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Transitional work programs
Transitional Work Bonus Program
Employers with a transitional work plan actively participate in the recovery and return to work of their employees. Injured employees can resume their work functions with minimal time off, and employers are better prepared to place an injured employee in a job or given work tasks consistent with any medical or physical restrictions. The cost benefits may include reducing compensation payments and lowering claims reserves. We offer an additional benefit for employers with a transitional work plan participating in the Transitional Work Bonus Program.
Eligible state-fund employers or public employer taxing districts with an approved transitional work plan may receive a back-end bonus for using the plan to return injured workers back to work. The potential incentive is a maximum 10-percent bonus for using an established transitional work program; applicable to claims with dates of injury within that bonus year of program participation.
Eligibility requirements
- Be current with respect to all payments due BWC.
- No cumulative lapses in workers' comp coverage in excess of 40 days within the 12 months preceding the application deadline.
- Be in an active policy status. Active policy status does not include an employer with no coverage or lapsed.
- Must have reported actual payroll for the proceeding policy year and paid any premium due upon reconciliation of estimated premium with actual premium no later than the due date.
Enrolling in the program
For private employers: Complete the Application for Transitional Work Bonus Program (TWB-1) by the last business day in May for the July 1 - June 30 program period.
For public employers: Complete the Application for Transitional Work Bonus Program (TWB-1) by the last business day in November for the Jan. 1 - Dec. 31 program period.
Note: Once you participate in the bonus program we'll automatically renew you for the next program year as long as you continue to meet eligibility requirements. You can look up your program eligibility.
Plan requirements
Your next step is to submit evidence your company has a transitional work plan. Several acceptable forms of documentation include:
- A BWC transitional work grant plan developed between 2001 and 2006.
- A company-created transitional work plan.
- An approved BWC transitional work grant plan developed after July 1, 2012.
- A copy of your company's transitional work policy from your human resources manual or employee handbook.
- Signed letter from a company officer stating your company has a transitional work plan or your company is in the process of developing a BWC transitional work grant plan.
You can submit your transitional work plan via fax to 614-621-5758 or email transitional work support . Remember to include all of your company policy numbers in the email or on your fax cover sheet.
Transitional Work Grants Program
One of the most important strategies to help injured workers remain at work or return to work is transitional work. Our Transitional Work Grant Program is designed to help you develop a transitional work program that's right for your business and your employees. Returning an injured worker to the job as soon as safely possible before the worker is 100 percent recovered lowers your workers' comp costs and improves your bottom line.
Transitional work grants are 3-to-1 matching grants for companies ranging from 11 to 200+ employees. The maximum grant amounts are:
- 11-49 employees up to $2,900.
- 50-199 employees up to $5,200.
- 200+ employees up to $6,300.
Eligibility requirements
State-fund private employers and public employer taxing districts with 11 or more employees and having not have received a transitional work grant from BWC in the past can apply for funds to help them contract with a BWC-accredited transitional work developer to create a customized transitional work program. An employer must:
- Be current with all payments due BWC and in active policy status.
- Not have cumulative lapses in coverage in excess of 40 days within the preceeding 12 months.
- Submit your payroll true-up and pay any applicable premium before the expiration of any grace period.
Employers not eligible for a transitional work grant may email the transitional work department to receive BWC resources to develop your own transitional work plan.
Enrolling in the program
Submit a Transitional Work Grant (TWG-1) application.
Eligible employers will receive an approval email. Once BWC approves your application, your next step is to hire a BWC-accredited transitional work developer to design your customized program. BWC only provides grant monies for plans and services provided by a BWC-accredited developer.
For more information about the accredited developers and the areas they serve, visit the transitional work developers page. Email the BWC transitional work grant department, or contact your managed care organization or third-party administrator if you need help in selecting a transitional work developer.
- Transitional Work Grants Q & A
- Transitional Work Grant Reimbursement Request Form (TWG-2)
- Transitional Work Grant Agreement (TWG-3)
- Transitional Work Grant Program Corporate Analysis Questionnaire Work Sheet (TWG-4)
- BWC service invoice
- Transitional work developers list
- Transitional work developers overview


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"Nonsense?" - ICT perceived by the elderly (EMCIS, 2011)This paper describes a feasibility study of ICT and social media as perceived by elderly people. Until lately, very little research has been done on social media from the perspective of older people. This is surprising as ...

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Advanced Tutorial Updated + New Staff!July 8th
The advanced tutorial as been updated. Also, please welcome two new members to our staff, maryru and LeoLeo! They have kindly agreed to help find and add models to our database. We also want to thank Space for all the hard work he has put into our community and for being with us for so long!
Submitting models to the MuseumMay 4th
We have been receiving a lot of requests to have your models added into the Museum. We would love to add it, but with the sheer volume of models that are published daily by talented designers, it is difficult for us to keep up! What you can do to help us is:
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4,000 ModelsApril 19th
We have just hit the 4,000 mark for models in the Museum's collection! Huge credit goes to Space, our main administrator, who has been consistently finding new models and placing them into the database. And of course, a BIG THANKS to all of the papercraft designers who have been cranking out models day after day!


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This year, Ray's song "Who Would Jesus Love" from his newest project "True" was named as one of the top songs in Billboard's song writing contest (in the contemporary Christian division).
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From huge temporary stadia to tiny transitory event spaces, pop-up architecture fulfils many roles and comes in many guises. In some cases the very latest technologies are used to engineer complex structures, while in others a readymade approach using scavenged materials is more appropriate. Architonic examines some key pop-up projects that are designed to make the most of their short lifespans. (by Alyn Griffiths)
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I am a research assistant for the Kentucky Archaeology Survey. This means that I help out where I am needed. This week started by teaching groups of sixth graders about archaeology during a day camp (a post for another time). It ended with what I expect is a yearly tradition for most academic archaeologists: the final push during archaeology field school.
The directors of the field school will be preparing a post in the next week, so I won't steal their thunder. Instead I'll just talk about my relatively tiny role in the day.
This year the University of Kentucky field school was held at a Fort Ancient (AD 1000 – AD 1750) site in Northern Kentucky. The site is massive and this year the excavations were focused on a concentration of posts and overlapping pit features. By concentration, I mean hundreds of features in the relatively small area of the site that is exposed. Next week the field school is concentrating on lab work, so for all intensive purposes this was the final full day of excavation, photographs, and documentation. As a result archaeologists from across the state came out help finish the excavations.
My assignment was to clean, photo, score, and draw the profiles of a completed unit.
Today my home away from a home was Unit 92, a cozy 1 x 2 m unit that was mostly 67-72 cm deep with the exception of a series of overlapping pits that extended to 123 cm deep. I found that the unit had a different volunteer working on it for every level of excavation meaning that the notes were mixed and the interpretation of the stratigraphy was based on a lengthy discussion between be and one of the principle investigators Dr. Gwynn Henderson.
Photocleaning the walls required some archaeological yoga. Two bones were sticking out of the wall in such a way that they could collapse everything it I hit them. The basin that made up about half of the unit was steeply sloped with a slick yellowish clay bottom that absorbed every bit of dark soil that fell (requiring another trowel down). Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of the awkward poses I had to assume to finish the work, but the profile pictures got taken.
Interpreting the different deposits took a while. Gwynn and I finally concurred that this unit was at least two and possibly three pits that were intruded on by post holes and disturbed by different rodents.
Then I drew the walls (only 31 soil zones… not too bad). Here is a link to a Panorama I tried to make while sitting in the scored unit, the stitching made it look a little weird in places. Sitting in Unit 92.
After closing out the unit I stayed a few extra hours past the end of the day to excavate a few post holes. We'll be returning to site a few more times in the coming days to finish what wasn't documented today. Look for updates from Gwynn and Dave in the next week!


