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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. - September 7, 2010 - NBC and DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. (Nasdaq: DWA) today announced that the network will offer special holiday treats for audiences of all ages this year with the studio's brand new original animated half-hour TV specials, "Scared Shrekless" and "Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special."
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"Scared Shrekless" features the lovable ogre, Shrek, and all of his friends from DreamWorks Animation's blockbuster feature film franchise, which has generated nearly $3 billion in worldwide box office. The Halloween-themed television special is scheduled to air on NBC on Thursday, October 28 from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. ET.
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Fun. helped break up the sound of dance and electronic music on Top 40 radio with its edgy pop-rock grooves. Frank Ocean made a bold statement in R&B - with an announcement about his sexuality and with his critically revered, multi-genre album, "channel ORANGE." And Mumford & Sons continued to bring its folk-rock swag and style to the Billboard charts with its sophomore album.
They all were rewarded Wednesday when The Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2013 Grammy Awards.
Those acts, who scored the most nominations with six each, were joined by typical Grammy contenders like Jay-Z and Kanye West, who also got six nominations. The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach is also up for six awards, thanks to his nomination for producer of the year. His band earned five nods, along with R&B singer Miguel and jazz pianist Chick Corea.
"It feels like alternative music is back," said fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff. His band's gold-selling "Some Nights" is up for album of the year, competing with Black Keys' "El Camino," Mumford & Sons' "Babel," Jack White's "Blunderbuss" and "channel ORANGE," the major label debut from Ocean.
Fun. is nominated in all of the major categories, including best new artist, and record and song of the year for its breakthrough anthem "We Are Young."
Ocean, whose mother attended the nominations special, scored nods in three of the top four categories. His song "Thinkin Bout You" - which he originally wrote for another singer - will compete for record of the year with Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" and four No. 1 hits: Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," "Somebody I Used to Know" by Gotye and Kimbra, Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and "We Are Young" by fun.
Song of the year, too, features some No. 1 hits, including fun. and Clarkson's jams, as well as Carly Rae Jepsen's viral smash "Call Me Maybe." But then there's Ed Sheeran's "The A Team," a slow groove about a homeless prostitute, and Miguel's "Adorn," the R&B singer-songwriter's crossover hit.
"It's like one of those songs that wrote itself and I was the vessel," the 26-year-old said in an phone interview from New York City late Wednesday, where he performed with Trey Songz and Elle Varner.
While Miguel's excited to compete for song of the year, he's more thrilled about his sophomore album's nomination for best urban contemporary album, a new category that recognizes R&B albums with edge and multiple sounds.
"That's a huge complement to say that your entire body of work was the best of the year," he said of "Kaleidoscope Dream." "That's the one that means the most to me. I'm really hoping maybe, just maybe."
Miguel, along with Gotye, Alabama Shakes and the Lumineers, is part of the pack of nominees who have showcased individuality and have marched to the beat of their own drum in today's music industry.
Though nominated albums by The Black Keys and Mumford & Sons are platinum-sellers, their songs are not regularly heard on Top 40 radio. Electronic and dance music, which has dominated radio airplay for a few years, were left out of the top awards this year. Also, One Direction - the boy band that released two top-selling albums this years and sold-out many arenas - was snubbed for best new artist.
Lionel Richie has one of the year's top-selling albums with his country collaboration collection, "Tuskegee," but he didn't earn any nominations. And Nicki Minaj, who released a gold-selling album this year and had a hit with "Starships," wasn't nominated for a single award.
Jay-Z and West dominated the rap categories, a familiar refrain at the Grammys. Nas scored four nominations, including best rap album for "Life Is Good." Jeff Bhasker, the producer behind fun.'s breakthrough album, also scored four nods.
Swift, who released her latest album, "Red," after the Grammy eligibility date, still scored three nominations, including two for "Safe & Sound" with The Civil Wars. Country acts were mainly left out of the major categories this year, though the genre usually has success at the Grammys. Aside from Swift's pop song competing for record of the year, there is 21-year-old Hunter Hayes, who is up for best new artist against fun., Ocean, Alabama Shakes and the Lumineers.
"I'm so proud to be, as you say, representing country music in the new artist category," said Hayes, who is also nominated for best country album and country solo performance. "I don't even feel worthy of saying that, but it's so cool for me to be able to say that."
Swift hosted the CBS special with LL Cool J and it featured performances by The Who and Maroon 5, who received multiple nominations.
The five-year-old nominations show spent its first year outside Los Angeles, making its debut in Nashville, Tenn., at the Bridgestone Arena. It marked the largest venue the show has been held in.
The 55th annual Grammy Awards take place Feb. 10 in Los Angeles.
Nominees announced Wednesday in top categories for the 55th annual Grammy Awards:
Record of the Year: "Lonely Boy," The Black Keys; "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," Kelly Clarkson; "We Are Young," fun. featuring Janelle Monae; "Somebody That I Used To Know," Gotye Featuring Kimbra; "Thinkin Bout You," Frank Ocean; "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," Taylor Swift.
Album of the Year: "El Camino," The Black Keys; "Some Nights," fun.; "Babel," Mumford & Sons; "Channel Orange," Frank Ocean; "Blunderbuss," Jack White.
Song of the Year: "The A Team," Ed Sheeran, songwriter (performed by Ed Sheeran); "Adorn," Miguel Pimentel, songwriter (Miguel); "Call Me Maybe" Tavish Crowe, Carly Rae Jepsen & Josh Ramsay, songwriters (Carly Rae Jepsen); "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," Jorgen Elofsson, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin & Ali Tamposi, songwriters (Kelly Clarkson); "We Are Young," Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost & Nate Ruess, songwriters (fun. featuring Janelle Monáe).
New Artist: Alabama Shakes, fun., Hunter Hayes, The Lumineers, Frank Ocean.
Pop Vocal Album: "Stronger," Kelly Clarkson; "Ceremonials," Florence & The Machine; "Some Nights," fun.; "Overexposed," Maroon 5; "The Truth About Love," Pink.
Rock Album: "El Camino," The Black Keys; "Mylo Xyloto," Coldplay; "The 2nd Law," Muse; "Wrecking Ball," Bruce Springsteen; "Blunderbuss," Jack White.
R&B Album: "Black Radio," Robert Glasper Experiment; "Back To Love," Anthony Hamilton; "Write Me Back," R. Kelly; "Beautiful Surprise," Tamia; "Open Invitation," Tyrese.
Rap Album: "Take Care," Drake; "Food & Liquor II: The Great American Rap Album, Pt. 1," Lupe Fiasco; "Life Is Good," Nas; "Undun," The Roots; "God Forgives, I Don't," Rick Ross; "Based on a T.R.U. Story," Chainz.
Country Album: "Uncaged," Zac Brown Band; "Hunter Hayes," Hunter Hayes; "Living For A Song: A Tribute To Hank Cochran," Jamey Johnson; "Four The Record," Miranda Lambert; "The Time Jumpers," The Time Jumpers.
Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album: "Campo," Campo; "Dejenme Llorar," Carla Morrison; "Imaginaries," Quetzal; "Electro-Jarocho," Sistema Bomb; "La Bala," Ana Tijoux.
Jazz Vocal Album: "Soul Shadows," Denise Donatelli; "1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project," Kurt Elling; "Live," Al Jarreau (And The Metropole Orkest); "The Book Of Chet," Luciana Souza; "Radio Music Society," Esperanza Spalding.
