occupations, § 14-411.1 ("Public individual profiles; contents") and states:
Health maintenance organization
(a) In this section, "health maintenance organization" has the meaning stated in § 19-701 of the Health–General Article.
(b) The Board shall create and maintain a public individual profile on each licensee that includes the following information:
(1) A summary of charges filed against the licensee, including a copy of the charging document, until a disciplinary panel has taken action under § 14-404 of this subtitle based on the charges or has rescinded the charges;
(2) A description of any disciplinary action taken by the Board or a disciplinary panel against the licensee within the most recent 10-year period that includes a copy of the public order;
(3) A description in summary form of any final disciplinary action taken by a licensing board in any other state or jurisdiction against the licensee within the most recent 10-year period;
(4) The number of medical malpractice final court judgments and arbitration awards against the licensee within the most recent 10-year period for which all appeals have been exhausted as reported to the Board;
(5) A description of a conviction or entry of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere by the licensee for a crime involving moral turpitude reported to the Board under § 14-416 of this subtitle; and
(6) As reported to the Board by the licensee, education and practice information about the licensee including:
(i) The name of any medical school that the licensee attended and the date on which the licensee graduated from the school;
(ii) A description of any internship and residency training;
(iii) A description of any specialty board certification by a recognized board of the American Board of Medical Specialties or the American Osteopathic Association;
(iv) The name of any hospital where the licensee has medical privileges;
(v) The location of the licensee's primary practice setting;
(vi) Whether the licensee participates in the Maryland Medical Assistance Program; and
(vii) Whether the licensee maintains medical professional liability insurance.
Internet site
(c) In addition to the requirements of subsection (b) of this section, the Board shall:
(1) Provide appropriate and accessible Internet links from the Board's Internet site:
(i) To the extent available, to the appropriate portion of the Internet site of each health maintenance organization licensed in this State which will allow the public to ascertain the names of the physicians affiliated with the health maintenance organization; and
(ii) To the appropriate portion of the Internet site of the American Medical Association;
(2) Include a statement on each licensee's profile of information to be taken into consideration by a consumer when viewing a licensee's profile, including factors to consider when evaluating a licensee's malpractice data, and a disclaimer stating that a charging document does not indicate a final finding of guilt by a disciplinary panel; and
(3) Provide on the Board's Internet site:
(i) Notification that a person may contact the Board by telephone, electronic mail, or written request to find out whether the number of medical malpractice settlements involving a particular licensee totals three or more with a settlement amount of $150,000 or greater within the most recent 5-year period as reported to the Board; and
(ii) A telephone number, electronic mail address, and physical address through which a person may contact the Board to request the information required to be provided under item (i) of this item.
Request for profile
(d) The Board:
(1) On receipt of a written request for a licensee's profile from any person, shall forward a written copy of the profile to the person;
(2) Shall maintain a Web site that serves as a single point of entry where all physician profile information is available to the public on the Internet; and
(3) On receipt of a verbal, electronic, or written request in accordance with subsection (c)(3) of this section, shall provide the information within 2 business days of the request.
Corrections to profile
(e) The Board shall provide a mechanism for the notification and prompt correction of any factual inaccuracies in a licensee's profile.
(f) The Board shall include information relating to charges filed against a licensee by a disciplinary panel and any final disciplinary action taken by a disciplinary panel against a licensee in the licensee's profile within 10 days after the charges are filed or the action becomes final.
(g) This section does not limit the Board's authority to disclose information as required under § 14-411 of this subtitle.
If you or a loved one may have been injured as a result of medical malpractice in Maryland, you should promptly consult with a Maryland medical malpractice lawyer who may investigate your Maryland medical malpractice claim for you and represent you or your loved one in a Maryland medical malpractice case, if appropriate.
Click here to visit our website or telephone us on our toll-free line in the United States (800-295-3959) to be connected with Maryland medical malpractice attorneys who may assist you with your medical malpractice claim.
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Being home is always good. Even though most of my acquaintances don't live around anymore, it's still very cool to come back for several days sometimes. Especially like it happened this time – when some of childhood friends happen to be there for the same period. And my sister came from Moscow for that weekend, too! Ksenia met me right when I arrived, Daria was there with her boyfriend Axel. Was big times of an experience for a Swedish guy to visit our hometown! We were the only people he could speak English with, so for sure us going out drew a lot of attention everywhere! Was fun, a lot of fun, and I love you, guys! And all that special weird Russian thing that we have inside us!
Parents' house is of course the best place to be again. Any place where they are becomes worth rushing there, but their home is something absolutely amazing! Bright backyard, tasty dinners made together, endless rivers of wine and long intense talks. A lot of decisions taken, as always, when I go home. A lot of amazing emotions, laughs and love. Love love love!
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Hexagon Report Financial Adjustments Related to Russia
Hexagon AB has announced financial adjustments related to a decision to freeze business operations in Russia and the completion of the acquisition of ETQ. Hexagon will take a one-off charge of approximately 63 MEUR which will impact the first quarter 2022. The majority relates to the freezing of operations in Russia, which includes both a write-off of assets in the balance sheet and personnel costs.
Freezing business operations in Russia
Due to circumstances following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Hexagon has taken the decision to freeze all business activities in Russia. As previously communicated, Hexagon has already suspended all exports of hardware and software licenses to Russia and is now taking further steps to adapt to the current business situation. Given the uncertainty of the outlook, these steps are constantly under review and will be adjusted if the situation changes. About 2 per cent of Hexagon's annual turnover can be attributed to business in Russia, with approximately 200 people employed in the country.
