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/* TEMPLATE GENERATED TESTCASE FILE
Filename: CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67a.c
Label Definition File: CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc.label.xml
Template File: sources-sinks-67a.tmpl.c
*/
/*
 * @description
 * CWE: 789 Uncontrolled Memory Allocation
 * BadSource: fscanf Read data from the console using fscanf()
 * GoodSource: Small number greater than zero
 * Sinks:
 *    GoodSink: Allocate memory with malloc() and check the size of the memory to be allocated
 *    BadSink : Allocate memory with malloc(), but incorrectly check the size of the memory to be allocated
 * Flow Variant: 67 Data flow: data passed in a struct from one function to another in different source files
 *
 * */

#include "std_testcase.h"

#ifndef _WIN32
#include <wchar.h>
#endif

#define HELLO_STRING "hello"

typedef struct _CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType
{
    size_t structFirst;
} CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType;

#ifndef OMITBAD

/* bad function declaration */
void CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67b_badSink(CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType myStruct);

void CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_bad()
{
    size_t data;
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType myStruct;
    /* Initialize data */
    data = 0;
    /* POTENTIAL FLAW: Read data from the console using fscanf() */
    fscanf(stdin, "%ud", &data);
    myStruct.structFirst = data;
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67b_badSink(myStruct);
}

#endif /* OMITBAD */

#ifndef OMITGOOD

/* goodG2B uses the GoodSource with the BadSink */
void CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67b_goodG2BSink(CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType myStruct);

static void goodG2B()
{
    size_t data;
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType myStruct;
    /* Initialize data */
    data = 0;
    /* FIX: Use a relatively small number for memory allocation */
    data = 20;
    myStruct.structFirst = data;
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67b_goodG2BSink(myStruct);
}

/* goodB2G uses the BadSource with the GoodSink */
void CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67b_goodB2GSink(CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType myStruct);

static void goodB2G()
{
    size_t data;
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_structType myStruct;
    /* Initialize data */
    data = 0;
    /* POTENTIAL FLAW: Read data from the console using fscanf() */
    fscanf(stdin, "%ud", &data);
    myStruct.structFirst = data;
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67b_goodB2GSink(myStruct);
}

void CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_good()
{
    goodG2B();
    goodB2G();
}

#endif /* OMITGOOD */

/* Below is the main(). It is only used when building this testcase on
   its own for testing or for building a binary to use in testing binary
   analysis tools. It is not used when compiling all the testcases as one
   application, which is how source code analysis tools are tested. */

#ifdef INCLUDEMAIN

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
    /* seed randomness */
    srand( (unsigned)time(NULL) );
#ifndef OMITGOOD
    printLine("Calling good()...");
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_good();
    printLine("Finished good()");
#endif /* OMITGOOD */
#ifndef OMITBAD
    printLine("Calling bad()...");
    CWE789_Uncontrolled_Mem_Alloc__malloc_char_fscanf_67_bad();
    printLine("Finished bad()");
#endif /* OMITBAD */
    return 0;
}

