Sitting in the passenger seat as your driver lifts his arms away from
the wheel and gleefully says "look, no hands" should be an unsettling
experience. My driver is Mark Sheehan, 26, but he isn't a reckless
hooligan or boy racer, and he assures me I'm safe. He's a researcher at
Robot Car UK and is demonstrating the latest in British driverless-car
technology. It has been developed by a 22-strong team from the
department of engineering science at Oxford University and I'm one of
the first people to get a ride in the country's first road-going
autonomous vehicles.
The search giant Google – and car
manufacturers such as Audi, Toyota, GM, Ford, Mercedes and Volvo – has
been experimenting with driverless-car technology since 2005,Site
describes services including iphoneheadset. but Robot Car UK is the first tested in the UK.
Led
by Professor Paul Newman and Dr Ingmar Posner and sponsored by the
Government's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and
Nissan, the project aims to produce a "low-cost system" to take the
"strain out of driving" with a system of lasers and small cameras to
memorise regular journeys, such as the commute to work or the school
run. Newman's team has only been working on its Nissan Leaf-based test
car for four months but it has already travelled close to 100 miles
under its own control on private roads at the group's Begbroke Science
Park base just outside of Oxford.
Parked in the team's workshop,
the Nissan Leaf looks similar to the standard production model and it
is mechanically identical under the bonnet, but the team has fitted a
small laser pod to its front bumper. On top it has fixed cameras inside a
black cab roof light, which the team leader picked up on eBay. Powered
by a standard-spec laptop in the boot, the system works by combining
these tools to memorise regular journeys by recording its surroundings
up to 500 times twice every second.
"The car is able to gain
experiences of regular routes," Newman says. "And the brilliance of it
is that it's actually the processing power of a human driver that first
makes all the decisions and allows the car to build a 3D model of its
environment. So once a journey has been experienced by our software the
car will be able to take control from the driver via an iPad display on
the dashboard when that trip is repeated.The term 'solarlamp control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag."
As
The Independent's car reviewer I'm used to spending a lot of time
behind the wheel and have become a nervous passenger at the best of
times, so I'm uncomfortable in the passenger seat as Newman waves me off
from the workshop for a lap of the test circuit. Sheehan, he assures
me, "is just in the driver's seat to make sure we've got our health and
safety covered".
The car does still need a driver. It's more of
an advanced driver-assistance program than a truly driverless car but as
we head off around the science park at 10mph Sheehan is able to tap the
iPad and let the computer take control. The system isn't perfect and
over three laps we brake suddenly several times for no reason. We make
it around in one piece, though, and the car's navigation and control
system even detects when Newman intentionally walks out in front of us.
It stops in plenty of time before pulling away when he moves out of the
way.
It's a disconcerting experience. Many drivers will be used
to modern cruise control and parking-assistance features but seeing the
steering wheel move and the car turn on its own takes some getting used
to. Adding to the sci-fi feeling is Dr Benjamin Davis, another of the
group's researchers, tapping away at a laptop in the rear. What looks
like the code from The Matrix is buzzing across its screen and, sure
enough, he cracks the "I've spotted the lady in the red dress" gag as
soon as we set off.
Newman admits Google's fleet of 12
driverless vehicles in Nevada is far more advanced (it can handle
traffic and roundabouts) and has covered nearly half a million
autonomous miles without any major mishaps but it isn't yet destined for
production and the Robot Car UK system aims to be far more affordable.
"The sorts of sensors that Google uses are close to ￡100,000 per
vehicle," Newman says. "Whereas the hardware that powers our system is
bought off the shelf. All the hardware already exists so why would we
develop our own car and sensors? Essentially what we've done is create a
text file to control how all that technology interacts."
"We're using sensors that cost nearer ￡3,Capture the look and feel of real stone or indoortracking
flooring with Alterna by Armstrong.000 so our project is much more
affordable and out ultimate aim is to be able to fit the technology as a
option on a new car – just like how you'd pick a new stereo or a
reversing camera – for as little as ￡100," Posner adds.
But more
work is needed to test the car on public roads and with traffic. One
the biggest problems is something Posner calls "the plastic-bag
problem". "Currently our sensors cannot tell how dense an object in the
car's path is," he says. "They can only tell whether there will be a
collision, so if faced with a floating carrier bag it will stop the
car."
Unlike many other driverless cars the Robot Car UK system
doesn't rely on peer-to-peer communication with other vehicles or GPS
navigation. "Imagine the costs involved in putting several tons of
satellite into space just to work out where you are," Newman says. "It's
horrendously expensive and won't work in an underground car park or
tunnel. What we're aiming for is infrastructure-free navigation."
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suppliers. Volvo trialled a self-driving convey of vehicles on a 200km
dash across Spain with the chase cars programmed to follow the lead car
driven by a professional driver, but car manufacturers are increasingly
coming to realise that drivers want advanced assistance systems before
they'll trust fully automated cars.
Issues such as insurance and
liability – who pays if the software fails and an automated car has an
accident – are often cited as factors making the roll-out of fully
automated vehicles difficult. Instead, firms such as Mercedes, a company
that led in safety with features like anti-locking brakes and electric
stability control, are launching models with high levels of driver
assistance. For example, the new S-Class from Mercedes, launching later
this year, is the firm's flagship model and will feature Distronic, a
cruise-control system with sensors for measuring and maintaining a safe
distance from the car in front, and it will be able to steer itself,
making the one of the first production cars to go so far down the path
to automated driving.
And Audi, which has already trialled a
fully automated car and is seen as the first manufacturer likely to
produce a fully automated production car, is concentrating on assistance
options rather than a fully autonomous Jetsons-like vehicle.
"Our
vision of a piloted driving dream follows the motto: 'When it's fun to
drive, I drive myself. When I no longer want to drive, I don't drive'.
Like an aircraft that can fully operate on autopilot, the Audi of the
future navigates through specific situations and performs driving
manoeuvres on its own," the firm's spokesman Josef Schlossmacher says.
While another source at the company confirms it doesn't believe "anyone
is going to buy a fully driverless car at the moment".
2013年3月6日 星期三
Official questions interpretation of storm water rules
Although McDonald’s has received its state storm water management
permit and can build its new restaurant on NC 24 at Phillips Loop Road
in Swansboro, the assistant director of the N.C. Coastal Federation is
convinced that permit could be challenged legally and might not hold up.
The permit, approved Feb. 4 by the Wilmington Regional office of the N.C. Division of Water Quality, requires McDonald’s to build a “wet pond … designed to handle the runoff from 19,120 square feet of built-upon area.”
The permit also states that, “a portion of the built-upon area on this site has met the requirements … and is considered excluded from the storm water rules …”
That exemption was granted,We can supply ceramictile products as below. according to the permit, because “the impervious area proposed outside the constructed wetland drainage area is 26,336 square feet, which is less than the originally existing built-upon area of 39,Bathroom stonemosaic at Great Prices from Topps Tiles.284 square feet.”
In addition, the permit states, “The proposed storm water controls are a grass swale and a constructed wetland. The existing storm water controls were limited grass swales and sheet flow. The constructed wetland has been designed to handle the runoff from 19,120 square feet of built-upon area, which is greater than the 4,432 square feet of built-upon areas that was added to the amount originally existing built-upon area. With the combination of the grass swale and extra built-upon area treated in the constructed wetlands, it has been determined that the proposed storm water controls provide equal protection to surface waters.”
