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How Remote Monitoring Can Combine Services and Surveillance
The size of the global security guarding and monitoring services industries in 2014 is projected to be more than $85 billion
By Keven Marier
The size of the global security guarding and monitoring services industries in 2014 is projected to be more than $85 billion and has historically been growing at an annual rate of between four and seven percent per year. The growth of the security guarding and monitoring services industry is strongly tied to increased public-sector outsourcing, GDP growth and in recent years adoption of surveillance technology to offer remote security services where security officers are used. This is a great opportunity for all enterprise security leaders, surveillance manufacturers and security service companies to capitalize on the creation of higher valuable service offerings, which are now possible with remote video monitoring.
Network Enablement
The key enabler to remote monitoring is the IP network and IP-enabled devices. These network-based surveillance devices, such as encoders, cameras, door sensors and recorders, have been coming together as a solution for a number of years now. What have been gaining more adoption are game-changing high-definition cameras. With the maturity of these systems and high-definition capabilities are combing together to form new service offerings like remote video monitoring. However, the typical surveillance systems integrator isn't the one building these new service offerings – the guarding and monitoring industries are.
As network-based security devices have advanced to the point of commoditization, device manufacturers have become more focused on adding intelligence in the form of automated monitoring and alerting capabilities. These intelligent capabilities are not replacing security officers or monitoring personnel, but instead are making them more effective and capable of securing larger areas with fewer personnel, which can appeal to enterprise security leaders' budgets. The use of video analytics is used to improve the accuracy of detection and to look for specific types of video motion that would be of interest. Some examples include being able to detect crossing a virtual tripwire, wrong-way detection, or if an object dwells within an area longer than expected. These efficiencies are fueling growth for the services industry because when the added networked-enablement is combined with intelligent systems, the overall service cost comes down for end users.
Remote Video Surveillance Concepts
There are several names for these guarding and monitoring services, but the most literal is "remote video surveillance," which is exactly what it implies. Remote personnel utilizing network-enabled video surveillance systems provide a wide range of services.
The key to these remote video surveillance systems is the utilization of onsite high-tech network surveillance systems, which are used for detection, alarm triggers and remote notification. These local video surveillance systems are integrated with other remote systems over an IP network, which are then used by remote operators or guarding operations in some way. These detection systems can be simple cameras with video motion detection, audio detection devices or much more intelligent systems using video analytic technology.
When all of these high-tech systems come together they create the foundation for remote video surveillance concepts to create value. This isn't a new business concept, but with the new technologies and intelligent systems, new value can be created from old services.
Traditional Basic Guarding
When you combine remote video surveillance concepts with basic guarding and monitoring, service costs can be dramatically reduced without lowering the service quality. Some examples of basic guarding operations that can be replaced with remote video surveillance services are: remote identification and verification, remote tours, remote escorts and remote customer service via kiosk-like systems.
Solutions + Services
It is the inclusion of the remote video surveillance devices, technology and intelligent systems with a guarding and monitoring service into a combined contract that is showing exciting promise for security professionals. These multi-year combined contracts are creating many new opportunities for traditional guarding and monitoring service providers to build technology and device operational competencies which complement the typical systems integrator's deployment capabilities. This is creating a lot of new partnerships between service providers and systems integrators, which will be very healthy for the security industry and security leaders, proving that 1+1=3 within today's high-tech security and services industry.
Keven Marier is the director of Large Account Business Development for Milestone Systems AS. He has a 20-year background in technology consulting, publishing and educating within the physical security technology and enterprise IT industries.
KEYWORDS: remote guarding remote monitoring security systems video surveillance news virtual guarding
Keven Marier is the founder and CEO of Connex International, Inc. He has a 20-year background in technology consulting, publishing and educating within the physical security technology and enterprise IT industries. Connex International Inc. is a 55-person global professional services company providing services to security manufacturers, distributors, systems integrators and end-users in 14 different languages.
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Today's supply chains and logistics rely on automation and knowing what is where and when. Cellular IoT devices such as the nRF9160 support the new long range, low power cellular standards LTE-M and NB-IoT to make these use-cases possible. Offering very long range in the 10's of kilometers and the ability to track across cities, nations and even the globe, they are the choice for anyone needing to track their assets.
Shorter range tracking possibilities exist with mesh networking standards such as Bluetooth mesh and Zigbee with the nRF52 Series SoCs. In combination cellular IoT and short range wireless offer very sophisticated and energy efficient options for the full spectrum of asset management requirements.
Smart fleet management is all about knowing what is happening, where and when with high value assets whilst between production and consumption. Billions of dollars-worth of goods are in transit at any given time every single day, ensuring they arrive on time and in the expected state is essential. Wireless connectivity has a big role to play in this industry, from cellular to Bluetooth to NFC, there is a role to play. Bluetooth specifically has a role in networking transportation vehicles and the hubs they pass in and out of. Bluetooth can fullfil roles in monitoring the conditions in which goods are being transported to driving behaviour to give full insight into goods handling and events. The nRF52 Series offer a broad capability of advanced connectivity options and high performance processing power to meet the varied requirements of this market.
Automated storage and warehousing is benefiting from connected technologies in much the same way as transportation and haulage. It allows for real time insights into location, quantity and condition of product. Bluetooth and Bluetooth mesh, and 802.15.4 based technology such as Thread offer the ability to collect real time data over large areas with wireless simplicity and flexibility. nRF52 Series SoCs with their high performance and energy efficiency, and their associated SDKs for Bluetooth mesh and Thread offer flexible solutions for the automated storage and warehousing industries.


