.:] Digital Paint [:.:] Paintball 2.0 [:.:] Forum [:.:] Cheat Detected: #c0NF|DaRkOn [:.
They are all cool guys, they cheated, they got banned. No need to smear. They could have used better judgment, but they didn´t.
Nevertheless I still consider them as good persons, put aside the hacking issues.
The issue of hacking should be a none issue.
Maybe I shouldent get involved in this thread because I like those guys, but hacking is unforgivable as you say. I´m not defending them or w/e, I´m not their lawyer. I just support the persons who they are, not the hax.
Edge are you meddling stupid?
Yeah, I´m probably stupid because i diverse the people and their actions in a game.
What makes them cool edge? hacking, flooding or changing the map when they're losing?
As I sead, I meant privately, not in game. I will not continue this discussion any more, since I have spoken what i mean. And Parade you call me stupid and you post only in Cheats. Guess you like to see a man fall down and then laugh at him.
C ya on diferent threads.
Well good for you edge.
I just don't like the fact that they were allowed to cheat in probably a dozen or so matches if not more. I agree with jitspoe that immediately banning players with cheats makes it easier for potential cheat developers to test the detectability of their cheats, but ZGH and Penix are already listed as detectable cheats in the "underground forums". I think that by jitspoe waiting so long to ban offenders is causing some people to feel entrapped. If you look at the entire #c0NF team here, it is more likely that one player had the intentions on using cheats and he played around with a couple of them and after a few days wasn't caught. He then distributed these "undetected cheats" to his entire clan which used them because they were unaware of the consequences and now the entire team is about going down for cheating. I think that probably 3-4 of these players who have been legit for a year already would have never cheated if their foolish clanmate had have been caught and banned immediately.
So instead of banning one person with bad intentions, we've banned almost an entire team that was persuaded to cheat by this individual. Their reputations are tarnished and this team and all of its members (even those who hadn't cheated) will be under scrutiny for years to come.
Now we have a dozen or so matches that need to have their results over-ruled. Numerous teams have been playing #c0NF at a definitive disadvantage which could have been prevented. If I were running a tournament I would hate to have a team of cheaters do well, maybe even win a prize and come to find out a couple weeks later that they were playing dishonestly with cheats.
So why don't we just autoban the checksums of Penix, ZGH and the multi-hook? These cheats have been detected for way too long and you would be weeding out the bad players who have sought after cheats, as opposed to those who were convinced into cheating by friends or clanmates.
Next on the agenda: hardware based bans, so we're not banning all of Mexico or small villages when these idiots cheat. Most people know that the hardware checksums are being generated already, let's just put the banning capability into place.
Now you've got these script-kiddies threatening you over this. A 100-node botnet would kill your login server and grind a hault to every 'sv_login 2' server, would hate to see what kind of damage there would be with this supposed 50k botnet.
The first c0nf guy to cheat initially used the name "newbie" and "noname". Typical "testing the waters" cheating. He also had a dynamic IP that changed basically every time he played. So what would an auto-ban get us? Some "newbie" cheated, got a disposable IP banned, and moved on to look for new cheats. A day or two later, he and his clan mates start playing with their real names, running around blatantly cheating and boasting that they defeated the cheat detection system.
Now I'll admit that I let this go on too long. I was busy with other things and didn't check the cheat detection log for a couple of weeks. By the time I checked almost the entire clan was in full swing cheating, but I don't think these are would-be-legit players. Some had been caught cheating before. They just hadn't been cheating because they were aware of the cheat detection system. Once one of them came up with an elaborate scheme to work around the cheat detection (or so they thought), they all (or nearly all - I think there were only 1 or 2 people on the roster who didn't get caught) started cheating regularly.
Of course their work around was a bunch of bollix. The real reason they didn't get caught was because I hadn't checked the logs, but they didn't know that. Had the bans been immediate, they would have immediately known their workaround didn't work and possibly continued to try until they found one that did. If they did find a way to avoid the cheat detection, I'm fairly certain they would have been cheating for a lot longer than 2 weeks.
As for botnet attacks, I would take legal action. That kind of thing can get somebody in real trouble.


This week's Facilitator Tips episode discusses the value of seeking feedback for continuous and professional development.
It's also a great deal more fun to work with others who, together, help support and lift one another up.
Hi and hello. Welcome to Episode 20 of the Facilitator Tips video series.
My name is Mark Collard, I'm an experiential trainer and author, and in this series, I share those little nuggets of wisdom about what I've learned through the journey of facilitation in my career. And today I want to talk about this little tip about seeking feedback, indeed seeking feedback all the time.
One of the most hardest things we can do, in fact, it's built into that little thing that was produced by Robert Fulghum, everything I learned I learned in kindergarten (All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten), it talked about one of the biggest words was "LOOK". It is one of the hardest things we do as a human being is to look, because sometimes we're afraid of what we might see.
And that's what feedback is about. It's inviting someone else to actually look at what we're doing, to observe and provide basically a mirror or at least their opinion of what they saw. And because of that, it is actually very challenging, because sometimes we don't want to hear what that feedback or what other people think.
Now of course feedback is just that. It doesn't have to change you. You get to choose what you do with it but we need to appreciate that it is challenging but also appreciate that without challenge you're left with boredom and routine. The only way you can grow as a professional in this space when you're leading groups is to be able to seek feedback, to be able to understand what you could do better.
Even just in this video, I have my friend Shar with me, and in an earlier episode discovered something that I said I completely missed, and that we could've then put live and I would've been embarrassed. It wasn't until we went back and listened to it again we realised oh my goodness, I've said the wrong thing.
So even now, even in this space, I'm looking for feedback. You can't do it all the time. We just don't simply have that time, but please do.
And that would be my last minute tip. Somewhere in the next 24 hours just ask a friend, a colleague, someone trusted about hey, what do you think, or did this go okay or do you have something you can contribute, and that is a wonderful way to be able to strengthen relationships because guess what, they might ask the same of you as well.
I hope you found that valuable.
This is not rocket science but if you're looking for more information and links, please go to our show notes at playmeo.com/facilitatortips/episode20. Leave a comment. Share this video with your friends if you found it valuable, and in the meantime, I look forward to seeing you at the next episode.
Have fun. All the best. Bye-bye.


The PBJ & Jazz series returns this weekend with the Aaron Scott Trio and special guest saxophonist, Bryan Olsheski. PBJ & Jazz concerts are 1-hour long interactive concerts designed to introduce jazz and American music to young children and their families. PBJ & Jazz concerts are hosted by former Columbus Music Hall owner and retired music educator Rebecca Ogden – and are a great introduction to live music for the youngest audience member. PBJ & Jazz at the Topiary Park concerts are free and follow family storytime at 11:00 AM at the Main Library. Guests are encouraged to bring a picnic and a blanket. The noon concert will conclude with a hands-on art activity, from 1:00 – 2:00 PM, presented by the Columbus Museum of Art. The Topiary Park is located at 480 E. Town Street in downtown Columbus.
Aaron Scott is a first call musician in the Columbus area performing and teaching percussion for over 30 years. He has taught at Columbus Pro Percussion, Capital University CommunityMusic,MusicRoyale, Dublin Schools and Newark Schools doing group and individual lessons. You can currently find Aaron at the new Vaughan Music Studios facility in Upper Arlington. Aaron's varied background and knowledge of many musical styles affords him the ability to move seamlessly from teaching rock/pop/latin/ jazz drumset, marching and symphonic band percussion as well as all O.M.E.A solo and ensemble percussion.
Bryan Olsheski is a top call saxophonist in Columbus and has shared the stage with some of the most famous names in jazz such as Joe Henderson, Kenny Garrett, Wes "Warmdaddy" Anderson, Conrad Herwig, Jack McDuff, Slide Hampton and George Benson. He has also been a featured soloist for The Temptations, The Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Steve Winwood, Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra, Afro-Rican Jazz Ensemble, Kico Cowan and Expresion Cubana, The Four Tops and The Spinners. Living in Columbus, Ohio for the past several years has enabled Bryan to dedicate himself more to composing and perfecting his craft. In High School Bryan was selected as a featured soloist with State Jazz and Orchestra ensembles. Having received the Louis Armstrong Outstanding High School Soloist Award and a scholarship to attend the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshop, the saxophonist knew his purpose.


