Emotional connection is needed in you personal as well as professional life. Harrison strongly believes in the power of emotion. Everything is about emotion. The ability of someone to arouse our emotions is what really drives us. Without emotion, you have nothing. Your ability to use emotion to connect with others is something that will have a profound impact on your career.
Providence is a story about seizing life and living without regrets. It is about making difficult and courageous decisions at the risk of losing everything. Ultimately, this is a story about being true to who we are and whom we love.
The characters and events in this story are all connected by a strange and mysterious force of “soul ties”, that bind the characters to one another with a love that is deeper and more intense than anything we can ever imagine. Behind every gift, every word, every gaze, every declaration, every sexual encounter and every touch, a bond is formed, that has the potential to either destroy or elevate all of the characters involved.
TX Forensic Mental Health Conf. #1. Staff PredatorsAnna Salter
The document discusses how incarcerated individuals target and manipulate correctional staff. It describes how inmates gather information on staff through verbal and nonverbal cues to identify who may be vulnerable. Inmates assess factors like a staff member's need for attention, feelings of being unappreciated, or relationship problems to select targets. Inmates then work to develop familiarity with targets and make them feel indebted through favors to establish control and cross professional boundaries, manipulating staff for personal gain or "the rush" of hurting them.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
The document describes the author's experience painting a picture of a mythical creature that led to researching the Lenape people. Through this research, the author had conversations with Lenape individuals who believed that environmentalists are "recruited by the Earth" through spiritual contact. Recalling a childhood experience in nature, the author comes to understand this concept of being influenced by nature spirits, though it is difficult to describe such mystical experiences to others.
Layering Meaning Into Your Scenes, with Linda Joy MyersBrooke Warner
The document provides guidance on writing memoir scenes in 3 key points:
1) Significant turning points and emotionally resonant experiences should be selected to build the structure of the memoir through a series of scenes.
2) Effective scenes show rather than tell through vivid sensory details, actions, dialogue and reflection to immerse the reader.
3) Different types of narrators like guiding, reflecting and "then" narrators can be used to weave interpretation and insight while moving through time. The example given illustrates these elements well.
How far will Rose go to keep her promise?
The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them. . . including Dimitri.
He’d rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa—the one she has sworn to protect no matter what—and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?
Victoria redstall serial killers up close and very personal articleVictoria Redstall
Victoria Redstall became interested in criminal psychology as a child after a family friend was murdered. She has interviewed several notorious serial killers in prison, including Wayne Adamson, Bobby Joe Long, and Keith Jesperson. Redstall believes serial killers are formed through a combination of childhood abuse, neglect, brain injuries, and substance abuse. While the interviews were frightening, Redstall was able to get the killers to open up due to her friendly demeanor, though she does not consider any of them friends. Her goal is to understand how innocent children can turn into monsters and to discourage women from entering prostitution where most serial killers find their victims.
Daniel Radcliffe spoke out against the concept of the "friend zone", calling it a "terrible male thing" and saying it implies that women are only valuable when sexually available. Radcliffe sees himself as unapologetically feminist and believes in equality and meritocracy. He has stood up against sexism in Hollywood, noting double standards around sexualizing his female co-stars compared to himself.
Jake Hyatt is attacked by a strange man and his accomplice who inject him with an unknown substance. Jake wakes up in the woods and undergoes a painful transformation into a wolf. With his new heightened senses and strength, Jake decides to use his gift to help people by hunting criminals. He saves a woman from a mugger by killing the man. The next day, Jake is proud of his actions and sees a news report about the animal attack, realizing the police will not discover it was actually him. The story hints that Jake's transformation occurs in a 24 hour cycle, implying he will undergo the change again at 6:23pm.
Providence is a story about seizing life and living without regrets. It is about making difficult and courageous decisions at the risk of losing everything. Ultimately, this is a story about being true to who we are and whom we love.
The characters and events in this story are all connected by a strange and mysterious force of “soul ties”, that bind the characters to one another with a love that is deeper and more intense than anything we can ever imagine. Behind every gift, every word, every gaze, every declaration, every sexual encounter and every touch, a bond is formed, that has the potential to either destroy or elevate all of the characters involved.
TX Forensic Mental Health Conf. #1. Staff PredatorsAnna Salter
The document discusses how incarcerated individuals target and manipulate correctional staff. It describes how inmates gather information on staff through verbal and nonverbal cues to identify who may be vulnerable. Inmates assess factors like a staff member's need for attention, feelings of being unappreciated, or relationship problems to select targets. Inmates then work to develop familiarity with targets and make them feel indebted through favors to establish control and cross professional boundaries, manipulating staff for personal gain or "the rush" of hurting them.
