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Our Sorrowful Mother
"This devotion to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of My Mother will restore faith and hope to broken hearts and to ruined families; it will help to repair the destruction; it will sweeten sorrow. It will be a new strength for My Church, bringing souls, not only to confidence in My Heart, but also to abandonment to the Sorrowful Heart of My Mother."
(Our Lord to Berthe Petit)
The purpose of the Devotion of the Seven Sorrows is to promote union with the sufferings of Christ through union with the special suffering that Our Lady endured because she was the Mother of God. By uniting ourselves with both the Passion of Christ and His holy Mother, we enter into Jesus' Heart and honor Him greatly; He is more honored because we have so honored His Mother.
The Gospel, John 19:25, says: "Near the Cross of Jesus stood His mother." At Christ's bequest, Mary was proclaimed the universal Mother of mankind from the Cross.
Clearly, Jesus wants his disciples to see His sufferings and those of His Mother as one single, unified sacrifice for the redemption of the world. As St. Bernard's renowned student, Arnold of Chartres († 1160), instructs: "Together they accomplished the task of man's redemption… both offered up one and the same sacrifice to God; She in the blood of her heart, He in the blood of his flesh… so that together with Christ she obtained a common effect in the salvation of the world." Our Lord also had revealed to St. Bridget in another part of Revelations: "My Mother and I saved man as with one heart only, I by suffering in my Heart and my flesh, she by the sorrow and love of her heart."
Our Lord instructed Sr. Lucia that the reason for the Fatima apparitions was precisely to place the devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary along side devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. In sorrow, in Redemption, in veneration, it is the will of God that the Two Hearts be honored together as one.
Mary was the Queen of Martyrs, for her martyrdom was longer and greater than that of all the Martyrs.
This great torment, then, which Mary endured for us-a torment which was more than a thousand deaths deserves both our compassion and our gratitude. If we can make no other return for so much love, at least let us give a few moments this day to consider the greatness of the sufferings by which Mary became the Queen of martyrs; for the sufferings of her great martyrdom exceeded those of all the martyrs; being, in the first place, the longest in point of duration; and, in the second place, the greatest in point of intensity.
"Mary was a martyr," says Saint Bernard, "not by the sword of the executioner, but by bitter sorrow of heart." If her body was not wounded by the hand of the executioner, her blessed heart was transfixed by a sword of grief at the passion of her Son; grief which was sufficient to have caused her death, not once, but a thousand times. From this we shall see that Mary was not only a real martyr, but that her martyrdom surpassed all others; for it was longer than that of all others, and her whole life may be said to have been a prolonged death.
"The passion of Jesus," as Saint Bernard says, "commenced with His birth." So also did Mary, in all things like unto her Son, endure her martyrdom throughout her life.
Saint Bernardine of Siena goes so far as to say, "that the grief of Mary was so great that, were it divided amongst all men, it would suffice to cause their immediate death.
Now, as the soul is more noble than the body, so much greater were Mary's sufferings than those of all the martyrs, as Jesus Christ Himself said to Saint Catherine of Siena: "Between the sufferings of the soul and those of the body there is no comparison."
Saint Bernard says, "the soul is more where it loves than where it lives." Our Lord Himself had already said the same thing: "where our treasure is, there also is our heart." If Mary, then, by love, lived more in her Son than in herself, she must have endured far greater torments in the sufferings and death of her Son than she would have done, had the most cruel death in the world been inflicted upon her.
Now, Cornelius a Lapide says, "that to understand the greatness of Mary's grief at the death of her Son, we must understand the greatness of the love she bore Him."
William of Paris even says that the Blessed Virgin "loved Him as much as it was possible for a pure creature to love Him." Hence Richard of Saint Victor affirms that "as there was no love like her love, so there was no sorrow like her sorrow." And if the love of Mary towards her Son was immense, immense also must have been her grief in losing Him by death. "Where there is the greatest love," says Saint Albert the Great, "there also is the greatest grief."
Therefore Saint Ildephonsus did not hesitate to assert, "to say that Mary's sorrows were greater than all the torments of the martyrs united, was to say too little." And Saint Anselm adds, that "the most cruel tortures inflicted on the holy martyrs were trifling, or as nothing in comparison with the martyrdom of Mary." Saint Basil of Seleucia also writes, "that as the sun exceeds all the other planets in splendor, so did Mary's sufferings exceed those of all the other martyrs."
Saint Albert the Great says, "that as we are under great obligations to Jesus for His Passion endured for our love, so also are we under great obligations to Mary, for the martyrdom which she voluntarily suffered for our salvation in the death of her Son." I say voluntarily, since, as Saint Agnes revealed to Saint Bridget, "our compassionate and benign Mother was satisfied rather to endure any torment than that our souls should not be redeemed, and be left in their former state of perdition." And, indeed, we may say that Mary's only relief in the midst of her great sorrow in the Passion of her Son, was to see the lost world redeemed by His death, and men who were His enemies reconciled with God. "While grieving she rejoiced," says Simon of Cassia, "that a sacrifice was offered for the redemption of all, by which He who was angry was appeased."
Therefore, So great a love on the part of Mary deserves our gratitude, and that gratitude should be shown by at least meditating upon and pitying her in her sorrow. But she complained to Saint Bridget that very few did so, and that the greater part of the world lived in forgetfulness of them: "I look around at all who are on earth, to see if by chance there are any who pity me, and meditate upon my sorrows; and I find that there are very few. Therefore, my daughter, though I am forgotten by many, at least do thou not forget me; consider my anguish, and imitate, as far as thou canst, my grief."
To understand how pleasing it is to the Blessed Virgin that we should remember her dolors, we need only know that, in the year 1239, she appeared to seven devout clients of hers (who were afterwards founders of the religious order of the Servants of Mary), with a black garment in her hand, and desired them, if they wished to please her, often to meditate on her sorrows: for this purpose, and to remind them of her sorrows, she expressed her desire that in future they should wear that mourning dress. Jesus Christ Himself revealed to the Blessed Veronica da Binasco, that He is, as it were, more pleased in seeing His Mother compassionated than Himself; for thus He addressed her: "My daughter, tears shed for My Passion are dear to Me; but as I love My Mother Mary with an immense love, the meditation of the torments which she endured at My death is even more agreeable to Me."
Four Special Graces Promised to those Devoted to the Sorrows of Jesus' Holy Mother :Revealed by Our Lord to St. Elizabeth of Hungary:
1) The grace of True Repentance for all their sins should they invoke The Blessed Virgin Mother in the name of her Sorrows before their death.
2) Jesus would protect them in their tribulations all who remember this devotion; they would have His special protection especially at the hour of death.
3) Jesus would impress upon their minds the remembrance of His Passion, and that they should have their reward for it in Heaven.
4) That He would commit such devout clients to the hands of Mary, so that she might obtain for these souls all the graces she wanted to lavish upon them.
Short Reflections on each Sorrow
The Prophecy of Simeon
The Blessed Virgin herself told Saint Mechtilde, that, on this announcement of Saint Simeon, "all her joy was changed into sorrow." For, as it was revealed to Saint Teresa, though the Blessed Mother already knew that the life of her Son would be sacrificed for the salvation of the world, yet she then learnt more distinctly and in greater detail the sufferings and cruel death that awaited her poor Son.
Father Engelgrave says, that it was revealed to the same Saint Bridget, that the afflicted Mother, already knowing what her Son was to suffer, "when nursing Him, thought of the gall and vinegar; when swathing Him, of the cords with which He was to be bound, when bearing Him in her arms, of the cross to which He was to be nailed; when sleeping, of His death." As often as she put on Him His garment, she reflected that it would one day be torn from Him, that He might be crucified; and when she beheld His sacred hands and feet, she thought of the nails which would one day pierce them; and then, as Mary said to Saint Bridget, "my eyes filled with tears, and my heart was tortured with grief."
O God, says Saint Albert the Great, in the name of Mary, "must He then fly from men, who came to save men?" Then the afflicted Mother knew that already the prophecy of Simeon concerning her Son began to be verified: "He is set for a sign that shall be contradicted." Seeing that He was no sooner born than He was persecuted unto death, what anguish, writes Saint John Chrysostom, must the intimation of that cruel exile of herself and her Son have caused in her heart: "Flee from thy friends to strangers, from God's temple to the temples of devils. What greater tribulation than that a new-born child, hanging from its mother's breast, and she too in poverty, should with Him be forced to fly?"
Any one may imagine what Mary must have suffered on this journey. To Egypt the distance was great. Most authors agree that it was three hundred miles; so that it was a journey of upwards of thirty days. The road was, according to Saint Bonaventure's description of it, "rough, unknown, and little frequented." It was in the winter season; so that they had to travel in snow, rain, and wind, through rough and dirty roads. Mary was then fifteen years of age a delicate young woman, unaccustomed to such journeys.
The Loss of the Child Jesus in the Temple
