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Yesterday brought the tragic news that Mihai Pătraşcu—who revolutionized the field of data structures since he burst onto the scene a decade ago—has passed away at the age of 29, after a year-and-a-half-long battle with brain cancer. Mihai was not only an outstanding researcher but a fun-loving, larger-than-life personality in the computer science theory community. For more information, see Lance and Bill's or Michael Mitzenmacher's blogs.
Mihai was an MIT CS PhD student (advised by Erik Demaine), who worked on the same floor as me for the first couple years I was here. I'm still in shock over his loss—I hadn't even known about the cancer before yesterday. Mihai and I had pretty big disagreements, mostly over the viability of quantum computing, the "technical" versus "conceptual" theory debate, various things he wrote on his blog and various things I wrote on mine. But it seems terribly stupid now to have let this stuff get in the way of collegiality. I feel guilty for not trying to mend bridges with him when I had the chance.
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When I was course scheduling officer for the Berkeley CS department, Mihai was kind enough to volunteer to step in to finish teaching CS 172 (Computability and Complexity) when the original instructor had to leave for medical reasons. He certainly didn't have to do that, and I and the original instructor are grateful.
But what impressed me most was his o(n log n)-time Voronoi diagram algorithm. He told me later that I had inspired him by posing it as an open problem that could probably be solved, and I am honored to have played that tiny role in his successes.
I don't know why the news shocked me. I even didn't know him at all and never seen him before.
Maybe just feeling guilty for being approximately the same age, contributing nothing to the world and still being alive!
I couldn't help but be curious about what the controversies around Mihai were, and some reading seems to indicate that he was an outspoken person with an ego which matched his accomplishments, which doesn't seem like such a horribly bad thing.
I'm not qualified to judge Williams' result's significance, but Patrascu's point doesn't sound as "out there" as some bloggers have made it sound (nearly every blog notes his "opinionated" nature.) There's a bit of hushed backtracking on many of the blogs I've looked at.
I guess it's considered a bit risky to be so critical; perhaps he was expected to be more positive. I think he sounds bold and insightful; questioning the values/wisdom of the community you are a member of takes a bit of courage, even if I don't know if he's right.
Anyway, I think he sounds reasonable, and though I didn't know a thing about him, it sounds like he was a pretty sharp/interesting guy. It's worth noting that Grigori Perelman, the man who solved the Poincare conjecture, has also made similar (actually much harsher) claims about mathematicians and conformity.
This is tragic. It is a testament to his personality that being told one day that death is almost inevitable within 1-2 years didn't rattle him enough even to stop blogging (as opposed to panic attacks etc.).
@Philip White, as you bring up Mr. Perelman has an accomplished yet combative mathematician – recently i noticed that he refused the EMS prize in 1996. Of course him refusing both the Fields Medal and Millenium prize was one of the most spectacular events in Math from the past few years. But still it shocked me that he refused a prize that in 1996 was accepted by, among others, Jiri Matousek and Tim Gowers.
I didn't think the criticism was that the praise was "over the top" per se, but that people were simply repeating this praise because someone else had said it.
In other words, if 10 people each read the paper independently and each come to the conclusion that the result is amazing, then go ahead and say how great it is publicly. This could be accompanied by some actual evidence that the reader read the paper and why they think the result is so great.
This is in contrast to what many people do on blogs which is repeat the fact that something is a breakthrough purely because someone else said so or because a paper got an award, etc. Many great papers have many admirers, but each genuine admirer has a reason that they think the paper has a great idea.
After reading all of the blogs, I thought that Ryan's result is considered a "breakthrough" but admittedly had no clue why. This is not the way things should be.
If you look at what Mihai says, he does not say that the paper is not great and he does not criticize the paper. Note that knowing Mihai, he would have criticized the paper if he had reason to.
I think what he meant is that most people who are saying that the paper *is* great likely have no idea why they are saying this, which is group think. I.e. it might not be intuitive that one can criticize/disagree with the reasons behind a behaviour/outcome even if they agree with that outcome.
It's interesting, because I don't think complexity theory is the only area with such a "choir." I'm not even sure it's such a bad thing; speaking of game theory and Nash equilibria, I will admit to being impressed with John Nash's result in spite of my complete lack of insight into what Kakutani's fixed point theorem really is. Indeed, most people consider Einstein, Nash, Turing, Godel, von Neumann, etc., etc., to be geniuses without the faintest clue of why they were so smart.
@philip white: I want to be clear that what I wrote was my interpretation of Mihai's blog post, what I think he meant.
I think this is somewhat different from group think: whether or not you completely understand Nash's theorem, you appear to be saying that !you! were impressed by the theorem when you heard of it. You didn't hear of the theorem, have no clue what it meant enough to be impressed by it, and then go tell everyone you had heard this amazing theorem. I think you can have the intuition that something is interesting or amazing without fully understanding it. But if it is !your! opinion, your feelings, then it is (hopefully) not groupthink.
A mea culpa like this greatly impresses me with regards to your character, Prof. Aaronson. To be right, to be wrong, to be higher status, to be lower status, to have satisfactions, and to have regrets, without militantly wanting only that which glorifies oneself. We need a world of people with that kind of ego flexibility to make our hospice our heaven.
I skimmed some of his posts as an illiterate nonexpert. His personality really jumps out at you in a good way. He seems, like you Prof. Aaronson, like a great example of how to combine unusual (and perhaps inherently esoteric) talent with popularly accessible charm and good humor.
If you were a bit put off, I wonder if in part because he seemed to have a lot of your best traits. I could see myself being like "I'm supposed to be the funny, good-natured theoretical computer science in the group".
I've contributed nothing either, and I'm quite a bit older. Just give 100% each day towards making our patient administered hospice reality the best it can be. No one's solving the problem that we're all going to die and the human species will extinct. But we can make this reality as humane experience as possible for the temporarily living.


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Harlan Henthorne Hatcher (September 9, 1898 – February 25, 1998) served as the eighth President of the University of Michigan from 1951 to 1967.

