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Primo Site of the Month November 2007
November 2007 Site of the Month
TIP: Tutorial for Info Power
Authors: Cheryl Goldenstein, Jamie Kearley, David Kruger, Lori Phillips, and Mary Ann Harlow, with contributions from Ryan Taylor and Matt Kelley
Institution: University of Wyoming
Interviewee: Cheryl Goldenstein
Interviewer: Robert Schroeder
Tutorial Description:
The Tutorial for Info Power, or TIP, is an interactive, web-based tutorial designed to introduce students to information literacy concepts. Major revisions were made to the tutorial in 2005 and 2006.
TIP consists of five self-paced modules. Students 1) investigate a research topic for possible information sources; 2) search databases and the library catalog for information about a topic; 3) locate the information online or within the University of Wyoming Libraries; 4) evaluate the quality of information located; 5) utilize information ethically for papers, speeches, or projects. The tutorial concludes with a 33-question quiz.
Q. When did you first create your Tutorial for Info Power (TIP), and what prompted you to create it?
A. The original Tutorial for Info Power was developed in 2001 by UW librarians Jamie Kearley, David Kruger, Lori Phillips, and Christy Valentine.
There were several factors that prompted them to create this new online tutorial. First, they wanted a more interactive, visually-appealing replacement for an existing text-based tutorial used for the library component of UW's required freshman course. They also wanted to provide online instruction for distance students, who were not required to take the course with the library component. Finally, the existing text-based tutorial focused on library skills rather than information literacy concepts. Librarians and a few teaching faculty at UW were interested in incorporating the ACRL information literacy standards into the curriculum. TIP was an important step in doing this.
The current version of TIP went live in summer of 2005. It's an extensive revision of the 2001 version. The TIP team planned on revamping the tutorial every few years, and Jamie and David invited Mary Ann Harlow and me to join the team for the revision. Our goal in revising TIP was to update the overall look and feel, but we also saw some room for improvement. We wanted to make navigation more intuitive, add more interactive exercises, and do a better job of addressing some of the outcomes associated with the ACRL standards. We also saw a need for more sophisticated programming for the TIP quiz, which UW students are required to pass as part of an information literacy component. The original version didn't do much to discourage cheating.
Q. How long did this whole revision take-from the time you decided you needed a revision to the user-ready tutorial.
A. Our reference department started talking about revising TIP in mid-2003, but our TIP team didn't start meeting until November. We spent the next four months reading recent literature on teaching information literacy, looking at other tutorials, brainstorming, and planning how to move forward with the revision.
In March, 2004, we received permission from our administrative office to contract with a graphic designer. We hired Ryan in April and spent the next eight months working on TIP, though there were weeks at a time when we had to step away from it to focus on other priorities. We used the spring semester of 2005 to write the quiz, to test the tutorial with some students, and to rework parts of it. TIP was user-ready for the summer of 2005. A few classes took TIP over the summer, which gave us a chance to try out the new quiz database before a rush of students took it in the fall.
Q. It seems you set out to accomplish a lot with this revision! When I worked through TIP one of the first things I noticed was the hip and trendy feel of the graphics, examples and analogies you use. How did you achieve this "cool" feel?
A. Credit for the visual appeal of TIP goes to Ryan Taylor, the graphic designer we hired. He used blues and grays-muted colors. He purchased a set of stock photos and selected images to complement our content. His overall design is simple, which we liked.
We tried to keep text to a minimum in hopes that students would read the text that was there. I think our use of white space also gives TIP a contemporary feel.
As for as our examples and analogies, we wanted the content of TIP to be relevant to our students. So we pulled examples of assignments or questions from our interactions with students at the reference desk. And David Kruger is the "cool" member of the TIP team. He follows popular culture more than the rest of us and helps us keep our references to popular music or celebrities fresh.
Q. You say that TIP is part of a required course for freshmen, and is used in conjunction with distance students as well. How is it used in these two areas?
A. The University Studies Program, our general curriculum, was revised in 2003-after TIP was developed. The required freshman course was dropped in favor of "intellectual community" courses that introduce students to a discipline.
