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Robinson Ekspeditionen 2007 var den 11. sæson af det danske realityshow Robinson Ekspeditionen. Sæsonen havde premiere i dansk tv den 19. september 2007 og blev optaget i sommeren 2007 i Malaysia, blandt andet på øen Goal. Robinson Ekspeditionen vender således tilbage til Asien efter sidste års produktion i Panama.

I denne omgang startede programmet ud med 20 deltagere, og som sædvanlig blev deltagerne fordelt på 2 hold. Deltagerne bestod af 10 udvalgte tidligere Robinson-deltagere og 10 udvalgte deltagere fra de sidste tre udgaver af programmet Paradise Hotel. De tidligere Robinson-deltagere fik hver 50.000 kr. for deres medvirken, mens Paradisoerne kun fik 20.000 kr. Robinson-holdet havde selvsagt før prøvet at være placeret på en øde ø, hvor nødvendigheder som mad og drikke er en mangelvare. Paradise-holdet havde også været væk hjemmefra, men i helt anderledes og luksuriøse omgivelser. Alle deltagere var dog vant til at spille taktisk, og denne sæson var først og fremmest et spil om taktik, intriger og om at vælge sine venner og fjender med omhu. Alle deltagerne dystede om præmien på 500.000 kroner.

Programmets vært var Jakob Kjeldbjerg for 4. gang i træk. Gevinsten var sat ned fra en 1 million til 500.000 kr.

Vinderen blev Rikke Göransson.

Deltagerne
Robinson-veteranerne der består af:
 Naeem Sundoo (Robinson Ekspeditionen 1999)
 Malene Hasselblad (vandt Robinson Ekspeditionen 2001)
 Poul Madsen (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2001)
 Mars Johansen (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2001 og Robinson Ekspeditionen 2002)
 Stig Witzner (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2003)
 Duddie Staack (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2004)
 Ivan Lundorf Larsen (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2005)
 Michelle Strøyer (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2005)
 Pia Soldthved Larsen (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2005)
 Seckin Cem (Robinson Ekspeditionen 2005)

Paradise Hotel-holdet der består af:
 Bjørn Jacobsen (Paradise Hotel 2005 og Paradise Hotel 2006)
 Camilla Eisenreich (Paradise Hotel 2006)
 David Jensen (Paradise Hotel 2006)
 Ricco Clausen (Paradise Hotel 2006)
 Sofie Pamer (Paradise Hotel 2006)
 Camilla Sys Thygesen (vandt Paradise Hotel 2007)
 Christine Overgaard (Paradise Hotel 2007)
 Fatih Sahin (Paradise Hotel 2007)
 Kenneth Ebert (Paradise Hotel 2007)
 Rikke Göransson (Paradise Hotel 2007)

I foråret, før programmet fik premiere, var der mange spekulationer om, hvem deltagerne ville blive i Robinson Ekspeditionen 2007. Mange mente, at man med stor sikkerhed kunne komme til at gense Mascha Vang, David Jensen og Bjørn Jacobsen fra Paradise og Biker-Jens, Hade-Hanne og Sonny fra Robinson. Det var dog kun David Jensen og Bjørn Jacobsen fra Paradise Hotel, der kom med på vognen.

Allerede i første episode var der 2 deltagere, der blev sendt hjem. Efter Robinson-veteranerne havde vundet deres første dyst mod Paradisoerne, fik de lov til at eliminere én fra det modsatte hold, og de valgte Fatih. Paradise-holdet tog dog revanche, da de senere vandt den næste Robinsondyst og sendte veteranerne i ørådet, hvorefter Stig Witzner fra 2003 røg ud.

Denne sæsons programdirektør er Jakob Mejlhede, og redaktionschefen er Jeppe Juhl, som også har været alle de andre år.

Elimineringer
 Fatih Sahin – Exit Robinson i afsnit 1 – Bliver sendt ud af spillet af Robinson-veteranerne efter, at de vinder en dyst og tilegner sig chancen for at smide en af Paradisoerne ud. (20. pladsen)
 Stig Witzner – Exit Robinson i afsnit 1 – Bliver sendt ud af spillet i ø-rådet efter, at de taber en dyst og Paradisoerne tilegner sig chancen for at sende en af veteranerne ud. (19. pladsen)
 David Jensen – Exit Robinson i afsnit 2 – Bliver sendt ud af spillet i ø-rådet efter, at de taber en dyst og Veteranerne tilegner sig chancen for at sende en af Paradisoerne ud. (18. pladsen)
 Camilla Sys Tygesen – Exit Robinson i afsnit 3 – Smider efter længere overvejelser håndklædet i ringen og forlader ekspeditionen. (17. pladsen)
 Pia Soldthved Larsen – Exit Robinson i afsnit 3 – Får flest stemmer i ø-rådet og bliver stemt ud som den første af veteranerne. (16. pladsen)
 Seckin Cem – Exit Robinson i afsnit 4 – Bliver stemt ud i et Paradiseøråd efter at være havnet der sammen med den anden veteran Naeem Sundoo som straf på grund af at bryde reglerne i et stressende kæde-eksperiment. (15. pladsen)
 Michelle Strøyer – Exit Robinson i afsnit 5 – Stemmelighed i Ø-rådet med Mars Johansen, men taber mod ham i lodtrækning. (14. pladsen)
 Malene Hasselblad – Exit Robinson i afsnit 6 – bliver smidt ud af Ivan Larsen, der skal vælge én ud af ekspeditionen. Senere kommer hun dog ind i Ekspeditionen, hvor hun ender på en 2. plads, og dermed er hun den Veteran, der nåede længst i Robinson Ekspeditionen 2007. (2. plads)
 Ivan Larsen – Exit Robinson i afsnit 6 – Får 10 ud af 14 stemmer i ørådet og bliver stemt ud af ekspeditionen. (13. pladsen)
 Sofie Pamer - Exit Robinson i afsnit 7 - Efter et falsk Pirat-angreb vælger Sofie at forlade Robinson sammen med Christine Overgaard. Begge havde det skidt med at være tilbage på øen efter den oplevelse. (delt 12 plads)
 Christine Overgaard - Exit Robinson i afsnit 7 - Efter et falsk Pirat-angreb vælger Christine at forlade Robinson sammen med Sofie Pamer. Begge havde det skidt med at være tilbage på øen efter den oplevelse. (delt 12 plads)
 Poul Madsen - Exit Robinson i afsnit 7 - Stemmelighed i ø-rådet med Naeem Sundoo, Røg ud efter en duel med Naeem Sundoo.(10. pladsen)
 Duddie Stack - Exit Robinson i afsnit 7 - Grundet sygdom er Duddie Stack nød til at forlade Robinson. Hun vælger at overlade sin plads til Malene Hasseblad.(9. pladsen)
 Naeem Sundoo - Exit Robinson i afsnit 8 - (8. pladsen)
 Mars Johansen - Exit Robinson i afsnit 9 (7. pladsen)
 Ricco Clausen - Exit Robinson i afsnit 10 (6. pladsen)
 Camilla Eisenreich - Exit Robinson i afsnit 11 . (5. pladsen)
 Bjørn Jacobsen - Exit Robinson i afsnit 11 . (4. pladsen)
 Kenneth Ebert - Exit Robinson i afsnit 12 - Er den første som taber på planken. (3. pladsen)
 Malene Hasselblad - Exit Robinson i afsnit 12. - Taber til Rikke Göransson på planken(2. pladsen)
 Rikke Göransson - Vinder af Robinson 2007 i afsnit 12. (1. pladsen)

Eksterne henvisninger
 Se de første 10 minutter af Robinson Ekspeditionen 2007
 Robinson Artikel om Paradise Hotel-deltageren Camille E
 Billeder fra programmet på Se og Hørs officielle side
 TV3 truer Robinson-deltager – artikel på BT
 Robinson: Pia mobbet ud – artikel på BT