Hexagon completes the acquisition of ETQ
ETQ is a leading provider of SaaS-based QMS (quality management system), EHS (environment, health and safety) and compliance management software. ETQ is expected to generate revenues of around 75 MUSD in 2022 with an adjusted operating margin of over 35 per cent (cash EBITDA margins of around 45 per cent). SaaS is expected to account for half of bookings in 2022 and has been growing at a trailing 3-year Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 60 per cent. The transaction is expected to generate sales synergies of over 40 MUSD, with very strong incremental margins, by 2026. Completion of the transaction was subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions, which have now been obtained. ETQ will be consolidated as of 1 April 2022 and will operate within Hexagon's Manufacturing Intelligence division.
Total purchase price of 1,200 MUSD on a cash and debt free basis with the cash consideration is fully financed via existing and new debt facilities and the proforma net debt to EBITDA ratio based on the fourth quarter 2021, including the transaction, amounts to approximately 2.0
For more information: www.hexagon.com
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first looks Aug. 21, 2008
J.Crew Men's Store Finally Opens, Won't Sell Us Alcohol
By Kristi Garced
We remember drinking here. Sniff. Photo: Kristi Garced
We moseyed over to the opening of the much-buzzed-about Men's J.Crew store this morning. Though originally slated to open at the beginning of May, four extra months of refurnishing the interior were needed to fine-tune the liquor bar–cum–men's haberdashery. This is a far cry from the mass-produced, strip-mall version of J.Crew we all know, mmkay?
For one, the store is collaboration crazy. They're selling black Globe-Trotter luggage made exclusively for J.Crew (it holds a ton — literally, ONE TON) and retails for over a thousand dollars, as well as a few pairs of Selima Optique men's sunglasses made exclusively for J.Crew. They've even teamed up with the Strand bookstore to design a special tote bag for the store, which will play off the bookstore's iconic bag. And J.Crew cherry-picked a number of vintage items like tie clips, crocodile belts, records, and books, all for sale, as well as newer items from brands like Alden, Redwing Shoes, Aesop, and Mister Freedom. Prices vary depending on the goods; a worn-in T-shirt is $24.50, a gray cardigan is $79.50, salvaged-denim jeans go for $150, a vintage croc belt goes for $400, and a navy Duncan coat is a cool $800.
While we're all for this new trend of men's boutiques, we can't help but think the whole package is just too … darn … pretty. As reported earlier, J.Crew kept some of the "Liquor Store Bar" intact (to pay homage to the ol' drinking den and assuage Tribeca's lamenting neighbors, perhaps?), and yes, several bottles of booze were spotted inside. So we had to ask the cute shop boys, can we drink it? "No. But we're selling the glasses!" Sigh. See more photos after the jump.
Photo: Kristi Garced
Can't…reach…bottle… Photo: Kristi Garced
Related: Foodies Lament Tribeca's New Men's-Only J.Crew
Men's-Only J.Crew to Open in Tribeca
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Zambia on track to energy surplus
Staff Writer | February 6, 2019
Zambia's constant power cuts are now a thing of the past.
Thanks to a robust hydraulic and solar power generation industry in recent years, the country is now self-sufficient in energy. And, there is even better news for citizens of the South African nation- electricity production could soon be in surplus.
Zambia generates practically all its energy production from its own primary resources: biomass, coal and hydroelectricity, with flagship plants such as the power station near the Itezhi-Tezhi Dam, in the south-east of the country, taking centre stage.
The $375 million Itezhi-Tezhi hydroelectric generating station became operational in 2016.
The plant has a 120-megawatt capacity and is the fruit of the first public-private partnership project in the Zambian energy sector. Its primary objective has been to produce enough power to end the crippling daily blackouts and meet consumer needs of the country's 17 million inhabitants.
Itezhi-Tezhi power plant has already increased the country's power generation capacity by 7.5% and supplied an extra 50,000 people with electricity. In the first quarter of 2018, and for the first time in its history, Zambia stopped importing electricity from neighbouring countries such as Mozambique.
As far back as September 2017, national operator Zesco's head of power transmission, Webster Musonda, told Ecofin agency: "Zambia's power generation capacity has improved and will now be able to largely meet its energy needs." "Overall, we will be able to meet demand and routine energy imports will cease [...] but we will continue to import energy to meet occasional peaks in demand."
The next step for the Government of Zambia includes plans for an energy surplus over the next two years. To meet this goal, it is exploring renewable energy, such as solar power.
The country's new hydropower stations at the Musonda, Lusawaki and Kafue Gorge dams are important developments and in September 2018 the government inaugurated a 50 MW power plant at a cost of $60 million. An even more ambitious programme is under way, involving the construction of mini solar plants with an eventual overall capacity of 600 MW at an estimated cost of $1.2 billion.
The African Development Bank which is championing its High 5 development priorities, such as the "Light up and power Africa, initiative under which this project falls, contributed $55 million to the Itezhi-Tezhi plant. Additional funding has been provided by international donors including the Netherlands Development Finance Company, the Development Bank of South Africa and Proparco France. ■
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Imagine your business is producing significantly more sales at better margins, with happier customers.
Many business owners struggle to change their businesses… for the better, of course. But there really is only one thing necessary to bring about radical change in a business.
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In other words, you might already have management in your business, but still you feel the need to change things up.
To do that, simply change the target. That's it. Simple. Change the goal.
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In other words, you have to manage. No wishful thinking allowed here. Anyone can do that. Not everyone can manage to a pre-determined outcome.
The answer is management. It is the various management decisions within the parent companies that bring the different products to market.
And that's what separates you from your competition and the buying public. Management.
So if you are really serious about change in your business, set a new target upwards and get everyone on board with doing what is necessary to achieve that new goal.
And remember… if you cannot get your staff to "buy in" to the changed goals, then don't be surprised if they do not come to fruition.