Catch Recordings return with their 13th release, this time from DJ Najaora. He's an emerging talent from the ever growing Techno region in Georgia who's mature, fully formed sound is showcased here across three innovative left-field Techno & electro tracks. The excellent 'Night Dreamers' takes the A1 spot. It's an analogue electro cut throughout. With forceful broken drums accompanied by electric lead lines that provide a powerful energy for the dance floor.
Catch Recordings is one of the UK's most interesting underground labels and to mark it's 10th release it is back with another essential EP featuring four fresh tracks from Swedish artist, Random Island Records owner, Inter Gritty, who has previously released on labels like RISE and Deep Moves. Not to mention his own Random Islands works. Since the birth of Random Island in 2012 he has carved out a singular sonic niche for himself with various solo EP's and albums and also his partnership with Nihad Tule as NTTA11.
Lead track, 'Urge' is a deep and pulsing techno roller, with far off pulses and wonky synths working you into a hypnosis. Car Park Ranger is a more direct techno track that takes plenty of cues form the mind melting style of Detroit hero Jeff Mills. It is sci-fi and supple, has tightly interwoven drums and synths that travel far into the galaxy.
Viscosity is more spooky and eerie. It feels unresolved with a magical melody gently unfolding and leaving a sense of intrigue in its wake above deeply rooted, rubbery drums. Last of all, DT1 is an absorbing bit of ambient that suspends you amongst watery sounds, warm solar winds and brain soothing synths.
This is a cinematic EP that takes the listener on a journey with it's emotive and vivid techno sounds.


Running cattle on Harding County grasslands has been a part of the Painter family legacy since 1895, when Lewis Levi Painter rode the open range as a horse wrangler for the CY Cattle Company of Texas.
"He ran a few cows with the main herd and squatted on this land until about 1910, when he filed homesteading paperwork," explained Lewis' great-grandson, Joe Painter.
Like the four generations of Painters before him, Joe continues to run cattle and ride the range along with his wife, Cindy, and their two daughters, Jessica and Joey, and their families. Their son, PJ, works as an attorney in Louisville, Kentucky.
"It's what we worked for all our lives," Cindy adds.
Cindy shared another story about when a bank loaned them money to purchase sheep, but then wouldn't loan them money to buy feed.
"We made it through by working extra hard. In blizzards, we would put nearly every calf and lamb in a hotbox to save them," Joe says.
Their efforts were rewarded. Over time, Joe and Cindy were able to slowly expand their acres and cattle herd, gradually buying small neighboring ranches and quarter sections of land from absentee landowners from whom they had previously rented remnants of the homesteading era. "This whole country was homesteaded in 160-acre parcels. Most families were starved out and left. My dad used to say that the only survivors were those with a strong back and weak mind," Joe laughs.
Joe and Cindy ranched in partnership with his dad, Paul, and stepmom, LuAnn, until his dad passed away suddenly in 1992. Today, Joe and Cindy partner with their daughters and sons-in-law. They run primarily Black Angus cows, as well as a yearling operation.
"I never thought about doing anything else. I started buying cows when I was in college and anytime I had a vacation from school or during the summers, I felt I needed to be here helping," explains Joey Williams, who has a master's degree in business administration.
Also familiar with cattle, her husband, Taylor, grew up on a cattle ranch and a guided hunting operation near Broadus, Montana. Joey and Taylor have a 6-month-old son, Landon.
Expecting their first child, Jessica Holmes and her husband, Casey, were drawn back to the ranch. After college, they were both launching their careers in Rapid City; however, the idea of raising their daughter, Tommi Jo, off the ranch didn't appeal to them. Tommi Jo, 4, now has a younger brother, Trey, 19-months.
Along with ranch work, the sisters fondly recall attending the same country school as their father. Painter School was named for Joe's grandma, Mildred Painter, who was the school's first teacher.
Along with the opportunity to raise their children how they were raised, they were also pulled back by their love of rodeo and training barrel horses.
Their rodeo roots run almost as deep as their cattle-raising ones. Joe's mother, Marilyn Scott, was the first Miss Rodeo America to be crowned in 1955. In 1982, Joe won the College National Finals Rodeo in team roping. PJ was named All Around Cowboy at the Great Plains Region Inter-Collegiate Rodeo; both Jessica and Joey were named All Around Cowgirl at the Great Plains Region Inter-Collegiate Rodeo and received the champion title in breakaway at the College National Finals Rodeo in 2006 and 2012. All three Painter siblings were recognized at the College National Finals Rodeo for their high GPAs.
Over the years, all three won the grand prize of a horse trailer and pickup during the Sheridan Elks Youth Rodeo, and numerous other high honors.
Looking back, the family's passion for rodeo paid off in college scholarships and lifelong friendships. Discussing why they stuck with it, Jessica and Joey say that along with the friends they met along the way, rodeo fulfilled their love for competition. "We got to control our own destiny," explains Jessica, who coached the National American University and Black Hills State rodeo teams from 2007-2009.
"In sports like basketball and volleyball, it depends on your team. In rodeo, it's all on you." Both girls met their husbands through rodeo; today, the couples continue to compete.
"Rodeo goes hand-in-hand with what we do here on the ranch every day. It's our lifestyle," explains Taylor.
When their parents are training horses or practicing for the next competition, Cindy takes care of her grandchildren. "When I think of all the grandparents who don't get to have their grandkids close, it breaks my heart," Cindy says, explaining that she enjoyed raising her own kids on the ranch.
During typical summers, the family squeezes rodeo in on the weekends between rotating cattle through pastures and haying. However, due to less than 2.5 inches of moisture in 2016, they didn't cut any hay last summer.
"In my lifetime, this is the driest I've ever seen it," Joe said. "We typically hay from June 21 to August 1 and then spend a month hauling it all in." The family relied on the previous year's excess and bought hay to overwinter their yearlings and their cow/calf herd.
They're no stranger to dry years. In the early 1990s, the family began dividing 2,000 to 4,000-acre pastures into three or four smaller pastures, installing miles of pipeline so their cattle would have access to fresh water, regardless of precipitation.
"We rotate cattle through the pastures based on availability of grass to make sure we don't over graze," Casey explains.
The smaller pastures also help with winter herd maintenance. Because storms on the open range can become quite severe, over the years, Joe has built nearly 40 large V-shaped wind breaks. Over the last two decades, the family has also planted several tree breaks.
"Everyone's goal in life should be to leave the land better than they found it for the next generation. That's always been our goal," Joe says.


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The employee engagement gap and leadership.
Best Companies completed more survey research on engagement. They found that leadership was the key driver of engagement – employees must have faith and trust in the senior leadership team to be engaged.
Live the organization's values. There was a 51% difference for the statement 'senior managers truly live the vales of this organization'.
Inspire your teams. There was a 50% difference for the statement 'I am inspired by the person leading this organization'.
What are employees saying in your organization about leadership?


Keeping fit and healthy can be challenging. If you re looking for practical advice on how to achieve this then read on.
Keeping a weight loss or food journal is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal if you want to lose weight and be healthy. Here's why.
Read why New Year Resolutions on exercise often fail, and how you can adjust them to make them more achievable. Find out more.
Our top tips for exercising in your 30s and 40s including being consistent, following your preferences and listening to your body. Find out more.
10 tips to make your holidays healthy, from mindful eating to helping others to giving someone a hug – so you can emerge in January feeling good. Read more.
Why are so many of us resistant to exercise? Find out the five most common excuses we use not to exercise, as well as how to get over them – read more.
Investing in a capsule summer workout wardrobe means investing in a few high quality staple pieces that will last no matter how much you wash and wear them.
Namaste, yoga newbie! The first thing to think about is what to wear while you practise. Here's the lowdown on what to wear for your first class – and what to avoid.
Dance and recently Zumba offer an alternative way to get you fit and active in a fun and judgement free environment.
Follow these 6 tips to help you achieve fitness success.
How much exercise do you need to do to gain the benefits of exercise? How much is enough?


