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"With the help of Silverbucket we have been able to increase predictability and transparency, which were the main goals when we started to use Silverbucket a year ago."
Bilot chose Silverbucket to increase their predictability and transparency in their projects. They had a number of attempts of using Excel for their resource management without any real success. The Excel spreadsheets were just was not able to give enough information for them so they decided to test Silverbucket. They were happy with the result of the PoC (proof of concept) and they started to use Silverbucket as their resource allocation management tool in August 2017.
Bilot has several projects running at the same time. Most of them are fixed-price consultancy projects which resource planning is done in Silverbucket. From a business level point of view, Bilot is interested in the utilization rate and the revenue forecast. Whereas from the resource management point of view, it is important to see if there is enough work for people, what kind roles are needed now and in the future from the sales pipeline's perspective.
For Bilot, it is also vital to see what kind of projects are running and what project risks are associated with them. Various features of Silverbucket are used quite comprehensively already.
Silverbucket receives commendation for the flexible approach both in customer service and in product support. Bilot's manager Jakub Rudzki says, "Our wishes are genuinely listened to, communication is open, and dialogue is smooth." He continues: "With the help of Silverbucket we have been able to increase predictability and transparency, which were the main goals when we started to use Silverbucket a year ago."
Bilot is an independent, creative and genuinely customer focused business technology company. Founded in 2005 by leading experts in their field, we are a growth company and regarded as a pioneer when it comes to leveraging the latest innovations from leading vendors such as SAP, Microsoft and Google. Bilot group turnover in 2017 was 15 MEUR and there are currently approximately 150 employees. Bilot is a Gold level partner of SAP and Microsoft.
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Paving the Way for Cleaner Mobility at Automotive Testing Expo Europe
May 16th 2019
- Millbrook to exhibit at Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2019, stand 8140, 21-23 May
- UK- and US-based e-mobility test facilities allow engineers to test performance and durability of batteries, e-drive components and hybrid and full EV powertrains
- The company will also be launching its latest ADAS test and development facilities at Expo and giving an update on its 5G-enabled network in the UK
Millbrook will showcase its latest developments in testing and validating the next generation of electrified powertrains at this year's Automotive Testing Expo Europe in Stuttgart, Germany, 21-23 May. Located on stand 8140, Millbrook will be showcasing its facilities in the USA and the UK, which help automotive engineers to test the performance and durability of electric and hybrid powertrains.
Specializing in electric vehicle (EV) powertrain, US-based Millbrook Revolutionary Engineering (Millbrook RE) has recently announced that it will introduce new facilities in California in a response to its customers' growing requirements. The new facility will enable customers to perform complex integration testing and validation of EV powertrain components, full powertrains and complete vehicles. It also offers battery simulators rated up to 1,100V, 1,200A and 320kW (continuous) and high-speed motors rated up to 20,000rpm. Millbrook RE has been part of Millbrook for just 12 months and has doubled the output of its Detroit facility in that time.
In the UK, Millbrook's facilities allow engineers to increase the rate at which they can develop electric and hybrid vehicle powertrains. It performs comprehensive integration testing of propulsion components in a simulated laboratory environment on its brand new 4WD Powertrain Test System. The facility can replicate a powertrain's lifecycle to test durability and simulate repeatable real world driving conditions, potentially saving time in development for Real Driving Emissions (RDE) tests. Millbrook also performs a wide range of performance and durability tests on Electric Drive Units (EDUs) and their components.
Millbrook offers comprehensive battery performance and durability test capabilities that are among the most advanced in Europe. Engineers are able to cycle complete automotive battery packs rated up to 1,100V, 2,100A and 750kW (continuous) at temperatures from -40°C to 90°C, and to simulate rapid changes in temperature during the cycle. Millbrook's test experts can determine the performance of battery modules and packs during crash events or other battery abuse test scenarios, including overcharge, thermal shock, fire and mechanical crush.
The increased pace in development of electric and ultra-low emissions vehicles is a truly global phenomenon. Vehicle and component manufacturers across the world are working hard to improve electrified powertrains. As one of the world's leading vehicle test and development service providers, it is important that our offering reflects the growing demand from our customers. This is why we are excited to showcase our full e-mobility offering at this year's Automotive Testing Expo Europe.
Millbrook's e-mobility experts will be on hand to discuss engineers' test requirements throughout Automotive Testing Expo Europe 2019. Millbrook will also use the Expo as an opportunity to give customers and media an update on its fast-developing Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) test capabilities, its 5G-enabled, private mobile network at Millbrook Proving Ground and its cold-weather, indoor vehicle test facilities in Finland.

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NodeJS, AngularJS and MySQL Project on Restaurant Management System
The Restaurant Management System Project has been developed on AngularJS, NodeJS and Mysql. We are providing angularjs projects with source code, database, and documentation. The Restaurant Management System major project is an application which is based on managing the order and sell the Food Items online. This application is very simple and inpressive. The main objective behind this angularjs application Restaurant Management System is to provide all the details about Food Items. There is a single role user i.e admin in this project who can manage all the activity. Admin can manage Food Items, Food Items Type, Sells and also managed the sells details. This AngularJS major project is very helpful for maintaing the sales activity in Food Items because it is very complex task to manage the daily sales manually. In this project admin can see the details of Food Items, Food Items Type etc. Only Admin can edit or delete the details of the Food Items.
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- Login For Admin
- Change Password For Admin
- Logout Functionality
- Dashboard for Admin User
- Manage Food Items
- Adding New Food Items
- Edit the Exiting Food Items
- View details of the Food Items
- Listing of all Food Items
- Manage Food Items Type
- Adding New Food Items Type
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- Listing of all Food Items Type
- Manage Sells
- Adding New Sells
- Edit the Exiting Sells
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- Listing of all Sells
- Reports of the project Restaurant Management System
- Report of all Food Items
- Report of all Food Items Type
- Report of all Sells
Static Pages and other sections :
These static pages will be available in project Restaurant Management System
- Home Page with good UI
- About us page will be available which will describe about the project
- Contact us page will be available in the project
Technology Used in the project Restaurant Management System
We have developed this project using the below technology
- HTML : Page layout has been designed in HTML
- CSS : CSS has been used for all the desigining part
- JavaScript : All the validation task and animations has been developed by JavaScript
- NodeJS : All the business and frontend logic has been implemented in NodeJS
- MySQL : MySQL database has been used as database for the project
- AngularJS : All the frontend logic has been implemented over the AngularJS
Supported Operating System
We can configure this project on following operating system.
- Windows : This project can easily be configured on windows operating system. For running this project on Windows system, you will have to install WAMP or XAMP on your system.
- Linux : We can run this project also on all versions of Linux operating system
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MediaPost: Neil Capel Weighs In On Unifying Users
June 4, 2013
If your marketing team has been analyzing users by isolating and polarizing their behaviors by channel, Sailthru's very own Neil Capel has some insight to share. Instead of treating users as separate sets of data (example: mobile-app users vs. in-store shoppers), marketers should be for integrating that cross-channel data to build a holistic view of the customer. Neil wrote in to MediaPost's Marketing Daily Commentary to explain why this mentality of siloing is damaging to marketing efforts and inhibiting overall growth.
Check out his article, "Play The Long Game: Unify Your Users", to learn how adopting a holistic user approach carves success for engaged, happy and ready-to-spend customers.
Consumers are the same people whether they're shopping online or via a mobile app, but they may have very different habits when on one device or the other. The intricacies of each individual's consumer behavior is undeniable, and the knowledge one can glean from the "big picture" of each user is too. You need to aggregate users' implicit and explicit preferences to know them better each and every time they interact with your brand and action your communications based on that holistic view — that's today's Smart Data.
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In Loving Memory of Pastor Arthur Janos, New Hope Apostolic Church, Woodburn OR – Feb. 25, 2015
Arthur Armas Janos was born on December 31st, 1975 to Martha and Arthur Janos in Palm Springs, Ca. He was the oldest of three children living in the greater Coachella Valley. At the tender age of seven years old, his father passed away.


