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Penguins' Fleury calls concussion 'one of the toughest things' of his career
Pittsburgh Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury says he's still dealing with concussion symptoms ahead of the second-round series against the Washington Capitals. The 31-year-old has missed the past 10 games, including all five games of the first round against the New York Rangers.
Jared Clinton
The Penguins are preparing to head to Washington to play the rival Capitals in the second round of the post-season, and while nothing is set in stone, goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury might not be able to suit up for Pittsburgh in Game 1 as he's still battling back from a concussion.
Fleury, 31, has been sidelined since the beginning of April with a concussion, and he told media Monday that he's still experiencing some of the symptoms of the head injury. Fleury's concussion dates back to a March 31 game against the Nashville Predators, and it was the second time this season — and second time in four months — that Fleury sustained a head injury. The first concussion caused him to miss eight games and he's already in double digits with the current injury.
"It's one of the toughest things I've been though," Fleury said. "There are some good days where you think you're back, and bad days where you think it's never going to get fixed. Lots of ups and downs. And in the playoffs, it's such a fun time of year to play hockey and every game is so intense and meaningful. It's tough to just be watching."
Coach Mike Sullivan wouldn't get into the specifics of Fleury's injury, or what has been the deciding factor between the Penguins goaltender skating or not skating. Sullivan added he has faith in the team's medical staff to know how to properly rehab the players.
Dealing with the head injury has probably been made more difficult for Fleury given that he at one time seemed so close to returning. Ahead of Game 1 of the post-season, he was in full equipment and practicing with the team and that continued on through the first few games of the first-round series against the New York Rangers. However, Fleury wasn't even practicing with his teammates by Game 4, and while he skated ahead of Game 5, Fleury did so without full equipment.
The loss of Fleury hasn't stung the Penguins too much given that rookie netminder Matt Murray has stepped up and turned in some stellar performances throughout the season, and the first-year goaltender went 3-0 with a 1.33 goals-against average and .955 save percentage against the Rangers. That said, there's no doubt Pittsburgh would love to have Fleury back, especially as he's coming off of one of the best statistical seasons of his career. In 58 regular season games, Fleury turned in a 2.29 GAA, .921 SP and five shutouts to go along with a 35-17-6 record.
Pittsburgh and Washington have only met once before in the playoffs post-lockout, and Fleury was the netminder for the Penguins in that series during the 2008-09 post-season. In seven games, Fleury allowed 22 goals on 180 shots and had a 3.01 GAA and .878 SP. The Penguins managed to win the series, and went to win the Stanley Cup that season.
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…No Sun Today — второй студийный альбом американской рок-группы Grey Daze, вышедший 1997 года. Был дважды переиздан, в 2001 и в 2010 году. Стал последним для коллектива, так как после его выхода Grey Daze распались. Содержит в себе три перезаписанные песни с предыдущего альбома группы Wake Me — «What's in the Eye», «Sometimes» и «Hole».

В 2020 году песни «Sickness», «The Syndrome» (ранее именовалась как «The Down Syndrome»), «In Time», «Just Like Heroin», «B12» и «Soul Song» вошли в состав третьей пластинки Amends в обновлённом звучании. Позже, в 2022 году, новые версии «Saturation», «Drag» и кавер на песню «Anything, Anything» группы  были включены в треклист четвёртого альбома The Phoenix.

Предыстория
В 1995 году группу покидает бас-гитарист Джонатан Краузе. Это было его решение, основанное на причинах, варьировавшихся от его отношений с группой до собственных приоритетов. В коллектив приходит новый басист — Мейс Бейерс. И очень скоро после этого группу покидает Джейсон Барнс, на место которого позже приходит Бобби Бениш. Таким образом, из оригинального состава Grey Daze остались лишь Честер Беннингтон и Шон Доуделл.

20 апреля 1996 года Grey Daze приняли участие в фестивале Earth Day '96, хедлайнером которого была группа Майкла Шенкера. Честер Беннингтон позже получил предложение от Майкла Шенкера поехать в Японию, которое он не принял.

Обложка
На обложке альбома изображена дочь Керри Роуз — Джессика. Художественное оформление (макеты и графика) для альбома было сделано Джейсоном Барнсом, хотя к моменту его выхода его уже не было в группе.

Список композиций
Вся музыка написана Grey Daze. Продюсером альбома выступил Майкл Джонс.

Альбом переиздавался в 2001 и в 2010 годах. Также был сделан ремастеринг.

Участники записи
Grey Daze
 Честер Беннингтон — вокал
 Бобби Бениш — гитара
 Мейс Бейерс — бас-гитара
 Шон Доуделл — ударные

Дополнительные музыканты
 Джон Исдеил — текст песни «Anything, Anything»

Персонал
 Майкл Джонс — запись, сведение, продюсирование
 Генри Фимбрес — сведение
 Эндрю Гарвер — мастеринг

Источники
 …no sun today — Linkin Park Wiki (archive.org)
 …No Sun Today — Linkinpedia

Примечания

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The financial system implemented at the educational institution and NPO organization where I was employed was originally made to replace the MSAccess-like system created with the software "TheCard", which has long since been abandoned by the original company.
The system was completely rewritten from scratch using FileMaker 12.
After months of planning and research into how the old system worked, I was able to recreate the base functionality, fix previously broken issues and implement new user features and shortcuts to ease regular operations. In addition to tracking customers, their registered programs and payment information, summary and scheduling information was introduced as well as a more streamlined interface for faster data input and manipulation. A log feature and user accounts were introduced to help with logging and to track changes. Remote access functionality and automatic backups were soon implemented. Mobile access was also implemented to allow for perusal of records by staff that rarely spend time in the main office due to their schedule.
The system was moved to a 3rd party hosting provider to allow for access from any of the office locations. The previous system had been a single-user model despite a clear need for multiple user access.


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Time to restart the stalled reform process
Reform summit Whenever reform is proposed, the government and the opposition keep on ruling out any major changes. The summit should be the first step towards revitalising our ability to reform.
Kate Carnell
Updated Jul 26, 2015 – 7.04pm, first published at 2.39pm
Why do some parts of the world become prosperous while others get left behind? Places with a seemingly similar allocation of natural resources and productive potential can end up with vastly different standards of living. One compelling explanation is that some societies have structures that allow them to adapt to changing circumstances while others get stuck.
There's a big lesson in that for Australia. Right now our ability to respond to challenges is severely weakened. It is tempting to attribute it to the failings of particular personalities, but the problem is structural. Our political system discourages boldness and innovation, instead rewarding minimalism and caution. Our public debate seeks to scare people about potential changes rather than inform them. Our institutions are operating in fear of upsetting their political masters. We are collectively losing the ability to identify our failings and do better.
Given this reality, it is little wonder that so little progress is being made on the task of reform even as the word is embraced as a motherhood statement.
There is a compelling case that broadening the base and increasing the rate of the GST can be used to offset cuts on all sorts of less efficient taxes. Michael Clayton Jones
In this climate we hope that the National Reform Summit can bring about substantive change. The August Summit will bring together an unlikely grouping of leaders from business, unions, social service and academia. While our policy prescriptions may vary greatly, the thing that unites them is recognition that doing nothing is not an option. If we are to maintain the living standards that Australians have come to expect, we must awaken from our torpor.
Several steps to take
There are several steps we ought to take to revitalise our collective ability to undertake reform.
One step is to allow contentious ideas to remain on the table in public policy debates. American author F. Scott Fitzgerald once said "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." There are signs we are failing Fitzgerald's test. Time and time again early in a debate on an important topic – tax or industrial relations, federation or climate change – the government and opposition have ruled out significant swaths of reform.
For example, there is a compelling case that broadening the base and increasing the rate of the GST can be used to offset cuts on all sorts of less efficient taxes. But political leaders have created conditions for change that are nearly insurmountable. When the draft of the government's federation discussion paper floated the idea of wealthy parents being charged a fee to send their children to public schools, political leaders rapidly distanced themselves from the idea and it was taken off the table.
Let's move beyond the facile rule-in, rule-out discussions that typically surround controversial ideas in review processes. Let's keep these ideas in play so that we can explore them.
A second step is for governments to have the courage to adopt the key recommendations that come out of its review processes. Some governments have been fond of commissioning reviews, but when the results came in they went weak at the knees.
Third, the shortness of the electoral cycle means governments have only a limited window to enact reform. We need to think seriously about moving to four-year fixed terms to broaden the opportunity to govern rather than just campaign. Already most states have moved to four-year terms, and in other parts of the world five-year terms are the norm.
Finally, we need to be prepared to "stress test" our policy settings and take action when things are found wanting. Australia's ability to avoid a prolonged recession after the global financial crisis was in part due to the healthy state of our national finances and the capacity to cut interest rates.
If we wallow in complacency we run the risk of falling behind the rest of the world. The United Kingdom this month announced it will cut its corporation tax to 18 per cent by 2020. New Zealand increased its GST in 2010 and as a result was able to slash income tax.
None of us participating in the National Reform Summit have all the answers. But we are willing to ask the hard questions. Only by asking these questions, debating the answers, putting our conclusions into action, will we create the right institutional settings to undertake the serious reform we so desperately need.
Kate Carnell AO is the CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a co-ordinator of the National Reform Summit.

