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This describes a PDX package exported using the current PDXpert release. Earlier releases may be different.
Content topic numbers refer to the corresponding section in each IPC standard.
As-built data is created by a downstream manufacturing process. These elements are not included in a PDXpert PDX package.
IPC-2571 sections 2.4 and 3 refer to data compression using RFC 1952 V4.3 ("GZip"), which limits a compressed PDX package to 2GB (231 bytes). PDXpert releases 12.2 and earlier conform to this limit.
For determining whether a PDXpert collection name or internal enumeration matches an IPC-2571 enumeration value, all whitespace is removed from both elements and the resulting values are compared (case-insensitive). If the computed values match, then the IPC-2571 enumeration is applied; otherwise Other is applied to the attribute value, and the original PDXpert value is applied to the attributeOther value.
For example, after processing, PDXpert's BOM Type Codes collection member Direct material matches the PDX globalBillOfMaterialTypeCode enumeration DirectMaterial, so the latter is added to the package. However, Direct-Material does not match, so Other/Direct-Material is used.
IPC-2578 separates parts into two categories: Items and ManufacturerParts. PDXpert follows this definition by exporting all items owned by the PDXpert home organization as Items; parts and documents are separated using the Item.itemClassification attribute. All partner items are exported as	ManufacturerParts; parts and documents are separated using the AdditionalAttribute itemClassification element.
The IPC specification permits a BillOfMaterial list on an Item, but not on a ManufacturerPart. Therefore, if a partner part has a BOM, its PDX package includes the child components, but not the BOM structure (Find, quantity, RefDes, etc.).
The home organization is always included as the first Contact (Organization) element in the Contacts group, even if it is otherwise not referenced within the PDX package.
Except as noted, the order in which elements are added is undefined. The order in which attributes are added is also undefined, but the tables present their preferred order for readability in a PDX reader.
The element topics are ordered alphabetically.
An AdditionalAttribute describes one property's name and value within an AdditionalAttributes parent group.
An AdditionalAttribute element is always optional, and is not written to the PDX package if the value isn't useful.
Omit if a trimmed string is zero-length (for example, include Item element's globalTradeIdentificationNumber or notes only if the trimmed length is greater than zero.
Omit if a numeric value is NULL. Numeric 0 values are useful and are always included.
Omit if an item type has an optional attribute, such as an item's Auxiliary Person, and that option is disabled.
Where there are separate PDXpert fields for an attribute value and its related unit of measure, these are combined into a single value/dimension pair.
The content of each AdditionalAttribute element varies based on the containing element. Refer to the parent element of each AdditionalAttributes group for more information.
AdditionalAttributes represent a named group used to describe optional element properties that are not defined within the IPC-2571 specification. Any number of groups can be created and labeled, and each group contains one or more AdditionalAttribute elements.
This element identifies one item that's affected by a change, and contained within the AffectedItems list.
Each element is added to the PDX package sorted by row number (rowNumber).
itemUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the affected Item element.
This element contains the complete list of items affected by a Change.
This element identifies an alias contained within an item's AlternateIdentifiers collection.
Not implemented in a current PDXpert release.
This element contains all alternate identifiers associated with a particular item or part.
A single item that's functionally equivalent to a BillOfMaterialItem.
itemUniqueIdentifier required IDREF PUID that refers to the alternate Item element.
This is the element that collects the set of functionally equivalent items for a specific BillOfMaterialItem.
This element is the approved sources list for a specified part.
This element describes a single approved source (manufacturer + part number) within the ApprovedManufacturerList.
In PDXpert 10.0 and later, the user's organization and assigned role determines which manufacturer sources are included in the package.
These elements are added to the PDX package sorted by Rank number (globalPreferredStatusCode).
manufacturerPartUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the approved ManufacturerPart element.
manufacturerContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the manufacturer's Contact (Organization) element.
This element describes a single manufacturer part markup from a collection of ApprovedManufacturerListMarkups.
This element points to a manufacturer part that will be, or has been, approved for use.
This element points to a manufacturer part that will be, or has been, disapproved for use.
This element collects the set of approved source markups for a specific AffectedItem.
This element contains the list of all distributors, and their part numbers, for a manufacturer part.
This element contains a single instance of a distributor and its part number for a manufacturer part.
supplierPartUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF1 PUID that refers to the approved SupplierPart element.
supplierPartContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the supplier's Contact (Organization) element.
IPC-2578 calls for ID but the intent appears to be consistent with ApprovedManufacturerListItem / ManufacturerPart. If this is retained as an ID, then neither this attribute nor the SupplierPart element's supplierPartUniqueIdentifier has any defined use.
This element identifies a change reviewer within a Change's list of Approvers.
Each element is added to the PDX package sorted by approval sequence number (approvalSequence).
approverContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the reviewer's Contact (Person) element.
This element contains the set of all approvers for a single Change.
This element describes a product produced in a specified quantity.
This element describes one file contained within, or external to, the PDX package.
Revision files and change form files are included (isFileIn="Yes") in the PDX package. Document and part item files are identified but not included (isFileIn="No"). Web links (URIs) are included but the URI objects are not.
Item files are background or historical records such as proposals/sketches, budget spreadsheets, vendor quotes, customer emails, etc. These are rarely useful to the supply chain, and can substantially increase the PDX file size or compromise private information. Item-level attachments are identified in case the supply chain partner decides to inquire about a file that might be useful.
This element describes a single file attachment markup within a collection of AttachmentMarkups.
This element points to an added file attachment within a AttachmentMarkup.
This element points to a removed file attachment within a AttachmentMarkup.
This element collects the set of file attachments being changed on one AffectedItem.
This element is a collection of one or more files attached to another object in the PDX package.
This element contains the set of lower-level "child" component items within a higher-level "parent" assembly Item.
Within an item's BillOfMaterial list, this element identifies the row that contains a unique child component item, with the quantity needed to make the parent item.
Each element is added to the PDX package sorted by Find number (proprietarySequenceIdentifier).
billOfMaterialItemUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the BOM row's Item element.
Included when the component part's default unit of measure is permitted to be overridden with a compatible unit of measure on the BOM.
This element describes a proposed child item change as part of a BillOfMaterialMarkups collection.
This element points to a new "child" component item within a "parent" assembly BillOfMaterialMarkup.
This element points to an old "child" component item within a "parent" assembly BillOfMaterialMarkup.
This element contains each BoM markup within one AffectedItem.
This is the element that describes a single change within the Changes collection.
changeOwnerContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers the analyst's Contact (Person) element.
changeOriginatedByContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers the originator's Contact (Person) element.
As defined by the Custom property descriptor on the item type collection member.