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How to apply for housing at Margaret Laurence House second stage housing.
As Margaret Laurence House has approximately six to eight vacancies a year, please feel free to contact us to check on the waitlist or ask any questions that you might have. We are always happy to spend time with you on the phone to help you to figure out if Margaret Laurence House is a good fit for your family.
Are you leaving an abusive partner?
Are you willing to live in housing in which you are unable to give you ex-partner your address? All access visits with your children will need to happen away from Margaret Laurence House.
Have you been out of the relationship a minimum of seven days prior to applying?
Are you residing with your children who are under the age of 19?
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We can accommodate one indoor cat but not dogs.
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Q: Center custom TitleView containing an UIImage and UILabel I checked all the other answers, but I cannot get it to work using what they say:
I have a UIView myTitle, with Frame (0,0,320,44) which contains an UIImage and a UILabel. The UIImage and the UILabel are fine and look fine, but I cannot seem to figure out how to center myTitle.
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It shows up and looks ok, but much too far to the left. It seems to (logically) be related to the left bar button (the back button) which is auto generated by the framework when I push a controller. That barbutton has a varying width based on that and it changes the x of myTitle view based on that.
So, where can I get the width of the left (and right) barbuttons so I can figure out how to put myTitle that in the center?
I notice when I change the width of myTitle it (logically) will center (because the UIImage and UILabel are centered within  myTitle).

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[leftButton setBackgroundColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
[leftButton addTarget:self action:@selector(backButtonClicked) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem =[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:leftButton];

Now you can perfectly adjust the frame of titleView with out much problem.

A: I found two ways in which it works;

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*Like Cy-4AH suggested, using autolayout; her/his answer would be the answer

*Not using autolayout it was much simpler than I thought; if i make the titleView Width to fit it's content exactly, it automatically works; is that done with auto layout internally?

Hope this helps someone.