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Langheinrich, U., Hennen, E., Stott, G., and Vacun, G. (2002) Zebrafish as a model organism for the identification and characterization of drugs and genes affecting p53 signaling. Current biology : CB. 12(23):2023-2028.
p53 and its main negative regulator, Mdm2, are key players in mammalian cancer development. Activation of the transcription factor p53 through DNA damage or other stresses can result in cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, or both. Because of the absence of characterized p53 signaling in zebrafish (Danio rerio), we have studied the roles of Mdm2 and p53 in zebrafish by generating early embryonic knockdowns and examined the involvement of p53 in DNA damage-induced apoptosis. p53-deficient embryos, induced by injection of antisense morpholinos, were morphologically indistinguishable from control embryos, when unperturbed, whereas Mdm2 knockdown embryos were severely apoptotic and arrested very early in development. Double knockdowns showed that p53 deficiency rescued Mdm2-deficient embryos completely, similar to observations in mice. p53 deficiency also markedly decreased DNA damage-induced apoptosis, elicited by ultraviolet irradiation or by the anti-cancer compound camptothecin. p21/Waf/Cip-1 appeared to be a downstream target of zebrafish p53, as revealed relative p21 mRNA levels determined via TaqMan analysis. In contrast to mammals, zebrafish may regulate p53 activity by using an internal polyA signal site. We conclude that zebrafish represents a promising model organism for future compound-based and genetic screens and believe that it will help to identify and characterize new anticancer drugs and new targets for cancer treatment.


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There is a vote looming for ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) related to the nano-SIM cards that will drive the next generation of mobile devices. There is also a heated battle--between Apple on one side, and a coalition of Motorola, RIM, and Nokia on the other side--over what that standard will be. Apple is pushing hard for its technology, and it is reportedly making a peace offering it hopes will sway the opposition and win votes.
A blog post from Florian Mueller, a patent and intellectual property analyst, claims that Apple is prepared to provide royalty-free licenses to all Apple-owned patents essential to it's nano-SIM proposal. This olive branch is meant to allay concerns over the implications of choosing a "standard" that is based on proprietary patents owned by Apple. The fear is that it could just be a tactic to eventually cash in.
ETSI will vote this week on standards for new nano-SIM cards that are smaller and thinner.
The concern certainly seems to have some merit. Apple is currently engaged in patent-infringement litigation around the world with virtually every major rival in the smartphone and tablet industry. Some see it as Apple's right to defend its own intellectual property, while others see it as nothing more than a bullying tactic to try and unfairly crush competition. Either way, fears of future patent claims are valid.
There is a catch, though. According to the letter Mueller references--which is allegedly from a source Mueller believes reliable, but is not at liberty to disclose--the Apple olive branch comes with one condition: Apple's proposal has to be adopted as the standard, and the other patent holders have to accept the same terms and reciprocate with royalty-free licenses for any proprietary technologies essential to the nano-SIM as well.
A recent post from Engadget, however, suggests that there is more to the nano-SIM war than patent licensing. Nokia claims that the Apple nano-SIM doesn't even meet the ETSI requirements, and it believes that its nano-SIM is technically superior—it doesn't require a tray or drawer in the mobile device, and it's backwards compatible with existing micro-SIM slots. If Nokia and its cohorts truly believe their design is better, Apple's gambit may not work.
But, Apple reportedly has the support of a majority of European operators, and putting a deal like this on the table may be all Apple needs to win the votes necessary to establish its nano-SIM design as the standard for next-generation mobile devices.


Pillows are our companions when we sleep. It doesn't matter if you favor latex pillows, feathers or gel pillows, a pillow that is not compatible with your sleeping position may lead to a decline in the quality of your sleep. Like any other sleeper, back sleepers also have sleeping requirements that they need to fulfill so they can get restful and rejuvenating sleep. In this list, we are taking a look at the best pillow for back sleepers. By the end of this article, I am hoping that you'll have an easier time choosing a pillow that best suits your sleeping needs.
If you want to have a pillow that is of the right height for optimal sleep, Classic Brands Cool Sleep is something that you should seriously consider. Its 4.5-inch profile is ideal for back and side sleepers. Its filling provides support to the head, neck, and shoulders to help prevent any back or neck pain while you sleep.
This pillow's knit cover has unique cooling properties that can disperse body heat. This ensures that you get a good night's sleep even during hot summer nights. On top of that, the cover is removable and machine washable so you can effortlessly maintain the cleanliness of your pillow.
Plush Feel. It has a medium plush feel. This pillow is in that sweet spot between pillows that are too soft and those that are too firm. The medium softness that you get from this pillow lets you sleep comfortably while still providing adequate head, shoulders, and neck support.
Long Warranty. This pillow comes with a generous 5-year warranty. You can sleep even more tightly knowing that you worry free when it comes to your pillow for the next 5 years.
Hypoallergenic. This pillow is naturally hypoallergenic and hygienic. You remain protected from allergens, dust mites, mold, and bacteria even while you and your family are resting.
Snoring is not just a sleep disruptive to others, it can also be a sign of a more serious sleeping disorder like Obstructive Sleep Apnea. A cheap yet effective way to cure snoring is by keeping your head elevated while you sleep. By keeping your head raised while you sleep, you are also clearing any respiratory obstructions while you sleep.
Malouf Z Zoned Memory Foam Pillow is a soft memory foam pillow that promises all night comfort while you sleep. Unlike other memory foam pillows that are dense, this pillow is plush. It is an ideal pillow for stomach sleepers since it prevents forcing the head upward. Side sleepers will also love this pillow because it provides just enough support to prevent the head from sinking in.
Zoned Support. Pin-core provides zoned support. This pillow provides you with enough support right where you need it.
Breathable pillow. Open cell technology makes the pillow breathable. This design can help you maintain a comfortable sleeping temperature.
Keeping your head elevated can help prevent acid reflux. Acid reflux is a result of excessive stomach acid which may come up to the esophagus and the mouth. When your head is elevated, stomach acid will not get into the esophagus because the mouth and esophagus will be positioned higher than the stomach.
My Pillow Premium Series has a pillow for just about everybody. You can order this pillow in Standard, Queen or Green variants. Buyers are also given the liberty of choosing among 4 different levels of firmness. Whether you want a soft pillow or one that is quite firm, My Pillow Premium has a perfect pillow to cater to your needs.
Adjustable Pillows. Simply reduce or increase the Patented Interlocking Fill to adjust the height and softness level of the pillow. This means that you no longer have to endure a pillow that is too high or too low for you. Customize and adjust the pillow depending on who will be using it.
Long lasting product. This pillow promises to retain its volume and loft even after a long time.
Machine Washable. This pillow is completely machine washable so you can focus on the more important things.
Great warranty. Comes with a 10-year warranty and a 60-day money back guarantee.
This is a good pillow for back sleepers. It provides specialized support for the head and neck that people who sleep on their backs need. It targets specific areas of the body and provides them with adequate support. Thanks to its medium/firm rating, you're bound to wake up each morning feeling refreshed. Your family's health is of utmost importance, and one way to secure your family's wellness is by ensuring that your pillows are always clean. With this pillow, all that you need to do is pop it into your washing machine, and you'll have a fresh pillow in no time at all.
2 sizes. This pillow comes in Standard and Queen sizes. You can choose a size that is ideal for any member of your family.
Comfortable fabric. Its cover is made of 100% cotton fabric that feels soft to the touch and adds another layer of comfort.
Doesn't flat. It has naturally flat fibers that can quickly return to its original shape and firmness with a simple fluffing.
If you're looking for a pillow that can last you a long time, the Sahara Nights Pillow should be your first choice. This soft but firm pillow is durable and meant to endure. The fact that most hotels prefer this pillow is a testament to its top quality.
Hypoallergenic Pillow. This pillow can protect you and your family from allergens.
Comfortable pillow. Gives a down-like feel that provides restful sleep.
Value for money. Hotel quality product at a reasonable price.
Premium cover. 233 thread count cotton cover combined with polyester gel fiber fill combines for a comfortable pillow.
This is a pillow that is highly recommended for those who suffer from back and neck pain. Also, this orthopedic pillow helps improve blood circulation. It can also provide you with a quality position support to assist you in getting that good night's sleep.
Helps relieve body pain. This pillow promises to help alleviate body pains that can affect the quality of your sleep. It also aids in reducing snoring and headaches.
Ergonomic. Its ergonomic design provides excellent neck support. On top of that, this pillow can help you get that optimal sleeping position. This helps your body keep its natural spinal alignment while sleeping.
High-quality cover. The fabric of its cover is smooth to the touch and can help provide you with a fresh and dry sleeping surface.
This is another pillow that aims to help you get that high-quality sleep by providing you with precise support to your head, neck, and shoulders. The materials used in this pillow helps relieve the pressure on your body, so you don't wake up feeling sore and stiff. Each pillow is covered by a 5-year limited warranty for your peace of mind.
Relieves body pain. Has many health benefits and can help you get through headaches and body pains while you sleep.
Premium pillow cover. The pillow cover is made of premium quilted cotton that is soft and breathable. Easy to wash. This cover is also removable and can easily be washed.
Proudly US Made. This pillow is assembled in the USA.
Versatile pillow. This versatile pillow is ideal for back, side, and stomach sleepers.
What should I consider when buying a pillow?
A pillow's filling is what dictates a pillow's height and level of firmness. Materials like down feathers and down-alternative filling are the softest ones while those made from memory foam are more dense and firm. There are also pillows that are made from all-natural materials. A great example is buckwheat pillows. The filling made from buckwheat hulls doesn't contain any chemicals.
Carefully choose a pillow with fillings that are comfortable but still manages to provide adequate support while you sleep.
The cover of a pillow can be made from a wide variety of materials. The most common pillow cover is made from cotton. Cotton is an ideal cover because they are smooth to the touch and can help make falling asleep easier. They are also known for being breathable and their ability to facilitate proper air circulation. Pillows that let air circulate within are more cooling to use and may help dissipate body heat so you can sleep comfortably even when the air temperature goes up. Look for pillows with covers that can help keep your body cool while you sleep.
These are pillows that help resist allergens that cause allergies. There are also pillows that help protect against dust mites. It is also advisable to get pillows that are eco-friendly and were made without the use of any chemical that may pose a threat to your health.


