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A church without walls offers unconditional acceptance to people who are homeless
Windsor Jones and Country pause for a moment at the Common Soles clinic hosted by Church of the Common Ground, where Jones washed Country's feet. Photos by Branden Camp
by: Mashaun D. Simon
Church of the Common Ground, an Episcopal congregation in Atlanta, avoids the usual attempts to "fix" people who are living on the streets. Instead, it seeks to be a living witness of love and compassion.
It is a Sunday afternoon in Atlanta, just after 1 p.m. It's 92 degrees, but with the humidity, it feels hotter.
Fifteen to 20 women and men are gathered in a shaded area on the north end of Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta. They sing "This Little Light of Mine" as the life of the city swirls around them.
Four blocks away, two EMS workers struggle with a gurney as they tend to a disheveled older man slumped on the side of the road. A recent high school graduate poses for photos in front of a nearby fountain. In the park, two people passing out plates of rice attract a crowd.
This is Sunday worship at Church of the Common Ground, where the Very Rev. Monica Mainwaring, her staff and volunteers hold worship outdoors every Sunday for a congregation of people who are living on the streets -- and anyone else who cares to join in.
People hold hands and pray during a Sunday service at Woodruff Park.
It can be a struggle to compete with the activity surrounding them, but the experience is vital to this church without walls, which seeks to serve people where they are -- and as they are -- week in and week out.
Like any other church, Church of the Common Ground provides for the pastoral and spiritual needs of the women, men and youth in its midst each week. In addition to Sunday services in Woodruff Park, it offers morning prayer and Bible study, for example.
It also has offerings unique to its congregation, such as Common Soles, a nonmedical foot clinic. But more than anything, Church of the Common Ground is focused on offering unconditional acceptance, theological affirmation and community to some of the estimated 3,000 homeless people in the city.
"We strive to honor the dignity and worth of every human being, recognizing that those we encounter suffer shame, isolation, brokenness and unmet need," Mainwaring said.
"We do not require that people who enter into a relationship with us be upwardly mobile. They do not need to enter a linear trajectory toward sobriety, housing, cleanliness, employment, mental wellness."
Do you place conditions on acceptance, either spoken or unspoken?
After the group has read Scripture and sung another hymn, Mainwaring delivers the day's sermon, competing with the surrounding sounds and activities without a microphone or portable speaker.
"Where is God in the midst of our struggles? God is here with us, among us," she says. "We come to this circle to remember that God is here. God is not over there, not in a temple somewhere over there. God is here. Not because of what we do or what we produce. No, God is here. God is right here, with us."
The worshippers sing "Amazing Grace" and then form a circle, locking hands, where they begin to share their names and prayer petitions. They pass the peace, take communion, sing another hymn and eventually receive a sending-forth blessing.
Some linger, while others disperse -- a typical Sunday gathering.
"By worshipping outside, they come as they are," Mainwaring said. "If they arrive to worship inebriated, we welcome them just as we would a sober parishioner. We look them in their eye and know their name, celebrating with them the good news."
Windsor Jones sings a hymn with church member Frank Torres Jr. before a Church of the Common Ground service.
Church without a building
The website of Church of the Common Ground says, "We're like any other church -- we just don't have a building."
That is true -- the congregation is a worshipping community of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; Mainwaring reports to the bishop. The Sunday service is an adapted Episcopal liturgy, and the core congregation is 50 to 60 people, though as many as 5,000 take part in its activities each year.
Church of the Common Ground is a nontraditional congregation within a traditional denominational structure. Are there opportunities for you to create nontraditional ministries within existing institutions?
But when your congregation is composed of people living on the streets, just being church can seem radical.
All too often, religious institutions limit their homeless outreach, along with their efforts to combat issues like addiction and sex trafficking, to transactional fixes -- one side gives, the other takes. Church of the Common Ground chooses a different approach.
Homelessness, Mainwaring said, is an indignity. Since people experiencing homelessness are systematically conditioned to be in transactional relationships with those who have and those who help, Church of the Common Ground intentionally doesn't dabble in transactional aid.
Mainwaring spends much of her time working with partner agencies to get folks the services and help they need, but she is adamant that the church itself is not a place to get jobs, food or clothing.
"Theologically, we believe that God loves all of God's people, especially those deemed unlovable by society. We resist the temptation to 'do for' and 'fix,' [in order] to prioritize love," she said.
Could you or your organization stop trying to fix people? How would that change your work?
For church member Frank Torres Jr., that unconditional welcome has made all the difference. He has been involved with the congregation for almost 10 years.
"They have given me a sense of purpose," Torres said. "Because of Church of the Common Ground, I was able to get back into services with the Atlanta VA. Once I got off the street, I started to give back, because they gave me so much."
The Rev. Monica Mainwaring, center, during a Sunday service at Woodruff Park.
Footwashing and sacred conversations
Church of the Common Ground held its first service in Woodruff Park on Christmas Eve 2006. The Rev. Bob Book and Holly Book, who had been inspired by the work of the Ecclesia Ministries at common cathedral in Boston, founded it. The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta embraced the ministry and eventually ordained Book -- a Lutheran pastor -- as a priest.
The staff now includes a curate, a deacon, a volunteer administrator, an Episcopal Service Corps fellow, a ministry coordinator and five summer interns.
It's funded mostly by individual donors, churches from throughout the diocese, diocesan support and grants, as well as in-kind gifts.
The church offers regular gatherings four days each week: Sunday worship; Monday morning prayer; Tuesday morning foot clinic; and Wednesday morning prayer and afternoon Bible study. It also hosts regular "Theology from the Margins" study sessions with a seminary professor, as well as regular coffee hours.
Common Soles, the foot clinic, takes place in the park of St. Luke's Episcopal Church. At the park -- and inside during cold weather -- homeless people can have their feet washed and massaged by parishioners and other volunteers.
It's a sacramental ministry, as people receive loving care, clean socks and lemonade, and often have sacred conversations with the volunteers, Mainwaring said.
Windsor Jones washes Country's feet at the weekly Common Soles non-medical foot clinic. Photos by Branden Camp
Cultivating lay leaders
On the first Sunday in June, a group of parishioners selected for a pilot project to develop lay leaders had their seventh lunch meeting at the Landmark Diner on Luckie Street, just a few feet from Woodruff Park.
When asked to bless the food, Johnny Stevenson joked, "I always get nominated for stuff." It was a small honor, but significant nonetheless.
During lunch, the group discussed the successes of the program -- called Cultivating Leadership on Common Ground -- as well as areas that need improvement, like participants' struggles in connecting with their assigned mentors.
They also learned more about each other, such as the fact that one of them, who currently lives with his mother, walks 13 miles one way to participate in the worship services at Woodruff Park.
Torres, who is in the group, shared his appreciation for the church and the program.
"People respect the church, because there is a proven record," he said. "When I get to do a reading or even when I am greeting people, it makes me feel like I am a part."
Mainwaring, cognizant of her privilege and inability to relate to the experience of those she serves, said she believes that such a program is essential.
Mainwaring prays with staff and church members before heading to Woodruff Park for worship.
"We have not cultivated a core community of people who carry the vision and [do] the work of Church of the Common Ground. It feels like we have an imbalance within the church broadly, where housed staff, interns and volunteers are designing, preparing and executing church programs for unhoused parishioners," she said.
"We are at risk of being the very system of charity and dependence that we critique, and [in this] we deny our theological conviction that poor people can be -- and are -- the church too."
Where do the risks lie for you and your organization? Could privilege and good intentions be undercutting your mission?
Stevenson, an adoptee who experienced neglect for most of his childhood and went on to struggle with drug addiction, initially became familiar with the church through Common Soles. At first, he was skeptical.
"Who in their right mind would start a full-time outdoor ministry?" he remembers thinking almost a year ago. "One of the volunteers at the time began talking to me about the church and Sunday service."
He stayed on the periphery for a few weeks. Now he serves in several capacities during Sunday worship and beyond.
By the end of the lunch meeting, Stevenson and Mainwaring were discussing plans for him to cook the chili for a dinner meeting with their advisory board.
"Someone is going to have to help me," he joked, glancing at Torres. "Cooking chili for 10 or more people is a lot of work."
Torres, who has been involved in the church for a decade, practices singing a hymn.
Transience is a feature of the community, but Mainwaring hopes that this six-month program, funded by an Innovation Grant from Leadership Education at Duke Divinity, will help develop more ownership and agency among lay leaders.
The leadership program began in February 2019. The first order of business was to identify and recruit five parishioners who have shown an interest in leadership and ownership of the church.
Each, in one way or another, experiences homelessness. Some are on the streets; others are living with family. Some are unemployed; others are receiving support from Veterans Affairs assistance programs.
The following month, they attended the 2019 Lansing Lee Conference at the Kanuga retreat center in North Carolina, where Stevenson and Torres addressed a crowd of roughly 100 attendees.
"Some can't fathom what it's like to live outside," Mainwaring said. "What can we do to change that? In part, we have to create opportunities for them to tell their own story."
Mainwaring, center, and the Rev. Kenya Thompson, left, at the service in Woodruff Park. Thompson, who is the curate of the Church of the Common Ground, will be part of the transition team as Mainwaring moves to a new church in August.
Mainwaring recently announced that she will be leaving the Church of the Common Ground in August to take on the role of rector/pastor of St. Martin in the Fields Episcopal Church in Atlanta.
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta will bring in support for the transition alongside current clergy staff, the Rev. Kenya Thompson, who serves as curate, and the Rev. Devadas Lynton, who serves as deacon.
Mainwaring hopes they will continue several aspects of the work in progress. In addition to evaluating the effectiveness of the leadership-mentoring program, Mainwaring hopes to begin collecting data that could help the church stay in touch with those they serve. That way, she wouldn't have to rely on word-of-mouth if, say, someone were in the hospital or had other needs.
"If we were able to have that information, then it would inform how present we are capable of being," she said.
In addition, part of the job is raising awareness within the diocese to seek more effective ways to be a prophetic and provocative voice, especially about the connection between homelessness and race.
Are there opportunities for you to be a prophetic and provocative voice?
The National Alliance to End Homelessness reports that African Americans are overwhelmingly the largest group affected by homelessness. African Americans account for only 13 percent of the general population but 40 percent of people experiencing homelessness.
The cause, according to Pew Charitable Trusts, is "a pileup of inequities," including racial disparities exacerbated by issues like lack of wealth and legal system inequality.
"I know that there is no quick fix to addiction or homelessness or years of physical and mental abuse. Linear trajectories are not always possible," Mainwaring said. "[As with] most of us, there is a long view."
Show up and be present
But the core of the ministry lies in relationships, in creating safe spaces where people who have exhausted most of their other connections can worship freely without judgment or further shame.
Mainwaring hugs a church member before the Sunday service.
That can take time. In one instance, a woman came to Sunday worship for months staying on the periphery. Mainwaring eventually decided to just sit with her. Then one Sunday the woman moved in closer -- 100 feet, then 50 feet.
Later, the woman sat at a table next to the group during one of their gatherings. Mainwaring invited her to come closer, but she kept her distance -- yet sat close enough to hear the discussion.
The next week, she pulled up a chair.
"We are faithful to show up and be present," Mainwaring said. "As a result, they know that regardless of snow, rain, humidity, we will be here."
Questions to consider
Without lay leaders, the church is "at risk of being the very system of charity and dependence that we critique," Mainwaring said. Where do the risks lie for you and your organization? Could privilege and good intentions be undercutting your mission?
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Q: Find the highest set bit I have 5 different values which are saved as bits like 10010.
I get the value as an Int from the Database (cannot change that) so like 24 means 11000
I know that i can get the biggest bit here by using
if ((decbin($d) & 16) == 16)