As entered on the item's Custom list.
If custom attribute's Scheme is Collection, then apply the collection member's name; otherwise, apply the attribute value.
If custom attribute's Scheme is UOM, then this is the unit of measure; if Scheme is Money, then this is the ISO currency code; otherwise empty.
The PDXpert custom attribute's Scheme determines the IPC-2571 data type: UOM=Double; Boolean=Boolean; Date=DateTime; Float=Double; Integer=Decimal; Money=Decimal; String=String; URI=UriReference; Collection=String.
This element contains a set of history records about one Item.
This element identifies a specific change contained within the ChangeHistory set of all changes that have affected an item.
This element lists each change within the PDX package.
The Characteristics element is the set of all Item properties that are not otherwise defined within the IPC-2578 specification.
This element identifies the configuration of a particular ProductInstance.
This element describes one contact within a collection of Contacts. Contact elements have a dual role in IPC-2571: as a human (PDXpert Persons) and as a legal entity (PDXpert Organizations). To support these separate roles, PDXpert (and many other PDX generators) broadly define Contact attributes like contactName.
This element identifies a set of roles within a larger collection of ContactRoles.
This element identifies a set of roles for a particular Contact.
This element is the list of all person & organization contacts within the PDX package.
This element describes an enumerated characteristic (with source of the permitted enumerations) of an item's Characteristics collection.
This element identifies one role from a set defined by a ContactRole collection.
This element is a collection of one or more history items that trace user actions affecting PLM objects.
This element describes one history item (an action taken by a user at a point in time) within a collection of HistoryItems.
userContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers the user's Contact (Person) element.
This element identifies a unique home organization part or document within the PDX package's Items collection.
ownerContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the trustee's Contact (Person) element.
The item's Part Types or Document Types member name.
Part or document Number value.
The IPC-2571 standard does not explicitly define References. PDXpert uses the AdditionalAttributes element to include a referenced item, which is added to the Items list. That item includes the referenced item's attributes; attachments for revision (isFileIn=Yes) and item (isFileIn=No) files; materials; and change history. The PDX specification's AdditionalAttributes element doesn't support a recursive structure, and therefore a PDX package excludes the referenced item's own references, sources and BOM items. If your supply chain partner needs these details, the referenced item must be exported in its own PDX package.
In PDXpert 10.0 and later, the user's organization and assigned role determines which references are included in the package.
Part 100004 Rev 1 has a reference within the PDXpert.References list.
The PDXpert.References list contains a Specification 10102.
The Specification 10102 Rev B is listed with other items. It has two file attachments.
This element contains the list of all "home" physical part and document elements within the PDX package. It excludes partner items.
This element identifies the manufactured lot (batch) for a particular ProductInstance.
This element identifies one partner organization part or document within the PDX package's ManufacturerParts list.
manufacturerContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers the manufacturer's Contact (Organization) element.
ownerContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers the trustee's Contact (Person) element.
The IPC-2571 standard does not define References, and a PDX package has limited support for referenced items. An item that's included in the PDX package only because it's referenced by another item will be included in the Items list. That element includes the item's attributes; attachments for revision (isFileIn=Yes) and item (isFileIn=No) files; materials; and change history. The PDX package does not include the referenced item's own references, sources or BOM items. If your supply chain partner needs these revision-level lists, the referenced item must be exported in its own PDX package.
This element contains the list of all manufacturer ("partner") parts contained in the PDX package.
This element describes a measurable or measured characteristic (with tolerance) of an item's Characteristics collection.
This element identifies the packaging container (carton and/or pallet) for a particular ProductInstance.
This element identifies one process step for producing a particular ProductInstance.
This element is the root XML node for all other PDX package elements and attributes.
This element describes a single production unit within an AsBuiltProduct collection.
itemUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the product instance's Item element.
This element specifies the digital security certificate for a particular Contact.
This element describes a ranged characteristic (with upper and lower values, as well as tolerance) of an item's Characteristics collection.
This element identifies a single reference to a BillOfMaterialItem component within the ReferenceDesignators collection.
The rules for identifying quantity and format errors in PDXpert's BOM Markup RefDes field are used to create these elements. If the BOM row has an incorrect number of RefDes or contains format errors, the number of ReferenceDesignator elements may not match the BillOfMaterialItem row's itemQuantity value.
This element contains the set of reference designators for a specific BillOfMaterialItem. Typically the number of ReferenceDesignator elements in the set is equal to the BillOfMaterialItem's quantity value.
This element identifies a single serial number within the SerialNumbers collection.
This element identifies a set of sequentially-serialized items within the SerialNumbers collection.
This element contains the set of serial numbers for instances of an Item or a BillOfMaterialItem.
This element describes one distributor/supplier part within the SupplierParts collection.
supplierContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers the supplier's Contact (Organization) element.
description optional String ManufacturerPart part name.
ownerName optional String ManufacturerPart trustee name.
ownerContactUniqueIdentifier optional IDREF PUID that refers to the ManufacturerPart trustee's Contact (Person) element.
This element contains the list of all supplier parts.
This element describes a text characteristic (with source of the allowed textual values) of an item's Characteristics collection.
This element identifies the work order authorizing a particular ProductInstance.


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Ev'ry wise man's son doth know.
2 [sic] ; and Hall: "farther"
5 Korngold: "come and kiss"
Note: In Steele's score, "Heigh" is spelled "Hey"
3 not set by Arne.
5 Clearfield, Holman: "That does"
7 Clearfield: "a friend"; Steele: "friends"

industry_corpus2: Others


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A number one foreign economist appears to be like at a number of the key problems with exchange coverage now confronting the U.S. and the realm during this well timed publication. transparent, informative, and witty, Jagdish Bhagwati offers the simplest on hand research of the security debate and provides a prescription for reform during this turbulent sector of exchange coverage. Bhagwati identifies new and robust pursuits and ideologies which are more likely to dominate the result of the talk. He argues that opposing traits should be pointed out in trade-related ideologies and within the nationwide and sectional pursuits that foyer on alternate coverage in pluralistic societies. He bargains the analysis that the forces favoring freer alternate are extra strong and extra primary than the forces of protectionism, and that professional exchange forces are inclined to triumph in any case yet provided that we adapt safely the associations in which those ideologies and pursuits needs to functionality. via an beautiful mixture of textual content, quotations, cartoons, tables, charts, and graphs, Bhagwati presents a masterly and interesting examine the forces for and opposed to security. Jagdish Bhagwati is Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Professor of Political technological know-how at Columbia collage. Protectionism relies at the inaugural sequence of Ohlin Lectures, which he introduced on the Stockholm institution of Economics in October of 1987.