AP Music Writer Chris Talbott and AP Writer Caitlin R. King in Nashville contributed to this report.

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|17th August 2011, 05:41 PM
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Burning Amplifier BA-3
In the BA-1 and BA-2 projects we constructed two different amplifiers using very similar input and voltage gain stages (aka the front ends), but used them to drive two different Class A Mosfet follower output stages. Now we are going to flip this approach and begin exploring some different front end designs capable of driving these and other follower output stages.
Breaking it up this way allows some development focus and speeds things along. Those of you who have or plan to build an amp with these (or similar) follower stages should be able to follow along with minimal additional effort you will already have the chassis, power supply, and output stage.
I intend to follow this approach in future pieces with the power supplies being independent from the output stages being independent from the front ends. Of necessity the output stages will be follower types this is usually where we get the best performance from simple circuits anyway, and after a while I hope we will have a small library of modular pieces that can be mixed and matched.
To avoid confusion, I will be presenting the schematics of the BA-1 and BA-2 in stand-alone form here, and from now on the BA series will likely refer to interchangeable subassemblies.
So first, some housekeeping. The official BA-1 and 2 front end now looks like this:
The official BA #1 single-ended output stage now looks like this:
And the official BA #2 push-pull output stage looks like this:
Both of these circuits now include the necessary components to bias the output stages.
The BA-3
For various rational and irrational reasons, amplifiers without negative feedback loops are of interest to many DIY amplifier builders. With the BA-1 and BA-2 we already have output stages which operated without loop correction, but they both have a front end which uses a local feedback loop to improve the performance, and in this regard their performance is pretty conventional, if simpler than most.
So I think it would be fun to make the BA-3 front end also without the feedback loop and mate it to follower output stages (BA-1 and BA-2 output stages for example) to form complete amplifiers without feedback loops. Of course we have to give up the ease with which loops flatten out the response and lower the distortion. We have to make a circuit which has an intrinsically linear response - good enough for us to be happy with the quality of sound.
This begs the question, How small does the distortion need to be to sound good?
That's a very important question to which there is little common agreement. Some people think that distortion should be driven down into the part per million region (0.0001%) to be considered adequately low, and some think that it doesn't matter at all. We are going to follow the middle path, where distortion does matter, but it is not required to be infinitesimal.
There is some good agreement that any distortion that does occur should be of low order, that is to say second and third harmonic character with very little of any higher harmonics. Is second harmonic preferred over third? Street wisdom says that you would prefer second, but in practice there is a sizable portion of the audiophile population spending money on amplifiers with a third harmonic character, and apparently they like it. There are audiophiles with single-ended tube (SET) amplifiers who think they are listening to second harmonic, but depending on the load-line specifics of the design, they often are not.
I recall Jean Hiraga wrote that the best sound was a modest mix of second and third harmonic with the second being dominant. Individual preferences vary, but I think there is considerable truth to that. This sort of thing is often achieved in only at one region of output level in amplifiers, and I have examples where they seem to deliver their best sound at only one level.
Going all the way back to Threshold, my favorite amplifiers have tended to have a second harmonic character at low levels, gradually transitioning to a mix of second and third, and dominantly third as the output approaches the power limit. Later, we will examine a knob on the BA-3 which allows you to play with this mix.
I don't spend a lot of time getting excited about this sort of thing I think it's possible to appreciate both types. The point is that low order distortion can be tolerated better, and a design without a feedback loop is going to want to use Class A operation to not only lower the absolute amount of distortion but also to concentrate that distortion into the second and third harmonic.
Nothing unusual about that front end circuits are routinely Class A. The difference here will be an emphasis on high bias current, and on a balance between degeneration and loading of each gain element.
Degeneration and Getting Loaded
Degeneration - reducing and linearizing the gain of a transistor or tube - is easy to accomplish. Most of the time it simply means that the Source/Emitter/Cathode of the gain device has some resistance placed in series with it. This has always been a popular technique, even before Harold Black invented the negative feedback loop, and remains so today among amplifier designers trying to avoid the dreaded Transient Intermodulation Distortion (TIM) boogeyman, a feedback loop artifact.
You should understand that degeneration is regarded by many as a form of negative feedback, and there is considerable argument as to what constitutes the difference between this and feedback loops. However you want to characterize it, it remains local and not a loop.
Loading the output of a gain element is less popular among amplifier designers, at least among those whose diagrams I peer at in the midnight hours. It is not popular largely because it reduces the gain without any other apparent benefit just throwing away perfectly good gain that could otherwise be used for feedback. It conjures up the image of throwing away perfectly good food, and your mother would not approve.
On the surface it makes logical sense, but of course it assumes that you are using a feedback loop. If you are not planning on doing that, then you might consider if there is some other overlooked benefit.
Certainly loading the Drain/Collector/Plate with some resistance lowers the gain, as does degeneration, but unlike degeneration, which raises the output impedance, loading the output lowers the output impedance. That is one potential benefit, since we often a reasonably low output impedance to drive a circuit that might follow.
I think though, there is another. We have a saying in my house (lifted from Cesar Milan) that A tired puppy is a happy puppy. It is my experience that sometimes you get subjectively better sound from a gain device which is operated at a significant portion of its capacity not allowed to loaf around with an easy job. We may find that it sounds better if we make it do some work. There's nothing magic about this. Making a gain device traveling a load line that represents real work gives it some character. Your mother would probably agree.
I know, I know - this makes the technical cognoscenti roll their eyes and/or snicker. But consider that there are quite a few audiophiles who do not like the sound of loading an input differential pair of transistors with a constant current source or current mirror. They like the sound of a resistor instead, even though it doesn't measure as well. Maybe they like the lower feedback figure that this creates - or maybe they like the sound of their input transistors doing a little real work.
I'm just sayin'...
Anyway, either answer suits our purpose here, so for this circuit we are going to depend on a balance between degeneration and loading to get the measurements and sound that we want.
The Meat
You probably skipped over the previous section to get to this part.
I think you'll like this front end circuit. In fact, some of you already like this circuit it's a relative of the F5 amplifier, scaled down and absent the feedback loop.
This is familiar enough. Q1 and Q2 are JFETs which self-bias into resistors R3 and R4 at currents around 8 mA. R1 is chosen to avoid oscillatory interaction with whatever source impedance you might have, and R2 provides a DC reference to ground in the event that the source does not, and also establishes the nominal input impedance.
Q1 and Q2 are largely degenerated by R5, setting the amount of AC current which flows through them for a given input voltage. The voltage gain of this initial stage is approximately
the value of Drain load resistors R6 plus R7 divided by R5. In this case we have roughly unity gain the Jfets are used as unity gain DC level shifters to Q3 and Q4.
Coming off the Drain of Q1 is the loading network of R6, C1 and P1, and there is a comparable network of R7, C2, and P2 attached to the Drain of Q2. R6 clearly sets the AC load for Q1, but the DC requirements to bias up Mosfet Q3 are higher than that, so P1 in parallel with C1 provides a higher resistance value below about 0.5 Hz, and gives the approximately 3 volt DC drop required to bias the Mosfets.