#endif

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My Summer Hit List
Автор ged, 28 май 2005 14:29:32
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Отправлено: 28 Май 2005 - 14:29:32
Stephen King predicts the summer's big blockbusters. See how he ranks ''Star Wars,'' ''War of the Worlds,'' and ''Madagascar'' by Stephen King
My crystal ball has been partly cloudy this year. While I did pick the 50-1 Kentucky Derby winner (you'll just have to take my word on that), I didn't have any money on the damn thing, and when it comes to how I did in EW's in-house Oscar pool...don't ask. Let's just say I was right about the Best Picture and leave it at that.
So when I rashly promised to pick the big box office winners and losers of the 2005 summer season, I knew I needed help, but not from any of the traditional box office prognosticators; they're the ones who dropped the ball on Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Napoleon Dynamite, and The Passion of the Christ (ow, that must have hurt). Nope, on May 16 of this year — three days before the official wide release of Star Wars III kicks off the summer movie season — I went to the man I trust the most when it comes to predicting cinematic success and failure, the guy who's almost never wrong.
Shane Leonard grew up going to the movies with my kids and still never misses a major release or a minor chopsocky flick. In the old days he was known in the neighborhood as The Longhair. Well, you know how that usually turns out — he finally had to visit one of the local head-choppers in order to get a damn job — but to me Shane will always be The Longhair, Peerless Guru of Movie Success, and I went to him like Luke Skywalker goes to Yoda.
''Longhair,'' I said. ''Make me an EW hero. Pick the summer's winners.'' And he did. It took him, I'm gonna say, five minutes. I concur with most of his choices, although I had some quibbles.
And so, without further ado: The Longhair (with some help from Steve) picks the summer's box office winners:
1. Star Wars III It's a no-brainer, dude, even though I am writing this before the debut...but watch grosses drop like a crippled TIE fighter after the second weekend.
2. War of the Worlds This remake is going to rock the house...and the cash registers. The world has been waiting for Spielberg to do bad aliens, and Spielberg is going to give the people what they want. Having Tom Cruise on board won't hurt.
3. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory The Longhair says Johnny Depp will appeal to both the kids and the mommies. I agree.
4. Batman Begins Like most early-thirtysomethings, The Longhair thought the last couple of Batman movies blew (and Catwoman — let's not even go there), but he's psyched for this one, and believes younger moviegoers will turn out in droves. I agree. A brilliant trailer hasn't hurt. Igor says, ''Master, the Batman franchise is alive!''
5. Fantastic Four The Longhair says it'll fly, especially with sweet positioning post-Star Wars and about 10 days after War of the Worlds. I'm not so sure, but The Longhair seems positive. And with Michael Chiklis as the Thing, I'm certainly pulling for it.
6. The Longest Yard The prisoners play the guards; Adam Sandler leads the charge. This looks like a winner, and for Sandler's sake, it better be. When funny guys cool off, it happens scary-fast. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Dan Aykroyd, case closed. The Longhair says no sweat this time, Adam.
7. Must Love Dogs This is my pick for the summer's dark-horse surprise. The Longhair is doubtful, but I think John Cusack is poised to become the American Hugh Jackman...only funnier and sexier, because us Yanks still do everything more -er.
8. Land of the Dead The final film in George A. Romero's Dead Quartet (not to be confused with Paul Scott's Raj Quartet). Good or bad, it should succeed splendidly, because — let's face it — summer wouldn't be summer without flesh-eating zombies.
Other projected winners: Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (''Same ho, new lo'') and Dark Water (more Ring-style PG-13 horror for the junior-high/Harry Potterset).
When it comes to predicting hits, my friend's success rate is high. When it comes to predicting misses, however, The Longhair is awesome. I was surprised by some of his picks for summer losers, but when you think about it (a thing movie people don't do a lot of, possibly feeling it encourages hair loss), most make a fair amount of sense.
Madagascar is a word nobody can spell, about a place nobody's been, featuring more funny cartoon animals nobody's going to want to see — clank! The Island looks like warmed-over Survivor, and Stealth looks like reheated Top Gun with a malevolent HAL 9000 computer thrown in for good measure — clunk! Bewitched has that horrible pawed-over squad-of-writers feel to it; if this year's going to have a Stepford Wives, this is it. The Pink Panther doesn't look like the real deal; neither does Herbie: Fully Loaded. And, according to The Longhair, the summer's worst idea: adapting The Dukes of Hazzard for the big screen.
Those are our picks; write 'em down. If we hit it out of the park, someone owes us a chicken dinner. Of course, it's faintly possible that we might screw up. In that case, we'll be eating the bird associated with Thanksgiving. Side by side with summer's big-budget failures.
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#2 Blacky
Войну миров сам жду с радостью и нетерпением. А что такое пункты 6 и 7?
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Many writers, like the late Mary Oliver, encourage us to go outdoors. It is a place of enlightenment, they say, a place of ordinary things holding wondrous insights. This chapbook, Natural Wonder, records the power of nature to shape and deepen a writer's sensibilities. It happens in a direct way as the opening section of poems show – we see something so beautiful we try to capture it in words so it might stay with us. But nature forms us and our imaginations in other ways so we are more wide awake to places, people, events, memories, fears, and aspirations. Almost all the other poems in Natural Wonder carry in some way the influence of walks in Crosby Nature Preserve near my St. Paul home or biking the trails along the Mississippi River. The fleeting states of wonder that present themselves in these experiences expand my vocabulary and help me name something that before seemed unnameable. Natural Wonder also finds its way along cycles of life and death that defy fatalism and carry, if only in small sparks, the flicker of hope.
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Coming home to the humble and familiar way of slow change is the theme of the title poem and this collection, Ice Break. Like frozen top waters just beginning to crack and thaw, we depend on moments of sunshine and warmth or pressure and collision to help the process of change along. As lake ice melts, it does not go quietly. It rumbles and cracks, bit by bit, until it sinks into warmer waters or blows in sheets toward shore. Such are the realities of slow change as I know them—not smooth and comfortable but movements leaning in Spring's direction. Every poem in this collection offers one more example, a single low-pulsed boom or some small melting toward greening shores.
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The air was polluted for three miles in any direction from the Asarco smelter plant, which was near the U.S.–Mexican border in El Paso, Texas.
The Smelter Cemetery sits high atop a desert arroyo between Interstate 10 and the Mexican border in El Paso. Its wind-worn wooden crosses are almost all that remain of a community that sprang up more than a century ago next to an Asarco lead smelter on the banks of the Rio Grande.
The stone-pile graves bear testament to the history of this place called Smeltertown. At one time it was a village of more than 2,500 people, most of them Mexican immigrants who built their lives on company land in the shadow of the smelter's smokestacks that would poison their air, their land, and their children. And almost as soon as the contamination became known in the 1970s, the community of Smeltertown was erased: its buildings demolished, its people forced out.
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Seminal research done on Smeltertown in the 1970s by the Centers for Disease Control found that 62 percent of children 10 and under living within one mile of the smelter had blood lead levels considered to be "evidence of undue lead absorption." The residents of Smeltertown would be the first American community to face the grim prospect of lead exposure and its consequences—but they wouldn't be the last. The communities of Flint, Michigan, the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana, and the schools in Newark, New Jersey, are just three of the most recent examples. But the CDC estimates that at least half a million children in the United States have elevated blood lead levels—and many of them may not even know it.
The American Smelting and Refining Company owned a smelter in El Paso that, starting in 1910, refined hundreds of thousands of tons of lead and copper harvested from its mines in Mexico. It did so with the help of "an army of Mexican contract workers," according to University of Houston associate professor of history Monica Perales in her book Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community.
Mexican workers who labored in Asarco mines began migrating north, lured by that new operation on the U.S. side of the border. Many settled on company land below the foothills of Mt. Cristo Rey. In the early years of the 20th century, Smeltertown lay outside El Paso city limits, a few miles from the city's downtown. Divided into an upper section, El Alto, where the Anglo managers lived, and a lower section, El Bajo, where the Mexican workers lived, Smeltertown had its own post office, butcher shop, bakery, cantinas, a theater, San José Catholic parish, a YMCA, a public elementary school, and the Smelter Vocational School.
Smeltertown was a quintessential company town, in which the company could be both benefactor and tyrant. Former residents say Asarco paid well, better than many other employers of the working class. And yet poverty in Smeltertown could be extreme. Residents built and invested in their homes, but the company owned the land; few families could afford cars; many relied on outhouses into the 1960s. "As in other single-industry towns, Smeltertown's residents fashioned their own way of life in the world the company made, one marked by inequality, racial segregation, and corporate paternalism," Perales writes. The community would flourish for 70 years under the plumes of the smelter's twin smokestacks, ignorant of the pervasive danger.
In March 1971, a team of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers from the CDC arrived to investigate lead exposure connected to the Asarco smelter.
Landrigan and the CDC team first looked at whether environmental contamination would be reflected in human blood lead levels over three months. The results were startling: Although they found no cases of overt lead poisoning, 43 percent of people in all age groups and 62 percent of children 10 and under living within one mile of the smelter had blood lead levels of at least 40 micrograms per deciliter. That's eight times the level at which the CDC recommends a full-fledged public health response today.
Landrigan quickly followed up with a second study in Smeltertown in 1972, examining the health consequences of lead exposure in children. The CDC team administered IQ tests and a finger-tapping test of physical reflexes to the Smeltertown kids with elevated blood levels; a control group of children with blood lead levels below 40 micrograms per deciliter was also tested. The study found that children with elevated blood lead levels tested as many as seven points lower on the IQ test than the control group; they also showed much slower reaction times on the physical reflexes test.
Cecilia Flores Marquez's three youngest children, aged two to five back in 1971, tested positive for elevated blood lead levels during Landrigan's study.
This is what scientists now know: Lead in the air or in dust, paint, or fumes can work its way into the human body. In children, lead can permanently damage the brain and nervous system. It can slow a child's growth and development. It can cause learning, hearing, speech, and behavior problems. Studies—the Smeltertown study being among the first—have linked early-childhood lead exposure to reduced IQ, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, juvenile delinquency, and criminal behavior, according to the CDC.
Landrigan notes that the consequences of early-childhood lead exposure can be moderated by educational enrichment, something that may not be readily available in poor communities with fewer opportunities and resources.
Asarco fought hard against the notion that the elevated blood lead levels in Smeltertown had anything to do with the smelter, or that lead exposure was harming children's development, according to Perales.
The company claimed that elevated blood lead levels were caused by lead paint and gasoline emissions. It commissioned its own parallel study of the health effects in children and found no evidence of IQ loss. But the findings by the health department and Landrigan's CDC team contradicted the company's. The closer to the smelter the sample, the higher the concentrations of lead in the air, dust, and soil; human blood levels mimicked that pattern. And Landrigan's findings on the children's IQ and physical reflexes were irrefutable.
As part of the settlement, the city and Asarco decided Smeltertown would be demolished, its residents forced to relocate. In October 1972, according to Perales—not two years after the lead studies began—eviction notices went out to all Smeltertown residents ordering them to clear out of their homes by January 1.
Everything that made up Smeltertown—every home and shop—would be bulldozed. Everything but the smelter itself, which would run for another 26 years.
To truly understand how the discovery of lead, and the decision to demolish the town, affected the people of Smeltertown, one must first understand how much the place meant to them. For many generations, Smeltertown had provided all the charms of small-town life: a seemingly safe place to raise children, where everyone knew their neighbors, practically everything was within walking distance, and all the men could find a good-paying job at the smelter.
The way Smeltertown residents tell it, says Rubén Escandon, life in Smeltertown was "so simple, so pure." Escandon has been collecting oral histories about the town for years from his own relatives and others as a member of the committee that protects Mt. Cristo Rey and the giant white cross Smeltertown residents erected at its peak.
Gabe Flores, born and raised in Smeltertown in the 1940s and '50s, remembers that the local señoras would pay him a few coins to walk hot lunches of caldo de res (beef stew), tacos, and fresh corn tortillas up the hill to the smelter men, who would be black with soot. When times were lean, Flores recalls, neighbors would borrow from each other: a little food, money, whatever was needed.
With the information about the health risks of lead so new, no long-term studies available to prove the consequences of early-childhood lead exposure, and the company's insistence that the children weren't affected, it's little wonder that many Smeltertown residents doubted authorities' stated reasons for tearing down their homes and why years later they would still have questions about how the lead had affected their kids.
All three of Cecilia Flores Marquez's children who tested for elevated blood lead levels were included in Asarco's settlement with the city. The compensation totaled $7,000 to $15,000 when each child turned 18. Did they have health issues? Flores Marquez says, "When they were young, no. But they are having issues now." Her youngest daughter became allergic to metal in her 30s, she says—something the doctors say could be related to the lead exposure.
There were no long-term studies of the former residents of Smeltertown to measure the health outcomes of their exposure to lead, Landrigan says. Today former residents are left guessing whether this or that disability, defect, or illness could have been caused by lead. They have no way of knowing for sure.
Veronica Flores Espalin wears her black hair straight to her waist, a tight leopard-print dress, and chunky emerald earrings. "What can I do for you, cousin?" she asks as Smeltertown families line up to hand her their tickets for the 35th annual Smeltertown reunion at Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino, just across the state line in New Mexico, not far from where Smeltertown stood. Families, old and young, file into the fluorescent-lit hall. More than 400 people bought tickets to this year's August reunion. The Starline Band launches its set of oldies-but-goodies in Spanish and English with the slow-dance tune Sabor a Mi, and the floor fills with couples.
Asarco's towering smokestacks finally came down in 2013. Today there is almost nothing left of the company or Smeltertown but the slag-coated hillside and the graves in the Smelter Cemetery. A multiyear, multimillion-dollar project to remediate the Asarco site is expected to wrap up this year. The land—now a prime location between the University of Texas at El Paso and downtown—will be sold to the highest bidder.
At the gathering, which felt like a cross between a high-school and family reunion, families mingled around tables, grabbed drinks at the bar, lined up for beef tacos. They may no longer live in the same place, but what they have in common is their connection to a community that exists in their collective memory: a place that nurtured generations, marred by poverty and contamination, where working-class families trace their humble roots with pride, a place that still defines them.
Outside the Sunland Park Racetrack & Casino, the sunset gleams on the large white cross atop Mt. Cristo Rey. The Rio Grande, where Smeltertown kids used to swim, bends around the mountain and over the Mexican border. A black iron rail bridge in the distance looks the same as it does in the black-and-white photo on the reunion ticket.
Inside, amid the noise of camaraderie and shared memories, Smeltertown comes alive.


