Saturday, May 14, 2011

PAUL’S Exclusion Principle

Wolfgaug Pauli put forward the principle which restricts certain values of quantum numbers for an electron in an atom and hence the name exclusion principle. The principle states, “No two electrons in an atom can have the same set of four quantum numbers ( n, l, m, s ). For example, In ‘1s’ orbital (n = 1), according to Pauli’s Exclusion Principle there are only two possible arrangements of quantum numbers possible, i.e.
n =1, l = 0, m = 0, s = +½ ( 1st electron )
n =1, l = 0, m = 0, s = -½ ( 2nd electron )
This follows that a maximum of only two electrons can be accommodated in an orbital and they must possess opposite spins.

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Memories of Kalalau

Memories of Kalalau
of a starry sky
turning through the night
constellations rising and falling
overhead, above the steep cliffs
of sleeping under the sky
of being at peace
of leaving the world behind.

On the longest day, almost
the longest night, almost
New Year's bonfire
quenched by the rain
the heavens above
telling me
to go to sleep.


engagementRemember kindergarten? The structure and rigid routine provided a well-defined framework for engagement that stimulated your curiosity and developed your competence. Now you’re old enough to design your own engagement plan tailored to your specific interests. The tools you need for this undertaking are simple: a calendar, a pencil, and an open mind.

Open your calendar and block off thirty minutes each day for the next thirty days to initiate your lifelong learning campaign. Ideally, reserve the same slot every day, but choose a time that fits into your schedule and lifestyle. What and how you want to learn something during those thirty minutes is up to you. You can take up knitting, start reading poetry, or seek out nonfiction books on topics that are fascinating but foreign to you. Spend money on a class or take a free crash course on the internet. The only constraints are thirty minutes of “homework” every day and subject matter that is brand new to you.

Next, block off a two-hour slot each week during this same thirty-day period for acquiring meaningful experiences. Look for opportunities to be an active participant rather than a spectator. Do something like hike in nature or volunteer at a senior center, instead of having something done to or for you, like a pedicure. Perhaps your meaningful experiences will overlap with your lifelong learning campaign, or perhaps they will launch you into entirely different directions. Maybe the experiences will require a financial investment in athletic equipment or a new cake pan. The one requirement is that you make a conscious decision about what you want to do, and then do it.

At the end of the thirty days, assess your approach to engagement. What did and didn’t work? What came more easily to you: learning or experience? Where did you get the most value for the time and money you invested? What can you do better in the future? Like all mindfulness disciplines, lifelong learning and meaningful experiences will deepen and grow with regular practice and commitment — as will your happiness.


Consumer Engagement

Winning new customers is always harder than retaining your existing ones. The Customer acquisition costs (CAC) are quite high in most consumer segments and very high in almost all B2B segments. Thus, it is imperative that you provide the right experience to retain your existing customers and also have them bring new customers from their network.

Customer Engagement Management (CEM) helps you optimize your customer interactions and deliver the best experience possible, to foster loyalty. With CEM, the goal is not just have satisfied customers, but to create loyal fans, passionate advocates and to have a positive effect on their behaviors. It goes beyond a traditional CRM (Customer Relations Management) that just tries to streamline the interactions.

There are 5 major components of the CEM model:

1. Customer – Understanding the customer’s various needs is fundamental to CEM. It requires identifying different types of customers, their gender, demographic, cultural contexts etc. and then finding out the right way to impress each customer segment. Understanding cultural factors are very important. Your messaging, positioning and strategy must take care of the cultural sensitives and expectations.

o    You don’t need to play to everybody in the world. Just find your customer niche and look to wow them.

2. Environment – This involves the channels through which the customer discovers your product/service, complementary products and the competitive landscape. Essentially, in this component we try to reduce the impediments in the environment involved in the sale by getting the brand discovered easily. Things to consider include, store location, distribution of sales team, choosing the right channels (web/mobile/physical store) etc. It could also involve bringing new sale platforms (mobile apps, facebook apps) to help the customer easily get into your offerings.

3. Platform – This component is about focusing on the operations to help customers get the right experience. The platform includes your workforce, policies, pricing and technology. You have to answer questions, such as:

o    Are our frontline employees sufficiently trained to impress the customer by suitably answer their queries?

o    Are our policies and ToCs slowing down the adoption?

o    Are our technology platforms impeding some customers from effectively using our product?

4. Brand  – This involves the visual identity and the various messages – slogans, tweets, facebook timeline covers, taglines – that identify the company. Brands have to reflect the customer’s needs and aspirations. Apple, for instance, makes its products predominantly in white/silver to indicate class, luxury and perfection.

5. Interface – In this component, we will focus on how the customer interacts with your company. This would involve paying attention to the channel and making the sales pipeline easy for the customer to complete the sale. For products, it would involve focusing on the User Experience (UX) and usability. Google’s search homepage still has a simple search box and focuses on the delivering very fast page load times and query return times. That is an example of paying attention to the interface. If your website, for instance, has 10 steps to go through before a customer can signup, you are bound to fail. Also, if you have limited payment options that doesn’t satisfy majority of your customers, you need to add more. The CEM model helps you find such gaps and approach it in a methodical manner.

A right approach to CEM, can help you significantly improve your customer experience and turn many satisfied customers into passionate fans.


