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Volume 4, No. 4
February 1, 2013
The Spring Catalog Has Arrived
by Leslie Knope
Hello everyone in Pawnee Land, it's your Parks Department deputy director/city councilwoman, and I've got a VERY exciting announcement! What is it? Are you dying to find out? Are you at the edge of your seat? If so, then you're in the perfect reading position. If not, get closer to the edge. Closer. Closer. Closer. If you fell off, get back on. Okay, great, you're there. Now get even closer to the edge because here… it… comes…
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The Spring Catalog is here!! (If I were there right now with you, I'd be playing a trumpet fanfare and throwing confetti up in the air because it's just that exciting.)
Yes! The Spring 2013 Catalog has arrived and we've got some awesome new courses. I'm most excited to take Harry Potter's Wheel – where Irma Frenchak will be teaching us how to make all the different kinds of pottery found in the background of the Harry Potter movies (or, as they're more commonly known, the best movies of all time). Finally, you'll have something beautiful in which to display the handmade wands you made in the winter 2012-13 class Harry Potter's Woodshop (grumpily supervised by Ron Swanson). This course will FOR SURE fill up fast so get your applications in quickly!!
As you can no doubt see, spring 2013 is going to be our best season yet! And then it'll summer 2013 and then fall 2013, and then it will just keep getting better and better.
Forever a Student, Forever a Pawneean,
Leslie Knope
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Sorry for the personal post, but I'm trying to cast a wide net:
Single woman looking for three men to help her fulfill various tasks on February 14th. Duties will be (but not limited to): cooking, cleaning, pedicures, back rubs and so on. Please send resumes and a recent photograph to firstname.lastname@example.com.
P.S. This whole posting is a joke – BECAUSE MEAGLE DOESN'T NEED ANY MORE MEN IN HER LIFE.
P.P.S. If you think you're fine enough (Taye Diggs and up), then you may send in a photo (full body). No response guaranteed.
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The game "Jenga" is absurd. Any game that a child can beat you in is not a game at all. The wooden game pieces are also inconsistent. A game that relies on structure stability must at least provide properly sanded and weighted wood. I also do not like the game "Sorry." Please submit my thoughts to the Parker Brothers and direct their attention to the game of chess.
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Did I get your attention, yet, people? (Are there too many exclamation points? Let me know, Leslie. – Ann [You can never have too many exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! – Ed. (Leslie Knope)]). The flu is here, and you don't want to get it! The best thing you can do to prepare is to get your flu shot and rest as much as possible. Also drink lots of fluids, like water, juice and chicken soup.
But I also want to issue a warning. Sweetums has a new product they're marketing as a cold remedy. Be warned: IT IS NOT A COLD REMEDY. It is called Sweetums Cold IV™. It is NOT medication and it barely even counts as a fluid. It is almost 100% high fructose corn syrup. It's called "cold" because it's cold. And IV is the Roman numeral four, not intravenous therapy.
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Teens! And parents of teens! This year's ValenTEEN's Day Dance at the youth center is getting a last-second face-lift! It's a formal event now! Whaaaaat? Formal? But where will I get my dope formal wear at such late notice and for an affordable price? I gotta be honest, it's not easy; the only place that even remotely comes to mind is a little big deal classy joint with flare called Rent-a-Swag. They've got all 43 varieties of pin stripe, including, but not limited to: wide, diagonal and even thin! If you refer this posting to a friend you will receive the pleasure of doing your friend a favor. Pay it forward. That is the true essence of a discount. Rent-a-Swag. Dress Loud. This is Jerry Gergich by the way.
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Central Illinois' rural counties are not exempt from the drug addiction epidemic ravaging households.
"Honestly, most people thought heroin was a city thing," said Pat Schou, executive director of the Illinois Critical Access Hospital Network. "But we quickly learned that wasn't the case. It affects everyone."
Starting in the mid 2000s, drug abuse, particularly methamphetamine use, has ramped up in rural communities, including places like Christian and Macoupin counties. But then opioids, legal or not, started to take hold, compounding into the crisis seen today. It's had a profound effect on law enforcement and the medical community.
"The opiate problem has gone nowhere," said Kent Tarro, an administrator for the Macoupin County Public Health Department. "It's actually increased, but the meth problem has increased, too."
Some opiate users are introduced to the drugs when using prescription pain killers, but they sometimes develop a dependency on them due to the awful side-effects from ceasing use, according to Tarro.
Crowded jails
Most of the drugs come from Mexico to larger cities like St. Louis and Chicago and then get distributed down highways. Once it gets into a community, it becomes local law enforcement's problem, too, causing overflows in county jails.
"The type of inmates we have now is totally different, I think, from the inmates we had in the '70s," said Christian County Sheriff Bruce Kettelkamp. "It's because of the mental health problems they have and the severe drug abuse problems. I think I can safely say 90 percent of the people we have are in here because of drug abuse or alcohol."
Built in 1974, the Christian County Jail was only supposed to hold 15 to 17 people. By 1996, they converted the gymnasium into bed space for 16 more inmates. Eventually, they doubled up cells to increase capacity to 55.
But that's what described as a "perfect scenario." Men and women need to be separated, or in some cases a prisoner can't have a cellmate due to being dangerous.
"I think (from August to December) it's been over 55. I think (in October) it was right at 59," said Kettelkamp.
The lack of funding for the county has forced the jail to take in federal prisoners awaiting trial in Springfield as a last resort to stave off a tax increase for residents. The county gets money for housing these prisoners in county jail but loses more bed space.
"The county's hurting financially because we just don't have any businesses out in the county where the revenue's coming in anymore." said Kettelkamp. "So we try to house as many (federal prisoners) as we can."
Macoupin County Sheriff Shawn Kahl has noticed the amount of drug overdoses going up over the last several years.
"It puts a real strain on local law enforcement, and with overdoses it puts a real strain on our emergency health (services)," he said. "... It's not that we can't handle it. It's just time and hands."
Most agree changes are needed but there are differing views on what would work best.
"The biggest challenge is we don't have any money," said Jordan Garrison, assistant state's attorney in Macoupin County. "Budget's always an issue. ... These types of cases, especially on drug overdoses, it requires a lot of manpower and a lot of time. ... We struggle to have enough law enforcement to cover the county."
Kettelkamp says what would help the most is stopping the drug sources in Mexico. He's heard anecdotally how easy it is for drug dealers to ship their product across the southern border.
"As far as law enforcement's concerned, we really need the wall to stop the drugs from coming in," he said. "You wouldn't think the wall would help us here in central Illinois, but it would help us with the meth and the heroin."
Fighting the epidemic
In the meantime, there are already efforts to combat the epidemic throughout rural Illinois.
Schou's ICAHN is working with groups across the region to educate people on the danger of opiates and connect various organizations with resources.
"A big part of what we do is facilitating conversations," she said. "If people don't know what's available, it can't be used to help them."
Since the winter, Kettelkamp has been working on creating a "safe passage system," which allows addicts to turn in their paraphernalia and drugs to get help in finding a place for recovery.
To stem the tide of addiction, Macoupin County used federal grant money two years ago for a facility called the Maple Street Clinic to help people overcome addictions. Much of the effort involves getting those in recovery back to a normal schedule, along with monitored injections of suboxone, a prescription drug that helps addicts deal with opioid cravings, to ensure patients are on track.
They also provide mental health counseling, a program Tarro is proud of. He says 85 percent of addicts have some sort of mental distress, much of which stems from childhood.
"I've been preaching this for 25 years," he said. "You have to see what happens when we help them overcome them, help them make peace and have them learn new coping mechanisms and resiliency skills. Their behaviors change quick."
He's also trying to take the mental health approach to schools to prevent mental trauma from spiraling out of control at an early age.
Overall, Tarro feels the clinic's program is working well, with about 70 percent of patients not relapsing into drug use a year after treatment.
"That's a pretty (good) success rate," said Tarro. "(But recovery goes on), probably forever. One has to keep moving in a particular direction to not go backward and making sure you know how to handle any triggers that come up."
Currently, the clinic is working with 65 patients on an outpatient basis, which Tarro hopes to expand in the future.
"We have to hire another therapist before we can get much further," he said. "We think our capacity is going to be somewhere between 85 and 100 at best at one time. I don't know what's going to have change to get more than that."
