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Open Source Initiative (OSI) announces new Affiliate Members
Submitted by masson on Sat, 2014-03-15 13:44
By Deb Bryant
Palo Alto, California — The Open Source Initiative (www.opensource.org) is very pleased to announce two new organizations have joined the OSI as Affiliate Members: inBloom (www.inbloom.org) and LinuxFest Northwest (www.linuxfestnorthwest.org). The OSI Board of Directors offers a warm welcome to both!
With inBloom and LinuxFest Northwest joining as OSI Affiliates, our membership of non-profit organizations supporting our mission—to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source, and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community—increases to thirty. OSI Affiliate Members help define the direction and development of, not only the organization itself, but the open source community as well. OSI Affiliates may serve on the OSI Board—contributing their unique perspectives, expertise and vision; create and participate in a variety of special-interest working groups—collaborating with other organizations for the mutual benefit of open source development, and; extend their own networks by partnering with other Affiliates—extending awareness of and participation in their own projects and communities.
inBloom is an independent nonprofit organization that provides efficient and cost-effective means for school districts to give teachers the information and tools necessary to strengthen their connection with each student. inBloom's Secure Data Service enables widely varied educational tools to work together so that teachers can more easily tailor education to the needs, skill level and learning pace of each individual student. It can also engage parents more deeply in their children's learning, and save teachers time and schools money. In addition, inBloom offers a substantial security upgrade to the common resources being used, including paper records or disconnected and antiquated databases with few security features.
"inBloom intends to become a champion of open source software development in the context of educational tools for K12 and fully uphold the Open Source Definition. As a company that has built a disruptive technology for an industry where there is a lot of resistance to change, our mission mirrors that of the OSI as educators and advocates for the transparency and community involvement that is synonymous with open source software," said Vincent Mayers, Open Source Community Manager at inBloom.
LinuxFest Northwest provides a creative environment for the open source community to come together to share new, innovative ideas, and promote through educational activities Linux/open source software principles and technologies to the general public.
Bill Wright, Board Member of LinuxFest Northwest, noted, "As a nonprofit organization we feel a strong camaraderie with the OSI in mutually promoting our goal to facilitate a viable and effective Linux and open source community."
This April 26th and 27th marks LinuxFest Northwest's 15th year anniversary to be celebrated during their annual conference in Bellingham, WA. Join the Linux and open source communities, along with Jon "Maddog" Hall, Monty Widenius, The EFF and ACLU, as well as the OSI team and many others for a weekend of collaboration, community and creation: see the LinuxFest Northwest website for more details.
The OSI would like to thank both the community and leadership of inBloom and LinuxFest Northwest for their trust and participation. "The OSI vision of building bridges within the open source community is strengthened and advanced by these two additions," said OSI President Simon Phipps.
The OSI Affiliate Member program allows non-profit and not-for-profit organizations to become OSI members. Full details of OSI Affiliate Membership and the names of the Affiliate Members are available on OSI's Affiliate Membership pages (www.opensource.org/affiliates) together with details for other non-profit and not-for profit organizations on how to join. Individuals can also become Members at www.opensource.org/join
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a California public benefit corporation, with 501(c)3 tax-exempt status, founded in 1998. The OSI is the stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and the community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant and is also actively involved in Open Source community-building, education, and public advocacy to promote awareness and the importance of non-proprietary software. OSI Board members frequently travel the world to attend Open Source conferences and events, meet with open source developers and users, and to discuss with executives from the public and private sectors about how Open Source technologies, licenses, and models of development can provide economic and strategic advantages.
Press Contact: press@opensource.org
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Jim Strickland and I will be attending MileHiCon in Denver this weekend. Anybody else listening gonna be there?
I'm on a panel about robots, and here's a megatrivia question for you: What was the first film depiction of a robot that was not a mechanical man; i.e., not things on two legs like Robbie, Gort, or Tobor the Great? The oldest one I can think of is the 1954 Gog. (Writeup.) This was a rare form factor back then (because humanoid robots were actors in robot suits) and the only other one from the Fifties I can recall is the 1957 Kronos.
Pertinent to that question: There was a serious and reasonably big-budget Japanese SF movie in the early 60s (not a let's-stomp-on-Tokyo thing) depicting a spaceship with a small robot named Omega that ran on tracks. The other vehicles on the starship were also given Greek letters as names. Can anybody remember what that film was? All I get on Google for "Omega the Robot" are Sonic the Hedgehog references.
Having flown the X-37B into space twice, Boeing is now officially looking into doubling the size of the vehicle and making it a sort of people-only space shuttle. Alas, it would probably kill all hope for anything like the sexy li'l X-38–but I'll take what we can get.
Red tide algae glows blue after dark, if you shake it up enough. Pete Albrecht has seen this, and it's real; nay, surreal.
Boston Dynamics' uncanny and brilliant Big Dog quadriped robot now has a big brother, AlphaDog. Watch both videos; the second is a demo of Big Dog doing stuff I wouldn't have imagined a robot doing when I was in high school. BTW, that tube sticking out of Alpha Dog's front panel isn't artillery…yet.
These guys will sell you a 144-core CPU–and then make you program it in FORTH. Not x86; each core is an 18-bit F18A processor executing the colorForth instruction set. FORTH ties my head in knots and yes, I've tried it–on the CDP1802 processor, no less. (Thanks to Frank Glover for the link.)
Gotta love Google Books. I recently found a Popular Science article I had read in 1967 summarizing various rotary engines under discussion at that time. Nobody answered the obvious question: How do you machine a piston in the shape of a piece of kielbasa?
A short 1963 book on rotary engines by Felix Wankel himself can be found here. (Multiple PDFs; not an easy read.) Thanks to Pete Albrecht for spotting it.
From Henry Law comes a pointer to the most boggling piece of amateur rocketry I've ever seen. High power? Heh. One doesn't get to 121,000 feet on vinegar and baking soda.
You don't have to speak or read German to appreciate this photo tour of Vienna's sewers. Why do they get such cool sewers in Europe? (I've seen a few Stateside, and they just…stink.)
Sure, and while you're at it, grab his beach towel.
Posted in: Odd Lots.
Tagged: aerospace · humor · robotics · rockets · sf
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Gary Mugford says:
Don't quite go back as far as you. My earliest non-man in a suit memory of a robot was the Bruce Dern pic, Silent Running. Later I found out, it WAS a man in a suit, a fellow that had had his legs amputated years earlier. Actually, four actors, all of whom only have this movie as their sole acting credit in IMDB, played drones. Mark Persons, Steven Brown, Cheryl Sparks and Larry Whisenhunt.
A great movie for all kinds of reasons.
Jeff Duntemann says:
Well, I was in college then–and only 2 years old when Gog appeared. I only know of it because it was run endlessly in the 4PM monster movie slot on Channel 7, along with a lot of other mostly-stupid monster movies of olden tymes.
The effects in Silent Running were damned good for the time. I recall reading that the matte paintings of Saturn were left over from an earlier version of 2001, before they moved the locale to Jupiter.
Erbo says:
That would make sense, because Doug Trumbull, who did the visual effects for 2001, went on to do Silent Running.
And, of course, the model of the Valley Forge from that movie was reused as the "agro-ships" in the original Battlestar Galactica series. But you probably already knew that.
Mike Brown says:
I think the movie with the robot Omega you're thinking about is First Spaceship on Venus, a 1960 Polish production which featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 at one point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Spaceship_on_Venus
Sure 'nuff, Omega is mentioned in that writeup. I was pretty certain it was a Japanese cast, but keep in mind that I doubt I've watched it since 1966 or 1967. There are some snippets on YouTube that I will watch as time allows.
Andy Kowalczyk says:
Do self-directing mag-lev transportation modules count as robots? A mainstay of SF films going back to at least the Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials.
I dunno. Where's the borderline between a smart car and a robot? That's worth keeping in mind, though I remember very little from those old serials apart from the backward-talking rock men, the lobster monster, and the underwater city that floods.
90 seconds of googling revealed that the lobster monster was a "gocko," which was a sort of dragon with lobster claws. And there's a page devoted to the rock men which includes an MP3 snippet of their backwards talk, reversed to normal. It is just ordinary dialog run backwards, and not nonsense, either, but completely appropriate words and sentences from the script. See:
http://www.normanfield.com/rockmen.htm
Rich Rostrom says:
"rotary engines": I saw on Instapundit that Mazda is going to stop making rotary-engine cars.
I guess the Wankel was really just a long dead end.