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Microsoft Azure's Big Bet on SDN
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Albert Greenberg, Director of Development, Microsoft Azure Networking, Microsoft Corporation
The demands on the network are growing exponentially as more and more customers are running their applications in the cloud. As a result, hardware-based networks of the past are no longer flexible or cost-effective enough to handle rapidly growing and changing workloads and requirements. This is why Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a cornerstone of Microsoft Azure, the Microsoft public cloud, running Microsoft first and third party applications. With over 100 datacenters globally, operating at hyper-scale, Azure storage and compute usage doubling every six months, and 1000 new Azure users every day, Microsoft has had to learn how to run a software-defined datacenter within its own infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable Azure services to a rapidly growing user base.
When it comes to networking, Microsoft has had to build a model that provide customers the same level of control over network features and services when running in the cloud as they have on their own dedicated networks. Through one of the largest SDN deployments in the world, Azure delivers rich, flexible, on-demand provisioned per-customer virtual networks (Vnets) to meet this customer need. Vnets have seen an explosive growth in Azure over last few years, reinforcing the need for a reliable, highly scalable method of delivery.
Vnets are built using overlay and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies implemented in software running on inexpensive servers on top of a shared physical network. The physical network itself is built using commodity gear optimized for performance and reliability. By focusing the hardware on providing a high-speed forward plane and focusing the software on creating a highly flexible control plane, Vnets deliver a wide set of features and functions at a higher scale and reliability than can be delivered on dedicated infrastructure. These industry-leading capabilities include routing and service chaining; access control lists (ACLs), load balancing and IP addressing. Additionally, through VPN gateways or private peering solution called Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Vnets can be deployed as extension of a customer's on premises network, and customers can deploy virtual appliances in arbitrary topology inside Vnets. A key differentiator for Microsoft Vnets is that with Windows AzurePack and System Center, the same technologies are available for private cloud, and custom hardware can plug into the Vnets in private cloud as needed by customers.
The key challenges in delivering Vnets are scale, reliability and security. A public cloud environment like Azure consists of millions of cores and virtual machines (VMs), hosting hundreds of thousands of customers spread across the globe. Vnets must be provisioned in the order of seconds, and millions of Vnet operations must be supported per day. Large Vnets consisting of tens of thousands of VMs must co-exist with small Vnets consisting of one or two VMs. To achieve this, Microsoft uses SDN principles to leverage a combination of distributed highly available controllers and host-based components.
Azure Controllers are organized as a set of inter-connected and hierarchical services. This includes services for MAC management, IP address management, ACLs or connectivity management, and Vnet management. Each service is partitioned to scale, and it runs consensus-based protocols on multiple instances to achieve high availability. A partition manager service is responsible for partitioning the load amongst these services based on subscriptions. Gateway manager services then use the partition service to determine where to route requests.
These services are built using Microsoft's service platform called Service Fabric. Service Fabric provides a highly available platform for building and hosting application services that automatically update and self-heal. Service Fabric has been battle tested in Azure and in several Microsoft Cloud services such as Azure SQL Database, Cortana, and Azure Data Factory. In addition, there is an address lookup service that is itself implemented as a hierarchical service. NFVs like load balancing and VPNs are implemented as a combination of a distributed control plane and a stateless scale out data plane running on commodity servers. A stateless service called Network Service Manager (NSM) acts as a worker and drives programming from the network controller to the NFV services. NSM also drives programming on all the Azure hosts.
"With SmartNIC, Microsoft is bringing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) technology into servers, to achieve the programmability of SDN with the performance of dedicated hardware"
At the host level, Azure SDN consists of network agents programming a virtual switch. Microsoft's private cloud and Azure public cloud both use the same SDN v-switch, the Azure Virtual Filtering Platform (VFP). VFP is a match-action table based programmable switch that provides data plane primitives to apply actions on packets, including encap/decap, stateful NAT, quality of service, metering, ACLs, and more. VFP provides stateful (connection-based) matching as a basic primitive, recognizing that users usually want to program rules for connections rather than just packets. VFP implements rule compilation logic and optimized data structures for fast packet processing and fast rule update, caching and tracking all active flows in the system. VFP exposes an easy to program abstract interface to network agents. The agents receive policy from the controllers and program them as match-action rules in VFPAPI, an easy to program abstract SDN interface.
By leveraging host components and doing much of packet processing on each host running in the data center, Azure SDN data plane scales massively–not only does it scale out, but it also scales up nodes from 1G to 10G to now 40G, and constantly increasing. To scale up, Azure has invested heavily in network interface controller (NIC) offloads with Azure SmartNICs. With SmartNIC, Microsoft is bringing Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) technology into servers, to achieve the programmability of SDN with the performance of dedicated hardware.
To protect tenants from each other, the Azure host also implements mechanisms for network isolation. Each VM is only allowed L3 connectivity to any other VM (even on the same host) thereby ensuring that a VM cannot hijack traffic for another VM. Protocols such as DHCP and ARP are secured—effectively putting each VM in its own VLAN. Additionally, by virtualizing the address space of each customer's VMs, Azure SDN ensures that one customer cannot send or receive traffic into another customer's network, nor into the physical Azure infrastructure.
Azure SDN is built on robust distributed systems technologies and overtime been enriched to match the varied needs of growing set of applications, legacy and new, being deployed into Azure. Without SDN, it would not have been possible to deliver the scale, rich network semantics, or security that customers desire.
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ERC Advanced Grant: RWTH Professors Receive Prestigious European Award
RWTH Professors Leif Kobbelt and Matthias Wuttig will receive the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council, ERC for short. Each researcher will obtain funding in the amount of over 2 million euros over a five-year period. The award is presented to established research leaders to pursue ground-breaking projects that open new directions in their research fields. RWTH Rector Ernst Schmachtenberg congratulated the grant recipients on their extraordinary achievements: "We share your pride in securing the ERC grants. These European awards are a recognition of the internationally competitive high caliber research taking place at our University."
ERC Advanced Grants are intended to support the very best research to be conducted in EU member states and associated countries. They are to allow exceptional, established leaders in research to pursue ground-breaking high-risk projects that open new directions in their respective research fields and blur the boundary between basic and applied research.
The highly competitive, two-stage selection process has confirmed that two RWTH scientists and their research projects meet the demanding requirements: Professor Leif Kobbelt from the Chair of Computer Science 8 – Computer Graphics and Multimedia, and Professor Matthias Wuttig from the Department of Experimental Physics.
Optimization of 3D Models
"The ERC Advanced Grant is to recognize the achievements of scientists and to provide the opportunity to work intensely on a larger research project. This makes me very enthusiastic," said Professor Kobbelt. "In the next five years, we want to close the gap between the collection and the wide use of geometrical data. Our aim is to develop an entire system of algorithms to automate the processing of the vast amount of data generated when digitizing a 3D object, for example. The long-term funding through the ERC grant gives us the rare opportunity to thoroughly investigate this topic. Enhancing the attractiveness of Aachen as a location for research and innovation, it will also make it easier to recruit international researchers to the university."
Professor Kobbelt's research project aims to develop new algorithms for the efficient and intelligent generation and processing of complex 3D models.
Over the last years, digital 3D models have been gaining in significance in several areas of application, such as computer graphics, multimedia applications, computer games, but also in engineering, architecture and medicine. Due to the increased computational power of today's personal computers and the availability of 3D printers, 3D models are also increasingly being used by private consumers.
Today, efficient methods and technologies for the digitization and reproduction of real-world objects and environments are already available. The main problem, however, is that the geometrical raw data provided by these methods do not meet the quality requirements demanded by most applications, such as computer animations, simulation, and CAD/CAM - it is effortful and costly to create a well-structured 3D models from such raw data.
The project aims to automate the model optimization process as far as possible. The results of the project shall make it possible to utilize 3D models in many new fields of application in industry, science, and entertainment, and finally also to make them available to private users.
Professor Kobbelt: Background and Career
Leif Kobbelt is Chair of Computer Graphics and Multimedia at RWTH Aachen University. His key research areas include 3D reconstruction, i.e. the faithful digital reproduction of three dimensional real world objects; geometry processing, including 3D model optimization for free form design; real-time image generation, e.g. for computer games; and mobile multimedia applications.
Kobbelt has published well over 200 articles in international top-level journals and at conferences. According to Microsoft Academic Search, over the last ten years, he has been one of the most-quoted authors world-wide in the field of computer graphics. He has received several awards, including the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award 2000, the Eurographics Outstanding Technical Contribution Award 2004, and the Günther Enderle Award 1999 and 2012.
Using Atomic Disorder for Novel Applications
"The ERC Advanced Grant gives us the opportunity to realize a lifetime dream," rejoiced Professor Wuttig. "It gives us the unique chance to intensively investigate a high-potential topic. Over the last years, we have gained many insights into the characteristics and usability of materials, and particularly into the possible effects and impacts of atomic disorder. In a next step, we will attempt to find ways to control this disorder and thus to utilize it. With the grant, we want to continue our research and translate it into applications. Our work can be compared to an exploration to discover a new continent, and the ERC grant can be seen as our means of travel!"
Professor Wuttig's project aims to design novel components for the storage and processing of information through controlled manipulation of the atomic disorder in rare materials. Together with researchers from his work group, Wuttig already has created a "treasure map" for tellurium and selenium compounds, which includes many materials with special properties, such as superconductors, phase shift materials, topological insulators, and thermoelectric materials. The exceptional characteristics of these materials are not only due to unconventional chemical bondings in these substances, but also due to extreme atomic disorder. As part of the ERC project, Wuttig seeks to adjust the disorder in this material class, so as to be able to create novel material properties.
This research will not only result in a better understanding of the impact of atomic disorder on solid body properties, e.g. its role in the transition from insulating to conducting behavior. Also, it could result in a paradigm shift in information technology, where, until today, defects jeopardized functionality. The group's research activities shall make it possible to utilize defects as functional components with which to tailor desired properties. All these research questions are highly relevant for application, and they are being addressed by leading nanoelectronics laboratories worldwide.
Professor Wuttig: Background and Career
Professor Dr. Matthias Wuttig studied Physics at the University of Cologne. Subsequently, he worked at Forschungszentrum Jülich and completed his doctoral studies at RWTH Aachen. Prior to his appointment as Professor at RWTH Aachen, he worked as a research assistant at Forschungszentrum Jülich.
Wuttig participated in several research projects abroad, as a visiting researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and at the Bell Labs, USA; Zhejiang University, China; Kenyatta University, Kenia; the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA; and the Data Storage Institute in Singapore.
Wuttig has been presented with the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, the Gaede Award of the German Vacuum Society, and the Stanford R. Ovshinsky Prize. Also, he is Co-Director of JARA-FIT and spokesperson for the Collaborative Research Centre 917 "Nanoswitches." Furthermore, Wuttig is a member of RWTH Aachen University's Strategy Board.
Recently, he has been investigating and developing phase change materials. This class of materials is characterized by a combination of special characteristics, which makes it a promising candidate for data storage applications, for example.
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'Trapped' Teen Groped by Man on Flight: Complaint
Victim's attorney says unaccompanied minor went through '30 minutes of hell' on American flight
By Jenn Gidman, Newser Staff
Posted Jun 20, 2016 1:40 PM CDT
In this Jan. 25, 2016, file photo, a passenger talks on the phone as American Airlines jets sit parked at their gates at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
(Newser) – A 13-year-old girl traveling Wednesday as an unaccompanied minor from Dallas to Portland says she spent the first part of her flight "frightened and trapped" and the remainder of it too scared to even use the bathroom after a 26-year-old Oregon man seated next to her allegedly groped her, KOIN reports. Chad Cameron Camp was arrested by police and FBI agents after the American Airlines flight touched down in Portland Wednesday evening, CNN reports. Although Camp had reportedly been informed by flight attendants of other empty seats with more room, he chose to stay put in a middle seat right next to the teen. "I'm fine," he said, per the complaint seen by the Washington Post. And after he engaged the girl in a bit of conversation, she says she had to push herself up against the window to try to get away from physical contact including, per the complaint, Camp nudging and elbowing her, then placing his hand on her knee and inching it up her thigh.
Only when a flight attendant came around for drink-and-snack service 30 minutes later did she notice Camp's hand near the tearful girl's crotch and demanded Camp move further back on the plane, the complaint says. The flight attendant told the pilot about the situation, and law enforcement was waiting for Camp when the plane landed, arresting him on one count of abusive sexual contact—but Brent Goodfellow, the girl's attorney, says that wasn't enough. "This was 30 minutes of hell for this young lady," he tells the Post. "If I have my tray table down or my seat back 2 inches during the improper time, those guys are going to be on me immediately. This girl got abused for 30 minutes and no one was to be found." He adds that her family, which paid $300 to the airline in unaccompanied minor fees, is planning a civil suit against American, saying it could have prevented the situation. (Two TSA screeners were fired over groping allegations.)
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blkbltwife
After asking the guy if he wanted to move and he said NO, they should have moved the girl!!
Diane Stearns
Now, this doesn't apply to airlines, but when I was much younger and a whole lot cuter, I had to ride the subway every day for work in downtown Chicago. Rain or shine, I always carried an umbrella with a long, pointed metal tip. Ladies, you can do a WHOLE LOT OF DAMAGE with one of those. The first clue is that a man with a newspaper will sit down next to you and then put the paper on his lap with his hand underneath. All you have to do is hold up the umbrella with the metal tip pointed at the newspaper. They always leave immediately! This also works when you're standing and holding onto the pole or strap and a man is next to you and edging inwards. Just hold up your umbrella and point the tip at his crotch. Again, he'll be moving away from you in no time at all. Just a little advice from an old-time female subway rider who always survived the trip...
DwightMann
When the flight attendant noticed what was happening, the man was immediately relocated. The girl never said a word. What more could the airline have done? If the girl wants money, get it from the perso who is responsible.