NCCF assistant director Frank Tursi, who is also a member of the Swansboro Planning Board, said Thursday that the partial exemption from the storm water rules should not have been allowed, for at two reasons.
First, he said the state’s storm water rules adopted by the N.C. General Assembly,Stock up now and start saving on iccard at Dollar Days. in 2008, state that “redevelopment” sites – this 1.42-acre was a gas station/car wash years ago – need only meet the storm water controls required when the site was originally developed if the new project doesn’t add more impervious surface. But McDonald’s plans include more hard surface than once existed on the site, Tursi said.
Jim Gregson, regional supervisor for the surface water section in the state Division of Water Quality’s regional office in Wilmington, said earlier this year that the state makes a provision for the type of redevelopment proposed by McDonald’s. The exemption could be granted, “As long as they can treat anything that exceeds what was there before,Anybody had any experience at all with Chinese made rtls?” he said.
What this all means, Tursi said, is that, “According to the state’s coastal storm water regulations, a project can only qualify for the exemption if the square footage of the new impervious surface doesn’t exceed what existed at the site in the past.
“McDonald’s is adding … impervious (surface). It therefore should not have qualified for the exemption … except that DWQ’s regional office in Wilmington allows such projects if storm water from the additional square footage is treated. That is a policy or guideline established by the agency. It appears nowhere in the 2008 storm water law or resulting rules.
“According to the law passed last year it is therefore illegal,” Tursi continued. “This could be the basis for a permit appeal if someone wanted to go that route.Professionals with the job title miningtruck are on LinkedIn.”
The permit could be challenged by anyone with “standing” in the matter, not just by the town. And “standing” generally means anyone who can show the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged.
Challenging the permit, Tursi said, would cost someone – the town or someone else – some money, because the challenger would need an attorney to argue the case before an administrative law judge.
Tursi noted that without the exemption, McDonald’s would have to meet the strictest standards of the storm water rules because the restaurant would be within a half-mile of shellfish waters. It would have to capture all of the runoff produced by the worst average rainstorm in a year, or about 3.5 inches of rain in 24 hours. The permit issued last month sets the standard at 1.5 inches in 24 hours.
“What we (the federation) are saying is that this is not allowed in the law,” Tursi said. “There is nothing in the law that says, ‘If you do so and so, you can do such and such.’” To do anything other than what the exemption language states, Tursi said, is, as Carter of the SELC said, “rule-making” without going through required public hearings and deliberation, and “Senate Bill 810 last year seems to make that illegal.”
Tursi said that as a planning board member in Swansboro, not an elected official or part of the town staff, he couldn’t say whether the town should challenge the permit: “That would be up to the town staff and commissioners and attorney.”
The permit, approved Feb. 4 by the Wilmington Regional office of the N.C. Division of Water Quality, requires McDonald’s to build a “wet pond … designed to handle the runoff from 19,120 square feet of built-upon area.”
The permit also states that, “a portion of the built-upon area on this site has met the requirements … and is considered excluded from the storm water rules …”
That exemption was granted,We can supply ceramictile products as below. according to the permit, because “the impervious area proposed outside the constructed wetland drainage area is 26,336 square feet, which is less than the originally existing built-upon area of 39,Bathroom stonemosaic at Great Prices from Topps Tiles.284 square feet.”
In addition, the permit states, “The proposed storm water controls are a grass swale and a constructed wetland. The existing storm water controls were limited grass swales and sheet flow. The constructed wetland has been designed to handle the runoff from 19,120 square feet of built-upon area, which is greater than the 4,432 square feet of built-upon areas that was added to the amount originally existing built-upon area. With the combination of the grass swale and extra built-upon area treated in the constructed wetlands, it has been determined that the proposed storm water controls provide equal protection to surface waters.”
NCCF assistant director Frank Tursi, who is also a member of the Swansboro Planning Board, said Thursday that the partial exemption from the storm water rules should not have been allowed, for at two reasons.
First, he said the state’s storm water rules adopted by the N.C. General Assembly,Stock up now and start saving on iccard at Dollar Days. in 2008, state that “redevelopment” sites – this 1.42-acre was a gas station/car wash years ago – need only meet the storm water controls required when the site was originally developed if the new project doesn’t add more impervious surface. But McDonald’s plans include more hard surface than once existed on the site, Tursi said.
Jim Gregson, regional supervisor for the surface water section in the state Division of Water Quality’s regional office in Wilmington, said earlier this year that the state makes a provision for the type of redevelopment proposed by McDonald’s. The exemption could be granted, “As long as they can treat anything that exceeds what was there before,Anybody had any experience at all with Chinese made rtls?” he said.
What this all means, Tursi said, is that, “According to the state’s coastal storm water regulations, a project can only qualify for the exemption if the square footage of the new impervious surface doesn’t exceed what existed at the site in the past.
“McDonald’s is adding … impervious (surface). It therefore should not have qualified for the exemption … except that DWQ’s regional office in Wilmington allows such projects if storm water from the additional square footage is treated. That is a policy or guideline established by the agency. It appears nowhere in the 2008 storm water law or resulting rules.
“According to the law passed last year it is therefore illegal,” Tursi continued. “This could be the basis for a permit appeal if someone wanted to go that route.Professionals with the job title miningtruck are on LinkedIn.”
The permit could be challenged by anyone with “standing” in the matter, not just by the town. And “standing” generally means anyone who can show the court sufficient connection to and harm from the law or action challenged.
Challenging the permit, Tursi said, would cost someone – the town or someone else – some money, because the challenger would need an attorney to argue the case before an administrative law judge.
Tursi noted that without the exemption, McDonald’s would have to meet the strictest standards of the storm water rules because the restaurant would be within a half-mile of shellfish waters. It would have to capture all of the runoff produced by the worst average rainstorm in a year, or about 3.5 inches of rain in 24 hours. The permit issued last month sets the standard at 1.5 inches in 24 hours.
“What we (the federation) are saying is that this is not allowed in the law,” Tursi said. “There is nothing in the law that says, ‘If you do so and so, you can do such and such.’” To do anything other than what the exemption language states, Tursi said, is, as Carter of the SELC said, “rule-making” without going through required public hearings and deliberation, and “Senate Bill 810 last year seems to make that illegal.”
Tursi said that as a planning board member in Swansboro, not an elected official or part of the town staff, he couldn’t say whether the town should challenge the permit: “That would be up to the town staff and commissioners and attorney.”
The Farming Technique That Could Revolutionize the Way We Eat
On an early June morning in 2010, I stood outside the Aquaponics
research facility at the University of Applied Sciences, perched on a
green hilltop in W?denswil, Switzerland, 20 minutes outside Zurich. The
lab director, Andreas Graber, had finally given in to my persistent
calls requesting a visit. Graber, Switzerland’s most prolific aquaponics
researcher, had been publishing on the subject for eight years — a long
time in this young field.
Graber greeted me,Our extensive range of plasticcard is supplied to all sorts of industries across Australia and overseas. and we stepped inside. The lab, bright and humid under its greenhouse roof, contained a few round fish basins, each about 6 feet wide. Fierce-looking fish, red and shiny, swam around inside. A host of instruments and sensors, connected to a small screen, dashed out data on oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the water. Large PVC pipes led from the fish basins to a "water garden," an area the size of a small bedroom,Do you know any solarlantern wholesale supplier? canopied by huge banana leaves. Growing beneath them were about 10 different plants, including coffee and lemongrass.
