I'd be curious to hear from some of you about what you use in the off season to build pitching velocity? I'm looking for specifics. Do you just do long throwing? If so, how many, from what distance and how many times a week? How long should it take to get through a workout? Weighted ball? How many reps and how often? Also, I'd like to hear the time frame in which you used these methods and what the results were.
I have two daughters who pitch and since we are now in the off season we are working on strength and speed.
Knowing their ages, the level they compete and how many years they have been pitching would be good.
Both play on travel teams. Older one is 14 and just finished her first highs school season. She has pitched for 8 years and throws mid 50's. She has a rollover, peel, screw, rise and change that all work well. Younger daughter is 11 and has pitched four 4 years. She throws low 40's and is working on a rollover and a screw. Both hit their corners very well.
There is no guarantee that your DD will ever throw over 55 mph. Almost any kid can throw 50 mph with practice. Most kids can throw 55 mph if they get good instruction and have a good work ethic. Throwing over 60 mph is a combination of genetics and hard work.
Some kids simply can't do it. Of course, you will never know until you and she try.
(1) Make sure her mechanics are good. If the mechanics aren't there, you and she can work until the end of time and she won't gain a single mile per hour.
(2) Get a good, reliable speed gun. (Don't trust your DD's pitching coach's gun.) When you do speed work, set it up so she knows how fast she throws for *each* pitch.
(3) She has to perfect each phase of the pitching motion--from the push-off to the close. You have to take every kink out of her motion that you possibly can. It is really a lot like an automobile. If you want to get your car going as fast as possible, you make sure every detail from the wheels to the engine is perfect. It is the same with pitching.
(4) Distance throwing is one drill for speed. Another drill is rapid-fire pitching. She throws the ball, you catch the ball and throw it back to her immediately. As soon as the ball hits her mitt, she starts her pitching motion. You do this as fast as possible for as long as possible.
(5) Are you familiar with the concept of "frames'? If so, use the speed gun on a pitch thrown for 1/4 frames, 1/2 frames, full frames, and full pitching motion, and work on improving her speed for each Frame.
(6) Walk-throughs, walk-throughs, and more walk-throughs--measure the pitching speed for walk-throughs and compare it with her normal pitching motion. Do walk-throughs make her pitches faster? If so, then she isn't pushing off hard enough.
It is a tough battle.
Perhaps your DD is great and actually knows how to throw two different drops, a screw and a rise. But, the only player that I know of that can throw a real drop and a real rise is Cat Osterman, and I know she isn't 14 YOA. What is a real drop ball? Put a lawn chair about 15 feet in front of the plate between your DD and the plate. Lay a bucket on its side at home plate with the opening facing the pitcher. Can your DD throw the ball so it just misses the top of the lawn chair and lands in the bucket?
Sluggers, Explain the frames drill you mentioned. Good drill on the drop ball. I use two batting tees set about ten feet in front of home plate with a rope stretched across the path of the pitch about 24 to 28 inches high. I like to see my pitcher graze the top of the rope and then have the ball in the dirt at the back of home plate.
"Frames" is a convenient way to discuss pitching drills. Denny Throneburg, an accomplished fastpitch pitcher, teacher and coach from Casey, Illinois, used this.
There is the "full pitching motion". Frames are parts of the full pitching motion.
A "full frame" is where the pitcher stands fully open. That is, her right foot is pointing toward 3B and her left foot is in its correct position as if it had landed prior to the pitch. (People will debate whether the left foot should land pointing toward 3B or 45 degrees, etc.) The left arm is extended and pointing to home plate, the right hand is holding the ball and extended toward home plate. The hips are only closed enough to allow the right arm and left arm to both point to the plate. The pitcher then takes the ball up and around, moves her weight to her right foot, opens the hips, lets the ball pass the hips, closes the hips and throws the ball.
A "half frame" is where the pitcher is in the same position, except her right hand is over her head.
A "quarter frame" is where the pitcher is in the same position, except her right hand is pointed to 2B.
Once student get the idea of what frames are, it makes explaining drills much, much easier. For example, I can say, "Do a full frame, except raise the left foot off the ground at the beginning" or, "do twenty half frames, but make sure your elbow is bent at the top. Then do a full pitch." Or, "do a quarter frame, but concentrate on closing the hips after the arm goes by the hip."
If you break down the pitch into frames and use a speed gun, you can easily see how much speed is added with each phase of a pitch. If you have a kid that is throwing 50 mph in a full frame, and 50 mph in a full pitching motion, then you know that her push off is adding zero to her speed.
A great deal of my DD's speed increase came from her working like a demon on half frames with a speed gun telling her the speed of her last pitch. She would do anything to get one more MPH on her speed. At the end of the practice, she was literally soaked in sweat. You could wring sweat from her t-shirt.
The problem with frames is that the pitcher sometimes can be too focused on one part of the pitch rather than simply throwing the ball. So, you always have to use "smoothing drills" maker her motion flow.
Throneburge's VHS tape on pitching is called Framing the Pitch. I use the technique for my beginner pitchers, but Denny was very successful using it at the HS level.
Buy the book, try the exercise. It's real simple; if it does not work for her, Marc will refund your money.
If it does work for her, tell someone else about it.
With Marc's offer of a full refund, how can you lose???
Some thing to also remember is some times pitching instructors forget to continue using the FB when they are teaching spin pitches such CB or SB. Continuing with the FB will sure her arm speed stays the same. Normally some speed loss occurs when learning spins because the arm naturally slows down to accomplish the spin pitch. Another thing to understand when doing all these drills ensure your DD is throwing to a specific strike zone. What I have my students do is not only perform the drill but they must hit a specific strike zone such as nothing below the knees and nothing above the head for example. This type of training not only leads to speed development but accuracy also.
sluggers reply is quite good with the exception of developing arm whip.
Using Denny's method is not conducive to arm whip. Cheri Kempf's videos get closer to that development.
Arm whip is necessary for more speed.
BTW, Jenni F's rise is the best I have seen as for pure reverse spin. As with all pitchers, she does not always achieve pure reverse spin. But that is not necessary to make a ball rise. There is another way to throw a rise that will do as well which is easier to throw and less stressful on the shoulder. Take the time to view some good rise ball pitchers and you will figure it out.


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The national decline in the study of foreign languages is a cause for concern with implications for US National Security that depends on the preparation and training of the next generation of regional studies experts with proficiency in foreign languages. There are a growing number of universities across the country that are responding to this trend through the offering of Global Semesters to their first-year students.
The U.S. Department of Education's Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program's (UISFL) Global Classrooms Project at the University of Maine in Farmington (UMF) will jump start the development and revision of 11 existing courses that incorporate Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) approaches into the curriculum to provide an affordable and sustainable way to increase student interest in international and foreign language studies. By focusing on faculty training and support, curriculum (re-)development, and strengthening UMF's international partnerships, the 2-year project will ensure that the project has a life beyond the grant.
Initial funding for student participation in the Global First Year Seminar Program (GFYS) courses will create the basis for marketing future offerings to incoming students and establish a basis for approaching potential donor support for student scholarships with continued funding guaranteed through UMF's Global Education Fund.
MNA is excited to be evaluating the project.

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Shattered Haven Co-Op Review
Review 4/4/2013 at 1:34 PM by Jason Love
Another zombie game that's not another zombie game
Shattered Haven is not your typical zombie survival game. You don't spend most of the adventure staring down the barrel of a gun wondering if ammo or foes lay around the next corner. In the background to all that is forgettable story that barely functions as an excuse for all the mayhem that's been unleashed. Shattered Haven, instead, seeks to deliver a compelling narrative through the game's main characters while focusing the action on having you determine the correct way to get to the weapon that's around the corner, rather than wondering if there is one. In many ways, it feels a lot like an old NES top-down scroller, like Lifeforce, StarTropics, or Fester's Quest. (Ok, so the last one is just a litmus test for all you old-school gamers out there, but the others apply.) The overall narrative seems to strive for some of the same notes of family bonds and strength of humanity in the face of hardship that Telltale Games' The Walking Dead hit so well. While Shattered Haven does a lot that is refreshing and new for a zombie survival game, it just doesn't have that level of polish that would really put it over the top.
For nine years a man, his wife, and their daughter have lived in a sheltered compound while the "Grays" roam the world around them. One day, the man finds a woman and her son while foraging for supplies and everything pretty much goes wrong from there. The boy and daughter get separated from the man and his wife, who are now trying to track them down and, hopefully, achieve some semblance of normalcy again. Each half of this family will have its own set of adventures that reveal a little something about the world in which they find themselves. Your group will grow and you'll have to care for these people using the money that you collect from completing levels to buy food and supplies. Not everyone can be saved, though…
The game's action is perhaps best placed into the "environmental puzzler" category. Each of the game's 100 levels will challenge you to eliminate all the "Grays" in an area using the weapons and other hazards that are presented to you. Occasionally you get a little bit of a leg up as some of these levels take place within the same world as the characters. This means that any objects, such as an axe or hammer, which you bring with you into the level, can be used there. Likewise, any tools you find can be taken back into the "overworld." Many of these levels, though, take place in a separate sort of dimension where you can only use what's presented to you and nothing comes back.
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For example, in one of these levels there are ten "Grays" in the area that have to be eliminated. These particular types of "Grays" wander around the level in a fairly set pattern and pay no attention to the characters (unless they happen to get in the way). None of the usual weapons (anything made of iron or water) are present to use against them. There are, however, levers hidden amongst the beds of flowers that make up the scenery, which set off environmental traps to eliminate these undead. Trigger these levers at the right time to ensure the walking dead become a whole lot less ambulatory and then make it to the exit before a mysterious force chases you down and ends it all for you.
Other levels will have you going across one or more screens to find additional items or weapons to use, but the overall goal never really changes. There are bonus objectives, such as not taking any damage or killing certain grays before others, that you can attempt to complete for an added challenge and, more importantly, bonus money. These help to add some challenge and replay options, but it's not quite enough. From a single-player perspective, it feels like there are just too many levels where your objective - collect weapons and kill the grays - is the same. Portal and Portal 2 both could be accused of the same fault, but they managed to overcome it by introducing some new mechanic with each "test chamber" that forces the player to constantly be thinking up new solutions. Shattered Haven, unfortunately, has no such mechanic when playing through the game alone.
Playing with a friend, though, seems to be the mechanic that the game's developers hoped would keep things fresh. And it certainly manages it for a while.
2 player local co-op
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is playing it cool right now. He might act like he's not afraid of the upcoming debates with his rival presidential candidate, Democrat Hillary Clinton, but he should be afraid. Even people in his own party believe he should be worried.
Lanhee Chen knows the Republican Party better than anyone. He was a top adviser to the Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and his campaign, and he was the policy director of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his 2012 campaign.
While working with Sen. Rubio's camp, he got an inside look at how Trump dominated his party's primaries.
He watched as Sen. Rubio grilled Trump's policies during a debate back in February. He was delighted and grinning from ear to ear, but that was before reality slapped him right in the face.
He's right. Trump has only made it this far because he was going up against the bench-warmers of the Republican Party. His childish style of debating fit right in during the primaries, but now he's stepping out of his comfort zone.
Hopefully his team is teaching him how to act like an adult. He won't be able to hide behind Ben Carson this time.
Geez. I still can't believe this actually happened. That stage may have been full of wealthy douchebags trying to destroy our country with one terrible idea at a time, but at least they were entertaining.