The Democratic Republic of Congo officials on Saturday delayed the announcement of preliminary results from a crucial presidential election, amid growing pressure from world powers and the influential Catholic church to respect voters' wishes.
"It is not possible to publish the results on Sunday. We are making progress, but we do not have everything yet," Corneille Nangaa said, without announcing a new date.
DR Congo's powerful Catholic Church, which provided more than 40,000 election observers, had said Thursday it knew who had won the vote, but did not name him.
Among the frontrunners were Kabila's handpicked successor Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary and two opposition candidates: veteran heavyweight Felix Tshisekedi and newcomer Martin Fayulu.
Kabila had been due to step down two years ago, but clung on to power, sparking widespread protests which were brutally repressed, killing dozens.
The election, preceded by repeated delays, was carried out in a relatively peaceful manner. But tensions have built over the lengthy counting process, amid fears the results could be manipulated to install Kabila-backed Shadary in power.
The electoral commission had promised to announce preliminary results on Sunday, followed by a definitive count on January 15.
The further delay could stoke tension in the unstable central African nation of 80 million.
Nangaa has blamed the slow count on massive logistical problems in a country the size of Western Europe with poor infrastructure. Since the vote, the authorities have cut internet access and blocked broadcasts by Radio France Internationale, causing widespread frustration.
The United States and European Union urged Kinshasa to ensure a peaceful change of power.
Donald Trump announced Friday that the United States was sending about 80 troops to Gabon to deploy in the event of election-related unrest in nearby DR Congo.
The African Union, which had sent an 80-member team to monitor the vote, insisted that respecting voters' wishes was "crucial".
And Denis Sassou Nguesso, president of the DR Congo's western neighbour, the Republic of Congo, urged restraint in uncertain times to "safeguard peace and stability in this brother country".
Nangaa wrote to CENCO head Utembi on Friday accusing the episcopal conference of putting out partial result "trends" designed to "intoxicate the population in preparing an uprising," an accusation the latter turned on its head with Saturday's letter in response.
The ruling FCC coalition accused CENCO of "seriously breaching" the constitution and electoral law by "illegally declaring voting trends" in favour of a given candidate.
The last two elections in 2006 and 2011, both won by Kabila, were marred by bloodshed, and many feared a repeat if the results this time round were placed in doubt.
In 2006, Kabila defeated former warlord Jean-Pierre Bemba in a violence-tainted poll.
Five years later, he was re-elected in another vote blighted by bloodshed, chaotic organisation and alleged irregularities.
The opposition rejected the results.


Teams playing more than once: Golden State, Boston.
Weird how Golden State won for everyone last night except me :).
Glad you caught that! When the same team plays on multiple nights I have to include the date of the game for a player to get credit for picking that team.
Just finished moving 3 or so inches of snow out of the driveway and off of the walks. Still in my skiing long johns, so I am plenty warm for the exercise of making picks.


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Moldova's Parliamentary Elections: European Choice Versus Russian Political Projects (Part Two)
By: Vladimir Socor
December 3, 2014 09:08 PM Age: 8 years
(Source: Reuters)
Moldova's small Party of Socialists, pro-Kremlin and pro-Eurasia, has suddenly become Moldova's single largest party after the legislative elections on November 30. Surpassing the Communist Party, Igor Dodon's Socialists are now the leading leftist party, the primary recipient of Russian/"Russian-speaking" votes (but not confined to that segment), and the single strongest group in Moldova's newly elected parliament. The Socialists and Communists have received 21 percent and 18 percent, respectively, of the total votes cast; corresponding with 26 seats and 21 seats, respectively, in the 101-seat parliament. The governing pro-Europe coalition (comprised of three parties) holds 54 seats in this parliament (Moldpres, December 1; see Part One in EDM, December 2).
The Socialist Party's billboard advertisement shows the party's top leaders in an intimate conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The party's election campaign motto was, "A Prosperous Moldova Together with a Powerful Russia." The Socialist Party calls for abrogating Moldova's Association Agreement with the European Union and for holding a referendum on Moldova's accession to the Russia-led Customs Union (to be expanded into the Eurasian Union as of January 1, 2015). Symbolically at least, this is a party of the Red Left (Soviet five-pointed red star as electoral trademark, red flag, no political affiliations in Europe).
Putin has long ranked as the most popular of all politicians in Moldovan opinion surveys (a reflection of Russian television's impact on this society). Socialist Party leader Dodon has become the first Moldovan politician to associate himself with the Putin image and capitalize on it. The Kremlin has evidently authorized this image transfer, which catapulted Dodon from obscurity to sudden prominence.
No significant political party in any former Soviet country has sided with Russia as demonstratively as Moldova's Socialist Party. By the same token, Russia has found a satellite party—now suddenly a serious one—in Moldova for the first time in 25 years. More broadly, this is the Kremlin's first-ever open endorsement of an opposition political party against the incumbent government of a former Soviet country. It is also the Kremlin's first-ever decision to endorse a party of the Red Left in any former Soviet territory.
Dodon seized this chance for his small party to supplant the mass-based Communist Party of Vladimir Voronin (head of state, 2001–2009), from which Dodon has since split off. The Communist Party had garnered 44 parliamentary seats in the preceding elections (2010) while the Socialist Party fell below the threshold.
The Communist Party, a home product in Moldova under Voronin, never became Russia's political partner. The Kremlin deeply distrusted Voronin's Communists when they were in power, and has ostracized them ever since. The Communist Party, moreover, had locked in the Russian/"Russian-speaking" voters in Moldova, making it almost impossible for Moldova's pro-Russia parties to capitalize on that electorate—until now.
That situation became unacceptable to Moscow in the context of its "Russian World" design and anti-EU policy in Europe's East, where Moldova is the EU's most advanced partner country. To counteract Brussels effectively in Moldova, the Kremlin had to effect a transfer of voters from the Communist Party to hardline pro-Russia forces. Moldova's electoral campaign leading up to the November 30 parliamentary elections provided that opportunity. The Kremlin, in effect, unleashed the Socialist Party to cut into the Communists' voter base.
The same was the goal of the "Patria" party, a parallel Moscow project, which was disqualified by Moldovan courts on the eve of the November 30 vote. The US State Department evidently misunderstood the situation when its spokeswoman expressed "concern" (state.gov, December 1) over that disqualification. "Patria" bears the marks of a pro-Moscow operation with both overt and covert dimensions (see Part One).
Prior to the November 30 vote, Socialist leader Dodon and "Patria" leader Renato Usatyi were intimating a post-election coalition with a reduced Communist Party, on anti-EU terms, and presuming Voronin's retirement. Such a coalition, hemming in a still-large but declining Communist Party between these smaller but rising pro-Moscow parties, would have made good sense for them and Moscow.
However, the Socialists' election gains (largely at the Communists' expense) surpass Dodon's and all the pollsters' predictions by far. Flush with success, Dodon is now declaring his ambitions to monopolize the Left for the Socialist Party by 2018, when the next parliamentary elections are due. However, pre-term elections are already being mooted.
Russia's Ambassador to Moldova, Farit Mukhammetshin, visited the Socialist headquarters on December 2, congratulating the party on its success. Dodon used this occasion to call for parliamentary elections to be held again, as soon as possible. Dodon claims that the elections just held cannot be deemed fully legitimate because "hundreds of thousands" of Moldovan guest workers from Russia could not vote, and "Patria" was disqualified in Moldova (Unimedia, December 2; TV-7, December 3).
These are obvious pretexts. Those guest workers never voted in any significant numbers in any previous Moldovan elections (Moscow might press to change this in the next Moldovan elections). And most of "Patria's" voters (including defectors from the Communist Party) apparently switched to Dodon's Socialists on voting day.
Dodon's call for a repeat election actually seeks to pressure the Communist Party into accepting a subordinate role in a coalition of the Left. The Socialist Party's main conditions are: a joint initiative to abrogate the Moldova-European Union Association Agreement in the Moldovan parliament, and a joint effort to stage a referendum on Moldova's accession to the Russia-led Customs Union (Eurasian Union).
Any such coalition would accelerate voter crossovers from the Communist to the Socialist Party. But Voronin's Communists would fare even worse if new elections are held any time soon. The Communist Party has run out of resources and ideas, whereas the Socialists are riding Putinism's wave.
Moscow's decision to stake on Dodon's splinter group indirectly confirms that no mainstream party was willing to play this role for Russia in Moldova (the Communists must be seen as mainstream in Moldova's conditions). The Kremlin, however, will undoubtedly also seek a centrist party for the role of Russia's political partner in Moldova, preferably within the governing coalition. The Democratic Party controlled by billionaire Vlad Plahotniuc is a potential choice for such a role.
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A blockbuster story in The Hill yesterday is being given the silent treatment by the mainstream media. That won't last for long.
Lowell Ponte gets to the essence of what the story by John Solomon and Alison Spann reveals about the sham effort to pin Russian collusion on Donald Trump.
"Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton's charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow," sources told Solomon and Spann.
But acting FBI investigators at the time – including then-U.S. attorney Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller, the man Rosenstein would later choose to investigate possible Russian collusion that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 election – apparently did not share this information about Russia with key members of Congress.
The FBI under Robert Mueller and the Department of Justice under Eric Holder and his U.S. attorney Rosenstein allowed a strategic natural resource to slip into the control of a rival hostile power and declined to act on corruption investigations into the Clintons – all while keeping Congress and the public in the dark about the unfolding crime involving the highest levels of politics.
This is actual collusion with Russia, and now the guy who let the FBI stand by as the collusion operated; as the deal was signed; the speaking fees were received; and vast amounts of cash were channeled to the slush fund legally known as The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is heading the investigation into Russian collusion.
Clarice Feldman points out that today, Senator Grassley's Judiciary Committee is conducting DoJ oversight hearings, with A.G. Sessions testifying before the committee and the cameras. Clarice thinks it should be a blockbuster.
Keep in mind that Sessions has been at the mercy of the incumbent staff and is only now getting his own people confirmed at senior levels. Marcy Wheeler of the New Republic is worried about Brian Benczkowski, just confirmed as the new head of the DoJ's criminal division.
My own view is that a housecleaning at the FBI and DoJ is needed. Let's look for the parties responsible for covering up this scandal, which should be the biggest political scandal in American history.


