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namespace ash {

class Desk;
class PersistentDesksBarContextMenu;

// The button with the desk's name inside the PersistentDesksBarView.
class PersistentDesksBarDeskButton : public DeskButtonBase {
 public:
  explicit PersistentDesksBarDeskButton(const Desk* desk);
  PersistentDesksBarDeskButton(const PersistentDesksBarDeskButton&) = delete;
  PersistentDesksBarDeskButton& operator=(const PersistentDesksBarDeskButton) =
      delete;
  ~PersistentDesksBarDeskButton() override = default;

  const Desk* desk() const { return desk_; }
  void UpdateText(std::u16string name);

 private:
  // DeskButtonBase:
  const char* GetClassName() const override;
  void OnButtonPressed() override;
  void OnThemeChanged() override;
  void OnMouseEntered(const ui::MouseEvent& event) override;
  void OnMouseExited(const ui::MouseEvent& event) override;

  const Desk* desk_;
};

// The base class of the circular buttons inside the persistent desks bar.
// Including PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton and
// PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton.
class PersistentDesksBarCircularButton : public views::ImageButton {
 public:
  explicit PersistentDesksBarCircularButton(const gfx::VectorIcon& icon);
  PersistentDesksBarCircularButton(const PersistentDesksBarCircularButton&) =
      delete;
  PersistentDesksBarCircularButton& operator=(
      const PersistentDesksBarCircularButton&) = delete;
  ~PersistentDesksBarCircularButton() override = default;

  // views::ImageButton:
  const char* GetClassName() const override;
  gfx::Size CalculatePreferredSize() const override;
  void OnThemeChanged() override;

 private:
  virtual void OnButtonPressed() = 0;

  const gfx::VectorIcon& icon_;
};

// A circular button inside the persistent desks bar or the desks bar in
// overview mode with kPersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsIcon. Clicking the button
// will open a context menu that can be used to send feedback or show/hide the
// persistent desks bar.
class PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton
    : public PersistentDesksBarCircularButton {
 public:
  PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton();
  PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton(
      const PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton&) = delete;
  PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton& operator=(
      const PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton&);
  ~PersistentDesksBarVerticalDotsButton() override;

 private:
  friend class DesksTestApi;

  // PersistentDesksBarCircularButton:
  const char* GetClassName() const override;
  void OnButtonPressed() override;

  void OnMenuClosed();

  std::unique_ptr<PersistentDesksBarContextMenu> context_menu_;
};

// A circular button inside the persistent desks bar with
// kPersistentDesksBarChevronDownIcon. Clicking the button will destroy the bar
// and enter overview mode.
class PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton
    : public PersistentDesksBarCircularButton {
 public:
  PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton();
  PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton(const PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton&) =
      delete;
  const PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton& operator=(
      const PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton&) = delete;
  ~PersistentDesksBarOverviewButton() override;

 private:
  // PersistentDesksBarCircularButton:
  const char* GetClassName() const override;
  void OnButtonPressed() override;
};

}  // namespace ash

#endif  // ASH_WM_DESKS_PERSISTENT_DESKS_BAR_BUTTON_H_

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Kern's profile as an emerging distribution hub soared with word Monday that e-commerce giant Amazon expects to build a nearly 2.5 million-square-foot distribution center employing up to 2,000 people near Meadows Field airport.
The plan, which had been shrouded in secrecy until it was confirmed by County Administrative Officer Ryan Alsop, raised hopes among local industrial property brokers and a senior government official that more large deals will follow as other retailers take notice of the county's relatively inexpensive real estate, available workforce and central location.
Using a business entity out of Atlanta and a locally based limited liability company, Amazon recently closed escrow on a 64-acre property inside the Landings Logistics Center LLC, a 138-acre business park a Bakersfield-based real estate partnership is developing in unincorporated Kern County just north of Merle Haggard Drive. Construction on the Amazon portion is expected to begin by year's end and the distribution center could open in the third quarter of 2019.
The new distribution center would be Kern's largest, topping the 1.7 million-square-foot building Ross Dress for Less owns and operates in Shafter.
Amazon did not respond to a request for comment Monday.
News of Amazon's four-story "fulfillment center" follows two other recent distribution deals: L'Oreal USA's plan to relocate its Valencia distribution center to the Tejon Ranch Commerce Center, and a move by Ross to lease a 1 million-square-foot warehouse near its existing center in Shafter.
Bakersfield real estate broker Barry Hibbard called the Amazon project "great validation for the overall community," as distribution work continues to reduce Kern's economic dependence on oil and agriculture. While such jobs don't pay as well as oil work does — most jobs at the Amazon center aren't expected to pay more than $15 per hour — Hibbard expects the new positions will come with competitive health-care and other employment benefits.
Lorelei Oviatt, director of the county's Planning and Natural Resources Department, said she didn't know until a few weeks ago that the proposal she and her staff were reviewing originated with Amazon. But now that she knows, she expects it will attract additional investments in Kern from large retailers, as she said happened after the company opened distribution centers in Fresno and Tracy.
Oildale resident Mark Mitchell was less enthusiastic. He travels Merle Haggard Drive to his job at a gas plant further west and complained that the road's heavy use by tractor-trailers has taken a toll.
Utilities have already been installed and road work has been done at the future distribution site, said ASU Commercial Senior Vice President Steve Adams, who represented the Amazon property's sellers, C&C Properties Inc., JEC Panama LLC and Wings Way LLC. He said the final asphalt will be poured within 45 days.
Adams added that work on the business park was delayed by the discovery of a petroleum pipeline beneath the property. The developers bought the property from Chevron in 2013 and didn't discover the pipeline until after the sale closed. The pipeline has since been removed.
He expressed hope the recent purchase — he declined to identify the buyer as Amazon, citing a confidentiality agreement he had signed — will "jumpstart" occupation of the rest of the Landings, which he said has many letters of intent from potential tenants but only one other signed deal.
Alsop, the county administrative officer, said the county was negotiating workforce development incentives with Amazon. He noted no financial incentives were used to bring the company to the county. A deal could be struck to use the rebates to incentivize the creation of more jobs in the new facility.
Cushman Wakefield's Ontario office and Cushman Wakefield's Bakersfield office represent the property's buyer. Agents-brokers for the buyer were Phil Lombardo at the Ontario Office and Wayne Kress in the Bakersfield office.


Poorly-managed landspreading of digestate onto a waterlogged field in County Durham has led to a fine of £20,000.
On 19 December, Whites Recycling Ltd, based in South Witham, Lincolnshire, pleaded guilty to breaching the terms of its environmental permit and to polluting a tributary of the river Tees. Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court sets costs and a victim surcharge at £4,430.