Weeping continually, with how much truth did she repeat with David, during those three days, "My tears have been my bread day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?" Wherefore Pelbart, with reason, says, that "during those nights the afflicted Mary did not sleep; she was constantly weeping, and entreating God that He would enable her to find her Son. There are some who assert, and not without reason, that this dolor was not only one of the greatest, but the greatest and most painful of all. For, in the first place, Mary, in her other dolors, had Jesus with her: she suffered when Saint Simeon prophesied to her in the temple; she suffered in the flight into Egypt; but still in company with Jesus; but in this dolor she suffered far from Jesus, not knowing where He was: "And the light of my eyes itself is not with me." Thus weeping she then said, "Ah, the light of my eyes, my dear Jesus, is no longer with me; He is far from me, and I know not whither He is gone." Origen says that through the love which this holy Mother bore her Son, "she suffered more in this loss of Jesus than any martyr ever suffered in the separation of his soul from his body."
The Meeting on the Way of The Cross
On the one hand she desired to behold Him, and on the other she dreaded so heart-rending a sight. At length they looked at each other. The Son wiped from His eyes the clotted blood, which, as it was revealed to Saint Bridget, prevented Him from seeing, and looked at His Mother, and the Mother looked at her Son. Ah, looks of bitter grief, which, as so many arrows, pierced through and through those two beautiful and loving souls. When Margaret, the daughter of Sir Thomas More, met her father on his way to death, she could only exclaim, "O father! father!" and fell fainting at his feet. Mary, at the sight of her Son, on His way to Calvary, did not faint, no, for it was not becoming, as Father Suarez remarks, that this Mother should lose the use of her reason; nor did she die, for God reserved her for greater grief: but though she did not die, her sorrow was enough to have caused her a thousand deaths. The Mother would have embraced Him, as Saint Anselm says, but the guards thrust her aside with insults, and urged forward the suffering Lord; and Mary followed Him. But although the sight of her dying Jesus was to cost her such bitter sorrow, the loving Mary will not leave Him: the Son advanced, and the Mother followed, to be also crucified with her Son, as the Abbot William says: "the Mother also took up her cross and followed, to be crucified with Him." "We even pity wild beasts," as Saint John Chrysostom writes; and did we see a lioness following her cub to death, the sight would move us to compassion. And shall we not also be moved to compassion on seeing Mary follow her immaculate Lamb to death? Let us, then, pity her, and let us also accompany her Son and herself, by bearing with patience the cross which our Lord imposes on us. Saint John Chrysostom asks why Jesus Christ, in His other sufferings, was pleased to endure them alone, but in carrying His cross was assisted by the Cyrenean? He replies, that it was "that thou mayest understand that the cross of Christ is not sufficient without thine."
We have now to witness a new kind of martyrdom-a Mother condemned to see an innocent Son, and One whom she loves with the whole affection of her soul, cruelly tormented and put to death before her own eyes: "There stood by the cross of Jesus His Mother." Saint John believed that in these words he had said enough of Mary's martyrdom. Consider her at the foot of the cross in the presence of her dying Son, and then see if there be sorrow like unto her sorrow. Let us remain for a while this day on Calvary, and consider the fifth sword which, in the death of Jesus, transfixed the heart of Mary.
"My dear Jesus was breathless, exhausted, and in His last agony on the cross; His eyes were sunk, half-closed, and lifeless; His lips hanging, and His mouth open; His cheeks hollow and drawn in; His face elongated; His nose sharp; His countenance sad: His head had fallen on His breast, His hair was black with blood, His stomach collapsed, His arms and legs stiff, and His whole body covered with wounds and blood." All these sufferings of Jesus were also those of Mary: "Every torture inflicted on the body of Jesus," says Saint Jerome, "was a wound in the heart of the Mother." Saint Bernardine writes, "At the same time that the Son sacrificed His body, the Mother sacrificed her soul."
The Piercing of the Side of Jesus and His Descent from the Cross
Mary was still weeping over the death of her Son, when she saw these armed men advancing towards her Jesus. At this sight she first trembled with fear, and then exclaimed: "Ah, my Son is already dead; cease to outrage Him; torment me no more, who am His poor Mother." She implored them, writes Saint Bonaventure, "not to break His legs." But while she thus spoke, O God! She saw a soldier brandish a lance, and pierce the side of Jesus: "One of the soldiers with a spear opened His side, and immediately there came out blood and water." At the stroke of the spear the cross shook, and, as it was afterwards revealed to Saint Bridget, the heart of Jesus was divided in two. There came out blood and water; for only those few drops of blood remained, and even those our Savior was pleased to shed, that we might understand that He had no more blood to give us. The injury of that stroke was inflicted on Jesus, but Mary suffered its pain. "Christ," says the devout Lanspergius, "shared this wound with His Mother; He received the insult, His Mother endured its agony." The holy fathers maintain that this was literally the sword foretold to the Blessed Virgin by Saint Simeon: a sword, not a material one, but one of grief, which transpierced her blessed soul in the heart of Jesus, where it always dwelt. Thus, amongst others, Saint Bernard says: "The lance which opened His side passed through the soul of the Blessed Virgin, which could never leave her Son's heart." The divine Mother herself revealed the same thing to Saint Bridget: "When the spear was drawn out, the point appeared red with blood: then, seeing the heart of my most dear Son pierced, it seemed to me as if my own heart was also pierced." An angel told the same Saint, "that such were the sufferings of Mary, that it was only by a miraculous interposition on the part of God, that she did not die." In her other dolors she at least had her Son to compassionate her; but now she has not even Him to pity her.
The Burial of Jesus
"O, how willingly would Mary have there buried herself alive with her Son, had such been His will!"-for this she herself revealed to St. Bridget. But such not being the Divine will, there are many authors who say that she accompanied the sacred body of Jesus into the sepulchre, where, according to Baronius, the disciples also deposited the nails and the crown of thorns. In raising the stone to close up the entrance, the holy disciples of the Savior had to approach our Blessed Lady, and say: Now, O Lady, we must close the sepulchre: forgive us, look once more at thy Son, and bid Him a last farewell. Then my beloved Son (for thus must the afflicted Mother have spoken); then I shall see Thee no more? Receive, therefore, on this last occasion that I behold Thee, receive my last farewell, the farewell of Thy dear Mother, and receive also my heart, which I leave buried with Thee. "The Blessed Virgin," writes St. Fulgentius, "would ardently have desired to have buried her soul with the body of Christ." And this Mary herself revealed to St. Bridget, saying: "I can truly say that at the burial of my Son one tomb contained as it were two hearts."
Excerpts from Glories of Mary by St. Alphonsus De. Liguori
For more reflections on each Dolor go to this site, they are perfect to help you reflect on our Mother's Sorrows.
http://www.salvemariaregina.info/Reference/DolorsBVM.html
Our Lady directly reveals the amazing graces granted by her Son for all those who daily pray seven Hail Mary's while meditating on her seven dolors and tears: She said that she will:
1. "She will grant peace to our families."
2. "We will be enlightened about the Divine Mysteries."
3. "She will console us in our pains and She will accompany us in our work."
4. "She will give us as much as we ask for as long as it does not oppose the adorable will of her Divine Son or the sanctification of our souls."
5. "She will defend us in our spiritual battles with the infernal enemy and She will protect us at every instant of our lives."
6. "She will visibly help us at the moment of our death—we will see the face of our mother."
7. "She has obtained this grace from her divine Son, that those who propagate this devotion to her tears and dolors will be taken directly from this earthly life to eternal happiness, since all their sins will be forgiven and my Son will be their eternal consolation and joy."
What great promises and we obtain them all when we make our daily prayers for our paralytics. I do recommend you also pray the Seven Dolors at other times as well to get more graces for you and yours.
Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary Pray for us!
http://www.thefourmen.info/join-the-true-brotherhood-of-the-four-men-prayer-groups.html
Great reminder!!!
Thank you and God bless us all!
Confession help us return to the Father and being close to him we are stronger to help others be it souls in purgatory or sinners on earth.
We are always in need of confessing for all of us are wretched sinners and not worthy to be in HIS presence! But in the immortal words of Father John Corapi, "His Name is MERCY!"
Pierre Roderique
Confession is like the opening of a locked door and exposing light to cleanse the soul. GBU
The act of confessing is admitting guilt and thereby giving yourself totally to God. What a slap to Satan.
Completion of the 21st day
I will do this everyday, thank you for inviting me,I love my Mother Mary...
Edwin Rodrigues
Thank you 4 all the information. Through Women Of Grace (Daily Gracelines) i got introduced to and interested in the Seven Dolors & it struck a chord.Today,24th Feb 2014, my wife turns 37 & i intend to begin this devotion during our family prayer...Please keep us in your precious prayers tooGod bless
Cindy Snipes
What a blessing your site is!
My thanks & prayers go out to all of you, for sharing this beautiful Devotion to Our Blessed Mother.
God Bless & Ave Maria!🌹
On this 10th anniversary of the group i would like to thank you all for your inspiration. Thank you very much and may peace be with you.
Mark link
hi I always can rely non my mother
Al link
What a wonderful and moving examination. Remarkable.
jong ricafort
This is the Most Powerful Mystery of all Mysteries sorrounding the Life of Mama Mary....
The Seven Dolors, Perfected the Offering of Mama Mary's Will in the Annunciation and Her Sorrows merited Her to bear all the redeemed to Her sons & daughters.
How? ponder the words on Genesis3:16...How does a Mother bear a child?...it is in sorrows...
So, Jesus seeing His Mother perfectly offering and uniting all Her Sorrows to the Father for the Redemption of Mankind in union with Jesus sufferings paved the way for the Second FIAT....
"Woman,behold your son"...As.St.Montfort said "all the elect are in the womb of Mary"...
Were now in the End Times and Mary the Mother of the Church in Book of Revelation was sufferings pangs of birth...Were close to Final Confrontation...
A New Ressurected Church will be born and come out Victorious...
Sweet Heart of Mama Mary be my salvation.S&IHMMP4us.Amen