This summary provides the key details from the document in 3 sentences:
The document describes the author's experience painting a picture of a mythical creature that led to researching the Lenape people. Through this research, the author had conversations with Lenape individuals who believed that environmentalists are "recruited by the Earth" through spiritual contact. Recalling a childhood experience in nature, the author comes to understand this concept of being influenced by nature spirits, though it is difficult to describe such mystical experiences to others.
Layering Meaning Into Your Scenes, with Linda Joy MyersBrooke Warner
The document provides guidance on writing memoir scenes in 3 key points:
1) Significant turning points and emotionally resonant experiences should be selected to build the structure of the memoir through a series of scenes.
2) Effective scenes show rather than tell through vivid sensory details, actions, dialogue and reflection to immerse the reader.
3) Different types of narrators like guiding, reflecting and "then" narrators can be used to weave interpretation and insight while moving through time. The example given illustrates these elements well.
How far will Rose go to keep her promise?
The recent Strigoi attack at St. Vladimir’s Academy was the deadliest ever in the school’s history, claiming the lives of Moroi students, teachers, and guardians alike. Even worse, the Strigoi took some of their victims with them. . . including Dimitri.
He’d rather die than be one of them, and now Rose must abandon her best friend, Lissa—the one she has sworn to protect no matter what—and keep the promise Dimitri begged her to make long ago. But with everything at stake, how can she possibly destroy the person she loves most?
Victoria redstall serial killers up close and very personal articleVictoria Redstall
Victoria Redstall became interested in criminal psychology as a child after a family friend was murdered. She has interviewed several notorious serial killers in prison, including Wayne Adamson, Bobby Joe Long, and Keith Jesperson. Redstall believes serial killers are formed through a combination of childhood abuse, neglect, brain injuries, and substance abuse. While the interviews were frightening, Redstall was able to get the killers to open up due to her friendly demeanor, though she does not consider any of them friends. Her goal is to understand how innocent children can turn into monsters and to discourage women from entering prostitution where most serial killers find their victims.
Daniel Radcliffe spoke out against the concept of the "friend zone", calling it a "terrible male thing" and saying it implies that women are only valuable when sexually available. Radcliffe sees himself as unapologetically feminist and believes in equality and meritocracy. He has stood up against sexism in Hollywood, noting double standards around sexualizing his female co-stars compared to himself.
Jake Hyatt is attacked by a strange man and his accomplice who inject him with an unknown substance. Jake wakes up in the woods and undergoes a painful transformation into a wolf. With his new heightened senses and strength, Jake decides to use his gift to help people by hunting criminals. He saves a woman from a mugger by killing the man. The next day, Jake is proud of his actions and sees a news report about the animal attack, realizing the police will not discover it was actually him. The story hints that Jake's transformation occurs in a 24 hour cycle, implying he will undergo the change again at 6:23pm.
The document asks the reader to think of a past deep learning experience, describing when and where it took place, who they were with, their dominant emotion, what they learned, and how they knew they learned it. It then instructs the reader to post their response on Google Docs and take part in a gallery walk, quietly reading other responses to find patterns of similarity and difference and discuss as a group what might comprise a deep learning experience.
This document summarizes a GPU benchmark suite for autonomous car applications presented by Baek Soo, Sindhuja Elango, and Urvashi Agarwal. It discusses how GPUs are better than CPUs for deep learning applications used in self-driving cars, such as image classification, digit recognition, and speech processing. The researchers aim to optimize GPU performance for autonomous vehicles by comparing and visualizing data from a powerful GPU server and mobile embedded system using frameworks like TensorFlow, Caffe and Torch on image and language datasets. They have made progress extracting current stages of research and finding potential optimization points from the GPU architecture perspective.
This document discusses six core principles for creating memorable presentations: 1) have students dig deep into the material by linking it to things they care about, 2) introduce emotion to make people care about the topic, 3) show enthusiasm for the subject, 4) link the material to things students already value, 5) ask students what they value to understand how to engage them, and 6) make emotion the intended outcome of the presentation. It emphasizes using stories and storytelling techniques to help explain concepts and inspire students in a way that fosters emotional involvement.
This document discusses predictive apps for startups using machine learning. It provides examples of everyday use cases like real estate price prediction and email spam detection. It explains that machine learning works by training a model on data and then using the model to make predictions on new data. The document also discusses how to make machine learning more accessible through cloud platforms and APIs, and how automation tools can help simplify machine learning tasks like model tuning and algorithm selection.