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With a Stripped-Down Message, Toyota Moves Toward Next Phase of Advertising
Carmaker's U.S. marketer looks to its playbook from 2008
Toyota spokesperson Laurel Coppock opens new ads for the brand. Toyota
By Doug Zanger
New messaging is about safety and reliability in uncertain times.
Service centers incorporate no-contact drop-offs.
The latest figures for just about any industry are grim as the next phases of the COVID-19 pandemic become more apparent. No sector is emerging unscathed, and the automotive category is acutely exposed as people stay home and away from showrooms.
Every auto manufacturer is seeing sharp first-quarter sales drops, with Fiat Chrysler tumbling 10% and General Motors sinking 7%, according to the most recent data. For its part, Toyota was in a similar situation with a 9% lag in sales in the quarter. But what is most telling, and likely an ominous harbinger of what's to come, is the brand reported an overall sales drop of 37% in March.
At this point, most automakers, Toyota included, have been pivoting their messages in a similar vein to 2008's financial crisis. The first phase of this new crisis for Toyota was a simple, community-based message of confidence. In phase two, launching today, the brand is beginning to move into a more specific territory. Two ads from Saatchi & Saatchi revolve around a 90-day deferment program and its service centers, which have created contactless services for customers.
Laurel Coppock, the actor who plays spokesperson Jan, appears is front and center in the new campaign.
"[Having Coppock in the ads] gives it instant credibility and recognizability," said Ed Laukes, Toyota North America's marketing group vice president. "She's the trusted face of Toyota."
While the ads are for the broader market, the brand has created some flexibility (about 20 seconds) so that regional groups and local dealers can insert their own messaging, whether it's about a service message or anything else happening in individual markets. According to Laukes, a Maryland dealer group, for example, is running blood drives out of its showrooms.
As Toyota's messaging evolves, Laukes notes that the brand continues to see how the pandemic affects the global economy and, specifically, the parent company in Japan. Based on the changing dynamics, Toyota will then determine the next steps in how it communicates through its advertising.
"Some of the Detroit brands came out immediately with 0% financing for 84 months," noted Laukes. "That's not our strategy, and we don't think messages like that are appropriate right now."
Perhaps a silver lining in the current situation is recent history. All automakers struggled during the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.
"The industry halved overnight," noted Laukes. "There was no playbook, so everybody learned very quickly and learned how to come back to life over time. The one advantage I think we have in this scenario is there is a runway. We can't forecast when things will change, but there will come a time when we'll move into the next phases. This is when the market will start coming back, and what comes from Toyota will be very strong."
Doug Zanger
@zanger doug.zanger@adweek.com Doug Zanger is a senior editor, agencies at Adweek, focusing on creativity and agencies.


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BANKERS MUST ENGAGE WITH SMALL BUSINESSES
Written by Anthony Casey on May 31, 2010 . Posted in News Round up
AIB General Manager Dennis O'Callaghan said at the weekend that banks had no doubt that they needed to support small businesses. At the launch of a €500 million scheme aimed at encouraging SMEs to re-engage with the financial institutions, O'Callaghan said they would be allowing customers to convert some of their borrowings to interest-only repayments for a two-year period. This, he said, would have significant benefits for business. "We're taking a longer term view of businesses where there's a clean line of sight to viability, but they're caught for now and we need to support them," he told the Sunday Business Post.
O'Callaghan said the Government's decision to set up the Credit Review Office – an independent body which investigates cases of borrowers being denied credit – would facilitate greater trust between small businesses and their banks. He said 40 per cent of SMEs had no borrowing requirement, with 35 per cent servicing their borrowings according to their terms. This left 25 per cent of SMEs who had a problem. "Every one of them should feel they can engage with us," O'Callaghan said.
The new lending commitment would be made available to under-pressure businesses once they could demonstrate they had a strong track record, financial capability based on what he termed "sensible" numbers and a credible business plan to navigate the current downturn. The bank would not single out specific sectors that would or would not qualify for the package – but O'Callaghan estimated that the offer would be open to almost 90 per cent of SMEs.
Meanwhile, AIB and Bank of Ireland have both admitted that some of their customers have already brought cases to the Credit Review Office. Enterprise Minister Batt O'Keeffe recently advised businesses to make all credit applications in writing to create an audit trail for possible appeals.
The Sunday Tribune said that banks are trying to "improve their business lending skills" as asset-based lending is no longer the norm.
Tags: banks, cash flow, SME


This was one of those logos that I blacked out designing. I can't tell you what it all means, but maybe Katie can? I tuned into her and came up with this. All I do know is it feels just like her. Free and beautiful.
The font is hand-drawn. All in Illustrator of course.


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RIP Tattoos are usually made for remembering someone who has unconditionally loved or a celebrity who was deeply followed. These comprise of the elements which are associated with the deceased person. Some common examples would be linking anchor for sailors, angelic wings are they have passed away, birds for the bird lovers, etc. Most of these tattoos have the names incorporated to make it evident and to cherish it all the more.
People who leave the world start off another journey which is beyond life. But while they die, they leave many people back on the planet, who will remember them for the rest of their lives. There are many heartbroken people who like to keep the grieve like a hidden memory, while there are many who like to ink themselves and help themselves overcome the grief.
R.I.P Tattoos are very sentimental and that is what makes the concept very beautiful. There are various ways to have them done and each one is customized because they have personal attachments to it. To make your tattoo simple and obvious, you can write the deceased person's name, with a particular date, which was important to the two of you. Your choice of fonts would add to the enhancement of the simplicity.
R.I.P Tattoos are specifically for those people who are strong enough to withstand the pain and move on while time heals. It is advisable to keep a span of over 3 months after someone's demise, to choose the best tattoo design. This not only helps you recover a little but also helps you to remember the good aspects of the relationship they shared. R.I.P Tattoos should help someone remember the impact the deceased person had in their life. It should make them celebrate the good things they were taught and to eliminate the mournful cause.


