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Q: Is G.R. internally inconsistent due to Shapiro Time Delay? An axiom of G.R. is that the speed of light is constant in all inertial reference frames.  Is it possible to construct an inertial reference frame where the speed of light would not be constant due to Shapiro Time Delay?

A: No. We interpret Shapiro delay as the light taking a longer path through curved spacetime than it would through flat spacetime. It still moves at the speed of light along that path.

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package org.apache.impala.util;

import org.apache.impala.thrift.TUniqueId;
import com.google.common.primitives.UnsignedLong;

/**
 * Utility functions for working with TUniqueId objects.
 */
public class TUniqueIdUtil {
  public static String PrintId(TUniqueId id) {
    return Long.toHexString(id.hi) + ":" + Long.toHexString(id.lo);
  }

  public static TUniqueId ParseId(String id) {
    String[] splitted = id.split(":");
    if (splitted.length != 2) throw new NumberFormatException(
        "Invalid unique id format: " + id);
    return new TUniqueId(UnsignedLong.valueOf(splitted[0], 16).longValue(),
        UnsignedLong.valueOf(splitted[1], 16).longValue());
  }
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Chapters in the story of Wonthaggi Library
It took more than 50 years of debate and struggle to establish Wonthaggi's first public library. CAROL COX looks back at that struggle in a series to mark the library's move to
new premises in Murray Street.
Chapter 1: A lot of "hot air"
It wasn't until 1970 that the first municipal library opened in Wonthaggi, but residents of the district had identified the need for such a service many decades earlier.
In 1915, it was the subject of lively discussion at a meeting of the borough council which had received a "chaser" from the local A.N.A. (Australian Natives Association) regarding a library.
The Powlett Express of March 19 1915 reported: "Cr. Nelson said a library was necessary for the young people particularly. They had no place to spend their evenings except at the picture shows and gambling dens of Wonthaggi."
"On the motion of Crs. Wishart and Bird it was decided to inform the A.N.A. that action would be taken to establish a library when council had a municipal building."
After more discussion, some of it heated, the mayor promised the matter would be resolved within 12 weeks.
Six years later, not much had changed. A charming example of the community's ongoing desire for a library came in the form of a letter to the editor of the Powlett Express on June 24 1921 from a lady who signed herself "Tired Mother" of Glen Forbes South. It reads:
"Sir – will you allow me space in your valuable paper to suggest to the council that there should be some place of recreation in your most progressive town. I will state my case, out of one of many: I work hard on a farm, and have to go to Wonthaggi occasionally – a drive of 12 miles – and after doing my shopping have had to stand waiting in the street as long as three hours, waiting for horses to be shod, or other repairs to be done. Now, if there were a public library or other such place where one could take a book or some knitting, it would be a rest, instead of collapsing in the street from exhaustion.
Yours, etc."
Even in those early days a library was seen not just as a source of borrowed books but as a place where residents of the district could meet or rest while in town. Surely it's not so different today. Substitute "waiting for our car to be serviced", for example, for "horses to be shod".
Those who struggled so long for a library would feel very proud if they could see what today's library offers the community: not just books, CDs and DVDs, but internet facilities, storytelling sessions and many other services.
Initially, however, getting majority community support for the project all those years ago proved surprisingly difficult …
Chapter 2: The struggle continues
ALTHOUGH complaints on the lack of a public library and reading room were common, actual support from a majority of local residents seemed to be sadly lacking. In September 1927 the Powlett Express reported that a well-publicised meeting to address the issue attracted fewer than 20 people.
Two local organisations, Returned Soldiers and A.N.A (Australian Natives Association), had supported the establishment of a library but, due to the perceived lack of strong community backing, concluded a public library was not wanted by the people.
The council also discussed the establishment of a library on many occasions but felt the public should do the work. The council indicated the main drawbacks were the lack of a suitable site and finance.
In an attempt to get over the financial hurdle, two referenda were held on the question of an extra rate of threepence.
However, both were turned down as it was felt that rates were already at their limit. There was therefore no prospect of raising the funds necessary to establish a library directly from ratepayers.
It must be remembered that these were the years after World War I and led into the great depression of the 1930s when financial resources, both personal and government, were directed to more basic needs.
However, those who understood the importance of a library to the community kept up the push.
In 1968 a Wonthaggi library committee was formed: dedicated members, including Joe and Lyn Chambers, Bill and Barbara Robertson, Arthur and Nell Quilford, Barbara Hallett, Margaret Berry, Bill Thomas, Peter and Alison Brooks, worked in official and unofficial capacities towards the establishment of a library.
Their goal would finally be reached in 1970 ...
Chapter 3: Once more into the breech
In an article in The Express in December 1967, Wonthaggi Borough councillor and popular schoolteacher Joe Chambers asked the question: "Why is there not a public library in Wonthaggi?"
Wonthaggi answered: "We can't afford one", "Our licensed clubs have libraries", "There are libraries in the schools", "No one reads now; they all watch television".
In an effort to sway opinion Cr. Chambers went on to point out: "A library is much more than a collection of thrillers, westerns, romances and travelogues. … (it) is also a reading room, a meeting place, a discussion centre – a very important focal point in the life of a town. "Everybody benefits from a library. Education is a never-ending process. The most important part of the child's education at primary school is the acquisition of the reading habit. … The habit is fostered by access to a wide range of books and other materials."
Over the next two years, various proposals and cost estimates were considered and discarded. The Library Council of Victoria recommended a site beside the town hall and that the building cost at least $20,000. The council decided to investigate the possibility of borrowing $40,000, which could also provide for a baby health centre and offices for the borough engineer and health officer. Some felt the expense unnecessary as vacant or alternative premises were available to serve the purpose.