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Angkor National Museum

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Angkor National Museum

Angkor National Museum - Visiting the Angkor National Museum was an eerie, surreal experience. For the first 45 minutes of our trip through the mammoth, 20,000-square-metre building, we didn’t spot another visitor. The museum opened in November 2007 and its freshly painted, shopping mall-like feel contrasts with the thousands-year-old artefacts contained within it. A visit is a comfortable, air-con alternative to visiting the temples themselves, and a nice educational supplement to the history of Angkor if you visit the park without a tour guide. It's composed of eight separate galleries, all connected by a vaulted corridor with a series of fountains and lined with what seems like all the Angkorian limestone lion and demon heads missing from statues at the temples. After an explanatory film screening called Story behind the legend, you’re pointed toward the galleries:

Gallery 1: 1,000 Buddha Images

Gallery 2: Pre-Angkor Period: Khmer Civilisation
This gallery and all the subsequent ones combine mural-size explanations and short films through maze-like rooms explaining Angkorian history. The styles of figurines precede the trademark Angkor style, and there's a large collection of lingas, lintels and colonnettes.

Gallery 3: Religion and Beliefs

Gallery 4: The Great Khmer Kings
The gallery focuses on King Jayavarman II, Yasovarman I, Soryavarman II and Jayavarman VII, those most responsible for Angkor's greatest constructions. Figures of the kings and relics from the temples they commissioned abound.

Gallery 5: Angkor Wat

Gallery 6: Angkor Thom

Gallery 7: Story From Stones

Gallery 8: Ancient Costume
From Apsaras and kings to princesses and warriors, this room contains the busts and statues of distinct fashions and styles as they evolved throughout Angkor time. There's also a collection of ancient jewellery and headdresses. It is a clever segue to the final room – the gift shop where upscale imitations of these fashions abound.


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Which of the following has occurred?

A.    This is normal network traffic.
B. is infected with a Trojan.
C. is infected with a worm.
D. is infected with a Trojan.

Answer: A

A.    Utilizing an operating system SCAP plugin
B.    Utilizing an authorized credential scan
C.    Utilizing a non-credential scan
D.    Utilizing a known malware plugin

Answer: A

A.    TCP
B.    SMTP
C.    ICMP
D.    ARP

Answer: C

Which of the following should the analyst use?

A.    Wireshark
B.    Qualys
C.    netstat
D.    nmap
E.    ping

Answer: C

The last completed scan of the network returned 5,682 possible vulnerabilities.
Which of the following is the BEST way to proceed?

Answer: D

A.    Anti-malware application
B.    Host-based IDS
C.    TPM data sealing
D.    File integrity monitoring

Answer: C

A.    Disable anonymous SSH logins.
B.    Disable password authentication for SSH.
C.    Disable SSHv1.
D.    Disable remote root SSH logins.

Answer: B

A.    Continue monitoring critical systems.
B.    Shut down all server interfaces.
C.    Inform management of the incident.
D.    Inform users regarding the affected systems.

Answer: C

Which of the following servers needs further investigation?

A.    hr.dbprod.01
B.    R&D.file.srvr.01
C.    mrktg.file.srvr.02
D.    web.srvr.03

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B.    Blue team
C.    System administrators
D.    Security analysts
E.    Operations team

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After analyzing and correlating activity from multiple sensors, the security analyst has determined a group from a high-risk country is responsible for a sophisticated breach of the company network and continuous administration of targeted attacks for the past three months. Until now, the attacks went unnoticed. This is an example of:

A.    privilege escalation.
B.    advanced persistent threat.
C.    malicious insider threat.
D.    spear phishing.

Answer: B

A.    Succession planning
B.    Separation of duties
C.    Mandatory vacation
D.    Personnel training
E.    Job rotation

Answer: BD

A security analyst received a compromised workstation. The workstation’s hard drive may contain evidence of criminal activities.

A.    Make a copy of the hard drive.
B.    Use write blockers.
C.    Runrm -Rcommand to create a hash.
D.    Install it on a different machine and explore the content.

Answer: B

File integrity monitoring states the following files have been changed without a written request or approved change.
The following change has been made:

chmod 777 -Rv /usr

Which of the following may be occurring?

A.    The ownership pf /usr has been changed to the current user.
B.    Administrative functions have been locked from users.
C.    Administrative commands have been made world readable/writable.
D.    The ownership of/usr has been changed to the root user.

Answer: C

A security analyst has created an image of a drive from an incident.
Which of the following describes what the analyst should do NEXT?

A.    The analyst should create a backup of the drive and then hash the drive.
B.    The analyst should begin analyzing the image and begin to report findings.
C.    The analyst should create a hash of the image and compare it to the original drive’s hash.
D.    The analyst should create a chain of custody document and notify stakeholders.

Answer: C

An organization is requesting the development of a disaster recovery plan.
The organization has grown and so has its infrastructure.
Documentation, policies, and procedures do not exist.
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B.    Develop a data retention policy.
C.    Execute vulnerability scanning.
D.    Identify assets.

Answer: D

A company wants to update its acceptable use policy (AUP) to ensure it relates to the newly implemented password standard, which requires sponsored authentication of guest wireless devices. Which of the following is MOST likely to be incorporated in the AUP?

B.    The corporate network should have a wireless infrastructure that uses open authentication standards.
C.    Guests using the wireless network should provide valid identification when registering their wireless devices.