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The Australian reports on police warnings about the theft of five paintball guns from Adventure Paintball.
Police are concerned because when used incorrectly the guns could cause serious eye injuries or soft tissue damage.
The guns were taken from a locked shipping container sometime on Friday night, although an AP spokesperson said they could not be used for long because there was little ammunition and gas in them.
Police were also worried the guns may be mistaken for real firearms, although the paintball spokesperson thought this was unlikely (though personally I haven't seen a real gun but I find those paintball markers damned scary when pointed at you).
The location and type of crime don't rule out 13 yo kids. The methods used to break in and the obvious patience shown whilst doing it do.
sorry, where is Adventure Pantball? I take it it isn't the one out between the airport and Queanbeyan.
I suppose it's also part of my world view. I've locked up a number of criminals aged 13 but but for some reason I don't see them as "kids". "Kids" do stupid things (like stealing occasionaly) but crimianls don't care/comprehend that there actions are anti-social. I have a hard time alocating human characteristics (like everything I think of when I think of "kids") to people whose only qualification as human is their physical description. My bad.
I wouldn't want one pointed at me in a dark alley especially if the plastic paint ball holder had been removed.
There are sh** loads of houses about 50m from the location. All with a high kid (13 – 25) ratio. All it takes is for one of them to borrow Dad's universal key (Hacksaw, Bolt cutters), and there gone.
The fact that only a couple of guns were stolen suggests that it was kids without transport. An adult would have had transport themselves, and would have emptied the container.
a lot of people have never seen a real gun. People would find these scary out in public I think.
IN YOUR FACE you theiving goons!
The markers were partially disassembled or parts only in a 'spare parts' bin. We had been 'cannibalising' broken markers to repair others. They may be able to make one or two functional if they stripped all the markers and used the bits to rebuild them. If they were 13yo they were organised, they got into a locked container, with a 'lock box' on it, using a combination of drills, hacksaws and bolt cutters. They must have been at it for hours. The reason they only took the marker bits they did get was because all the functional markers are ALWAYS secured offsite.
Reasons why parents are downright NEGLIGENT if they don't let their kids play with war toys.
I wouldn't want to get pinged in the face by a paint ball though.
As for looking like the real thing, not a chance, unless like K you've never seen a real gat.
Dunno NTP they get a lot of trouble with vandals on site.
The number suggests to me the kids want to play a game of their own.
And sure a marker lets you know when it hits, but it's not so unpleasant that people don't pay hundreds of dollars to get tagged by them all day long.
13 yr old kids rarely break into locked shipping containers located out in vehicle only accessable forests.
My guess is that they will be sold, probally in sydney, but I'm surprized only 5 were stolen.
Nevertheless, so long as it is gassed up it could cause some major damage to someone if fired with ill intent.
More likely however is that some 13 year old kid is going to paintball his cranky next door neighbour and then ditch the gun in his wheelie bin when he realises he can't re-gas it.
I think we can all agree that between the gas bottle and the paint hopper there's not much resemblance to a real gun.