This e-book constitutes the refereed complaints of the seventh overseas convention on Geographic details technology, GIScience 2012, held in Columbus, OH, united states in September 2012. The 26 complete papers awarded have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from fifty seven submissions. whereas the conventional learn subject matters are good mirrored within the papers, rising themes that contain new learn hot-spots similar to cyber infrastructure, tremendous info, web-based computing additionally occupy a good portion of the amount.
This booklet constitutes the refereed complaints of the fifth overseas Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and purposes, SAGA 2009, held in Sapporo, Japan, in October 2009. The 15 revised complete papers provided including 2 invited papers have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from 22 submissions.
At the verge of the worldwide details society, businesses are competing for markets which are turning into worldwide and pushed via patron call for, and the place turning out to be specialisation is pushing them to target center advantage and search for partnerships to supply services. concurrently the general public calls for environmentally sustainable industries and urges brands to brain the full existence span in their items and construction assets.
This examine has been lengthy within the making, and the realm has replaced dramatically whereas we have now been at paintings. We first and foremost expected a considerable part at the Soviet-dominated Council for Mutual fiscal suggestions (CMEA or "COMECON"), which provided an attractive distinction to the type of foreign enterprise regime normally stumbled on between market-oriented international locations and industries.
For another discussion of VERs relative to Article XIX, see Hindley 1987. Â < previous page < previous page page_47 page_48 next page > next page > Page 48 age-minimizing ways in which pro-trade administrations have coped with protectionist pressures (a theme I will develop below). Countervailing Duties and Anti-Dumping Provisions: Capturing the "Fair Trade" Provisions An altogether different phenomenon is the translation of protectionist pressure into a "capture" of the mechanisms for maintaining fair tradeespecially countervailing duties (CVDs) and anti-dumping (AD) provisions.
They arise from the increased globalization and interdependence in the world economy, through trade and direct foreign investment. Their impact has been obscured by the protectionism of the last decade, but their emergence and their promise cannot be doubted. Â < previous page < previous page page_71 page_72 next page > next page > Page 72 The Traditional Imbalance of Interests International economists have long been frustrated by the dissonance between the elegance of their irrefutable demonstration of the advantages of free trade and the inelegance with which practical politics embraces protection.
10) 9 Finger et al. (1982, p. 454) make the altogether different criticism that these dispute-settlement mechanisms and institutions "by design . . " 10 Finger and Nogues (1987, p. S. , and by the end of 1985 several hundred pieces of trade legislation had been proposed" (to deal with unfair trading practices). Â < previous page page_49 next page > 35 36 < previous page page_50 next page > Page 50 The capture of these procedures by protectionists is facilitated by the fact that the descriptions and characterizations of concepts such as "fair value" (used in determining and deterring dumping) are inherently vague and can therefore be interpreted restrictively and with bias against foreign suppliers.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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This weekend Comic Conventions headed north of the border to celebrate the Scottish passion for comics. In fairness, it was probably long overdue, but when the gracious offer came through of free lodgings, it was a quick visit to Easyjet’s website and the next thing you know we were on our way from the south west of England to the city of Glasgow for what was the second year of the convention.
The first thing that hit you about the convention was the venue. It was…weird. It really was a deconsecrated church with a small back room; a frozen shrine to the talents of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. In many respects, think of a normal convention in reverse. The main area of this convention was the area you gathered around to listen to the creators and guests on a variety of panels whilst the small area contained a few retailers and later on, a couple of tables (a story for later!). There was a second room over the road which was the size of a small village hall with some more retail and small press tables present and another couple of tables for signings and sketches tucked into the corner.
This was a bit of a downside to the event. You had to be a fan of the panels to get the best out of the convention. Yes, some are great and really interesting, others perhaps don’t pique your curiousity giving you (at other conventions) the choice to return to the main convention area until someone else came along. Here, there wasn’t really anywhere you could do that, it was very much a case of standing in the small retailers room or being in the talks or sitting on the wall outside when it wasn’t raining. For sure, they had some great guests though but you couldn’t help think that given a better venue, a lot more could have been wrung out of the event and the guests.
There was also a bit of a feeling of disorganisation, for instance, what was Jim Starlin going to do when he wasn’t timetabled to do a signing or a panel? The answer was to find a table from somewhere and get him sat down in the small room where he quite happily chatted, signed and sketched for the bulk of the time he was there. He really gave his all to the event in the end and I think everyone got something out of him. He was joined later on with Rufus Dayglo who again, worked tirelessly producing sketches for the crowd. The two of them, along with Karrie Fransman’s excellent crowd interaction with her special cards, made the small room the hotbed it should have been by their presence, yet there was a feeling it was more accidental than intended.
The panels were good though and very entertaining. Some highlights were Frank Quitely, Jim Stewart, Dave Alexander and James Devlin waxing lyrical about a variety of things along the lines of, “what would you do if you weren’t involved in comics?” and the ilk. Quite entertaining replies about designing graves and driving vans followed. Other panels saw the legend that is Jim Starlin joined by Eddie Deighton of ComX and Rufus Dayglo, the latter filling the room with colourful language, freely sharing his thoughts and opinions on the whole Jack Kirby debate with the audience, which was quite amusing in itself. The conversation attempted to look at the cosmic, being Starlin’s forte, but frequently went off topic. Starlin did reveal he was working on something at the moment (and later on that day accidentally told me how it was going to end too!). The panels were good and interesting, well led by the likes of Mike Conroy skillfully getting the best out of the guests and featured quite a few British comic legends such as Alan Grant and John Wagner entertaining the audience.
The day culminated in a visit from the current master of comics himself, Grant Morrison. For a convention that was quite small, to have such a guest was nothing short of phenomenal, no doubt helped by the Scottish connection. I am certain that this was the big draw for most people with the room being rammed and the huge surge at the end of the panel for people wanting things signed. The panel itself was fun with Grant and Frank “Vinnie” Quitely bouncing off each other talking about their upcoming comics and their continued collaboration together. Grant was fantastic in the end, happily signing away for what seemed like hours and cordially chatting with the people in the queue, ensuring everyone who waited got what they wanted. A true superstar, yet honouring his Scottish fanbase all the way ’til the end.