Answer: C

A.    3DES
B.    AES
C.    IDEA
D.    PKCS
E.    PGP

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After completing a vulnerability scan, the following output was noted:

Which of the following vulnerabilities has been identified?

A.    PKI transfer vulnerability.
B.    Active Directory encryption vulnerability.
C.    Web application cryptography vulnerability.
D.    VPN tunnel vulnerability.

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Roger Federer returns to Alexandr Dolgopolov during Tuesday’s match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London.  AP PHOTOSentinel and Enterprise
Roger Federer returns to Alexandr Dolgopolov during Tuesday's match at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London. AP PHOTO

"I feel for the crowd.

The theory behind that setup: Players who are injured won't step on court simply to collect their prize money as an entrant, before calling it a day without finishing the match.

"Even if I had a torn muscle today, and the doctor says, 'You shouldn't go on court, you have serious damage to risk,' I could have faked it, stayed there for two less games, and still picked up the paycheck," said Tipsarevic, who stopped while trailing 5-0 after only 12 minutes against Jared Donaldson of the U.S.

A first-round loser at Wimbledon earns 35,000 pounds (about $45,000).

"Unless you're (in the) top 10 ... it's significant money," said Dolgopolov, who is ranked 84th.

Tipsarevic, Dolgopolov, Djokovic and Federer all said they would like to see the majors follow the ATP's lead.

"A player should not go on court if he knows he (can) not finish. The question is: Did they truly believe they were going to finish? If they did, I think it's OK that they walk on court. Otherwise, I feel they should give up the spot," Federer said. "The ATP has adjusted its rule, but maybe the Slams should ... look at what they could do for the players to make it just a little bit easier."

At Centre Court on Tuesday, Federer and Djokovic had an easy go of things. Kerber, last year's runner-up to Serena Williams at the All England Club, had more to do to get past Irina Falconi of the U.S. 6-4, 6-4, and Wozniacki, a two-time U.S. Open finalist, needed three full sets to edge Timea Babos 6-4, 4-6, 6-1.

But it was the short men's matches that had everyone talking.

"If it's just excruciating pain, OK, you can't play. If something is tweaked here or there and you feel like you can give it a decent go without hurting yourself, I think they should stay out there and I think you owe it to the fans," said 23rd-seeded John Isner, who beat Taylor Fritz 6-4, 7-6 (3), 6-3 in an all-American matchup on Court 14. "I know the Wimbledon Centre Court didn't get their money's worth today, that's for sure."

Collette Sherratt, 54, a spectator who traveled from Manchester, England, to attend the tournament for the first time, sure felt that way.

"I've been watching Wimbledon (on TV) for 42 years, and it's been on my bucket list to come here," Sherratt said. "I was absolutely thrilled that (I) was going to be on Centre Court, and then for that to happen, it was like, 'I might never get to come here again."'


CORIOLANUS. Gaius Marcius.

 Coriolanus in Shakespeare’s tragedy

Coriolanus is a political tragedy rather than a historical play, inspired by the noble lesson of Plutarch’s “Parallel lives”.

As a tragedy it wants to voice and to give substance to mad vanity and blinding pride that guide the brave leader Gaius Marcius Coriolanus to stir up the popular revolt, which was the cause of his downfall.

But passions also insinuate themselves in this framework of the plot. They are the drive of human behaviour and if they are not dominated by wise common sense, they drive to madness.

Love of native country, jealousy, perseverance and boldness are brought to face a feeling which is unknown to the general’s thick skin: the sensation of peace as an ecstasy both for human beings and things.

Shakespeare’s tragical greatness to show us Coriolanus’s inner conflict lies in avoiding any easy compromise.

In fact the conclusion of the drama shows us a defeated leader, deprived of boldness and any desire for revenge and blood.

Once deprived of this formidable mainspring, Coriolanus, surrounded by his mother’s supplications for peace, to whom he can’t resist, remains unable to take his place in another sphere of action, different from the horrifying warmachine.

 Coriolanus in Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s tragedy

Heinrich Joseph von Collin, an Austrian poet and dramatist, reasonably famous and also appreciated by Goethe, is the author of a tragedy, “Coriolanus”, enriched by an ouverture composed by Beethoven.

Although some people, Wagner included, asserted that Beethoven paid more attention to Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus”, rather than to Collin’s, it was Beethoven himself who showed his appreciation for the Austrian dramatist publicly.

Heinrich Joseph von Collin and Beethoven created a refined work of art together, that stages human values and crimes and that leads the audience into a rhythm alternating between drama and passion.

Coriolanus in Beethoven’s ouverture

Coriolanus’s ouverture was composed by Beethoven during the first months of 1807.

It was conceived as an interlude to Heinrich Joseph von Collin’s homonymous tragedy, but in fact it became a separate piece and not a composition that had to be sung at the beginning of the play.

At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century Beethoven started to voice all those feelings that, later, would be performend in all his works: grief, resignation, fight and rebellion against one’s fate, confidence about a faint difficult but wonderful triumph of good.

The uneasiness that permeates his works doesn’t prevent the audience’s admiration.

In 1807 he decided to accept the annual pension of 4000 fiorins offered to him by archduke Rudolph and princes Lobkowitz and Kinsky, thus rejecting the king of Westphalia’s invitation to his court as Musikdirektor.

And it is in this context that, in march 1807, he performed “Coriolanus”’s ouverture for the first time, during a private concert at prince Lobkowitz’s residence.