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Chuck Todd of MSNBC had Craig James on today, and he happened to catch the gay-baitin', 2 percent-pollin', infomercial-makin' U.S. Senate candidate from Texas in a lie about Mike Leach, which is lots of fun. Here's the Dallas Morning News to explain:
On Wednesday, James told MSNBC's Chuck Todd: "We didn't hire a PR firm." But when Todd pressed the issue, noting that James had indeed hired Spaeth Communications, James acknowledged that he had. "There are PR firms for what I needed," he said. "We needed somebody who could represent us."
Only 13 more days till James will need somebody to hire him.
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DailyDirt: Real Brains
from the urls-we-dig-up deptHuman brains are amazingly efficient compared to any computer built so far. Previously, we pointed out some projects to simulate brain activity in various ways. But there's nothing like the real thing. Here are just a few interesting links on detecting and improving our conscious grey matter.
- More studies show that a person's IQ doesn't remain constant throughout life. It seems strange to think that IQ couldn't change a bit with age (or with training exercises), and measuring "intelligence" in the first place isn't exactly an easy task to do. [url]
- A behavior therapist describes her experience training autistic kids to improve their cognitive abilities. Improve your fluid intelligence in just five easy steps! [url]
- Being able to distinguish various states of consciousness could be helpful to determine if/when patients with serious brain injuries might recover. A quantitative test to complement the Coma Recovery Scale measures brain activity via EEG signals, but it needs to be used on many more subjects before it can be considered a reliable diagnostic tool. [url]
- To discover more interesting articles on the human mind, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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I could trace the lines of the fences that crisscross this land with my eyes closed and listen to the sounds of the pink and grey galah's as they sit amongst the stubble paddock, feeding on dropped wheat grains hidden in the dirt and basking in the evening sun.
I have committed to memory the roads which lie within these fences. The rustic red tracks that are the veins of this land. Roads that can be seen covered in footsteps and hooves or imprinted by the tyre tracks of the farm vehicles – utes, motorbikes, tractors. Each impression recalling a story of history past. Yet often too they are manicured by the blowing winds, erasing all traces, as if nothing has ever passed. Tonight is one of those nights.
The wind overnight has blown away all impressions of yesterday and our tyre tracks from last nights drive have disappeared as if it had never happened. Tonight is a new night and I get to create a new story.
With one foot in front of the other my journey begins. The sun is still high and with my sunglasses on I begin my brisk walk.
The first hill is always sandy and I leave divots where my shoes have broken the wind swept earth. I can't say that they are footprints, my toes have sunk too deep as I push back into the sand causing more of a stepping stone effect. Beyond the first hill, the double iron gates leading into the tank paddock, known simply by this name due to the concrete cement structure that stands proud on the hill in the distance. It feeds water via the underground pipelines to the water troughs in this and the neighboring paddocks. Standing tall and watching over the once golden paddocks and knowing too that they need rain. The gates signal a change in the ground and road becomes more compact. But it is not for long.
My iPhone app tells me it's time to jog. It is not something I normally do, preferring more to walk, but its a New Years resolution to learn to run. Slowly at first the road appears to disappear beneath my feet, and then slightly quicker. This road runs parallel with the fence line to my left and I keep my eyes straight on the road ahead, seeing only as far to the sides as my preferential vision will allow.
"And brisk walk."
My heart rate is up but the land before me still amazes me. The gateway leading into Lynch's paddock is open to my left and a murder of crows scatters from around the water trough at the sound of my footsteps..
"Lets jog."
The 90 second intervals of jogging amongst the two minutes of walking are beginning to become routine after almost 10 nights. Again the road passes beneath my feet. This time the hill is barren and windswept. It is good because it is hard, but difficult because the wind erosion has caused numerous potholes, large and small and the wrong placement of a foot could result in an rolled ankle. Just one more hill and then it will be flat ground. I can see it in the distance.
"And walk"
I love the blueness of the sky. It is bright and a stark contrast to the red dirt and golden stubble that lies beneath. A single jet stream leaves two lines across the blue canvas, a simple reminder that our lives carry on unknown to many, both near and far.
"Lets jog."
With each jogging step I'm aiming for those next gates. For the road that is flat. For that road which is harder under foot. It gets closer and closer but with the words '"brisk walk" I fall 10 steel posts short of the gates. I will walk through them.
The steel posts that hold up the wire fence to my left have become my distance gauge. The fewer there is to the intersecting fence line that meets the road, the more distance I am gaining with every training session. I know it's mind over matter and my app tells me my stats at the end of the session, but it's simply my competitive streak.
Through the gates and into Kingies. The site of the old house block is still peppered with cactus plants and the tall gum trees line the old house yard. Across from it a broken down windmill stand. It's spokes all long fallen off and the tank that it once pumped water to, a bent and corrugated mess below. This is my half-way point goal. But I'm not there yet.
"Lets jog. Congratulations you are halfway there."
With the windmill still ahead of me I turn my back to it and begin my journey home, retracing my steps from not so long ago. The sun has now begun to set and it's warm rays beat down on my back allowing my shadow to run in front of me. Now I have a running partner I can keep up with.
"Brisk walk"
I know that my running distances are becoming shorter as the session wears on, but it still feels good. How could it not? I am surrounded by fresh air and the only sounds are those of my breathing, my feet pounding the ground and the chatter of the birds as they too enjoy the evening sun.
"Lets jog."
This is it Janine. This is the last run session of the program. You can do it. They are the words I tell myself as I push on. The crows that I scared earlier have returned and are now sit on the barbed wire fence, just up from the gate into Lynch's paddock. They are all facing away from me and now with me running into the slight breeze they do not hear me until I have passed. With a flutter some of them fly off but the remainder realise I have gone and no longer pose a threat to them.
"Brisk walk."
The setting sun creates a golden glow across the paddock and its like it has become alive. It's a beautiful time of night. A couple of rabbits dart from beneath a clump of straw and head straight through the larger squares at the bottom of the fence and under a peppercorn tree, presumably back to its burrow for the night.
"Time to cool down."
That's it almost for another session. Now just to pass back through that first set of double gates and back over that hill to the barn where I started. To my left now the tank on the hill is casting a long shadow as the sun dips lower into the evening and the colours of the sky turn to red to match the dirt beneath my feet. Ahead of me the final hill and beyond that the trees surrounding Mum's house.
As I start to climb the hill I follow in the earlier foot divots, they make it easier to push through the sandy track and I leave only a single track behind me in the sand. It reminds me slightly of imprints on a sandune, just on a much smaller scale.
As my session comes to an end and the trainer on my app announces "Congratulations, I knew you could do it." I have circled back past the barn happy to have completed another session and happier still that I have managed to run/walk a further distance than the last session.
Now to enjoy this sunset.


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名字:Beth Ditto (Mary Beth Patterson)
職業:American Singer-Songwriter
生日:February 19, 1981
Beth Ditto is known for her noticeable stage dances and her unique and revealing image. Ditto is also well known for her outspoken support of both LGBT and feminist causes. Her most recent modeling work consisted of opening the Jean Paul Gaultier spring 2011 fashion show during Paris Fashion Week on October 2, 2010.


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You know that one sparse wall in your bedroom? Graphic designer Terry Mack has it covered. Literally.
In the making since January, these propaganda posters will motivate you to keep fighting the good fight in Battlefield 3.
The lighthearted jabs at some of the staples of publisher EA's vastly popular first-person shooter should be familiar if you've ever played even one round of the game.
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Blunt: Focus on mental health in gun talks
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) says President Barack Obama and Congress should focus on mental health problems when considering gun-control legislation.
Despite the fact that Connecticut had some of the toughest gun restrictions in the country, Blunt told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace the Newtown shooter was still able to get a weapon but said this was a "moment we can do something about mental health."
"We had bans on things for a decade that didn't seem to make a difference at all, but in that same decade our willingness to share information about mental problems, our willingness to share information between police officials and security officials all declined," Blunt said.
Wallace asked if Blunt would support a universal background check for gun owners.
"We ought to talk about that. Let's look at that and see. We've had proposals before in Congress that tried to deal with some of the loopholes…I think that gun owners are generally for that, but you've got to have a proposal that works," Blunt said.