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René Clemént's La baby sitter (1975) is a damned good twisty thriller, so I don't know why it has a lousy reputation. Its director belonged to that tricky post-war, pre-nouvelle vague generation which included Clouzot, Bresson, Becker and Melville: lots of talent, but no unity of theme, style or purpose. Consequently, like all the others except Bresson, he's celebrated for a few stand-out movies impossible to ignore, while the rest are swept under the rug.
Maria Schneider plays a French sculptor in Rome who works evenings as a babysitter. Unbeknownst to her, actress friend Sydne Rome is involving her in a kidnapping scam masterminded by a lawyer, a stuntman, and two more actors (actors are evil in this film!). Since the toughest part of any kidnap is the handover, they've hatched the plan of using an innocent patsy to collect the loot and handover the prize, a millionaire's little son, Boots Franklin (I know: Boots Franklin??). Schneider is engaged by telephone to babysit, appears at a lonely villa, and finds her charge sound asleep. Only when he wakes up the next day and accuses her of drugging him does she realize something's seriously awry. Now she has to win his trust so they can defend themselves against the kidnappers outside...
Sure, the film has plenty wrong with it. It's one of those improbable Euro-puddings in which everyone you meet in Rome is from somewhere else: apart from Schneider and her kidnapee, there's the millionaire, an American played by an Austrian, and kidnap gang Sydne Rome, Robert Vaughn, Nadja Tiller and Vic Morrow. In addition, Clemént's visual style, while mainly lean and attractive, includes a couple of rather lame nods towards hipness, including a solarized title sequence. Francis (A Man and a Woman) Lai's score nicely straddles the gulf between the classical filmmaking and the modern cool, although a scene where dramatic suspense music accompanies Robert Vaughn's preparation of fried eggs does seem a tad strange.
What holds it together is Schneider, intensely vulnerable and sympathetic. This is the story of an innocent girl surrounded by fiendish manipulators, and one can't help feel her previous experience with Bertolucci and Brando must have thoroughly prepared her for it. A scene where Sydne Rome walks off a film set after a surprise nude scene is sprung on her oddly prefigures something that Schneider would do for real later on Caligula (1979), a smart decision if ever there was one.
Admittedly, René Clemént had been on something of a downward spiral since his triumphs with Plein soleil (Purple Noon) and Forbidden Games; a series of international co-productions seemed to dilute his talents. But this film has satisfying twists and reversals in which the characters never behave in implausibly stupid ways, and sometimes surprise us in realistic ones. Plus there's a nail-biter involving a small dog, deployed as messenger with a note tied to its collar. Clemént never pursued a thriller career as assiduously as Clouzot or Becker, but he certainly knew how to milk the tension from a good set-piece.
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Earlier this week, the South Carolina Senate voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol grounds. There was some concern that the House chamber might pose a more difficult challenge.
But an impassioned plea (YouTube) from Summerville Rep. Jenny Horne, a descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, moved her colleagues to vote for removal of the flag. Lawmaker: Rep. Jenny Horne's Confederate flag speech 'key' to getting it down:
Horne said anything less than removing the flag is an insult to the family of slain Lowcountry lawmaker Sen. Clementa Pinckney. Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, and eight of his parishioners were shot to death on June 17 during a bible study at the church. Accused killer Dylann Roof, 21, posed waving the Confederate flag in photos posted on a website where a racist manifesto gave a rationale for the attack.
"The people of Charleston deserve immediate and swift removal of that flag from this grounds," Horne said. "I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday."
Horne, who was first elected to House District 94 in 2008, went on to say that she is a descendant of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
"But that does not matter," she said. "It's not about Jenny Horne. It's about the people of South Carolina who have demanded that this symbol of hate come off the Statehouse grounds."
Rep. David Mack, a Democrat from Charleston, called Horne's remarks "phenomenal."
"I thought she captured what the whole debate was all about and it shows her compassion. It shows her feelings for people," said Mack, who also considers Horne a friend. "It shows her integrity."
He said Horne's status as a white, Republican female made her remarks more powerful. And Mack said Horne "so passionately laid out what we had a opportunity to do, to continue to heal the Charleston community and the state of South Carolina. … She was a key element in getting that done."
South Carolina's House members took two historic votes after midnight that ordered the permanent furling of the Statehouse's Confederate Flag. Palmetto Sunrise: How the House took two historic votes overnight. Governor Nikki Haley will sign the bill today. Gov. Nikki Haley to sign bill today, Confederate flag to come down Friday.
In related news, the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries in the deep South. U.S. House moves to ban Confederate flag in federal cemeteries:
The low-profile move came Tuesday evening after a brief debate on a measure funding the National Park Service, which maintains 14 national cemeteries, most of which contain graves of Civil War soldiers.
The proposal by Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., added language to block the Park Service from allowing private groups to decorate the graves of southern soldiers with Confederate flags in states that commemorate Confederate Memorial Day. The cemeteries affected are the Andersonville and Vicksburg cemeteries in Georgia and Mississippi.
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The flag ban was adopted by a voice vote. The Park Service funding bill is scheduled for a vote on Thursday.
Plans to reconsider the prohibition had been set for a vote on Thursday afternoon, but House Republicans abruptly scrapped the vote. House scraps vote on Confederate flag in federal cemeteries:
"What exactly is the tradition of the Confederate battle flag that we're supporting?" Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y. challenged supporters of the proposal, shortly before the GOP leadership announced its decision.
"Is it slavery, rape, kidnap ,treason, genocide or all of the above?"
No Republican rose to respond.
Democratic protests aside, the vote was slated for a particularly awkward time — hours after the South Carolina Legislature voted to remove the same flag from a pole on the grounds of the State capitol.
The decision abruptly halted debate on legislation providing funds for the Interior Department and related agencies, and marked the latest in a string of developments relating to the Confederate flag in the House.
The TanMan, Weeper of the House John Boehner, surprised everyone with this announcement: Boehner wants Confederate symbols in Capitol reviewed:
Boehner (R-Ohio) said he would soon create an informal bipartisan group to review all matters related to the display of Confederate memorabilia, likely to include those in the U.S. Capitol.
Boehner also sidelined legislation that would provide annual funds for the Interior Department after Southern lawmakers pushed to get a vote that would allow for brief displays and sales of the flag in national cemeteries.
That vote was originally set for late Thursday afternoon — almost at the exact time South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) was set to sign legislation removing the controversial flag.
The vote, even if it failed, would have been an embarrassment to Republicans leaders who have tried to move beyond the old fights over the Confederate flag in the wake of the killing of nine African American worshippers inside Charleston's historic Emanuel AME Church. Boehner was among national Republican leaders who embraced Haley's role in removing the flag, and he pointedly said Thursday that he did not believe Confederate flags should be displayed in national cemeteries.
Boehner said the working group of Democrats and Republicans would have a broad mandate to review all issues related to Confederate symbols and then make bipartisan recommendations for the full Congress to consider.
Democrats responded by reintroducing a resolution that would have mandated the removal of Mississippi's state flag from display on U.S. Capitol grounds, because it displays the Confederate "Battle Flag." That resolution, offered by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was tabled on a mostly partisan vote that referred it to a committee.
UPDATE: The House voted 238-176 to refer the Pelosi measure to the House Administration Committee for further review, on a largely party-line vote. Rep. Curt Clawson (R-Fla.) was the only Republican to side with Democrats on the Confederate flag. Rep. Mia Love (Utah), the only female black Republican in Congress, briefly voted "present" before changing her vote in favor of referral in the final moments of the roll call.
Those Democratic moves left Boehner angry over what he saw as the rejection of his attempt to defuse the issue. "The Speaker offered a thoughtful and responsible way to address this issue and Pelosi responded with a cheap political stunt," Kevin Smith, Boehner's spokesman, said.
Other Democrats have called for the removal of statues of Jefferson Davis and other Confederates that are prominently displayed in some corners of the Capitol. Democrats seized on the potential amendment vote in a series of floor speeches Thursday morning that accused Republicans of embracing a symbol many view as racist.
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The underlying issue came on what was initially a noncontroversial amendment to the Interior Department's annual funding legislation. Without any objection, Republicans accepted an amendment that would have forbidden any display of Confederate flags in the 14 national cemeteries overseen by the Interior Department.
This would realistically apply only to two in the Deep South, one in Vicksburg, Miss., and another in Andersonville, Ga., which are the resting grounds for both Union and Confederate soldiers.
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Members of the Georgia and Mississippi delegations objected to the amendment that would abolish that tradition, and they threatened to withhold support for the overall legislation funding the Interior Department.