The ouverture fully grasps the Roman leader Gaius Marcius Coriolanus’s mood and thoughts, before when he is at the head of the Roman troops against the Volsci, then when he is indicated as a traitor by his own people, because of his political opponents’ intervention.

That’s how Coriolanus allies with the Volsci against Rome.

Just his boundless love and his deep respect towards his mother, in front of whom the great brave leader becomes completely docile, dissuade him from this enterprise.

Among the conflicting historical sources on the reality of the events, the Ouverture follows the one according to which the leader kills himself because he can’t come back to Rome owing to his exile.

Once again it’s love, this time towards his native country, to determine Gaius Marcius Coriolanus’s life.

Beethoven accompanies the main theme with C minor stressing Coriolanus’s combative outburst, who is ready and determined to invade Rome; then the composer passes to a soft E flat to express his mother’s sweetness and pleas but also her authority.

It isn’t a very famous ouverture, but it is rich in pathos and able to accompany anyone who is listening to it to a journey into the brave leader’s and his stately but loving mother’s heart and, maybe, into Beethoven’s heart too.


Tuesday 17th of July 2018

rome is on fire... bernardi plays the fiddle like nero... they laugh...

NERO NEVER FIDDLED while Rome burned.

It is a popular myth, but it’s simply not true — there were no fiddles back in Roman times.

Nero is, however, reported to have sung a song about the sacking of Troy while watching as 70 per cent of Rome was swallowed by flames in a single blistering gulp.

Some of our current crop of politicians have gone one better — they now laugh like small children whenever climate change is brought up.

This week, the conservative side of politics continued what seems to be the running gag of climate change for the during a motion by Senator Peter Whish-Wilson calling for recognition of Australia’s climate scientists.

Whish-Wilson told the floor and later posted on social media, that it was “the angriest I have ever been in the Senate” as he watched members of the house openly mock climate scientists.

Liberal Senator James McGrath stood to read what appeared to be his party’s talking points in a deadpan monotone stopping a number of times to smirk and chuckle.

Leader of the Australian Conservatives Party, Cory Bernardi, rose to make a point of order, informing the house that it was, in fact, he who had been raucously laughing.

Presumably, he was concerned the people who voted him in would be upset if he wasn’t earning his base pay of $199,040 a year by chuckling his way through Senate motions.

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his fiddle is on fire...

Bernardi's fiddle is on fire

But alas he does not feel the pain

Because the stupid arse is all vain

His brain long destroyed by the pyre

Global warming is real says the song

"Me be laughing" says the ningnong...

Note: the violingolo being played by Bernardi is a super nukular double-headed instrument especially designed for ignoramuses who have no idea about proper fingering nor scientific rigour.

the reverse side of history...

Perhaps it was because Nero played the fiddle, they burned Rome.

Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

It was a lyre, played with a large plectrum dragged across the strings...

Here The Great Fire of Earth was a planetary fire in the year AD 2064. It caused widespread devastation, before being brought under control after six millenniums. Differing accounts either blame Emperor Turnbullius with his mates Bernardius and Abbottus for initiating the fire back then at the beginning of the 21st century. Bernardius and Abbottus wanted to circumvented the Senate by burning coal and more coal. Turnbullius was more devious and tried to salvage cheap electricity prices by prolonging the life of a clapped out coal-burning bonfire... Gus Leoniscus, drunk on the grapevine, describes the Great Fire as Arson, though Bernardius blamed the Globalwarmistus for nothing.

beyond warming...

A recent study estimate there's only a five per cent chance the planet will only warm by two degrees, reports Scott Colvin for Truth Out.

IN A December 2011 article, Noam Chomsky noted that in addition to those preaching skepticism of climate change, there exists another group of climate commentators whose input is ignored by the mainstream media: those who insist that the dangers of climate change go far beyond what we are told is the scientific consensus.

This latter group has grown increasingly vocal, especially outside the U.S., but it is still not being paid enough heed.

In a recent Vice articleNafeez Ahmed broke the story of Schroders, a British investment firm with US$542 billion under management, privately advising its clients that global temperatures could reach 7.8 degrees celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century. Of course, as is well known, the safe limit for warming is generally considered to be 2 degrees celsius.

As Ahmed puts it, a temperature increase of 7.8 degrees

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This possibility is not new. As pointed by Gus in the early days of this website, his own calculations showed that global warming could go between 6 and 9 degrees Celsius with 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere. The tipping point was 1996 when humanity should have stopped pumping any more CO2 and sequester most of the EXTRA added CO2 to arrest the temperature gradient at 2 degrees Celsius by 2100. In subsequent calculations, Gus has presented a more "restrained" estimate in What is global warming?

This morning at 5 o'clock in Sydney's inner west, the temperature was 29.6 degrees Celsius. This was most unusual. Then the temperature dropped and hovered around 28 to 29.8 for the rest of the day.

Scientists are officially using very conservative models in order to manage the political situation. In private scientists working on this issue are more than worried. They are shit-scared. Global warming is bypassing their conservative expectations by a big margin. The number of hurricanes in the mid Atlantic this year has baffled "meteorologists". Mind you, the sea temperatures being "higher than normal" are likely to bring more "energetic" disturbances and more moisture up in the warming atmosphere, leading to more storms.

We need to stop using fossil fuels. Point blank. All our energy needs and transport needs have to be based on renewables. LEAVE THE COAL IN THE GROUND.