Biography
Harlan Henthorne Hatcher was born on September 9, 1898, in Ironton, Ohio. He received a B.A., an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. He also attended the University of Chicago as a graduate student.

He worked as a Professor of American Literature at Ohio State University, then as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1944, and as Vice President in 1948. In 1951, he became the eighth President of the University of Michigan. He helped expand the budget from $44.5 million to more than $186 million, and enrollment from 17,000 to 37,000. He also established additional campuses in Flint and Dearborn. In 1954, he condoned the hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee and fired two faculty members for suspicions of Communism. He stepped down in 1967. In 1968, the Graduate Library was named after him. He wrote three novels and several academic volumes.

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Chris & Jill Davis to Host Charity HR Derby for Maryland's Children's Hospital
The Orioles today announced that Chris and Jill Davis will host "Crush's Homers for Hearts," a charity Home Run Derby event at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Thursday, July 13, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. ET benefitting the Pediatric Heart Program of the University of Maryland Children's Hospital (UMCH) at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
The Orioles today announced that Chris and Jill Davis will host "Crush's Homers for Hearts," a charity Home Run Derby event at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Thursday, July 13, from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. ET benefitting the Pediatric Heart Program of the University of Maryland Children's Hospital (UMCH)
Participants will enjoy a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to compete in a Home Run Derby challenge in foursomes on the field at Oriole Park. Along with taking part in the Home Run Derby, participants will also have the opportunity to watch a private Orioles team workout prior to the event, warm up on the field with Orioles strength and conditioning coaches, enjoy complimentary food and beverages, and take pictures with Chris and Jill Davis.
Additionally, the Davis family will host patients from UMCH for a longest ball T-ball challenge during which the children will have the opportunity to hit off a tee with help from Davis to see who can hit the longest ball. The children will enjoy several family-friendly entertainment options including a moon bounce, face painters, balloon twisters, and an appearance by the Oriole Bird.
"We are grateful for the commitment by Chris and Jill Davis and partnership of the Orioles to our pediatric heart program," said Mohan Suntha, MD, MBA, President and CEO of the University of Maryland Medical Center, home of the University of Maryland Children's Hospital. "This event presents an important opportunity to continue advancing research and care for our smallest and most vulnerable patients in the most complex area of pediatric heart disease."
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Chris Davis has also announced that he will be donating $1,000 to the UMCH Pediatric Heart Program for each home run he hits during the 2017 regular season.
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Chris and Jill Davis serve as ambassadors for the University of Maryland Children's Hospital at the University of Maryland Medical Center, helping to raise awareness for childhood illnesses and UMCH's role as a leader in patient care, pediatric disease research, and teaching future generations of health care providers. The Davis family announced their partnership with the University of Maryland Children's Hospital in late 2016.
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EP0951187B1 - Data handling system and method therefor - Google Patents
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mobile terminal
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Abdelkrim Benamar
Bernard Joseph Burg
Nicolas Dubois
William Neil Robinson
Philippe Sartori
1998-04-17 Application filed by Motorola Solutions Inc filed Critical Motorola Solutions Inc
1998-04-17 Priority to EP98400960A priority Critical patent/EP0951187B1/en
238000004891 communication Methods 0 claims description 8
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239000003795 chemical substance by application Substances 0 description 102
238000003032 molecular docking Methods 0 description 1
G08G1/0967—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits
G08G1/096708—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
G08G1/096716—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the received information might be used to generate an automatic action on the vehicle control where the received information does not generate an automatic action on the vehicle control
G08G1/096733—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where a selection of the information might take place
G08G1/096741—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where a selection of the information might take place where the source of the transmitted information selects which information to transmit to each vehicle
G08G1/096758—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where a selection of the information might take place where no selection takes place on the transmitted or the received information
G08G1/096766—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the system is characterised by the origin of the information transmission
G08G1/096775—Systems involving transmission of highway information, e.g. weather, speed limits where the system is characterised by the origin of the information transmission where the origin of the information is a central station
H04W4/00—Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
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H04W4/029—Location-based management or tracking services
The present invention relates to a data handling system for use in a communications system, for example, a cellular telecommunications system, such as a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) system. The present invention also relates to a method of handling data for the data handling system.
In a communications system a mobile station (MS) possesses a quantity of information, for example, information relating to services available, link quality, interference levels, remaining cell capacity, information about the surrounding or local environment. However, this information may be of use to other mobile stations.
For example, a traveller owning the MS can be travelling along a motorway. Unbeknown to the traveller, a traffic jam may exist ahead of the traveller as a result of a road accident. Owners of the other mobile stations already forming part of or approaching the traffic jam are in possession of information indicative of the presence and location of the traffic jam. However, the owner of the MS is unable to detect the traffic jam and take action to avoid it.
A system already exists which is capable of warning the owner of the MS of the existence of traffic jams, but requires that the owner of the MS purchases additional hardware, which represents an increased cost to the subscriber.
Another example where the availability of more information to a subscriber would be beneficial is when a subscriber switches on the MS where more than one telecommunications system supports an area outside that of the MS's local environment, for example at an airport. In such circumstances, the MS usually registers with the network currently exhibiting the greatest signal strength and takes no account of any other requirements that the subscriber might have, for example, service capabilities or call charge constraints.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to obviate, or at least mitigate, the above described problems.
An article by Kotz D. et al. in IEEE Internet Computing, July-August 1997 vol.1, n° 4, pages 58-67, ISSN 1089-7801, entitled 'Agent TCL: targeting the needs of mobile computers' describes use of agents for mobile computers with features like laptop docking in wired networks. Each laptop is paired with a permanently connected machine, where agents wait for the laptop to reconnect. However, this article does not disclose how agents might be used in a wireless communication system, for example to improve availability of information to a subscriber.
The present invention provides a data handling system and method as described in the accompanying claims.
At least one embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system constituting an embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a method for use with the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of an additional method for use with the system of FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an example constituting a further embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a further example of constituting another embodiment of the present invention, and
FIG.6 is a schematic diagram of an agent system for the embodiment of FIG. 1.