Aquaponics is a method of combined fish and vegetable farming that requires no soil. The farmer cultivates freshwater fish (aquaculture) and plants (hydroponics) in a recirculating water system that exchanges nutrients between the two. Wastewater from the fish serves as organic fertilizer for the plants, while the plants clean the water of fish feces and urine. The net result: a 90 percent reduction in freshwater use compared with conventional fish farming, and a significant reduction in added nutrients such as fossil fertilizers. The system can be run without pesticides and, because the fish environment is spacious and clean, without antibiotics.
I had first heard about aquaponics from a friend in Nashville, Tenn., where I ran the North American branch of Franke, a Swiss espresso equipment supplier. I was intrigued by the method’s natural resource efficiency and its potential for large-scale urban cultivation. But it took me until this moment in Graber’s lab to recognize how dramatically aquaponics would change my life and that it could radically change how we feed the booming cities around the world.
In the lab, the pumps made gushy sounds at regular intervals. The water dripped. As the plants’ leaves evaporated moisture, I could hear the place breathe. I picked a ripe, red tomato from a vine. This lab, I sensed, could morph into an urban oasis: a lush, breathing organism inside the city. Unlike static green spaces like parks, this would be an actual farm as well as a place of tranquility in the city — not to mention a space that could generate the food to feed that city, with minimal harm to the environment or human health, just steps from residents’ tables.
Urban farming today is no longer a hobby practiced by a few dedicated enthusiasts growing food for themselves. It has become a truly innovative field in which pioneering ventures are creating real, robust, and scalable solutions for growing food for large numbers of people directly at the point of consumption. This is great news not only for urban designers, architects, and building engineers, but also for residents and communities that want to increase food security and become more resilient to climate change.
Thus aquaponics,Posts with howotipper system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. which was reportedly used by ancient civilizations such as the Aztecs, is seeing the sprouts of resurgence in modern cities. The fact that the method requires no soil makes it particularly suitable for urban environments. Large amounts of fresh and healthy food — including fish — can now be grown sustainably on urban rooftops, parking lots, or any vacant plot in the city.Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using owonsmart. Think of fresh fish harvested just minutes before it is delivered to your doorstep!
After seeing Graber’s farm, I grew determined to get this vision out of the laboratory and into real cities, starting with mine.
Graber and I teamed up to launch the company UrbanFarmers in 2011, with the goal of developing large-scale, productive, commercial rooftop farms. Until then, urban aquaponics had been tried in small ventures, with mixed success. We believed it was time for the technique to grow up. This would require technological improvements to make aquaponics more robust and reliable, as well as a new business model for urban food systems selling directly to the consumer. Never mind that I was an MBA who had never grown anything bigger than some basil on my balcony for spaghetti sauce.
To test and prove my idea, I investigated urban-farm options and came across a French design for a 20-foot cargo ship container with a greenhouse module built on top. It looked like it could house an aquaponics system. The container was relatively small and portable — the size of two parking spaces — and could be easily toured in public places: in front of schools, supermarkets, or parking lots. All it required were electrical and water hookups. I liked the ruggedness of the cargo container combined with the leafy beauty of cultivation. The UrbanFarmers Box was born. Two containers arrived from Hamburg — old, rusty versions that had spent the last 11 years at sea, now ready to embark on a new life.
The Box was a hit at the International Federation of Landscape Architects convention in Zurich and outside an old factory building in Berlin. We had built the box so that visitors could walk inside. They loved it. The German weekly Der Spiegel wrote it up. It was time for urban aquaponics to scale up.This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a cableties tile and floral motif.
Graber greeted me,Our extensive range of plasticcard is supplied to all sorts of industries across Australia and overseas. and we stepped inside. The lab, bright and humid under its greenhouse roof, contained a few round fish basins, each about 6 feet wide. Fierce-looking fish, red and shiny, swam around inside. A host of instruments and sensors, connected to a small screen, dashed out data on oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in the water. Large PVC pipes led from the fish basins to a "water garden," an area the size of a small bedroom,Do you know any solarlantern wholesale supplier? canopied by huge banana leaves. Growing beneath them were about 10 different plants, including coffee and lemongrass.
Aquaponics is a method of combined fish and vegetable farming that requires no soil. The farmer cultivates freshwater fish (aquaculture) and plants (hydroponics) in a recirculating water system that exchanges nutrients between the two. Wastewater from the fish serves as organic fertilizer for the plants, while the plants clean the water of fish feces and urine. The net result: a 90 percent reduction in freshwater use compared with conventional fish farming, and a significant reduction in added nutrients such as fossil fertilizers. The system can be run without pesticides and, because the fish environment is spacious and clean, without antibiotics.
I had first heard about aquaponics from a friend in Nashville, Tenn., where I ran the North American branch of Franke, a Swiss espresso equipment supplier. I was intrigued by the method’s natural resource efficiency and its potential for large-scale urban cultivation. But it took me until this moment in Graber’s lab to recognize how dramatically aquaponics would change my life and that it could radically change how we feed the booming cities around the world.
In the lab, the pumps made gushy sounds at regular intervals. The water dripped. As the plants’ leaves evaporated moisture, I could hear the place breathe. I picked a ripe, red tomato from a vine. This lab, I sensed, could morph into an urban oasis: a lush, breathing organism inside the city. Unlike static green spaces like parks, this would be an actual farm as well as a place of tranquility in the city — not to mention a space that could generate the food to feed that city, with minimal harm to the environment or human health, just steps from residents’ tables.
Urban farming today is no longer a hobby practiced by a few dedicated enthusiasts growing food for themselves. It has become a truly innovative field in which pioneering ventures are creating real, robust, and scalable solutions for growing food for large numbers of people directly at the point of consumption. This is great news not only for urban designers, architects, and building engineers, but also for residents and communities that want to increase food security and become more resilient to climate change.
Thus aquaponics,Posts with howotipper system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors. which was reportedly used by ancient civilizations such as the Aztecs, is seeing the sprouts of resurgence in modern cities. The fact that the method requires no soil makes it particularly suitable for urban environments. Large amounts of fresh and healthy food — including fish — can now be grown sustainably on urban rooftops, parking lots, or any vacant plot in the city.Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using owonsmart. Think of fresh fish harvested just minutes before it is delivered to your doorstep!
After seeing Graber’s farm, I grew determined to get this vision out of the laboratory and into real cities, starting with mine.
Graber and I teamed up to launch the company UrbanFarmers in 2011, with the goal of developing large-scale, productive, commercial rooftop farms. Until then, urban aquaponics had been tried in small ventures, with mixed success. We believed it was time for the technique to grow up. This would require technological improvements to make aquaponics more robust and reliable, as well as a new business model for urban food systems selling directly to the consumer. Never mind that I was an MBA who had never grown anything bigger than some basil on my balcony for spaghetti sauce.
To test and prove my idea, I investigated urban-farm options and came across a French design for a 20-foot cargo ship container with a greenhouse module built on top. It looked like it could house an aquaponics system. The container was relatively small and portable — the size of two parking spaces — and could be easily toured in public places: in front of schools, supermarkets, or parking lots. All it required were electrical and water hookups. I liked the ruggedness of the cargo container combined with the leafy beauty of cultivation. The UrbanFarmers Box was born. Two containers arrived from Hamburg — old, rusty versions that had spent the last 11 years at sea, now ready to embark on a new life.