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Washington: A top US lawmaker has termed the recent attack on a Sikh cab driver in New York as "troubling" and called for joint efforts to end such hate crimes. "I was deeply troubled to learn of the recent attack on a member of the Sikh community in New York City. Reports indicate this could have been a hate crime, which makes this unacceptable attack all the more horrifying," Congressman Joe Crowley, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, said in a statement.
According to police, Harkirat Singh, a 25-year-old Sikh man and taxi driver, was attacked by his passengers during a trip from Madison Square Garden to the Bronx.
"Our country is made stronger by the diversity of its people and their cultures, backgrounds, religions, faiths, and lifestyles," Mr Crowley said.
"There has been an increase in hate crimes across the country since that start of this year, and the recent attack underlines how critically we must work together to end these crimes," added Mr Crowley.
The passengers reportedly called Mr Singh "Ali Baba," swore at him, refused to pay the cab fare, and attempted to break the cab meter and partition.
The passenger then, while fleeing the police, ripped Singh's turban from his head. The New York Police Department is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also condemned the "reprehensible" attack. "As brothers and sisters facing increased racially and religiously motivated attacks, this reprehensible attack against Mr. Singh resonates strongly with our community," said CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher.
"No New Yorker should ever face violence because of his or her faith," said CAIR-NY Legal Director Albert Cahn. "Any attack motivated by religious bigotry is an attack on all New Yorkers and the values we hold dear."


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MP Board 'Class~10th' Time Table 2018 @mpbse.nic.in 10-Exam Date Sheet
MP 10th time table 2018, MPBSE 10th time table 2018, MP board class 10th time table 2018 download now online pdf only @ mpbse.nic.in
MP 10th time table 2018 download pdf online by visiting main web Portal of MP Bhopal Board, You may good to hear this that online Examination timetable download link is available in pdf format. You just need to follow up direct link provided below on this page as you may be available to grab your exam timetable in Pdf format.
MPBSE 10th time table 2018 as we also have provided below on this page, because after releasing examination timetable by MPBSE Bhopal board we have updated the exam timetable by Date wise and now you will good to hear this that annual final examination is going to be start from March 2018 and last date of exam is March 2018.
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Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh is all set to conduct final examinations of 10th class in Madhya Pradesh State. All the students of MP Board are now searching for their MP 10th Date Sheet 2018. MP Board 10th Time Table 2016 is most important for students. Student know that of they will get their MP 10th Exam Schedule 2018 then they will be able to set their time table to study. They will also get to know that which Subject should prepare first.
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Madhya Pradesh Board is busy in making the MP 10th Date Sheet 2018. Every year MP Board announces their Exam Schedule of 10th class in January month. This is also MP 10th Time Table 2018 will be available in the last of January month. Timings of the MP Exam 2018 will be from 8.30 AM to 11.30 AM. This is must for all students to reach their examination centers before half hour from the examination.
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Students should study now days. As all students know very well those 10th class examinations are so much important and on the basis of 10th marks, they will be able to choose their favorite stream in 11th class. Students will get the choice of 3 streams in 11th classes which are Arts, Commerce and Science. of they will get great grades in 10th standard then they will choose their favorite streams otherwise they will have to get admitted in Arts Streams.
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Board of Secondary Education, Madhya Pradesh is the school education board of MP State which is all responsible in conducting 10th and 12th class examinations. Board has already provided syllabus and Exam Pattern to all students of all subjects. This is the duty of students to prepare well about 10th Class Final Examinations. MP Board was established by the State Government in 1965. Head quarter of MP Board is in Bhopal, MP.
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Madhya Pradesh will organize final examinations of 10th class in March 2018. Students should not stop their preparations due to 10th Time Table 2018. They all should keep studying for their final examinations. To download the MP Board 10th Date Sheet 2018, students are suggested to visit main web Portal and collect information from there.
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Man Calls Cops to Report Drug Paraphernalia, Placed on Federal Watch List for 2 Years
Reason number 5,001 why NOT to call 9-1-1.
Tim Cushing
Tech Dirt
March 17, 2014
"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear," right? Here's how that works in reality. (via Reason)
On Jan. 5, 2012, Paul Valin called the police to report he'd found a backpack containing what he believed to be meth-making equipment. That simple act of good citizenship landed his and wife Cindy's house on the National Clandestine Laboratory Register [NCLR], the federal Drug Enforcement Agency's list of meth labs.
Valin spotted a backpack in a river while kayaking. He took it home and opened it up looking for some identification that might point to its owner. Instead, he found tubing and chemicals. Being a good citizen (with nothing to hide), he called local law enforcement who came and removed the backpack… and then put him on a federal list that put his house in the same category as property where drugs had been seized (you know, as opposed to voluntarily and proactively given to police officers).
The NCLR's website openly admits that no federal agency verifies the information being forwarded to it. Valin's house was added to this list by local law enforcement, who filled out a standard form that failed to note that Valin had found the backpack and at no point had the "drug lab" ever crossed the threshold of his house (it had been in the back of Valin's pickup the entire time).
Once Valin was made aware of his home's placement on this list by a local TV reporter, he contacted the DEA in hopes of being delisted.
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Valin sent an email to the DEA explaining the facts of his case and asking that his address be removed from the NCLR. The reply he received three weeks later was not encouraging.
An unsigned email from [email protected] explained that Valin's address had been listed because of a Clandestine Laboratory Seizure form the DMPD submitted to the DEA following the collection of the backpack.
According to the email, the DMPD officer who filled out the report had checked the boxes for "abandoned lab" and "boxed lab," but didn't include any other information, such as where and how Valin found the backpack.
The email also stated that the DEA was only the "caretaker" of the NCLR site and, again, pointed out that it doesn't perform any sort of verification of submitted forms. According to the email, Valin had a couple of options: persuade the Des Moines, IA police department to contact the DEA and straighten out its paperwork error or have a local health agency declare his home free from drug contamination.
Unsurprisingly, the DEA's suggestions were both dead ends.
The second option isn't possible. No local or state health agencies in Iowa conducts such inspections. The state hasn't even set any standards for what constitutes meth-related contamination.
Valin hasn't had much luck with the first option, either. He's still waiting for a reply to the voicemails he left at the DMPD phone number he was told to call.
The good news is that someone finally decided to do something about this error. Special Agent Eric Neubauer of the El Paso branch of the DEA took the Des Moines Police Dept. investigative report (which detailed the whole chain of events) provided to him by Iowa Watchdog and used that info to delist Valin's home. The DMPD still hasn't explained why the details on its internal investigative report failed to make their way onto the form sent to the DEA — an omission that put Valin's home on a national "drug lab" watchlist for two years.
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Europe's Game of Chicken Will Hit the U.S.
Written by Gary North on November 28, 2011
We know about the game of chicken. Teenage boys in hot rods drive toward each other to see who will swerve first: "Chicken!" It is happening in Europe. There is going to be a crash. That crash will lead to an explosion, which will be felt in the USA. The credit markets are intertwined. This […]Continue reading →