So, the first day ended. Day two was much the same as the first, but with less people in attendance in general and it was a quieter experience, but this wasn’t necessarily a bad thing especially as we were all beat after the first. Despite feeling a little disappointed at the start, as the con moved on it got and felt much better. It seemed a bit disorganised, but I am certain that they will learn lessons from this year’s event and put in the little touches that will make this even more successful next year. The sketching and signing felt difficult given the little available space and the venue…let’s just say that for this con to move on, it needs to start with a physical move as well as a metaphorical one. The catchment between Glasgow and Edinburgh, not to mention the northern areas of both Scotland and England, should mean that the people deserve bigger and I am sure that John and Sha could find and fill another venue. We’re not talking convention centres, just a room that’s slightly more coherent, better laid out and that lets the con breath a little. Given the immense talent to come out of Scotland and the intense camaraderie that the Scottish people posess, I am sure that the guests will come and make this an event up there with the best across the isles. In the end we had a really good couple of days and got everything that we wanted out of the event. I found the Scottish people to be among the most friendly that I have met on my travels, whether they were friends, long time local legends or international superstars, they just had the most amazing, laid back and friendly approach and it was refreshing in an increasingly cynical world. Would I go back? Most definitely.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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The Packers fanbase is growing more and more desperate for the Lombardi trophy to return to Green Bay. Entering the draft, most every Packer fan had a beer with their buddy and said, ‘They need to address the defensive side of the ball, particularly at cornerback.’ Oh, what intellects we are. Go Pack.
Ted Thompson addressed the concerns early in the draft, picking first round talent Kevin King with the first pick of the second round. He then used the team’s own second round pick to draft Josh Jones out of N.C. State.
Considering the Packers’ secondary put a lot of stress on the team’s dynamic offense, as well as these two players being the team’s top picks, they’re in good position to find a spot in the rotation.
The team also re-acquired Davon House in free agency after he was released by the Jacksonville Jaguars. He brings a veteran presence to the team, as well as his ability to press his opponent at the line. House could step back into a starting role for the Packers, as he showed he can be a starting cornerback in the right system. In an interview with Mike Stofford of packers.com, House gives details on what he thinks went right in Jacksonville, as well as what went south.
Let’s consider how the coaching staff would match their new secondary using their 2017 playoff run as our base.
The Giants brought a ton of talent to the wide receiver position last season. Odell Beckham Jr. brought plenty of star power. Victor Cruz gave them a talented slot receiver, who was well on his way to superstar status before his knee injury in 2015. Reuben Randle also gave them a second threat on the edge.
Coach McCarthy has already spoken about Josh Jones potential role in an interview with Larry McCarren of packers.com, comparing the rookie to Micah Hyde. Check out the interview, Coach always seems happy with his rookie group, but seems extra genuine about it this season.
When the Packers matched up with the Giants in the playoffs last season, the secondary gave the Giants multiple opportunities for big plays/potential touchdowns that Odell Beckham failed to pull in. If he had his normal game, that was going to be a dogfight. The Packers used Ladarius Gunter to guard Bechkam, Demarious Randall on Randle, with Quinten Rollins/Hyde on Cruz.
It’ll be interesting to see what the Packers intend Gunter’s role to be this upcoming season. I haven’t read much around the Packers news sphere expecting him to be one of the starting corners, but the fact that the team trusted him enough to match up with the best receivers in the game during the playoffs means something.
I expect the Packers to throw either King or Gunter on Beckham. With a breakout rookie season, King gets the nod. If he has the expected up and down rookie campaign, they’ll likely side with Gunter’s experience. This leaves King to match up with Randle on the opposite edge.
Fellow rookie Jones, as McCarthy has already eluded to, would likely line up against the opposing tight end and slot receiver throughout the game. One thing to consider with the Hyde comparison, Jones has more size, as well as speed as the former Packer, allowing him to potentially contribute in even more ways. Back to packers.com, Mike Spofford reports that Jones played some inside linebacker during the rookie minicamp.
House and Randall would be the team’s likely wildcard, able to step in on the edges or inside. Either can work their way into the starting lineup this season. However, against New York, the Packers would be best served using their best athletes to try to limit the bubble Beckham creates for himself.
The Cowboys have a similar talent in Dez Bryant to Odell Beckham Jr. Once again last season, the Packers gave Gunter the duty of slowing down the star receiver. Gunter was injured early in the first half, but was able to return to the game.
The Cowboys took advantage of the matchup, as they had the advantage before the injury. Bryant finished the game with nine receptions for 132 yards, and two touchdowns. The Packers were forced to bring safety help on Dez on every play, and he still dominated. The extra attention given to him, allowed the Cowboys to open an out route for Jason Witten, Cole Beasley, and Terrence Williams beneath Bryant’s seam route.
The Cowboys are a particularly difficult matchup for the Packers as they need to worry about the dynamic pass game, as well as slowing down the young sensation, Ezekiel Elliot.
Defensive Coordinator, Dom Capers, would need to consider a balance between pass coverage and the defensive back’s ability to help with the run game. Once again, it’ll depend on how Kevin King plays during the regular season, but there’s a good chance he or Gunter would be given the duties of Bryant.
Outside of that, the Packers would probably lean towards heavy Jones and House snap counts, as they both have the size and grit to help with the run game, while respectably covering their matchup.
Atlanta’s top weapon is Julio Jones, who destroyed each team he faced in the playoffs. The Falcons weapons don’t stop with Jones, as they had the most weapons of any opponent the Packers faced in the 2016-2017 season. In the state the Packers defense was in, it makes total sense that they struggled to make the Falcons break a sweat.
Atlanta’s offense rounds out with the talented Mohamed Sanu as the other outside receiver, and their two young running backs, Devonta Freeman and Tevin Coleman. Both running backs are very dangerous in the pass game, something the Packers struggled to contain in the conference championship blowout.
The Packers would need to decide who they think has the best bet in slowing Jones down. Once again, King would get the nod if he’s shown himself to be the real deal, or they’ll decide between the press ability of House and Gunter’s athletic makeup. Sanu requires a similar decision.
John Jones would have the assignment of guarding the Falcons young tight end, Austin Hooper, as well as the two running backs out of the backfield. The Packers were forced to throw Jake Ryan into coverage against the dynamic backs. As much of a Jake Ryan fan as I am (I seem to be in the minority), he doesn’t have the speed necessary for this kind of assignment. He has good playmaking skills, but the defense forced him to cover more ground than his physical abilities allow.
John Jones ran a 4.40 40 at the combine, giving him the speed necessary to chase the Falcons’ backs to the sideline. The Falcons running backs sneak out onto the perimeter during pass plays, giving them an opportunity to burn the linebacker in coverage with their quickness. The rookie safety is really the Packers only option for man to man coverage against this attack.
One thing is for sure, after the 2017 NFL Draft, the Packers defense has a lot more flexibility on the back end.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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When looking for a home sauna that works efficiently and keeps you comfortable, you should have a closer look at the range of outdoor saunas available in the market. With these portable outdoor saunas, you can save yourself from building a separate room to enjoy a sauna experience.