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A Facebook poke is a complimentary attribute that allows you to send an online "Hey, I was here" message. The poke shows up on your friend's page as an icon that represents that poked him and provides the options "Remove Poke" or "Poke Back" If you get the symbol on your page, only you - not the site visitors to your page - will certainly see it, and if you don't poke back or remove it, the individual that sent it can't poke you again. When you hide the poke or poke back, however, that individual is totally free to poke you once more. Facebook's setups allow you to ask for an e-mail when you receive a poke.
When you visit a friend's Facebook homepage, search in the top high-hand edge for the gray switch that claims "Poke" and includes an image of a finger poking. The button is directly to the right of the "Send out Message" button. Click "Poke"; no additional action is required. When you visit your own homepage, you will not see the poke button because you can not poke on your own; on your page, you'll find the "Edit Profile" button rather.
You are permitted to poke someone who is a confirmed friend of yours, a friend of a confirmed friend or an individual in a shared network. The exact same three categories of Facebook customers could poke you as well.
A number of free programs enable you to immediately poke friends. Facebook Autopoke 3.5 jabs back friends detailed on your home page. SuperPoke allows you poke with "little additional" icons such as kiss, high five, hug, snuggle or spank, to name a few. To send a poke from your android phone, try AutoPoke, available from AndroLib; the program requires that you have SMS informs enabled on your Facebook account.