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Whether you are at home, on the go, or celebrating anywhere in Santa Clarita with the girls, Damsels in Defense has the products and fact-based education to save lives. Damsel in Defense was founded in 2011 by two moms, Mindy Lin and Bethany Hughes because they had a passion for safety. After looking at the US national statistics of crimes against women, they realized that as mothers with children and families, they needed to make non-lethal products available to other safety conscious women to disable attackers.
They decided to make stun guns, pepper spray, and striking tools that were functional enough to keep women safe, but also fashionable enough that women didn't feel embarrassed carrying them. Damsel in Defense creates products that allow women remain fashionable, while equipping themselves with protection. The Damsel Pros are trained to not only provide the safety products but to also educate the people purchasing them to use them properly.
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13 athletes took part in the Special Olympics Track and Field Regional Competition on May 11th. The event was held at Dangan. This was one of the biggest teams the school has sent to any event. The pupils did really well and came back with lots of medals.Thanks to the members of the school Special Olympic Committee who did all the paperwork leading up to the event and who accompanied the pupils on the day. A special thanks to our great PE teacher Karen who worked so hard in training the athletes over the last few months. That is the last Special Olympic event for this year. As always the pupils gained a lot through their participation in a sport be it gymnastics, swimming or track and field.


Money. We all need it. We are constantly told how to get more of it. Or save more of it. All while being lured into spending more of it. Money is never far from a headline or far from our thoughts. Well, God has a lot to say about money too! How crucial it is that we hear what He has to say about money. At the start of a new year, it is a great opportunity to again think about how we are building our financial houses and if it aligns with God's truth.


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Safety Report: 100 Percent of Construction Workers Report Risk Factors for Fatigue at Jobsite
A 20-page report issued by the National Safety Council on Oct. 1 stated that 69 percent of workers it polled across the construction, manufacturing, transportation, and utility industries said they are "tired at work," which the group said "increases the risk of injuries and incidents on the job."
The report, entitled Fatigue in Safety-Critical Industries: Impact, Risks and Recommendations, summarizes the results of two national surveys – one of employers and a second probability-based survey of employees – and found that 100 percent of construction workers reported some risk factor for fatigue at work, including long shifts and sleep loss. Almost 50 percent of construction workers reported that they work during "high-risk" hours for fatigue, such as at night or in the early morning.
The survey has also exposed a gap between how employees and employers view the risks of jobsite fatigue. Ninety percent of employers view fatigue as a safety and productivity issue, as compared to only 72 percent of workers.
"We've been looking at the impact of fatigue in the workplace for a long time, but it is troubling to see just how affected our safety-sensitive industries are," said Emily Whitcomb, senior program manager of the NSC's Fatigue Initiatives, in a statement. "When you're tired, you can be deadly and these industries are already at higher risk because of their safety sensitive jobs. We urge employers to address fatigue risk in their workplace so all employees can be healthy and safe."
The report is the third in a three-part series exploring the prevalence of fatigue risk factors and safety-critical incidents caused by fatigue in U.S. workplaces
The group's report also highlighted fatigued employees are also more likely to make mistakes that cause incidents and injuries. A 2014 meta-analysis of 27 observational studies estimated up to 13 percent of workplace injuries could be attributed to fatigue, and workers with sleep problems had a 1.62 times higher risk of being injured than those without sleep issues. NSC's report also calculated that lack of sleep costs $410 billion annually in "societal expenses."
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I have to admit it, I was a "band geek" back in my high school days. I was so uncool!
This guy is the opposite.....smooth and cool!
I wish we had something like this back in my high school days. I love this band.
Check out the guy on the drums dressed in suit and tie. You can tell he's enjoying every minute of every song he is performing.
While most high schools have a full fledged marching band, Guilford High School has this talented ensemble perform.
If you make it to a Guilford game this season, give these musicians a round of applause. They have a great selection of music and are a great group of musicians.