A cheaper $24,000 design was submitted to the council, which also entailed an extension to the administrative section of the town hall and incorporating a baby health centre. None of these proposals gained unanimous approval.
At the time the Borough of Wonthaggi and the Shire of Bass were separate entities. As Wonthaggi was the largest town in the area, people came from a wide area into Wonthaggi for shopping and other services. The Borough Council was reluctant to spend major ratepayers' funds on a public facility for the benefit of people from outside the borough who did not pay rates in Wonthaggi.
When the library was finally opened, non-borough residents were charged to use the library except if a family member worked in the town!
Concerns regarding the high cost of providing a library were eventually overcome when an innovative and inexpensive option appeared on the horizon ...
Chapter 4: At Last
AFTER decades of debate over a public library, in June 1970 the Borough of Wonthaggi considered a new one: to convert the town's comfort station to incorporate the new library.
The brick building, at the intersection of Watt Street and McBride Avenue (opposite the current library) might not have been custom-built but you couldn't have found a better situation.
The Wonthaggi Library Committee voted unanimously to support the plan and the Wonthaggi Borough Council approved the immediate spending of $750 to convert the building.
It was not yet smooth sailing, however, with a deputation and a "huge petition" to the council against the plan. The Wonthaggi Sentinel reported on its front page on July 16 1970 that they "failed to change the decision of the Wonthaggi Borough Council to convert the comfort station in Wishart Reserve into a public library."
Mayor Cr. C. Osborne assured the deputation that elderly people could use the comfortable library as a resting place when out walking, arrangements would be made in the Town Hall for alternative facilities to allow mothers to feed their babies, and the comfort station toilets would not be closed as the building was big enough to accommodate both them and the library. (Consequently the ambience of the library suffered in hot weather!)
Four months later, in October, Cr Osborne officially opened Wonthaggi's first municipal library.
The West Gippsland Regional Library Corporation supplied the books to stock the new library from its collection of 20,000 to 25,000 books available to share among the five municipalities in the region. Each week, a library car travelled around delivering books to libraries in the area – Warragul, Korumburra, Poowong, Longwarry and Wonthaggi.
Members of the library committee had raised funds to fit out the library. They also made shelves and curtains and everything required to make the library suitable to open for business.
As the borough's first librarian, Georgie McRae was allowed to enter the men-only Gentlemen's Club to sort the books in their reading room.
The council also presumed Georgie would handle the cleaning of the new library as part of her duties but she soon set them straight on that score and the Town Hall cleaners were engaged to clean the library premises as well.
At the official opening in October 1970, Cr Joe Chambers acknowledged that the establishment of the library had been a long, hard road that had reached a happy conclusion.
It would have been better housed in larger quarters, he added, but that was to come later ….
Chapter 5: Growing, growing, growing ...
IN 1982, during Georgie McRae's 20-year tenure as Wonthaggi's first librarian, the municipal library was relocated from the converted comfort station into the foyer of the new Wonthaggi Arts Centre in an effort to gain more usable space. Staff from other libraries in the region came to help with this move.
An interesting feature of this new venue was a storytelling pit for children – they would sit around the sunken pit with an adult who read to them. This pit was later covered over to avoid untoward falls by patrons of the cinema or theatrical performances.
Due to the library's ever-increasing popularity, a direct reflection of Georgie's skills, the Arts Centre foyer also became overcrowded and too small to house the number of books needed to meet local demand. This started to affect the library's popularity as there was insufficient space for new books, to do research, or to accommodate necessary equipment.
In 1992, the Wonthaggi Borough Council accepted a recommendation that the library be transferred to the recently vacated old post office building on the corner of Watt Street and McBride Avenue, opposite the library's original comfort station site. The building, which has a National Heritage listing, had opened to the public in 1911 and ceased postal operations 80 years later when the post office moved to its current location in Billson Street.
A federal government grant funded an extensive heritage-sensitive conversion and refurbishment project, which was undertaken by a local contractor. The rooms upstairs were occupied by a team of detectives. The library was allocated the first floor, which doubled its space and provided a comfortable and workable library.
This venue afforded more space for display and additional shelving, plus room for chairs so users could read newspapers and books in comfort. One disadvantage, according to the librarian, was the difficulty of observing the behaviour of borrowers, particularly youngsters, as the juvenile literature section was not visible from the desk.
In 2002-03, passions ran high among both councillors and the community when the council considered plans to build a new library on council land between the Wonthaggi Town Hall and the police station. The federal and state governments promised $1 million towards the cost, with the balance of the $3 million-plus project to be picked up by the council.
Councillors approved the project, but just a few months later a new council backed away from the project, partly on account of the cost, and partly because of a very vocal community campaign to save the town hall stage, which would have had to be demolished as part of the project.
Although the decision caused considerable angst at the time, in hindsight it may have been fortuitous as the town centre has since moved north.
Last year, following a long campaign by a group called the OWLS (Official Wonthaggi Library Supporters), councillors voted to rent the old Target Country store in Murray Street as the site of the new regional library.
After 20 years in the old post office building, the library this week moved to its new home, a central and accessible location that should cater for the library and its users for decades to come.
Powlett Express, 19 March 2015
Powlett Express, 24 June 1921
Powlett Express, 9 September, 1927
The Express, September 26, 1968
The comfort station library, Wonthaggi, 1970s
The Express, December 7, 1967
The Express, August 1, 1968
The Sentinel Times, January 5, 1993
Sentinel-Times, Dec 23, 2002
Sentinel-Times, Sept 9, 2003
The "post office" library, vacated last week.