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Do I need to store IDP access_token + refresh_token on my own, or I can use Auth0?

After I successfully authenticate on an external IDP, I can use the Management API to retrieve the IDP access_token and refresh_token.
Using the IDP access_token I’ll be able to call the services provided by the IDP.
And using the IDP /refresh endpoint I’ll be able to obtain a new access_token + new refresh_token.
But, at this point, I’ll be forced to store the new tokens on my own database?
Or is there a way to update the old tokens values contained in Auth0 identities[0] with the new values I got from the IDP?

To my knowledge, those properties are only settable at authentication time when the authentication flow is processed through Auth0 so if the underlying identity provider issues a new refresh token you should store it in your own data store.


During the retrograde of personnel and equipment from numerous forward operating bases throughout Afghanistan, the footprint of regularly manned forward arming and refueling points (FARPs) in the area of operations decreased. This created the need for an expeditionary refueling and rearming capability to support coalition force operations across Regional Command South. To address this need, Soldiers of the fuel and water platoon of the 601st Aviation Support Battalion, Task Force Guardian, prepared for jump forward arming and refueling point (JFARP) operations.

When the fuel and water platoon began its deployment at Kandahar Airfield (KAF), it manned a hard standing FARP to refuel the brigade task force's UH-60 Black Hawk, OH-58 Kiowa Warrior, AH-64 Apache, and CH-47 Chinook helicopters.

Because of force manning reductions, many of the battalion's Soldiers redeployed to Fort Riley, Kansas. The fuel and water platoon remained to provide a JFARP capability. To free the platoon for this mission, the FARP was turned over to contractors. During the transition, the fuel and water platoon trained more than 20 contractors to assume FARP operations at KAF.

After handing over the FARP, the platoon turned its focus to JFARP operations. While the platoon was hard at work preparing equipment and personnel to deploy a JFARP team, parallel planning was taking place at the battalion, brigade, and combined joint staff levels to ensure all operations and courses of action were properly analyzed, compared, and understood.

A JFARP can be conducted in numerous ways, all of which are mission dependent. There are three primary methods:

• Sling load 500-gallon fuel blivets from a Chinook, fly to the proposed JFARP location, and establish a FARP using the Advanced Aviation Forward Area Refueling System (AAFARS).
• Ground convoy to the JFARP location in M978 heavy expanded-
mobility tactical trucks (HEMTTs) with 2,500-gallon tankers and set up the HEMTT Tanker Aviation Refueling System (HTARS).
• Employ a "fat cow," which is a Chinook outfitted with 800-gallon
extended-range fuel system tanks and hoses.

During its JFARP training, the fuel and water platoon conducted all three types of operations and validated the associated refuel systems.

Each type of JFARP operation and equipment has its pros and cons to consider during planning.

AAFARS. Using the AAFARS system provides suitable aviation refuel capability for 24 to 72 hours. It rapidly employs all necessary personnel and equipment using Chinooks. It also gives units more options for site selection.

One con to the AAFARS is that it is primarily deployed using Chinooks, which have weight limitations when flying in the mountains of Afghanistan. Multiple trips may be necessary to get all equipment and personnel to the location. Another con is that, depending on the mission and aircraft to be refueled, multiple 500-gallon blivets may be required. Resupply factors must be considered when determining CH-47 requirements and mission synchronization.

When planning a JFARP using the AAFARS, sling-load operations are integral to the process since they are the primary means of deploying the blivets and sometimes the container used to store the AAFARS.

HTARS. Conducting a ground convoy using HEMTT tankers provides high fuel capacity, which can be increased easily depending on the mission and number of HEMTTs available. The high capacity reduces the number of resupplies required on site after the JFARP is in place and operational.

Ground convoy operations come with added risks, including increased security implications and enemy threat potential before and after refueling operations. Performing preventive maintenance checks and services on HEMTTs and including a security escort are paramount to a successful JFARP when employing HTARS.

FAT COW. Like the AAFARS, a fat cow JFARP provides rapid employment and more site choices while operating under minimal enemy threat potential to and from the site. Since this system requires the use of aircraft, it comes with weight limitations. This primarily affects how much fuel or how many 800-gallon extended-range fuel system tanks can be safely transported.

The fat cow can be used to either refuel aircraft for a short time or resupply another JFARP by refueling blivets that are already in place, for example. Effective synchronization between the flight unit providing the Chinook and the fuel unit providing the personnel to conduct refueling operations is important.

While training and preparing to employ a JFARP, the fuel and water platoon experimented with different ways to execute operations, such as using a fat cow to resupply an AAFARS FARP, which is not normally done.

The platoon also experimented with ways to package systems for employment. Using the basic issue item box, the platoon fit a whole HTARS inside the cab of a HEMTT, reducing the need for additional cargo transport vehicles for convoy operations.

Although a tricon container is part of the AAFARS component item list, the platoon packed all necessary pieces of the system on an Air Force 463L pallet. This allowed the platoon to load the AAFARS into a CH-47, which decreased the need for additional sling loads.

Even though each system is designed to be employed a certain way, it is invaluable to have Soldiers who are capable of referencing doctrine, such as Field Manual 10-67-1, Concepts and Equipment of Petroleum Operations, and leaders who can innovate and execute missions tailored to certain situations in a combat environment.