The university also added an information literacy requirement in 2003. Information literacy is embedded into other courses-usually at the freshman or sophomore level, and usually in intellectual community courses. Students in courses meeting the information literacy requirement must take the TIP tutorial and earn a passing score on the quiz. Having TIP in place helped build faculty buy-in for the information literacy requirement. TIP alone doesn't create information literate students, but it gives teaching faculty something to build on.
Distance students are no longer exempted from taking courses that meet the information literacy requirement. The Libraries also encourage distance students new to UW to work through TIP as an option. Since most of the information literacy courses are lower division courses, transfer students can petition to take TIP to meet the information literacy requirement before graduating. This option will go away as more upper division courses embed information literacy.
Q. Have you gotten any feedback from the students who have taken TIP or from faculty who use it in their classes? Have you done any formal assessment of TIP?
A. We ran some focus groups with students before the revision of TIP went live and the overall response was positive, but we made some changes as a result of student comments. Most of what we've heard from faculty and students has been favorable. We've had some distance students complain that parts of the tutorial aren't relevant to them: finding a call number in our library, for example.
The biggest complaint we've heard from students is that they don't get feedback on which questions they missed on the quiz. The old version of TIP gave them this information, but we found out some students were sharing the answers with their classmates. I understand their frustrations; they think they've mastered the content and want to know where they made mistakes. We're trying to build some kind of feedback into the quiz without giving them the answers.
A group of librarians wrote a successful grant proposal to assess TIP; UW offers these UW Assessment Grants annually to faculty. Awardees are selected by UW's Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning in partnership with assessment coordinators representing colleges or units under Academic Affairs and Student Affairs. A pre-test has been added to TIP for the current semester. We will be able to compare overall scores, plus see how students did before and after the tutorial on specific questions or topics related to information literacy.
Q. I really like the interactive exercises you've included in the tutorial. I think it's great to be able to practice a concept right after you've just learned about it. Was it technologically hard to add those interactive bits into the tutorial?
A. Most of the exercises use just html. If you click on one answer, you're linked to one response page; if you select another answer, you get a different response. This isn't difficult technologically-I coded most of them-but we had to map everything out to make sure links went to the right places.
We have a couple of exercises in the searching module that required more sophisticated programming because the student has to enter text into a form that is compared to a given set of answers. Our programmer did the work on these.
Q. How many people were part of the team that did this latest redesign?
A. The team was made up of four librarians with reference and instruction responsibilities. Our programmer was one of our systems staff. The last member of the team was the graphic designer we hired.
Q. How did you choose the graphic designer-was he a university employee?
A. The graphic designer who worked on the original TIP was unavailable for new TIP and recommended Ryan Taylor. Ryan was a former student who was just starting his business. We were impressed with him and his portfolio when we interviewed him.
Q. How was it working with someone from outside the library on this project?
A. I think it was helpful bringing in someone without librarian tunnel vision. Ryan is also young-a recent graduate at the time. His perspective was closer to that of our students.
Q. How did your team communicate and work together? How much interaction was face to face and how much was virtual?
A. The librarians on the team met regularly-usually weekly. We individually mapped out ideas on paper or electronically and met to share and revise them. Our offices were next to each other; we often had informal meetings to brainstorm or work out ideas. Two team members were on 9-month contracts and away for the summer, but they occasionally took time to review the progress online.
We invited the designer to our weekly meetings early in the project, but once we had the basic look and navigation for TIP, most of our contact with him was by email. Our systems department set permissions for him to upload and access content in a folder on one of the library's servers while he was under contract. Our programmer attended several of our early meetings, too. We wanted his input on the design and navigation. Most of his work on the project was toward the end, when we were developing the quiz. Our contact with him was a mix of face-to-face and email. He developed a database for recording and quickly retrieving TIP scores.
Q. What kind of technologies and programming were used for this tutorial?
A. Ryan used Adobe GoLive's html editor to create TIP, and he recommended that we use GoLive to edit or add pages. Ryan utilized cascading style sheets so we could make global changes to fonts or colors if needed. We used Photoshop to edit images. TIP also incorporates some Macromedia Flash files, some javascript, and some Cold Fusion programming. TIP is hosted on one of the library's servers.
Q. I've noticed a few other universities are currently using tip at their web sites. Do you know how many libraries have used TIP under the Open Publication License?
