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To develop instructional materials for and to conduct one pilot training class on hydrogen hazard awareness for drivers of commercial vehicles using hydrogen fuel.
Through an earlier project, an instructional design guide was completed in April 2011 to provide training on hydrogen hazard awareness to drivers of commercial vehicles using hydrogen fuel. This project is a follow-on effort to implement the instructional design guide for drivers and conduct a pilot training class for drivers.
Instructional materials will be developed from the instructional design guide for use in classroom training. These materials will include an instructor's handbook, a student's handbook, PowerPoint presentation slides, charts, film or video clips, hands-on exercises, and a combustible gas detector. The materials will be used to conduct a pilot training class at a Port of Los Angeles drayage truck fleet operator. The Port of Los Angeles plans to deploy tractors using hydrogen fuel cell range extenders to recharge electric batteries in order to reduce emissions and maximize deployment of the tractors without having to cease operations for charging of batteries.
Instructional materials (as described above) and one pilot training class.
This project is completed. Period of performance was 1 year.
FY 2011: $40,000 - Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) (Hydrogen Funds)
The pilot training class, the first of its kind for the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), took place July 25, 2013. A brief final report is due by September 28, 2013.


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Saturday, April 28, 2012
Y Stands For...
There! I did it! Do I win a prize?? Say what? My prize is the finish line? The conclusion? The accomplishment?? The end????? And that won't be until Monday? Okey dokey.
For more A to Z click on that beeutiful flashy alphabet box. Happy weekend. ONE MORE LETTER!
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We writers sure are a blabby bunch! I think we run Facebook.ReplyDelete
Yada, yada, yada reminds me of the Seinfeld episode.
Hi Robyn!!ReplyDelete
It's kind of amazing how the writers of Seinfeld made yada yada yada into somethin iconic... where's my yada yada icon???
Bless you!!!
Yada, yada, yada rocks! A perfect Y post.ReplyDelete
Every time I hear "yada yada yada" I think of Seinfeld too. And this kid I took a class with back in college. He said it at the end of every sentence. And I do mean every single one.ReplyDelete
If yada is for Y will Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz be for Z?ReplyDelete
Hi Robyn .. not long now - I've enjoyed it .. despite Blogger!!ReplyDelete
Cheers Hilary
I love your Y image and word. Yada, yada, yada, sounds like tax lady.ReplyDelete
Happy A to Z-ing!
I love your Y image and word. Yada, yada, yada, sounds like tax lady.ReplyDelete
Happy A to Z-ing!
I think a lot of us are feeling this way at this point in the Challenge. Just popping in to say hello! :)ReplyDelete
Very funny! I think we're all feeling loopy! My Z post is just silly. We've done it though. So nice to find you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 28, 2012 at 9:21 PM
Hi Robyn! What a fun Y post. Yada, yada, yada. : )ReplyDelete
Exactly how I feel!ReplyDelete
Nice to meet you, A to Zer!
One more to go!
- AnonymousApril 28, 2012 at 11:26 PM
And a BIG YAHOO too. We're almost finished!ReplyDelete
What an alphabet.
Happy unplugged day: next Tuesday.
Best wishes and keep in touch,
Very interesting post for the day.ReplyDelete
I missed it due to an unexpected travel towards my native land
Wish you all good luck
Keep inform
And, yakkety yak, don't talk back. I like that wooden Y.ReplyDelete
In this age of cross-talk, I believe I need to listen more. It's a constant struggle.ReplyDelete
I didn't do the challenge because I knew I wouldn't make it through. Congrats on making it!ReplyDelete
Blah blah... chit chat... yada yada... yakkety yak... babble babble... all boils down to the same thing... and I noticed that it seems to work in pairs... sorry, my brains are fried at this moment so I'm rambling on...ReplyDelete
Banned complain !! Complaining only causes life and mind become more severe. Enjoy the rhythm of the problems faced. No matter ga life, not a problem not learn, so enjoy it :)ReplyDelete
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A retrospective recent study (PL Watkins et al. J Pediatr 2020; 217: 52-8) provides data that suggests that preterm infants at 22-23 weeks gestation can have good outcomes.
- n=70 for 22-23 weeks (22 weeks, n=20, 23 weeks, n=50)
- n=178 for 24-25 weeks (24 weeks, n=79, 25 weeks, n=99)
Key findings:
- Survival to hospital discharge: 78% for 22-23 week cohort, 89% for 24-25 week cohort
- No or mild neurodevelopmental impairment 64% or 22-23 week cohort, 76% for 24-25 week cohort. This was based on prospectively collected data at 18-22 months with Bayley Scales (BSID-III) (≥85) and being free from vision and hearing impairment
These survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes far exceed previous reports. The study and the associated editorial (pg 9) identify several treatment characteristics that could have helped optimize outcomes: antenatal steroids, high-frequency ventilation, and a specialized environment. Also, the authors did not include infants who were outborn, stillborn or died in the delivery room.
My take: This article's data needs to be replicated elsewhere; in the meanwhile, it is going to challenge the notion of nihilism for infants born at 22-23 weeks gestation.
Related article: AH Jobe. J Pediatr 2020; 217: 184-8. This commentary discusses the potential lifetime consequences of antenatal steroids, which may affect neurodevelopment and cardiovascular outcomes. "Antenatal corticosteroids are frequently used to disrupt normal development in rodent models"
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- What's Happening on the Edge of Viability?
- Predicting Survival Without Disability Among Preterm Infants
- Weight Gain in Preemies, Neurodevelopmental Outcomes, and Reverse Causation
- Improving Outlook in Neonatal Nutrition (Part 1 …
- Improving Outlook in Neonatal Nutrition (Part 2 …
- Neonatal Nutrition Lecture -What We Know Right Now …