Cities and Startups: Cultivating Deep EngagementCode for America
Cities and Startups: Cultivating Deep Engagement
FastFWD, City of Philadelphia
Story Bellows, co-director of the Philadelphia Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Watch the video online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRKUCCHj-08&list=PL65XgbSILalVoej11T95Tc7D7-F1PdwHq&index=4
Get involved with Code for America: www.codeforamerica.org/action
Cross cultural study of reading support E.A. Draffan
Two studies about the use of text to speech and technology to aid reading by Mamoru Iwabuchi, Kenryu Nakamura, Maiko Takahashi, Toshihiro Kono, Rumi Hirabayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan), E.A. Draffan (Universitiy of Southampton UK)
Learning New Semi-Supervised Deep Auto-encoder Features for Statistical Machi...Vimukthi Wickramasinghe
The document describes a new approach for using deep neural networks to learn features for statistical machine translation. Specifically, it uses deep autoencoders to extract features from input data in an unsupervised manner, rather than manually engineering features. The approach feeds 16 input features into a deep belief network made of restricted Boltzmann machines. This network is then unrolled to form a deep autoencoder, which is fine-tuned using backpropagation. Stacking multiple trained autoencoders results in statistically significant improvements over baseline features on Chinese-English translation tasks.
MediaEval 2015 - Automatically Estimating Emotion in Music with Deep Long-Sho...multimediaeval
In this paper we describe our approach for the MediaEval's "Emotion in Music" task. Our method consists of deep Long-Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM-RNN) for dynamic Arousal and Valence regression, using acoustic and psychoacoustic features extracted from the songs that have been previously proven as effective for emotion prediction in music. Results on the challenge test demonstrate an excellent performance for Arousal estimation (r = 0.613 ± 0.278), but not for Valence (r = 0.026 ± 0.500). Issues regarding the quality of the test set annotations' reliability and distributions are indicated as plausible justifications for these results. By using a subset of the development set that was left out for performance estimation, we could determine that the performance of our approach may be underestimated for Valence (Arousal: r = 0.596 ± 0.386; Valence: r = 0.458 ± 0.551).
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1436/
http://www.multimediaeval.org
This document discusses emotional intelligence and its importance. It begins by describing an emotional intelligence test the author took, in which they scored 78. It then discusses the five categories of emotional intelligence - self awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Finally, it outlines several ways to enhance emotional intelligence, such as tuning into feelings, listening to one's body, and writing down thoughts and feelings.
Startups are about learning, SW Startup Day at TUTTopi Järvinen
The document provides advice and best practices for startups based on the experiences of Topi Järvinen and others. Some of the key points discussed are: 1) Focus on validating problems with customers before building solutions, and be prepared to pivot based on feedback. 2) Build minimum viable products that provide the most learning with the least effort. 3) Continually measure customer engagement and willingness to recommend to ensure the startup is making a difference for users.
The document discusses how emotions play a key role in the learning experience in museums. It explores how data becomes information, knowledge and eventually wisdom through understanding contexts and creating meaning. Experiences are examined as active or passive participation that can be educational, entertainment, escapism or aesthetic. Emotions are an important part of the primary sensory experience that leads to secondary meaningful experiences through perception and creation of meaning. An experiential learning toolkit outlines intellectual, intuitive, immersive and imaginative approaches, with emotion also playing a central role in a good learning experience.
Part II of the Museums and the Mind session at ASTC 2008 in Philadelphia. John Falk, professor of free-choice learning at Oregon State University, discusses metrics of evaluating the effect of emotion on free-choice learning.
Jay Turcot - Emotion AI Developer Day 2016Affectiva
Please tweet to us using: @Affectiva and #EmoDev16
Key Websites:
Affectiva: http://affectiva.com
Developer Portal: http://developer.affectiva.com
Affectiva Demo: http://go.affectiva.com/affectiva-demo
Emotion AI Developer Day brought together the largest remote conference of emotion recognition developers in the world, including Affectiva staff, affective computing thought leaders and companies offering complementary technologies. Emotion AI Developer Day provided opportunities for attendees to learn, as we as to help shape the future of Affectiva.
Find us on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Affectiva/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Affectiva
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/affectiva_2
Improving Data Quality with Active Learning for Emotion AnalysisLu Chen
1) The document presents research on improving data quality for emotion analysis through active learning. It explores using Delta-IDF and Emotion Spread feature weighting approaches within active learning to reduce the cost of re-annotating tweets with emotion labels.
2) Experimental results found that the SVM-Delta-IDF and Emo-Spread active learning approaches outperformed baselines on certain emotion classifications, required less training time, and significantly reduced the effort required to re-annotate the dataset when compared to non-active learning approaches.
