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September 23, 2011
Story by: Laurie Morrissey
College Communications and Marketing
Photos by: Carly Peicott '12
Hurricane Irene brought biology professor Jay Pitocchelli an unexpected chance to obtain a bird specimen never before recorded in New Hampshire. It was the first state record for a White-tailed Tropicbird. It was found on August 30 in Claremont, N.H. following the hurricane.
Preliminary examination suggests that this individual belongs to the subspecies Phaethon lepturus catesbyi that breeds in Bermuda and West Indies.
"The record is especially interesting since this species is a pelagic seabird closely related to pelicans, cormorants and gannets," the professor says. "It spends most of its time at sea and only comes to land once a year to breed. Finding an ocean wanderer like this tropicbird this far inland is an extremely rare event and requires careful scientific documentation."
The bird was found alive and brought to the Saint Francis Wild Bird Hospital in Lyme, where it died the next day.
"Unfortunately, this bird was stranded in an inappropriate ecological environment without adequate food resources," Pitocchelli says. "It was also undergoing extensive feather replacement that was increasing its energy requirements and need for food."
The bird will be prepared as a study skin specimen at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.


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As the holidays came and went and time just breezing by I tried to find some time to craft and be creative. I was able to make a few goodies for family and friends but not as much as I would have hoped for. But as I started to think more about things that I would like to try and accomplish for the "new" 2012 year I felt there were things that I really want to try and focus on.
I'm not sure if I've mentioned this in the past or not but I'm a HUGE animal lover. And after losing my white boxer, Munch, about two years ago it has changed me. I remember the day that we had to put him down. A decision that absolutely killed my husband and myself. And any of you who own an animal and love him/her to the depths of your soul and heart know exactly what I'm talking about. I literally felt a part of me die that day. I can't say that I've healed completely because in my heart I know I haven't. It's gotten easier over the last two years but I miss my boy very much. I still have days where I do find myself getting teary eyed. But the memories that he gave us (in the short nine years we had him) will remain in my heart forever. Love your animals, tell them you love them, pet, kiss, hug, play, cherish, protect them, take them for walks, show them the same unconditional love that they show you. So with that being said that's where I feel I need to change a few goals this year. I enjoy sharing all the creative things with you on my blog but I also feel I need to share the wonderful furry babies that are out there as well. And I hope you don't mind.
I would like to share different posts with you regarding different stories that I read relating to animals. I know some people own smaller dogs so I would like to include clothing companies that supply outfits to keep them warm (especially in the winter) or treat shops for them. Or other things that relate to our wonderful pets that we love. Or even ways to adopt these wonderful animals instead of purchasing them in pet stores.
Today I came across a wonderful blog on Facebook. It's called Lucky Dog Rescue Blog and it's been created by Ashley Owen Hill and it's wonderful. If you have a few minutes I suggest dropping by and checking it out.
I hope you enjoy some of the new things to come and continue to visit to see what I'm up to.
Until my next blog...Ittybit

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Monday, October 24, 2011
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I've entered my first Challenge ... PPA116 at Pals Paper Arts! And I've created my first shadowbox. I've loved the Established Elegance Stamp Set from Stampin' Up! the moment I saw it in the new catalog, so I had to use it for my shadowbox. Then I created the card using our new Simply Scored (hint, I used the debossed side so the lines would be more prominent on the card).
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In this video I will be setting up the subroutine that we will be using to modify the five piece door breakdown that eCabinets generates when you export there cut list into excel.
First I will show you some error handling code that will ensure that the cut lists have been imported into the master workbook.
Then we will define the variables for the worksheets that we will be working with. As well as clearing any existing data in the new cut list worksheet and helper worksheet.
Finally we will transfer the data from the Five Piece Door Break Down into the helper worksheet.
Then debug the code.
here is the link to check it out.
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New album out now!
Billy Jones' latest album "Roy on the Hill" - featuring his own songs and accompanied by many of the top musicians he's worked with over the years - is now available for purchase!
Stream it on Spotify, or download from iTunes Store or Amazon Music. If you prefer a physical CD, you can order it from Amazon Music as well. Don't forget to rate the album and write a review if you should so desire!
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SIOBHAN SYNNOT provides a brief rundown on the latest cinematic offerings.
Broken (15)
Rating: * * * *
Eloise Laurence gives a terrific performance as a 13-year-old navigating a tricky set of neighbours in this British dramedy.
Selected release, Glasgow Film Theatre
Oz The Great And Powerful (PG)
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Sam Raimi's vivid 3D black and white/Technicolor prequel to The Wizard Of Oz pulls out all the visual stops, including a hot Oz (James Franco) and a trio of also-hot if slightly dull witches (Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis). It's got heart and nerve (you can spot some clever efforts to avoid infringing the 1939 film's copyright), but the brain keeps saying the finale is awfully like Oz – Home Alone.
On general release from Friday
The Guilt Trip (12A)
Rating: * * *
Barbra Streisand is a motormouthed mom and Seth Rogen her stressed-out son, travelling across America in a tiny car. The script is sentimental and predictable, but the stars are likeable and believable as mother and son. You may laugh, you might even cry, but you'll certainly phone your mother.
On general release
Parker (15)
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Jason Statham plays another of his hard-boiled antiheroes, this time one drawn from Donald Westlake's pulp novels. Energetic action nonsense for Statham fans that is unlikely to bring in any converts.
On general release from Friday
Lore (15)
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At the end of the Second World War, the children of Nazi collaborators are left to fend for themselves in Cate Shortland's haunting, mildly cryptic horror story.
Selected release, Glasgow Film Theatre
Fire With Fire (15)
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Bruce Willis tries to help Josh Duhamel after his witness protection cover is broken. Made by ten-year-olds if the dialogue and clunky scenarios are anything to go by.
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WASHINGTON — There were more drone strikes in Pakistan last month than any month since January. Three missile strikes were carried out in Yemen in the last week alone. And after Secretary of State John Kerry told Pakistanis on Thursday that the United States was winding down the drone wars there, officials back in Washington quickly contradicted him.
More than two months after President Obama signaled a sharp shift in America's targeted-killing operations, there is little public evidence of change in a strategy that has come to define the administration's approach to combating terrorism.
Most elements of the drone program remain in place, including a base in the southern desert of Saudi Arabia that the Central Intelligence Agency continues to use to carry out drone strikes in Yemen. In late May, administration officials said that the bulk of drone operations would shift to the Pentagon from the C.I.A.
But the C.I.A. continues to run America's secret air war in Pakistan, where Mr. Kerry's comments underscored the administration's haphazard approach to discussing these issues publicly. During a television interview in Pakistan on Thursday, Mr. Kerry said the United States had a "timeline" to end drone strikes in that country's western mountains, adding, "We hope it's going to be very, very soon."
But the Obama administration is expected to carry out drone strikes in Pakistan well into the future. Hours after Mr. Kerry's interview, the State Department issued a statement saying there was no definite timetable to end the targeted killing program in Pakistan, and a department spokeswoman, Marie Harf, said, "In no way would we ever deprive ourselves of a tool to fight a threat if it arises."
Micah Zenko, a fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations, who closely follows American drone operations, said Mr. Kerry seemed to have been out of sync with the rest of the Obama administration in talking about the drone program. "There's nothing that indicates this administration is going to unilaterally end drone strikes in Pakistan," Mr. Zenko said, "or Yemen for that matter."
The mixed messages of the past week reveal a deep-seated ambivalence inside the administration about just how much light ought to shine on America's shadow wars. Even though Mr. Obama pledged a greater transparency and public accountability for drone operations, he and other officials still refuse to discuss specific strikes in public, relying instead on vague statements about "ongoing counterterrorism operations."
Some of those operations originate from a C.I.A. drone base in the southern desert of Saudi Arabia — the continued existence of which encapsulates the hurdles to changing how the United States carries out targeted-killing operations.
The Saudi government allowed the C.I.A. to build the base on the condition that the Obama administration not acknowledge that it was in Saudi Arabia. The base was completed in 2011, and it was first used for the operation that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical preacher based in Yemen who was an American citizen.
Given longstanding sensitivities about American troops operating from Saudi Arabia, American and Middle Eastern officials say that the Saudi government is unlikely to allow the Pentagon to take over operations at the base — or for the United States to speak openly about the base.
Spokesmen for the White House and the C.I.A. declined to comment.
Similarly, military and intelligence officials in Pakistan initially consented to American drone strikes on the condition that Washington not discuss them publicly — a bargain that became ever harder to honor when the United States significantly expanded American drone operations in the country.
There were three drone strikes in Pakistan last month, the most since January, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which monitors such strikes. At the same time, the number of strikes has declined in each of the last four years, so in that sense Mr. Kerry's broader characterization of the program was accurate.
But because the drone program remains classified, administration officials are loath to discuss it in any detail, even when it is at the center of policy discussions, as it was during Mr. Obama's meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday with President Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi of Yemen.
After their meeting, Mr. Obama and Mr. Hadi heaped praise on each other for cooperating on counterterrorism, though neither described the nature of that cooperation. Mr. Obama credited the setbacks of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or A.Q.A.P., the terrorist network's affiliate in Yemen, not to the drone strikes, but to reforms of the Yemeni military that Mr. Hadi undertook after he took office in February 2012.
And Mr. Hadi twice stressed that Yemen was acting in its own interests in working with the United States to root out Al Qaeda, since the group's terrorist attacks had badly damaged Yemen's economy.
"Yemen's development basically came to a halt whereby there is no tourism, and the oil companies, the oil-exploring companies, had to leave the country as a result of the presence of Al Qaeda," Mr. Hadi said.
Asked specifically about the recent increase in drone strikes in Yemen, the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said: "I can tell you that we do cooperate with Yemen in our counterterrorism efforts. And it is an important relationship, an important connection, given what we know about A.Q.A.P. and the danger it represents to the United States and our allies."
Analysts said the administration was still grappling with the fact that drones remained the crucial instrument for going after terrorists in Yemen and Pakistan — yet speaking about them publicly could generate a backlash in those countries because of issues like civilian casualties.
That fear is especially pronounced in Pakistan, where C.I.A. drones have become a toxic issue domestically and have provoked anti-American fervor. Mr. Kerry's remarks seemed to reflect those sensitivities.
"Pakistan's leaders often say things for public consumption which they don't mean," said Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States. "It seems that this was one of those moments where Secretary Kerry got influenced by his Pakistani hosts."
Congressional pressure for a public accounting of the drone wars has largely receded, another factor allowing the Obama administration to carry out operations from behind a veil of secrecy.
This year, several senators held up the nomination of John O. Brennan as C.I.A. director to get access to Justice Department legal opinions justifying drone operations. During that session, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster, railing against the Obama administration for killing American citizens overseas without trial.
For all that, though, the White House was able to get Mr. Brennan confirmed by the Senate without having to give lawmakers all the legal memos.
And, in the months since, there has been little public debate on Capitol Hill about drones, targeted killing and the new American way of war.