Description of a Preferred Embodiment
As shown in FIG.1, a telecommunications network, for example a GSM telephone network 100, comprises a first cell 102, a second cell 104 and a third cell 106 respectively supported by a first base station 108 having a first Base Station Controller (BSC) 114, a second base station 110 having a second BSC 116, and a third base station 112 having a third BSC 118.
The first, second and third BSCs 114, 116, 118 are coupled to a Mobile Switching Centre 120 according to any method known in the art.
For the purpose of simplicity and clarity of description, the foregoing example will be described with reference to a single mobile terminal 122, for example a StarTAC® telephone manufactured by Motorola Limited, located within the first cell 102 and capable of communicating with the first base station 108. However, it should be appreciated that more than one mobile terminal can be provided, capable of operating in any of the first, second or third cells 102, 104, 106.
The mobile terminal 122 is capable of sending a first agent 130, for example an intelligent software agent. The agent is an independent piece of mobile software code capable of migrating from one platform to another platform and is capable of controlling itself through an execution thread and can perform tasks of its own accord. The purpose of the agent is to transfer and receive information as well as execute tasks. The first agent 130 represents the mobile terminal 122 and is, for example, a Java™ applet.
Pieces of existing software code can be encapsulated by or embedded in the first agent 130 and can be specific to the mobile terminal 122. It is thus possible to execute any kind of user-defined function on data gathered by the first agent 130 or provide services offered by existing service providers, for example, stock exchange fluctuation updates or bank account monitoring.
The first, second and third BSCs 114, 116, 118 comprise a respective first, second and third host platform or Agent Meeting Place (AMP) 124, 126, 128. Preferably, an AMP should be provided at each of the first, second and third BSCs 114, 116, 118, but it is not essential to provide the AMP at each of the first, second and third BSCs 114, 116, 118.
In the above and future examples, the AMP has been located at the BSC. However, the AMP can be located elsewhere, for example, at the Mobile Switching Centre (MSC).
The first, second and third AMPs 124, 126, 128 are Agent Systems which can create, interpret, execute and transfer agents. Examples of suitable agent systems are those defined by the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Mobile Agent Facility Specification of the Object Management Group (MAF-OMG). Agent systems provide security functions, for example authentication and information confidentiality functions, such as, data encryption.
The first, second and third AMPs 124, 126, 128 are supported by a supporting platform, for example UNIX or Windows NT, running on a Personal Computer (PC) at each of the first, second and third BSCs 114, 116, 118. It should be noted that a given host platform can support more than one AMP.
The first, second and third AMPs 124, 126, 128 have the structure shown in FIG. 6. The first, second and third AMPs 124, 126, 128 comprise a yellow pages service 602, a white pages service 604, a unique naming service, a management system 606 that controls the life-cycle and mobility of the first agent 130 and a transparent communications service 608. Optionally, the first, second or third AMPs 124, 126, 128 can provide a database facility 610 to store data intended to stay on the AMP platform permanently, even after de-registration of the first agent 414. Communications between the yellow pages service 602, the white pages service 604, the management system 606, the transparent communications service 608, or the database facility 610 can be achieved by providing a respective agent for each of the services or facility. Alternatively, the yellow pages service 602, the white pages service 604, the management system 606, the transparent communications service 608, or the database facility 610 can be a dedicated agent containing the data stored by the yellow pages service 602, the white pages service 604, the management system 606, the transparent communications service 608, or the database facility 610, respectively. The yellow pages service is a service provided to any agent, by the first, second, or third AMP 124, 126, 128 for looking-up services provided by other agents residing locally at the respective AMP. The yellow pages service can optionally search all agent systems forming an agent community. The white pages service is a service which covers all agents which are currently resident on the AMP where the white pages service is located, i.e. locally, for determining the existence of another agent locally.
The addresses of the first, second and third AMPs 124, 126, 128 can be, for example, a phone number or a TCP/IP address and can be known by means of the yellow pages service. A default AMP address is assigned to each agent in order to ensure an initial inter-agent communications can be set up. AMPs can communicate with other AMPs or other agent systems to exchange messages or agents via the transparent communications service 608.
The migration-cycle of a first agent 130 will now be described with reference to FIG. 2.
The first agent 130 calls a toll-free number, and establishes a GSM link between the mobile terminal 122 and the first AMP 124. The first agent 130 is written, for example, in an aglet language produced by IBM. The migration of the first agent 130, in the aglet language, will now be described in accordance with the steps shown in FIG. 3.
The first agent 130 resides (step 300) in a memory (not shown) of the mobile terminal 122 on an aglet platform. The first agent 130 is translated through Java on the mobile terminal 122 (step 302) and then serialised (step 304) through the underlying Java layers. The first agent 130 is then transmitted (step 306) to the AMP. The first agent 130 is sent, using a TCP/IP protocol known in the art, in packets, using a General Packet Radio Service (GPRS).
Once received, the first agent 130 is then deserialised (step 308), translated back (step 310) through the underlying Java at the first AMP 124 and then reverts to aglet form (step 312). Referring to FIG. 2, access (step 200) to the first AMP 124 is thereby achieved.
The first agent 130 then registers (step 202) to the first AMP 124, in order to register to the yellow pages service, the white pages service and the agent management system of the first AMP 124. The registration procedure uses the security functions defined by the service provider, i.e. authentication and information security mentioned above. Consequently, the first agent 130 becomes known and accessible to any other agents present at the first AMP 124.
During the registration procedure (step 202), the first agent 130 can also provide information, for example, current information about the mobile terminal 122 represented by the first agent 130. The current information about the mobile terminal 122 can include the services capabilities of the mobile terminal 122, for example, third party calling or conference calling, the radio link quality, bit rate, or maximum bit error rate. The current information can be stored in the database facility of the first AMP 124 by the database agent.
