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Ok so what is this PID and why is it much talked? Well, PID means proportionalintegralderivative and it is a control feedback method applied in different control systems, its main task is to minimize the error of whatever you are about to control. It is superior quality error control feedback mechanism and the general industry standard. Speaking simple it takes in the inputs
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Like a few thousand other Baltimore fans counting down the days to Super Bowl XXXV, Brian Cooper can't help feeling as if he's been here before.
Depending on how you look at it, he has.
It was 1958 when his parents, Joseph and Annette Cooper, traveled to NewYork to watch the Baltimore Colts and New York Giants battle for profootball's championship in what became known as "The Greatest Game EverPlayed." They left their two young sons at home, but they had company ofsorts: Annette was four months' pregnant with Brian.
This weekend, Brian Cooper makes a return trip to the championship game,heading to Tampa, Fla., with his father and two older brothers for theRavens-Giants Super Bowl. If he feels a twinge of deja vu at kickoff, he says,he'll know why.
"I tell people I was there [at the '58 game] and they say, `How were youthere?' Then they figure it out," says Cooper, whose family owns Alex CooperAuctioneers in Towson.
For many now rooting for the Ravens, such references to bygone days ofBaltimore football are out of place in the era of Ray Lewis and Shannon Sharpe. But the select fraternity of fans whose football education dates tothe 1950s and 1960s says these harbored Colts memories are in no way abetrayal of the present.
For them, the Ravens' rise merely closes a circle that rolled through theyears, only to be severed with the Colts' dead-of-night flight to Indianapolisin 1984. Now, like a wayward uncle welcomed home after a long and mysteriousabsence, Baltimore football is back, and all again feels complete.
A similar enthusiasm
"There was a real enthusiasm, very similar to what we're witnessing thelast few weeks. Everybody seemed to be connected to what was going on," saysRay Marocco Jr., recalling the days when he accompanied his father to Coltsgames at Memorial Stadium. "It's something we've rarely experienced sincethen, something that seemed to have disappeared with the advent of the modernsports age. It's nice to see we can still experience it."
For some, the associations are particularly vivid. Take Kay Wargowski.Sometimes, when a Ravens opponent is threatening late in the game, her mindwinds backs four decades, and she's calling out names that mean nothing to the11-year-old nephew watching at her knee.
"I'm telling people, the only thing we need to have now is Lenny Lyles orMilt Davis, to make sure that long pass doesn't get away," says Wargowski, 59,invoking the names of two former Colts defensive backs.
Fans with a long memory link today's Ravens with yesterday's Colts, whilerecognizing that the comparison is imperfect - so very much has changed sincethe Colts' Alan "The Horse" Ameche broke into the end zone for the winningtouchdown in sudden-death overtime of the 1958 game.
The game took place at a time when sportswriters breathlessly reported theamount that winning players would take home as a championship payoff: $4,600each. It was a time when Friendship Airport touted the imminent introductionof commercial jetliners; when classified ads listed a "colored gardenapartment" on Cherry Hill Road for $13.75 a week.
Back then, Wargowski watched the games with her father, James Bory, asports fan with eight children but not a boy among them. Together, father anddaughter struggled for Sunday television rights at their Highlandtown homeagainst Kay's seven younger sisters, who had no taste for football.
"I felt so sorry for Dad, having to work six days a week and then fightwith my sisters to watch the games on his day off. So I kind of sided withhim, and became a big fan with him," Wargowski recalls.
Sometimes, Bory won a pair of tickets to Memorial Stadium through hisemployer, H&S Bakery. When he did, he shared them with his ally Kay, whohelped him bag bread on Saturdays. The games were nothing like those at PSINetStadium, Wargowski says - there were no fancy food counters, no escalators,just big blue banners and chants specific to every section in the park.
"Now, it almost makes you feel like you're not outdoors. For outdoorscreaming, it was Memorial Stadium. It was the insane asylum," she says."That's the shame with the great purple thing they have now - people who taketheir young ones now won't be able to take them to see the craziness atMemorial Stadium."
Ravens maniacs who paint their bodies purple might dispute this assessmentof relative rowdiness, noting that Colts fans, after all, attended games insuits and fedoras and didn't even tailgate.
But Wargowski isn't imagining things - accounts of Colts fans at YankeeStadium in the moments after the 23-17 win in 1958 describe one small man whoaccosted a much larger Giants fan with the greeting, "We beatcha. Wanna makesomething of it?" Another "rather undignified gentleman overindulged in hisecstasy" had to be carried out of the stadium, but "every now and then wouldblink his eyes open and yell `Yeah' in a soft voice, then let his head lollagain."
Neither Wargowski nor her father made the trip north for that game,although she was later given, via the bakery, a ball signed by several Colts.The ball, she was told, had been used during the championship game, and shehas passed it on to her truck-driving son, David.
She listened to the 1958 game while working at the bakery, "with the radioup to my ear." She heard of the record-setting 12 receptions by Raymond Berry,"such a spindly little guy with the greatest pair of hands," and the rushingof Lenny Moore, who "come to mention it, didn't have too bad a pair of legsand feet either." She heard of Gino Marchetti's crucial third-down stop ofFrank Gifford - a play on which the defensive end's leg was broken - and theMVP heroics of quarterback Johnny Unitas.
Among the 15,000 or so Baltimoreans who did make the trip to New York wasRay Marocco Sr. As his son recalls, he traveled with other Italian-Americancontractors who had season tickets in Section 9 at Memorial Stadium and whomet for dinner after games at Velleggia's in Little Italy. Marocco Jr. was tooyoung to accompany his father, but he did join him for home games in the 1960s- on game days when the weather was too crummy for his mother, who normallyused the second ticket.
"I always prayed for cold weather on Sunday," says Marocco Jr., 50, whogrew up in Homewood and now lives in Lutherville.