P1 and P2 are adjusted so as to set the DC bias of Q3 and Q4. You will want to set them at zero when you first fire up the circuit, and increase their resistance to achieve the correct bias voltages across R8 and R9 (about 1 volt) while also keeping the output DC offset voltage at a minimum. This circuit is capacitively coupled at the output, but low offset measured at the Drains of Q3 and Q4 will maximize your output voltage swing.
The voltage appearing at the Gate of Q3 is amplified by something less than the ratio of R10 divided by R8, and with the same happening at Q4 and considering the transconductance of the Mosfets, comes out at about 15. Both of them added make a system voltage gain of about 30X, or 30 dB.
R8 and R9 help set the voltage gain, and they also help stabilize the bias of Q3 and Q4, else it would tend to drift upwards as the parts warm up. The bias current here is about 50 mA, and it will deliver peaks of approximately 100 mA. Q3 and Q4 require heat sinks.
Of course you can bias this circuit higher if you wish 100 mA bias is perfectly OK as long as you properly heat sink Q3 and Q4, and if you are crazy (like me) you can experiment with higher bias, remembering that the parts are rated at 25 watts, and that it costs you voltage losses across R8 and R9. If you want to play with even higher bias, you can consider lowering the values of R8 and R9 and also R13, all in proportion.
The supply voltage is only critical with respect to the voltage rating of the input JFETs, which are nominally 25 volts. In actual testing, they break down around 40 volts. I wouldn't worry about running them as high as 30V. Hot-rodding this circuit would likely involve cascoding the input Jfets to allow higher voltages.
You can also vary the bias current of Q1 and Q2. You measure the current by reading the voltage across R3 or R4. With 10 ohm, the voltage wants to be 0.08 volts for 8 mA of current. You can play with this, but keep in mind that the dissipation of this part is rated at 400 mW,
and for this circuit 10 mA will represent around 200 mW. These JFETs were chosen at Idss figures of 10 mA (Idss is the current that flows when the Gate and Source are at the same voltage). If you get lower values, you may want to consider higher values for P1 and P2, say 1 Kohm. They are best matched, but P3 can be adjusted to compensate for some mismatch.
P3 and the Second Phase
Potentiometer P3 is provided for those of you who have distortion analyzers or want to play with the mix of second vs third harmonic. As with the F5 amplifier, you will find that you can iteratively trim P1 through P3 for minimum distortion. I do so at approximately the 1 watt output level (2.8 V). You should start out with the setting at the mid-point. The minimum distortion point will generally be where the plus and minus halves of the amplifier balance to such a degree as to null out the second harmonic. By introducing an imbalance you can variably re-introduce the second harmonic, and depending on which way you turn the pot, you can choose the absolute phase of the second harmonic.
I knew you would like a choice
There is flexibility in choices of parts and you can swap these components for others, keeping in mind that you often will have to adjust resistor values to get similar bias figures. I have mentioned different Idss values for the input JFETs, but you may also find that your Q3 and Q4 have Vgs figures different than mine. If so, you may again find that P1 and P2 should be increased.
It usually is not actually necessary to run out and buy a new potentiometer - if the maximum value of the pot doesn't get you want you want, then simply add a resistor (having the same value as the pot) in series with the pot and you can increase it from there which will involve cutting traces on the circuit board.
DIYAudio.com will be offering the authorized printed circuit board for sale. Anyone is welcome to cobble together their own for non-commercial purposes, that is to say not for sale.
Here is the trace diagram of this board:
Here is the component placement:
Here is a nice photo of the board which I assembled all by myself:
You may note a few items. I have made an allowance for two different C3's on each channel, one the polypropylene capacitors in white and another an electrolytic which you don't see stuffed. You may use either or both.
Questions always arise about the quality requirements of various capacitors and resistors and such. My attitude here is that you should feel free to use what you like. Certainly the objective (measured) performance will not depend much on the quality of the passive components. On the other hand, here is a circuit that deserves nice parts.
Where you will see some dependence for certain is on the input and output transistors. Toshiba is the supplier of record for this, with the 2SJ74 and 2SK170 input Jfets and the 2SJ313 and 2SK2013 output Mosfets. The 2SJ74 and 2SK170 have become harder to get, but it's worth the effort and price. LSK170's are available, and one of these days I hope that Linear Systems will also get their P channel complement to market. Others will work well enough, usually with more noise and the need to adjust the values of the Source resistors.
The 2SJ313 and 2SK2013 are still available, and you can use them or substitute other Mosfets, such as the Fairchild FQP3N30 and FQP3P20. The Vgs of the Toshibas is about 2 volts. Some of the alternatives will be in the region of 4 volts or so, requiring a higher value for P1 and P2, probably 1K ohm.
Matching is nice, but not essential. P1-3 will cover much of that action. Keep in mind that every time you adjust one of these pots, you will probably have to re-adjust the others, so try to do every adjustment in half-steps, a little bit at a time.
The data following are for a circuit with the parts and bias as shown and with P3 set for minimum distortion. Here's the distortion curve of the BA-3 front end vs output watts (as if it is driving a perfect follower output stage)
With the second harmonic largely nulled by P3, we see the following distortion waveforms for the circuit at 2.8 volts output without a load (although you will note that the circuit already has its own 332 ohm load to ground). Here it is with +/-32 volts rails:
And below is the same, but with +/-24V rails:
You can clearly see that the distortion in this case is mostly third harmonic. Adjustment of P3 will bring the second harmonic out, and as you turn the wiper toward the Source of Q1 you favor the positive going waveform. When you turn the wiper toward the Source of Q2 you favor the negative going waveform. Favoring the positive going waveform is possibly preferred with proper speaker polarity, this mimics the acoustic character of air.
Here's the distortion vs frequency at 2.8V.
Not much to say here. This was taken with a 600 ohm source. It gets a little better with a 25 ohm source, but that's not to say it sounds better.
Here's the frequency response curve at 2.8V, also with a 600 ohm source:
Here's the square wave response at 15 volts output:
And that concludes the objective part of our show...
In Conclusion...
I bet you thought that getting good Class A performance without a feedback loop was exotic, difficult, and expensive.
Not if you do it yourself.
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|13th September 2011, 05:34 PM
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Lazy Editors ......
where is our downloadable pdf version
good work !
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|13th September 2011, 11:54 PM
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I tried as well to just download the front end jpg and was greeted with php . that said I know its coming . I like the niceness knob ,I suggest the limits to read nice to really nice.
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|14th September 2011, 05:02 AM
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Really love to see nelson flexing his mighty pen in action in this forum,
makes mortal like me think. The maestro sway his magic wand once more.
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|14th September 2011, 10:24 AM
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Hi Zen mod! We have a new article system in the pipeline that will make all our articles nicely downloadable PDFs.
Elwood - Front end JPG should be working fine. PM me if you're having problems.
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I converted this article to PDF, zipped. Hope it helps. Mods, i you consider it inappropriate for any reason, feel free to remove it.
|15th September 2011, 02:04 AM
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Thanx Jason, Vix, And as usual ZM is at the lead ...
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|15th September 2011, 09:03 PM
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Where can I get those Pass 10uF, 160V Clarity Caps?
I know I can get them from a Clarity cap reseller but I like the parts with 'Pass' on them of course
|16th September 2011, 05:30 PM
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I wonder how many folks just jumped to the "Meat" section.
|17th September 2011, 05:11 PM
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OK Nelson this is a very nice design and conforms to KISS
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What if, tomorrow, we decided not to own cars? The whole world, all at once, just gave them up? What if, say, instead, we decided to ride ostriches to work and school? That would mean two things: The Twilight Zone isn't just black-and-white reruns-it's real life, and we've just entered it-and Lee Schoenfeld would no longer have a business.