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Omani Dhows a matter of national pride
15/02/2018 Kabeer Yousuf
Since time immemorial, the art of building dhows has been the privilege of the Sultanate of Oman and a tradition that has been continuing for ages transcending from generation to generation and to this day, the Sultanate remains to be home to the finest dhow builders in the world. In Sur in Al Sharqiyah Governorate, Sidab in Muscat Governorate and elsewhere where the seafaring tradition was the lifestyle once, these crafts are still alive and craftsmen are thriving on their skill being a part of the most modern dhows made to order.
Oman had its pride and glory stitched to the excellence of its skillfully built boats known for their finesse and perfection added with the brilliance of its sailors, whose maritime expertise at times of adverse weather conditions and in deep seas built up the country's commercial networking those days. The 'Jewel of Oman' is the flag-bearer of the Omani tradition of the art of dhow making.
Although these dhows were at along the coastal areas of the Sultanate, a few places like Sur are today following the art of dhow making as a tradition which is, in reality, a vast window opened to a rich past and more than that, it reminds of a dying tradition of dhow making.
The word dhow means all traditional wooden-hulled Arabian boats. However, the local residents distinguish between all types of wide, small and medium-sized boats, powered by engines or otherwise. While the dhows called sambuq and ghanjah which are boasted a high, square stern, seemingly inspired by the design of Portuguese galleons, the traditional Arabian dhow as we see around is the large, ocean-going boom which is curved at both ends.
Yet another distinction is that the traditional dhows were driven by huge triangular designs which allow them to sail through the high seas very close to the wind than its counterparts. However, these hand-rowed vessels have now been replaced by high horse-powered engines.
What made these traditional dhows different is that the planks which are usually made of teak wood are sewn together using coconut rope while nails supported the woods to stay together.
Highlighting the cultural heritage of Oman vis a vis their country, the French Embassy, in collaboration with The Omani-French Centre, is on a mission to display some of the finest dhow models in the country from. It also aims at displaying the similarities that both countries and developing the links between the two countries by taking part in socio-cultural activities. The project consists of the exhibition of models of Omani dhows, made by the Oman Maritime Workshop, where the Jewel of Muscat was also manufactured.
Through this exhibition, the embassy aims at making known to a wider public one of the rich heritage of Oman's tangible societal life, recalling the long and fulfilling relationship of the Sultanate with the sea, through models of Omani traditional dhows, manufactured in a traditional way, by enthusiastic and talented craftsmen, and to celebrate the mutual relations by showing their craft work. It will be held at the Omani-French Centre from February 13 or 20 for one month.
"Photos of exhibits comprise the model of Jewel of Muscat along with the Shasha, Dhows' models and other objects associated with the eventful past", Narjes Krichen, Chargée de mission culturelle at the French Embassy noted.
"It is said that the specially commissioned dhow called 'Sohar' as narrated in the 'The Sindbad Voyage' was actually built in Sur and is now placed at the Dhow roundabout in the capital city. This is sufficient to invoke a sense of curiosity in the visitors' minds and take them to the Omani-French Centre at the Madinat Sultan Qaboos today."
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Hello again, all you small biz betties out there. This week we will start getting in to the nuts and bolts of how to start your business online, with something I call the "Small Business Triple Crown."
A place where you can show your personality and share your projects and products.
A high-traffic place where you and your customers can interact, and they can easily promote your brand.
The place where you actually sell your goods.
Just starting out, you don't need to have all three in place right away. You can take time to build one, then another. So which do you start with?
Your blog is your most powerful tool online, and allows you to publish information about yourself and what you do. Bazillions of people read blogs about all kinds of stuff, so this is an excellent place to start to build you brand.
You can easily create a blog for free using Google Blogger, as well as Wordpress. I personally like Blogger because it is very easy to use and customize, and also comes with "the blogosphere," a ready-made community of blog followers ready to subscribe to your "followers" list.
Put pictures, nice big ones, in every post - at least one picture every time, but more is always better.
Post often about relevant subjects - if yours is a dressmaking blog, readers want to see photos of your dress projects, your inspiration images, and especially pictures of you *in* your finished dresses.
Use labels/tags to organize your posts. Try to keep it to as few labels as possible.
Be helpful - write your blog as a "guide" for others.
Use white text on a black background - odd, I know, but it strains the eyes.
Get too personal, political, or religious - remember that the blog is supporting your future/current business, and you don't want to alienate readers and potential customers.
Post too many pet, baby, or child photos unless they are specifically to do with your craft.
Post an unbroken, all-text entry - break it up with headers, bullet points, and most importantly - PICTURES.
This is the social presence of the moment, although it may change in the future. Right now, it's a grand idea to have a Facebook page dedicated solely to your business and blog. The Facebook page supports the blog, and also allows you to more directly connect with your readership, fans, and customer base.
To create a page, click the "Pages and Ads" header on the left side of your Facebook sidebar, then click "Create a Page" and go through all the steps. Be sure to add a profile picture, and put some of your past and current projects in photo albums. Remember - pictures are attractive and easily shared!
The first people you will ask to "Like" your page are your friends, but you can also post on your blog about your new Facebook page, and put a link in the sidebar. You will start to collect followers, and don't be discouraged if it is not a lot at first - it does take some time.
Use your Facebook page to post photos of your projects, links to cool, relevant stuff you find on the web, to ask questions to your followers, start conversations, etc. When the time comes, you can pitch your product to your followers, or even better, ask their opinions about it.
...Post irrelevant, inflammatory, or too-personal stuff - save that for your private Facebook page.
...Pitch only your products all the time - remember it's social, not meant to be a broadcasting platform.
Lastly, you need a storefront from which to sell your swag. This can be your own webpage, or a supported shopping site like Etsy, Storenvy, or eBay. For those of you just starting out, I highly recommend one of the supported store platforms, particularly Etsy (but only if you are making your own stuff, or selling vintage).
Why choose a supported shop platform? For one, setting up shopping cart systems on a webpage can be a real hassle, whereas these existing platforms all have integrated cart systems that are already built, and flawless. Also, all of these store sites already have huge traffic ready to come and buy your product, whereas a stand-alone site is "out in the wilderness," and needs traffic driven to it by you.
Take clear, sharp, detailed photos of your product, and provide as many photos as you are allowed.
Write clear descriptions and include pertinent information such as sizing and material content - or if you are selling vintage, be sure to accurately list any damage or age the pieces have.
Make sure your store is easy to navigate, and easy to buy products from.
Link back to your blog and facebook page!
...Tamper with photos - you need to represent the product honestly and accurately.
...Be shady with descriptions - like the photos, be honest about the condition of a vintage item, otherwise the person who receives it will feel ripped off and will never buy from you again.
...Get too wordy - keep things concise, but descriptive. Don't write a novel about your product!
Now you have work to do! Get your blog set up and start blogging! Make your Facebook page and start posting! Create your storefront, if you are ready, and start photographing your products.
Later on, I will talk more about blogging and storefronts, along with how to take stunning photos of your products. Stay tuned for more SBB!
If you have questions you'd like answered, or are a small business owner and would like to guest post for SBB, drop me a line - lauren@american-duchess.com .
I'd love to hear your tips for taking good product photographs. That's the one portion of this equation that continues to elude me.
If you go over to Etsy and sign up for their newsletters as an artisan, they have an archive available that has a lot of good information available on that subject.
I have a question: if you want to develop a product that will be made overseas (like your shoes are), how do you find suppliers?
Hi G.L. - without going to in-depth here in the comments (there will be future SBB posts about this), I will use either Global Sourcing or Alibaba to find suppliers in other countries. China is the most dominant on these sites, but there are also suppliers from Europe, Mexico, Canada, other Asian countries. I typically find a factory that makes something similar, then I will send them a note, through the host website, with what I'd like to do. Global Sourcing also allows you to send the same inquiry on to all factories in your given area - for instance, if you are looking for a hardware factory to produce jewelry, you can send out your inquiry to, like, a hundred different hardware factories. Filtering them out when you start to get the replies takes patience, but it all comes down to quality and price point.
That is true, about the spam - well, it's factories trying to win your business, so it can be annoying or helpful, depending on if you're looking for those services. It's a good idea to separate your business e-mail from your personal.
I'm curious to hear your viewpoint on Facebook as it is now. Apparently typically you only reach a fraction of your followers, not all of them, due to edgeranking. And now, it's even worse, in that you may only be able to reach a finite percent of them unless you pay Facebook to promote your posts. (Which isn't inexpensive.) I know it's FB's prerogative to make money, but what's the point of being on there if the best you can do without paying is to reach 20% of your hard-won followers? I find it very frustrating.
Maggie - that makes me SO mad. I typically only reach about 20-40% of my followers, and when I experimented with a promoted post, paying the minimum, it was only about 55%! GRRRR! I'm not totally sure what we as users can do about that at this point, but there will always be evolving ways of socially connecting with your community/customer base/fandom...something new will come along.
Here's my 2 cents from the point of view of a fb follower: usually, if I bother to "like" a business or a brand on fb, I specifically go and check out the page from time to time, because I KNOW that I'm missing out on their updates due to the suckiness of fb. The decisive thing is what gets posted there. If all that ends up on the fb page also ends up on the blog, I'll probably stop checking the fb page and only check the blog.
I have a small business and I started exactly like you suggested - at first I started to write a blog, then made a page in Facebook and now am creating my own website. Etsy is an option too, but I don´t have ready made items, so I have to figure out how to make something to sell through Etsy, otherwise it would be shame not to use that great opportunity.
Love your Small Biz Betties series!
You will find that Etsy has an abundance of mass produced goods that people are trying to pass off as handmade. There used to be an option for brokering custom orders on the site, but they got rid of that option for some reason. There have been a lot of complaints to Etsy about these and other issues, but apparently it doesn't matter to them. While I don't suggest flying in the face of their official policies and using them for these purposes, there are other retail communities that are a little more artist friendly, such as Artfire.
All the online stuff can be overwhelming, true. I spend WAY too much time on Facebook, and I set myself a New Years resolution to blog every single day about *something* - sometimes it's a hassle! However, if you're trying to sell stuff online, keeping up to date on blog and FB can be an awesome selling tool, so it is worth the time, in my opinion.
Cool. I've accidently come up with a similar plan for a Victorian Costume club a friend and I want to start. There are such clubs in the states but none here that I can find. There is one that likes midieval times and one that likes the early 1800s but not a Victorian one. I talk about trying to get this club going in my blog. My friend and I have decided that the next two steps to getting new members are 1) cards we can hand out when we are out in costume that states the name of the club and how to contact us. 2)Set up a facebook account for the club which provides an easy and relatively safe way for near strangers to contact us. Today we are going out with little flyers as we haven't had time to get the cards made up yet!
Handing out cards or fliers works great, especially for a local club, as well as a facebook page to support the members you gain, both through meeting people out in the real world, and online. The two costume clubs here (Great Basin Costume Society and High Desert Steam) both have FB pages that events are posted on, and people can comment, post, and interact. It works great!
Great post! And I love love the photos!!!