Here we go again. Monsanto recently pushed a new line of genetically engineered (GE) crops to market — and farmers are, once again, getting burned.
Growers in Arkansas, Tennessee and Missouri are reporting extensive crop damage from dicamba, the herbicide being used on Monsanto's new GE "Xtend" soy. Particularly prone to drift into neighboring fields, dicamba is toxic to broadleaf plants like fruit, nuts, vegetables — and non-GE soy.
This problem of pesticide drift isn't a surprise. So why were these dicamba-tolerant seeds allowed on the market last year?
Monsanto says they've reformulated dicamba to be less drift prone. But since EPA has not approved the new formulation yet, it's the volatile, old-style version that's being applied. And even when "new and improved" dicamba is available, there's no guarantee that the older, cheaper — and more damaging — version of the chemical won't continue being used in the field.


Published: Jan 03 at 9:43 p.m.
LOUISBOURG, N.S. — Louisbourg Seafoods has turned down a substantial loan earlier approved by ACOA for its waste water management program.
However, company officials say the project is still in the works and they will seek a new loan from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency at a later date.
"It's going to be a much bigger project than we anticipated," said Al MacLean, senior operations manager, who joined the Louisbourg company a year ago.
In August 2017, Cape Breton-Canso MP Rodger Cuzner, on behalf of Navdeep Bains, minister responsible for ACOA, announced a loan of more than $293,000 — part of a $586,500 project —to implement a waste water management program at Northsyde Processing Ltd., a division of Louisbourg Seafoods.
The ACOA website now lists the "unconditionally repayable contribution" for Northsyde Processing Ltd., as cancelled.
MacLean said when the company initially had discussions about the program with ACOA, they had searched for equipment believed to be appropriate for the end product.
"When I came on and had a look at it, the scope of the project was much bigger than any of us had anticipated," he said.
MacLean said at that point they also asked themselves if it was something they were going to be able to do in the timeline set out by ACOA.
It wasn't a decision made by officials at ACOA, it was a decision "we made as a company," he said.
The project includes implementing a filtering system to remove shrimp shells from the waste stream, which could also involve other shellfish and groundfish in the future.
Plans include dehydrating the shells to produce a product that can be sold internationally, while diverting waste that would otherwise go to landfills.
"To create another product that we can sell into the market place," MacLean said.
Earlier officials with Louisbourg Seafoods explained shells have compounds known as chitin or chitosan — and it is refined further into glucosamine, products used as medical bandages, diet supplements, additives in paint and chemicals and filtration products.
"We could have done it, it would have met what we are doing today but I don't think we would have really gotten what we needed a few years down the road," MacLean added.
MacLean said 50 per cent of the funding was the loan coming from ACOA so they wanted to make sure equipment purchased would meet their demands well into the future.
MacLean said the development of waste products and how to market it is a big topic in the fisheries.
"It's a big issue, the province of Nova Scotia is very interested in it and we have a number of projects that are ongoing," he said.
Jay Witherbee, spokesperson for ACOA, said specific information related to the terms and conditions of a contribution agreement, including possible amendments or cancellation, is subject to client confidentiality and cannot be divulged.


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Dr. Fazilet VARDAR-SUKAN is a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from University College London. She is the founding head of the Bioengineering Department at Ege University and was the head of Department between 2000-2017. She is a pioneer in the field in Turkey and is the holder of 1989 Turkish Scientific and Technological Council Incentive award in Bioengineering. She was the Director of Ege University Technology Transfer Office and Coordinator of Enterprise Europe Network-Izmir. Her skills and expertise as a technology Transfer professional are internationally recognised, endorsed through her RTTP Certificate and EuKTS Grandfather Certificate. She is also the vice president of USIMP (University-Industry Collaboration Centers Platform of Turkey, a member of EPO Academy Advisory Board and represents Turkey on ATTP Board, AUTM International Committee, ASTP- NAAC and EuKTS Board. She has been involved in a total of 67 projects on bioengineering / biotechnology, R&D and innovation support, science and society, either as a coordinator, partner or researcher, supported by different national, international funds or industry; 21 of them being EU supported. Her work and contributions are internationally recognised by over 1600 citations out of which 54 are in textbooks. She has approximately 200 publications with 6 books and 23 book chapters, numerous presentations and three patent applications.


Custom beds and custom headboards with unique and organic shapes hand built out of large live edge, natural edge slabs. These are handcrafted one at time in our solar wood shop in Corvallis, Montana and shipped worldwide. We use recycled and salvaged hardwoods when we can, in an effort to be eco friendly. Many of the trees come from urban areas where there has been storm damage and the tree had to be removed for safety reasons.
Our custom beds are constructed out of amazing hardwoods such as walnut, curly walnut, figured walnut, cherry, maple, sycamore, oak, elm, ash and many other unusual urban hardwoods not readily available but totally unique. Custom beds that match your bedroom…. the right height, width and length…. made out of the right wood for your home or office. We have over 25 years of experience and are serious about handcrafting the right custom furniture for you. Please give us a call today at 406-777-3772 to inquire about a custom order or one of the many custom pieces we have in stock.
6 x 8' Siberian elm headboard built from salvaged urban hardwood from Denver Colorado. This tree came down in a storm. Queen size mattress on a platform bed frame with 6 deep full extension drawers.
Handmade Italian bedset on a custom upholstered bed made by a designer friend of mine.
King size bed in Miami, Florida with 14' spalted maple headboard made from urban maple hardwoods from Washington, DC.
Matching walnut crotch headboard and footboard on a queen size bed frame made from urban walnut salvaged from a farm in Humbolt, Nebraska. These slabs were cut in the fall of 1968 and spent 35 years in the barn before they came into my possession.
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The International Master of Science in Rural Development (IMRD) is one of the prestigious Erasmus Mundus programs under the framework of European Education system. This program is headed by the Ghent University of Belgium and other partner universities are Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany), Universidad de Córdoba (Spain), Agrocampus Ouest (France), Wageningen University (Netherlands), University of Pisa (Italy), Nitra Agri University (Slovakia). And there are a number of the supporting institutes and universities for IMRD from different parts of the world.

This programme gives importance to the third-world students and gives a competitive Erasmus Mundus scholarship for the excellent students.

External links
 http://www.imrd.eu/
 http://www.imrd.ugent.be/

See also
 Erasmus Mundus

Education in Belgium
Education in Europe


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Q: Manually configure Jackson Module for Spring WebTestClient

Prerequisites

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*Spring Boot: 2.0.3.RELEASE

*Spring REST Docs: 2.0.1.RELEASE

*Spring Auto REST Docs: 2.0.2-SNAPSHOT - Which is a local build of the current master.

The GeoJsonModule is configured in the Main Application:
import org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.geo.GeoJsonModule;

@SpringBootApplication
public class MyApplication {
    [...]
    @Bean
    public GeoJsonModule registerGeoJsonModule() {

        return new GeoJsonModule();
    }
    [...]
}

I am using Spring Auto REST Docs and therefore cannot use the @AutoConfigure-Annotation (Or atleast I don't know how).
Current Implementation
I configure the WebTestClient like so:
WebTestClient
    .bindToApplicationContext(context)
    .configureClient()
    .filter(
        WebTestClientRestDocumentation
            .documentationConfiguration(restDocumentation)
            .snippets()
            .withDefaults(
                WebTestClientInitializer.prepareSnippets(context),
                CliDocumentation.curlRequest(),
                HttpDocumentation.httpRequest(),
                HttpDocumentation.httpResponse(),
                AutoDocumentation.requestFields(),
                AutoDocumentation.responseFields(),
                AutoDocumentation.pathParameters(),
                AutoDocumentation.requestParameters(),
                AutoDocumentation.description(),
                AutoDocumentation.methodAndPath(),
                AutoDocumentation.section()
            )
    )
    .build();

However when using the WebTestClient like this I get the following error:
org.springframework.core.codec.CodecException: Type definition error: [simple type, class org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.geo.GeoJsonPoint]; nested exception is com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidDefinitionException: Cannot construct instance of `org.springframework.data.mongodb.core.geo.GeoJsonPoint` (no Creators, like default construct, exist): cannot deserialize from Object value (no delegate- or property-based Creator)
at [Source: UNKNOWN; line: -1, column: -1] (through reference chain: com.example.MyClass["location"])

So I looked around and found, that the WebTestClientAutoConfiguration and SpringBootWebTestClientBuilderCustomizer are additionally customizing Codecs.
Changing the initialization to include the customizers fixes the deserialization issue and it works.
Collection<CodecCustomizer> customizers = context.getBeansOfType(CodecCustomizer.class).values();

SpringBootWebTestClientBuilderCustomizer builderCustomizer = new SpringBootWebTestClientBuilderCustomizer(customizers);
builderCustomizer.customize(builder);
builder.build();

However I do not know if this is the correct way of configuring the WebTestClient and if it works entirely or if something is still broken I just did not discover yet.
Somehow I don't think that this is the intended way and I would like to know how the WebTestClient can be configured properly.