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UC San Diego Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
Computer Games and TV Account for Bulk of Information Consumed in 2008
San Diego, December 9, 2009 -- U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers," released today by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high over the entire United States, including Alaska.
The How Much Information? project is creating a census of the world's information in 2008. The study measured information consumed by U.S. consumers in and outside the home for non-work related reasons, and included the gamut of information sources, including going to the movies, listening to the radio, talking on the cell phone, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and reading the newspaper, among other things.
"This report is a snapshot of what the information revolution means to the average American on an average day, who consumes 34 gigabytes and 100,000 words of information," said report author Roger Bohn, Director of the Global Information Industry Center at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. "The total volume of 3.6 zettabytes consumed last year is much larger than previous studies have reported, partly because they measured different views of information, such as information creation rather than consumption. Also, nobody had looked at the role of computer games, which generate a staggering number of bytes."
Based on bytes alone, however, computer games are the biggest information source totaling 18.5 gigabytes per day for the average American consumer, or about 67 percent of all bytes consumed. Approximately 80 percent of the population plays some kind of computer game, including casual games such as Bookworm, Tetris and social networking games.
Despite rapid growth, consumption of new media such as YouTube videos, text messaging or games on smartphones is still outpaced by traditional media.
According to the study, the 3.6 zettabytes of total information used by Americans in their homes far exceeds storage or transmission capacity. For example, the total is roughly 20 times more than what can be stored at one time on all the hard drives in the world. Less than two percent of the total information was transmitted over the Internet.
This initial report focuses on the U.S. consumer sector (both inside and outside the home, including use of cell phones and movie-watching). Future reports will focus on information in the U.S. workplace, in other regions, and different types of information (such as machine-to-machine data that is analyzed automatically and may never be seen by human eyes).
The report, "How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers", is available online and can be downloaded in PDF format at http://hmi.ucsd.edu/howmuchinfo.php. A quote sheet is available on request to firstname.lastname@example.com.
About How Much Information?
The HMI? project is a research consortium led by the University of California , San Diego . Funding for the project comes from industry sponsors AT&T, Cisco Systems, IBM, Intel, LSI, Oracle and Seagate Technology, with early support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.


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Bi-Fab had the task of painting the legs for the Solan platform. They needed lighting and ventilation inside the tubes so EX power was needed. They had a shortage of power supply around the area so they needed to bring in a system. SA supplied the SA POWERNET ATEX MDU (Mains Distribution Unit) and also Transformers.
This meant that the lights could then be connected easily without having to hard wire in the sockets which could take weeks. This saved a lot of time and they were able to use the portable system when they reached Solan.


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Archangel Metatron
Every Mystery School has "contacts" in the Divine Hierarchy. 7th Ray Mystery School is "contacted" by Archangel Metatron.
Archangel Metatron's stewardship is called "the Great Work" which is to unify your body, soul, and Spirit into a single conscious being. The result of the Great Work is activation of the light body which allows one to be a Master.
The specialty work of 7th Ray Mystery School is dedicated to the Great Work. We offer many seminars and services dedicated to activating the light body and evolving consciousness. Adam Kadmon Activation also called 24 Strand DNA Activation is the specialty work we have developed through our contact with Archangel Metatron.
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Using Big-O notation to Determine the Efficiency of an Algorithm
The ability to analyze a piece of code or an algorithm and understand its efficiency is vital for understanding computer science as well as to simply make sure that your programs run quickly without boring your user.
By Alex Allain
One approach to determining the big-O value (an algorithm's order) is to start out assuming an order of O(1), an algorithm that doesn't do anything and immediately terminates no matter what the input. Then, find the section of code that you expect to have the highest order. From there, work out the algorithmic efficiency from the outside in -- figure out the efficiency of the outer loop or recursive portion of the code, then find the efficiency of the inner code; the total efficiency is the efficiency of each layer of code multiplied together.
For instance, to compute the efficiency of a simple selection sort
for(int x=0; x<n; x++) { int min = x; for(int y=x; y<n; y++) { if(array[y]<array[min]) min=y; } int temp = array[x]; array[x] = array[min]; array[min] = temp; }We compute that the order of the outer loop (for(int x = 0; ..)) is O(n); then, we compute that the order of the inner loop is roughly O(n). Note that even though its efficiency varies based on the value of x, the average efficiency is n/2, and we ignore the constant, so it's O(n). After multiplying together the order of the outer and the inner loop, we have O(n^2).
In order to use this approach effectively, you have to be able to deduce the order of the various steps of the algorithm. And you won't always have a piece of code to look at; sometimes you may want to just discuss a concept and determine its order. Some efficiencies are more important than others in computer science, and on the next page, you'll see a list of the most important and useful orders of efficiency, along with examples of algorithms having that efficiency.
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Posted in Nevada Attractions April 10, 2016
10 Historical Landmarks You Absolutely Must Visit In Nevada
Many historical events have taken place in Nevada. Fortunately, several historical landmarks are scattered throughout Nevada that allow us to learn all about the state's history. Sure, reading about Nevada's historical events and/or landmarks in a book is always an option, but nothing compares to seeing an actual landmark up close and in person. Listed below are 10 historical landmarks in Nevada that are definitely worth visiting.
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A martial arts superstar trained by Great Masters from around the world, Cage uses his talents on the big screen. He is the current box-office champ and star of such movies as Dragon Fist and Dragon Fist II as well as the Award-Winning Sudden Violence.
Green Bolt: Back, Forward, Low Punch.
Shadow Kick: Back, Forward, Low Kick.
Ball Breaker: Block + Low Punch.
Fatality: Forward, Forward, Forward, High Punch.
Through the battles and life or death situations faced during the Tournament, Johnny Cage learns the true importance of his fighting skills. He also realizes the full potential of the Tournament.
He returns to Hollywood after defending his new title as Grand Champion. Cage goes on to film Mortal Kombat: The Movie and it's many successful sequels.