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Brown and Wilson (1959) summarize the genus as follows: "Widespread in tropics and warm temperate areas. Primarily forest-dwelling; some species occur in grassland and arid scrub. ... Nests mostly in soil and rotting wood; a few species live in arboreal plant cavities in tropical rain forest. Foraging hypogaeic to epigaeic-arboreal. Food: most species are collembolan feeders; a few are polyphagous predators or occasionally feed on sugary substances..."
borgmeieri is known from few collections. The holotype is from Tapera, Pernambuco, Brazil. I collected a worker in a Winkler sample, sifted litter from the forest floor, in a patch of riparian forest surrounded by pastures, Finca La Pacifica, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica. The species has also been collected twice at La Selva Biological Station, from forest floor leaf litter.
Brown, W. L., Jr. 1954. The neotropical species of the ant genus Strumigenys Fr. Smith: Group of saliens Mayr. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 62:55-62.
Found most commonly in these habitats: 3 times found in tropical rainforest, 1 times found in moist forest edge, 1 times found in LEP, 1 times found in mature rainforest, edge of forest near pasture and agricultural land, steep rocky terrain, 1 times found in old cacao plantation, 1 times found in Plateau, 1 times found in 2º wet forest, 1 times found in campus, 1 times found in dry forest, 1 times found in garden.
Found most commonly in these microhabitats: 7 times ex sifted leaf litter, 1 times under board in lawn, 1 times Hojarasca, 1 times Leaf litter.
Collected most commonly using these methods: 3 times MaxiWinkler, 3 times miniWinkler, 2 times Winkler, 1 times search, 1 times Winkler48h.


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'It doesn't look good': Lawmakers grill bank CEOs on lavish pay
Brian Cheung
Yahoo Finance April 10, 2019
The seven big bank CEOs who testified on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning are facing pressure over their lavish compensation.
In an exchange between New York Democrat Nydia Velázquez and Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat, Velázquez asked Corbat to defend the fact that his $24.2 million yearly salary for 2018 was 486 times his own company's median worker salary at $49,466.
"I don't think that's fair for me to judge," Corbat said. "I would say that I completely acknowledge that I'm very fortunate."
'She may have my job one day'
Compensation has been one talking point on a list of many topics covered in the hearing, which marks the first time that the large bank CEOs (representing JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, State Street, and Bank of New York Mellon) have simultaneously addressed Congress since the financial crisis.
In a separate exchange, California Democrat Katie Porter questioned JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon about whether a bank teller at his company gets paid a living wage.
Dimon said lower paying entry-level jobs provide the promise of elevating up through the company.
"She may have my job one day," Dimon said.
The eight largest U.S. banks all have a higher pay gap (between CEO and the company's median employee) than the average U.S. company. (Credit: David Foster / Yahoo Finance)
Among the large banks, Citigroup has the highest CEO pay ratio when measuring the top executive's pay to the median employee's salary. JPMorgan Chase comes in second place with a pay ratio of 381:1. Bank of New York Mellon and Goldman Sachs have a higher salary levels for the median employee because they don't employ the lower wage bank tellers that the more consumer-facing banks do.
In pure dollar amounts, Corbat does not make the most. Dimon made the most in 2018, netting $30 million, mostly in the form of shares.
According to proxy statements since 2006, the CEOs from the four largest U.S. banks — JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo — have had their compensation steadily rise over the post-crisis period. Those figures include bonuses, stock awards (valued at the date granted), change in pension values, and other forms of compensation.
The four largest U.S. banks have been increasing the levels of compensation for their CEOs, close to pre-crisis levels. (Credit: David Foster / Yahoo Finance)
Pay levels dipped during the crisis as companies pared back salaries to avoid the optics of inappropriate executive pay. They also dipped because the government required banks that took bailout money to impose temporary salary caps on its executives.
The steady climb up in bank CEO pay since the crisis has been the result of the banks' improving performance, says Laura Hay, head of the banking industry team at executive pay consultancy Pearl Meyer. Hay says that in addition to a favorable U.S. economy that continues to extend its recovery, banks are benefiting from the regulatory pendulum swinging toward reduced red tape on the industry. Since the Trump administration took office, lawmakers — including some moderate Democrats — have supported efforts to pare back some of the post-crisis Dodd-Frank regulations that forced banks to beef up regulatory capital.
"For a while, because of the increased capital requirements, banks tended to be less profitable and they're over that hump now," Hay told Yahoo Finance. "The decrease on that regulation has a direct effect on why these banks are receiving record profits."
Focus on CEO pay
Still, California Democrat Maxine Waters, who chairs the committee, has had executive compensation on her mind ever since the Wells Fargo scandal broke in 2016. She soon after introduced the "Megabank Accountability and Consequences Act," which proposes fining corporate executives up to 100% of their total compensation if they knowingly allowed their companies to violate consumer protection laws.
Waters was particularly worked up over a mid-March Wells Fargo filing revealing that CEO Tim Sloan netted $18.4 million in total compensation for 2018, a 5% raise over 2017. Waters called the pay levels "outrageous and wholly inappropriate."
Sloan, who testified on Capitol Hill on March 12, faced mounting pressure from lawmakers to step down. He resigned two weeks after testifying, stating that the company would "benefit from a new CEO and fresh perspectives."
In the hearing Wednesday, the CEO pay ratio raised questions about whether or not the big banks are being proactive enough to narrow the disparity between executive pay and the median worker.
Velázquez noted that CEO pay is authorized by the company board and its shareholders, but said the bank executives have levers to lower the pay ratio.
"If you're not happy with the pay ratio at your firm, there are two ways to correct it, because believe me it doesn't look good," Velázquez told Corbat. "Lower your salary or raise the salary of others."
Lowering the CEO pay ratio
Analysts flagged CEO compensation as a suggested line of questioning ahead of the hearing. Wells Fargo senior analyst Mike Mayo, for example, expected the CEOs to be asked to defend their pay.
"There is concern about minimum wage and gender pay equity," Mayo wrote. But Mayo added that the focus on pay ratio could encourage more automation instead of higher wages. By eliminating low wage jobs entirely, the median employee would represent a more senior or corporate-level employee with higher pay, thus lowering the CEO pay ratio.
Bank of America earned some favor today by taking the higher wages route. A day before the hearing, the company announced that it will raise the minimum wage for its employees to $20 an hour over the next two years.
In opening statements, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said those efforts are part of his "responsibility that we are a great place to work." The remarks prompted clapping from some watchers in the room who were then removed at the request of Waters.
On executive pay, policymakers are still grappling with whether legislative or bureaucratic action is necessary. The post-crisis Dodd-Frank regulatory framework required regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, to implement reporting requirements and some limitations on executive pay. But ten years after the crisis, some reform measures are still in the pipeline.
Hay said she does not see any major executive pay changes coming anytime soon, also ruling out any explicit caps on bankers' pay — like the bonus cap implemented by the European Bank Authority.
"It would be so un-American," Hay said. "I don't think you'll see it from this administration."
Brian Cheung is a reporter covering the banking industry and the intersection of finance and policy for Yahoo Finance. You can follow him on Twitter @bcheungz.
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Lada Samara je automobil nižší střední třídy, který v letech 1985 až 2013 vyráběla ruská automobilka Lada. Jejím předchůdcem byl VAZ 2107 a nástupcem Lada 2110. Dnešní verze je sice modernizovaná, ale po stránce designu spíše stále zapadá mezi vozy z počátku 90. let 20. století.