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Blues festival brouhaha settled
"I grew up in the streets. And guess what? I ain't never flinched in my life."
Those were the words of an exuberant Vince Tria immediately after learning that the nonprofit Vail-Leavitt Music Hall, which he serves as treasurer, was going to maintain control of the Riverhead Blues and Music Festival.
The Brooklyn-born and -raised Mr. Tria, owner of WRIV radio 1390, had been locked in a weeks-long, politically charged battle over the two-day summer bash. The fight pitted him and other Vail-Leavitt board members against the presidents of the Riverhead Chamber of Commerce and the downtown Business Improvement District and, by political connection, the Riverhead Town supervisor.
Both the Vail and the chamber groups filed competing permit applications in Town Hall last month to run the event, with Supervisor Sean Walter advocating for chamber control.
But about noon Friday, Mr. Tria and Robert Lanieri, the Chamber of Commerce president, met with Mr. Walter and the three men hammered out a tentative deal.
The agreement called for the Vail-Leavitt to keep control of the festival it had run since 2006, with the chamber helping to attract corporate sponsorships and running some booths, while also sharing in some of the proceeds.
A longtime confidant and ally of former Supervisor Phil Cardinale, who lost a re-election bid in November to Mr. Walter, Mr. Tria later complimented Mr. Walter.
During the public comment portion of Tuesday's Town Board hearing, he took the podium to say, "I want to thank the supervisor for being a great mediator. You have no idea what a relief this is, and we guarantee you it will be a bigger, greater event."
The chamber's proposed takeover of the Blues Festival followed complaints that Mr. Tria was heavy-handed in running the event. There was a behind-the-scenes effort of have him removed as treasurer of Vail-Leavitt during the clash.
As part of the deal reached Friday, Mr. Tria agreed to show a detailed statement from the Vail-Leavitt outlining any profits or losses from the event, which has a charge for admission, unlike with other Riverhead events run by nonprofit groups.
"I think we're in good shape," Mr. Walter said after the meeting Friday, expressing cautious optimism both parties would play a role at the festival.
While the Vail-Leavitt board of directors approved the deal, the Chamber of Commerce board decided against having any involvement in the festival.
As expected, the chamber pulled its permit application at Tuesday's Town Board meeting, but Mr. Lanieri also passed a letter to Mr. Walter stating the chamber didn't want to participate at all. The letter stated "… the [chamber] Board of Directors cannot commit to a financial agreement that lacks transparency and full disclosure on the part of all participating parties."
Vail-Leavitt's special permit application then was approved by a unanimous vote of the five-member Town Board.
A week ago, with the clock ticking on the time required to book acts for the July event, the standoff seemed to put the fate of the festival very much in doubt.
Talks to settle the matter had hit a dead end, including allegations that the chamber had plagiarized its permit application. Vail-Leavitt threatened it would sue over Blues Festival copyright infringements.
Reached after the Tuesday meeting, Mr. Lanieri of the chamber commented, "Everybody should have a clear job and I think in this last proposal that they came up with, I didn't see anything clear about it."
The original hope, he added, was that Vail-Leavitt and the Business Improvement District would each chip in to help with the event, with the chamber controlling the finances and the Vail-Leavitt running the music end.
Some downtown business owners say they lose money or have otherwise felt alienated during the two-day show, which draws between 10,000 and 20,000 people downtown. "Those businesses downtown have a right and should have a voice and quite frankly I don't see that," Mr. Lanieri said Tuesday afternoon, saying "only time would tell" if the Vail-Leavitt makes a more concerted effort to address the concerns of all Main Street businesses.
"But the most important part of this whole thing is that the festival happens, because it is in the best interest of downtown," Mr. Lanieri said.
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Chocolate is commonly used to test whether food has been tainted by its packaging
09-Mar-2016 - Last updated on 09-Mar-2016 at 16:10 GMT
Picture credit: Petra Berggren.
Related tags: Food contact materials, Olfaction
Preserving the quality and freshness of edible products and protecting them from heat, light and oxygen put heavy demands on packaging.
Packaging should also preserve the taste and odour of foods so consumers get what they are expecting every time. Achieving all of this is a complicated task that requires a combination of chemical and human sensory analyses.
Chocolate absorbs volatile compounds easily
At Iggesund's Laboratory for Sensory and Chemical Analyses in Iggesund, Sweden, a sensory team works with an external panel of 40 experts who are trained to determine whether food and other goods have been tainted by their packaging.
A chemical analysis is then conduced in the laboratory to determine the source of any tainting and to rectify the problem.
"Chocolate is commonly used on the testing table," said Sara Jonsson, development engineer, Iggesund's Laboratory for Sensory and Chemical Analyses.
The chocolate is placed in a jar together with paperboard so that volatile compounds from the paperboard can be absorbed to see if he chocolate changes flavour.
"Chocolate is convenient to use and rather fat, so it absorbs volatile compounds easily," she added.
Migration and flavour scalping should be avoided as much as possible. In migration, odours and flavours from the packaging material are transferred to the product in the package.
Flavour scalping occurs when flavours from a product are transferred to the packaging material.
"Packaging is there to protect the foodstuffs and maintain flavours," said Jonsson.
"If necessary, you can use a barrier with the paperboard such as aluminium foil to restrict the flavour loss."
It's all right for packaging to have a slight odour
Her colleague, chemist, Torgny Ljungberg, said it's all right for packaging to have a slight odour, as long as it doesn't influence the flavour of the contents.
"If it smells strange, however, it makes you suspicious and more negative towards the product," he said.
"The first thing you do when you open a package is to sniff, and if something from the printing ink or varnish gives off an unpleasant smell, then you won't want whatever is in the package."
Jonsson and Ljungberg.
Ljungberg said such was the case when a German chocolate producer switched to a package that released a smell of varnish.
"The varnish was not interacting with the chocolate or compromising it in any way, but the company lost customers due to this odour," he added.
Today, most producers of sensitive foodstuffs know which varnishes, inks and glues to avoid, he said. There are also strict regulations regarding what can be used from a health and safety standpoint.
National legislation states which chemicals are allowed in packaging that is in direct contact with food.
"If you want to be on the safe side, it's best to use virgin fibre paperboard, but there are ways to use barriers to avoid the transfer of volatiles in packaging," said Ljungberg.
Virgin fibre
Board made from virgin fibre is suitable for packaging of sensitive foodstuffs because it is clean, stable, and has good printability and convertibility so it can both promote and protect its contents, said Edvin Thurfjell, product manager, Graphics and Packaging, Invercote.
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Rules & Regulations
In the EU, food contact materials and articles must comply with Regulation 1935/2004 of the European Parliament. According to this, food contact materials under normal and foreseeable conditions of use may not transfer their components to food in quantities that could endanger human health, cause unacceptable change to the composition or deteriorate the organoleptic characteristics of the food.
In the absence of harmonised legislation for paper and paperboard, products have to fulfil relevant requirements in the countries where the products are sold.
"Tint, odour and microbial contamination are as minimal as we can make it, and these properties are stable over time. This is something you wouldn't achieve with non-virgin fibres," he added.
In addition to health and safety features, consumers want consistency. "When you buy a special brand, you want that brand to always taste the same from one year to the next," said Ljungberg.
"In the 1980s we tried to convince a chocolate manufacturer in England to use our board rather than his recycled board, which interacted more with the flavour.
"They refused to switch, saying; 'Our customers expect our chocolate to have a board flavour.'"
It's best not to underestimate consumer expectations, added Ljungberg.
"Milk in a carton doesn't taste like milk directly from the cow. It has a bit of a carton flavour, but this is what we are used to and have come to expect," he said. "We don't like the taste of fresh milk from cows.
"So before making a packaging change for food, carefully weigh every aspect of how the paperboard and products will interact with each other."
Source: Cari Simmons, inspire magazine, Iggesund Paperboard, Issue 52, 2016
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) - The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals has granted Attorney General Darrell McGraw's motion to intervene in a lawsuit over the state's Public Campaign Financing Pilot Program.
The state's high court issued a brief, two-page order granting McGraw's controversial motion late Tuesday.
"The Court is of opinion to and doth hereby grant the motion to intervene," it wrote.
"It is therefore ordered that the Attorney General Darrell V. McGraw Jr. be, and he hereby is, made a party in this matter."
Managing Deputy Attorney General Barbara Allen, writing for McGraw, explained in the motion filed with the Court late Friday, that the petitioner in the state case -- Supreme Court candidate Allen Loughry -- and the respondents -- Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, Gary A. Collias, William N. Renzelli and Robert Rupp -- all argue that the matching funds provision is constitutional.
However, the other two named respondents, State Auditor Glen Gainer and State Treasurer John Perdue, take no position.
"Thus, the case is in an unusual procedural position: the only individual or entity taking a position adversarial to the petitioner's position is not a party to the litigation," Allen wrote in the three-page filing.
"In the event this Court rules in favor of the petitioner, there will be no party with standing to seek review in the United States Supreme Court; and in the event this Court rules against the petitioner, there will be no adversarial party in certiorari proceedings (should the petitioner elect to file such proceedings)."
Allen said the attorney general's only interest in the litigation -- and his only purpose for filing the motion -- is to ensure that the arguments in the case "may be tested at every level through adversarial proceedings, the foundation of our system of justice."
To read the rest of this story, go to the West Virginia Record.