No matter if your website has been around awhile or you're just starting out, if you're just beginning your local SEO, Google My Business is the best place to start. Upwards of 50% of prospective customers that conduct a local search such as, "windshield repair near me," actually visit the business that same day.
Therefore, when people perform searches on Google for local services and goods, it's extremely important that your business information is as accurate, complete, and optimized as possible. So in order to help you with your Google My Business endeavor, we've put together this guide to assist with creating your perfect listing.
When it comes to SEO these days there is a much greater emphasis on local search and as such, you have to ensure that your business is represented accurately and consistently online. When it comes to your NAP (Names, Address, Phone), the consistency becomes exponentially more important.
Having experts in this area can be extremely lucrative when you consider that over 40% of businesses encounter inaccurate listings and over 25% experience duplicate listings, both of which can adversely affect your local SEO campaign. Starting with Google My Business and tracking the locations where you subsequently submit your business info can greatly assist you with monitoring your consistency and making required edits in the future.
The only requirement for using Google My Business is that your business isn't operated 100% online and that you have actual face-to-face contact with at least some of your customer base. GMB is easy to use, completely free, and takes just a short time to setup.
Create a Google Account or sign in to your exiting one.
Enter the company address, ensuring that it is completely accurate.
Check the box for "I deliver goods and services to my customers" if applicable.
Check "Hide my address (it's not a store) Only show region" if you work from home or an address that you don't want publicly shown.
Select your business category. For this area you should remember that you're basically informing Google what type of customers should see your business listing and you should choose the most accurate category possible.
Add your business phone number or website, again taking your time to ensure accuracy.
While Google actually provides several different options for verifying businesses, chances are you'll only be eligible for 1 - 2 choices.
Phone - Option is only visible if/when your company is eligible.
Email - Option is only visible if/when your company is eligible.
Instant verification - Available if you've already verified your business with Google Search Console.
Bulk verification - You may be eligible if your single business operates more than 10 locations and you're not a service business or an agency managing locations for multiple businesses.
Ensure that your business address is correct.
You can optionally add a contact name for the postcard to be addressed to.
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Enter the five-digit verification code from your postcard into the "Code" field.
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Log into Google My Business and click the listing you'd like to work on.
You should take the time to add as much accurate information and media as you can, including your business hours and days of operation, a profile and other photos, your service area, website address, day/year opened, and additional features such as free wi-fi or wheelchair accessibility. Remember, accuracy and consistency matter tremendously and since anyone can "suggest an edit" on your listing, you want to discourage random changes by ensuring that your listing is as correct and up-to-date as possible.
Your GMB description and service areas are prime "real estate" for keyword-rich content and the content shouldn't be taken lightly. The description not only tells Google and potential customers about you, it is often the snippet used on the SERP (Search Engine Results Pages) and can be the difference between a click-through conversion or someone moving on to a competitor.
Over 90% of customers polled have said that their spending decisions are influenced by online reviews and as such, monitoring your customer reviews is extremely important. Potential clients will not only look to see what other people are saying about their experiences, they're looking to see how you handle negative reviews. You can't please all of the people all of the time and it's vital that consumers see you address, engage, and attempt to resolve disputes.
A good best practice is to at least set a specific day each month, at a minimum, that you log into GMB to respond to reviews and check the accuracy of your NAP and other information. This also gives you a chance to regularly upload new videos and photos to your listing as this not only helps keep the listing updated and accurate, it provides fresh content that can help draw in and further entice potential customers.
As you now know, Google is but one major piece in the local SEO puzzle, and 51 Blocks has the expertise to manage your digital marketing campaign and ensure that your business listing is accurate, located on quality providers, and managed professionally. Contact us today to find out how we can customize an SEM campaign for your business that will increase sales, conversions, and your ROI.