but if the first is 0 i would have to check the next bit, and if that is 0 i would have to ...
So after all i would have a block of ifs and if there were more bits the block was bigger.
Is there a simple way to just get the "id" (or value, would not matter) of the highest bit with a 1?

A: Yes. Compute the base 2 logarithm of the number and floor it:
$highbit = floor(log($d, 2));

If $highbit, for instance, is 5, it means that the 5th bit is the highest bit set to 1.

A: The highest bit set in an integer is equal to the integer base-2 logarithm of that integer.
While there exist many different implementations for doing that kind of thing in assembler and C and such, more or less efficiently, the probably easiest way to do it in PHP is to actually use logarithm.
The log() function surely is not the most efficient way of solving the problem, but seeing as you are in a script language, it probably won't be any slower (and quite possibly faster) than implementing one of the "better" algorithms in PHP with 2 dozen statements.
Thus:
$highestbit = (int)(log($value,2));

A: Interesting ... had to check for rounding-problems immediately and found none in the range of up to 1'000'000, though my test-code revealed problems for less native bases, like 3:
3^5 = 243 but floor(log(243, 3)) gives 4

A: def hibit(v):
    """ uint v -> highest bit: 0101 -> 0100, 01xxxx -> 010000 """
    # cf http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html
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    v |= v >> 2
    v |= v >> 4
    v |= v >> 8
    v |= v >> 16
    return v ^ (v >> 1)

for v in range(0, 9+1) + range(2**31-1, 2**31+2):
    print v, hibit(v)

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Vor der Saison
Die 22 Mannschaften trafen an 42 Spieltagen jeweils zweimal aufeinander. Die zwei besten Mannschaften stiegen direkt in die Primera División auf. Die Teams auf den Plätzen Drei bis Sechs ermittelten in den Play-Offs den dritten Aufsteiger. Reservemannschaften waren nicht aufstiegsberechtigt. Die letzten vier Vereine stiegen ab.

Als Absteiger aus der Primera División nahmen der FC Villarreal, Sporting Gijón und Racing Santander teil. Aufgestiegen aus der Segunda División B waren Real Madrid Castilla, CD Mirandés, SD Ponferradina und CD Lugo.

Teams

Abschlusstabelle

Kreuztabelle

Play-Offs
An den Play-Offs nehmen die Mannschaften auf den Plätzen drei bis sechs der regulären Saison teil. Im Halbfinale trifft der Dritte auf den Sechsten und der Vierte auf den Fünften. Der Sieger der Finalbegegnung qualifiziert sich als dritter Aufsteiger für die Primera División.