Credit Strategy have teamed up with Experian for the third year to help redress the knowledge gap through our Credit Awareness Week campaign. The week aims to empower consumers to improve their financial futures and is being held between 18 and 22 March 2019.
Aimed at encouraging consumers to gain more control over their finances, two major pieces of research will be unveiled as well as our Pathfinder tool which is a guide to what people can do if they are refused credit.
We're trying to help people become more aware about how lenders assess your credit worthiness – what's important and what isn't.
Here you will find a guide that provides simple steps to help people understand their credit score and take simple steps, to improve it. We also want to debunk the myths we uncovered in a survey of consumers about credit scores and how decisions are made by lenders over whether to accept applications for mortgages, loans and credit cards. The guide is designed to help consumers help themselves.
Ultimately, we're trying to help you get the best possible deal, when you apply for a loan, mortgage or credit card.
Experian's research shows the degree to which people are taking control of their finances by shopping around and switching to cheaper deals to help make their money go further. Credit awareness helps people stay in control of their spending and borrowing, and to manage their money successfully.
During Credit Awareness Week, we are also providing consumers with a toolkit called Pathfinder that takes them through simple steps for what to do next, when their application for a loan, mortgage or credit card has been refused.
Behind the scenes we are working to convince lenders to give consumers better, clearer information, when they refuse a consumer's application for a mortgage, loan or credit card. If you are a lender or third party supplier connecting with consumers, we encourage you to place this tool on your website to help your customers navigate this confusing terrain in the credit decisioning process.
We look forward to working further with the industry to enable consumers to increase their understanding of all things credit. Do get in touch if your firm could help with any of the aims of the week or promote the Credit Awareness Week site badge through your own press and marketing channels.


As OTS works to comply with the Minister's Direction Letter and develop a Program approach and amendment to the Used Tires Program WUP to distribute surplus funds to tire consumers, OTS is hosting group consultation sessions on Tuesday, May 7th from 9am – 11am and Thursday, May 9th from 2pm – 4pm .
OTS is to submit its amendment to the WUP to the Resource Productivity and Recovery Authority by May 31st, 2019.
OTS hosted a series of information sessions for Producers and interested stakeholders on May 8th, 11th & 15th, 2018. The sessions focused on OTS' TreadMarks system and how it may be of use to obligated parties in meeting their tire diversion and reporting obligations under the Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act (RRCEA) and the applicable Regulation(s).
More information about TreadMarks can be found in our Wind-Up FAQ.
OTS hosted a consultation to review proposed changes to the Amended Rules for Stewards on February 26th, 2018.
OTS accepted comments and feedback until March 6, 2018.
The Authority consulted on its draft General Fee Setting Policy, draft Fee Setting Methodology and draft Tire Fees Proposal between January 29 and March 19.
The Authority held a third and final webinar consultation on March 9, 2018. You can view a recording of the webinar consultation and review the presentation slides here.
Comments on the proposed plan can be sent to the Authority at consultations@rpra.ca until March 1, 2018.
* Many aspects of this document are forward-looking. These forward-looking statements and scenarios are based on certain assumptions and reflect our organization's current expectations. As a result, forward-looking statements and scenarios are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations. There is no assurance that the events described in any forward-looking scenarios or statements will materialize.


The tarpaulin is made of black PVC mesh.
It is ideal for quarry/construction site tippers, but can also be used in three-way tippers and agricultural trailers.
Cabrio-Light is not fitted with rear closure and is therefore suitable for simple load containment without the need to protect it against adverse weather conditions.
Opening and closing the tarpaulin is completely safe for the operator who remains on the ground.
It can be custom-made to include a wide range of accessories.


Travel to me means two things: 1. comfy clothes & 2. lots of snacks. Anyone with me?
This recipe has been my go-to for road trips, hikes, and airplane snacks. Think chewy granola bar + soft cookie + PB&J.
If you're looking for a new travel snack, this recipe is for you. My bites are gluten free, vegan, have only 7 ingredients and whip up in under 20 minutes!
If you haven't heard, Mark and I have some big news—we're moving across the country! As we plan our 24 hour drive, I am on food duty—planning meals and all the snacks. My PB&J bites are definitely on the menu. With lots of protein and healthy fat, these balls are the perfect snack to keep you going on long, busy days.
This recipe is naturally sweetened (from the dates), soft (from the oats), creamy (with the peanut butter), fruity (with the dried blueberries), and hearty (with the flax and chia)! These simple and healthy snacks travel well and last for months if you don't eat them all. They also make great snacks or treats for kids lunches.
Ditch the sugar-packed, artificially flavored granola bars and give my PB&J energy bites a try!
For more recipes like this, check out my mountain granola bars, mango energy bites, mint chocolate cake balls, or blackberry breakfast cookies.
My go-to snack recipe for travel. These PB&J energy bites are gluten free, vegan, have only 7 ingredients and whip up in under 20 minutes!
In a food processor or blender, pulse dates until a large, sticky ball forms.
Add in oats, peanut butter, dried blueberries, flax, chia seeds, and milk.
Blend until mixture is sticky and starts to for a ball (see picture). If mixture is too dry, and an extra splash of milk and blend again.
Roll dough into balls using 1 Tbsp. amount (This should make about 20). Lay balls on cookie sheet and place in freezer.
Freeze for 10 minutes, or until firm. Enjoy immediately or transfer to airtight container. Store in freezer until ready to enjoy—up to 3 months.
*I used Wild Friends peanut butter. I love this brand because they use two simple ingredients--peanuts and salt, plus their butter is super creamy & earthy in flavor. You can purchase their product on Wild Friend's website or on Amazon.