With "Creamy" Mindset Prdctns is featuring some of the new and upcoming riders from the swiss snowboard scene. On long trips through Finnland, powder days in Switzerland or building their own features in the forrest of Laax they tried to stack clips all winter long. Saving them up for their video parts and together creating a full length project. Presented by Blue Tomato. Supported by Laax, Doodah, G-Shock, Barmettler & Whiteout Mag. Featuring Dario Burch, Flavio Pfister, Jeron Lohner, Adrian Oesch, Leandro Eigensatz, Flo Arnold, David Djite, Lou Staub, Joel Staub, Max Wettstein, Arda Serce, Blume, Hitsch Haller, Andy Walker, Cédric Gisler, Gregor Betschon, Thomas Land & Friends. A film by Mathias Wittwer. Produced by Mindset Prdctns.


Replacing John Deere Cab Kits does not have to be a nightmare.
You already fix many of the problems on your tractor. In fact you diagnose, repair, and replace problem parts as part of the normal routine around your farm.
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The Heat have copped a Big Bash League reality check after suffering a five-wicket loss to reigning champions Adelaide in Wednesday's tournament opener at the Gabba.
The Strikers were so strong they could even afford to withdraw successful run-out appeals as Brisbane bumbled their way to a poor start to the summer.
The Heat limped to a respectable total of 146 thanks to a 45-run stand for the last wicket, but it wasn't enough as the Strikers comfortably brought up 5-147 with five balls to spare.
The Heat will be looking to bounce back against Hobart when the BBL debuts at Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast on Saturday.
The Heat's batting could not get much colder.
After making a solid start at 2-78, the Heat crumbled to 9-101 and were bowled out in the first innings at the Gabba for the first time in BBL history.
Captain Chris Lynn (33), Joe Burns (20) and debutant Max Bryant (22) made starts without kicking on while Brendon McCullum (four), Sam Heazlett (two) and Ben Cutting (eight) failed.
If not for a 45-run last-wicket stand between wicketkeeper Jimmy Peirson (24 not out) and teenage Afghan spinner Mujeeb Ur Rahman (27), the Heat would have been well and truly embarrassed.
The Heat were regularly under pressure after their top order failed last summer and that looks like it could a problem again.
New Zealand superstar McCullum has been one of the world's best white ball players, but at 37 he may be past it.
McCullum was out second ball for four after slashing his first delivery to the boundary.
He averaged 24.8 in 10 games for the Heat last summer, making two fifties, but is too hot-and-cold at the top of the order.
McCullum attended a private party instead of warming up for the BBL in Brisbane club cricket last weekend like his Heat teammates.
Remarkably, the Heat have signed him until the end of the 2019-20 tournament when he will be 38, a big risk for a player on the slide.
Lynn top-scored for the Heat but his innings was a disappointment overall given the circumstances.
In his first game back as skipper, Lynn had an opportunity to prove he was ready for the responsibility of leading the Heat when he arrived at the crease in the first over.
But he was sucked into a false shot by experienced Strikers quick Peter Siddle for 33 (20 balls) and slammed his performance.
"It was a pretty dumb shot from me," Lynn said.
"Being the leader of the side I need to be smarter than that.
The Strikers are not only the reigning BBL champions, they are also the best sports in the tournament.
Adelaide captain Colin Ingram was part of a bizarre situation last night when the Strikers withdrew a run-out appeal following a dreadful decision by the third umpire.
Heat batsman James Pattinson was given out by the video umpire despite appearing to ground his bat inside the crease.
The ensuing confusion carried on for five minutes before the Strikers decided to give Pattinson a lifeline.
"It was a unique scenario," Ingram said.
"I chatted with Ben Laughlin and he said 'what's the option of withdrawing the appeal?' We could all clearly see it wasn't out.
"We've got to back what we saw and we were really happy with that. We wanted to get on with the game.
Adelaide has arguably the best bowling attack in the BBL again this summer.
The Strikers bowlers were sensational last night and could have had the Heat rolled for just over 100, if not for a big 10th wicket partnership.
Afghan spinner Rashid Khan (3-19) bamboozled the Heat along with Twenty20 gun Ben Laughlin (1-28) and off-spinner Matthew Short (2-14).
The bowling effort was remarkable considering Australian quick Billy Stanlake (2-50) was smashed all over the park.
Australian wicketkeeper Alex Carey made light work of the Heat's attack with a composed 70 from 46 balls to lead Adelaide to a comfortable win.
The Strikers took until the 20th over to get the job done but never looked in danger of losing.