Halbfinale

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Finale

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Nach der Saison
 Aufsteiger in die Primera División
 1. – FC Elche
 2. – FC Villarreal
 3. – UD Almería

 Absteiger in die Segunda División B
 18. – CD Guadalajara
 20. – Racing Santander
 21. – SD Huesca
 22. – Deportivo Xerez

 Absteiger aus der Primera División
 RCD Mallorca
 Deportivo La Coruña
 Real Saragossa

 Aufsteiger in die Segunda División
 Deportivo Alavés
 CD Teneriffa
 SD Eibar
 Real Jaén

Torschützenliste

Weblinks
 Resultados Históricos Del Fútbol Español arquero-arba.futbolme.net
 Segunda División lafutbolteca.com
 Torjägerliste auf soccerway.com

Einzelnachweise

2012/13
Fußballsaison 2012/13

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Q: RSA over Jquery Ajax The company i work for has found a problem working on a new page, in sending new/modified users passwords when the account is saved to server side code from client side using jquery ajax.
At the moment, the password is sent in plaintext to a webmethod in which it is processed and then encrypted server side before being sent to the database.
My major fear is a sniffer catching the traffic in the middle and taking the plaintext password, pretty logical problem.
My company does not use SSL/HTTPS therefore im looking at other encryption methods.
The only person capable of changing passwords is the administrator, and the logged in user is capable of changing their own password. Therefore nobody else has access to that page without authentication.
Should i use a plaintext key in javascript with 3DES to send an encrypted password to server side and reduce the chances of a man in the middle attack,
Or should i use a public/private key system with RSA so that a generated public key is sent to clientside on post, that can only encrypt the data, and then server side containing the private key to decrypt the data when sent.
Obviously the user/ admin is always going to be able to debug and see their password in their webbrowser, but which is the better solution to prevent a man in the middle attack.
Ive read that rsa encryption can be quite hungry on resources to generate keys.
Thanks.

A: You could use RSA to generate a key pair, and issue the public key to the client. The client could encrypt it using a usefull jQuery plugin pidCrypt
Back on the server, you could decrypt the sensitive data with the private key. We are actually doing something similar for our ASP.NET Web API solution (in addition it running over HTTPS).
The following is a nice post by John Peterson showing how to do something similar and use RSA with Web API
Hth.


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# National Maternity Hospital
'Two fingers to the Irish people': Taoiseach urged to nationalise entire St Vincent's campus if healthcare group refuses to budge on ownership
The hospital group has insisted that it will not sell the land on the Elm Park campus.
Jun 23rd 2021, 11:43 AM
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD move to nationalise the entire St Vincent's Hospital campus if St Vincent's Healthcare Group (SVHG) does not roll back on its position that it "must retain ownership" of the Dublin 4 site on which a new National Maternity Hospital will be built.
Labour leader Alan Kelly told the Taoiseach during Leaders Questions today that the statement from group last night was "insulting" and said the government needed to stand up to "bullies".
He said the statement was "two fingers" to the government and the Irish people.
SVHG released a statement yesterday in which it said it must retain the ownership, but said that "for the avoidance of doubt" the new NMH "will be clinically independent".
SVHG operates St Vincent's Private Hospital on an adjoining site and says that retaining ownership of the maternity hospital site would allow "the delivery of integrated patient care".
What is needed now is leverage, Kelly told the Dáil today, who called on the Taoiseach to compulsory purchase order (CPO) the whole site – public, private and maternity.
He said the Labour Party would support such a move.
The Taoiseach said the government "won't rule anything out" – but added that issuing a CPO for the land, or the entire complex, could run the risk of collapsing the entire project.
Micheál Martin said the group's statement yesterday was "not an appropriate response at all".
"A hospital that the State builds, is a hospital the State should own," he said.
'The investment that the State would make in this hospital would be very, very significant, very significant in terms of the hundreds of millions that could be spent here, and that investment needs to be protected," said Martin, who called on the board to reflect on the situation and what is in the public interest.
"This is an important moment as it sends a signal to other developments," the Taoiseach acknowledged.
The first priority of government is to build a first-class maternity hospital that is co-located, said the Taoiseach.
Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald said the "mess" with the new National Maternity Hospital "goes way back" and "needs to be urgently sorted".
Explainer: How an ownership row is still holding back Ireland's new National Maternity Hospital
New location may need to be found for National Maternity Hospital, says Tánaiste
Speaking earlier this morning, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has said that he will meet representatives from SVHG, stating that the hospital group's statement yesterday, that the land on the Elm Park Campus is not for sale, has not been helpful.
"I don't think that is a helpful thing for them to be doing. And I think they should be cognisant and have a bit more respect for the people of Ireland, who fund their hospital," the health minister told Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1.
I don't think that's the way to do business. These conversations need to be held and they need to be held respectfully.
Donnelly said that he will meet representatives of SVHG, but did not say when the meeting will take place. In its statement yesterday, the group said it was "more than willing" to meet the government to discuss the relocation of the hospital from Holles Street.
The health minister outlined that the government's position is that "the women of Ireland want to own the land that their own maternity hospital is built on".
"I would very much like to see that facilitated and I think it would be in everyone's interest if that was facilitated," he said.
The comments came ahead of a Dáil debate on the ownership of the hospital and the site on which it will sit.
The Social Democrats tabled a motion calling for the new hospital to be fully publicly owned. The government is not opposing the motion.
It said that "for the avoidance of doubt" the new National Maternity Hospital "will be clinically independent".
Donnelly said today that there's no resolution to the dispute that gives any of the stakeholders exactly what they want.
He said using a compulsory purchase order, which has been mooted by several opposition TDs, is not desirable because it would involve a lengthy legal process.
"That is not a route that resolves any problems quickly. You're going to end up in court for years through a compulsory purchase order," Donnelly said.
In the Dáil today, the health minister reiterated that he would prefer the land the National Maternity Hospital sits on to be publicly owned, but added that public ownership is not a prerequisite to clinical independence.
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Edison students get a worldwide view
Freshman Niles Sablan describes Cambodia during the 9th annual World Exposition at Edison High School.
(DREW A. KELLEY, / DREW A. KELLEY)
By Brittany Woolsey
More than 300 freshmen at Edison High School competed last week with projects that represented 41 different countries and cultures.
The theme of the ninth annual competition was "We are What We Leave Behind," said social studies teacher Joshua Bammer, who leads the event with freshmen geography students each year.
"The goal was project-based learning and to teach the kids about competition," Bammer said. "Each country has its own social problems or issues that can be solved."
The students could include information about an area's music, food, festivals, history, geography and noteworthy structures.
Presentations included cultural dances, a Vietnam display with water running through it, a representation of Italy with a proposed water filtration system and turbines on small homes in Africa.
A team representing Jamaica took home the top recognition for a presentation of Jamaican culture: reggae music, traditional dance, costumes and Jamaican jerk chicken with side dishes like plantain bread.
"It wasn't about winning," Danielle Solorzano, a student on the Jamaican team, wrote in an email. "It was about learning about a foreign nation [and] making our program and Mr. Bammer proud."
Bammer said the event allows students to think of problems outside their own.
"It's a challenge to try to solve a problem, not just in Huntington Beach or at Edison, but a world problem," he said. "They can actually wrap their head around that and know they don't just live in a bubble. There are really major issues out there. They really dug deep and tried to solve it in front of the judges."
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Brittany Woolsey left Times Community News in 2016 after serving as a reporter with the Daily Pilot and the Huntington Beach Independent. She joined the staff after nearly four years of freelancing for Times Community News. She has a journalism degree from Cal State Long Beach. Before reporting in Huntington Beach, she wrote features for Times Community News and was a reporter at the Long Beach Register and Long Beach Post.