All right, maybe thousands, or even millions, of entrepreneurs and employees around the world would be affected. But let's talk about Schoenfeld, a businessman whose store, AutoFun Inc., doesn't sell cars; it sells car accessories. If you go into Schoenfeld's store, located in the heart of Coon Rapids, a suburb of Minneapolis, you won't find a Plymouth or a Probe, but you will see car stereos and car stickers, CD decks and fuzzy dice. AutoFun even sells 8-tracks if you want them. You'll see 32-inch subwoofers and satellite navigation systems. Or Schoenfeld may lead you to a curling iron, a blender or a coffee maker that plugs in to your cigarette lighter. He has child safety seats and floor mats, too, all of which would be completely useless on an ostrich. Except, maybe, for the fuzzy dice. You could tie them around the animal's neck. Where there's a will, there's a way, right?
AutoFun is a store that specializes in aftermarket products. Cars are the market; accessories are the aftermarket.
Many of us have heard of the aftermarkets associated with automobiles. We know that after a car wreck, we can buy aftermarket auto products to fix the thing good as new, and that no matter what, in a few weeks, we'll have forgotten about the incident and be driving like a maniac again.
Er-yes . . . anyway, not so many people are aware that after-markets extend well beyond cars. For instance, cheese is a market, and the screwy inventor who came up with the cheeseball holder created a new aftermarket. Train or airplane travel is a market; the travel agency is the aftermarket. The original Beanie Babies were a market-the Beanie Baby magazines, books and collector cases were all part of the aftermarket.
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An aftermarket is a business that can't exist without another particular business. That particular business can completely exist without the aftermarket.
Aftermarket refers to the process of putting away your Cheese Whiz and pickle relish after a trip to the grocery store.
I hate quizzes, and I think your journalist is on drugs.
Hey . . . who put that last one in there?
Getting Started
Brian Dunham, 33, of San Francisco, has always liked shooting people-with a camera, fortunately. His fondness for film helped inspire him to create eframes.com, a Web site that does picture framing for digital camera owners. Consumers go to the eframes Web site, select a wood or metal frame for about 17 to 30 bucks and then send their digital pictures to Dunham's staff. Usually within 48 hours, the aforementioned consumers have framed photos and memories-sniff, sniff-to last a lifetime.
According to IDC, there are approximately 5 million digital cameras worldwide. By 2003, there should be 22 million. But when Dunham came up with his idea for eframes several years ago, he knew that if he started his company right away, it would be finished just as quickly. There just weren't enough digital cameras. So it wasn't until 1999 that Dunham launched his site, feeling comfortable enough to ease into the dotcom waters and let the rising tide of digital cameras take him out to a serene entrepreneurial sea. The obvious downside is, the aftermarket he's created is completely dependent on the digital camera market. But about that upside . . .
"What's easier about starting an aftermarket is that you don't have to create a buzz around what you're doing because, to a large extent, it's happening already, and you can piggyback on that pretty easily," says Dunham, who has already managed to get some impressive publicity in media outlets like Time and The Wall Street Journal. Especially if the U.S. economy heads into its expected downturn, markets supported by proven products will be the best places for new businesses to be.
And, like all good aftermarkets, Dunham's service enhances the main market. After all, sending digital photos to family and friends around the globe is fun, but it's still nice to put pictures on walls and shelves. "One of the reasons I went into this is that there's a huge global demand," says Dunham, advising aftermarket entrepreneur wanna-bes to "look for businesses to start that will let you make [consumers' lives easier]."
- Have a cultlike, underground following for the market product.
- Even better, the market product should be universal, something
that everybody uses.
The market should have lots of uses. AutoFun, for instance, carries 70 different categories of products that can go in cars. But if there's a Toothpick World out there, we're talking a smaller store.
- Those uses should generate some serious sales. Car accessories, such as child seats, can be expensive. A toothpick holder? Maybe not so expensive. The little colorful plastic paper stuck on toothpicks? Also probably not a cash cow.
- Once you're a success, have an escape plan, especially if your market isn't tried and tested. You can branch out and create numerous aftermarket products or services, in case one of your markets fizzles out.
Jumping the Hurdles
Ashwin Kochiyil Philips, 32, co-founder with 30-year-old Rahul Shah of Boston-based Lydstrom Inc., invented SongBank, a machine that may ultimately make CD players useless. Their market? The music industry. You hook SongBank up to your stereo and pop your CDs in or download music from the Internet. The 10G version stores up to 7,000 songs (350 hours of music), allowing you to then throw your CDs away, put them in the attic or give them to a friend. Just use SongBank's remote control to access and play back your music, says Philips, "and it can play three songs at one time in different parts of the house. You can walk around and say, 'I'm in the kitchen, and I want to hear jazz' or 'I'm in the living room, and I want to hear blues' or 'I'm in the bedroom, and I want to hear rock.'"
Although Philips and Shah are now attempting to license Song-Bank to stereo equipment manufacturers, what has come before gives them an advantage. "If we were to go out and say, 'This is a new box that downloads music from the Internet,' nobody would buy it," muses Philips. "Well, not nobody, but the general population wouldn't understand what we are talking about. But when we say this is a really cool CD player, they grasp that [concept] quickly. And from there, we can expand upon it."
Not to mention that being an aftermarket makes manufacturing so much easier. "Obviously, you can utilize components that have already been built and use them as subcomponents," explains Philips.
Also, Philips says finding venture capitalists is easier for an aftermarket. "They tend to grasp things that have already been done with different twists. If you can show [investors] how [your product or service] resembles something that's been done, they associate it with something that's proven." With $5.5 million in funding, somebody besides Philips and Shah believes in their invention.
Does Philips see a downside to being an aftermarket? Not really. Things would get bad, of course, if everybody stopped listening to music, but music isn't going anywhere.
Neither are Beanie Babies-or so it seems. Mary Beth Sobolewski is the editor in chief of Mary Beth's Bean Bag World Monthly, a publication that will tell you everything you need to know about Beanie Babies. Selling for $5.95, the magazine maintains a circulation of 200,000.
But just because it's here today is no guarantee it won't be gone tomorrow. Sobolewski knows most toy fads are destined to fade. A magazine about Beanie Babies needs Beanie Babies to survive, so when Ty Inc. temporarily stopped producing the toys in October 1999, that could have been the end. Luckily for Sobolewski, the company introduced its Beanie Kids line in January 2000 and released seven new Beanie Babies this past January.
But the finicky nature of the market doesn't scare Sobolewski, who also published a guide to Pokémon for a while. It just makes her advice that much more important: "The thing that made Beanie Babies and Pokémon a sure thing is that there was something to collect. Beanie Babies are more than toys. There's got to be something else you can do with them. Like with Pokémon-you can collect; you can play the card game; you can play with all the toys. There's got to be more than one thing, but the big key is the collectibility." (See "The Rules")
Keeping Things Going
Jeff Musa used to lie awake at night, worried that his Dallas business, Cutting Edge Software Inc., would eventually go the way of the dodo, the passenger pigeon and the Rubik's Cube. His company's success was based on just one product, Quickoffice, an office-style productivity suite that turns handheld organizers into something like extensions of computers.