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Fortuny fabrics today are still being produced at the original factory founded by Mariano Fortuny almost a century ago. Although the factory itself allows no visitors in order to maintain Mariano Fortuny's trade secrets, the showroom is open to the public on weekdays, and the adjacent gardens can be visited by appointment.
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Draft 1.2 is interesting, but I don't see why you haven't addressed some of the earlier glaring weaknesses. FIRST Closepath Z and Moveto M don't allow proper drawing of some objects. Imagine a room with a doorway. I want to leave a gap at the doorway, AND I want to use closepath so that the lines at the corner form a good shape. EG <path d=" M 0 0 h 100 v 100 h -100 v -60 m 0 20 z " /> leaves an ugly corner at the origin (0,0). That is clumsy, and well worth correcting. SECOND M has no equivalents of H and V. Lots of graphics need horizontal/vertical lines, AND gaps. But M forces use of both coordinates! (??weird anomaly??) It is at least odd: almost perverse! Lots of marginally useful features (ellipses, Bezier, etc, but the basic straight lines seem clumsy/awkward/inept at times. Sorry to grumble. Svg has some strong points, but (like all of us, I guess) it is not perfect. Andrew MainReceived on Friday, 9 July 2004 01:57:34 UTC
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Getting Out the Word on Effective Tobacco Treatment
Clinical guidelines are only as good as the number of people who read and use them. In 2005, fewer than 50 percent of smokers visiting a health care setting were treated for tobacco use, according to the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin. That gap occurred despite Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence, a clinical guideline from the U.S. Public Health Service published in 1996 and updated in 2000.
The center was the lead organization producing a 2008 update of the guideline, which recommends treatment options based on evidence about what works. For example, the update advises clinicians to prescribe both counseling and smoking-cessation medication to patients who want to quit unless otherwise contraindicated (as medication is with pregnant women). Eight organizations, including the RWJF, funded the update (see Program Results Report).
To spur widespread use of the revised guideline, RWJF provided another grant to the center to update educational information and tools, create new tools and disseminate them to clinicians and consumers. This work, which ran from 2008 to 2009, built on a decade of efforts by RWJF to boost smoking treatment and quit rates. See the Special Report.
By 2008, many "people were eager to see the next guideline and use it," according to Bruce Christiansen, PhD, project co-director. However, they still needed information encouraging and helping them do so. The center used this grant to provide that support.
Key Results
In reports to RWJF, project staff noted the following results as of December 31, 2009:
- The Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention produced information and tools on the revised guideline in print, electronic and video formats for both clinicians and consumers.
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The Top Gear Live Show, or Festival as some people are now calling it will have a bit of a revamp for 2011. It was a known fact that things were starting to get a little stale, but this year there will be a host of new features. The first event of the year will be held in Brisbane on March 4-6.
The schedule is not that busy, the next events will be on 11-14 March 2011 in Melbourne, 17-20 March 2011 in Johannesburg and 24-27 March 2011 in Oslo. We are not certain if any more dates will be added; visit the Top Gear Live website to keep informed of future event dates.
When you visit the website just select which country you wish to see the show and then follow the link that will take you to a selected website. It is there where you will have all the details you need on the event, as well at prices for tickets. Prices vary depending on what kind of ticket you want.
The regular Top Gear team from the hit BBC show will be live at the event, so if you love watching Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May act like idiots, then you are in luck. This has to be one of my favorites shows on at the moment, I just love the specials when thy have to take part in a challenge.
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Unit sales at Research In Motion are falling, while Chinese handset makers are starting to pick up sales momentum. If growth at Huawei and ZTE continues, they will pass RIM and Nokia in terms of unit volume. And that will be great news for InvenSense. In its last conference call, it said that Edom, a supplier to Chinese handset makers, was a 10% customer for its micro-electrical-mechanical systems, or MEMS. If Edom is a big customer and Chinese handset makers are growing fast, that gives InvenSense a great international growth option over time. InvenSense has a low-cost platform for its MEMS, giving it an advantage. Although the company doesn't supply Apple, it does supply chips to phones using Google's Android operating system. Shares are very attractive today, and the international growth option makes them even more so.
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President Donald Trump moved quickly to do damage control on his wife's ABC News interview in which she said there remain people inside the White House she does not trust.
In today's phone in to his favorite morning show Fox & Friends, show hosts brought up the Melania Trump clip ABC aired this morning to plug Friday's interview. In the clip, the First Lady said some of the people she told her husband not to trust were no longer at the White House, while some are still.
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Cross border healthcare
Living in England and registered with an NHS Wales GP Practice – what does this mean when you are referred for onward NHS treatment?
Until recently, patients living on the border received their healthcare from the NHS in the country where their GP practice was registered.
So, patients living in England but registered with a Welsh GP practice received their care from the Welsh NHS, and vice versa.
Recent changes to the healthcare system in England mean that if you live in England and are registered with a GP practice that is either in Wales or is registered with the NHS in Wales, then the way you are referred to a consultant will be different to how you have been referred in the past.
If you live in Wales you will not experience any change.
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The American Council on Exercise (ACE), self-identified as the largest non-profit health and fitness certification, education, and training organization in the world, just published a scorching report on the effects of Bikram yoga on core body temperatures. Bikram-franchised studios teach trademarked Bikram Yoga, a 26 posture sequence with two breathing exercises in a room heated to 105° with 40-50% humidity for 90 min. Copycat studios teach this same sequence under the taglines of hot yoga, hot hatha, or hot 26 and under similar conditions of heat and humidity for a duration of 60-90 minutes. I have experience with one studio that regularly allowed its temperature to creep up towards 110° and 60% humidity.
Is hot yoga safe??
The obvious question has always been "is it safe to practice yoga in such extreme heat and humidity?" Now we have an answer. The study found that 60 minutes into a 90 min class, nearly half of the study's participants had core temperatures over 103°. Core temperature is that of your insides including your blood, guts, and other organs. Outside of the context of a hot yoga experience, adults at 103° or 104° are heading to urgent care centers and emergency rooms.
According to Bikram Yoga's founder, Bikram Choudhury: [Parenthetical use is Choudhury's not mine. MM]:
"The room is kept at this temperature or more for the following:
- Keeping the body from overheating (contrary to popular misconception)
- Protecting the muscles to allow for deeper stretching
- Detoxing the body (open pores to let toxins out)
- Thinning the blood to clear the circulatory system
- Increasing heart rate for better cardiovascular workout
- Improving strength by putting muscle tissue in optimal state for reorganization
- Reorganize the lipids (fat) in the muscular structure"
How do you actually keep from overheating?
A lesson on thermoregulation is warranted. When you exercise, you generate energy, which is released as heat. Excess core heat, a complex result of muscle activation, is transported from your core to your skin, where it is lost to the environment via several methods – radiation, conduction, convection, and evaporation.
Radiation. When your body is hotter than your surroundings, which it almost always is, then a greater quantity of heat radiates from your body than to it. In a thermal comfortable room, about 60% of heat loss occurs as radiant heat.
Conduction. The transfer of heat from your body to an object, say your mat in yoga. In a normally heated room, 3% of heat loss occurs due to conduction.
Convection. Heat transfer via moving gas/liquid, which is almost always occurring. In a reasonably temperatured room, 15% of heat loss occurs via convection.
Evaporation. Heat loss that occurs through ventilation/diffusion and sweating. This accounts for 25% of heat loss in a comfortable environment.
Metabolic heat is transported to the skin while activation of sweat glands causes sweat to be secreted onto skin surface, promoting heat loss by evaporation of the water portion of sweat, which does not contain toxins, by the way.
Body cooling by radiation and convection, which is about 75% of heat loss, depends on a significant difference between your core temperature and the air around you. When that air exceeds 98.6°, heat exchange is reversed and your body now gains heat by radiation and convection instead of losing it. Read that sentence again.
Now you are left with only one mechanism to cool your core temperature – evaporation of your sweat. Sweat can only cool you if it is allowed to evaporate. When the surrounding air is dry, sweat readily evaporates, cooling your skin. However, if the humidity is high as it is in hot yoga studios, evaporation is impeded, resulting in sweat accumulating on your skin and insufficient cooling of your body. You now have no way to lower your core temperature other than leaving the room. Ironically, ignorantly, and inexplicably, many hot yoga studios discourage you from leaving the room and instead suggest you lie down on your mat, where you are now at the mercy of gaining more body heat from conduction of heat from your mat to your body. Double jeopardy for studios with floor heating systems. You are now in a position of experiencing a critical heat load and developing the mother of all heat illness – heat stroke.
If you have not experienced a hot yoga class, I cannot impress upon you enough how much sweating happens. Many participants are soaked and dripping with sweat before the end of the first breathing exercise at the start of class. When sweating becomes your last resort to cool your core temperature, it must be matched by water intake or dehydration occurs. Ironically, ignorantly, and inexplicably, many hot yoga studios discourage drinking outside one or two sanctioned water breaks.
When your core temperature reaches 104°, which happened to one of the study's male participants (interestingly, male participants experienced significantly higher heat-induced heart rates and core temperatures), heat stroke becomes a real possibility. The Mayo Clinic defines heat stroke as "a condition caused by your body overheating, usually as a result of prolonged exposure to or physical exertion in high temperatures. This most serious form of heat injury, heatstroke can occur if your body temperature rises to 104 F (40 C) or higher." Heatstroke can result in a number of complications including permanent damage to your brain and other vital organs and/or death. Heatstroke requires emergency treatment. Damage worsens the longer treatment is delayed, increasing your risk of serious complications or death.
What should hot yoga studios and teachers do?
I know enough hot yogis to also know it is futile to preach to them about the risks of the practice they love, so I offer, instead, best practices for minimizing that risk.
The ACE study made several recommendations for improving safety of hot yoga classes.
- Shorten classes to 60 minutes. Study participants began experiencing dangerous core temperatures at the 60 minute mark
- Lower the room temperature
- Encourage students to stay hydrated by reminding them to drink water throughout the class
- Stress to students that toweling off sweat undermines evaporative cooling in an already gravely compromised evaporation system
I would go bolder and say:
Hot yoga studios should reject the Bikram heat/humidity standard and implement a temperature cap of 98.6°, which would hopefully keep core temperatures below the 104° heat stroke threshold. Humidity levels should also be lowered to allow for more efficient evaporative heat loss. I would hope to see further research that explores a range of lower temperatures and humidities as well include a greater number of participants, including novices and those unacclimatized, and an active control group.
New students should be offered a shortened, modified class to allow them to acclimatize. This study used regular practitioners of Bikram Yoga, who were acclimatized to 90 min at 105°/40%. However it takes up to 14 days to fully acclimate to these excessive conditions.
Hot yoga studios should provide ongoing training to its staff and students on how to recognize heat illness and what to do about it.
Namaste, Michele