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A variety of organizations offer expertise, education, funding, archives, and other resources to assist with efforts to preserve and promote the natural heritage of Western North Carolina.
National Forests in North Carolina
The National Forests in North Carolina webpage provides information on recreational opportunities in the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests.
• Blue Ridge Parkway
• Carl Sandburg Home
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Rivers, Trails, and Conservation Assistance Program (RCTA) – The community assistance arm of the National Park Service, RTCA provides technical assistance to community groups and local, state, and federal government agencies for the conservation of rivers, preservation of open space, and development of trails and greenways.
W. Kerr Scott Dam & Reservoir
Operated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the authorized purposes of this Wilkes County reservoir are flood control, water supply, recreation and fish and wildlife management.
North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources
NCDENR is the lead stewardship agency for the preservation and protection of North Carolina's natural resources. NCDENR programs include air, water quality and public health protection, the lending of technical assistance to businesses, farmers, local governments and the public and encouraging responsible behavior with respect to the environment through education programs provided at DENR facilities and through the state's school system. Through its natural resource divisions, DENR works to protect fish, wildlife and wilderness areas.
• Division of Forest Resources
• Financial Assistance and Tax Credits
• North Carolina Educational State Forests
• North Carolina State Parks
• Office of Environmental Education
North Carolina State University – Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
The Commission's website is in-depth resource for information on hunting, fishing, boating, educational programs and other wildlife services.
Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education
The Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education is located in Pisgah Forest. Its programs and exhibits focus on the wildlife and habitats of North Carolina's Mountain region.
The Nature Conservancy is the leading worldwide conservation organization with a mission to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive.
North Carolina Chapter of The Nature Conservancy
Blue Ridge Forever
Blue Ridge Forever is a coalition of local land trusts engaging the public and raising funds to safeguard land and water – now and for future generations.
The Conservation Trust for North Carolina
The mission of this statewide conservation organization is to protect the state's land and water through conservation and cooperative work with land trusts to preserve the state's natural resources as a legacy for future generations.
Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust
The Blue Ridge Rural Land Trust is a non-profit land trust serving a seven county area of western North Carolina. Its mission is to preserve rural communities and culture in northwestern North Carolina through the preservation of the land resource upon which they depend.
Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy
The Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy, based in Hendersonville, NC, is a partnership of local people working to ensure that as the mountain region changes, important land is not lost forever.
Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina
A regional land trust based in Morganton, NC, the Foothills Conservancy is dedicated to working cooperatively with landowners and public and private conservation partners to preserve and protect important natural areas and open spaces of the Blue Ridge Foothills region.
Land For Tomorrow
A statewide partnership of conservationists, farmers, business leaders, local governments, health professionals and community groups working together to help the state reach its goal of conserving a million acres to preserve working farms and forests, sanctuaries for wildlife, land bordering streams, parks and greenways, land that helps strengthen communities and promotes job growth, historic downtowns and neighborhoods.
National Committee for the New River
This nonprofit organization has worked since 1974 to protect, preserve and restore the New River.
Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy
A volunteer-based organization, headquartered in Asheville, NC, SAHC works with individuals and local communities to identify, preserve and manage the region's important lands.