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Elementary school in Barracas neigborhood.
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Very pleased my image 'Dunstanburgh Castle from the South' been Commended in this year's Take-A-View Landscape Photographer of the Year competition. It will feature in the London Waterloo Exhibition and in the 2014 Awards book. The exhibition will run for nine weeks from 1st December 2014 to the 31st January 2015. Big congrats to all the winners!


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From UVA to the Australian Open Final Four: How Danielle Collins Broke Through
Danielle Collins is the first former college tennis player to reach a women's tennis Grand Slam semifinal in the modern era.
By Vanja Lakic
The lower rungs of professional tennis host countless stories of promising players struggling on the road to glory. They are junior champions and NCAA standouts who once boasted winning records, team pride and public acclaim but quickly faded from spotlight after jumping to the pros. Many rank in vast expanse outside the top 150, playing profitless challenger tournaments around the world, far from loved ones and unable to afford traveling coaches. Matches seldom come with perks that seem second nature at Grand Slams: ball kids, lines judges, roaring crowds. Wins can feel tiny, almost meaningless in the grueling climb to the top. Losses and injuries can tempt burnout.
The majority are grateful for the life experience they gain but eventually move on to Plan B. But a rare few stun the world and keep the Cinderella story alive.
PODCAST: Get to Know Danielle Collins
That's been the case with 25-year-old Danielle Collins, a two-time NCAA champion at the University of Virginia who this week crushed world No. 2 Angelique Kerber en route to the semifinals of the Australian Open.
If you've caught any of her matches this week, you've probably seen her belt serves to immobilizing corners, play powerful high-percentage groundstrokes, chase down seemingly impossible balls and take every opportunity to punish her opponents' weak shots. And it's followed, almost always, by an eardrum-busting C'MON!
Ranked No. 162 in the world a year ago, when she failed to qualify for the Australian Open, Collins had never won a Grand Slam match prior to this tournament. Now the unseeded American is two wins away from the big trophy.
MAILBAG: Serena's Shocking Loss Down Under; Just How Good is Frances Tiafoe?
A 2016 graduate of UVA, Collins became the first former collegiate player to reach a Grand Slam women's semifinal in the modern era, eliminating three seeded players in the process. Her successful transition from college to the pros has reignited conversations on the viability of untraditional routes in women's tennis. After all, when you're a natural athlete with tremendous self-belief and a keen ability to problem-solve on the court, you might never have to drop out of school to achieve tennis stardom. Or, like Ashleigh Barty, you might be fine to leave tennis for a couple of years and still return fully intact.
This year's Australian Open showed plenty of examples where a few points turned entire matches around: Naomi Osaka's deep forehand return that caught the line at deuce, when she was a set and 4-2 down to Su-ei Hsieh, setting her up for an easy inside out forehand winner that got her out of trouble and mentally disarmed her opponent for the rest of the match; Madison Keys' inability to recover when she lost a 16-minute game that went to deuce 11 times early in the deciding set against Elina Svitolina; and Collins' use of scrappy lobs while a set down and 6-5 up in the second set, a strategy that won her a break against the physically and mentally deteriorating Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova which made the third set a piece of cake.
Collins seems to know how to capitalize on her opponents' weak moments and adapt to their game plans, which is a characteristic of champions.
Next up for her is power-hitting lefty Petra Kvitova, who beat Collins in a tight three-setter earlier this month. To achieve a different outcome this time, the American will be forced to produce a high first serve percentage, dictate points and go for more winners. It will also be important to keep her unforced errors low and try to break Kvitova's tricky serve. On a good day for both players, we could see multiple sets being decided by tiebreakers. On a bad day for either player, one break of serve could determine who wins the match.
JUNG: Reliving the Epic 2009 Australian Open Semifinal Between Rafael Nadal and Fernando Verdasco
Collins says she was introduced to tennis by her father, who was a league player. She wasn't a child prodigy and didn't come from a wealthy family that could afford private coaches and international travel. Instead, she made do with national tournaments, where her junior ranking was good enough to get a scholarship from the University of Florida. After her freshman year, she transferred to UVA and won the NCAA singles title in her sophomore and senior years.
The 5'10" roadrunner began her professional tennis career in 2016, after graduating with a media studies and business degree. She travelled from one ITF tournament to another, much like her budding peers, often bucking out in early rounds that earned her paychecks as low as $110.
But as she developed a stronger serve, more consistent groundstrokes and began to convert opportunities, results began to show. Collins' initial breakthrough happened last year, when she went deep at Indian Wells and Miami, scoring upsets over players such as Venus Williams and Madison Keys.
The most striking part about Collins is how unfazed she seems by her new fame. It's as if she always believed her place was among the elites. Now that she's officially there, in her own words, Grand Slam victories are "going to keep happening."
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Polestar tunes the Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid
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It might not be much but it does prove Polestar is committed to providing more thrills for a wide variety of Volvo models. The increases help slash 0.1 second from the 0-100km/h time, now achieving the sprint in 6.0 seconds.
Despite the swifter performance Volvo says the car remains extremely fuel efficient. In fact, the combined cycle fuel consumption rating remains at 1.8L/100km.
As far as we know the D6 hybrid is still able to drive on electric power alone for a range of around 50km. When driven in this mode the top speed is restricted to 120km/h, as opposed to the hybrid mode top speed of 230km/h.
Volvo originally developed the hybrid model as part of a partnership deal with Swedish electricity supplier Vattenfall. In 2012, the eco wagon achieved the highest-ever EuroNCAP rating for an electrified vehicle, offering the same level of safety as the regular V60.
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The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (annotated)
This image, called the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field (XDF), combines Hubble observations taken over the past decade of a small patch of sky in the constellation of Fornax. With a total of over two million seconds of exposure time, it is the deepest image of the Universe ever made, combining data from previous images including the Hubble Ultra Deep Field of 2002/3 and Hubble Ultra Deep Field infrared image of 2009.
The image covers an area less than a tenth of the width of the full Moon, making it just a 30 millionth of the whole sky. Yet even in this tiny fraction of the sky, the long exposure reveals about 5500 galaxies, some of them so distant we see them when the Universe was less than 5% of its current age.
The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image contains several of the most distant objects ever identified.
Among these are:
UDFj-39546284, at a redshift of 10.3, is a candidate for the most distant galaxy yet discovered, though it is awaiting spectroscopic confirmation
Supernova Primo, at a redshift of 1.55, the most distant type Ia supernova ever observed
UDFy-38135539, at a redshift of 8.6, is the most distant galaxy to have had its distance independently corroborated with spectroscopy
UDFy-33436598, at a redshift of 8.6
NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Type: Collage
Release date: 25 September 2012, 19:00
Name: Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Type: Early Universe : Cosmology : Morphology : Deep Field
Category: Cosmology
B 435 nm Hubble Space Telescope
R 606 nm Hubble Space Telescope
775 Hubble Space Telescope
1050 Hubble Space Telescope
J 1.25 μm Hubble Space Telescope
H 1.6 μm Hubble Space Telescope


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Traditional validation of atmospheric profiles is based on the intercomparison of two or more data sets in predefined ranges or classes of a given observational characteristic such as latitude or solar zenith angle. In this study we trained a self-organising map (SOM) with a full time series of relative difference profiles of SCIAMACHY limb v5.02 and lidar ozone profiles from seven observation sites. Each individual observation characteristic was then mapped to the obtained SOM to investigate to which degree variation in this characteristic is explanatory for the variation seen in the SOM map. For the studied data sets, altitude-dependent relations for the global data set were found between the difference profiles and studied variables. From the lowest altitude studied (18 km) ascending, the most influencing factors were found to be longitude, followed by solar zenith angle and latitude, sensor age and again solar zenith angle together with the day of the year at the highest altitudes studied here (up to 45 km). After accounting for both latitude and longitude, residual partial correlations with a reduced magnitude are seen for various factors. However, (partial) correlations cannot point out which (combination) of the factors drives the observed differences between the ground-based and satellite ozone profiles as most of the factors are inter-related. Clustering into three classes showed that there are also some local dependencies, with for instance one cluster having a much stronger correlation with the sensor age (days since launch) between 36 and 42 km. The proposed SOM-based approach provides a powerful tool for the exploration of differences between data sets without being limited to a priori defined data subsets.


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Q: FPGA Timing Constraints I am fairly new to FPGA design and I am working on a project where the FPGA is the SPI Slave.
Are there supposed to be constraints on the Master Clock input signal/ MOSI / Chip select?
What is the importance/reason for constraining inputs?
If so, how are these determined? If you have any suggestions for books or videos which give a deeper explanation I would greatly appreciate it. I just want to learn this so I can implement this module correctly.
Thank you

A: As some of the commenters observed, timing analysis can be a very complex topic.  In this answer, I will try to hit some of the important and practical points.