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Valspar hosts celebrities at SEMA
LAS VEGAS_ Valspar Automotive will host the stars of two reality TV shows —"Counting Cars" on History and The Discovery Channel's "Gas Monkey Garage" — at SEMA 2016 in Las Vegas. Attendees who visit Booth No. 10851 on Thursday, Nov. 3 can meet the television stars and see cars finished in Valspar Automotive brand paints.
Richard Rawlings of Gas Monkey Garage will meet with fans from 10 to 11:30 a.m., and from 2 to 4 p.m., the paint crew that works for Danny "the Count" Koker in his Counts Kustoms refinishing shop will be available, including Lonny Speer, Ryan Evans and "Horny" Mike Henry.
Rawlings and the Count's crew will autograph limited-edition posters, sign cards and take pictures with fans.
For more information, www.valsparauto.com.


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Your analysis is good except for the earthquake part. This may refer to drama queens of all two genders, typical in rich kids who have experienced everything and live for the next feel. Happy to destroy the world if it entertains them for a minute. Little bch is making lives and an entire city crumble apart and he can't relate to the horror you feel because he's just happy to feel a new vibe.
I would like to stick with Red Hot Chili Peppers for now. They have lots of songs, but I only like some of them.This is one from their newest album (The Getaway) from 2016. I looked up online to help me interpretate the lyrics.The song is about beating the drug addiction. But even without knowing the meaning, the song is dope as F.Dark Necessities"Coming out to the light of dayWe got many moons that are deep at play"New light of day - being clean of drugs, for many moons (years) now, but still haunted by it."So I keep an eye on the shadow's smileTo see what it has to say"Read the body languange, because even if I (or someone) may seem OK, but in fact could be in the bad place."You and I both knowEverything must go away"Him and someone else, or 2 sides of him (the"bad" and the "good" side), know that drug addiction must stop (everything must go away)."Ah, what do you say?"Do you think it should stop?"Spinning knot that is on my heartIt's like a bit of light and a touch of dark"His hart making his decisions. A bit of good and a touch of bad. Some good, some bad decisions."You got sneak attacked from the zodiac"Zodiac - the serial killer, who ambushed their victims. The sneak attack being the urge to take drugs, when he is vulnerable."But I see your fire spark"He avoids the attack."Eat the breeze and goBlow by blow and go away"Talking to the drug addiction - Eat the wind (take a walk) and go (away), punch by punch, and go away."Oh, what do you say?Yeah," He agrees that it must go away."you don't know my mindYou don't know my kind"Don't juge me, because you don't know what I feel andhow I am really like inside."Dark necessities are part of my design and"Some bad urges are part of the human nature."Tell the world that I'm falling from the skyDark necessities are part of my design"Falling from the sky - the fallen angel - being bad, taking the drugs, because the urges are the human nature, and very hard to beat.Or could mean being sober, not getting (sky) high."Stumble down to the parking lotYou got no time for the afterthoughtThey're like ice cream for an astronaut"Going to the dealer to get the drugs. You only think about getting them. They are sweet and get you high (all the way to space).The dried ice-cream that hydrates in your mouth, is what was marketed as astronaut's ice-cream."Well that's me looking for we"That is me looking for drugs (weed)."Turn the corner andFind the world at your commandPlaying the hand"Turn the corner (away from the drugs), and regain control of your life. Play the hand that you are dealt, don't look for escape in drugs."Yeah, you don't know my mindYou don't know my kindDark necessities are part of my designTell the world that I'm falling from the skyDark necessities are part of my design""Do you want this love of mine?The darkness helps all to shineDo you want it, do you want it now?Do you want it all the time?The darkness helps us all to shineDo you want it, do you want it now?"Drug addiction is telling him: Do you really want to stop taking drugs? The bad experiences in life help us better ourselves (shine). Do you really want to stop now? Do you really want to be sober non stop?"Pick you up like a paperbackWith the track record of a maniac"His history of drug addiction. "So I move it in and we unpackIt's the same as yesterday"He is still the same."Any way we rollEverything must go away"What ever the situation is now, we must stop the addiction."Ah, what do you say?Yeah,"Do you agree? Yes."you don't know my mindYou don't know my kindDark necessities are part of my designTell the world that I'm falling from the skyDark necessities are part of my designAh, ah, ahAh, ahAh, ah, ahAh, ahAh, ah, ahAh, ah"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0oIoR9mLwc
It's very interesting how they made party music with a message but didn't go all self-superior like the rock stars.
I had to pause several times to look at the pictures of crazies he complied. Sorry, that's offensive, I mean "left wing democrats". He's also not a bad singer, though unfortunately something about the comic song style keeps most from giving their very best. Anyways loads of talent and laughs in this song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7SvFffTwZg
What you said reminded me of another of their songs, which basically tells the strugle of their band member Hillel Slovak, an Israeli-American, who was not able to ditch the drug addiction and died of overdose in 1988. (I will post that song tomorrow, it is very good) That is why they made so many anti-drug songs. The lead siger, Anthony Kiedis was temporarily kicked out of the band in the early days by the Flee (the guy you see jumping around like crazy in the videos), until he got off the drugs.
This one is about visiting prostitutes.Look Around"Stiff club, its my nature"Sexual needs are natural."Custom love is the nomenclature"It is called "custom love" (personalised to your desires)."Turn down mass confusion"Ignore the oppinon of the masses."Hit the road 'cause we just keep cruisin'"Go out and visit a prostitue, for the pleasure (crusing - a drive or a trip for the purpose of pleasure)."Double my fun, double my vision"Doubble the fun, because they will do what you want. Double my vision - intoxication or orgasm."Long hard look at my last decision"Then comes the remorse."Hustle here, hustle there"Prostitution is everywhere."Hustle me [censored] and you best beware"Just don't screw me over."It's emotional and I told you so"There will be consequences, I am warning you."But you had to know, so I told you"But you wanted it, and you got it."Soft walk to horizon"Going to the prostitutes while trying to hide it."One big crash that no one dies in"One sexual encounter, that means nothing."This is for the folks in Fayetteville"The place where the big military base is. This is for the army men (who visit prostitutes, because they are far from their home)."It'll come true if you say it will"If you believe that the encounter means nothing (to your girfriends/wives) then in your mind it is true."Look around, look around, look around"Where ever you look..."All around, all around, all around"The affairs are everywhere."Please don't look right through me"Prostitutes only pretend to love you, but you are just a job to them."Hurts my heart when you do that to me"No explanation needed."Street life out my window"More entertaining life is outside my home."City made breeze gonna stroke my skindow"City entertainment is waking my desires."Just a lot of words on an old brick wall"A lot of tally marks above the bed."Rob a lot of banks, got a pedigree scrawl"Have relations with a lot of women, add another tally mark."Put my peg into your square"Start having sex."Run around like we just don't care"Do it like it is the end on the world."Move it ah got to get ya, want to get you""When I'm feeling small"When I am not happy."And I'm hitting a wall"And acheiving no progress."Wanna feel it all around"Just want to fee good for a change.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnisBb2rVOg