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Guest Designer - Beth Wheeler - Glittered Welcome to the New Year!
I love the New Year! Time to see things in new ways! So today we have a great designer, Beth Wheeler. She loves her eBrush! Thank you Beth for sharing!
Happy New Year Ebrush fans. I was honored to do a guest post. My name is Beth and I'm a loving my eBrush. I love seeing what I can do with it and it has already saved me money as I can color my own embellishments whatever color I want. Not to mention that I don't have to store a trillion different colors of card stock.
The card I made using my eBrush is on a glittered background and an embossed panel. The glitter background is easy to do and would be elegant used on a wedding card or for other occasions.
The image is one I found on the Internet putting in a search for free New Year's clipart. I love how easy it is these days to find free images to use. After cutting it out with my cutting machine I used Dimensional Magic on the bubbles. Glossy Accents would work just as well if you wish to add some dimension to an image. With these products a little bit goes a long way.
The embossing folder I used is one by Teresa Collins which came with my eBosser. It is actually embossed on gray card stock. I eBrushed and then used a Sharpie marker on the hands of the clocks and a colored pencil for the numbers.
Card stock in the size you wish your panel to be. Any color will do since you will be covering it up. I like to use scraps left over from doing print and cuts.You will need to spread gesso on the card \stock. A pallet knife or an old credit card will work.Glitter I have only tried this technique with coarse glitter crystals. A container with a shaker top is helpful but you can always use a spice jar or a spoon to sprinkle the glitter.
Of course you will need your eBrush and markers of your choice.
With your tool of choice spread the gesso so that the card stock is just covered. The heavier the gesso is the longer it will take to dry. You can smooth out the gesso or leave it irregular like I did to imitate snow on a card.
While the gesso is still wet sprinkle the glitter. The heavier the amount of glitter the less the color will show through. Then comes the hard part waiting for your panel to dry. I usually do things like this at nighttime as otherwise I spend all my time checking. The amount of time depends on how heavy the gesso is applied, temperature, humidity and things like that. Don't panic if the card curls a little bit while it dries. You can either put it under a pile of books after it dries before or after you eBrush. In this case you can't iron it flat or speed up drying with a heat gun.
After the panel dries the fun begins. I used two different colors of Spectrum Noir markers. I used the lowest setting and held the brush an inch or two above my paper as I wanted a soft spray. I practiced on scratch paper first. I've only had my eBrush for two months so I'm still learning.
I hope you have enjoyed reading this post and will try to make a glittered background of your own. I hope you will also make it your goal this year to try things using your eBrush.
Thank you so much for starting our year out with this beautiful project! So many options for the techniques you shared!
WOW!!! VERY creative, I love the hologram look of the glittered paper and the embossing folder you used. The eBrush is so much fun to use and you can make your own stencils making it a wonderful value.
Congratulations on your guest post, Beth. I loved your tutorial. Your card is so adorable.
Way to go girl !! A great big congratulations and you did a lovely job.
So happy for you and I hope you achieve your goal of being on a design team.


Nothing is better than a cup of hot Irish Coffee after a cold winter day. But do you know the history of the nice drink? Senan told us a interesting story and a recipe of the famous drink.
Of the numerous Irish exports that have been welcomed throughout the world, none are more unique and heart warming than the traditional Irish coffee.The origins of Irish coffee owes itself, as many Irish drinks do, to the cold yet 'refreshing' Irish weather. In the 1930s and 1940s, Foynes – a port town in the south-west of Ireland, was a major transfer point between the United States and Europe for passenger flying boats that made an often bumpy and chilly eighteen hour journey across the vast Atlantic Ocean. On one occasion in 1942, realising that passengers were often cold and exhausted after the long flight and the short boat trip from the seaplane to the Foynes terminal restaurant, the caterers, managed by Brendan O'Regan, and the chef, Joe Sheridan, developed a drink with an Irish touch that was sure to warm their hearts and spirits. One story has it that one of the passengers asked, 'Is this Brazilian coffee?", to which Joe Sheridan replied, 'No, that's Irish coffee'. And so, Irish coffee was born, and its unique taste allowed its appeal to spread around the world, especially in the United States.
In 1952, Chef Joe Sheridan visited the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco and introduced the first Irish coffees to the United States. The Buena Vista Cafe is now world famous for its Irish Coffees and sells more Irish coffees every day than anywhere else in the world. As a tribute to Joe Sheridan , a plaque honouring his achievement can be seen outside the Joe Sheridan Cafe Bar in Shannon International Airport – now the new gateway to the south-west of Ireland. Every summer, the people of Foynes celebrate the Irish Coffee Festival with parades, a carnival, traditional Irish music and the World Irish Coffee Championship. In this friendly yet competitive contest; waiters, waitresses and bartenders from all four corners of the world vie for the title of World Irish Coffee Making Champion. For lovers of Irish Coffee wherever you may be, we hope that it puts a smile on your face and some warmth in your heart. Slainte – the Irish word for 'Cheers'.
The following recipe is based largely on the recipe of my dear mother, Anna, who has often greeted international friends to our home in Ireland with an Irish coffee. Not surprisingly, they have always returned.
Start by using a suitable glass, preferably a coffee glass that can contain hot liquids. Rinse the glass with boiling water so that it is warm and will not crack when you prepare the hot coffee.
Put a full teaspoon of coffee into the glass. The amount of coffee that you decide to put in depends on the drinker and is case by case – if they like strong coffee or weak coffee. One teaspoon of coffee is usually fine.
Put two full teaspoons of sugar into the glass. Brown sugar is best for colour and richness but white sugar is also ok.
Put two or three full tablespoons of Irish whiskey (Jameson, Paddy, Powers Gold Label, Bushmills, etc.) into the glass. Two or three tablespoons of whiskey are usually fine.
Fill 75% of the glass with boiling water. Remember to constantly stir as you pour the boiling water.
Gently pour fresh whipped cream on top of the coffee. Use a spoon to float the cream on top of the coffee. The fresher the cream, the better. Do not stir the cream into the coffee. The unique taste of Irish coffee is best sampled by sipping warm Irish whiskey, and coffee through a soothing cool layer of freshly whipped cream.
Allow a minute or two for the glass to cool down. Then neatly place a paper napkin around the glass so that the drinker can comfortably enjoy an Irish coffee without burning his or her hands.
Enjoy and delight in the taste of your own Irish coffee.


Accordance with decree 2005-829 of the 20th July 2005, MODERNA ensure the collection and recycling of household items.
As such, Moderna is adherent to the ECO-systems organization that ensure management obligations recovery and recycling of its products. All his equipment is concerned and subject to the application of a mandatory ECO-PARTICIPATION additional selling price which the scale is regulated : www.eco-systemes.fr.
Accordance with Decree 2012-22 of the 6th January 2012, MODERNA ensure the collection of its waste furniture elements. As such, Moderna is adherent to the ECO-furniture organization that ensure management obligations recovery and recycling of its furniture products. All his equipment is concerned and subject to the application of a mandatory ECO-FURNITURE additional selling price which the scale is regulated : www.eco-mobilier.fr .
The life cycle analysis is a method according to the ISO 14040 series of standards used to assess the environmental impacts throughout the product life cycle.
Moderna called experts to identify and evaluate the environmental impacts of our kitchenettes.
This environmental assessment helped identify priorities for action for the design phase. The life cycle of a product affects all life stages of the product from the extraction of raw materials to end of life through manufacturing and use.
NF mark on a product certifies that it complies with the standards relating to him and possibly additional technical requirements demanded by the market.
The characteristics fixed and controlled by AFNOR CERTIFICATION are specified in the specifications called technical regulations or standards, developed in consultation with manufacturers, distributors, consumer associations, laboratories and government.
Technical certification regulations concerning sanitary ware has the number 017.
The CSTB (Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment), SFC (French Ceramic Society) and the LCIE (Laboratoire Central des Industries Electric) carry out product testing and audits undertaken as part of this application.
On which products is NF?
Sinks and wash hands (ceramic) Bidets (ceramic), Shower Trays (ceramic, steel, cast iron, synthetic materials), Whirlpool water brewing, washbasins and washstands (ceramic and synthetic materials) Bowls with or without toilet cistern adjoining tanks equipped apparatus for community-frame supports. Shower walls and the toilet seat are covered by other NF.
The NF Mark - FIXTURES certifies compliance fixtures Regulation 017 NF approved by AFNOR CERTIFICATION.
• that the devices are made of a material having the qualities corresponding to normal sanitary, that is to say: resistant to cleaning products reserved for this purpose, resistant to contact non-prohibited chemicals (products to remove stains from rust generally based on fluorine salt are totally prohibit close enamelled appliances).
• that the devices have dimensions that allows, on one hand their connection with the supply valve and dump the other hand replacement.
• that the shape of the bottom of the tank (washbasins, bidets, showers, sinks, bathtubs, etc..) is designed to ensure that, when the drain is open, the water flow without stagnation.
Products marked NF are responsive to their intended use.
How to recognize an NF product?
To distinguish the goods admitted to the NF Mark - FIXTURES those who are not in this catalog, the abbreviation NF is placed next to the item benefiting. In addition, to recognize in trade and during the installation, the NF logo is affixed to the products themselves.