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The Princeton EDGE Lab
Chiang Bio
Visit and Contact
Smart Data Pricing
Social Learning Networks
MOOC and FLIP
Network20Q Book
3 Nights & Done
Committee Report
Prior Tech Transfers
DataMi
NITRD
Princeton Edge Lab 10th Conference
On May 17, 2019, an exciting conference will be held at Princeton on edge/fog computing: program and registration at http://www.edge10.princeton.edu
Chiang becomes Purdue Dean
On July 1, 2017, Mung Chiang joined Purdue University as the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering. Purdue Engineering is one of the largest in the nation and has always ranked in the top 10. He is also the Roscoe H. George Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue and maintains a visiting appointment at Princeton.
Mittal joins Princeton EDGE Lab
Prateek Mittal, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and a renowned expert in network security and privacy, has joined the Princeton EDGE Lab. He is now the Principal Investigator of EDGE Lab facilities and co-advises multiple postdocs and students in the lab.
Fog World Congress
The inaugural Fog World Congress, jointly organized by OpenFog Consortium, where Princeton EDGE Lab is a founding board member, and IEEE, will be held in Santa Clara, California, during Oct. 30 — Nov. 1, 2017: https://www.fogworldcongress.com
EDGE Lab Co-Chairs OpenFog Groups
At the annual election of OpenFog Consortium, members and alumni of Princeton EDGE Lab were voted to co-chair various Work Groups with colleagues from industry and universities around the world. Professor Sangtae Ha of University of Colorado co-chairs the Software Infrastructure Work Group. Dr. Maria Gorlatova co-chairs the Communications Work Group. Dr. Jaeyoon Chung co-chairs the Testbed Work Group.
Power of Networks Published
Dr. Chris Brinton and Professor Mung Chiang's book, "Power of Networks: Six Principles that Connect our Lives," was published by Princeton University Press in November 2016. This book provides easily acessible stories on the way that technological, economic and social networks work. It also contains interviews with leaders of networking industry: Vint Cerf, Bob Kahn, Eric Schmidt and Dennis Strigl. More information on the book site.
Chiang Co-Chairs Edge/Fog Conferences
Two major conferences are launching in the field of edge/fog computing/networking. Mung Chiang will co-chair the 2017 Fog World Congress technical program committee and the 2017 IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing.
Joe-Wong joins CMU faculty
Carlee Joe-Wong graduated in June 2016 and joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
Brinton receives Dissertation Award
Chris Brinton graduated in June 2016 and is the recipient of the Bede Liu Ph.D. Dissertation Award, given to one Ph.D. student a year in Princeton EE Department.
Chiang receives Distinguished Teacher Award
Mung Chiang receives the 2016 Princeton Engineering School Distinguished Teacher Award, an award given to one engineering faculty each year, for curriculum and pedagogy innovation.
Chiang gives plenary talks at various venues
Mung Chiang is scheduled to give plenary or invited talks at various venues in 2016. The one on SDP (smart data pricing) will be given at IEEE NOMS in April and UPS Distinguished Lecture at FDU in April. The one on Fog computing and networking will be given at IEEE WCNC in April, Wayne State U. Distinguished Lecture in April, IEEE 5G Summit in June, IEEE SECON in June, Asilomar Conference in November, and IEEE Globecom IoT Workshohp in December. The one on SLN (social learning networks) will be given at ICML Workshop on Machine Learning for Educational Learning in June and ASE International Conference on Data Science in August.
Princeton hosts Open Fog Consortium meeting
Open Fog Consortium, a global nonprofit industry-academia consortium, was launched at the end of 2015 with Princeton EDGE Lab as the only co-founding organization from academia. Princeton University will host its spring members meeting on campus, May 17-18.
Chiang and EDGE Lab help co-found Open Fog Consortium
Today a coalition of technology leaders, including ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft and the Princeton University Edge Laboratory have come together to form the Open Fog Consortium, a non-profit industry-academic consortium in the emergent trend of Fog Networking. Director of Princeton University Edge Laboratory and Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mung Chiang, is a co-founder and board member of the Consortium, which now opens its membership to industry and universities around the world. An overview of research opportunities in fog networking can be accessed here.
Joe-Wong receives Jacobus Fellowship
Carlee Joe-Wong, a Ph.D. student of Applied Mathematics in Princeton EDGE Lab, received the 2015-16 Jacobus Fellowship, the highest honor to graduate students at Princeton University given to one student each from the humanities, social science, science and engineering every year.
Chen and Dutta Joined Faculty
In July 2015, Jiasi Chen, a PhD student at the EDGE Lab, joined the faculty at the University of California, Riverside. Aveek Dutta, a postdoc at the EDGE Lab, joined the faculty at the University of Kansas.
PEC Established
Princeton Entrepreneurship Council, the new organization at the university to coordinate entrepreneurship programs, is established in July 2015. PEC is chaired by Mung Chiang and reports to the Provost.
2015 INFOCOM Best Paper Runner-up
The paper "On the efficiency of social recommender networks" by Felix Wong, Zhenming Liu and Mung Chiang received the 2015 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Runner-Up. The paper also received the Yelp Data Challenge 2014 Grand Prize.
SDP Industry Forum and Workshop
The Smart Data Pricing 2015 Industry Forum was held at Princeton University on April 9-10, where Paul Jacobs, Dennis Strigl and Henning Schulzrinne gave the Keynote speeches. The 2015 SDP Workshop at IEEE INFOCOM was held in Hong Kong on April 27. Dah-Ming Chiu gave the Keynote and two papers recede the Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs Best Paper in SDP.
Carlee Joe-Wong, a Ph.D. student in EDGE Lab, receives Jacobus Fellowship, an honorific fellowship provided to a small group of Ph.D. students during their last year of study at Princeton University.
SDP Industry Forum at Princeton
The second Smart Data Pricing Industry Forum will be held on April 9-10 at Princeton University. Co-organized by Princeton, Alcatel-Lucent and Qualcomm, the Forum features three Keynotes and four sessions of invited speakers.
Fog Workshop at IEEE SECON
The first workshop on Fog Networking for 5G and IoT will be held on June 22 in Seattle as part of IEEE SECON. The paper submission deadline is April 1.
Fog Networking MOOC Open
A Massive Open Online Course on Fog Networking and the Internet of Things is now open online.
Wong Wins Yelp Data Challenge Prize
Felix Wong, a fifth year PhD student at Princeton EE department, received the 2014 Grand Prize of the Yelp Data Challenge. The entry is based on the paper to appear at IEEE INFOCOM 2015: "On the Efficiency of Social Recommender Networks".
Chiang Named NJ CEO of the Year
Mung Chiang is named a New Jersey CEO of the Year 2014 (Non-Profit) by the New Jersey Technology Council, for his leadership as Director of Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education and Chairman of Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee in 2014.
SDP wins INFORMS Design Science Award
A Princeton EDGE Lab team consisting of Mung Chiang, Sangtae Ha (now Assistant Professor in CS, University of Colorado at Boulder), Soumya Sen (now Assistant Professor in Business School, University of Minnesota), and Carlee Joe-Wong received the 2014 INFORMS Information Science Society's Design Science Award, for their research, prototyping, and deployment of Smart Data Pricing (SDP) in the mobile industry.
Fog Networking Website Launched
Fog Networking, an architecture that uses one or a collaborative multitude of end-user clients or near-user edge devices to carry out a substantial amount of storage, communication, computation, and network management, has its first research website launched: http://fogresearch.org/.
Keller Center's New Website Unveiled
Princeton University's Keller Center runs entrepreneurship and education innovation programs at the university along four directions: Learn, Create, Explore, Engage. A completely revamped website is now launched: http://kellercenter.princeton.edu
SDP Website Updated
Smart Data Pricing innovates the way services are priced in mobile, broadband, cloud and IoT networks, including sponsored content and zero rating, time-, location- or congestion-dependent pricing, and application-based pricing. A website dedicated to SDP research is now updated: http://sdpresearch.org/.
MOOC Total Enrollment over 200,000
The networking courses offered by the EDGE Lab as massive open online courses have had over 200,000 people around the world enrolled in 2 years. The next offering will start in mid June, 2014.
Princeton Entrepreneurship Initiative
The Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee (PEAC) was formed in early 2014 to explore the vision, structures, and mechanisms of Entrepreneurship the Princeton Way. Chiang chairs the PEAC, which has launched an input-gathering website for everyone.
SDP Book to be Published
The first book dedicated to Smart Data Pricing (SDP) is being published by Wiley in July 2014. It consists of contributions from dozens of leading researchers across academia and industry to the area of SDP.
Cerf and Kahn Gave Public Lecture
Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn, two of the founders of the Internet, gave a public lecture at Princeton University organized by the EDGE Lab on March 18, in conjunction with a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the creation of the TCP/IP protocol. Their lecture video can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA6Ccg4sdXc.
Chiang Named a Guggenheim Fellow
Mung Chiang received a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship. The Fellowship is in its 90th year, and is based on "prior achievement and exceptional promise," in the three categories of Creative Art, the Humanities, and Natural and Social Sciences. Link to the list of Guggenheim Fellows: http://www.gf.org/fellows/current/.
Cambron Gave Keynote at SDP Workshop
Keith Cambron, the former President and CEO of AT&T Labs, gave the Keynote speech at the 3rd Smart Data Pricing workshop collocated with IEEE INFOCOM in Toronto, Canada, on May 2. The slides of his speech can be found here.
Chiang chairs PEAC
The Princeton Entrepreneurship Advisory Committee (PEAC) was recently formed by Provost Lee to explore the visions, structures, and mechanisms of entrepreneurship at Princeton. Chaired by Mung Chiang, PEAC consists of 20 members including faculty, staff, students, and alumni, and will be reaching out to various members of the Princeton community.
Chiang named Keller Center director
Starting March 31, 2014, Mung Chiang will become the Director of the Keller Center, which is center for programs in entrepreneurship and in education innovation on campus. The current Director of the Keller Center, Sanjeev Kulkarni, will become the Dean of Graduate School at Princeton.
Public outreach with PPPL
On March 8, 2014, Chiang gave a public talk at the Science on Saturday lecture series, an annual event organized by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory since 1984, on the subject of MOOC and MIIC: http://www.pppl.gov/education/science-education/programs/science-saturday-lecture-series
MOOC Data Study Released
In a paper led by Zhenming Liu at EDGE Lab, data on MOOC's social learning networks was collected and analyzed to study the effectiveness of discussion forums at Massive Open Online Courses. It received coverage from online media including the following: MIT Technology Review, Education News, Wall Street Journal
Cerf & Kahn Public Lecture
What: Fathers of the Internet reflecting on the evolution of the Internet. (and a celebration of the 40th anniversary of the invention of TCP/IP protocol for the Internet by Cerf & Kahn in 1974.)
Who: Vinton Cerf (Chief Internet Evangelist at Google) and Robert Kahn (CEO of Corporation for National Research Initiatives), whose pioneering work on the Internet has been widely recognized by numerous awards, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, the US National Medal of Technology, and the ACM Turing Award, will together give a public duet lecture on "Perspectives on the Internet and its Evolution."
When: March 12, 2014. 4:30-5:30pm. Seating starts at 4pm.