Expecting no Democratic votes for the bill — it includes steep cuts to domestic agencies — GOP leaders then lacked the votes to approve the overall legislation if the southern conservatives did not get their way on the Confederate flag. Late Wednesday night, senior Republicans signaled they would give them their vote to allow for the flag display, but by Thursday morning amid the uproar, Boehner moved to quash the fight.
The speaker, asked whether his review would include Confederate symbols in the Capitol, signaled it would review all aspects of the issue.
For those of you who have never been to our nation's Capitol, this includes quite a few "Confederate symbols," including several statues in the National Statuary Hall. Numerous statues of Confederate figures such as Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States, and General Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, are on display in the Capitol.


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Volvo button hacking
The curious case of Volvo's center console buttons
My S60R (like most P2 Volvos) has this row of buttons below the climate controls, in front of the shifter. Depending on the configuration of the car, these buttons can vary in number, position, and function. For example my buttons are, from left to right: traction control, valet trunk lock, microwave disabler, and headrest folder. Other cars have buttons for park assist, rear AC, folding mirrors, yaw control, window lock etc. My car doesn't have those options, so I don't have those buttons.
I took them apart for cleaning one day while repairing my radio and found myself stuck.. I couldn't remember in which order the buttons went back in. Looking at the mainboard revealed no helpful information, and the buttons (apart from the picture on the front) were all identical. Oh well, worst case I have the wrong pictures on the wrong buttons. I put them back in and… they worked just fine. No way I'm that good.. I'm going to re-arrange the buttons and try again. They still worked. Okay wait a second, there are only 7 slots here, but there are more than 7 different buttons in existence, how does the car… hmmm… the buttons function must be programmed inside the button itself.
This car relies really heavily on the canbus, perhaps the mainboard is just a passthrough for the canbus, and the buttons have chips inside programmed with their functionality? It would make sense considering the buttons cost 60-80 bucks each, and they are connected to the mainboard with.. a 12-pin connector.. no way they need that many pins for canbus. Linbus? No, still way too many pins. This is a puzzler.
I opened up one of the buttons and was surprised to see there is no microcontroller inside. A simple board with a button, a lamp, an LED (some buttons dont have an LED), a couple diodes, and thats it. Maybe each button connects to a different set of pins and thats what determines the function? I opened up a different button and found the exact same circuit board, with the same components and the same board number. Something fishy is going on here.
I actually missed it at first, but every button has a different combination of diodes. I charted out every button I could find, and traced the various connections, and found that the presence of diodes 1 through 4 actually determine the buttons function (there are actually 5 diodes spots in each button, but diode 5 is always present because its part of the pushbutton circuit). The Climate Control Module keeps track of button presses and reports them to the Central Electric Module, which in turn reports back with whether or not the LEDs inside the buttons should be on or off. The placement of the buttons don't matter at all, and the buttons function is really basically coded into the button module itself. Neat.
So because 4 simple diodes make up the button code, this means not only are there theoretically 16 different buttons in existence, but we can very easily convert an existing button to another function. HOWEVER, these cars are smart, and after poking around VIDA for a bit I learned that many functions are programmed in the Central Electric Module, and the Climate Control Module will check to see if a certain button is allowed to be used in the car. For example, if I install a Folding Mirror button in my car and I don't have Folding Mirrors, the button will be disallowed internally. And because the button interacts with the car on a software level, we can't simply repurpose a button for whatever aftermarket function we want either. Dang.
The only way we'd be able to use one of these buttons for an auxiliary function (not talking about auxiliary lights, those are supported in software already) would be to remove all the diodes from inside the button, cut the traces for the LED and Diode 5 so we don't confuse the car, and run wires from the pushbutton and LED inside the button module to an external device like a relay or a microcontroller. Modifying the button this way will allow it to remain illuminated like the other buttons, and (apart from having the wrong symbol) look like it belongs there. I will be performing this mod in a future post, once I finish my current engine swap.
Below is some information about the modular buttons:
12-Diode Common
Button Codes:
Anyone with basic soldering skills will be easily able to change the function of any button. Changing the symbol, not so easy 😉


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Dear Friends — we are proud to announce the program of Scale By the Bay 2018, our sixth year of the flagship, and by now iconic, independent developer conference By the Bay. (Tl;dr: get your spot at http://scale.bythebay.io while supplies last, and especially when Early Bird is in effect until August 31.)
The conference follows the established three-day, three track structure, hosted for the third year in a row by Twitter HQ in its wonderful modern building, with all of its spacious tracks, community spaces, cozy booths, and the commons area where so many connections are made during the hallway track.
This year, Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala, opens the main conference on November 15. Neha Narkhede, the co-creator of Kafka and cofounder of Confluent, is keynoting the day 2.
The three tracks are
— Functional and Thoughtful Programming
— Reactive Microservices and Streaming Architectures
— End-to-end Data Pipelines all the way up to Machine Learning and AI
The 100 sessions include technology leaders such as Twitter, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce, Fauna, DataStax, Databricks, Confluent, Credit Karma, Sumo Logic, GoPro, Buoyant, Workday, Zignal Labs, and many more. We cover your tools with JetBrains, your shopping with Best Buy and Target, your vacations with HomeAway, your listening with Spotify, your viewing with Netflix, your reading with Medium, and your banking with JP Morgan Chase. The list goes on and on and on — we have the most of the advanced stacks and approaches employed by the best that Silicon Valley offers to the world at scale, shared as best practices, with code, yours to learn, take home, and build upon.
Our speakers span the whole spectrum from the first-time presenters with leading companies to veterans of SBTB going all the way back to 2013, evolving their craft before our eyes. You can follow their progress by watching their previous talks on http://functional.tv and the photos of the past conferences at
The three panels, closing each day, are:
— Thoughtful Software Engineering
— Data Engineering for AI, and
— Cloud, Edge, and Silver Lining.
Each day begins with a hot breakfast, that begins an uninterruptible supply of Philz coffee through the whole day, and lunch is provided. On the first two days, the closing panels are followed by our signature happy hours, with great drinks, food, and conversation. The hallway tracks are legendary.
SBTB is famous for its bespoke, all-day, build-yourself-a-company training. This year, we double it. Cliff Click, the legend of software engineering, is teaching a full day Advanced Software Engineering workshop on 11/13, followed by Ryan Knight, now of Fauna, leading cloud-native data pipelines on 11/14. The workshops are limited by 80 participants each.
As last year, we'll plan an unconference track for those who want to share their ideas in an intimate setting for joint brainstorming.
The only thing moderate about SBTB is its size — we cap at 600 attendees to preserve the immediate and direct nature of the communication that happens, sparks that fly, and serendipity that always occurs. We are always sold out by the time the conference begins in November — so reserve your seat early at http://scale.bythebay.io! And enjoy the Early Bird that is in effect until August 31.
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Announcing Dallas and Fort Worth Texas Virtual Tours360WebExpeditions.com is a newly formed Virtual Tour company in the Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX area that provides cutting edge Virtual Tours and Web Marketing for Real Estate Professionals, Businesses, Colleges, Golf Courses, Hospitals, Retirement Homes, Assisted Living Facilities, Churches, and a variety of other organizations. Projects in the 360WebExpeditions.com portfolio include million dollar residential properties from some of the most exclusive communities in the Dallas and Ft. Worth areas. Founder and President of 360WebExpeditions.com, Justin Burns says, "We are proud to offer cutting edge Virtual Tours that provide a 360 degree panoramic view of the clients' location that will allow them to effectively market themselves 24/7 via the Internet." The need for quality Virtual Tours became apparent to Burns when he was acting as a consultant in the Real Estate market; "The response has been very encouraging. Our clients are very impressed with the quality of the product we can deliver and have shared that our customer service is the best they have ever received." 360WebExpeditions.com provides Virtual Tours that typically have less than a four business day turn around and offer their clients the ability to pay online via most major credit cards. Burns added, "We look forward to continued success and the chance to introduce our product to more of the Dallas and Fort Worth, TX marketplace."The company invites anyone to visit their website to learn more about the process of ordering a Virtual Tour in the Dallas Fort Worth, TX area, the website can be found at www.360webexpeditions.com.Justin Burns360WebExpeditions.comDallas/Fort Worth Virtual Tourswww.360webexpeditions.comOrder a Virtual Tour – (517) 304-7510Visit our virtual tour company blog
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Dear advocates,
We are sharing a new activity by our partners The PACT Coalition and UNESCO who are looking to create some resources for Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) youth advocates working in restrictive environments. We have put together this survey to gather your experiences and ideas on what these resources should include. Please feel free to go into as much detail as you like on any of the questions. Any extra thoughts or suggestions are much appreciated and there is a text box at the bottom of the survey for any extra comments.