A. We know of five academic libraries who have adapted at least parts of TIP under the OPL. Other librarians from university, community college, and K-12 settings have requested permission to download TIP, but we don't know that they've actually followed through with adapting and using it.
Q. What were the biggest challenges you encountered doing this current revision of TIP?
A. Striking a balance between covering the ACRL standards and keeping the tutorial short enough to complete in less than an hour was a challenge. Even on a page to page basis, we had to overcome our tendency to write lengthy explanations. We know that users don't interact with web pages that way. They skim-look for important points. Our strategy of substituting relevant visuals and interactive exercises for text wasn't always easy.
Time and personnel were the other big challenges. We had anticipated getting the bulk of the revision done during the spring and summer of 2004-even with two team members on 9-month contracts and gone for the summer. That was too ambitious of a time frame! Then our team leader was deployed with the Army reserve for a year, starting in the summer of 2004. We weren't under pressure to get the revision up since we already had a tutorial in place, but we weren't able to develop all the content before our designer's contract ended.
Q. Did you have any pleasant surprises during this revision of TIP?
A. Hmmm. Interesting question.
We were pleasantly surprised by the graphic designer's approach to TIP. We had given Ryan a few parameters, but we basically told him we wanted to give the old TIP an updated look. The old TIP used cartoon-like characters and bright colors-lots of red and lime green. If someone had suggested that we use photographs and lots of gray in TIP, we probably would have ignored them. His design was so starkly different from what we expected, but we really liked it. And the design did drive the content to an extent.
Q. Is there anything you'd like to add about your tutorial that you think our readers would like to know?
A. We tried to create a tutorial that would meet our users' needs and technology limitations. We have distance students on slow connections, so we've kept file sizes for pages to a minimum. Focus groups for the first TIP told us they didn't like lengthy Flash animations or video clips that required passive watching, so we eliminated or shortened them for the revision. Computers in our reference area didn't have sound cards while we were working on the revision, so we don't use sound.
Even as "simple" as TIP is, it took a lot of time to create. TIP fits our university's need for a single tutorial and quiz to introduce information literacy concepts. This model works for us, and some other libraries have adapted TIP under our open publication license. For a library wanting to utilize online tutorials, creating mini-tutorials on specific information literacy concepts like avoiding plagiarism may be a better option. There are also great tutorials out there that can be modified for local use. I would look closely at these options before investing time and energy starting from scratch on a comprehensive tutorial.
That being said, I'm already looking forward to working on the next revision of TIP!
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Marylyn A. Bork, 56, of Watertown passed away unexpectedly on Wednesday Feb. 20, 2013 at the Watertown Regional Medical Center.
Marylyn was born on May 15, 1956 in Watertown, the daughter of George and Florence (Mueller) Schubert. She was a 1974 graduate of Watertown High School. She married Robert Bork on Oct. 27, 1979 at St. Henry's Catholic Church. Marylyn was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, where she had been a greeter and a member of the Altar Guild. She enjoyed photography, reading, attending her children's events and spending time with her family and friends.
Survivors include: husband Robert Bork of Watertown; three children Brian (Katie) Bork of Little Chute, Stacy Bork of Eau Claire and Kelly Bork of Watertown; granddaughter Madalyn; brother Tom (Cindy) Schubert of Watertown; sister Chris (Bruce) Parrish of Watertown; also survived by a number of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents and granddaughter Emma.
Memorials to the charity of one's choice would be appreciated.
Funeral service will be held 2:00 PM on Saturday Feb. 23, 2013 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church Watertown with the Rev. Michael Jensen presiding. Visitation will be held at the church on Saturday at 12:00 PM until the time of service. Burial will be in the Lutheran Cemetery of Watertown.
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Description Sambucus canadensis (American Elderberry) is native to a large area of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, and south through eastern Mexico and Central America to Panama. It grows in a variety of conditions including both wet and dry soils, primarily in sunny locations.
It is a deciduous suckering shrub growing to 3 m or more tall. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, pinnate with five to nine leaflets, the leaflets around 10 cm long and 5 cm broad. In summer, it bears large (20–30 cm diameter) corymbs of white flowers above the foliage, the individual flowers 5–6 mm diameter, with five petals.
