![]() ![]() I have over 40 years progressive experience in Engineering, Product Design and Development, Production, and Quality Assurance. Hughes Network Systems – Commercial and Consumer Communications Systems – Design of rack mounted communications systems components as well as DirecTV / DirectPC antennae housings.Īutomedics – Automated Medication Dispensing Instrument – Detail design and documentation of a variety of machined, cast, and molded parts ![]() Omega Safety Systems – Firearms Safety Lock – Detail design and documentation for a family of gun safety locks and keys. Initial Engineering Systems and Procedures documentation and implementation during start up phase. Conversion / Reverse Engineering from Solidworks models. IAME – Spinal Implants – Design, detail, and analysis of a variety of implants and instruments for spinal surgery. Intense Cycles – High end mountain and road bike frames – Detail design and analysis for all CNC machined parts, modeling and simulation of suspension mechanisms, created drawing system, created and implemented Quality system. Recent Clients, Industries, and Projects include:Ĭubic Transportation Systems – Automated Fare Collection Systems – Design and detail of robust sheet metal cabinets and design / redesign of various mechanisms and enclosures.ĪSML / Cymer – Designed and laid out laser optical breadboards and safety enclosures for high power laser development. Services include design, detailing, and analysis of molded, cast, sheet metal, and machined parts and assemblies. I have over 20 year’s experience using high end CAD software as a consultant to various industries including electronic packaging, medical devices (implants and instruments), transportation, laser optics, and consumer products.Īs owner of Stronghold Engineering and Design, I provide contract mechanical design service using the Pro/ENGINEER and Solidworks families of software. ![]() Small Business Associations 2010 Entrepreneurial Success of the Year Nationally recognized as an ENR Top 500 Construction / Design Firm With aggregate bonding capacity of more than $250 million, we routinely engineer, design, and construct projects ranging in size from several hundred thousand to well over $100 million.I am interested in mechanical product development opportunities, on or off site, including design, analysis, and detail, utilizing the Pro/ENGINEER and Solidworks families of software. Stronghold has long been recognized for Excellence in Construction, as illustrated below: Projects are consistently recognized with the Navys notable Safety Through Awards and Recognition (STAR) Award Winner of six ABC Excellence in Construction Awards over the last two (2) years Winner of the 2010 National Excellence in Construction Award for LEED sustainable Design Build Project Beverly Bailey was recognized as the U.S. ![]() Operating from its Southern California headquarters, the Stronghold team is able to reach nationally and internationally. Since 1991, Stronghold has provided its clients with full service construction support, including design build, engineering-procurement-construction (EPC), vertical, civil and high voltage electrical construction. With determination, hard-work, a talented group of Team Members, and a commitment to always exceed client expectations, Stronghold Engineering, Inc. More than 20 years ago, Beverly Bailey and Scott Bailey pooled their resources and began doing business from their kitchen table in Southern California. ![]()
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![]() ![]() There will also be the return of Face Off, a classic small team mode originally from Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 and more recently brought back in Modern Warfare® (2019) as a 3v3 mode, which will arrive sometime during the mid-season update. Furthermore, Cranked eliminations count for more - in a standard game to 150 points, the first elimination in each life will award 1 point, and eliminations earned while Cranked will award 2 points each. If they cannot earn another elimination before the timer hits zero, they meet an untimely explosive death.īecause you will feel the pressure of going on elimination streaks, your Operator is likely to gain the effects of the Fast Hands and the Double Time Perks while Cranked. Here’s where you’ll find a squadmate and drop in to face off against a rival duo:įirst seen in Call of Duty®: Ghosts and most recently as part of Modern Warfare® (2019) and Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War, Cranked takes Team Deathmatch and amps up the intensity by putting a countdown on any Operator who earns an elimination. The first duo to win six rounds wins the match. Ties can occur if duos have the same health and the Overtime flag is not captured at the end of a round’s overtime period, at which point both duos will be awarded a “round win” for scoring purposes. A duo wins a round when they reduce the opposing duo’s health to zero or, if this is not done before the round timer expires, the first duo who captures an Overtime flag at the center of the map wins. ![]() First duo to reach the round win limit is victorious.Ī contemporary classic from Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® (2019) and the precursor to Call of Duty®: Warzone™ Gulag confrontations, Gunfight is the four-player, duo-against-duo game mode where random Loadouts and small cage-match-style maps dictate tactical and fast-paced combat.