My wife, Jodye, and I recently found Lifesong Funeral Home through Big Bend Hospice, after our beloved father (father-in-law and husband) passed away. After meeting Tholley we knew instantly we could trust and depend on him and his wife, Sarah. They were very professional and compassionate, taking care of everything for us during this difficult time. We gladly recommend their funeral services to others when the time arises.
Lifesong was temendously professional when my Mother passed in the beginning of June. Tholley Taylor (Funeral Director) helped us through the process of formatting the ceremony the way our family wanted. He followed up with us about some of the administrative issues after and made sure we had all the paperwork we needed to move forward. If you want a true professional's help through a difficult time, go with Tholley Taylor and Lifesong.
I would highly recommend using Lifesong Funerals and Cremations. The entire staff was incredibly kind and compassionate.
My Mother passed away in March 2018. Big Bend Hospice gave us several options and we without hesitation chose Lifesong Funeral Home. Tholley and Sarah were absolutely wonderful. They treated my family so gently and compassionately during a very sad and difficult time. They were very helpful and were non stop attentive to all of our needs. Their vast knowledge earned our trust and helped us to make informed decisions. We will be forever grateful for their help during a difficult time.
Thank you for your exceptional caring and assistance after the loss of my sister. You and your wonderful compassionate staff worked with our family at a difficult time. We all appreciate the extra time we were given in our visit, it will always be remembered.
Thank you so much for all that you did during my Grandfather's passing, my family and I are forever grateful.
I cannot say enough good things about Lifesong in Quincy. Truly amazing people and service! In my 38 years in Tallahassee, this small family-owned business outranks any other, hands down. You won't regret their service and openness to all. Affordable compared to all others!
Everyone was very compassionate and caring at a time when I really needed their help. They are amazing people and genuinely care. Thanks again, Tholley.
When my father, Dr. William Smith, Jr., passed away in May, my brother strongly suggested that we use use Lifesong. From the moment I met Tholley Taylor, I knew that we were in good hands for making arrangements for my Dad's service and burial. Tholley and his wife and office team are all a very compassionate group of folks who certainly make a difficult time in your life seem a lot easier. Tholley very calmly and sympathetically helped us organize our thoughts through all of the details of the planning process just as if we were his own family. This was very comforting and the two services we planned ran very smoothly. Lifesong treats you like you are "family" and not just "another funeral to prepare for". They were always available to answer any questions we had as we were making plans. Thank you Tholley and Sarah for providing excellent service and care for us! I would/will recommend Lifesong to anyone during their tiime of need.
Exceptional customer service from Tholley Taylor and his staff making a tragic experience bearable from the moment Lifesong took over arrangements. They were empathetic down to every minute detail, making the awkward ordeal of shipping the remains manageable. A year later I needed help with the death certificate and they gladly helped me with no questions asked. Thank you Tholley and Lifesong staff for your extraordinary customer service.
Lifesong Funeral Service was an incredible help to our family in the days following the passing of our wife, mother, mother-in-law, aunt, grandmother, friend. The thoroughness and thoughtfulness that Tholley and Sarah exercised in every aspect of their service to us and our departed loved one recommend them to be a credit to their profession. They blend youthful encouragement and hope together with a confidence and care in every detail that one might associate with professionals much older, with more years of experience. Saying goodbye to those we love is an unavoidable and often difficult part of life, but Lifesong helped us to navigate this difficult time with grace and gratitude. Thank you, Lifesong!
Lifesong and Tholley have been wonderful to our family. We recently faced the trauma of a family member's unexpected passing and Tholley helped us through the process all the way. Lifesong has an acute understanding of family needs and feelings. We strongly recommend Lifesong to families with these needs.
Lifesong far exceeded my expectations, from beginning to end. This is a trustworthy, dependable and first class company. During the most difficult time of my life, Lifesong was very attentive and sensitive to all my various needs, whether financial, emotional, or time and schedule. Tholley, Sarah, Erica and the staff listened carefully, then went far beyond their usual duties. They were always patient to answer questions and provide assistance with requests that sometimes entailed more attention or time. Lifesong provided everything, and more, that I would have hoped for. And more importantly, they did it in a caring, personal, and genuine manner. Lifesong is an outstanding funeral service company, and I highly recommend them.
The experience my family had with Lifesong Funeral Home and Tholley Taylor was wonderful. Before my mother died, I knew we were going to use Lifesong but I had done no preplanning. When I first spoke with Tholley he put me at ease and I knew he was going to take care of details I hadn't thought about. He made the contacts to the newspapers and sent what we wanted to each one. My mother died right before a holiday and Tholley was so accurate on timing and when we could expect to get her ashes (which enabled me to plan her memorial service in another state). Having someone so kind, compassionate and knowledgeable is such a huge comfort at a time when you feel like you are standing alone. Tholley, thank you for your guidance and support at such a difficult time.
"I want to thank you so much for being able to help me through the passing of my friend. It seems others often only get the business part done, and that's it. Though through it all, I do appreciate your kindness and your staff for making this time easier to get through. I told my son that it is my wish to come to you when my time ends here on Earth. I feel that I will be in good hands."
Tholley, there will never be enough words to thank you for what you did for me.


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Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO, http://sio.ucsd.edu/) at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) invites applications for a full-time Research Scientist position to assume a major scientific role in the central experimental laboratory of the Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment (AGAGE), an international collaborative research project (https://agage.mit.edu/) sponsored in the US by NASA. It is funded by extramural research grants at 75% and by SIO at 25% during the academic year, and by extramural grants during the summer.
We seek applicants with demonstrated records of research excellence in the area of experimental measurement and interpretation of trace gases in the global and regional atmosphere, especially those affecting anthropogenic climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion that are emphasized in AGAGE. We are interested in candidates who have demonstrated a commitment to excellence in research as well as service toward building an equitable and diverse scholarly environment. Research Scientists at SIO have the opportunity to obtain lecturer appointments in the SIO Department and to serve as graduate student advisors.
The position requires a PhD, or equivalent degree, in a relevant field at time of application and candidates should have a competitive record of publication, as well as evidence of the ability to conduct and fund an active research program consistent with career level. This appointment may be at the Associate or Full Research Scientist level and salary will depend on the experience of the successful applicant and will be based on the UCSD pay scales.


A witness was able to give a description of the shooter.
TAMPA – Police are investigating the fourth murder in the Seminole Heights area of Tampa.
Ronald Felton, 60, this morning became the fourth person to die of gunshot wounds in the area. The shootings are thought to be linked.
In this case, a witness was able to describe the shooter as a light-skinned black man about feet or 6 feet 2 inches with a thin build armed with a large black pistol last seen wearing all black clothing.
Police said they responded to N Nebraska Avenue and E McBerry Street to answer a report of shots being heard in the area. When they arrived a few seconds after receiving the call, they fund Mr. Felton dead in the street.
Witnesses told police that Mr. Felton was crossing the street to meet someone when the suspect came up behind him and shot him.
Police set up a perimeter from Osborne Avenue to Hillsborough Avenue and Nebraska to N 15th Street to try containing the suspect. The Hillsborough County School system also temporarily locked in eight nearby schools.
Tampa police have continued working throughout the day to try to track down the suspect and collect information. They are asking residents to review any surveillance cameras they may have and share it with our detectives. They are also asking gun owners to verify the weapon's location and report it if it is missing. Anyone who may have any information, should call the Tampa police at (813) 231-6130.
Mr. Felton was the fourth person to be shot to death in the Seminole Heights area during recent weeks. Anthony Taino Naiboa, 20, of Tampa, was shot Oct. 19; Monica Caridad Hoffa, 32, died Oct. 13; and Edward Mitchell, 22, died Oct. 9.
The shootings have the neighborhood on edge. Police have increased patrols and become a visible presence in the area.
A witness was able to give police a description of the shooter.


This may well shock you nevertheless the PHYSICAL Reason behind many back soreness and sciatica will be ISCHEMIA also referred to as OXYGEN STARVATION! Accepting this is half the particular battle toward finding again pain remedies and sciatica nerve treatment that operates!
Only 4-5% o2 deprivation is necessary to cause problems inside the spinal copy muscles, tendons and nervousness especially the particular sensitive sciatic lack of feeling. Problems can range between tight muscle tissue spasms and also muscle cramping pains (coming from lactic acid build-up) to be able to nerve irritability, tingling and also a terrifying sense regarding 'deadness' inside the leg.
Oxygen starvation pain arises from a turbo fast process by the body processes which will take just milliseconds that occurs. This is why the starting point of pain is frequently so well-defined and abrupt. Briefly what are the results is the autonomic stressed system provides the 'go ahead' signal from your mind to decrease blood circulation for the nerves and also tissues inside the spinal column.
This reduced the circulation of blood means that there are a decline in available oxygen for the spine because the blood, particularly the reddish blood tissues, carry o2 from our own lungs across the body.
But how come the autonomic stressed system mailing out signals for the circulatory system to decrease oxygen products and circulation inside the spine?
Here is the million money question regarding back soreness and sciatica treatments! Understanding a better solution to this kind of question will be KEY to be able to knowing the basis CAUSE of many back soreness and sciatica. After the correct result in is determined, the odds of solving the situation increase greatly. Right result in, right cure.
Oxygen starvation pain mimicks soreness blamed about mechanical and also degenerative failures inside our spines. Even as age a lot of people will develop from other thirties onwards, particularly when they are usually smokers or use a poor eating habits, certain structural or perhaps mechanical failures inside the spine.
Nonetheless, although the particular blame regarding pain usually lies because the feet with the nerves, disks, posture, and misalignment it could not necessarily function as case. If we all allow ourselves to believe outside the particular box then a ACTUAL Reason behind pain for most thousands regarding back soreness and sciatica sufferers could be something very different. Read on to learn below..
Back Soreness Sufferers Deserve To learn About Anxiety Myositis Symptoms Dr David Sarno (Meters. D. )#), a US ALL doctor pioneering in your community of again pain considering that the 70's developed an inspirational principle which he's got named Anxiety Myositis Symptoms. Tension means a specific type regarding inner, buried tension we have been not usually alert to, myositis signifies affecting the particular muscles (and also nerves also) and also syndrome that means the disorder may have many web sites, the back being just about the most common.
This principle states right after years regarding research and also countless treatments that although back soreness and sciatica use a physical result in (o2 deprivation therefore it is NOT psychosomatic soreness) it's got its source inside the mind, particularly the unfelt, subconscious mind.
Dare To learn Why The particular Unconscious Mind Could be Causing An individual Pain!
The subconscious is none logical or perhaps rational plus it develops the particular pain syndrome being a defence mechanism to help keep buried inner thoughts and interior conflicts, properly, buried. These may be like any volcano inside of us simmering apart, threatening to be able to erupt inside our psyches together with chaotic effects.
Therefore simply by 'creating' the particular oxygen starvation pain syndrome by the body processes, the subconscious mind will make us pin the consequence on the soreness on dvd herniations, ruptures, certain forms of disc and also spinal weakening, accidents, excursions, sprains and also falls. Even as are obsessing on the 'damage' inside our backs and its particular weakness we have a tendency to forget about the rest especially our own emotional troubles. They can easily safely continue to be hidden and also buried inside of us, albeit in the festering way.
The actual pain regarding back soreness and sciatica that may often grow to be excruciating are able to be employed by the mind being a powerful decoy to hide our laid to rest, 'real' selves. These 'real' selves have got often grow to be overloaded from the stress and also strains regarding life. Events for instance a bereavement, disease, family/marital issues, financial burn down can easily tilt the balance in a bad direction and also trigger a greater form with the pain symptoms far and also above our own usual injuries of each day.
In the event the 'real' do it yourself becomes overloaded which is ignored for a long time a distraction method (usually of extreme pain) will be introduced from the unconscious mind in to the autonomous stressed system by means of oxygen starvation pain. Healthful emotional readiness and mental awareness expertise serve to be able to dissipate these kinds of problems.
However inside modern living this mental maturity plus the time where to 'listen' for the 'real' do it yourself is regrettably lacking. More, we tend to be unwilling to handle what has to be faced for instance deep sadness and loss and possess become professionals in distraction strategies for instance shopping, TV SET, drink as well as other addictions. Every one of these prevent us all 'tuning into' our own 'real' selves.
Living often in accomplishment orientated, fast paced societies we all literally don't possess the time and energy to become emotionally alert to our genuine selves any more and we all live a growing number of in any virtual planet. As an effect, the age where we live continues to be termed 'the age group of immaturity'. In comparison to our mom and dad or grandpa and grandma, most folks would consent, we are often less on an emotional level mature than we were holding at our own ages.