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/* Module  : TIME.C                                                                               */
/* Purpose : This module controls the time allocation, including the logic for moving quicker for */
/*           forced moves etc. Is only applied in the "mode_Time" playing mode.                   */
/*                                                                                */
/**************************************************************************************************/

/*
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IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
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#include "Engine.h"

#include "Time.f"

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/*                                         TIME ALLOCATION/CONTROL                                */
/*                                                                                */
/**************************************************************************************************/

void AllocateTime (ENGINE *E)                // Allocates time for the forthcoming search.
{
   TIME_STATE *T = &E->T;

   INT   movesLeft   = E->P.movesLeft;       // Number of moves left to next time control.
   INT   movesPlayed = E->P.movesPlayed;     // Number of moves played since last time control.
   ULONG secsLeft    = E->P.timeLeft;        // Time left to next time control.

   ULONG avgTicks,                           // Average time pr. move to next time control.
         nomTicks,                           // Nominal time for next move.
         maxTicks,                           // Time left on players clock.
         Tm[4];                              // Time dependant on move type of BestLine[0].

   if (movesLeft == allMoves)                            // Moves to play within time limit.
      movesLeft = Max(60 - E->P.lastMoveNo/2, 15);       // If "all moves" always assume at least 15 moves left

   avgTicks = (60*(secsLeft - 2))/movesLeft + 1;         // Average time pr. move to next control.
   nomTicks = MaxL(15, 35 - movesPlayed)*avgTicks/10;    // Time for current move.
// maxTicks = MaxL(10, 60*(secsLeft - Min(30,movesLeft)));  // Maximum time for current move: At
   maxTicks = MaxL(6, 60*(secsLeft - 2) - 30*Min(30,movesLeft));  // Maximum time for current move: At
                                                         // least one 1/10 sec pr. move.
   Tm[timer_Recap]  = nomTicks/4 + 30;                   // Forced recaptures.
   Tm[timer_Forced] = nomTicks/2 + 30;                   // Other forced moves.
   Tm[timer_Normal] = nomTicks;                          // Normal moves.
   Tm[timer_Sacri]  = (3*nomTicks)/2;                    // Sacrifices.

   for (INT i = timer_Recap; i <= timer_Sacri; i++)
   {  T->NormalTime[i]    = MinL(maxTicks, Tm[i]) + Timer();
      T->IterationTime[i] = MinL(maxTicks, (5*Tm[i])/6) + Timer();
   }

   T->timer       = timer_Normal;                         // Initially select normal timer.
   T->maxTime     = MinL(maxTicks, 3*nomTicks) + Timer(); // Emergency brakes.
   T->ultraTime   = MinL(maxTicks, 6*nomTicks) + Timer();
   T->nominalTime = T->NormalTime[timer_Normal];
} /* AllocateTime */

void AdjustTimeLimit (ENGINE *E)                 // Adjusts the time limit for the search by
{                                                // choosing one of the four timers
   NODE *N = E->S.rootNode;

   if (N->m.dply == 0)
      E->T.timer = (N->m.misc == gen_C ? timer_Recap : timer_Forced);
   else
      E->T.timer = (N->m.misc != gen_I ? timer_Normal : timer_Sacri);

   E->T.nominalTime = E->T.NormalTime[E->T.timer];
} /* AdjustTimeLimit */

/**************************************************************************************************/
/*                                                                                */
/*                                             TIME CONTROL                                       */
/*                                                                                */
/**************************************************************************************************/

BOOL TimeOut (ENGINE *E)
{
   LONG timer = Timer();
   if (timer < E->T.nominalTime ||
       E->P.playingMode != mode_Time ||
       E->P.backgrounding ||
       (E->R.state == state_Running && E->S.rootNode->ply == 1 && (! E->P.reduceStrength || E->P.engineELO >= 1500))
      )
      return false;

   if (timer < E->T.maxTime)
      return (E->S.mainScore > E->S.prevScore - 50 || (E->S.mainScore > -200 && E->P.reduceStrength && E->P.engineELO < 1500));

   return (E->S.mainScore > E->S.prevScore - 300 || timer >= E->T.ultraTime || (E->P.reduceStrength && E->P.engineELO < 1500));
} /* TimeOut */

BOOL TimeForAnotherIteration (ENGINE *E)
{
   return (E->P.backgrounding || Timer() <= E->T.IterationTime[E->T.timer]);
} /* TimeForAnotherIteration */

/**************************************************************************************************/
/*                                                                                */
/*                                             MISCELLANEOUS                                      */
/*                                                                                */
/**************************************************************************************************/

void PauseTimeAdjust (ENGINE *E, LONG pauseDuration)       // If the program has been paused we
{                                                          // must adjust the time limits.
   for (INT i = timer_Recap; i <= timer_Sacri; i++)
      E->T.NormalTime[i]    += pauseDuration,
      E->T.IterationTime[i] += pauseDuration;

   E->T.maxTime     += pauseDuration;
   E->T.ultraTime   += pauseDuration;
   E->T.nominalTime += pauseDuration;
} /* PauseTimeAdjust */

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Services for Arthur J. Mashek, 76, formerly of Lusk were held at Peet Mortuary Monday, Aug. 27 at 2 p.m.
Rev. Dwayne Axworthy of the First Baptist Church of Casper and Harmony Masonic Lodge No. 24 officiated. Burial followed in Lusk Cemetery.
Mashek died Aug. 22 at St. Luke's Hospital in Denver, Colo., following heart surgery.
He was born May 13, 1908 at Lusk, the son of the late Alex A. and Grace (Ryder) Mashek, pioneer ranchers.
Mashek began his oilfield career at the age of 15 in Midwest, building rigs for Kittleson. He worked in South America, Canada and Alaska and almost all the United States. He returned to Casper in 1978 where he worked for Acme Tool and N and L Industries until retiring in May 1984.
A charter member of the Elks Lodge in Lusk, Mashek joined the Masonic Lodge while in the Aleutian Islands in 1969 and the Moab Utah Shriner's El Kalah Temple in Salt Lake City. He was also a member of the Casper Senior Citizens and the First Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Dorothy (Myrup) Mashek; one daughter, Sandra Bressie; a brother, Joe Mashek and two sisters, Annie McMichael and Grace Fredrickson. He later married Marion (Phister) Mashek who died in 1978.
Survivors include a son, James Mashek, Anchorage, Alaska; three sisters, Dorothy Hill, Lander; Vernice Blagg, Nampa, Idaho and Irene Hirschman, Milaca, Minn.; three grandchildren, Stevie and Debbie Bressie, Niosho, Mo., and Pamela Mashek; one great-granddaughter, Jenesy of Buffalo; numerous nieces and nephews; his son-in-law, Steve Bressie and his friend, Eva Hunter of Casper.
In lieu of flowers, memorials to the Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City, will be appreciated by the family.
Pallbearers were Don Rhoades, Jay Haney, L.A. Smith, George Stewart, Bryan Roland and Joe Dill. Honorary pallbearers were Walt Wyman and Jim Grisham.
Music was by Minerva Watson, organist, and Darryl Manring, soloist. There was also a graveside service by Elk's Lodge No. 1797.


Selling my Pixel 3 XL 64gb in white.
Comes with all original accessories including unused headphones.
Genuine Google fabric case and DBrand Grip.
It is in immaculate condition, no scratches, marks or dents.
Looking for £500 inc RMSD to the UK only.
Also have the Google wireless charger for £50.