You’re free to select the size and even opt for a model much larger than an indoor sauna. But you still have to choose the right outdoor sauna.
While it feels like a straightforward decision to buy an outdoor sauna unit or heater for yourself, it is not, and that’s all because of the many different options available in the market. Here are some of the most popular outdoor saunas worth buying.
The documentation is not too easy to understand (though the assembly process is easy!).
It’s great for some quality time with family as the interiors have soft lighting and cozy interiors. With a great placement of benches facing each other, it provides excellent relaxation. You will love the color and overall design.
The best part is you can customize humidity and steam levels as per your comfort level. The entire structure is quite sturdy and stands strong even during heavy rainfall. The wood gives a classy look as well gives good protection from harsh winter.
You will also find high quality sauna stones in the package. The assembly is pretty straightforward, thanks to its barrel design. Because of its design, it takes less space and still works efficiently. It is a good investment if maintained nicely.
Beautifully designed both externally and internally, this is a great choice if you are looking for relaxation at a reasonable cost. It looks very nice after installation and the process of installation is very simple too.
It comes equipped with very nice sauna stones. The controls are quite easy to use and you can actually customize everything from temperature, humidity, and level of heating. The fiberglass insulation ensures safety and the whole unit is quite sturdy apart from the great looks even after long usage.
You can set it up on any flat surface (concrete, tile or vinyl) and it just fits perfectly. The door is wide and easy to operate. If you are not worried about a little extra cost, go for this one, it is absolutely worth the money.
This is one awesome stuff to get you closer to nature. You will love the fact that it features a beautifully designed skylight roof, so relax and pamper yourself while looking at the sky!
Many users have confirmed that it is watertight and never causes leakage problems, even with heavy usage. The headrests are already assembled for the upper benches so it’s easy to assemble the other parts.
The quality of the material used is quite good and you will love the touch and feel right from the time of assembling the pieces. You can customize the heating and other parameters as per your choice. Overall, a great buy for the entire family for some quality time, especially during winters, as there is no major flaw. The addition of flooring could’ve made it a perfect product though.
This is a big sauna for your entire family. Not only does it look classy, but it also provides all the features that you can ask for. It is very sturdily built and comes with a lot of safety features. You can leave the kids alone without any issues (of course not very young kids).
There is a transparent dome wall which initially some people may think to be unnecessary, but actually provides a nice view of surroundings and adds to the relaxation. It comes with stones of good quality and works efficiently.
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The look of this infrared heater outdoor sauna is quite impressive, especially with its composition shingles. Many people think that it uses wood but in reality, you will find composition shingles here. The good thing is that they have used wood in places and all of it is kiln dried to prevent health related issues.
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It is a great product as a whole, but something you need to bear in mind is that unlike many other similar outdoor saunas in the market, it is not insulated but relies on double wood walls to provide you with the kind of warmth you need.
Take your time and consider the type of sauna suitable for your needs. Mainly, you can choose from three types – wood-burning saunas, infrared saunas, and traditional electric saunas.
As infrared and traditional saunas heat up differently, they have different maximum temperatures. They can achieve a temperature of 160 degrees, but traditional saunas can touch 194 degrees with ease. So, buy the traditional one if you need an extreme heat sauna.
Outdoor saunas are available in a variety of sizes, so you need to determine the size suitable for the space you have available. Moreover, you should consider how many people are going to use it at a time to determine the best size.
Unlike home saunas, the outdoor saunas can accommodate up to eight people. There are small outdoor saunas too that can accommodate a couple of people at a time.
It means that if you have a large family and most of them will be using the unit simultaneously, you may want to invest in a larger sauna in the first place.
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While some people are not overly concerned about the design, you should not make this mistake, as it can make or break the appearance of your property in many ways. However, you should consider where you’re going to place your outdoor sauna to determine the right design option.
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In talking with Alice Adams the other day it got me thinking about my own musical journey and how special it is to both worship everyday and also to play for others. Alice shared with me how much they they are benefiting from the Worship Guitar Class program.
What caught my attention was when she mentioned that her kids play once a month with a Christian bluegrass group. I remembered that as a young player I used to play once a month at hootenannies. These were casual musical evenings in private homes.
Some of you are Pastors or lead Home Groups. Keep your eyes open for opportunities to invite younger musicians to lead worship. If you are a worship leaders, why not ask less experienced players to join you?
Having a reason and place to play will inspire the younger musician to work at mastering their instrument. And what a great opportunity for us to encourage the next generation of worship leaders!
What I also appreciated about her call was saying that her family started their homeschool day with a praise time using the guitars.
I wanted to encourage you to try to start each day with worship. Some families or individuals can’t do this in the mornings, so in the evening also works well. I think of Stan in Hawaii who worships in the evenings with his family.
I always look forward to getting your updates. Many time I have benefited from you wisdom. Keep up the good work, and my God continue to bless you with His presence daily.
Jean, We all need encouragement from time to time and blessed are those who encourage us.
No matter how young or old young musicians or song writers are, let’s continue to encourage their efforts to be involved in activities that focus on our wonderful Master.
I appreciate receiving your e-mail and reading your words that focus on our LORD.
Dale and Randy thanks for your precious comments. Your comments are a blessing to me too.

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WASHINGTON, June 8 -- If storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to teach, the Legacy Project at www.legacyproject.org – a nationwide initiative connecting the past, present, and future for all ages – is truly a schoolhouse. Susan Bosak, Legacy Project Chair, is an educator, researcher, and author.
Her most recent book Dream is in a children's picture book format with 15 illustrators from five countries. The Legacy Project is a big picture learning project, targeting multiple generations and working to improve lifelong education.
TNS: What inspired you to create the Legacy Project?
Bosak: The Legacy Project is a big-picture learning project using the concept of LegacyCubed to empower all ages. It's about your life in the context of the people and world around you. It was conceived because the "McMoment" just isn't working.
The Legacy Project is a millennium baby, born in 2000 in direct response to the challenges of the 21st century from personal levels of dissatisfaction and alienation to global levels of monetary meltdowns and environmental pressures. It's also very relevant today in light of the focus on education reform.
I brought my background as an educator to help found the Legacy Project, and our team includes an engineer and an economics grad. Our goal was to help people develop a practical mental paradigm, a metaperspective, to catch up with the amazing technological advances of the past 100 years.
The concept of legacy is fundamentally the most powerful concept we have for addressing the challenges of the 21st century. Legacy is the coming together of what you have been given, what you can create, and what you give back – which brings in the concept of time.
We need to expand beyond the McMoment, beyond the narrow present. The sense of responsibility to a broader span of time was much more prevalent among the ancients than it is today. For example, the Babylonian tradition, later adapted by the Greeks and by medieval Christendom, included the concept of the Great Year, generally used to refer to a 36,000-year cycle, after which history was thought to repeat itself.