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*Q: Why is it important to constrain timing on your design?

*A: So that internal (hard) timing constraints are met.

OK, so why is it important to meet internal timing?  This fundamentally boils down to the behavior of flip-flops (FFs) in your FPGA.  The timing of data relative to clock at each flip flop must meet certain requirements or the flip flop next state is indeterminate.  Think of the case where clock and data both change at the same instant at the input of the FF.  (what is the correct output value in this case)?  This is the gist of most timing issues.  So, the idea is to have the data stable for some period before (setup) and after (hold) the clock edge used to capture the data.  The tricky part here is that an FPGA is quite flexible on how things are connected inside, and all of the interconnect and logic has measurable, but design and placement dependent, delays associated with it.
The good news here is that modern FPGA (and CPLD) tools make it easy to ensure your circuit will work, if you define some timing constraints.  The tools perform the heavy lifting of calculating all the path delays and changing internal placement and routing to meet your constraints (if possible).
The simplest, and most important (IMHO) constraint is to define the maximum frequency of each of your clocks.  The FPGA tools will make sure that all internal setup and hold times are met between all of the FFs using that clock.  It is a good idea to also constrain your inputs and outputs relative the their related clocks.
The following is not really good advice, but rather a practical observation:  At low frequencies, it may be possible to not constrain at all.  Especially if the protocol (like SPI) has attributes that naturally provide margin.  The tools can identify clocks, and can tell you the max frequency possible for a given clock.  You can also determine as-built setup, hold, clock to out parameters.  In the absence of constraints, the tools will take a balanced approach to area / performance during compilation.
As an example here:  if the SPI_SCLK is 1MHz (or below), you probably don't need to worry about timing being an issue.  There is about 500ns of setup and 500ns for hold (data to clock) due to the SPI protocol.  That is a lot of margin in a modern programmable.
If you fail to meet (FPGA internal) timing, the circuit behavior can be totally unpredictable.  You really want to avoid this.