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Equal-loudness contour #
The human auditory system is sensitive to frequencies from about 20 Hz to a maximum of around 20,000 Hz, although the upper hearing limit decreases with age. Within this range, the human ear is most sensitive between 2 and 5 kHz, largely due to the resonance of the ear canal and the transfer function of the ossicles of the middle ear.
Fletcher and Munson first measured equal-loudness contours using headphones (1933). In their study, test subjects listened to pure tones at various frequencies and over 10 dB increments in stimulus intensity. For each frequency and intensity, the listener also listened to a reference tone at 1000 Hz. Fletcher and Munson adjusted the reference tone until the listener perceived that it was the same loudness as the test tone. Loudness, being a psychological quantity, is difficult to measure, so Fletcher and Munson averaged their results over many test subjects to derive reasonable averages. The lowest equal-loudness contour represents the quietest audible tone—the absolute threshold of hearing. The highest contour is the threshold of pain.
In 1956 Robinson and Dadson produced a new experimental determination that they believed was more accurate. It became the basis for a standard (ISO 226) that was considered definitive until 2003 when ISO revised the standard on the basis of recent assessments by research groups worldwide.
Audial illusions


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POLITICS-Sheila Kuehl walked her first picket line as a member of the Screen Actors' Guild, when she was 11 years old, an experience that forever forged her close ties to America's working families and their unions.
Kuehl was a highly-respected child actress who worked in radio and on several well-known TV series, including "Trouble With Father" and, most memorably, as Zelda Gilroy, Dobie's wannabe girlfriend in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis." She joined AFRA (which was trying to add a "T" for "Television" at the time) at age 9 and the Screen Actors Guild the following year.
Even as a kid, she used her celebrity to speak out on workers' issues. She recalls walking the picket line at a studio in Culver City with other SAG members in a strike called over filmed TV commercials, when Walter Pidgeon was the SAG president.
"It was thrilling to be carrying signs with other actors and it was an early lesson in what sticking together can accomplish," says Sheila.
That experience set the stage for Kuehl's political activism, which has included her pioneering work as a lawyer and advocate for working families and women, 14 years as one of the nation's most effective state legislators, and now as a candidate for the Board of Supervisors of Los Angeles County, the nation's largest county, with a population of about 10 million (larger than 42 states), a budget of $26 billion, and over 100,000 employees, most of them involved with health care, human services, and law enforcement.
Unlike many actors who become politicians, Kuehl spent many years as a grassroots activist and advocate before running for office. In fact, few voters even know about her experience as a child actor. Her political career has been grounded in the large network of supporters she attracted as a result of her activism, not her celebrity name-recognition or family money.
After she left acting, Kuehl became an Associate Dean of Students at UCLA, her alma mater, then went on to the Harvard Law School, where she was the second woman in the school's history to win the Moot Court competition. Returning from Harvard to Los Angeles, Kuehl taught at Loyola, UCLA and USC law schools and co-founded the California Women's Law Center where, as managing attorney, she drafted and fought to get into California law more than 40 pieces of legislation relating to children, families, women, and domestic violence.
She made headlines when she was elected to the California state Assembly in 1994 as the first openly gay or lesbian member of the state legislature. During her six years in the Assembly (where she became the first woman to serve as Speaker Pro Tempore) and eight years in the Senate, she made her name as a tireless and effective advocate for working families.
She authored 171 bills, signed into law by three different Governors, including laws to overhaul California's child support services system, protect domestic violence victims and their children, prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender and disability in the workplace and sexual orientation in education, and safeguard the environment and drinking water.
"She wasn't just a good vote for working families, she was a real ally," Pulaski observed. "She worked with us on every aspect of legislation, from writing bills to formulating strategy. And she knew the details, not just the talking points. We couldn't have asked for a stronger partner."
Michael Lighty, public policy director for the California Nurses Association, had similar observations about Kuehl's skillful ability to make things happen against the odds. Kuehl authored what Lighty called "one of the most trailblazing patients' rights and employees' rights bills in the country" -- a law establishing nurse-to-patient ratios in every hospital, enacted in 1999.
"Sheila figured out how to get the bill through the legislature and get it on Gov. [Gray] Davis' desk. She knew the issue inside and out. The hospitals mounted an expensive campaign to stop it, but Sheila never backed down. She was very pragmatic. She could play hardball if necessary, but it really helped that her colleagues in the legislature liked and respected her. "
Beginning in 2003, Kuehl led the fight in the legislature for the California Universal Healthcare Act (SB 840), and, in 2006, and again in 2008, brought the bill to the Governor's desk.
"It was the first time in American history that a single-payer healthcare bill got that far," recalled Angie Wei, legislative director for the California Labor Federation. "Gov. [Arnold] Schwarzenegger vetoed the bill, but the battle to get it passed helped make the idea of universal health care more popular. It helped change the political climate for health care reform in the whole country."
"I come from a working class family," Kuehl said. "I have always honored picket lines, brought coffee to strikers, and supported union issues. There is just a common-sense connection between supporting working families and building a better economy and a better society."
During her 14 years in the legislature, Kuehl compiled a 100% voting record on all major labor bills. She sponsored legislation to expand the Fair Employment and Housing Act regarding pregnant workers and workers with disabilities, as well as bills to protect workers' rights to privacy in their employment records, oppose trade agreements that undermine labor protections, and create funding to keep film production in California.
She authored AB 1268, which strengthened the protection of unions and strikers by making the Moscone Act consistent with the federal Norris-LaGuardia Act, requiring that, before a union could be held liable for the unlawful acts of its members in a labor dispute, there must be "clear and convincing" proof of actual participation or authorization by the union.
Beyond the legislature, she's been a constant presence at union meeting halls, rallies, and picket lines.
"She is a true champion of labor," said Rick Icaza, president of Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers, which represents 30,000 employees in grocery stores, pharmacies, and meatpacking plants. "She has shown her commitment to working people on our picket lines as well as in the state legislature, where she shepherded major protections for working women and men. She's been on the front lines because she cares and she understands."
When speaking to hundreds of people at a rally, the charismatic Kuehl tells stories to show how everyday people - seniors, children, and workers -- need government . When talking with other politicians on complex issues, her years of legislative and legal training make her a persuasive advocate.
"Cooks, dishwashers and servers in California's food service and tourism industries have long had a strong ally in Sheila Kuehl," said Tom Walsh, president of Local 11 of UNITE HERE, which represents 20,000 members. "We are proud to say that she has also been an early and outspoken advocate for the need to pass a higher minimum wage for housekeeping room cleaners and other hotel workers in Los Angeles."
Kuehl left the legislature in 2008 under California's term limits statute, but has continued to be a voice for progressive change. She founded Santa Monica College's Public Policy Institute, devoted to undergraduate and community education, and, in 2012 she was appointed Regents' Professor of Public Policy at UCLA. She has worked with a variety of advocacy groups on legal and policy questions to improve working conditions, the environment, and equal rights.
This year, LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky will be termed out after 20 years serving the Third District, which stretches from the San Fernando Valley to Santa Monica, from Westlake Village to Hollywood. Kuehl's many friends in the region's environmental, labor, and civil rights community encouraged her to run for the seat, because Los Angeles County government plays such an important role in the daily lives of every resident.
There are only five members of the Board of Supervisors. Each one represents about two million people, but they all oversee every one of the agencies that serve all 10 million people in the county. LA County has one of the highest levels of poverty, income inequality, and working poor families in the nation.
"Whether I've been inside government and outside government, I've always been struck by the incredible impact that governmental policy has on the lives of real people -- how government decisions could make people safe or not, treat them fairly or not, give them a helping hand or not, open up educational, training or job opportunities, or not."
In the state legislature, where she chaired the Senate Committees on Health and Human Services, and Natural Resources and Water, Kuehl represented much of LA's west side and the San Fernando Valley. Now she wants to bring the knowledge and experience gained in those years, and earlier, as an advocate, to County government.
Her major opponent in the June 3 primary is Bobby Shriver, the former mayor of Santa Monica, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sargent Shriver, brother of one-time California first lady Maria Shriver, and nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
"As an Angelino from the age of two, this district -- from the ocean to Los Feliz, from Westlake Village to San Fernando and Griffith Park -- is a part of my history. I've worked, listened, met, and served the people of this district from one end to the other, including work on many of the local issues for which the county is deeply responsible: social welfare, child welfare, transportation, environmental and water quality, protection of the Santa Monica mountains, juvenile justice, education, public safety, and, of course, the budget."
Kuehl is well-known for her legislative skills, her compassion, and her quick sense of humor. What many don't know is that she's also a policy wonk who already understands the details of LA County's complex $26 billion budget.
"I want to make certain that the new healthcare programs roll out smoothly, to improve the care we give foster youth and the children who need us, to continue to connect all parts of the county by affordable public transit, to expand our efforts to guarantee that we all have clean air and water, to be a champion for the arts, to work with our fire and public safety officers to make sure every person feels safe and fairly treated, and to address the re-entry and rehabilitation for the many low-level offenders who are now the county's responsibility."