3) The active learning approaches were able to identify the most informative instances to re-label, fixing labels with fewer total annotations compared to random selection or non-active baselines. This led to improved
The neighbor would see the man of the house drink beers quickly behind his garage when his daughter and son-in-law visited. This happened every few weeks and was the man's way of dealing with the stress of their visits. The passage discusses common ways people cope with stress, such as distraction, avoidance, isolation, or dissipating energy, but argues these don't resolve the underlying issues. It introduces the concept of "focusing" from Dr. Gendlin's research - accepting feelings instead of resisting stress, in order to remain conscious of problems and deal with them directly.
Are You Motivated by Power, Relationships, or Achievement?Employment Crossing
The document discusses three different personality types that may emerge when someone sits in the restored classic cars that the author has spent decades restoring: power-oriented, relationship-oriented, and achievement-oriented. It provides examples of how each type would react and what questions they would ask when viewing the cars, noting their different motivations - power, relationships, and achievement respectively. The author stresses the importance of understanding one's own personality type and being in a career that allows one to thrive using their natural motivations.
To succeed in the terms you have set for yourself, you need to look out for, and operate in, an environment that is strong and very demanding from you in terms of work.
The document asks the reader to think of a past deep learning experience, describing when and where it took place, who they were with, their dominant emotion, what they learned, and how they knew they learned it. It then instructs the reader to post their response on Google Docs and take part in a gallery walk, quietly reading other responses to find patterns of similarity and difference and discuss as a group what might comprise a deep learning experience.
This document summarizes a GPU benchmark suite for autonomous car applications presented by Baek Soo, Sindhuja Elango, and Urvashi Agarwal. It discusses how GPUs are better than CPUs for deep learning applications used in self-driving cars, such as image classification, digit recognition, and speech processing. The researchers aim to optimize GPU performance for autonomous vehicles by comparing and visualizing data from a powerful GPU server and mobile embedded system using frameworks like TensorFlow, Caffe and Torch on image and language datasets. They have made progress extracting current stages of research and finding potential optimization points from the GPU architecture perspective.
This document discusses six core principles for creating memorable presentations: 1) have students dig deep into the material by linking it to things they care about, 2) introduce emotion to make people care about the topic, 3) show enthusiasm for the subject, 4) link the material to things students already value, 5) ask students what they value to understand how to engage them, and 6) make emotion the intended outcome of the presentation. It emphasizes using stories and storytelling techniques to help explain concepts and inspire students in a way that fosters emotional involvement.
This document discusses predictive apps for startups using machine learning. It provides examples of everyday use cases like real estate price prediction and email spam detection. It explains that machine learning works by training a model on data and then using the model to make predictions on new data. The document also discusses how to make machine learning more accessible through cloud platforms and APIs, and how automation tools can help simplify machine learning tasks like model tuning and algorithm selection.
Cities and Startups: Cultivating Deep EngagementCode for America
Cities and Startups: Cultivating Deep Engagement
FastFWD, City of Philadelphia
Story Bellows, co-director of the Philadelphia Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics
Watch the video online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRKUCCHj-08&list=PL65XgbSILalVoej11T95Tc7D7-F1PdwHq&index=4
Get involved with Code for America: www.codeforamerica.org/action
Cross cultural study of reading support E.A. Draffan
Two studies about the use of text to speech and technology to aid reading by Mamoru Iwabuchi, Kenryu Nakamura, Maiko Takahashi, Toshihiro Kono, Rumi Hirabayashi (University of Tokyo, Japan), E.A. Draffan (Universitiy of Southampton UK)
Learning New Semi-Supervised Deep Auto-encoder Features for Statistical Machi...Vimukthi Wickramasinghe
The document describes a new approach for using deep neural networks to learn features for statistical machine translation. Specifically, it uses deep autoencoders to extract features from input data in an unsupervised manner, rather than manually engineering features. The approach feeds 16 input features into a deep belief network made of restricted Boltzmann machines. This network is then unrolled to form a deep autoencoder, which is fine-tuned using backpropagation. Stacking multiple trained autoencoders results in statistically significant improvements over baseline features on Chinese-English translation tasks.
MediaEval 2015 - Automatically Estimating Emotion in Music with Deep Long-Sho...multimediaeval
In this paper we describe our approach for the MediaEval's "Emotion in Music" task. Our method consists of deep Long-Short Term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTM-RNN) for dynamic Arousal and Valence regression, using acoustic and psychoacoustic features extracted from the songs that have been previously proven as effective for emotion prediction in music. Results on the challenge test demonstrate an excellent performance for Arousal estimation (r = 0.613 ± 0.278), but not for Valence (r = 0.026 ± 0.500). Issues regarding the quality of the test set annotations' reliability and distributions are indicated as plausible justifications for these results. By using a subset of the development set that was left out for performance estimation, we could determine that the performance of our approach may be underestimated for Valence (Arousal: r = 0.596 ± 0.386; Valence: r = 0.458 ± 0.551).