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The USA kills sea lions
"Hypocrite – One who acts in contradiction to their stated beliefs or feelings"
Despite the legal protections afforded to California Sea Lions under the MMPA, hundreds of these animals will be shot, hazed, branded, euthanized and sold to zoos and aquariums each year. It comes as a surprise to many that the USA practices utter hypocrisy when condemning countries such as Namibia and Canada for their barbaric seal hunts. The reality is the US is guilty of violating their own laws by committing a general savagery equally deserving of the contempt shown towards large scale commercial seal hunts.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act was signed into law by President Nixon of the United States as far back as in 1972. This important piece of legislation forbids the import, export, and sale of any marine mammal, marine mammal part or marine mammal product within the United States.
The Act (MMPA) also prohibits the "taking of animals" and defines "take" as "the act of hunting, killing, capture, and/or harassment of any marine mammal; or, the attempt at such." The MMPA defines harassment as "any act of pursuit, torment or annoyance which has the potential to either: a. injure a marine mammal in the wild, or b. disturb a marine mammal by causing disruption of behavioral patterns, which includes, but is not limited to, migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering." The MMPA provides for enforcement of its prohibitions, and for the issuance of regulations to implement its legislative goals.
All marine mammals are PROTECTED under the MMPA.
Under section 120 of the MMPA, the federal government has the authority to kill sea lions that have a "significant negative impact on the decline or recovery of at-risk-salmonoid fishery stocks." Commercial and recreational fishing operations take up to 17% of the salmon. This is considered by government to be negligible and indeed, quite acceptable. Studies show the sea lions only consume between 1-5% and therefore have no significant negative impact on salmon stocks.
As with the commercial hunts, sea lions are being unfairly blamed for a decline in fish stocks rather than having a responsible government deal with the inconvenient truth.
Since the turn of the 20th century, a number of large scale dams have been built throughout the Columbia River system. These dams are responsible for the loss of up to 75% of all salmon headed out to sea and those returning to their spawning grounds to breed.
In 2009, a scientific panel found that fish farms and hatcheries played a further role in preventing the recovery of both steelhead trout as well as salmon. The US Environmental Protection Agency also found hazardous pollutants from industrial waste to be unacceptably high within the Columbia River system and that toxic contamination posed a severe threat to fish, humans and wildlife.
The deliberate introduction of invasive aliens such as bass and walleye only serves to make matters worse. These fish (which compete with and prey upon the native salmon) were introduced to appease the idle whims of recreational fishermen while recommendations from government scientists to stop stocking non native fish have been largely ignored.
Aside from walleye (which are estimated to consume over 2 million juvenile salmon each year) birds of prey take a further several thousand tons of salmon from the Columbia Estuary.
The sea lions, which form a natural part of the Columbia River ecosystem, are shot at with rubber bullets and stun grenades in an attempt to scare them away from the area. Those unfortunate enough to return are captured and restrained in a specially designed branding cage. Once immobilized, the animal faces further torment by having a searing hot branding iron applied to its sensitive hide.
The branding irons are heated to such a degree that they are known to catch fire as they burn their way into the animals flesh. Aside from the excruciating initial pain, the resulting blisters can take several months to heal with the onset of serious infections not being uncommon.
Once branded, the sea lion has in effect been served with a death warrant. Severe scar tissue will mark it for the rest of its days and, if it returns to eat fish the species has been feeding on for millions of years, it will either be shot or will end up suffering a life of captivity in a zoo or marine park that is incapable of providing for its natural requirements.
Sign our petition to stop the hazing of sea lions.


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From the moment you begin your studies our Careers & Employability Team will encourage you to look ahead at launching the career you want. Your career aspirations are very much at the heart of what we do and we're on-hand to support you from your early days of transition to College, through your time at HSDC and beyond – we will give you the information you need, when you need it.
You will receive personalised support including one to one guidance and a range of events, trips and initiatives to help you on your way. We pride ourselves that whichever campus you are studying at, you will receive a consistent, first class service from the Careers & Employability Team. Over the years we've helped thousands of students in your position achieve their goals, whether it be a place at a prestigious university, a competitive school leaver programme, apprenticeship or employment.
Our highly experienced team work according to the advice and frameworks put forward by the Careers Development Institute (CDI), which means you can be sure you're receiving impartial advice and guidance throughout your time at college. The Careers & Employability Team hold the Matrix quality standard, which reflects our professional and knowledgeable ethos.
How our careers service can help you:
"The Careers Team is great…They're so incredibly supportive."
"The Careers Team is beyond amazing and always goes above-and-beyond to help me with frequent contact and updates."
''A very supportive and knowledgeable team who offer the guidance to start you off on the path you wish to take. Last summer I undertook two weeks work experience, a placement that was publicised by the Careers Team, who then helped throughout the process to liaise with the employer ensuring I got the best experience possible. I believe my time at the placement will give me a greater advantage against other candidates. It is also good to know that they are there after my time at college, to support with any issues or problems I may have – including university places.''
Past students at the College have gone on to realise their career aspirations. Examples include a BA pilot, an Antarctic survey research scientist, a TV producer and an England Hockey player. So whatever you want to do in the future, this College is a proven springboard to success.


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Rodin: Marble as Flesh
Given this "Italian Connection", so important in Rodin's work, is only fitting to have an exhibition in Rome – the house of his artistic forebears- thaf aims to bring into focus the importance of the sensual and sensorial pleasure in the work of the French master. A man with a broken nose, a couple that kisses with an intensity unrestrained by any mythological excuse (we are looking at you, Canova): the flesh, the body and the unabashed beauty of its pleasures are the great themes of this exhibition.
The exposition will be open from February 18 to May 25, 2014 at the Terme di Diocleziano, just around the corner from Yes Hotel and a couple of blocks away from Hotel Des Artistes.