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A recap of the 2015 Winter SWL Fest
The following article originally appeared in the April 2015 issue of The Spectrum Monitor magazine.
David Goren prepares musicians and voice talent as the Shortwave Shindig goes live on WRMI
Every year, I attend two great radio conventions: the Dayton Hamvention and the Winter SWL Fest. While the Dayton Hamvention draws a massive crowd of ham radio operators, vendors, and makers from across the planet–and it's truly a fun and fantastic event–the smaller Winter SWL Fest is actually my fave of the two.
Any why is this? A re-cap of the 2015 Winter SWL Fest might provide some clues.
The Winter SWL Fest is organized and sponsored by the North American Shortwave Association (NASWA) and each year draws well over 100 radio enthusiasts to Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. While it is a shortwave radio festival––with its roots firmly in the shortwave medium––it's certainly not limited to the HF bands only; in fact, here's a list of some of the forums from 2015, and their subject breadth is remarkable:
Radio on the Road 3. Janice Laws shared radio recordings and videos from her various travels across the planet, showcasing the local flavor found on the FM and AM dials.
The Year in Pirate Radio. George Zeller once again hosted the shortwave pirate radio forum, covering the year in pirate radio, and announcing inductees into the PIrate Radio Hall of Fame.
Time Travel, Teleportation, and Spectrum Hoarding for the Contemporary DXer. My good friend Mark Fahey and I co-hosted this forum. In this forum we discussed our obsession with collecting and sharing spectrum recordings, highlighting the added context spectrum playback provides that traditional broadcast recordings cannot. We brought along several terabytes of spectrum recordings from my home in North Carolina and from Mark's home near Sydney, Australia, to share with this forum's attendees.
Coast to Coast: Geographically Enhanced Mediumwave Reception. Bill Whitacre shared what he has learned from mediumwave DXpeditions to Grayland, WA, and Lubec, ME, over the past 5 years. Bill focused on the advantages of carefully-selected geographic locations for the best DX opportunities.
Ultralight Mediumwave DXing. Gary Donnelly hosted a forum which touted the virtues of the most simple radios and receivers and the immense fun that can be had from them. Gary discussed some amazing reception records obtained with these pocket-sized "ultralight" (and ultra cheap!) receivers.
Crisis Radio. Michael Pool (a.k.a., "The Radio Professor") focused on radio as it sounds locally during crises. He shared recordings and airchecks he had captured during natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and moments of civil unrest. Through these recordings, and with the advantage of some emotional distance, attendees could form their own opinions as to how the media handled each event.
Radio and Today's Teenagers. Anthony Messina (age 18) focused his forum on the way teens view radio today, taking into account the medium's ongoing evolution. Anthony also discussed how he got interested in shortwave radio and DX'ing in the age of internet and smartphones––a remarkably fascinating (and familiar) journey.
Kickin' It Old School: A Return to Regenerative Receivers. In this forum, Skip Arey proposed that a radio design, at the very roots of RF Technology, is experiencing a resurgence: regenerative receivers. He discussed the classic regen circuit and how to use it to bring a new dimension to shortwave listening.
The View from Europe. Finn DXer Risto Vahakainu, who travels to the Winter SWL Fest with a contingent of Finnish DXers, reported on the state of the radio hobby in Europe and specifically in Finland. He focused upon the impact of SDRs and also described remote DX sites one can rent for one's own DXpedition in northern Finland.
"UFOs, Gliders and Planes, Oh My!" Tom Swisher––noted member of the SWL Fest so-called "scanner scum"––covered the wide array of frequencies that can be monitored with "your trusty old scanner" after local law enforcement goes digital.
Monitoring Dusty War Zones and Tropical Paradises: On Being a Broadcast Anthropologist. Mark Fahey––who travelled from Australia to attend the Winter SWL Fest for the second year in a row––presented a tour of his monitoring station (i.e., his house). We saw how Mark combines several satellite, internet, and SDR feeds from across the globe to create a custom video and audio listening post with feeds. Mark, who is also an avid traveler, shared some of his highly original, out-of-the-box ways of collecting rare radio DX.
The Keeping of Time. In this forum, Mark Phillips discussed the importance of accurate time-keeping as our hobby moves toward the digital realm. Mark explained the difference between time sources, why they are different, and why accurate time is so important.
Recognizing Digital HF Signals: Eyes and Ears. TSM contributor Michael Chace-Ortiz taught that simply with one's eyes and ears, it's possible to identify a number of the digital modes and anomalies on our HF bands. Mike gave an interactive audio-visual tour of numerous modem signals, Over-The-Horizon RADARs, ionospheric sounders, ocean sensing systems, and various other digital oddities that can be heard today.
In short: what a dynamic––and diverse––forum line-up!
Of course, for the second year in a row, David Goren's annual Shortwave Shindig was broadcast live from the Fest via WRMI. It was great fun receiving live reports from listeners across the globe.
I'm sure some twenty-eight years ago when the first SWL Fest was held, forum topics all centered around the shortwave radio hobby fairly exclusively. But today, how we define radio has changed, and the shortwave radio is no longer the only way to glean accessible content from across the globe. Most of the SWL Fest attendees and hosts, however, maintain and cultivate the spirit of DXing: finding innumerable paths into an ocean of diverse broadcasting. I was happy to be a part of the shortwave radio-related forums that centered on the use of software-defined radios, no doubt a revolutionary game-changer in our listening hobby, and a technology I actively explore (see my review of the TitanSDR next month).
While the 2015 line-up was diverse and drew on the expertise of some of the most noted enthusiasts in our field, this experience is actually what I've come to expect from the SWL Fest. So many amazing projects, including a Sundance award-winning film (!), have played a part in making the Fest what it is today.
I encourage you to keep tabs on the Winter SWL Fest and make plans to attend in 2016. Details will be posted on the Winter SWL Fest website: https://swling.com/blog. One thing is for sure: if the crazy winter weather conditions this year didn't stop me from driving several hundred miles through snow and ice to the Fest, nothing is going to stop me next year! Hope to see you there.
(Note: SWLing Post email subscribers may not be able to see the embedded slideshow above. Please visit this post online.)
A parting note
Martin Peck with the New Westchester Symphony Orchestra (Photo credit: Stephy Kollarackal)
As you may imagine, since the SWL Fest has been ongoing for many years, strong bonds have formed among Fest attendees––indeed, the group has become like an extended family. This year, we learned during the annual Saturday night banquet that we had just lost one of our Fest family, one Martin Peck, following a battle with esophageal cancer. Marty, as we all knew him, was an incredibly kind fellow, well-loved and warmly regarded at the Fest. He was not only an avid SWL, but a talented musician, and a member of the New Westchester Symphony Orchestra. Marty could play some of the most obscure interval signals on demand with practically any wind instrument. He found a welcome home at David Goren's Shortwave Shindig.
Marty, pal, we're going to miss you.
This entry was posted in Current Events, International Broadcasting, News, Pirate Radio, Shortwave Radio, SWLers and tagged 2015 Winter SWL Fest, Donna Ring, Janice Laws, John Figliozzi, Mark Fahey, Martin Peck, Marty Peck, Richard Cuff, Sheldon Harvey, Winter SWL Fest on May 8, 2015 by Thomas.


With CMSimple you theoretically can operate as many websites as you want, in subdirectories, so-called "sub-sites". Where are the practical limits - we will see. The main installation and each of these "sub-sites" can be multilingual.
Secondary languages and subsites are fully configurable, so every subsite or secondary language can have an own password, a custom template, a separate email address for the default mail form, and many other independent characteristics.


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A place where we automatically deploy the SimPEG documentation.

This repository is automatically edited by our army of robots on the
Azure CI service. Changes to the documentation should not be made
here but rather in the [`simpeg`](https://github.com/simpeg/simpeg)
repository.

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US Army, April 15, 2015 - FORT BRAGG, N.C. by Sgt Taryn Hagerman – Concealed in darkness, the American and British paratroopers of Task Force Falcon worked stealthily and feverishly to complete the joint forcible entry operation into Atropia.
After securing the area and only a few hours the jump, they moved to a nearby town to evacuate innocents trapped in the increasingly dangerous environment.
These operations are entirely fictitious scenarios of the 82nd Airborne Division-led Combined Joint Operational Access Exercise 15-01. With more than two years of planning, the exercise was carefully tailored to stress paratroopers' skills and unit readiness, as well as solidify joint operational capabilities of the division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team and the British 16 Air Assault Brigade.
Training scenarios like noncombatant evacuation operations are crucial for the global response force as any erupting conflict is almost certain to threaten the safety of nearby innocents.
During the exercise, role players simulated nine American nationals and one British national who requested evacuation through the local embassy. Carrión said they were prepared to evacuate host nation civilians as well, had the need arose.
British paratroopers with 3rd Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, transported the 10 evacuees back to the secured area where American military police had already established an evacuation control center and were awaiting their arrival.
At the ECC, military police escorted the evacuees through multiple stations to process them prior to travel out of the country.
Soldiers searched the roleplayers, checked their bags, completed all necessary paperwork and conducted a brief medical exam to ensure that all displaced persons were healthy enough to fly and did not sustain any injuries during the evacuation.
CJOAX 15-01, including the NEO exercise, promotes the interoperability and cohesive readiness of the 82nd Airborne Division and the 16 Air Assault Brigade. It is also the largest bilateral training exercise held on Fort Bragg in nearly 20 years.
The ECC played an integral role in safely evacuating 10 displaced persons and will maintain readiness for the duration of the exercise.
"We're going to continue to have the evacuation control center open, and we're prepared for any kind of follow-on missions that are assigned to us," said Frishman, referring to the exercise scenario.