The HTC #OneM8 was a bold device for its time. Launched two years ago, the phone was the first to come out with a dual-camera sensor on the back. Well, the company is making no secret of this as it has brought up the device again. The timing is just right as Apple announced the iPhone 7 Plus with a dual-camera sensor just a day ago.
In its tweet, HTC says – "Just reminiscing over our #HTCOneM8 launch over 2 YEARS AGO". Now that the entire Apple universe is going crazy about Apple's new dual-camera sensor, HTC couldn't have picked a better time for this particular jibe. However, this might not be enough to stop the iPhone 7 and the 7 Plus from becoming a sales juggernaut, much like its predecessors.
The HTC 10 uses a more moderate single lens camera on the back, which is capable of some great pictures on its own. We are awaiting further details to ascertain if the iPhone 7 Plus has anything on the current crop of camera phones selling in the market.


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package scavlink.link.nav

import akka.pattern.ask
import scavlink.coord.Geo
import scavlink.link.Vehicle
import scavlink.link.mission._
import scavlink.link.operation.{Conversation, ConversationSucceeded}
import scavlink.message
import scavlink.message.Mode

import scala.concurrent.Future

/**
 * Futures-based API for navigation operations.
 * Use "import NavAskAPI._" to add methods to Vehicle object where needed.
 * Better yet, use the tell API instead (NavTellAPI).
 * Akka ask is problematic in production settings; it's only included here for ad-hoc testing.
 *
 * Note: OpFlags are not allowed for ask APIs, because they can change the
 * structure of result messages in ways that the future's private actor won't recognize.
 *
 * @author Nick Rossi
 */
object NavAskAPI {
  implicit class Nav(val vehicle: Vehicle) {
    implicit val timeout = vehicle.settings.apiTimeout

    /**
     * Wait for the vehicle to obtain a GPS fix.
     */
    def awaitGpsFix(minSatellites: Int = 1): Future[AwaitGpsFixResult] =
      (vehicle.navigation ? AwaitGpsFix(minSatellites)).mapTo[AwaitGpsFixResult]

    /**
     * Arm or disarm the vehicle.
     * @param shouldArm true to arm, false to disarm
     */
    def armMotors(shouldArm: Boolean): Future[ConversationSucceeded] = holdConversation(ArmMotors(shouldArm))