The first agent 130 then executes an assigned task or mission (step 204). The assigned task or mission can be a dialogue between the first agent 130 and any other agent residing at the first AMP 124 and/or a referral to the database facility of the first AMP 124. The communication protocol between agents is provided by the first AMP 124, as specified by FIPA Agent Communication Language (ACL). The assigned task can also be the execution of agent code on the first AMP 124, for example, the performance of functions, such as on data. The execution of agent code therefore allows functions to be carried out so as to manipulate the information or data gathered at the first AMP 124.
If necessary, information is sent back to the mobile terminal 122 (step 206). At any time whilst the first agent 130 resides at the first AMP 124, the first agent 130 can send messages to the mobile terminal 122. This information is sent back via a Short Messaging Service (SMS). Also, at any time whilst the first agent 130 resides at the first AMP 124, a message can be sent to the first agent 130 from the mobile terminal 122 in order to update the first agent 130. This can be achieved via the toll-free number or by using the TCP/IP protocol as described above. The structure of the message is defined by various standards bodies, for example, FIPA or MAF-OMG, or by proprietary technology such as Aglets by IBM. The information to update the first agent 130 can be routed to the first agent 130 by means of addressing techniques known in the art, since the first agent 130 and any other agents resident at the first AMP 124 possess specific ID numbers associated with the agents assigned by the unique naming service as described above.
The first agent 130 then de-registers (step 208) from the first AMP 124. De-registration from the first AMP 124 removes all the references to the first agent 130 from the unique naming service, the yellow pages service, and the white pages service. However, the references to the first agent 130 in the database facility of the first AMP 124 are not removed.
The first agent 130 is then either killed or can migrate to another AMP or back to the mobile terminal 122.
It is thus possible to provide a communications network having agent capabilities which, additionally, can facilitate a subscriber's ability to detect traffic jams and identify a most suitable local communications network.
Specific applications of the above described technique will now be described with reference to FIG.s 4 and 5.
A first vehicle 400 is travelling along a motorway 402 located within the second cell 104 (FIG. 1). The motorway has a slip-lane 404 for leaving the motorway 402 before a traffic jam 406, caused by a road accident 408, is reached by the first vehicle 400. The vehicles comprising the traffic jam include a second vehicle 410. A third vehicle 412 is also approaching the traffic jam 406 at a reduced speed. The first, second and third vehicles 400, 410, 412 are each equipped with a respective first, second and third mobile terminal (not shown) capable of generating a respective first, second and third agent 414, 416, 418.
The first base station controller 116 is coupled to the second base station 110 which is in communication with the first, second and third vehicles 400, 410, 412.
The first, second and third mobile terminals are capable of respectively determining speed and direction, for example, by being equipped with or coupled to a respective Global Positioning System (GPS) unit. It is thus possible for the first, second and third agents 414, 416, 418 to store information relating to the speed and direction of the first, second and third mobile terminals, respectively.
As the first vehicle 400 travelled along the motorway 402, the first vehicle 400 entered the coverage area of a new cell (in this case the second cell 104) and left the coverage area of an existing cell through which the first vehicle 400 was driving. Thus, it was necessary for the first mobile terminal to register with the second BSC 116 and de-register from the BSC of the existing cell, according to any known handover technique known in the art. When the first mobile terminal registers with the second BSC 116, or if the second BSC 116 is the initial BSC with which the first mobile terminal registers upon being powered-up, the first agent 414 is transmitted (step 200) to the second AMP 116 in accordance with the method already described above.
The same procedure is followed by the second and third agents 416, 418 associated with the second and third vehicles 410, 412, respectively. In this example, it is assumed that the second and third agents 416, 418 have already registered with the second AMP 126.
The first agent 414 then registers (step 202) with the second AMP 126, and provides information to the second AMP 126, for example, the ID of the first agent 414, as well as radio parameters, such as bit rate or level of interference, and the network to which the first mobile terminal is subscribed.
The first agent 414 then accesses the database facility of the second AMP 126 and exchanges information with the second and third agents 416, 418 already present at the second AMP 126. The first agent 414 then firstly analyses the directional information provided by the second and third agents 416, 418 to ascertain whether the second and third vehicles 410, 412 to which they correspond are travelling or heading in substantially the same direction of the first vehicle. If the direction of the second and third vehicles 410, 412 is substantially the same direction of the first vehicle, the speed information relating to the second and third vehicles 410, 412 is analysed. The fact that the second vehicle 410 is stationary and the third vehicle is moving at the reduced speed indicates the existence of, and approximate distance from the first vehicle 400, of the traffic jam 406.
A message is therefore transmitted (step 206) by the first agent 414 to the first mobile terminal in order to alert the driver of the first vehicle 400 of the existence of the traffic jam 406. The message can be transmitted using a messaging service supported by the network to which the first mobile terminal is subscribed, for example, paging or SMS. The driver of the first vehicle 400 can then take appropriate action in order to avoid the traffic jam 406, for example, by leaving the motorway 402 via the slip-road 404. The first agent 414 can also be provided with additional functionality in order to determine alternative routes for the driver of the first vehicle 400.
When the first mobile terminal has to hand-off from the second BSC 116, the first mobile terminal sends a message to the first agent 414, instructing the first agent to de-register (step 208) from the second AMP 126.
The above described process can then be repeated upon registration with another new cell.
In an alternative example, instead of the first terminal transmitting the first agent 414 to the second BSC 116 for registration with the second AMP 126, the first agent 414 can reside in a Home Location Register (HLR) 420.
When the first mobile terminal registers with the network to which it is subscribed, the second BSC 116 indicates to the HLR 420 that the first mobile terminal has registered and the first agent 414 is transmitted to a local BSC, for example, the second BSC 116 from the HLR 420. With each cell hand-off, the first agent 414 automatically migrates to the new BSC, registers with the new BSC and de-registers form the old BSC as part of the hand-off procedure. The remaining procedures carried out by the first agent 414 is the same as in previous example. It is also conceivable that the second or third mobile terminals and associated second or third agents 416, 418 employ the same technique of being resident in the HLR 400.