Get ready to meet the Reavers in "Bushwhacked", the third action-packed Firefly! Watch as the crew discover a derelict ship! Listen as they search for a mysterious noise! Be horrified as they uncover the gruesome secret of the Reavers!
Do you always say verisilimitude to rile someone? I find it strange, it really sticks out.
I like it. It makes the podcasts worth listening to more than once. You keep boggling the mind.
Like when you called star trek one of the finest examples of 20th century american culture and one of the most important cultural artifacts to come out of the 1960s.
I think they can be both! They kind of are Indians and the bogeyman all rolled into one. Their narrative function is kind of muddled.


NBC 7 San Diego is having a competition to find San Diego's favorite local voice. Nominations were made by the SoundDiego blog team (myself included) and were pre-recorded last Friday. Each day, there will be a head to head competition, with the singers' performances broadcast in the 5am and 6am news. Voting is open to the public via Facebook for 24 hours and announced in the following day's morning newscast (Friday's will be announced Monday). Each of the five winners will be given a guaranteed audition for the next season of "The Voice" and with so much local talent, it is possible that your local favorites can be cast on the show. Best of luck to everyone!
Watch the segments and vote daily here.
This was a local competition and it had about a 3 day turnaround from nominations to recording, so contestants were nominated by the SoundDiego.com bloggers. All the performances were filmed last week; this week's competition is a one time deal. I'm sure you can submit to the show through their regular application/audition process.


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Oman's Largest Port Joins IBM's Blockchain Shipping Platform TradeLens
Oman's largest port joins IBM and Maersk blockchain-based TradeLens platform to enhance customer experience and improve trade flows.
Oman's largest port joins IBM's blockchain-based TradeLens platform to improve trade flow
On Jan. 8 the Times of Oman reported that the Port of Salalah joined TradeLens, the blockchain-based supply chain platform launched in 2018 by shipping giant Maersk and IBM.
An IBM spokesperson told Cointelegraph the addition of the Port of Salalah puts TradeLens at more than 90 ports and terminals, with over 150 participants in total on the platform.
According to the Times, The Port of Salalah is Oman's largest port, handling a record number of 4 million shipping containers per year. The port reportedly joins TradeLens as part of its digital initiative to enhance customer experience while ensuring a global, transparent standard for collaboration with other entities in the supply chain ecosystem.
TradeLens, which is powered by IBM's blockchain technology, enables multiple trading partners to collaborate. The platform provides a real-time, shared view of shipping transactions and data across a permissioned blockchain network. This creates transparency and efficient collaboration for all entities involved, including shippers, shipping lines, freight forwarders, port and terminal operators, inland transportation and customs authorities.
The Times notes that joining the platform provides special purpose ships and its customers the ability to securely provide end-to-end supply chain information, seamless data sharing and new avenues for collaboration. As a result, this will improve trade flows through the port.
Mark Hardiman, the Chief Executive Officer of Port of Salalah explained:
"Adopting and incorporating blockchain technology into all aspects of the supply chain will not only enhance the attractiveness of Salalah for these companies but also support the development of new business models that can further leverage the geographical location of Salalah."
TradeLens, which processes over 10 million shipping events weekly, has gained significant traction since the platform was launched in 2018. One of the largest international terminals in Cai Mep Vietnam, CMIT, recently joined the platform to promote Vietnam's foreign trade investment.
TradeLens also received an antitrust exemption from the US Federal Maritime Commission to allow shippers to publish and subscribe to event data on cargo moving through a supply chain. This exemption also authorizes APis and user interfaces to enable the viewing of event data, milestones, documents, and to manage user permissions. Without this, the discussion of how documents might be used on the platform would be considered illegal.
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Major Spanish Bank Latest to Bring Blockchain Into European Finance
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Naomi Osaka is asking China about missing tennis player Peng Shuai
Women banding together.
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Two weeks ago, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai took to Weibo to accuse a retired high-ranking Communist Party official of pressuring her into sex. Her post, and discussions of it, were quickly wiped off the Chinese internet. But now colleagues in the tennis world are trying to keep alive a conversation that cannot take place in China.
On Tuesday (Nov. 16), Japanese tennis pro Naomi Osaka took to Twitter to ask after Peng's whereabouts. California-based Osaka, who is on a break from the sport, is the most prominent tennis player so far to stand up for Peng, and her tweet follows a statement in support of the Chinese player from the Women's Tennis Association, the main body for professional women's tennis. In both cases, they risk retaliation from Beijing, which has previously penalized artists and sports figures who have criticized the country, including leveraging lucrative endorsement deals from Chinese companies.
Osaka wrote:
Hey everyone, not sure if you've been following the news, but I was recently informed of a fellow tennis player that has gone missing shortly after revealing that she has been sexually abused. Censorship is never ok at any cost, I hope Peng Shuai and her family are safe and ok. I'm in shock of the current situation and I'm sending love and light her way. #whereispengshuai"
Several other tennis players have also expressed concern over Peng's situation, while Osaka's post has received over 22,000 likes and thousands of retweets at the time of publishing.
Peng Shuai's #MeToo allegation
On Nov. 2, Peng, 35, took to Weibo, the Chinese social media app, and in a lengthy post detailed allegations of sexual coercion by Zhang Gaoli, a 75-year-old former vice premier, in perhaps the most high-profile #MeToo accusation of a government official in the country so far. The Chinese government scrubbed Peng's statement within 20 minutes of her posting, and she hasn't been seen since.
Other prominent Chinese citizens have vanished from the public eye, often for months, after falling afoul of the government, including Jack Ma, the billionaire founder of Alibaba, and Fan Bingbing, a popular actress. Peng's erasure comes as Beijing prepares to host the Winter Olympics, which is likely to draw hundreds of athletes to the country despite a boycott effort.
Screenshots of Peng's post continued to circulate despite the censorship, as Chinese citizens discussed the case in coded language. Some Chinese feminists are trying to keep attention on the topic by projecting messages at unidentified locations in support of Peng. One person involved in the effort told Quartz "many women in China want a space to express their concerns and support for Peng Shuai, but are not able to…We want to do whatever we can to bring her story and our support for her back to the public."
The WTA takes a stand on Peng Shuai
On Sunday (Nov. 14), Steve Simon, chairman and CEO of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) issued a statement seeking an investigation into the Peng's allegations against Zhang, and an end to her censorship.
"Peng Shuai, and all women, deserve to be heard, not censored. Her accusation about the conduct of a former Chinese leader involving a sexual assault must be treated with the utmost seriousness," Simon said. "We commend Peng Shuai for her remarkable courage and strength in coming forward. Women around the world are finding their voices so injustices can be corrected."
After the initial statement, Simon told the New York Times the association had received assurances from within China that Peng is safe.
Simon also acknowledged the WTA's business relationship with China, which includes 11 tournaments and a long-term deal to hold its finals in Shenzhen, could be at risk. "If at the end of the day, we don't see the appropriate results from this, we would be prepared to take that step and not operate our business in China if that's what it came to," she told the Times.
In 2019, China famously penalized the NBA after Daryl Morey, the manager of the Houston Rockets, tweeted in support of Hong Kong's protest movement, while Turkish soccer star Mesut Özil has seen a shadow over his career after speaking out about human rights abuses in the Chinese region of Xinjiang.
Jane Li contributed reporting.


Swap your skinny jeans for this season's hottest trend: the boyfriend jean. This slouchy style is designed to give a loose fit with a wide cut for maximum comfort. Available in sizes 16 to 36, team with sneakers for a cool casual look.