Where: Princeton University, Friend Center Auditorium 101.
Details: This is an open lecture to general public. No fee or ticket required. Seating available on first-come-first-served basis, and starts at 4pm. More information (including directions) on website.
NITRD Report Released
The National Information Technology R&D group's report on Complex Engineered Networks, co-edited by Chiang, has been released. [pdf]
Network Optimization at CISS
Every other year in the past 10 years, a track of invited sessions is organized as part of the Conference on Information Science and Systems at Princeton University. This year it will be held March 19-21 with a track of four invited sessions on Communication Network Optimization, Energy Network Optimization, Social Network Optimization, and Network Pricing Optimization.
Class and MIIC
"Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes" is offered as a Massive Open Online Course again this Fall semester: www.network20q.com. The course also features MIIC: Mobile, Integrated and Individualized Course mobile app.
Chiang is giving a speech on education information technology: "From MOOC to MIIC" at the 43rd Annual Frontiers in Education Conference where he will also receive the Terman Award from the American Society of Engineering Education.
DataMi Project spun out as startup
DataMi, a Smart Data Pricing (SDP) project originating from the Princeton EDGE Lab, closed the first round of financing from a venture fund, and is spun out as a startup company headquartered in Princeton. In addition, undergraduate projects from the Virtual Elevator event in 2012 have moved on to become startup companies, including SONAR for location tracking and DUMA for job matching in developing countries.
Wireless Lab launched
The Princeton EDGE Lab is expanded to Phase II, with an additional lab space where all wireless equipments are housed, including the recently acquired Azimuth MIMO channel emulator, Faraday chamber, WARP third generation, and white space equipment.
Sen joins Minnesota faculty
Soumya Sen, a postdoc at Princeton EDGE Lab, joined the faculty in the Information Systems Department of the Business School at the University of Minnesota, starting June 2013. Soumya worked on SDP and cloud at EDGE Lab.
New Course and Book
The new textbook: Networks Illustrated: 8 Principles without Calculus, coauthored by Chris Brinton (PhD student in EDGE Lab) and Mung Chiang, is ranking Number 1 among Networking books on Amazon during the first week of July 2013, and reached Top 5 of all Computer and Technology books on Kindle. The new textbook is inspired by MOOC teaching, and reaches out to anyone interested in networking principles without any background in math or in programming.
Chiang Named Doty Professor
Mung Chiang is named the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University starting July 2013. The Doty chair professorship was established in 1938, and the last holder of the Doty Professorship, from 1986 to 2010, was Daniel Tsui, the Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1998.
IEEE SECON Best Paper Award
A paper coauthored by Mung Chiang, his former postdoc Yung Yi (currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, Korea), and collaborators at Rice University, received 2013 IEEE SECON Best Paper Award. IEEE SECON is a premier conference in the areas of sensor and wireless networking, with an acceptance rate under 20%. The paper is entitled: "Making 802.11 DCF Near-Optimal: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation."
Chiang receives Terman Award
Chiang is selected for the 2013 Frederick Emmons Terman Award, an annual award given by the American Society of Engineering Education for contributions to education innovation including engineering textbooks.
A new free online course "Networks Illustrated: Principles without Calculus" is being offered for the first time as a short summer MOOC: https://www.coursera.org/course/ni. The corresponding textbook will become available on Amazon in late June 2013.
2nd EDGE Lab Open House
In May 2013, the Princeton EDGE Lab hosted the 2nd biannual open house, with participants from 30 different organizations and a full day program of presentations, demos, keynotes, and industry-academia panel. The videos are available at http://scenic.princeton.edu/openhouse2013/.
Chiang receives Waterman award
Mung Chiang receives the 2013 Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation. See the NSF announcement and Princeton University press release.
DataMi receives IP Acceleration Fund
DataMi, the network traffic management and Smart Data Pricing (SDP) project from Princeton EDGE Lab, receives the Princeton Intellectual Property Acceleration Fund to translate fundamental research into commercial deployment and societal impact.
Chiang gives AURP, FCC, EdTech talks
Mung Chiang gives a talk at the annual training of Association of University Research Parks on "Why is University Entrepreneurship Hard?", a presentation at FCC Technology Transition Workshop on "Wireless Network Evolution", and joins a panel at ASU-GSV annual Education Innovation Summit on "From MOOC to MOOE".
The First Adaptive Book Released
On Valentine's Day 2013, we unveiled the first-ever Integrated and Individualized BookApp (IIB).
Books have forever been following essentially the same format, even with eBooks, bookmarks, animations, and finger gestures. But shouldn't a book, in the form of a tablet app, learn how you learn and adapt accordingly? Shouldn't such a book app integrate a MOOC and remove the boundary between online learning and textbooks?
That's exactly what IIB does. It Integrates video, quiz, feedback, and social learning into the textbook (that's one "I") and adapts both the content and presentation of the chapter based on your Individualized learning need (that's another "I"). In fact, we cannot even call it "a" book anymore, as different people will actually be reading different versions of the book.
We're excited to announce that the first IIB, Chapter 3 of our textbook Network 20Q, is launching on February 14, 2013, as a free app to 100 students around the world.
Textbook wins PROSE Book Award
The textbook "Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers", which was developed together with the new Princeton undergraduate course "Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes" www.network20q.com and published by Cambridge University Press in September 2012, follows a Just-In-Time and interdisciplinary approach by asking 20 practical questions about the social, economic, and technological networks people use today. It is announced as the recipient of the 2012 PROSE Award in Engineering and Technology by the Association of American Publishers:
http://proseawards.com/current-winners.html
3 Nights and Done Launched
We're excited to launch the new (free and nonprofit) online learning platform 3 Nights and Done (3ND) on 2013.1.31.
Four of these 3-nighters have been released now, and in coming weeks we'll be releasing new 3-nighters on Thursdays. While new content are being created, new features for learning will be continuously added to 3ND platform too.
Between semester-long college courses and 15-min TED talks, there is a space that 3ND is filling with fun learning experience. Dive in this weekend, or any day or night, to the 3ND site:
www.3nightsdone.org
and 3 hours later you'll say to yourself: "I learned something interesting!" before you get to say "This is too much for me."
Enjoy learning. 3 Nights at a time.
Chiang speaks at NJTC Event
Chiang gave the luncheon keynote at the annual Regional Commercialization Conference organized by New Jersey Technology Council on December 6, 2012, on the topic of "University Entrepreneurship":http://www.njtc.org/events/comm12/home.html.
IEEE INFOCOM 2013 SDP
The Princeton EDGE Lab is co-organizing with Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs the Smart Data-Pricing (SDP) Workshop as part of the IEEE INFOCOM conference on April 19 in Turin, Italy: http://infocom.di.unimi.it/index.php/sdpwksp.html
The submission deadline is December 14.
MOOC and Flipped Classroom
The inter-disciplinary, just-in-time style undergrad course on networking has been offered as a massive open online course and its Princeton version seen the classroom flipped:
http://blog.sreducationgroup.org/2012/10/24/free-online-courses-moocs-to-help-your-career/
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/09/17/31126/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/massive-open-online-courses-are-multiplying-at-a-rapid-pace.html
Chiang speaks at LTE North America 2012
Chiang will speak at the major mobile tradeshow event in November to discuss Smart Data Pricing (SDP).
DataWiz App Heavily Downloaded
As part of the DataMi Project (www.datami.com), the consumer app DataWiz was launched on both iOS app store and Google Play (please add the two links here). As a Personal Bandwidth Assistant, it helps consumers manage their mobile data consumption. Its features are widely reported.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/oct/17/iphone-5-iphone
http://www.igen.fr/app-store/datawiz-surveille-votre-consommation-3g-au-quotidien-103187
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/datawiz-monitor-predict-data-usage-iphone/
http://www.appsmenow.com/questions/37227-DataWiz_-_Free_Mobile_Data_Management
http://www.iclarified.com/24817/datawiz-app-monitors-your-mobile-data-usage
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/092712-iphone-app-princeton-262844.html
http://asia.cnet.com/worried-about-the-data-cap-on-your-iphone-try-this-app-62218874.htm
http://dailyappshow.com/princetons-edge-lab-revamps-smartphone-data-usage-with-datawiz-on-ios
http://zatungames.com/princetons-edge-lab-revamps-smartphone-data-usage-with-datawiz-on-ios/
http://www.hi-techcentre.com/2012/09/28/worried-about-the-data-cap-on-your-iphone-try-this-app/
http://regator.com/p/257675822/princetons_edge_lab_revamps_smartphone_data_usage_with/
http://indigenouspeoplenet.blogspot.com/2012/09/free-iphone-data-usage-tracker-released.html
http://macbooks.pro/2012/09/27/princetons-edge-lab-revamps-smartphone-data-usage-with-datawiz-on-ios/
http://www.macworld.com/article/2010699/free-iphone-data-usage-tracker-released-by-princeton-lab.html
http://lifehacker.com/5947815/datawiz-is-a-complete-data-usage-tracking-tool-for-iphone
http://www.macworld.com.au/news/free-iphone-data-usage-tracker-released-by-princeton-lab-74586/
http://www.topappstoday.com/apps-finance/544544238/datawiz-free-mobile-data
http://www.groovypost.com/reviews/best-android-aps-of-week/
http://1hnews.com/datawiz-consumption-control-your-data-rate/15960/
http://apple.techerald.com/page/datawiz-controla-el-consumo-de-tu-tarifa-de-datos.html
The iOS app has been downloaded over 50,000 times within two weeks and reached at the peak number 6 among all the free finance apps.
Chiang chairs National IT R&D workshop
Chiang co-chairs the National Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), a program under the U.S. National Science and Technology Council, workshop on Complex Engineered Networks, held on September 20-21 in Washington DC. This invitation-based event drew about 20 participants from all federal funding agencies in the networking field, 20 from the networking industry, and 20 from academia: http://scenic.princeton.edu/NITRD-Workshop A report is being written based on the event.
Open online course attracts 42000 students
The undergraduate course "Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes" created by Mung Chiang is offered as an open online course in Fall 2012: https://www.coursera.org/course/friendsmoneybytes
Over 42,000 people worldwide have signed up for the course:http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2012/09/17/31126/
The lecture videos are also on YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Network20Q
Friend us at www.facebook.com/mung.chiang.5
Follow us @network20q
And check out the blogs on www.network20q.com
Chiang speaks at NYC Media Lab event
Mung Chiang talked about the wireless spectrum crunch, Jobs' inequality of capacity, and smart data-pricing at the Research Summit by New York City Media Lab on September 12.
Network 20Q Book published
"Networked Life: 20 Questions and Answers" by Mung Chiang has been published by Cambridge University Press in August 2012: http://www.amazon.com/Networked-Life-20-Questions-Answers/dp/1107024943 This is an undergraduate textbook on social, economic, and technological networks. At the time of its release, it became a bestseller both in Engineering and in Networking on Amazon.
Ha elevated to IEEE Senior Member
Dr. Sangtae Ha, the Associate Director of the Princeton EDGE Lab, has been elevated to be a Senior Member of the IEEE.