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The best vocal singing exercises
Sometimes, the most simple vocal singing exercises are the BEST. I often see singers who can sing complicated runs and sing every scale under the sun – but they can't sing actual songs. Sure, it's important to train your voice using vocal singing exercises, but an exercise is really only as good as the INTENTION behind the exercise. For example, most singers are taught to sing a LIP TRILL as their first exercise – but do you know HOW and WHY you should train a lip trill?
Why sing lip trill exercises? The purpose of singing lip trill exercises is to first RELEASE your vocal registers, and secondly to train you how to manage your airflow. These two important points would be your INTENTION behind the lip trill exercises you may have been shown in the past, but no doubt you weren't TOLD this – so make sure you hold the right intention behind your lip trill exercises to get the best out of your warmup and your singing practice.
Foundation is key – A singing voice is only as strong as the foundation that it sits on, so make sure you are setting up a strong foundation by first taking the right singing posture:
- Head up
- Shoulders back
- Chin level with the floor
- Sternum up
Now, this last point is actually the most important part of your posture, and involves widening your rib position. If you try to raise your sternum without breathing in, you'll notice that your ribs widen and your stomach contracts – this is what is somtimes called APPOGGIO singing technique. If you set up this posture before you sing, it will be much easier to control your breathing and air pressure using the diaphragm rather than your ribs contracting and forcing your air out.
The key to singing vowels correctly
Learning how to SHAPE your vowel sounds is an incredibly important skill that every great singer has to learn. You don't pronounce your vowels when you sing, you SHAPE them using your tongue, and you TUNE them by altering the width of your vocal tract. Lets keep it simple for now by SHAPING our vowel sounds:
- AH – Tongue concave
- AA – Similar, but with your tongue slightly forward
- EE – Tongue UP at the back
- EH/AY – Similar, but with your mouth ajar
- OO – Either classically with your tongue back, or an AH vowel with your lips rounded
Learning how to replace the center of each of your words with one of these vowel shapes is the true key to singing without strain and increasing your vocal range. You'll also find that you can sing ANY word you could ever desire using this approach!
Secondly, you need to learn how to TUNE your vowels by modifying the shape and width of your vocal tract. An easy way to learn the difference between a WIDE vowel sound and a NARROW vowel sound is to practice toggling between an AH vowel (the widest vowel sound) and an EE vowel (the most narrow vowel) – can you feel a subtle difference in the width of your throat right around the base of your tongue? Congratulations, you're in essence tuning your vowel.
Now, the secret to singing higher with ease is to learn to tune each of your vowels all throughout the tricky passages that occur in your range, for example WIDENING your EE vowel through your first break and then continually narrowing it past this point until you release into your high range. This is a specialised skill that really does need professional coaching to implement in the most efficient way, so make sure you book a session with me today so we can TUNE those vowels and have you singing higher than ever before! Vowel shapes singing is really the only way to beat you singing accent and ensure that you are resonating in the most efficient manner.
The key to singing consonants
This is another key aspect of singing that is often overlooked by other singing coaches and even some of the best online singing courses – learning how to sing your consonant sounds in the right manner is the difference between singing SCALES, and singing SONGS.
I like to group the singing consonants into their various types, and form an individual approach for each of my students and their unique voices and of course – singing accents and native tongue. That being said, here's a general approach to singing even the most difficult consonants:
Open Resonant Consonants – Sounds like M and N require an OPEN soft palate so that air can escape through your nose. Often mistaken as an onset, which should be trained in and of it's own, these consonants are usually the easiest for most singers, but can be an issue with more closed accents like Australian and even English.
Closed Resonant Consonants – Closed resonants like L/R/W/Y all require you to replace your speech consonant with a VOWEL, for example a word like YES will come "EE-ES" instead with a pure EE vowel replacing the Y. It's similar with W sounds like WAR, which would become "OO-AR" where a pure OO vowel replaces the consonant. R and L require a specialised approach where you sing the consonant through one of the vowel sounds such as OO. It's probably easiest for me to show you:
Vowel placement singing
Learning how to PLACE your voice and resonate in the most efficient manner is the 'make or break' of a great singer. Vocal placement is often mistaken for classical 'masque' technique – but in essence is the OPPOSITE. Where you direct your frequencies for a forward placed "mask" tone, you actually LIMIT the excess frequencies that occur below your top teeth when you are singing with proper placement – you're not creating EXTRA frequencies, you're LIMITING the excess ones (think about that for a moment…)
A great way to place your voice is to practice using an "N" or "NG" sound and simply limit any bassy or throaty tones – it doesn't matter whether it's not the best tone or not "huge" like you want your voice to be, remember, the INTENT behind the exercise is more important than the exercise itself. The more you practice this simple exercise throughout your full vocal range, the better your vocal placement and vowel placement singing will be.
The trick to placement is then porting this placement over into your vowels – the different between an "N" and a vowel is simply the soft palate closing on the vowel, and opening on the N – so make sure you control the soft palate in the correct manner and allow your frequencies to resonate properly. When you change from the N to the vowel, try to aim for the same placement, even when singing a BIG song or even BELTING – did you know that BELTING actually requires a SMALL and forward placement? That's right, the smaller your band of frequencies, and the more focused your placement, the more POWERFUL you will sing!
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Young parenchyma tissue cut parallel with the epidermis of Euphorbia pulcherrima (poinsettia). Plasmodesmata present in cell walls remain united between cells during intercellular spaces development.
Parenchyma cells in phloem of Cucurbita maxima leaf. In one view, plasmodesmata are shown in longitudinal views, and in transverse views in primary pit fields.
Plasmodesmatal structure in longitudinal section of Phaseolus vulgaris root tip. Cell walls are lined with plasmadesmata between contiguous cells. Demotubule extends to the lumina of ER cisternae.
Constrictions at both ends of plasmodesma presumably have valve-like function.
Plasmodesmata originating during cell division. Mitosis associated with accumulation of vesicles in the equatorial plane. This is first stage in cell-wall formation of Nicotiana tabacum mesophyll.
Mitosis in longitudinal divisions of elongated cells. Earlier stage in Nicotiana tabacum; later stage (more extended cell plate) in Sonchus oleraceus.
Late telophase (nuclei not shown). Microtubules assemble into a phragmoplast centrifugally around the cell plate toward the lateral mother-cell walls (petiole of Echium judaeum).
Longitudinal and partial surface views of growing cell plates showing involvement of ER in formation of plasmodesmata. ER tubules may be included in openings in the cell plate. Phaseolus vulgaris root tip.
Cell plate has become the cell wall with fully formed plasmodesmata. Incomplete section made parallel with the surface of the cell wall. Phaseolus vulgaris root tip.
Young sieve element and companion cell, the latter narrow, with a narrow nucleus. Cell wall between the two cells and plasmodesmata in future sieve plates. (Nicotiana tabacum root tip)
Two stages in sieve plate development: plasmodesmal stage and plasmodesmata partly lined with callose. (Nicotiana tabacum root tip)
Young wall with plasmodesmata (top); sieve plate elements (left) and companion cells (right). Early stage of callose accumulation visible at ends of a plasmodesma, near differentiating pore site. (Echium angustifolium and E. sabulicola petioles)
Further development of a pore site in longitudinal view. Callose nearly fused at middle lamella, plasmalemma and ER cisternae cover the callose, plasmodesma extends from ER to ER through future pore. (Echium angustifolium petiole)
Continuous callose and plasmalemma in former plasmodesmal canal (above). Most callose was removed and open pores partly occluded with P-protein. (Echium angustifolium petioles)
Left, plugs of callose, penetrated by plasmodesmata, fill the pores. Right, pores open, lined with thin layer of callose, and most are occluded with P-protein, some with starch grains. (Echium wildpreti petioles)
P-protein plug in pore in longitudinal section. Compaction of P-protein within pore especially through middle lamella region. Echium judaeum petiole
Cross sections through pores filled with P-protein and through masses of loose P-protein located at some distance from the sieve plate. Echium plantagineum petioles.
P-protein digestion with pepsin (left); control (right). Compacted P-protein within the sieve plate pore became digested. (Echium judaeum petiole)
Longitudinal section of cell wall including a plasmodesma connecting a sieve element (below) and branched plasmodesma located on the companion cell side of the wall. (Echium rosulatum petiole)
Primary xylem of Phaseolus vulgaris stem, with ring-like and helical secondary walls (close to bottom of slide). Secondary wall surrounds perforations at the two ends of an individual vessel member. Perforations are formed by localized removal of the primary wall.
Removal of vessel end wall with middle part consisting of primary wall material. Around the end wall margin, secondary wall material protects unthickened primary wall, which becomes hydrolyzed and disappear. This stage is shown below: the rim now surrounds a perforation. (Phaseolus vulgaris stem)
Unperforated vessel wall parts also undergo a change; primary wall not covered by secondary wall layers undergoes partial hydrolysis. Beta vulgaris leaf.
Primary wall between contiguous vessel members (right) is partially hydrolyzed between secondary thickening gyres. Noncellulosic wall components removed, cellulose forms a loose network. Hydrolysis affects primary wall adjacent to vessel member. (Capsella bursa pastoris leaf)
Scanning electron microscograph of vessel member from Pelargonium leaf with perforations and pits. Micrograph, courtesy of Professor Peter B. Kaufman and Dr. P Dayanandan, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
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Ophioglossum fertile spike, l.s.
Ophioglossum stem x.s.
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Marattia synangium x.s.
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Washington (CNN) - Alvin Greene, the surprise Democratic nominee in the South Carolina Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. Jim DeMint, is trying it again.
This time he is running for a State House seat vacated when Democratic Rep. Cathy Harvin died. Greene filed the necessary paperwork and the $165 fee with the Clarendon County Democratic Party on December 24, according to county chairman Cal Land. Greene is expected to be one of at least three candidates running in the February 15 primary. The general election is April 5.
Greene, a political novice, shocked the political world in South Carolina when he emerged as the winner in the Democratic primary for Senate last summer. Party officials urged him to withdraw from the contest when news emerged that he had previously been charged with showing pornographic images to a college student, but he refused to bow out. He did not mount much of a campaign for the Senate seat.
DeMint soundly defeated him.
He said he would run on the same issues as he did in his Senate contest.
"It is the same situation. We have to end the recession. That is the bottom line," he said in a telephone interview.
"The goal in the Senate race is the goal in any other race."
When asked more about his goals for the campaign, he said, "That is it," and hung up.
Greene is facing misdemeanor and felony charges and is expected to go on trial soon.
The repulsive republicans had their Angel, McDonnell and Miller so the democrats are allowed their Greene. 3-1 please not for the fruit cakes! If you throw in some that got elected it is 7-1. Of course, if you throw in Palin it is 100-1
I love you brother as a person but please don`t try again
If Mr. Greene has firm plans that would end the recession, does he have time to put his economic program into writing, while still managing to make campaign appearances?
A book containing his recession-ending plan would not only enhance his campaign efforts, it would also be of great benefit to Mr. Greene's entire nation, be his fellow citizens Democrats, Republicans, or Independents.
I hope that Mr. Greene will consider this project.
Doesn't Greene have family and/or friends that can tell him NOT to do what he is doing??? You know what? It does not matter because he can do whatever he wants and someday, he will get there. I was surprised that he got as many votes as he did in the senate race.
I will be intereste dto see what kind of support he gets. More than his family's vote will show how stupid our electorate is.
Mr. Greene has determination, which is needed for success in any venture.
I have met some citizens from Mr. Greene's area. Knowing their thinking, I believe that his chances are good. His supporters should donate as much of their money as possible to his campaign: ending the recession is important.
I hope that Mr. Greene is keeping an open mind about a possible presidential campaign in the future.
What is going on with this guy? Where did he get his money? Was he a GOP plant or just one of those strange political things that happen in America? There's a legitimate story mixed up in here somewhere and I don't see anyone trying to find it.