Grasping time is important, and needs to start with young children. Temporal awareness is an important part of socialization. Helping children understand time and their place in it is to teach them an important life lesson. Children need to learn how to tell time, the rules of time, how to be on time, and to manage time to (hopefully) get their homework finished up on time.
They need a sense of daily time, but also a sense of their LIFEtime. They have to think about the life ahead of them because they have to make choices that will have long-term consequences. Time is also a great factor in life success. Athletes, writers, leaders must put in time to be successful. And children need to think about time across generations – everything that comes before and after them. Our dreams and goals are built on what has been achieved, created, written, discovered before us, and we can profoundly affect what happens after us.
the three levels at which our legacy evolves. LifeDreams explores individual potential and creating your life. Across Generations explores our connections with others and encourages closer relationships between generations.	Our Worldexplores the world around us and our role in it, looking at how each of us can change the world to deal with challenges like the environment.
The whole idea is to help children and adults make the 30,000 or so days count that each of us may have walking this planet – your life in the context of the people and world around you.
TNS: Is Begin and End With a Dream the modern-day equivalent of the age-old question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?"
Bosak: It's not an equivalent to the question; it's an answer to the question – with a 21st century approach.
We live in a world that is in many ways more complicated and challenging than any other time in history. Young people must make more decisions earlier, and often more difficult decisions. They're also often called upon to carry more responsibility. The current generation is aware they have to make money, but they're also more socially and globally aware, and more concerned with personal meaning and fulfillment.
Begin and End With a Dream is an activity set that's part of our LifeDreamsbanner program. As one of the Legacy Project's three banner programs – each reflecting a level at which we evolve our legacy – LifeDreams explores individual potential and creating your life. Particularly useful to teachers and parents, Begin and End With a Dream is a collection of activity ideas developed to help build goal-setting skills by encouraging children to set goals at the beginning of the school year and then review those goals at the end of the school year.
Teachers, principals, and parents play a critical role in helping young people discover who they are and encouraging their dreams and goals. Dreams and goals help shape children's lives and motivate them to learn. They give your life purpose, direction, and meaning. They shape your life choices, help you build toward the future, and give you a sense of control and hope. They're an expression of your potential and give voice to your talents. They're a source of pleasure and help develop the self. And they can change the world – just think of those famous words from Martin Luther King, Jr.,	"I have a dream!"
Dreamers are the ones who have the courage and creativity to see beyond "what is" to "what can be" to make a difference in their own life and the lives of others.
TNS: Does the established timeline of school assist in student goal creation?
Bosak: Because things change so quickly today and there are multiple layers to most issues, the 21st century really has to be about lifelong learning. That's why the Legacy Project speaks to both children and adults.
The rigid structure of school can reinforce a rigid understanding of time and progress. Sometimes you get more caught up in the structure and its momentum rather than personal development and skill building.
One of the reasons we have such an awareness of chronological age is because it's very much a structural feature of the way we've organized our society, including the education system. But a person's activities throughout their life are, to a significant degree, ordered according to a series of cultural norms, patterns, expectations, and rules.
There are actually four dimensions of time that influence the flow of individuals through the life course: life time (chronological age); family time (events and roles within the family); social time (cultural expectations); and historical time (socio-cultural era).
A life course perspective takes into consideration all four dimensions of time and highlights the ways that events and decisions that occur early in life can have persistent effects on the structure and quality of our life at later points in time. There is an intersection of social and historical factors with personal biography. A life course perspective also emphasizes the lifelong nature of development and asserts that our understanding of any point in the life course is enhanced by taking into account your past history and future expectations.
Going back to the example of school, what if something happens in a student's life that they have to take time off during the school year? Are they really then "behind?" And what if a student is at a grade 8 level in math but only grade 6 in reading? Are they "less than?" What "grade" are they really in?
Finally, does school truly take into account the widely-accepted idea of multiple intelligences? Education reform has to consider all of these issues. The development of lifelong goal-setting skills depends on developing the discipline to constantly challenge the self, and not be completely dependent on arbitrary external measures.
So, the standard timeline of school can sometimes be more of a hindrance than a help to encouraging ongoing learning as a normal part of living in the 21st century. We need more flexible approaches to education and more personalized curriculums. That being said, the existing structure does provide a nice opportunity to "bookend" accomplishments.
There is a defined beginning, middle, and end to the school year, and teachers can use that to their advantage as they help students build goal-setting skills. The Begin and End With a Dream activity set gives teachers a tool they can use now, within the school structure, with an eye toward expanding perspectives over the long term.
TNS: Why is the end of the school year more crucial than the beginning?
Bosak: It's not. Our activity set is called Begin and End With a Dream because I believe both the beginning and end are equally important. The Begin and End With a Dream activity set was developed because any good sandwich needs two slices of fresh, hearty bread. Then you put in a delectable filling; the other literacy and goal-setting LifeDreams activities enable teachers to pick and choose to customize their filling.
The end of the school year is a milestone that deserves to be recognized, whether a student is graduating from college or grade school. Milestones are those moments in our life when our personal star shines a little more brightly. They mark the passage of time and our progress in the journey of life. It's important to help children develop a sense of time and where they are in their life, as well as celebrate their accomplishments. As a life milestone, graduationis an appropriate time to do that.
On the other hand, just as spring is a time for new growth in nature, Fall is a time for new growth in education. The beginning of the school year is a fresh start – a time to build on what you've already learned, and get past any challenges you faced during the last school year. To set a positive tone for the school year and help young people develop important skills, it's valuable to encourage students to think about their future, set goals that will help them start to realize that future, and establish a step-by-step plan they can execute during the school year.
TNS: Do you consider the current state of high school drop-out rates to be primarily a result of poor goal making?
Bosak: Drop-out rates have many contributing factors. One of the biggest is that students find school irrelevant to who they are and their future. They see no meaning in what they're doing – which is in part related to goal setting.
Meaning is a notoriously vague concept. But human beings are fundamentally meaning-making creatures. Our mind is wired to make meaning, it craves meaning, whether we want it to or not. Meaning is what you make it, and meaning takes shape in the stories you create about life, yours in particular.
Meaning also involves a paradox: at one and the same time it involves living and thinking about living. Children need to be supported in their natural need to make meaning, and in building the skills they need to develop a meaningful life story for themselves.
A recent Michigan Education Association research paper, Survey on Dropout Crisis, looked at how to reduce the drop-out rate. The study "confirms what educators and parents know – too many young adults are rudderless and don't know what to do in the future. They're going through life without direction. And when they lack clear goals and focus, they're more likely to struggle."