What are Musa's markets? The Palm organizer, the Visor, Microsoft Word and Excel. These are large, specific markets, and any of them, at any time, could have decided to create software for handheld organizers. In 1996, when Musa had his epiphany, he would "call 3Com [the owner of the Palm Pilot organizers] every quarter and ask, 'Are you doing that spreadsheet yet? Are you doing that spreadsheet yet?'"
They weren't, and they didn't discourage Musa, 34, from creating one. But if they had, Cutting Edge Software might still be just a computer software computing firm, and it's possible Musa would still be earning $22,000 per year.
At the same time, Musa was building and refining his product-one that at first only enhanced the Palm organizing experience-at a time when he didn't know whether Palm's success would continue. "I spent many, many nights lying awake," Musa repeats, "and not just because of all the caffeinated coffee I drank."
Things are different these days. Musa's firm has five full-time employees and a revenue of "better than a couple million-for competitive reasons, I can't say any more," and his company should double that figure this year.
But not every enterprise will sit idly by and allow an entrepreneur to enhance its products. Ty contacted Sobolewski more than two years ago and told her she would have to have official consent from the toy-makers to put out a magazine promoting their Beanie Babies, which meant she had to pay them a big fee to do so.
And what would happen if Microsoft or 3Com started their own Web sites with spreadsheets that would work with hand-held devices? "Well," Musa says, "since we're the category leaders [with] the best product out there and thousands of hours invested in it, and we're a brand name that people know and have heard of-hopefully they would entertain an offer to purchase us rather than go and do it on their own."
It sounds like the aftermarket arena can be somewhat nerve-racking, but Musa doesn't think so. "There are a huge number of advantages to being an aftermarket, especially as an entrepreneurial company. It's difficult, time-consuming and just all-in-all risky to try to build something completely new and unique and make it work.
"The aftermarket is interesting," continues Musa, "because you have a product that you're aligned with, and yet you can be successful in your own right."
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Geoff Williams is a frequent writer for Entrepreneur and a reporter for The Cincinnati Post.


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i need to port my game project from Android (written in C, OpenGL ES 2.0, thanks to NDK) to Windows and Linux platforms. Of course i will need to rewrite some platform depended code, but now i stuck with question which library for creating OpenGL and input handle use.
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Dr. Ed Catmull, Co-founder and President of Pixar Animation
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Ed Catmull is the co-founder and President of Pixar Animation Studio. He has made several patented advances in animation technology and is the driver behind many of Pixar's 15 amazing Academy Awards. Among other technologies, Catmull is credited with being the father of "texture mapping" – the process by which a flat (two dimensional) image is mapped onto a moving 3D image.
Dr. Catmull (he claims only his mother calls him that) is also the master behind many of animation's recent heroes. Woody, Nemo, and Mr. Incredible are just a few of the lovable characters that Catmull's technology and direction have enabled.
Pixar was incorporated in 1985, went public in 1996, and merged with the Walt Disney Company in 2006. During that time Catmull has served in various roles spanning from code developer to chief technical officer to president of the studio.
The iinnovate team would like to offer a special thanks to the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Conference for making our conversation with Ed Catmull possible.
We'd also like to thank our expert video guy Jeremy for his hard work on this footage and the other clips you see up on our website. He turns our shoddy footage into beauty and we're very appreciative!
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Great job, guys. I'm not much of an entrepreneur but I'm gleaning bits from your podcast. I just listened to this one and I'm making my way through all of them.
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Thanks for your nice post!
Interesting contrast: Pixar's executives trust the artists who produce great stuff; according to Chuck Jones' autobiography, Warner Bro's execs did the exact opposite and yet their artists also produced great stuff. Why do you suppose that is? Maybe fewer options for artists back then...or maybe when a group of people 'gel' they do great things in spite of, or because of, their environment...
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Companies like Pixar function best by promoting collective creativity and constant communication. In this podcast, Ed Catmull explains that collective creativity focuses on the exchange of ideas between team members, the freedom to communicate with anyone, and interaction between the most talented staff members and the rest of the team.


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By Lou Mancinelli
Local children's book author and school counselor John McGranaghan wrote his first book, "Saturn For My Birthday" (Sylvan Dell, 2008), when his then three-year-old son Kyle asked for the planet Saturn for his fourth birthday.
His second book, "Meet the Planets" (Sylvan Dell, 2010), which was just released by the publisher on April 11, is an informative favorite planet competition emceed by the former planet, Pluto, that was demoted to a dwarf planet by scientists in 2006, because of its small amount of mass compared to other celestial organisms and planets.
McGranaghan's personal story of getting his writing published reflects the message of perseverance he teaches children in his role as school counselor for the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit's (MCIU) non-public school division, and during school visits to promote his books.
"Everyone tells you to dream your dreams," said McGranaghan via telephone at the end of March, "but everyone leaves out the part about hard work."
McGranaghan, 49, lives in Flourtown with his wife, Dina, and two sons, Kyle, 12, who asked his father for Saturn, and John, 14, a freshman at La Salle College High School, where McGranaghan is currently stationed for MCIU.
Getting your first book published is like going for a Ph.D, McGranaghan was once told by popular children's and young adults writer Laurie Halse Anderson. At the time, McGranaghan was taking an education class, and a classmate had a connection to Anderson. McGranaghan got the author's number and called her to ask for advice.
When he wrote "Saturn For My Birthday" in 2002, it was rejected by 10 publishers before the 11th accepted his manuscript in 2006, and published it two years later, when he was able to give his son the gift of Saturn, if only in book form.
McGranaghan was raised in Feasterville and attended high school at Holy Ghost Prep in Bensalem. He majored in mathematics as an undergraduate at Villanova University (1983) and spent a year in New York as a volunteer with the Franciscan religious order, a branch of the Roman Catholic Church. He returned to Philadelphia and earned his masters degree in counseling psychology from Temple University in 1990.
"I always wrote as a kid," said McGranaghan, "but stopped for a while when I got to college." When he started writing again in the early '90s, he mainly wrote for personal expression in his journals. "I kind of made the transition from personal writing over to more market-driven writing," he said.
When he became a father in 1996, McGranaghan started to focus on children's writing, a creative outlet that has served over the years as a way to develop solid father-son relationships with his two boys. He also became a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Before his first manuscript was accepted, McGranaghan published articles in children's publications like "Columbia Magazine," "Pockets Magazine" and "Boys Quest Magazine." In 2001, his short story about a boy who for his birthday receives a symbolic empty box in which to store his memories won a Pockets Fiction Contest.
His first published piece was a parent's reflection article he wrote for Parents Express, a free parents newsletter available in places like local book stores, and he once published a piece for the Philadelphia Daily News.
Since 1991, McGranaghan has worked for MCIU in various elementary and high schools. He is assigned to different communities at different times. He helps students with administrative issues, as well as any personal issues that may be troubling the students with whom he works.
"Meet the Planets" actually started as the informative section of a separate manuscript McGranaghan turned in to editors for consideration for publication at Sylvan Dell. At the end of all Sylvan Dell children's books, which focus on math and science education, there are a few pages of additional educational material relating to the story.
In 2006, when Pluto was demoted from planet status, McGranaghan was inspired to write a children's book about the events. At the end of his Pluto book, he included meet-the-planets-style introductory information about each planet. Editors at Sylvan Dell did not want the Pluto story, but did ask McGranaghan to develop a story based on the meet-the-planets idea. It took him about a year to write the story and then revise it, given the editor's suggestions.