Popis

Jméno Samara bylo použito pro export, jedná se o jméno ruského města. V Rusku se model jmenoval Sputnik. Samara byla první Lada, která nepoužívala karoserii vycházející z vozu Fiat 124. Design byl modernější, hranatý. Kromě sedanu se vyráběl i tří- nebo od roku 1988 pětidveřový hatchback. Sedan měl objem zavazadlového prostoru 425l a hatchback 330l. Lada chtěla se Samarou prorazit na západní trh. Vůz měl být spolehlivý, robustní a za nízkou cenu. Kromě Ruska se vyráběla i ve finském Uusikaupunki, v závodě Valmet Automotive plant.

Motory
 1,1 – 39 kW
 1,3 – 48 kW
 1,5 – 55 kW
 1,5i – 52 kW
 1.6 8V 59,5 kW plnící Euro III

Závodní verze
Vozy Lada Samara se pravidelně účastnily rallye ve skupině A. Tyto speciály poháněl motor o objemu 1500 cm3, který dosahoval výkonu 73 kW. Vozy měly pětistupňovou převodovku. U nás tento vůz nasazoval Agroteam Slušovice a v domácím mistrovství s ním startovala posádka Pavel Malý a Pavel Bečka.

Lada Samara Eva
Lada Samara Eva byl rallye speciál určený pro skupinu B. První prototyp byl viděn na Sojuz rallye v leden 1985. První prototyp měl pohon všech kol převzatý z vozu Lada Niva a motor byl umístěn uprostřed. Velitelem projektu byl údajně Stasys Brundza. S původním typem Samara měl shodné jen čelní sklo a boční dveře. Vůz měl pevný pilotní prostor a laminátový odklopný předek, který ukrýval náhradní kolo. Jeden z prototypů byl poháněn motorem Porsche, jinak automobilka vyvíjela šestnáctiventilový motor s rozvodem DOHC o objemu 1860 cm3 přeplňovaný turbodmychadlem, který dosahoval výkonu 300 koní. Vůz nestartoval na žádné mezinárodní soutěži. Zúčastnil se jen Rallye 1000 jezer 1986 a Acropolis rallye 1986 jako předjezdec.

Lada Samara S-Proto
Jednalo se o další evoluci typu Eva. Vůz byl vyvíjen pro závody ve skupině S, která ale nikdy nevznikla.

Lada Samara T3
Tento typ vycházel ze specifikace S-Proto, ale byl připraven pro závody Rallye Dakar. Poháněl ji motor Porsche o objemu 3,6 litru a výkonu 400 koní. Na Rallye Dakar 1990 byl jeden vůz sedmý a na Rallye Dakar 1991 pátý. Vítězství vybojoval na Rallye Faraonů.

Konec výroby
Koncem roku 2013 byla definitivně ukončena v Iževském automobilovém závodě výroba značky Lada Samara.

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but a six week vacation from the use of my right arm?
Alex hitting the switch and me hitting the floor.
We're taking this lying down.
The one thing I can stand up for is resting supine on the ground.
Mr. McDermott, won't you help me to my feet?
Because the drumline's going wild in the San Francisco streets.
but by June 22nd, I have done the math.
That's a hundred and five liters I'll consume of Dr. Path.
Some girls will tell their secrets to anyone.
because we're going to San Francisco and I forget to wear some flowers in my hair.
so the rest of you can stick it up your nose.
my mother, in a fit of rage, chases me from our home.
My mother, the murderer holds me down in the road.
She's got the nail clippers at my throat.
I'm wishing I was back in utero.
but apparently, I'm looking at physical therapy.
It won't be exactly how it used to be.
It ain't hard to see that it's not that way, not that way anymore.
Jesus Christ is suffering upon his cross tonight.
I just sit outside waiting for frost to bite.
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The rest is yet to reveal itself to me.


The President reminded that each new unit of military equipment is a significant contribution to national defense.
President Petro Poroshenko took part in the solemn ceremony of transfer of the personnel of the Armed forces of Ukraine weapons and military equipment, during which he presented certificates of conformity for the su-27 and L-39 and unmanned aircraft system Spectator M. On Saturday, December 1, the press service of the head of state.
The President noted that in early November, the air defense units of Ground forces and air defense missile troops conducted the firing of anti-aircraft missile complexes. All these complexes are restored at the enterprises of the Ukroboronprom.
As noted, all military equipment and weapons passed repair and modernization at the domestic enterprises of the military-industrial complex.
Earlier the General staff announced that in 2014 the army has delivered more than 500 tanks.