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Norah Jones, still best known for her ten-times platinum debut album, "Come Away With Me," has always been a more diverse artist than the soft, jazzy numbers she's recognized for and a new album of covers seeks to reveal the depth of her versatility, reports the New York Daily News.
"Featuring," in stores November 2, does not contain any new tracks, but rather rounds up 18 collaborations that Jones has done with various artists over the past decade. Incuded will be duets with legendary acts like Ray Charles and more contemporary groups like Belle & Sebastian and Outkast.
"It's so exciting and flattering and fun when I get asked to sing with somebody that I admire," she said in a statement. "It takes you a little bit out of your comfort zone when you're doing something with another artist. You don't know what to expect - it's kind of like being a little kid and having a playdate."
U.S. & World
Some of the track highlights are "Baby It's Cold Outside" with Willie Nelson, "Virginia Moon" with the Foo Fighters and "More Than This" with guitarist Charlie Hunter.
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Just some bashing in the snow. Had to hold the camera with one hand, steer with the chin.
Anyway, 720p on YT, enjoy!
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Here's a Good one! Well at least I think it's one of the best I have ever done.
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Here's another one of me playing in the snow!
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Snow Cross with the Summit. First go with the vid camera , making some excess noises I have to figure out.
Running on Visa
Here i put a vid of my summit with go pro hero on board
Been running longer get you more fun longer !!!
The Summit vxl & ball - FPV immersion - lipo 3S/GoPro
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My new summit in snow~ all stock
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I admit that low light isn't the perfect condition but I couldn't resist. It's Winter.
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My first attempt at shooting RC video. Just my bone stock Traxxas Summit with the Summit exo-cage (lexan body removed) driving in our snowy backyard one lazy Sunday afternoon:
Stock Summit
I uploaded a couple more summit vids with different bodies and one with my wife wheelin here axial at night.
Test the wings!!!!
Just a quick test vid of the winch and the mini cam getting it setup
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This is a vid of my stock Summit on paddle tires with 5S (3S&2S) LiPo.
These are my videos.
More Videos Coming later once I upload them
Brushless Summit!!!!!
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Brushless Summit!!!!!
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Just a couple of vid's to get me started
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The new one
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Hobby king 100A ESC
Brand new Pro-Line MOAB on Axial 8-spoke Oversized wheels
Eurgle 3ch 2.4GHz
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Part of what makes MacBook Air so responsive is that it's designed entirely around SSD storage. Not only does this make MacBook Air much lighter and more portable than traditional notebooks, it also provides faster access to data. This PCIe-based SSD is up to 17x faster than a traditional 5400-rpm notebook hard drive.3 So when you flip open MacBook Air, it's ready to go right away. Even after a month in standby mode, the screen springs to life.
Up to 12 hours of battery life. Power through your whole day.
Thanks to compact SSD storage in MacBook Air, there's plenty of room for a big battery. Working together with the power-efficient fifth-generation Intel Core architecture, this battery can post some impressive numbers. MacBook Air gets up to 12 hours of battery life on a single charge. That gives you all-day power for surfing the web or watching iTunes movies. Put MacBook Air to sleep for more than 3 hours, and it enters standby mode to conserve battery life for up to 30 days.4
Fifth-generation Intel Core processors. Performance, meet endurance.
MacBook Air is powered by fifth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. This ultra-efficient architecture was designed to use less power and still deliver high performance. Which means not only can you do whatever you want — you can keep doing it for longer than before. In addition, the Intel HD Graphics 6000 processor offers advanced performance you'll especially notice with games and other graphics-intensive tasks.
Includes Photos, iMovie, GarageBand, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Mail, Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Safari, Maps, Spotlight, iTunes, App Store, iBooks and more.
Tech Specs
1.8GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 (Turbo Boost up to 2.9GHz) with 3MB shared L3 cache
8GB of 1600MHz LPDDR3 onboard memory
512GB PCIe-based SSD1
Intel HD Graphics 6000
Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 3840 by 2160 resolution at 60Hz on an external display, both at millions of colors
Connections and Expansion
Two USB 3 ports (up to 5 Gbps)
Thunderbolt 2 port (up to 20 Gbps)
MagSafe 2 power port
SDXC card slot
3.5mm headphone jack
Stereo speakers
Dual microphones
3.5 mm headphone jack
802.11ac Wi-Fi wireless networking; IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n compatible
Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology
Size and weight
Height: 0.11-0.68 inch (0.3-1.7 cm)
Width: 12.8 inches (32.5 cm)
Depth: 8.94 inches (22.7 cm)
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I really thought that my life had changed in 06, moving to a new city, ending a horrible relationship, facing some demons I had left in the cellar and did not deal with, but it cannot hold a candle to the year that 07 was. Not only did I marry my best friend, I also started enjoying life in a whole new way that I always knew was possible, trying to be completely happy and content every single day of my life.
I could make into a recap post, but I want it to be a little more than that… I want it to be my online gift to you so lets begin.
First you need to change your password. What? Work? yes. Begin this year being less of a victim and picking better passwords. Please read up on my guide how to pick a good password and what phishing is all about.
Second you need a laugh. If you are not aware, I have started a collection of the funny things I find online and been putting it on my tumblr. I bet you a penny that you will find at least one of the posts absolutely hilarious.
Third is very simple, do not be a pack rat. No I am not talking about personal possessions, even though that can lead to problems too. I am talking about things that bother you, if you woke up and tripped over a show that your significant other left there, just tell them it ticket you off without making it a big deal… it is liberating.
Right before the last thing I want you to do, I know I am kind of pushy, is to stop trying to please others and please yourself. Do not feel guilty for saying I want to do this instead of that. Being polite about what you want in life is the key, but seriously, pleasing others is not going to make you happy. Sure, it works for a while, but the moment that other person is not happy with something you did it all falls apart. So trust me, making others happy is very easy when you are happy first.
Last but not least, promise me that today you will call a family member or a friend that you have not talked to in a while. You do not have to kiss and make up, just wish them a happy new year and try to be the bigger person.
This year I made some great new friends and just this past weekend I met some of the local bloggers and some if not most have the potential of becoming friends. On that note I leave you with one thing I learnt this year, to have a true relationship both people have to want it. Relationships take a lot of work and doing it alone does not build a friendship, only resentment.
So take the good, leave the bad and have a happy new 2008!


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How to Increase the Odds of New Product Success
There is no one-size-fits-all recipe for success that manufacturers can use to satisfy consumer demand for innovation. There are, however, ways to increase the odds. Nielsen's research shows that best-in-class innovators take a holistic view of their initiatives, keeping an eye on three key dimensions as they develop their innovations: strategy, consumer viability and sales potential.
Have you identified an unmet consumer need?
Products that meet specific customer needs tend to be more successful than those that don't. This may sound intuitive, but a flawed initial perspective can have a negative downstream effect. For example, focusing on product features, demographic-defined segments or competition can compromise the effectiveness of all subsequent development steps. Mapping to specific consumer needs can spark remarkable opportunities to life, even in mature markets.
Does your product have enough differentiation for both short- and long-term success?
There are several ways to convert a market opportunity into a distinctive product that will appeal to consumers: leverage new technology, import a benefit from other categories, or build on existing brand platforms. Above all else, however, new product ideas need to remain focused on meeting the demand-driven needs for which they were conceived to meet.
Even the best ideas require refinement before they're ready for market. In order to be successful, it's critical to translate demand-driven concepts into complete market-ready offers. Nielsen's Factors for Success framework (see below) seeks to ensure that an initiative will stand out, be understood by consumers, provide relevant benefits, offer the right value equation and deliver on its proposition.
Will you reach your sales goals?
Put simply, consumers need to know that products exist, why they exist and where they can find them. There is no standardized approach to marketing execution. While conventional marketing strategies such as in-store presence and TV advertising remain the largest drivers of awareness, consumers are increasingly looking to the Internet and social media for information when making purchasing decisions.
"There is no one-size-fits-all approach to successfully developing and marketing a compelling new product," said Rob Wengel, senior vice president, Nielsen Innovation Analytics. "By focusing on unmet needs, creating a distinct solution, and developing a market-ready offer, marketers and manufacturers will create the best opportunity to ensure their product delivers on core demand insight and is ultimately adopted by consumers. However, ensuring consumers are aware of the product and can find it on store shelves is just as critical as coming up with that winning new product idea."
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Global New Product Report.