Surprisingly, the author has very little say in choosing the illustrator of the book, according to McGranaghan. The publishers have their catalogue of illustrators to choose from, but the Flourtown author did communicate with illustrator Laurie Allen Klein via email. "My research really led the direction of the illustrations," said Laurie Allen Klein, 53, a Florida resident, during a telephone interview in early April.
Since the story was about a competition, Klein envisioned illustrations in terms of the way awards are announced at events like the Academy Awards. Research provided her with information beyond the physical facts about the planet and other interesting technological information.
McGranaghan plans to do a number of school visits and inspirational talks about perseverance to promote the publication of "Meet the Planets." His next school visit is May 13 at Evans Elementary School in Limerick. In the past, he has spoken at a number of Chestnut Hill locations and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.
"Kids always ask me if I'm going to write a third book," said McGranaghan, who also dabbles in young adult fiction. "I tell them, 'I write lots of books, but they don't always get published. You just keep plugging away.'"
For more information about McGranaghan or to schedule an author's visit to your school or organization, visit johnmcgranaghan.com or sylvandellpublishing.com.


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The northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) is one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the southern elephant seal). It is a member of the family Phocidae ("true seals"). Elephant seals derive their name from their great size and from the male's large proboscis, which is used in making extraordinarily loud roaring noises, especially during the mating competition. Sexual dimorphism in size is great: The males can grow to 14 ft (4 m) and 5,000 lb (2,300 kg), while the females grow to 11 ft (3 m) and 1,400 lb (640 kg). Correspondingly, the mating system is highly polygynous; a successful male is able to impregnate up to 50 females in one season.
The huge male northern elephant seal typically weighs 1,500–2,300 kg (3,300–5,100 lbs) and measures 4–5 m (13.2–16.5 ft), although some males can weigh up to 3,700 kg (8,152 lbs).[2] Females are much smaller and can range from 400 to 900 kg (990-2,000 lbs) in weight, or roughly a third of the male's bulk, and measure from 2.5 to 3.6 m (8.2–11.9 ft).[3] The bull Southern Elephant Seals are, on average, larger than those in the Northern species but the females in both are around the same size, indicating the even higher level of sexual dimorphism in the Southern species.[4] Both adult and juvenile elephant seals are bar-skinned and black before molting. After molting, they generally have a silver to dark gray coat that fades to brownish-yellow and tan. Adult males have hairless necks and chests speckled with pink, white and light brown. Pups are mostly black at birth and molt to a silver gray after weaning.
The eyes are large, round and black. The width of the eyes and a high concentration of low light pigments suggest sight plays an important role in the capture of prey. Like all seals, elephant seals have atrophied hind limbs whose underdeveloped ends form the tail and tail fin. Each of the "feet" can deploy five long, webbed fingers. This agile, dual palm is used to propel water. The pectoral fins are used little while swimming. While their hind limbs are unfit for locomotion on land, elephant seals use their fins as support to propel their bodies. They are able to propel themselves quickly (as fast as 8 km/h) in this way for short-distance travel, to return to water, catch up with a female or chase an intruder.
Like other seals, elephant seals' bloodstreams are adapted to the cold in which a mixture of small veins surrounds arteries capturing heat from them. This structure is present in extremities such as the hind legs.
A unique characteristic of the northern elephant seal is that it has developed the ability to store oxygenated red blood cells within its spleen. In a 2004 study researchers used MRI to observe physiological changes of the spleen of 5 seal pups during simulated dives. By 3 minutes, the spleens on average contracted to a fifth of their original size, indicating a dive-related sympathetic contraction of the spleen. Also, a delay was observed between contraction of the spleen and increased hematocrit within the circulating blood, and attributed to the hepatic sinus. This fluid-filled structure is initially expanded due to the rush of RBC from the spleen and slowly releases the red blood cells into the circulatory system via a muscular vena caval sphincter found on the cranial aspect of the diaphragm. This ability to slowly introduce RBC into the blood stream is likely to prevent any harmful effects caused by a rapid increase in hematocrit.[5]
The northern elephant seal lives in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Feeding grounds extend from northern Baja California to northern Vancouver Island.[6] Males migrate as far north as Alaska and British Columbia,[6][7] while females migrate as far west as Hawaii.[6] They come ashore to breed, give birth and molt, mostly on offshore islands. While the pelagic range covers an enormous span, breeding is restricted to only about seven principal areas, four of which are on islands off the coast of California. Recently, increasing numbers have been observed in the Gulf of California. Breeding colonies exist at Channel Islands, Año Nuevo State Reserve, Piedras Blancas Light, Morro Bay State Park and the Farallon Islands in the US,[8] and Isla Guadalupe, Isla Benito del Este and Isla Cedros in Mexico.[8] Some breeding has been observed at Castle Rock in Northern California and Shell Island off Oregon[9][10] and in January 2009, the first elephant seal births were recorded in British Columbia at Race Rocks.[11] The California breeding population is now demographically isolated from the population in Baja California.[8]
Historical occurrences of residential or occasional in western North Pacific are fairly unknown. There have been two records of vagrants visiting to Japanese coasts; a male on Niijima in 1989[12] (reference introducing a visit by a North Pacific Right Whale in 2011), and a young seal on beaches in Hasama, Tateyama in 2001[13] (where another right whale was seen in 2000). Some individuals have been observed on the coast of northeast Asia. Certain individuals established haul-out sites at the Commander Islands in the early 2000s; however, due to aggressive interactions with local Steller sea lions, long-term colonization is not expected.[14]
The northern elephant seals are nocturnal deep feeders famous for the long time intervals they remain underwater.[15] This species dives to great depths while feeding, typically between 300 m (1,000 ft) and 800 m (2,600 ft); moreover, the northern elephant seal will generally not feed in depths of less than 200 m (700 ft).[7] Both sexes eat a variety of prey, including pelagic, deep-water squid, Pacific hake, sharks, rays, and ratfish.[7][15] Octopoteuthis deletron squid are the most common prey item, found in the stomachs of 58% of individuals sampled off the coast of California.[16] A female northern elephant seal was documented in 2013 by a deep sea camera at a depth of 894 m (2,933 ft), where it consumed a Pacific hagfish, slurping it up from the ocean floor. The event was reported by a Ukrainian boy named Kirill Dudko, who further reported the find to scientists in Canada.[17] Elephant seals do not need to drink, as they get their water from food and metabolism of fats.