    /**
     * Set the vehicle mode.
     * @param mode vehicle-independent mode (see [[message.Mode]])
     */
    def setMode(mode: Mode): Future[ConversationSucceeded] = holdConversation(SetVehicleMode(vehicle, mode))

    /**
     * Set the vehicle mode and waits for heartbeat to reflect it.
     * @param mode vehicle-independent mode (see [[message.Mode]])
     */
    def setModeToHeartbeat(mode: Mode): Future[ConversationSucceeded] = holdConversation(SetVehicleModeToHeartbeat(vehicle, mode))

    /**
     * Execute a takeoff from ground (rotorcraft only).
     */
    def rotorTakeoff(targetHeight: Double,
                     startThrottle: Double, maxThrottle: Double, throttleRampRate: Double): Future[RotorTakeoffResult] =
      (vehicle.navigation ? RotorTakeoff(targetHeight, startThrottle, maxThrottle, throttleRampRate)).mapTo[RotorTakeoffResult]

    /**
     * Use default settings for a gentle takeoff.
     */
    def rotorGentleTakeoff(): Future[RotorTakeoffResult] =
      (vehicle.navigation ? RotorTakeoff.Gentle).mapTo[RotorTakeoffResult]

    /**
     * Move the vehicle along the specified course.
     */
    def runGuidedCourse(course: GuidedCourse): Future[RunGuidedCourseResult] =
      (vehicle.navigation ? RunGuidedCourse(course)).mapTo[RunGuidedCourseResult]

    /**
     * Move the vehicle to a specific location.
     */
    def gotoLocation(location: Geo) = runGuidedCourse(GotoLocations(Vector(location)))

    /**
     * Move the vehicle to a series of locations.
     * @param locations destinations
     */
    def gotoLocations(locations: Seq[Geo]) = runGuidedCourse(GotoLocations(locations))

    /**
     * Send the vehicle on the specified mission.
     */
    def runMission(mission: Mission): Future[RunMissionResult] =
      runMissionCourse(mission, TrackMission(mission))

    /**
     * Send the vehicle on the specified mission, using the specified course to track progress.
     */
    def runMissionCourse(mission: Mission, course: MissionCourse): Future[RunMissionResult] =
      (vehicle.navigation ? RunMission(mission, course)).mapTo[RunMissionResult]

    /**
     * Execute a conversation with the vehicle.
     */
    def holdConversation(conversation: Conversation): Future[ConversationSucceeded] =
      (vehicle.navigation ? conversation).mapTo[ConversationSucceeded]
  }
}