The education system is failing in helping young people start to create a meaningful life story for themselves. A sense of purpose develops in students when they can see beyond what is to what can be. When they can see their future, they internalize the value of education and graduating.
Part of our work addresses this issue. For example, Charles E. Bennett Elementary School in Jacksonville, Florida is using our material, including the LifeDreams activities. Throughout the school year, students at the school read, wrote, illustrated, and discussed their goals and aspirations as part of a school-wide dream theme introduced by Principal Monica Boccieri.
With 30 years experience as a principal, Boccieri said she noticed that some students had trouble articulating their own dreams after she shared my bookDream with them. That's not uncommon. Kids get inspired and excited by the book, but they don't know where to take that excitement.
At Bennett Elementary, where most students are on free or reduced lunch programs, goal-setting isn't stressed at home much. Teachers said the dream theme made school more relevant and fun. And students are learning that good grades can help them reach their goals.
"The book was very inspiring. It shows you can do anything if you set your mind to it," said sixth-grader Jacob Brantley, who hopes to become a chef. "My dad makes really good barbecue. He was my inspiration. I want to follow in his footsteps."
Demarco Vaughn dreams of being a football player. Sean Chillingworth dreams about working at McDonald's. Lily Crosby dreams of having a pet alligator. These students are starting to think about what their future might look like. Everyone needs to set a goal and reach for it, an idea of where they want to go.
Teacher Mindy Mark commented that, "Some kids just needed a push to get them thinking and exploring possibilities, any possibilities."
So, we want schools across the country to do what Bennett Elementary did.
TNS: How important are concrete measures of success, such as certificates, to children?
Bosak: Particularly as children are learning the skills of goal-setting, there should be some way for them to gauge the progress they're making. I like a Rising Star concept in which students see their own progress and challenge themselves, and are then measured against others – because that's the reality of the world they'll face. That can take the form of certificates, or it can take the form of praise and feedback from an adult like a teacher.
The classroom also has to be a safe place to fail for children. If you're going to fail anywhere, it should be at school where you can be encouraged to learn from those failures and move forward.
At a higher level, we need more recognition of milestones for children and teens so that they can feel their accomplishments and be empowered.
When, exactly, do young people "come of age" in our society? When they can drive? Drink? Vote? When they graduate from high school? College? Move out of the house? Get married? Have children? In a diverse society, transitions and rituals are not as clearly prescribed as they once were and there is no single way to identify or mark a transition.
We can lose the opportunity for a sense of completion, accomplishment, and a smooth transition. All too often, even when coming-of-age rituals are enacted, they proceed by rote and leave young people unmoved and unchanged. Without appropriate rites of passage, teens and young adults feel a void in their lives.
Young people have a particularly strong need to find their way and their niche, and without adult or societal direction, they can be left feeling unconnected and unfocussed. If teachers and parents don't help guide their children into adulthood, they shouldn't be surprised if their kids never get there. It's so easy to get lost in the arduous journey, and if you don't have a compass and a clear idea of the terrain, you'll be more easily led down less-desirable paths or wander around aimlessly.
TNS: Is goal-making in children something that can be left independent or does it require a "curriculum?"
Bosak: The skills of goal setting are like any other – they must be learned. And many adults haven't even mastered them!
Our goal in the Legacy Project isn't to develop rigid curriculums, but to offer resources and opportunities that teachers, principals, and parents can adapt to any grade level and use within any curriculum. This is about maximizing learning now, and looking toward children's future. And there needs to be more emphasis in the classroom on meaningful goal setting – seeing motivation as an ongoing process, recognizing individual achievements/progress, and showing relevance to the students' future.
TNS: How did you determine the Dreamer Profiles and how can they help students, teachers, and parents?
Bosak: The Dreamer Profile is one of many LifeDreams activities that are free to access on the Legacy Project website. It evolved from my work on my bestsellerDream: A Tale of Wonder, Wisdom & Wishes.
The book was a five-year project. I wrote it as a way for teachers and parents to start a discussion with children about their dreams and goals. It combines artwork from 15 top illustrators, inspirational quotations, and a poetic story about hopes and dreams across a lifetime.
The story is accessible for children, but has layers of meaning that relate to social science research. At one point in the book, there's a reference to using "Believe, Do, Think" to achieve a goal. Those three simple words summarize the core of social science research that has looked at how human beings achieve their potential and reach goals.
Believe, Do, Think isn't a strict sequence. When you reach for a goal, you move from one to the other as you work through the process.
Each of us tends to lean more toward one of the three parts of the process. Some people tend to be strong in believing and having confidence, but weaker in taking action and coming up with a plan. After looking at much of the research, I termed these Creative Dreamers.
For others, action is their strong suit, but they run out of steam quickly and don't give their actions enough thought. These are Dynamic Dreamers.
And for others, they may think and analyze too much, without putting their ideas in action and really being passionate about what they're doing. These are Practical Dreamers.
One of the illustrations in Dream, called the Club of Dreamers, shows a variety of famous people through history, including Albert Einstein, Anne Frank, Gandhi, Leonardo da Vinci. I started to look at their biographies and classified them into one of the three types of Dreamers. The Dreamer Profile emerged from that.
It's a simple tool designed to engage teens and adults in the text, illustrations, and themes in Dream while at the same time prompting them to start evaluating their own goal-setting strengths and weaknesses.
TNS: Is this another way that children might grow up "too fast," or is this an innovative way to approach parent/teacher roles in modern education?
Bosak: Children may well be growing up too fast. Our goal through the Legacy Project is to help teachers and parents equip children for a modern world that does move fast. Young people must make more decisions earlier, and often more difficult decisions. At the same time, we want to help children do what children should do – use their imagination, think of all the things ahead of them that are possible, explore and develop who they are.
It's also important to help children make the connections to all the levels at which they will evolve their legacy – the development and expression of the self, their connections to others (particularly across generations), and the ways in which they choose to affect and change their world. It goes back to making those 30,000 or so days matter.
TNS: What research was cited and how did that assist in the creation of your resources?
Bosak: I work with schools and families across the US and Canada, and the Legacy Project has participants from around the world. Many ideas have come directly from those experiences. As a big-picture education project, we also survey current social science research; our goal is to summarize and synthesize ideas, and make them practical and useable in the community.
The development of the Dream book was a five-year process during which I looked at a lot of life course research. Dream is about the journey of life as it has unfolded for thousands and thousands of years, generation after generation, and it's about the present reader living their particular life at this moment in time. We're all similar – the first line of the story is "I started out just like you"– and yet our personal journey within the greater story of humanity is very individual – the last line in the story is "dream a dream… your very own dream."