G.R. NOS. 147773-74 - DENNIS MANGANGEY, ET AL. v. HON. SANDIGANBAYAN, ET AL.
DENNIS MANGANGEY, GABRIEL WANASON, and ANSELMO FORAYO, Petitioners, v. HONORABLE SANDIGANBAYAN (Fifth Division) and the PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Respondents.
As an offshoot of the affidavit/report and for failure to complete the Banilag-Minoli Road, provincial officers Engineer Dionisio Padua, Senior Civil Engineer Francisco Tigcangay, and Paracelis Municipal Treasurer Tomas Pocyao, and project contractor Leon were charged before the Sandiganbayan in an Information4 dated August 14, 1991, alleging that they conspired with evident bad faith to defraud the government in violation of Section 3(e)5 of Republic Act No. 3019 also known as the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act. The Information was docketed as Crim. Case No. 17007. All the accused in this case were acquitted on October 27, 2000 on Amended Informations to include private contractor Leon as an accused. Amended Informations for this case and Crim. Case No. 17008 were filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor and a joint trial was held. Criminal Case No. 17007 is not a subject of this petition.
That on or about the 8th day of December, 1986, in the Municipality of Paracelis, Mountain Province, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, the above-named accused, all public officers, MATTHEW WANDAG, being then the Municipal Mayor of Paracelis, Mountain Province, ANSELMO FORAYO, being then the Municipal Revenue Clerk of Paracelis, Mountain Province, GABRIEL WANASON, being then the Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator of Paracelis, Mountain Province, and DENNIS MANGANGEY, being then the Maintenance Foreman, Office of the Provincial Engineer, Mountain Province, while in the performance of their official functions taking advantage of their official position, committing the offense in relation to their office and conspiring and confederating with one another, and with accused Leon Acapen, a private contractor, did then and there willfully, unlawfully, feloniously and by means of deceit defraud the Government by making untruthful statements in the Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance signed by accused Gabriel Wanason and Anselmo Forayo in one and by accused Dennis Mangangey in the other and both dated December 8, 1986, and in which they had the obligation to disclose the truth, by making it appear that they have personally inspected the work for the widening and partial relocation of the Banilag-Minoli Road in Paracelis, Mountain Province, consisting of the removal of slides and overbreaks and the widening and construction thereof, and thereafter found the same to have been fully accomplished 100% in accordance with the plans, specifications and requirements thereof, when in truth and in fact, as all the accused well knew, there was no accomplishment on the removal of slides and overbreaks and only 365 cu. m. out of 4,010 cu. m. for the widening and construction had actually been accomplished, and as a result of such false certifications, Leon Acapen was paid the amount of ONE HUNDRED SIX THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED SEVENTY PESOS (P106,970.00), Philippine Currency, through a check which accused Matthew Wandag subsequently encashed after obtaining the same from accused Leon Acapen and causing the latter to affix his signature thereon, thereby inflicting damage and prejudice to the government in the aforesaid sum.
All the accused in both cases were arraigned a second time on August 9, 1993, except accused Wandag who took flight to the United States. All pleaded not guilty.
After a joint trial, the Sandiganbayan, on October 27, 2000, exonerated all the accused in Crim. Case No. 17007 while it convicted petitioners for the crime of estafa through falsification of public documents, with the exception of Leon in Crim. Case No. 17008.
In its Decision, the Sandiganbayan found that the signatories of the Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance, namely, Mangangey, Wanason, Forayo, and the late Bernardo, in their own official functions, falsified a public document when they attested that they personally inspected the work of Leon and reported that it was 100% completed in accordance with the plans, specifications, and contract requirements notwithstanding that the work on the aforesaid project was not yet finished. The Sandiganbayan found that petitioners conspired with the accused Wandag to defraud the Government.
1. In Criminal Case No. 17007, accused Dionisio Padua, Francisco Tigcangay, Tomas Pocyao and Leon Acapen are hereby ACQUITTED of the crime of Violation of Section 3(e) of Republic Act 3019, as amended on ground of reasonable doubt. The bail bonds posted for their provisional liberty are ordered cancelled.
2. In Criminal Case No. 17008, accused Dennis Mangangey, Gabriel Wanason and Anselmo Forayo are hereby found GUILTY beyond reasonable doubt as principals of the crime of Estafa through Falsification of Public Documents defined and penalized under Articles 315 and 171 in relation to Article 48 of the Revised Penal Code. Absent any modifying circumstance and applying the Indeterminate Sentence Law, each is hereby sentenced to suffer an indeterminate penalty ranging from SIX (6) YEARS of prision correccional as minimum, to TWELVE (12) YEARS of prision mayor as maximum, with accessories provided by law; to pay a fine of P2,000.00 without subsidiary imprisonment in case of insolvency; to indemnify jointly and severally, the Republic of the Philippines in the amount of NINETY-NINE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED SEVENTY PESOS (P99,670.00); and, to pay their proportionate share of the costs. Accused Leon Acapen is hereby ACQUITTED on ground of reasonable doubt. The property bail bond posted by said accused is ordered cancelled.
Let alias warrant of arrest be issued against accused Matthew Wandag.
Prefatorily, the Sandiganbayan acquitted Leon, the purported contractor of the project on ground of reasonable doubt. It noted that during the preliminary investigation, Leon admitted that he was not the real contractor; that he did not do any work on the road; that he signed the Letter of Acceptance printed below the Resolution of Award dated October 21, 19869 and the Municipal Voucher; that he received the PhP 106,970 net contract payment;10 that he indorsed the PNB check payment for PhP 106,970 to Wandag; and that it was Wandag who exchanged the said check with a demand draft in Wandag's name, all because he was being threatened and coerced by Wandag. Leon reported these matters as early as January 8, 1987 in an affidavit, shortly after he signed the certificate to the Monitoring Committee of Paracelis, Department of Local Government. His affidavit was appended to his counter-affidavit executed during the preliminary investigation. In our view, Wandag had coerced Leon and used him as a dummy so he could himself get payment for the unfinished road.
Essentially, petitioners contend that the findings of the Sandiganbayan are bereft of factual and legal basis, and that the circumstances relied upon by the Sandiganbayan are insufficient to convict them of estafa through falsification of public document. They reason that the facts from which the inferences were derived were not proven. Furthermore, according to petitioners, these circumstances are insufficient to convict them beyond reasonable doubt.
The Sandiganbayan, petitioners claim, relied on the following circumstantial pieces of evidence in convicting petitioners: (1) Mangangey erroneously testified on the starting point of the project; (2) Alfonso Dilog and Franklin Odsey, who Mangangey mentioned in his testimony as his companions during the actual inspection of the project, were not presented to corroborate Mangangey's testimony; (3) during the preliminary investigation, Forayo and Wanason testified that no actual inspection was conducted; (4) Bernardo, before his death, admitted he did not personally inspect the project; (5) during the inspection, Mangangey could not attest to the measurements of the actual volume/quantity accomplished by the contractor in accordance with the pakyaw contract; and (6) Wandag took flight to evade prosecution.
As to the fourth, petitioners assail the admission by the late Bernardo that he did not personally inspect the project as a circumstance that led to their conviction.
Petitioners insist that from the evidence submitted, it has not been established that petitioners conspired to falsify documents to defraud the government. They posit that aside from the lone circumstance that the Government paid for an incomplete project, no other evidence or circumstance was adduced to prove that they indeed conspired with Wandag. No proof was shown that they had knowledge of Wandag's criminal intent to defraud the Government as it was established that Wandag alone committed the offense. Moreover, they point out that it was Wandag alone who benefited from the crime as petitioners were never shown to have shared the proceeds with Wandag. Consequently, petitioners conclude that absent proof of conspiracy, they could not be held liable for estafa. In all, they assert that the evidence of the prosecution did not overcome petitioners' constitutional and legal right to be presumed innocent.
The Sandiganbayan found that Wandag masterminded the fraud and that the local government funded road project was neither submitted to public bidding nor were the required documents on the road project in order when it was launched. Ostensibly, Leon was merely pressured to sign the contract.
ART. 315. Swindling (estafa). - - Any person who shall defraud another by any of the means mentioned hereinbelow shall be punished by x x x.
(a) By using a fictitious name, or falsely pretending to possess power, influence, qualifications, property, credit, agency, business or imaginary transactions, or by means of other similar deceits.
ART. 48. Penalty for complex crimes. - - When a single act constitutes two or more grave or less grave felonies, or when an offense is a necessary means for committing the other, the penalty for the most serious crime shall be imposed, the same to be applied in its maximum period.
There is no question that petitioners were public officials and employees performing their official duty when they certified in a public document that they inspected and found that the road project was 100% complete per contract specifications.
COA Examining Technical Audit Specialist Angluben testified on October 28, 199418 and stated in his affidavit dated August 27, 1987 that the facts in the certificates of inspection and acceptance were false. His testimony was based on the specifications of the pakyaw contract as evinced by the Individual Project Program for Roads and Bridges in the Mountain Province,19 the original Cross-Section of the Program for Banilag-Minoli Road widening and partial relocation road project,20 and the earthwork computations. According to Angluben, the earthworks dug were only 364.5 cu. m.,21 short of the estimated 4,010 cu. m. He also found that no earthworks were done on the estimated 1,800 cu. m. for removal of slides and overbreaks.22 The payment of the completed road project was going to be based on the actual volume of the earthworks as clearly specified in the pakyaw contract, vis - Ã -vis the estimates of the volume of earthworks in the project. The only conclusion that could be drawn is that the Banilag-Minoli Road was far from finished at the time the certifications were signed by petitioners and when the government paid for the road project.
Based on the aforesaid documents and Angluben's testimony, we agree with the Sandiganbayan that Mangangey lied in his declarations. First, his erroneous identification of the starting point of the project puts into doubt his claim that he personally inspected the road project. Second, we find it suspect that Mangangey, a foreman and a supposed technical expert of the Provincial Engineer's Office, could not specify the width and the extent of the work done on the road. Third, Mangangey's report that the actual earthworks excavated were exactly the same as the approximated volume of earthworks to be excavated is highly improbable. He also offered no proof to rebut the results of the technical audit of Angluben.
As to the credibility of Angluben, it is a familiar and fundamental doctrine that the determination of the credibility of witnesses is the domain of the trial court as it is in the best position to observe the witnesses' demeanor.23 Angluben's oral testimony is supported by documentary evidence. Under the circumstances of this case, we are not inclined to depart from this principle.
Besides, Forayo and Wanason clearly admitted in their counter-affidavits that they did not personally inspect the project when they affixed their signatures on the Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance. According to Forayo, he merely relied on the late Bernardo's signature. Wanason said he signed because he was threatened by Wandag.
Now, as to the requirement that the accused had a legal obligation to disclose the truth of the facts narrated, suffice it to say that a Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance is required in the processing of vouchers for the payment of government projects. Patently, the falsification of this document by the petitioners caused the release of the payment for an unfinished road at great cost to the Government.
Similarly, we find that the charge of estafa through falsification of public documents under Art. 315, par. 2(a) of the RPC was likewise proven. The first element, that the accused made false pretenses or fraudulent representations, need not be discussed all over. We have sufficiently gone over this matter. The same holds true with the requirement that these falsifications were made during the commission of the crime. The falsified certificates of inspection and acceptance resulted in the government paying for the unfinished project to the disadvantage and injury of the State. Altogether, the elements of the complex crime of estafa through falsification of public document are present.
Based on our earlier discussion, the facts and the circumstances earlier mentioned when strung together duly prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Mangangey did not inspect the road project. He could not say where the starting point of the subject project was when he was supposed to have inspected it. He certified that the subject project was completed exactly to the approximate volume of excavated earth without making any measurements of the earthworks accomplished. Forayo and Wanason willfully signed the Certificate of Inspection and Acceptance, and certified that they personally inspected the road when in fact they did not as admitted in their counter-affidavits during the preliminary investigation. Wandag took flight - -a sign of guilt.
In addition, it has not been shown that Forayo and Wanason were under duress when they signed the falsified documents nor that any of their constitutional rights have been violated when they made their declarations in their counter-affidavits. Both Forayo and Wanason did not dispute the finding that Mangangey did not inspect the road project. They instead only gave separate excuses on why they signed the certificate. Also, the non-presentation of the investigating officer who conducted the preliminary investigation to testify on the admissions is insignificant as this would only be corroborative. Although petitioners vehemently deny receiving money from Wandag as their share in the loot, this information is of no moment. The concerted acts of the co-conspirators resulted in the processing and release of the payment for an unfinished road to the disadvantage and damage to the government. All these circumstances are based on facts proven by the prosecution, pointing to Wandag and petitioners as conspiring to defraud the Government. Finally, we do not agree with petitioners that as lowly employees, they were only prevailed upon by Wandag. As succinctly observed by the Sandiganbayan, if indeed there was duress, this duress is not the exempting circumstance of "irresistible force" in Art. 12, par. 5 of the RPC sufficient to exculpate petitioners. A moral choice was available to them.
Petitioners are likewise mistaken that the interpretation of the provision in the pakyaw contract on the volume of the work accomplished is not factual but merely a conclusion by the Sandiganbayan. Angluben testified that that there was only 364.5 cu. m. of excavation work compared to the projected 5,810 cu. m. per program of work. The aggregate estimate of 5,810 cu. m. is based on the cross-section of the project and the Individual Project Program. The Sandiganbayan observed that the contract specifies the approximate volume of excavation as a basis for payment, and consequently, full payment was due only when the actual work done had been measured and verified corresponding to the maximum approximate volume of work. That there was only 364.5 cu. m. of excavation and there was actual payment for 5,810 cu. m. are not mere interpretations of the contract as petitioners want us to believe. These are physical evidence of the amount of work done and evidence of the incompleteness of the work on the road. All told, we rule that the guilt of petitioners has been proven beyond any iota of doubt.
WHEREFORE, we DENY the petition, and AFFIRM IN TOTO the assailed October 27, 2000 Decision and April 6, 2001 Resolution of the Sandiganbayan Fifth Division in Criminal Case Nos. 17007-08. No pronouncement as to costs.
1 Rollo, pp. 19-20, 46.
7 Rollo, pp. 67-68. Penned by Associate Justice Minita V. Chico-Nazario (now a member of this Court) and concurred in by Associate Justices Anacleto D. Badoy, Jr. and Ma. Cristina Cortez-Estrada.
9 Evidence Folder, Exhibits "B" and "B-1," Formal Offer of Evidence dated November 2, 1994.
16 Relucio v. Civil Service Commission, G.R. No. 147182, November 21, 2002, 392 SCRA 435, 441; Lecaroz v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. No. 130872, March 25, 1999, 305 SCRA 396, 413; citing Art. 171 of the RPC.
17 Fernandez v. People, G.R. No. 138503, September 28, 2000, 341 SCRA 277, 286.
18 TSN, October 28, 1994, pp. 1-46.
19 Evidence Folder, Exhibit "C."
23 Llanto v. Alzona, G.R. No. 150730, January 31, 2005, 450 SCRA 288, 295-296.
24 Talay v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 119477, February 27, 2003, 398 SCRA 185, 201.
25 People v. Cordova, G.R. No. 83373, July 5, 1993, 224 SCRA 319, 339; People v. Martinado, G.R. No. 92020, October 19, 1992, 214 SCRA 712, 732.
26 People v. Gregorio, G.R. No. 153781, September 24, 2003, 412 SCRA 90, 96; see also People v. Garcia, G.R. No. 94187, November 4, 1992, 215 SCRA 349, 361; Perez v. Sandiganbayan, G.R. NOS. 76203-04, December 6, 1989, 180 SCRA 9, 13.
27 People v. Macatana, No. L-57061, May 9, 1988, 161 SCRA 235, 240.
28 People v. De Roxas, G.R. No. 106783, February 15, 1995, 241 SCRA 369, 378.
29 People v. Liquiran, G.R. No. 105693, November 19, 1993, 228 SCRA 62, 74; People v. Rostata, G.R. No. 91482, February 9, 1993, 218 SCRA 657, 678; People v. Pama, G.R. NOS. 90297-98, December 11, 1992, 216 SCRA 385, 401.
30 People v. Genobia, G.R. No. 110068, August 3, 1994, 234 SCRA 699, 706; People v. Alvero, G.R. No. 72319, June 30, 1993, 224 SCRA 16, 27.
31 Rivera v. People, G.R. No. 139185, September 29, 2003, 462 SCRA 350, 364.