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E-Waste Polluting Overseas
Exposed to toxic chemicals such as lead and mercury, workers stay at the scrap yards for the $130-a-month pay. (photo by Ted Land)
Copper wire is stripped, circuit boards melted and other parts burned to retrieve metal from old electronic equipment in illegal scrap yards in China. (Photo by Ted Land)
Although China banned electronic waste, illegal operations still take American E-waste to retrieve precious metals and some throw the leftovers into the river. (Photo by Ted Land)
Many workers say this is better than family scrap yards where American e-waste fuels toxic fires across the countryside. (photo by Ted Land)
Like many large electronic equipment buyers, the State of Illinois was surprised to find its old equipment was being shipped overseas to scrap yards. (Photo by Ted Land)
High school students test the water for pollutants. They take their results to government officials who have little power to stop the e-waste imports. (photo by Ted Land)
At your home, chances are your TV, computer and other electronic gear were made
overseas. That's because it's cheaper to make them there. And it's cheaper to get rid of old
electronics overseas. Someday, your old cell phone or CD player might end up right back
where it started: in China. Ted Land visited a Chinese city where electronic waste, or e-waste, is shipped by the thousands of tons. Pollution from that waste is threatening the
health of people who live there:
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where it started: in China. Ted Land visited a Chinese city where electronic waste , or e-
waste, is shipped by the thousands of tons. Pollution from that waste is threatening the
The city of Taizhou is in eastern China. It's an industrial port city. A lot of the people
who travel here are here on business. Ships loaded with new products are often headed
for the United States. But it's not just what leaves this city that makes business boom…
it's also what's coming in:
"I know it's polluted here but it's not a big deal. The most important thing is my
children, that's the reason why I found work here."
Liu Qinzhen works at this Taizhou scrap plant. It's the final stop for some of the nearly
4,000 tons of scrap and e-waste that enters the port each day. Liu is one of hundreds of
workers who squat under an outdoor pavilion picking apart old circuit boards and wires.
She works 9 hours a day, 7 days a week, earning about 130 dollars a month.
The work is dangerous. She and the other workers are exposed to harmful chemicals
from e-waste such as lead and mercury. The 23-year-old moved here for this job because
she needed to support her two kids:
"I used to work in a shoe factory but then I had a baby and it's not convenient to have a
baby there so I moved here even though the pay is the same. I come from the countryside.
You can't earn money on a farm."
The plant where she works is considered safer than scrapping these materials in the
countryside where families work in their front yards and in their homes. They melt
circuit boards and burn wires to extract bits of valuable copper and gold.
Environmental organizations have documented evidence that what's left over after the
valuable metals are retrieved is dumped into local rivers and streams:
(Land:) "I noticed when we arrived they shut down the other door of that other shop?
"They are doing the same kind of e-waste, but they are afraid of being discovered by
Afraid, says Taizhou resident Chen Yijun because what they're doing is illegal. Chinese
law forbids the import of e-waste, yet piles of foreign electronics litter the countryside
and pour into scrap plants daily.
Yijun is a teacher at Taizhou #1 High School, where students are concerned about what
the e-waste industry is doing to their environment. They've been testing the water in
local streams, looking for signs of harmful chemicals:
On this day they draw several gallons from a stream. The banks are littered with piles of
electrical cable. Chen Zhengyan has been working on the project for years:
"The frogs here are different from frogs in other places because sometimes they have
extra limbs. We are sure the pollution is from e-waste because in this area there is no
other industry."
Chen and her colleagues say this pollution is harmful to people, too. They tell local
government officials such as Liang Xiaoyong that something has to be done to improve
the situation. But, Liang says there's only so much the government can do to combat an
illegal industry that so many residents make their living off of. He says cutting off the
imports is difficult because sometimes e-waste is hidden in with other scrap. He doesn't
deny the waste industry is a big business here:
This industry generates a lot of tax money for us in the form of tariffs. So, if this industry
doesn't exist, the Taizhou harbor won't survive.
Jim Puckett is coordinator of the Basel Action Network, a Seattle based group that
confronts toxic trade issues around the world. He says it's not that the Chinese
government is unwilling to stop imports, it's simply unable to stop them.
"They've banned the import, the problem is they can't control that flow, it's just coming at
them container load after container load through various ports and they can't possibly check every
single one."
American waste is literally fueling the fires burning electronics that dot the countryside in
China. And many of the original owners of this gear had taken it to be recycled, and
thought they'd done the right thing. But, often it ends up on a ship, headed for scrap
yards overseas.
About seven thousand miles away from Taizhou, practically the other side of the globe,
there's a warehouse in Springfield, Illinois stacked with old electronic gear.
The Illinois State Department of Central Management Services, or CMS, disposes of old
state property, including old copy machines, computers, and monitors. In 2005, CMS
was contacted by the Basel Action Network with some disturbing information. The
group was finding State of Illinois computers dumped in developing countries around the
world. Curtis Howard is manager of CMS state and federal surplus property:
"It hit me pretty hard, the fact that, not realizing, you know I always look at it, these guys
were here, they come in, they bid on our property, you know I'm maximizing the return on
the state's investment, I'm doing a good job, I never really thought about the tail end of
the dragon."
Basel Action Network coordinator Jim Puckett says if the Chinese are unable to stop the
imports, then it's up to the United States to control what they export:
Other countries have laws forbidding it, laws controlling it, but in the United States, we
don't even have a law to control this export.
The U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that have not signed and ratified the Basel
Convention, an international treaty that bans hazardous waste exports. That means if
anything is going to be done to stop electronic waste from polluting countries overseas,
it's going to be up to the States to take action.
It starts with buying electronics from companies that make products that are more easily
recycled, and ends with making sure old electronic gear is getting into the hands of
responsible recyclers who don't simply ship the e-waste to scrap yards overseas.
For the Environment Report, I'm Ted Land.
What is e-waste?
Basel Action Network website
Author Ted LandPosted on June 25, 2007 Categories FeaturesTags business, cell phone, chemicals, china, computer, copper, countryside, curtis, e-waste, electronic waste, electronics, environmental organizations, factory, farm, gold, hazardous waste, health, howard, industry, international treaty, jim, law, lead, mercury, pollution, port, recycle, seattle, steam, united states
Trucks Sell Despite Polls
A new poll says a majority of pickup owners
support higher federal fuel economy standards,
even though those higher standards could make
trucks more expensive and less available.
Dustin Dwyer reports:
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Kevin Curtis of the National Environmental Trust says 83%
of truck owners in the poll support stricter fuel standards.
"Pickup owners really, when faced with the arguments that my pickup will
be more expensive, or, heaven forbid, my pickup won't even be
available to me, they just didn't believe it."
But it's a different story when people reach the dealer show
floor.
There, Charles Territo of the Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers says more than half of all buyers still choose
trucks, SUVs and minivans that burn more gas.
"And until there's a reason for consumers to make decisions other
than the decisions they're making now on vehicle choice, it's
going to be very hard to change the fleetwide fuel economy."
For the Environment Report, I'm Dustin Dwyer.
More about the survey of pickup owners
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers
Author Dustin DwyerPosted on May 14, 2007 Categories News SpotsTags charles, curtis, economy, fuel economy standards, fuel standards, kevin, poll, territo
Wily Coyotes in the City
Coyotes have started to lose their wildlife habitat, and now they are adapting to cities and suburbs. (Photo courtesy of Michigan Department of Natural Resources)
Justin Brown is one of the researchers tracking coyotes in the suburbs. His research is exploring the predator's impact on Canada geese.
Coyotes have even found their way into downtowns of major cities. A coyote was recently found in New York City's Central Park. Coyotes frequent Chicago's downtown Lincoln Park, in search of food such as young geese and other waterfowl.
As wildlife habitat is displaced by subdivisions, some animals are adapting to their new surroundings. That's created new food for some kinds of predators, such as coyotes. The GLRC's Lester Graham reports on how their range is expanding:
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As wildlife habitat is displaced by subdivisions, some animals are
adapting to their new surroundings. That's created new food for some
kinds of predators, such as coyotes. The GLRC's Lester Graham reports
on how their range is expanding:
Wile E. Coyote hasn't always had the greatest life out in the wild.
(Sound of Roadrunner)
So… some coyotes are moving into the city, and why not? There's a
smorgasbord for coyotes in the city.
(Sounds of ducks and geese)
We're in Lincoln Park in downtown Chicago. Coyotes are occasionally
sighted around here. Rob Curtis has seen one in his neighborhood a few
miles north of here, but the wildlife photographer had a close encounter
with a coyote here in Lincoln Park.
"Well, I knew that it was living there because people had seen it before,
but I hadn't seen it. And then, I was trying to photograph a rare bird that
was in front of the fence there and I was camouflaged and it came up
right in front on the other side of the fence without it noticing me, and
then it just walked on."
The coyotes eat just about anything they can get a hold of: rats, young
geese, squirrels… and… sometimes pets. In the Chicago suburb,
Arlington Heights, coyotes have been a problem.
Police Sergeant Nick Pecora says sometimes coyotes are pretty brazen.
"In the last 18 months Arlington Heights has lost one Yorkshire Terrier,
taken off the patio in the owners presence, and in one case the dog had an
electronic collar on and when the coyote took it, it received a shock and
dropped the animal and ran away."
Pecora says some Arlington Heights residents haven't been too keen on
what some see as an intruding predator.
"Coyotes are indigenous to the area and – maybe it's the perception that
this is a large animal and the bunnies, the skunks, the squirrels, that's
what Arlington Heights is used to, and a 35-pound animal walking
through your yard, I think they're perceived as the big, bad wolf, if you
will."
And… although there hasn't been a documented case of a coyote
attacking a human… some worry that they might.
Not too far away researchers are putting radio collars on coyotes to see
where they're going and what they're doing.
(Sound of tires on gravel)
Justin Brown is with a research project out of Ohio State University.
He's just located the spot where a coyote is hiding. We can't see him,
but we know he's there because of the signal his collar is emitting.
"We very rarely see them, especially during the day. At the night —
during the night, occasionally we'll get good visuals, but for the most
part during the day times you never see them."
Brown and his colleagues are trying to figure out why there are more
coyotes in the suburbs and cities. One of the reasons is car and deer
accidents. Coyotes feed on the carcasses. The huge increase in Canada
geese is another reason.
"Food ranges from deer to geese to even just dog food people leave out.
There's definitely a high variety of foods available to them. For habitat,
it can be anything, any little wood lot, anywhere that they can find a little
hiding spot for the daytime and then during the evenings they run (in) a
lot of areas you wouldn't expect such as residential areas and
commercial parking lots. They pretty much run it all, anywhere that they
might come across a meal."
You'd think there wouldn't be that many places for a coyote to hide in
the city and suburbs. But, Brown says they hide in parks, golf courses, in
wood lots, graveyards… anyplace with a little cover. Brown's research team
leader, Stan Gehrt, estimates there are something like two-thousand coyotes
in the Chicago metro area.Justin Brown says the truly amazing thing is that
coyotes have learned to adapt so well… and even survive a lot of automobile
traffic.
"We've actually seen animals where they're actually figuring out traffic
patterns. They know which roads are going which ways. We'll see them
cross roads where they'll actually look only the direction traffic should
be coming and then go and then stop in the middle and look in the other
direction for traffic and then go. So, they've definitely figured out how
the road systems work. It's just amazing to see how they survive in this
And, the experts say, the coyotes are probably here to stay. Most
residents don't want the police to shoot the animals. So some
municipalities tried to trap and relocate the animals to a more rural area,
but coyotes are very territorial, and they immediately head back to the
place where they were trapped. Often they're hit by cars on the journey
back, but sometimes they make it home, and the predator in the suburbs
is back and hungry.
For the GLRC, I'm Lester Graham.
Information on coyotes
More information on coyotes
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Author Lester GrahamPosted on April 10, 2006 Categories FeaturesTags adapt, brown, canada geese, carcasses, chicago, chicago metro area, chicago suburbs, city, coyotes, curtis, ducks, geese, golf courses, graveyards, hide, justin, ohio state university, pets, predators, rats, rob, squirrels, suburbs, wildlife habitat