Smart Data Pricing Forum July 30-31
Princeton EDGE Lab is organizing and hosting the first Smart Data Pricing (SDP) Forum at Princeton University July 30-31. This event brings together industry leaders from major ISPs, content providers, and vendors in the U.S., as well as academic research pioneers from around the world, to discuss solutions to capacity crunch in mobile and broadband industries through pricing innovations. Whitepapers, industry standard drafts, and an edited volume will be published based on the Forum. This is part of the many community event across industry-academia-government in the field of Smart Data Pricing.
http://scenic.princeton.edu/SDP2012
EDGE Lab publication venues diversify
In 2012, EDGE Lab publications explore a few venues for the first time, including ACM Sigcomm, ACM Mobicom, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, ACM WOSN, and USENIX WebApps. Several of these papers include:
S. Ha, S. Sen, C. Joe-Wong, Y. Im, and M. Chiang, "TUBE: Time-dependent pricing for mobile data," Proc. ACM Sigcomm, August 2012.
E. Aryafar, M. Khojastepour, K. Sundare, S. Rangarajan, and M. Chiang, "MIDU: Enabling MIMO full duplex," Proc. ACM Mobicom, August 2012.
H. Inaltekin, M. Chiang, and H. V. Poor, "Delay of social search on small world graphs," Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 2012.
F. M. F. Wong, S. Sen, and M. Chiang, "Why watching movie tweets won't tell the whole story," Proc. ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Online Social Networks, 2012.
Chiang speaks at NJTC Mobile App Event
Chiang talks about Smart Data Pricing at the panel at the Mobile App Forum organized by New Jersey Technology Council on June 14. A related news article can be found at: http://princetoninfo.com/index.php?option=com_us1more&Itemid=6&key=6-13-12mobile
Network course free open access in Fall
The new undergraduate course at Princeton: ELE 381/COS 381: Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes, will be on the free open access platform coursera in September 2012. Anyone can sign up for free here: https://www.coursera.org/course/friendsmoneybytes
IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award
An EDGE Lab paper received the 2012 IEEE INFOCOM Best Paper Award: C. Joe-Wong, S. Sen, T. Lan, and M. Chiang, "Multi-resource allocation: Fairness-efficiency tradeoff in a unifying framework"
Media coverage of Twitter movie analysis
Wall Street Journal, Technology Review, Mashable, The Register (UK), Wall Street Cheat Sheet, MediaBistro,Business Insider, Heidi Cohen, ACM Tech News, Yahoo, NowPublic, Liquid Newsroom, RealClearScience,MarketingVOX, Lead Generation Formula, DzMind, Cinema Stars, Politico
Optimization of Networks at Princeton CISS
Continuing a tradition that started in 2006, a track of 3 days of invited sessions on Optimization of Networks will be included in the program of Conference on Information Sciences and Systems, held every other year in spring at Princeton University. This year's track consists of 34 invited talks by leading experts in the field from both academia and industry around the world, organized into six sessions: Network Optimization Foundations, Wireline Network Optimization, Wireless Network Optimization, Economic Network Optimization, Social Network Optimization, and Energy Network Optimization.
Chiang selected IEEE ComSoc DL
Chiang is selected as one of the IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturers for 2012-2013.
Chiang elected to be IEEE Fellow
http://www.ieee.org/documents/fellows_class_2012.pdf
Chiang ranked high in citation impact
According to Microsoft Academic citaton database, over the last 5 years, in the field of networking and communications worldwide, Chiang is ranked number 1 by all three mectrics: citation count , H index , and G index.
EDGE Lab receives NSF Grant
EDGE Lab receives NSF grant in the NeTS Program for 2011-2014. The project is on Internet and wireless network access pricing innovation, from new mathematical foundation to prototype implementation, and from empirical data analysis to industry adoption and trials.
20Q About Your Networked Life
A new undergraduate course has started at Princeton in September 2011: ELE381: "Networks: Friends, Money, and Bytes". The course innovates on the material of networking fundamentals, the pedagogical approach of Just In Time, and the course experience through online social networking. All course materials and student generated contents are posted at www.network20q.com. Follow @network20q to receive update tweets.
TUBE features in NECA EXPO
EDGE Lab's Internet pricing innovation, TUBE project will be featured in both the panel discussion and an exhibition booth at the annual EXPO of the US National Exchange Carrier Association in Chicago from Sept. 12 to 14, 2011.
Chiang receives IEEE Tomiyasu Award
The IEEE has announced the winners of the 2012 IEEE Awards. Mung Chiang is awarded the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, with the citation: "For demonstrating the practicality of a new theoretical foundation for the analysis and design of communication networks". The award's medal will be presented at IEEE INFOCOM in Orlando, Florida in March 2012.
Chiang promoted to Full Professor
EDGE Lab on University homepage
HP Funds Data Center Research
HP awards a two-year funding to Chiang and Rexford's joint work on traffic management in large scale data center that enables scalable cloud services.
Intel Funds Wireless Research
Intel awards a one-year funding to the EDGE Lab to study interference management architectures and optimization algorithms in cellular, WiFi, and femto wireless networks.
Schedule Optimizer v1.0 Released
Suppose you need to decide on a time to host a meeting with 50 persons. Not every person has to attend, but you have to take into account each person's availability at the different meeting time choices, and if he/she is available at a certain time, whether he/she prefers it. The Schedule Optimizer, developed in-house by Princeton EDGE Lab, aims to help you find the best time by balancing various constraints and objectives.
Scheduler link
EDGE Lab Open House Completed
EDGE Lab Research Featured in Princeton News
The research and education activities of Princeton EDGE Lab are recently presented at a feature article in Princeton E Quad News: http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/news/archive/?id=5103
EDGE Lab — SES Initiates Research Program
EDGE Lab is pleased to enter into a new research program with SES http://www.ses.com the world's largest satellite networking company: "How Can 42 Satellite Nodes Help 4 Billion IP Nodes on Earth". SES is the 12th external funding sponsor to the EDGE Lab.
TUBE awarded Vodafone Wireless Innovation Competition Finalist
The Time-dependent Usage-based Broadband-price Engineering project from the Princeton EDGE Lab: http://scenic.princeton.edu/tube is awarded as a finalist in the Vodafone Wireless Innovation Competition 2011.
EDGE Lab awarded in DARPA BLADE Program
The Princeton EDGE Lab joins a Lockheed Martin lead team in winning a 5-year large program by DARPA in reinventing the way RF systems in wireless networks is learned and used.
First Open House Announced
Chiang joins plenary panel at GLOBECOM
Chiang joins the plenary panel at IEEE GLOBECOM 2010 on 'Multimedia Communication and Networking'. The talk "Massive Multimedia: Bridging the Gaps" can be downloaded here.
WiOpt Conference 2011 at Princeton
The 9th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization of Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt) will be held at Princeton during May 9-13, 2011, together with 5 associated workshops. The General Chairs are Mung Chiang, Merouane Debbah, and Vince Poor:
http://scenic.princeton.edu/wiopt
Chiang gives plenary at SoCal NEGT
At the 2010 Southern California Symposium on Network Economics and Game Theory, Chiang delivers a plenary talk on "Pricing Internet Access: How to Engineer Your Monthly Bill":
http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm/pricingtalk.pdf
Chiang gives Plenary talk at MOPTA
At the 10th International Symposium on Optimization and Modeling (MOPTA), held at Lehigh University this month, Chiang gave one of the plenary talks, entitled "Optimization in Networking":
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/?page_id=54
Lan graduates and joins GWU faculty
Tian Lan, a graduate student in the lab, just received his Ph.D. and is joining the faculty of George Washington University this month as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering. Tian worked on network security, simplicity-driven design, and axiomatic theory of fairness during his Ph.D. study.
Chiang comments on Google-Verizon proposal
In the following article by Technology Review Magazine, Chiang was interviewed about the recent proposal by Google-Verizon on network neutrality:
http://www.technologyreview.com/business/25980/
Chiang delivers keynote at Telcordia meeting
At the Telcordia Strategic Research Review Meeting 2010, Chiang delivers a keynote address on "Optimization in Networking":
http://www.telcordia.com/news_events/pressreleases/2010/07282010.html
Chiang Delivers 15th Simon Stevin Lecture at KU Leuven
The Simon Stevin Lecture of Optimization in Engineering was established at K. U. Leuven, Belgium, honoring the Flemish mathematician and engineer. Mung Chiang delivers the lecture "Optimization in Networking" on July 15, 2010.
http://www.kuleuven.be/optec/event/stevin
EDGE Lab Receives 5-Year MURI Grant
A multi-university, inter-disciplinary team including the Princeton EDGE Lab receives the Army Research Office MURI grant for the proposal entitled "Measuring, Understanding, and Responding to Covert Social Networks". This is a 5-year project on analytic methodology and empirical data in the study of tomography of social networks of asymmetric adversaries.
Announcement link:
http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=13717
EDGE Lab Receives 5-Year NSF Grant
A multi-university team including the Princeton EDGE Lab receives an NSF grant in the Networking Technologies and Systems program for the proposal entitled "Architecting Manageable Interference for Next Generation Wireless Networks". This is a 5-year project on interference mitigation, management, and exploitation in wireless networks.
EDGE Lab Receives Google Grant
An inter-disciplinary team including the Princeton EDGE Lab receives a Google University Research Grant for the proposal entitled "Rethinking Wide Area Traffic Management". This project combines theory and implementation of optimization-based traffic engineering and congestion control in the Internet.
EDGE Lab Equipment Up and Running
Joint Whitepaper with NECA on National Broadband Plan Released
Press Release June 1, 2010
NECA-Princeton EDGE Lab Whitepaper on National Broadband Plan
Reports by:
Washington Watch
Benton Foundation
TR Daily
EDGE Lab seminars
Chiang delivers plenary panel speech at Infocom
Chiang delivered a plenary panel speech at IEEE Infocom Conference 2010 (slides and text).
Google Funds Data-Center Optimization Project
A team of researchers across EE and CS departments at Princeton (Martonosi, Chiang, Rexford, Freedman) receives a grant from Google on optimizing for performance-energy tradeoffs in large scale data-centers.
Socio-Technological Network research project profiled
Double Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom
The Princeton EDGE Lab researchers received two Best Paper Awards at IEEE Globecom Conference 2009 (seeGlobecom 2009 webpage for the complete information)
Best Paper Award in Communications and Information Security Symposium:
Tian Lan, Ruby Lee, and Mung Chiang, "Multi-path Key Establishment Against REM Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Hawaii, December 2009
Best Paper Award in Next-Generation Networking and Internet Symposium:
Aliye Ozge Kaya, Mung Chiang, and Wade Trappe, "P2P-ISP Cooperation: Risks and Mitigation in Multiple-ISP Networks", Proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Hawaii, December 2009
Chiang comments on wireless network neutrality
Princeton EE NEWS
Opening of the EDGE Lab
In an informal event, Chiang's research group together with some of the alumni and local industry sponsors got together on November 8, 2009 and kicked off the EDGE Lab with a half day research workshop. Some of the slides can be found below:
Opening of the EDGE Lab (Mung Chiang)
Load Spillage Power Control (Prashanth Hande)
P2P Global Streaming (Joe Jiang)
Sharing Mart Social Network (Hazer Inaltekin)
Utility Optimal CSMA (Mung Chiang on behalf of Yung Yi)
Future Plans: Part I (Hongseok Kim)
Future Plans: Part II (Sangtae Ha)