While hunting in the dark depths, elephant seals seem to locate their prey at least partly by vision; the bioluminescence of some prey animals can facilitate their capture. Elephant seals do not have a developed a system of echolocation in the manner of cetaceans, but their vibrissae, which are sensitive to vibrations, are assumed to play a role in search of food. Males and females differ in diving behavior. Males tend to hug the continental shelf while making deep dives and forage along the bottom,[6] while females have more jagged routes and forage in the open ocean.[6] Males return to the same feeding ground every year, while females have less predictable feeding migrations. Elephant seals are prey for killer whales and white sharks. Both are most likely to hunt pups, and seldom hunt large bull elephant seals, but have taken seals of all ages. The shark, when hunting adults, is most likely to ambush a seal with a damaging bite and wait until it is weakened by blood loss to finish the kill.[18]
Northern elephant seals return to their terrestrial breeding ground in December and January, with the bulls arriving first. The bulls haul out on isolated or otherwise protected beaches, typically on islands or very remote mainland locations. It is important that these beach areas offer protection from the winter storms and high surf wave action.[19] The bulls engage in fights of supremacy to determine which few bulls will achieve a harem.[20][21]
After the males have arrived the beach, the females arrive to give birth. Females fast for five weeks and nurse their single pup for four weeks; in the last few days of lactation, females come into estrus and mate.[22] In this polygynous society, a high-ranking bull can have a harem of 30–100 cows, depending on his size and strength. Males unable to establish harems will wait on the periphery, and will try to mount nearby females.[20] Dominant bulls will disrupt copulations of lower-ranking bulls.[20] They can mount females without interference, but commonly break off to chase off rivals.[20] While fights are not usually to the death, they are brutal and often with significant bloodshed and injury; however, in many cases of mismatched opponents, the younger, less capable males are simply chased away, often to upland dunes. In a lifetime, a successful bull could easily sire over 500 pups. Most copulations in a breeding colony are done by only a small number of males and the rest may never be able to mate with a female.[21] Pups are sometimes crushed during battles between bulls.[19][21]
After arrival on shore, males fast for three months, and females fast for five weeks during mating and when nursing their pups. The gestation period is about 11 months. Sometimes, a female can become very aggressive after giving birth and will defend her pup from other females.[23] Such aggression is more common in crowded beaches.[23] While most females nurse their own pups and reject nursings from alien pups, some do accept alien pups with their own.[19][22] An orphaned pup may try to find another female to suckle and some are adopted, at least on Año Nuevo Island.[19][22] Pups nurse about four weeks and are weaned abruptly approximately two months before being abandoned by their mother. Left alone, weaned pups will gather into groups and stay on shore for 12 more weeks. The pups learn how to swim in the surf and eventually swim farther to forage. Thus, their first long journey at sea begins.
Elephant seals communicate though various means. Males will threaten each other with the snort, a sound caused by expelling air though their probosces, and the clap-trap, a loud, clapping sound comparable to the sound of a diesel engine.[24] Pups will vocalize when stressed or when prodding their mothers to allow them to suckle. Females make an unpulsed attraction call when responding to their young, and a harsh, pulsed call when threatened by other females, males or alien pups.[24] Elephant seals produce low-frequency sounds, both substrate-borne and air-borne. These sounds help maintain social hierarchy in crowded or noisy environments and reduce energy consumption when fasting.[24]
Beginning in the 18th century, northern elephant seals were hunted extensively, almost to extinction by the end of the 19th century,[1] being prized for oil made from their blubber, and the population may have fallen as low as 20.[1] In 1874, Charles Melville Scammon recorded in Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of America, that an 18-ft-long bull caught on Santa Barbara Island yielded 210 gallons of oil.[25] They were thought to be extinct in 1884 until a remnant population of eight individuals was discovered on Guadalupe Island in 1892 by a Smithsonian expedition, who promptly killed seven of the eight for their collections.[26] The elephant seals managed to survive, and were finally protected by the Mexican government in 1922. Since the early 20th century, they have been protected by law in both Mexico and in the United States. Subsequently, the U.S. protection was strengthened after passage of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, and numbers have now recovered to over 100,000.
Nevertheless, a genetic bottleneck exists in the existing population, which could make it more susceptible to disease and pollution.[27][28] In California, the population is continuing to grow at around 25% per year, and new colonies are being established; they are now probably limited mostly by the availability of haul-out space. Their breeding was probably restricted to islands, before large carnivores were exterminated or prevented from reaching the side of the ocean.[29] Numbers can be adversely affected by El Niño events and the resultant weather conditions, and the 1997–98 El Niño may have caused the loss of about 80% of that year's pups. Presently, the northern elephant seal is protected under the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act and has a fully protected status under California law.
Populations of rookery sites in California have increased during the past century.[1] At Año Nuevo State Park, for example, no individuals were observed whatsoever until the 1950s; the first pup born there was observed in the early 1960s. Currently, thousands of pups are born every year at Año Nuevo, on both the island and mainland. The growth of the site near San Simeon has proved even more spectacular; no animals were there prior to 1990. Currently, the San Simeon site hosts more breeding animals than Año Nuevo State Park during winter season.
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SIUE has licensed Microsoft Office365 for students, faculty, and staff as a part of our Microsoft Campus Agreement. Last year, students were eligible to download and use Microsoft Office on personal computers. Starting today, this is available to active faculty and staff accounts.
We have also enabled a number of other services that you can start using today:
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- Office Online (web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
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Additionally, we will be moving SharePoint sites into SharePoint Online. If you currently use SIUE SharePoint, information about this move will be posted on your SharePoint sites.
To access Office365, please use this link: http://office365.siue.edu You will need to use your full SIUE email address (NOT just your e-ID) and e-ID password to log in.
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Taipans can grow to be three metres in length, making them Australia's largest venomous snake. The common name for this snake is the Coastal Taipan. The Taipan is usually an unmarked light olive to dark russet brown colour, with the exception of some specimens from the Tully area in North-east Queensland, where they have been found almost black in colour.
The head is usually lighter in colour than the rest of the body with a pink mouth and a reddish eye. The Taipan is a stealthy hunter with an extraordinarily fast and accurate bite. The Taipan usually restricts its activity on the surface to the mid-morning. It may extend or change this to include late afternoon in cooler weather, in hot weather it is nocturnal.
The Taipan lives in grasslands, coastal heaths, grassy beach dunes and cultivated areas such as cane fields in the far north of Australia and down the Queensland coast, but has also been found in Northern New South Wales.
A Taipan's diet consists of rats, lizards, bandicoots and small mammals. The Taipan swallows its prey whole and the animal is always deceased when they eat it. Adults killing large prey do not even need to complete a bite in order to inject venom, it is injected by momentary muscular pressure on the venom gland as the fangs penetrate in an open-mouthed jab-bite.
The ungripped prey is allowed to pull away and to attempt an escape, but after a short delay, the Taipan follows the scent of the prey towards its cover or retreat, which it rarely reaches before succumbing to the venom. Juveniles killing small mammals usually bite and maintain their jaw grip until the prey can be ingested.


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While you are playing a game or using a 3D program compatible with GeForce 3D Vision you can take screenshots in JPS format that can be viewed later on in a 3D form instead of the normal "flat" 2D screenshots that can be saved on JPEG format. If you press the Print Screen button or use a program like FRAPS to take in-game screenshots when using GeForce 3D Vision you'll notice that only normal (single frame) images are being saved. But if you press ALT + F1 instead while in the game you can save a JPS screenshot that actually contains 2 images – one for the left eye and one for the right, thus allowing you to see the image in 3D Stereo mode with a compatible viewer. The 3D screenshots are being saved in a folder called NVStereoscopic3D.IMG in your current user's My Documents folder. The only drawback when taking 3D Stereo screenshots is that it takes some time, when you press the key combination to save a JPS file you may have to wait for a second until it is ready…
By default when you install the GeForce 3D Vision drivers you also get the Nvidia 3D Vision Photo Viewer that is needed in order for you to be able to open JPS files and view them in 3D Stereo mode. When you open an image in full screen it is shown in 3D mode, and when you exit the full screen mode it gets in a side by side view of the two frames (the ones for the left and for the right eye). You should have in mind that when viewing the 3D stereo images you cannot change their level of depth like you can in a normal 3D application… when making the screenshots they are being saved in the depth level you were using in the actual game or other 3D application.