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Iowa native Buck City comes thru with a new visual for "Chasing Money" shot by The Video Plug. "Chasing Money" is the first single from Buck City's upcoming mixtape "The Hate Never Paid You" Hosted by Dj Smoke.
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Q: Advise on Weight Function for statistical analysis needed I'm doing a statistical analysis of an experiment I'm conducting, and right now I'm trying to define a proper methods for data mining. Please take a look at my problem:
I'm doing a user research recording times of completion of a task. As an output I have 10 times of completion from each participant. As you can imagine the time of completion of the first try is the highest and further on while user gets more and more familiar with the interface it exponentially decays. So the graphical representation of the obtained data for each user looks more or less like this expo1.png
I'm trying to get the efficiency time of the tested user interface, which means the average time user needs to complete the task. I assume (i) that the average here is not representative at all, because you have a huge deviation from the average on the first attempt, as user is not familiar with the UI, thus has close to 0 efficiency, (ii) more to the end of the exponential line you go more representative it gets in terms of actual working efficiency. Thus I think that proper weighing of the data could reveal an actual average working efficiency for a certain participant. I tried to indicate it on the image right here expo2.png
The problem is my Hardcore Math XP level is hardly a 0 and I'm not familiar with the concept of weight distribution at all. Could you please assist me in solving this problem.
If you need any clarification please let me know, I'll update the question.
Thank you in advance good sirs!