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How quick-serve brands are keeping up performance in the ever-busier drive thru.
Special Report | October 2018 | Sam Oches
Restaurants agree that their No. 1 task in the drive thru is ensuring top-notch accuracy, customer experience, and, to the best of their abilities, speed of service.
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It seems that all anyone in the restaurant industry can talk about these days is off-premises dining. From mobile-powered delivery to kiosk-driven takeout and all of the other increasingly accessible food occasions outside the four walls, off-premises is revolutionizing how guests interact with food businesses—and how those businesses design their customer experiences.
But off-premises is old hat for quick serves. After all, it's technically been a key strategy for the industry for generations in the form of the drive thru. Most major quick serves report about 70 percent of their sales going out the drive-thru window, and that expertise gives them a leg up when it comes to staffing, packaging, expediency, and all of the other systems necessary for running a robust off-premises dining program.
Which isn't to say they should turn their attention away from drive thru. The outdoor lane is just as important today to quick-service business as ever before—if not even more so. And as business grows, pressures on drive-thru performance, particularly accuracy and speed of service—two of the most critical drive-thru metrics—have gotten more intense.
"Over the last five years, everybody has seen, as traffic has increased in the drive thru, times have slowed down," says Mike Grams, chief operating officer at Taco Bell. "Items per [transaction] has gone up almost a half item at Taco Bell in the last couple years, which is a great thing, but it also means something else has to be produced with every order."
Average speed-of-service times—the time between the customer placing his or her order and then receiving it—have largely slowed across the board among the major players. This year's brands clocked in at an average of 234 seconds, compared with about 225 seconds last year. Back in 2003, the year Wendy's scored an all-time Drive-Thru Study best of 116 seconds, the national average was about 190 seconds.
Operators are managing this uptick in business the best they can; order accuracy has improved over time, and this year's 89.7 percent measurement is just a hair above last year's 89.4 percent. All say that their No. 1 task in the drive thru is ensuring top-notch accuracy, customer experience, and, to the best of their abilities, speed of service. And the tools they have on hand to do so continue to evolve and improve with new technological advancements. Tablets have allowed for efficient line-busting; wireless communications systems have made back-and-forth with the customer more effortless; and LED menuboards have given guests clearer ideas of what they might want to order.
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Hardee's may be faster than McDonald's and Chick-fil-A in the drive thru, but those two brands have proved to be much busier than every other chain in the Drive-Thru Study.
The question on many operators' minds for the last half-decade or so is: Could mobile ordering become the next great game-changer for the drive-thru business?
The industry started to get a clearer answer to that question this year; limited-service brands are finally starting to incorporate the technology into their drive thrus. Dunkin' Donuts made a splash earlier this year when it announced that its new NextGen prototype would include a mobile-order-only lane in the drive thru. And Chipotle is opening a drive-thru unit in Ohio—its first ever—that is exclusively for mobile order pick-ups.
Deepak Ajmani, vice president of restaurant services for Wendy's, says the company continues to work on its ordering app as a seamless brand experience, and the possibilities of that syncing up with the drive thru are tantalizing.
"If you think about mobile devices as a handheld kiosk, there's a lot of opportunity for growth there," Ajmani says. "Imagine a fast-food world where you place your order on your phone, drive up to the pick-up window, and there it is. Made fresh, just as you ordered."
But, he adds, "it's proven to be tricky to navigate operationally."
Indeed, others in the industry aren't sure mobile is going to revolutionize the drive thru as it has delivery, takeout, and catering. The primary issue is that the easiest iteration includes a model like Dunkin's, in which a dedicated lane is necessary to fulfill mobile orders. And operators just don't have the luxury with real estate today to incorporate two separate lanes.
John Kelly, chief operating officer at Arby's, points to other challenges with mobile ordering: For example, when should the restaurant prepare the order? How do you time an order to be ready right when the customer rolls up—not so early that the order gets cold, or so late that it backs up the rest of the lane?
"One of the mistakes you could make is moving into some of the trends around some of the technology and some of the things that are cool and fresh and really seem cutting edge," Kelly says. "If the guest doesn't want to experience it that way, I don't know if it's going to be good for the business, and certainly not for the guest."
It's not clear yet if customers would whole-heartedly embrace an experience in which they can pick up a mobile order through the drive thru. Taco Bell's Grams says the restaurants he knows that have mobile-order drive-thru lanes are typically empty. "I'm not sure that's 100 percent the way to go," he says. "If I get enough volume to have another lane, great, but I think there's still so much room for us to grow in the space today."
So no, perhaps mobile ordering isn't the game-changer so much of the industry once expected it to be. But that doesn't mean quick-serve brands should abandon their research into that and other innovative approaches to the outdoor lane, and off-premises dining in general. Gary Stibel, CEO of the New England Consulting Group, says brands need to stop "chasing the puck" when it comes to innovation. According to that metaphor made famous by hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, the best performers are not those who chase the puck, but rather those who anticipate where the puck is going and head there instead.
What might that look like for drive thru? Stibel suggests robots and artificial intelligence as being two possible tools important for the future drive-thru operation. For example, perhaps a restaurant employs car-scanning technology that recognizes the vehicle and proposes to the driver the same order that he or she picked up during their last visit.
Arby's Kelly concedes that something like artificial intelligence could become an important tool in the drive-thru toolbox down the road. New technologies adapted to the existing drive-thru footprint, he says, will for now be prioritized over anything that might affect the drive-thru layout. "Cars are always going to be 7 feet wide and 15 feet long, and they're going to have to fit on a parking lot," Kelly says. "I think we're always going to be constrained there for mobile lanes, double lanes, those types of things. I think it's really more the digital facing and technology that will be most advancing."
And not all of that has to be as flashy as mobile ordering or AI systems. In drive thru, it's key to remove any impediment to speed, accuracy, and the customer experience, and operators are doing that with clear speakers, clean and organized menus, and back-of-house tools that allow the crew to do their jobs unencumbered.
Grams says Taco Bell is looking closely at digital menuboards, particularly those that integrate an order-confirmation board. The boards will allow Taco Bell to change the menu based on daypart, something that Grams says can accommodate "more time-sensitive" meal occasions throughout the day.
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Perhaps the most impressive number for Arby's this year was its order accuracy mark. The chain registered 95.2 percent accuracy, nearly five percentage points better than last year.
"We know the No. 1 pain point for the drive-thru experience today is actually at the order point, and that hasn't changed in the 15 years that I've worked in drive thrus," Grams says. "How do you make that faster? How do you make it easier? How do you make it more readable and more enjoyable? Where you see us experiment and prototype and try different things will be around that area."
The devil is in the details for most leaders in charge of designing a better drive-thru experience. Everything from kitchen layout to menu positioning can have an impact on drive-thru performance, meaning brands are frequently testing upgrades and monitoring individual units to learn how they might create a better experience both for the customer and the employees.
Ajmani says Wendy's tests its drive-thru innovations in its Wendy's 90° Labs facility in Columbus, Ohio. He describes it as a "collaborative space" where the company researches the effect that new technologies like mobile and kiosks might have on the Wendy's customer experience.
"Last year, we tested consumer ordering behavior and explored different stress levels by placing kiosks in various positions around the restaurant, and even hosted mock drive-thru orders using a golf cart to pull through a simulated restaurant setup," he says.
CKE Restaurants, parent of Hardee's and Carl's Jr., is constantly reviewing its drive thrus—especially during the lunch daypart, when speed of service is most important—to ensure proper execution. Tom Brennan, CKE's COO, says the company this year introduced a restaurant excellence team made up of experts and engineers that is "keenly focused on understanding the operational impact" of everything it does in the restaurants. In addition, he says, CKE does a deep dive into its drive thru every quarter, experiencing it as if through the eyes of the customer so that it can improve upon any hold-ups.
"By continuously working to simplify the operation, we lay the foundation for consistent execution," Brennan says.
Consistency is something Stibel points to as being the industry's biggest drive-thru problem. "You can do a drive thru at any one of the [quick serves], and at different times of day, you can get great service from a crew and terrible service from a crew," he says. "The industry has come a long way, but has even further to go."
Even though technology may help make drive thrus much faster and more accurate, customer service can still make or break the overall experience, which means people—that's right, low-technology people—are critical to modernizing the outdoor lane.
Howland Blackiston, principal with consultancy King-Casey, says that while drive thrus have been fairly cut-and-dried in the past, the future will require a more varied approach. Many, he says, will home in on customer service. Starbucks is already highlighting that aspect of the operation in its drive thru. The coffee behemoth rolled out an upgraded drive-thru experience a few years ago that it developed with King-Casey, one in which menuboards feature video of the barista taking the customer's order to enhance the personal nature of the conversation.
"We see more thoughtfully and attractively designed drive thrus, and new ways to ensure customers experience enjoyable personalized service and welcoming live interaction with staff," Blackiston says. "Chick-fil-A and In-N-Out Burger are sending staff to the drive thru for the personal touch. Tomorrow's best-practice drive thrus will find new ways to dazzle customers and differentiate the brand."
Some of that personal interaction, though, can drag down the speed of service. At Arby's, Kelly says the company has removed much of the suggestive selling and instead allowed the guests to have more control over the drive-thru experience.
"We really said, this is their time, so instead of all that, we say, 'Welcome to Arby's; order when ready,'" he says.
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Tomcat 9 does not know JasperListener. I googled this issue and found the "Jasper How to" page from apache, but I do not get it. Is Jasper now installed without me having to insert the JasperListener in the server.xml? And do I have to update anything else when upgrading from Tomcat 8 to 9?