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Sydney, April 29 — Coal investors could suffer heavy losses in the future as carbon assets are frozen by regulators to achieve global warming targets, a new research report has found.
The report, "Unburnable Carbon: Australia's carbon bubble," launched jointly Monday by the Carbon Tracker Initiative and the Climate Institute, claims that Australian coal companies are irresponsibly investing large amounts in developing coal reserves that will ultimately have to go unburnt if the nation is to achieve its carbon reduction commitments.
"Much of our reserves of potential resources rest on a speculative bubble of climate denial, indifference or dreaming," said John Connor, CEO of the Climate Institute, an independent Australian research organization.
"In Australia, coal-related companies spent more than 6 billion AU dollars last year expanding those reserves and infrastructure. It's clear from this report they are being gambled on a world that may not and should not exist," said Connor.
The report follows Carbon Tracker's recent global analysis which stated that for there to be an 80 percent chance of achieving internationally agreed targets of limiting global warming to two degrees Celsius, only 20 percent to 40 percent of existing coal, gas and oil reserves can be burnt.
Taking Australia as a case study, the new report found that the 51 gigatons of carbon pollution in Australian coal companies' reserves represents about 25 percent of a global carbon budget for coal. Australian coal exports only represent 11 percent of the global market.
"There is a clear unbalance between the current level of Australia's coal production and their share of a global coal budget. To us, this says that Australian coal companies are planning for a five to six degree future. We feel this is a really risky assumption which is fundamental to the future financial value of these companies," said principle author Luke Sussams.
"We found that BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto could lose 4 percent to 5 percent of their market value due to the stranding of coal assets in a two-degrees scenario, and this is a risk which they' re toying with," said Sussams.
Australia should not rely on China's seemingly insatiable demand for coal, Sussams added, with market forces indicating that Australian coal is at risk.
"China said in their latest five-year plan that they're going to cap coal consumption at 4 billion tons, which is pretty much their current level of consumption.
"We've seen China's ability to redirect capital, to contract certain sectors and grow others. So I think there's no reason to believe that they would not be able to achieve this target. To me, it seems that you ignore this clear political signal at your peril, " Sussams said.
Although the researchers cannot pinpoint when the so-called carbon bubble will burst, they recommend that companies and investors diversify their portfolios into more competitive, secure and climate-proof long term alternatives — especially as renewable energy technology becomes more cost effective.
"You can't decry anybody for investing in a fossil fuel company or setting one up in the hope that this bubble doesn't explode. That's the way free markets work. But the real issue for the long-term asset owners is what is the chances of it exploding in five years, ten years, fifteen years," said principle author Julian Poulter.
"I think it's going to be very difficult for undiversified companies to escape the bubble, and I think there's a very strong argument that the superannuation funds and other asset owners should drive engagement with the diversified miners like BHP and Rio and so forth, because they have some options.
"You can't expect Woodside Petroleum to become a mobile phone company, but there's a good case for engaging heavily with something like BHP to start winding down its long-term exposures to coal," Poulter said. (PNA/Xinhua)


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The Pains of Freedom : Prison Island and the Making of Scandinavian Penal Exceptionalism
Shammas, Victor Lund
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Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, this study of a minimum security, "open" prison in Norway attempts to flesh out empirically criminologist John Pratt's argument that Scandinavian societies employ "exceptional" penal practices. In the course of three months of fieldwork, semi-structured interviews with fifteen inmates were conducted, in addition to participant observation of daily prison life and dozens of conversations with inmates and staff. On Prison Island, the 115-man prison under study, most inmates live in small wooden houses in self-organized collectives, engaging in ecological farming, forestry and educational programs. Great emphasis is placed on inmate rehabilitation for the purposes of successful community re-entry. Building on Gresham Sykes' (1958) original "pains of freedom" and Ben Crewe's (2011) notion of "new" pains in the era of "soft power" in prisons, it is argued that there are salient "pains of freedom" that arise out of apparently relaxed conditions of confinement like those found on Prison Island. The freedom experienced therein can be frustrating and painful as inmates balance between liberty and confinement. Essentially, in the absence of those features commonly associated with traditional prisons, inmates must internalize the prison with all its rules and expectations for self-improvement. In this way, the penal populist vision of open prison confinement as "luxurious" or "cushy" is moderated through empirical engagement.
It is shown that prison officers have developed "techniques of micro-constraint" including prisoner population counts, drug tests, standards of domestic discipline and visitor regulations to maintain order and docile bodies, macro-constraint, the threat of return to higher-security confinement is an overarching control technique that seeks to create discipline and self-regulation in the prisoner body.
The dilemmas and tribulations of life in the open prison are illustrated with a case study of a music band organized by inmates, as well as an analysis of the use of ethnic and national characteristics as a "principle of vision and division" in the society of captives. For the band, the opportunity to play music affords certain privileges not available to other inmates, like the opportunity to leave the prison and play concerts. But new risks and challenges also arise as they strive to balance the dynamic of an outside-world organization with the expectations of inmates and officers. In terms of ethnonational group dynamics, it is shown that Norwegians and "foreigners" occasionally mobilize into stratified clusters, but by and large manage to produce a working arrangement under a regime of "forced multiculturalism".
In summarizing, it is argued that, on the international penal scene, Prison Island is an exceptional institution, but as an exemplar of late-modern "soft power" in imprisonment, it still remains committed to the basic facts of security, control and punitiveness, even as these take on new and unfamiliar guises.
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The PCB machine at IMA is the LPKF ProtoMat S43. It can be used for circuit prototyping, it is often the final phase of PCB production and can produce compact, permanent and modular circuits boards that can will make your electronic project stable, compact and appealing. The use of this machine is taught in the Rapid Prototyping class. This page is divided into the following sections:
- Create Your PCB Design & File Prepping
- Running the PCB Machine
- PCB Production Processes
Create Your PCB Design & File Prepping.
Before you schedule to use the PCB machine, make sure you have done the necessary preparations.
1. Prototyping your circuit. You need to have prototyped your circuit on either a breadboard or a purf board to insure that it works.
2. Creating your PCB design. You need to recreate your circuit in a PCB design software such as Fritzing, Eagle or 123D Circuits from Autodesk (There are many other PCB design softwares, but we will mostly be using Eagle in IMA.). Please reference the Resources + Tutorials part of this section for tutorials on how to design your own PCB.
3. Exporting gerber files. Export your design in the form of gerber files.
NOTE: For professional circuit board fabrication, you will need to export an assortment of layers from your design file, including silkscreen layers, solder mask layers, etc. But for our PCB machine, you will only need to export 4 basic layers:
- Top Layer: top copper trace layer
- Bottom Layer: bottom copper trace layer
- Drills: drill positioning layer
- Board Outline: board outline layer
The extension file for each of these layers might be different in different softwares. If you they are using Fritzing, the files extensions may look like this:
If you are using Eagle, then the extensions might look like this:
A chart of the layers you want to include in each file is shown below:
Resources + Tutorials:
- Simple Fritzing Tutorial
- Eagle Tutorial 1: Schematic Design with Jeremy Plum
- Eagle Tutorial 2: Printed Circuit Board Layout with Jeremy Plum
- Eagle Tutorial 3: CAM Output and DFM with Jeremy Plum
- 123D Circuits (Autodesk)
Running the PCB Machine.
The PCB machine must be run under the supervision of IMA faculty and staff. Students are not allowed to run the machine independently. During the cutting process, you required to remain at all times next to the machine.
ONE: CAM Software Interface
The CAM software generates the necessary tool paths for the drill bits to cut your circuit by translating the gerber files you exported into something the PCB machine can understand.
Video coming soon.
TWO: Machine Software Interface
The Machine software places the circuit file within the cutting area virtually and allows you to move, adjust or duplicate circuits before cutting. It also provides a software interface that controls the running of the machine and runs through the cutting process step by step.
Video coming soon.
PCB Production Processes


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Down Low Myths Debunked on Black AIDS Awareness Day
ShareTweet Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. One of our goals at NoMoreDownLow.TV is to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS in the black & LGBT communities and more importantly to debunk the myth that the "down low" is connected to rising HIV infection rates among black women. In this NoMoreDownLow.TV Newsbreak, NBA legend Magic Johnson […]Read more


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Taylor Swift was born with a fabulous mane of curly hair, and she so obviously knows how to rock it. If you're digging her long princess curls, then check out this hairstyling tutorial to learn how to get her signature curly hair.
This stylish updo is elegant and feminine and perfect for a wedding.