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24 May, 2018--the Amateur Radio Safety Foundation, Inc. and it's Winlink project have updated their Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of Use. For our users within the EU, ARSFI will take reasonable measures to ensure your Personal Data remain protected in compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Policy has been revised, made clearer, and complies with recent changes in EU law. If you continue to use Winlink Global Radio Email services, this web site and ARSFI's site at https://arsfi.org, you agree to these revised terms. Read the revised Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy.
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International Health Service (IHS), a non-profit, non-religious, all volunteer organization with headquarters in Minnesota (ihsmn.org), has been providing medical and dental care to the impoverished people in the most remote areas of Honduras for 30 years. Every year approximately ten teams including physicians, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, eyeglass techs, engineers, and radio operators spread out across Honduras, the poorest country in Central America. Many of the remote villages that we serve make the phrase "off the grid" seem like luxury. Some locations require long travels on river boats to reach. Others require a flight into remote back-country airstrips to get to. There are some locations we operate in where there is no indigenous electricity, no cell service, no internet, no running water, etc.
The majority of these teams deploy with an experienced amateur radio operator to provide a communications link for the team to the outside world. For the most part Pactor 3 on the Winlink system is used to send and receive email from villages with little infrastructure. Messages may be medical consultations with specialists, arrangements for patient transfers to hospitals or our surgery team location, coordination with IHS staff in Honduras, and health and welfare messages from the medical team members to their families back home.
This past February 2018 I deployed as a radio operator to support a medical/dental team to villages in the western mountains of Honduras. I set up a Yaesu FT-100D, SCS Pactor modem, and an end-fed long wire strewn thru the trees. Any of the ubiquitous system of Winlink RMS gateway stations was available to connect to of course, but N5TW, a mega-station in central Texas supported our Honduras deployment by aiming his vast antenna farm beaming towards Honduras during our time down there. I found the Winlink system to be virtually 100% dependable. N5TW was consistently 7 S-units above the low noise floor. There was only one time I was not able to establish a connection with N5TW and that was when he had to disconnect during a lightning storm. In that case I had no trouble connecting with an RMS in Sarasota, Florida to send and receive traffic.
I have been providing emergency communications for various entities for many years. Just 2 months before my Honduras mission I found myself doing emergency communications on the island of Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Then too, the primary mode of communications was Pactor 3 & 4 into the Winlink system. Unquestionably Winlink has become the dependable standard for serious, real-world EMCOMMs.
The IHS is always looking for radio communications talent to support these medical teams. It's not for everybody. An "outdoors type" with camping experience (you may be living out of a tent), very flexible personality, and experience with HF communications is the ideal candidate. Those interested in more information can contact the IHS Communications Director, John Kirkof, KB0UUP, for more information at: jmkkek at yahoo dot com.
I have been all over the world on a lot of interesting missions but found my Honduras mission was the most personally rewarding.
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Give them a try! Rigorous testing has shown their promise, and now there are many positive real-world performance reports over HF pathways with today's typical poor band conditions.
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Over the week ending April 3, the number of open contracts for bitcoin futures on the CBOE decreased from 6,322 to 6,198, according to the report filed by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
The net short position held by the bigger players went up from 1,490 to 1,786 contracts over the period, as both long and short positions decreased, from 3,843 to 3,442 contracts and from 5,333 to 5,228 contracts, respectively. The net long position held by the institutional investors was up from 289 to 379 contracts.
As for the smaller players, their net long position over the week increased from 1,490 to 1,786 contracts, whereas long positions were up from 2,350 to 2,624 contracts, and short positions declined from 860 to 838 contracts.
By the bigger players we here mean the participants obliged to submit regular reports to the commission, including brokers, externally financed investment funds, and others.
The figures above do not take into account the positions that are part of spread trading strategies, where traders open both short and long positions simultaneously.
The CBOE began trading bitcoin futures on December 10, followed by the CME Group on December 18. However, the CME Group data are still not reflected in the weekly CFTC report.
When assessing the difference in short and long positions of large and small players, it should be borne in mind that a short position in the bitcoin futures market does not necessarily mean that the trader's forecast for the price of the underlying asset is negative.