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a) make the weeds grow.
4. A person needs to know what kind of "weeds" (sins) he has.
a) more weeds each year.
b) less weeds each year.
7. Our basic spiritual weed is sin, which comes from self will.
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Denial, deception, or refusal to answer?
Posted on December 12, 2011 by Joe
As was widely reported at least ten days ago Dennis Henigan was in denial about the number of guns being purchased. He has a lot invested in that belief because The Brady Campaign has repeatedly said gun ownership is on the decline:
In 2010, only 32% of households reported having a gun in the home, a sharp drop from the peak figure of 54% in 1977. (May 4, 2011).
Gun ownership in the United States continues to decline… (April 2011).
With hunting in decline and gun ownership falling … (web page updated January 24, 2011 or later)
… the falling percentage of American households with guns, from 54% in 1977 to 33% in 2009. (August 12, 2010)
Household gun ownership may be declining even though millions of guns are sold each year in part because gun owners are adding more guns to their collections. (web page updated April 2011 or later)
The report they quote was published by the Violence Policy Center. The VPC relied on gun data from the General Social Survey (GSS) conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.
The tabular data agrees with the VPC report. But what is interesting is (as of 2001):
Trends in Gun Ownership
The proportion of households with a firearm has been in slow decline over the last quarter century (Table 6). In the early 1970s about 50% of adults lived in households that kept a firearm. This now has fallen about 34-35%. Similarly, the percent of adults living in a household with a gun fell from a high of 51 % in 1977 to a low of 32-33% in 2000-2001. These declines are partly the result of a decrease in household size. From 1980 until 1997 the proportion of adults personally owning a gun held steady at about 29%. However, since then even this level declined to about 22-24% of adults personally owning a gun.
One of ways people can "cheat without lying" with these statistics is to choose which number make their case look better when there is actually another variable that is changing. In this case the size of household affected the numbers.
In tough economic times households tend to get larger and hence the likelihood of someone owning a gun in the house could increase without the actual number of people owning guns increasing. Hence during good economic times the anti-gun people could chose to report declining "gun in the household" number while ignoring the fact that gun ownership on an individual basis was essentially constant.
I was unable to obtain the percentage of adults that own guns from the GSS data. Perhaps someone else can see a way to do it.
What is very interesting that I was able to get from the data is the number of people that refused to answer the question, given that a gun was in the house, "DOES GUN BELONG TO RESPONDENT?"
Year Percent Refusing
The number of people that refused to answer the question about a gun in the home was smaller but had a similar trend:
I would expect the upward trend to continue in 2008 and 2010 because of the mass buying associated with the election of President Obama.
I'm not sure that I have a good explanation for why the Gallup Poll reported gun in the home rate is much higher than reported by GSS (for the most recent GSS year I could find, 2006, is it 42% versus 34.5%). My speculation is that people are more trusting of Gallup than of a much lesser known organization located in an extremely anti-gun city such as Chicago. If that is true then one must also conclude that at something on the order of 5.8%* of the gun-owners lied and said "No" when asked if there was a gun in the house rather than merely refused to answer the question.
* 5.8% is obtained from (42% – 34.5%) – 1.7%
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Ken on December 12, 2011 at 3:51 pm said:
I realize that the consensus view about the recent surge in gun sales is that it's a reaction to Obama's election. My view is pretty much the opposite. Even though Obama's past record is very anti-gun, I think Heller and subsequent pro-2A developments have convinced prospective gun buyers that they'll be able to keep their guns and use them. In contrast, the decline in gun ownership in the late Nineties reflected the regime uncertainty at the time. Clinton was at the real of his popularity, and was investing all his political capital in an effort to break the political power of American gun owners. To someone only mildly pro-gun, a gun would have seemed a horrible investment; the trends seemed to indicate that he'd either have it confiscated, or, more likely, that his use of it would be so restricted that it would become worthless. So, to borrow a phrase from Seinfeld, the increase in gun ownership is real–and it's spectacular.
That should read, "Clinton was at the peak of his popularity."
Joe Huffman on December 12, 2011 at 4:52 pm said:
@Ken, I will address your comment in my QOTD tomorrow.
mikee on December 12, 2011 at 8:35 pm said:
No one in their right mind should answer a question about gun ownership, when the question was placed by a cold calling pollster who could not be identified, or even differentiated from a potential thief sizing up a targeted victim.
And what percentage of people the pollsters called refused to answer the poll at all?
What source determined those polled: having a landline telephone, or living within selected locales, or both?
What are the demographics of those polled? Are they a random cross section of the population or not?
Polls are pretty useless if you want to determine as concrete a fact as the rate of gun ownership across the entire country. For opinions, while polls are malleable like Silly Putty, they can be set up and administered to at least avoid bias within the poll itself, ignoring those who answer, or don't answer, the questions.
How about this? Has the number of guns turned in at all gun "buybacks" and police stations and as evidence in a criminal case exceeded the number of new guns sold in any year?
ubu52 on December 12, 2011 at 11:23 pm said:
Another thing to factor in on the difference between 1970 and now: More of the population lives in cities now. People who don't live in cities are more likely to own guns. (Can't remember where I read that but I read it somewhere.)
Linoge on December 13, 2011 at 4:04 am said:
On the topic of trust, my wholly UN-scientific polling of 341 people (at this time) indicates that 92% of them would not be truthful as to whether or not they had firearms in their homes, even if the polling agency was legitimate, and even if it was Gallup.
I have no doubt that number is not accurate for the sample body of Gallup polls as a whole, but I feel certain there is a non-zero, somewhat large percentage of people who will answer "no", even/especially if they have enough firearms in their home to arm a small platoon.
Weer'd Beard on December 13, 2011 at 11:28 am said:
Ubu, maybe 20 years ago when the primary reason for owning guns was hunting animals.
These days I suspect the ownership rate is closer to 50/50 possibly fully flopped for personal protection and concealed carry.
And unless the urban environment they live in is some of the victim disarmament zone that people like Ubu helped to create, those people are MORE likely to get a gun.
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RUNNING: NAC's Jim Worthington pushing for good cause
Wayne Fish, staff writer
He's sparred in a boxing ring and, during one training session outdoors, walked/jogged for the better part of three hours.
But nothing really is going to prepare Jim Worthington for the challenge he's about to undertake in Saturday's Brooklyn Rock 'n Roll Half-Marathon.
The Newtown Athletic Club owner plans to push the wheelchair of afflicted ALS patient and NAC member Matt Bellina (a former U.S. Navy pilot) for 13.1 miles as part of "Matt's Mission,'' a fund-raising effort to combat the deadly disease.
Some 70 NAC members will accompany the twosome on the journey.
Another ALS patient and NAC member, Frank Mongiello, will have his wheelchair pushed by his family (wife and six children).
All the funds raised at this event and others will be donated to "Augie's Quest,'' a national effort.
NAC alone has raised $150,000 this year toward the cause.
For the 60-year-old Worthington, it's something that he's passionate about. He knows of too many people who have been struck down by the disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's disease), which affects the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement.
"I've been pushing sleds and doing a lot of legwork,'' said Worthington, who is not a runner per se. Then he adds with a chuckle: "I'm not worried about getting him there (the finish line); I'm worried about what my neck is going to feel like (the next day). But I'll be OK.''
If it takes around three hours or so, so be it. It will be worth every minute of it.
Jim and Matt have a good teasing relationship. Worthington knows that ALS patients typically lose weight, but Bellina looked a bit heavier recently.
"The last couple months, he's actually gained a few pounds,'' Worthington said. "I said, 'Dude, you're supposed to be losing weight. Now you're making it tougher on me?'
"He said he's been eating doughnuts to bulk up and make it harder for me!''
On a more serious note, Worthington appreciates what Bellina has meant both to the folks in Newtown and around the country.
The two are part of a "Right to Try'' movement to push through legislation in the U.S. Congress to allow terminally-ill patients to try experimental treatment drugs before years of laborious federal testing and studies.
"He's an amazing guy,'' Worthington said. "Matt has become a national figure, not only for ALS but all terminally-ill patients.
"He's become a spokesperson for it (the movement). He spoke at a senate hearing last week. It (the bill) was shot down, so we have to start all over again. It just means that more dying patients won't be able to try an experimental drug and prolong their lives.''
When the gun goes off at 7 a.m. in Brooklyn, it will be a memorable moment for all involved.
"I'm not thinking about the physical part of it; I'm thinking about the money we're going to raise,'' Worthington said. NAC has some 12,000 members, many of them generous with a checkbook, so that's why they're one of the top fundraising clubs in the United States.
"If it were 30 miles, I still wouldn't give it a thought. My biggest thing leading up to this is the pride in what our group has done.''
One of the biggest contributors has been the Bucks County Roadrunners, who came up with a check for $5,000.
"We will never stop fighting for Matt and Frank and for all the others affected by this terrible disease,'' Worthington said. "I'm confident we will find a cure.''
In total, six area health clubs have raised upwards of $350,000 for this endeavor.
"The people on the team are very passionate,'' Worthington said. "It's been phenomenal. Since March, 2015, NAC members have contributed close to $700,000 for ALS.''
The donation effort is ongoing. If you wish to contribute, visit http://www.classy.org/nacpa.
Good luck to everyone in Brooklyn. Have fun for a good cause.
Wayne Fish: 215-949-4210; email, wfish@calkins.com; @waynefish1


Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 was directed by Lee Harry from a screenplay he co-wrote with Joseph H. Earle and stars Eric Freeman, Elizabeth Kaitan, James L. Newman, Jean Miller, Corrine Gelfan and Michael Combatti.
This 1987 sequel takes place on Christmas Eve and follows Ricky Caldwell (Eric Freeman), the younger brother of Billy Chapman who's now dealing with his own psychological issues. The first half of the movie has Ricky recounting his nightmarish childhood memories with Dr. Henry Bloom (James L. Newman) where most of this is flashbacks from the first movie that shows what happened to his brother and then Ricky talks about his childhood memories and growing up after the terrifying event that left Billy dead. Ricky had a semi-normal life growing up because he was adopted by a loving family but things would eventually change because certain events would take place that forced him to snap.
Once Ricky shares all of his memories to his doctor he picks up where he left off with his killing spree and makes a daring escape that eventually leads him to the home of the aubusive Mother Superior (Jean Miller) so he can get some sweet revenge for Billy and what she put him through as a child. As Ricky strolls down the street (cranking out one-liner after one-liner) he takes out anyone (except for the little girl) who crosses his bloody path. Ricky makes his way to his final destination and when he finally locates his target, the final showdown begins between the psychopathic serial killer and the hateful woman that helped scar him for life.
The packaging comes with a slipcover/0-card. The front features the all-new artwork you see at the top of the page and the back includes movie details, some images and list of special features. The reverse sleeve features some original artwork and movie credits so you have your pick of which side you'd like to use for the front cover. The Blu-ray disc also features some artwork that matches the front cover. Inserting the disc, the menu screen was simple and easy to navigate. Scream Factory has given the movie a new 2K scan of an archival theatrical print. The picture and sound quality for this high-definition upgrade were crisp and clear. I didn't have any issues with the video and audio.
Bottom line is, even though Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 isn't as great of a movie as the original, this one has earned cult status for other reasons over the years. First of all, this is more of a horror-comedy so there's several memorable one-liners like "It's Garbage Day!" and secondly some of the acting is so atrocious it's funny. Even though this movie uses a lot of archival footage from the 1984 classic, once it starts on its own path it's a really entertaining watch that features a lot of humor and kills. With that comes a little blood and gore so the practical effects all looked good for the most part. They had to come up with something new for Mother Superior since it was a different actress playing the part so I guess they decided to cover half her face up with mysterious burns. Hey, how'd that happen? Anyway, the movie is so bad it's good and it's still a lot of cheesy fun plus it was already one of my go-to holiday horror classics to watch on DVD and now it's even better with this awesome high-def upgrade. Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 will be available on a Collector's Edition Blu-ray for the first time ever on December 11th – just in time for Christmas.
Special Features: Good Stuff! The extras include some new and vintage audio commentary, a new documentary about the movie that includes interviews with some of the cast and crew, a new location featurette, a new short film centering around the main character, a new extensive interview, theatrical trailer and the Finding Freeman trailer.


It was an exhausting weekend, more emotional than physical and, two days on, I am still reeling from the shock. Now, don't worry, friends. Nothing horrid has happened! In fact something quite the opposite. But it was still tough.
I love being on a stage and am an inveterate show-off, and, with a gig lined up next month as Opening Keynote at the Families in Global Transition conference in Bangkok, I wanted to do what I could to enhance my performance. So, last week I attended a masterclass on how to give a TED talk led by Barbara Rogoski of Successful Speaker Now that filled me with hope and tips. I could do this. My comfort zone was barely tweaked. This weekend I'd learn about letting go and improvising. It made sense when I booked it and I'd loved Lucy's previous workshop despite a few misgivings. How hard could it be?
Among various fun exercises we spent quite a long time playing a game called Mr Hit. We were to walk round and round the room playing a version of Tag with a twist. The twist was that it was almost impossible to get it right, despite the simplicity of the rules. Lucy said it was a bit like that time when you have to rub your tummy and pat your head at the same time. Anyway, I was rubbish at it and wanted to lose as quickly as possible so I could sit down and escape the purgatory, which is my default solution to similar problems. Only it wasn't that simple. We had been instructed to do all we could to win and then spontaneously react (read overreact) if we messed up and were faced with losing one of our three lives. Well, I learned something this weekend – that you can only 'spontaneously overreact' if you really mean it. I mean you can't get away with 'overacting' instead, which is what I wanted to do. No, that would have been too easy. Acting comes much more easily to me than playing a game. And the only way I could actually 'play' this game, was to really play it. To engage. To join in. To try. Rats. That was hard. But I did stay 'up' for a surprisingly long time and eventually almost began to enjoy myself and let go.
For many people being on stage is terrifying enough, speaking or singing or acting in front of other people is the third scariest thing you will ever do. For me, however, playing a physical game is much harder. I have no trouble with Scrabble. I am competitive as all hell when playing that, but while playing a physical game is bad enough, deliberately trying to win one is anathema.
Comfort zones are funny things and distinctly personal, aren't they? No one can guess from the outside what makes someone curl up in a ball of embarrassment on the inside. I guess the things people find excruciatingly embarrassing start in childhood, in playground taunts or cruel comments from a teacher or parent. I was hopeless at sport at school and mocked for it, which has given me a complex the size of a planet that endures to this day. It's the same with singing. And, as I reflect on the weekend I realise that some people may feel just as terrified about reading their work out loud in my writing workshops.
By the way, I still came last in Mr Hit.
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GE Aviation's New Partnership Will Revolutionize Its Manufacturing Process
There's a reason why General Electric has become one of the largest companies in the world. Since its formation a hundred plus years ago, it has diversified from an electric company to a global corporation that has a finger in pretty much every business pie going - from mortgages to motion pictures.
Sure, the company's growth is partially due to its acquisition of other businesses. But it's also the result of its constant search for improvement - to reimagine and innovate - in whichever field it finds itself.
The latest evolution sees GE subsidiary GE Aviation strike up a partnership with Dassault Systemes, a European software company which specializes in 3D design, 3D digital mock-ups, and product lifecycle management software. The partnership will enable GE Aviation to drive innovation and efficiency in designing and developing aerostructures through the implementation of Dassault Systemes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
"Weight, performance and cost continue to dominate the competitiveness of developing and fabricating sophisticated and complex aerostructures for the latest generation of aircraft" explains Dassault Systemes Vice President, Aerospace & Defense Industry David Ziegler. "As a global leader in this field, GE Aviation is constantly innovating and has recognized how the 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides critical technology for this approach. We are very proud to be their partners in this transformation."
What Is the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform?
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform provides various intuitive 3D applications for product design, analysis, manufacturing and data management in a digital environment. It is a single collaborative platform which can be used at every stage of the design and manufacturing process, offering the opportunity to maximize improvement within the business through digital continuity.
There are three key benefits of the platform. The first is the reduction of cycle times resulting from the increase of collaboration between the engineering and supply chain function. The common user interface helps guarantee both a unified experience for each stakeholder and a shared digital reference, ensuring everyone involved is working form the correct information, in the most relevant context.
Second, through the use of the platform's business intelligence applications, interrogation of real-time information helps to create improved visibility and optimization of response times to the latest customer requests.
Finally, the platform creates an increase in productivity through its data-centric rationale and intuitive search capabilities, which help to simplify data management and the promotion of efficient information sharing without boundaries.
"For GE Aviation Hamble, the implementation of the 3DEXPERIENCE platform supports our ongoing focus on developing innovative aerostructures for the Aerospace industry," explains Executive Engineering Leader of GE Aviation's Hamble UK facility, Paulo Mancilla. "This enables us to use techniques like digital 3D modelling from design through manufacturing and qualification to create high performance aerostructures for the aviation industry."
What Does This Mean for GE Aviation?
The 3DEXPERIENCE platform means a complete streamlining of GE Aviation's manufacturing process. It cuts out needless commutes to production meetings and check-ins, allowing everybody to communicate with one another no matter the department or geographic locale. Instead of long deliberative processes, departments can make real-time decisions and implement them there and then.
It means that projects can be completed in a much quicker timeframe because stakeholders can communicate directly to each other, discuss and implement changes to the current project immediately, see the effect these changes have on a project, and adjust accordingly as they go.
It's the ultimate digital brainstorming session.
Imagine, if you will, a company that wanted to reinvent the wheel. A group of designers would come up with numerous ideas - singularly, or as a group - and then present their concepts. After a decision is made about which design to go with, the winning concept would be turned into a prototype and tested before reaching the conclusion that square wheels just won't work. The boardroom discusses a new approach, and soon, triangle wheels are being tested.
With the variety of applications available through the 3DEXPERIENCE, this hypothetical scenario can be done in a fraction of the time. The decision makers can be there at the brainstorming stage and see the practicality of those ideas unfold before them - taking a process that could take a week and doing it in a day.
Initially, the 3DEXPERIENCE platform will be used at GE Aviation's Hamble site in the UK, so it will be interesting to see if it will be rolled out throughout the GE subsidiary, and possibly further afield, as well.
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In a crowded corporate building elevator out in the northwest suburbs, I was designated the floor selector by positioning. The occupancy limit had been passed I'm sure because my shoulder was shoved snugly into a corner. Mid flight, I accidentally leaned against the fire alarm button. The elevator stopped and the lights flickered red. People reacted very calmly as though it were a drill and it gave me a feeling of responsibility – I owed these people a lesson in caution. So, I worked up a decent hyperventilation sequence, started darting my eyes side to side and announced that if we didn't get out of here soon that my claustrophobia would kick in and I'd projectile vomit on the crowd.
A tall man in the back snickered and I glared at him with teary eyes and dry heaved in his direction. His smile melted away as he joined the rest of the passengers in the opposite corner of the elevator. When what seemed like an army of people found a way to jam into a 3×3 square of fear and left me a good 2 foot stage, I started taking solid steps toward them whilst holding the walls as if I couldn't stand the bile building in my esophagus. The dry heaves grew louder and my trembling began with theirs. The people in the back closed there eyes and turned there heads. The woman who – by pure misfortune – found herself in front began squishing her face as to conjure all the distance she could from her fate.
I began humming and they started shouting and shoving. Suddenly, my dry heave became a little wetter than I'd planned and in an effort to not make a strange situation hysterical by emptying a tummy full of Sausage, Egg and Cheese McGriddle in a thick spritz, I clenched my whole body and gulped with thunderous force. The result was a long-winded, well-busted, back-breaking, olfactory insulting gaseous release. The unforgiving stench heated the room instantly. I found it best to stop the charade and disengage the elevator alarm and move on with my life.
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Maybe Watch This: The Founder
There's a family story I've heard at holidays and cookouts since I was a kid. A joke, really. And that's the story that my great grandmother went to high school with Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald's. Had she played her cards differently, we might all be in very different circumstances today. Imagine! Heirs to the Golden Arches!
Revisiting the story after seeing The Founder, the film version of how Kroc (Michael Keaton) ushered McDonald's from a single burger joint to, well, world domination, it's clear the whole Boyle clan dodged a bullet.
The Founder has been on my radar for at least six months now, and for a brief moment it was slated to hit theaters in time for awards consideration. Delaying a film's release until January is never a good sign, and after seeing the film I can understand why the studio made the move. Though its parts, on paper, should add up to a compelling if conflicted biopic…they just don't.
Keaton does well with what material he has from writer Robert Siegel (The Wrestler) and director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks). The problem is, it's ultimately a pretty shitty story they have to tell, about a scheming opportunist who finds cracks and loopholes through which to wrestle control of a family business and make his fortune, leaving his wife for someone else along the way.
A struggling milkshake machine salesman who, we learn, hasn't had much luck with any of his hair-brained schemes, Kroc gets an order for half a dozen of the things from a shop in Southern California. Assuming it's an error before calling to confirm it's not, he makes his way out west to see the operation for himself. There, he meets Mac and Dick McDonald, the brothers who run the walk-up food stand and have literally created the fast food assembly line, each burger ready less than thirty seconds after ordering. It's their very own "burger ballet."
Intrigued, Kroc takes the brothers to dinner to learn more, where they share, through a series of on-screen flashbacks and great brotherly banter (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch), just how they went from aspiring film producers to engineering a whole new on-the-go food service industry. And that's the movie I wish I'd seen.
These guys are the real deal: honest, hardworking entrepreneurs who, with a few bumps along the way, innovated a world-changing business model without sacrificing quality or integrity. Kroc, we come to learn, is none of that. The rest of the film is a series of awkward character introductions and forced exposition all over a heavy-handed score that never quite gels with what's on screen.
And yet, I can't entirely dismiss the film. It's more valuable than I give it credit for, if only as a cautionary tale. While exposing Kroc's cunning business style, the film reminds us that he is ultimately a success – at least in American Dream terms. His suits slowly go from shabby and wrinkled to tailored and crisp. He moves into a grand house, joins posh golf clubs, upgrades to a more fashionable wife. For a certain type of man at a certain time in American history, this was exactly the great America they wanted to make for themselves. Watching it today, though, I can't help leaving the theater feeling a little…icky. All while craving a cheeseburger.
The Founder dir. John Lee Hancock; written by Robert Siegel; starring Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Laura Dern, BJ Novak, Patrick Wilson, Linda Carindelli
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Francisco Pires (born 24 December 1921) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward.