Introducing the BRON Mulcher series.
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The BRON Mulcher has wide tracks that provide stability and lower ground pressure.
The BRON Mulcher is designed with an upfront cab, providing clear visibility with fingertip controls. Our Mulcher surrounds the operator in comfort with an ergonomic seat, climate control and easy to read gauges.
The BRON Mulcher is available in many various models to suit your company's unique needs.
BRON Mulchers are completely hydrostatic, giving you the control you need.
BRON exclusively offers the Berco Undercarriage on all its tractors.
BRON uses CAT® Engines with worldwide serviceability. Tier III certified with Acert™ technology.
The BRON Mulcher was made to work in the bush. Its robust design can take abuse while still providing easy access for maintenance.
BRON will supply or custom fit any manufacturer's head to our prime mover.
The thick and strong front windshield protects the operator from unexpected flying debris.


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SPIRE is Jenell's passion and home! Her crew classes are just the thing you need to kick off your week! Reserve your spot for her classes on Monday and Tuesday nights at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF: WHERE ARE YOU FROM? OUTSIDE OF SPIRE, WHAT KEEPS YOU BUSY?
I was born and raised in Waukesha, Wisconsin. After high school, I moved up north to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. I graduated with my bachelors in business administration, studying marketing and interactive web management.
Growing up I was never interested in fitness outside of sports and working out by myself has never been enjoyable. When I was a freshman in college, I started attending 5+ group fitness classes a week. Through group fitness, I had finally found something that made exercising fun.
After becoming a "regular" in multiple fitness classes, I was asked if I wanted to teach. I jumped on the opportunity to be a part of a community that made fitness fun.
First time out in the water solo in a trainer.
HOW DID YOU LEARN TO ROW?
In college I was always looking for new ways to workout. I joined the Oshkosh Community Rowing Club and learn how to scull on the Fox River. There was no better way to start my day then out on the water.
OTHER THAN ROWING, WHAT KIND OF WORKOUTS DO YOU DO?
I'm always looking for fun new fitness challenges. I've been a part of a CrossFit gym since 2012 and have found an unexpected love in Olympic lifting. Nothing makes you feel more like a badass than lifting up heavy weights and dropping them. 💪 I try to do yoga, cycling classes, and HIIT weekly. I have also recently started taking aerial yoga, silks and Muay Thai Kickboxing classes. Anything that allows me to strength my body and improve my fitness.
WHAT OTHER FITNESS CLASSES HAVE YOU TAUGHT?
Since becoming an instructor in 2010, I have taught Boot Camp, HIIT, Cycling, Turbokick, strength, and rowing classes. I am certified in Turbokick, and indoor cycling through Schwinn.
WHAT SONG GETS YOU PUMPED UP?
WHAT MAKES YOUR CLASS DIFFERENT FROM OTHERS?
When I workout, I am very motivated by data & community. I try to bring data driven challenges & team races to incorporate both of my favorite aspects of classes I attend.
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE MILWAUKEE RESTAURANT?
WHAT IS A ONE YEAR FITNESS GOAL YOU ARE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW?
I have a few fitness goals that I would like to accomplish before 2016 ends.
1. Hold a controlled handstand away from a wall.
As cheesy as it sounds, in fitness I am inSPIREd by the amazing athletes that work at SPIRE, the clients in my classes, my peers at CrossFit. Our bodies are capable of so much if we take the time to train them. People that are willing to train and dedicate themselves to push their limits, inSPIRE me to push mine.
In life, I am inSPIREd by my amazing family members who have worked so hard to get where they are today. Their example fuels my drive to be a better person each and everyday.