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For the first time since 2004, the Jaguar name will next season have a presence on the international motorsport scene.
The Indian-owned firm has revealed that it will enter the 2016/17 FIA Formula E Championship for electric single-seaters, after joining forces with Williams Advanced Engineering.
The announcement marks the end of an 11-year lay-off for Jaguar, which last competed on the global stage in Formula 1. That programme, which took in 85 Grands Prix over a five-year period before the team was sold to Red Bull, yielded just two podium finishes, at Monaco in 2001 and in Italy a year later.
Now, however, with Jaguar in a much better place than it was in 2004, it is aiming to showcase its technological prowess – in conjunction with Williams – having taken over the entry vacated by ex-F1 racer Jarno Trulli's team.
The deal comes at a time when Jaguar Land Rover will manufacture electric-powered vehicles for the first time, something that JLR's Group Engineering Director Nick Rogers confirms is a vital new part of the firm's remit.
'Electric vehicles will absolutely play a role in Jaguar Land Rover's future product portfolio and Formula E will give us a unique opportunity to further our development of electrification technologies. The Championship will enable us to engineer and test our advanced technologies under extreme performance conditions.
'It is my belief that over the next five years we will see more changes in the automotive world than in the last three decades. The future is about being more connected and more sustainable; electrification and lightweight technologies are becoming more important than ever as urbanisation continues to increase. Formula E has recognised and reacted to these trends and the championship's exciting and pioneering approach is the perfect fit for our brand.'
James Barclay, Jaguar Team Director, admitted that Jaguar had been eyeing a return to the forefront of competition for some time.
'We looked in detail at alternative ways of returning to motorsport. This was such an important decision for Jaguar and we wanted to get it right. With our future EV plans, Formula E was the obvious choice and we believe that the benefits are enormous. The FIA and the promoter have exciting plans for the future of the championship and we are proud to be one of the first vehicle manufacturers to commit to the series with our own team. We have a lot of work to do ahead of the first race but it is a challenge we relish. We hope that we can welcome a new generation of fans to Jaguar through this exciting programme.'
And with Jaguar's commitment to Formula E, there is hope from on high, including FIA president Jean Todt, that other manufacturers will join in.
'The FIA is pleased to welcome Jaguar as a new manufacturer to enter the FIA Formula E Championship,' Todt said. 'We built this series to offer an alternative competition for manufacturers to step into the sport and develop road-relevant electric technologies. The choice of Jaguar to come back to motor racing with Formula E is a proof of success. As it forges a path forward for the future of the electric car, Formula E managed to attract one of the most prestigious and historical brand across the automotive industry. I wish them success ahead of their arrival in 2016/2017.'
Jaguar has yet to announce any drivers for the two-car team, or whether it will stick with tradition and run the Dallara-built machines in British Racing Green, but we'll be keeping an eye on developments.
Let's hope the project is more successful than the F1 effort. We recall Jaguar doing rather better during its two campaigns in the World Sportscar Championship and at Le Mans – during the 1950s with the C- and D-types and again in the late-80s and early-'90s with the Group C XJR racers – and making a decent fist of the European Touring Car Championship with the XJS in the mid-'80s.
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"I always loved literature as a kid, always. I loved to tell stories," said Duarte, a Phoenix native and adjunct creative-writing professor at Arizona State University and Phoenix College. However, said Duarte, "That's not something that I said when I was 12 years old: 'Someday, I'd like to write about murders.'"
When Duarte learned about the serial mutilation and murder of more than 400 young women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, since 1993, she knew she could not ignore it--so she began her latest book, If I Die in Juárez.
It took Duarte about four years to write and publish the book, which was released this April. She spent three of those years researching the crimes, often traveling to Ciudad Juárez to interview victims' families.
Though her book is fictional, it's based on victims' stories. She used three main characters to illustrate the conditions and culture in Ciudad Juárez, which is across the border from El Paso, Texas. The story switches among the girls: Mayela, Evita and Petra.
"I tried to get the different layers of Juárez," said Duarte. "In any city, you have layers and layers and layers of people, and the way they live, and I wanted to capture that."
Like the characters, the victims all fit a particular profile: dark-haired, slender young women, ranging in age from 11 to 22 years old.
"They're easy prey," said Duarte. "They are very poor people, very hard-working, and have never been dealt with fairly at all by the police, by the authorities that are supposed to protect them. Many of them really are told, 'Just get out,' literally, of the office, and stop bothering them."
Ciudad Juárez is home to migrant families seeking work. Many of the victims worked in maquiladoras, factories set up by foreign companies, mostly American. In many families, these were the first women to work outside the home.
This created a problem, said Duarte, because the men in these families ceased to be the sole providers, and that challenged their machismo. That, said Duarte, combined with extreme poverty of the transplanted families and the exorbitant wealth of local cartels, contributed to the hate crimes.
"You know, we think in America that we're poor. No, we don't understand poverty. I went there several times, and I could not believe the poverty," said Duarte.
The cartels' vast wealth allows them to get away with the murders.
"Money silences people," said Duarte. "If somebody wants to take a young woman and torture her and do whatever, hey, nobody's gonna talk."
Duarte said she spoke to one woman whose uncle was ordered by a cartel to take the blame for one of the murders. They threatened to kill the entire family, so the uncle went to jail.
She said that although more men are murdered in Ciudad Juárez as a result of cartel activity, the murders of the women are far more horrific. During her research, Duarte read descriptions of the mutilations.
"It's horrible. They're graphic. You can barely read through them. ... I've said to myself, 'I can't do this anymore,'" said Duarte.
"One woman told me that her daughter was given to her in a little box. That's all they could find, but it was her daughter," said Duarte.
"When you have a woman's body whose eyes are gouged, insides, entrails, and arms chopped off, and legs chopped off, and raped and beaten and done all kinds of hideous torture to, it's more than that. It's more than a murder," said Duarte. "It's like they say, a 'femicide,' a hate crime against women."
Duarte said that though she was shocked by the sadistic nature of the murders and saddened by the pain of the victims' families, she continued on.
"I stayed, because I understood that I either stay the course, or I won't be fulfilling the purpose that I've been put on this Earth for. So I stayed," said Duarte.
The Mexican government got help from the FBI in forensics training to identify the victims. Women's organizations, funded in part by American groups, have aided in Ciudad Juárez. The murders continue, said Duarte, but are now far fewer in number than in years past.
News articles and her book have brought public attention to the issue, which has been instrumental in the improvement in Ciudad Juárez, said Duarte--but the attention must continue.
"I tell you that changes have been made because the world is looking at Juárez," she said.
Stella Pope Duarte will discuss If I Die in Juárez with the book club at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library, 530 N. Wilmot Road, at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 26. Admission is free. Call 594-5420 for more information.


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Microsoft has released the new Fall Creators Update, the latest in major upgrades for Windows 10. Many of the additions this time around are fairly small; the company's twice-yearly cadence for features requires frequent small updates as opposed to major changes. Still, there are some improvements and new capabilities worth discussing.
First of all, Windows 10 now supports mixed reality, which is the company's combined name for augmented reality and virtual reality. It's not a great word for marketing–"mixed reality" doesn't really convey the nature of the platform, because it doesn't define what's being mixed–but it's what Microsoft and some other vendors are running with.
There are a range of mixed reality solutions from Samsung, Acer, Dell, and HP. We'd wait for a multi-headset comparison between Oculus and the HTC Vive before leaping on board. VR is still in its early days, so it's not clear how much support we'll see for it in the future, but Microsoft is putting an emphasis on rolling out platform support. There's also a new mixed reality viewer option; it uses your PC's camera and can overlay augmented reality options, assuming you have a PC 2-in-1 or tablet with a rear-facing camera.
Edge also gets a major set of updates in Windows 10 FCU. The new version of the browser can annotate books, import bookmarks from Chrome, pin websites to the taskbar, edit favorite URLs, and supports a fullscreen F11 mode. This will undoubtedly make the relative handful of people using Edge very happy. Will it help Windows win any market share for its browser? I wouldn't bet on it.
OneDrive placeholder files are now back, arguably making the service much more seamless and useful. In the past, Microsoft offered placeholder files in OneDrive that would only download when you clicked on them. This was a useful way to make data available on storage devices without hiding it in a separate application, and we're glad to see Microsoft re-adding the feature.
Other noteworthy additions include "Find My Pen," a downright creepy spyware capability that allows Microsoft to tell you where you were the last time you used your pen. This may be genuinely useful to a small number of people, and utterly useless to the majority (and by majority, I mean the majority of people with Surface Pens in the first place). If the last place you used your pen was your own home, good luck finding it. But it's nice for Microsoft to make it so apparent that it tracks the location of your devices and monitors your usage of peripherals. For troubleshooting, natch.
In addition, the calculator now includes a currency converter, you can recover PINs and passwords from the lock screen, dictation and image descriptions are now available via a new Dictation option, eye control and additional GPU performance data can be monitored (we've previously covered this), and Game Mode is now integrated.
Amusingly, Windows 10 still refuses to offer me the Creators Update on my own PC, for reasons I've never managed to diagnose. But I figure I'll be upgrading my personal rig in the not-too-distant-future. The GPU monitoring and other low-level changes are appealing, but Microsoft has packed in enough features that most folks should find an update or tweak that improves the overall OS. Instructions on how to manually install the Fall Creators Update are here.
Now read: Windows 10: The Best Hidden Features, Tips, and Tricks