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CableLabs Releases The Near Future. A Better Place.
Toward the goal of advancing widespread adoption of virtual reality, CableLabs has joined the Virtual Reality Industry Forum. An article in CED Magazine elaborates on the motivations of the forum.


And his name is Brooklyn Beckham. Heard of him?
Big fashion campaigns are big deals shot by the biggest name photographers in the world. We're talking Mario Testino, Inez and Vinoodh, David Sims. Even late greats like Helmut Newton and Richard Avedon lensed more than a few. So it isn't very often that a newcomer lands one, especially not one for a global mega-brand. But that's exactly what's happening over at Burberry. Meet the relatively unknown, 16-year-old photographer at the helm of the British brand's latest fragrance campaign. His name: Brooklyn Beckham.
Beckham's body of work is relatively unknown in the business, at least outside of what lives on his surprisingly popular Instagram feed. (His signatures there include black-and-white selfies in a tiny elevator and photos of the practical jokes he plays on his really well-dressed dad.) In fact, his involvement with the Burberry campaign was announced on the social media platform, via a photo of him holding a camera. We still don't know how Burberry stumbled upon this apparent boy wonder, but the final work isn't half bad. It's almost like he's spent some time around big photoshoot sets like this before. Who knows, maybe that photogenic dad of his is a model or something?