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Posted On February 10, 2019 by Team iCynosure.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
A cosmetic surgery is the simple technique to transfer body fat to breasts in order improve the size and shape of the breast. This technique is known as breast augmentation through which the surgeon enhances the natural proportions of the breast while improving the symmetry and aesthetics of the breasts.
There are a number of reasons women opt to undergo the procedure, however one of the biggest reasons is to accentuate breast size and shape. The procedure is also effective to rectify prominent asymmetries in breasts and deformities. However some other reasons women choose breast augmentation are:
• Recovering from the effects of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
• Achieving a balanced shape that complements curvy hips.
• Improving self-confidence and self-image.
• Restoring swimsuit confidence.
What makes a patient an ideal candidate for the surgery?
A lot of people get fantastic results by undergoing fat transfer procedure to enhance their buttocks, face, hands or cheeks. The best parameters to get the procedure done is age between 30 and 65, good body fat to harvest from and overall good health. Other pre-requirements to be an ideal candidate are as follows:
• Should have realistic expectations and be informed about the procedure
• Should be healthy and have a stable weight
• Should not be pregnant or be breastfeeding
• Should not be a smoker
What are the pre-requirements for the procedure?
There is a chance your consultant or their staff might give you a list of precaution, however, following are the main instructions to be considered:
• Avoid smoking for a specified amount of time
• No alcohol intake and limited eating the night before
• Do not drive post-surgery; have someone to accompany you while driving home
The patient is generally given general anaesthesia or injected for conscious sedation, hence the patient is either asleep or is sedated during the procedure. During surgery, small incisions are used in order to create space for the implant. After properly positioning the implant, the surgeon closes the incisions and bandages them. Generally, it takes around two hours to complete the entire procedure and then patients are discharged to go home.
What are the benefits associated with augmentation?
Although the benefits differ from patient to patient, ever individual opting the procedure should know the benefits as below:
• No allergic reactions as patient's own body fat is used for the procedure
• The procedure can done along with other procedures like liposuction.
• A natural result as patient's own body fat is used for the procedure
• The rest time is generally less, however if done with another procedure it may require a few more days.
• No infections as fat transfer does not include any use of synthetic material.
• The results are immediate which improve over a period of few weeks and are long-lasting.
What are the risks associated with augmentation?
All surgeries generally have some risks which the patients should be made aware beforehand. Augmentation poses the following risks:
• A rare chance of leaks in the implant.
• Pain and tenderness in the area.
• Prominence in scar tissue causing dissatisfaction.
• A rare chance of asymmetrical results.
An incision always leaves a permanent scar, however, in this procedure the scars heal well and the prominence goes away with time. It is a general practice to leave minimalistic scar underneath the breast so they are not visible however one should be informed about the placement and size of the scar by the consultant before the surgery.
What to expect after the procedure?
Breast augmentation is typically an outpatient procedure performed under general anaesthesia. Patients can expect to walk around on their own after the surgery and even leave the house within a couple of days. In the first week, patients may feel a bit sore and will be advised to avoid exercising. A surgical or a sports bra might also be prescribed by the surgeon for a certain period. The patient should religiously follow the surgeon's instructions to be able to heal quickly.
It is beneath the pectoral muscle where the breast implant is placed which makes it feel as if the breasts are sitting high on the chest however it is a normal stage in the process as your implants will eventually settle in the optimal position over the next few weeks. After the breast implants settle, the following after care is recommended:
• Maintain regular screening.
• Undergo corrective surgery incase of weight fluctuations.
• Wear a bra with appropriate support to prevent sagging.
Dr. Donald Roland is a New York City-based board-certified plastic surgeon with extensive knowledge in body procedures. Dr. Roland specialises in breast treatments and can do a variety of surgeries, to know more visit one of the best centres of breast augmentation in New York City.
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.......Carol maintained its intensity as it moved inland,[25] and its winds were strong enough to knock down trees and power lines in New Hampshire. One tree fell onto a car, killing a person, and there were three deaths overall in the state,[12] along with $3 million in damage.[9] There was also a death in neighboring Vermont.[12] Carol produced winds of up to 80 mph (130 km/h) in Augusta, Maine. Throughout the state, the winds downed hundreds of trees, some of which damaged houses, wrecked cars, destroyed one building, or fell onto power lines.[25] Fallen trees blocked highways,[12] and one person was injured by a falling tree limb. Downed power lines left several counties without power or telephone services. The winds flattened hundreds of acres of corn in North Livermore,[25] and throughout the state, there was heavy damage to the apple crop.[18] Damage to the apple crop amounted to $1.7 million. While moving west of Maine, the hurricane dropped heavy rainfall, including a report of 2.15 inches (63 mm) in 12 hours.[25] Along the coast, high waves damaged boats.[12] In Maine, the hurricane killed three people, injured at least eight, and caused $10 million in damage, the costliest natural disaster in the state's history.[25] Carol lost this distinction 10 days later when Hurricane Edna caused $15 million in damage in the state.[26]
Rainfall in Canada peaked at 4.27 inches (108 mm) in Quebec. In Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, wind gusts peaked at 47 mph (75 km/h).[27] In Quebec, the extratropical remnants of Carol downed trees and power lines in Montreal from wind gusts as high as 55 mph (89 km/h).[2] Widespread power outages were reported in New Brunswick and Quebec, and downed trees struck three cars in Saint John, New Brunswick. The storm caused flights to be canceled, and subways were flooded in Montreal. Damage there totaled about $1 million (1954 CAD, $980,000 USD)[nb 3].[27] Two people were killed, one of whom due to drowning on a sunken barge in Quebec City.[12]
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Do you like popsicles or ice cream better in the summer? I truly can't decide. I bring this up, because I had both yesterday and both were equally as wonderful and I am just wondering if anyone has something important to say on this topic.
Although I do want to really know what you think about that, my real question is actually somewhat applicable to something that matters in life. Would you rather be busy or have a bunch of free time? I have had the serious luxury of being able to make and adjust my own schedule for the past year, and I am just now going back into a corporate environment and not having that choice anymore. It's definitely a huge adjustment to not make those kinds of decisions for myself anymore, but it's one less thing I need to plan out, which is absolutely a plus. I get so stressed out trying to coordinate everything, so I am actually beyond relieved to have someone else do it for me. And to think that I wanted to be a wedding planner in college. Hilarious.
During this week alone, 5 different things came up that I hadn't been planning on. Although at first I kind of freaked out and probably still am a little bit without even realizing it, I'm loving the fact that I don't have a choice and my schedule just is what it is. I am the worst decision-maker in the whole world, and it is nice to be able to use work as an excuse now instead of knowing that I have the power to move things around. Even though this new job will definitely cut into my precious reality TV watching time, I think I can deal as long as TiVo is around. I don't think I mentioned this, but I am working at a hugely popular fitness club chain and obviously have a membership there now, so it will be super easy to workout myself before I work. I also live close enough that I can run there and shower in the locker rooms before my shift, which makes me smile so big just thinking about it. Weird that running makes me smile. That scares me half to death.
On the other hand, I do not do well when I don't have more than enough time to workout, clean, blog, respond to e-mails, watch my shows, and all those other unnecessary, but important to me, things. I know there are much bigger things to worry about and that these are all things that do not need to be done immediately and in the super quick fashion that I do them, but I get really overwhelmed if I am ever behind on something. I know I need to remember that I am cutting down time on other jobs I have been doing for a regular basis during the past year, but that just hasn't set in yet. Am I crazy? Probably. I know I just need to get used to this new schedule, but I am probably going to be a hot mess during the next month or so.
With that being said, if this blog gets pushed to the side or if my posts are just off the wall ridiculous, please forgive me. I'm just trying not to lose my mind with all that I have going on right now. I am super excited to start this new job and hopefully make it a career and I can be done with this whole "finding myself" thing. Although let's be real, I have tried anything and everything (job-wise) during the past 7 years and fitness is the only thing that I have actually enjoyed and wanted to excel in. So I think I'm pretty much stuck here, whether I like it or not. And I am very lucky, because I love it. So fingers crossed this all goes well!
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Unless otherwise noted, we have visited all of the museums listed here (in some cases, many times!). They are great resources for increasing your knowledge of Native American culture and history. As we love to travel, we can't help but share our experiences with you. We do hope you will consider visiting these marvelous facilities.
Buffalo Bill Historical Center - The Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming is by far one of the premier museums featuring Plains Indian art from the Reservation Period. They have an incredible collection of almost every type of artifact imaginable including tipis, moccasins, pipe bags, dresses, shirts, shields, and much, much, more. Every fall they sponsor a symposium which covers a different topic each year. It attracts researchers and others with an interest in Native American culture from all over the world. The center actually has four museums, the Plains Indian Museum, Cody Firearms Museum, Buffalo Bill Museum, and Whitney Gallery of Western Art. When visiting, plan to spend at least a day in the museum itself. Cody is the northeast gateway to Yellowstone National Park so there is a lot to do in the area. Be sure to visit the Irma Hotel which was originally owned by Buffalo Bill Cody. A portion of the hotel has restored historic rooms which look much like they did in the early 1900's. The amenities in these rooms are a little sparse but it can be great fun. This is one of our favorite vacation destinations if you haven't noticed!
David T. Vernon Collection - Housed in the Grand Teton National Park visitor center in Colter Bay, Wyoming, this is an excellent collection of Plains Indian artifacts. A definite stop if you're in the Yellowstone area. Check for hours first...the museum is only open from late spring through early fall. Many parts of the collection are well illustrated in the book The Spirit of Native America
Southwest Museum - Located in Los Angeles, California, the Southwest Museum houses a fine collection of Plains, Southwest, and California Indian material. A definite stop if you're in the area.
The Denver Art Museum - Another premier museum with an outstanding collection of Native American art from all regions of the country. Several years ago, they completely renovated their Native American section. It is now presented in a very open and interpretive manner. Unfortunately, they only showcase a small portion of their vast holdings. Plan to spend several hours if you only want to visit the Native American portion. They also house incredible collections from many other cultures and you can easily spend the whole date there.
Colorado State Historical Society - Located in Denver, Colorado, this museum is often overlooked but should be on your "must visit" list. It houses a moderately small Native American collection but has some very important holdings. They have some early pony-beaded leggings, several pipe bags, and much more. They also display some of the original ledger drawings featured in the excellent Lakota books by James R. Walker. As expected, they also have extensive exhibits of Colorado history. Within walking distance of the Denver Art Museum.
Denver Museum of Natural History - While you probably would not expect to find a Native American exhibit in a natural history museum, this place will blow you away. An incredible exhibit of Plains artifacts. Since it is a "natural history" museum, it is, of course, presented as dioramas on mannequins but the items displayed are great. Definitely plan to spend the better part of the day. By the way, the rest of the museum is incredible too. Bring the kids...they'll love it!
Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art - Located in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Eiteljorg features a good collection of historical and contemporary Native American art. The building itself is a work of art. The collection is not as great as in some of the other museums we've listed, but it is definitely a stop if you are in the area.
The High Desert Museum - If you are anywhere near Bend, Oregon, plan to spend a full day at this fabulous museum. They have an excellent collection of Plateau artifacts but it is not all on display. If our memory is correct, they are still raising money to build a permanent exhibit. The museum has animal exhibits including birds of prey, otters, and porcupines; history exhibits, including a restored sawmill, and high desert homestead; and much, much more. A great place for the kids and adults too!
Located near Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada, this museum if pretty much in the middle of nowhere. However, it is definitely worth the trip. The museum is built on a buffalo jump site. These sites were typically located on the plains where the prairie just stops and a gorge dozens or hundreds of feet below appears. The men would stampede the buffalo over the cliff where most would die instantly. Those that survived were quickly killed by the women and children waiting below. The buffalo would then be skinned and the meat prepared for the long winter ahead. This interpretive site explains the jump site and presents a wealth if information on the Blackfoot Indians. (we borrowed this cool graphic from their site - we hope they don't mind too much - click it to visit them)
The Heard Museum - The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, is home to an outstanding collection of Southwest Indian art.
National Museum of the American Indian - This is the newest museum of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum is scheduled to be open by the end of the decade on the mall in Washington, D.C. It will house the incredible Heye collection. This collection was located in New York for many years. There is a satellite museum already open in New York. We never visited the Heye collection when it was in New York but have seen photos from friends who have. The collection is absolutely incredible and may very well be the best in the world. We'll be traveling to Washington D.C. to see this museum the first summer it is open.
San Diego Museum of Man - This museum has a great collection of Plains and Southwest art including many textiles. Most of the collection is not on regular display so you should check the schedule of events for current exhibits. They also have a great Egyptian collection as well as an excellent exhibit on the evolution of man (well, at least it presents the current prevailing theories).
Koshare Indian Museum - We have never been here so have no experiences to share. The Koshare Indian Dancers are well known in the Boy Scout circles and their site is worth a visit
Seattle Art Museum - Located in downtown Seattle, Washington, this museum houses an outstanding collection of Northwest Coast art. They also have an outstanding collection of African art as well as revolving exhibits. A worthwhile stop. By the way, when in Seattle, don't miss the downtown marketplace...it's great fun!
The Glenbow Museum - A great museum located in Calgary, Canada which houses a wonderful collection of First Nations (the Canadian version of "Native Americans") artifacts. The Glenbow has a wonderful web site too. After you visit the museum, travel south (OK, way south) and you can visit Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre in Fort Macleod. If you continue south into Montana, you can drive down to Browning on the Blackfoot Reservation and check out the Plains Indian Museum. They have a great selection of Blackfoot artifacts. And if you're in Browning, you have to continue west into Glacier National Park. We think this is the most beautiful National Park in the country! Make sure you take the Going-To-The-Sun road or you'll miss the best part.
Canadian Museum of Civilization - The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) is located in Hull, Quebec, on the banks of the Ottawa River, directly opposite Parliament Hill. It is home to a selection of Northwest Coast and Inuit art.
Museum of the Yellowstone - Located in the old train station in West Yellowstone, Montana, this small museum holds a nice collection of Plains Indian artifacts. It's well worth the stop if you are in the area and they also have a nice wildlife exhibit featuring animals of the Yellowstone region.
The following gallery references are provided for your use when traveling around the country. With the exception of Morning Star Gallery, we have no connection with any of them and are not endorsing them in any way. Our only connection with Morning Star Gallery is that we carry most of the books and catalogs they publish. We have visited all of these galleries and feel they are worth your time because of the quality of material presented.
Quite possibly the premier gallery for antique tribal art of the Plains and Southwest. We can't afford the prices but we sure like to browse! They print an annual catalog featuring a selection of items which often rivals museums. We carry all their catalogs - volumes 1 though 5 are available for $27 each. Click on the graphic to visit their site. 513 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe NM 87501 (505)982-8187
W.E. Channing & Co - Specializes in antique tribal arts. 53 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe NM 87501 (505)998-1078
Sherwood's Spirit of America - Specializes in antique tribal arts with an
emphasis on Plains Indian artifacts. 1005 Paseo de Peralta
The Spanish & Indian Trading Company - Specializes in antique tribal arts with an emphasis on Plains Indian artifacts. 924 Paseo de Peralta Ste 1, Santa Fe NM 87501 (505)983-6106
Freya's Collectibles - Specializes in antique Plains Indian artifacts. They always have a nice selection of items to see...and Banff is incredibly beautiful too. 114 Banff Ave, Banff, Alberta CANADA T0L 0C0 (403)762-4714
Objects of Bright Pride Galleries - Specializes in contemporary Northwest Coast art. We have only visited their Seattle gallery but they had the best art of any gallery we found in Seattle. They also have galleries in New York City and Juneau, Alaska.
Tribal Groups & Indian Centers
Great Sioux Nation Points of Interest
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
Southern California Indian Center
Southern Native American Pow Wows - A great site with lots of information about Southern-style pow wows.
Ben Marra - Author of Powwow, Images along the Red Road and an excellent photographer of Native Americans. His art graces several calendars.
Whispering Wind Magazine - A great hobbyist magazine which features powwow reports, craft articles, history, and much more.
Indian Country Today - An excellent Native American newspaper with widespread circulation across the country. If you want to stay current with Indian issues from an Indian perspective, then definitely subscribe (we do).
Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment - An excellent book by John C. Ewers which has long been out of print. The Smithsonian Institution has put the whole book on line for your use. We learned a lot about the history of hairpipe and you will too.
NAGPRA - Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. This act became law in 1990. Its primary purpose was to allow Native American tribes to reclaim human remains stored in public museums. However, there are clauses which allow Native Americans to reclaim objects of cultural patrimony. This section of the law has the potential for abuse and could cause widespread losses to museum collections. There is also some fear that the act may eventually allow intrusion into private collections. NAGPRA will be a very politically sensitive issue for many years.We won't take sides here but if you have an interest in museum collections or are a collector of Native American antiques, you should be familiar with this act.
Kevin Locke (Tokeya Inajin) - Kevin Locke is a well known Native American flute player and has made many recordings (we carry all of them). He generally plays the flute in a traditional manner using sounds of nature as a background. One of our most popular artists.
We distribute music for the following Native American music publishers. Their sites often offer more background about an artist or particular recording. While some of these sites sell music directly, we would appreciate it if you would make your purchase with us so we can continue to support our site and business. Thank you!
American Indian College Fund - An outstanding organization which supports the tribal colleges around the country. We don't donate as much money as we would like to them but we try to offer some support every year. We would encourage you to check them out and consider supporting them. The American Indian College fund offers a very special selection of custom Pendleton blankets which they use for fund raising.
NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art - NativeTech is an educational web site that covers topics of Native American technology and emphasizes the Eastern Woodlands region. The web site is organized into categories of Beadwork, Birds & Feathers, Clay & Pottery, Leather & Clothes, Metalwork, Plants & Trees, Porcupine Quills, Stonework & Tools, and Weaving & Cordage. A great site with lots of information.