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25 games like Minecraft you should try when the blocks are taking over
By Alex Avard, Sam Prell 2019-01-16T19:30:23Z Feature
Thankfully you can compliment your block-based obsession with a tonne of other brilliant games like Minecraft
20. Stardew Valley
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android
With all the large-scale construction going on, it's easy to forget that Minecraft features the chance to indulge in the underrated joys and small victories of owning and caring for a garden, or even a full blown farm. Stardew Valley is an entire game revolved around that very same idea. That said, there's quite a bit that sets it apart. In contrast to Minecraft, players in Stardew Valley can get to know their local community of fictional characters, and even spark up a romance with some of their neighbors if they want to. The game also takes inspiration from the likes of Animal Crossing and JRPGs as much as it does Minecraft, and that hybrid nature keeps it from leaning too heavily into one single genre.
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19. Ark: Survival Evolved
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
While "Minecraft with dinosaurs" is probably a little too reductive of a description, it certainly gives you an idea of what to expect from Ark: Survival Evolved. You gain consciousness on the beaches of a mysterious island chock full of Jurassic beasts, but it's not long before your skills in crafting and combat come in handy in the quest to become king of the jungle. Ark is a game obsessed with Darwinism and the hierarchy of nature. Start as naked prey, become an apex predator. The game slowly becomes less of a survival experience and more of a power fantasy, emulating the concept of evolution in a way that few other titles have.
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18. CubeWorld
Cube World has its roots in crafting and character progression, and takes place in randomly generated worlds full of blocks as far as the eye can see. There's a strong focus on cosmetic customization, with characters able to modify their armor and other wearables for the sake of fabulous self expression. But Cube World cribs from games like The Legend of Zelda too. Inspired by such exploration-heavy games, Cube World gives players an arsenal of skills to better help them trudge through the endless world. Choosing a class and specialization for combat turns the game from a simple exploration simulator into a meaty RPG adventure, packed with missions, bosses, and creepy caves to explore.
17. Trove
Platforms: PC, PS4, Xbox One
Trove is a voxel game, so its resemblances to Minecraft are immediately apparent, at least from a visual point of view. Trion World's action-oriented MMO features mines and caverns crawling with enemies and the promise of untold rewards, letting players team up with friends to progress their character and conquer Trove's sizeable to-do list. However, Trove is more concerned with being an MMO than a Minecraft clone, with its extensive range of classes designed to facilitate and encourage variation in playstyle. Its employment of loot, bosses and dungeons again draws from the well of RPG tropes to deviate from the conventions of its aesthetic inspiration.
16. Starbound
The tagline for Starbound is a pretty good summation of what to expect: "survive, discover, explore, and fight." Beyond that, an infinite universe means there are loads of possibilities in its generous heaps of 2D co-op gameplay, not least when it comes to shaping the world and discovering new locations to set up shop. Exploring the game with friends - whether it's just to farm, try your hand at space exploration, or create weaponry for quests - is designed to be enjoyable in itself, rather than just a means to an end. And while it is an open-ended experience, the addition of quests and NPCs imbues the game with contextual purpose, unlike the narrative-free adventuring of Minecraft.
15. 7 Days to Die
There are few things associated with survival and scavenging more than the horror of having to survive a zombie outbreak, and 7 Days to Die leans heavily into those apocalyptic sentiments. The realistic, dark world may not look like other sandbox games made in the same vein, but that doesn't mean it shies away from the genre's tried and true gameplay staples. Scavenging, crafting traps, and building shelters are all well represented here, as is the likelihood of catastrophic failure. What turns the proceedings into a real fright fest, though, is when the blood moon rises on every seventh night, which brings a relentless horde of faster, stronger zombies right to your doorstep.
14. StarForge
Survival crafting and science-fiction collide in this world builder that looks one part Halo and two parts Minecraft. Gathering resources for base construction and surviving on an alien planet are just the tip of the iceberg in StarForge - a uniquely ambitious take on the sandbox survival genre. But it isn't just a game about building and survival; it also involves shooting aliens in a persistent world where not even the sky's the limit. There's looting, defending bases with friends, and connecting your planet to the outer cosmos to build space stations that would put NASA to shame.
13. Kerbal Space Program
At its core, Minecraft is all about unleashing creativity and problem-solving. You need a bed, so you gather the materials, arrange them as needed, and construct a bed. Kerbal Space Program is much the same way. No, you're not out in the wilderness building massive replicas of famous locales, but you're using critical thinking skills to help cute cartoon critters survive the harsh reality of space travel. And, like Minecraft, Kerbal Space Program has been used by teachers in schools as an educational tool. See, games can be fun and educational!
12. Block Fortress
Platforms: iOS, Android
Defense is a matter of life and death in Block Fortress, where the strength of your barracks is tested by an endless onslaught of enemy hordes. For the player, that means most of your time will be spent constructing armaments, walls, and other features to make the sturdiest, most robust base possible. The scope of construction is limited only by your intuition… and the ability to mine valuable resources as quickly as possible. If your favorite part of Minecraft is figuring out the best defenses against the world's creepy crawlies, you'll like Block Fortress.
11. Don't Starve
The Creeper will always remain the king when it comes to survival crafting scares, but Don't Starve's consortium of creatures come pretty close to dethroning that Minecraft icon. The similarities also extends to Don't Starve's emphasis on staying alive through the crafting of tools and shelter, despite your incredibly limited resources. However, the game stands apart thanks to its wonderfully gothic aesthetic, which looks like a children's book fused with H.P. Lovecraft. And, as the title implies, Klei Entertainment's roguelike uses hunger as merely the first challenge for players to race against in a tough-as-nails survival experience. Staying nourished has never been so intense, and fire has never been a greater friend.
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The controversial new Twitter policy restricting promoting other social media platforms caught CNN's Jim Acosta in its crosshairs, and it was applied to him retroactively, locking his account hours before the policy was announced on Sunday. The new policy, which was posted by the @TwitterSupport account in a short thread at 12:37 pm ET Sunday, restricted "free promotion of certain social media platforms on Twitter," specifically naming "Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel , Nostr and Post." Among the prohibited activities were urging your Twitter followers to follow you on another platform or posting links to your username on non-Twitter online spaces, including typing out the link as "dot com" or other shorthand language. The announcement followed an especially turbulent week in "Chief Twit" Elon Musk's tenure as owner of Twitter, with many Twitter users expressing their frustration with his decisions by posting tweets and changing their profiles to promote their accounts on other competing platforms. CNN Newsroom weekend anchor Acosta was among those who changed his Twitter profile, editing his name to display as "Jim Acosta is also on Post and Mastodon" a few days ago. Screenshot via Twitter. He also posted several tweets encouraging his followers to follow him on those other platforms. Just signed up for Mastodon. I can't share my account from Mastodon on twitter. But I can still do this," he tweeted on Friday along with a shrugging emoji and a screenshot of his Mastodon profile, since Twitter had started restricting Mastodon links as "harmful," a designation previously seen more commonly with phishing and scam links. A subsequent tweet said, "I mean I guess I can do this too," along with a hand emoji pointing up at his username referring to the other accounts. The first of these tweets was taken down by Twitter and is no longer visible on the platform, only a note indicating, "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules." Screenshot via Twitter. The removed tweet can be viewed in several captures in the archives of Acosta's Twitter profile at The Wayback Machine, as shown in the screenshot below: Screenshot via The Wayback Machine. On Sunday, Acosta interviewed Business Insider reporter Linette Lopez, who has covered Musk with a highly critical eye for years, specifically his leadership at Tesla and SpaceX. Lopez's latest article, published Sunday morning, takes on "Elon's stale playbook" to predict his "bullying" management style will end up taking Twitter "down in flames." Lopez was one of the journalists whose Twitter accounts were suspended this week and she has yet to get her account back. Acosta began the segment by mentioning the new Twitter policy, and disclosing how it had affected him directly. "I should note my own account was locked overnight by Twitter," he said, explaining how one of his tweets was found to have violated the new policy — but hours before Twitter had publicly announced the new rule. A source at CNN highlighted how Acosta's account had been retroactively locked, and noted they had appealed. "I woke up this morning and my account was locked," Acosta continued. "I'm still trying to sort it out. This feels very arbitrary and a little frenetic." "What people really need to understand about what's happening at Twitter now, is that it's being run by Elon's feelings, and not by any thought about the business model," said Lopez, noting that the "power users" were the people who generate content. for the platform "for free" and "make the site interesting to go to," but Musk had been kicking off these users "right and left." This was "not great for Twitter as a business," Lopez added, saying that in her experience investigating Musk, this was an example of him relying on "emotional decision making." "It's almost as if his id is spilling out all over the internet and on Twitter," she said. Acosta and Lopez also discussed Musk's recent accusations that journalists had "doxxed" him and then his own tweets Sunday showing he was at the World Cup in Qatar. Musk's tweet was "in soccer terms, it's sort of an own goal," said Acosta, to object to people tweeting out his location but then post that. What the journalists had posted "were not his exact real-time location at all," Lopez noted. This is how about how Elon feels. It's not about rules. Elon is somebody who likes law and order, as long as he makes the laws and gives the orders." "We're going to see a lot of hypocrisy here and that's not going to change," she said, pointing out his history of "bullying people" and "making erratic judgment and grandiose promises that are never, ever fulfilled." "There's not going to be a moment when Elon becomes a real CEO," Lopez predicted. "It's kind of like waiting for Donald Trump to be presidential. It's never going to happen." Watch the video above, via CNN. Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com