If you have any questions or follow up inquiries or would like to be involved in the project please contact Renata at email@example.com
Here is the link to the Survey => https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezprNmcYM_TZT5110WnAu-qpEA-OsPNoZBweUdYp6IXQH8Xg/viewform
Background We are putting together this project in response to increasingly hostile attitudes towards Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and CSE in different spaces, globally and domestically. And at the request of youth advocates who are now facing more opposition to their work. When we say 'restrictive environments' we mean any type of attitude or behaviour perceived as restrictive that affects your ability to undertake CSE advocacy. This might include parental consent laws, government opposition, or public stigma and negative attitudes. More examples are included in the survey below. These restrictions might affect your whole country or just certain areas or activities.
Confidentiality Please note many of the questions in this survey are of a sensitive nature. Your answers will be handled in a confidential manner and any identifying features will be removed before they are used. Information submitted will only be used for the project described and will not be shared with any other organisations.Use in the project may include: anonymous quotes, exerts or statistics with identifying features removed or as background guidance for the authors. If you are happy to provide information but do not want it quoted or paraphrased please say so.


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SF Mayor Breed attempts to free up some Prop. C homeless money despite court cases
San Francisco Mayor London Breed is planning to roll out an unusual and elaborate proposal in an attempt to unlock some of the money brought in by Proposition C, the November ballot measure that raised taxes on big businesses to fund homelessness programs.
Breed is expected to introduce legislation Tuesday that would give individual businesses subject to Prop. C's tax the option of letting the city keep the money they pay — even if the courts ultimately strike down the measure and order the funds repaid.
While Prop. C passed with more than 61 percent of the vote, the hundreds of millions of dollars it's projected to bring in annually will be collected — but not spent — until a legal dispute over the measure's margin of victory is resolved.
The process could take years, stymieing the city's ability to spend any of the money in the meantime. And if the courts deem the measure unconstitutional, the city would be forced to refund Prop. C revenue back to businesses.
But under Breed's proposal, which she'll co-sponsor with Supervisor Vallie Brown, a company could choose to let the city keep some or all of the money it paid under Prop. C if the city loses its court case. In return, the company would get a 10 percent tax credit on the money it lets the city hold on to, and the city would be able to spend the money immediately because the possibility of having to refund it would be eliminated.
Whether the 10 percent credit would create enough incentive for major corporations to abandon money they could potentially win back remains an open question. But perhaps the measure's most prominent backer was a business titan — Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff — who donated substantially in the run-up to the election, framing it as a moral imperative for confronting homelessness in San Francisco.
"This is an opportunity to free up funding for homelessness now so we can put it to work helping people who are suffering on our streets," Breed said in a statement Friday. "We know this funding could be tied up in litigation for years, and while we wait for the legal issues to be resolved, with this legislation we can start building shelter beds, mental health beds and affordable housing now."
Representatives for Breed have spent at least the past week quietly lobbying businesses to consider signing the waiver, according to three people with knowledge of the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity. It's not clear if any business has yet agreed to waive its right to a refund if the measure is deemed unconstitutional.
Prop. C levies an average of about 0.5 percent in gross receipts tax on corporate revenue above $50 million. There are between 300 and 400 companies in San Francisco subject to the tax, which would bring in up to $300 million annually to pay for housing, shelters, mental health treatment and other services. The Hearst Corp., owner of The Chronicle, is subject to the tax.
The treasurer's office expects the first payments to begin arriving in April. But in order to spend any of that money, City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office will have to convince the courts that Prop. C — as well as two other 2018 ballot measures — was passed legally.
For more than two decades in California, since voters approved Proposition 218, passing a new tax measure where the proceeds are used for specific purposes has required a two-thirds majority. But last year, a memo from the city attorney's office interpreting a recent state Supreme Court ruling argued that proposed tax measures put on the ballot by citizens — and not government officials — required only a simple majority to pass.
Three tax measures passed with simple majorities last year but up to $500 million a year in funding for homelessness, child care and teacher salaries now depends on whether the courts agree with Herrera's reading of the state Supreme Court's intentions. Herrera is now confronting multiple court cases in which he'll attempt to prove the simple-majority threshold was appropriate.
Breed opposed Prop. C prior to the election. Though she thought the measure was well-intentioned, she said it lacked accountability provisions to ensure the money was spent as it was intended.
After the measure passed by a wide margin, she said she would use her office to honor the will of the voters. Shortly after the election, Breed authorized Herrera to take proactive steps in court that would begin the process of validating the measure.
Dominic Fracassa is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: email@example.com Twitter: @dominicfracassa


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In order to reduce sexual assault on campuses in the U.S., one group is raising awareness with rubber.
In collaboration with non-profit organization FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture and Say It With A Condom, the campaign has released consent condoms, urging people to always talk about sex before doing it.
"We believe that asking for consent and receiving a 'Yes!' before engaging in sexual activity is absolutely necessary — every time and with any partner," the project's site reads.
Some of the condoms read, "Consent Is Never Implied," "Drinking Is Not A Crime. Rape Is," and "Sex or Rape? The Difference Is Consent." Marked up with bold colours and bold fonts, each condom costs $3. The site will also release t-shirts and accessories with a similar nature.
According to CBC's report on 87 institutions in the country, sexual assault reporting on Canadian campuses is quite low, and very few students are coming forward with their experiences.
Now while these condoms may not end sexual assault as a whole, it's opening up conversations on student campuses on healthy relationships and safe sex.
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Does anyone know if they make sliding glass doors specifically for studios, or of any that have particularly low transmission properties?
Does anyone know if they make sliding glass doors specifically for studios, or of any that have particularly low transmission properties?
"One thing led to another and, before we knew it, we were dead." --Michael O'Donoghue
If you are trying to block sound, sliding glass doors - or any material sliding doors are not the way to go. You want something with mass, soft mateiral seals, and the frame suspended in a floating wall/floor/room. If you are just trying to cut down on the volume of sound transmitted, use regular 2 or 3-pane construction with space between them, and insulated frame.
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it's been a long time but I think the studio I took some lessons in had two sets of sliding glass doors with about 6" in between them.
I used sliding doors in a studio I built in 1996, and while the glass double glazed panels were great, the leakage came from the outer frames. While supposed to be real wood, I think they were some kind of fibre/composite material. Wood on the outside but much softer material inside. Maybe to produce good heat figures? The metal frames that were the heavy duty contact with the glass were also extruded and contained voids and these didn't do much for sound isolation either. A real let down on the drum room. Not awful, and because we had two sets, fac to face, it was workable.
Quick Google search will find them.
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Wow, I bet those ^^^ aren't cheap. And a maximum of 70dB Sound reduction. And in the tracking room, another hard reflective surface to deal with.
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Sliding door seals would likely be the biggest issue with that.
The glass in the photo above was likely beyond most reasonable cost. Just like a viewing window it needs to have multiple layers of varying thicknesses to efficiently stop sound waves from getting through. Likely $900 for a 4' x 6' panel. I couldn't imagine what a sliding pair of doors built like that would cost...
Looks cool though!
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Well,the OP asked.
I think a couple of used patio sliding doors from Habitat for Humanity would work just fine also.
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Erika Steinmetz, M.B.A., is a senior research scientist at the Center for Health Policy Research, Department of Health Policy and Management, in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. She has extensive research experience encompassing Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. Ms. Steinmetz's expertise is in efficiently analyzing complex data sources to advance our understanding of public health problems. She previously worked at the Association of American Medical Colleges and the U.S. Census Bureau.
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with Chef Dave Robbins
Thursday, August 16, 5:30 p.m.
Summer brings a rainbow of fresh vegetables to our table. The simplicity of grilling, and the use of marinades, pesto, and other sauces brings the flavor profiles to a whole new level. Our registered dietitian will be on hand to answer nutritional questions and share a few recipes. Stop in and taste test with us!
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Compressive Strength of Concrete Cubes
To determine the Compressive Strength of Concrete Cubes
1)Remove the specimen from water after specified curing time and wipe out excess water from the surface
2)Take the dimensions of the specimen to the nearest 0.2mm.