įor those unfamiliar with this mode: Each round, two duos spawn on either side of a map with the same random Loadout. ![]() ![]() One year after Katrina, the state’s medical examiner pledged to keep working until every victim was identified. But that study said the total could be nearly 50 percent higher if deaths possibly linked to the storm were included. Today, when asked about the Louisiana death total, the health department cites a 2008 study that reviewed death certificates and concluded that there were 986 victims. Three months after that, in August 2006, Louisiana counted 1,464 victims, with 135 people still missing. Three months later, it added hundreds of state residents who’d died in other states. Its last news release on the topic, from February 2006, put the statewide toll at 1,103. Gabriel reached a sad milestone: It had released more bodies to victims’ families than the number of bodies it still needed to identify.īy its own admission, Louisiana never finished counting the dead. It was only after two and a half months had passed that St. ![]() “There was a lot of duplication, a lot of poor reporting from the field,” Kelly said in a telephone interview. That’s where most of the bodies of the victims were taken to be identified. After the storm, he worked as a public information officer at DMort’s temporary morgue in St. Don Kelly of the Baton Rouge Police Department had joined a local Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team a month before Katrina. That meant many people weren’t counted until long after they’d died.Īrriving at accurate numbers was difficult. Nearly every day, Bob Johannessen, a spokesman for the state health department, updated the death toll for Louisiana based on the latest data and shared it with the press, taking care never to extrapolate. And each stop could mean the loss of valuable information. The sheer size of the affected areas meant each body might have to go through several checkpoints on its way to the morgue. Kenyon workers had to walk through hospitals where the power had been knocked out. Eventually, procedures were set, with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals taking the lead and Jensen’s company receiving a contract to coordinate the work in the heaviest-hit parishes.Ĭollecting, identifying and counting the dead was an emotionally wrenching, often gruesome, sometimes thankless job. The official effort to recover bodies had stalled as local and federal agencies decided who would do so - and how. “That week was critical, and it was wasted on bureaucracy,” Jensen said in a telephone interview. He’d previously sent around 10 workers to Louisiana to help recover bodies, but they’d been sitting idle in their temporary residence at a Baton Rouge funeral home for a week. He is the CEO of Kenyon International Emergency Services, which helps track deaths after disasters worldwide. Jensen arrived about a week after the storm. Like many post-Katrina efforts, the project to count the dead was hampered by natural and institutional obstacles. News outlets headlined the latest counts of the dead and occasionally showed grisly images of bodies floating in flooded neighborhoods. Although the losses never reached those levels, death in New Orleans was inescapable in the weeks after the levees failed - for its residents, for responders and for a horrified nation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Niland brothers’ parents received all three notifications in a very short amount of time. The battery would not fall until several days later to units of the 9th Infantry Division. During the heavy fighting Niland fell mortally wounded. On June 7, Niland led his men against the German position. The task of capturing the Crisbecq battery, which had already sunk the destroyer USS Corry, fell to Lt. Though casualties were relatively light for the men of the 4th Infantry Division on Utah beach, the battles beyond would be much tougher.ĭespite having made if off the beaches, the men of the 4th Infantry Division still had numerous gun batteries of Hitler’s Atlantic Wall to clear. Preston Niland led his men onto the shores of Utah beach as part of the seaborne invasion of Normandy. One on the 210mm gun of the German Crisbecq Battery in Normandy, not far away from Utah Beach. While manning a machine gun in the face of the German onslaught, Robert Niland was killed in action. When the position became untenable, Robert Niland, along with two other paratroopers, volunteered to stay behind and cover the platoon’s retreat toward Ste. ![]() When two companies of Germans came at their position, they fought tenaciously to hold them off to buy time for their comrades to the south. When a strong German counter-attack came from the south, Robert Niland and the rest of D Company’s 3rd platoon were left to guard the northern approaches to the town in a small village called Neuville. After the 3rd Battalion was able to capture the town early in the morning, the 2nd Battalion linked up with it to establish a defensive perimeter. Mere-Eglise with the rest of the 505th as part of Mission Boston. (Army Signal Corps photo)Įlsewhere, Robert Niland had landed outside of Ste. Other troops are resting behind the concrete wall. Soldiers of the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, move out over the seawall on Utah Beach after coming ashore. This wasn’t quite what happened in Private Ryan, but the movie still draws from these events. These forces were able to secure vital causeways, bridges, and locks allowing the 4th Infantry Division, and Niland brother Preston, to exit Utah beach later that day. Then, in the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, Robert and Fritz joined over 23,000 Allied paratroopers in cracking Fortress Europe.