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They were a lot of peoples pick for the Super Bowl and Right now they will be lucky to win the division.
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How bout that guy running offsides like 50 times in a row? I just couldnt get over that
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The Eagles are creeping up to the Cowboys!
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My family and I are watching the Cowboys/Raiders game and they're like, "Maybe they can pull a comeback."
I'm like, "They're down their top two WRs and Mike McCarthy is still calling plays and managing the clock. They're gonna blow this. I think with 2 minutes left, Dallas could have made it a point to try for the end zone. But McCarthy's calls were so conservative, they're gonna play for overtime and lose."
And so it was. Dallas is 0-3 all time on Thanksgiving if the game goes into OT.
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Eagles are a better team right now.
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Yeah. Like I said, it was a flat out mess. I think there were something like 14 flags on both sides. I've seen games where the zebras called a tight game, but last night was ridiculous.
Originally Posted by worstblogever
One of my Dallas hating relatives said something similar to what I bolded, adding that McCarthy was afraid to take chances and risk getting embarrassed with Jerrah looking down on him from his luxury box.
Indeed they are, but the Birds still have to take care of business against the floundering Giants on Sunday.
Yes, and I admit I was hoping beyond hope for a Super Bowl. Despite their Defense not being top tier. But Dallas' offense looked so good it was crazy. Passing, running and blocking... They could do it all. Now the Oline does not look good at all, nor does the running game.
Yeah one game at a time. They really do go into the easy part of their schedule. So it starts with the Giants.
Well the Cowboys are going into a bit of an easy part the rest of the season at least for 3 games. They have Washington 2 games, and The Giants. I can see the Saints giving them trouble. As far As The Cardinals man I dont think the Cowboys take that. And the Eagles in Philly? That right now is a toss up to me that has me leaning towards the Eagles.
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The Cowboys are a mess right now. They're in the middle of a stretch of 3 games in 12 days playing without their top 2 pass rushers (Lawrence & Gregory) their top 2 wideouts (Cooper & Lamb) and their top TE (Jarvin). Their O-line continuity is shattered, Tyron Smith continues to have health issues, and Steele, McGovern, Collins and Williams shuffle in and out to try to keep them fresh in this stretch of short rest weeks but it causes a lot of confusion and missed assignments wreaking havoc with both pass protection and run blocking, and not to mention that Tyler Biadasz is a huge step down from Travis Frederick who was the anchor and playcaller of that line when it was at its best.
Quinn has made the best of what's left on defense to keep pressure on the QB, (and Parsons has been a huge factor on that) but it's left them weaker on the back end and susceptible to big plays. It doesn't help that Diggs has bought his own hype and seems to take 2 of every three plays off. Brown had been ok up to this point, but he was completely off his game last night. And neither team was able to adjust to how tight the refs were calling things last night to keep their hands off players (way too many holding and DPI calls). but that was bad prep on both coaching staffs as this team is known to be flag happy and are among the leaders is flags thrown during games this season, so you need to have your players ready for that.
Kellen Moore is very good, however, the next man up mentality is working against him and his playcalls. The offense is designed with defenses having to account for Cooper and Lamb which opens up a lot of possibilities for the many weapons the Cowboys have. Gallup, Brown and Wilson are good complimentary receivers, but without Cooper and Lamb at that top, defenses aren't going to react the same way allowing them to concentrate more on run defense and pressuring the quarterbacks. The types of routes that work with Lamb and Cooper there aren't going to work with next man up receivers in those roles and Moore has not adjusted for those games, and the offense has sputtered and become inconsistent, relying on big plays instead of reliably moving the chains. Dak's stats look alright but only because the team has become one-dimensional and they have been playing from behind. They are passing hoping to open up the run instead of establishing the run first, and their opening drives on both offense and defense have been bad putting them behind the 8 ball to start the game. That's on the coaching staff a bit. It just doesn't seem like they are ready to play coming out and they don't have a strong game plan going in. Instead they are relying on the talent to step up and win games. When everyone is healthy, they can do that at times as they can overwhelm some teams. But when not healthy, or when facing teams who are near to them in talent level, it's not enough, and November has shown that. Teams have adjusted to the talent the Cowboys have, and the coaches haven't found ways to adjust their game to allow that talent to execute to the best of their ability.
Can they right it in December? Getting healthy will help, but its not guaranteed to be enough. Philly looks good right now. Their talent has risen to the occasion. The question is will teams now adjust to that, and can Hey Siri react with his own adjustments to counter that, because December football and playoff football is all about being able to make the needed adjustments to win games, not going out and hoping the talent you have is enough. Sometimes it's the players who make adjustments (the great QBs like Brady, Rogers, Manning, Brees etc. did that), sometimes its the coaches, but its the teams who do it who win in December and make runs in the playoffs. Every year we see teams who start strong, fail to make adjustments and fade, and teams who start poorly, make adjustments and finish strong. The best teams start strong, make the adjustments and stay strong, but there are only a handful of those each season. Which one of these will the Eagles and the Cowboys be? With McCarthy in charge, I don't see the adjustments coming from the coaches. Maybe the players can rise up to do so, but only time will tell. With the Eagles, I have no idea. I don't follow them that closely and rely on the Eagles fans here for their takes on it.
However it goes, December looks like its going to be a roller coaster for the top 2 teams of the NFC East. Hopefully it's at least a fun ride.
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MRP: Regarding the Eagles, the turnaround they've made has been nothing short of startling. Before the season, I pegged them for no better than seven wins, and, looking at the schedule back in August, even that many was a stretch, but now? Whoa! Coming into the season, Nick Sirianni was looked upon with suspicion by Eagles fans as a yes man for GM Howie Roseman after things soured with Doug Pedersen, and in the early weeks, he looked positively clueless. However, he got religion when he discovered the joy of running the ball behind a fivesome of road graders on the offensive line, as the running game took off, that took pressure of QB Jalen Hurts who no longer had to do it all himself. Suddenly, a shot at the playoffs is no longer improbable, but, they've gotta take advantage of the soft underbelly of their schedule and reel off wins, starting Sunday against the Giants.
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SPX Stock Market Index Targets 1230 Trend Reversal Level
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Very Long-term trend - Down! The very-long-term cycles are down and if they make their lows when
expected, the bear market which started in October 2007 should continue until 2014.
SPX: Long-term trend - Up! We are in a medium-term bull market, which is a corrective move within a long term bear
market. This bull market should last until 2011
SPX: Intermediate trend - Having gone past the conservative 1200 projection, a liberal count to about 1230 appears to be the aim of the SPX
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Having sailed past the conservative target of 1200 with little hesitation, the SPX appears to be heading for the more liberal count of 1229-30.
Low volume and less than stellar breadth has plagued the last phase of the advance since 1044.50. But only now is the price pattern beginning to suggest the kind of activity which is typical of a top formation. The analyst has to be patient and wait until the market reveals its intentions. This advance has strained the patience of the very best. It's as if it had a goal in mind and was not going to be deterred from reaching it. And, of course, it does! The re-accumulation phase between 1060 and 1080 in early February created a Point & Figure pattern that could be measured conservatively to 1192 and liberally to 1236. In-between was a Fibonacci projection to 1200. I chose to play it safe and forecast a move to 1200. But after a brief set-back at 1192, the SPX decided to go for the more rarefied atmosphere, and it looks as if it is ready to take the full count, or nearly so. A small reaccumulation phase around 1190 is projecting 1229, and this is matched by a Fibonacci target as well. It looks relatively safe to estimate that this is where the final tick of the move from the March 2009 low will take place.
The price formation is also beginning to display what may be an ending diagonal pattern. If so, the SPX should end the current move around 1220 and after another pull-back, rise to the target area.