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1436/
http://www.multimediaeval.org
This document discusses emotional intelligence and its importance. It begins by describing an emotional intelligence test the author took, in which they scored 78. It then discusses the five categories of emotional intelligence - self awareness, self regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Finally, it outlines several ways to enhance emotional intelligence, such as tuning into feelings, listening to one's body, and writing down thoughts and feelings.
Startups are about learning, SW Startup Day at TUTTopi Järvinen
The document provides advice and best practices for startups based on the experiences of Topi Järvinen and others. Some of the key points discussed are: 1) Focus on validating problems with customers before building solutions, and be prepared to pivot based on feedback. 2) Build minimum viable products that provide the most learning with the least effort. 3) Continually measure customer engagement and willingness to recommend to ensure the startup is making a difference for users.
The document discusses how emotions play a key role in the learning experience in museums. It explores how data becomes information, knowledge and eventually wisdom through understanding contexts and creating meaning. Experiences are examined as active or passive participation that can be educational, entertainment, escapism or aesthetic. Emotions are an important part of the primary sensory experience that leads to secondary meaningful experiences through perception and creation of meaning. An experiential learning toolkit outlines intellectual, intuitive, immersive and imaginative approaches, with emotion also playing a central role in a good learning experience.
Part II of the Museums and the Mind session at ASTC 2008 in Philadelphia. John Falk, professor of free-choice learning at Oregon State University, discusses metrics of evaluating the effect of emotion on free-choice learning.
Jay Turcot - Emotion AI Developer Day 2016Affectiva
Please tweet to us using: @Affectiva and #EmoDev16
Key Websites:
Affectiva: http://affectiva.com
Developer Portal: http://developer.affectiva.com
Affectiva Demo: http://go.affectiva.com/affectiva-demo
Emotion AI Developer Day brought together the largest remote conference of emotion recognition developers in the world, including Affectiva staff, affective computing thought leaders and companies offering complementary technologies. Emotion AI Developer Day provided opportunities for attendees to learn, as we as to help shape the future of Affectiva.
Find us on:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Affectiva/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Affectiva
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/affectiva_2
Improving Data Quality with Active Learning for Emotion AnalysisLu Chen
1) The document presents research on improving data quality for emotion analysis through active learning. It explores using Delta-IDF and Emotion Spread feature weighting approaches within active learning to reduce the cost of re-annotating tweets with emotion labels.
2) Experimental results found that the SVM-Delta-IDF and Emo-Spread active learning approaches outperformed baselines on certain emotion classifications, required less training time, and significantly reduced the effort required to re-annotate the dataset when compared to non-active learning approaches.
3) The active learning approaches were able to identify the most informative instances to re-label, fixing labels with fewer total annotations compared to random selection or non-active baselines. This led to improved
The neighbor would see the man of the house drink beers quickly behind his garage when his daughter and son-in-law visited. This happened every few weeks and was the man's way of dealing with the stress of their visits. The passage discusses common ways people cope with stress, such as distraction, avoidance, isolation, or dissipating energy, but argues these don't resolve the underlying issues. It introduces the concept of "focusing" from Dr. Gendlin's research - accepting feelings instead of resisting stress, in order to remain conscious of problems and deal with them directly.
Are You Motivated by Power, Relationships, or Achievement?Employment Crossing
The document discusses three different personality types that may emerge when someone sits in the restored classic cars that the author has spent decades restoring: power-oriented, relationship-oriented, and achievement-oriented. It provides examples of how each type would react and what questions they would ask when viewing the cars, noting their different motivations - power, relationships, and achievement respectively. The author stresses the importance of understanding one's own personality type and being in a career that allows one to thrive using their natural motivations.
To succeed in the terms you have set for yourself, you need to look out for, and operate in, an environment that is strong and very demanding from you in terms of work.
In life and in career, most people seek to improve, get traction and stay in the game. No one wishes to slip and fall and yet all, at some point or another do.
Be Someone Who is Engaged with Work, Not Someone Who Avoids WorkEmployment Crossing
The document discusses several instances the author witnessed of people avoiding work or being disengaged from their jobs, including:
1) Two airline stewardesses who spent their time during the flight clipping coupons and complaining about their jobs instead of serving passengers.
2) An airline executive who was upset about being expected to work during a flight instead of sleeping.
3) Pilots who were more interested in surfing the internet than flying the plane.
4) An airport shuttle driver who was not actually picking passengers up from the airport on schedule.
The author concludes that being engaged with and finding meaning in one's work is important for career satisfaction and success.