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June 15, 2016
THANK YOU! We achieved 50% of our fundraising goal because of your incredible support via indiegogo, private donations and the CU Boulder Theatre and Dance Department's bucket fundraiser! With $2500 we can take Maps to Nowhere to Australia this Sunday!
Additionally: We have been awarded $500 through the Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities Student Challenge Grant. Thank you A2RU!
April 1, 2016
Our IndieGoGo campaign has finally launched! Maps to Nowhere is going to Australia this June and we need your help to attend this incredible opportunity at the Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies Conference Resilience: Revive, Restore, Reconnect. You can Join the conversation and support our journey by donating funds or help spread the word! Help us get this important work shedding light on realities of PTSD to the international stage. Check out our Campaign Here!
March 1, 2016
We are getting geared up to present our work Maps To Nowhere in Boulder this upcoming May and in Australia in June! Stay tuned for news – we sure are excited!
Meanwhile, we are happy to announce that our very own Niki Tulk got one play accepted to the CU New Play Festival 2016 and our dear Alia Goldfarb starred in a dance film that was just accepted to the ACDA Screen Dance Festival 2016. Check out the film here.
And last but not least – Did you know Niki also presented her beautiful work Ophelia|Leaves at the NC Ruby Slipper Festival?
December 9, 2015
Poster Presentation Front Range Neuroscience Group, Society for Neuroscience Colorado Chapter, Fort Collins, CO.
Oliver Sacks' The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat – Using Performance to Stage Neurology.
*Batista Silverman, L., *Goldfarb, A., *Tulk, N., Rusk, N. (2015)
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The Biggest Money Fights: Wills and Prenups
It's a five-letter word that can come between loved ones and divide families forever: M-O-N-E-Y! Dr. Phil and legal analyst Lisa Bloom speak with guests battling over inheritances and prenuptial agreements.
Kathy says her father, Ed, betrayed her by losing close to a million dollars " which should've been her inheritance " in bad investments with her brother. Ed admits he wasn't honest with his family about his financial decisions. Kathy says some of that money was meant for her children's college funds, and she's not sure she can ever forgive him. She hasn't allowed him to see his grandchildren in nearly two years.
"I don't think he deserves to be called Dad."
Dr. Phil gets to the heart of the matter in the father/daughter rift. If it's not about the money, as Kathy says, what's at the center of her anger? How can Ed fix his relationship with his daughter?
"I certainly do miss her. She was the darling of my heart."
Stacy thinks she's ready to divorce her husband, and wants to know, can she be awarded more than what her prenuptial agreement stipulates, given her unique circumstances?
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London, UK 3 April 2017:
Pixit Media, the leader in storage solutions built specifically for media workflows and ERA, a leading provider of IT solutions to broadcast, media and visual computing organisations, announced today that they have merged into a single company under ArcaPix Holdings Limited to leverage the respective strengths of both organisations to the benefit of customers worldwide.
Speaking of the merger, Pixit Media Managing Director and Co-Founder Ben Leaver, who becomes Group CEO of the new company said;
"This is a major step forward in the growth of two highly skilled and successful companies whose respective business and skill sets dovetail perfectly. The move will also pave the way for offering end-to-end managed services built around the PixStor product line and associated server, storage and networking technology. Not only does the merger significantly expand the capabilities and reach of the two companies, we are also looking forward to jointly adding key staff in select areas to manage and fuel ongoing growth in existing, and new, market areas."
Concurrent with the merger, the company will open a new European office in Stuttgart, Germany, and a US office in San Diego to drive growth and augment sales, service and support in those regions.
ERA Commercial Director Sean Baker, who becomes Chief Sales Officer (CSO) of the new group said;
"We have worked closely with Pixit Media, whose PixStor software-defined storage system has been a key component of many of our installed systems, since they were founded. This merger is entirely logical and I am excited about the prospects of what our combined forces can deliver.
"From our perspective, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) is a massive growth area that as a group we are perfectly positioned to address across multiple markets on a global basis with a single unified service and support offering."
Each company will retain current brand identity under ArcaPix Holdings Ltd. ERA will look after managed services and infrastructure sales and services, while Pixit Media will focus on product design and business development. Existing Pixit Media sales partners remain firmly in place and are fully supported.
Moreover, the new company has recently been named as a Global NetApp partner and will be present on the NetApp booth at NAB Show 2017 (Booth S101LMR) in Las Vegas from 24-27 April.
Financial terms of the merger were undisclosed.
About Pixit Media:
Pixit Media was established in 2010 to solve the asset storage and networking challenges faced by media companies today and is built on years of experience in broadcast and media application workflows. With a complete understanding of how these file-based workflows interact with traditional IT elements, Pixit Media is well placed to deliver highly efficient, linearly scalable network and storage solutions.
About ERA:
ERA is a leading provider of IT solutions to broadcast, media and visual computing organisations, physical or in the cloud. Over the last 19 years, ERA has become synonymous with the delivery of innovative and reliable technical and IT solutions that address real business problems where media and IT converge. Strategic alliances with leading vendors and outstanding technical capability have made ERA an easy choice for companies looking to harness IT, video and file-based workflows. With offices in London and MediaCityUK Salford, clients include BBC, ITV, Envy, Deluxe, Encompass, Evolutions, JCA, Rushes Postproduction and Red Bee Media. Visit www.eraltduk.com for more details.