As you will see, the breadth indicators are giving credibility to this scenario, and the negative divergence which was lacking in the momentum indicators is now clearly evident.
The sentiment indicators reached a confirming extreme a little early, but I believe they will turn out to be the correct forecast.
Chart Pattern and Momentum
We'll start with the Weekly Chart and go directly to the breadth indicator at the bottom. I mentioned earlier that it had been less than stellar since the beginning of the last phase from 1044.50. Pathetic might be a better choice of words. However, you have to know that this indicator gives ample advance warning and one must look to the daily and hourly charts in order to realize more refined timing. Look at how much warning there was that we were coming to the end of the decline in March 2009. It broke out of its downtrend channel and first gave signs of positive divergence in the Fall of 2008. But that's because we were in a straight down period of high volatility. The top was very different and the lag much shorter.
Next, we'll want to look at where the next dominant cycles are scheduled to bottom. As you can see, the first ones are not that far away and this is another reason why we should begin to look for a top. Finally, the MACD is showing negative divergence and the lower indicator is close to crossing over.
Next, the Daily Chart. Before giving a sell signal, the price chart shows that it has a little more work to do.
After completing the suggested pattern at the proposed target, it will have to break a trend line and will probably find some support in the area of the moving averages; especially the 50-dma (blue) which corresponds with the bottom trend line of the small brown channel. That could give rise to at least a bounce.
Then, upon falling further, it should find even better support on the blue trend line of the intermediate channel. Only after it has broken below that line decisively can we say that the trend from March 2009 has been reversed.
The lower indicator, which is a breadth oscillator created in the same manner as the weekly version above, agrees. It has found support on the lower trend line of a green channel which replicates the index phase from 1044.50, and although it shows plenty of deceleration and divergence, it will not give a sell signal until it breaks the green trend line and moves completely out of its channel.
The momentum indicator above it also shows serious negative divergence, but it is now back in an uptrend and will have to turn down before a signal is given.
The price and indicator analysis confirm that although we may get a reversal in the next week or ten days, we may not begin an important decline until after late May -- the time frame that has been discussed before.
Now, as we usually do, we'll finish our analysis with the Hourly Chart. This is a close up, so that we can look at the terminal stage of the move, with the blue channel representing deceleration of the trend which has been taking place since 3/22. It appears that this weak uptrend is now culminating with the formation of a terminal pattern, referred to as an ending diagonal. Since this formation is made up of 5 waves and we are only in the third wave, we should have a wave 4 pull-back followed by a 5th and final wave. Only after this formation is complete will the SPX be in a position to move out of the blue channel on the downside.
This is also what the indicators are suggesting: although the bottom (breadth) oscillator is exhibiting severe negative divergence, the momentum indicators probably will not until the final wave occurs.
I have already given targets for the move and will repeat them in the "projections" section.
Since little has changed, it seems appropriate to repeat what was said in the last newsletter, with one small modification:
The important cycles, going forward, are best seen on the weekly chart. The first to make its low toward the end of June will be the 17-wk cycle, and it will do so just ahead of the 2-yr cycle. From this, we can probably assume that June and early July will be in a downtrend.
Before that, we have two small cycles bottoming in early May, and the 20-wk cycle about the middle of the month. If the expected ending diagonal takes place, these cycles should pull the index into an initial down phase.
The lowest point of the correction should come in October with the 4-yr, 9-mo and 17-week cluster.
Projections:
As the SPX progressed upward, it made a re-accumulation pattern around the 1190 level from which can be derived a Point & Figure count to about 1230, which confirms the liberal count of the base formation made in early February.
Wave 5 of the assumed ending diagonal is therefore expected to reach about 1230, and this is born out by a short-term Fibonacci projection to the same level. Wave 3, the current phase, should end up near 1220 before the start of wave 4.
It is too early to make a solid projection for the retracement into the 4-year low in October, but we can make an educated guess of at least 950.
The QQQQ is also in a solid uptrend from its March '09 low. But it is quickly approaching the zenith of its move. On the Point & Figure chart, it had a conservative target of 46.50 which caused temporary profittaking when it was reached. The more liberal target is 51.50 -- about a point higher than where it closed last Friday (50.52)
With the creation of a weekly breadth oscillator, the Summation Index (courtesy of StockCharts.com) has become less useful than it was as a representation of the intermediate condition of the NYSE breadth. But it still deserves to be analyzed because it gives us another vantage point.
The index has gone sideways for the past two weeks, which has resulted in a correction of the RSI. This gives some room for a little more of an advance in the SPX, which is what the other indicators also suggest, and what is expected.
Market Leaders and Sentiment
One important gauge of sentiment, is whether the NDX is outperforming the SPX or not. If we look at the relative strength chart which is provided courtesy of StocksCharts.com, it is clear that the NDX is still the stronger of the two.
For an intermediate top to be made, it will have to reflect the fact that the NDX has become noticeably weaker than its counterpart. Whether or not this can take place in the next ten days or so, is questionable and is another reason not to expect the beginning of a significant decline until after the end of May.
It would be normal for the NDX to achieve its projected high and begin to show some weakness before the SPX does.
I have kept in place the Sentiment Reader (courtesy of same) which was posted in the last newsletter so that it can be compared with the more recent reading.
As you can see, there has been some improvement. Although the long-term reading remains predominantly bearish, it does not have the same urgent connotation that the previous one did. I would expect that it will probably become more negative as the market makes its final high.
There is good evidence that the final high of the move from 667 on March 2009 is fast approaching. If the assumption that the SPX is making a terminal pattern in the form of an ending diagonal is correct, we could see the top projection of about 1230 being met in the next 10 days.
However, the evidence also tells us that the beginning of a substantial decline will not start until the end of
May, thereby suggesting that the index could build a distribution phase in the form of a sideways move before rolling over.
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Asthma prevalence has significantly increased in the last 30 years, resulting in a severe human health and economic burden for the society affecting 100-150 million people worldwide and results in over 180,000 deaths per year. Risk factors associated with asthma are exposure to allergens during childhood and exposure to environmental factors, such as pollutants.
Several mechanisms are invoked in driving allergic lung inflammation. Recently an increase of the matricellular protein Periostin (PO) was reported in serum of patients, which is now considered as a biomarker of disease severity.
In the last two years, we have been investigating the potential regulatory role of PO in mouse models of human inflammatory lung diseases. We found an upregulation of PO in the lung epithelium and fibroblasts upon endotracheal instillation of endotoxin and the protease allergen papain in BL6 mice. Our preliminary results indicate that blockade of PO by neutralizing antibodies reduces neutrophil recruitment in BALF and lung and attenuates respiratory barrier injury with protein leak, disruption of tight junctions and airway hyperreactivity (unpublished data). Furthermore, the data suggest activation of regulatory T lymphocytes (Treg).
Here I propose to validate the exciting beneficial effect of PO antibody blockade on allergic lung inflammation in mice and test the hypothesis, whether protection may be replicated with CAR-T (chimeric antigen receptor) cells as novel therapeutic approach. Therefore, I propose to develop a new therapeutic platform of CAR Treg cells directed against the Fc portion of previously administered therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, allowing a precise control of Treg immune regulatory activity in papain and HDM induced asthma. The monoclonal antibody directed-CAR Treg 2 (md-CAR Treg) construct design expresses the anti-FITC ScFv and an internal CD28 stimulatory domain. I reported before that md-CAR-conventional T cells can be directed into different tissues after adoptive transfer according to the use of FITC-mAbs that target tissue specific molecules (Pierini et al. 2017). We successfully transduced sorted murine CD25+ Tregs at efficiencies of >90%. Our goal is to test the efficiency of CAR Tregs in pre-clinical models for future translation to the clinic.
In summary, PO antibody blockade inhibits allergic lung inflammation via IL-17 and importantly increased regulator T cell activation, which will be tested by the CAR T cell approach in mice.