He joined Benfica in 1940, winning a double of league and cup in 1942–43.

Career
Pires arrived at Benfica by the hands of Janos Biri, making his debut on 19 January 1941, against Sporting. With competition from Lourenço, Valadas, Teixeira and  Rodrigues, he found it difficult to break into the first team, despite playing seven league games in his first year. In his second season, he competed exclusivity in the Campeonato de Lisboa, not receiving a winners medal for the league title that Benfica won.

In 1942–43, he received some playing time in the league, enough to win his first league, helping with one goal in 4 appearances. Plus, his four goals in the Portuguese Cup, contributed to Benfica winning the double. In the following season, Pires scored five in six league games, but Benfica failed to retain the league title. After a lacklustre season in  1944–45, with only two games in the regional league, he left Benfica.

Honours
Benfica
 Primeira Liga: 1942–43
 Taça de Portugal: 1942–43

References
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1921 births
Possibly living people
Portuguese footballers
Association football forwards
Primeira Liga players
S.L. Benfica footballers

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Abortion could become a business nightmare in 2022
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Supreme Court Police officers guard a barrier between anti-abortion and pro-abortion rights protesters outside the court building, ahead of arguments in the Mississippi abortion rights case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, in Washington, U.S., December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
The Supreme Court seems poised to trigger a political earthquake next year, with a ruling that could restrict or overturn nationwide abortion rights enshrined in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. If that happens, as many legal analysts expect, the shock waves will emanate in unpredictable directions and probably cause major headaches for American businesses in certain states.
In a Dec. 1 hearing on a restrictive Mississippi anti-abortion law, the court's six conservative justices signaled a willingness to endorse the Mississippi law and perhaps go further by overturning Roe completely. Either way, such a decision, likely by the summer of 2022, would embolden other states to strengthen anti-abortion laws, which, in turn, would produce a furious backlash by abortion-rights supporters. And one of the first targets of protesters these days is big companies operating in states propagating whatever law the protesters object to.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe, it wouldn't mean abortion is banned nationwide; it would mean states can choose for themselves whether to ban the procedure, with no federal law standing in the way. Twelve states have "trigger laws" that would automatically ban abortion if the Supreme Court allows them to: Arkansas, Kentucky, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. Another 14 states don't have trigger laws but might pass bans anyway, including Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
Abortion bans could become the most explosive political issue in modern times because the Court, if it upholds the Mississippi law, would be setting a precedent starkly contrary to public opinion. Most Americans think abortion should be legal. In Gallup surveys, just 22% of respondents say abortion should be illegal in all circumstances. Fifty-four percent say abortion should be legal in certain circumstances, while 21% say it should be legal under all circumstances. That's essentially an endorsement of the status quo, since Roe allows abortions up to the point a fetus can survive outside the womb, generally considered 23 to 24 weeks into a pregnancy.
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Statewide abortion bans would also break sharply along partisan lines, since all of the trigger-law states are red states with Republican governors and, in most cases, GOP-controlled legislatures. Blue states, such as those on most of the East and West Coasts, might move in the opposite direction by codifying the right to an abortion and welcoming abortion seekers from states where the practice is banned. This would probably intensify the country's blue-red divide and a type of polarization that's now becoming geographic as well as ideological.
Possible protests and boycotts
It could also make targets of big companies based in states banning abortion. Protesters have already called for boycotts of companies based in Georgia, following that state's passage of a controversial bill that might make it harder to vote. Major League Baseball moved the 2021 All-Star Game out of the state because of the law. In Texas, which passed a similar voter-restriction bill this year, some companies proactively lobbied against the bill, while others stayed silent. In April, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said, "My warning to corporate America is to stay out of politics." But that's impractical when consumers, employees and shareholders demand companies take action, as has been the trend.
So, which companies might be targeted? Texas, a trigger-law state that recently passed its own controversial law restricting abortion, is home to at least 50 Fortune 500 companies, including consumer brands such as ExxonMobil (XOM), AT&T (T), American Airlines (AAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV), USAA (USAGX), D.R. Horton (DHI) and Kimberly Clark (KMB)—plus newcomer Tesla (TSLA). Georgia hosts Home Depot (HD), UPS (UPS), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Coca-Cola (KO). Tennessee is home to FedEx (FDX), Dollar General (DG), AutoZone (AZO), and Nissan's U.S. operations.
It's not clear yet how the powerful and well-funded abortion-rights movement would mobilize if the Supreme Court opened the door for state-level bans. Abortion is an intensely emotional issue, and the response could dwarf the types of protests that followed enactment of the voter-restriction laws in Georgia and Texas earlier this year. It's also possible the issue could backfire for Republicans if new abortion bans produce a groundswell of support for pro-abortion Democrats in next year's midterm elections, along with state and local races.
Boycotts, if they do end up as part of the fracas, don't necessarily work. Business executives have some influence on tax and regulatory policies in their states, but that doesn't automatically extend to social issues or other matters that aren't primarily business issues. Sometimes, out-of-state companies have more influence. In 2015, when Indiana passed a "religious freedom" law that many felt discriminated against gays, California-based Salesforce and other organizations threatened to take conventions and other business out of the state. It wasn't long before Indiana, under Gov. Mike Pence, relented and changed the law.
Companies that come down on one side of a hot-button issue also risking alienating customers on the other side. When Delta, under pressure from gun-control advocates, canceled a discount for members of the National Rifle Association in 2018, gun-rights advocates threatened to boycott. Some voters boycotted Goya Foods because of its CEO's strident support for President Donald Trump, but that may have prompted other Trump supporters to buy more Goya products. No wonder most CEOs strongly prefer to stay out of politics altogether. That's increasingly difficult, and 2022 could present more political landmines than businesses have had to navigate in years.
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Rewilding in Argentina: the giant river otter returns to Iberá park
Photo: Rafael Abuín/Conservation Land Trust Argentina
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The first attempt to reintroduce an extinct mammal in Argentina brings hope for restored ecosystems and increased ecotourism opportunities based on wildlife watching.
In June 2018, two new jaguar cubs were born in northern Argentina's new Iberá National Park, marking a milestone in the efforts to bring the species back into the region after decades of absence. Now steps are being taken to reintroduce the giant river otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) as well.
After an extended period in quarantine, Alondra, an eight-year-old female from Budapest Zoo in Hungary, has been reintroduced into the Iberá wetlands. For now, she is in a tailor-made enclosure of 800 square meters on the island of San Alonso in the province of Corrientes.
This is part of an ambitious rewilding project pioneered by the Conservation Land Trust of Argentina, the foundation created by Tompkins Conservation, in partnership with the province of Corrientes and thanks to the collaboration of diverse national entities.
Half on water and half on land: Alondra for the first time in her amphibian enclosure. Rafael Abuín/Conservation Land Trust Argentina
Along with illegal hunting and coastal development, the construction of large-scale dams contributed to the species' local extinction in the middle of the 20th century. Now the giant otter is globally endangered and extinct in Argentina, but in the few areas where the animal is currently found, including Brazil's Pantanal and the Amazon region, it has become a key tourist attraction.
According to Kristine Tompkins, President of Tompkins Conservation and a United Nations Patron of Protected Areas, the arrival of the giant otters marks a significant step forward for the rewilding of the Iberá wetlands.
"We are creating a model for rewilding that can be applied to areas around the world," says Tompkins. "As a conservation foundation, all of our work is focused on strategies that fight the species extinction crisis that we face – from creating national parks to bringing back those species that have gone missing."
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How San Jose Tackles Fleet Improvements
November 9, 2018 • by GF Staff
About half of San Jose's fleet uses some form of alternative fuel, including its fleet of electric vehicles.
Photo courtesy of City of San Jose
The City of San Jose sits at the heart of Silicon Valley in Northern California. It's the Santa Clara County seat, one of the most affluent counties in the United States. But that doesn't mean it wasn't affected by the Great Recession.
Fleet Manager Dan Sunseri talks about how the fleet is recovering, and the steps fleet management has taken since then to rebuild staffing, utilize data more effectively, improve its parts operation, and use telematics.