The fruit is a dark purple to black berry 3–5 mm diameter, produced in drooping clusters in the fall. The berries and flowers are edible, but other parts of the plant are poisonous, containing toxic calcium oxalate crystals.
It is closely related to the European Sambucus nigra, and some authors treat it as conspecific, under the name Sambucus nigra subsp. canadensis.
Warning Plant parts and raw berries are toxic to humans and animals; especially dangerous for children. Whistles made from the stems have been implicated in poisonings. Sensitivity to a toxin varies with a persons age, weight, physical condition, and individual susceptibility. Children are most vulnerable because of their curiosity and small size. Toxicity can vary in a plant according to season, the plants different parts, and its stage of growth; and plants can absorb toxic substances, such as herbicides, pesticides, and pollutants from the water, air, and soil.
Habitat Watersides (fresh).
Range Florida, Texas, California, Rocky Mountains, Western Canada, Southeast, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Eastern Canada, Great Lakes, Northwest, Plains, Southwest.
Comments Elderberry is a fast grower and aggressive competitor with weeds and herbaceous species. Individual plants are very short-lived, however root masses produce new shoots. Cutting the whole bush to the groud every other year may be necessary to keep the bushes in check. This forest species will grow in full sun if the soil is well-tilled and watered. It can be planted as a hedge or alone. Provides effective erosion control on moist sites. S. simpsonii, occuring especially in FL, has twice-compound leaves and is considered a separate species.
Exposure Preference Shade to sun.
Flower April - May (in south); June - July (in north)
Native Distribution Nova Scotia to Florida, w. to s. Manitoba, e. Dakotas, e. Oklahoma & Texas
Site Preference Alluvial forests; bogs; ditches; drier, old fields
Soil Preference Tolerates a wide variety of wet to dry soils but prefers rich, moist, slightly acid soil. pH 6.1-7.5.
Wildlife Value Berries are relished by many bird species and mammals. Deer eat twigs and leaves.


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Dr Mo-Huang Li, CEO - CellSeivo, decided to take on the entrepreneurial challenge along with CTO Dr Wai Chye Cheong and Dr Mo Chao Huang when they realized the device had a lot of potential
A team of researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), A*STAR in Singapore, developed a micro-fabricated silicon microsieve device that allows blood cells to freely flow through it while restraining and capturing the targeted cancer cells on the microsieve surface. Captured cells are stained with fluorescence dyes, which automatically get identified under a microscope with a companion image processing program. The device is designed for rapid isolation and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from patients' whole blood samples.
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The life, thought and historical legacy of theologian Ibn Taymiyyah will be explored in a conference Friday through Sunday, April 8-10, in the Friend Center Convocation Room.
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Power Fade by Neil Mattson
My newest creation. Not sure where this one came from. I started with an ostinato, realized it was in 7, thought that was interesting because odd metered compositions don't come that easily…usually. From there it took off. I arrived at the opening harmonic movement by playing around with 2-note voicings of 4ths, 5ths, and 6ths, and added bass notes that complete the triadic structures. The next part of the tune I was attempting to compose a basic pentatonic line that slides in and out of B minor and Ab major pentatonic, with a bunch of chromatic neighbor and passing tones to spice things up. This is a technique that my teacher in Detroit, the brilliant Rob Pipho, was hipping me to in my last lessons over a year ago. I tried to rhythmically displace the pentatonic groupings so as to create a line that is less predictable and pattern-istic — I think it also makes for more interesting tension points along the way. Forgive the dance beat 🙂


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The program depicted a 45-year-old woman named Maude Findlay (Beatrice
Arthur) who discovers she is pregnant and opts for an abortion.
To comfort Maude, her grown daughter said "When
you were young, abortion was a dirty word. It's not anymore."
Two CBS affiliates canceled the episodes and 32 CBS affiliates were pressured
not to rerun the segments in the summer of 1973 by anti-abortion factions.
The second airing of the program gave the show a 41 percent share with 65
million people tuning in. The first time the show aired CBS received 7,000
letters; the second time around 17,000 letters of protest poured in.