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UVM Greenhouse Energy Extravaganza
Come to the UVM Greenhouse Energy Extravaganza! Greenhouse energy conservation is critical to maximize profits and reduce the energy footprint.
What can YOU, a concerned GROWER do about it? You can minimize production costs by making inexpensive improvements to your existing greenhouses. You also can install special energy conserving devices. Sometimes it seems all too complicated! That is why the University of Vermont is holding an Energy Extravaganza on Thursday, September 4 at Claussen's Greenhouses in Colchester, VT.
Regional experts, including John Bartok, Univ. of Connecticut; Chris Callahan, UVM and specialists in energy curtain assembly will share their energy conservation knowledge! Attendees will learn tips on how to reduce energy use at minimal cost. These can be implemented before the snow flies this winter. The "cool" VT Bubble Greenhouse prototype will also be showcased. This system uses soap bubbles to improve insulation in double-poly greenhouses. USDA will be on hand to describe what supports for energy conservation they can offer you.
This will be an informal event that will give you an opportunity to ask experts your burning questions about energy conservation.
Who should come? Growers with greenhouses and ones that hope to erect one soon, energy conservation specialists, Extension agents.
For additional information and to register, download the attached PDF file or go to http://www.uvm.edu/~entlab/ and click on Energy Extravaganza. If you have any questions, feel free to call Margaret Skinner, 802-656-5440 or email her at
Brought to you by the NE SARE program, UVM Extension and USDA NRCS.
Individuals requesting a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program should contact Margaret Skinner at 802-656-5440 by August 25, 2014.
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Top Games Played in the CVGA in September
Here is our list of most popular games during the month of September. Xbox 360 in clearly still more popular than Xbox One, although one of the Xbox One's games did top out the list. FIFA games of every flavor dominate the list with four entries, and I'm sure the newly acquired FIFA 15 will make an appearance next month. That's right: as of yesterday we have FIFA 15.


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Great Ideas To help Along with your Social Media Advertising Plan
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At BVE 2014 NewTek will present its family of TriCaster multi-camera production systems that were unveiled at IBC 2013. These systems offer mix/effects channels, 'holographic' live virtual sets and extended graphics capabilities. Visitors to NewTek at BVE will also see 3Play 4800, the company's flagship multi-camera replay server for live sports production.
The family of professional TriCaster systems includes four models, each designed to address a range of multi-camera video production needs. TriCaster 410 is a compact system with a four M/E production switcher, HD-SDI connectivity, and tools for live-only delivery.
TriCaster 460 also has a four M/E production switcher with greater connectivity and broader creative flexibility for any small or medium-sized production.
TriCaster 860 is designed for full-sized live action, offering a full eight M/E production switcher, plus more channels, sources, I/O, graphics and effects, and greater capacity for media storage.
Finally, TriCaster 8000 is NewTek's flagship content publishing hub with an eight M/E production switcher, built-in failsafe and redundancy capabilities, and extensive router support for enhanced broadcast integration and multi-camera coverage.
"NewTek's range of live multi-camera production systems provide a level of professional functionality and visual impact previously out of reach of most video producers," said Carter Holland, chief marketing officer, NewTek. "We are proud that our systems offer them new, cost-effective ways to enhance and increase their output and create new business opportunities."


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Channeled message day 39
The more you allow yourself to be in that place of peace, the more real it becomes. The more you meet it with love, the more it remains. Focus everyday. Take some time for prayer, for meditation, to sit in silence. Light a candle, look outside, take a bath. Turn your eyes toward the sky. What do you see? It allows you to connect. The sky is the essence of who we are through manifestation. The Buddha energy is one of feeling. You have to feel it and let it in. It is one of peace, of love, of grace. It is compassion, it is trust, it is a heart that sees and knows all. To see it and to feel it one must first believe. When you let it in, it will change your life, it will change your world. Take some time to let that energy flow, to resonate, to sink in. Sit in your favorite yoga pose. Try sitting in child's pose, head on floor arms stretched out above your head. Feel into it. In that moment, the truth is not forced, nor rushed or faked. Let that light in. Sit in child's pose hands at side. When you sit with God, you sit with peace. Think about starting your day that way or any time you need to clear your mind. It will change your world. The light in my sees the light in you. Namaste. Lakshmi


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Town Of Mills To School District Trustee's Idea To Buy Shuttered Mills Elementary: 'Shove It'
It may have seemed like a good idea at the time.
Natrona County School District board trustee Kevin Christopherson recently sent an email to the mayor of Mills suggesting the town buy the former Mills Elementary School property -- slated for sale or demolition -- for $400,000, which would put the about-to-be-mothballed Mountain View Elementary School at the top of the list if the district ever decides to reopen -- or "unmothball" -- Mountain View.
But Mills Mayor Seth Coleman, who with many town residents have condemned the board's decisions to close the only schools in the town, likened it to a payoff.
So to paraphrase an old country song, he told the trustees to "take this bribe and shove it."
Christopherson later said the suggestion wasn't a bribe, and that all mothballed schools would be on an equal footing if the need arose to reopen any of them
Besides Coleman, several other Mills officials voiced their objections to the impending closure of Mountain View Elementary, which the board approved in October.
Town Councilmember Ron Wales said some residents have told him that they were considering moving away because Mills is the only municipality in the county without its own school.
Coleman and Town Clerk Christine Trumbull also questioned the legality of this public hearing process, saying it did not follow state law.
But David Dewald, who does not live in Mills, said the public hearing was only about the pending motions to generally sell, demolish or mothball school district buildings, not about any specific sale.
After the public hearing, the trustees convened the regular meeting during which they proposed and voted on two motions about the schools that have been closed.
Trustee Dave Applegate said the decisions to close the schools were hard. But the decline in the extraction industries and their tax revenues have forced the Legislature, which funds most education, to curtail spending, he said.
Closing the schools, which had about 1,000 empty seats, not only affect the students but their families as well, Applegate said.
He also reminded people that operational expenses such as salaries are different from capital construction expenses, and they cannot be intermingled.
The first motion was to authorize the sale or demolition of Grant Elementary School and all associated facilities including portable classroom buildings; Mills Elementary School and all associated facilities; North Casper Elementary School and all associated facilities; and the Special Education Center and all associated facilities.
The second motion was to mothball Mountain View Elementary School; University Park Elementary School; Willard Elementary School; Westwood Elementary School; and Willow Creek School.
The trustees approved the motions by 8-1 votes. The only dissenting votes were cast by trustee Angela Coleman, the wife of Mayor Seth Coleman.
Between the two motions, trustee Clark Jensen criticized what he's seen as an "us versus them" attitude. "We're all from Casper," he said.
That drew a response from Angela Coleman, who said the trustees represent not just Casper, but everyone from Natrona County including Mills, Evansville, Bar Nunn and Midwest.
After the meeting, Seth Coleman said he didn't expect anything to change at Monday's meeting, which he said was a way for the district to try to backtrack from decisions it didn't make earlier.
In order to close or mothball a school, Coleman said the school district is supposed to draft a five-year plan for review by the State Construction Facilities Board. That requires a public hearing before approving the plan. After that, the district is supposed to have a vote whether to mothball or close the schools in that plan.
"Even tonight, this public hearing was not about the plan, it was about closing and mothballing and selling schools," he said.
Meanwhile, the Town of Mills will continue to pursue its lawsuit to determine the legality of the district's decisions to close Mountain View after the district had already closed Mills Elementary, Coleman said.