Fleet staff at the City of San Jose, Calif., has improved operations by:
Revamping the parts operation
Making data more accessible to staff and user departments
Continuing an apprenticeship program that helps with hiring technicians
Using telematics to study utilization, safety, and idling data.
Apprenticeship Program Keeps the Fleet Staffed
Sunseri attributes the fleet's improved mechanic retention to its "fantastic" apprenticeship program. The program is a collaboration between the community college, the city, the state's Department of Industrial Relations, and the local union.
Nearly all mechanics start at the city as mechanic assistants, even if they have prior experience elsewhere. Mechanic assistants can apply for apprentice mechanic positions. The four-year apprenticeship program provides 6,000 hours of on-the-job training and a full curriculum of more than 20 classes. Graduates get a certificate from the union, a journey-level mechanic card from the state, and a promotion within the fleet department.
"When the economy took a dip, there were pay cuts across the board. It was a big hit for a lot of people," Sunseri said. "It was a good thing we had the program."
The program allowed equipment maintenance supervisors David Mesa and Steven Brasil to continue recruiting people at entry-level positions, which was especially important as mechanics left for other opportunities or retired.
While the current program has worked well and will continue, fleet management is working to reclassify mechanic positions to provide more paths for advancement, offer greater career opportunities, and continue to stabilize staffing levels.
Photo Gallery: San Jose's Unique Fleet Vehicles
Improving the Parts Room
In recent years, fleet management set a goal to improve its multi-facility parts operation, which included exploring outsourcing options. Although this has worked for other organizations, fleet management instead improved its parts program through staffing changes and innovation.
Under the leadership of Mario Razo, then mechanical parts supervisor, fleet management expanded parts staff from three people to five, hiring parts professionals from the private sector. They locked down the parts room, made sure all transactions were captured, and instituted a parts request module that's integrated with the AssetWorks fleet management information system (FMIS). The system allows technicians to order parts directly from their workspaces, and it notifies technicians when those parts are available, or parts staff will bring the parts out to them, Sunseri said. In addition, using data to analyze and set min/max levels and have quality parts suppliers with sound agreements in place improved fill rates.
"Every year, we do an annual physical inventory. We would pull staff from the floor to help with that process, taking away productivity from [technicians] working on vehicles," Sunseri added. "The system and the parts rooms are so organized that Mario is able to have his staff do inventory in far less time than the previous process and not lose productivity on the shop floor."
One of the performance indicators fleet management tracks is shrinkage, and this year, the parts room recorded 0% shrinkage.
2,750 assets managed/maintained
7 fleet facilities
62 full-time employees
$17.6 million operating budget
1.4 million gallons of fuel dispensed annually at its fuel sites
$120/hour fully burdened labor rate
Using Data Effectively
Sunseri said having two IT staff members in fleet has been essential. These two staff members, Uyiosa Oviawe and Jonathan Pham, worked with the city's IT department to create different tools using the FMIS.
One of these is the police parking dashboard. Patrol vehicles are assigned certain beats, rather than with officers. Each vehicle has an assigned parking space, and the virtual dashboard allows officers to see how many and which vehicles are available for them to use. The data is captured and updated in real time through shop work orders and vehicle telematics. Once a work order is opened or if a vehicle is off-site, the dashboard shows the vehicle as not available.
"Fleet staff used to manually log that activity and assign those cars. Resources are redirected to do more work on the shop floor," Sunseri said. This program is an interface of more than three information technologies — FMIS, telematics, and a display software — and is an example of staff innovation to create operational efficiency, he added.
The virtual whiteboard is another dashboard that replaces a traditional physical whiteboard staff members had to update manually with dry-erase pens. It shows vehicles that are in the shop, how many days it has been in the shop, the technician working on the vehicle, and its status. And as in the case of PD parking, the virtual whiteboard is updated automatically as work orders are open, work finished, or closed.
Other dashboards include a central command dashboard and a lifecycle costing dashboard that shows where vehicles are in their lifecycle in terms of optimal replacement points.
In the family: Dan Sunseri (right) worked with his twin brother until this year. Don Sunseri (left) was the fleet's senior automotive equipment specialist. The brothers both reported to the deputy director of public works, and Don retired in August.
Photo courtesy of Dan Sunseri
Expanding Telematics Use
San Jose has Verizon Connect telematics installed in 500 fleet vehicles. Dan Sunseri, fleet manager, said the information provided by telematics has allowed fleet management to measure idling, accurately track utilization, monitor vehicle performance, and view safety trends.
"Let's say a department has 80 vehicles, and it wants to add five more. It gives you the ability to look at the existing fleet size and how often the vehicles are used, and with data make much better decisions [based] on the true need," he said.
Telematics allows fleet management to avoid doing smog checks on the vehicles with the devices installed. San Jose is participating in the California Bureau of Automotive Repair's (BAR) Continuous Testing Program. The devices continually send smog information to the BAR, and these vehicles don't have to be tested. Location tracking has also proved to be useful. Recently, the city recovered a stolen truck trailer and mower with its telematics devices.
"We want to roll it out on the entire fleet. Our goal would be to put it on everything," Sunseri said. "I think it's the only way for us to accurately track fleet activity and effectively manage the fleet."
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Since the main market for Allwinner are mobile devices it is one of the design goals of their SoCs (System on chip) to be able to operate both performant as well as energy efficient. An important role plays 'cpu frequency scaling'. The lower the clock speed, the slower the device and the less energy it consumes (and vice versa). Even the voltage available to the ARM core(s) will be adjusted depending on the clock speed. This is done inside the kernel by defining operating-points, which provide mapping between clock speeds and voltages (the higher the CPU is clocked the more voltage it needs to still operate reliable). Depending on the kernel version, the operating points can be hardcoded in the kernel sources (the sunxi-3.4 kernel on A10), defined in the FEX file (the sunxi-3.4 kernel on A20) or stored in the device tree blob (the mainline kernel).
Out of the available governors the most interesting seem to be ondemand and interactive since they dynamically switch cpufreq settings based on load. The interactive governor is only available in the sunxi-3.4 kernel, because it is a simple pragmatic enhancement of the ondemand governor, tailored for Android and shipped on millions of devices. It was submitted to the mainline kernel but never accepted, because the ondemand governor itself is considered to be broken by design (the "waking up to decide whether the CPU is idle" concept) and polishing a turd was not welcome. So the default with mainline kernel is now ondemand (you can adjust that by writing to scaling_governor) and the lower/upper limits are 144000 and 960000 on sun7i (144MHz-960MHz). Since the default lower limit might be responsible for a laggy system (it takes quite a bit of time for the governor to realize that the frequency needs to be increased) it's advisable to define the lower limit yourself adjusting /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq eg.
You can also lower the maximum value by adjusting scaling_max_freq. Please be aware that adjusting these values works in 48MHz steps and is not limited to the few operating-points/dvfs_table-entries. You can use any value in between min/max but have to keep in mind that the values supplied will be rounded down: you will end up with just 864MHz if you set scaling_max_freq to 911999 instead of 912000 -- always compare with cpuinfo_cur_freq if in doubt.
Both the chosen governor as well as the cpufreq limits can have a huge impact on power consumption, performance and even functionality. For example in the past on sun7i (A20), the default fantasy governor led to really strange behaviour (and single-threaded benchmark results for A20 devices as well) since it increased the clock speed to the max value only under certain circumstances and remained most of the time at the minimum.
If the lowest possible power consumption no matter the cost is not a priority, then the performance governor is a very good option. The practical tests show that there is not much power consumption difference between idling at 60MHz and idling at 1008MHz (a ~1.5x difference on Cortex-A8, almost no difference on Cortex-A7). Modern processors implement advanced clock gating for power saving purposes and if the processor is sitting on a WFI instruction, then the power consumption is already significantly reduced regardless of the CPU clock speed.
Please note that voltage/frequency scaling is still relevant even for the performance governor. Just because we need to be able to do emergency throttling in the case of overheating. Peak power consumption of CPU, GPU and other peripherals all working at the same time may be rather high and it's best to be prepared for the worst case scenario.