Leaving this place is making my heart hurt.
Thank you, Italy. You've been so kind to us.
Last breakfast in Umbria made from the local fresh produce. Fresh eggs, cherry tomatoes, truffle oil and the lost goes on..


Nationals principal owner Mark Lerner said having the 89th All-Star Game at Nationals Park has been an event he will never forget and he is very proud of the way the organization planned, prepared and executed the event.
Lerner will especially remember Bryce Harper winning the Home Run Derby before the home crowd Monday night, 19-18, over the Cubs Kyle Schwarber.
Lerner hopes the emotional win for Harper, with his father Ron harper pitching, will be a jump start for the second half of the season. The Nats start the final 66 games of the regular season at .500, 48-48.
* Nationals first baseman Ryan Zimmerman played seven innings for Double-A Harrisburg Tuesday night. He hit a home run in the first inning and finished 1-for-3 with a walk, a run scored and an RBI. The Senators reported it was a 408-foot blast over the left field fence.
Senators manager Matt LeCroy said Zimmerman looked good at the plate and in the field.
Manager Davey Martinez told reporters pregame Tuesday he expects Zimmerman to be activated for Friday's series opener against the Atlanta Braves.


We will not be taking any waste education bookings for preschools, schools and community groups during January 2018 due to the change in Councils waste and recycling contractor.
Please return to the website during February 2018 for information on new education services being provided as the new contract begins.
Interested in your students finding out more about recycling and waste on the Central Coast? A Remondis Education Officer can visit your school or you can attend our site as part of an excursion. For details or to book an excursions see below. For information on incursions click here.
A visit to the REMONDIS education facility will enable students to understand what items can and cannot be placed within each of the 3 bins, what happens to recycling, garden vegetation and general waste after it has been collected and the benefits of recycling and reducing the amount of waste sent to landfill.
Who should come on an excursion?
Excursions are free of charge and are suited to Stage 2 or 3 Primary School, or High School students. Our excursions are particularly relevant for Stage 5 Geography students. Please refer to our incursion program below for Stage 1 students.
Excursions are held between 9am and 12pm Monday to Friday. Each session will take approximately 1 hour.
The education facility can hold approximately 30 students at a time. If more students are attending they will need to be split into groups with 30 students visiting the education facility and other students going offsite. Somersby Falls and Kariong Eco Garden are nearby excursion venues. A visit to Kariong Eco Garden can be arranged as part of your excursion.
REMONDIS Education Facility is located at 75 Pile Rd Somersby.
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If you are interested in booking an excursion, please fill out the form below or contact the Education Officers on 0243 363 121.
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If you are interested in booking an incursion, please fill out the form below or contact the Education Officers on 0243 363 121.


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Sports March 11, 2015
Junior Josh Thomson will take aim at a national title from the 174 lb. weight class for Messiah at this weekend's National Championship. (photo by GoMessiah)
Jake English
"The Giant Center is the heart of Pennsylvania wrestling…and I have unfinished business there."
These words of determination come from junior Messiah wrestler Josh Thomson. Thomson is the third out of four national qualifiers for Messiah's wrestling team, and will be competing in the 174-lb. weight class for the Division III National Championship at the Giant Center in Hershey on Mar. 13-14.
Thomson has been wrestling since he was five years old because of his older brother's influence. From wrestling, he gained strong work ethic, discipline, and mental toughness. His passion for the sport is beyond compare.
He comes from Mechanicsburg High School, a school known for having tough wrestlers. In his high school career, Thomson placed fourth in the Pennsylvania State Wrestling Tournament at the Giant Center. This time, he is reaching for much more.
There is no other way to say it: Thomson is a workhorse. The work ethic he found in wrestling has developed into a love for exercise, fitness, and nutrition. He is currently majoring in applied health sciences, and he spends a great deal of his free time reading articles about nutrition and how to improve the body's performance. Thomson's hope is to make a career out of this passion as a personal trainer or something in the health field.
Messiah became an option for Thomson after he met Head Coach Bryan Brunk.
"I was not a Christian before I met Coach Brunk. He opened my eyes to Jesus and what a relationship with Him means," he says.
Josh mentions that Coach Brunk is a father figure to him, and he is very glad to be on the Messiah wrestling team. He has learned what it means to wrestle for God and has come to love his teammates.
"I could ask for a better group of guys to wrestle with." Thomson adds.
The past two years, Thomson has dominated on the mat at the 184-lb. weight class, earning All-American status by placing third in Division III his freshmen year, and fourth his sophomore year. This year, he has dropped down to the 174-lb. class, and is determined to finish his business by claiming a National Championship in the Giant Center this weekend.
Thomson and the other three Messiah wrestlers featured this week by The Swinging Bridge will be in action at the NCAA National Championships on Mar. 13-14 at the Giant Center in Hershey.
Rescheduled Senior Showcase date set for Thursday