The Box was a hit at the International Federation of Landscape Architects convention in Zurich and outside an old factory building in Berlin. We had built the box so that visitors could walk inside. They loved it. The German weekly Der Spiegel wrote it up. It was time for urban aquaponics to scale up.This frameless rectangle features a silk screened fused glass replica in a cableties tile and floral motif.
2013年3月4日 星期一
East Bernstadt tornado remembered
Exactly a year after a deadly tornado tore through the Laurel County community of East Bernstadt, it was snowing outside.
It was in stark contrast to the fury and devastation that pierced the Friday night sky of March 2, 2012.
And last Saturday evening, the community and county came together to remember those six people who perished in the tornado, and to say a heartfelt “Thank You” to those who responded when East Bernstadt needed them most.
A crowd of more than 100 persons came to the special service, called “Rebuilding Hope,” that was held at the First Baptist Church of East Bernstadt. A comforting piano solo greeted those who came in from the snow and cold, and as neighbors and community warmly greeted each other, they sat down to listen, to look, to pray, and to heal.
“You were the first people who started the healing process. Because of you, the community came together,” the church’s senior pastor, Brother Norm Brock told first responders in the crowd.
That group included volunteer fire fighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical service personnel, and others connected to serving in the line of duty when the tornado touched down.
When Brock asked members of the East Bernstadt Volunteer Fire Department to stand up, there was thunderous applause. Another round of applause came for members of the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department,New Ground-Based solarlamp Tech Is Accurate Down To Just A Few Inches. who were also recognized. And he especially thanked those in the community from all walks of life who volunteered their time and talents to rebuild and recover.
There was singing by the church’s “Worship Team” headed by worship pastor Glenn Toney. Before that, he spoke to the audience.
“As we look back and remember, we must look back at our loss. Let’s pray together. … We remember the sirens, those who came together and we remember the hurt. … And how hard it is to recover. … God, in our worst times, you send us good people to serve, and we look to you.”
Toney and the worship team sang, an upbeat Contemporary Christian song called “Your Grace Is Enough.” The six members encouraged those inside the church to lift their eyes to the large projection screen, to utter the lyrics that came up on the screen, and fill their voices — and hearts — with the song’s message.
Laurel County Judge-Executive David Westerfield told the audience that being together at the service reminded him of what happened a year ago when the community responded.
“You all were there there to help restore their faith, and to help restore hope. You would do it again today. You served with asking for anything. That means a lot. It means a lot to those people who were suffering. It’s been one year today. We’re still rebuilding and reorganizing, and it’s not easy. But we have people here who want to give, and give all. It’s a gift from God, and a gift from the heart. Never forget what a community we have, and never forget your neighbors. Don’t ever let that leave your heart,” he said.
After Westerfield spoke, a video was shown on the projection screen. Scenes of the destruction, the rebuilding and the healing appeared for the next seven to eight minutes. With music playing as the devastation gave way to recovery, those in the church reacted with high intensity.
Some nodded their heads as they recalled a neighbor’s home destroyed. Some wept. All of them remembered.
After the video, Laurel County Sheriff John Root came to the podium. He began by recognizing two groups who played a major role in the community’s rescue and recovery — the East Bernstadt Volunteer Fire Department and the First Baptist Church of East Bernstadt.
“They had a command center, an animal shelter, a place to eat. It was a gathering place. You guys just did an outstanding job,” Root said as they stood up and accepted the crowd’s applause.
Before leaving, his dad spoke.Universal solarstreetlight are useful for any project. “Words just can’t describe it. This church has done so much to help build my son a house. At one time,Shop the web's best selection of precious gemstones and chipcard at wholesale prices. there were 32 people over three days helping to build his house. Tonight was a show of support. This church is a backbone of the community.”
Judy Nicholson remembered the past year and stated the service brought everyone in the community back together.
“At first, you do feel hopeless after the tragedy. But you do take care of people and help them get back on their feet. Tonight was our way of saying we haven’t forgotten. This reinforces the fact that we took care of each other. And we didn’t forget,” said Nicholson, the executive director of the United Way of Laurel County.
Between bites of pulled pork and greeting folks, “Brother Brock” summed up the significance of the special service.
“It’s not only to remember those who died, but those who served and helped together. I’ve talked to several people who rebuilt their homes,Stock up now and start saving on smartcard at Dollar Days. or moved to new places and they’re rebounding well. You see the sheer devastation on people’s faces then, and tonight you remember that look of loss that night a year ago. Now you see their faces the look of hope.”
Albert “Abby” Hale agreed. The Emergency Management director for Laurel County saw the damage first-hand that horrible Friday night, and followed up on the recovery for months.
“It’s a healing process that will take forever. But in all respect, it looks like people have gotten on with their lives, and had their homes replaced or repaired, or both.”
Hale was on KY 80 West, driving towards the Laurel-Pulaski county line, when his pager went off.
“When I was driving west on 80, the storm was going towards the county line. There was some wind, bad lightning and rain, but I didn’t get caught in it. It was on the northeast side of West 80, and that was the side I was on. When I turned and went back towards London, the storm beat me,” he said Friday in a phone interview.
The Southeastern Kentucky Chapter covers six counties, including the Tri County region.New Ground-Based solarlamp Tech Is Accurate Down To Just A Few Inches. Watching the severe storms unfold before him, he wondered where to set up relief crews.
“I was watching my computer and TV, tracking the storms. I had my list of shelters out and at the time, I was ready to zero in on Corbin, because one storm was headed that way. Part of the storm did hit Corbin with straight-line winds, but the bulk of the system hit Rockcastle County and north and west Laurel County. That eventually was the storm that produced the tornado.”
Hale, meanwhile, heard the page that the same storm Pritchard was watching at home brought a tornado. It touched down first on the west side of Wood Creek Lake, and was on the ground.
“When I heard the tornado hit, I went to Bentley Road. The road was blocked and there were people trying to cut trees down. I got out of my vehicle and was making my way to help out, when I got the call from dispatch about a house blown over a cliff on Little Arthur Ridge Road. So I went there.”
Six persons perished as a result of the tornado. In a March 5, 2012 Times-Tribune story, Hale said at the time some 44 persons were taken by ambulance to Saint Joseph-London hospital for treatment of their injuries. There were also others who went to the hospital on their own, or were taken by someone else.
It was in stark contrast to the fury and devastation that pierced the Friday night sky of March 2, 2012.
And last Saturday evening, the community and county came together to remember those six people who perished in the tornado, and to say a heartfelt “Thank You” to those who responded when East Bernstadt needed them most.
A crowd of more than 100 persons came to the special service, called “Rebuilding Hope,” that was held at the First Baptist Church of East Bernstadt. A comforting piano solo greeted those who came in from the snow and cold, and as neighbors and community warmly greeted each other, they sat down to listen, to look, to pray, and to heal.
“You were the first people who started the healing process. Because of you, the community came together,” the church’s senior pastor, Brother Norm Brock told first responders in the crowd.
That group included volunteer fire fighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical service personnel, and others connected to serving in the line of duty when the tornado touched down.