Today is the first day of the Christmas holidays, and boy has it been a long time coming!
I'm knackered, the kids are knackered, we're totally fed up of the dark mornings and early starts, and are well and truly ready to embrace the lazy mornings and generally slow down a bit. I've decided to take a whole two weeks away from the blog this year to spend time with those little ratbags of mine, so thought I would wish you all a very merry Christmas and sign off with a delicious festive cocktail recipe to kick off the holidays in style!
I'm lucky enough to work with drinks company 31DOVER.com fairly often, but I am also a regular paying customer of theirs. Since discovering them this time last year, they have been the only place I've gone to when I want to top up my drinks cabinet. Not only do they sell a huge range of really special spirits that you won't find on the supermarket shelves (of course they sell all your favourite beer, wine, fizz, liqueurs and mixers too), they have a price match promise so you know you'll never pay over the odds and the pièce de résistance is their next day delivery, which is free on orders over £75, or just £5.95 if you spend less than that.
They also gift wrap their bottles in really elegant packaging for just £4.95, which makes them the perfect place to go to for emergency last minute presents at any time of year!
I've just placed my festive drinks order with them, which consisted of a bottle of Hendricks, a bottle of Bulleit bourbon and a case of Christmas Day fizz - plus they have very kindly sent me a bottle of Two Birds Christmas Spiced Vodka as an early Christmas present, which is the main ingredient of the cocktail I'm sharing today.
Two Birds vodka is created right here in England (Market Harborough to be precise) and the Christmas Spiced vodka has been described as 'a mince pie in a glass'. Whoever said that was completely and utterly right; I have never tasted anything so festive and delicious in my life - you really can taste the cinnamon and nutmeg and spices!
I've created a spin on a White Russian to create a truly festive drink (although it has to be said, this stuff tastes equally amazing over ice, on its own). In actual fact I think my mince pie in a glass cocktail might replace my obligatory Christmas Night Baileys this year!
Pour a generous measure of vodka into a glass filled with ice. If you're going for milk as a mixer go for a long glass, if cream then a brandy glass is perfect. Add your mixer and sprinkle with grated nutmeg and cinnamon. Serve with an actual mince pie! This is seriously the perfect combo for a cold Christmas night!
Merry Christmas, one and all. See you in 2017!
If you want to place a drinks order at 31DOVER.com - make sure you use my discount code MODERN31D for 10% off!