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With the first round of the all new Enduro world series taking place as we speak this weekend in Italy, Dirt Norco Enduro Team rider Greg Callaghan describes his lead up to this event. Greg's 2013 Enduro season started with the first Irish Gravity enduro race and he has been on the road ever since. After a strong start to the season and a 9th place finish at Metabief last weekend against some big names, Greg has shown he has good pace. Greg is a hard worker and a top guy so we are all rooting for him this weekend.
Greg Callaghan:
"For me it's 6 races in 6 weeks throughout April and May to start the season, with the new team, bikes and everything else I have been pretty eager to get racing. With it being the first year I have fully committed to Enduro I was coming into it relatively blind as to where I would fit into the results, just have to give it the beans and hope we'd come out in a good position.
I got the Range Killer B built up the week before these races and got out on it a few times to get the hang of it. It's a 650B bike which I feel is definitely the way to go for enduro. It just carries speed so well yet it doesn't feel any bigger or harder to move around. It's a no brainer really that these bikes will be all over the enduro scene in no time. It's the best of both worlds between big noodle 29ers and oldskool 26ers.
It started with the first Irish Gravity Enduro in Carrick where I had a pretty good day with some mistakes to put me in 2nd, a solid start to the year. The craic was had and the trails and organisation were awesome, it's pretty cool to have one of the most respected enduro race series in Europe being run so close to home, pretty much all the races are within an hour of Dublin, where I live which is pretty handy.
So after a week of panic and stress to get everything ready, it was onto the first stop for the Transit, the UK Gravity Enduro in Innerleithen. I arrived on Friday evening to snow and hail… great, it was going to be another one of those wet and muddy weekends, as you'd expect to see in May… sure it's only meant to be summer!
I got a practice lap in on the Saturday followed by seeding late Saturday afternoon on stage 5.I got pretty smoked on this one which put me in a bad starting place for Sunday. Thankfully the guys seeded ahead of me were really good at letting me by whenever I did manage to catch them on a stage, so fair play to them for that. A few of my stage times from the day turned out to be good ones, with a couple of them cracking well into the top 5 I was happy. The seeding stage was repeated on the Sunday again, with a crash and not a great run it didn't help my result. I finished up in 8th overall for the weekend but was really happy with my stage times which showed I had the speed to run with the top boys.
After a spin around the Golf Course trails in Innerleithen on Monday with Scotty Laugh-land and a lap of Glentress on Tuesday it was time to start trucking South to the Alps. I picked up Jimmy Mac (2007 British pitbike champ, yeah, kind of a big deal) in Milan and off we went to Riva Del Garda for a round of the German Specialised/Sram series, where we met a load of other Irish riders.
What a place Garda is, unbelievable views, gnarly as hell trails and brutal climbs. The transitions for this race were huge with over an hour of pushing hard in first gear to the first stage and 1600m of vertical climb in 31km, although it was worth it for the reward of the fast and rough stages. The bike was loving the rough stuff and the moderately big wheels were just bounced through the rock gardens. It's always good to come to a race like this and know that you have the right bike for the job, that was definitely the case here and there were plenty of other Norcos around the place too.
The event itself was pretty relaxed, with no start times for the stages it meant that there was plenty of time for hanging out with friends and enjoying the views.
Having arrived at the race a bit late, I only got to ride 5 of the 6 stages once. Stage 4 was the stage that I raced blind, and funnily enough it was my best stage of the day. Stage 5 was probably the wildest run I have ever had on a bike. Not knowing it too well meant that by the time I had realised I needed to slow down for a section, it was too late and all I could do was hang on for dear life! This caused me to have a crash and lose some time, but with the tracks being as rough as they were, a few mistakes were inevitable. Nearly 6 hours in the saddle meant that we were well spent by the end of it all, it was easy to spot the Irish lads at the finish, we were the gang with our tops off looking pasty white with a beer to celebrate the days craic.
There were only a handful of riders missing this weekend from those will be at the first round of the Enduro World Series in a couple of weeks, so the results were a good indication of how people are shaping up for that one.
Once everyone finished we got the results and I had finished in 13th place, only 1:30 off the win which was taken by Fabien Barel. That was pretty much as good as I could have hoped for with the lack of practice I had compared to others who had been shuttling the stages for a few days prior to the race. I know now where I lost out and what to work on for Punta Ala.
The race was on a Saturday which meant we had the rest of the weekend to chill out and recover which was pretty sweet. Although we did get some rain which wasn't ideal, the sun came out at times so we could enjoy the scenery.
After a quick stop in Chamonix for some instagraming, wifi and a bike ride, it's onto Metabief in France for the Kali open enduro, with Punta Ala the following week and Hamsterly UK Gravity Enduro on the way home for a few weeks break.
Hopefully the sun shows up as it's currently bucketing it down and I've got a tan to work on!
Check back in a couple of weeks to see how the other races go for me and keep your eyes out for the Dirt Norco pits at the races, don't be afraid to come over for a cuppa tea, you might even get one!
In the meantime, keep up to date with me on Instagram and Tweetbook @MTBGC or @DirtNorco for the team updates. Also, give Dirt Norco Race Team a like on the old Facey B."


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(CNN/Gray News) – Tip Top Poultry's recall of ready-to-eat poultry products due to possible listeria contamination has been expanded, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The company issued the recall on Sept. 28, and expanded it Tuesday "to alert consumers that the recalled ready-to-eat poultry products were used in additional products," the USDA said.
The expanded recall includes chicken products sold under multiple brands in dozens of stores, including Kroger, Aldi, Food Lion, Piggly Wiggly and Jersey Mike's.
"Some of the products may have been served from the deli counter in grocery stores," the USDA said.
The initial recall was announced after "multiple samples of product produced by Tip Top Poultry" tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes, according to the USDA.
So far, no one has gotten sick, but the USDA said it's likely that eating chicken contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes will result in serious adverse health consequences, and could possibly be fatal.
The items were produced between Jan. 21 and Sept. 24.
Click here for a list of retail locations affected by the expanded recall. Click here to see a list of items affected.
Copyright 2019 CNN. All rights reserved. Gray Media Group, Inc. contributed to this report.