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1961 Manufacturers of light pressings in steel, stainless and non-ferrous metals for the engineering and allied industries. Also manufacture steel pens. 125 employees. <ref>[[1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE]]</ref>
2007 Still trading and is today a 5th generation family company of international standing. It began as a manufacturer of high quality pen nibs which it sold world wide in great volume maintaining a reputation for their excellence for over a century of supply. Inheriting and adding to those skills the business then evolved into a world-class engineering company, specialising in the manufacture of complex components, in difficult materials, for a wide range of industry sectors.
2007 Still trading; at this point it was a 5th generation family company of international standing. It began as a manufacturer of high quality pen nibs which it sold world wide in great volume maintaining a reputation for their excellence for over a century of supply. Inheriting and adding to those skills the business then evolved into a world-class engineering company, specialising in the manufacture of complex components, in difficult materials, for a wide range of industry sectors.
2014 Specialised in tooling and stamping; exported 75 percent of its production, mostly outside Europe. Rowan Crozier was 6th generation family member, MD of the company, emphasised innovation as key to their success, dependent on recruiting and training the right people<ref>The Times Dec. 1, 2014</ref>
[[Category: Town - Birmingham]]
[[Category: Pens, Pencils and Drawing Instruments]]
[[Category: Tools]]
[[Category: Metal Products]]
Pen knib with 11 slits, displayed at The Pen Room
Pens of 403-7 New John Street West, Birmingham
1862 Company founded.
1862 Brandauer was founded when they took over the business of Ash Petit and Co.
1880s - 1900 Made knibs for pens. (Exhibit at Birmingham Thinktank museum).
1901 Private company.
1961 Manufacturers of light pressings in steel, stainless and non-ferrous metals for the engineering and allied industries. Also manufacture steel pens. 125 employees. [1]
2014 Specialised in tooling and stamping; exported 75 percent of its production, mostly outside Europe. Rowan Crozier was 6th generation family member, MD of the company, emphasised innovation as key to their success, dependent on recruiting and training the right people[2]
Birmingham's Industrial Heritage by Ray Shill. Published by Sutton Publishing 2002. ISBN 0-7509-2593-0
↑ 1961 Dun and Bradstreet KBE
↑ The Times Dec. 1, 2014
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Town - Birmingham
Pens, Pencils and Drawing Instruments


VENTURA - The No. 1 in state Hornets rang in 2019 with two non-conference wins against Moorpark and Ventura Colleges last Friday and Saturday.
Friday's game was played against Moorpark at Ventura College, and the FC came out like gang-busters winning 94-47. Fullerton jumped out to an early 15-7 lead on a three-pointer by Jailen Moore at 13:54. From there, the Hornets took over the game with an incredible 24-9 to go up 39-18 with 3 minutes left in the first half. By the time halftime rolled around, the Hornets were ahead 44-28. The second half belonged to Fullerton as they shot their way to a 49-point lead with 4 minutes left in the game. Moore came off the bench to lead all scorers with 21 points. He was 7 of 14 from three-point-land. Ezekiel Alley chipped in with 19 points and Lance Coleman II put up 17. Omajae Smith scored 11 points and Ronne Readus brought down 11 rebounds.
On Saturday, Fullerton took on Ventura at Riverside City College where the Hornets showed off their offensive power for another lopsided win at 91-58. FC grabbed a quick 5-0 lead in the first minutes of the game and went on to separate themselves from the Pirates with a 40-19 lead with just over 4 minutes. The Hornets held a 50-25 lead at the start the second half and went on to grab their largest lead of 36 by the 15-minute mark (65-29). FC never let up as they ran away with the game earning their 13th straight victory. Lance Coleman II and Jailen Moore shared the scoring bounty with 20 points each. Rodrick McCobb had 12 points with 8 rebounds, while Ronne Readus put up 10 points with 9 rebounds. Ezekiel Alley had 9 points, 5 assists, and 5 rebounds.
Fullerton (15-1 overall) will break into Orange Empire Conference-play this Wednesday, January 9th when they welcome Riverside City College into the Hornets Nest. Tipoff is at 5:00 pm. Come on out and support your Hornets!


It's been a couple of weeks since this year's FHM 100 Sexiest Victory Party and we still haven't gotten over that awesome night.
Aside from the overflowing gorgeous women both on the red carpet and the runway, our creative events team—with the help of some generous sponsors—had a few tricks up their sleeves to make the occasion more fun and interactive.
One of our interns "coincidentally" had his last day of on-the-job training during the Victory Party, and what better parting gift could we give him than just letting him party hard and try out all the side activities—mingle with the girls and get drunk (kidding!)—that eventful day.


Located on the first floor just past Sainsbury's, visit the Customer Service team for help and advice about your visit. For more information ahead of your visit, please contact the Centre team on 01604 637 268. Alternatively, you can email the team here.
There are designated bays located in the car park. All levels of the car park are serviced by lifts. Disabled toilet facilities are located on Level One.
Free cash machines are available on the Ground and First Floor.
There are specially designated parking bays for customers with small children in the car park, as well as lift access to all floors. Baby changing facilities are located on the First Floor by Costa.
Psst You'll also find our Fun Factory located near for free soft play facilities.
Please visit the Customer Service team on the First Floor, or speak to a member of the team on 01604 637 268.
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Trained First Aiders are onsite at all times.


The album kicks off with "Made in America." This song is proving to be one of the fastest rising songs of his career and it has already claimed the number one spot on most of the major charts. Although this song was inspired by a past generation, perhaps it's not to late for the current generation to take note, so that future generations won't make the same mistakes. It's a great song, and, as someone who was born and raised in "the Bible belt," it is a song I easily related to. Given the current trend in government, I'm sure I'm not alone. However, suffice it to say, Toby Keith didn't show up at Clancy's Tavern to preach.
The very next track on the album, written by Keith, Rivers Rutherford and Bob Dipiero, is "I Need to Hear a Country Song." It's up-tempo melody belies the seriousness of the lyrics. It is, quite simply, the absolute epitome of a "three chord / stone cold / country song." I loved it and no doubt all the two-steppin', boot-scooter's, will too.
The title cut, Clancy's Tavern, written by Keith and Scotty Emerick, is a melodious ode to a neighborhood bar that caused me to have traumatic flashbacks to a previous marriage. All kidding aside, Emerick is an accomplished songwriter in his own right but his collaborations with Keith have been magical and resulted in five number one songs. I won't be at all surprised if this cut earns them number six.
Keith joined forces with the legandary singer and songwriter, Eddy Raven, to write the next two tracks, "South of You" and "Club Zydeco Moon." Based on songwriting credentials alone, you expect them to be great songs, and they don't disappoint. I love songs that are able to pull you in even before the singing starts. Both of these songs will effortlessly do just that. I'm also a sucker for songs where Keith does that little humming vibrato thing that he does so incredibly well. Yep! Love it, love it. Speaking of which... "I Won't Let You Down," is classic Toby at his ultimate best so I was not at all surprised to see that he wrote this song. With its visual lyrics and sensual music, it is one of those beautiful songs that is quite likely to inspire an impromtu, romantic, toe-to-toe waltz and I'm predicting it will be played at a multitude of weddings from this day forward. This is definitely one of my favorite cuts.
Keith shifts gears once again on the next track. The mellow flow of the music, fused with clever lyrics, helped "Chill-axin" make my stand out tracks list on the very first run through. No doubt a lot of folks will no longer be "chillin'" or "relaxin'" when they now know about "chill-axin." Not surprisingly, the song is another tune written by the dynamic duo of Keith and Emerick. I do believe these two have perfected writing a hit tune. I'm just sayin', ya know?
The last four songs are live tracks covers of Waylon Jennings' super hit, "High Time (you quit your low down ways)," "Truck Drivin' Man" (recorded by way too many artists to list here), "Shambala," made famous by Three Dog Night, and "Memphis," written by Chuck Berry and made famous by Johnny Rivers. These songs give a rousing ending to a great concert, oh wait, I'm not at a concert. I just got so caught in the music, it felt like a concert.
So there you have it. These are the tracks that stood out for me but the entire album is a keeper. Kudos to Keith and crew. Great job. Great album.