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"Audiobooks are remarkable. For me, they're a way to hear another interpretation of my inner voice."
Talking with Robert Goolrick
"Audiobooks are remarkable. For me, they're a way to hear another interpretation of my inner voice." So says novelist Robert Goolrick, author of the critically acclaimed New York Times #1 bestselling novel A RELIABLE WIFE.
Goolrick's new book, HEADING OUT TO WONDERFUL, is set in the town of Brownsburg, Virginia, in 1948. His main character, Charlie Beale, is home from the war in Europe, carrying two suitcases--one with a set of butcher knives and the other filled with money.
Goolrick says his goal for the audiobook was to reproduce the atmosphere and accents of the people who live in the valley of Virginia. "I really wanted to capture the music of the way the people in the South talk, because we are an oral people. So much depends on the way we speak. We don't speak like anyone else." He says there are advantages to listening to his novel. "An audiobook, unlike a printed book, can go a long way in creating atmosphere for the reader--giving the reader a sense of rhythm, a sense of place."
While the setting of the novel is the U.S., Goolrick says the original story happened in a small town in Greece. "It's a true story. I lived in a little town just like Brownsburg, but a Greek town. There was only one crime there that had ever been committed, just as in my book." A man Goolrick knew had been a boy when that crime occurred, and the author turned that man into Sam, the narrator of his novel--who looks back on that terrible crime that happened in his childhood. "When I heard the story, I thought it was the best story I'd ever heard. I wrote the novel to figure out why it was so fascinating to me."
Norman Dietz narrates the new novel. Goolrick says Dietz has the seasoned voice of an older man. He adds that matching the right narrator to the material is key to a successful audio production. "Isn't that what everybody hopes for?
In the case of my new novel, we needed an older reader. He's telling a story that happened a long time ago, so we needed a seasoned voice with some character to it."
Goolrick also feels that Mark Feuerstein was the right narrator for A RELIABLE WIFE. "The reason Mark was picked for that one was because when I was in advertising, I used Mark a lot in voice-overs for commercials. People always said that Mark sounds like me, that we sound alike when we read."
Goolrick says getting the audio version of the novel just right is key to evoking the intended response from the reader. "This book is very close to my heart. People always ask you which characters are you, and in this book it's very much Sam. I look at the story the way Sam does. It's my recollection of my childhood as much as it's Sam's recollection of his."--Randy O'Brien
OCT/NOV 12 © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
Photo © Leigh Ledare


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"Getting off on Frank Sinatra", the title to a new mystery series, caught my eye the moment I saw the title on-line.
Copper Black, is the arts and entertainment editor, for the newspaper The Las Vegas Light. Her latest assignment is to interview Marilyn Weaver the founder of the élite Anna Roberts Park Academy.
The two women met the night before at a fund-raiser for the Neon Museum and a bit later they boarded a bus together to visit the Boneyard, a site where old neon signs live. Their connection sparked at the museum grows and before the night is out, Marilyn's husband Curtis, asks Copper to house sit at a client's home for a month. Copper accepts the offer because it would finally get her out of living with her brother and sister-in law for a while.
The evening should have ended on a high note, but just a few hours later Copper stumbles upon Marilyn Weaver murdered in her home.
A very intriguing premise for this cozy and light mystery that I enjoyed reading. The only complication I experienced reading this book is keeping the men in Copper's life straight. Although their names are different, David and Daniel, I still managed to mix up which was which.
And the only downside, I wish Frank Sinatra, the persona, had more of role in the book than being a place to get off the Nevada highway.


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Miu Miu's New Leading Ladies: We're Already Obsessed
Story from Politics
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Photo: Courtesy of Miu Miu.
Miuccia Prada has tapped Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos, the two stars of French film Blue Is The Warmest Color, for Miu Miu's Resort 2014 ad in a campaign photographed by Inez and Vinoodh.
The film, which features Seydoux and Exarchopoulos as young lovers, scooped the Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or earlier this year, and has earned a NC-17 rating due to a number of explicit sex scenes. Controversy around the film has been further ignited following claims from Seydoux that shooting the film was "horrible" and that she would never work with director Abdellatif Kechiche again.
So far two out of five campaign shots of the actresses have been released, and from what we've seen they are nowhere near as scandalous as the film that brought them together—but the collection (with particular reference to the shoes) look pretty awesome. Miu Miu said of the campaign: "Five flirtatious compositions capture their candid chemistry: an arm casually slung over a shoulder, leaning together in a mirrored pose, casually reclined across each other on the floor. The background wall in baby pink and girlish styling of the collection contrast with the actresses' seductive presence."
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written by Libby Banks
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October is Farm to School month, and a new study from Colorado State University is examining the economic impact of local food purchasing.
More than 1,700 students from the Poudre School District participated.
Hoppess received a B.S. in soil science in 1960.
Established in 2016, the Alliance coordinates public-private research projects on phytobiomes.
Tyler Mason was awarded the James Beard Foundation (JBF) National Scholarship — one of 10 high-impact $20,000 scholarships. Mason, a doctoral student in the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, started a research project in January that focuses on specialty crops.
On a beautiful Colorado summer evening, hundreds of students, alumni, university leadership, industry leaders, colleagues and friends gathered to wish a happy 70th birthday to an extraordinary person – Temple Grandin.


BIM Aarhus and three Building educational institutions from Aarhus are planning a BIM Collaboration Workshop from October the 2nd to October the 6th in relation to BCS & BILT Europe 2017 and European Culture Capital 2017. The workshop will be open to the public to show how modern digital processes changes our Building Culture.
The theme will be interdisciplinary collaboration between Architects, Engineers and Architectural Technologist around an integrated design process, supported with digital models. The participants in the workshop will be students in Denmark and internationally, consisting of smaller multidisciplinary groups.
They will practice BIM cooperation around a predefined case, and constructing building solutions out from reflective, analytical, and contributing creative approaches.
Keywords for the workshop: Interdisciplinary collaboration, digital modeling and data exchange, preparation of Illustrations of technical issues including sustainability through BIM Modeling and Virtual Reality.
The city's citizens are invited to visit the workshop and follow the digital design process on Thursday, October 5th, 2017 and Friday, October the 6th, 2017 at the Scandinavian Center, Radisson Blu, where there will be free access.


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The Doctrine team is proud to announce that we have scheduled the release of the second beta snapshot for November 31st, 2007. This is very exciting news for the Doctrine team and community.
This means Doctrine is nearing a real release candidate :) As you all know, we had a RC1 that was released a little while back, but it was a mistake to call it an RC since we planned on still making many changes that would break BC. We have corrected ourselves and renamed it Beta1. We will continue with beta releases until we are comfortable with releasing a true RC1.