To sum it up. Idle power consumption with the performance governor is almost as good as when using other governors. And if there is work to do, then finishing it quickly is not a bad option either (the "race to idle" concept). If you are unsure and the device is not battery powered, then save yourself from a lot of troubles and just use the performance governor. If you are running benchmarks and want to have reproducible results without any unexpected glitches or pathological slowdowns, then the performance governor is also a good choice.
If you allow very low scaling_min_freq values with ondemand/interactive the system might behave laggy and some timing critical stuff (eg. reading out Dallas DS18b20 temperature sensors via 1-wire below 600MHz) won't work. Same applies to other sort of GPIO stuff when reaching the upper frequency limits (eg. reading out DHT11/DHT22 with scaling_max_freq above 1008MHz). So you've to carefully adjust the cpufreq settings to your application.
(can also be used with kernel 4.0 and above. And especially io_is_busy is essential if you want to use your sunxi device as file server). The other parameters are explained in the governor link above. Adjust them only carefully and with a full understanding of what you're doing.
Each stress task ran 15 minutes, after that we idled 15 min. Temperatures have been read out internally from the thermal sensors inside the A20's touchscreen controller and the AXP209 power management unit (PMU) and verified roughly using two external DHT22 sensors measuring ambient temperature (green graph) and above SoC (purple graph). No external devices were connected to the board except network.
Being idle (then the ondemand governor decreased the CPU clock speed down to 408 MHz) SoC/PMU temperature were 13°/11° above ambient temperature, under load the temperature of the SoC raised 19°C (816 MHz) to 22°C (1104 MHz) above ambient temp. The PMU was also or even more affected (since it has to provide more voltage when the SoC is clocked higher): 19°C at 816 MHz but 24°C above surrounding temperature with the CPU running at 1104 MHz.
Please keep in mind that these thermal values will increase considerably when your device is in a small enclosure preventing airflow and/or the PMU has to power other stuff (external USB peripherals, onboard Wi-Fi or even a SATA disk like on Lamobo R1).
Note that the 'cpuburn-a7' and 'cpuburn-a8' tools are a lot more effective for heating the CPU than the 'stress' tool.
As per the definition of the word "overclocking" is not possible since that would mean "frequency scaling beyond the specs". The problem with cheap ARM SoCs is that they're not subject to an expensive QA/selection process where each SoC will be tested extensively and then labeled/sold in different categories depending on the upper limits it's able to achieve (this is standard with x86 for example: chips from the same wafer will be tested individually and be sold for a few hundred bucks more or less depending on how many CPU/GPU cores work reliable at which clock speeds).
One A20 SoC from a specific production batch might work reliable with 1.2GHz (which is rather unrealistic) while another starts to throw errors with 1.0GHz. The default cpufreq upper limits take that into account and can be considered sane/safe defaults. And while it's possible to adjust or define additional operating-points in the kernel sources to gain some more speed (with increased voltage) this should be considered experimental and is only advisable when you the user also does QA/selection on your own: Stresstesting the device over many hours to simulate worst case conditions while keeping an eye on heat dissipation: Without appropriate airflow increasing cpufreq settings above defaults won't work.
While running test images, I noticed that I was missing cpufreq on an A20 cubietruck.
There was no directory cpufreq and the tools didn't work.
The solution to this problem was the driver axp20x-i2c. It wasn't loaded, and in my case I had not build the module at all.
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Arts & Features/Arts News
Earthquakes in London: A Frenzied Exploration of Environment and Humanity
by Lily Jamison-Cash
Editor's note: This article was initially published in The Daily Gazette, Swarthmore's online, daily newspaper founded in Fall 1996. As of Fall 2018, the DG has merged with The Phoenix. See the about page to read more about the DG.
What do you do when you're afraid to go out, but scared to stay in? That you're "stuck in this flat that the walls are moving in on and everything is becoming dangerous?"
What do you do when you are the only one who feels the coming earthquake?
This year's Senior Company production, Earthquakes in London, approaches the question of the rapport between characters and society in a refraction of modern civilization, where relationships with other humans and the environment are broken.
The play tackles the menace of climate change through the lens of a dysfunctional British family. The characters try desperately to get above water, both literally and metaphorically (in one transition, cast members "swim" across on scooters). Each one is aware of the coming disaster — an earthquake about to strike the city and cause a flood – but all of them are absolutely unable to connect with one another in a way that could actually help. The play weds a classical scare-mongering narrative of environmental destruction with a deeply moving family tragedy that produces an extremely intelligent and nuanced version of reality.
In the masterfully worked split-scene frenzy that is Act I, the destruction of modern society unfolds onstage. Sarah (Michaela Shuchman '16) and Carter (Alexander Rojavin '15) use each other in the satirically obscure political goings-on that drive the country's environmental destruction. Meanwhile, Freya (Amelia Dornbush '15) engages with her pseudo-imagined student Peter (Jocelyn Adams '15), who guides her as she toes the line between realities. Jasmine (Anita Castillo-Halvorssen '15), the 19-year-old recently expelled from university, performs Mother Nature in burlesque begging not to "leave the rainforest naked." And poignantly, Colin (Nathan Siegel '15) sits alone in bed while his imagination conjures a youthful party scene via his computer, while he stands on the margins watching students dance as Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" pervades the soundscape.
The show's split scenes and rich, often hilarious transitions give life and texture to the play's portrayal of modern life. Sometimes these transitions are abrupt – just as life can indeed be cruel and abrupt at times. In one scene, Jasmine watches an intoxicated Colin jump around the stage singing Arcade Fire and kisses him on the lips. The audience remains mouth agape as Robert (Stefan Tuomanen '15), Jasmine's father and environmental doomsday scientist, almost immediately strides onstage trailed by a frustrated Steve (Josh McLucas '15), Freya's husband. In the transition, Colin and Jasmine's silent aftermath plays out while the audience holds what they just saw simultaneously with the next scene, in which Steve discovers that the implications of Robert's science are the root of his wife's distress.
But Freya's warning cries are not enough to shake the people around her. In a particularly hilarious dramatic device, each character is embodied in chairs they sit in. Freya sits in a sad armchair in her house; as he is being belittled by his father-in-law, Steve sits in a child's chair at the dinner table. Like our social roles, the chairs we sit in are socially and relationally inscribed, and like our social roles, we are comfortable in own chairs.
Earthquakes in London intends to challenge that comfort. The play urgently stresses that climate change is coming, but that dramatic population control will not solve anything. While climate change is rarely addressed through the medium of a theatrical family drama, this play thoroughly tackles the issue through a deeply humanistic lens, placing a premium on human lives and culture that is unfound in most classically environmentalist works. The answer to climate change lies in post-industrial countries in the eyes of everyone – implicitly through Robert's injunction: "if you want to be green, hold your breath" — and more directly in Tom's (Tyler Elliott '15) demand that politicians and companies go further than halting all air travel expansion.
These complex ideas play out interpersonally as Robert's science suggests that Freya is wrong to bring a baby into the world. The play critiques Robert's simplification of the issue in Steve's desire to keep his baby. It is even more nuanced in Steve's strained relationship with Freya, where he values the baby more than his wife. Freya's character embodies issues surrounding womanhood and mental illness – does she want the baby and does she have a say?
In one of the show's most poignant moments, the ensemble dresses as London's women, carrying scarves in their arms as babies. The women are phantoms of Freya's conception of family and motherhood – they are "good" people who do charity work on Thursdays. In a comically exaggerated, ultimately tragic encounter, Freya curls up on the stage and the women unfurl their scarves over her, releasing a storm of plastic bones, casually tossing their raincoats and coffee cups over her body.
The play culminates in a passionate and messianic speech by Freya and a scene that blurs the lines of the real, as Freya lies in a space occupied by Steve on one side and on the other side her dead mother (Danica Harvey '15, who also plays an amazing and hilarious multitude of other characters), the future, heaven, and all of time and space atomized and distilled. We are all a part of nature, the play tells us, which has psychological as well as societal implications.
Freya finds that she is no one and everyone at the same time, which is critical in breaking down the nature-culture divide that often prohibits us from recognizing our own lived space (both physical and social) as an environment worth caring about.
This crucial rendering of the environment and society as omnipresent gives us a way out of the walls that immobilize us.
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This 10.5-acre park features a large covered shelter is a popular location for group and community events. A playground, two tennis courts, basketball court and ampitheatre are also available.
Organized in 1868 by Rev. Samuel Loomis during the Chester Mission, Carmel was a worship center for the students and faculty of Brainerd Institute. It's programs continue to focus on the religious training of African American youth.