The Coopers were more fortunate - they had enough season tickets for thewhole family, way up at the blustery top row of Memorial Stadium. The Cooperskept the tickets right up to 1984, and when the Ravens arrived, were ready foran upgrade. Today, they are "very spoiled," Joseph Cooper says, with sixtickets in a luxury box and four in the club section.
Changing faces
The more comfortable seats aren't enough to keep Annette Cooper attendingthe games, though. More and more, she says, the crowd seems to be dominated by"rough" young men. This Sunday, she'll be at home playing host at a partywhile the men of the family are in Tampa.
"I guess I'm older. It's a young guy's thing now, as far as I'm concerned,"she says.
Certainly, there are fewer left to share with among the eldest generation.Marocco Sr., who cheered on the Ravens for four seasons despite a lengthybattle with emphysema, died in October. James Bory died last April.
Not that Bory's daughter, Kay Wargowski, lacks for game-day companions inher father's absence. Her mother, who once was so harried by her eightdaughters that she would accidentally cheer big plays by the Colts' opponents,has become a far more avid and informed fan.
"Then, I had no idea what was going on," Doris Bory says. "Now, I can sitand watch the game."
Then there are all the others: the brothers-in-law who have more than madeup for the lack of sports interest among their wives, Wargowski's youngersisters; the many nephews and nieces who will gather at Doris Bory's house onCurley Street on Super Bowl Sunday - a day that just happens to be her 78thbirthday.
Still, Wargowski will, once again, have her thoughts caught up partly inthe city's football past, and on the father who lived it with her.
"I hope that if there's something up there, he can pull up a big chair andwatch" the game, she says. "It would thrill him so."

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A little bit more than a month ago, this super sweet full of style girl sent me a lovely message on lookbook, regarding an interview! And I immediately said yes, of course! She sent me a bunch of questions I was extremely pleased to answer! And, as my huge surprise, she released it on the January 1st!
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This is my second interview of all time, the first one was for Central Magazine by Central Models, and as curious as this might sound, even though the questions were not exactly the same, I had the same nervous joyful feeling of having someone interested in sharing my personal experiences and stories! This is such a rewarding feeling! And, as you can assume, I was extremely pleased with the final result!
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Title: If You Wish
Author: Cassandra Sage Briskman
Published: September 14th, 2016
Publisher: Waterside Productions
Genre: Young Adult
Recommended Age: 12+
Ella Jackson is an ordinary teenage girl whose father just happens to be a rich and famous film director. Her life must be awesome, right? Not exactly. Her father is always working and her stepmother and two step sisters basically live to make Ella miserable. Life sucks, until Ella meets Julian. But, instead of falling in love with him, she finds herself falling in love with the hottest boy at school…her step sister's boyfriend. In a remarkable coming of age story written by a real teenager, If You Wish confronts bullying, drug abuse, and LGBT rights in a story that is anything but a fairy tale.
Usually fairy tales start off once upon a time, blah, blah, blah. I guess I could start off my story that way, but then the story wouldn't be right. The truth is, I'm not a princess. And this really isn't a fairy tale. There is no magic fairy godmother who goes around turning poor girls into princesses and pumpkins into carriages. So if you want that kind of story I suggest you read something else. This story is going to be about me, Ella. Just plain old boring me. I'm just a normal 16-year-old girl. I'm not special or different in any way at all. That is, I never thought I was special, until I met Julian. But he comes in later. You'll have to start from the beginning. So go on. If you wish…
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Cassandra Sage Briskman is a 16 year old YA author, who splits her time between Los Angeles, California and Brooklyn, NY. If You Wish is her debut novel.
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The announcement from iRise yesterday today that the Catalyze Community was merging into the ModernAnalyst.com Community probably didn't even register a blip on your radar. But the announcement has more than a touch of melancholy for me as I was the founding community manager from the conception of the community in late 2006 through its growth to over 4,000 members in July 2008 and I want to give the the community a proper send-off.
Giving birth to and nurturing a community is not unlike the experience of raising children as I lived and breathed the Catalyze Community for almost 18 months. I cut my teeth in community management, tried to set the standard in what professional B2B communities could be, and got started on my journey into social media through my efforts with the community. I learned a great deal and had a chance to develop many friends in the community space including the team from Mzinga who provided the white label social media software that powered the site (a special thanks go out to Jim Storer, Derek Showerman, Aaron Strout, Isaac Hazard, Mark Wallace and Barry Libert). I am sure I drove the Mzinga team a little bit crazy as I pushed the envelope to 'mold' their software into my idea of what a community experience should be. I also enjoyed hosting the monthly webinars we held with a wide variety of knowledgeable experts. Most of all, I discovered my "blogging" voice, and was able to experiment with the new and emerging (at the time) social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Slideshare, and LinkedIn.
Of course, a lot of credit also goes out to iRise who was the founding sponsor of the Catalyze Community. iRise's funding of the Catalyze Community and mission to keep it 'commercial-free' is what drew many of the members into the community.
The demise of the Catalyze didn't come as a surprise to me as the community has floundered without a community manager for the past two years – and the site had become a virtual ghost town with very few visitors and sadly, very little fresh content. Anyone who understands community building realizes that a site that is not actively managed with fresh content cannot be sustained and is destined for failure which ended up as one of my blog posts in January 2009. In fact, I shared many of my experiences with the Catalyze Community in a number of blog posts.
The original goal of Catalyze was to unite and "catalyze" the disparate factions of business analysts, usability professionals, user experience (UX) and information architects, designers, software developers and others who define, design and create software applications. The ModernAnalyst Community is a very robust community and boasts over 38,000 members – and most of the Catalyze members will be nore than well-served by the merger. I hope that the analytical "left-brain" analysts continue to reach out to the creative "right-brain" designers and usability professionals, and that they can continue to find a common ground in defining and designing better software. I send best wishes to Adrian Marchis and the rest of his ModernAnalyst.com team on continuing the Catalyze tradition.