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Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is the general concept used to identify those systems that allow user positioning based on a constellation of satellites. Specific GNSS are the well-known American GPS, the Russian GLONASS or the forthcoming European Galileo and Chinese BeiDou. Governments around the World are spending billions of dollars of tax payers' money in building and maintaining an infrastructure with explicitly free civilian usage. However, users only have access to a small fraction of the full capability of GNSS in terms of accuracy, robustness and reliability of the provided service at a reasonable cost. Professional, full-featured receivers are expensive, and even in those cases the users have limited access (if any) to know exactly how position and time information were computed.
Some commercial, industrial and scientific applications of GNSS signals and data require non-standard features of the receiver. Access to intermediate signals is not possible in mass-market receivers, and professional equipment is costly and often a 'black box' that does not offer exact information about how signals are being processed. Since all the processing is done in ASICs or SoCs, one cannot change the implementation of a certain functional block and assess the impact of that change on the whole receiver performance.
As a matter of fact, the landscape of GNSS is going to change rapidly in the following years (modernization of GPS and GLONASS, advent of Galileo and COMPASS). A bunch of new signals will be readily available for navigation, providing means to determine position and time with an unforeseen degree of performance. Nevertheless, the multi-constellation, multi-frequency approach poses several technological challenges. In that sense, the flexibility provided by the software defined radio approach (and, specifically, the GNU Radio framework) appears as an ideal environment for rapid prototyping and testing of new receiver architectures.
GNSS-SDR implements a generic architecture of a GNSS software defined receiver and already provides a working implementation of a whole processing chain of a GPS L1 C/A receiver, from the output of a RF front-end to the computation of position, velocity and time. It also provides outputs in standard formats (KML, RINEX). The software allows an arbitrary number of different algorithms and implementations for each required processing block functionality (signal conditioning, acquisition, tracking and so on, see the general overview), allowing the definition of completely customized receiver flowgraph by choosing one of the existing alternatives for each block. This modular nature of the receiver allows the definition of clearly-specified, scoped activities (interface to different front-ends, new synchronization algorithms, interfaces to other sources of information, a multi-frequency / multi-constellation approach, the addition of new cool features, etc.), that can be completed in a summer time frame.
This year, GNSS-SDR is serving as a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code (also known as GSoC), a global program that offers students stipends to write code for open source projects. In order to participate in the program, you must be a student. Google defines a student as an individual enrolled in or accepted into an accredited institution including (but not necessarily limited to) colleges, universities, masters programs, PhD programs and undergraduate programs. You should be prepared, upon request, to provide Google with transcripts or other documentation from your accredited institution as proof of enrollment or admission status. Computer Science does not need to be your field of study in order to participate in the program. You may be enrolled as a full-time or part-time student, and must be 18 years of age or older on or before May 27, 2013 to be eligible to participate in Google Summer of Code in 2013.
If you are an eligible and interested student, read through the list and note the projects you are interested in. You, as the student programmer, then submit a proposal to Google, using the GSoC 2013 website. The application form will be open from April 22, 19:00 UTC until May 3, 19:00 UTC. We recommend you to submit your application early. By doing so, it will be given a greater share of attention than is possible for applications submitted at the last minute.
Hereafter we list, in no particular order, some proposals for projects to be carried out by the students participating in GSoC 2013. This is by no means a closed list, so the students can feel free to propose alternative activities related to the project.
Galileo E1 basic positioning
The European contribution to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is now in its first in-orbit validation tests with a constellation of four satellites. This minimum set of satellites enables users to obtain a 3D position fix, and thus to test a complete Galileo receiver.
GNSS-SDR already implemented Galileo E1 signal acquisition and tracking in the 2012 GSoC program. Now it is time to step up and complete the receiver chain by implementing the decoding of the navigation message1 and obtaining a basic Position Velocity and Time (PVT) solution (both Galileo-only or in combination with GPS satellites). The goal of this project is to write the missing processing blocks (demodulation and decoding of the navigation message, and a PVT module) to receive Galileo signals and compute the receiver position fix.
Basic knowledge on digital signal processing and C++ programming (familiarity with the GNU Radio framework is a plus, but not a requirement).
Mentor:
Dr. Javier Arribas, Dr. Carles Fernández-Prades, Dr. Pau Closas, Mr. Luis Esteve
EGNOS/WAAS compatibility
The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) and the North American Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) are Satellite Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) that provide supplementary information for GPS, Glonass and Galileo systems by reporting on the reliability and accuracy of the positioning data23. By receiving the SBAS information coming from EGNOS or WAAS satellites, a GNSS receiver can improve the position accuracy to 7.6 meters or better (for both lateral and vertical measurements), at least 95% of the time. The SBAS signals were designed for the compatibility with the existing GNSS hardware-based receivers by sharing the same Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modulation techniques.
GNSS-SDR software receiver architecture allows the support of SBAS signals by adapting the existing acquisition, tracking, and telemetry decoding modules for GPS L1 (and thus obtain the SBAS navigation message). The goal of this project is to exploit the modular structure of GNSS-SDR and implement the support of GPS SBAS-assisted navigation.
Exploiting VITA 49 protocol to protect GNSS-SDR from buffer overrun situations
The VITA 49 Radio Transport (VRT)4 is an emerging standard for SDR signal samples transport protocol. Prior to the development of the VRT standard, each SDR RF front-end manufacturer developed custom and proprietary digitized data formats and metadata formats. A remarkable feature of the VRT protocol is the ability to provide accurate timestamping of the signal samples.
One of the most common and undesirable event in a real-time software defined receiver is the sample buffer overrun situation. The problem occurs when the host machine eventually consumes signal samples at a lower speed than the hardware driver produces. If the sample buffer fills up, then the hardware driver start to discard signal samples. This transitory event can be caused by the multitasking nature of the host operating system, specially in slow machines when they are also used to concurrently run other user programs, such as GPS navigation displays and mapping software.
The immediate effect of discarding a sample is that all the signal tracking loops in the GNSS-SDR receiver loss their lock to the satellite signals due to an unexpected shift in the CDMA synchronization process.
The idea behind this project is to exploit the sample timestamp information provided by VRT 49 protocol to detect buffer overruns and feed the tracking loops with a prediction of the missing sample according to the expected pseudorandom noise code, and thus providing continuity to the tracking process without falling back again into signal acquisition.
The goal is to implement the support for the GNU Radio Universal Hardware Driver (UHD) with VRT sample streaming in GNSS-SDR and the buffer overrun protection algorithm.
Improve the acquisition sensitivity
The GNSS' signal acquisition process in is charge of obtaining the set of visible satellites, which involves two steps for each of them:
Detect the presence of a specific signal that belongs to a particular GNSS satellite, and provide a coarse estimation of their current synchronization parameters. It is known that signal acquisition has the lowest sensitivity of the whole receiver operation, and, consequently, it becomes the performance bottleneck when there is high signal attenuation, such as in the urban canyon environments or in the presence of interfering signals5. The goal of this project is to implement high sensitivity acquisition algorithms for both GPS L1 and Galileo E1 signals, using longer signal integration time. In order to reach real-time operation, the implementation should use the Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) instruction set of the host machine and evaluate the possibility to use the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) for the vector operations.
Basic knowledge on digital signal processing (Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), correlators, and filters), and C++ programming (familiarity with the GNU Radio framework is a plus, as well as knowledge of SIMD instructions and Cuda).
Integration of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)
Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) are electronic devices that measures velocity, orientation, and gravitational forces, using a combination of accelerometers and gyroscopes, sometimes also magnetometers. The integration of IMU measurements with the GNSS positioning systems has shown excellent results in terms of accuracy and reliability improvements6.
The integration of the IMU information can be classified in three categories:
loose integration: IMU measurements integration at the Position, Velocity, and Time (PVT) solution.
tight integration: IMU measurements Integration at the pseudorange level.
ultra-tight integration: IMU measurements integration at the code acquisition and tracking loops directly at signal sample level, using Doppler and carrier phase estimations.
Due to the flexibility provided by the SDR architecture, it is feasible to improve GNSS-SDR by incorporating IMU information to the receiver chain, by implementing one or several integration methods.
The goals of this project are:
Program a GNSS-SDR IMU signal source in charge of obtaining the access to the IMU information. A very popular IMU is available as a part of Wii Mote remote control and there are several open source projects that implements the required device drivers to access to the IMU information. Implement a loose integration algorithm at the PVT module using the Kalman filter algorithm. Implement a tight integration algorithm at the pseudorange level.
Basic knowledge on digital signal processing and C++ programming (familiarity with the GNU Radio framework is a plus).
Integrated GNSS/WiFi positioning
GNSS outstanding performances are obtained in open sky environments, but in much more challenging scenarios, such as low visibility or indoor positioning, GNSS provides a limited benefit. In order to create a hybrid, heterogeneous positioning receiver able to operate seamlessly in indoor/outdoor scenarios, ubiquitous solutions require combining GNSS with other non-GNSS means. One popular approach (followed by most cell phone manufacturers) is to integrate GNSS with WiFi-based navigation, typically selecting one or the other depending on availability of GNSS satellites.
The goal of this project is to implement an hybrid GNSS/WiFi receiver, able to seamlessly provide position in indoor and outdoor situations. To that aim, specific tasks are:
Program a signal source for WiFi front-ends, which will differ from GNSS signal sources we already have in GNSS-SDR. Then, implement a driver for the specific WiFi front-end we will use for the overall validation.
Implement the algorithms to extract the ranging information, and node location from the WiFi nodes.
Implement the coupling scheme to fuse the data from GNSS and WiFi sources. This algorithm could range from a simple 'one or the other' approach to a more sophisticated Kalman filtering.
Finally, remember that if you are interested in contributing to the GNSS-SDR project, there is no need to wait for Google Summer of Code to start; you can contact the developer team right now through the mailing list, take a look through the documentation, source code and bug tracker, suggest new features, etc. Check out how can you participate in GNSS-SDR.
Galileo Joint Undertaking, "Galileo Open Service. Signal In Space Interface Control Document (OS SIS ICD)", Tech. rep., European Space Agency / European GNSS Supervisory Authority, September 2010. ↩
European Commission Directorate-General for Energy, and Transport, "EGNOS Service Definition Document: Open Service EGN-SDD OS V1.0", Tech. rep., 2009. ↩
"Global Positioning System Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) Performance Standard GPS WAAS PS v1.0", Tech. rep., US Department of transportation and Federal Aviation Administration, 2008. ↩
VITA Standards Organization. (2009, May 26). VITA Radio Transport (VRT) Standard, NSI/VITA 49.0-2009. Available from vita.com. ↩
J. Arribas, GNSS Array-based Acquisition: Theory and Implementation, PhD Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, June 2012. ↩
J. A. Farrell, and M. Barth, The Global Positioning System & Inertial Navigation, McGraw-Hill, 1999. ↩


It would be very helpful to have a button that shows all applicable live alerts for a given rule in the policy editor, especially when deciding whether it is safe to activate a new alert / escalation chain.
Yes, that would be useful. I would also like to have a UI that lets me type in DataSource and DataPoint names, and any alert rules that would match are then listed.


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WOLFEN RELOADED: New Album "Changing Time" Out Now!
"Changing Time", the brand new album from German rock band WOLFEN RELOADED, is out now and available worldwide via Volcano Records and Nova MD Distribution.
After several years of extensive tours and remarkable gigs at the side of Operation: Mindcrime, Thunder and Bonfire, Wolfen Reloaded comes back to the scenes with a solid new chapter that mixes modern and classic rock influences looking at Queensryche, King`s X and Dokken, and shapes a personal and powerful impact characterized by strong guitars and hitting rhythm section that built a proper wall of sound to support the lead voice of an expert singer, Chris Freimoser.
"Changing Time" is available through all digital stores, AmazonMusic, Spotify, iTunes, and physically at Saturn, Mediaworld and in the best record stores.
Watch the lyric video of 'Amazing' here:
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Also stream "Promised Land" here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF05MKfT2r8
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www.facebook.com/wolfenreloaded
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