Īlthough Fritz’s unit, 3rd Battalion, 501st PIR, was supposed to be the division reserve, the misdrops meant they were thrust into action in ad hoc groups. He was listed as Missing in Action, but this usually carried a presumption of death at the time, especially if he had fallen into the hands of the Japanese. However, before the brothers could start their “Great Crusade” to liberate Europe, Edward was shot down somewhere over Burma. ![]() Fritz joined Company H, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division.Īs fate would have it, three of the brothers found themselves preparing for the invasion of mainland Europe. Robert served with Company D, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. Robert and Fritz both became paratroopers. ![]() ![]() ![]() Most of the first translations are connected to the Bible. The oldest translation is pretty darn ancient and was done in around 2000 BC when Asians translated The Epic of Gilgamesh. Translation Fact 1: The First Translation Is 4,000 Years Old It does not store any personal data.What’s the most translated story? How many languages do people speak today? And how many people work as translators and interpreters? There’s many an interesting translation fact to make you change your perspective on places, cultures, and foreign languages.īecause translation and interpretation are fascinating professions that make up an amazing world of words, grammar, dialects, and different ways of saying the same thing! To get to know a slice of this world, check these seven curious facts about translation below. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookies are used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". ![]() This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies are used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "preference" ![]() The cookies are used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "consent"Ĭookielawinfo-checkbox- cli_user_preference The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".Ĭookielawinfo-checbox-cookielawinfoconsent Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. The last literary work of Cervantes was Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda ( The Works of Persiles and Sigismunda), published in 1617. His works include the Novelas ejemplares ( Exemplary Novels) in 1613, Viaje al Parnaso (Journey to Parnassus) in 1614, Ocho comedias y ocho entremeses and the second part of Don Quijote in 1615. The Don Quijote literary work is the best of his works and is considered as the first modern European novel in the Western classic literature. In Malta, Miguel de Cervantes was commemorated with a series of events organised by the Spanish embassy at the Spazju Kreattiv, including an exhibition on Don Quijote and the presentation of the Don Quijote book, translated into Maltese by Pawlu Montebello.Ĭervantes, who had left a great impact on the Spanish language with the Don Quijote publication, was born on the 29th September 1547 and died on the 22 April 1616. “Don Quijote is a stereotype in the sense that he’s a man who pretends to be a gentleman and at the same time wants to fight for freedom and solve problems to the people and to create a fascinating life around him which sometimes is his imagination,” Ambassador Josè Pons said. British authors like Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, all wrote about Don Quixote and all were interested in Don Quixote”.Īsked whether the character of Don Quijote is a stereotype of Spanish people, the Spanish ambassador in Malta Jose’ Pons said that in a certain sense everyone identifies himself with this character, and not only the Spanish. “We find thousands of translations and thousands of authors who were influenced, e.g. Moro said that after only eight years of its publication, Don Quijote was being translated in other languages. Alfredo Moro, who is Assistent Lecturer at the Cantabria Spanish University said.ĭuring an interview with, Prof. We are currently working on a project where we are assembling all the translations of Don Quijote in many languages all around the world and we have one language per chapter”, Prof. His influence around the world was universal. “He was the inventor of the modern novel. He is best known for his literary masterpiece Don Quijote, which according to Professor Moro is the second most translated book in different languages after the Bible. Miguel de Cervantes died on the 22nd April, 400 years ago. Professor Moro was the guest in Malta of the Spanish embassy for the 400 anniversary since the death of Cervantes who was commemorated on Friday with a series of activities spreading over last week. According to Spanish Professor Alfredo Moro, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes is the most popular author in the world for his popular novel ‘Don Quijote de la Mancha’, more than it is popular in Spain. ![]() ![]() Is expected to need to use another IDE for JavaScript when working with Rails. ![]() ![]() Too cool! JavaScript SupportĬoming from a JavaScript background, and wanting to incorporation technologies like React, and Node.js with Rails, it To top things off even more, with each rails controller you will find an icon next to each method, and clicking on that icon will send you straight to the view, no more moving back and forth between the controller and view folders. What about those functions you find used, but have no idea where it resides? With a single keystroke you can move to the containing file of that method or function, find all uses of that method, function, or even CSS class, and move to those areas. Even better, when you are working on a single