The fuel and water platoon trained with the 142nd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion and learned its tactics, techniques, and procedures for convoy operations. The platoon also trained with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment Support Squadron (RSS/2CR) to learn convoy and site security integration. This training proved valuable to the platoon and prepared it well to execute a validation exercise.

The validation exercise consisted of a ground convoy with two HEMTTs escorted by RSS/2CR Strykers to a location outside KAF. At the chosen JFARP site, RSS/2CR emplaced security at the landing zone and the platoon setup a two-point FARP using the HTARS and refueled one CH-47.

After completing the HTARS validation, the CH-47 flew back to KAF, where the platoon's sling-load team hooked up two blivets. The CH-47 returned to the JFARP site with the blivets and the internally loaded AAFARS. After cutting sling on the blivets and downloading the AAFARS, another FARP was setup. Once the AAFARS was setup and validated, the JFARP team convoyed back to KAF, reset personnel and equipment, and conducted an after-action review.

The platoon trained for fat cow operations with the 2nd General Support Aviation Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, at KAF, which familiarized the unit with the Chinook, extended-range fuel system tanks, and associated hoses and connections necessary to employ the system.

After conducting numerous dry runs, the platoon was able to roll out the system and emplace all safety equipment, such as grounding rods, drip pans, and fire extinguishers, in less than five minutes.

A similar joint training plan to certify all three systems for use is highly encouraged for units that will be responsible for comparable refuel operations. Certain personnel within the platoon should be designated to be responsible for different aspects of the mission, such as landing zone control or air-ground integration.

In garrison, it is easy to become complacent while operating a permanently established, hardstand FARP. It is important that a unit providing refuel operations for aircraft remain trained and prepared to execute a JFARP anywhere and at any time.

Fuel resupply catered to the needs of rotary wing aviation assets is ultimately the lifeblood of the aviation unit's operational capability. The clearly detailed and coordinated training plan that the Soldiers from the fuel and water platoon executed prepared them to support the combat aviation brigade in combat and provided best practices for future JFARP training for other units in the Army.

1st Lt. Daniel Bolon is the fuel and water platoon leader for the 601st Aviation Support Battalion, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade at Fort Riley, Kansas. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Wright State University and is a graduate of the Army Ordnance Officer Basic Course.
This article was published in the September-October 2014 issue of Army Sustainment magazine.


26th - 28th JULY 2019, BRUTON, SOMERSET, UK

Hip-hop broke into Parisian maestro Guts’ life sometime in the 1980’s and he’s devoted all his time and energy to it since. In search of the perfect beat and melody he looked to the sounds emanating from the Bronx, New York as his main source of influence. But over the years his sound, while still rooted in hip hop, continued to shift and expand with fields of influence including the riches offered in soul, jazz, funk and disco, as well as experimentations of live instrumentation blended with programmed grooves. This constant venturing, passion and devotion, and of course the smooth feel-good vibes he dishes up, have helped make him the distinct treasure he is today.
We’re delighted to welcome Guts to the farm for a rare and what should be sweet-as UK DJ set.


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How you can enhance confidence level at workplace?

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confident businessman

In modern workplaces, having great academic track record does not cut much ice because a lot depends on how well you perform. It has often been seen qualified candidates from both genders faring poorly after entering professional life owing to their nervousness or lack of confidence. If you are not confident about your skills and abilities, it will reflect in the way you interact at office or conduct yourself generally. This may also lead to mistakes at work, inferiority complex and overall performance deterioration.

When you understand that lack of confidence is affecting your professional life and taking a toll on work, you can try to improve the situation. It involves two steps. First of all, you have to analyze why you feel lack of confidence and then you have to think of methods or strategies to overcome those factors.

A number of people suffer from lack of confidence because of factors deep rooted in their childhood memories. Those who face comparison with siblings or cousins by parents fare worse in this aspect. Hammering of continued comparison with academically better peers and friends make them feel inferior in adulthood. This works at the back of their mind and they feel inadequate and incompetent. If this is the case with you, you may seek professional help to cope with this issue.

Next, you need to accept the fact that you have certain limitations. However, the truth is no human being is perfect and everyone is endowed with certain characteristics that can be dubbed as his or her drawback or deficit. Even the most successful people around you possibly have met with failure at some point of their life.

Once you understand what your limitations are, it is important that you do the needful to confront and overcome them. A lot of people suffer from communication deficits and this affects their professional life. You can improve your written and spoken skills with proper training at many ages. Attaining fluency takes time but is never too late to try. Think of the fact that a lot of people learn computers at old age and they perform at par with today’s youngsters with sheer dedication and practice.

You can also resort to reading motivational articles and books for inspiration. In such books you can find numerous accounts of how people who were endowed with several imitations faced their adversities with iron determination and emerged winner at the end of struggle. When you read such books your confidence gets a boost and you feel the desire to overcome the odds.

If you feel confused about how to get a work done or feel unsure about accomplishing a task given to you a work, feel free to ask. Unless you get it clarified from your senior or co workers, you will never be able to complete it. Unless you ask, you will never learn new things. Employers appreciate workers who have curiosity and eagerness to learn while working.

Do not be afraid of receiving feedback from the management or seniors at work. While you may receive negative feedback at work sometimes, tat will also help you learn something and rectify the mistakes. It is not practical to feel afraid about feedback from the management. You have to understand and remember the fact that they have nothing personal against you. Their inputs can help you understand ways to avoid errors in future and reforms better.