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Morgan Ellis
Ellerslie Prince Edward Island
Eligible for draft:
4th round (117th overall), 2010
205 lbs.
Prospect Talent Score
Probability of Success
2007-08: Morgan Ellis was chosen in the third round of the 2008 QMJHL Draft by the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles.
2008-09: In his QMJHL rookie season, Ellis played in 52 games for the Eagles, notching 6 assistsand 45 penalty minutes in those games. Played in 10 playoff games, picking up 1 assist.
2009-10: In his second season with the Screaming Eagles, Eliis appeared in 60 games for that club. He scored 4 goals and added 25 assists for 29 points and tacked on 56 penalty minutes. Ellis scored 1 goal in 5 playoff games. Missed the cut for Team Canada's Under-18 entry at the World Junior Championships.
2010-11: Ellis was team captain and the top defenseman for Cape Breton in his third QMJHL season. In 65 games for the Eagles he scored 8 goals with 28 assists – both tops among Cape Breton defensemen. Ellis also had 65 PMs and a -27 plus/minus which could be attributed to playing for an Eagles squad that allowed 122 more goals than it scored. Despite winning just 18 games, Cape Breton qualified for the QMJHL's last playoff spot. In the Eagles' four-game, first round loss to eventual Memorial Cup champion Saint John, Ellis was scoreless and -4 with 8 PMs.
2011-12: Ellis returned to the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles after impressing in Montreal's training camp. A team captain for Cape Breton in his fourth QMJHL season, he scored 7 goals (six on the power play) with 18 assists and was -3 with 18 penalty minutes in 34 games. Ellis was selected to represent the QJMHL at the 2011 Subway Super Series against Russia, playing a shutdown role in the two-game series. Ellis was traded to Memorial Cup host Shawinigan on December 31st and his overall game took off. He finished the regular season scoring 8 goals with 19 assists and was +21 in 26 games for Shawinigan. Ellis was a force at both ends of the ice in the Cataractes' two QJMHL playoff series. He scored 2 goals with five assists in the first round while his defense partner, Brandon Gormley (PHX) was out with an ankle injury. In the seven-game second-round series against Chicoutimi, he scored 2 goals with 2 assists, finishing with 11 points in 11 playoff games, with a +14 plus/minus rating. The offensive defenseman was eighth place amongst all QJMHL defensemen in playoff scoring. Ellis and Shawinigan rebound from the loss to Chicoutimi in the Memorial Cup, winning the championship game in overtime. He scored 1 goal with 4 assists and was +3 with 6 penalty minutes in six Memorial Cup games. Ellis signed a three-year entry-level contract with Montreal in March 2012.
2012-13: Ellis played for Montreal's AHL affiliate in Hamilton as a 20-year-old in his first pro season. Despite a nagging groin injury early in the year, he appeared in 71 games, most amongst Bulldogs defensemen. He scored 4 goals with 4 assists and was -16 with 57 penalty minutes. The Bulldogs missed the AHL playoffs after finishing last in the North Division.
2013-14: Ellis skated for Montreal AHL affiliate Hamilton in his second pro season, missing time at the beginning of the year due to a groin injury and skating in 59 of 76 games. He scored 3 goals with 7 assists and was +4 with 36 penalty minutes. The Bulldogs missed the AHL playoffs, finishing fifth in the North Division.
2014-15: Ellis played 27 games with the AHL's Hamilton Bulldogs — splitting the season between Hamilton and the ECHL's Wheeling Nailers. He scored 3 goals with 6 assists and was +3 with 13 penalty minutes skating for the Bulldogs. Ellis was the leading scorer amongst defensemen for the Nailers. He scored 13 goals with 13 assists and was -13 with 22 penalty minutes. Wheeling finished fourth in the North Division, falling to Toledo in a seven-game first-round playoff series. Ellis was -2 with 2 assists and no penalties in five playoff games. He was re-signed to a one-year contract by Montreal as a restricted free agent in June 2015.
2015-16: Ellis made his NHL debut with the Canadiens in a March 3rd game against Anaheim, skating in three games with Montreal in his fourth pro season. He had no points and an even plus/minus with 2 penalty minutes, averaging nine minutes of ice time with the Canadiens. Ellis was the fourth-leading scorer for Montreal AHL affiliate St. John's, leading all IceCaps defensemen in goals (16) and assists (26). He was +2 with 51 penalty minutes in 73 games for St. John's. The IceCaps missed the AHL playoffs, finishing fifth in the North Division.
Talent Analysis
Ellis portrays exceptional qualities of a two-way defenceman. In his own end, he plays a physical brand of hockey and is not shy when it comes to getting involved in the play and asserting himself. At the same time, he plays with a cool and calm demeanor, never letting players get the best of him. He has a natural ability to move the puck up the ice with ease, possesses a good first pass, and has a good wrist shot from the point. He can play in all situations at the pro level. He will need to work on remaining consistent through a full 60-minute effort and learn to remain physically engaged at all times.
Ellis made his NHL debut late in his fourth pro season, skating in three games with Montreal in March 2016 after spending the 2015-16 season with the AHL's St. John's IceCaps. An attacking defenseman who has steadily worked to refine his defensive game, Ellis' skill set suggests he can have some value as a lower pairing defenseman and power play quarterback. He is equally likely to play out his career at the minor pro level or earn a lucrative offer to play in the KHL or elsewhere in Europe.


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Sept-22-08 COAH Directs Franklin Boro to Refund Affordable Housing Fees to Family
COAH Directs Franklin Boro to Refund Affordable Housing Fees to Family
Proposes Exemption for Rebuilt Owner-occupied Homes from Growth Share Obligations
TRENTON – The Council on Affordable Housing (COAH) today directed Franklin Borough (Sussex County) to refund fees to a family in the municipality who wished to rebuild their home after it was demolished due to substantial damage from fire in March 2008. The Borough intended to charge a payment in lieu fee of $17,500 on the construction of the new home. This fee, however, is prohibited under COAH's revised third round regulations.
"I appreciate Senator Oroho reaching out to me on this issue so that we could work together to help this family after their tragic experience," said Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Joseph Doria. "The Board's action today shows a dedication to protecting New Jersey residents and willingness to work with legislators and municipalities to resolve these kinds of important issues."
Additionally, Franklin Borough requested that COAH waive the new construction of the unit from the calculation of its growth share obligation. COAH granted this waiver at today's meeting. To ensure that municipalities do not charge homeowners who are rebuilding homes resulting from fire, flood, or natural disaster, COAH proposed an amendment to its rules that would exempt these units from the municipal growth share obligation and exempt the homeowners from the imposition of a development fee. The rule proposal exempts owner-occupied homes that are rebuilt from growth share obligations. The proposed rule is scheduled to be published in the October 20, 2008 New Jersey Register and open for a public comment period until January 2, 2009.
COAH, an affiliate of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, facilitates the production of sound, affordable housing for low and moderate income households by providing the most effective process to municipalities, housing providers, nonprofit and for profit developers to address a constitutional obligation within the framework of sound, comprehensive planning.
Further information on COAH's revised rules is available by logging on to http://www.state.nj.us/dca/coah/.


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Comanche 'Bench-Press Warrior' Toqua Ticeahkie Breaks World Record
Indian Country Today
Ticeahkie, an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, broke the record for heaviest weight lifted by bench press in one minute according to the World Record Academy.
He lifted 225 lbs. 58 times in a minute. In case you don't feel like doing the math, that means Ticeahkie lifted a total of 13,050 lbs. in under 60 seconds.
"I have been working hard at this for a very long time," Ticeahkie said in an email. "It has taken an extreme amount of work, energy, and effort to get to this juncture."
A YouTube video shows Ticeahkie lifting the weights 58 times in front of a crowd of supporters. He lifts the bar effortlessly, almost 50 times in a row, and then pauses for a break, steadies himself on the bench, and lifts it eight more times.
"What can I say? When people are watching and cheering you on, like any lifter, I was pumped, excited, and I have to admit I was a little nervous because it's all on the line," he told WorldRecordAcademy.com after his record setting lift.
He was the Guinness World Record holder in 2011, but his record has since been broken by Eamonn Keane of Ireland. Keane lifted 6,960 kg or 15,344 lbs. in under 60 seconds.
When he's not training, Ticeahkie works as a fitness specialist for Indian Health Services in Red Mesa, Arizona where he lives with his wife Sharon, and their three kids. He's in his first year as the head coach of the Red Mesa High School football team and runs a mental and physical toughness program called Strong Warriors for people of all ages.
Strong Warriors is not just a brand for Ticeahkie's business, but it's a lifestyle. One he lives by. On his website StrongWarriors.com, he writes, "Strong Warriors are driven by something greater. We push ourselves beyond our limits, and we work harder than others because we carry the pride of our heritage through life."
Ticeahkie played football at Warren High School in Downey, California, where he says he was the strongest player at his school. That recognition, although earned years ago, brought back a flutter of nostalgia.
"I have always been the strongest football player on every team that I have ever played on throughout my football career, but at least now I can say I am the strongest player in the world and that I have a world record," said Ticeahkie to World Academy of Records.
He played college football in California, Texas and at Southern Nazarene in Bethany, Oklahoma. When he was signed as a defensive lineman with the Arizona Adrenaline, a professional indoor football team in 2007, Ticeahkie told the Navajo-Hopi Observer that he was preparing for the future. "It's a great opportunity," he said. "Not just to prove myself at this level, but also to help get me ready for the next level."
Ticeahkie's had a successful football career as well. Just a year before signing with the Adrenaline, he was named the Central League Defensive Player of the Year for the semi-pro team the Oklahoma Rebels. And he played for the Soboba Warriors on the Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians Reservation in southern California.
In 2007, he was 6'2" 330lbs. Six years later, and now 33 years old, Ticeahkie can literally lift his own weight. But he's still pushing for that next level.
"I was hoping to get 60 reps, but I am extremely pleased with my result of 58. Maybe next time I can break my own record; just got to train harder." ??