It is thus possible to embed the registration and de-registration of the first agent in the existing hand-off mechanisms of the network 100. Therefore, the air interface is only used to transmit messages between the first mobile terminal and the second AMP 126; this reduces the drain on network resources.
Additionally, since the second AMP 126 is also capable of communicating with other agent systems, the second AMP 126 can access existing road traffic services and/or exchange information with the other agent systems.
In another example of the present invention, agents can be used to identify a network best suited to a subscriber when travelling abroad.
A travelling mobile terminal 500 subscribes to a home network in a first country 502, for example, the United Kingdom. A home AMP 504 is coupled to a first Public Switched Telecommunications Network (PSTN) 506 in the first country 502. A first visiting network in a second country 508, for example France, comprises a first visiting base station including a first visiting BSC 510. The first visiting BSC 510 is coupled to a second PSTN 512 which is coupled to the first PSTN 506 according to any technique known in the art, for example, a satellite link or sub-marine fibre-optic link 514. The first visiting BSC 510 is also coupled to a local AMP 516.
A second visiting network having a second visiting base station including a second visiting BSC 518 is also located in the second country 508. The second visiting network offers better services and/or call tariffs as compared with the first visiting network. However, the subscriber of the travelling mobile terminal 500 is not aware of this fact.
When arriving in the second country 508 from the first country 502, for example, at an airport 520, the travelling mobile terminal 500 is powered-up. In accordance with techniques known in the art, the travelling mobile terminal 500 searches for the visiting network able to provide the best signal strength at the current location of the travelling mobile terminal 500. The travelling mobile terminal 500 registers with the network identified as having the best signal strength. In this example, the first visiting network is able to provide the best signal strength. The travelling mobile terminal 500 therefore communicates with the first visiting BSC 510 and registers with the first visiting network. The travelling mobile terminal 500 sends a travelling agent in the same manner as already described above; the travelling agent possesses information about the preferences of the subscriber of the travelling mobile terminal 500.
The travelling agent registers (FIG. 2) with the local AMP 516 (step 202) and consults the database facility and/or the yellow pages service of the local AMP 516 in order to evaluate the available visiting networks according to the preferences of the subscriber. The travelling agent then selects the most appropriate visiting network, in this case the second visiting network, and transmits this information in the form of a message transmitted back to the subscriber (step 206) via the travelling mobile terminal 500.
The travelling agent then de-registers from the local AMP 516 (step 208) and the travelling mobile terminal 500 de-registers from the first visiting network and registers with the, preferred, second visiting network via the second visiting BSC 518.
The travelling agent can also be stored at the home AMP 504. In such a scenario, the travelling agent is sent from the home AMP 504 to the local AMP 516 via the first PSTN 506, the fibre-optic link 514, the second PSTN 512 and the first visiting BSC 510.
A data handling system comprising a mobile wireless communication terminal (122) and a communications network (100) including a plurality of base stations and corresponding base station controllers (114, 116, 118), the mobile terminal (122) being capable of communicating with the communications network (100) through a local one of said base stations over wireless links, and the mobile terminal (122) being arranged to hand-off between cells (102, 104) within the communication network (100) having respective base station controllers, characterised in that the network comprises a plurality of host platforms (124, 126, 128) associated with respective ones of said base station controllers (114, 116, 118) for receiving an agent (130) associated with the mobile terminal (122), the agent (130) being adapted to exchange data at one of said host platform, with at least one other agent (416) and to communicate the data with said mobile terminal (122), the agent (130) being adapted to register to a new host platform (126) as part of the hand-off procedure upon registration of the mobile terminal (122) to a new base Station Controller (116).
A system as claimed in Claim 1, wherein the agent (130) is arranged to transmit data to the mobile terminal (122) by means of a messaging service of the communications network (100).
A system as claimed in claim 1 or 2, wherein the agent (130) is arranged to identify a second agent (416) amongst the at least one other agent having substantially the same direction of travel.
A system as claimed in Claim 3, wherein the second agent (416) is arranged to reside at the host platform (124).
A system as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the host platform (124) comprises a database.
A system as claimed in Claim 5, wherein the host platform (124) comprises a database agent for interfacing between the agent (130) and the database.
A system as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the agent (130) is adapted to de-register from the platform (124) under predetermined circumstances while leaving information undeleted from the database.
A system as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the communications network (100) is a radio-frequency telecommunications network.
A method of handling data in a system comprising a mobile wireless communication terminal (122) and a communications network (100) including a plurality of base stations and corresponding base station controllers (114, 116, 118), the mobile terminal communicating with the communications network (100) through a local one of said base stations over wireless links, and the mobile terminal (122) being arranged to hand-off between cells (102, 104) within the communication network (100) having respective base station controllers, characterised by the network (100) including a plurality of host platforms (124) associated with respective ones of said base station controllers (114, 116, 118) for receiving an agent (130) associated with the mobile terminal (122), the agent (130) exchanging data at said local host platform with at least one other agent (416) and communicating the data with said mobile terminal, and the agent (130) being registering to a new host platform (126) as part of the hand-off procedure upon registration of the mobile terminal (122) to a new base Station Controller (116).
A method as claimed in Claim 9, wherein the agent (130) transmits data to the terminal by means of a messaging service of the communications system.
A method as claimed in Claim 9 or 10, wherein the agent(130) identifies a second agent (416) amongst the at least one other agent having substantially the same direction of travel.
A method as claimed in Claim 11, wherein the second agent (416) resides at the host platform (124).
A method as claimed in any one of Claims 9 to 12, wherein the host platform (124) comprises a database.
A method as claimed in Claim 13, wherein the host platform (124) comprises a database agent for interfacing between the agent (130) and the database.