This program appeared at a time when the Supreme Court had not yet protected
legalized abortion (The Roe vs. Wade decision was still one year away).
Reportedly, Pro-Life groups mailed Norman Lear photographs of aborted fetuses in
In 1960, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) approves the first oral contraceptives for
marketing in the United States, and "The Pill"
is commercially produced in the US for the first
In 1964, Patricia "Pat" Matthews (Susan Trustman)
from the fictional Midwestern town of Bay City
on the soap opera ANOTHER WORLD has an abortion
(at the time an "illegal operation") at the
insistence of Tom Baxter, her playboy boyfriend.
After the abortion, Pat learns that she may be
sterile because of the operation and she kills
him in a fit of rage upon discovering he never
intended to marry her. Charged with murder, she
is acquitted. Pat then marries her attorney and
has twins.
This soap opera was also one of the first to depict themes of homosexuality,
and teenage prostitution (TV Guide
4/4/92 p.13)
TVs first (then illegal) abortion operation aired in 1964 on the NBC serial
ANOTHER WORLD when Pat Matthew's boyfriend, Tom Baxter talked Pat into having an
abortion-and was later killed by her.
In 1973, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci) featured on
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Family: Tyrannidae, Tyrant Flycatchers view all from this family
Description ADULT Has gray-brown hood, nape, and back. Wings are mainly blackish, but with rufous fringes to primaries and dull whitish fringes to other flight feathers and wing coverts (latter creating wing bars). Throat, face, and breast are gray and underparts are otherwise pale yellow. Tail is mainly rufous and, as with Great Crested, color extends to tip. JUVENILE Similar, but most flight feathers and wing coverts are fringed rufous.
Dimensions Length: 9 1/2" (24 cm)
Habitat Locally common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to deserts. Winters in Mexico.
Observation Tips Easy to find within range.
Range Southwest, Florida, California, Texas
Voice Utters a liquid wrrt or wrrt-willado.
Discussion Similar to Great Crested, but slightly larger and paler on average. Bill is noticeably larger (particularly birds from Texas) and has only very limited amount of pale at base of lower mandible (cf. Great Crested). Sexes are similar.


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Hm, need to remember to use this more often...
Hm, need to remember to use this more often...
Another year gone by...
Let's keep this simple:
kernel stuff
That's a pretty good year...
- Ported the i2c/sensor code to 2.6 and got it in the tree.
- Took over the maintainership of I2C and PCI in the kernel.
- Solved the Linux device persistant naming problem with udev
- Got a zillion patches into the kernel tree.
Wow, it's been forever, but I'm stalling while I should be working on my linux.conf.au paper...
Zaitcev thanks for that USB patch. It was one of those things that I always knew was not quite right, but never bothered me enough to fix properly. Unfortunaly, there's probably lots of tiny pieces of the kernel that exist like that.
And thanks for keeping that broken patch out of Red Hat, I've had to defend not taking that patch too many times, even from people at work, with them pointing to SuSE as a reason to accept it...
Bah, back to the paper...
First two of us get called an axis, and then this picture from OLS 2002 gets out, finally people are realizing...Been playing with Movable Type so as to have a blog on my own site. Pretty fun, and much nicer than the hack of scripts I used to have that I used a long time ago to try to keep a log of what I was doing.
Finally got out lots of PCI core patches today. Problem was they touched all of the different archs code, so it took quite some time trying to fix up everything, luckily I didn't have to do the majority of the work :)65 patches in 48 hours, I think I need a rest this weekend away from the computer...
Ahh goingware is
looking at doing embedded work.
I started out doing embedded programming, and over the years realized that I was doing OS programming (right on the hardware, size restrictions, dealing with nasty, undocumented electronics, etc.) and started playing with Linux drivers as I saw somewhere I could help out. Flash forward to today, and I'm doing pure kernel work (but still dealing with the same constraints of embedded work.) In short, if you're comfortable writing kernel driver code, writing embedded code is a very short step.