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Outside of music Olson continues to pursue his interest in photography and narrative film work. He is also the author of the short story collection, Gloom.
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By the Time It Gets Dark, known in Thai as Dao Khanong (), is a 2016 Thai drama film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong. It won the 2016 Suphannahong National Film Awards for Best Picture. It was also selected as the Thai entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot
The 1976 Thammasat University massacre is experienced through several individuals working to create a film about the event.

Cast
 Arak Amornsupasiri
 Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
 Achtara Suwan
 Visra Vichit-Vadakan
 Penpak Sirikul

Critical response
The film has a rating of 87% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 73 score on Metacritic.

See also
 List of submissions to the 90th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
 List of Thai submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

2016 films
2016 drama films
Thai drama films
Thai-language films
Drama films based on actual events
Best Picture Suphannahong National Film Award winners
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32, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; assigned to 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade Grafenwoehr, Germany; died Aug. 14 in Yahya Khel district, Paktika province, Afghanistan, while conducting vehicle recovery operations and encountered a secondary explosion while dismounted. Also killed was Sgt. Matthew A. Harmon.
DETROIT — Following his father and grandfather into the military wasn't what Joseph VanDreumel initially planned as a career, until being laid off from a western Michigan furniture company prompted him to reconsider.
Joseph VanDreumel, 32, was helping recover a disabled mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, in Afghanistan when he was killed by a roadside bomb, relatives said. Another soldier, Sgt. Matthew A. Harmon of Bagley, Minn., also died in Sunday's blast, the Defense Department confirmed Tuesday.
Both men were part of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade based in Grafenwoehr, Germany.
"Joe just took me by surprise," Dennis VanDreumel said of his son's decision to join the Army last year after he lost his job. The married father of two had been building office systems for Zeeland-based office furniture and accessories maker Herman Miller Inc.
His second career choice pleased both his father and father-in-law, Allen Greiner. The elder VanDreumel retired from the Navy after 24 years, and Greiner served 20 years with the Michigan Army National Guard. Joseph VanDreumel's grandfather, Ken Phillips, served in the Air Force's Presidential Flight Crew.
Before enlisting, Joseph VanDreumel lived with his wife, Sarah, and two children, 10-year-old Angel and 8-year-old Skyler, in the unincorporated community of Standale in Ottawa County's Georgetown Township.
U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, the Republican congressman whose district includes the area, said the community would rally around and assist the family.
Funeral arrangements were incomplete Tuesday but Greiner said services are planned at Holy Spirit Church in Grand Rapids.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A memorial service was held Monday in Grand Rapids for a Michigan soldier killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
Relatives and friends of U.S. Army Cpl. Joseph A. VanDreumel gathered at Holy Spirit Catholic Church, The Grand Rapids Press reported.
A military burial was to follow. U.S. flags were ordered lowered across the state Monday by Gov. Rick Snyder.
VanDreumel died Aug. 14 after a roadside bomb detonated while he was recovering a vehicle hit by an earlier blast in Paktika province.
The 32-year-old joined the Army in January 2010 and trained at Fort Knox, Ky. He served in Germany from August 2010 through July 2011 and then in Afghanistan.
"He felt it was the right decision. It was an experience and opportunity for the whole family," his father, Dennis VanDreumel said.
Joseph A. VanDreumel's family was presented with his Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
VanDreumel graduated in 1997 from Jenison High School.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah; children, Angel and Skyler; parents, Dennis and Karen VanDreumel; a brother and sister.