Each two-page spread in Dream shows a different stage of life, from the time you're born to the time you're older, and reflects the psychological and social tasks of that life stage. The multilayered text references, for example, the life stage model of psychologist Erik Erikson and the hierarchy of human needs developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow. Again, the text is very accessible to children at a basic level, but it has depth that teachers and parents can explore with older students.
Recent research that has supported our LifeDreams work includes a study done at Florida State University in which they examined data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a national random sampling of 12,686 individuals who were 14 to 22 years of age in 1979.
These individuals were interviewed annually until 1994, and then every two years. The FSU research found that, "'planful competence' is a powerful predictor of an adolescent's plans and their adult achievement in schooling and work. Adolescents with a purposeful orientation towards life, combined with general and practical knowledge, have more ambitious career plans, more stable plans in young adulthood, and greater educational and occupational achievements by midlife."
There's also been some interesting work done by Doug Manning, an educator with 30 years of experience, who is helping students manage the transition from high school to life beyond. He wrote a thought-provoking white paper, Connected Students: The Key to School-Initiated Graduation Rate Improvement, that brings together current research on reducing dropout rates.
He says that the "greatest and quickest gains in graduation rate improvement will come from initiatives focused on engaging the internal motivations of students… A sense of purpose develops for an individual when 'something they are' connects with 'something they could be'… Every student must have a clearly defined and meaningful future plan. That plan must be an extension of the person the student wants to become."
I often start my workshops with teachers and parents by asking, "How can you make yourself matter?" I don't believe we automatically "matter." We all have fundamental human rights, but that's different than making your life matter. We evolve our legacy and make ourselves matter over the course of our lives.
We then talk about when we were students and how much we would have liked someone to help us start figuring it all out. Helping children figure out who they are and where they can go – that's the greatest gift a teacher or parent can give.
The Legacy Project can be found at http://www.legacyproject.org/.


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Thermal appliances and electric vehicles account for most of the consumption in residential energy use in a fully electrified scenario. As electrification of loads in continuously increasing, thermal appliances, such as heat pumps, and electric transportation will increase in households. The resulting amount of electricity consumed will pose challenges for the distribution system.
Although the flexibility associated with appliances and time varying prices can achieve tangible benefits for customers, current residential load control activities are mainly operated manually, which posts great challenges to customers in optimally scheduling the operations of their appliances. Some customers may not have time to make such scheduling decisions and if prices vary fast and frequently, scheduling may be too complex. Hence, an automated Home Energy Manager System (HEMS) is necessary to optimize the appliances’ operation on behalf of customers .
The aim of this master thesis will be to assess the Demand Response potential of aggregated heat pumps and electric vehicles to help integrating renewable sources in the distribution grid. The MILP problem of an optimal scheduling will be solved using CPLEX and MATLAB. The student will focus on the economic benefits of coordinated heat pumps (e.g. incentives for participating to ancillary services, subsidies from the government and/or the DSO, electricity retail prices, etc.).
 C. Chen, J. Wang, S. Member, Y. Heo, and S. Kishore, “MPC-Based Appliance Scheduling for Residential Building Energy Management Controller,” vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 1401–1410, 2013.

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Dave’s Video Stabiliser (DVS) allows you to create time-lapse animations from a series of still frames such as solar prominence eruptions, Jupiter rotations or comet movement. It removes any frame-to-frame jitter so that your animations are rock steady.
It can also be used to add text or graphic overlays to single images or image sequences.
NEW!! Astrometry module – see here.
DVS was released in February 2012 and is available as a free public demo in the Support and Downloads page.
Below is a video that shows an unaligned time-lapse animation of a solar feature. It then shows the effects of DVS alignment to the nearest pixel, 1/2 pixel and 1/3 pixel. It also shows several text and graphics overlays with differing mark-in and out points.
Animation can be seen here>>http://www.emberson.org/<< or on SGL 🙂 Also added Windowsill Observatory to my links section!
Hi Ant, thanks for the link and the plugs on your site. I like your prom animation. Maybe you could check out this thread in our user group where we are discussing how to use my software to capture and animate the surface features as well.


text: BY NANCY GAGNET | MIRROR REPORTER — When Ann Tubbs stepped onto a school bus in 1974, she had to muster as much muscle-power as possible just to drive it. “It had a great big stick on the floor, the brake was heavy, the clutch was terrible and that steering wheel was so tight,” she said. After much prodding from a friend, she had approached the school district about a job opening for a substitute bus driver. Her first boss, Jim Croy, took her out for her first test drive and although she lacked confidence in her ability to maneuver the big yellow bus, he was impressed with how well she did. “I’m looking at all this inside the bus and the length of it and I thought, ‘Am I crazy?’” she said. “But he told me I did real well for a first-time driver – even though I did grind the gears a few times.” She stuck with it, and within a few short months, was offered a permanent route. Now, after 44 years, she is retiring from the district. “I want to spend some quality time with my husband,” she said. For a majority of her career, Ann transported students with special needs. The relationships she has cultivated both with the students she transported and their families are what she will miss most when she is gone. “I have acquired a lot of friends,” she said. “Instead of a parent, I have more of a one-on-one relationship with them, and I’ve ended up with some really nice friends.” While the district has remained relatively the same throughout her tenure, significant changes have come in the way of improved facilities and equipment, especially with the buses. “They are so much easier to handle,” she said. All Maumee bus drivers are required to have a CDL or commercial driver’s license, Class B, with a passenger school bus endorsement. Before leaving the garage, drivers are responsible for conducting thorough inspections of their buses, including a 15-minute check of both the interior and exterior of a bus and its engine. The bus drivers in Maumee also spend an additional 25 hours driving and reviewing district policies and rules. No one in the Maumee district has been driving a bus as long as Ann, but she doesn’t think about that much. “Every year, I would just go to work. I wasn’t focused on how many years I would be there,” she said. Mary Bottoni, the Maumee district supervisor of transportation and food service, said that the parent of a student who graduated a number of years ago recently stopped by the bus garage to drop off a retirement gift for Ann. “So that goes to show how she has made a difference in the lives of many kids as well as many parents,” Bottoni said. As a result of her lengthy tenure, Ann has also witnessed many students transition from preschool to high school and sometimes beyond. The job has given her life lessons and lasting friendships, something she couldn’t have imagined when she first started driving a bus so many years ago. “It’s been quite an experience for me. At times it was very challenging, but it’s been very rewarding. I feel like I have been rewarded just from being around the kids,” she said. Ann’s last day on the job was May 31. In addition to her husband, Gary, her family includes four children, Gary Jr., Jeff, and twins Shawn and Dawn Tubbs.

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