In any office, you can find employees who are supportive and do not mind sharing their ideas with newcomers. If you can find such an ally at work, you may get useful insights about work. This will help you rise above your doubts and lack of conviction. These helpful colleagues can also help you understand about pitfalls at work and avoid them. You can also ask them for tips to deal with stress and anxiety at work.

There may be times when you actually feel nervous or less confident inside but let not get that reflected in your body language and interaction. If you can keep calm amidst phases of stress at work, that will be appreciated by all. In such times, act calm and positively and be careful about your gestures and eye contact. This will help you combat the feeling of apprehension inside to an extent.

You can also treat yourself on small achievements to beat the feeling of depression and anxiety. It may be a dinner at the restaurant you like at weekend. These will help you stay positive and combat lack of confidence better.


Why Choose Singapore ?

Here are few reasons to choose to study in Singapore, especially for International students from Asia :

1). Singapore is one of the safest cities in the world.
Safety is also including the freedom from a drug-influenced environment.
Drug laws are very strict here. Directly or indirectly, your child is protected by the Singapore government laws.
The strict laws and low crime rates mean that streets and public transportation are secure.

2). Singapore is nearby to their home country / Parents are nearer with their children.
Singapore’s proximity to Asian Countries makes it a much preferred choice among the Asian students and their parents (from China, India, Indonesian, Malaysian, Vietnam, etc).
Parents of undergraduate students generally prefer Singapore over other study destinations as its only a few hours flight from their home country (unlike the US and the UK) and it is nearer with their children.

3). Familiar Language and Culture.
English is the medium of education and business – it is the first language taught in school and the main language used in the workplace. The predominant usage of English means expatriates and foreigners living in Singapore find it is one of the most easily adaptable countries in Asia.

Most Singaporeans are bilingual in English and a second language, commonly Mandarin, Malay or Tamil. According to Singapore’s Department of Statistics, the ethnic mix of Singapore citizen population (Data as of June 2015) : Chinese 76.2%, Malay 15.0%, Indian 7.4%, other ethnicities 1.4%.

As Singapore has Asian culture, International students from Asian countries would be more easy to adapt in Singapore than in other non-Asian countries (USA, UK, Australia, etc).

4). Singapore is one of the financial hubs in the world; Opportunities to work in Multi National Companies (MNC).
Singapore is host to MNCs from wide-ranging industries and geographies, and students have bright chances of finding employment. In case they find employment, most employers are willing to sponsor these students if they are ready to take on the job on graduation.

Note :
44 percent of MNC have substantial APAC (Asia Pacific) headquarters located in Singapore. Emerging Asian MNCs that are starting to make their mark globally are also using Singapore as a springboard for growth.

5). Opportunities to have an international exposure and meet students from all over the world.
Singapore is the meeting point of the world and a unique blend of east and west. Ideally placed to foster cultural, economic and academic exchanges. Singapore is the gateway between Asia and the rest of the world.

Unlike anywhere else in the world, studying in Singapore puts you right at the heart of a unique learning experience where there is a blend of social, cultural and educational mix. It offers you the sophistication of modern living as well as the richness of an Asian Heritage.

6). Quality of schooling.
As a nation whose only resource is its people, education in Singapore is taken very seriously by the Singapore government.
The quality of schooling in Singapore is among the best in the world, the Singapore educational system and textbooks have been adopted from and adapted by other countries.

7). Better life.
People who live here enjoy access to clean environment and convenient amenities, from efficient services to cheap public transportation, that just make life better.

The Map of Singapore Education Journey

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Meaning name Libby

Meaning name Libby
Pet form of English Elizabeth, meaning "God is my oath."
Libe -   Hebrew name derived from the word lev, meaning "heart."
Liberty - English name derived from the vocabulary word, from Latin libertas, meaning "freedom."
Libitina - Roman myth name of a goddess of corpses, funerals, and the dead. Her name was synonymous with the word "death."
Liboria - Feminine form of Roman Latin Liberius, meaning "free."
LibuŠe - Pet form of Czech Libena, meaning "love."
Liber -   Roman name meaning "to be free or liberal." In mythology, this is the name of a god of revelry and the intoxicating effect of wine. His Greek name is Dionysos.
Liberius - Ancient Roman name derived from the Latin word liber, meaning "free."


Use Cayenne at a one second pace

I would like to use Cayenne as a dashboard for sound pressure measurements.
Each point comes at a 1 second pace.
I have built up my data source based on the Cayenne ESP32 example.

I am processing Cayenne.loop(); every second, but only get an update every 30Sec.

Can someone advise?
Any help is highly appreciated.

hi sir, sending data to cayenne at rapid rate (1 second) is not advisable as it can cause the device to disconnect or blocked. the inbuilt CAYENNE_OUT_DEFAULT() sends data at every 15 seconds interval. if you want you can millis() to send data at even faster rate but just keep in mind not to hit the rate limit of 60 messages each minute.
to know more have a look at this topic Sending MQTT messages within rate limits


Challenges Facing Financial Institutions

"Consumers now interact with banks 15-20 times per month, up 3-4 times in the pre-digital era." - NETFINANCE

Financial institutions need to start rethinking how they interact with their consumers. Today's Financial Institutions face a breadth of consumer demands, competitive threats and security and fraud risks. While it's easy for financial institutions to overlook consumers' user experiences in favor of security, the fact is that consumers are seeking richer, more gratifying digital banking experiences, and they will go to the competitor that offers both simplicity and security.