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Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan
by Ihab Hassan
Paper: 978-0-8173-5835-8 | Cloth: 978-0-8173-0819-3 | eISBN: 978-0-8173-8891-1
Library of Congress Classification DS821.H3497 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 952.04
An invitation to voyage east leads Ihab Hassan to reflect on his origins in Egypt, on his home in America, and on his host country, Japan. Part memoir, part cultural perception, Between the Eagle and the Sun records a journey, echoing the "wanderers of eternity." The result is not a book about "them," some alien people living on a distant island, but rather a book about the author himself, living among others, living and seeing himself sometimes as another, assaying always to read the hieroglyphs of his past in the scripts of Japan.
Lucid as it is intensely felt, at once lyrical and critical, the work offers a beguiling vision of Japan and, by tacit contrast, of America. For writing, the author says, is more than praise or blame, it is also knowledge, empathy, and delight. These attributes are evident in Hassan's treatment of Japanese culture, its people and scenes. Indeed, the people, rendered in vibrant portraits throughout the book, abide when all the shadows of romance and exasperation have fled.
True to its moment, the work also reinvests the forms of memoir, travel, and quest. Cultural essays, travel anecdotes, autobiographical meditations, portraits of Japanese friends, a section titled "Entries, A to Z," fit into a tight frame, with clear transitions from one section to another. The style, however, alters subtly to suit topic, occasion, and mood.
Japan may not hold the key to this planet's future; no single nation does. Yet the continuing interest in its history, society, and people and the incresed awareness of its recent trends and growing global impact engage an expanding audience. Avoiding cliches, sympathetic to its subject yet analytical, unflinching in judgment, and withal highly personal, Between the Eagle and the Sun offers a unique image of its subject by a distinguished and well-traveled critic, at home in several cultures.
Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, Ihab Hassan is the author of several critically acclaimed books, including The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature and TheQuest for Self: Travel and Geopolitics in Our World.
"Hassan's description of his life in Japan and the people he knew there is beautifully written, and the different voices all contribute to the creation of a many layered portrait of Japan. His highly personal observations reflect the sensitivity of an unusually gifted and cultured man."
—Donald Keene, author of So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers and Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
"Using his cast of real people, who are also the lenses through which we view, Hassan has presented Japan with a singular honesty and a lack of pretension that is rare indeed."
—Donald Richie, author of Japanese Portraits: Pictures of Different People and coauthor of Travels in the East
"A gifted raconteur and superb stylist, Professor Hassan invites the reader to join him in a journey toward understanding another society and its people. At once admiring, critical, baffled, judgmental, speculative, and respectful."
—Robert J. Smith, Cornell University
"The parallels and contrasts of Japanese and American literatures induce the reader into apprehending the essential difference in culture, psychology, and pattern of thinking, which renders the book unique and attractive."
—International Buddhist University Bulletin
Iwao Iwamoto
Bewilderments: 1974
THROUGH THE LITERARY GLASS
Texts and Conceits
Kojin Karatani
Primary Differences (Space, Time, People)
Seiji Tsutsumi (Takashi Tsujii)
Exceptionalism
Shuichi Kato
Stereotypes and Paradoxes (Coolness, Courtesy, Conformity)
Kiyomi and Kumiko Mikuni
Internationalism or Change?
Lady in a Large Hat: An Imaginary Portrait
Hiroko Washizu
The Quest for Transcultural Values
Makoto Ooka
ENTRIES, A TO Z
Japanese Culture: A Personal Dictionary
Donald Richie
PART VI
Between the Eagle and the Sun?
Mariko Shimizu
Amor Loci?
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After Hollande Steps Aside, Valls Is the Only Serious Candidate
Nick Ottens December 2, 2016 November 30, 2021
François Hollande bowed to reality on Thursday, when the Socialist Party leader announced he would not seek a second term as president of France.
No leader in the history of the Fifth Republic has been less popular than Hollande, whose approval rating hit a 4-percent low in one survey last month.
Hollande squandered what little goodwill he had left when Un président ne devrait pas dire ça… ("A President Should Not Say That…") appeared last month: a tell-all book in which the outgoing president is quoted disparaging other Socialist Party bigwigs, including his prime minister, Manuel Valls, and foreign minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault.
Both were reportedly outraged by the publication, which dumbfounded the entire French political class. It will only help cement Hollande's legacy as an inapt and feckless president, who failed to balance competing interest in the ruling Socialist Party and was unable to revitalize the French economy.
Unemployment, at 10 percent, is at the same level as when Hollande took office in 2012. Growth has been lackluster ever since. Read more "After Hollande Steps Aside, Valls Is the Only Serious Candidate"
Hollande Torpedoes Candidacy, Socialists Seek Replacement
Nick Ottens October 29, 2016 November 24, 2021
French president François Hollande has exhausted what little goodwill he had left in his party by airing his views of other top officials.
There was never any doubt that Hollande — the least popular president in French postwar history — would lose his reelection bid next year. But the Socialist Party was willing to follow him into defeat, owing to the absence of an uncontroversial successor and a political culture of deference.
That has changed since the release of Un président ne devrait pas dire ça… ("A President Should Not Say That…") earlier this month. Read more "Hollande Torpedoes Candidacy, Socialists Seek Replacement"
Hollande Hopes to Emerge Stronger from Primary
Nick Ottens June 19, 2016 November 30, 2021
The French Socialists will after all organize a presidential primary for the 2017 election, forcing François Hollande to beat off left-wing challengers before he can pivot to the general election.
It is the first time a sitting Socialist president is forced to prove himself in a primary.
Hollande's critics invoked standing party rules, which do require a nominating contest.
Except those rules were only written in 2011 to allow for a then-unprecedented open primary on the left. The Socialist Party leadership could have easily thrown out the rulebook from five years ago and made Hollande's life easier.
The fact that they didn't says a lot about how weak the president's position is. Read more "Hollande Hopes to Emerge Stronger from Primary"
Copé, Macron Highlight Timidity of French Parties
Nick Ottens April 7, 2016 November 10, 2021
French economy minister Emmanuel Macron launched a political movement on Wednesday that he says aims to unite people from the left and the right around a program of reform.
Macron, nominally a Socialist, denied that the movement is meant to propel him into a presidential candidacy for 2017, but French presidential hopefuls do have a tendency to launch political "movements" one of two years out from an election.