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In doing so, there has been a host of activities to honor veterans.
Next week's special election will decide who will finish Mick Mulvaney's term in the S.C. Senate District 16 seat.
And it looks like it's already drawing attention. About 303 Lancaster County voters have already cast absentee ballots for one of the three men running for the seat, which covers most of Lancaster County, Fort Mill and other parts of eastern York County.
Senate District 16 voters will see these candidates on their ballots on Tuesday:
u Republican Greg Gregory of Lancaster
u Democrat Keith Brann of Fort Mill
You may not read their names on the president's and dean's lists. You won't read about their accomplishments in school gymnasiums or on the football, soccer and baseball fields. Nor accolades about their scholastic achievements.
Don't get us wrong, these are not bad students. They are actually very good students. Many of them do play sports and are on honor rolls. While some of these A,B, C students don't always get the recognition of their more highly skilled academic and athletic peers, they deserve it.
When Phillip Mickles left South Middle School to become the A.R. Rucker Middle principal, he knew he was moving to a good situation in education, which included a top-notch media specialist.
How good?
Now she's the best in the state.
A.R. Rucker media specialist Leigh Jordan was recently named Media Specialist of the Year by the S.C. Association of School Librarians.
"She is the best," Mickles said. "Our media center is the hub of the school and she is a major reason our school is so successful."
There's plenty of reason for an upbeat attitude at the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office these days. The sheriff's office recently received its accreditation.
The achievement earned Lancaster County the distinction of being the 44th state law enforcement agency of 290 statewide to earn its accreditation and the only the 11th state sheriff's office to reach the elite status.
The accreditation means the sheriff's office is a more professional agency, increasing officer morale and providing better service for county residents.
When your children improve their grades on their report card, you praise them. You may even reward them. Likewise, when our schools and school district improve their grades on their report cards, they deserve our praise.
Lancaster County School District and its four high schools recently received their report cards from the state. Three of the high schools and the district overall showed improvement in both of the state's ratings. Six of the district's elementary and middle schools also showed improvement in their ratings, which were announced in November.
There was a story about the unemployment rate in Lancaster County dropping from 15.6 percent in December 2010 to 14.6 percent in January in the March 20 edition of The Lancaster News.
Statistically, that appears to be good news – that our county's jobless rate dropped 1 percent. But those statistics mean nothing to those who've lost their jobs, exhausted their unemployment benefits and drained their 401k and bank accounts.
A fixture in Lancaster County government is now in a well-deserved retirement.
Irene Plyler, Lancaster County Council's first clerk, has retired after 33 years at the job assisting council and the county administrator.
Plyler recently was honored with a retirement party which drew family, friends and co-workers.
Plyler, during her time as council's clerk, served under three different administrators, including Carroll Huffman, Chap Hurst and Steve Willis.
Indian Land Middle School has character and it has the awards to prove it.
IL Middle School was recently selected as a S.C. School of Character for the second consecutive year.
The School of Character designation is presented by the S.C. Department of Education for outstanding school climate and academic performance.
The school's latest award is special in that Indian Land Middle was the only state school to earn the prestigious honor.
The School of Character designation is good for three years before the school must reapply.
The Lancaster County TEA Party is one of four recipients of the 2010 Ronald Reagan Award, which is given at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
The TEA Party is an American populist political movement, generally recognized as conservative and libertarian, that has sponsored protests and supported political candidates since 2009.
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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem affirmed that the diplomatic service has made tremendous contributions to the country's overall successes in 2007 during a recent interview with Viet Nam News Agency.
Viet Nam was elected to the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member for the 2008-09 term in October. This photo shows Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (L) and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Q: Could you talk about the outstanding achievements of the diplomatic service in 2007 and orientations for its operation in 2008?
A: The year 2007 left each Vietnamese with the feelings of excitement and pride in the country's important strides in the cause of socio-economic development and international integration.
Under the correct and timely leadership and with direct involvement of the Party, State, Government and National Assembly leaders, building on the country's new position and successes obtained in 2006, diplomatic tasks continued to be carried out in a comprehensive manner, thus harvesting tremendous important achievements and greatly contributing to the country's common successes.
What I want to mention, first of all, is that we have brought the friendship and cooperation framework with many countries, especially important partners, to new heights, and opened up new opportunities for cooperation with potential partners.
The diplomatic service has helped firmly safeguard the nation's sovereignty, security and territorial integrity and effectively counter intervention and sabotage schemes against the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam.
Second, the diplomatic sector has worked hard to serve economic development as reflected in the attraction of a record amount of foreign direct investment (FDI) and official development assistance (ODA), the growth of trade, tourism, labour export, and foreign remittance, thus bringing in new opportunities for the country's economy to grow further in the coming years.
Third, multilateral foreign activities continued to be deployed actively, thus resulting in a prominent event in the year that was the country's election to the United Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member for the 2008-09 term with the overwhelming vote.
The fourth achievement is the important gains in the protection of Vietnamese citizens abroad and affairs relating to overseas Vietnamese. Those gains were the results of a series of policies and concrete measures adopted by the Government, including the Prime Minister's decision to exempt visas for overseas Vietnamese; measures to protect legitimate interests of the Vietnamese community, including Vietnamese businesses, entrepreneurs, labourers and citizens abroad.
And the last outstanding achievement is dedicated to the external information and cultural service which has made constant efforts to spread the image of a dynamic, renewal, friendly and loyal Viet Nam which is a safe destination for travel in the world far and wide.
For the present and future requirements, the foreign affairs service should continue to renew its way of thinking while grasping thoroughly the directions and tasks outlined in the tenth Party congress's policies and resolutions.
The service is also required to be active, dynamic and efficient in its activities, coordinate closely with the political system, the economic sector, the cultural service, the defence, security forces and the people-to-people diplomacy service in order to create an aggregate strength to successfully implement the renewal process as well as national industrialisation and modernisation.