Garlic Olive Oil, Craigslist Massages-and Doing Your HomeworkEmployment Crossing
Do not plunge into something as important as a new job before investing enough time in researching and learning more about the work required, the people you will work with, and the environment.
You need to decide for yourself which method works best for you. An alternate to this exists as well; you can choose to let things remain the way they are.
It is important for every individual to realize that nobody else is going to be as concerned for your career as you yourself. Because of this reason, it becomes much more important to protect your ability to earn your living.
Paying attention to details is one of the most important things for success. Successful people have an extraordinary ability to focus on even small details and are often obsessed with intricate knowledge about details. Details are important in every profession from law and teaching to business and athletics. Those who focus on details like remembering customer preferences, following up after a job application, or working to improve small weaknesses will achieve better results than those who do not pay attention to the small things.
The document discusses a man who attended a wedding rehearsal dinner and sat next to a wealthy businessman. The businessman revealed that he prefers using prostitutes to relationships because it is cheaper and less troublesome. The narrator was shocked by this viewpoint, which treats people as commodities that can be bought and sold. The document argues that to succeed in business and career, one must form emotional connections with others and understand their goals and dreams, in order to be seen as more than just a replaceable commodity.
We recently hosted the much-anticipated Community Skill Builders Workshop during our June online meeting. This event was a culmination of six months of listening to your feedback and crafting solutions to better support your PMI journey. Here’s a look back at what happened and the exciting developments that emerged from our collaborative efforts.
A Gathering of Minds
We were thrilled to see a diverse group of attendees, including local certified PMI trainers and both new and experienced members eager to contribute their perspectives. The workshop was structured into three dynamic discussion sessions, each led by our dedicated membership advocates.
Key Takeaways and Future Directions
The insights and feedback gathered from these discussions were invaluable. Here are some of the key takeaways and the steps we are taking to address them:
• Enhanced Resource Accessibility: We are working on a new, user-friendly resource page that will make it easier for members to access training materials and real-world application guides.
• Structured Mentorship Program: Plans are underway to launch a mentorship program that will connect members with experienced professionals for guidance and support.
• Increased Networking Opportunities: Expect to see more frequent and varied networking events, both virtual and in-person, to help you build connections and foster a sense of community.
Moving Forward
We are committed to turning your feedback into actionable solutions that enhance your PMI journey. This workshop was just the beginning. By actively participating and sharing your experiences, you have helped shape the future of our Chapter’s offerings.
Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the success of the Community Skill Builders Workshop. Your engagement and enthusiasm are what make our Chapter strong and vibrant. Stay tuned for updates on the new initiatives and opportunities to get involved. Together, we are building a community that supports and empowers each other on our PMI journeys.
Stay connected, stay engaged, and let’s continue to grow together!
About PMI Silver Spring Chapter
We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For more, visit pmissc.org.
Parabolic antenna alignment system with Real-Time Angle Position FeedbackStevenPatrick17
Introduction
Parabolic antennas are a crucial component in many communication systems, including satellite communications, radio telescopes, and television broadcasting. Ensuring these antennas are properly aligned is vital for optimal performance and signal strength. A parabolic antenna alignment system, equipped with real-time angle position feedback and fault tracking, is designed to address this need. This document delves into the components, design, and implementation of such a system, highlighting its significance and applications.
Importance of Parabolic Antenna Alignment
The alignment of a parabolic antenna directly affects its performance. Even minor misalignments can lead to significant signal loss, which can degrade the quality of the received signal or cause communication failures. Proper alignment ensures that the antenna's focal point is accurately directed toward the signal source, maximizing the antenna's gain and efficiency. This precision is especially crucial in applications like satellite communications, where the antenna must track geostationary satellites with high accuracy.
Components of a Parabolic Antenna Alignment System
A parabolic antenna alignment system typically includes the following components:
Parabolic Dish: The primary reflector that collects and focuses incoming signals.
Feedhorn and Low Noise Block (LNB): Positioned at the dish's focal point to receive signals.
Stepper or Servo Motors: Adjust the azimuth (horizontal) and elevation (vertical) angles of the antenna.
Microcontroller (e.g., Arduino, Raspberry Pi): Processes sensor data and controls the motors.
Potentiometers: Provide feedback on the antenna's current angle positions.
Fault Detection Sensors: Monitor for potential faults such as cable discontinuities or LNB failures.
Control Software: Runs on the microcontroller, handling real-time processing and decision-making.
Real-Time Angle Position Feedback
Real-time feedback on the antenna's angle position is essential for maintaining precise alignment. This feedback is typically provided by potentiometers or rotary encoders, which continuously monitor the azimuth and elevation angles. The microcontroller reads this data and adjusts the motors accordingly to keep the antenna aligned with the signal source.