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BMW Improves Hydrogen Engine Efficiency to Compete with Today's Turbo Diesels
Hydrogen power has been an ongoing project for many companies. One of the most pressing problems is the reduction in efficiency when compared to other kinds of fossil fuel burning engines. BMW has recently come up with a solution to this problem by changing the induction system of their Hydrogen engine.
BMW, along with a few other Austrian partners, recently released information regarding their new Hydrogen delivery system, and according to the press release they have been able to match the 42% efficiency of today's turbocharged diesel engines.
The combustion chamber has been redesigned to allow the Hydrogen to flow more efficiently and both spark ignition and diesel combustion technology have been utilized. The most extensive change to the engine was the addition of direct injection and a system that will force the fuel into the combustion chamber at up to 4350 PSI.
Together, the new technologies not only promised to be relatively efficient, but also return quite a bit of power for such a small size. BMW released a figure in the range of 134 horsepower per liter of displacement.
The engine is still undergoing extensive testing and BMW has no plans for production as of yet.


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TransportNI is planning a number of road improvement schemes in the Lisburn and Castlereagh area in the coming months.
Eastern Divisional Manager Kevin Monaghan outlined the plans as he met with Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council to update members on the Department for Infrastructure's programme for the area.
He also provided members with details on progress of schemes underway in the Lisburn and Castlereagh district.
Addressing Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, Mr Monaghan said: "In the next six months, the council area will see the completion of a number of infrastructure projects that will realise significant benefits for both the local community and commuters.
"Site work is nearing completion for the £1.3million upgrade to the A24 Old Ballynahinch Road at Temple Crossroads, Lisburn, which includes the provision of a new four arm roundabout along the A24 Old Ballynahinch Road, incorporating the realignment of existing approaches from the B6 Saintfield Road.
"The coming months will see a number of resurfacing schemes completed, including the Culcavy Road, Hillsborough; Newton Park, Castlereagh; the C363 Moira Road (A1 to Kilwarlin Road); and the Glenavy Road, Lisburn."
Mr Monaghan was also able to advise the Council that additional funding secured in October monitoring will facilitate the delivery of a further £1.1million of structural maintenance work in the Council area this financial year.
He said: "Work is completed on the provision of a pedestrian footpath with street lighting to link existing footpaths at Prince William Road and Drumard Crescent and work is also completed at the A3 Moira Road junction with Knockmore Road with an upgrade of existing traffic signals and crossing facilities including additional pedestrian phase and the addition of filter arrow in association with resurfacing."
Concluding, Mr Monaghan said: "It is also worth noting other projects in the area recently completed, including a £400,000 carriageway widening and realignment to improve sight lines and forward visibility on the B23 Hillhall Road / Glen Road and a range of other Local Traffic and Safety Measures have also already been delivered."
Meanwhile Lagan Valley MLA Jenny Palmer urged the infastructure minister to "give cast iron guarantees" on provide the funding for these schemes, she said: "While I warmly welcome TransportNI's progress on these much-needed schemes, it is essential the Sinn Fein Minister responsible for infrastructure gives constituents a firm pledge that he will 'splash the cash' on them.
"We do not want to see a situation emerging in the future than we have a statement from the Minister admitting he does not have the necessary funding to complete these projects. Lagan Valley constituents need positive action from the Minister, not empty rhetoric," said Mrs Palmer.