"An average company hears from less than 5% of its unhappy customers." - RUBY NEWELL-LEGNERT

Acquiring and retaining consumers in a fiercely competitive marketplace flooded with waves of non-traditional players - requires a consumer-centric digital strategy. The key enabler for an effective digital strategy is trusted identity. With a single trusted identity, consumers can move freely between banking channels and access online services, mobile apps and bring efficiency to ATM, self-service, and in-branch experiences.

Digital banking is nothing new - online banking has been around since
the late 1980s, and even mobile banking is more than 15 years old. The real
frontier is interconnecting these digital channels with the modern branch
location to create a seamless omni-channel consumer experience - empowering both retail and commercial banking customers with the choice of transacting whenever and wherever they find it most convenient.


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Tuesday, 10 July 2018

Paradigm shift in the belief system Politics (2)

Yesterday's blog was about paradigm shifts in the 7 Belief systems. One of these shifts relates to Politics, a belief system in its Power domain. I expect that Politics - and in particular liberal democracy - is on its way out. Politics based on identity (ie, Nationalism) and/or a strongman (ie, Imperialism) is already on the winning hand.

A combination of Politics based on a strongman and free trade may well provide the next SuperPower. To some extent, the EU operates the same way as China: appointments rather than elections. Bypassing (Chinese and/or European) voters seems to work well.

The red arrows in my diagram show that liberal democracy is losing ground since the 21st century.

The UK has moved to a potentially unsuccessful corner. It either needs to join USA or the EU.

The USA has moved to a corner that shows several powerful countries. Remarkably, these 3 countries continue moving closer to each other.

China has a unique combination of a strongman advocating free trade while minimising civil rights (eg, Social Credit System), and suppressing ethnic nationalism.

My (above) diagram shows the current situation. The future situation will make Politics (eg, liberal democracy) less and less relevant. The future Power domain of the 7 Belief systems will consist of Data/Info, Money and Technology. The billionaires in these segments will become the new aristocrats (and strongmen) of our societies.

Human mass migration following continued climate change and shift, will make country borders irrelevant. Instead of countries, we will see fortified super mega cities of some 100 million people. This will finally make Politics redundant. City administrators will take over, governed by billionaire aristocrats. For an example, please see the 2018 Netflix series Altered Carbon.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” A quote by British political publicist Ernest Benn, which is often misattributed to American comedian Groucho Marx.

In the City (1979) by Joe Walsh - OST The Warriors (1979)

It's survival in the city
When you live from day to day
City streets don't have much pity
When you're down, that's where you'll stay

Note LO: all markings (bolditalicunderling) by LO unless stated otherwise


The hard lessons of a more realistic RTS Wargame.

Wargame: AirLand Battle

Offensive going well until tanks stall, run out of fuel and ammo for the main gun. Several get smoked, one panics and then back to the FOB they go to refuel and repair. Relaunch offensive this time using Forward Observers and scouting the road. Slowly smoke T-72's and win just the "tutorial"

#Wargame   #PCGaming   +Don Anderson
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Here comes everybody: Reframing the stakeholder concept when just about everyone can become your stakeholder

Advances in Project Management

By Prof Darren Dalcher

Director, National Centre for Project Management
University of Hertfordshire

United Kingdom

One of the major transformations in the 5th edition of the PMI Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge published in 2013, was the addition of a tenth knowledge area dedicated to Project Stakeholders Management. Stakeholder management is not a new area for project managers, but the decision to elevate it to a fully-fledged knowledge area, sitting alongside the well-acknowledged fundamental areas required to achieve effective project management, such as time, scope, risk, quality, communications and integration management, represents a sort of coming of age. For indeed, stakeholder engagement or consideration is increasingly recognised as critical to the successful delivery of projects, and to the long term embedding of change.

The label ‘stakeholders’ applies to the individuals, groups, or even organisations, with an interest in a business, a project undertaking, an initiative, an intervention or a change effort. The interest typically relates to direct or indirect involvement in the work, in the decisions regarding the intervention or to being impacted by the outputs and outcomes of change initiatives and projects.

Projects and programmes will typically have a variety of stakeholders with different, and often conflicting, priorities, interests and values. Engaging with, and involving, the diverse groups of stakeholders is considered essential to the acceptance of the resulting artefacts and to the enduring success of any project or change initiative. The key lies in being able to identify the potential influences, positive and negative, that each stakeholder or stakeholder group wields and to endeavour to harness them to the good of the project.

The PMI Guide to the Body of Knowledge acknowledges that stakeholder management includes the processes required to identify the people, groups or organisations that could impact or be impacted by the project, to analyse stakeholder expectations and their impact on the project and to develop appropriate management strategies for effectively engaging stakeholders in project decisions and execution. Moreover, it asserts that “the ability of the project manager to correctly identify and manage these stakeholders in an appropriate manner can mean the difference between success and failure.”

The management of the different stakeholder groups draws on the ability of the manager to develop communication strategy that caters to the needs, expectations and potential influence of each of the groups in a way that engages, informs, neutralises concerns and encourages support. Above all, it requires timely communication about the potential impact of change and a commitment to both involve and support stakeholders.

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About the Author

pmwj35-Jun2015-Dalcher-PHOTODarren Dalcher, PhD

Series Editor

Director, National Centre for Project Management
University of Hertfordshire, UK

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