3)Clean the bearing surface of the testing machine.
4)Place the specimen in the machine in such a manner that the load shall be applied to the opposite sides of the cube as cast.
5)Align the specimen centrally on the base plate of the machine.
6)Rotate the movable portion gently by hand so that it touches the top surface of the specimen.
7)Apply the load gradually without shock and continuously at the rate of 140 kg/cm2/min till the specimen fails.
8)Record the maximum load and note any unusual features in the type of failure.
Size of the cube= mm
Area of the specimen= mm
Characteristic compressive strength (fck) = failure laod/area
Expected maximum load = fck * area * factor of safety
Range to be selected= KN
Maximum load applied= KN
Compressive strength= Load in N /area in mm2
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Refined ramen
College students who aren't interested in instant ramen
Chicken soup for the soul
Quick and on point
Tell us about your first impressions when you arrived.
The 13 counter seats are packed in just tight enough to allow efficient service, but not tight enough to make you feel cramped.
What was the crowd like?
Takadanobaba is a famous part of Tokyo known for ramen and Waseda University. Expect a mix of college kids, businessmen, and out-of-town ramen hunters.
What should we be drinking?
Water, though you will be drinking all of the soup.
Main event: the food. Give us the lowdown—especially what not to miss.
Yamaguchi-san, the shop's owner and chef, gained fame for making one of Tokyo's best torisobas (chicken soup ramen). Get your bowl without the roast pork topping, if you want to make it completely pork free.
The regular bowl of torisoba uses premium Daisen chickens (a famous Japanese breed) and a blend of craft shoyu (soy sauce) from different parts of Japan. If you order the special bowl (and you should), you will get extra slices of roast pork, extra slices of sliced chicken breast, three chicken wontons, and a half-cooked egg topping.
And how did the front-of-house folks treat you?
The staff are warm and efficient. Yamaguchi has received a huge amount of praise from critics—both locally and abroad—so they have a reputation to uphold.
What's the real-real on why we're coming here?
The 100 percent chicken soup tastes light and refreshing. Bring a date here, and neither of you will feel bogged down after finishing the entire bowl.
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Brit Laura Jane Williams, 30, romped on a staircase with a Frenchman, with a teacher in an Italian school, an American teenager and another woman.
The writer, from Derby, also bedded a man in Travelodge just 30 minutes into a date and with a bloke she christened "Big D".
"There always had to be somebody to take home, a conquest," she said.
Laura, in her new book Becoming, tells how she drank half a bottle of vodka and threw it back up inside 45 minutes after being dumped around seven years ago.
She fled to Paris to visit a friend where she had her first "post-heartache sexual encounter".
A Frenchman yanked down her leggings on the stairs outside a house party, but then said: "No thanks. French girls don't do that."
In an extract of the book on The Sun, she said: "One man was never enough.
"Peers, colleagues, strangers and friends were all potential lovers."
She went on to have 60 seconds of sex with Jay the DJ in a Travelodge back in Britain and a domineering fling with 18-year-old Chad when she worked as a high school workshop teacher for Eastern Michigan University in Detroit, USA.
During one frenzied rendezvous, she told him: "I want you to f*** me hard like I am your whore, OK?"F*** me and don't stop."
In Italy, she laid a fellow teacher in the school where they worked.
"We'd sneak in after dark and sh*g on the desks," she writes.
"Then there was 'Big D' — so-called because he was endowed with the largest, unruliest exhaust-pipe of a thing I'd ever encountered."
She also says she pulled a man in a bar while carrying a tray of greasy chips, a 19-year-old dad-of-one who she treated like dirt and knocked on a near-stranger's door at 1am and propositioned him.
She also writes about a six-week affair with a woman who did "whatever she wanted to me".
Her no-strings bonking took a three-month hiatus however when she lived in a monastery with elderly monks near the seaside town of Loano in Italy.
After 11 months, two weeks and three days of celibacy, she had "the best sex of my life" in the UK with a man she dubbed "The Peacock".
Laura concludes her book by saying that having sex with multiple people is NOT the answer to feeling better about herself.
Self-proclaimed Manchester playboy Danny Wagster, 27, also claims to have bedded 2,500 women.
City lawyer Cory Standby says he slept with thousands of strippers to "heal them".


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Here's something to think about …
The free and open ethos of the internet is at stake if prioritizing data for profit becomes a reality
The desire for high-bandwidth internet services, such as internet TV is placing ever greater demands on the internet's infrastructure. New technologies are being developed to meet these demands, but companies are increasingly considering new business models. With its Content Connect service, BT has brought itself into conflict with a fundamental design principle of the internet, raising concerns that the drive for profit could lead to changes that will harm consumers and content producers.
The principle in question is that of net neutrality, which broadly states that data passing over the internet should be treated equally regardless of whose data it is. From a user's perspective this means that your ISP should not, for example, prioritise Google's traffic to you over Facebook's. Net neutrality is the cause of much debate and confusion. It is accepted that prioritising one type of data over another is necessary for the internet to function. An ISP will therefore give preference to voice or streaming video data, as these rely on swift delivery to be useful; however, preferentially treating one content provider's videos over another is considered unacceptable. Differentiation of service should therefore be made solely for engineering or quality-of-service considerations, and not for commercial exploitation.
Proponents of net neutrality, such as the UK's Open Rights Group, argue that, by treating all content providers equally, the internet provides a level playing field that stimulates innovation and competition. If Google could pay to have their content delivered more quickly than Facebook's they would have a significant advantage, and smaller companies could be squeezed out of the market. This could result in a higher level of market domination by large companies, and in a "tiered" internet in which access to certain content requires extra payment for premium services.
BT's Content Connect service is a direct response to a demand for internet TV, and works by reducing the amount of data transferred across the internet by temporarily storing popular content close to end users. From a technical perspective, this is an excellent way to improve content delivery. The controversy is the business model that drives the service. Rather than agnostically storing popular content, such as the latest digital episode of Coronation Street, access is offered by ISPs to content providers such as Google, who must pay to have their content delivered at higher speeds and qualities. This allows those providers that can afford the service a significant advantage over those who cannot, these being relegated to the slower traditional network.
The US has recently passed legislation supporting net neutrality, although the EU has indicated that it views such laws as unnecessary "at this time". But is net neutrality, as a principle, necessary or even desirable? Opponents have argued that, given the essentially democratic nature of the internet, market forces should be sufficient to regulate companies. If ISPs choose not to carry certain content then their customers will leave them for more content-rich providers. Indeed, by preventing commercial differentiation of services, opponents argue innovation by companies seeking profit will be stifled. BT itself has claimed to support net neutrality as a principle, but stated that "service providers should also be free to strike commercial deals should content owners want a higher quality or assured service delivery".
As the debate continues, there is increasing pressure from companies to maximise profit while meeting the increasing demands of users. We can hope, and must ensure, that the factors driving the development of the internet sustain it as a free and open medium of exchange, and that the drive for profit is not allowed to override this ideal.guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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Final 52nd CMA Awards nominees being unveiled on 'GMA'
Luke Bryan, Dan + Shay and Sugarland Announce This Year's Nominations Live from Nashville
Final nominees for The 52nd Annual CMA Awards, Country Music's Biggest Night, will be revealed on Good Morning America tomorrow, Tuesday (Aug 28th). Luke Bryan, Dan + Shay and Sugarland will announce six categories (Entertainer of the Year, Single of the Year, Female Vocalist of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, Vocal Duo of the Year, and New Artist of the Year) live on air from Luke's 32 Bridge Food + Drink, Bryan's new restaurant and bar in downtown Nashville.
Immediately following the broadcast at 8 am CT, the remaining categories (Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Vocal Group of the Year, Musical Event of the Year, Musician of the Year, and Music Video of the Year) as well as the nine CMA Broadcast Awards categories and nominees will be announced on GoodMorningAmerica.com as well as Good Morning America's Facebook page through Facebook Live and simulcast on GMA's YouTube channel. The livestream can also be viewed on CMA's Facebook page.
Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood return to host The 52nd Annual CMA Awards live from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville Wednesday, November 14 at 8/7c on the ABC Television Network. The beloved hosts return for the 11th year.