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Thousands of superheros, vampires, zombies, and sexy pirates walked Lincoln Road last night for Miami's biggest Halloween celebration. Restaurants were decked out in black streamers and spider webs, with some putting skeletons in charge of the hostess stands. Not an empty table could be found, as devils, wenches, and SWAT team members hunkered down for the night at their prized restaurant spots to watch the parade.
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- Photos: Halloween 2012 at Lincoln Road
At the Cafe at Books & Books, a table of about a dozen assorted characters played "Halloween Olympics," using a numerical system to grade the costumes as they passed. The best costume of the night according to the judges? Ursula the Sea Witch, complete with a giant tentacle skirt that could engulf her prey.
Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
Here's a friendly kitchen tip for these two: Stay away from the hot oil.
These guys? They're just a couple of dicks.
Kudos to the Frito Bandito for excellent use of props.
Her name was Lola; she was a showgirl.
Pretty easy to see who's pulling the strings in this relationship.
OK, we get the son of God, a rock God, and a Goddess... but what's with the farm boy?
Awww... Honey Boo Boo Child's all grown up.
Ice Ice Baby...
Halloween on Lincoln Road was catered by celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian.
A stunning tribute to the famous Flamingo Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Who need to go to Rio to celebrate Carnival?
Frida Kahlo looks lovely.
Whatever this was...it was part fabulous and part scary.
When bad things happen to good Disney princesses..
Fierce Polynesian God or Fantasy Fest extra? You decide.
Zombies in love. You may now bite the bride.
Betcha this bitch got married for the bone...china.
And now for a creepy flashback to your unhappy childhood...
Yes..there were skidmarks on the back.
Baby's first Halloween.
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Hello! I'm Kacie! I'm very excited to be taking over Creamy today :) I blog at Kacie's Kloset and own an online clothing store, Daisy Rae. I would love for you to check them out!
Fall is my favorite season! The only problem is that in Northern California, fall doesn't really start until October. Now that is a major bummer for a fall fashion lover like me who wants to start wearing her fall clothes in August. In order to prevent me from crying every day wishing for fall to hurry up and get here, I try to find clothes that are lightweight enough for the 90+ weather but still have a fall look and can be easily transitioned into cooler weather.
Thank goodness for this top! In it's amazing burnt orange/rust color, I get my fall fashion fix without sweating my butt off. (I don't have much of a butt so I really can't afford to sweat off any of it). And I can totally wear it into fall with some skinny jeans, a blazer and boots. Even though I have this great top to get me through the end of summer, I still beg you, Mother Nature, please send fall weather my way!
I want to say a big THANK YOU to Emily for asking me to guest post. Please stop by my blog and say hi!


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Science Employer Panel
February 22, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Science Employer Panel brings students and professionals together for an in-depth discussion of the job prospects and internship opportunities available to science graduates. Students get direct access to insider information about a variety of science industries, while panelists get a chance to meet their future employees and share about why their business is a great place to work. Connections made at the Science Employer Panel start new careers, and help drive Utah's economic engine.
The Science Employer Panel will be held in the newly remodeled Crocker Science Center room 206.
Panel: 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Dugway Utah Campus US Army
National Ecological Observatory
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
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Networking: 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Goldman Sachs
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RJ Lee Group
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World Wildlife Fund Ousts King of Spain for Elephant Hunting
King Juan Carlos may be the King of Spain, but he is no longer the honorary president of World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Spain due to his hunting and killing of elephants in Botswana, Treehugger reports.
While exploring Botswana, the Spanish ruler took up the hunting of elephants and even posed in front of a dead elephant with a rifle. Though not illegal, WWF considers the actions "incompatible" with the group's mission.
As the WWF website reads, "WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of our planet's natural environment, and build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature." The king's actions obviously go against this.
The organization released the following statement (via Treehugger/Google Translate), "Although such hunting is legal and regulated, has been considered incompatible, for many of its members, with Honorary Presidency of an international organization like WWF defense of nature and the environment and one of the most efforts and resources dedicated to the conservation of endangered species.
"For this reason, the Governing Board of WWF Spain had agreed unanimously to start the process for holding a Special Meeting in which its members could decide on whether to keep or delete Article of the Statutes regarding the Honorary Presidency occupied by King Juan Carlos since the founding of the organization in 1968. The 94 percent of the partners of WWF Spain voted for the abolition of the figure of Honorary President."
A vote of 226 to 13 resulted in kicking the king out.
The 74-year-old ruler did make an apology on Spanish state television, "I am very sorry. I made a mistake and it won't happen again."
The king's trip first came to light after falling and breaking his hip, while in Botswana. He had to be rushed back home to Madrid's hospital for emergency surgery. The news of his hunting expedition may have not ever made the public eye, but due to his injury it did.


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Working in the church reform movement, I see, hear and read a lot. Sometimes I think I've seen it all. But I still have a few eyebrow-raising first times, like just this week.
Dealing with some correspondence, I learned about a parish where the pastor reportedly ordered all "liberal Catholics" in his congregation to disperse. At Mass, he said he did not welcome them and they should go away. To emphasize his point, he put a sign in the parking lot proclaiming: "A vote for Obama is a vote for evil."
Really? This is how he leads a complex spiritual community in a complex world? By stooping to the moral level of middle-school cliques that don't let outsiders sit at their lunch tables, that write magic-marker insults to kids they don't like on the insides of bathroom stalls?
Those who are comfortable pursuing a "smaller, purer" Church don't realize the dangers inherent in their quest. Exclusion, by its very nature, is all-consuming. It is an engine that keeps on chugging, a mill perpetually demanding new grist. If the reactionary fringe ever banished all liberal dissent, it would not suddenly dwell in the peace of Christ. It would, in the absence of other scapegoats, cannibalize itself.
The surviving remnant would become like the bishops at the early councils, who were said to argue so ferociously over theological points that they yanked each other's beards. They would cultivate an atmosphere where opportunists, using doctrinal purity as a cover for achieving power and status, would tattle on perceived competitors in order to eliminate them. In the end everyone would be surprised to learn just how small you can go, just what shrinking really means for a Church accustomed to having a voice in the world.
I recently read writer Frank Schaeffer's autobiography Crazy for God. His father, the famous evangelical leader Francis Schaeffer, was originally a Presbyterian pastor. With his wife, Edith, he got involved in denominational splits over biblical inerrancy and other fundamentalist tenets. The Schaeffer family moved to Europe and their church community was ultimately, poignantly reduced to their little mission, L'Abri, located on a hill in Switzerland.
L'Abri survived its precarious beginnings and succeeded, but only because Francis and Edith Schaeffer made a partial about-face from their obsession with orthodoxy. They cultivated a reputation for open-door hospitality and for critically engaging the arts and culture of the Sixties.
The perfect, or at least the pursuit thereof, is the enemy of the good. We have the Church in the first place because Jesus walked among the diverse, messy multitudes saying, "Come to me, come to me." Leave the separation of the weeds from the wheat to God, or all you'll do is ravage the crop.