Rested on those foundations, the foreign service in the coming time will focus on major orientations as follow:
First, continuing to strengthen, complete and elevate the cooperative framework with other countries; bringing into full play the country's role as the United Nations Security Council non-permanent member; taking a more active part in multilateral forums in the region and the world; and enthusiastically joining in settling global issues in order to heighten the country's prestige and position.
Second, beefing up external activities in service of economy; deploying the Government's action plan to implement the tenth Party Central Committee's resolution No. 4 on developing the national economy in a fast and sustainable manner; and accelerating multilateral cooperation in the fields of culture, education, science and technology.
Third, striving to complete the demarcation and the planting of landmarks on the border the country shared with neighbouring countries within 2008; promptly addressing land and water border-related issues arising with other countries so as to create a favourable environment for development and the firm protection of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Fourth, continuing to speed up the implementation of the Political Bureau and the Government's action plan on the affairs relating to overseas Vietnamese in the new situation; reinforcing the protection of citizens coupled with creating favourable conditions for overseas Vietnamese to integrate into their host countries successfully while making contributions to national construction and defence at their homeland.
Fifth, reinforcing the efforts to renew and increase the efficiency of external information and cultural service in collaboration with external political and economic tasks.
Q: One of the driving forces behind the country's economic successes last year is attributed to external economic diplomatic activities. Could you introduce the notable outcomes of these activities last year?
A: As new opportunities are opening up for the country, the diplomatic service chose the year 2007 as the year of economic diplomacy. Last year, Viet Nam successfully seized the opportunities to draw in a record foreign investment of over 20 billion USD, ODA commitment of 5.42 billion USD and grossing an export earning of close to 50 billion USD.
Economic diplomacy has achieved the following successes:
First, the linkage between external political affairs and external economic performance has grown to be more effective. A series of visits by Party, State and Government leaders to many countries succeeded politically and economically, lifting the country's relationship with these countries to a new plane and bringing in economic deals worth tens of billions of US dollars.
Second, the foreign service has done a good work as an advisor to the country's leaders, particularly in expanding the country's relationship with leading partner countries. The foreign ministry has made recommendations and organisational work for the Prime Minister's participation in the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The short trip was proven very effective as it opened a real chance for Viet Nam to play host of a world economic forum on East Asia in 2009 and other activities of the world's famous CEOs in the coming years.
The foreign ministry has advised the Government on ways to draw in idle money from the Gulf region (the Middle East), helping to attract unprecedented interest from the Middle East and African countries in multi-faceted relations with Viet Nam.
This resulted from the efforts made by the foreign ministry, the visit to the region by Permanent Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung, the Minister of Planning and Investment and the deputy foreign minister as a special envoy of the Vietnamese government. This was also owing to the national conference on cooperation with the Middle East and Africa hosted by the foreign ministry.
Third, the foreign ministry has employed a package of diverse activities to support localities and businesses practically and effectively.
The foreign ministry has, for the first time, organised an external economic promotion programme for seven poor northern provinces and the port city of Hai Phong in China 's Yunnan , Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. The programme was applauded by both participating and host localities.
The foreign ministry also took the lead in coordinating with the central city of Da Nang and other localities in organising the East-West Economic Corridor week and other sidelines activities that aimed at promoting trade, investment, and tourism and highlighting the image of Viet Nam in this cooperative mechanism.
The year 2007 was the first year that saw the foreign ministry hosting receptions for big foreign business delegations who came to seek business and investment opportunities in Viet Nam.
Prominent were the Chairman of the US's GE group, the two Thai business delegations led by Amata and CP group leaders, the Sunwah group of Hong Kong and the Tata group of India. The foreign ministry has assisted the US-ASEAN Business Council in organising the tour of representatives from 18 US leading companies to inquire into business opportunities in Viet Nam. The tour is expected to open the way for investment worth billions of USD to become true in the coming years.
The economic diplomacy work has received supports and active coordination of many ministries, sectors, localities, and businesses. As a result, the economic diplomacy year was a success, making practical contributions to national development.
Q: Viet Nam is now a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. How will the country carry out this responsibility in 2008?
A: Becoming a member of the UN Security Council is both an honour and a responsibility and a challenge to us. We were aware of this when deciding our candidacy in 1997 so in parallel with rallying the support from other countries for the bid, we had made meticulous preparations over the last decade in order to be able to perform well the role as an UN Security Council non-permanent member. So far, with the coordination of various ministries and sectors, we can say that preparations have fundamentally been completed.
Regarding the decision making mechanism, we have studied, constantly updated with information and consulted other countries, especially the UN Security Council members, on the issues that the UN Security Council is considering. By doing so, we systematise our basic viewpoints and work out proper handling methods. In addition, we have decentralised the decision making process to ensure decisions are made quickly while still ensuring national interests and responsibility to the international community.
On organisational work, we have developed synchronous and tight coordination mechanisms, including a mechanism for ministries, boards, branches and inter-department working groups in the foreign ministry, and another for the foreign ministry and the Vietnamese delegation to the UN.
We have planned, and in fact, have pushed up consultancy and the sharing of information at the capital and representative mission levels with both members and non-members of the UN Security Council, especially with all the five UN Security Council permanent members. Many countries have said they hold high regard for Viet Nam 's role at the UN Security Council in the next two years, and proposed cooperation. For its part, the foreign ministry has begun training personnel for this duty in the next two years.
On the personnel issue, this will be a long process. We had sent our staff to both domestic and foreign training courses to improve their skills related to multilateral diplomacy and understanding on the issues relating to the organisation and functions of the UN Security Council. In the past two years, the Vietnamese permanent representative delegation to the UN has been reinforced with many experienced and capable members.
I am confident that with the country's new position and role, accumulated experiences and careful preparations, especially the close instruction of the Party and State, the coordination and involvement of many sectors and the whole-hearted support by the entire people, we will surely fulfil our responsibility as the UN Security Council non-permanent member in the 2008-09 period, and actively contribute to peace, stability and development in the world.