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If you have a guilt complex, it may be affecting your behavior and your whole life without you even knowing. Below, you will find signs that you might be suffering from it.
We all feel guilty at some point in our lives. It's a perfectly natural emotional response and we feel it generally if we have done something wrong or upset someone. It is when those feelings of guilt are exaggerated, unnecessary or unreasonable that they are not classed as typical guilty responses. These could be signs that you have a guilt complex.
Before we examine specific signs of a guilt complex, let's explore what kinds of guilt there are.
Guilt for something you did. This is where your actions caused hurt or harm to someone directly.
Guilt for something you didn't do (but wanted to). This is where you want to commit an act that goes against your moral code, but you don't.
Guilt for something you think you did. Studies show that if we perceive we have done something wrong, we can feel the same guilty emotions as if we had actually carried it out.
Guilt that you didn't do enough. This is where you feel you could have done more for someone and are now beating yourself up about it.
Guilt that you are doing better than others. Often called 'survivor guilt', this is where you feel you are doing better but don't really deserve it.
These are the five recognized types of guilt and are all perfectly natural. It is when these guilt feelings overwhelm you and start affecting your life that could indicate signs of a guilt complex.
1. You are paranoid about everything.
Guilty minds work overtime and chances are, if you've done something that is making you feel guilty, you'll suspect everyone else is watching you or out to get you. What is happening is that you are projecting your guilty feelings onto a third party. Your mind is trying to defend your actions and stop you from feeling upset by focussing on others.
2. You overreact to minor issues.
If you are feeling guilty, you are already punishing yourself. This means you are really sensitive to any form of criticism. So what happens is that any minor issue gets the full treatment and your exaggerated wrath.
What is happening is that you are overcompensating for the guilt you are hiding and not resolving. It is a bit like a cheating husband who has not told his wife about his affair getting into a huge row about forgetting to bring home some milk.
3. Your jokes become nasty and not funny.
Do you find yourself joking at someone else's expense all the time? Are you always putting someone down in order to get a laugh? If this is getting to be a problem and people are complaining, you might want to think about where these jokes and putdowns are coming from.
We use putdowns and jokes at other's expense in order to alleviate our guilty feelings, as it tars everyone with the same brush. You are tainted, so why shouldn't everyone else be?
Sigmund Freud was the daddy of suppressing guilt and what it did to the psyche. So much so that we named those little slips of the tongue that indicate our guilt 'Freudian Slips'.
These little accidents that appear to slip out at the most inappropriate times are our subconscious minds fighting against the repression of our guilt and breaking free. If your Freudian slips are embarrassing you in public, then perhaps it's time to come clean about what you are feeling guilty about.
Like our favorite cheating husband who buys his wife flowers or expensive gifts because he is having an affair, having a guilt complex makes us over-compensate in other areas. We are trying to compensate for our actions and end up exaggerating this compensation because we cannot deal with the consequences in real life.
6. You take responsibility for minor issues.
There's nothing like drawing the attention away from yourself by admitting some minor indiscretion or accident. Your subconscious mind is crying out to be heard and wants to offload its guilty secret. But as you are suppressing it, you have to let something out. Thus, you take responsibility for small, unimportant things so that you can at least fess up to something.
Having a guilt complex and suppressing your guilty feelings is bad for your mental health. It has been linked to depression, can lead to mental disorders such as OCD, anxiety and self-harming, and can affect relationships with others.
It is important to get help if you recognize any of the six signs of a guilt complex. There are several different therapies that can help, including cognitive behavioral to person-centered therapy. Using one of these methods will allow you to identify how guilt is ruining your life and what you can do about it.