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The US House of Representatives launched a bipartisan caucus on Friday to focus on ways to increase domestic production of specialised minerals used to make missiles, cell phones and other high-tech equipment.
The Critical Materials Caucus, is the latest effort by officials in Washington to blunt China's prowess as the world's largest producer or processor of rare earths, lithium, titanium and other niche but important minerals.
China hiked its mining quota for rare earth minerals by 6.1% in 2020 to a record annual high.
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A: This is caused by your termcap for screen being incomplete. (This seems to be a really common problem.) Vim doesn't know the sequence for restoring the screen, so it just leaves it like it was.
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R Madhavan on 'Maara': "It promises a feel-good experience, heartfelt journey like a fairy tale"
By Richa Barua
Bangalore, First Published Jan 6, 2021, 11:21 AM IST
Here's what R. Madhavan has to say on his Amazon Prime Video's next 'Maara' being a musical love story
"We have modified the story and been working on it for over four years", R. Madhavan shares his perspective on Maara being a romantic musical drama
Amazon Prime Video's upcoming next Maara is directed by Dhilip Kumar and produced by Prateek Chakravorty and Shruti Nallappa under Pramod films which stars R Madhavan and Shraddha Srinath in the pivotal roles. Touted as a Tamil Romantic Musical drama, 'Maara' promises a feel-good experience and heartfelt journey like a fairy tale.
Spilling some beans about the movie and how it is an adaptation of Malayalam film Charlie, R. Madhavan shares, "Charlie was about different people, interesting in their own unique way. Bringing a film to audiences in 2020 is a challenge and we are happy we have been able to do that. We all know how demanding a relationship can be and this story is about what happens when a character who does not have a smartphone, meets his loved one in person."
He further adds to it, "We have modified the story and been working on it for over four years. The fact that it is releasing at the right time is making us happy. It is a musical love story."
Maara is set for an exclusive global premiere on 8th January 2021 on Amazon Prime Video across 200 countries and territories. Maara also features Alexander Babu, Sshivada Nair, Mouli, Padmavati Rao and Abhirami in prominent roles.
The trailer of Maara became one of the most loved trailers within a short span of time. The tracks from the film are so heartwarming and have instantly become popular. The appreciation is proof how excited is the audience to watch Maara on Amazon Prime Video!
Last Updated Jan 6, 2021, 11:21 AM IST
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Clinic Offers Vaccinations and Physicals Ahead of School
Thursday, July 18th, 2013, 3:49pm
Getting new clothes and school supplies are only part of the preparation kids need for a new school year, they may also need updated immunizations or a physical to play sports, that is where a base clinic comes in.
The Nellis Pediatrics Clinic will be hosting its annual school and sports physicals for children ages 6-17 at the Family Medicine Clinic through the month of August.
Read more in at Nellis Air Force Base website.
Teen Pregnancy Workshops Scheduled in High-Need Areas
Submitted by Adam Candee on Monday, January 7th, 1:14 pm
Workshops aimed at helping parents talk to kids about teen pregnancy are scheduled for later in the month.
The Southern Nevada Teen Pregnancy Prevention Coalition will host a series of free workshops for parents and guardians interested in talking to their pre-teen and teen children about sexual relationships, preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.
The first workshop is scheduled for 6-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29 at the Walnut Cecile Community Center, 3075 Walnut Road.
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Study: Military Drinking 'Culture' now a 'Crisis'
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012, 12:52pm
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new study says substance abuse among troops has become a "public health crisis" and Pentagon methods for dealing with it are outdated.
The study by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academy of Sciences, says about 20 percent of active duty service members reported they drank heavily in 2008, the last year for which data is available. And, binge-drinking rose to 47 percent in 2008 from 35 percent in 1998.
The study says new methods are needed to help troops. Those include better trained counselors and more outpatient care as opposed to relying so heavily on hospitalizations and residential programs.
Scabies Outbreak Reported at Heard Elementary
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School officials notified parents at Lomie Heard Elementary School on Tuesday that several students were diagnosed with scabies.
Principal Kori Deal sent home a letter informing parents that some students are being treated for the tiny itch mites and asking that any parent suspecting their child might have contracted scabies take them for medical care before returning them to school. Deal also wrote that she requested the school be sprayed with pesticides to kill any remaining mites and rescheduled the school's open house for September 20.
School district officials referred to the outbreak as "minor," but one Heard parent wrote on the 8 News Now Facebook page that as many as 40 students are being seen for potential scabies symptoms. Susan Johnson also wrote she feels "the lack of common sense in handling this (situation) is ridiculous. School should be canceled and (it should be treated) instead of creating an epidemic that affects the … troops on base."
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In honor of the 11th anniversary of the attacks, the seventh annual "Remember the Fallen" Speedway Children's Charities Blood Drive will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway's infield media center.
To donate blood, you must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and be in good health. Those who donate blood will have the opportunity to win several prizes throughout the day including passes to the Neon Garage for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at LVMS, Exotics Racing Driving Experience packages, and more. All donors will receive two free tickets to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Sept. 29.
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Two clinics are under construction at Fort Belvoir in Virginia and Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and additional clinics will be built at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, Fort Hood and Fort Bliss in Texas, Fort Carson in Colorado, Fort Bragg in North Carolina, and Joint Base Lewis McChord in Washington.
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The Monarch I is a kayak brought to you by Foldlite Watercraft. Read Monarch I reviews or submit your own review to share with the paddling community. Check out a few other kayak recommendations below or explore all kayaks to find the perfect one for you!