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Complete Eager Replay (1996)
We present an algorithm for completely replaying previous problem solving experiences for plan-space planners. In our approach not only the solution trace is replayed, but also the explanations of failed attempts made by the first-principle planner. In this way, the capability of refitting previous solutions into new problems is improved.
We present a similarity criterion based on feature weighting. Feature weights are recomputed dynamically according to the performance of cases during problem solving episodes. We will also present a novel algorithm to analyze and explain the performance of the retrieved cases and to determine the features whose weights need to be recomputed. We will perform experiments and show that the integration in a feature weighting model of our similarity criterion with our analysis algorithm improves the adaptability of the retrieved cases by converging to best weights for the features over a period of multiple problem solving episodes.
Planning for manufacturing workpieces is a complex task that requires the interaction of a domain-specific reasoner and a generic planning mechanism. In this paper we present an architecture for organizing the case base that is based on the information provided by a generic problem solver. A retrieval procedure is then presented that uses the information provided by the domain-specific reasoner in order to improve the accuracy of the cases retrieved. However, it is not realistic to suppose that the case retrieved will entirely fit into the new problem. We present a replay procedure to obtain a partial solution that replays not only the valid decisions taken for solving the case, but also justifications of rejected decisions made during the problem solving process. As a result, those completion alternatives of the partial solution are discarded that are already known to be invalid from the case.


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TMZ was there when Paris Hilton turned herself in to Sheriff's authorities Sunday night.
It didn't go down at the jail. Paris' mega-lawyer, Richard Hutton, picked her up at her parents' house at 10:30 PM. Hilton, Hutton, mom Kathy and sister Nicky then drove to the Men's Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles -- commonly referred to as the Twin Towers -- where Paris officially surrendered to the L.A. County Sheriff to begin her 23-day sentence.
Earlier in the evening, Hilton left her house for the MTV Movie Awards. After appearing on the red carpet, Hilton went to her parents' house for a brief time, then left with her lawyer to face the music.
Law enforcement officials tell TMZ the plans for Paris have changed. Although they had pre-screened a woman who was designated her cell mate, for the time being, Hilton will be in solitary 23 out of 24 hours every day. The one hour that she's out, she's not really out. Hilton will be allowed to shower, use a phone and watch TV in a small pod adjacent to her cell.
Paris' lawyer just released a statement to TMZ from Hilton: "I am ready to face the consequences of violating probation. During the past few weeks, I have had a lot of time to think and have come to realize I made some mistakes."
Hilton added, "This is an important point in my life and I need to take responsibility for my actions.
In the future, I plan on taking more of an active role in the decisions I make. I want to thank my family, friends and fans for their continued support. Although I am scared, I am ready to begin my jail sentence."
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China throws 3G net over disputed island chain
Where there's coverage so follows ownership
The Spratly Islands now have 3G coverage, connecting the uninhabited rocks and reefs to China's telecommunications network, much to the annoyance of Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and the Philippines.
The 750 specks of land which make up the Islands do host some soldiers, and fishing vessels will no doubt appreciate the coverage, but mostly this is about territorial claims (and oil, of course) and upstaging the Vietnamese - who've had 2G coverage across parts of the region since 2005.
China has had some 2G coverage too, but the deployment of 3G has sparked further protests from the office of the Vietnamese Prime Minister (with thanks to Tech In Asia for the translation and context) who points out, repeatedly, that Chinese fisherman working locally are breaking the law and Chinese soldiers have no right to be there, let alone calling home.
The islands are tiny, and inhospitable enough to have been claimed by both Vietnam and China for decades without either of them noticing, but that was before the value of the surrounding seas - in fish, but also oil and gas - become the critical factor in driving claims of ownership.
Chinese naval vessels have fired on Vietnamese fishing boats a few times, notably in May 2011 when ships apparently accompanying a Chinese fishing fleet drove off the Vietnamese fisherman, sparking protests across Vietnam and internationally.
China is embroiled in numerous territorial disputes, and mobile coverage is just a small playing piece in the game of international diplomacy, but at least Chinese troops stationed around Spratly can get decent date rates - unlike our lads in the Falklands, who are stuck on 2G at best. ®


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Video In (and Out) of the Classroom
Are you interested in the "flipped classroom" model but aren't sure about the pedagogic soundness of the whole concept? Are you thinking about giving your students a video lesson for "homework" or <gasp> recording yourself presenting some critical content for your students to view? Do you need to convince your administration on the theoretical soundness of having your students engage with digital video outside of class?
If yes to the above, you might want to take a look at the recently released Whitepaper:
The Impact of Broadcast and Streaming Video in Education: What the Research Says and How Educators and Decision Makers Can Begin to Prepare for the Future
Alan Greenberg (Wainhouse Research) and I spent months trolling the literature in the development of this paper for Cisco. What we found was pretty amazing: there has been lots of research, sound research, conducted in the area of video's impact on learning. While I have been extolling the value of video as a way to engage students for many years, only recently has it gained the attention of educators across the globe with the introduction of the "flipped classroom." Higher education and some K12 adventurer's have been using captured video for many years with students with great success. It is not new…just a cool (and somewhat controversial) new name for it.
Enjoy the paper and please feel free to comment back to me on the Connected Learning Exchange: CLX. If you are attending ISTE this month, you can find me talking about the paper in the Cisco Breakout room as well as Dr. Lance Ford sharing his expertise around the Flipped Classroom. For those of you that can make it to one of the sessions we will be giving away copies of "Flip Your Classroom" by Jonathann Bergman and Aaron Sams, courtesy of ISTE!
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Officially, it took me 9 months to find a position I feel is a good match for my background and interests, as well as being in a location that would be able to mesh with my lifestyle. I also needed to keep in mind that my partner would need opportunities to find work, and since he's involved in art, we would need a bigger city.