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IRCTC, the lifeline of train ticket booking looks dead from outside
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This post is written in collaboration with my friend Srishti Sethi
Ten days ago, one of our friends tried to access the IRCTC website on the east coast (New Jersey) in the United States to book train tickets. But, the site refused to connect. Surprisingly, the website didn't work on the west coast (San Francisco) as well. After some quick googling, we learned that this might not be a new problem and is quite likely that the website may not have been working for several weeks as someone reported on Tripadvisor. Through this article on Indian Express, we also learned that the website has recently got a revamp 👏. Before the overhaul, the site address used to be http://irctc.co.in, but it now is http://irctc.com. Though the main portal page was working, the e-ticketing; one of the inner pages of the site was redirecting to http://irctc.co.in. Our quick speculation was that it is likely due to new changes, there have been some misconfigurations in the server settings which is causing this problem. We downloaded and tried quite a few mobile apps and web services like Cleartrip, Yatri, and Ixigo, but all failed one way or the other. After we failed all our shortcuts, we decided to reach out to the customer care.
Screenshot of email received from IRCTC customer care
We called the customer care several times but we got different and template answers each time (keep refreshing the page, clear cache, etc.) On top of that, IRCTC kept assuring us that they will resolve the issue in 24-48 hours, but we didn't see any progress.
We were not frustrated that the website was not working for us, but we wanted to get it fixed. To deepen our understanding of the global site availability, we found on Uptrends that the IRCTC is not working in North America and a few regions in Europe. We sent a screenshot showing the details to the customer care and said that we would be willing to help debug the issue further. We wanted to have a more in-depth conversation with someone in the technical department to whom we could explain our learnings and be a bit helpful. But, there wasn't a provision for that. For a service like IRCTC which is so big, there aren't departments for handling separate matters, but all in one.
One of us also got a chance to have a quick chat with someone higher-up in the Indian Railways and mentioned to them this problem. Though we sent follow-up emails on their request, our emails themselves became victims of delivery failure. Another senior executive from IRCTC told us that they don't have the license from the United States to run the site which didn't make any sense to us. We understand that this is one of the most significant traffic heavy sites, but the customer care experience and technical issues we encountered didn't entirely justify the popularity it drew through its revamp.
A website as crucial as IRCTC ideally should be a high priority cog in the Railway's machinery. In 2016-17, 62% of railway ticket reservations were booked online, and just 32% through railway counters. As internet penetration increases, the gap in these numbers will widen further. The goal is, therefore, to have high availability of the website across the world as tourism in India picks up. This July of 2018, IRCTC got 52.52 million hits with 95% traffic from India and 1.36% traffic from the United States which is more than 7 lakh potential tourists and Indian diaspora. It's not just the loss of customers but also of revenue.
While the customer care calls were going on, to cross verify our earlier speculations, we investigated the issue a bit further. To get an initial sense of what works from where we went to site24x7.com and tried to access http://irctc.co.in from a wide range of regions – selecting many more US specific regions. While the website does work from multiple locations outside India, with the exception of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States, the site was not accessible from all other major cities in US or Canada.
Summary of website availability from across the world. Only Phoenix, AZ worked (Pho)
Surprisingly, the website is also not accessible from Amsterdam as well. While it seems that the DNS was resolved properly and we got a set of 3 IPs for the remote servers, none of them were reachable from within the US. CRIS manages the nameservers and apparently, its website https://cris.org.in is not accessible as well. A bit overkill, but we used Wireshark and saw that the remote server was closing the connection. This could be an indication of a firewall blocking traffic from the US region, or merely a misconfiguration.
A network capture while connecting to IRCTC servers from west coast of US. Sadly they RST 😦
Managing such a large customer volume on any site is indeed a daunting task but not impossible. But if a problem seems to become a broader outage, then here are some recommendations we have:
Make the customers aware of the situation through the social media channels or notifications on the site and provide with alternative solutions to proceed with the booking.
Adopt a more streamlined customer care flow. Develop more escalation levels and departments that could handle different technical and non-technical queries collaboratively for faster resolution.
Large websites have complex monitoring systems available that track usage, statistics, and overall platform health. The MOST crucial statistics are uptime and performance that could be easily tracked by tools such as Pingdom and Uptime Robot. For example here is how a publicly available status page for Facebook looks like: https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ and a well-written service outage reported by Slack: https://status.slack.com/2018-06-27.
Even though accessing and booking a ticket through IRCTC is itself a challenge, while we could brush this issue off as it doesn't seem to impact anyone in India, there are millions of Indians worldwide that still rely on the lifeline of India as it is the only way out to book tickets online.
While we have faith in IRCTC's engineers, a lack of interest and a chaotic customer response surprised us. We do say Atithi Devo Bhava! but imagine, thousands of atithis trying to access the site every day as they plan their vacation and don't know what to do further. Those long train rides across the nation in Indian Railways are one of the most enticing memories we have from our childhood. Lets keep this lifeline running!
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Rubber keys: How're they lasting?
Message #1 Posted by David H Thompson on 1 July 2002, 6:37 p.m.
Hello, I don't have an HP 49G, but I was wondering; how are the controversial rubber keys standing up to daily use?
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The HP49 is a strange beast. I have one Indonesian HP49, from when they first came out, that's been pounded on terribly, with no wear on the keys. I had 2 Chinese HP49s that I sent back to HP because in just a few months time the paint wore almost completely off. I also sent back an Indonesian HP49 because the screen scratched badly with no abuse at all. I now have 3 Chinese HP49s, all fairly new, and how they'll perform? - impossible to tell. I like the HP49 better than the TI89, but you can't trust to having just one, especially now that they've been discontinued.
The 49 really has been discontinued?! This is new to me! Since when have they been discontinued?
As far as I know hp49g hasn't been discontinued, and it will be top calculator for next curse "Back to School" promotion.. at least in Spain.
The distributor I buy from, Samson Cables, has told me the HP49 is a discontinued item.
I do a lot of on the keyboard programming. After all the programmers from the ACO were laid off,I knew that no new CAS features would be added, so if I wanted something, I had to program it myself. I'm very hard on equipment, I really use the hell out of stuff, so I always buy a backup of anything I like. One HP49 fell out of my pocket and down a cliff while surveying part of the ranch. I sent it back to HP, but I was honest about how I broke it, so they wouldn't warranty that one. In this special case of the HP49, I really like it, so 3 of them is actually a minimum number. I will probably buy a few more when I save a few more pennies.


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UK domestic prices firming as it seems that Vivergo (the 2nd UK ethanol from wheat plant) may be recommencing production shortly – the plant has been shut for an extended period of maintenance – it is unknown if it is an immediate restart at full production, but UK feed wheat balance is currently quite tight despite the lack of export trade – much of the wheat left on farms is of a higher quality grade which may ultimately end up in the feed bins – therefore market pricing is reacting accordingly.