When Brock asked members of the East Bernstadt Volunteer Fire Department to stand up, there was thunderous applause. Another round of applause came for members of the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department,New Ground-Based solarlamp Tech Is Accurate Down To Just A Few Inches. who were also recognized. And he especially thanked those in the community from all walks of life who volunteered their time and talents to rebuild and recover.
There was singing by the church’s “Worship Team” headed by worship pastor Glenn Toney. Before that, he spoke to the audience.
“As we look back and remember, we must look back at our loss. Let’s pray together. … We remember the sirens, those who came together and we remember the hurt. … And how hard it is to recover. … God, in our worst times, you send us good people to serve, and we look to you.”
Toney and the worship team sang, an upbeat Contemporary Christian song called “Your Grace Is Enough.” The six members encouraged those inside the church to lift their eyes to the large projection screen, to utter the lyrics that came up on the screen, and fill their voices — and hearts — with the song’s message.
Laurel County Judge-Executive David Westerfield told the audience that being together at the service reminded him of what happened a year ago when the community responded.
“You all were there there to help restore their faith, and to help restore hope. You would do it again today. You served with asking for anything. That means a lot. It means a lot to those people who were suffering. It’s been one year today. We’re still rebuilding and reorganizing, and it’s not easy. But we have people here who want to give, and give all. It’s a gift from God, and a gift from the heart. Never forget what a community we have, and never forget your neighbors. Don’t ever let that leave your heart,” he said.
After Westerfield spoke, a video was shown on the projection screen. Scenes of the destruction, the rebuilding and the healing appeared for the next seven to eight minutes. With music playing as the devastation gave way to recovery, those in the church reacted with high intensity.
Some nodded their heads as they recalled a neighbor’s home destroyed. Some wept. All of them remembered.
After the video, Laurel County Sheriff John Root came to the podium. He began by recognizing two groups who played a major role in the community’s rescue and recovery — the East Bernstadt Volunteer Fire Department and the First Baptist Church of East Bernstadt.
“They had a command center, an animal shelter, a place to eat. It was a gathering place. You guys just did an outstanding job,” Root said as they stood up and accepted the crowd’s applause.
Before leaving, his dad spoke.Universal solarstreetlight are useful for any project. “Words just can’t describe it. This church has done so much to help build my son a house. At one time,Shop the web's best selection of precious gemstones and chipcard at wholesale prices. there were 32 people over three days helping to build his house. Tonight was a show of support. This church is a backbone of the community.”
Judy Nicholson remembered the past year and stated the service brought everyone in the community back together.
“At first, you do feel hopeless after the tragedy. But you do take care of people and help them get back on their feet. Tonight was our way of saying we haven’t forgotten. This reinforces the fact that we took care of each other. And we didn’t forget,” said Nicholson, the executive director of the United Way of Laurel County.
Between bites of pulled pork and greeting folks, “Brother Brock” summed up the significance of the special service.
“It’s not only to remember those who died, but those who served and helped together. I’ve talked to several people who rebuilt their homes,Stock up now and start saving on smartcard at Dollar Days. or moved to new places and they’re rebounding well. You see the sheer devastation on people’s faces then, and tonight you remember that look of loss that night a year ago. Now you see their faces the look of hope.”
Albert “Abby” Hale agreed. The Emergency Management director for Laurel County saw the damage first-hand that horrible Friday night, and followed up on the recovery for months.
“It’s a healing process that will take forever. But in all respect, it looks like people have gotten on with their lives, and had their homes replaced or repaired, or both.”
Hale was on KY 80 West, driving towards the Laurel-Pulaski county line, when his pager went off.
“When I was driving west on 80, the storm was going towards the county line. There was some wind, bad lightning and rain, but I didn’t get caught in it. It was on the northeast side of West 80, and that was the side I was on. When I turned and went back towards London, the storm beat me,” he said Friday in a phone interview.
The Southeastern Kentucky Chapter covers six counties, including the Tri County region.New Ground-Based solarlamp Tech Is Accurate Down To Just A Few Inches. Watching the severe storms unfold before him, he wondered where to set up relief crews.
“I was watching my computer and TV, tracking the storms. I had my list of shelters out and at the time, I was ready to zero in on Corbin, because one storm was headed that way. Part of the storm did hit Corbin with straight-line winds, but the bulk of the system hit Rockcastle County and north and west Laurel County. That eventually was the storm that produced the tornado.”
Hale, meanwhile, heard the page that the same storm Pritchard was watching at home brought a tornado. It touched down first on the west side of Wood Creek Lake, and was on the ground.
“When I heard the tornado hit, I went to Bentley Road. The road was blocked and there were people trying to cut trees down. I got out of my vehicle and was making my way to help out, when I got the call from dispatch about a house blown over a cliff on Little Arthur Ridge Road. So I went there.”
Six persons perished as a result of the tornado. In a March 5, 2012 Times-Tribune story, Hale said at the time some 44 persons were taken by ambulance to Saint Joseph-London hospital for treatment of their injuries. There were also others who went to the hospital on their own, or were taken by someone else.
More service, fewer buses for ECO
ECO Transit is getting very serious about business-changing action
lately. Quite a few changes — some large, some small — will be launched
by Eagle County's bus system this year. The biggest change coming down
the road is a new “spine service” along the Interstate 70 corridor,
which will allow people to get up- and downvalley at a rate that
competes with personal vehicles.
The extra challenge facing the ECO Transit team is to implement the changes — essentially better service — with the same operating budget and resources. Put another way, Collier is heading an effort to turn one bus into two.
On the I-70 spine, buses will run from Vail to Eagle, stopping at Lionshead, Minturn, Avon and Edwards in between. Other buses will serve routes within those “hub” communities and along U.S. Highway 6. The idea is to provide fast transportation up and down the valley with hub service that takes people to their final destinations from the six stops along the spine.
From Eagle, buses will serve stops along Highway 6 and loop through Gypsum, much like they do now. Collier doesn't plan to change those stops much, if at all.
“The Eagle-Gypsum route had a 37 percent increase in passengers in 2012 over 2011,” she said. “Our aim is to fit the needs of the community, and we're just trying to be more efficient.”
Parks Department Director Paul Northam at a recent city parks authority meeting presented a financial report related to the Jeffersonville Ice Rink that was open from Nov. 23 through the last weekend in January. According to the report, expenses for the ice rink totaled $125,935 and revenue was $50,088, resulting in a loss of $75,847. The city posted a loss of $77,692 for operating the link last year.
Northam explained that while expenses were cut by about $20,000, revenues also dropped by about the same amount.Elpas Readers detect and forward 'Location' and 'State' data from Elpas Active RFID Tags to host molds platforms.
“A big part of that reason was we had three days that we had to close last year,” he said. “We closed 11 days this year and most of those 11 days were Saturdays and Sundays, which are our big days.”
“City services should not be in the business of making a profit,” said Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore.
He added that he thinks the ice rink is a great idea if managed properly and while there is no measurable impact, the ice rink is definitely an economic tool for the city and its businesses.
Moore’s comment about management of the rink related to a payment made to Walnut Ridge Nursery and Garden Center of $10,000.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original ventilationsystem Descriptions.
“I’m not comfortable with a council member’s business being paid for work that affects a city project,” he said.
However, Councilman Dennis Julius, an owner of Walnut Ridge, said his business gave the city a cost break on landscaping at the ice rink. The company was hired by the city’s parks department for the work.