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Sojourn: The Wildlands
I was given a copy of Sojourn: The Wildlands by B. D. Messick in return for an honest review.
The story is set in a post-apocalyptic world where everything beyond the small cities, called Enclaves, is wasteland. However, when a person turns eighteen they must travel to a new Enclave, chosen at random, to start their new life.
Rayn is a seventeen year old girl looking at facing her future while dealing with the typical struggles of a teenage girl. Her best friend, Luk, is a little younger than her and his Sojourn to the new Enclave won't start until a few months after her so she is facing a long trek across the wildlands on her own.However, a couple of days in and her best friend Luk is there to find her. He can't stand not being with her and they share their first kiss in a run-down camper van.
The story moves forward from there, taking the reader day to day through the struggles the pair face including hunting for food, searching for water and making tough decisions. They have some luck on their way as well as some bad times but come through it together.
I love Rayn as a character. She's strong and independent. She is the one doing most of the leading throughout their Sojourn although she doesn't believe it (and knows that without Luk she might not have survived). She has studied well and the time spent with her father before her Sojourn is always coming back in some way in terms of map-reading or shooting. She's a smart girl.
Their relationship is just budding throughout this book and we watch as she goes from unsure to bashful to confident still in this honeymoon phase.
The book ends on a cliffhanger, leaving the reader to wonder what will happen in the next book. It's a great read and I would recommend this to anyone who likes YA and post-apocalyptic.


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Chris Kissel at our sister station, PubliCola,
mentioned [see UPDATE 2] that the three challenges the Sounders would face in Dallas were red cards, heat, and arrogance. In the end though, it was a blown offsides call that cost them a win yesterday.
UPDATE: From the comments, here's another view of the goal that makes it look like Rocha was just barely onside. Either way, the Sounders didn't look their best yesterday.
UPDATE 2: Chris mentions below that while he posted that up, he did not write it himself. It was written by SoundersNerd.