I love TV. I love Top Chef and Shark Tank. I love Homeland and Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. I love Key & Peele and reruns of Seinfeld. Like the great majority of U.S. households, my family and I watch a lot of TV. The medium is strong but it is evolving. And I believe short-form video can play an important role for TV networks.
Short-form video often gets treated as an afterthought by content companies, but that's short-sighted. I've done extensive research on short-form video. Lots of people are watching short-form video. These viewers are watching a lot of TV and they are social and influential, making short-form video a potentially powerful marketing tool. And creating and distributing short-form video would be relatively easy for most media companies.
In my research, I aimed to quantify the short-form viewing habits of 18-54-year-old TV viewers (for this study, short-form video is defined as 15 seconds or less). After analyzing over 167,281 data points of quantified information using my patented online research tool, I'm convinced that short-form video is broadcast and cable TV networks' No. 1 underutilized marketing and original content format. It doesn't have to be.
Who are the most avid short-form video viewers? They're 33% of the total sample who say they watch short-form video "all the time." It's not all they watch. But that's the enthusiastic response they give when asked.
These heavy viewers of short-form video are mostly men—115 index male—but surprisingly they aren't concentrated in the youngest demo. I found that 54% of them are 25-34 year olds, 26% are 35-44 year olds and 6% are 45-54 year olds. Only 14% are in the young 18-24 demo.
As for their television viewing, 62% of these avid short-form video viewers watch regular TV, and on average they watch a lot.
They watch the broadcasting networks: ABC (56%), CBS (44%), Fox (44%) and NBC (35%).
But maybe the most intriguing fact is they are above-average watchers of every one of the 49 broadcast and cable TV networks in the study. The networks where their viewing indexed highest were: Sundance Channel (175), MSNBC (172), Destination America (170), TV Guide Network (167), Style (160), Animal Planet (159), WE tv (159), CNBC (157), Sprout (156), MTV (153), Golf (152), GSN (148), DIY (145), Oxygen (145) and National Geographic Channel (142).
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But the creativity doesn't stop with clips. TV marketers can use short-form video in many more storytelling ways: to dimensionalize characters, tell back stories, tease story lines or give insider, behind-the-scenes peeks. All of these content ideas over-index with avid short-form video viewers.
Most importantly, these avid viewers also happen to share video content more than anyone else (242 index) and are brand influencers as well, recommending brands, products and services much more than anyone else (190 index). They can act like Sherpas, leading the way across this evolving TV media landscape. I believe these avid short-form video viewers may be the most important viewers for TV networks to retain and grow.
Ciosek owns Bold Studios, a strategic and creative consulting firm for media agencies, media platforms and brands. Clients include Initiative, IAC, the New York Post, CNBC and Yahoo, among others.


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HomeLocal NewsTB Joshua to visit Zim
TB Joshua to visit Zim
Speculation is rife in Zimbabwe that prominent Nigerian tele-vangelist Prophet Temitope Balogun (TB) Joshua is set to visit Zimbabwe as early as next week.
The prophet reportedly told his congregation during last Sunday service broadacast on his
Emmanuel Television that he was 'headed for a troubled African country'.
Unconfirmed reports this week said TB Joshua was scheduled to meet with President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and that he was in the process of acquiring
land in Ruwa, giving credence to suggestions that he was likely to open a church branch in Zimbabwe.
According to a notice published in the local Press recently the TB Joshua-led Synagogue, Church of All Nations (Scoan) sent proposals to Ruwa Town Board seeking to purchase land.
President Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba however said yesterday he was not aware of TB Joshua's planned visit to Zimbabwe.
"I am not aware of that and I have no reason to be aware because I don't speak for him," Charamba said. "I don't even know him. I know President Mugabe."
He then suggested it was probably the MDC-T that was bringing TB Joshua to Zimbabwe. "It's the MDC-T that's bringing him. You think we don't know? Check with them," said Charamba.
MDC-T organising secretary Nelson Chamisa, however, dismissed the claims saying he was in the dark about such plans.
On Sunday, TB Joshua said he would soon visit a "troubled country" on the continent and meet its President. Harare wasyesterday already abuzz with speculation on the prophet's visit.
Zimbabwe is battling political and economic challenges ahead of looming elections which many fear could be bloody unless Sadc recommended reforms were implemented with speed.
In response to an enquiry from NewsDay via Emmanuel TV , Scoan said: "Presently the prophet has no plans of coming to Zimbabwe" and if there were such plans in future, they will be announced on Emmanuel Television channel.
Sources, however, said prior to the Sunday announcement, there was already word making the rounds about TB Joshua's planned Zimbabwe visit.
Another source said she understood the inclusive government was trying to bring TB Joshua to Zimbabwe for a prayer meeting.
"I am told that he was invited by the GNU. They were trying to invite him for a combined prayer meeting so if they are denying it, probably the negotiations failed because I don't see (President) Mugabe agreeing to something like that," she said.
Scores of well-to-do Zimbabweans have recently visited TB Joshua's church in Nigeria.
Tsvangirai was there two years ago reportedly to seek spiritual guidance. In the same year, former Marondera West Zanu PF MP Tracy
Mutinhiri and Zanu PF Politburo member and Women's League boss Oppah Muchinguri also visited the church.
Zimbabwe Football Association president Cuthbert Dube, formerly wheel-chair bound, is now able to walk after attending one of Scoan's healing sessions.
TB Joshua early this year foretold the imminent death of an ageing African leader, an oracle that apparently came true with the sudden death of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika.
TB Joshua has also predicted the death of pop star Michael Jackson, the resignation of Pakistan's former President Pervez Musharraf and election of Ghanaian President John Atta-Mills.
He also prophesied the fall from grace of Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo and Ivory Coast football team's defeat by Zambia in this year's
Africa Cup of Nations final in Gabon.
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Agutayan Islet – Mindanao's new scuba diving destination
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – The provincial government of Misamis Oriental has found an ally in the development of a new diving spot in Mindanao for domestic and foreign tourists.
The Presidential Commission on Sports Scuba Diving (PCSSD) said that they would wait for the "formal proposal of an intent from the provincial government of Misamis Oriental and the regional office of the Department of Tourism (DOT) on the matter."
Executive Director Karen A. Chan, said that the PCSSD as an attached agency of the DOT, would be willing to hold an exploratory assessments of the Agutayan Islet in order that the DOT would sanction the islet's surrounding waters as a diving spot.
The crescent moon-shape Agutayan Islet, a 30-minute boat ride from the shoreline of the mainland town of Jasaan, east of Misamis Oriental, is a 5,000 square meters sandbar that shines like a myriad of white crystals amid the Macabalan Bay during ebb tide.
The provincial government has declared the Agutayan Islet and its surrounding three-hectare coastal waters as a marine sanctuary to serve as the breeding ground of endangered giant clams, seeded by the local government in the area.
Chan said that the PCSSD has shown interest in the islet after reading reports that the surrounding waters is home of the extinct "Thresher Sharks" and two species of stingrays previously endemic only off the waters of Cebu.
The Thresher Shark, known as the "Alopias Vulpinu" or "Fox Shark," is "lahoy" in vernacular. Its name comes from the sharks unusually large tail (caudal fin), which, in most cases, is as long as the shark itself.
Chan said that through the efforts of the Commission, a so-called new touring road in the area would fast track the ferrying of tourists to and from a new developing diving spot in Surigao Del Norte.
She said that the only known diving destinations recommended by PCSSD are located in Camiguin, Davao, and Tawi-tawi.
Last week, provincial Governor Yevgeny Vincente B. Emano, of Misamis Oriental, disclosed a plan to develop the coastal town of Jasaan into a comprehensive tourism destination in the future.