I really enjoyed the position I've had while searching, and am so happy I had such an excellent supervisor who was also a mentor to me. Unfortunately, the position is unable to be full time and permanent, and there is not really any room to progress.
From being able to work while I searched, I was able to be picky, and I certainly do not take that luxury for granted. My success rate with interviews was pretty good, and now that I do officially have a position, I hope to pass on some advice to new librarians looking for work:
-While in school-
Take full advantage of *everything* your program has to offer. I went into my program with no official library experience, so I was anxious about doing as much as absolutely possible before graduating to give me the background and skill set I would need. Join and participate in numerous student groups and/or get involved in community service projects through other library professional organizations. Go to conferences if you can, take online webinars, go to lectures and resume-writing workshops, etc. Taking an internship or practicum in my program was optional, but I think it should be mandatory -- getting that work experience, mentoring, and potential recommendations is incredibly helpful. The more experience you have, the more opportunities you will have. The following scene from The Secret of My Success is unfortunate but true:
Unnamed employer: I'm sorry, Mr. Foster. We need someone with experience.
Brantley Foster: But how can I get any experience until I get a job that GIVES me experience?
Unnamed employer: If we gave you a job just to give you experience, you'd take that experience and get a better job. Then that experience would benefit someone else.
Brantley Foster: Yeah, but I was trained in college to handle a job like this, so in a sense I already have experience.
Unnamed employer: What you've got is college experience, not the practical, hard-nosed business experience we're looking for. If you'd joined our training program out of high-school, you'd be qualified for this job now.
Brantley Foster: Then why did I go to college?
Unnamed employer: [laughs] Had fun, didn't you?
-During and after school-
Having a professional website and other, electronic means to showcase your "personal brand" is so helpful. Employers have so many candidates to look through now with the economy being the way it is, that the more you can present about yourself and the easier you make it for them to decide if they're interested or not, the better your chances are. I put up a professional portfolio, created this blog, and started a Twitter account. This way, you are able to keep current in the field, and also make it clear how you are interested in contributing to the discourse. Instead of just saying "I'm a great communicator," the hiring committee can also actually see your communication skills in practice. Keeping up with blogs and Twitter feeds makes it much easier to have intelligent answers for tougher interview questions.
It's also useful to install a stat counter or analytics code on your sites if possible. You can see if your information is effective, and also determine what specific pages or files interest a potential employer to know what to focus on more during the interview. I remember for one interview, through my site statistics, I noticed an employer had viewed all of the tutorials I created, so I knew that was of importance to them and was able to discuss that further.
I also kept a spreadsheet of my applications, listing the employer, the position, location, deadline, date I applied, how I applied, and then any notes. When I would get an interview, I would color code that row orange for phone interview, yellow for in-person interview, and then green for job offer or acceptance into employment pool; red was then for rejections after interviews. I found this so helpful to keep track as well as knowing when to follow up.
-While applying-
A favorite instructor of mine from my program told me that you should apply to as many jobs as possible that you think you might be interested in because hiring committees sometimes talk in libraryland; if you're in a lot of candidate pools at various institutions, other institutions might find you even more appealing.
If you aren't able to have a library-related job while searching, then volunteer! Even if it's only a couple hours a week, it shows that you are committed to gaining experience. You could also sign up to be a mentee or do something with your alumni association.
And of course, be aware of what you're putting out there about yourself. I cringe a little when I see soon-to-be librarians cursing and speaking negatively of classmates in their public profiles, because you know most potential employers will look you up. Of course everyone has conflicts and can get stressed, but publicly displaying your grievances about your colleagues doesn't always go over so well, unless you're the Annoyed Librarian and get paid to make people feel better about themselves by tearing others down (was that hypocritical heh).
At the same time, don't hide who you are, because you don't want an employer to think you are one way, and then you might feel like you can't be yourself once you get the job.
Despite being stressful and unsure if there was a (happy) end in sight, I feel like I have really learned a lot about how employment in libraryland works. Hopefully this advice is found useful. If anyone else has tips, please do share in the comments.


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Joe Swenson and I decided to carpool to the race. Since he and his wife will be driving me up to Rio del Lago later this month, I offered to drive him to this race.
At 8:45ish, he calls me on my cell from the race start in the parking lot at Skyline Ridge Open Space Preserve off of Skyline Boulevard in the mid-peninsula. "Uh did I get the date wrong?"
"Uh, dude, yeah."
Apparently he'd shown up at my house, and after I didn't answer my phone, had the good judgement to not ring my doorbell and wake up my whole family. Then he drove another 70-80 minutes to the start.
Sunday, he arrives at 7:30, a little later than I'd hoped, but we make it there as Director Steven Patt is giving his pre-race speech. I fill prepare my water bottles, drop off my check (in lieu of an entry fee, RD Steve asks all runners to make a voluntary contribution to the Santa Clara Audobon Society), get a bottle of S-Caps at wholesale price from Pierre-Yves Couteau, running his first 50k (although he completed Firetrails 50 mile last October) then figure out who showed up.
The sun's bright and it's already approaching 80 degrees before the race starts. I'm glad I'm wearing my Sportiva tank top, although I suspect I might get some sunburn.
Because there are only 3 aid stations during the course, and the first 2 stretches are 10.9 and 8.4 miles long, I bring 2 water bottles, but decide against a hydration pack. My shoulders and arms are already sore from having schlepped tons of stuff up and down our stairs to my car and to from the parking lot to this local swim hole for my younger son's first birthday party the day before.
We walk to across the parking lot and then Skyline Boulevard (route 35) to the start. I quickly pee in the bushes, wondering if I had had the time to use a toilet (I didn't), if I could gave produced something more solid and substantive, and then wonder if I'm going to have GI problems from all the catered Filipino food I ate the day before-- lumpia, egg rolls, pancit and barbequed meat skewers--not exactly pure carbo loading.