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The world of marketing is built on two schools of thought: focusing on the consumer or focusing on the brand. Rarely do businesses focus on both.
Some will spend a Christopher Nolan budget to attract consumer attention. Others focus on selling their products. But with Millennials and Generation Z constantly demanding more, wanting more, and criticizing traditional methods of marketing, businesses only want to know one thing—what makes a great commercial?
Is it stellar cinematography? Is it a good storyline? Is it using famous actors? Let's take a look:
Good Commercials Are Conversational
Think about your favorite movie or storybook for a second. What exactly do you like about it? What makes it stand out? Even if the plotline has been done to death, there's still something that draws you towards it.
That's because that story or movie engages you. It speaks to you. It converses with you. As people, we are drawn towards the things we can relate to. That's exactly why some commercials are successful while others aren't.
Take a look at this commercial by Duracell called "The Teddy Bear." It's a heartwarming commercial about a little girl who eagerly waits for her dad to come home from the military. She has a teddy bear to keep her company. Every time she squeezes it, it says, "I love you baby girl." The bear is powered by Duracell's batteries that don't wear out easily.
While the story is simple, it's relatable. It connects with the viewers emotionally and engages their thoughts. It makes you think, "What can I do for my loved ones to help them remember me?"
They Have A "Personality"
You don't have to create a commercial with amazing visual effects to make it memorable. In fact, most people won't remember your commercial if that's all it has to offer.
Great commercials have depth and personality. You can add an iconic character to add personality to your commercials.
Remember the Nesquik Bunny? You probably loved the song he sang whenever a Nesquik commercial came on TV. Through an iconic character, Nestle was able to immortalize its brand because the character stood out and was well-received.
They're Memorable
Let's just be honest here. How many commercials do you remember from the time you were growing up? How many commercials stand out to you?
The ones you remember are the ones that made the effort to connect with you. Good commercials are memorable because of their one-liners, quality content, and length. If a commercial is over a minute, chances are, you won't be interested.
You probably won't remember them. If the ideas are boring or presented in a dull way, you won't remember. It's the way you make all your ideas come true that makes all the difference.
It's the way you present your concepts to your audience that changes everything.
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Media Buy-outs Going Green
Green and clean media is going through a flurry of activity right now. And while still small as media companies go – just wait.
A few of the notable deals:
- Just announced yesterday: The Cleantech Group, who popularized the term cleantech as an investment class, acquired Inside Greentech, an emerging media outlet for the green sector, for an undisclosed amount. Both of these businesses are run by friends of mine – and make for a great hook up. We did a blog in July on "Cleantech vs Greentech" that proved to be a bit prescient, it now seems. The inside scoop on this deal from a chat I had with my friend Dallas Kachan, the publisher and founder of Inside Greentech "Inside Greentech is already the most widely-read trade publication covering daily business and technology developments in cleantech. As Cleantech.com, we will become the highest profile, go-to media platform for cleantech-related developments."
- Leading green blog portal Treehugger was acquired by Discovery Channel just a few weeks ago. The deal metrics were rumored to be a $10 mm purchase price for a 1.4 mm hit/month site. This deal got a tremendous amount of press – and helps anchor the feeling that mainstream media deals and cleantech title launches are not far away.
- Lightspeed Ventures and Northpoint Private Equity recently backed the launch of Greentech Media, including the acquisition of the cleantech focused Venture Power Newsletter – popular in the venture capital sector.
- And while I can't say who, there are a couple of other big names in the sector with deals in the works.
Before Dallas Kachan and I finished our chat, I asked him what we should expect from all of this – his short answer was that as the cleantech sector continues to explode the big media names are going to take notice.
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The finance ministers of both nations said tax standards had struggled to keep up with changes in global business practices, such as e-commerce, which enable some large firms to shift taxes on profits to other jurisdictions.
"Britain and Germany want competitive corporate tax systems that attract global companies to our countries, but also want global companies to pay those taxes," said Germany's Wolfgang Schäuble and Britain's George Osborne said in a joint statement.
"That is best achieved through international action in the G20 and other relevant international fora to ensure strong standards," they said at a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Mexico City.
The two-day meeting, which ended on Monday, was focused on threats to the global economy including the debt crisis in Europe and a looming fiscal crunch in the United States.


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and managing the makeup store Ulta. I knew EVERYTHING about makeup: how to apply it, what colors looked good for what skin tone, etc, but I only knew the basics of skincare. In the makeup business, it didn't matter how bad someone's skin was - you could always cover imperfections!
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I spent a week in Tennessee, 5 nights in Nashville and two more in Memphis, my time mostly consisted of live music, southern fried chicken, beer and a few local tourist attractions.
Id booked into a hostel on the outskirts of Nashville, most of the backpackers I met there were musicians and from around the world, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, North Americans and a few Aussies. People were sat around in circles outdoors playing instruments and having a few singalongs, it felt family like and was warm and friendly. I headed to the local store, purchased a six pack of beer and joined in the conversation and listened, I can't play an instrument so those that cant participate listen. At about 9pm the hostel staff shut up the office and announced it was time to head downtown for music, beer and food in no particular order.
The town centre is quite a large area made up of mostly bars, restaurants and retail shops. The two areas I spent my evening time in were Broadway and Printers Alley. Printers Alley is the historical nightlife centre of Nashville and is named after the printing businesses that used to be located there in the at the turn of 20th century. The short alley had some saloon bars and used to showcase artists like Waylon Jennings, the Supremes and Jimmy Hendrix. The hostel staff took us there to see some free live music consisting of blues, rock and country, the beers were really cheap and the bars not very crowded, a few of the hostel staff performed live, it was an enjoyable introduction to the city.
After a few hours it was time to be unleashed onto Lower Broadway, the much-famed musical street of Nashville. Lower Broadway is made up of several Honky Tonk bars which play live and various styles of country music. These are the bars that the likes of Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson started out at, each bar playing constant live music from 10am to 3am all year round and for the most part with no cover charge and most importantly cheap alcohol depending on your preference. There are hundreds if not thousands of people walking up and down Broadway every night staring at the neon lights and wandering into whichever bar appeals.
To escape the crowd, I wandered into an appealing bar where line dancing was being taught to the inebriated customers so I enthusiastically joined in, I think I got the hang of it though everyone was wearing cowboy boots except for myself in trainers so I decided I would need my own boots which I sorted the next day. The staff in all the bars were friendly, bar food was excellent (if you like fried or barbeque) and the music fsensational. I was not a fan of country music before heading to Nashville but certainly was afterwards. The people in the bars were mainly American tourists from all over the country, also come locals and occasional backpackers, the music, alcohol and dancing make for a very friendly environment, I enjoyed my five nights immensely and all the evenings blurred into one.
I managed to do some daytime tours in spite of the late night drinking and dancing. This included touring the Ryman Auditorium, known as the birthplace of country and bluegrass music. The tour included the history of the building originally built for gospel music, it then became the home for the Grand Old Opry, a touring country radio show that originated out of Nashville and featured many artists including Johnny Cash, it is also where Evils Presley made a name for itself, the venue is active and often sells out. I went to the Country Music Hall of Fame, a new building and the largest collection of memorabilia devoted to you guessed it, country music. It contains instruments, gold records, cars, recording booths, posters etc and is quite sizeable. Finally, I went to the Parthenon, a life-size replica of the original one in Greece and built in 1897 to celebrate something called the "Tennessee Centennial Exposition" and contains works of American artists and a replica of the Athena Parthenos statue.
Before leaving for Memphis I decided to tour the Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg, a 1.5-hour drive south of Nashville. When I arrived, the car park was almost full and there were thousands of people walking in and out of the museum attached to the distillery. I purchased a walking tour that went for a few hours and had to wait an hour before my tour started so I went to the gift shop. I found out there that the town of Lynchburg is in the county of Moore and that it's a "Dry County", this means that its illegal to purchase alcohol including Jack Daniels in the county of Moore but fortunately the gift shop had a dispensation. I could purchase a bottle only there I but I could not drink it until I left the county, this law went back to 1910 under prohibition and had not been changed, think Al Capone. The tour itself was really interesting, describing the history of the whiskey, taking us to the spring in a cave where the water comes from which is used in the process of distilling the whiskey and then showing us the process itself.
The following day a few friends from the hostel ride shared with me down to Memphis where I stayed for a few nights. We checked into a hotel near the centre of town walked to the Mississippi River to watch the sunset, with lots of birdlife it was quite spectacular. The streets were comparatively quiet compared to the mayhem that as Nashville, it was almost a relief to be in a city that was less crowded. We headed to Beale street, if Nashville is the capital of country music then Beale street is blues. The set up is quite similar to what is on Broadway in Nashville, lots of bars playing live music. We stopped at the Blues Cafe had ourselves a huge American sized steak, potatoes and gravy, a few beers and then headed over to BB King's bar and listened to live music, the bar was kind of quiet so we did a little pub crawl from the top to the bottom of Beale street which is a short walk, we listened to more blues and then headed back to the hotel, I said goodbye to my mates, planned out my following day and went to sleep.
Memphis's most famous tourist attraction is Elvis Presley's Graceland, the home of Elvis and a park devoted to everything that is Elvis. This is a hugely popular attraction, so much so that you can not even park at the location, you are encouraged to take a bus that comes from Graceland which then transports you to the location. Upon arrival, you are given a group of tickets to view all the attractions including museums and attractions including Elvis's private jet and of course merchandise. Near the end of the day I was taken on a guided tour of the Graceland mansion itself, walking through some of the rooms, viewing the retro 70s furniture that adorned the place as well as a room where his gold records are on display, it was a seemingly endless wall of gold. After exiting I entered the Meditation Garden where Elvis's grave is located, it is all quite the spectacle. I got back onto my tour bus and on the way back was dropped off at Sun Studios a much smaller but no less significant iconic building. Sun Studios is regarded as the birthplace of "Rock'n'Roll" music and is where Elvis, Johnny Cash, BB King and Roy Orbison recorded albums. The tour included the studio itself and detailed the history of music.
I headed back down to Beale street for some more soul food and beers and reflected on my time in Tennessee, my experience there was so much fun. I had some notion prior to arriving regarding music coming from the area but had not been aware of how many different types of music had come from one state. participate in enough tours to assuage my guilt from all the drinking and dancing Id patripiated in and I hoped to be back through there one day (actually I have been back to Nashville two more times) but now was time to head back on the road down towards Baton Rouge Louisiana….