Unfortunately, I second Zaitcev's statement about embedded programmers personalities and the general state of the environment in which they work. Typically you are working at a hardware based company, and have to live with design decisions made by people focused on the bottom line of product cost (remember, in production the firmware is free, and no one will recall the 6 months that it took you to get a beeper not to warble, even though they could have solved it with a 5 cent part in the design up front.) Because the company started out as a hardware environment, no one will understand the programmer's point of view, and you will be rarely brought into the hardware design process (or if you will, you will be ignored by them, as "they could produce the required code in this size EEPROM").
That being said, I loved it, but hey, I love writing Linux kernel drivers, what kind of a person likes doing that? :)
On a related note, I would like to publicly apologize to the Cygnus employee that I talked to at the 1997 Embedded Programmers Conference, and asked "what are you all doing here, I thought gcc was free?" I later realized what a jerk I sounded like, and I hope you are retired somewhere on an island due to the buyout by Red Hat :)
Bleah, I've not posted in forever, I'll try to do better next time...
Some things in the past:
OLS 2002 and the Kernel Summit
I went there all nervous about a proposal that Pat Mochel and I were making about driverfs and /sbin/hotplug. Basically we are wanting to move all of the existing device naming policy out into userspace. Well, our worse nightmare happened, everyone loved it and wants it right now :)
So now we're madly scrambling to get this done by 2.6. The main driverfs changes are now in the 2.5 tree and most of the core driver and now class changes are too. The PCI driver code is converted, and I've been posting patches to convert the USB core and driver code to the new model.
We might just make it yet...
PCI Hotplug
The PCI Hotplug code is very broken in 2.5, and need to fix that up. Unfortunately we changed the pci_ops structure, so have a ton of patches to fix all of that up to get in before I can go back to the hotplug stuff.
2.4 is looking good, and the ACPI PCI Hotplug driver is working remarkably well (as well as ACPI can work.)
Linux USB
Zillion of patches sent to Linus to clean up __FUNCTION__ stuff last night. A ton more to Marcelo for 2.4 to backport the usb-serial stuff that has been in 2.5 for a while. Now that this is done, other backporting can happen, depending on what other people really want.
For some reason Linux Journal trusts me enough to write a column. This should be fun...
Catching up on stuff...
PCI Hotplug
Things have been pretty quiet with the code lately. I've been playing with the ACPI version of the driver on a machine in the lab at work, and it is almost working properly... At least until the next ACPI update comes along and changes everything again :)
Made a new release of pcihpview this time making .rpm packages up to try to relieve all of the questions I had to answer about building the program from the tarball.
Linux USB
More tiny fixes all the time. I want to sync up with all of the USB changes in the -dj kernel, so will attempt to get that finished tonight.
Been having quite a run of articles published lately:
Hopefully they help people out.
- How the PCI Hot Plug Driver Filesystem Works is in the May 2002 issue of Linux Journal.
- Writing Portable Device Drivers is in the May/June 2002 issue of Embedded Linux Journal.
OLS looks to be a lot of fun this year. My talk is on the first day, so it will be nice to get it over and have fun going to the other talks. It looks like there are a lot of very good papers being presented.Misplaced anger
In working on syncing up the USB code in the -dj kernel into the latest 2.5 tree, I ran across this rant about the use of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() in the kernel tree. As the first person who used this macro, I don't have much sympathy.
Also pay attention to the last sentence of the second to last paragraph of that page, I think that says it all :)
Catching up on stuff...
PCI Hotplug
The IBM PCI Hotplug driver got submitted and got accepted into the 2.4 and 2.5 trees. Nice to see this code finally escape the lab and make it into the wild. Now if only someone would actually use the thing...
Gave lots of documentation to someone at Compaq about how the pcihpfs interface works, so hopefully they will produce some good docuementation about how to use it.
Linux USB
Am slowly plugging away at cleaning up the Linux USB kernel code in the 2.5 tree. Now urbs have proper reference counting, cleaning up loads of potential race problems. More importantly, it now keeps people from having long involved arguments about when it is ok to free up a urb from within a device driver.
I took advantage of this new interface to redo the visor driver, showing off how you can abuse the new model :) Reduced the size of the driver quite a bit and didn't seem to slow it down any.
My Linux Hotplug article finally got published in the April 2002 issue of Linux Journal. This time I remembered to include my email address, and the responses so far have been very nice.