According to a report by Goal, FC Basel wonderkid Noah Okafor is tracked by big European clubs Borussia Dortmund, Inter Milan and Manchester City.
The winger is highly-rated in Switzerland and is tipped to be one of the future stars in football.
The 18-year-old has risen through the youth ranks at the RotBlau, joining the club's youth academy at the age of eight. His phenomenal performances for Basel has attracted interests from some of the big boys in the continent.
Okafor, is being watched by current Bundesliga side Dortmund, who are very well accustomed to targeting young players and developing them into world-beaters. They have been looking at the youth academies in Switzerland to get some talented players. Manuel Akanji is a prime example.
The exciting lad played his first football at local team FC Arisdorf. In 2009 he moved to FC Basel and continued through all the teams of their youth academy.
He has an acute eye for goals and key passes but he never forgets to show commitment and desire to work hard off the ball.
The talented player of Nigerian descent is currently on a deal with the Swiss club until June 2023.


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Smuggled away in the Fowey Valley near Cardinham is the Grade I listed house of Lanhydrock. Surrounded by over 800 acres of green land, this is a beautiful mix of architecture, gardens and woodland walks.
The name Lanhydrock was first used in 1201, but the area that the estate currently sits on was once a monastic farming community that was part of the Bodmin Priory in the 15th century. When the monasteries were dissolved in 1543 the land went to the local Glynn family and then to the Lyttelton family. Between 1577 and 1620, the estate was given to Thomas Trenance through marriage, but was sold to Richard Robartes of Truro in 1620, starting the Robartes legacy in this area.
Following Richard's death, his son John took over in 1634 and attempted to build the grandest mansion in Cornwall, with formal gardens, a sporting park as well as developing the rich agricultural and mineral parts of the estate. The gatehouse with its wonderful octagonal walls was built in 1651.
After John died, the estate passed onto several different family members, however as they often had land and estates in other parts of the country, Lanhydrock was left neglected. It wasn't until 1758 when George Hunt inherited the estate from his mother when more work occurred. He removed some of the east wing and added decorations, furniture and carpets; however he also accumulated several debts.
His successor was Anna Maria Hunt (later Agar from 1804), who along with the land and house, also inherited this debt. With help from the steward William Jenkin, she was able to restore the fortunes of this grand estate.
Her second child Thomas James Agar-Robartes had much of the parkland remodelled during his time in charge, adding new formal gardens and the ornamental drive that still exists today.
In 1881, a large fire started in the house, destroying a great deal of it and leaving only the north wing standing. Local architect Richard Coad was commissioned to reburbish the house, creating a mix of Jacobean and Victorian design. The impact of this fire was great and both Lord and Lady Robartes died in the following years. Their eldest son, Tommy Agar-Robartes took over the estate, but disaster struct again with the outbreak of WWI. During this time, mining in Cornwall was at breaking point, and Tommy was killed during the war.
Tommy's younger brother Gerald inherited the estate next, but the family never really recovered and he handed it over to the National Trust in 1953.
Lanhydrock estate has quite a large garden, made up of smaller gardens dotted around the house. The higher garden behind the house and church was planted just before WWI, as was the southern half of the circular flower patch (the northern semi-circle was planted by the National Trust in 1972).
The formal gardens to the front of the house are surrounded by a mid-Victorian wall and also include 29 flat topped Irish yews.
The church that sits gracefully behind the house is dedicated to St Hydroc and is still used as a functioning chapel, with services on Sundays. Built in the 15th century, this church was often neglected and renovated alongside the main house.
The Robartes family crypt is still in situ under the pews on the southern side of the church.
The rather wonky cross that sits inline with the front entrance of the church is dated from the 9-11th century.
The estate is currently under the care of the National Trust and is open daily. Tours of the house give a wonderful view of both of the extensive 'below stairs' rooms and its many kitchens and the luxury 'upstairs' rooms where the family would have lived.
Alongside the house and gardens is a vast estate of woodland and field walks that is well worth exploring. Near the carpark they offer bike rentals to make use of their cycle trails.
There is a very large carpark on the north side of the estate that is well signposted from the A30 Bodmin/Cardinham junction. This is also owned by the National Trust so has the usual parking fees.
Postcode: PL30 4AB
OS Map: SX 087 642
There is a cafe near the carpark, with another cafe and restaurant at the house which offer different menus.
There are toilets at the house, including adapted ones.
Dogs are allowed to roam the grounds if on a lead, but only service dogs can enter the formal gardens.
There is wheelchair access to the house, but some rooms may not be available due to steps.
The Trust operates a shuttle service from the carpark to the house.
https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lanhydrock
England, M., Hingston, R., Holden, P., Knight, S., Taylor, A. and Todd, D. (2018) Lanhydrock Dictionary of Biography. Available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fbSO8fi7HM9JqKwaZnK9dhEw_eURlO2b/view (Accessed: 24 October 2019).
Gamble, B. (2014) Cornwall's Great Houses and Gardens. Penzance: Alison Hodge Publishers.
Historic England (2019) LANHYDROCK, Cardinham. Available at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000449 (Accessed: 24 October 2019).
Thomas, N. (1994) Lanhydrock: An Archaeological Assessment. Available at: http://map.cornwall.gov.uk/reports_event_record/1994/1994R023.pdf (Accessed: 24 October 2019).
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Milk Paint Kitchen Cabinets – While it may have existed at the time of King Tut, milk paint is also an ideal furniture finish for the 21st century with ecological awareness. It contains all natural ingredients, including casein (curdled milk), lime and earth pigments, milk paint is biodegradable. Milk paint will add authenticity to period furniture. Odorless, it dries quickly for a tough matte finish and does not require a primer or sealer is applied to sand wood. Making your own milk paint is reasonably easy.
Pour the nonfat milk into the 1.5-liter container and wait until it reaches room temperature. Mix all the white vinegar in the milk room temperature and place the container in a warm place for about 12 to 48 hours, while curdling. Place the desired amount of color pigment in one of your plastic tubes with an equal amount of distilled water. Pour all the hydrated lime powder into the other large plastic container. Add 1.5 cups of distilled water a little at a time, stirring as you go until it forms a smooth paste.
Place the strainer in the sink and the gauze in the strainer. Pour the curdled milk in the colander and empty the liquid. Lift the gauze, and pour the quark into the gallon paint bucket and add the lime paste to create milk-white paint. Add your dissolved pigment and stir the mixture. Filter the paint through the cheesecloth one more time to remove the undissolved particles. Use as soon as possible, stirring occasionally to avoid separation.