Macron's announcement comes only days after former conservative party secretary Jean-François Copé launched his own bid for the presidency. The rightwinger fell out with his former boss and current party leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, in 2014 over a financial scandal and would now seek to deny him the Republicans' presidential nomination.
Neither Copé nor Macron is likely to end up as a presidential candidate, let alone president of France. But the noise they're making speaks volumes about the perceived timidity of their respective party leaders: Sarkozy and his successor, François Hollande. Read more "Copé, Macron Highlight Timidity of French Parties"
Labor Reforms Divide France's Ruling Socialists
Nick Ottens February 26, 2016 November 30, 2021
Leading Socialist Party lawmakers took to the page of Le Monde on Thursday to condemn labor reforms planned by President François Hollande.
"Enough is enough!" write Martine Aubry and seventeen other leftwingers. They argue that Hollande's belated attempts to liberalize the labor market will "weaken" France in the long term.
Aubry is the architect of France's 35-hour workweek and contested the Socialist Party's presidential nomination in 2011. Hollande bested her at the time with 57 to 43 percent support. Read more "Labor Reforms Divide France's Ruling Socialists"
Hollande Reshuffles Cabinet in Attempt to Unite Left
French president François Hollande reshuffled his cabinet on Thursday in an attempt to unite the left ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections next year.
The Greens, who left Hollande's coalition in 2014 when he appointed a relative centrist, Manuel Valls, as prime minister, are back. Three of their members got cabinet posts, including party leader Emmanuelle Cossé.
Jean-Marc Ayrault, Valls' predecessor, also returns. He replaces Laurent Fabius as foreign minister whom Hollande nominated to the job of president of the al Council.
Jean-Michel Baylet, leader of the socially liberal Radical Party of the Left and one of Hollande's competitors in the Socialist Party's 2011 primary, was named minister of territorial development. Read more "Hollande Reshuffles Cabinet in Attempt to Unite Left"
French Labor Reforms Once Again Underwhelm
French president François Hollande unveiled €2 billion worth of job-boosting measures on Monday in an effort to bring down unemployment ahead an expected reelection bid next year.
Likening France's persistently high unemployment rate to a "state of emergency," the Socialist Party leader announced the creation of half a million vocational training schemes, new apprenticeships and subsidies for small companies.
"We have to act so that growth becomes more robust and job creation more abundant," the president told business and labor leaders in Paris.
Hollande earlier vowed now to seek reelection in 2017 if unemployment hasn't come down by then. The rate has been stuck at 10 percent since he was first elected in 2012. Read more "French Labor Reforms Once Again Underwhelm"
French Socialists Not Ready to Replace Hollande
Nick Ottens July 29, 2015 November 28, 2021
With the lowest approval rating of any French president in recent history, François Hollande could do his Socialist Party a favor by not seeing reelection in 2017.
The left-wing leader suggested on Monday he would step aside if he failed to bring down unemployment — which has been over 10 percent since he narrowly defeated Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012.
"If there are no results, there can be no credibility for a candidacy," he said at a Paris dinner hosted by the presidential press association. Read more "French Socialists Not Ready to Replace Hollande"
France's Hollande Unlikely to Risk More Reforms Until 2017
Elections in France this year and next could doom any chance of deeper economic reform even as the country seems incapable of bringing down unemployment.
Stuck at over 10 percent since he came to power in 2012, the high jobless rate has weighed down on President François Hollande's popularity. With an approval rating under 20 percent, the incumbent seems unlikely to win reelection in 2017. But he is still running and should want to avoid dividing his Socialist Party on economic policy.
The next regional elections are due in December. Called after a reorganization that saw the number of regions cut from 22 to thirteen, the Socialists are gearing up for another defeat. They have lost all local elections since Hollande beat the conservatives' Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 with 51.6 percent of the votes.
Party unity has been tested by Hollande's late conversion to liberalization. Read more "France's Hollande Unlikely to Risk More Reforms Until 2017"
Greece Has United Europe Against It — Except France
Nick Ottens July 8, 2015 November 25, 2021
A Greek exit from the euro would be less divisive now than half a year ago. The antics and demands of Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras have exhausted nearly every other European country's patience. It seems only France is still in favor of continuing support to keep Greece on board.
Since the Greek crisis began in 2010, the country has been a proxy for a wider discussion among countries about what sort of Europe they want.
Germany and its allies in the Baltics, Central Europe, Finland and the Netherlands took a hard line from the start, largely ruling out debt forgiveness and conditioning financial support for Greece on economic reforms and spending cuts.
The aim of shrinking the Greek state and liberalizing its economy was to boost the nation's competitiveness, see it converge more closely with the rest of Europe and avoid — at all costs — a "transfer union" in which rich member states would permanently bail out the poor. Read more "Greece Has United Europe Against It — Except France"


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Construction is well underway on the sustainable live-work-play development San Felasco Tech City, and eda is excited to be a part of it! Read the Gainesville Sun article here.
The San Felasco Tech City, the brainchild of Glaeser and Rich Blaser, CEO of Infinite Energy, is under construction. The development will be something of a live-work-play concept, where seasoned companies, like Fracture, that have grown and need more space, can expand. It will also serve as a place for startups to accelerate growth, Glaeser said.
The wheels have been turning behind the scenes of the San Felasco Tech City for months.
Thursday, at its site off U.S. 441 in Alachua, wheels turning on a tractor were kicking up dirt as its machinery worked to move and level earth.
A steel frame had been raised as a skeleton to one of the tech development's 30,000-square-foot tech buildings. Concrete slabs had been poured to mark square footage already leased by tech companies that have signed on to be a part of the tech city, that should really be called a tech community, said Mitch Glaeser, CEO of the Emory Group of Companies.
There will also be several housing units in the community, allowing Tech City tenants and employees the opportunity to move closer to work or collaborate, he said.
With a recent purchase of 27 acres of Phoenix Park, made to allow for more homes to be built and green space, the total development will encompass 82 acres, with 300,000 square feet of tech space. The space will be used for research, labs, offices, retail and light manufacturing, among other uses.