Bicycle! Bicycle!: Was a Farmer Had a Bike, B - I - K - E - O?
Was a Farmer Had a Bike, B - I - K - E - O?
Farmers markets being a delightful clash of suburban pretension and authentic livestock excrement, they are often excellent places for bike-spotting and the new Cradle Coast market does not look like being an exception. Held every Sunday on the wharf in Ulverstone, this latest edition to the north west Tasmanian market circuit is primed for bicycling shoppers as it's right next to the Leven River shared path. Sadly it's not accessible by bicycle to me but my own town also has a Farmers and lately I've seen a few people loading up bicycles as they circle the grounds, using them as shopping trolleys. I hope to join them one day when we live in a house where you could physically get a grocery loaded bicycle up the driveway. As it stands, getting an unloaded steel bicycle up to the door of our current residence is achievement in itself. I'd need to install a pulley to get it to the door with 10kg of potatoes and a few more of jam and cakes strapped to the back! In the meantime I've started 'collecting' the bicycles I see at markets. The variety I've seen so far (but not yet photographed as I only photograph unattended bikes) shows that there are many types of people adopting a bicycle/Farmers Market routine. Isn't that a happy thought?
The Recumbent/Trailer Combo, Burnie market.
The Affordable Vintage Revival, Ulverstone market.


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Category: Solo Exhibitions
Communication + Arts
I have a solo show located at the CU South Denver campus. The show features work that represents my ongoing interest in technology and the art of communicating visually. The show is hung chronologically, beginning with early work using egg tempera and oil paint, which were created while I was a student at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
The illustrations that I created in the early part of my career include book covers, posters and magazine covers and consist of oil paintings with the occasional use of gold leaf. Many of the works on view have never been shown before including a cover for Time magazine and a portrait of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith based on Van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait.
Later work includes digital illustration, digital encaustic paintings and objects that combine the use of digital video and 3D printing. I wanted to create a show that encompassed all of my work. At first, it may seem odd that old-master style paintings would now be programming and making interactive installations. But, I think all of the work shows an interest in technology, old and new. And my interest in drawing the viewer in, trying to provide an experience that is unreal, but real at the same time.
An installation of recent work at Ironton Studios. Work include 3D lenticular prints and an interactive room-sized installation – Hail vs. Tomatoes.
In April of 2011 I had a solo show, Uncategorized, open at Ironton Gallery in Denver. Ironton is well known in the Denver area for presenting experimental work and this installation was chosen by a jury of Ironton Studio artists as one of only 5 non-member artists invited to show in their space each year. Art critic Kyle MacMillan had this to say about the show in the the Denver Post:
"In his tech-driven, boundary-blurring art, Bryan Leister creates hermetic, contemplative worlds which draw inspiration from nature yet, ironically, are manufactured and artificial.
In "Uncategorized," an exhibition at the Ironton Gallery, 3636 Chestnut Place, the highly accomplished illustrator- turned-artist explores a range of imaging technologies.
In the most attention-grabbing of the seven offerings, "intervention [0]," he uses video- game technology to create an interactive work in which a pair of pincers, hovering above a kind of petri dish, shift according to the movements of viewers in front of it."
The artificially natural art of Bryan Leister blurs borders
Denver Post, April 22, 2011
For the exhibition, which consisted of an installation covering the entire gallery I showed a collection of work including in transit, the exolith series of prints and a new interactive work called intervention[0].
in transit, an installation at UICA exploring the landscape and representation from June 11 through August 6. Above is a screen shot of the interactive projection that is part of the installation. The work combines single channel projection animation, 5-channel sound, 3D printed sculptures and original drawings. The concept revolves around explorations of the Colorado landscape and interest in depicting layers of representation to the viewer.


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In these 11 fictions … Martínez-Serros fashions spare, unadorned prose to create a … an evocation of one minority group's struggles in a specific time and place. Significant characters, settings and themes recur throughout, including … exacting fathers and tolerant, nurturing mothers; and pervasive poverty and prejudice. [However,] several powerful pieces focus on one family, the Riveras, particularly the father José María and his two youngest sons Lázaro and Jaime. Martínez-Serros's debut is not always graceful, and his voice is sometimes unremarkable. But he is unfailingly devoted to his characters, and the strongest stories burn with a gritty, intense realism. (July).
This description certainly works for stories treated in El BeiSMan last month and now in this issue. But whereas the first two stories deal with two boys who have to enter and risk themselves in basement and dump-site versions of hell to find at least possible route toward superation, the stories we analyze here have to do with the effort to enact the process I have identified as central to Chicago Chicano writing and Chicago Mexican life: the actions of transplantation and cultivation in the forging of new and fruitful futures in relation to an idealized Mexican world left behind, and the grim, almost surreal Southside Chicago world to which the characters have come. The result is the configuration of what Michael Innes-Jiménez, drawing on others, has characterized as a "third space" achieved at least by some of those steel mill barrio mexicanos whose descendants continue to make up a significant sector of the overall Chicago Mexican population.
If "Distillation," discussed last month, shows a Mexican father hoping to compensate for his lost means of sustenance in Chicago's inhospitable landscape by scavenging off the land, the more complex and enigmatic story, "The Killdeer," shows the same father seeking to reestablish his planting relation with the land and to win over the winter world by cultivating a milpa in an area that does not seem to be far from the dumping land of the earlier story. Indeed, this story is clearly marked by similarity and difference from the previous one in that we have the same triad —the father and two sons— again venturing out across the city in search of survival and betterment. Only, now there is some sense of advance, symptomized by the movement from scavenging to planting, and by the improvement of transportation, as the scooter-cart of the first story is replaced by a bicycle. Perhaps more central, however, is the fact that while the milpa planting harkens back to the pre-capitalist/pre-agri-business Mexican world, it nevertheless is now joined with a more modern motif, central to the psychic economics of many stories — the U.S. emphasis on competition.
They went in April when the weather had warmed . . . They went to clear and hoe the land, to get it ready for planting, and to get a jump on the others (55).
José María, like other Mexican immigrants, had cleared several acres, turned them over with a hoe and worked the simple magic that gave him corn, tomatoes, potatoes, squash, coriander and much more. It was more land and richer than any his father had cultivated in Mexico. He took it, worked it and felt like a landowner (57).
José María paused to observe his sons. They would grow up one day and the thought of their working in the steel mill tormented him. He slashed the earth but could not still his foreman's voice — "Your sons will work for me too, Hoezay, you'll see." He slashed harder, faster, angry with his foreman, and himself, for having brought his sons to a life of possible entrapment in the mill (59).
And yet, José's deep-seated, hateful anger leads to a violent action not only against the earth, but his sons as well. Even more so than in "Distillation," he drives them, forcing them to work long hours, denying them any chance of respite or play as if his loving concern for them has been rechanneled in function of the historical period's chief motifs of depression and war — into a war for the souls of his children in which the children may be victimized even in the winning.
The man turned to see where the boy was and the boy saw it in his hand — thick as a hoe handle, the head large and ruddy. Jaime smiled, wondered if his would be like that some day, hoped it would be bigger. The splashing stopped. José María turned around, reached for the jug, raised and tipped it, taking long drafts. His "Ahh" told Jaime he had finished. "Be careful putting it back," José María warned, handing the jug to the boy (60).
Almost immediately, Jaime daydreams about leaving the milpa, about traveling on a train to somewhere else, imagining his favorite songbird, the meadowlark, tell him to "run away," to go home, to throw his hoe away, to be a man. That evening, he talks to his Spanish speaking mother about his worry that their milpa work will make it impossible for him to go see the last installment of a serial movie about the Lone Ranger — the installment when the Ranger's identity will be revealed. He asks her to intervene, but she says José María won't let her interfere ("You know how he is . . . It's his work and yours," she explains ) and urges him to try himself, though without showing any weakness. Lázaro, his father's apologist, tells Jaime there is no sense to his trying to get off work because his father wants to get through planting the milpa, and to thereby maintain his peer reputation as the best milpero. Complaining bitterly about the threat to his investment in U.S. popular culture images which are for Lázaro no more than "made up" fairy tale stuff, Jaime, unable to eat his tacos during break time at the milpa, tired of working and heartsick about the film, finally asks his father if he can go to see his movie. Predictably, the father refuses, saying "The Lone Ranger, mierda! Look at me! I'm the real Lone Ranger! And you're the real Tonto! Now eat!" (67).
Immediately on finishing their lunch, a stranger appears — a Mexican with black clothes and a black hat. "Look, there's your Lone Ranger," said the father, watching the man, a Mexican like himself, mark out his boundaries and begin to work a milpa of his own. The father and sons never speak to this stranger, but view him as a figure of competition and mystery, giving him the additional nicknames of "Black Hat" and "Copycat." This last apodo is perhaps the most revealing. For they see him as imitating their father and his work. In effect, the "Lone Ranger" seems almost a projection of their collective imaginations, out of the U.S. film Jaime is not allowed to see, into their milpa world as a rival or doppelganger of their father, able somehow to challenge his supremacy and even question his values and authority.
From the first day, José María sees the stranger as a rival against whom he races to complete his work and to outdo at every turn. Jaime also sees him in relation to his father, noting his different, more even way of working and resting, and deciding his way is better. "He works and rests. I coulda seen the las' chapter of the Lone Ranger" (70). In fact, the Lone Ranger is virtually the Hollywood stereotype of the Mexican "bad dude" (a kind of Zorro figure) — but he is also the Mexican turned Anglo individual seeking to compete with others who are both helped and hindered by family ties and imperatives. He is in effect an American Mexican competing with, criticizing and possibly even negating the way the Riveras live and work, and indeed causing each Rivera to see him as he will. The doubling effects and associations reach a point of crystallization as the boys observe the father and Lone Ranger eyeing each other without talking, and watch the latter begin to follow the more experienced milpero's lead. "Copycat!" shrieks the outraged Lázaro. "Why's he here?" To which Jaime answers, "He's a good worker, looks like Pa when he's workin', walks like him too" (71). This identification perhaps lends a special significance to Lázaro's saying the Lone Ranger "dresses like somebody died." But José María looks at his rival in function of his own life, seeing the casita his rival has built (as big as, but newer and better built than, his own) and projects out of his own values and aspirations, to wonder if the Ranger won't bring his family to live there just as he brings his family each summer. Meanwhile Jaime smiles "seeing how much he was like his father and how different" and hoping he had a son his age (71-72).
The chain of associations leads on a destructive path that will potentially endanger all relationships. Wishing to escape the milpa and his family to the world of the YMCA, angry at his conformist brother, Jaime desecrates the land and their whole planting activity by uprooting a planted tomato and striking his brother. For some minutes, Cain tomato-wars with Abel, as a black bird of death wheels above crying "Kill dee, kill dee." Finding them out, José María beats them and forces them to stay in their casita over night. Jaime imagines his brother dead and laid out in a wooden box. Guilty for starting their fight, he thinks, "I'm the one who should die" (75), and wishes he was grown up and beyond the wrath of his father.
"Just what they want," says Luis Valdez's pachuco to Henri Reyna, "Two Mexicans killing each other." It is not clear to what degree the early mexicano population in Chicago turned to political solutions in the face of their problems. It is also not clear whether Martínez Serros' vision marks the exception or the rule. But here, in this story, as in many others, the violence done to Mexicans does not lead to organization and unity, but rather a repetition of patterns of competition and violence within the Mexican group itself and the refashioning of older cultural norms in ways that involve great distortions in relation to initial connections and significations. This story bears out the most negative patterns of compulsive repetition — a virtual inability to transcend hardship into some other sphere, a reproduction of violence as a mode ultimately of maintaining a kind of equilibrium with an unbalanced world.
Mexicanos, José María, Lázaro and Jaime, as much as the Lone Ranger himself, in an effort to resist the negative forces around them, become "Americanized" by compromising their identities, converting their struggles for sacred space into turf wars, fighting enemies from without while allowing them to grow within themselves. In this respect, the Chicago ambiance, however different from East L.A. or South Texas, reproduces some essential features in terms of identity, space and ambition. Mexicanos pursuing the American dream do so without forsaking even as they transform their cultural norms. The ability to foster more positive communal solutions to the problems they face is rendered problematic in a story where young boys are subject to their fathers without any hope of successful intervention by their mothers and with little hope of positive transcendence. The black killdeer circling "shrill and triumphant" above the milpa, another simulacrum of the Lone Ranger, replaces the much loved meadowlark of Jaime's imagination, and provides a lasting image of the victory of death forces over life, fertility and positive becoming.
By creating a kind of mystery, Martínez Serros points to some of the deeper levels of his story. The marbles themselves may evoke some kind of imagined pre-Conquest utopian world. Then reflecting on the vulnerability of the jitomates in the "dead of winter," he reconstitutes the typically Mexican transformations of pre-Conquest religious motifs in function of Catholic ritual, as he goes so far as to explain how they "were the cuerpo of the salsa picante [the mother] prepared daily, the martyr who offered essence and color to her arroz, the round flesh that melded flavors in the deep pot of her caldos, the peacemaker in her frijoles borrachos. Outside of their jars they gave in to endless, dutiful transfigurations" (124) even as they become Christ-like "martyrs" to Chicago's most death-threatening winter days. So it is that in cultivating the jitomates and accepting all the responsibilities and obligations that come to him in the effort to maintain the transformed elements of his part, he has perhaps found the key to the endless transformations that might well mark the life even of a Chicago Steel Barrio Mexican.
It becomes clear that the holy, symbolic jitomates, initially embodying the transculturation from pre-Hispanic to Mexican frames, have gone so far in their Midwest transfigurations, transformations and transactions, as to displace maíz as the central fact of life, the center of urban agricultural production, still able to give ethnic flavor even to their clearly inauthentic Chicago imitations — but only through the most careful tilling and cultivation. In effect, the most sacred Meso-American indigenous space, the milpa, the place of corn cultivation — or axis mundi — of traditional Mexican life, is now an indoor jitomate patch. Growing the jitomate plants have somehow become more important — and even, "a war," says our narrator, whose life metaphors have themselves been transformed by World War II and the war of life in Chicago; and he describes the struggle he, his brother, again with Biblical name, Lázaro, and his father wage (with other milperos along the railroad lines) to convert their Chicago attic into a winter garden and grow the cilantro, onions and other plants essential to their cultural reproduction.
Marc Zimmerman. Emeritus, Latino and Latin American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, director Global CASA/LACASA Chicago Books. Commentator and contributor to El BeiSMan.