Transcompiling actually is becoming an increasingly appealing target. With asm.js this might not only be possible but actually very optimal. One only need look at the Unreal demo to see just how feasible transcompilation has become.
We could say maybe we could transcompile something like Python, but assuming we really want to have something like a template engine, we probably want to be writing in a full fledged version of the language, not a restricted subset. Python feels way too huge to expect for people to load in their browsers. So, what's more lightweight?
But which Scheme? How about Guile? Yes, Guile, GNU's extension language based on scheme.
Okay, wait, digression before we continue... I want to talk a bit more about Guile, because up until a few months ago my impression of it was still the somewhat-dismissive impression I had a few years ago. But I've come back to looking at Guile again. Largely this is thanks to Dave Thompson's Sly project. There is some seriously cool stuff going on with Sly, and that made me want to look into what's happening with Guile.
Getting the core language of Guile (which is of course scheme) ported over is not the hard part.
Overall, the most tedious part of porting guile to target any non-C target will be all of the library procedures currently implemented in C... however, gradually the Guile team is reducing the amount of C code in Guile and replacing it with Scheme code.
The problem is the runtime; you probably would want to re-use some higher level things like the allocator and garbage collector. Emscripten might do garbage collection correctly (guile relies on Boehm GC to do garbage collection); emscripten seems to provide a similar garbage collector? Tail calls are also a problem until at least es6 is common, and even then until they are optimized.
Maybe someone could try transcompiling Guile with emscripten as a test, but that probably wouldn't provide the right integration, and regardless, this would probably be a bit uncomfortable because emscripten relies on llvm, not gcc.
I like lisp, and I like parentheses. I have emacs set up with rainbow-delimiters, smartparens, and highlight-parentheses (set up just to highlight the background, not the foreground, so it doesn't clobber rainbow-delimiters). Lisp's greatest enemy has never been its functional capability, but a general parenthesitis in the general population. This the big one, so let's come back to it in a moment.
Lots of scheme (lisp generally, but especially scheme) feels like it just is too in love with ideas that make it hard to approach. "car" and "cdr" are not good names but form the very basis of the language for historical reasons where even prominent lispers have had to backtrack to remember why. Linked lists as the core of lisp is great, but overuse of them is encouraged when other data types are much more appropriate: see teaching associative lists before hashmaps. While iteration tools are provided, there's simply too much emphasis on recursion. Recursion is powerful and awesome and necessary to solving many important computer science problems, but rarely needed by say, a web developer, and significantly harder to read and wrap one's mind around than iteration.
That said, these could be overcome with better introductory material. There seems to be interest in the guile world for this, thankfully!
Module names often look like robot serial numbers ("srfi-13") than anything human-readable and feel like they really need aliases.
The Guile community is very small, and does not seem to be very diverse. Outreach is greatly needed.
Returning to "parenthesitis", while I love lisp and all its parentheses, admittedly it's not the most readable language ever. I can wake up groggily at 5AM, be tossed a block of Python code, and even through blurry eyes, I can get a feel for what's happening in the code just by its structure. I can't say the same of any lisp.
But there's a way out of that situation! Guile's compiler stack is nicely set up so that another syntax can be laid on top of that. Guile's VM has semi-complete language implementations of ecmascript and some other languages on top of it. Recently Arne Babenhauserheide has written a whitespace to lisp preprocessor named wisp; I don't feel it really solves the problem by making things so much more readable, but it's a nice demonstration.
The most promising resolution I think would be to implement a syntax akin to Julia on top of Guile. If you haven't looked at Julia, it's a cool project: it has a python-like syntax with lisp-like power, and many other interesting features, including macros(!) in a language that is certified safe for those with parenthesitis. In fact, the language is largely built on top of scheme! So it might be nice to have a "sugarcoat" language that sits on top of Guile.
If all the above were achieved and a well developed web framework were written on top of Guile, it could be well positioned for writing web applications that are a joy to write, both on the backend and frontend.


Researchers and Rangers from around Australia descended on Alice Springs last week for the Australian Mammal Society's annual conference, which included a symposium dedicated to feral cat research and management. It was great to hear about the actions being taken by dedicated individuals around Australia. Gregory Andrews, the Threatened Species Commissioner, spoke to the symposium attendees about the impact that feral cats are having on Australia's wildlife and the need to control the feral cat population, stating "It's not about demonising feral cats; it's about loving our native wildlife enough to save it". Shortly after, Brett Murphy outlined some staggering statistics about feral cat numbers in Australia – his team have used population density estimates and aridity patterns to extrapolate to 2.7 million feral cats across Australia!
With the spring weather warming up, the reptiles become more active and this means there is plenty of food available for feral cats. As a result, feral cats are also active and so it's time to get trapping. The Alice Springs Town Council have been busy catching cats over the last few weeks and suggest that Land for Wildlife members consider joining in.
Land for Wildlife (Ph 8955 5222) has plenty of cat traps available for loan and can provide information and advice regarding trapping of feral kitties on your block. Already have a trap? Download the Cat Trapping information from the Land for Wildlife fact sheets page. The ASTC Rangers can assist you by collecting any cats caught (contact the ASTC: Ph 8950 0500) and delivering them to the Alice Springs Animal Shelter.


When a friend or family member succeeds, gets promoted, or experiences an unexpected break in life, how do you respond?
Some people wonder, "What about me?" Others criticize or say, "It won't last long." But really, the way you respond to other's success will determine the level of your own success. Whether you respond in a negative or positive way, you are sowing seeds for your future. That's why scripture tells us simply to "rejoice with those who rejoice." God wants you to be successful. His commands are for your good. He doesn't want jealousy or strife to enter your life or rob you of His blessing.
Today, make it a point to find someone who is celebrating and celebrate with them. Congratulate them on their success no matter how small it seems in the natural. Rejoice with those who rejoice, sow seeds of blessing, and open the door for victory in your own life in return!
Father, thank You for Your hand of blessing, not only on my life but on the lives of the people around me. I choose to rejoice in You, and I choose to rejoice over Your victory everywhere I go in Jesus' name! Amen!


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COMING OF AGE SHORTS 1 9:30am - 11:19am
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The Devout 4:30pm - 6:12pm
The Perfect Husband 6:30pm - 7:55pm
Interior 8:15pm - 9:38pm
Maskoun 10:00pm - 11:31pm
A Brilliant Genocide 12:00pm - 1:20pm
Crazy Castle 1:45pm - 3:30pm
Psychoanalysis 3:50pm - 5:09pm
The Phoenix Incident 6:00pm - 7:24pm
catch 22: based on the unwritten story by seanie sugrue 8:15pm - 9:48pm
Children of the Sex Trade 12:15pm - 1:12pm
The Last Smile 1:35pm - 3:02pm
Second Chance 3:20pm - 4:56pm
American Bred 5:15pm - 7:04pm
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ISRAELI CINEMA SHORTS 2:25pm - 3:45pm
Those Left Behind 4:15pm - 5:33pm
The Shickles 6:00pm - 7:38pm
A Monster With a Thousand Heads 8:15pm - 9:30pm
Bubba the Redneck Werewolf 10:00pm - 11:20pm
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Jasmine 3:35pm - 4:55pm
When Elephants Were Young 5:30pm - 6:56pm
The Sabbatical 7:40pm - 9:02pm
Until 20 10:15am - 11:39am
Ctrl Alt Delete 12:00pm - 1:27pm
The Key 4:30pm - 6:00pm
East LA Interchange 6:20pm - 7:17pm
ProjectMAD Documentary 8:00pm - 8:54pm
Prisoner X 9:30pm - 11:00pm
a beautiful now 12:00pm - 1:38pm
The Life and Death of an Unhappily Married Man 2:00pm - 3:35pm
Evan's Crime 6:15pm - 7:49pm
Jack's Apocalypse 8:30pm - 9:50pm
Falling 12:15pm - 2:00pm
Leaves of the Tree 2:20pm - 3:56pm
Ovation 4:15pm - 5:57pm
Autumn Fall 6:35pm - 8:11pm
Singapore Sling 8:40pm - 9:53pm
COMEDY SHORTS 11:20am - 12:50pm
Northern Limit Line 1:30pm - 3:40pm
A Light Beneath Their Feet 4:05pm - 5:35pm
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You 6:00pm - 7:31pm
Father Joseph 8:00pm - 9:12pm
The House at the End of Time 10:00pm - 11:40pm
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Pin Up! The Movie 8:00pm - 9:32pm
Foster Shock 11:00am - 12:07pm
Ekaj 12:30pm - 1:51pm
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Papa 4:50pm - 6:20pm
Losers 7:00pm - 8:36pm
Standing Tall 9:00pm - 10:58pm
Neptune 12:00pm - 1:41pm
No Letting Go 2:00pm - 3:43pm
Toto 4:30pm - 6:25pm
The Adderall Diaries 7:00pm - 8:45pm
Adrien 1:20pm - 2:47pm
Kidnap Capital 4:50pm - 6:23pm
LATE NIGHT SHORTS 1 11:20am - 12:37pm
LATE NIGHT SHORTS 2 1:10pm - 2:27pm
Despite the Falling Snow 3:00pm - 4:53pm
Dare to Be Wild 5:20pm - 7:02pm
STARPOWER SHORTS 7:45pm - 9:18pm
Peelers 10:00pm - 11:35pm
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Children of the Sex Trade 12:00pm - 12:57pm
Until 20 1:20pm - 2:44pm
Pink & Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer 3:20pm - 4:49pm
Haze 5:30pm - 7:16pm
Other Madnesses 7:45pm - 9:30pm
Dooder & the Lighthouse 11:00am - 12:20pm
FACING THE CHALLENGE SHORTS 12:50pm - 2:48pm
COMEDY SHORTS 3:30pm - 5:00pm
LGBTQ SHORTS 1 6:15pm - 7:40pm
LATE NIGHT SHORTS 1 10:00pm - 11:17pm
Life, Animated 11:50am - 1:19pm
Since: The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 2:00pm - 3:24pm
Saving Jamaica Bay 4:00pm - 5:16pm
Chicken 5:45pm - 7:10pm
Dirty, Yellow, Darkness 7:45pm - 9:21pm
Poor Behavior 1:40pm - 3:03pm
She Walks 5:00pm - 6:20pm
One Smart Fellow 12:15pm - 12:58pm
No Asylum 3:35pm - 4:48pm
Blood, Sweat & Tears 5:30pm - 7:12pm
Guys Reading Poems 7:40pm - 9:19pm
Land of Smiles 10:00pm - 11:35pm
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Psychoanalysis 11:30am - 12:49pm
Ctrl Alt Delete 3:25pm - 4:52pm
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The Bleeding Edge 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Bubba the Redneck Werewolf 5:10pm - 6:30pm
COMING OF AGE SHORTS 1 7:00pm - 8:49pm
Peelers 9:30pm - 11:05pm
Po 11:20am - 12:53pm
Pawo 3:00pm - 4:57pm
Breaking Legs 8:00pm - 9:38pm
Prisoner X 8:15pm - 9:45pm
The Perfect Husband 10:00pm - 11:25pm
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Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru 6:10pm - 8:11pm
Second Chance 9:10pm - 10:36pm
Telling Tales 12:10pm - 1:51pm
catch 22: based on the unwritten story by seanie sugrue 8:40pm - 10:13pm
COMING OF AGE SHORTS 2 11:30am - 1:22pm
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ADDicted 9:30am - 11:15am
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The Forest 3:40pm - 5:29pm
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The Luft Gangster: Memoirs of a Second Class Hero 12:15pm - 1:25pm
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Chicken 11:30am - 12:55pm
Silver Skies 7:00pm - 8:36pm
CLOSING NIGHT FILM & PARTY 9:00pm - 11:59pm
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Land of Smiles 12:00pm - 1:35pm
Dare to Be Wild 12:00pm - 1:42pm
A Brilliant Genocide 2:15pm - 3:35pm
Guys Reading Poems 12:15pm - 1:54pm
One Smart Fellow 4:25pm - 5:08pm
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Charnockites and Granites of Western Adirondacks, New York, USA; A Differentiated A-type Suite
Title Charnockites and Granites of Western Adirondacks, New York, USA; A Differentiated A-type Suite
Authors Whitney, PR
Journal Precambrian Research
Keywords geology
Granitic rocks in the west-central Adirondack Highlands of New York State include both relatively homogeneous charnockitic and hornblende granitic gneisses (CG), that occur in thick stratiform bodies and elliptical domes, and heterogeneous leucogneisses (LG), that commonly are interlayered with metasedimentary rocks. Major- and trace-element geochemical analyses were obtained for 115 samples, including both types of granitoids. Data for CG fail to show the presence of more than one distinct group based on composition. Most of the variance within the CG sample population is consistent with magmatic differentiation combined with incomplete separation of early crystals of alkali feldspar, plagioclase, and pyroxenes or amphibole from the residual liquid. Ti, Fe, Mg, Ca, P, Sr, Ba, and Zr decrease with increasing silica, while Rb and K increase. Within CG, the distinction between charnockitic (orthopyroxene-bearing) and granitic gneisses is correlated with bulk chemistry. The charnockites are consistently more mafic than the hornblende granitic gneisses, although forming a continuum with them. The leucogneisses, while generally more felsic than the charnockites and granitic gneisses, are otherwise geochemically similar to them. The data are consistent with the LG suite being an evolved extrusive equivalent of the intrusive CG suite.
Both CG and LG suites are metaluminous to mildly peraluminous and display an A-type geochemical signature, enriched in Fe, K, Ce, Y, Nb, Zr, and Ga and depleted in Ca, Mg, and Sr relative to I- and S-type granites. Rare earth element patterns show moderate LREE enrichment and a negative Eu anomaly throughout the suite. The geochemical data suggest an origin by partial melting of biotite- and plagioclase-rich crustal rocks. Emplacement occurred in an anorogenic or post-collisional tectonic setting, probably at relatively shallow depths. Deformation and granulite-facies metamorphism with some partial melting followed during the Ottawan phase of the Grenville Orogeny, yielding the present migmatitic granitic and charnockitic gneisses.
URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0301926892900923
DOI 10.1016/0301-9268(92)90092-3