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Report: Seaman Coming To 3DS
According to a report from Japanese newspaper Nikkei, Nintendo will release a version of Seaman for the 3DS.
Nikkei, via Andriasang, mentioned Seaman as part of a general report about Nintendo's earnings and future prospects, which included reviving other publisher's titles on the 3DS. Creator Yoot Saito nearly two years ago that Seaman, originally released on Dreamcast, could come to 3DS.
Game Informer reached out to SEGA and Nintendo for comment.
[Source: Andriasang]


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Much has been made about the first 90 days in a new job, and with good reason. First impressions are so important to building good relationships and developing an understanding of the corporate (or departmental) culture.
When hiring decision-makers describe how important it is to hire a candidate who matches the work culture, they're not overstating. Fitting in at your workplace is critical to career growth.
Your job during the first 90 days in a new position is to observe, listen and begin building relationships. Unless you have been hired for your strong opinions, it's a good idea to spend a lot of time listening. Every company has a distinct way of conducting business and making decisions. This is something you need to know, so take this time to learn.
Your game plan should include observing communication at all levels, paying attention to what is being said and what is left unspoken.
For example, during team meetings, who gets everyone's attention? Is it the quiet listener or the person who talks the loudest? Who has the employer's respect, and why?
How well you relate to people can put you firmly on the path to success, or it can create barriers to career growth. Find the most-respected employee in the department and watch them. They can teach you about company expectations.
Here are some more ideas that can help you make the most of your first days in a new job:
- Listen and ask questions. This will communicate that you care about getting things right.
- You might be hardwired to jump in and share your opinions, but make sure the timing is appropriate. You may know the answers, but start slow. You want to be a team member.
- Avoid negative people who bad-mouth the employer. The company you keep may be seen as an extension of what you believe.
- Keep a journal, and note the "ah-ha" moments — those insights you get as you interact with those at your new company.
- Make the effort to communicate with your boss and those who will impact your career; don't wait for them to initiate communication.
What can you share about your experiences in a new job — the good and the bad?


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Among the product news this week from the CES show in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard announced a way to tune all of its workstations, including the ones already sitting in agency offices.
Updated to take a holistic approach to system monitoring, HP Performance Advisor 1.5 provides performance across all applications used on a workstation. The new version monitors the computer as a whole versus looking at just specific applications, with the goal of making the entire system run more efficiently.
"HP essentially gives its workstation customers an HP engineer with every workstation, providing them with the full resources of our technical engineers to help identify bottlenecks, view system configurations and maximize performance," said Barry Lewis, HP worldwide product manager for commercial solutions. Designed for ease of use, Performance Advisor notifies users when components (such as memory) are not being used properly and offers suggestions on how to quickly improve performance. Version 1.5 offers a simple configuration summary and now provides support for HP Remote Graphics Software and Microsoft Windows 8. Users also can access information on GPU performance and temperature.
The new 1.5 version of the HP Performance Advisor will be pre-loaded on all HP Z and EliteBook Mobile Workstations. For all existing customers, it is being offered as a free download from HP.
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Welcome to my blog! I'm a Sr. Software Development Engineer in the Seattle area, who has been performing C++/C#/Java development for over 20 years, but have definitely learned that there is always more to learn!
All thoughts and opinions expressed in my blog and my comments are my own and do not represent the thoughts of my employer.
You folks have been so patient waiting for new material and I'm very grateful for that. I do have new things to write about, but wrapping up the move to Seattle has been very time-consuming!
Yesterday, we finally got delivery of our goods from the moving van line and have begun the task of setting things up and assessing any damage/missing items, etc. Nothing major, just time consuming to check over everything.
So again, I still think I'm on track to resume regular blogging every other week once this is all done and out of the way.
Thanks again for your patience!
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Humane Handling Ombudsman Questions and Answers
Q. What is the Humane Handling Ombudsman's area of responsibility?
A. The Humane Handling Ombudsman is responsible for receiving and addressing concerns or complaints related to FSIS verification and enforcement of Federal humane handling and slaughter statutes and regulations.
Q. Would the Humane Handling Ombudsman also receive and address concerns or complaints related to Good Commercial Practices in poultry slaughter?
A. Yes. Although the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act only covers livestock, FSIS also verifies that poultry are handled and slaughtered humanely in accordance with Good Commercial Practices.
Q. Would the Humane Handling Ombudsman receive and address concerns or complaints regarding firms operating under custom exemption?
A. Yes. Because FSIS carries out enforcement activities at custom exempt facilities, the occurrence of inhumane handling at a custom exempt facility could be brought to the attention of the Humane Handling Ombudsman.
Q. At what point can a concern or compliant be brought to the attention of the Humane Handling Ombudsman?
A. The Humane Handling Ombudsman may be contacted at anytime. There are no prerequisites that define the circumstances as to when the Ombudsman can or should be contacted. Ideally, steps towards resolution have been attempted before the Ombudsman is contacted. However, this is a general consideration and not an absolute. If no prior attempts at resolution have been made, the Ombudsman will work with the complaint in developing options for attempting to resolve the issue themselves. There may be situations where prior attempts at resolution are either impractical or impossible, so this determination is made on a case-by-case basis.
Q. How does the Humane Handling Ombudsman differ from the existing channels which may hear concerns and address complaints regarding humane handling?
A. The position of the Humane Handling Ombudsman was established to serve as an additional resource available to FSIS employees, industry stakeholders and the general public and was created specifically for hearing concerns and addressing complaints related to humane handling. The activities and responsibilities of the Humane Handling Ombudsman are carried out within the context of three guiding principles: Independence, Confidentiality, and Neutrality. In addition, the Humane Handling Ombudsman can issue both formal and informal recommendations which may identify individual and systemic improvements. It is the adherence to these three guiding principles along with the ability to issue recommendations which differentiates the Humane Handling Ombudsman from the existing channels of redress.
Contact Information
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Support from African leaders is adding momentum to the AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative (NEI), an ambitious plan to create a coordinated network of 15 African Institutes for Mathematical Science (AIMS) by 2020.
The first AIMS centre, in Cape Town, South Africa, was founded by Perimeter Institute's Director Neil Turok, and has become a globally recognized pan-African centre of excellence for postgraduate education and research. Its mission is to rapidly expand Africa's scientific and technological capacity by providing advanced training to exceptional African graduates.
In May 2010, Sénégal's President Abdoulaye Wade announced on national television that his government will contribute €1 million toward AIMS-Sénégal, and declared its establishment a top national priority. He also supported the designation of AIMS-Sénégal as a "Fondation d'utilité publique," i.e., a state-sanctioned charitable institution.
President Wade also used the occasion to award Prof. Turok with "la médaille de l'Ordre National du Lion", Sénégal's highest state honour. Similar honours were conferred upon Professor Vincent Rivasseau (Université Paris-Sud XI), co-founder of AIMS-Sénégal, and Professor Maxim Kontsevich (l'Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques), an eminent mathematician who is a patron of AIMS-Sénégal. Plans for the new centre are being finalized, and construction should commence shortly, with the first students expected in September 2011.
"His Excellency President Abdoulaye Wade has been an inspirational figure promoting science, enlightenment and pan-Africanism for many years," said Prof. Turok. "To receive his government's full commitment of support for AIMS-Sénégal, and then this extraordinary medal from him, alongside my colleagues Professors Maxim Kontsevich and Vincent Rivasseau, was an unforgettable experience. In return, I can promise our absolute commitment to helping AIMS-Sénégal emerge as a centre of excellence which President Wade, Sénégal and Africa can truly be proud of."
AIMS has been recognized as a Centre of Excellence by the African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) who have also endorsed the AIMS-NEI plan.
It is hoped that the growing pan-African network of AIMS centres envisioned by the Next Einstein Initiative will provide the right environment for exceptional talents to emerge and flourish, ultimately feeding a stream of thousands of skilled alumni into government, industry, research and academia. AIMS graduates will form a highly skilled community, working towards the economic, political and educational self-sufficiency of Africa.
The Role of PI Global Outreach
Perimeter Institute (PI) has adopted AIMS-NEI as a centerpiece of its Global Outreach effort, which offers expertise to assist emerging centres of excellence in physics and maths worldwide. During a visit to PI in July 2010, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a CDN$20 million contribution from the Canadian Government for AIMS-NEI.
PI Global Outreach is now coordinating support from the North American academic community for the 'One For Many Scholarship Program' which partners international universities with AIMS centres by supporting African students and promoting a two-way flow of students and lecturers. In addition, leading Canadian mathematical institutes have expressed interest in working with AIMS-NEI.
Through these efforts, PI aims to serve as a stimulus for scientific excellence and, in the process, further enhance Ontario and Canada's leadership in the promotion of science and innovation worldwide.