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Co-creation Helps Global Shipping Company Achieve Operational Excellence & Digital Transformation
A global shipping and logistics company had disparate processes, technologies and methodologies as a result of multiple acquisitions across the globe
WNS leveraged its domain expertise to consolidate and standardize operations across 60 countries
Digitization, automation and technology interventions were embedded across various operations to save costs, increase process maturity and drive effective outcomes
This is our story of co-creating a solution with a Global Non-vessel Operating Common Carrier (NVOCC)
As we know ...
Any international shipping and logistics process has multiple challenges. Key among them is managing the significant amount of information that changes hands continuously during the process. Often, the processes are decentralized and manual in nature. Further, global operations require dealing with different legal requirements and local variances. Hence, it's a complex task to consolidate and centralize the operations while maintaining the country-specific nuances. It also calls for a deep understanding of the shipping and logistics industry, underpinned with digital and automation capabilities, to standardize the operations and ensure on-time delivery, high accuracy and low costs.
The challenge for the Global NVOCC was...
It had acquired several shipping and logistics companies across the globe including those in Italy, Brazil, France and the U.S. Each acquired company had its own technology, process methodology, and customer and country specific nuances. The client thus had diverse systems, processes and no uniform view of the entire operations. Decentralized, non-standardized and manual processes across 60 countries had led to high operations' cost, increased Turnaround Time (TAT) and errors.
The client required a solution that entailed consolidating and standardizing the operations, while maintaining the customer and country-specific nuances. A global operating model that included process excellence, digitization and automation had to be deployed to bring down costs and eliminate errors.
Here's what we co-created as a solution…
WNS leveraged its industry expertise and experience of managing multiple shipping and logistics clients across the globe to offer a customized solution encompassing consolidation, standardization and digital transformation.
We conducted an extensive and incisive exercise across the client's key locations to understand the process and technology landscape. This offered a comprehensive view of all the gaps in the existing operations. It also enabled WNS to identify the operations where digitization, automation and technology interventions could be embedded to save costs, increase process maturity and drive effective outcomes.
The solution entailed:
Consolidating and standardizing the operations across 60 countries
Providing a one-stop solution for delivering end-to-end processes including tariff, reference data management, booking, export and bills of lading
Digitizing and automating processes with multiple bolt-on automation tools
Implementing a workflow solution to provide increased security, reliability and scalability while capturing information from offshore locations. This also helped in:
Automating work allocation based on in-built algorithms
Offering real-time view of all operations
Providing intelligent Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Enabling direct interaction with the client's system to provide outputs
The outcomes from the process of co-creation are…
The client now has a uniform view of its operations across countries, while digitization and automation have cut costs and eliminated errors. Customer and country-specific nuances have remained intact, while operational excellence has contributed to USD 4.3 Million in savings.
Other significant outcomes include:
71 percent reduction in TAT with regard to the tariff update process
Over 99 percent accuracy achieved in the billing and invoicing process
80 percent increase in productivity due to implementation of the workflow solution
100 percent rate updation prior to the expiry of the effective date
82 percent improvement in TAT for import advance manifest submissions
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Like many types of specialised photography, macro photography brings with it a whole new set of challenges and often requires some unique tools and skills that are completely different than what we would use in standard photography.
First off, let's do our best to define what macro photography is. A simple Google search defines it as "photography producing photographs of small items larger than life size".
Historically "larger than life size" meant the actual size of the item as recorded on the film that was used in the camera. Now that our cameras are digital and we have the ability to view our images at any size and often even crop into ultra high resolution captures, this strict interpretation of "larger than life size" is not really that important for the beginner wishing to explore macro photography.
For most photographers, marco is about getting in really close to explore the details.
What do we need to deal with as we attempt to get closer using our existing lenses?
Does our lens focus close enough? Minimum focus distances are often 10's of centimetres for standard lenses, yet we want to get even closer.
Do we need more in focus? The closer we get the less depth of field we have. To get more in focus we need to stop down, but this in turn means we need more light.
Do we have enough light to get a short enough shutter speed to capture a sharp photo?
Is our subject moving or static? We might need even faster shutter speeds to stop the motion.
You can quickly discover, light levels are one of the principle problems we face as we to capture our subject up close. To stop motion, get it all in focus and sharp, all requires ample light. This might be ok if we are shooting outside in bright sunlight, but for indoor macro shooting you very quickly discover that you are going to need either lots of light, or alternately, if you are shooting static subjects— locking down the camera on a tripod and using long exposures.
But what if you can't even get close enough to the subject due to the focus limits of your lens?
This is where the dedicated macro lens comes into its own — to start, they are designed to focus very very close. So close that they can often block the light to the subject.
Many modern macro lenses also are image stabilized (IS). For any type of hand held macro shooting, modern IS is very useful as you are always fighting for light and anything that can help you bring down the shutter speed while still enabling a sharp capture is desirable.
For example, the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens has what Canon calls a 4 stop Hybrid Image Stabilization system that can even take into account shift movement between the subject and the lens.
Many macro lenses are manual focus only. This is not something to fear as pretty well every modern camera has a live view rear LCD screen that shows you exactly what you are going to be capturing and easily enables manual focus operation. If you are intending to shoot hand held with a manual focus lens you might find this a bit more challenging. However, manual focusing on many of the modern mirrorless systems is much easier thanks to their electronic viewfinder focus assists.
Lastly there are specialised macro lens that have no focus ability at all such as the recently introduced Laowa 25mm and Canon MP-E 65mm. These type of macro lenses need to be moved back and forth from the subject to focus and often need a specialised tripod macro slider that enables this smooth focusing movement. The KIWI FC1 Macro Slider is a good choice for this this type of application. Keep in mind that this type of slider can be very helpful with any type of macro lens. You will find that subject to lens distance is a critical element in your macro photography and smooth control of it can be very desirable.
Long or Short Focal Length: Focal length of the lens, as always states the angle of view of the lens. As we tend to fill the frame with our subject in our macro shots the angle of view is not used in the exact same way as we would use in say a landscape shot. In macro photography we don't tend to work with foreground and background as separate image elements expecting to keep both in focus. Macro photography tends to be about one key subject isolated from the background and as such, almost any focal length can be used as long as it meets our object to bring the subject into the frame and focus on it. In general, the longer the focal length, the greater the working distance from subject to lens for a given magnification factor. Longer focal length models also tend to make background blurring more effective for a given subject framing and aperture setting.
Magnification Factor: This is stated a ratio where 1:1 is the most common value. This means the size of the subject will match the size of the recorded image on the camera's sensor. Higher values enable greater levels of magnification.
Remember that swapping between full frame and APS-C sized bodies can also be a useful technique to increase your effective magnification.
Lens Length and Front Element Rotation Fixed: As you will often be working very close to the front of your lens it is important to keep the lens from touching your subject as you operate the lens. Macro lens that extend in length when adjusting magnification ratio can be more difficult to use handheld and often needed a macro slider for tripod usage. A non-rotating front element enables easy use of polarising filters if necessary.
The Canon MP-E 65mm and Laowa 25mm are this style of lens and while they can be more difficult to use, they do provide up to 5x magnification factors.
Lens Collars: Where available these help when tripod mounting and often enable a better balance on the tripod which in turn can help reduce mounting vibration. These collars are often used to mount macro flash brackets.
Infinity Focus: As a macro lens is often an expensive addition to your kit, if you can get more use out of it for non-macro photography, this could be a deciding purchase feature. Fast macro lenses that have infinity focus are often well suited for portraiture.
Compatibility with Extension Tubes and Extenders: As macro lenses are normally fixed focal length, it can be very useful if they are compatible with your exisiting collection of extension tubes and extenders. Extension tubes can enable an even closer focus distance (and slight magnification ratio increase) while extenders can increase the magnification ratio by 1.4 or 2x depending on the model used.
Focus Breathing: Depending on the lens design, the image size can change with focus range. In general, this is not a huge issue for the macro photographer. However if you are capturing for software based focus stacking this issue can possibly effect the quality of your output and therefore should be part of your purchase decision.
Tilt-Shift Macro Lenses: Canon has recently introduced 3 new Tilt-Shift lenses that all feature closer minimum focus distances and 0.5x magnification factors. These new lenses are compatible with extension tubes and extenders and with the added flexibility of lens movements, the never ending battle to gain depth of field in macro photography can be enhanced.
This is the one area where macro photography starts to get difficult and there are only so many ways one can deal with it. The basic fact is — the closer the subject is to the lens and the longer the focal length, the lower the depth of field is going to be. There is only so much that can be gained by stoping down and often it is just not enough for the subject at hand. Keeping the subject parallel to the plane of focus can help, but this is not going to work if the subject is 3 dimensional. Of course looking straight on at the subject is often not the composition you require.
In these cases the only way to achieve extended depth of field will be to capture a range of shots at different focus ranges and focus stack the resulting files in software. The recent versions of Adobe Photoshop include this feature so it is not something to shy away from. The results can be most impressive when used correctly.
As we mentioned earlier, light is something always in short supply in our never ending quest for greater depth of field in our macro photography. The one upside to this problem is that thanks to the very close working distances involved in macro photography, adding in additional light from either continuous light panels or while flash doesn't require huge power levels.
When working with extra lights, you do have to be aware that very small positional changes with the lights can have a huge effect on lighting levels and ratios in the scene as the working distances are so close. You also have to be careful that the lights and the lens don't get in the way of each other, because of the close working distances. The solution is often to use very small lights (point source LED's are very popular) and even dedicated macro flash units. Most of the major brands have hotshoe flash units with flash heads that mount on the front of lens designed for exactly this purpose.
Canon has recently introduced 2 affordable macro lenses that include their own built in LED ring lights that could be a very good starting lens choice for Canon EF-S and EF-M photographers.
As getting in close is basically what macro photography is all about — you might want to know if there is anyway to just focus closer with the lenses you already own.
The good news is yes, and there are 3 simple and affordable ways to achieve closer focus distances.
Extension Tubes: These simple tubes mount between the camera body and the lens and enable the minimum focus distance to be decreased. However when used the range of focus is dramatically reduced and infinity focus is lost. The upside is they are inexpensive and all automatic features of your lens are maintained. They normally come in sets of 3 with varying thicknesses. They have no optical elements in them and therefore don't degrade the image in any way.
Close Up Lenses: These specialised lenses mount on the front of your existing lens much like a filter and enable much closer minimum focusing distances. They are the solution for all in one cameras where extension tubes can't be used.
Reversing Rings: These devices enable the reverse mounting of a standard lens on a camera which has the interesting side effect of enabling closer focusing. All automatic control of the lens is lost and these rings are best used with all manual lenses. Manual aperture control on the lens will be required if you wish to increase your depth of field by stopping down. An old manual 50mm prime lens is commonly used with a reversing ring for macro photography.
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When Murphy's Law Strikes A Broadband Project
October 2019 •
Building flexibility into the budget, schedule and deployment plan can save the day when things go wrong.
As hard as we may work on planning, any broadband project will hit some bumps during construction and the ramp up of subscriber traffic. For example, on a recent OTELCO fiber project in Alabama, the engineering contractor unexpectedly lost key members of its staff, causing delays in deployment. In another example, a fixed wireless network OTELCO is deploying for four towns in western Massachusetts has been plagued by a shortage of 60- to 80-foot-tall wooden utility poles needed for deployment.
Things go wrong sometimes. That's just the way it is. No matter how good a plan is, community broadband organizers need to allow for the curveballs nature and members of the community will throw. Because anticipating every curveball is impossible, it's important to build some flexibility into the plan so it's adaptable when the unexpected happens. Here are a few examples of ways to prepare.
Budget for contingencies
As much as we want projects to come in under budget, invariably unanticipated events will cause costs to rise rather than fall. For this reason, building an allowance for the unexpected into a broadband budget is a good idea. Ten to 15 percent will provide a cushion to address minor changes without necessitating going back to voters or state or federal agencies to appropriate more money. For example, when OTELCO's partner in Massachusetts couldn't source tall utility poles in southern yellow pine, it was necessary to source Douglas fir poles from the West at a higher cost.
A community shouldn't hand control of contingency funds over to a contractor. Instead, it should have access to the contingency allowance controlled by the broadband committee and require the contractor to submit a change request to the broadband committee. If there is money left over in the contingency allowance, it can be returned to the general fund or used to deploy Wi-Fi equipment and other broadband-related services in town facilities.
Schedule time for delays
Delays cost money and cause frustration among constituents, who are anxiously awaiting better internet access. For this reason, it makes sense to set expectations conservatively when it comes to the deployment schedule. No one will complain if the project is completed early.
Residents are anxious for broadband, and it's tempting to offer them an optimistic view of the schedule during the planning process to assuage their anxiety. But it's better in the long run to resist making them feel good during the planning and budgeting process to avoid letting them down after they have voted. This doesn't preclude broadband community organizers from having more aggressive expectations for their contractors – and they should.
Consider alternative strategies
At times, a roadblock will interfere with a plan so severely that it's better to work around it. For example, attaching fiber to the utility poles in a neighborhood may become cost prohibitive if several of the poles must be replaced. In such cases, burying fiber may be the best choice. As another example, in a neighborhood where existing utilities are direct buried, there is no access to conduit, and a homeowners association prevents trenching, a pole-mounted wireless solution may be able to bridge the gap between fiber and customer.
Alternative solutions such as these can cost more money and time, and that's why it makes sense to have a contingency allowance and a flexible schedule. If there's any chance of these things happening, it may be a good idea to build a little extra in specifically to address them.
Even after planning for things to go wrong, there will be times when something comes along that is so much bigger than anticipated that flexibility isn't enough. In such cases, going back for more funding and apologizing for delays is the only option. As painful as this might be, the end result will be worth it for the community.
Trevor Jones is vice president of marketing, sales and customer service for OTELCO, which owns independent telephone companies in seven states and partners with several community networks in Massachusetts. Contact Trevor at trevor.jones@otelco.com.