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IT'S OVERHalle Berry and Olivier Martinez Divorcing After Two Years of Marriage
Updated: Oct 29, 2015 11:13 am·
By Julia Birkinbine
Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez are officially calling it quits.
After months of speculation, the 49-year-old actress and the French film star, also 49, confirmed they are divorcing after just two years of marriage in an official statement released on Tuesday, Oct. 27.
"It is with a heavy heart that we have come to the decision to divorce. We move forward with love and respect for one another and the shared focus for what is best for our son. We wish each other nothing but happiness in life, and we hope that you respect our, and most importantly our children's privacy, as we go through this difficult period," the couple told TMZ.
Halle and Olivier in June 2014.
Halle and Olivier — who first began dating in 2010 after meeting on the set of Dark Tide — married in July 2013 and are parents to a two-year-old son, Maceo. Halle is also a mom to a seven-year-old daughter, Nahla, with her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, whom she dated for five years from 2005 until 2010.
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This is the Monster's Ball star's third failed marriage. She was previously hitched to former pro baseball player David Justice from 1993 to 1997 and to singer Eric Benét from 2001 until 2005.


I've seriously got to relax my standards with online dating. I just went from match.com to aintitcool.com, and came across this page with pictures of Pam from The Office, and realized that if I had seen those pictures as profile pictures on match.com, I probably wouldn't have written her. And I wuv Pam.
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Missed yesterday's panel at San Diego Comic-Con for USA's stylish and slick caper drama White Collar? No worries as we've got you covered.
Televisionary special correspondent Lissette Lira was on hand for yesterday's panel and offered up the following highlights from the much anticipated White Collar event.
Among the tibits, there are some seriously random insights into the workings of the White Collar cast and crew:
There was a cute video at the beginning of Willie Garson coming up with plans for the next caper... Since the cast was going to Comic-Con, they were going to steal the Tron Legacy footage... and he even had costumes for everyone.
Marsha Thomasson is very happy to be back. She prefers filming in NYC to Hawaii where there were bugs crawling all over her while she shot Lost. She didn't want to give out any more info about the music box when pressed.
Willie Garson kept calling Tiffani Thiessen "Tiffani Garson" every time he asked her a question.
Matt has fun filming his stunts. He hit the wall hard last season on the first take of him jumping onto that bakery awning and the crew were all stunned but he smiled and said he was fine. This season, we'll see him swinging in a new stunt.
Tiffani Thiessen had been filming her scenes in LA,since she was preggers (hellooo, it was so obvious as the blue screen looked bad). She's flying back to New York next week to join the gang again in filming.
On the web there was a lot of talk about Kate being Elizabeth's sister and Jeff Eastin said, no, it's not true: the two actresses just happened to look alike.
Matt Nix, the creator of Burn Notice challenged Jeff and the White Collar writing team to paintball with the Burn Notice writers and Jeff accepted.
Matthew Bomer loves doing Arnold Schwarzenneger impressions.
Tim DeKay said they had to get a new dog because the old one would decide to move in the middle of takes, he shed a lot, and he was a loud licker.
Random, no? Televisionary BFF Lissette Lira also managed to shoot some video of the White Collar panel, which can be found below.
"White Collar" Panel at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 from Televisionary on Vimeo.
Season Two of White Collar airs Tuesdays at 9 pm ET/PT on USA.
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Nakonde residents sue ZRA for seizing their maize trucks – Zambia: News Diggers!
Three Nakonde residents have sued the Zambia Revenue Authority and the Attorney General for illegally seizing and detaining 400 bags of maize and two trucks saying they have suffered loss of business and income as a result.
Isaac Musukwa registered owner of a Scania Rigid Truck, Jackmore Kalaba registered owner of a Volve Truck and Joy Siame owner of the 400 x 100kg bags of maize are seeking damages and an order that the defendants must release the maize.
According to a statement of claim filed in the Lusaka High Court, April 17, the plaintiffs stated that Siame decided to move the bags of maize from his farm in Ndingindi area to a safer and dry storehouse in Nakonde Town because the storehouse at his farm was leaking.
They explained that the maize was likely to rot if it was not moved to a safer place.
The plaintiffs further stated that on December 22, 2016, Siame hired Musukwa and Kalaba to transport his bags of maize from his farm at Ndingindi and they were to use their trucks, Scania Truck and Volvo, to ferry the maize.
They stated that on their way back from Ndingindi farm, the Scania Truck was impounded by the Attorney General's employees at Iwula Junction along Great North Road and the driver was ordered to pack the truck at ZRA Inland Port.
The plaintiffs further stated that around 05:00 hours, Zambia National Service (ZNS) officers and Attorney General's employees impounded the Volvo Truck at a place 10km away from Ndingindi farm.
"On December 22, on their way back from Ndingindi farm and while loaded with maize, the Scania Truck ACR 2732 reached Iwula Junction along Great North Road, 15km from Nakonde Town at 03 hours when it was stopped by Zambia National Service Officers, the Attorney Generals employees. They immediately impounded the truck, ordered and escorted the driver of the truck to pack at Zambia Revenue Authority Inland Port while loaded with the consignment of maize. Around 05 hours the Zambia National Service Officers impounded the Volvo Truck Registration No. ACM 8734 at a place 10km away from Ndingindi farm. The said truck was driven away and parked at 2nd defendant, the Attorney General's Inland Parking Area," they stated.
The plaintiffs stated that January 10, 2017, the drivers of the said trucks were recalled and ordered to drive the trucks to Mweenzo Depot.
They stated that once there, the maize was offloaded and the trucks driven back to ZRA's Inland Parking facility where the drivers presented with seizure notices.
"On January 10, 2017 the drivers of the said trucks were recalled and ordered to drive the trucks to Mweenzo Depot where the 400 bags of maize were offloaded from the trucks in the presence of the Zambia National Service Officers and Zambia Revenue Authority officers. ZNS and ZRA officers upon completing the offloading of the trucks did use part of the maize to pay the persons they hired to offload the maize. Further the truck drivers were ordered to drive the trucks back to ZRA'S Inland Parking facility and the drivers presented with seizure notices for the seizure of trucks on allegations of smuggling maize," they stated.
The plaintiffs stated that the defendants had since been in possession of the trucks and bags of maize on false allegations that they intended to smuggle the maize to another country.
They disclosed that the defendants had not informed them on the whereabouts or condition of the trucks and maize.
The plaintiffs observed that the defendant's allegation was baseless as the trucks were impounded as they were transporting the maize from one place to another within Zambia for safe keeping.
The plaintiffs stated that they had requested the defendants to release the trucks and maize, however, the defendants had failed to respond to any correspondence made to them and had only released the trucks.
They stated that due to the illegal seizure, they had suffered loss of business, income and great inconvenience.
They claim for damages for illegal seizure and detention of maize and trucks, an order that the defendants release the 400 bags of maize in the alternative compensation in lieu of, damages for loss of business, interest, costs and other reliefs the court deemed fit.