file, you can quickly look in the current folder for the containing files, switch to parent folder, and traverse the entire scaffold very quickly. One of the features I use every single day is the Search Everywhere feature, that not only allows me to find files with a single keyword, but also pick a single folder and look to see what files exist there. RubyMine’s built-in quick navigation not only makes for easy to traverse code, but also easy to find code. Sometimes it isn’t easy to jump into a new project that’s already written to start familiarizing yourself with the structure, and finding files alone can be a chore in itself. In summary it is great feature overall, but one with a very steep learning curve. Just when you feel you know what to do, something else from the functionality trips up the startup, making it a light rubix cube of a setup. With the Rails debugging documentation being unclear on how to setup a working Rails setup, it’s hard to get debugging working with a single command when you have several other services to start at the same time (e.g. I have been more than happy with the functionality, as well as being able to create profiles based on per-file, per-folder testing, as well as a default profile for all other tests. Once I was able to get Rspec testing running, I do have to mention that jumping into this feature was pretty confusing due to the amount of capability, as well as how it’s debugger interacts with these processes setting up a Rspec profile took a few hours of my time Google’ing others having issues only to get debugging to work at all with my rails_helper especially when the default behavior hides the. Even so it was refreshing to find such an IDE that allowed me to setup multiple profiles for debugging the actual Rails app while it is running, as well as setting an entirely different profile for my Rspec and Capybara tests. Once I starting working with RubyMine I felt overwhelmed with its ability being one of the more bloated IDEs out there. For me finding almost no Rails support with VSCode really made me reach back out to other IDEs. This is definitely a feature that can make or break the perspective of an IDE. Tab completion for Rails routes based on your code, Ruby and Rails methods based on the object type, even snippets built into tab completion for any required modules are just a few examples of this power. ![]() One of the biggest benefits, especially for those fairly new to Ruby/Rails is having the code completion and hinting features. ![]() One of the biggest issues of the Idea-based IDEs is just how bloated they are, but there are times when the features simply outweigh this sacrifice. After a month of working with RubyMine I knew this was exactly what I was needing. Looking at the various IDEs available, I decided to give the RubyMine trial a shot even though I was already someone not fond of the Idea IDE for other languages. While you will find me nose-deep in VSCode working with Ruby alone, once I dived into Rails there simply was not enough support. While VSCode is still my go-to for all JavaScript awesomeness, and then starting to use it for Ruby I thought I had an overall winner. When working with JavaScript, I found myself moving from ViM, to Atom, to Brackets, and finally to VSCode. ![]() ![]() If you learn these common sentence patterns well, then your English speaking will improve greatly and you will be able to have fluent conversations in English in the near future! Study the lessons well, practice using the sentences and questions at home and in real life, and make sure to come back to review the material so you do not forget. Study these free English lessons to improve your English speaking. WF050 - Word Formation Sentences Advanced WF049 - Make Money From Being on TV. I think it is going to pretty easy for us. Use the words given in CAPITALS to form a word that fits into the gap. After discussing the word, we decide whether we will be highlighting, coloring, circling, or underlining the word. Identify the target Sight Word The target sight word is always listed on the top left corner of the page. I think she is a little arrogant and selfish.Ī) I think that this project is going to be difficult.ī) I don't think so. Here’s how I use these sight word sentence worksheets with my students. However, we use "think about" when asking a person for their opinion.ī) I think it is interesting, but it is also a little boring in some parts.Ī) What do you think about this restaurant?ī) I think that the food is good, but it seems a little overpriced to me.ī) Not really. These sentences show what thought is in a person's head. Subject + be verb + thinking about + noun. They are thinking about starting their own company.In other words, what the subject might do in the future. These sentences show what the subject is considering doing. 61 40 I'm not sure she knows the answer herself but a lot of marriages are built on far less. 134 71 She'd told him the truth, because she wanted them to have a relationship built on trust and love. 309 99 I wondered if Indians had built it. These sentences do not express an opinion or idea. Built Sentence Examples built Meanings Synonyms Sentences He built a house of some sticks and vines. Subject + be verb + thinking about + gerund. be an assertive sentence or a declarative sentence which has no negative words. These are other very common sentence patterns that use the verb "to think". So, here is a table with the factors that make an affirmative sentence. They do not think that the mall will be busy.