I need to work on the dietHotplug code some more, and put out a new release of the main Linux Hotplug package, now that the debian developer has fixed a number of small issues in it. I also finally got the cvs archive cleaned up by moving the fxload program into a different directory. It only took about 3 weeks to get the sf.net admins to move the cvs files around (did I mention that I hate cvs?).
Nice to see that Linus and Marcelo are now using BitKeeper to do kernel development. I've been using it for over a year, and it's the only way I am able to say sane, juggling 3 different kernel trees.
I gave a short talk to people at work, and at OSDL about how to do kernel development with BitKeeper. I've put the slides up online if anyone is interested in some BitKeeper basics (the last two slides are kinda interesting to show how different people use it.
Actually, now it takes longer to make up changesets for Linus and Marcelo to pull into their repositories than it did to make up patches for them, but the advantage of being able to send them more than one chunk of patches per -pre kernel, and ability for the people who do the real work to get the proper credit, more than make up for any minor inconvience that I may have (this means no more "USB updates - Greg KH" change log entries when I only sent the patches on from other people.)
Thanks cmiller for the advodiary script. I used it to post this entry, very nicely done.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
Keep up with the latest Advogato features by reading the Advogato status blog.
If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!


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With it being a slow time of the year for the NBA I decided to look back on the New Orleans/Charlotte/OKC Hornets all time best players. It was tough, but I came up with three players at each position. Keep in mind that these picks are also from someone who did not start watching the Hornets until 1995. Thus these players are well for the most part the players I remember watching the most in my...


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3.2: Chemistry of Compounds
Look at all the colors you can make by mixing together just a few colors of paint. In the photo above, the rainbow of colors on the brush formed from just four paint colors: green, yellow, red, and blue. The same thing is true of matter in general. By combining just a few different elements, you can form many different chemical compounds.
What Are Compounds?
A compound is a unique substance that forms when two or more elements combine chemically. Compounds form as a result of chemical reactions. The elements in compounds are held together by chemical bonds. A chemical bond is a force of attraction between atoms or ions that share or transfer valence electrons. For a video introduction to compounds, go to this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HjMoTthEZ0.
Water is an example of a common chemical compound. As you can see in the Figure below, each water molecule consists of two atoms of hydrogen and one atom of oxygen. Water always has this 2:1 ratio of hydrogen to oxygen. Like water, all compounds consist of a fixed ratio of elements. It doesn't matter how much or how little of a compound there is. It always has the same composition.
All water molecules have two hydrogen atoms (gray) and one oxygen atom (blue).
Q: Sometimes the same elements combine in different ratios. How can this happen if a compound always consists of the same elements in the same ratio?
A: If the same elements combine in different ratios, they form different compounds.
Same Elements, Different Compounds
Look at the Figure below of water (H2O) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), and read about these two compounds. Both compounds consist of hydrogen and oxygen, but they have different ratios of the two elements. As a result, water and hydrogen peroxide are different compounds with different properties. If you've ever used hydrogen peroxide to disinfect a cut, then you know that it is very different from water!
Q: Read the Figure below about carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO). Both compounds consist of carbon and oxygen, but in different ratios. How can you tell that carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are different compounds?
A: You can tell that they are different compounds from their very different properties. Carbon dioxide is a harmless gas that living things add to the atmosphere during respiration. Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas that can quickly kill people if it becomes too concentrated in the air.
Types of Compounds
There are two basic types of compounds that differ in the nature of the bonds that hold their atoms or ions together. They are covalent and ionic compounds. Both types are described below. You can learn more about the properties of covalent and ionic compounds at this URL:
- Covalent compounds consist of atoms that are held together by covalent bonds. These bonds form between nonmetals that share valence electrons. Covalent compounds exist as individual molecules. Water is an example of a covalent compound.
- Ionic compounds consist of ions that are held together by ionic bonds. These bonds form when metals transfer electrons to nonmetals. Ionic compounds exist as a matrix of many ions, called a crystal. Sodium chloride (table salt) is an example of an ionic compound.
- A compound is a unique substance that forms when two or more elements combine chemically.
- A compound always consists of the same elements in the same ratio. If the same elements combine in different ratios, they form different compounds.
- Types of compounds include covalent and ionic compounds. They differ in the nature of the bonds that hold their atoms or ions together.