Read reviews for the Monarch I by Foldlite Watercraft as submitted by your fellow paddlers. All of the reviews are created and written by paddlers like you, so be sure to submit your own review and be part of the community!
Just bought the 2013 version and it was a pain to put together but it is very sturdy and ez to navigate. The weight is less than 20 pounds and is a great kayak once assembled. I will never take it apart because it will take tooo long. It is light enough for child to carry and load. The weight is the only good thing about it. I have modified mine with inner compartments that I can load a day's worth of rations in, plus I bought an aftermarket seat to replace the crappy one. I only paid $169 for a brand new Monarch 1 ten footer. Good deal I think.
Well... simply put... F*$% snap grommets! I'm currently on the verge of breaking my fingers trying to put this thing together.... I love the idea, but it's poorly engineered and manufactured. I got mine for $100 at liquidation world, thinking it was an offer I couldn't pass up... I'd return it NOW if they did returns, based only on the assembly.
These appear to have disappeared from the market, which is a good thing. While I appreciate what the designers were trying to accomplish- a lightweight, modular, low-cost boat, unfortunately they had absolutely no understanding of the task, or of boat design. Where most folding kayaks have frames made of wood or aluminum tubing, the Foldlite used corrugate plastic sheets. Where quality folders used 1100-1200 denier PVC or Hypalon-coated polyester or high-tensile welded Urethane for hulls, Foldlite used a non-ripstop 300 denier silicone coated polyester- the kind of material used by ultralight campers for rainflies. The boats had no tracking ability, no provision for secondary floatation for safety, and no protection against abrasion. If you still see one for sale, avoid it- no matter how cheap it is. This is a boat only a personal injury attorney could love.
I wish I had seen the last review for this before I bought mine. There just were hardly any reviews out at the time.
I got mine for 429$ from an ebay seller. A week later I see the horrible review, AND the company is liquidating the Monarch I folding kayak on ebay itself now. No bids at 300$ and now they relisted at 200$. Mine including a super cheap seat, and some foot blocks that do not fit anywhere of use. So, if the company is clearing them out at basement prices, what does that tell you.
Anyways, I would not care if I was happy with the purchase. I was avoiding an inflatable, and thought I would like this instead of just the typically expensive folding frame only types.
It took 2 hours to assemble the first time. And if you can get it to under 30 minutes with help, in daylight you will be doing good. This product, in the dark, with cold hands and no help is going to be a useless pile of parts, some small ones which you will lose. I could handle the pain to assemble AND missing the clearance prices if it was even just OK on the water.
The folding design, a mix of a flexible skin pulled over a rigid hull made of a sections of die-cut corrugated polyethylene sheet (it looks like heavy-duty Coroplast), cut and scrape you with harsh edges as you put it together. The hull is made from a number of sections or modules with a frame between each pair of modules, which are basically bendy plastic ribs. The rib edges are far too bendy for the pressure needed to hold the folded colorplast panels in place. The attachment quick-attach bolts are also too wimpy and and hard to reach in place. The design does allow for very lightweight construction but at the cost of the strength and ruggedness. If you step on it, a kid hops on it, or you do not put your hands right over the ribs when getting in, you will stress and put unintended bends in the colorplast.
Anyways, it was hard to get into based on cockpit size compared to only being able to touch it at a rib section to lower yourself in. Then, it was very unbalanced. I am no racing or expedition pro, but after years of recreational kayaking, found it very hard to keep upright on flat water. Its more like a block of styrofoam than a kayak.
As noted in the review that just came out, but was not out a few weeks ago when I bought this - it blows around in the wind. It is not that it just does not track, which it does not, it is so far beyond not tracking. The freaking wind actually blows your kayak in all different directions. Oh, and I do not mean storm wind, I mean a comfortable breeze.
Anyways, they are supposed to have revamped the design and tweaked it and have a new improved model out. The design is very innovative, it does offer the lightest weight going, and the manual was very well detailed.
My advice is avoid the Monarch folding kayaks, and if you are going to get a Foldlite-brand folding kayak, wait until the new improved versions have been out a year or more and get the reviews first.
I AM incredibly disappointed in the Monarch single kayak I bought. I took it out for the first time last weekend, and I'll never put it in the water again. What should have been a pleasant afternoon turned out to be a frustrating and exhausting ordeal.
There was a light but steady wind, and that made the boat virtually uncontrollable. The only way it would track even close to straight is going directly into the wind. If I went with the wind, any breeze would catch the stern and spin me around 180 degrees, any other angle I would end up sideways. I was constantly stopping and trying to get myself oriented again before I could continue. I own three other kayaks, and have never had problems like this with any of them, including an inflatable Sevylor.
If you're looking for a boat you can put in your trunk, I'd suggest a good quality inflatable. It would also have the advantage of setting up a lot quicker than the Foldlite. I practiced putting it together several times over the winter before going out, and it still took me 45 minutes to put the Foldlite together.
I bought my Foldlite from their web site. I do a lot of backpacking and wanted the lightest folding kayak I could find. The fact that this one had a rigid hull and no blow up flotation intrigued me. It also was inexpensive. They also say that they are coming out with a kit so that you could make into a single or a tandem. That is what actually sold me. The hull material is the corrugated plastic stuff that they make signs out of, and is surprisingly durable. The cover is made of polyester and fits nicely. The cover is what keeps the water out.
Overall I was impressed by the quality of design and part quality. The instruction manual was extensive to say the least. I scanned it but mostly just put it together without reference to the manual. Once you get the idea each section goes together pretty much the same way. I assembled it the first time in my apt. and it took about 35 minutes. It disassembled in about 10. Most of time was spent screwing the nylon bolts and wing nuts that hold the hull to the ribs. Now that I have done it a couple of times and can do it in less than 30. It tracks reasonably well given its length, actually better than my molded hard shell.
It is fun little boat and perfect for what I needed. I live in an apt., I have no space and I like to get out and go hiking on the weekends, now I hike to places where I can paddle.