Fault Tracking in Antenna Alignment Systems
Fault tracking is vital for the reliability and performance of the antenna system. Common faults include cable discontinuities, LNB malfunctions, and motor failures. Sensors integrated into the system can detect these faults and either notify the user or initiate corrective actions automatically.
Design and Implementation
1. Parabolic Dish and Feedhorn
The parabolic dish is designed to reflect incoming signals to a focal point where the feedhorn and LNB are located. The dish's size and shape depend on the specific application and frequency range.
2. Motors and Position Control
Stepper motors or servo motors are used to control the azimuth and elevation of
Joyce M Sullivan, Founder & CEO of SocMediaFin, Inc. shares her "Five Questions - The Story of You", "Reflections - What Matters to You?" and "The Three Circle Exercise" to guide those evaluating what their next move may be in their careers.
LinkedIn for Your Job Search June 17, 2024Bruce Bennett
This webinar helps you understand and navigate your way through LinkedIn. Topics covered include learning the many elements of your profile, populating your work experience history, and understanding why a profile is more than just a resume. You will be able to identify the different features available on LinkedIn and where to focus your attention. We will teach how to create a job search agent on LinkedIn and explore job applications on LinkedIn.
Khushi Saini, An Intern from The Sparks Foundationkhushisaini0924
This is my first task as an Talent Acquisition(Human resources) Intern in The Sparks Foundation on Recruitment, article and posts.
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2. Everything Is About Emotion The ability of someone to arouse our emotions and heart is what really drives us. Without emotion, you have nothing. We all have emotions deep within us. Inside each of us are deep emotions that many of us do not even understand. Your ability to use emotion to connect with others is something that will have a profound impact on your career. One of my favorite movies in all respects is Apocalypse Now , loosely based on Joseph Conrad’s 1899 novel, Heart of Darkness . The novel is less than 100 pages long; however, it has incredibly significant psychological messages that deal with our connection with both ourselves and the world.
3. The Book Deals With The Flashback Of A Man Named Marlow… Who is working for a Belgian trading company known only as “the Company.” Marlow is sent on a steam boat up, what the reader is led to believe, is the Congo river to the Company’s remote Inner Station. As Marlow goes up the river into territory that is increasingly more and more remote, the journey takes on a psychological dimension and becomes, in effect, a quest by Marlow to understand himself and elements of his unconscious.
4. Marlow exclaims: “ Droll thing life is-that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself–that comes too late–a crop of indistinguishable regrets.”
5. Marlow Begins To See Himself As Traveling Into The Unknown… And primal reaches of the mind. The more one reads the book the more evident it becomes that the story is about a journey into the subconscious and a confrontation with one’s own self. The Inner Station is run by a man named Kurtz who trades ivory. Once he arrives at the Inner Station, Marlow is struck by the decaying facilities and the incredible and racist exploitation of the native Africans by the Europeans. Virtually every character in the novel remains nameless and is referred to simply as The Manager, The Accountant and so forth. These characters are all people who have almost completely lost their individuality in the face of the dark of the jungle.
6. The Novel Is Important Because It Shows That… There is, within each of us, a subconscious emotional self. The characters of the Accountant, Manager and others that Marlow meets to me are like many of us who lose our individuality and emotional selves once we get out in the business world. Our emotional selves are among the most important components of who we are and what makes us tick. They are something that we all need to discover and use. They are latent and deep within us, waiting to be found.
7. One Of the Most Unusual Experiences I Ever Had In My Life Was… With a girl I scarcely knew and it happened several years ago. She and I had spent some time together simply talking and lived on opposite sides of the country. We spoke late into the evening one night in a small cafe. Neither of us, as far as we knew, had any interest in being involved with one another at all. We were discussing, for the most part, a business-related matter.
8. However, I Personally Felt A Strong Affinity With Her As We… Spoke and I could tell she did as well. It was more of a shared understanding between our hearts and what lied within us. As we were saying goodbye, the two of us hugged and all of a sudden we both started crying and sobbing almost uncontrollably. In fact, the emotional outpouring that occurred was incredibly strong. We sat there on a corner of a busy city street hugging for at least a few minutes. Neither of us understood what was going on. The bond was not sexual
9. What Was So Remarkable About This Particular Episode Is… That we both started crying without any prompting. There was simply an emotional outpouring that seemed to come out of nowhere. It was something that I did not know I even had within me, and it is something I will never forget. In that moment I discovered a part of me within my heart I did not even know existed. This emotion and ability to connect with someone else like this is incredible. The bond with her at that point I think was so powerful that were I to ask her to run off with me to a deserted island and leave everything behind, I am confident she would have followed.