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Understanding Genetically Engineered Foods
Elizabeth Blessing Send an email April 11, 2013Last Updated: April 11, 2013
Understanding genetically engineered foods and how to take action at the checkout register
By Elizabeth Blessing, MSN, co-founder and chief nutritionist of Green BEAN Delivery
The defeat of Prop. 37 by California voters on Election Day in November sent shock waves across the food and agricultural industries. Prop. 37 was a measure that required the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food. Had the bill been passed it would have:
Required labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if the food is made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways.
Prohibited labeling or advertising such food as "natural."
Exempted from these requirements foods that are certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages.
While Prop. 37 failed in California, consumers across the country can take action at the checkout register by purchasing USDA certified organic foods and learning more about the issue.
What are genetically engineered foods?
GE or GMO (genetically modified organism) foods are organisms that have been created through gene-splicing techniques of biotechnology or genetic engineering. This technique allows DNA from one species to be injected into another in a laboratory, creating combinations of plant, animal, bacteria and viral genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.
Since these genes do not occur in nature, our body reacts to these proteins when we consume them. There are three possible sources of adverse health effects from GM foods:
A toxic or allergenic GE gene product.
Production of new toxins or allergens and/or disturbance of nutritional value in the seed during the GE transformation process.
Environmental contamination from the GE seed through cross pollination.
Studies have shown that GE foods can be toxic and/or allergenic to laboratory and farm animals. Most of these studies have been short- or medium-term. Long-term studies are needed to see if these negative results of GE food consumption in the short- and medium-term studies develop into serious diseases. Because of these health and environmental concerns, GE foods and packaging made with GE foods (i.e. GE corn to make plastic containers) is required in 50 countries worldwide, including all of the European Union, China, Japan and Russia.
With 70 to 80 percent of processed foods sold in the U.S. containing genetically engineered ingredients such as corn, soybeans and sugar beets, the passing of Prop. 37 would have helped consumers make informed decisions about what foods they want to feed their families. Genetically engineered products are the only products consumers unintentionally purchase without knowing what they are buying.
While the failure of Prop. 37 seems like a defeat, it's far from the truth. The "Yes on 37" campaign created huge awareness about GE foods in California and nationally. More than four million voters in California voted in favor of Prop. 37, which is 47 percent of all voters. It also forced the companies that supported "No on 37" to spend $45 million to defeat the bill. This record amount of expenditure by these companies made many people ask themselves, "Why are these big companies trying to hide what they put into our food system?"
And there's more good news. You can vote with your dollar every day. Buying USDA certified organic foods ensures that your family is not eating GE foods. According to the strict organic guidelines, foods labeled "certified organic" must be free from genetic engineering. The organic certification also goes much further than what Prop. 37 would have required. Organic meat, milk and eggs must come from animals that were not treated with GE hormones but were fed a diet that is free of GE ingredients.
Prop. 37 did not require a label on meat, milk and eggs. Alcoholic beverages were also exempt from Prop. 37. Another way to make sure you are getting safe, high-quality food is to look for the "Non-GMO Project Verified" label. You can visit the project's website at www.nongmoproject.org to find out which products, restaurants and retailers participate in the Non-GMO verification.
The war on GMO labeling has just begun in the U.S. More people are speaking out and demanding that GMOs are labeled. Twenty-three states are working on mandatory labeling laws and more than 1.3 million signatures are on the FDA petition demanding mandatory labeling. Help do your part by spreading the word and voting with your dollar.
To stay up to date on the latest food and nutrition news, or to get recipe ideas, check out Green BEAN Delivery's Healthy Times blog.
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Elizabeth Blessing is co-founder and chief nutritionist of Green BEAN Delivery. Originally from Noblesville, Ind., Elizabeth has a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Indiana University and a Master of Science in Nutrition from Bastyr University. After graduating from Bastyr, she worked as a nutrition educator for Washington State University King County Extension's Food $ense Program. While at Food $ense, she co-authored nutrition education curriculum. Now Elizabeth is the on-site Nutritionist and a Food Service instructor at The Chef's Academy, the Indiana Business College's culinary school. Get her nutrition tips and recipes each week on the Healthy Times blog.
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Ping An's O2O Healthcare Service Arm Raises Half A Billion USD
by Eva Xiao May 20, 2016 Jun 7, 2020
Chinese O2O healthcare services startup, Ping An Health Cloud Co. Ltd., announced a hefty round of Series A funding on Friday.
The Ping An Insurance subsidiary raised $500 million USD, putting the company at a valuation of around $3 billion USD. The company did not disclose its investors, though it said that funds were sourced from "well-known overseas private equity funds and state-owned financial enterprises."
"The development of China's online healthcare industry is still in its early stages," said Tao Wang, the Chairman of Ping An Health Cloud, in an article by NetEase Finance (link in Chinese). "This round of funding will help Ping An Doctor (平安好医生) open the era of 'internet healthcare 2.0'."
Ping An Doctor is Ping An Health Cloud's mobile platform for healthcare-related services and products. Users can make doctor appointments through the app, pay for private online consulting, purchase medicine, find nearby pharmacies and hospitals, track how many steps they've taken, post pictures of their gym workouts, and more.
According to Ping An Insurance's annual financial report for 2015, Ping An Doctor has partnered with 40,000 external doctors and has about 30 million users. The app is similar to that of its biggest competitor, Tencent-backed WeDoctor (formerly Guahao). Last September, WeDoctor announced a $394 million USD round of Series C funding, following a $100 million USD round of funding from Tencent in 2014.
Launched in June 2015, Ping An Doctor is just one piece of Ping An Insurance's 'internet finance' ecosystem, which includes Ping An Haoche (Ping An Good Car, our translation), an automobile e-commerce services platform, and Ping An Haofang (Ping An Good House, our translation), a platform for crowdfunding, trading, renting, and obtaining loans for real estate property.
These internet finance businesses are a way to boost Ping An Insurance's customer base and encourage customer migration across the company's various businesses, such as insurance, banking, and asset management. Ping An Insurance also has a venture capital arm called Ping An Ventures, whose investments include Chinese e-commerce app Mogujie in 2015 and U.S biotech startup 20/20 GeneSystems in January.
A spokesperson from Ping An Health Cloud did not respond immediately for a comment.
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From Mars exploration to Earth conservation: alumni mentor Julius Lindsay helps physics students navigate career options
When asked how he developed an interest in physics, Faculty of Arts & Science alumnus Julius Lindsay laughs. "I was — am— a big Star Trek and Star Wars nerd," he says. "I've always been interested in math and science, but Grade 8 was a watershed year for me."
That year, his class participated in the Canadian National Marsville Program. Students studied space exploration and planned a trip to Mars, building models of habitats and human life-support systems. His group's research topic was nuclear fusion, and he was fascinated by the crossover he observed between complex NASA reports and Star Trek.
Lindsay's interest in science led him to U of T, where he double majored in physics and mathematics as a member of New College , graduating in 2006. In 2017, he returned to U of T as an alumni mentor.
"Coaching is one of my personal strengths, and I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career where I have valuable information to share," he says. "I wanted to give back and also feel more connected to the school."
One piece of advice he gives to all his mentees — "just get your foot in the door" — stems from firsthand experience. His first job after university was a clerical job at the Ontario Realty Corporation, where he'd previously worked as a summer student. Little did he know, the role would be the catalyst for his career in climate change.
Read the full story from A & S News here:
https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/mars-exploration-earth-conservation-alumni-mentor-julius-lindsay-helps-physics-students
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Double Sens (titre d'un jeu). Le jeu Double Sens date de 1984. Il a été conçu par la journaliste ludographe Joyce Duval. Voici quelques exemples du jeu Double Sens: Mange Homme est le Double Sens de Croque Monsieur, Sainte Voyelle est le Double Sens de Madonna (madone - A). Ce jeu a fait l'objet d'un dépôt à l'INPI et aux dessins et modèles.

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Q: make libre office calc stop converting columns in to formulas I have columns in a csv like this:
 "== 1:D2410, == 2:D2420"

When I import them with libre calc it turns them in to this:
 == A1:D2410, == A2:D2420

Which is horrible. These are not mathematical formulas. How do I turn this off? I have deselected every option under 'tools:options', 'tools:cell contents' I have tried importing as a .txt and trying to force any options that pop-up. Nothing..

A: When you open the csv file with LibreOffice, the "Text Import" dialog will pop up.  (If you do not get the "Text Import" dialog, please describe exactly how you are opening the file so we can point you to a different method.)  The bold heading third from the top is "Other Options".  Under this heading, check the box for "Quoted fields as text".  Then press "OK" to accept the import filter selections.  Now it will import your quoted fields as text.

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