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Stephen Curry to defend 3-point title at All-Star Weekend
NEW YORK — Stephen Curry will defend his title in the 3-point contest, Zach LaVine will try for another dunk championship and some All-Star big men will compete for the Skills Challenge crown.
Sacramento's DeMarcus Cousins, New Orleans' Anthony Davis, Golden State's Draymond Green and Minnesota rookie Karl-Anthony Towns will take part in that event, which combines dribbling, passing and 3-point shooting and traditionally is made up of guards. Boston All-Star Isaiah Thomas, defending champion Patrick Beverley of Houston, the Lakers' Jordan Clarkson and CJ McCollum of Portland round out the field.
The competitors for the All-Star Saturday events in Toronto on Feb. 13 were announced Thursday by the NBA.
Curry set an event record last year with 27 points, including 13 straight made shots in the final round. Leading the league in 3-pointers this season, the MVP will face Golden State teammate Klay Thompson, All-Stars Kyle Lowry of Toronto, James Harden of Houston and Chris Bosh of Miami, plus Phoenix rookie Devin Booker, Milwaukee's Khris Middleton and the Clippers' J.J. Redick.
LaVine will be challenged by Detroit All-Star Andre Drummond, Denver's Will Barton and Orlando's Aaron Gordon.


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Name: Kevin Huynh
College publication: Sparks Magazine UF
Where I am now:Â Fashion Assistant at the Wall Street Journal/WSJ Magazine
My time as the Style Director at Sparks Magazine, a role I pitched and created for myself, really allowed me to both see my creativity into fruition but also gave me an amazing opportunity to work with others as well. The student newsroom is an environment that allows individuals to truly express themselves and gain invaluable experiences with their peers. Those who are willing to put in the work at a student magazine/newsroom are the same people who make strides in their career goals. I was able to use my previous internship experience and position at Sparks magazine to get my foot in the door of the fashion industry. First as an freelancer with the Senior Editor-at-Large of Glamour, then as the Accessories Assistant at Interview and finally as the Fashion Assistant at the Wall Street Journal.


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New York, NY — Dockwa, an award-winning mobile app company that has revolutionized the leisure boating and marina industry through a seamless reservation platform, announced it has expanded operations internationally. Launched in May 2015 exclusively in the New England region, Dockwa's innovative unified booking platform will now connect boaters and marinas in real time from coast to coast. Boaters simply download the app, explore, reserve, and securely pay at one of the 200-plus marinas in 16 states and the Bahamas within Dockwa's growing network, in a matter of minutes.
Dockwa's international expansion is a result of the $1.4 million in seed funding raised from a world class group of investors (Brian Halligan, Hubspot CEO; David Skok, Matrix Partners) as well as the immensely successful launch within the New England market this summer.
With the functionality of OpenTable and the sleek design approach of Hotel Tonight, Dockwa is the most convenient way for leisure boaters to book their transient reservations for docks and moorings at a marina, yacht club or shipyard. Dockwa provides a solution to the antiquated booking process that has existed through phone reservations, voicemails and lengthy web forms that have hindered real-time communication for boaters as well as operations and revenue potential for marina operators. With Dockwa, boaters simply download the app, explore, reserve, and securely pay at one of the more than 200 marinas in its growing network, in a matter of minutes. Marinas confirm the reservation, collect payment, and deposit the customer's information into their intelligent database with a single click.
"When we launched Dockwa this past summer in New England, our initial goal was to process 500 bookings and sign up 30 marinas, which we far surpassed with more than 2,500 reservations and over 50 participating marinas with a 100 percent retention rate," says Michael Melillo, founder and CEO of Dockwa. "As the New England season closed, we saw a growing demand for Dockwa from our active customer base as they migrated south, which reinforced our confidence and that of our investors in the future of Dockwa. From Newport to Naples, the efficiency and convenience of the platform continues to resonate with both the boater and marina operator as we continue to grow and position Dockwa as the industry standard for booking transient and leisure reservations."
In October 2015, Dockwa's innovative platform was recognized by the Boat Owners Assocation of the United States (BoatUS,) via the launch of an exclusive partnership made available to the association's 500,000 plus members. As an exclusive BoatUS benefit, members using the Dockwa app or choosing to book online at Dockwa.com do not have to pay booking fees when arranging dockage at any of the BoatUS Participating Marinas when a discount is applicable, within the growing Dockwa network. This member perk is in addition to the exclusive BoatUS Participating Marina transient slip discount currently offered to BoatUS members, typically 25 percent. When signing up for the first time with Dockwa, all BoatUS members have to do is enter their membership number and both discounts are automatically applied to future bookings.
In addition to a boating reservation platform, Dockwa is the only service of its kind to offer a unified booking and marketing platform for marinas. Dockwa allows marina operators the ability to improve their operations in a number of innovative ways, including a user-friendly web-based dashboard that lets operators review and confirm reservation requests, customer relationship tools, management capabilities, and an easy and secure method for collecting payment. The ability to aggregate and store customer information into an online database also creates opportunity to optimize operations and boost traffic and revenue.