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November 6, 2014
How to Pitch to Journalists: A 3-Step Guide
So – you want to get the word out there about your products or business. A piece in a National newspaper would be nice, right? But how do you go about getting it?
Recently, I spoke at The Gunpowder Guide to Getting Noticed, an event put on by new business experts, Gunpowder Consulting. While I tackled how savvy digital marketing strategies could help you get found online, the fabulous Carol Lewis (@CarolLewis101), a commissioning editor at The Times, gave some insight into what catches her eye – and how to give yourself the best chance of being featured in her pages.
Here are some takeaways:
Step 1: How and When to Pitch to Journalists
Of course, each publication will be different. Dailies, Weeklies and Monthlies all work to different schedules – and your approach to a national newspaper must be different than it would be to a specialist industry magazine (which is what I edited for five years, before joining Reload). But many things remain constant.
- Know who you're pitching at. It sounds basic, but there's nothing that will make a journalist reach for the 'Delete' icon faster than you messing this one up. It always amazed me the number of times people would tell me their story idea was perfect for [inset competitor's title here]. Likewise, Carol spoke of emails landing in her [Times] inbox that were pitching pieces for The Telegraph, or The Independent. From here, your chances of being featured are approximately zero.
- Don't send blanket emails or press releases. As with the above advice, make sure you're personalising your pitch to each newspaper/magazine as well as the specific section you'd like to be featured in, and even the specific journalist that writes or edits that section. Think too about the sorts of angles those journalists or titles like to take on their stories – and modify your approach accordingly. For example, a Scottish newspaper might be interested in a property company's plans for a new development in Scotland, while The Times Business pages might be more interested in broad themes, such as how that company has used apprentice schemes to boost youth employment.
- Understand your target publication and your perfect "slot" on their pages. Most papers and magazines will have main 'features', as well as regular sections or columns. These regular sections can often be the most difficult to fill as they require continual recycling and reinvention of the same themes. Potentially, this gives you a better chance of successfully pitching to be featured in one of these slots.
- Be aware of the deadlines people work to. As already mentioned, it will be different for each publication. Monthlies may have a series of different deadlines over two-three weeks for different sections. Weeklies may be over a series of days, while Dailies will be over a series of hours. According to Carol, the first deadline of the day at The Times is at 11am, when each of the commissioning editors will pitch their ideas to their section editors. The section editors then take their preferred stories to the editor, and a 'plan' for the next day's paper is mapped out. Another meeting happens between 3pm-4pm, when any changes are made – for example, a business story might get 'promoted' to the news pages, so that slot now needs filling in the business section. The first edition of the paper goes to press at around 9pm. So the time between the 3pm meeting and 9pm is a frenzy of activity.
- Know when it's best to catch people. Some journalists will want you to approach them with ideas well in advance. Some will simply need a quick quote to fill the blank space that's still on their pages 20 minutes before their deadline. According to Carol, a fruitful time of day can be between 6pm-7pm, when journalists are scratching around for a quote or case study to finish off their piece. So it's a great time to keep an eye on Twitter for call-outs from journalists in need!
Step 2: What Journalists Need and How to Catch Their Eye
When journalists are on a deadline, the person that makes their life easiest is likely to be the person they'll feature. These are some of the things that should put you ahead of the crowd:
- Be easy to contact and quick to respond to journalists. Again, it sounds basic. But if you've sent a press release or email to a journalist, make it unbelievably easy for them to contact you. Repeat your phone number in the body of the email, even if it's in your email signature. And/or make sure your contact details are prominent on your website. And if someone does get in touch with you, be quick to respond. The opportunity might not come up again.
- Have imagery and supporting details available. Most publications will want to run a picture of you / your business / your logo to support their story. Have print-quality images available – and make this clear in your approach to a journalist. It could be what swings things in your favour.
- Think about your subject line and pitch. Carol's inbox apparently has around 20,000 unread emails in it, with a new one arriving every minute. If you want to have any chance of catching a journalist's eye, you will need to have a snappy subject line for your email. If possible, try to sum up your story – or at least tease it – in that one line. For example, "First Banking App for Google Glass Launches", or "How Cloud-Based Accounting Helped Grow my Business – A Case Study". Stats and numbers can also be very attention-grabbing. Similarly, the 'pitch' you include in your email should be short, sharp and to the point. Why is your story interesting? What are the key facts? Start with the most important points first and work backwards from there. Rinse and repeat this theory for any press releases you might attach.
- Know where journalists go for their last-minute quote requests. As with previous advice, know where and when journalists will be looking for quotes and case studies. Follow journalists and titles you want to target on Twitter, and check regularly for shout-outs for information. Also check out places like www.sourcebottle.com, and www.helpareporter.com (also known as HARO, which stands for Help a Reporter Out), both portals which bring journalists and sources together. Alternatively, #journorequest (and similar) on Twitter can be a rich source of opportunities to get involved in stories.
Step 3: Increase Your Chances of Success
There are a million and one reasons why your piece might not get picked up. If a major news story has broken, the papers and magazines will dedicate pages and pages of coverage to it – and drop everything else that would otherwise have been featured. (It's why politicians get accused of trying to "bury bad news" on days where something catastrophic or scandalous is making the front page of every paper.) But bear these things in mind:
- Be prepared to re-jig and re-pitch your story. What is junk mail for one paper / magazine / journalist could be gold dust for another. Just because The Times won't feature your story, don't assume another publication won't be interested. Many titles have an 'agenda' of sorts, so something that's not right for them could be perfect for someone else. It's often just a case of trial, error and persistence.
- Don't forget Local papers. It's a hideous generalisation here… But on the whole, local newspapers are often desperate for stories. Especially ones that have relevance to their local 'patch'. With smaller staff numbers and freelance budgets than the Nationals, they rely much more on things that come their way. As with previous advice, anything you can do to make it easy for them increases your chances of getting some coverage.
- Try to build relationships. National newspaper journalists may be nigh on impossible to get in touch with, let alone build a relationship with. But when it comes to specialist titles, there's a lot to be said for getting yourself known and liked. Whether you take a reporter out for lunch every few months, or prove that you can be a reliable source of useful information, the fact you are 'on their radar' will mean they're more likely to call you when they need to fill a space on their pages, or put a quote in their story.
- Keep the faith… Some days, a journalist won't even have time to eat, let alone look at their emails. In which case, your amazing story won't even register, much less be considered. It can be complete and utter luck what does or doesn't catch their eye. So you have to be persistent. And – sorry to say it – lucky.
Key Takeaways
- Understand your target publication and why your story will appeal to their readers.
- Know who you're targeting and tailor your pitches specifically to them.
- Know where (and when) journalists go to look for quotes and case studies.
- Have supporting imagery available – and make this clear in your pitch.
- Summarise your story in a short, snappy subject line.
- Try to build relationships directly with journalists. And most of all, be persistent!
Let us know any other great tips you have for pitching to journalists. And any success stories you've had along the way!


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General Information about Doing What Matters for Alabama's Children
The early bird registration fee to attend the full-day conference on January 30, 2020, is $25 per person or $20 per student. The early bird rate ends on January 16, 2020. The standard rate after the early registration ends and for walk-ins on the day of the conference will be $40. The conference fees include handout materials, continental breakfast, refreshment breaks, and lunch. Registration fees do not include lodging which is the responsibility of the participant. Refer to the registration form for information about enrollment options and procedures. Registrations will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Some sessions may have class limits.
Treasury regulations may permit an income tax deduction for educational expenses (registration fees, travel, meals and lodging) undertaken to maintain or improve professional skills.
The University of Alabama is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Please make your request for accommodation at least 30 calendar days in advance of the program date by emailing email@example.com.
Cancellations and Refunds
Cancellations received after January 10, 2020 are subject to a 25% cancellation fee. Refunds will not be granted after the program has begun. A substitute participant may be designated in place of a registrant who cannot attend. The University of Alabama reserves the right to cancel, post-pone, limit registration or change instructors.
Location and Lodging
The 13th Doing What Matters for Alabama's Children Conference will be held at the Bryant Conference Center, a premier learning facility located on The University of Alabama campus in Tuscaloosa. Suggested lodging sites include the Hotel Capstone, which is adjacent to the Bryant Conference Center and the Hampton Inn Tuscaloosa-University, which is about one mile from the Bryant Conference Center.
From I-20/59, take the McFarland Boulevard/US 82 exit and proceed north to the University Boulevard interchange. Exit and turn right. Stay on University Boulevard down the hill and turn left on Second Avenue. You may park in the Coleman Coliseum Parking Lot, the Bryant Drive Parking Lot, and the new Soccer Field Parking Lot adjacent to University Boulevard. You will be able to ride a Green Route bus from either of these lots to Second Avenue at the Bryant Conference Center. Approximately two weeks prior to the conference start date, you will receive a parking permit. Be sure to display the document in your windshield while attending the conference.
Request for Accommodations
The University of Alabama is committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Requests for accommodation of physical and/or dietary needs should be made at least 30 calendar days in advance of the program date. Please email your request to email@example.com.


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