ġ.She doesn't think that exercise is useful.Mark doesn't think it is a good idea to go there today.We do not think that the project will be successful.She doesn't think that the movie was good.I do not think that carrots are delicious.In these games, kids have to try forming a complete sentence using given words. These words are used to give more information. These online games will help kids to easily write short and simple sentences. We use "do not think" or "does not think" to make a negative sentence. Without them, the sentence will still make sense since they are not the grammatical basis of the sentence. She thinks we are going to win the game.We think that he has done a good job so far.The teacher thinks that David is the best student.It is used by everybody that speaks English. This sentence pattern is the most basic and common way to express an idea or opinion. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here the pair finds sinners forced to walk in a circle, where they are then ripped open by a devil. In Canto 28, Dante and Virgil come to the ninth male bolgge (“bad pocket”) of Hell. This simplicity contrasts the complexities of sin, creating a functioning balance between the two. Perhaps we should embrace a simplistic idea of contrapasso being a form of retaliation against sinners. While there is validity in both claims and evidence to support them, one may offer the idea that contrapasso is too broad a subject to be put under such rigid definitions. Thomas Aquinas, saying that the contrapasso 'denotes equal suffering repaid for the previous action.' This indicates that Durling believes that Dante punishes the sinner for the repercussions. Contrary to his argument is that of Robert Durling, who quotes St. 6.7-8) he believes the sin is mirrored upon the sinner. Is Dante cursing the crime? Or the resulting damage? In his article, 'Dante and the Death Penalty', Matthew Pearl argues that the torture inflicted is 'divine justice that redirects the essence of a crime back against the perpetrator, manifesting itself with slight differences in degree and style in each individual case' (Pearl. While we can agree the contrapasso is justification and retribution for the sinner's acts on Earth, there is some debate about what exactly is being punished. Contrapasso should instead be taken as a nothing more than the retaliation, which is then up for interpretation and is individual to each person. While there are some claims about the formula of contrapasso, one may argue that attempting to put a firm, set understanding or definition on it severely limits its implications. There is a debate about exactly how contrapasso works, its purposes and why Dante uses it in his particular manner. ![]() Essentially, the contrapasso determines punishment more unique to each sinner, rather than everyone burning in the fiery pit society is so quick to associate with Hell. The literal definition is the 'counter-strike' or the 'counter-suffering'. It describes the relationship between sin and the resulting justification in Hell. Understanding the Complexities of ContrapassoĬontrapasso is a term most commonly attributed to Dante's Inferno. Dante's Inferno and the Modern Imagination ![]() ![]() Rating & billing − It involves rating the products or services usage and producing monthly bills. Here is a list of most important features but not limited to the following − Billing systems are also part of accounts payable (for inter-carrier settlements), as customers often use services from other companies such as wireless roaming, long distance, and call completion through other networks.īilling systems are high end, reliable, and expensive softwares, which provide various functionalities. There are state-of-the-art Billing Systems available in the software market that can handle billing tasks very efficiently and provide lots of flexibilities to service providers to offer their services with different price structures.īilling systems are often viewed as accounts receivable, as the billing system assists in the collection (receipt) of money from customers. There could be very complex charging scenarios, which would be difficult to handle manually. Telecom Billing process also includes receiving and recording payments from the customers. Telecom Billing is a process of collecting usage, aggregating it, applying required usage and rental charges, and finally generating invoices for the customers. For example, you would be charged for all the calls you made or data downloaded using your phone.Īpart from monthly rental and usage charges, operators may charge you for service initiation, installation, service suspension or termination as well. Usage Charges − These are the charges taken from the customers based on the service utilization. For example, your telephone monthly charges would be $5.00 regardless you use it or not. Rental Charges − These are the charges taken from the customers on monthly basis against the service provided. Telecom operators are charging their customers in various ways, but there are two mainly used parameters to charge a customer − IP based services, i.e., voice over IP or VPN.Let us also list down a few basic telecom services being provided by various well known telecom operators − Now, let us list down a few international telecom operators, who are providing satisfactory telecom services to their customers − The medium of transmission includes Wire (Copper), Fiber Optics, Ether (wireless), Radio towers, Microwave, Satellite, etc. Examples include Phone, Radio, Television and Internet. Sending voice, data, picture, fax, etc., from one point to another using electronic media is termed as telecommunication and in short ' telecom'. ![]() |