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The M1903 Springfield, formally the United States Rifle, Caliber .30-06, Model 1903, is an American 5-round magazine fed, bolt-action service repeating rifle, used primarily during the first half of the 20th century.
It was officially adopted as a United States military bolt-action rifle on June 19, 1903, and saw service in World War I. It was officially replaced as the standard infantry rifle by the faster-firing semi-automatic 8-round M1 Garand starting in 1937. However, the M1903 Springfield remained in service as a standard issue infantry rifle during World War II, since the U.S. entered the war without sufficient M1 rifles to arm all troops. It also remained in service as a sniper rifle during World War II, the Korean War, and even in the early stages of the Vietnam War. It remains popular as a civilian firearm, historical collector's piece, and as a military drill rifle.
With her housewife character setting and kind personality, community nickname for Springfield is "Raifu"(太太).
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Germany, US agree to send battle tanks to Ukraine: Media reports
Posted on January 25, 2023 | By gassasb | 1 comment
Berlin will send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and Washington will provide Abrams tanks, German and US media reported.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 battle tanks, according to media reports, after weeks of mounting pressure on Berlin to give Kyiv the heavier weapons it says Ukraine needs to drive back invading Russian forces.
The news that Berlin will provide battle tanks to Kyiv comes as officials in the United States told media that Washington was also poised to start a process that would eventually send dozens of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine's front lines.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/24/germany-clears-the-way-for-leopard-2-tank-deliveries-to-ukraine
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gassasb says:
Given my study of past military history, it would seem that the Russians will sit back and passively observe as NATO sends more and more of its finest weapons to Ukraine and then bypass Ukraine to invade Western Europe directly in a Blitzkrieg. When that happens, we'll see how figures like Lloyd Austin will go down in the history books, assuming there are history books after a nuclear war.
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Russia threatens nuclear attack on Berlin according to the mainstream media:
https://www.the-sun.com/news/7215131/germany-crucial-leopard-tanks-ukraine/