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Mango Languages is an online language-learning system that teaches actual conversation skills. It can also be used as an ESL learning tool. You can learn over 70 languages like Spanish, French, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Italian and Russian and more.
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BorrowBox is the only app in the world to offer downloadable eBooks and eAudiobooks from one spot. BorrowBox can be used online and with Apple iOS and Android devices. Browse, checkout and download 24/7.
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RBDigital, the world's largest newsstand, offers full colour, interactive digital magazines for your enjoyment.
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Universal Class is an online education service designed specifically for use by members of public libraries.
With a growing catalogue of over 500 courses, Universal Class provides high quality online training.
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Vision-net gives you immediate online access to information on every Irish and UK company registered.
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ProQuest is an online service which provides information from the world's top newspapers. Researchers have access to both regional and national news from countries worldwide. Each issue of each newspaper is indexed thoroughly, so researchers have access to not only top news stories, but also the information contained on the various sections of the newspapers. Citations and abstracts are available for all articles saving researchers time.
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At 2:34 a.m., Engines 6, 7 and 10, Ladders 1 and 4 and Rescue 1 were sent to 217 Dickinson Street on reports of first alarm fire. The fire had started in the first floor kitchen and then spread to the second floor, where a 34-year-old woman was trapped, Battalion Chief Henry Gliottone said.
Firefighters from Rescue and Ladder 4 pulled the woman. Gliottone said the woman did sustain injuries and was taken to the Capital Health Regional Medical Center before being sent to the Burn Center at Saint Barnabas in Livingston N.J. While the exact cause of the fire is under investigation, it appears to be accidental.


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Greek banks are expected to have covered a shortfall in initial bids by the time Athens closes an extended offer on Tuesday to buy back bonds as part of an effort to cut debt and secure aid for its flagging economy.
Greek banks are expected to have covered a shortfall in initial bids by the time Athens closes an extended offer on Tuesday to buy back bonds as part of an effort to cut debt and secure aid for its flagging economy.
Athens gave bondholders until 1200 GMT on Tuesday to tender Greek debt after the amount offered by Friday's initial deadline fell short of the targeted 30 billion euros.
The cut-price buyback's success is crucial to putting Greece's debt back on a sustainable footing, which in turn allows lenders to disburse aid to Athens.
Greek banks, who had only tendered about 60 percent of their roughly 17 billion euros in sovereign debt holdings by Friday, are expected to offer more to ensure the buyback hits its targets, senior banking executives told Reuters.
"All banks will support the buyback, topping up their offers," said one banker at a major Greek bank, who declined to be named. "The target of 30 billion euros will be reached and may be exceeded."
A total of 26.5 billion euros was tendered at an average price of 33.4 percent of face value by the close of play on Friday, a senior euro zone official told Reuters.
Eurozone finance ministers are also expected to discuss the outcome of the bond buyback in a teleconference late on Tuesday afternoon, after the extended deadline expires.
Greek lenders had initially been reluctant to put up their entire holdings fearing losses over the long term, but now have little choice but to do more since most of the aid unlocked by a successful buyback will go to boosting the lenders themselves.
A second banker also said Greek lenders would have tendered most of their bondholdings by Tuesday's deadline, which could push the bids Athens receives over the 30 billion euros target.
"Banks will tender a significant amount of their bondholdings in the buyback," that banker said. "They will end up with small amounts left over in their portfolios. The total amount offered in the buyback invitation may reach 31-32 billion euros."
The buyback scheme calls for Greece to buy back debt worth 30 billion euros with 10 billion euros from foreign lenders at prices well below their nominal value, cutting debt by a net 20 billion euros. That would account for half of a broader debt relief package lenders agreed for Athens last month.
If the debt tendered exceeded the 30 billion euro target, the debt agency may end up accepting the additional amount, said a Greek government official who declined to be named.
"They will decide after the books are closed," the official said.
Athens had set a price range for the buyback at a premium to market prices at the time. The range varied from a minimum of 30.2 to 38.1 percent and a maximum of 32.2 to 40.1 percent of the principal, depending on the maturities of the 20 series of outstanding bonds.
Hedge funds, which bought the debt at rock-bottom prices when it was feared the country would exit the euro, are estimated to hold a large part of Greek debt and the offer was seen as likely to earn them a tidy profit.
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NYC Mayor de Blasio addresses income equality
NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Bill de Blasio, delivering one of the most important speeches of his young administration, on Monday outlined his vision for New York and offered a glimpse into his signature goal of fighting the city's widening income inequality gap.
Among other things, de Blasio plans to ask state lawmakers next week for the power to raise the minimum wage.
"We want to ensure that New Yorkers aren't relegated to the ranks of the poor when putting in a full week's work," he said. "We will send a powerful signal to the people of New York -- that we honor work ... and that we are committed to making work pay."
De Blasio also said municipal ID cards will be available to all residents this year regardless of their immigration status, "so that no daughter or son of our city goes without bank accounts, leases, library cards simply because they lack identification."
Fresh off a landslide election that he believes gives him a strong mandate, de Blasio is calling for sweeping liberal legislative action to close the gap between the nation's largest city's haves and have-nots.
De Blasio, a Democrat whose party controls the City Council, is also making another push for his central campaign pledge to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-kindergarten, an idea that polls well but needs support in Albany to become law. Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is up for re-election, has refused to raise taxes, instead proposing to fund the program by finding money in the state budget.


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Schmalz Inc., Raleigh, NC, has relaunched its updated website and online shop with expanded information about its vacuum products and application descriptions. Visit www.schmalz.com for a look at the firm's vacuum automation components and systems for gripping, material handling and clamping. Look up prices and availability in real time, view 2D and 3D images as well as video clips, and order products and track order status from the online shop.
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Smoky Mountain Opry in Pigeon Forge, TN
Smoky Mountain Opry • 2046 Parkway • Pigeon Forge, TN 37863View on Map
Smoky Mountain Opry is the ultimate musical variety show in the Smoky Mountains. Featuring acrobats, dancers, musicians, an amazing cast, this show wows audiences of all ages. Top quality special effects and visuals add to the immense talent to create one performance you will never forget. From Broadway to pop, country to Motown, there's something for everyone at Smoky Mountain Opry.
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The show is about 2 hours long.
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Everything from disco to country music is played at Music Mansion. All of your favorite songs will be performed including tunes by Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Garth Brooks, Janis Joplin, and so much more.
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For the safety of our performers, no flash photography is allowed within the theater.
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Clean Energy Venture Group
Clean Energy Venture Group is an investment group with offices in Boston and New York which provides seed capital and management expertise to early stage clean energy companies. The group is comprised of seasoned operating executives with strong capabilities in the energy and environmental sectors. With each investment, we bring not only capital, but also the value of our experience and network to help companies achieve their goals. Our focus is in the Northeastern United States, but we occasionally invest in companies located in other areas within North America.
Our mission is to invest in and support early stage clean energy companies that have the potential to mitigate climate change and achieve attractive financial returns. We collaborate with entrepreneurs and other stakeholders in an atmosphere of mutual respect, intellectual curiosity and analytical rigor.