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Home People 10 Most Genius Child Prodigies in The World
God blessed some selected people with extraordinary talent. Some people are gifted with this magical talent since their childhood. They're the super genius and really smart. Generally before 10 years old they showed their abilities comparable to those highly skilled adults in specific fields; hence the term child prodigy is used for them. There have been many child prodigies throughout history, and some of them even go on to be prolific adults. Most of them have done more intellectually by that time than we'll do in our entire lifetimes. This list explores top 10 most genius child prodigies in various fields from around the world.
10. Priyanshi Somani
Priyanshi Somani is a mental calculator from India. She started mental calculation at the age of six. At the age of 11, she was the youngest participant of the Mental Calculation World Cup 2010 and won the overall title. She is the only participant who has done 100% accuracy in Addition, Multiplication, Square Root till date in all five Mental Calculation World Cups. She is the winner of "Pogo Amazing Kids Awards 2010" in genius category. Her name is also added in the Limca Book of World Records as well as the Guinness Book of World Records.
9. Elaina Smith
A straight-talking schoolgirl, Elaina Smith became Britain's youngest agony aunt – at just seven years old. She is the youngest broadcaster ever seen. Her local radio station gave her the job after she called in and advised a listener who wanted to dump her boyfriend. The broadcaster was so impressed with her advice — "go bowling with pals and drink a mug of milk." They offered her a weekly slot to give tips to thousands of adult listeners. The littler adviser tackles problems and offers many solutions about romance to the listeners on how to select a boyfriend.
8. Michael Kevin Kearney
Best known as the world's youngest college graduate at the age of 10. Michael was born in 1984 and known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of 17. Michael spoke his first words when he was just four months old. When he reached six months, he said to his pediatrician "I have a left ear infection" and learned to read at the age of ten months. In 2008, he became a reality show Millionaire, and earned $1,000,000 on the television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
7. Gregory R Smith
Born in 1990, Gregory Smith was memorizing and reciting books at the age of 14 months and had enrolled in university at 10 years. When Gregory graduates, he was the youngest person ever to receive a master's degree from the University of Virginia. This young man travels the globe as a peace and children's rights activist and got the Nobel Prize at the age of 12 only. He is the founder of International Youth Advocates, an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world.
6. Saul Aaron Kripke
Kripke was born in New York on November 13, 1940, and spent his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska. He was labelled a prodigy, having taught himself Ancient Hebrew by the age of six. He read the complete works of Shakespeare by the age of nine. Kripke mastered the works of Descartes and complex mathematical problems before finishing elementary school. He wrote his first completeness theorem in modal logic at the age of 17, and had it published a year later. In 1958, Kripke attended Harvard University and graduated summa cum laude obtaining a bachelor's degree in mathematics. During his 2nd year at Harvard, Kripke taught a graduate-level logic course at nearby MIT.
5. Aelita Andre
The two-year old artist who showed her paintings in a famous Gallery. Born on 9 January 2007, Aelita Andre is an Australian abstract artist known for her Surrealist painting style and her young age. She began to paint when she was only nine months old. Her work was displayed publicly in a group exhibition shortly after she turned two. Her first solo exhibition opened in New York City in June 2011, when she was four years old.
4. Cleopatra Stratan
A three-year old singer who earns 1000€ per song. Cleopatra was born on 6 October 2002 in Moldova. She was the youngest singer to get the commercial success with her album named "La Varsta de Trei ani". She also has a record for performing live for straight two hours in front of a huge audience. Cleopatra holds the record for the highest paid young artist. She's the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a No.1 hit in a country.
3. Arfa Karim
Arfa Karim was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who in 2004 become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), just at the age of nine years. She represented Pakistan on various international forums including the TechEd Developers Conference. She also received the President's Award for Pride of Performance. A science park in Lahore – The Arfa Software Technology Park – was named after her. She was invited by Bill Gates to visit the Microsoft Headquarters in the USA. She died in hospital at Lahore on 14 January 2012, aged 16 years.
2. Akrit Jaswal
With the IQ level of 146, a young Indian Akrit Jaswal, who has been called "the world's smartest boy". He is considered the smartest person of his age in India. He came to public attention in 2000, when he performed his first medical procedure at his home. Jaswal shocked the people at the age of 7 years, when he did a surgery on a native girl who suffering from the burns on her hands.
He focused his phenomenal intelligence on medicine and became the youngest person to be admitted to a medical university in India (Punjab University), just at the age of 12. At the same time he claimed to be on the verge of discovering a cure for cancer.
1. Kim Ung Yong
Kim Ung Yong is thought to be the most Genius Child in the world. He was born on March 8, 1962, in Korea. He has broken the Guinness book records by the IQ level of 210. At the age of 4 years only he had the ability to read Korean, Japanese, English and German language, also solved complicated differential and integral calculus problems. He was a guest student of physics at Hanyang University from the age of 3 to 6. At the age of 7 he was invited to America by NASA. He finished his university studies, eventually getting a Ph.D. in physics at Colorado State University before he was 15. This Korean super-genius might just be the smartest guy alive today.
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