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President and CEO, McAfee, Inc.
Based on 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, David DeWalt details his 7 principles for building a successful enterprise. While not all seven are neccessarily critical to success, DeWalt says if you can't get the first two right you're bound to fail.
Seven Principles for Building Successful Businesses Program Highlights:
Generating a "noble cause" to find, motivate and retain the best employees.
How to instill and channel a winning culture.
Why acquisitions fail—and how to make them succeed.
"If you can see it, you can be it." Based on 25 years of experience in Silicon Valley, David DeWalt's first principle for building a successful enterprise is to communicate a strategic vision—capturing employee loyalty by framing it as a noble undertaking. His second is to create a winning culture, one in which competing to be Number One not only drives strategic imperatives but also flows through to actionable projects, budgets, and timelines in order to accomplish your goals. If you can't get these two principles right, notes DeWalt, you'll fail.
Devotion to customer success is his third requirement. Customers don't believe you have to be perfect, but they do expect you to do the right thing, particularly when something goes wrong. Fourth, develop an entrepreneurial spirit among your employees, and track attrition and retention to ensure their success. Fifth, execute well on acquisitions by aligning the goals of both companies, and sixth, take practical steps to market globally. And finally, strive for operational excellence.
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Since joining McAfee in 2007, David DeWalt has guided the company through consecutive quarters of double-digit growth, doubling its revenue and turning a nearly 80% gross profit margin—leading to the recent $7.7-billion acquisition announcement by Intel. Before joining McAfee, he held executive positions at several companies, including EMC, Documentum, and Oracle. DeWalt received his BS in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Delaware.
Stanford Executive Briefings Filmed monthly at the Stanford University Faculty Club, these lively presentations give you access to high-level speakers who share their insights and "best practices" with the business community.
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The Indigo, introduced as the IRIS Indigo, is a line of workstation computers developed and manufactured by Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI).  SGI first announced the system in July 1991.

The Indigo is considered one of the most capable graphics workstations of its era, and was essentially peerless in the realm of hardware-accelerated three-dimensional graphics rendering.  For use as a graphics workstation, the Indigo was equipped with a two-dimensional framebuffer or, for use as a 3D graphics workstation, with the Elan graphics subsystem including one to four Geometry Engines (GEs).  SGI sold a server version with no video adapter.

The Indigo's design is based on a simple cube motif in indigo hue. Graphics and other peripheral expansions are accomplished via the GIO32 expansion bus.

The Indigo was superseded generally by the SGI Indigo2, and in the low-cost market segment by the SGI Indy.

Technical specifications
The first Indigo model (code-named Hollywood) was introduced on July 22, 1991. It is based on the IP12 processor board, which contains a 32-bit MIPS R3000A microprocessor soldered on the board and proprietary memory slots supporting up to 96 MB of RAM.

The later version (code-named Blackjack) is based on the IP20 processor board, which has a removable processor module (PM1 or PM2) containing a 64-bit MIPS R4000 (100 MHz) or R4400 processor (100 MHz or 150 MHz) that implements the MIPS-III instruction set. The IP20 uses standard 72-pin SIMMs with parity, and has 12 SIMM slots for a total of 384 MB of RAM at maximum.

A Motorola 56000 DSP is used for Audio IO, giving it 4-channel 16-bit audio. Ethernet is supported on board by the SEEQ 80C03 chipset coupled with the HPC (High-performance Peripheral Controller), which provides the DMA engine. The HPC interfaces primarily between the GIO bus and the Ethernet, SCSI (WD33C93 chipset) and the 56000 DSP. The GIO bus interface is implemented by the PIC (Processor Interface Controller) on IP12 and MC (Memory Controller) on IP20.

Much of the hardware design can be traced back to the SGI IRIS 4D/3x series, which shared the same memory controller, Ethernet, SCSI, and optionally DSP as the IP12 Indigo. The 4D/30, 4D/35 and Indigo R3000 are all considered IP12 machines and run the same IRIX kernel. The Indigo R3000 is effectively a reduced cost 4D/35 without a VME bus. The PIC supports a VME expansion bus (used on the 4D/3x series) and GIO expansion slots (used on the Indigo). In all IP12, IP20, and IP22/IP24 (see SGI Indigo2) systems the HPC attached to the GIO bus.

Graphics options

Entry graphics
For entry graphics, the 8-bit color frame buffer comes in three versions.  One version uses the system's GIO expansion bus.  Another uses the main backplane like the XS, XZ, and Elan graphics options. The final is the same, but adds a second video output, giving the computer the ability to have two "heads", or monitors.

XS Graphics

The Indigo's XS Graphics option has a single GE7 Geometry Engine (GE), a RE3 Raster engine, a HQ2 Command engine, VC1, XMAP5.  It is ideal for low-cost wireframe operations, compared to more powerful, and expensive options for textured graphics.  Part of SGI's Express line of graphics, four XS graphics options were produced for the Indigo: the XS-8 offers 8-bit color, with one VM2 video RAM module; the XS-Z adds the ZB-4 Z buffer; the XS-24 adds two VM2 modules and offers 24 color bits and 32 bits including brightness; and the XS-24Z adds a Z buffer.

XZ Graphics

The XZ graphics option is also a member of SGI's Express graphics line.  It is similar to the XS-24z, but it includes a second GE7 Geometry Engine ASIC, doubling its geometry performance.

Elan Graphics

The highest performance graphics option offered for the Indigo, it is a member of SGI's Express graphics line. It is like the XS-24z and XZ, but has 4 GE7 Geometry Engine ASICs, giving it twice the performance of the XZ option.

Operating system
The Indigo was designed to run IRIX, SGI's version of Unix. The Indigos with R3000 processors are supported up to IRIX version 5.3, and Indigo equipped with an R4000 or R4400 processor can run up to IRIX 6.5.22.

Additionally, the free Unix-like operating system NetBSD has support for both the IP12 and IP20 Indigos as part of the sgimips port.

References

External links
 IP12 - LinuxMIPS
 Technolust: The Indigo Page (Silicon Graphics - SGI)
 SGI Indigo / Silicon Graphics R4000 Architecture
 Indigo Power Supply basics

Indigo
32-bit computers
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Dad O'Rourke's Bench
One man's love of natural beauty led to the creation of this hidden granite monument.
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Originally a simple scenic lookout spot, the serene resting spot known as Dad O'Rourke's Bench is now a permanent testament to the man who made it his goal to share the location's singular beauty with anyone who was willing.
Sitting at the end of a casual trailhead on California's Mount Tam is a stacked stone semi-circle with a brass plaque set into it. This spot is a scenic lookout bench created in honor of local man Richard Festus "Dad" O'Rourke, who was known to refer to the site as "the edge of the world." As the plaque states, the bench was built by O'Rourke's family and friends in honor of his 76th birthday in 1927. O'Rourke, a member of the Tamalpais Conservation Club who preserved the area, was known to bring people he knew to the spot to share its sites, as he considered it possibly the most beautiful spot in the world.
Park at the Rock Springs lot (at the intersection of Pantoll and Ridgecrest). Cross the road and walk uphill, heading southwest, on foot trails for 10 to 15 minutes.
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Mount Tam
Mill Valley, California, 94941
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Imagination Park
Discover for yourself what Herb Caen referred to as "the best kept secret in the Bay Area."
Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.
San Anselmo, California
George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.
Fairfax, California
Marin Museum of Bicycling and Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.
The Scout Stone
This commemorative stone was erected near the first Scout campsite.
Keeper of the Plains
The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.
Also known as "Robin Hood's tree," this tree has become a famed location along Hadrian's wall.
Penny Rock
Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.