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10 Guys on Getting Emotional About Their Baby
10 Guys On the Exact Moment Having a Baby Made Them Super Emo
"I'm pretty sure when she was born my brain melted and my head just evacuated every tear it had. And I never cry."
By Cosmo Frank Published: Jun 2, 2017
1. "I thought I got pretty emotional a few times while my wife was pregnant. But it didn't really compare to the actual birth of my daughter. I teared up a few times thinking about having a kid and a family while my life was pregnant. But I'm pretty sure when she was born my brain melted and my head just evacuated every tear it had. And I never cry." — Derick, 32
2. "There was a moment where my wife and I had a scare… our baby was fine, but we wound up at the OB and had to get a scan. It was pretty early in the pregnancy and I don't think I had really thought of the baby as anything other than 'the baby.' I guess my paternal instincts hadn't really turned on yet. But when we were waiting for the doctors and weren't sure what was going on, I remember really being afraid. It wasn't just a baby, it was my baby. I'm happy to report he's now two years old and doing fine." — Alden, 34
3. "I think the first time it really hit me that this was a journey I was going on was watching my wife in our nursery sing to the unborn baby. I don't know what it was about that moment, but I just remember thinking, 'eventually she's going to be singing to a baby that's outside the womb.' It sounds so stupid, but that was my first real moment." — Sean, 35
4. "I was building the crib. And it was a huge pain in the ass. We wanted to make sure it was ready to go just in case, but our due date was still a few months out. And I'm crouched on the floor, and I'm sweaty and I'm frustrated and I'm thinking about how I wasted hours of my Saturday dealing with this shit. And then it was almost like a little voice came in and reminded me I'm really doing this for my kid and I better get used to it. But, like, in a nice way." — Joe, 33
5. "It was during a talk I had with my dad and just realizing all the hard work that was going to go into having this kid and then realizing that my parents did all that for me. I'm not going to lie, I got a little choked up. I always appreciated my parents, but I just felt like I had a whole new perspective suddenly." — Jim, 31
6. "I got sucker-punched when I was cleaning up the baby's nursery. My wife and my whole family had gone kind of crazy and bought a lot of things for our daughter early. So I was putting away clothes and I guess I hadn't realized just how tiny they were. I realized that she was this tiny little thing… I think I was basically expecting like, a one-year-old to come out. It really hit me." — Zack, 30
7. "If I'm being totally honest, it was a few days after he was born. I was excited and emotional during the birth but I was sort of running on adrenaline then (water broke during the middle of the night). So I was all over the place. It was when I was holding him and he fell asleep that I just lost it." — Brian, 32
8. "He was the first grandkid in our family, so everyone was excited, but I think it was seeing my hard-partying younger brother get excited about being an uncle. It was a slow build-up, but I think knowing that even he was freaking out about it was what made it feel real if that makes sense." — Christopher, 31
9. "Second ultrasound. The first one, you just see a little spec, basically. It's tough to look at that and really appreciate that it's your baby. But the second one? It's your child in there for sure. It's crazy." — Rick, 29
10. "We actually had to get an ultrasound really late in the pregnancy because our son was so big they wanted to see if a vaginal birth was dangerous. So for those of you who haven't had any kids, you really don't usually get these in the last month unless there are extenuating circumstances. Anyway, we asked the tech to turn on the '3D imaging' and we basically got to see our son's fully-formed face in the womb. I'm pretty sure I said 'holy shit' in the hospital. I'm not sure what I said, honestly, I was just fixated on his face. That was the realest it had felt at that point." — Kevin, 34
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The Lochside distillery was founded in 1957 by Joseph Hobbs on what was once the site of the 1781-built James Deuchar Brewery. Established as a distillery of both malt and grain as well as a blending and bottling facility, Lochside had four pot stills and a Coffey still for grain distillation. Joseph ran the distillery under MacNab Distilleries Ltd until November of 1973, at which point it was acquired by Destilerias y Crianza del Whisky SA of Madrid, a subsidiary of Pedro Domecq Sherry.
Under the Spanish ownership, Lochside became a component of the Macnab's blend. In 1992, Pedro Domecq was acquired by Allied Distillers and Lochside was closed shortly after. The warehousing facilities remained for some time, though they were, in turn, closed five years later. Lochside drew its waters from a borehole aquifer beneath the distillery. The spirit was distilled in two pairs of stills and then matured in ex-bourbon casks.
Permission was granted to demolish the distillery in 2004, though shortly after a fire broke out and destroyed the buildings. What was left has been demolished and a DIY centre now stands in its place. Naturally, official releases are hard to come by; the closest thing being a bottling named Macnab, not to be confused with the blend that Lochside was component of, though both have the same name. There have, however, been independent releases.
Lochside 1981 (bottled 2015) (Lot No. RO/15/07) - Rare Old (Gordon & MacPhail)
70cl, 46%
Though the Lochside distillery is gone (it was closed in 1992 and finally demolished in 2005), you can still get a taste of their whiskies from independent bottlings - just like this one right here!… More info
Lochside 1991 (bottled 2010) - Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon & MacPhail)
The Lochside has long been silent, with its doors shutting for the final time in 1992. However, rare example of their whisky still make it to our hands - which we're always rather excited to see!… More info
Lochside 1972 (bottled 2017) - The Last Drop
A rare bottling of Lochside single grain Scotch whisky, bottled as part of the Last Drop series. The Lochside distillery closed back in the early 1990s, but their grain production stopped long before… More info
A rather exciting bottling of single malt Scotch whisky from the Lochside distillery. This was distilled in 1981 and bottled in 2015 by Gordon & MacPhail for their Rare Old collection. Though the… More info
Lochside 52 Year Old 1963 (cask 11835) - The Sovereign (Hunter Laing)
70cl, 48.1%
Aged in a single refill hogshead (with no artificial colour added, of course) this grain whisky has taken on a gorgeous hue during it's maturation. Aged for over half a century, it was distilled at… More info
Lochside 47 Year Old 1965 Single Blend (Adelphi)
Founded in 1957, the now closed Lochside distillery produced both grain and malt whisky under the ownership of Joseph Hobbs, much like Ben Nevis. This bottling from Adelphi was matured in a single… More info
Lochside 44 Year Old 1967 (cask 807) - The Coopers Choice (The Vintage Malt Whisky Co.)
A 44 year old Lochside from this now closed distillery. With most of the output going into blends such as Sandy Macnab's, single malts from Lochside are extremely rare, with the distillery having… More info
Lochside 1965 47 Year Old (Adelphi)
The Highland distillery of Lochside was founded in 1898 but sadly closed in 1992, then was demolished in 2005. This bottling from Adelphi was distilled in 1965 and is an impressive forty-seven years… More info
Lochside 1991 (bottled 2011) - Connoisseurs Choice (Gordon and MacPhail)
Distilled at the Lochside distillery in Montrose in 1991 and aged for 13 years in refill bourbon barrels before bottling by Gordon and MacPhail. More info
This was distilled at the Lochside distillery in 1965. It was then filled into cask 6778 where it rested for the next 46 years before bottling by Adelphi in 2011. It was bottled at natural cask… More info
Lochside 19 Year Old 1991 - Old Malt Cask (Douglas Laing)
A nineteen year old whisky from the (now closed) Lochside distillery. Hailed as many as the smartest investment in whisky - closed distilleries are fast becoming extremely collectable. More info
Lochside 1981 (Gordon and MacPhail)
A Gordon and MacPhail bottling from the now silent Lochside distillery, distilled in 1981 and bottled in 2005. More info
Lochside 1990 14 Year Old - Old Malt Cask (Douglas Laing)
A Douglas Laing bottling of the now closed Lochside distillery. Jim Murray scored this rare single cask release 94 points! More info
A collectible bottling of Lochside single malt! This was distilled in 1991 and was bottled by Gordon & MacPhail in 2003 for the Connoisseurs Choice range. Unfortunately the distillery was shut in the… More info
Single malt from the Lochside distillery (sadly closed in 1992), independently bottled by Gordon & MacPhail for the Connoisseurs Choice range. This rare whisky was distilled in 1991 and bottled in… More info
About Lochside
Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard)
The legendary Joseph W. Hobbs starts production at Lochside Distillery, housed in the old brewery James Deuchar Brewery. Macnab Distillery Ltd is responsible for operations and uses the whisky in their blended Sandy Macnab's. Only grain whisky is produced the first years.
Malt whisky is also distilled.
Joseph Hobbs passes away and his son Joe takes over.
Production stops.
The Spanish company Destilerias y Crianza del Whisky (later to be acquired by Pedro Domecq) buys the distillery and restarts production.
Grain whisky production ceases.
The last distillation takes place in May and the distillery is then mothballed.
Allied Lyons buys Pedro Domecq and changes name to Allied Domecq.
All equipment and stored whisky is removed from the buildings.
The facilities are partly destroyed by a fire. Chivas Brothers (Pernod Ricard) become new owners through the acquisition of Allied Domecq.
Reproduced from the Malt Whisky Yearbook 2009 with the kind permission of Mr Ingvar Ronde.