Author: Buddy Iahn
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DMX is the standard protocol for controlling professional stage and effect lighting equipment, which is used, for example, for the dynamic lighting of showrooms and salesrooms as well as for exclusive plays of light and colour in prestigious buildings, such as hotels and event centres. DMX stands for 'Digital Multiplexing' and enables serial data transmission by RS485 physics with a data rate of 250 Kbit/s. The TwinCAT PLC DMX software library provides the function blocks required for data exchange between the application program running on the PLC and the DMX devices connected to the DMX Bus Terminal. Internal DMX diagnosis and parameterisation is also possible via RDM (Remote Device Management) with TwinCAT function blocks.
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BENGALURU — India captain Virat Kohli has received an official warning and one demerit point for violating ICC Code of Conduct when he made an inappropriate shoulder contact with pacer Beuran Hendricks during the third T20 International against South Africa.
Kohli was found guilty of a Level 1 breach of the ICC Code of Conduct in the match which South Africa won by nine wickets on Sunday.
The incident occurred in the fifth over of India's innings, when Kohli made contact with bowler Beuran Hendricks while taking a run.
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"Kohli was found to have breached Article 2.12 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to 'Inappropriate physical contact with a Player, Player Support Personnel, Umpire, Match Referee or any other person (including a spectator) during an International Match'," the ICC said in a statement.
In addition to this, one demerit point has been added to the disciplinary record of Kohli, for whom it was the third offence since the introduction of the revised Code in September 2016.
Kohli now has three demerit points after having got one demerit point each during the Pretoria Test against South Africa on January 15, 2018 and against Afghanistan in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 on June 22.
"Kohli admitted the offence and accepted the sanction proposed by match referee Richie Richardson of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, and as such, there was no need for a formal hearing," the ICC said.
On-field umpires Nitin Menon and CK Nandan, third umpire Anil Chaudhary and fourth official Chettihody Shamshuddin levelled the charge.
Level 1 breaches carry a minimum penalty of an official reprimand, a maximum penalty of 50% of a player's match fee, and one or two demerit points.
When a player reaches four or more demerit points within a 24-month period, they are converted into suspension points and a player is banned.
Two suspension points equate to a ban from one Test or two ODIs or two T20Is, whatever comes first for the player.
Demerit points will remain on a player or player support personnel's disciplinary record for a period of 24 months from their imposition, following which they will be expunged.


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Circuit Administration
Tabroom has a number of "Circuits" for different leagues or geographical locations. Each of these circuits has one or more administrators, who are responsible for approving tournaments on the circuit calendar, communicating with member schools, and possibly using advanced features such as bid tracking or membership dues.
This section of the manual is designed for circuit administrators - it's not relevant for most users. If you want to learn how to join a circuit, see the section on School Administration instead.
If your account is listed as a circuit administrator, then you will see a list of circuits on the sidebar of your account dashboard:
- 1 Creating A Circuit
- 2 Approving Tournaments
- 3 Edit a Circuit
- 4 Circuit Emails
- 5 Member Schools
- 6 Circuit Tournaments
- 7 Final Places
- 8 School Codes
- 9 Download Contacts
- 10 Regions
Creating A Circuit
You can't, they're created by Tabroom and then an administrator is designated to run them. If you would like a new circuit created on Tabroom for your local league or region, email [[mailto: firstname.lastname@example.com]].
Approving Tournaments
If there are any active tournament approval requests, a notice will appear on the sidebar under the relevant circuit:
Click the link for "Approve Tourn Requests" and you will be shown a list of pending requests:
For each request, you can "Approve" it, which will add the tournament to your circuit calendar, "Delete" it, which will remove the tournament from your circuit (but not delete it entirely), or click "Admin," which will take you into the tournament settings as if you were the tournament director.
Edit a Circuit
To access the main circuit administration functions, click the name of the circuit on the sidebar. This will give you a new set of options for your circuit on the sidebar:
You can edit the main settings for the circuit by clicking the Edit <Circuit> link.
Circuit Details
The first set of options let you set the circuit details, such as name, abbreviation, and location:
Circuit Options
Below that, you can configure several options for your circuit:
Full Membership Tracking - This will keep track of member schools, including options for membership fees.
Tournaments open to non-members - If checked, allows schools outside your circuit to enter tournaments listed in your circuit.
Track Bids - Gives you options to keep track of how many bids teams in your circuit earn.
Extended Student Demographics - Lets you help track additional information about students in your circuit.
Extended Judge Demographics - Lets you help track additional information about judges in your circuit.
Judge Training Certification - Requires judges in your circuit to be marked as certified, through whatever process your league uses.
Use Regions - Allows you to configure regions within your circuit.
NCFL Specific Settings - Not for local CFL's - don't use unless you're actually the NCFL.
NAUDL reporting options - not for local UDL's - don't use unless you're actually NAUDL.
Circuit Administrators
At the bottom of the main circuit settings page, you can also control which Tabroom accounts have access as a circuit administrator:
Circuit Emails
Tabroom makes it easy to send an email to everyone in your circuit, or subsets of people like particular tournament entrants.
Send An Email
To send a new email, click the "Compose new email" link in the sidebar. You can fill out a subject, and then select a group of recipients. You can either choose "Send to all <Circuit> members" or choose a particular set of tournament entrants:
Then, fill out the text of your email and click "Send Email:"
Email Archive
To see a list of emails that have been sent to the circuit, click the "Email Archive" link on the sidebar: This will show you a list of emails from the current season, which you can view with the "View" button:
To see emails from another season, use the drop-down list on the sidebar:
Member Schools
To see a list of schools in the chapter, use the "Member Schools" link on the sidebar, then search for a school name or press "See All:"
For each search result, you can click the "Edit" button to edit that school's information, including their name and adding/remove Tabrrom accounts with administrative access to that school. As a circuit administrator, you shouldn't make changes to a school's settings unless you have a good reason to do so - school-specific information is usually controlled by that school's admin instead.
Circuit Tournaments
The Tournaments link on the sidebar will show you a list of all tournaments on the circuit for the current season:
To see a different season's calendar, use the dropdown box on the sidebar:
For each tournament in the list, you can press the "Access" button to edit who has administrative access to the tournament, or "Remove" to remove the tournament's association with the circuit (this doesn't delete the tournament entirely).
Fixing Results
The "Fix Results" button next to each tournament will let you make changes to the final results. You should be VERY careful with this function, for obvious reasons - it is much better to contact the tournament director and have them make changes in the actual tournament as if they were tabbing it. This function is designed for when something goes awry and the tournament director needs assistance.
When using "Fix Results" you will be given an option of which results you need to change. Most of these options are currently defunct and shouldn't be used. The currently active options are:
Link school entries to master database chapters
This option lets you link school entries at a tournament to their main "chapter" in the Tabroom database. This can be useful when, for example, a tournament was tabbed offline and you want to match up school entries with their chapter so that results appear in the correct place. Selecting this option will give you a list of school entries at the tournament:
If any of the Chapters are 0, you can click the name of the school entry to search for the appropriate chapter to link it to.
Recalculate WUDC scores
This lets you assign a new WUDC weight to the tournament.
Final Places
The Final Places option on the sidebar lets you recalculate final places for a tournament, which is used in computing RPI and WUDC rankings. You will see a list of tournaments from the current season, or you can select a different season with the box at the bottom of the page.
For each tournament, you can select "Generate Final Places" to calculate them.
School Codes
If your circuit wishes to standardize school codes across all tournaments in the circuit, you can set them with the "School Codes" option in the sidebar - this can make it easier to follow results over the season:
Download Contacts
The Download Contacts (CSV) option in the sidebar will download a spreadsheet containing contact information for all the schools in your circuit.
Remember that you can also use Tabroom to automatically send an email to circuit members rather than do so manually.
Some circuits make use of "Regions" - selecting this option from the sidebar will let you configure them.


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- "I will not rest until the Tombat is brought before an Imperial court to answer for his crimes!"
- ―IOCI Inspector Zanza Gata
Zanza Gata was a Special Enforcement Officer with the rank of Inspector in the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations. In 1 ABY, Gata was assigned, at the behest of Moff Landric, to bring the art thief known only as the "Tombat" to justice. IOCI Director Jacen Corbit introduced Gata to a packed room of reporters in a dramatic press conference on Danteel.
Gata was described as an extremely capable officer with years of experience bringing crime syndicate leaders, assassins and slicers to trial. His success rate was nearly 84 percent, and he was known to go days without rest when tracking his prey. Gata's uncannily accurate reading of the "Tombat"'s psych profile had become something of a legend around the Office.