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Application Open: Talent Show for All International Members of POSTECH
Application Open: Talent Show for All International Members of POSTECH
International Relations is pleased to inform you that the application is now open for a Talent Show, which will be held as a part of the upcoming 2016 Year-end Party. If you are interested in participating, please prepare a performance that represents your culture/Korea's culture and submit an application form. For details, please refer to the attachment and the information below:
[2016 Year-end Party]
Date & Time: December 15th (Thur), 2016, 18:00-20:00
Venue: Grand Ballroom, 2nd floor of POSCO International Center
Schedule: 17:40-18:00 Registration
18:00-18:15 Opening Remarks & Welcome Speech
18:15-18:25 Performance (Student Club)
- 18:25-19:10 Dinner
- 19:10-19:40 Talent Show
- 19:40-20:00 Talent Show Awards, Raffle, and Closing Remarks
*The above schedule may be subject to change under circumstances.
**Please be informed that the official invitation for 2016 Year-end Party will be sent out later on.
- [Talent Show]
Eligibility: All international members of POSTECH
Theme: Traditional music/dance of your home country or Traditional or popular music/dance of Korea
Application Period: Nov. 21st – Nov. 30th, 2016
How to apply: Submit the attached Talent Show Application Form to Ms. Kahon Hong (email@example.com)
*Due to limited spots for the Talent Show, the application forms may be reviewed to select the final individuals/groups to perform at the 2016 Year-end Party. The final individuals/groups will be selected and contacted by December 7th, 2016.
- For inquiries on this event, please contact the program coordinator of ISSS, Ms. Kahon Hong (Tel: 279-3689, E-mail. firstname.lastname@example.com).
We look forward to your participation.
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Somewhat in the shadow of the recent decision by the Iraqi federal supreme court to strike down a law limiting the terms of the prime minister, another crucial decision has been taken by the court in relation to the disputed city of Kirkuk.
Technically speaking, this latest decision consists of a ruling that deems one article of the provincial elections law from 2008 unconstitutional. The article in question is number 23, which stipulated arrangements of quotas and power-sharing in the local government as well as a procedure whereby a parliamentary committee would arrive at special electoral arrangements for Kirkuk, which has not held local elections since January 2005. These stipulations have now been struck down, reportedly after a complaint from the Kurds filed only a month ago.
Since the court decision itself remains unpublished, exactly as in case of the ruling on the terms of the prime minister, we may only second guess the court's rationale for acting the way it has. However, the most likely official reasoning for striking down the law could relate to the court's past outspoken dislike of quota arrangements, which it considered before the great debate on the parliamentary elections law in 2009 when Kirkuk was also an issue. According to the court, the only quota arrangements that are sanctioned by the Iraqi constitution are for women as well as minorities – and crucially, the latter means minorities only when they are very small minorities that would risk no representation at all if quotas were abolished. There is of course a special irony if the argument against quotas is now being used in Kurdish favour in Kirkuk, since the Kurds have been the most consistent advocates of quotas in Iraqi politics since the 1990s. However, in Kirkuk it wanted to persevere with the same electoral arrangements as in every other governorate, thereby using its increasing demographic clout. The court's latest decision will make it easier for the Kurds to have it their way.
There is an historical and symbolic dimension to the cancellation of article 23 that should not be lost upon us. That article, when it was passed in 2008, represented some sort of pinnacle to the Sunni-Shiite reconciliation in the name of Iraqi nationalism that eventually opened the space for Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to temporarily achieve some distance from Iran. Article 23 was fought over for many months, mainly with opposition from the Kurds and ISCI. Now it is gone.
This is sufficiently dramatic that it is difficult to study the decision by the court away from Iraq's and indeed the regions political complications as a result of the Syria crisis. Why is the pro-Maliki court suddenly issuing a ruling that is so clearly in the favour of the Kurds? In the past, the supreme court has not been particularly supportive of the Kurds, and for example in October 2010 rejected the idea of linking the Iraqi census to article 140 regarding the final status of Kirkuk and other disputed territories.
Could it be that the pressures of the Syria conflict have made it more important for Maliki than before to have good relations with the Kurds? Could it be that Iran also favours an even stronger Shiite-Kurdish alliance in Iraqi politics? With the increasing targeting of Kurds by Al-Qaeda friendly elements in Syria, the maintenance of a Shiite-Kurdish alliance may perhaps seem more important and achievable to Maliki than before.
There are regional complexities to take into consideration as well: Kurdish-Sunni rapprochement in recent years has been associated with Turkey, Barzani of the KRG and Nujayfi and Allawi of the Sunni-secular Iraqiyya . By way of contrast, Kurdish-Iranian rapprochement has been linked to President Talabani, Vice-President Khuzaie, PUK, PKK and Syrian Kurds generally. Barzani's credibility as a Kurdish leader is increasingly under pressure from his alliance with Turkey which seems to do nothing to protect Syrian Kurds from atrocities by Al-Qaeda friendly elements.
Kurdish interests in post-2003 Iraq were first focused on grand settlements on Kirkuk and oil, and more recently on revising administrative boundaries. Maybe this recent change of status of Kirkuk elections arrangements through a court ruling represents a more mundane and achievable bargain with Maliki?


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CL Corp | Creating links between council and community members
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How might we improve our local council?
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There is currently a disconnect between the local council and community members, meaning that our voices aren't being heard and no-one knows what is going on behind the scenes in our community.
What Is Your Solution?
We want to make sure that our local council is hearing our voice. To do this, we want to create a service that would provide open days for the local council, allowing youth to gain a greater understanding of what is involved in the roles in council, and helping the council to hear a youth voice. Through this partnership, we would be able to see lasting change occur in our community, and foster a healthier relationship of communication and action with the local council. We would ideally take this service further, to try and replicate a positive change in other communities, too.


text: About a year and a half ago I had the opportunity to listen and watch as Mitchel Resnick, creator of Scratch, demonstrated how this free, open-source programming language software engaged students around the world. I was so intrigued with the program because it was so different and so far removed from the Atari games I played as a child. And so, I began experimenting with its possibilities both at home and in the classroom. My students used the programming language with ease (admittedly, I had much more difficulty then them and didn't explain it well) but they used software tools to create digital storyboards about the Olympics, as culminating activities in our Space unit, to tell stories about Early Explorers or they simply used the programming language to create and share games (for fun). At home, to my utter delight, both my kids (7 and 9 years old) quickly replaced their usual sites – mini-clip or andkon.com with Scratch. They spent hours reviewing the games created by other children and studied the codes. They downloaded and changed games to make it "theirs". I can't help but find pure joy in watching my boys create games. There is some irony in the fact that at 8, I played Pong, while at the same age my child creates the game for himself. It was for this reason, I was so excited to meet Mitchel Resnick at ISTE 2010 last year in Denver. I asked him for an autograph (for my son, of course). My 10 year, told me recently that one of the newest features on the Scratch website is the "Scratch Suggestions" portal. The creators are engaging and empowering the users by asking them what they think and it is that kind of respect that keeps them coming back. That is what my son told me. Now onto the point of this blog post – The other morning I came downstairs to find my boy on Scratch (surprise, surprise). I stopped for a moment to watch him and was amazed at the skill level. When did he learn this? Who did he learn it from? He told me that although Scratch is available at school, he doesn't use it. So where did he learn it? Certainly not from me. From the other players. From the examples."I learned it by reading the scripts". So I asked him to show me what he was doing. I do hope you find a second to give my son a comment.


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I've decided to introduce a new category to the blog called SOMETHING FOR NOTHING, where all my zero-propointed recipes will be listed.
So, even on the days where you have 'blown the budget' but still need to eat something, or want to eat sensibly because you are trying to save some propoints for a social occasion, you won't need to go hungry!
All you need to do is search under the Categories heading on the top right of the blog page, click on Something For Nothing, and all my ideas will come up for you.
Food really can be magic!