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Posted on April 26, 2019 by MELANIE SPEICHER
Michigan man imprisoned on drug charge
Burglary nets local man incarceration
By Jim Painter - For the Sidney Daily News
SIDNEY – A Michigan man was sentenced to two years in the state prison system on a drug-related conviction with a Sidney man incarcerated on a burglary charge recently.
They were two and other cases adjudicated recently in Shelby County Common Pleas Court.
Dustin Gilbert-Renauldo Chappel, 47, Ecorse, Michigan, was sentenced to 24 months with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) on a charge of aggravated possession of drugs, a third-degree felony. He was arrested on Oct. 18 and found to be in possession of 299 Oxycodone pills.
Judge James Stevenson also imposed a state mandated $5,000 fine.
Lathan J. Ragland, 30, 132 Pike St., was found guilty of being one of several men who entered a home at 843 Meri Lane on May 26 to purposely inflict physical harm on someone. He was sentenced to 17 months with the ODRC on a charge of burglary, a fourth-degree felony.
Four other people were sentenced to 11-months prison terms by Stevenson. They include:
• Joe R. Stout, 49, Kokomo, Indiana, on a charge of attempted possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. He was also ordered to serve three day in jail for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, a first-degree misdemeanor. He was fined $375 and assessed court costs.
Stout was arrested on Oct. 6 in possession of Methamphetamine.
• Tisha M. Hecht, 40, 320 Franklin Ave., was ordered to prison on a charge of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. She was arrested on Nov. 16 in possession of Fentanyl.
• Ryan Clark, 30, at large, received 11 months with the ODRC on one count of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. He was arrested on Sept. 18 with Fentanyl.
• Kendrick D. Watkins, 43, incarcerated, was sentenced on a count of trafficking in drugs, a fifth-degree felony. He will serve the sentence with a conviction from Miami County concurrently, or at the same time.
He was arrested July 18 in possession of cocaine.
Drugs, bad check, etc.
Other cases include:
• Carlos Wilson, 44, Pickaway Correctional Institution, pleaded guilty to a charge of trafficking in drugs, a fifth-degree felony. He was arrested Sept. 5 with cocaine.
He faces a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison and a $2,500 fine.
• Mya Browning, 19, 108 Canal St., was sentenced to five years of community control on a charge of attempted aggravated possession of drugs, a fourth-degree felony, and possession of criminal tools, a fifth-degree felony. She was also ordered to obtain drug and alcohol counseling, fined $300 and assessed court costs.
She was arrested on Dec. 11 in possession of drug tablets over the bulk amount.
• Forrest E. Pinson, 60, Celina, pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony. When sentenced he faces 12 months in prison and a $2,500 fine.
He was arrested on Jan. 24 in possession of heroin.
• Crystal D. Marlow, 42, 343 Wilson Ave., was placed on $7,500 bond due to a probation violation on a charge of possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony.
She was arrested on March 22 in possession of heroin.
• Zackery Napier, 22, 717 Mohave Court, was placed on five years of community control on a charge of trafficking in drugs, a fourth-degree felony. He was also informed he would be forfeiting $1,925 gained in criminal activity, was fined $300, assessed court costs and to obtain drug and alcohol counseling.
He was arrested June 29 in possession of hashish.
• Ana S. Lawson, 40, Piqua, was sentenced to 30 days in the Shelby County Jail on each charge of attempted possession of drugs and driving while under suspension, both first-degree misdemeanors. Lawson will serve the sentences concurrently, serve five years of community control and participate in the facility's work release program. She was also fined $150 and assessed court costs.
Lawson was arrested on May 26 in possession of Methamphetamine.
• Chad Ellis, 42, at large, was ordered to serve 30 days in the county jail on each of two counts of possession of drugs, both fourth-degree felonies, concurrently. He also forfeited $842 in cash seized at his arrest and placed on five years of community control.
Ellis was arrested Aug. 8 in possession of marijuana and hashish.
• Edwin S. Knox II, 61, 13952 Lochard Road, Anna, was ordered to serve 10 days in jail on a charge of passing a bad check, a fourth-degree felony. He was placed on five years of community control and ordered to have a drug, alcohol and mental health evaluation. He was ordered to pay full restitution.
On Aug. 9, he wrote an $18,000 check to John R. Lloyd Construction knowing the account did not have sufficient funds.
• Travis Teasley, 43, 420 Elm St., was ordered to the county jail to wait his joining the program at Western Ohio Regional Treatment and Habilitation Center in Lima. He was also ordered to serve five years on community control on a charge of aggravated possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony.
He was arrested on Nov. 17 allegedly in possession of Methamphetamine.
By Jim Painter
For the Sidney Daily News
The writer is a regular contributor to the Sidney Daily News.
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PESGB Evening Lecture: Geological Decarbonisation & Energy Transition: Learning from the past with Mike Stephenson
Presented by the PESGB YPs.
Speaker: Mike Stephenson
Topic: Geological decarbonisation and energy transition: learning from the past
Geology can provide insights into global environmental changes recorded in deep-time, for example mass extinctions, but also historical shifts in energy supply, like the industrial revolution of the 18th Century. A comparison of the two types of change can be instructive not only because of the biogeochemical aspects of both, but also because of similarities in the way that change happens.
Studying deep-time events like the Permian-Triassic extinction and the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum is useful because there are aspects of change in these events that are close in form to the changes we might expect in the near future.
What does the study of deep-time events like the Permian-Triassic extinction (pictured) tell us about change we might expect in the future? (Photo M Stephenson)
Using examples not nearly so far back in time, we can also look at the carbonisation period we now know as the Industrial Revolution, in which geology was so pivotal. The UK carbonised using its high-calorific, easily accessible coal, thereby moving away from the constraints of biosphere carbon to geosphere carbon.
Atmospheric CO2 concentration and historical fossil fuel usage (from MacKay 2009). What do past energy transitions tell us about the transition to come?
What might we learn from previous energy transitions to understand the current transition from an 'oil and gas economy' to a renewables economy – one of the biggest challenges for the modern world; and what might similarities between deep-time change and historical energy transition, for example feedbacks and tipping points, tell us about how to respond to change better?
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Guilford, like all colleges across the globe, is run by a plethora of contributors. A Guilford education involves guidance and assistance from teachers, coaches and faculty, but the list does not stop there. Living on Guilford's campus also involves services less acknowledged or even unseen by students.
Unfortunately, some of these people who dedicate hours of their day to benefiting our community are underappreciated and disrespected. A particularly prevalent example is the housekeeping staff. As a first-year resident of Bryan Hall, I was aware that employees came at some point during the week to clean my suite bathrooms. What was less apparent to me was the intense hours and labor that these people invest in keeping our community spaces well-kept.
After walking back from my First Year Seminar course one Wednesday morning, I had the opportunity to speak with two ladies who work in housekeeping. In response to my question asking if they came to campus once a week to clean, the first woman laughed and informed me that she cleans bathrooms and common lounges every day of the week, Monday through Friday, from 4:30 in the morning until 12:30 in the afternoon.
This information was shocking to me. I had no idea that these people were coming to clean my bathroom in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. What's even worse is that I learned that students have been making the jobs of these housekeepers, who are up all hours of the night, even more difficult. People have been disposing of their personal trash in the shared kitchen, adding one more thing onto the already loaded plate of responsibilities that housekeepers contend with while also clouding our communal living space in the process.
Members of the dining hall staff had a much more positive perspective on their workplace environment. However, the numerous jobs completed by these employees still go largely unnoticed. In order to prepare everything needed for breakfast each day, some employees arrive at the dining hall as early as 5:30 in the morning. Those that work dinner also have to stay until 9:00 in the evening to clean up and close down. In addition to making and serving the food, people who work in the dining hall are likewise responsible for washing numerous stacks of dishes, creating checklists to assure that the necessary food for each day is set and prepared, checking ingredients and putting out ingredient notices, as well as printing menus to display at the caf entrance every day.
Both of these jobs are integral to life here at Guilford, and both require a tremendous amount of work from the people who complete them. Because of this, it is important that Guilford students remember to show their appreciation to these employees, and to everyone that contributes to the college.
Always say thank you. Two little words can go a long way in making someone feel like they are acknowledged and respected for the job they do.
Make conversation. Particularly in the dining hall. Introducing yourself and getting to know staff names in return can be a great way to establish friendly relationships and show your recognition.
Do your part to help keep things clean. Instead of leaving your trash around for the housekeepers to pick up, take it out to the dumpster yourself. Also make sure to eat neatly in the dining hall and bring your dishes to the proper washing area.
Write notes for the staff. This would be a particularly sweet thing for the housekeepers, who often clean at times when students aren't awake. Just a quick post-it on your bathroom mirror communicating your thanks could make someone's day.
Get informed. The best way to appreciate the work performed around you is to first be aware of its existence. Find out about the jobs that campus service workers complete so that you truly know the extent they contribute to our community.