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Scott Dickinson, former math teacher, dies
Former teacher Scott Dickinson passed away on Dec. 12 after a brief illness. Dickinson, who was not teaching this school year, taught at Pattonville High School in the math department.
An announcement was made to the students and a moment of silence was given at 7:23 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 13.
While he was not teaching this year, many students may have had him as a teacher in the past.
Counselors were prepared and available to provide the necessary support for students.
Dickinson was a United States veteran and often participated in many high school activities with students.
Internment will be at Jefferson Barracks and when more information becomes available, PattonvilleTODAY will update the website.
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Vietnamese garment workers strike
More than 200 workers of Korean-owned Takyung Vina Company, a garment processor in Ho Chi Minh City's Hoc Mon District, went on strike Tuesday seeking payment of unpaid salaries.
According to workers, they have not been paid their August salary despite continuing to bear heavy workloads.
The company owes VND500 million (US$30,000) in August salaries but blames late payments from customers for the delay in payment, local authorities said.
A Takyung Vina representative had suggested the company give advance payments of VND200,000 ($12) to each worker, but the offer was rejected by the workers. The Korean employer has promised to pay the outstanding salaries by September 26.
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BOB THE BUILDER has laid the foundations for a second Number One single, with his cover of 'MAMBO NO. 5' now just outselling the midweek chart topper SUPERMEN LOVERS.
The animated pre-teen favourite, whose 'Can We Fix It' single has already topped the UK singles chart, is ahead of 'Supermen Lovers' 'Starlight' by a slender 1200 copies in the final chart results prior to the final announcement on Sunday (September 9).
Last Tuesday (September 4), initial midweek figures showed that Bob was behind in the race by approximately 3000 copies.
A pal of the plucky builder at the Virgin Megastore in London told NME.COM that they expected 'Mambo No. 5' to retain its position at the top.
She commented: "We think it might stay now. You can never say for certain, but it is selling really well".
For the final result in this week's chart battle, visit NME.COM on Sunday for a full list of the Top 100 singles and albums.


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Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 Screenshot Leaked – Full-HD+ on 18:9, 6-inches, One-Hand Support
Roman.T August 31, 2017
Two days back, Xiaomi announced the release date of Xiaomi Mi MIX 2. Since then, the flagship rumors and leaks have stormed Weibo. According to the official poster, Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 will be released on September 11 at 2 pm (GMT+8 Beijing), in Beijing University's Gymnasium, Beijing.
Xiaomi said that Mi MIX 2 will start another era of Full-screen smartphones with the new Full-screen 2.0 layout. However, today's leak has something more to say about Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 screen. Today, Xiaomi CEO's student shared a Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 screenshot on Weibo but he also accidentally unveiled its screen information. From the image, Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 screen will have a weird 1080 × 2160 resolution, which is FHD + on 18:9 as the screenshot resolution is itself 1080 × 2160.
A rumored Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 screenshot stating the resolution to be 1080 × 2160
Moreover, a well-known Weibo user @Go Blue V said that Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is using LCD screen. This is because the LCD screen supply is in abundance. He also says that the flagship screen size will be reduced to 6-inch from 6.4-inch. That's why it will be more suitable for one-hand operation. Furthermore, the chassis has been shifted to metal to increase the production capacity.
Concerning specs, we will witness Snapdragon 835 as the heart of the phone coupled with 6GB RAM. Plus, we might also see an 8GB version as well.
Xiaomi Mi MIX 2 is going from AMOLED to LCD, glass/ceramic to metal, just to increase the production and decrease manufacturer cost so that everyone can get a MIX 2 at an affordable price. Don't you think? Let us know in the comment section.
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Deeper Learning and Equity: Two New Resources
Equity & Diversity Opinion
By Contributing Blogger — November 06, 2015 3 min read
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This post is by Rafael Heller, principal policy analyst for Jobs for the Future.
A year and a half ago, in a post to this blog, Jal Mehta made the memorable assertion that "deeper learning has a race problem." Judging by who attends its conferences and teaches and studies at its exemplary schools, he notes, the deeper learning movement is "much more white [and, he adds later, more secular, and progressive, and trusting of teachers] than the nation as a whole." And as a result, it has been slow to recognize and respond to those who worry that its preferred policies and teaching methods could backfire for all but the most privileged of students.
But if deeper learning has a troubling race problem, it's worth noting that it has an admirable equity fixation, as well. Given the amount of conversation that Mehta's piece has provoked in the field--including posts to this blog by Gia Truong and Carlos Moreno and Andrew Frishman--it seems fair to say that nothing animates this movement more strongly than the desire to build a more just and equitable school system.
I'm confident, then, that readers of this blog will be particularly interested in two new releases from Jobs for the Future's Deeper Learning Research Series: Equal Opportunity for Deeper Learning, by Pedro Noguera, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Diane Friedlander; and The Implications of Deeper Learning for Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learners, by Patricia Gándara.
Equal Opportunity for Deeper Learning explores what it will take to ensure that all children benefit from insights gleaned from recent research into child development, motivation and engagement, metacognition, social-emotional learning, inquiry-based pedagogy, performance assessment, and more. Further, the authors argue that if schools and districts are to provide truly equitable access to the kinds of instruction and support that are known to matter for all students, then certain state and federal policy changes will be absolutely critical. They conclude with a 10-part policy agenda, focusing on strategies by which to fund new school designs and support services, build educator capacity to engage all students in deeper learning, and improve instruction and assessment.
The second paper, The Implications of Deeper Learning for Adolescent Immigrants and English Language Learners, takes a close look at the particular challenges that face the country's large and fast-growing populations of immigrant students and English learners. Gándara explores how those young people have fared in the nation's high schools, and she underscores why it is so difficult to glean an accurate understanding of the academic competence of ELLs through test scores alone. Further, she argues that while many policymakers and educators have viewed ELLs and immigrant students as educationally deficient, the deeper learning movement provides an important opportunity to push for wider recognition of the distinct strengths and assets--e.g., bilingualism, cross-cultural understanding, resilience, and optimism--that those students often bring with them to school. And the paper concludes by recommending a number of specific policy priorities, such as: Offering bilingual or alternative assessments for students still learning English; creating a national Seal of Bi-literacy for students who can demonstrate high levels of proficiency in two or more languages upon high school or college graduation; and providing federal support to help regions that have seen recent influxes of ELLs and do not have existing infrastructure to meet their needs.
A final note: This morning, here in Washington, DC, Jobs for the Future and the Learning Policy Institute hosted a panel discussion featuring both of these papers and focusing on ways in which the public schools can provide more equitable and empowering education for all young people. If you missed the event, no worries--a video recording of the presentations and panel discussion will be posted by the end of next week on LPI's website.
For more papers in the Deeper Learning Research Series, please visit us on line. And check us out on Twitter: @jfftweets.
The opinions expressed in Learning Deeply are strictly those of the author(s) and do not reflect the opinions or endorsement of Editorial Projects in Education, or any of its publications.
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Discussion in 'Prince Hall Freemasonry' started by cambridgemason, Jun 22, 2009.
just to let any Prince Hall Masons in Texas know that on September 12th, 2009 the City of Cambridge, and the Grand Lodge of Prince Hall Of Massachusetts will be revealing the Prince Hall Monument. If anyone is interested I will be in attendance and can post some pics. It will be placed only a few years away from the Washington Elm, the location where George Washington took command of the Continental Army.
Oh nice! I look forward to seeing those pics!