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Vendor Management Best Practices For Successful IT and BPO for Insurance
This paper was developed to provide general background to assist insurance industry clients in decisions related to implementing vendor management best practices.
By Gary S. Venner, SVP & Director of Outsourcing, TBI, and Marianne Bays, Ph.D., VP & Measurement Services Director, TBI
This installment covers:
-- The Vendor Management Organization
-- Communication and Relationship Management
-- Issue Resolution.
The Vendor Management Organization
In TBI's experience, many insurance companies find it beneficial to centralize vendor management either as a function within a Program Office (to be covered in more detail in a later installment) or as a separate entity, depending on the company's specific organization structure and culture. Whatever the specific circumstances, the centralized Vendor Management model allows for more effective contract control, cost tracking, and resource/asset management and performance measurement across all vendor-related projects/programs. This is particularly true if the vendor environment is complex (multiple vendors, vendors crossing lines of business, few vendors with many contracts, etc.).
The position descriptions below are general in nature but all of the functions must be performed in some fashion to ensure success. The insurance company vendor management organization needs to understand and exercise the appropriate level of control over the vendor—the major change being that you are managing what the vendor does not how they do it.
The Contract Executive is a member of Senior Management who would be responsible for the executive oversight of the vendor contract and would be ultimately responsible for the program's success. The Contract Executive would interact with the vendor's Program Executive and the vendor's Account Executive periodically to review contract status and issues.
A full-time Vendor Manager, under the direction of the Contract Executive, works closely with the vendor, having day-to-day responsibility for the quality and cost effectiveness of the vendor's services. Depending on the complexity of the particular program or contract, there would be one Vendor Manager assigned to a single contract or to a group of contracts.
Provides financial analysis and audit work in support of one or more service contracts. The Financial Analyst would identify, catalogue and monitor a contract's financial requirements and commitments.
Performance Analyst
Monitors and analyzes vendor performance in order to assure compliance with service level agreements and continuous improvement of the services. The Performance Analyst would identify, catalogue and monitor an agreement's performance standards, reporting requirements and any financial "penalties" for poor performance on the part of one or more vendors.
Performs Contract Administration procedures to ensure that all changes to the contract are made in accordance with the base agreement and the interests of the company, and that an audit trail is maintained. The Administrative Support person would be responsible for identifying, cataloging and monitoring requirements for reports, meetings, decisions, analyses, etc. throughout the year; and maintaining a calendar of contract activities.
Communication and Relationship Management
The Communications and Relationship Management process ensures that issues of mutual interest and importance are communicated to the appropriate persons on a regular basis.
Key players in the communication process would include:
-- Contract Executive
-- Vendor Manager
-- Line of Business management
-- Program Management Office
-- Change Management Committees
-- Technology Architecture Committees
-- Other technology groups that may have a key role in the implementation of the contract
-- Key vendor personnel.
Company/Vendor Communications
Communication with the vendor will be both written and verbal (meetings). Formal meetings should be scheduled in advance for the transition activities as well as for the ongoing arrangement. In addition, the vendor will be required to submit formal, written reports on key dates throughout the contract term.
Meetings should be structured to make the most constructive use of time. At a minimum, the following administrative meetings should be scheduled into the services contract:
-- Weekly Contract Operational Review
-- Monthly Management Meeting and Invoice Review
-- Quarterly Steering Committee Meeting
-- Semi-Annual Contract Meeting.
At a minimum, the following reports should be scheduled into the services contract:
-- Weekly Internal Status
-- Monthly Management
-- Customer Satisfaction.
Issue Resolution
Effective issue resolution and dispute resolution procedures ensure that problems and disputes are handled as quickly as possible and are solved at the lowest possible management levels.
The vendor staff and the company staff person responsible for delivery of the particular program component would identify each issue. Issues should be documented in an electronic Program Issues Log that is readily accessible to the Vendor Manager, vendor Program Manager, and IT/Business Process staff. The Program Issues Log includes a description of the problem, the person the issue is assigned to for resolution, the resolution description, the escalation and escalation date.
For each issue, the IT/Business Process staff and the vendor staff should jointly determine the persons responsible for resolving the issue and the expected resolution date. The lowest most appropriate level of management should resolve issues depending on the nature of the issue. Unresolved or open issues that are past the due date should be escalated to the company's Vendor Manager and the vendor's Program Manager during regularly scheduled status meetings. If the Vendor Manager and vendor's Program Manager cannot agree, these issues should be escalated to the Contract Executive and the vendor's Program Executive and Account Executive.
This is the second installment to be published on the Insurance & Technology Web site, www.insurancetech.com. The first installment covered Critical Success Factors and Key Inhibiting Factors in managing vendor relationships.


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A Cautionary Tale on Including an Expiration Date in NDAs
By Robert Foster on September 29, 2021
Posted in NDAs, Protection, UTSA
A recent decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in BladeRoom Group Limited v. Emerson Electric Co. further stresses the importance of carefully crafting the terms and conditions in a non-disclosure agreement ("NDA"), and ensuring there is no ambiguity as to when the NDA's confidentiality protections expire. The Court in Bladeroom reversed a multi-million dollar judgment for the plaintiff, based largely on the Court's differing interpretation of the duration of the confidentiality obligations under the NDA.
The Inclusion of Expiration Dates in NDAs
Under both the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (adopted by every state but New York) and the federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, the owner of a trade secret must make reasonable efforts to maintain the secrecy of the information the owner wishes to protect. Whether a party took reasonable steps to protect the trade secret is a factual question for the jury to decide. One of the most common "reasonable steps" is the use of an NDA that expressly sets forth the parameters for protection. NDAs are especially essential when sharing information with another business, such as during a joint venture or potential merger.
When drafting an NDA, the owner of the protected information must determine whether to include an expiration date for the agreement. Because the expiration of certain obligations under the NDA could place a company's trade secrets at risk, indefinite protection obviously is preferred. In fact, at least two district courts have held that allowing an NDA to expire demonstrates that the trade secret owner failed to take reasonable measures to preserve the secrecy of the information.[i] On the other hand, the inclusion of an expiration date also limits the scope of any potential restraint on trade, thereby providing some protection against a finding that an NDA is void because it is excessive or broader than necessary to protect the owner's interest, especially with regard to NDAs signed by employees. Thus, the guidance on whether to include an expiration date in a particular NDA can vary. The recent decision in Bladeroom demonstrates what can happen when the drafter of an NDA tries to have it both ways.
Ninth Circuit's Decision in Bladeroom
In August 2011, the plaintiff, an English data center design company, drafted an NDA in connection with negotiations over its potential sale to a competitor. The acquisition fell through and the following year, the plaintiff and competitor subsequently bid on the same data center construction project. However, the plaintiff was unaware of the competitor's bid until the competitor entered into a design-build contract with the customer, which occurred two and a half years after the competing companies signed the NDA. The plaintiff then sued the competitor and the customer in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claiming that the competitor's design for the data center copied the plaintiff's technology and asserting breach of contract, trade secret misappropriation, and other claims.
The second paragraph of the NDA, which was governed by English law, contained a dozen subparagraphs detailing the competitor's confidentiality obligations. Among the subparagraphs, one barred the competitor from disclosing information that the plaintiff shared with the competitor "at any time" and another subparagraph stated that any disclosed information "shall remain the property of" the plaintiff and "shall not confer" "any rights or license whatsoever" to the competitor. The third paragraph of the NDA further stated that its confidentiality obligations did not apply to information that was in "or hereafter comes into[] the public domain, otherwise than by reason of breach of" the NDA. In addition, the twelfth paragraph of the NDA stated as follows:
The parties acknowledge and agree that their respective obligations under this agreement shall be continuing and, in particular, they shall survive the termination of any discussions or negotiations between [competitor] and [plaintiff] regarding the Transaction, provided that this agreement shall terminate on the date 2 years from the date hereof.
Prior to trial, the plaintiff moved in limine to prohibit the competitor from arguing that, as a matter of law, the proviso in the NDA's twelfth paragraph allowed the competitor to use the plaintiff's confidential information two years after signing the NDA. The district court granted the motion on the grounds that the NDA's confidentiality obligations did not expire under paragraph twelve and survived beyond two years for the following reasons: (1) the "purpose" of the NDA was to protect information, not to provide for its release after two years: (2) "a reasonable businessperson in either party's position would not have contemplated the competitor's [reading];" and (3) the competitor's reading "would lead to an absurd result and would create some inconsistency with the rest of the [NDA]." The trial court entered judgment on the jury verdict awarding plaintiff $30 million in damages, and awarding plaintiff an equal amount in punitive damages. Not surprisingly, the competitor subsequently appealed.
On appeal, the plaintiff echoed the district court's reasoning that the expiration date proviso in the twelfth paragraph was limited only to the "discussions or negotiations" clause of the paragraph. In other words, the plaintiff argued that under paragraph twelve, information it disclosed during the two-year lifespan was confidential and subject to a continuing obligation against disclosure or use, but any information disclosed by plaintiff after two years was not subject to that restriction. Conversely, the competitor argued that the proviso limited all of paragraph twelve and therefore the parties' obligations under the NDA ended after two years.
The Ninth Circuit sided with the competitor's reading and concluded that the twelfth paragraph's plain text and the whole NDA's natural meaning unambiguously terminated the NDA and its confidentiality obligations two years after it was signed. The Court instructed that the text in the twelfth paragraph "plainly mandated that the parties' obligations created by the agreement were continuing and did not terminate just because negotiations ended—with the condition that the agreement terminated in two years." In reaching its conclusion, the Court rejected a case cited as analogous by plaintiff which involved a provision that stated, "[t]he terms and conditions contained in this Agreement shall continue to apply whether or not the Parties conclude an agreement for joint participation in the Business." The Court instructed that the "natural reading of that specific provision is a far cry from the clause in [plaintiff's] NDA."
The Court further noted that in the NDA's second paragraph detailing the competitor's confidentiality obligations, there were no subparagraphs that referred to or limited the twelfth paragraph. Moreover, the twelfth paragraph was in a different section and on a different page than the confidentiality subparagraphs, meaning that "a reasonable person reading the NDA would find that the subparagraphs in paragraph two do not affect paragraph twelve's command, unless it is explicitly stated somewhere else." In turn, the Court concluded a reasonable person in the parties' situation would have read the NDA and understood that its confidentiality obligations terminated after two years. In light of its interpretation of the NDA, the Court held that the district court erred as a matter of law when it granted the plaintiff's motion in limine and reversed the district court's order, vacated the district court's judgment and remanded for a new trial.
Main Takeaway
The potential effects of including an expiration date in an NDA clearly should be considered when drafting the agreement. Where the exchange of confidential information may be necessary to facilitate negotiations over a potential deal, the inclusion of an expiration date on the parties' obligations may not be wise if negotiations go south. Alternatively, inclusion of an expiration date may be fine where the NDA also clearly provides that any confidentiality obligations in the NDA will continue to apply regardless of whether a deal occurs. These considerations for drafting an NDA are far from exhaustive, and businesses with any questions or concerns about drafting NDAs should consult with experienced counsel.
This article is not an unequivocal statement of the law, but instead offers some potential issues to consider with counsel. This is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice and is not intended to form an attorney client relationship.
[i] See Silicon Image, Inc. v. Analogk Semiconductor, Inc., No. 07-cv-00635 JCS, 2008 WL 166950, at *16-17 (N.D. Cal. Jan. 17, 2008); D.B. Riley, Inc. v. AB Engineering Corp., 977 F. Supp 84, 91 (D. Mass 1997).
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Robert Foster is an associate in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the firm's San Diego (Del Mar) office.
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Q: Convert non-strict JSON Amazon SNAP metadata to Pandas DataFrame I am trying to convert this Amazon sample Snap grocery JSON data to a Pandas dataframe in IBM Bluemix (using Python 2.x) and then analyze it with Apache Spark.
I have unzipped the JSON file and uploaded it to an Apache Spark Container.
Here is my container connection:
# In[ ]:

credentials_1 = {
  'auth_uri':'',
  'global_account_auth_uri':'',
  'username':'myUname',
  'password':"myPw",
  'auth_url':'https://identity.open.softlayer.com',
  'project':'object_storage_988dfce6_5b93_48fc_9575_198bbed3abfc',
  'project_id':'2c05de8a36d74d32bdbe0eeec7e5a372',
  'region':'dallas',
  'user_id':'4976489bab7d489f8d2eba681adacb78',
  'domain_id':'8b6bc3e989d644858d7b74f24119447a',
  'domain_name':'1079761',
  'filename':'meta_Grocery_and_Gourmet_Food.json',
  'container':'grocery',
  'tenantId':'s31d-8e24c13d9c36f4-43b43b7b993d'
}

I then used Apache Spark's sample of importing data from container to StringIO
# In[ ]:

import requests, StringIO, pandas as pd, json, re

    # In[ ]:

    def get_file_content(credentials):
        """For given credentials, this functions returns a StringIO object containing the file content."""

        url1 = ''.join([credentials['auth_url'], '/v3/auth/tokens'])
        data = {'auth': {'identity': {'methods': ['password'],
                'password': {'user': {'name': credentials['username'],'domain': {'id': credentials['domain_id']},
                'password': credentials['password']}}}}}
        headers1 = {'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
        resp1 = requests.post(url=url1, data=json.dumps(data), headers=headers1)
        resp1_body = resp1.json()
        for e1 in resp1_body['token']['catalog']:
            if(e1['type']=='object-store'):
                for e2 in e1['endpoints']:
                    if(e2['interface']=='public'and e2['region']==credentials['region']):
                        url2 = ''.join([e2['url'],'/', credentials['container'], '/', credentials['filename']])
        s_subject_token = resp1.headers['x-subject-token']
        headers2 = {'X-Auth-Token': s_subject_token, 'accept': 'application/json'}
        resp2 = requests.get(url=url2, headers=headers2)
        return StringIO.StringIO(resp2.content)

I then converted the String content to a strict JSON pattern by appending [ and  ] at the beginning and at the end and by separating the data with a comma.
print('----------------------\n')

import json

myDf=[];

def parse(data):
    for l in data:
        yield json.dumps(eval(l))

def getDF(data):
    st='['
    i = 0
    df =[]
    for d in parse(data):
        if i<100:
            i += 1
            #print(str(d))
            st=st+str(d)+','
            #print('----------------\n')
    st=st[:-1]
    st=st+']'
    #js=json.loads(st)
    #print(json.dumps(js))
    return pd.read_json(st)

content_string = get_file_content(credentials_1)

df = getDF(content_string)
df.head()

I am getting a perfectly desirable result.
Output of the code
The problem is that when I remove i < 100 condition, it just never completes and the kernel remains busy for over one hour.
Is there any other elegant ways to convert the the data into dataframe?
Also, ijson is not available with Bluemix Notebook.

A: Let me answer this in two parts:-

*

*You can install ijson in your bluemix spark service using below command and then user import ijson to further use it as per your use.
!pip install --user ijson

*You can use sqlContext.jsonFile to read the json from object storage rather than going around to define your schema.
This will even infer the schema for you and then you can run some spark-sql queries to do whatever you want with the dataframe.
df = sqlContext.jsonFile("swift://" + objectStorageCreds['container'] + "." + objectStorageCreds['name'] + "/" + objectStorageCreds['filename'])
Here is the link to complete notebook.
If you have to work with pandas dataframe , you can simply convert it to
df.toPandas().head()

But this will cause to get everything at the driver node(use carefully).
Thanks,
Charles.