With a forecast for torrential rain all day we had a really good turn out, so good we had to double up in places as we did not have a huge length of hedge to work with.
After the usual formality of signing on and sorting out who was working where the heavens opened, but much to Chris BC's disappointment it stopped after a few minutes.
The hedge was a mix of different species, and most of the plants were quite small, with just a few more "meaty" ones to work with. The frith pile was thus very small.
David Dunk fulfilled one of his ambitions and managed to pleach and remove the heal on a stem using just a penknife.
Most sections went down pretty quickly, and with nice sunny weather there was time for people to chat without getting soaked. Sadly Bob's truck broke down, but as he was in the cafe he called on the support of another diner and the stakes and binders were delivered in good time.
The landowner put on a stunning lunch of home reared pig, soup, cheese and bikkies, coffee and beer, good job most people had finished prior to lunch after that lot.
promoting and teaching hedge laying in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire.


The Limitless RDTA is a rebuildable Genesis style tank which is the best of both worlds, the taste of a dripper with the convenience of a tank.
If I could rate this between 4 and 5 stars that'd be great.
For starters I Love the limitless RDTA but I have two minor complaints if you get a bit hasty filling it, it will push right back out of the fill port (happens with all RDTA's that I know of). When I got it all the O-rings weir wayyyy to thin if I turned it upside down either all the juice would leak out or the whole thing would fall apart. Besides that this thing works amazing and is packed with flavor in every hit even when the thank is empty if I could I'd rate it at like 4.75 stars.


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Stochastic population dynamics: The Poisson approximation
Solari, HG and Natiello, Mario LU (2003) In Physical Review E 67(3: 031918).
We introduce an approximation to stochastic population dynamics based on almost independent Poisson processes whose parameters obey a set of coupled ordinary differential equations. The approximation applies to systems that evolve in terms of events such as death, birth, contagion, emission, absorption, etc., and we assume that the event-rates satisfy a generalized mass-action law. The dynamics of the populations is then the result of the projection from the space of events into the space of populations that determine the state of the system (phase space). The properties of the Poisson approximation are studied in detail. Especially, error bounds for the moment generating function and the generating function receive particular attention.... (More)
We introduce an approximation to stochastic population dynamics based on almost independent Poisson processes whose parameters obey a set of coupled ordinary differential equations. The approximation applies to systems that evolve in terms of events such as death, birth, contagion, emission, absorption, etc., and we assume that the event-rates satisfy a generalized mass-action law. The dynamics of the populations is then the result of the projection from the space of events into the space of populations that determine the state of the system (phase space). The properties of the Poisson approximation are studied in detail. Especially, error bounds for the moment generating function and the generating function receive particular attention. The deterministic approximation for the population fractions and the Langevin-type approximation for the fluctuations around the mean value are recovered within the framework of the Poisson approximation as particular limit cases. However, the proposed framework allows to treat other limit cases and general situations with small populations that lie outside the scope of the standard approaches. The Poisson approximation can be viewed as a general (numerical) integration scheme for this family of problems in population dynamics. (Less)
Solari, HG and Natiello, Mario LU
Mathematics (Faculty of Engineering)
Analysis and Dynamics-lup-obsolete (research group)
Dynamical systems (research group)
Physical Review E
3: 031918
10.1103/PhysRevE.67.031918
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author       = {Solari, HG and Natiello, Mario},
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number       = {3: 031918},
publisher    = {American Physical Society},
series       = {Physical Review E},
title        = {Stochastic population dynamics: The Poisson approximation},
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Q: Help expanding this summation for VDW mixing rules I've hit a bit of a wall when trying to expand this summation but for the life of me can't get it right.
$\sum_{i} \sum_{j} y_i y_j {a_i}_j $
for a 2 component system.