Air quality and pollution are a real problem in our modern age. From cars to cell phones to your own home, more and more of the things we rely on are heavily dependent on consuming energy. But as energy costs rise internationally, American homeowners are finding creative ways to reduce their utility bills while also, as a side effect, going green. One example of this growing trend is the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) home energy evaluation. Before calling on the expertise of professionals, some homeowners are taking a closer look at their house and making improvements that are benefitting not only them but also our shared environment.
While some aspects of a home energy evaluation might require a professional, there are a number of basic things that any homeowner is capable of identifying and, potentially, fixing. The first is identifying drafts and air leaks. Drafts can be found in areas that have been insufficiently sealed. In these areas, air can move freely from your climate-controlled home to the exterior. The result is wasted energy and money, as the air you pay to control escapes into the wild. Check for loose baseboards and cracks in your walls. Also check outside of your home for areas where two different building materials meet. These can be common areas for energy loss.
Another common problem that homeowners can identify is the proper insulation of their home. If your attic or basement exists outside of your temperature-controlled living spaces, check to ensure that these areas are properly sealed off from the rest of the house. This will reduce any potential risk of energy loss through these spaces.
Once you've identified drafty areas or unclean air vents, there are a few, easy improvements you can make to dramatically increase your home's energy efficiency. With caulking and weather strips, you can help reduce unwanted airflow by sealing leaks. And by cleaning vents and filters, you will help air move easily throughout your home, meaning your HVAC systems will not have to work as hard to distribute air.
With these home improvements taken care of, there are also a number of hardware upgrades you can make to increase your home's energy efficiency. As you inspect your home during your DIY home energy evaluation, be sure to note the age of your appliances and what types of light bulbs you're using. Many older appliances are energy inefficient while their newer counterparts are specifically designed to reduce energy consumption. The same is true for light bulbs. Traditional incandescents are extremely inefficient when compared to compact fluorescents or LED's. Consider swapping out some of your hardware for newer, more energy efficient models to help reduce your utility bills while also saving the environment.
Going green doesn't require a massive change in your lifestyle. By performing a simple, DIY home energy evaluation and making a few improvements to your home, you can help reduce energy consumption while also shrinking your utility bill. Help tackle air pollution by performing your own DIY home energy evaluation and making a few of these simple improvements.


From July 2nd 2018, the CCB and CCR have been replaced by a single means tested payment: the Child Care Subsidy (CCS).
The subsidy changes also coincided with the introduction of a new CCITS: the Child Care Subsidy System (CCSS). The CCSS is simple and easy to use for families and child care providers alike.
CCS payments may be higher for some families and lower for others. To estimate your subsidy, click here: Estimate Subsidy.
KidsXap's CCITS platform and CCS software manages and settles all CCS payments.
If a child is at risk, a certificate can be submitted to the Government directly through the KidsXap CCS software. This will allow the child to receive special benefits for up to 6 weeks without determination.
New enrolments are classified as 200A Arrangements and require approval by the Guardian on the MyGov website within 14 days.
Any changes to existing enrolments are classified as 200D Arrangements and do not require approval by the Guardian.
The KidsXap CCSS Software platform is automated for enrolment management interfaces, saving time and avoiding errors.
Submitting bulk attendance records is now known as a "Session Report" in the CCSS.
From July 1st 2018, Session Reports require sign-in and sign-out times to be submitted with your bulk attendances.
KidsXap CCSS software automatically submits session reports to the Government every week. All attendances record actual sign-in and sign-out times through KidsXap's Sign-On-Glass Technology.
In 2018, Personnel Roles will change. Staff members will need to log onto MyGov and receive a PRODA ID by April.
KidsXap has permission-based access to customise features to the user.


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Phoenix Publishing & Media Group (PPMG), China's biggest publishing group, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the UK-based publishing and education technology company Wonderbly on June 17.
George Hollingbery, Minister for Trade Policy at the UK's Department for International Trade, witnessed the signing.
According to the MoU, the two sides will work on bringing innovative personalized reading and learning to the Chinese market and creating individualized children's books with authentic Chinese features for international readers.
The cooperation marks a new chapter in PPMG's global foray. The British company is dedicated to preparing children for life's major milestones and since 2012 has seen its best-selling books delight over four million children and grown-ups all over the world.
She Jiangtao, vice president of PPMG, led a previous visit to Wonderbly in May and proposed carrying out more innovation-driven cooperation in the future.
Other deals between British and Chinese companies worth more than £500 million were announced the same day at Mansion House during a visit to the UK by Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua.
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