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- "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 8 (First appearance)
- "Galaxywide NewsNets"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 11
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Savor a taste of Italy in only 10 minutes with fish fillets topped with fresh tomato slices and melted Parmesan cheese. Penne pasta tossed with fresh spinach completes this colorful dinner.
Buy whatever white fish looks best from the market. Or, use flash frozen fish fillets which, I've found, give a true fresh taste when defrosted. The fish in a seafood case can be over a week old before you buy it. Measure the thickness of the fish and count about 10 minutes cooking time for each inch of thickness.
Helpful Hints:
* Any type of fish fillet can be used, tilapia, sole or flounder.
* Any short-cut pasta such as elbow macaroni or rigatoni can be used.
* Be sure to thinly slice tomatoes.
* Shave the Parmesan with a potato peeler.
* Lining a baking tray with foil saves cleanup time.
Snapper Parmesan
3/4 pound snapper fillets
2 teaspoons olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 medium tomato, thinly sliced (about 1 cup)
1/4 cup plain breadcrumbs
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon dried oregano
Preheat broiler. Line a baking tray with foil. Rinse fish and pat dry with paper towel. Place on tray skin side down and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Broil 7 -8 minutes. Meanwhile, thinly slice tomatoes. Mix bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese and oregano together. Remove tray from oven and arrange tomato slices over fish. Spread breadcrumb mixture evenly over tomatoes. Return to broiler and broil about 6 inches from heat 1 minute. Topping should be golden.
Yield 2 servings, each: 335 calories (31 percent from fat), 11.4 g fat (3.4 g saturated, 3.7 g monounsaturated), 71 mg cholesterol, 41.3 g protein, 15.4 g carbohydrates, 1.9 g fiber, 452 mg sodium.
Spinach Penne Pasta
1/4 pound penne pasta (about 2 cups)
4 cups washed, ready-to-eat spinach
2 teaspoons olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Bring a large pot filled with 3 to 4 quarts water to a boil. Add the penne pasta and cook 10 minutes or according to package instructions. Add the spinach and drain immediately leaving about 2 tablespoons of water in the pot. Add the olive oil to the water in the pot and return the pasta and spinach. Add salt and pepper to taste. Toss well.
Yield 2 servings, each: 265 calories (19 percent from fat), 5.6 g fat (0.8 g saturated, 2.3 g monounsaturated), no cholesterol, 9.2 g protein, 44.7 g carbohydrates, 3.2 g fiber, 51 mg sodium.
Linda Gassenheimer is an author of more than 30 cookbooks. Her newest is "The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook." Find her on Facebook (@FoodNewsandViews) and Twitter (@LGassenheimer), and listen to her podcasts at www.880thebiz.com.)


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On Friday, November 1st, New Beginnings hosted an intimate evening at The New Vic featuring a theatrical performance of Food and Shelter, by Jane Anderson, the fanciful but heartrending story of a homeless family splurging on a day at Disneyland, written by Emmy award-winning writer, Jane Anderson, and directed by award-winning theatre and film director, Jenny Sullivan.
This was a wonderful opportunity for our donors to support New Beginnings as we leverage the power of theatre to introduce new community members to our work, and to engage the public to confront important social issues in our community that remain unaddressed. The evening directly benefited New Beginnings' programs, services, and clients, enabling us to remain accessible to all.
Food and Shelter
by Jane Anderson
We're pleased to announce our cast, which include Joe Spano (NCIS, Apollo 13, NYPD Blue, and Fracture), Eric Lange (Victorious, Lost, Narcos, and The Bridge), Chris Butler (Designated Survivor, Rescue Dawn, The Good Wife, and King & Maxwell), and Faline England (9-1-1, The Mentalist, Station 19, and Valentines Day), Stephanie Edwards (KTLA's legendary television host, co-host of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the first female host of AM America), and Hope Dekkers (The Nightingale and The Tower at Libby Bowl).
Food and Shelter is presented by special arrangement with Samuel French, Inc., a Concord Theatricals Company. Thank you to our sponsors:
Understudy Sponsors – Anonymous, Mary Becker, Harrison Gunther Foundation, Moody Family, Honorable Susan Rose, and the Zegar Family
Dramatist Sponsor – Glenn and Amy Bacheller, Dan and Emily Engel, and Jackie and Paul Kurta


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Press Release
New Cryptocurrency Chimpion Aims to Disrupt Retail E-Commerce
New changes to come in the e-commerce industry with Chimpion's new innovative technology
Press Release – updated: Jan 9, 2019
TALLINN, Estonia, January 9, 2019 (Newswire.com) – Shopping Cart Elite, Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) and Paytomat have each contributed technology toward the launch of Chimpion (CHIMP), a new project designed to make crypto e-commerce practical and viable. Combining the features of major e-commerce platforms with the benefits of cryptocurrency, Chimpion offers a full-scale retail payment system that can enable emerging countries to go fully digital.
Since Amazon and eBay first entered the industry, e-commerce has grown significantly. In 2017 alone, retail e-commerce sales totaled $2.3 trillion, while B2B e-commerce sales accounted for another $7.7 trillion. As e-commerce has grown in popularity, so has cryptocurrency. Its ability to provide security, speed, affordability, and transferability across international boundaries has made it attractive to both merchants and customers.
Chimpion introduces merchants to new international markets and flexible income streams. With Chimpion, merchants selling internationally can avoid the high transaction fees imposed by credit card processors, while consumers can escape the high currency conversion premiums charged by third-party payment providers.
Chimpion's technology partnerships are integral to its success, including Shopping Cart Elite's crypto e-commerce platform, Paytomat's point-of-sale and settlement system, and Bitcoin Diamond's BCD Pay Wallet and quant trading integration. Shopping Cart Elite's e-commerce platform is used by retailers across North America, while Paytomat's decentralized payment system already serves hundreds of European merchants.
In many emerging economies like Venezuela, fiat currency is unpredictable and volatile, creating a historic opportunity for crypto e-commerce to enter. Cryptocurrency-friendly nations like Malta are also strong candidates to embrace digital currency for online sales. Particularly attractive for merchants in these nations is Chimpion's automatic stablecoin conversion. With this feature, merchants can set their Chimpion store to automatically convert cryptocurrency payments to one of a selection of stablecoins, which are tied to highly stable assets like the US dollar.
With the e-commerce market steadily growing, barriers associated with cost, security, and complexity are becoming increasingly detrimental for businesses. Chimpion's crypto e-commerce system creates a pathway for these organizations to pursue new revenue opportunities, making it worthwhile for emerging economies to embrace digital commerce.
About Chimpion
Chimpion is a cryptocurrency e-commerce platform that enables any merchant to begin accepting cryptocurrency payments online. By holding Chimpion (CHIMP), merchants can gain access to Chimpion's robust crypto e-commerce platform for free, without needing to pay a monthly subscription fee. Chimpion was developed using technology from Shopping Cart Elite, Paytomat, and Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) and combines comprehensive e-commerce features with convenient payment processing.
Chimpion's primary goal is to drive the adoption of cryptocurrency as a payment solution by operating a rich e-commerce platform centered around digital assets. New startups and established merchants alike can become part of Chimpion's vast network to take advantage of its fast and affordable transactions and user-friendly infrastructure.
About Shopping Cart Elite
Shopping Cart Elite is an enterprise e-commerce platform that provides businesses with various automation tools to run more efficiently. The company prides itself in being a one-stop shop that does not require third-party applications in order to have marketing and SEO tools for business.
Recently, Shopping Cart Elite has developed an advanced e-commerce platform designed specifically for cryptocurrency. This platform has already served as the basis for BCD Bazaar and has been adopted by several merchants, including Marks Jewelers, Mahone's Wallpaper Shop, NewParts, and more.
About Bitcoin Diamond (BCD)
Bitcoin Diamond is a Bitcoin fork that was created to solve the slow transaction confirmations and high threshold requirements of Bitcoin. Through BCD Pay, business owners are able to offer their products to a global market without needing to absorb expensive fees from international payments. Furthermore, with BCD Pay, business owners do not have to worry about costly chargebacks from indecisive or fraudulent customers.
Earlier this year, BCD debuted BCD Bazaar, an international marketplace that gives customers access to a wide range of products from across the world by accepting payments in Bitcoin Diamond (BCD) or Bitcoin (BTC).