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The Electric Eel Shocking Facts
Electric Eel
Aside from being devoured by a always hungry group of Piranhas, or being chunked down limb by limb by a great white shark. You do not want to have electricity being run through your entire body while in water do you? Well, the electric eel is one of the most famous animals that generates its own current which it uses for hunting as well as self defense.
Electric eels can become quite large and some as shockingly (no pun intended) reached length of over 5 feet and can weigh in at around 40-45 lbs. Both male and the female eel are capable of generating electricity. The male eels coloring seems to distinguish from the female electric eel because of its darker shade. So what do humans and electric eels have in common? Well for starters electric eels breath in air instead of water. Most mammals do that, even the aquatic mammals like dolphins and whales. And just like how aquatic mammals are able to breath under water, the electric eel adapts the same property by a process I like to call air storage. It is just like a human diver with air tanks on his back which allows him to stay lengthy time under water. The electric eel will gulp up air every 10-12 minutes and use that stored air for breathing. Although the electric eel is famous for electricity. It has a very outstanding sense of hearing which allows it to detect the slightest ripple in water.
What Do The Eels Eat
Eels are ambush predators and will just hide and wait for a unsuspecting prey to come by and then launch their sneaky, fast and deadly attack. They will eat fish, squids, octopuses and just about anything smaller it things is tasty.
The Eels Lifespan
If you are talking about the father of time you are talking about the eel. Eels can live as long from 55-60 years. Yes, they outlive many of us humans. There are plenty grandma and grandpa shockers swimming around out there.
How The Electric Eel Generates Electricity
So how does a fish generate electricity and why can't other fish do the same. The shocking answer to that is in the genetic make up of this fish. The eel has 3 sets of 2 types of organ. The main organ is called the hunter organ and the second organ is called the sachs organ. These organs take up a rather large amount of space in the body. These two organs allow the eel to generate both low voltage and high voltage shocks.
The electric eel is known to use their ability to discharge electric shocks to defend itself and also to hunt by stunning the prey or the attacker while it escapes or attacks. However the electric eel also has the ability to generate a very low electric field around it that it uses to track prey and also avoid confrontation with bigger animals. This low energy field is generated by the sachs organ.
The electric eel can generate up to 600 watts of energy. That's more than your wall socket so you remember when you were a kid and your mom would tell you not to put anything in the wall socket because it could kill you? Well the eel is a bit more deadly than that. This electric shock is generated by the hunter organ. The hunter organ can recharge around once an hour without the eel getting exhausted. When an eel is a juvenile it can only generate around 100 watts of energy but this is often more than enough to avoid predators. Despite what you might have seen the electric eel does not have only 6000 cells that generate electricity that have 6000 electroplates.
One of the more curious things about an electric eel is how it breeds. They breed during the dry season in south America and the male creates a nest made out of its own saliva. Then the female lays her eggs in the nest. Through this process up to 17,000 babies can come out of this. But as with nature, the animals that are at risk to be consumed easily will have outstanding number of offspring to mitigate against all being eaten or lost. Not all of these 17,000 baby electric eels will live to see the second or third day.
So the next time you pounce upon an electrical eel, you better make sure you have a lamp to use up some of that free current he may just pass on to you.
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Q: $5^n+n$ is never prime? In the comments to the question: If $(a^{n}+n ) \mid (b^{n}+n)$ for all $n$, then $ a=b$, there was a claim that $5^n+n$ is never prime (for integer $n>0$).
It does not look obvious to prove, nor have I found a counterexample.
Is this really true?
Update: $5^{7954} + 7954$ has been found to be prime by a computer: http://www.mersenneforum.org/showpost.php?p=233370&postcount=46
Thanks to Douglas (and lavalamp)!

A: After reading Douglas S. Stones comment I asked mathematica to check if $5^{2\times 3977} + 2\times 3977$ is prime and after about $27$ seconds, found that it is indeed prime. So the claim $5^n +n$ is never prime is false.
Edit: It turns out the function I used in mathematica is not a deterministic algorithm. However we can still say the claim $5^n +n$ is never prime is false is most likely true.

A: A general rule-of-thumb for "is there a prime of the form f(n)?" questions is, unless there exists a set of small divisors D, called a covering set, that divide every number of the form f(n), then there will eventually be a prime.  See, e.g. Sierpinski numbers.
Running WinPFGW (it should be available from the primeform yahoo group http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/primeform/), it found that $5^n+n$ is 3-probable prime when n=7954.  Moreover, for every n less than 7954, we have $5^n+n$ is composite.
To actually certify that $5^{7954}+7954$ is a prime, you could use Primo (available from http://www.ellipsa.eu/public/misc/downloads.html).  I've begun running it (so it's passed a few more pseudo-primality tests), but I doubt I will continue until it's completed -- it could take a long time (e.g. a few months).
EDIT: $5^{7954}+7954$ is officially prime.  A proof certificate was given by lavalamp at mersenneforum.org.

A: If $n$ is odd, then $5^n + n$ is always even because LSD of $5^n$ is always $5$ for $n \gt 0$. Hence, for odd $n ( n \gt 0)$, $5 ^n + n$ is composite.


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Andrew Scott was born in Dublin, Ireland, the middle child with two sisters, Sarah and Hannah. His parents, Jim and Nora, sent him to a private Catholic school for boys. He did a little acting as a child when he was in a couple of commercials on Irish TV. At 17 he was chosen to star in his first professional role in the Irish film Korea (1995).
Scott attended Trinity College in Dublin for six months then dropped out to pursue acting full-time. He was cast in several plays at the Abbey Theatre, the national theater of Ireland. Later, Scott moved to London for a supporting role in Longitude, a television movie starring Michael Gambon. He has stated that he felt uncomfortable and shamed as a gay man in his native country and that was one of the reasons he wanted to move to England where the atmosphere was more welcoming. He mentioned that he had a girlfriend in Dublin in a 2000 newspaper interview, however.
Occasional film and television work in Britain, Ireland and America interspersed his busy stage career. Most notable of these were American mini-series Band of Brothers and John Adams, and the British television comedy series, My Life in Film. He has won many awards for his work in theater in Ireland and England, and received a nomination for The Vertical Hour on Broadway.
When Scott gained international notice as Moriarty, detective Sherlock Holmes' nemesis in Sherlock on BBC TV, his film and television career stepped up considerably with roles in several movies including Victor Frankenstein with James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe which was a clunker with the critics, and Spectre, the usual 007 box office smash that was nevertheless considered a weak James Bond entry. In 2017 Scott realized a long-held ambition when he starred as Hamlet in a widely acclaimed performance on the stage in London.
On a personal level, Scott revealed to the Times of London newspaper in 2019 that he and his partner of 15+ years, former actor turned screenwriter of Scott's film, Pride, Stephen Beresford, were no longer a couple.
In 2019 Scott's star took an international upswing when he played the part of the Priest in the second season of the critically lauded British comedy, Fleabag. The popularity of his character as the forbidden love interest of the title character resonated strongly with mostly female audiences in the UK and the United States via internet mania dubbing him the "hot priest" as the character, Fleabag, played by the show's star, creator and writer, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, called him in the show.
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NSL-61 was a short test flight flown on April 6, 2018. The main purpose was to test two 434MHz LoRa ground stations and antennas. Paul, Michael, Robert, and Matthew L. participated. Michael ran the home "ground station" in Apex, while the others launched and chased.
The flight train consisted of two separate payloads strung along a 9m line. For this flight, a 1.5cm-wide orange ribbon was used as the line. This was to see if ribbon would, in any way, reduce the constant spinning/unspinning present on flights that normally just use string (mason line). The ribbon began at a small, 300g balloon, passed through a 68cm round parachute, and then down to two payloads. Each were spaced about 3m apart. The entire ribbon, chute, and payloads came to 350g.
The upper payload was a 434MHz LoRa tracker similar to those designed and flown by Dave Akerman (http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=2101). It was basically a Pi-in-the-Sky LoRa tracker with the ability to send two way data and down-link camera images.
It consisted of a Raspberry Pi Zero with a RFM96W (or 98W) 434MHz LoRa module and a Ublox 6 GPS module. A cheap AA battery powered USB phone charger was attached for +5 volts (http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=2182). A piece of paper was jammed between battery contacts to act as a power switch -- it was pulled out to activate the unit before flight. The venerable Energizer Ultimate Lithium batteries were used as they can handle the cold.
Paul has had issues with GPS interference in the past with this rig. Apparently, this GPS module generates noise and interferes with other GPS trackers, so this payload was shielded and placed 3m away from the second payload box. Also, the cheap phone charger boost circuit causes RF noise as well. So it had to be wrapped in aluminum foil so that its own GPS would work. The entire package, except for the camera lens, GPS antenna, and LoRa antenna were then wrapped in foil and grounded. To take advantage of solar heating, the unit was then wrapped in black foam and then clear box tape. The whole tracker unit came to about $41.
The lower payload was connected to the end of the ribbon and held just an APRS tracker and video camera.
It was simply a small plastic box with an AP510 APRS tracker and Mate808 video camera. These devices shared a single 4200mAh Lipo (re-flight of the hardware from NSL-60). They were nestled in black foam within the translucent box to create a warm greenhouse. An Outside Hung Compact Rain-Activated Pull-down (white spool of string held with a PVA thread) was attached outside to assist in tree recovery.
Two, practically identical, LoRa receivers were built -- one for a chase car, and one for home. These would receive the 434MHz signals and gate the telemetry and images over to Habhub.org (http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1905). They also had the capability to transmit commands up to the flight. Both gateways were slapped together in a day and totaled less than $50.
Each gateway consisted of a $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W (has WiFi) and an attached 434MHz LoRa module. A GPS module could have been used for the car, but wasn't in this test flight.
The car unit received its primary power from an attached phone charger bank. This battery acted as an uninterruptible power supply and was topped-off periodically from car power. The Pi connected via WiFi to a cellular MiFi hotspot in the car, allowing the Pi to go directly out to the Internet while traveling down the road. A separate chase car computer, typically used for maps and telemetry, could remote into the Pi as needed.
The home unit was simply stuck out a house window. It received power through a USB umbilical that just plugged into a USB phone charger in the house. This Pi connected to the home WiFi. A home PC could remote into the Pi as needed.
Due to a strong easterly jet steam still affecting NC, the team chose to fly from a park to the west, in Siler City. This was to be a short/quick test, so a small 300g cell was used. It was filled with Hydrogen to provide 1500g of neck lift for rapid ascent. The projected flight path would take it just south of the Apex ground station and land it just east of Wilson. This track was faster than a car could travel the same distance, so this was a great test of distributed ground receivers.
Friday was to be a breezy day, so the team raced to get it launched before the ground winds got too high. They had to struggle a few times as gusts tried to yank away the filling balloon. Ground tests completed, NSL-61 was launched just before 0930EDT.
The payload shot up through the pollen-laden haze while the chase car gateway received telemetry and images. At 2km in altitude, the Pi automatically switched from sending tiny thumbnail images to slightly larger 320x240 pixel images. Below are samples of Pi images down-linked through the chase car gateway during the first 15 minutes of flight.
As the flight progressed, the payload started to pull-away from the chase car (a fast food stop may have contributed). As it gained distance, the received image data started to break-up with CRC errors. The chase car antenna was swapped between 1/4-wave and 5/8-wave but no difference was noticed. The much shorter telemetry packets often survived, but the large image packets suffered more and more errors.
The winds remained turbulent the entire flight, tossing the payloads violently. This may have contributed some to packet loss as the LoRa antenna was thrown horizontal. Video shows this as one of the most violent flights in years. The ribbon stood no chance in dampening movement as the payload was yanked around. The ribbon idea will have to be tried again on a calmer flight.
As the payload quickly approached Apex, the home gateway started picking up data and handing it off to Habhub. This required a bit of coordination though, as the transmitter frequency shifted slowly as the payload ascended. This shifting is normally handled by a gateway's automatic frequency control feature. But the home station needed an idea on where to start looking for the signal. Once in the ballpark, the home gateway's AFC took over.
Both gateways were initially configured to gather a list of missing packets and then relay this info back up to the payload for re-transmission on a specific frequency. But this became problematic as the frequencies drifted. The downlink and uplink frequencies were initially hard coded to 434.450MHz. But during ascent, the payload drifted up 6kHz. The AFC corrected this, but whenever the ground gateways decided to uplink, they would re-tune back down to the lower frequency and then lose lock. It became annoying to have to manually tweak the frequency every minute -- losing packets in the process. The team ended up simply turning off the uplink feature on both gateways. In the future, the gateways can be configured to simply uplink on whatever the downlink frequency happens to be.
Chase crew's view as the flight (green) follows that morning's projection (yellow).
The on-board landing prediction software was nothing short of amazing! Within moments of burst, the Pi was transmitting its predicted landing area -- from several counties away. At 60,000 feet it guessed its own landing area to within 2.3 miles! Looking through the data afterwards, it is interesting to see the Pi recalculating the parachute's effectiveness ( See http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=2059 to learn more).
The chase crew was behind the payload due to the high wind speed, but they received some of this telemetry. As a result, they set their driving way-point to the highway interchange in the image above. It landed not far away.
Tiny Pi image transmitted after landing -- In the grass looking up.
Recovery was a breeze. It landed just off the road in a bare field.
One of the concerns with using spring-type battery holders, is that the shock of burst or landing can disconnect the batteries for a few milliseconds. This has happened before. Taping the batteries down in the holder can exasperate the issue as the mass of all of the batteries combine. To limit this, the batteries were first covered by a slip of paper and then taped down -- allowing each battery to independently slide slightly on its springs (Soldering the batteries helps, but it is a pain to do properly). In addition, a capacitor was placed in the boost circuit to limit brownouts. This cap apparently wasn't large enough as the Pi took a power hit and rebooted upon impact.
Ascent rate and temperature data from the AP510. Sadly the temperature data from the Pi just read 26.1C the entire flight.