Steven uses me as an example of a fast runner who should make his way to the front since the course starts off with a lot of narrow single track. I see Ron Gutierrez, who finished 2nd at the Tahoe Rim Trail 50 (in which I finished 36th) and beats me about half the time we run the same race, and we catch up on recent race stuff.
I'm soon having trouble keeping up the conversation, especially on the uphills, which Ron does very well. He's been suffering from shin splints, and sounds like he's been training as suboptimally as I. Pretty soon this older guy I'd never seen before catches up with us, looking very relaxed, and then passes us. We both work to catch up with him. I find out he's Bruce La Belle, and that he's 53 years old, 12 more than Ron and me. He keeps losing us on the downhills (and the first 5 miles are more down than up). I ask Ron "who the hell is this guy?" At one point Ron is almost up with him and I'm lagging behind. Okay, so now it's not just Ron, but this guy 12 years older. If I thought I had any chance of winning this race, it just went down below 33%.
Bruce La Belle, after finishing in 3rd overall
A few miles in, Ron starts lagging and soon I can't see or hear him behind us. Bruce admits to having come in 2nd at Western States in 1984, so I feel a little better. He took at decade long break from ultras, and just started running them again.
The course starts ascending more than descendingm which isn't Bruce's forte and soon I'm running alone. Okay, so maybe I can win this thing, I tell myself, and I try to keep a steady effort, while not feeling I'm killing myself trying to keep up with anyone. In between all this are hoards of mountain bikers, some of whom comply will the rules of the trail "bikes yield to hiker (and runners) yield to horses", but some, well, just suck.
At the first aid station, I recognize David Combs, and Rajeev Patel, who fills up my bottles (thanks, man!). I get some ice to stick in my cap and then set out the wrong way (I was supposed to go back the way we came, but I hadn't had time to study the course map beforehand.) I'm surprised that the first person I see running the other way is not Bruce or Ron, but a woman I don't recognize-- my lap split is about 2 1/2 minutes, so I have a gap of 5 minutes on her, not including time at the aid station, which is presumably longer than average for everyone given it's the first in almost 11 miles. I see Bruce at about 3:30 and then Ron shortly after. I think Pierre, who sold me the S Caps, is not far behind. The course finally crosses Skyline Boulevard, at the first turnaround aid station for PCTR's Skyline Ridge 50k I ran 6 months earlier. By this time, my left calf, which went into spasm over the weekend as I tried to pull the heel of my clogs over my heel while stopped at a red light going to my overnight shift on last Saturday night, is increasing feeling like it's going to go into spasm. Five or six times I stop to stretch it out, and once I retie my left shoe suspecting I had it tied too tight and that was making the problem worse.
My split at the start/19.3 mile/finish aid station is 2:55. Of course, I have no idea how far back my nearest competitor is, so I try to be efficient and fast. After having one bottle filled, I dump the other along with my car key (one of those bulky smart ones) since I hate running with 2 bottles and it's only 6 miles to the next and last aid station, chug a cup of sports drink, then cruise out. In my haste, I forget to grab more electrolyte caps, I realize later. I finger my shorts pocket and note half reassured that I have one left.
Making my way up the big hill heading toward Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve, I look back to see if anyone is catching up, while feeling my calf still about to spasm. Finally I reach the summit with a beautiful view you will have to imagine.
Normally, it feels really good to crest a hill and start running down. Plus, there's often a nice breeze cooling things down. Today, not and not! Instead of just my calf, my whole body now feels like it's going to go into spasm. I would slow down a lot, but again, I have no idea where everyone is, and I suspect that my slower pace for the 2nd third of the course shortened my lead. I swallow my lyte cap sooner than I'd planned. I get a little psychological boost passing some volunteers checking the course.
I think the two with the white shirts were those volunteers (Matt Thau and John Behring?) in this photo taken after the race, and the other 2 are runners.
My bottle almost empties at 3 miles. I save a little but even just as a psychological measure, it's futile. Maybe dumping that 2nd bottle wasn't so smart.
Finally I get to the 25 mile aid station. I tell them I am SO not feeling well, so they tell me I can take it easy, since I was WAY ahead of everyone at the 20 mile aid station. While another volunteer fills my bottle, speedy Jean Pommier takes my bandana (swag in our goodie bags, with a map of the parks in which the course runs printed on it) and dumps in water and ties in around my neck, then similarly with my cap. I down 2 caps and take 2 to go. They point me further down the trail, but apparently I'm just supposed to go a little ways to the gate and then come back. It's really short to the gate, so short in fact, plus there's no sign saying turnaround, so I'm not sure that's what they meant, so I try screaming to them "is this the gate?" as if they could hear me. I'm delirious and not thinking very clearly. After a few seconds deliberation, I just decide to come back and I ask if it was the gate and they tell me it was the gate. Great.
I head on out, eager to see exactly what they meant by WAY ahead. Since I was so behind on fluids, I may have drunk too much, or maybe what I drank I did too fast. I'm feeling somewhat nauseated. After 6 minutes without seeing anyone, I calculate at least a 12 minutes gap, so I can go 2 minutes per mile slower than the person behind me. 9 minutes--3 minutes per mile. Finally at about 12 1/2 minutes, as I end a series of uphills, I see Pierre coming. 5 miles to go, so I can go 5 minutes per mile slower and still win. I can puke a few times and maybe still win. What a comfortable cushion!
But I still have to get back without a major disaster, like getting way lost, or badly injured. Just one bad spasm and I'm done. I walk more of the uphills. Approaching the final large summit about a mile and a half from the finish, I look at my watch and it's 1:47. Can I finish under 5 hours? Do I really care? No, but I need any goal to get my butt moving. With a new goal, I start jogging up the hill again. Suddenly I'm blasted with a wave of heat rising up against the windless hillside from below. Forget it.
He tells me not to, since it's good to see me looking more human. Nice compliment since I usually look like a dork. Thanks, Craig for taking photos, and you get to deduct at least 20-30 minutes from your time.