A: For anyone that also struggles with it
the answer is
y1y1a11 + y1y2a12 + y2y1a21 + y2y2a22
and noting a12 = a21 (for these specific mixing rules)
= (y1^2)a11 + 2y1y2a12 + (y2^2)a22

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Argaï - The Prophecy (2000) :: About the Series :: About Share
Argaï - Le Film
Subject: Argaï - Le Film Sun 18 Jan 2015, 8:47 pm
A production of a 3D Movie about the original Argaï Series.
It would become a Cinema Movie with a duration of approximately 1:30:00.
How the producers are planning to put all elements in it from the series is unknown.
It's been started before June 2012 and is still "In Production",
according to their website that hasn't been (visually) changed since they posted it. However, the link location has been moved once.
Few people have tried to contact them about the status of the movie.
As far as we know, they had some financial problems and the project has been abandoned.
This doesn't necessarily mean that it is stopped, they just don't work on it for the time being
and can continue in the future. What has been shared as well is that they had to change
the original idea they had for the final movie, due to those financial problems,
causing the movie to be shorter or having worse quality.
Below you can find a 'Trailer' and Concept Art of that new movie, to give an idea of the rendering.
Argaï - The Prophecy (2000) :: About the Series :: About


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Q: Ruby On Rails CMS Framework I want to create a framework for rails application. It will be a rails application but packed into gem (like a Radiant CMS).
It must work like this:
gem install cmsframework

and then:
cmsframework the_app

After that we have a skeleton framework for a rails app, without any controllers, etc. All controllers are loaded from cmsframework gem.
If I want to rewrite some files (for example public/styles.css), I must simply create it in my app (the_app).
If I want new functions in my app I can create a plugin. But the main functionalities must be loaded from cmsframework gem.
What is the best way to implement this?

A: Maybe start here: http://guides.rails.info/plugins.html. Pay close attention to the parts about adding custom generators and packaging as a gem. This may help as well: http://railscasts.com/episodes/218-making-generators-in-rails-3.

A: You can use this framework it is very good CamaleonCMS


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Decentering Milestone Legislation
York University Libraries, Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, Toronto Telegram fonds, ASC04612
Written by guest blogger Shannon Stettner.
Years are important in the learning and retelling of history. Years act as signposts. We memorialize years, commemorating anniversaries of events, measuring distance from alleged turning points. But perhaps, as historians, we rely too heavily on pointing to one moment or event as pivotal to the stories we tell. When Katrina Ackerman and I were invited to reflect on the 1969 omnibus changes, some fifty years later, we were asked to consider the extent to which 1969 could be perceived as a turning point in abortion history. Ultimately, we argued that it wasn't as significant a moment as it has been assigned. In the same issue, Tom Hooper argues this point powerfully when he shows that the so-called decriminalization of homosexuality in the omnibus bill actually led to increased policing of homosexuality, exposing the myth of 1969 as a liberalizing moment for LGBTQ+ Canada and forcing us to rethink and counter that narrative.
In our reflection, Katrina Ackerman and I ask what abortion history might look like if we decentred "milestone legislation" like the omnibus bill. How might history be organized then? I have some further thoughts on what this decentering of legislation could look like and believe that we can approach abortion history from multiple perspectives and through numerous lenses that will produce a more complicated narrative. Perhaps the evolution of medical technology could serve as one guide for analyzing abortion history. The creation of ultrasound technology, for example, has had a tremendous impact on how society viewed pregnancies both in terms of the personification of the fetus and the diagnosis of fetal anomalies.[1] Certainly, the evolution of abortion techniques is also important. We note, for example, that Morgentaler's use of vacuum suction curettage with local instead of general anaesthetic meant that abortions could be provided in private clinics and not just hospitals, changing the landscape of access. Today, the (theoretical) availability of the abortion pill Mifegymiso means that abortions can move from doctors' offices, clinics, and hospitals to private homes, again altering the nature of many abortion experiences and assisting those who were previously unable to travel for abortions.
We could also organize abortion history by looking at the evolution of activism on both sides of the issue. I have argued elsewhere for the importance of defining activism broadly to include not just public protests, but to view letter-writing as an important act of protest.[2] How does interpreting activism more broadly change how we view the beginning and evolution of the pro-choice and anti-abortion movements? The question of what we count as activism is an important consideration for historians to continue to grapple with because as activism increasingly moves online it changes the nature of the sources we examine; it also raises concerns about the preservation of such sources for future study.[3]
Another important way of telling abortion history is through personal abortion experiences. As we note in our reflection, the enactment of birth control and abortion laws did not change people's efforts to control their fertility. Perhaps this point prompts the greatest reflection about the ways in which we rely on benchmark dates to inform the histories we tell. There are multiple examples of people defying what they perceived as unjust and antiquated birth control and abortion laws. Such behaviour did not change with the enactment of the 1969 omnibus bill (although abortion access for some people would have improved). When the actions of historical actors refute the significance of a date, such as 1969, it should cause us pause to carefully consider what we think of as defining moments and why. The 1969 Omnibus Bill is a convenient marker in Canadian abortion history, but we should be aware that there are other factors that may more accurately reflect and shape the contours of Canadian abortion history.
[1] The impact of ultrasound technology on pregnancy has been written about exhaustively. A brief introduction to the topic can be found in Jen Rinaldi, "The Public Pregnancy," ed. Shannon Stettner, Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada (Athabasca University Press: 2016): 305-315.
[2] See, Shannon Stettner, "'He is still unwanted': Women's Assertions of Authority over Abortion in Letters to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada," Canadian Bulletin of Medical History 29.1 (2012): 151-171; Shannon Stettner and Bruce Douville. "'In the image and likeness of God': Abortion Law Reform and Religion in Letters to the Editors of Canadian Newspapers in the Sixties." Journal of Canadian Studies 50.1 (Winter 2016): 179-213.
[3] Historians have been actively discussing this and related issues of preserving and using online sources. For a recent contribution, see, for example, Ian Milligan, History in the Age of Abundance?: How the Web is Transforming Historical Research (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019).
Shannon Stettner is a historian of reproductive health history in Canada. Her books include: Without Apology: Writings on Abortion in Canada and Abortion: History, Politics, and Reproductive Justice after Morgentaler. She is precariously employed in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her articles in the Canadian Historical Review entitled "'The Public Is Not Ready for This': 1969 and the Long Road to Abortion Access" is free to read for a limited time here.
Tagged as: 1969, abortion, abortion history, activism, Canada, Canadian Historical Review, omnibus bill, reproductive justice
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