10. Stanley Kubrick’s Movie Eyes Wide Shut Is A Compelling… Psychological drama that follows Dr. Bill Hartford (played by Tom Cruise) on his sex adventures after his wife Alice (played by Nicole Kidman) reveals that she contemplated giving up everything for a quick affair with a naval officer a year earlier. The entire movie is based around the shock that Dr. Hartford experiences after learning of this. The idea that there is something dark and emotional like this within each of us is stunning on many levels. Deep down there are parts of ourselves and our psyches we simply do not understand, but which are very emotional in their nature.
11. In Contemplating This Particular Episode Years Later… It occurred to me that there was an emotional part of myself and herself that had connected on a deep and important level. We both knew this connection was there, despite the fact that we scarcely knew one another. It was an experience I will never forget because it is a person that I scarcely knew at the time. Nevertheless, there was a deep emotional bond there that really meant something.
12. I Am Sure You Have Experienced These Sorts Of… People are seeking connection, and connection is one of the most important things we can have. Emotional connections with others in your life as well. Powerful emotional connections and attachments are rare; however, we all experience strong emotional attachments to people, ideas, places and things. I am sure your eyes may have started watering at seeing something beautiful, when you heard a wonderful story, or when you saw something wonderful happen. We are primarily emotional people and much of our decision-making ability is based on emotions.
13. The Emotional Bond Between People Is… Not something that I would necessarily call sexual. In fact, the sorts of emotional bonds that exist between people are something else. I remember my best friend growing up was one of the toughest guys you can imagine; he was always getting in one fight after another. In addition, he had tons of girlfriends and was very well liked. When I was around 16 years old I came home from winter break from Thailand where I was going to school, and spent a few weeks with all of my friends. The night before I was going to say goodbye to my friend before returning to Thailand, he broke down crying and I remember hugging him. It was the most emotional I had ever seen him, and it still makes me uncomfortable to this day. However, he is also someone I will stay in touch with and be friends with as long as I live.
14. One Of The Biggest Mistakes Most Of Us Make… In our job search, careers and lives is expecting that being professional is enough. What all of us are seeking in the world is an emotional connection and we want to feel connected with others. Beneath each of our exteriors and inside of us is an emotional person and someone who has a profound ability to be connected to others. This is where the power lies, and it is in this emotional person that our true power lies.
15. Your Career And Life Will Often… Revolve around your ability to use this emotional person effectively. When we are able to connect with one another, incredible bonds of trust can develop. The emotional person inside of us wants to feel connected to the people around us. We are, at heart, emotional people and are seeking an emotional connection.
16. If Someone Is Unable To Connect With Others Emotionally… They will typically be terribly alone and isolated. They may be unemployed, or if they are employed they will typically not go very far in whatever they are doing. Having an emotional connection with others is something that can make a huge difference in your career. The stronger you are able to connect with others, the more of a bond there is going to be. The more of a bond there is, the more you are likely to get hired and the more you are likely to keep your job. If people feel an emotional connection to you, they are likely to want to be around you.
17. The Thing About This Emotional Bond Is That… It is not something you need to work with. It is already a part of you. I would go so far as to say that some of your ability to connect with others is already part of your DNA. Connectivity is what every relationship is built upon. It’s nothing more than getting in touch, feeling what the people you are working with feel, seeing life the way they see life, looking at the situation from their point of view, on their side of the desk. It is looking at their life, understanding their hopes, their dreams, their fears. It’s a very powerful shift in the way you conduct yourself, but one that will put so much more enjoyment, excitement and effectiveness into everything you do and everyone who does it with you.
18. You Need A Real Connection With Everyone You Deal With In… Your professional or personal life. For example, when you’re out at a restaurant and a business and an overworked server comes up to you, it’s important to connect with him or her. It’s about conveying to them that you appreciate what they’re doing and that they’re adding pleasure to your dining.
19. You Know It’s Hard And You Know It’s Difficult… And smiling from the depth of your heart because you know that gives them acknowledgment, that makes it worthwhile and thank them for their effort. It’s carrying that same sense of purpose and passion everywhere you go, and in everything you do. It’s realizing it’s all about them. It’s never about you. And Your Thankful!
20. Your Job Search, Career And Life Will Take Off When You… Learn to connect to the real needs and desires of the people you are servicing, and stop trying to assume you know what they want. Because issues that are very exciting and important to you may be totally erroneous and unimportant or uninteresting to your employer or potential employer, you have the obligation to yourself and to them to identify and understand what issues, needs, desires, and wants they are really motivated by and connect with them on that basis. If you do that and only that, your career will improve because you’ll be totally in sync with where people are coming from.