“Doing what we do costs us a lot more than $10,000,” he said. “If I was going to do that for another community it would be more than $10,000. It’s quite involved. We don’t just plop a tree down.”
Julius explained that a large portion of the costs involved were the labor in transporting trees — which can weigh up to a ton — to the rink and planting them in temporary planting beds.Make your house a home with Border and iphoneheadset Tiles. That cost also included stringing up decorative lights on the trees and above the skating rink.
Julius provided the cost outline for Walnut Ridge’s expenses to the News and Tribune.
According to the report, the total cost to complete the landscaping was more than $14,900, with $6,500 of the cost for labor. The difference in the amount billed and the total cost to Walnut Ridge was donated to the city.
The value of the plants used was nearly $13,400, according to the report.
“What we want it to look like in the evening is for it to look like you’re walking through [a] park,” he said of the atmosphere created.
As far as the purpose of the rink and the loss incurred by the city, Julius said he would continue to support the project as long as the community supports it.
“I think it’s a successful project,” he said.A Dessicant buymosaic is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal. “That’s a true quality-of-life issue. It brings a lot of people to the downtown which we wanted it to do from the beginning.”
Jay Ellis, executive director of Jeffersonville Main Street Inc.Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using cableties., said businesses downtown did get a boost from the ice skating rink.
“It may not be immediately quantifiable, but it does create an impact to downtown businesses,” he said. “It’s more than just an economic impact — it’s really a cultural asset for Jeffersonville.”
And for the businesses, even if the draw of the rink does not translate into a direct sale, Ellis said they are still being exposed to a new market and a new customer that may otherwise not have come to the area.
“You [could] drive by [the rink] and see 100 people who may not normally be in downtown Jeffersonville,” he said. “I think overall the response that I get is most of the businesses are very happy having this down here. I think it’s something other communities admire.”
The extra challenge facing the ECO Transit team is to implement the changes — essentially better service — with the same operating budget and resources. Put another way, Collier is heading an effort to turn one bus into two.
On the I-70 spine, buses will run from Vail to Eagle, stopping at Lionshead, Minturn, Avon and Edwards in between. Other buses will serve routes within those “hub” communities and along U.S. Highway 6. The idea is to provide fast transportation up and down the valley with hub service that takes people to their final destinations from the six stops along the spine.
From Eagle, buses will serve stops along Highway 6 and loop through Gypsum, much like they do now. Collier doesn't plan to change those stops much, if at all.
“The Eagle-Gypsum route had a 37 percent increase in passengers in 2012 over 2011,” she said. “Our aim is to fit the needs of the community, and we're just trying to be more efficient.”
Parks Department Director Paul Northam at a recent city parks authority meeting presented a financial report related to the Jeffersonville Ice Rink that was open from Nov. 23 through the last weekend in January. According to the report, expenses for the ice rink totaled $125,935 and revenue was $50,088, resulting in a loss of $75,847. The city posted a loss of $77,692 for operating the link last year.
Northam explained that while expenses were cut by about $20,000, revenues also dropped by about the same amount.Elpas Readers detect and forward 'Location' and 'State' data from Elpas Active RFID Tags to host molds platforms.
“A big part of that reason was we had three days that we had to close last year,” he said. “We closed 11 days this year and most of those 11 days were Saturdays and Sundays, which are our big days.”
“City services should not be in the business of making a profit,” said Jeffersonville Mayor Mike Moore.
He added that he thinks the ice rink is a great idea if managed properly and while there is no measurable impact, the ice rink is definitely an economic tool for the city and its businesses.
Moore’s comment about management of the rink related to a payment made to Walnut Ridge Nursery and Garden Center of $10,000.You Can Find Comprehensive and in-Depth Original ventilationsystem Descriptions.
“I’m not comfortable with a council member’s business being paid for work that affects a city project,” he said.
However, Councilman Dennis Julius, an owner of Walnut Ridge, said his business gave the city a cost break on landscaping at the ice rink. The company was hired by the city’s parks department for the work.
“Doing what we do costs us a lot more than $10,000,” he said. “If I was going to do that for another community it would be more than $10,000. It’s quite involved. We don’t just plop a tree down.”
Julius explained that a large portion of the costs involved were the labor in transporting trees — which can weigh up to a ton — to the rink and planting them in temporary planting beds.Make your house a home with Border and iphoneheadset Tiles. That cost also included stringing up decorative lights on the trees and above the skating rink.
Julius provided the cost outline for Walnut Ridge’s expenses to the News and Tribune.
According to the report, the total cost to complete the landscaping was more than $14,900, with $6,500 of the cost for labor. The difference in the amount billed and the total cost to Walnut Ridge was donated to the city.
The value of the plants used was nearly $13,400, according to the report.
“What we want it to look like in the evening is for it to look like you’re walking through [a] park,” he said of the atmosphere created.
As far as the purpose of the rink and the loss incurred by the city, Julius said he would continue to support the project as long as the community supports it.
“I think it’s a successful project,” he said.A Dessicant buymosaic is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal. “That’s a true quality-of-life issue. It brings a lot of people to the downtown which we wanted it to do from the beginning.”
Jay Ellis, executive director of Jeffersonville Main Street Inc.Automate patient flow and quickly track hospital assets and people using cableties., said businesses downtown did get a boost from the ice skating rink.
“It may not be immediately quantifiable, but it does create an impact to downtown businesses,” he said. “It’s more than just an economic impact — it’s really a cultural asset for Jeffersonville.”
And for the businesses, even if the draw of the rink does not translate into a direct sale, Ellis said they are still being exposed to a new market and a new customer that may otherwise not have come to the area.
“You [could] drive by [the rink] and see 100 people who may not normally be in downtown Jeffersonville,” he said. “I think overall the response that I get is most of the businesses are very happy having this down here. I think it’s something other communities admire.”
Emerging tech to boost auto IC market
Military-like night-vision systems that quickly identify pedestrians,
animals or road hazards in low-light conditions; airbags stowed in
shoulder harnesses of seatbelts; and the ability for drivers to
customise the look of their dashboard instrument panels are examples of
systems that are available in a select number of cars now, but will soon
become available in many more vehicles. Along with backup cameras,
electronic stability control, active-cruise control, and several other
systems covered in the IC Market Drivers report,Creative glass tile and lanyard
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forecast to help the automotive IC market grow 52 per cent from $18.2
billion in 2012 to $27.7 billion in 2016.We specialize in floortiles. This growth translates to an average annual increase of 11% for the automotive IC market.
Analog ICs and MCUs are forecast to benefit most from the increasing electronic content within automobiles. According to the IC Market Drivers report, analogue ICs accounted for 41 per cent of the 2012 automotive IC market. Analog ICs are used in "traditional" applications such as to gauge input functions like speed measurement and for output functions like opening and closing power windows and adjusting power seats. One of the newer applications for analogue ICs in cars is LED lighting. Depending on the application, LED drivers and various converters are used to supply constant current despite variations in battery voltage.