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S&K Technologies, subsidiary companies worldwide benefit tribal membership
Karen Peterson
Scott Colton, Dermot O'Halloran and Margaret Bowman help lead the five companies of S&K Technologies.
Issue Date: 12/6/2017
Last Updated: 12/5/2017 9:12:49 PM | By Karen Peterson
ST. IGNATIUS – Ian Rufe works at a seemingly quiet building on the outskirts of town near the old and new U.S. Highway 93 intersection and where the deer often stop to munch on the lawn around a sign labeled S&K Technologies, Inc.
Rufe is the vice president of S&K Global Solutions, which is one of the five companies within SKT. He recently spoke at the local high school on Career Day about the business. He asked students if they knew what was going on in the building.
"No one raised a hand to answer," he said.
Rufe wasn't surprised when the students didn't have an answer because he often gets the same response.
"People don't really know what we do out here. It's pretty interesting when you start peeling back the layers on the onion," he said metaphorically.
In the simplest of terms, S&K Technologies is the headquarters for a family of five companies owned by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
The first thing a person sees after opening the doors at SKT is a lobby with a tall front desk. A glass case containing about a dozen awards sits on the wall closest to the door. The central plaque in the case is an award from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise for business and another from the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Past the entrance hallway, where photos of Indian people are displayed from the 1900s, a maze of office rooms contain people mostly working in front of computers.
Dermot O'Halloran is the senior vice president of corporate development for SKT. He said people often assume that something is being manufactured in the building, although nothing is made there. Actually, people are working on keeping the five subsidiary companies under SKT going with things like accounting and payroll.
"They are doing the payroll for about 600 people working in the different companies," O'Halloran said.
Employees in the St. Ignatius office also work on marketing and communications, information management, business development, purchasing, and other tasks.
In one of the offices, Dean Hendrix was busy working in front of two large computer screens. It's his job to keep the five businesses connected, which can be a juggling endeavor considering that the companies are spread out all over the world including Polson; Moab, Utah; Dayton, Ohio; Washington, DC; and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, just to name a few.
Hendrix is focusing on paperless communication. He said the latest trend in the office is to utilize audio calling through computers instead of desktop phones.
In the Polson office on a hill above Ridgewater development, Margaret Bowman works in her office as the president of S&K Global Solutions. She explained that the family of companies developed after the tribe successfully created an electronics company in 1985 that made heater tanks for the United States Department of Defense. She said the tribe started the company in an effort to train and provide jobs for local tribal people. S&K Technologies, Inc. was formed in 1999 to continue that effort.
The mission of S&K Technologies and subsidiary companies is to create prosperity and opportunity for the people of the CSKT and impact the shareholders of the 7,000-plus members of the tribe. The tribe owns the companies and makes the final call on decisions like policy changes or starting a new company based on input from a board of directors. The tribal council appoints board members.
According to a company brochure, the foremost commitment for all S&K Technologies companies is to provide gainful employment, education, and training for the tribal community.
"We also strive to provide a yearly shareholder dividend that is directly invested in social and economic programs for our people," the brochure reads.
Bowman said scholarship opportunities through the company are often available to help people get an education and certificates are available to help elderly people pay for heating.
"We have a heavy emphasis on helping the elderly, the youth, and the local communities," she said.
Jobs are also available for Indian and non-Indian people, but most of the jobs require people to relocate.
"If we aren't impacting people directly by providing jobs then we are bringing money back to the community," Bowman said.
The family of five companies is separately stationed around the world in places where the work is needed. Bowman explained that SKT finds contracts for specific jobs that one of the companies is qualified to do and then bids on those jobs.
"We have to compete against a lot of people," she said.
If the company wins the contract, they develop facilities in places pertaining to the work required for that contract, and it's beneficial to gain new contracts in places that SKT already has developed facilities.
"We go where the work is," she said.
Getting the contracts requires strategically creating a bid that isn't too low or too high and making sure the people available to do the work have specific qualifications.
"We have quality standards that we follow," said Scott Colton. He is the CFO for SKT and the CEO of Adelos, Inc., which is one of the family companies.
Colton said that the companies looking for bids for specific contracts are also looking for a company with customer service skills and experience. He added that SKT has become a global competitor for highly skilled contracts.
Bowman added that those contracts are for work costing millions of dollars. She said people see that the company received a contract for something like $90 million dollars and assume that they get that much money, but it doesn't work like that. She explained that the contracts can take years to complete a job and the funding is for parts and labor, so the company only gets a percentage of the funding.
"People also think that the contracts are grants," she said. "They are not grants. They are contracts for doing a specific amount of work."
S&K Global Solutions
S&K Global Solutions, LLC was one of the first of the five companies added to the SKT family in 2007. The focus for this company is on software engineering and robotics. O'Halloran said the company has worked with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to help develop things like the robotic arm used in space.
"Working with NASA is something we are really proud of," he said.
S&K Aerospace, LLC
S&K Aerospace, LLC was also formed in 2007 and has returned more than $25 million to the tribal government since its inception. Working with the Royal Saudi Air Force F-15 program is one of the big contracts they won in March 2012. The contract was for $975 million and later modified to $1.63 billion over a five-year period. The contract included organizing a logistics program to support foreign military sales with technical services and other needs of the allied country including acquiring parts and repair services.
S&K Logistics Services, LLC
S&K Logistics Services, LLC was formed in 2011. The company supports worldwide distribution services, defense security systems and maintenance, technical services and budgetary support.
O'Halloran said that the logistics company once helped find fire trucks in Switzerland that fit the needs of the Afghani air force as part of one of their contracts.
Adelos, Inc.
Adelos, Inc. was the fourth company to join the family at SKT in 2012. O'Halloran said this company was already in existence when the tribe acquired 87 percent of it, and because it still has other subsidiaries, the S&K tag wasn't included in the title.
Adelos works with fiber-optic technology, sensors for monitoring situational awareness, and security systems. O'Halloran said they have electrical engineers that specialize in creating systems that can detect aircraft or people walking.
S&K Engineering and Research, LLC
S&K Engineering and Research, LLC was added in 2016. They work on technical data management, corrosion prevention, and software development. One of the projects they worked on was to translate technical manuals for F15 jets into Hebrew for the Israeli Army.
"They also looked at the long-term effects of corrosion on aircraft," O'Halloran said. "They do a lot of very focused research."
As for the future, SKT is always keeping an eye out for more opportunities including adding businesses to the family.
"I'm looking forward to the next generation of leadership and seeing how we can continue to grow," Colton said.
St. Ignatius business St. Ignatius schools Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Polson


Low rates of physician-patient discussions about lung cancer screening have declined further since 2012 and were not associated with current smokers' intents or attempts to quit smoking.
A deep-learning model developed using serial image scans of tumors from patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) predicted treatment response and survival outcomes better than standard clinical parameters.
As if adolescence isn't difficult enough, imagine the many complicated feelings around being diagnosed with five cancers starting at age 11, resulting in needing to have your left leg amputated at age 14.
A study by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers helps explain how tumors recruit blood vessels that provide fuel for their growth as well as an avenue for the tumors to spread.
Lung cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue and, eventually, into other parts of the body. Most cancers that start in lung, known as primary lung cancers, are carcinomas that derive from epithelial cells. Worldwide, lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer-related death in men and women, and is responsible for 1.3 million deaths annually, as of 2004. The most common symptoms are shortness of breath, coughing (including coughing up blood), and weight loss.
The main types of lung cancer are small-cell lung cancer (SCLC), also called oat cell cancer, and non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The most common cause of lung cancer is long-term exposure to tobacco smoke. Nonsmokers account for 15% of lung cancer cases, and these cases are often attributed to a combination of genetic factors, radon gas, asbestos, and air pollution including secondhand smoke.
Lung cancer may be seen on chest radiograph and computed tomography (CT scan). The diagnosis is confirmed with a biopsy. This is usually performed by bronchoscopy or CT-guided biopsy. Treatment and prognosis depend on the histological type of cancer, the stage (degree of spread), and the patient's general wellbeing, measured by performance status. Common treatments include surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. NSCLC is sometimes treated with surgery, whereas SCLC usually responds better to chemotherapy and radiation therapy. This is partly because SCLC often spreads quite early, and these treatments are generally better at getting to cancer cells that have spread to other parts of the body.
Survival depends on stage, overall health, and other factors, but overall 14% of people in the United States diagnosed with lung cancer survive five years after the diagnosis.