About Paytomat
Paytomat is a decentralized crypto payment system that is currently used by more than 300 merchants, brick-and-mortar and e-commerce alike. The Paytomat Wallet currently accepts more than 18 of the world's most powerful cryptocurrencies. It works as a convenient multi-coin tool allowing to store and manage assets in one secure app.
Paytomat offers a standalone crypto payment solution, which means brick-and-mortar merchants can accept cryptocurrency payments without the need to purchase additional hardware. The solution integrates seamlessly with the merchants' existing point-of-sale systems. By increasing the security and speed of transactions and streamlining payments in multiple cryptocurrencies, Paytomat's goal is to bridge the blockchain ecosystem with retail.
Source: Chimpion


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EHRI Receives New Funding to Sustain and Develop Resources and Services
Green Light for Fellowship and Training Programme
Last week, the European Commission announced that EHRI would receive new funding from the Research and Innovation Programme Horizon2020 to sustain and further develop its main resources and services. Already in the process of transforming from a project into a permanent body for international Holocaust research, EHRI now, with this new funding, can maintain and expand its successful resources, such as the fellowships, training activities and the EHRI Portal. Hence, over the next 4 years, EHRI will follow two paths: developing into a permanent infrastructure and progressing as a longstanding, active project. Having both streams of funding is especially good news for our user community as it means that they can keep on using EHRI's new and improved services, while behind the scene, foundations for a stable organization are being built.
Hidden sources
The aim of this third project phase is to move decisively beyond the achieved state-of-the-art. While the sources of most major Holocaust institutions are already integrated into the EHRI Portal, much valuable sources held by small local and micro-archives currently are inaccessible to the research communities. EHRI will develop protocols and tools that allow the open up of these hidden sources for Holocaust research.
New approaches
In this third phase, EHRI will further enable new trans-national and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the Holocaust by developing innovative layers that connect thematically related, but physically dispersed, collections. It will greatly enhance its access provisions, and integrate new communities – local research and archive networks, universities, researchers working in closely related fields – into its network.
New programmes and activities
Later this year, EHRI will announce new programmes for its fellowships and training activities. A new interactive Online Course in Holocaust Studies and a MOOC can be expected.
Strengthen community
In the next four years, EHRI will manage to expand and strengthen its community of partners, experts, scholars, archivists, digital humanists and others. New partners to the consortium will be the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe in Lviv, Ukraine, and the University of Thessaloniki.
Although EHRI is geared towards scholarly communities, the Holocaust is deeply rooted in the development of European societies. EHRI is a project with a reach and resonance well beyond the walls of academia. EHRI keeps the memory of the most traumatic event in European history alive. It helps to make new generations aware of what happened during Europe's darkest hour, which is all the more important as survivors of the Holocaust pass away. By building a firm groundwork for its future, EHRI hopes to create indispensable weapons in the battle against Holocaust denial, xenophobia and antisemitism which have recently raised their ugly heads again across Europe.
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The U.S. Postal Service reported a net loss of $586 million for the third quarter of fiscal 2015 ended June 30, down $1.4 billion from $2 billion during the same period last year. Total revenue was up slightly, from $16.50 billion to $16.55 billion.
Shipping and package revenue increased by 10.6% in the quarter from $3.22 billion to $3.56 billion, while the volume increased 13.4% from 946,000 to 1.1 billion pieces. But the added revenue also means higher costs as the parcel side of the business is more labor intensive.
Still, the parcel growth continues to be a bright spot for the USPS amid declining mail volumes and revenues, as it does battle with UPS and FedEx for a bigger piece of the ecommerce delivery pie. Many shippers report giving the USPS a closer look due to its increased service levels and carrier price increases. Contractual obligations on retiree benefits and worker's compensation continue to fuel perennial USPS losses, as it seeks legislative relief from the burden.
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Joseph Corbett noted how the Postal Regulatory Commission this year allowed the USPS to collect an additional $1.4 billion from an exigent rate increase, bumping up the allowable amount from $3.2 billion to $4.6 billion. The rate increase, which will expire next year, was instituted to offset USPS losses from the 2008 recession.
First-class mail volume fell from 15.5 billion pieces to 15.1 billion pieces, while standard mail decreased from 19.2 billion pieces to 18.8 billion pieces. Roughly two-thirds of the Q3 net loss was attributable to costs outside of the USPS's control.
"Our Priority Mail offerings, along with our reliable service and end-to-end visibility, continue to attract customers," said Postmaster General and CEO Megan Brennan. "This growth has a lot to do fact that we added features such as free tracking, insurance and specified day of delivery to that product line."
The USPS' Parcel Select product, designed to capture last mile delivery for business customers, "is also continuing to see growth in this category, reinforcing the value of our delivery network in going to every address."
Brennan said the USPS is continuing to pursue package and shipping growth by investing in new equipment and processes and by offering customers a flexible delivery window. "We're also focused on being a more seamless part of the mobile and digital lives of our customers, expanding the kind of information we can provide regarding package deliveries such as time of delivery, and developing new mobile and digital tools to deliver that info," she said.
Concerning the arrangement with Amazon to provide seven-day-a-week, last-mile services for the ecommerce giant's same-day delivery offering, begun in the fall of 2013, Brennan said the USPS will seek similar deals.
"We continue to test and pilot customized delivery solutions, such as grocery, same day and Sunday delivery," she said. "We are committed to leveraging our infrastructure to find the best opportunities in this long-term growth market for delivery services."


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Jo-Louise Huq (Ph.D., MBA) & Kathryn York (MBA, B. Comm)
June 2019
Kotter's eight step Leading Change model emerged around 1995. The original model was revised in 2012 to reflect an increased pace of change in organizations and to address the original model's top-down approach to change.[1] Kotter's eight steps are as follows.
- Create sense of urgency – recognize a big opportunity and spark excitement among employees.
- Build a guiding coalition – an internal team that will manage, guide, coordinate and communicate change and change activities.
- Form strategic initiative – align change with the organization's strategic vision.
- Enlist a volunteer army – inspire broad employee support of the change, provide volunteers meaningful opportunities and activities to contribute to success.
- Enable action – remove barriers like inefficient processes and hierarchies so that the coalition and volunteers can work to effect change.
- Generate short term wins – pay attention to and recognize daily, weekly or monthly short-term wins, focus on incremental goals and celebrate small and large achievements.
- Sustain acceleration – adapt quickly and often and balance change management (planning, budgeting and organizing) and change leadership (establishing direction, motivating and aligning employees).
- Institute change – continually and transparently communicate the connection between employees' new, changed behaviors and the organization's success. Show employees why change is valuable and keep them on track.
Kotter's model highlights the importance of recruiting and involving people outside of an organization's leadership and management team in change initiatives. Broad involvement is critically important for change.
As we are always interested in whether change models have been empirically assesses we looked to the change management literature for insights. We did not find much. However, in 2012, Appelbaum, Habashy, Malo, & Shafiq (2012) published a paper that reviewed literature on change management for each of the eight steps defined in Kotter's model. Their goal was to identify support for each step of Kotter's model by reviewing 15 years of empirical studies of change management.
- First, Applebaum et al. (2012) remind us that Kotter's model was built from one man's experience with change. While there has been support for the model no research has covered the entire model.
- Second, they suggest that Kotter's model presents a useful "how-to" overview of change and may be useful for change/ implementation planning.
- Third, they recommend the use of complementary tools during implementation to ensure and support adaptation to local contextual factors and obstacles.
To us this last point is critically important because Kotter's model does not address the challenges of encouraging and implementing change in established and professionalized organizations.[2][3] More on this in future blog posts.
[1] Kotter, J.P (1995). Leading Change: Why change fails. Harvard business review. Available here: http://www.lighthouseconsultants.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Kotter-Leading-Change-Why-transformation-efforts-fail.pdf
Kotter, J. P. (2008). Leading change. Harvard business press.
Kotter, J. P. (2012). Leading change. Harvard business press.
[2] Huq, J. L., & Woiceshyn, J. (2019). Disrupting activities in quality improvement initiatives: a qualitative case study of the QuICR Door-To-Needle initiative. BMJ quality & safety, bmjqs-2018.
[3] Woiceshyn, J., Huq, J. L., Blades, K., & Pendharkar, S. R. (2019). Microdynamics of Implementing Planned Change on Organizations' Front Line. Journal of Change Management, 1-22.