Six companies have signed on for 42,500 square feet of the project. Fracture, a digital printing company which typically prints on glass, has signed on for 30,000 square feet.
Glaeser believes all the available space in Tech City will help keep technology jobs in Gainesville if companies move in, rather than being forced to move to other tech hubs like Tampa.
On Thursday, Glaeser proudly held a site plan and pointed out other features to come across the development site: 252 single and multi-family housing units, with a clubhouse, playground and pool area, a coffee and sandwich shop and seven 22-foot solar trees that power the community's lighting.
Also on Thursday, a team at Studio Circle Square, a design and fabrication studio owned by Alexis Dold, the same designer who made the Cade Museum sign, were working on the tech city's solar trees.
Sparks popped as team members welded metal.
Dold has designed and nearly completed at least one of the seven solar trees that will stand about two stories tall in the tech city.
The trees are made of several metal tubes, which electrical wiring runs through. Each tree has 12 solar panels that collect sunlight from both the top and light that bounces off the ground.
They will be painted red.
Glaeser said the trees in the tech city may eventually be used as places for people to charge their phones or laptops while they work.
However, they will mostly be used to power the development's lighting system. Each tree will produce three kilowatt hours of power each day, Dold said.
"Any left over power will be transferred to its power grid," he said.
Though the trees have a fancy tech feel, they are also a way to make sustainable energy artistic and visible, perhaps inspiring others to "celebrate solar," Glaeser said.
Glaeser said there's a possibility that he and Dold could create a business making solar trees, which would be run out of Tech City.
The first 20 percent, or 60,000 square feet of tech space, will be completed for tenants in April, along with some of the development's roadways. Phase II, slated for 27 new homes, will begin construction in early 2019.
Tech City will join Progress Park, which holds the Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator, as another technology hub located in the city of Alachua. They're located just a few miles apart.


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After working for Acapulco Restaurant in Pasadena for 20 years, Erasmo Delgado was ready to go out on his own. So he purchased La Fiesta Grande Mexican Restaurant y Cantina — a Pasadena favorite since 1974 — from its owners in 1990. Two years later, Delgado opened a second location, La Fiesta Grande Mexican Restaurant in South Pasadena.
"I've worked in the restaurant business for a long time," Delgado told the Review. "After I went independent after Acapulco, I've worked for myself ever since. When I bought La Fiesta Grande, I updated the menu with original recipes that I grew up with back in Mexico. We also upgraded the restaurant to more of a family-style place, where customers can enjoy good food in a nice atmosphere at a modest price. People feel comfortable and secure when they are here."
Delgado's daughter, Camerina Carrillo, started working at her father's restaurant when she was in high school, and is now the manager. Her husband David works as a chef, while her mother and Delgado's wife of 50 years, Catalina, co-owns the restaurant and also helps run the business, making La Fiesta Grande truly a family affair.
"I still like to wait tables here because I enjoy talking to the customers and I'm very hands-on," Carrillo said. "Most of our employees have worked here for a long time and our regular customers know their servers by name, which creates a family atmosphere. We have a deep connection to the community and we do a lot with the schools, (the) South Pasadena Education Foundation and Chamber of Commerce."
The menu at La Fiesta Grande (which means "grand party" in Spanish) features a wide array of Mexican dishes, including enchiladas, burritos, tacos and fajitas. The restaurant is known for its carnitas, carne asada, chile relleno and mole — a traditional sauce used in Mexican cuisine. Many of the recipes on the menu were inspired by dishes Delgado grew up with back in Nayarit, the coastal region of Jalisco in Mexico just north of Puerto Vallarta. Other items on the menu feature his own creative take on Mexican dishes.
"Our taco bar has become very popular," Delgado said. "It's a big tray with different fillings to make tacos, including meat, cheese, salad, guacamole, pico de gallo, rice and beans. We make our food fresh every day."
In 2015, Delgado closed the original establishment in the Playhouse District, and in the coming months, his South Pasadena location will be relocating due to the Mission Bell Project, a mixed-used development project that will replace his current restaurant and several neighboring businesses with residential units, a parking garage and retail storefronts along Mission Street.
"A lot of our customers are really sad that we're leaving the area," Carrillo said. "We're looking at other spots in nearby to relocate our restaurant to. There are several places that we're interested in, but we haven't locked anything down yet. We probably won't stay in South Pasadena because there is a very limited amount of inventory here, but we plan to stay as close to Pasadena and this area as possible, both for our customers and ourselves."
Added Delgado, "We want our customers to stay tuned and check in with us these coming months when we announce our new location. We plan to continue this family dynasty."
La Fiesta Grande Mexican Restaurant is located at 1107 Mission St. in South Pasadena. It is open Sunday to Thursday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. For more information, call (626) 441-6217 or visit www.lafiestagranderestaurant.com.
La Fiesta Grande Mexican Restaurant Spotlight appeared in the print edition of the South Pasadena Review on 1.17.2020. Support Local Business.
The exterior and interior of La Fiesta Grande on Mission Street (left and above) — and some of the restaurant's delicious Mexican dishes (below). It's been a South Pasadena favorite since 1992 but will be relocating soon. Photos by Kamala Kirk
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Lynn's passion is activating our identity in Christ and the freedom found in forgiveness. She has prayed one-on-one with thousands of people, activating restoration of relationships, reigniting dreams, and introducing new Kingdom assignments. As a kid, she was a chocoholic and now shares joyful messages about Co-Co (Comforter and Counselor, the Holy Spirit).
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She lives in Portland and serves on the Boards of Oregon Christian Writers and Serving Our Neighbors.
Lynn Hare is a multiple Cascade Writing Award winner and author of The Quest for Self-Forgiveness. An enthusiastic speaker, coach, and certified teacher, she equips people to explore Holy Spirit clarity for personal and career paths, their identity in Christ, and forgiveness. She has prayed one-on-one with thousands of people.
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