The course goes down a different path to the finish, and once again, I don't get to enjoy gliding effortlessly downhill but run crippled to prevent anything from spasming.
At the finish, I feel as happy to finish as I feel.....finished. I'm offered the chair. It takes a long while for my breathing to slow down, as I'm handed bottles of fluids and start to graze on zucchini bread and Togo's sandwiches.
Pierre comes in almost 37 minutes after me. Great performance for a rookie on such a hot day! I start to get worried, because it's the sort of day where someone might collapse, like at Ohlone in May. (Luckily no one collapsed.) For less compassionate and more selfish reasons, I'm worried because I can't leave until Joe finishes. If Joe crumps out on the last 12 miles, it would be a long time before I could get home. I was on a deadline, since I had promised my wife I'd babysit and put to bed both our kids and my niece, as well as make sure my twin nephews went to bed on time, while she and my brother and his wife went out to eat. I offered this as a way to get to do this race and be gone leaving her with the kids all morning.
The first female comes in almost an hour after me, but it's not the woman I saw leading at the 11 mile turnaround. Apparently Lina McCain's won this race before.
Fortunately, Joe come in 7th, a little over an hour after I.
Before we get into the car, I make it a point to pee. I haven't peed all race. Not that much comes out. Whoops. I suspect that I never adequately hydrated out in the heat all day before for my infant's first birthday party.
Thanks for all the volunteers, who weren't exactly lazing around a pool on such a hot day! Steve is good to list them Debi Jamison (his wife), Dave Combs, Stan Jensen, Sanjay & Vik Waghray, Mollie Whisler and children, Rajeev Patel, Bob Power, Bob Hirt, Jean Pommier, Christine Miller, Tom Davis, Lisa Cogar, Brian Hawkinson, Penny Beeston and friends (course marking), Buddy Pohl (course marking), Matt Thau and John Behring (course checking). You all rocked!
So my work for the day isn't finished yet. To get to do this race without incurring any guilt or parental debt, I promised my wife she could go out to dinner somewhere nice with whomever and I'd watch the kids. So as soon as I shower quickly at home, we drive up to Marin and I put down our baby, my older toddler son and my nice, while eyeing my older twin nephews, one doing something pyromaniacal in the back porch, but their house doesn't burn down.
My baby wakes up in the middle of the night, and for over an hour is either crying or screaming happily, so no one sleeps well and I feel pretty sick the next day. However, no regrets. It's just another post-race ultrarunning hangover.
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Brussels, 13 September 2012
Employment: Commission proposes €5.3 million from Globalisation Fund for former workers of Manroland A.G. in Germany
The European Commission has today proposed to provide Germany with €5.3m from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 2,103 former workers of printing machinery manufacturer of Manroland AG and of three of its subsidiaries and suppliers. The money would help to finance a package of measures to help these workers to find new jobs. The proposal now goes to the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers for their approval.
EU Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor commented: "The proposal for 5.3 million euro from the European Globalisation Fund would help over two thousand workers made redundant by Manroland and its subsidiaries and suppliers to prepare for new job opportunities in more promising sectors."
Germany applied for support from the EGF for 2,284 workers made redundant by Manroland AG and three of its subsidiaries and suppliers. Of the total, 2,103 would be eligible to participate in the measures. The package aims to help the workers by offering them training courses leading to qualifications, in-depth advice on starting up their own businesses, job search services, as well as coaching and advisory services during unemployment and in a new job. The package will also include a job-search allowance ('Transferkurzarbeitergeld') and an activation premium to help redundant workers to accept a lower paid job.
The territories concerned by the redundancies are three rather different regions of Germany: Augsburg (Bavaria), Offenbach (Hessen) and Plauen (Saxony). Plauen, located in the eastern part of Germany, has a smaller population but a higher dependency on social welfare payments.
The total estimated cost of the package is approximately €10.7 million, of which the EGF would provide almost half, i.e. €5.3 million and the Member state would provide the other half.
Manroland AG is a printing machinery manufacturer that produces sheet-fed offset presses as well as reel-fed offset printing machinery. The printing machinery equipment market is highly internationalised. Manroland AG, together with its German and other European competitors, already operated on a world-wide basis. During recent years, emerging markets such as China, India and South American countries, e.g. Brazil, increased their demand for printing machinery and therefore became important customers for German and other European printing machinery manufacturers. However, these countries have also become important players in their own right as manufacturers on an increasingly global market. Producers in China, India, South America, as well as a growing number of competitors from the US and Japan, have all achieved rising market shares during the past decade. As a result, German high-quality producers now face stiffer international competition.
Manroland AG lost 10 % of its market share for reel-fed offset printing equipment during the period from 2005 to 2011. This lower market share contributed to sinking and negative profits and in the end to redundancies.
There have been 101 applications to the EGF since the start of its operations in 2007. Some €442.2 million has been requested to help about 91,000 workers. EGF applications are being presented to help redundant workers in a growing number of sectors, and by an increasing number of Member States.
More open trade with the rest of the world leads to overall benefits for growth and employment, but it can also cost some jobs, particularly in vulnerable sectors and affecting lower-skilled workers. This is why Commission President Barroso first proposed setting up a fund to help those adjusting to the consequences of globalisation. The EGF was established at the end of 2006 and was designed to demonstrate solidarity from the many who benefit from openness to the few who face the sudden shock of losing their jobs. In June 2009, the EGF rules were revised to strengthen the role of the EGF as an early intervention instrument forming part of Europe's response to the financial and economic crisis. The revised EGF Regulation entered into force on 2 July 2009 and applied to all applications received from 1 May 2009 to 30 December 2011.
Building on the experience acquired with the EGF since 2007 and its value added for the assisted workers and affected regions, the Commission has proposed to maintain the Fund also during the 2014-2020 multiannual financial framework, while further improving its functioning.
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