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"As I prepare to step back from day-to-day operations and move into my new role, I want to thank our more than 5,000 employees who have been the secret to our success in growing into a leading national damaged vehicle repair company," said CEO Duane Rouse. "I am confident that under the leadership of a new CEO, supported by our current best-in-the-business executive team, ABRA will continue as a reliable partner for insurers while maintaining rapid and profitable growth."
Since Rouse became CEO in 2011, ABRA's system-wide revenue has increased from under $300 million to more than $1 billion. The company has also added more than 150 new locations in the last 2 years.
Rouse said, "With a successful strategy and accomplished executive team in place, ABRA is well-positioned for the future. The company is in a position of strength and now is the time to transition day-to-day leadership to a new Chief Executive who will lead the company into its next chapter of growth. I will remain a significant shareholder and through my Vice Chairman role I look forward to continuing to be part of ABRA's very bright future."
Erik Ragatz, current Chairperson of the Board of ABRA Auto Body & Glass, and Managing Director of private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, ABRA's majority shareholder, said, "During his 20 year tenure—and particularly in his 5 years as CEO—Duane not only helped aggressively grow the company through both strategic acquisitions and internal initiatives, but also built a wonderful organization and business. We are now beginning a search that will identify CEO candidates with the right experience and cultural fit for the organization. Duane will be an important voice in this process, and remain an important part of ABRA as he assumes the role of Vice Chairman."
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Peru's biggest indigenous federation, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Rainforest (Aidesep), intends to use the courts to halt the planned $70m (£43m) expansion of the country's largest natural gas reserve further into territory set aside for isolated Amazon tribes.
Aidesep said the plans by Peru's energy and mines ministry to increase exploration and drilling in Block 88, the largest gasfield leased by the Camisea consortium, risk the existence of nomadic groups living in "voluntary isolation" in the Nahua-Kupakagori indigenous reserve, 23% of which overlaps the gas block in the country's south-eastern jungle.
The expansion within the part of Block 88 has already been approved. It includes 18 new drilling sites and intensive seismic testing. Before Camisea became operational in 2004 – and ever since – indigenous and environmental groups have lobbied international lenders to prohibit further expansion within the reserve.
However, Ivan Lanegra, the ministry of culture's vice-minister for intercultural affairs, said the prohibition applies only to new projects. The Camisea consortium, led by Argentinian oil firm Pluspetrol and including Hunt Oil, a US firm, and Spain's Repsol, can continue to drill new wells in the part of the gas block that overlaps the reserve, subject to approval by his ministry.
Julio Ibanez, a lawyer for Aidesep, which serves as an umbrella group for 67 indigenous federations, said he will file a lawsuit against the Peruvian state in January because it has breached the "inviolability" of the reserve and threatened the "physical and cultural survival" of the "isolated peoples" who live in it. That could lead to their "extermination", he said.
The risks of "unwanted" contact are well-documented. Around 60% of the isolated Nahua people died during a series of epidemics after their first contact with outsiders soon after oil company Shell discovered the gasfields in 1984.
In November, Aidesep and three indigenous federations (Fenamad, Orau and Comaru) from the area around the gas reserve claimed the new drilling violated loan conditions between Peru and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), as well as campaign promises made by Ollanta Humala, Peru's president since July 2011.
But Lanegra said the Peruvian state has worked with the IDB to ensure that gas exploration by the mega project did not present a risk to the isolated people in the area. He said Block 88 had been marked out in 2000, before the creation of the Nahua-Kupakagori reserve in 2003 by supreme decree. But environmental groups argue that the indigenous reserve was created in 1990 and the 2003 decree simply upgraded its legal status.
As Peru gets to grips with the implications of implementing new legislation requiring the prior consultation of indigenous groups about development plans affecting their lands (in response to the International Labour Organisation's Convention 169), its plans to open other parts of the Amazon to oil and gas drilling have been put on hold.
But indigenous people living in what Peru's legislation calls "voluntary isolation" cannot be consulted about their territories. Given their status, says Conrad Feather, an anthropologist working with the Forest Peoples Programme, no activity should take place. "The problem with such plans is that they avoid the fundamental question that these peoples, and not the Peruvian government or an oil and gas company, should be determining their own future," he said.
"We are being asked to believe that a series of guidelines on paper, however well thought out, are sufficient to address the inherently unpredictable and potentially lethal nature of first contact, a Pandora's box that once opened, no one, not even a multinational oil and gas company, can control."
President Humala's government is relying heavily on Camisea to become the backbone of the country's energy matrix and to supply gas for low-cost domestic use. Peru is South America's fifth biggest natural gas producer, with proven and certified gas reserves of 8.8 trillion cubic feet, most of which is in Block 88. Production has increased by 37% since operations began in the Camisea gasfields in 2004.
Environmentalists say a new gas concession known as Lot Fitzcarrald is planned, which will encompass even remoter parts of the Nahua-Kupakagori reserve and the west of Manu national park, a Unesco world heritage site and biodiversity hotspot. Lanegra denied any knowledge of Lot Fitzcarrald.
A legal loophole means that concessions deemed to be in the national interest can bypass environmental impact assessments and other procedures. However, international law states that these can be granted only if they comply with other key safeguards to prevent human rights violations.