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#GIVEAWAY and REVIEW of THE RUNAWAY BRIDE by Jody Hedlund, Review by Nicole Cook
"Today she might meet the man she'd marry."
Jody Hedlund's second installment in her new Bride Ships series, The Runaway Bride, explores the relatively unknown history of poor and middle-class British women willingly boarding bride ships to seek a better life and to find husbands in British Columbia in the 1860s. The treatment of the natives during the smallpox epidemic of 1862 in Victoria is a part of history that may also be unknown to many readers and is very interesting to learn about in this novel.
In an effort to escape the pain of her past, wealthy Arabella Lawrence heads to British Columbia aboard one of the bride ships where she meets two very different suitors, Navy Lieutenant Richard Drummond and Peter Kelly, the poor town baker with a heart of gold.
Jody Hedlund creates delightful characters and allows their personalities to shine, especially with Arabella and Peter. Handsome baker Peter Kelly, with his charming personality and wonderful sense of humor, is a hero that readers will be rooting for.
Hedlund shares the powerful message of breaking free from society's expectations and to discover God's expectations and plans for us. Mrs. Moresby continues to be a beloved secondary character in this series with her mentoring Arabella as she struggles with decisions that will affect her life and the lives of those most important to her. The Runaway Bride is highly recommended for readers of inspirational historical fiction.
*I received a complimentary copy of this book from Bethany House and was not required to write a positive review. All opinions expressed are mine.
"Character is much more important than class."
Back Cover Blurb:
Wealthy Arabella Lawrence flees to British Columbia on a bride ship still wearing the scars of past mistakes. One of the few single women in the boomtown, she immediately has suitors, but she is determined not to find herself trapped again by a poor choice.
Vying for her hand are two very different men. Lieutenant Richard Drummond is a gentleman in the Navy and is held in high esteem. Peter Kelly is the town's baker and has worked hard to build a thriving business. He and Drummond not only compete for Arabella's affections, but clash over their views of how the natives should be treated in the midst of a smallpox outbreak.
As Arabella begins to overcome her fears, she discovers someone in dire need—a starving girl abandoned by her tribe. Intent on helping the girl, Arabella leans on Peter's advice and guidance. Will she have the wisdom to make the right decision or will seeking what's right cost both her and Peter everything?
Available in digital ebook, paperback, hardcover and audiobook: March 3rd Release
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Author Jody Hedlund
Author bio: Winner of the 2016 Christian Book Award and finalist for the Christy Awards, best-selling author Jody Hedlund writes inspirational historical romances for both youth and adults.
Jody lives in central Michigan with her husband, five busy children, and five spoiled cats. Although Jody prefers to experience daring and dangerous adventures through her characters rather than in real life, she's learned that a calm existence is simply not meant to be (at least in this phase of her life!).
When she's not penning another of her page-turning stories, she loves to spend her time reading, especially when it also involves consuming coffee and chocolate.
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Supply Chain Management Review (SCMR) recently published the results of a survey of industrial executives currently using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. According to the survey, over 60% of respondents reported the need for more functionality for their specific industry. The results indicate that the more complex the business model, the greater the need for industry-specific functionality.
1. ERP has some long-term and short-term planning capabilities, but its limited capacity for planning and scheduling is generally most apparent on the day of operations. It's not easy for planners to handle disruptions and last-minute changes; rescheduling is cumbersome and time consuming. ERP systems do not make it easy for planners to explore what-if scenarios, analyze planning requirements, or get feedback on the quality of planning decisions with reference to business goals. In addition, ERPs tend to focus on the present; they handle poorly future planned or predicted changes.
2. ERP systems are typically based on what is assumed to be "best practice" – it reflects standard and generic processes across industries, rather than on-the-shop-floor realities and the unique challenges facing distinct industries. This one-size-fits-all approach means that implementation involves fundamental change to business processes. It also means that the system cannot be configured to fit real-world business environments, which are often less than ideal and vary greatly from industry norms. While almost any organization can use the standard ERP approach for invoicing, this is not the case in areas such as planning and scheduling, where there tend to be a greater number of industry-specific and customer-specific constraints.
3. Customization of ERP systems is possible, but it's generally the responsibility of the user, as are testing and fixes once the system has been modified. Most ERPs are not set up in a way that allows for easy upgrades or modifications, meaning customization is more likely to lead to instability and unpredictability.
Do you have experience working with ERP, either alone or in combination with APS and EAM? How has your organization overcome the limitations of ERP? Do you agree with the majority of respondents to SCMR's survey?


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Batman: The Telltale Series ist ein am 2. August 2016 veröffentlichtes Computerspiel des Entwicklers Telltale Games.

Spielprinzip
Batman: The Telltale Series ist ein in fünf Episoden aufgeteiltes Videospiel über die Comicfigur Bruce Wayne, die ebenfalls die Maske von Batman trägt. Dabei spielt der Spieler etwa über die Hälfte der Spieldauer die Figur Bruce Wayne und die andere Hälfte in dessen Alter Ego Batman, wobei der Spieler für vereinzelte Situationen selbst entscheiden kann, ob er als Batman oder als Bruce Wayne aktiv ist. Im Computerspiel, das eine nicht fotorealistische Adaption darstellt, soll der Spieler in der modern gestalteten Stadt Gotham selbst Entscheidungen treffen können, die den Verlauf der Handlung beeinflussen. Der Fokus ist auf die Dialoge und auf Quick-Time-Events gesetzt.

Produktionsnotizen
Im Rahmen der Game Awards im Dezember 2015 kündigte Telltale Games mit einem Video das Episodenspiel Batman: The Telltale Series an. Kevin Bruner, Geschäftsführer von Telltale Games, gab dabei bekannt, dass der Spieler das Doppelleben des Milliardärs Bruce Wayne, der während der Nacht in einem Fledermauskostüm als Batman gegen Kriminelle kämpft, nachspielt. Während des South by Southwest Festivals im März 2016 verkündete Telltale, dass das Spiel eine Geschichte darstellt, die unabhängig von anderen Geschichten rund um die Figur Batman ist. Zudem wurde bestätigt, dass Telltale an einer deutlich überarbeiteten Engine arbeitet, die bis zum Release von Batman: The Telltale Series Verwendung finden soll.

Im Juni 2016 wurden die ersten Bilder zum Videospiel veröffentlicht. Dabei sind Batman, Catwoman und das Batmobil zu sehen. Zudem wurde bekannt gegeben, dass Troy Baker die Synchronisation von Batman alias Bruce Wayne übernimmt, während Enn Reitel seinen Butler Alfred Pennyworth spielt. Am 19. Juli 2016 folgte, ausgenommen dem Ankündigungsvideo, der erste Trailer zum Spiel.

Mitte Juli 2016 wurde bekannt gegeben, dass die erste Episode zu Batman: The Telltale Series am 2. August 2016 als Download für PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Windows, macOS, iOS und Android erscheinen werde. Zudem ist am 13. September 2016 das Spiel in den Vereinigten Staaten für den Einzelhandel erschienen, wo das Spiel als Disc-Version verkauft wird, wobei lediglich die erste Folge darauf enthalten ist und die restlichen vier Episoden mittels eines Season-Passes heruntergeladen werden müssen. In Europa erschien diese Version drei Tage nach dem US-Release.

Fortsetzung
Im Juli 2017 kündigte Telltale eine zweite Staffel an, die den Titel The Enemy Within trägt und im August 2017 startete. Im Mittelpunkt steht ein Konflikt mit dem Joker.

Weblinks
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