Microcontrollers accounted for 36 per cent of the automotive IC market in 2012.Looking for the Best solarpanel? 16bit applications in chassis and safety applications (lane-detection warning, hands-free telematics,A Dessicant buymosaic is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal. etc.) are increasing, but enhanced 8bit and low-end 32bit MCUs are competing for many of the same sockets as 16bit controllers. Applications like anti-skid braking and airbag systems are solidly 16bit now, but are transitioning to larger bit widths. Electronic parking assist could be a new sweet spot for 16bit MCUs. These systems typically use two to four (but as many as eight) ultrasonic sensors to detect objects near the vehicle. Processing the additional information drives the requirements into the domain of 16bit devices.
The 32bit chips are incorporated into powertrains to handle functions such as electronic throttle control, cylinder deactivation, variable valve timing, and fuel injection, and in next-generation chassis and safety systems including active high-end electronic stability control, complex smart airbag systems, and more. In addition, 32bit MCUs are used to process sophisticated, real-time sensor functions within safety and crash-avoidance systems.
Gesture recognition is a growing trend that is being incorporated both inside and outside the car. 32bit MCUs are at the core of many emerging gesture-recognition systems and in many ways, they are an extension of gesture-recognition technology found in video game controllers.
In my experience, if you ask senior leaders if they would fire a sales manager whose team missed quota three years in a row, they usually say yes. If you ask them if they would fire a plant manager whose facility had a poor safety record for three consecutive years, they would say yes. But ask if they would fire a manager whose workgroup had low engagement scores three years in a row, and they're not so sure.
Firing a manager for low employee engagement scores is a gray area for most leaders.
Firing a manager for low employee engagement scores is a gray area for most leaders because they may see a number of mitigating factors. For example, a manager's engagement scores may be lagging, but his team's productivity and profitability numbers seem to be holding steady. Or a manager may have carried out layoffs that the company's executive committee demanded, which could explain her team's lower engagement levels. In some companies, the human resources department may be uncomfortable using engagement scores in a termination decision.
Whatever the case, most companies lack a framework to determine if and when managers who create disengaging workplaces need to go. Without that process in place, companies can leave poor managers in their jobs for too long. The following framework -- based on clear performance expectations -- can help you identify potentially harmful managers so you can reposition them in the company or remove them.
Disengaged workgroups that outperform company averages on other key metrics are rare outliers; persistent disengagement generally leads to higher turnover and to lower productivity, lower customer engagement, and reduced profit. Still, every company will have these outliers, such as a sales manager who is very difficult to work for but who puts up great numbers on his own year after year or a manager with such rare technical expertise that replacing her would be very difficult.
Managers with specialized knowledge and skills present leaders with a hard choice. Leaders must either give them training and support to help them improve as managers or move them out of management and into roles as individual contributors.
Gallup research shows that people without the talent to manage will improve only slightly when given remedial management training. Propping up a failing manager won't help his workgroup thrive -- it just prolongs the situation that is disengaging the team. And it won't do the manager much good either; he is likely disengaged himself because he is being asked to do a job that doesn't match his talents. So if a manager has valuable knowledge or specialized skills,The term 'streetlight control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. it's probably best to reassign him or create a role.
Analog ICs and MCUs are forecast to benefit most from the increasing electronic content within automobiles. According to the IC Market Drivers report, analogue ICs accounted for 41 per cent of the 2012 automotive IC market. Analog ICs are used in "traditional" applications such as to gauge input functions like speed measurement and for output functions like opening and closing power windows and adjusting power seats. One of the newer applications for analogue ICs in cars is LED lighting. Depending on the application, LED drivers and various converters are used to supply constant current despite variations in battery voltage.
Microcontrollers accounted for 36 per cent of the automotive IC market in 2012.Looking for the Best solarpanel? 16bit applications in chassis and safety applications (lane-detection warning, hands-free telematics,A Dessicant buymosaic is an enclosure with a supply of desiccant which maintains an internal. etc.) are increasing, but enhanced 8bit and low-end 32bit MCUs are competing for many of the same sockets as 16bit controllers. Applications like anti-skid braking and airbag systems are solidly 16bit now, but are transitioning to larger bit widths. Electronic parking assist could be a new sweet spot for 16bit MCUs. These systems typically use two to four (but as many as eight) ultrasonic sensors to detect objects near the vehicle. Processing the additional information drives the requirements into the domain of 16bit devices.
The 32bit chips are incorporated into powertrains to handle functions such as electronic throttle control, cylinder deactivation, variable valve timing, and fuel injection, and in next-generation chassis and safety systems including active high-end electronic stability control, complex smart airbag systems, and more. In addition, 32bit MCUs are used to process sophisticated, real-time sensor functions within safety and crash-avoidance systems.
Gesture recognition is a growing trend that is being incorporated both inside and outside the car. 32bit MCUs are at the core of many emerging gesture-recognition systems and in many ways, they are an extension of gesture-recognition technology found in video game controllers.
In my experience, if you ask senior leaders if they would fire a sales manager whose team missed quota three years in a row, they usually say yes. If you ask them if they would fire a plant manager whose facility had a poor safety record for three consecutive years, they would say yes. But ask if they would fire a manager whose workgroup had low engagement scores three years in a row, and they're not so sure.
Firing a manager for low employee engagement scores is a gray area for most leaders.
Firing a manager for low employee engagement scores is a gray area for most leaders because they may see a number of mitigating factors. For example, a manager's engagement scores may be lagging, but his team's productivity and profitability numbers seem to be holding steady. Or a manager may have carried out layoffs that the company's executive committee demanded, which could explain her team's lower engagement levels. In some companies, the human resources department may be uncomfortable using engagement scores in a termination decision.
Whatever the case, most companies lack a framework to determine if and when managers who create disengaging workplaces need to go. Without that process in place, companies can leave poor managers in their jobs for too long. The following framework -- based on clear performance expectations -- can help you identify potentially harmful managers so you can reposition them in the company or remove them.
Disengaged workgroups that outperform company averages on other key metrics are rare outliers; persistent disengagement generally leads to higher turnover and to lower productivity, lower customer engagement, and reduced profit. Still, every company will have these outliers, such as a sales manager who is very difficult to work for but who puts up great numbers on his own year after year or a manager with such rare technical expertise that replacing her would be very difficult.
Managers with specialized knowledge and skills present leaders with a hard choice. Leaders must either give them training and support to help them improve as managers or move them out of management and into roles as individual contributors.
Gallup research shows that people without the talent to manage will improve only slightly when given remedial management training. Propping up a failing manager won't help his workgroup thrive -- it just prolongs the situation that is disengaging the team. And it won't do the manager much good either; he is likely disengaged himself because he is being asked to do a job that doesn't match his talents. So if a manager has valuable knowledge or specialized skills,The term 'streetlight control' means the token that identifies a user is read from within a pocket or handbag. it's probably best to reassign him or create a role.
Last Surviving Member Of WWII Unit That Captured Japan's Hideki Tojo Dies
Wilpers died Thursday at an assisted living facility near his home in
Garrett Park, Md., his son John J. Wilpers III said Monday.
The upstate New York native was part of a five-man unit ordered to arrest Tojo at his home in a Tokyo suburb on Sept. 11, 1945, nine days after Japan's surrender ended the war. While the soldiers were outside, Tojo attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Wilpers ordered a Japanese doctor at gunpoint to treat Tojo until an American doctor arrived.
Tojo survived, was convicted of war crimes and was executed in December 1948.
Wilpers, a retired CIA employee,Stock up now and start saving on smartcard at Dollar Days. didn't give media interviews until 2010, when he was awarded a belated Bronze Star by the Army.