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Elon Musk: Your Tesla may come with "autopilot" sooner than you think
Tesla Motors(s tsla) CEO Elon Musk thinks that autonomous vehicles that drive themselves may not be as far off in the future as the auto industry makes them out to be. The big sensor arrays that Google(s goog), Toyota(s tm) and Ford(s f) are testing in their autonomous car prototypes are a long ways from becoming commercially viable or affordable, Musk said in an interview with Bloomberg. But he said a scaled down version of such sensor systems relying on camera imaging could power a form of car autopilot that automates many of the ordinary tasks of driving.
"I like the word autopilot more than I like the word self-driving," Musk said in the interview. "Self-driving sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. Autopilot is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars."
Musk told Bloomberg that he's discussed the autopilot concept with Google's engineers and even mentioned the possibility of Tesla and Google jointly developing such a system. But Musk later tweeted from his Twitter account that his comments to Bloomberg were meant to be off the cuff, and that Tesla and Google weren't announcing any big new initiative.
"Creating an autopilot for cars at Tesla is an important, but not yet top priority," Musk tweeted. "Still a few years from production."
Musk's notion of an inexpensive autonomous driving system is an interesting one as it does away with the complex light detection and ranging — or Lidar — sensors that use 360-degree scanning lasers to render a 3D construct of the world around the vehicle. You've seen such funky laser arrays on top of mapping vehicles before, so the technology is readily available, but even a scaled down version of such systems would add enormous cost to car. According to Ford engineers, those costs are among the principal reasons why fully autonomous cars are still many years away from becoming reality.
But Musk posited that a car could simply use cameras to collect the data the car needs from its surroundings. The approach has its limitations compared to lasers. Cameras take pictures, while Lidar is registering physical objects, tracking their distance and relative speed to your car. Cameras would extrapolate that data from images. Stereoscopic lenses could allow for better depth perception on the road, but ultimately a camera-based system would depend on a lot of image-processing muscle to cull critical life-saving information from a massive pool of pixels.
Luckily for Musk, he's not the only one thinking this way. Many of the new advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) systems that warn drivers of impending accidents or alert them to lane drifting are camera based. It's also no coincidence that graphics card giant Nvidia(s nvda) is making a big play in the connected car space. The silicon vendor believes that its years of crunching real-time image and spatial data in PCs and game consoles make it the ideal company to power future car sensor systems.
Eventually cars won't just sense the other vehicles and objects in their vicinity. Those vehicles will actively communicate with one another and those objects. Using a secure form of long-range Wi-Fi, a car will tell all the vehicles behind its about brake or change lanes. Transmitters on the highway will tell you a big curve is coming up. (For more info on the connected car see our infographic.)
Such vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications could never replace sensors entirely since it would take decades for every vehicle on the road and every stretch of asphalt to become connected. But those technologies would allow cars to evolve cars beyond autonomy into a kind of ad hoc network, in which they would collectively make decisions instead of merely reacting to each other's actions.
Returning to Musk's remarks, though, I find it particularly interesting how he's positioning the concept of the driverless car. He's calling it a form of autopilot not too far off from the adaptive cruise control we use in our vehicles. Musk is downplaying the idea of car usurping control from the driver. He's keyed in on the biggest obstacle facing the autonomous vehicle today: consumer perception. Few people are ready to cede act of driving to computer.


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While visiting my favorite first year college student in Minnesota in early November, I thought about the ones I teach in Washington State. My daughter's friend was exiting their dorm as we were entering it. "How did your advising meeting go?" my daughter asked. "Pretty terrible." "Why?" "She got pretty mad at me. Told me to come prepared next time. I had five different schedules written down, but I was just too scared to show them to her."
Too scared.
Fast forward to the end-of-semester conferences I had with my writing students last week. One of them, Tori said, "I appreciated your stories because at first I was intimidated by you. I mean you said you did triathlons." Academics intimidate students through formal titles, academic language, dress (including academic robes), and rituals such as convocation and commencement. And in my case I guess, by swimming, cycling, and running in succession.
Similarly, some coaches routinely intimidate athletes and some parents routinely intimidate their children. They argue that intimidation breeds fear and fear breeds respect. But when they have an athlete or child get in serious trouble they often ask, "Why didn't you tell me?" The answer is obvious. Too scared.
Teaching excellence takes many forms. The intimidation—fear—respect model probably works well in the military, but I believe intimidation impedes learning because it contributes to students bullshitting their way through school. Instead of developing authentic voices, students say and write what they think their teachers want to hear and read. The technical term is "grade grubbing".
It's not enough to say what my teachers-to-be always do, "I want to be more than just a teacher. I want to be a role model, someone students can come to and talk about not just class, but life." Most students are so intimidated, any teacher that wants to be "accessible" has to be intentional about adopting a less formal, more personal professional persona.
One way to do that is to tell short, personal, self-deprecating stories. Ideally short, personal, self-deprecating stories that relate to the day's content. Students aren't interested in the details of their teachers' personal lives. Save those for a friend or therapist.
Pope Francis is a great example of someone intentionally passing on a built-in pedestal. In part, his tenure has started so positively because he's foregone the traditional perks of the position, including the Mercedes and posh Vatican digs. Compared to his predecessors, he travels and lives in ways that more people can relate to.
Most likely, my daughter's friend couldn't relate to her advisor for a litany of reasons. Reasons I doubt her advisor will explore. Many academics, just like some coaches and parents, prefer the view from their lofty perches. Teaching, coaching, and parenting is far less messy from above. Just not nearly as effective.


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CEEC Advocacy Week – September 2018
Washington, DC (CEEC) – During the week of September 17 th , the Central and East European
Coalition (CEEC) will hold a timely in-district advocacy week. This endeavor is especially
critical considering the recent NATO Summit and President Trump's meeting with Vladimir
Putin in Helsinki, and a possible meeting in Washington D.C. between the two presidents.
NATO remains salient to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to ward off threats
from the Russian Federation. CEE members in NATO provide key support to NATO missions
and a rising number (Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania) are providing 2% of their
GDP towards defense spending to address the new realities. The eastern flank of Europe remains
nevertheless exposed to the Russian Federation's continuous aggressive disregard for
international law and attempts to disrupt the post-WWII international order based in the
principles of democracy.
The goal for this advocacy week is to encourage Members of Congress to continue their support
for military cooperation with CEE nations; to enhance military assistance to nations occupied by
Russia; to promote full implementation of the Countering America's Adversaries Through
Sanctions Act (CAATSA); to urge continued European Deterrence Initiative (EDI) funding; and
reaffirm U.S. support for CEE in their effort to retain political sovereignty and territorial
The CEEC encourages the active participation of all our communities in promoting the need for
greater U.S. foreign policy engagement in the CEE region. This advocacy week will provide an
opportunity for members of our communities to meet and advocate for issues of mutual interest.
For further information, please contact the CEEC via email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by
calling (301) 340-1954.
Established in 1994, the Central and East European Coalition is comprised of 18 nationwide
organizations representing more than 20 million Americans who trace their heritage to that part
of the world.
CEEC Advocacy Week – September 2018