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BR-PUF Analysis
Posted on Sun 22 January 2017 in posts • Tagged with hardware, research • Leave a comment
This report describes my work for the Computer Security Project at the Technical University of Berlin. The results of my experiments were used in the paper Strong Machine Learning Attack against PUFs with No Mathematical Model and presented at CHES 2016.
Motivation and background for this field of research
Building a hardware product that cannot be copied is hard. Especially small integrated chips make it hard to distinguishing between a knockoff device and a real one. But this is not only a copyright concern, but also important to ensure trust in a device's origin. For example a chip could be replaced in the manufacturing chain with a backdoored version. A good example to understand the problem is to look at smart cards, especially the ones used for decrypting premium TV channels. The whole business model relies on a shared secret key, embedded inside of the chips. It's obviously in the interest of the company, that nobody can crate a working copy of such a card. But once the secret key is extracted through various hardware attack techniques, creating a copy of a smart card is trivial.
Is there a way how hardware could be manufactured, such that it's practically impossible to copy - and not just very expensive to copy?
Physically Unclonable Function
Physically Unclonable Function (short: PUF) is a concept that attempts to exploit (utilize) physical impurities, which are different for each device, to make exact physical copies impossible to manufacture. In practice this is often used to verify, that a particular hardware (a chip) is not counterfeit. This is usually implemented with a challenge and response protocol. A vendor can collect valid responses for random challenges of a chip, and the customer can verify later, that the device bought, was really made by that manufacturer.
While creating an exact copy of the chip might be impossible, one could try to understand the mathematical model underlaying the behavior and therefor is able to create a device that emulates the behavior of the original chip. Will every PUF have this flaw, that math can describe it's behavior, or are there PUFs that are truly random and thus unpredictable? - that is an unsolved question.
With the experiments I conducted, we tried to understand a certain PUF family better, whose underlaying mathematical model is unknown. But Fatemeh Ganji and Shahin Tajik were able, with the data I collected, to construct a machine learning algorithm that can learn the behavior of this PUF family.
Bistable Ring PUF
The Bistable Ring PUF (short: BR-PUF) exploits the behavior of inverters in a ring configuration. A digital inverter could for example output 0V if the input was 5V, and output 5V if the input was 0V. Connecting the output of a digital inverter back to it's input will result in an oscillator, which constantly tries to correct the output based on the new input. Connecting two inverters, like shown in the picture below, should result in a stable configuration.
But theoretical it's not possible predict if the the right wire will outputting a logical
1, or if the left wire will output a
1. While this is unpredictable in theory, in practice manufacturing can cause a device to always show the same result when powered on.
This fact can then be used in a configuration like shown below to create a unique challenge and response behavior.
The BR-PUF contains an even number of stages.
Each stage contains two inverters in parallel. Only one is used at a time. Which one depends on the challenge input bit
c[i]. for example if the 1st challenge bit is set
c[0]=1, then the first inverter in the first stage would be used. If it's not set
c[0]=0, then the second inverter would be used.
So based on the challenge bit string
c[0]...c[n] (eg.
011..110), a unique inverter ring can be configured. Ideally when a single challenge bit is changed, the outcome should be unpredictable. Similar to a cryptographic hash function - change one bit in the input, observe a basically random change in the output.
The question is, can a mathematical model describe the behavior, or can the behavior be emulated by a machine learning algorithm?
Experiment Setup
To evaluate a big number of BR-PUFs, we used an FPGA-based implementation. This way we can automatically generate new PUF implementations, program the board, run our tests, and continue with the next one. This way we can gather huge amounts of data, for a lot of different PUF configurations.
For the experiments we used a DE0-Nano FPGA Board with an ALTERA Cyclone IV. The following setup was used to perform the tests:
Windows Host (1) was connected via USB to the FPGA (3), in order to program new PUF configurations via Quartus Programmer (Quartus II 15.0 64-bit Web Edition). After successfully programming the FPGA, it would notify the OSX Host (2) via an Ethernet connection.
The OSX Host (2) implemented a simple server which is waiting for the signal that the FPGA is ready. A script would then start which runs a large amount of challenges via the UART connection and collects the responses. Once all challenges were executed, the Server would respond back to the Windows Host (1), which then can generate another PUF configuration, and start the whole cycle over.
Based on the collected challenges some basic analysis were performed and saved in a github repository for further analysis.
Experiment Execution
Automating PUF generation with Quartus
The first big challenge was to figure out how we could automate programming the FPGA with Quartus. This was not straightforward, because we didn't want to generate verilog code and then recompile it, we wanted to control where the PUF stages are placed inside of the chip. Basically control which logic-cells will be used. This can be achieved using the GUI Assignment Editor. To figure out how this can be done without the GUI, I have observed what kind of files are generated and what kind of programs Quartus invokes upon compilation. This way I learned that the configurations from the Assignment Editor, which can be used to choose the physical location on the FPGA for certain pieces, are written into a Quartus settings file
An example assignment configuration in the GUI could look like this:
Which corresponds to the following lines in the
.qsf file:
set_location_assignment FF_X30_Y1_N5 -to "puf_c[0]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y1_N4 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_0|x[0]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y1_N6 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_0|x[1]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y1_N20 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_0|y[0]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y1_N22 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_0|y[1]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y1_N30 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage_io[0]"
set_location_assignment FF_X30_Y2_N5 -to "puf_c[1]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y2_N4 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_1|x[0]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y2_N6 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_1|x[1]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y2_N20 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_1|y[0]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y2_N22 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage:br_stage_1|y[1]"
set_location_assignment LCCOMB_X30_Y2_N30 -to "br_puf:pufi|br_stage_io[1]"
set_location_assignment FF_X30_Y3_N5 -to "puf_c[2]"
With the generated
.qsf file, we can then compile this specific PUF configuration and program the FPGA:
quartus_map --read_settings_files=on --write_settings_files=off puf_top -c puf_top
quartus_fit --read_settings_files=off --write_settings_files=off puf_top -c puf_top
quartus_asm --read_settings_files=off --write_settings_files=off puf_top -c puf_top
quartus_cdb puf_top -c puf_top --write_eqn_file --netlist_type=cmp
quartus_sta puf_top -c puf_top
quartus_asm puf_top
quartus_pgm -c usb-blaster chain_description.cdf
This setup can be used to automatically configure the PUF in various places on the FPGA. For example in a row or column of logic-cells, and then move this line around - first implement a PUF in column 1/2, then in 2/3 and so forth.
Visualizing the FPGA usage
In the Quartus Chip Planber we can see where our FPGA configuration will be placed. This is great to visualize the kind of PUF we have configured. Notice the two colored straight columns, those are the 32 BR-Puf stages - the ring configuration.
To verify that the PUF was really configured how we wanted to, and also to understand the data we collect better, I visualized the FGPA configuration after compilation. Quartus generates an output file
puf_top.fit.eqn, which contains the information which component gets placed where. I wrote a script to parse this file and generate an image like this one:
The implementation is horrible but "works for me". I generated an
.html file with a huge
<div> grid and colored it accordingly with CSS, then rendered it with the
selenium webdriver to get the image.
Collecting data
Like mentioned above, we used UART to set a challenge and then read the response. We used several different ways to generate challenges throughout the research. For most of it we used randomly generated challenges. But for example for small PUFs with only 8 or 16 bit, we could run all possible challenges.
We also looked at the impact of a single bit change in a challenge. For example take a random challenge, then always look at the response when only one bit is changed. This way we can learn if a single bit change truly changes the output randomly, or if a single bit has no great effect in a particular configuration.
Very quickly it's clear that certain challenges produce unstable outputs. This means if you apply the same challenge to the PUF (selecting always the same path of inverters) the result might be a
0 or a
1. So we ran every challenge multiple times and stored each response. This way we can see which challenges are very stable, and always have the same response, or which ones are unstable and switch sometimes.
Generating Reports
For the collected data I then created a report like the one below. In this case you can see several different PUF configurations. This table shows simple information like the amount of challenges, and what the ratio between
0 and
1 responses was. For example the PUF implemented in columns 16/17 (
LAB1_X16_X17) has a fairly balanced output. While the PUF in columns 23/24 (
LAB1_X23_X24) is extremely biased to return a 0.
For each PUF I generated a more detailed report. This includes the PUF configuration, simple pie charts, but also more comlex diagrams. For example visualizing in how many challenges that returned a
0 a bit was set to
1. This way you could identify "influential bits" in a challenge, which have a huge effect on the result.
Analyzing the data and interesting observations
When I started with my experiments and got the first data, we identified problems, weird behaviors and other things that changed the strategy and setup throughout the research. Here are some examples:
Biased PUFs
Most of the PUF configurations we tested turned out to be hugely biased. Meaning they will most of the time return a
0 or
1. Which is quite bad if you want to implement a strong PUF with unpredictable responses. If a PUF returns mostly
1 for all challenges, it's not hard to guess the response for different challenge. A strong PUF would basically have an unbiased 50:50 outcome with a big number of random challenges. Because of this, we focused most analysis on PUFs that we considered to be quite strong - meaning their response can not be predicted with high accuracy based on their bias.
Unstable vs. stable challenges
Another variable we wanted to control is, at what point of time do we read the response from the inverter ring. At the beginning the state of the PUF was read when the response was requested via UART. But at some point I implemented a counter setting. This counter would starts at 0 when turned on, and once it reaches a configured number, it would read the current state of the PUF and save it. Which can then be extracted via UART at some later point in time.
This way we were able to answer questions such as, if a BR-PUF gets more stable over time. And make sure that a collected dataset has more controlled variables.
Here is an example stable challenge with a counter. Yellow is the output of the PUF. Blue indicates when the counter is done and the current logical value of the PUF (yellow) is stored.
(1) The PUF is turned on. The inverter ring starts to power on and starts to oscillate slightly, but it fairly quickly moves towards a stable logical output of
(2) The counter, which started at 0 when the device turned on, reached the configured value. At this point in time the logical value of the PUF (yellow) is stored as a response for this particular challenge.
(3) Then we can see how the PUF output finally stabilizes on the logical
1, a little bit after the response was already saved.
The next image will show an unstable challenge.
(1) The PUF is turned on. The inverter ring starts oscillating heavily between logical
1 and
(2) The counter reached the configured value and reads the current state of the PUF (yellow). Because of the heavily oscillating PUF, the response is either a
0 or
1 by chance.
(3) It's extremely interesting that even after a longer period of time, the PUF never becomes stable. We would expect that an even number of inverters would be stable at some point, but this is apparently not the case.
Results influence each-other
While testing, I noticed that some challenges are heavily influenced by previous results. So for example if challenge X returned a
1 and is followed by challenge Y, then challenge Y also returns a
1. But if Z returned a
0 and is followed by a Y, then challenge Y returns a
0. This was quite a big shock, but glad we caught it.
A BR-PUF implemented in an FPGA is not a "perfect" implementation - in the sense that logic-cells are configured with a lookup table to make it behave like an inverter. Here is a picture from Quartus, showing how one particular inverter cell is connected.
Not every possible input into the logical cell is connected. And this causes some analog electrical circuit magic interference that I don't quite understand. We connected these inputs in a specific way and have not observed challenges that influence each other anymore. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to fix the PUF configurations automatically after creating a new configuration, so I had to do the post fitting assignment by hand.
Stable but oscillating challenges
Another interesting observation I made while looking at the PUF with an oscilloscope were challenges that were basically stable, but not really. What I mean by that is, that certain challenges cause the ring of inverters to oscillate not in chaos, but create a spike that travels around the ring with a certain frequency.
The yellow line shows again the state of the PUF, while the blue one indicates when a response was stored. The interesting part here is that the yellow line is logical
0 for most of the time, but once in a while shows a peak - a wave is traveling around the inverter ring. So even if we humans can read this as generally a stable response
0, the PUF could by accident read the logical state right at the point of a spike, and read a
1 instead.
This traveling wave is especially interesting when looking at different points in time. The top trace is captured when the counter reached
0x1ff, so a fairly short amount of time, and the bottom trace shows the state of the PUF after the counter has counted to
Applying the same challenge over and over again shows that the spikes appear at basically the same place every time with a short counter. But when more time passes (bottom trace), then spikes appear in more chaotic places. Which indicates that the waves don't travel with the same frequency every time, but slowly drift.
While I took part in many meetings where we discussed results and weird behaviors, most of the real analysis and interpretation of data was done by Fatemeh Ganji and Shahin Tajik. So I suggest you to read the paper: Strong Machine Learning Attack against PUFs with No Mathematical Model.