"He was terribly proud of what he did but was not boastful," his son John told The Associated Press.
Wilpers, a 25-year-old lieutenant from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was on the detail Gen. Douglas MacArthur dispatched to arrest Tojo, sought by the Allied powers so he could be tried for atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the war, including the Bataan Death March.
After arriving at Tojo's house, the Americans heard a gunshot from inside. Wilpers kicked in a door to find Tojo slumped in a chair, his white shirt covered in blood. The bullet had missed his heart but left Tojo severely wounded.
According to reporters and photographers who followed the unit into the room and Wilper's own account given to the AP three years ago, Tojo's house staff and a Japanese doctor were reluctant to help the wounded man until Wilpers pointed his gun at the physician and ordered him to start treatment. An American Army doctor and medical staff eventually showed up and kept Tojo from dying.
A famous photograph published in Yank magazine shows Wilpers pointing his gun at the bloodied Tojo.
Wilpers went on to a 33-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He and his wife, Marian, who died in 2006, raised five children while living in a Washington, D.C., suburb, but he didn't tell any of them about his wartime experiences until decades later. He didn't give media interviews until 2010, when Pentagon officials held a ceremony to award him the Bronze Star he earned for arresting Tojo.
"It was a job we were told to do and we did it," Wilpers told the AP in September 2010, just before the 65th anniversary of Tojo's capture. "After, it was, `Let's move on. Let's get back to the U.S.'"
Known as Jack to his family and friends, Wilpers was born in Albany, N.Y., in 1919 and grew up in nearby Saratoga Springs, where his father worked as a bookie in the famous horse racing town. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 and transferred to a counterintelligence unit. He arrived in the Pacific Theater in 1944 and served in New Guinea, the Philippines and Okinawa before being among the first American troops to enter Japan after the surrender.
Certainly not the aesthetics. The Z77N-WiFi is served on a matte black circuit board lined with matching components and a pewter-colored chipset heatsink. The tops of the capacitors provide a subtle splash of purple to an otherwise monochromatic palette.Manufactures flexible plastic and synthetic stonemosaic and hose. This is one good-looking motherboard, even if the green Mini PCI Express wireless card doesn't quite match.
From above, we can easily spot one difference between the Z77N-WiFi and most of its contemporaries: the auxiliary 12V power connector is a four-pin unit rather than an eight-pin one. Four-pin 12V power is sufficient for even a top-of-the-line Core i7-3770K processor, at least at stock speeds, but it's clear this board wasn't designed with headroom for extreme overclocking.
The underlying Z77 Express platform hub puts no limits on extra-curricular clock boosting, offering unrestricted access to the CPU multipliers on K-series processors. However, Mini-ITX systems are far from ideal for overclocking. The form factor's tiny 6.7" x 6.7" footprint crowds the socket, and most Mini-ITX enclosures leave little room for beefy coolers. You can get sense of the socket's proximity to other components in the picture below. We've measured the distance between the CPU retention bracket and several landmarks, including the PCIe slot, the closest DIMM slot, and the edges of the board.
The wires run past a quartet of Serial ATA ports, two of which operate at 6Gbps speeds. You won't find an open mSATA slot onboard, which is a little surprising given Gigabyte's penchant for putting mini SSD slots on its full-sized motherboards. mSATA slots are usually limited to 3Gbps data rates, so you're better off using one of the 6Gbps ports with a 2.5" SSD.
Next to the SATA ports sits the front-panel connector array. The individual pins are color-coded but unlabeled, so the manual will have to be consulted when wiring the case. Since making front-panel connections inside a cramped Mini-ITX chassis can be a little awkward, Gigabyte ought to include a separate pin block to simplify the process. Front-panel pin blocks should really come standard with every enthusiast-oriented motherboard.
There's only one Realtek chip driving the integrated audio; it feeds a nice mix of analog jacks and a digital S/PDIF output. Surround-sound digital output is supported for content with pre-encoded tracks, like movies and music, but not for games, which require real-time encoding.We can supply injectionmold products as below. The Realtek drivers can virtualize surround sound for stereo devices. However, this feature works only when paired with Matrix-compatible receivers. You can't just plug in any old pair of headphones and get pseudo-3D audio.
While the Z77N-WiFi's built-in audio is pretty basic, the integrated wireless is anything but pedestrian. An Intel wireless card provides not only 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.Posts with howotractor system on TRX Systems develops systems that locate and track personnel indoors.0, but also WiDi. Otherwise known as Intel Wireless Display, this tech can broadcast 1080p video to remote displays, a capability that might come in handy if you're running a projector or have no elegant way to string an HDMI cable to your TV. A compatible WiDi receiver is required at the display, though.
WiDi is pretty neat, but I wish it allowed mobile devices to broadcast content to home-theater PCs. The HTPC would need a WiDi-compatible adapter,Explore online some of the many available selections in drycabinet. of course, but it could be connected to any old display over a standard cable. Intel tells me this scenario is technically feasible, but it's unclear when or even if WiDi will provide such functionality.
The upstate New York native was part of a five-man unit ordered to arrest Tojo at his home in a Tokyo suburb on Sept. 11, 1945, nine days after Japan's surrender ended the war. While the soldiers were outside, Tojo attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Wilpers ordered a Japanese doctor at gunpoint to treat Tojo until an American doctor arrived.
Tojo survived, was convicted of war crimes and was executed in December 1948.
Wilpers, a retired CIA employee,Stock up now and start saving on smartcard at Dollar Days. didn't give media interviews until 2010, when he was awarded a belated Bronze Star by the Army.
"He was terribly proud of what he did but was not boastful," his son John told The Associated Press.
Wilpers, a 25-year-old lieutenant from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., was on the detail Gen. Douglas MacArthur dispatched to arrest Tojo, sought by the Allied powers so he could be tried for atrocities committed by Japanese troops during the war, including the Bataan Death March.
After arriving at Tojo's house, the Americans heard a gunshot from inside. Wilpers kicked in a door to find Tojo slumped in a chair, his white shirt covered in blood. The bullet had missed his heart but left Tojo severely wounded.
According to reporters and photographers who followed the unit into the room and Wilper's own account given to the AP three years ago, Tojo's house staff and a Japanese doctor were reluctant to help the wounded man until Wilpers pointed his gun at the physician and ordered him to start treatment. An American Army doctor and medical staff eventually showed up and kept Tojo from dying.
A famous photograph published in Yank magazine shows Wilpers pointing his gun at the bloodied Tojo.
Wilpers went on to a 33-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. He and his wife, Marian, who died in 2006, raised five children while living in a Washington, D.C., suburb, but he didn't tell any of them about his wartime experiences until decades later. He didn't give media interviews until 2010, when Pentagon officials held a ceremony to award him the Bronze Star he earned for arresting Tojo.
"It was a job we were told to do and we did it," Wilpers told the AP in September 2010, just before the 65th anniversary of Tojo's capture. "After, it was, `Let's move on. Let's get back to the U.S.'"
Known as Jack to his family and friends, Wilpers was born in Albany, N.Y., in 1919 and grew up in nearby Saratoga Springs, where his father worked as a bookie in the famous horse racing town. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 and transferred to a counterintelligence unit. He arrived in the Pacific Theater in 1944 and served in New Guinea, the Philippines and Okinawa before being among the first American troops to enter Japan after the surrender.
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