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The Fade: Week 05
Your weekly guide to identifying exposure and profiting in guaranteed prize pools.
by Justin Bonnema, October 3
Photo: Chris Humphreys, US Presswire
In the world of large tournaments we prey on uncertainty and improbabilities. We must often fly in the face of reason when building lineups. Logical decision making as we know it—things like process over results and rosters with high floors—could very well leave our bankroll in ruins (and why you shouldn't use GPPs as your main play if you intend to be profitable).
Last week Steve Smith turned seven receptions into 139 yards and two touchdowns. One of those touchdowns came off of tipped pass intended for Owen Daniels. In essence, it was a fluky 61-yard score that is likely to never to be repeated. But that doesn't mean Smith was a bad tournament play. His salary was priced low enough to tempt 22.5 percent of the 57,471 people that played in the FanDuel $1.25M NFL Sunday Million.
Still, we have to at least clear our heads and zoom out of the situation to get a better view. Smith got lucky. As I've said over and over again, luck is the dark matter of fantasy football. It holds us together; it will tear us apart. Trying to avoid it is just as dangerous as trying to put it in your favor. But that's exactly what we're trying to do in crowded tournaments. We need to identify value not just from an economic standpoint, but from a contrarian standpoint, and put luck in our favor.
High exposure. Low scores. Can't profit.
The return of the Broncos from a bye serves as a reminder that players coming back from a week off are often forgotten. Peyton Manning is an early fade appearing on only 3.4 percent of rosters. The Cardinals have been one of the best defensive units all season. But I wouldn't be shy about taking one of the best fantasy players available when no one else is. He did, after all, hang 300-plus yards and a pair of touchdowns on the Seahawks (and one interception). He's the second most expensive option so I don't expect his ownership to grow much between now and Sunday.
Brother Eli returned to fantasy relevance as he routed Washington in another ugly Thursday game. This week he enjoys a home date against a bad Atlanta secondary. His salary of $7,300 is attractive but his exposure of 13.2 percent screams fade. There's only one Giants player I want on my team and we'll get to him later.
Ben Roethlisberger, as expected, is finding his way onto a lot of rosters (10%). The Steelers are traveling to Jacksonville to face a dumpster fire offense only dwarfed in comparison by its defense. I like Roethlisberger as a safe option but safety doesn't win tournaments.
Checking into more discounted selections, Austin Davis has been anointed by Jeff Fisher as the starting quarterback for the Rams. His salary ($7,200) combined with his exposure (0.6%) and a matchup against a soft Philadelphia defense that's allowed the second most passing touchdowns makes him an excellent against-the-grain play. The last time we saw Davis take the field he sliced through the Cowboys secondary for 327 yards and three touchdowns. Even with a couple interceptions he outplayed his salary and most other quarterback options in Week 3 finishing sixth best.
Playing on the theme of a bad Cowboys secondary we have Ryan Fitzpatrick traveling to Dallas in a surprise 3-1 showdown. It seems fair to think anything Davis can do Fitzpatrick can do better, or at least equally. Either way, his salary of $6,500 and exposure of just 0.7 percent makes him worth a risky tournament ticket. Stack him with Andre Johnson or DeAndre Hopkins. Or both.
If you're looking for a bigger discount and subsequently more risk, Brian Hoyer is your man. I'm not afraid of the Titans' defense, nor am I afraid to think perhaps Hoyer is playing well enough to earn a lottery ticket play in a big tournament. He's the cheapest option of quarterbacks that are actually starting ($5,800) and his exposure of 1.3 percent won't move much.
Lastly, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Fade Favorite Cam Newton. I'd be more confident if we had a little more information regarding his health. But he gets a leaky Chicago defense at home and should represent the majority of the Panthers rushing offense. He's checking in on only one percent of rosters.
I mentioned earlier there was only one Giants player I want on my team this week and it should be no surprise that his name is Rashad Jennings. His plus matchup isn't reflected in his $7,200 salary, but his exposure of 27.1 percent is. He represents our top loss leader of Week 5. The value is just too good to pass up.
Next up we have Le'Veon Bell. Currently he's the second highest owned running back at 21.6 percent. Unlike Jennings, his salary reflects his skillset and matchup. The Jaguars are getting a little bit of home love from Vegas as they're expected to lose by only six points. I wouldn't be surprised to see them make a game out of it. Still, even as the game script favors running backs of Pittsburgh, I think we can do better for our money. I will be fading Bell.
Then again, Week 5 isn't friendly for running backs in general. There aren't a ton of good bargains available, so even if I recommend discounting this position as much as possible, this is a good week to pay up.
In doing so, you should pay up for skill and opportunity. Bell represents both but he offers little upside in terms of exposure. Jamaal Charles is not only $200 cheaper, he's much more talented and there should be little concern about his usage. The matchup, of course, is a nightmare. The 49ers have been top-five against the run. Hence, we have Charles showing up on just 3.8 percent of rosters. But this is a great opportunity to use the fear of the DFS crowd against them. He'll be the focal point of the offense and defense, as usual.
But if you're afraid of the Chiefs' offense, which is understandable, then save yourself another $100 and grab LeSean McCoy. He gets the third worst defense in terms of yards-per-game allowed to rushers all while enjoying middle-of-the-road exposure (6%). That number will move up by Sunday but not enough to shake off contrarians. He is an elite play this weekend.
Returning to our regular strategy already in progress, we want to identify bargains that will open up our rosters without sacrificing our floors. The first guy on the list is Justin Forsett. The Colts and Ravens should provide a high-scoring game and keep pass-catching backs in play. The backfield of Baltimore is hard for me to trust but Forsett has been as reliable as anyone checking in as the 12th highest scoring running back in PPR leagues. The Colts defense has struggled against the run, particularly to backs that excel in the passing game. Forsett is a bargain at $6,000 and his exposure of 5.3 percent only amplifies his value.
Bishop Sankey is an interesting option this week. He's trending towards more snaps and gets a Browns defense that has allowed the fourth most yards-per-game to opposing rushers. He'll cost us just $5,900 and so far is being rostered by 3.2 percent of teams.
The Saints return to the dome after a horrible Sunday night game in which they couldn't find any room against a supposedly bad Cowboys defense. The Buccaneers are a supposedly good defense but they've allowed four rushing scores through four games. I like what I've seen from Khiry Robinson ($5,800, 6.2%.) He's getting the majority of touches making use o f them. This is last call as Mark Ingram II is expected back after their Week 6 bye.
If you want to go against the grain, Pierre Thomas could have a friendlier salary ($6400), but his exposure of 0.9 percent makes him a nice contrarian play with implied risk.
Lastly, we have everyone's favorite, LeGarrette Blount. He is the reason we can fade Bell but still get action against one of the worst defenses in the league. Blount is a game-script running back and if the Steelers/Jaguars matchup proves to be a blowout, he will get enough opportunities to find a touchdown. For $4,600 he's not only available on the cheap, he's being ignored by all but 1.3 percent of rosters.
Sticking with the Steelers we have this week's highest priced wide receiver, Antonio Brown. Through four games Brown is the number one receiver in all of fantasy and it's no surprise he's found atop the exposure ranks at 23.6 percent. His salary of $9,000 and a favorable matchup set him up as a loss leader. But I'm inclined to let others pay and search for value elsewhere.
Instead of shelling out $9k for Brown, you could save $100 and snag Dez Bryant. In the process you'll get one the game's best end zone receivers and an elite player attached to an elite offense that's owned on just two percent of teams. The Cowboys have indicated they plan to run and run a lot. Perhaps that will work out for them but history suggests it won't.
We opened with Steve Smith whose exposure in Week 4 made him anything but contrarian. He did however live up to his loss leader status just as Jeff Pasquino plugged in this space last week. Some values just can't be ignored.
This week Smith's early ownership is 17 percent. I expect that to grow and surpass Week 4 as casual fans stare down the stat lines posted by the Colts' passing defense. Myself, I'll be passing on the Raven in favor bigger wide receivers with better quarterbacks. Vegas likes this game to be high scoring with an over/under of 48.5. But Smith's fluky scores make me a little bearish. Still, he's one of the most targeted receivers in the early stretch and his salary, though $1,100 more than last week, isn't discouraging.
As mentioned with Peyton Manning, Demaryius Thomas seems to be forgotten after taking a week off. Again, this is a matchup that is less than reassuring. Through three games Thomas has been a major disappointment. But we may not find his salary cheaper than it is right now at $8,600. As of Thursday he was on just 2.6 percent of teams. When the crowd fades the player, fade the crowd. This is a fine time to toss up a Manning/Thomas stack at an accommodating price, relatively speaking.
Going deeper, we find Brian Quick with a great matchup at a bargain of $6,000. The crowd is wise to it however, as he's being plugged into 9.9 percent of rosters. I still encourage a Davis/Quick stack.
Switching back to the Broncos, they'll host the Cardinals and an over/under of 48.5. Naturally, Manning and company are favored to win by 7.5. This suggests the likes of Michael Floyd and Larry Fitzgerald will be busy in the passing game. They both check in at $6,400. Fitzgerald is the least exposed as all but 0.9 percent of teams have given up on him. Floyd is a potentially elite option yet owned by only four percent of players.
Calvin Johnson was a decoy in more ways than one last week. He played but didn't really play. The sting of two catches for 12 yards has caused a site-wide fade as he appears on just 2.7 percent of rosters. A week-long absence from practice may have a lot to do with his exposure, but monitor his status Sunday morning. If he's on the field for pregame, get him in your lineup and enjoy a rare occasion of being one of the few players to draft him.
There are no more secrets about Travis Kelce. His salary hasn't caught up to his usage and skillset, but his exposure has. Last week he found his way onto only 6.4 percent of rosters. Coming out of Thursday he's already represented on 16.9 percent of teams. In other words, fade.
Julius Thomas, like his teammates, is seeing an unusually low ownership percentage (3.1%). I can't help but get excited about a Manning/Thomas/Thomas stack.
Jimmy Graham is also enjoying a lower than normal amount of action, but still on a healthy 7.8 percent of rosters. I like his salary of $7,900, which is the lowest it has been all season (or possibly ever).
As you might have guessed, Larry Donnell is the early leader in tight end exposure at 17.1 percent. A monster three touchdown game tends to have that effect. Still, there's only one Giants player I want on my team.
Our bargain comes in the form of the ultimate risk, even in the face of a great matchup. Jacksonville's Clay Harbor will set you back just $5,000 and he's flying under the radar at just two percent owned. Last week he secured all eight of his targets for 69 yards. This week he gets a defense that's allowed the sixth most fantasy points to tight ends.
sample lineup
As always, I reserve the right to tinker until kickoff. What I love about this lineup is the low exposure I'm getting at just about every position, yet I'm awarded elite talent and opportunity in most cases (and then there's Fitzpatrick). Note that you could easily swap out Blount in favor of Robinson.
There's also $200 left in the budget so should Johnson look iffy come Sunday morning, there's room to plug in Antonio Brown. Blount is the major question mark. Our basic prayer here is that he finds the end zone at least once in a blowout. I'm also getting an elite defense that, though highly owned, could have a monster Monday night. I generally don't like to pay up for defenses but it worked this week.
As a reminder these percentages are based on a Thursday GPP and are subject to change. But the trends are obvious.
QB – Ryan Fitzpatrick ($6,500, 0.7%)
RB – Rashad Jennings ($7,200, 27.1%)
RB – LeGarrette Blount ($4,600, 1.3%)
WR – Dez Bryant ($8,900, 2%)
WR – Calvin Johnson ($8,900, 2.7%)
WR – Demaryius Thomas ($8,600, 2.6%)
TE – Clay Harbor ($5,000, 2%)
K – Robbie Gould ($4,600, 10.5%)
D/ST – Seattle Seahawks ($5,500, 12.6%)
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