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Campbell makes 40 saves, Kings beat Canadiens 3-0
NHL Headlines
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MONTREAL (AP) Jack Campbell and the Los Angeles Kings spoiled the Montreal Canadiens' home opener.
Campbell made 40 saves for his first career shutout and the Kings won 3-0 on Thursday night.
Campbell made his eighth career NHL start, getting into action with starter Jonathan Quick day-to-day after sustaining a lower-body injury in practice Sunday.
"They had 40 (shots) but we did a heck of a job all night," Campbell said. "They have some real good skill and we limited their interior offensive chances. Pretty cool, opening night, and the boys just played great."
Jeff Carter had a goal and assist, and Adrian Kempe and Michael Armadio also scored.
"We had a lot of possession but we're not creating high-end chances," Canadiens forward Brendan Gallagher said. "We're too stagnant right now. The puck needs to move quicker. We all understand that, we're just not executing that right now. We didn't step up."
Carey Price stopped 26 shots for the Canadiens.
Montreal honored the 1993 Stanley Cup-winning team in a pregame ceremony. Several players were in attendance, such as Vincent Damphousse, Guy Carbonneau and Patrice Brisebois. General manager Serge Savard and coach Jacques Demers got the loudest ovations. The `93 Habs - the last Canadian team to win the Stanley Cup - beat Wayne Gretzky and the Kings in five games in the final.
After furious pressure by the Canadiens to start the game, Kempe scored against the run of play on L.A.'s first shot. The 22-year-old first-round draft pick opted to shoot on a 2-on-1, beating Price blocker side at 3:36. Armadio made it 2-0 at 11:31 on a one-timer from the slot. The goal was set up behind the net by Jaret Anderson-Dolan, who recorded his first NHL point.
Carter scored at 9:04 of the third period on a no-look slapper.
It looked as though Andrew Shaw had spoiled Campbell's shutout bid midway through the third, but the Kings challenged the goal and it was overturned for goaltender interference.
"We were throwing pucks on net, but weren't really getting any second chances," said Canadiens coach Claude Julien. "Their defensemen did a good job of boxing us out or clearing the rebounds. Could we have done a better job? Absolutely. Because we wouldn't be sitting here with a 3-0 loss."
Notes: Montreal defenseman Shea Weber skated Thursday for the first time since undergoing knee surgery this summer. He's not expected to return before December. ... Alec Martinez played his 500th NHL game, all with the Kings.
Kings: At Ottawa on Saturday night.
Canadiens: Host Pittsburgh on Saturday night.
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