Local government officials described San Pablito as "the safest market in Latin America" just a week before December 20, 2016, when an explosion ripped through the market sending a massive plume of smoke into the sky as 10 Red Cross ambulances rushed to the scene. More than 30 people died and 50 others were injured. The cause of the explosion was unknown, but sources claimed that the gunpowder from approximately 300 tons of fireworks ignited the fires. Nearby homes were damaged significantly and much of the market was leveled in the explosion.
One of the prime sources of fire safety standards globally is the US-based National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) which publishes and updates the codes that form recommended best practices in fire safety. In Central and South America, many of the 43 nations, republics, island states and protectorates have based their fire protection legislation and standards on those of the NFPA. Some make a direct reference to specific NFPA codes; while others look to Europe for guidelines. Others are in the process of creating their own legislation, including Mexico, Brazil and Peru, although none are in effect at this time.
Owners often think their plants are well protected, when in fact, the opposite is true. Poor design and inadequate installations can create a false sense of security and allow fires to grow beyond what they should. Consider the situation of a milk producer plant in Veracruz, Mexico. The plant installed CMDA (Control Model Density/Area) sprinklers with a k factor of 80 (5.6) to protect a 6.09 m (20-foot ) high storage pile classified as commodity Group A plastics, non-expanded and labeled as a light hazard occupancy. In addition, 25 mm (1") piping was used for branch lines, 65 mm (2.5") piping for cross mains, and all the sprinkler heads were installed about 30 inches below structural members. Also, all the sprinkler systems protecting the facility were supplied by a non-listed, horizontal fire pump rated for 1892.7 lpm @ 8.7 kg/cm2 (500 gpm @ 125 psi) taking suction from a concrete cistern (concrete tank) with a capacity for 37,854.12 litres (10,000 gallons). The concrete cistern was located below the discharge flange of the non-listed, horizontal fire pump where the water supply pressure was inadequate to deliver water to the fire pump suction.
"Poor design and inadequate installations can create a false sense of security and allow fires to grow beyond what they should."
The major factors contributing to historical fire losses are the lack of adequate fire protection systems in combination with combustible construction materials. The most common reason given for ignoring adequate fire protection systems is cost. However, doing nothing is not a choice plant managers should feel comfortable making, since the cost of a large-loss fire far outweighs any costs associated with preventing that kind of fire.
In the last five years, the number of fire losses has increased in big manufacturing plants around the globe. According to NFPA data, in the US alone, fire departments responded to an estimated average of 37,000 fires at industrial or manufacturing properties annually. Blasts at the fireworks market in Tultepec, Mexico, and other events in big manufacturing plants pose significant business interruption risks to surrounding businesses. Fortunately, these events have encouraged Latin American business owners to adopt reliable loss prevention standards such as those endorsed by the NFPA.
With fire protection systems becoming more complex in design, it is important that plan reviews of complex engineering projects be conducted by Property Loss Prevention Specialists prior to the commencement of any installation. Normally, during a XL Catlin Property Risk Engineering/GAPS (Global Asset Protection Services) engagement for new facilities, our Engineers conduct a preliminary plan design of fire protection systems.
The plan review starts at the design stage. Owners provide the Field Engineers with a description of the project including construction information, overview of the project and recommendations to protect hazards according to reliable property loss prevention standards. The second stage is where the engineering companies submit plans and calculations to be reviewed by our Field Engineers before the commencement of the installations works to verify what an untrained eye can't see. The last stage and one of the most important steps is the field review visit, in which Property Risk Engineers/GAPS Field Engineers review the installation of the fire protection systems and witness all required testing with the fire contractor to ensure systems are compliant with the property loss prevention standards used during the engineering stage.
Building owners sometimes say it is difficult to pay for this procedure, but our Field Engineers think it is important to educate clients on the benefits of plan reviews. Plan reviews can increase the value of loss prevention investments to protect properties and mitigate business interruption periods. These procedures also increase the knowledge of the installer before constructing a building. That way, the owner has the right information to invest in adequate fire protection systems recognized by international loss prevention standards.
The largest benefit of plan reviews is the lessons learned from catastrophic fire events with inadequate or lack of fire protection systems. In addition, hidden issues caught during review and acceptance testing processes prevent costly mistakes. These plan reviews can also reduce costs as cheaper fire protection options become more and more available. Given all the above, involving XL Catlin's Property Risk Engineering / GAPS team in the preliminary design of fire protection systems will save property and time down the road.
Jesus Rivera at +52 1 5548339935 and jesus.rivera@xlcatlin.com or visit the website www.xlgaps.com.