- compound: Unique substance that forms when two or more elements combine chemically.
Watch the video about compounds at the following URL, and then answer the questions below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRVW0tgSLRI
- What force holds together atoms in compounds?
- Name a gas that consists of two atoms of the same element bonded together. Do the molecules of this gas represent a compound? Why or why not?
- Identify at least one property of water that differs from the properties of the elements that form it.
- Which two elements make up the compound named butane? What is the ratio of these two elements in butane? How would you use chemical symbols to represent butane?
- What is a compound?
- A mixture is a combination of two or more substances in any proportions. An example of a mixture is lemonade, which contains water, lemon juice, and sugar. How do compounds differ from mixtures such as lemonade?
- Compare and contrast ionic and covalent.
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About us
The PHILIPPINE ASSOCIATION OF DIABETES EDUCATORS is a multi/interdisciplinary group composed of physicians, registered nurses, registered nutritionists-dietitians and allied health professionals. We are involved in the care of persons with diabetes as well as their significant others. Our advocacy is the team approach towards the prevention and control of diabetes in the Philippines.
The ASSOCIATION OF DIABETES NURSE EDUCATORS OF THE PHILIPPINES is an organization of registered nurses trained in diabetes education. Our vision is to be a respected group of globally competent diabetes nurse educators with the mission of moving people to action through continuous training, research, linkages, and collaboration. We aim to establish the diabetes nurse educator as an integral part of the diabetes team.
As one of the Asian countries with increasing prevalence of diabetes, both organizations work together to develop trained diabetes educators with a goal of helping people with diabetes and those at risk to cope up with different challenges brought about by the disease through education.
Course description
Title of course: Diabetes Education Training for Registered Nurses, Registered Nutritionists-Dietitians and Allied Health Care Professionals
The Diabetes Education Training (DET) Program is a comprehensive 14-day training. It covers basic and clinical knowledge on diabetes and its complications including screening, diagnosis, pharmacological and non-pharmacological management. Also included is one (1) day Diabetes Conversation Map (DCM) facilitator's training conducted by DCM Expert Trainer for Philippines and four (4) hours exposure to clinics and diabetes club visits.
The DET program prepares registered nurses, nutritionist-dietitians, and allied healthcare professionals for advanced diabetes educator's roles such as preparing them to be collaborative colleagues in diabetes healthcare delivery, planning, policy making, and directing of diabetes health education and care.
The program combines foundational concepts, such as basic science on Diabetes and diabetes education, integrative care, and research methods, with skills and role development courses designed for the specialization. The primary learning contents focus on three major themes which are consistent with the philosophy for the post graduate program: critical systematic inquiry, professional and personal development, and management of information and resources in a rapidly changing health care environment.
Course outline:
Module 1.1 Diabetes Education and the Diabetes Educator
Module 1.2 Learning Theories and Teaching Plan
Module 1.3 Communication
Module 1.4 Oral Presentation Skills
Module 1.5 The E.A.S.E. Approach
Module 1.6 Motivational Interviewing in Diabetes Education
Module 1.7 Introduction to Research in Diabetes Education
Module 2.1 Diabetes Mellitus: Epidemiology, Physiopathology, Classification, Presentation and Diagnosis
Module 2.2 Acute Diabetes Complications
Module 2.3 Chronic Diabetes Complications
Module 2.4 Blood Glucose Lowering Agents
Module 2.5 Insulin Therapy
Module 3.1 Assessment and Monitoring
Module 3.2 Diabetic Foot Assessment
Module 4.1.1 Medical Nutrition Therapy and Diabetes Management Nutritional Assessment
Module 4.1.2 Basic Food Groups: Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats
Module 4.1.3 Micronutrients & Dietary Supplements
Module 4.1.4 Meal Planning and Diabetes
Module 4.1.5 Special Activities and Diabetes
Module 4.2 Insulin-Carbohydrate Ratio
Module 4.3 Physical Activity
Module 5.1 Oral Health and Diabetes
Module 5.2 Smoking Cessation in Diabetes Care
Module 5.3 Stress Management, Mental Health and Diabetes
Module 5.4 Diabetes in the Lifespan
The diabetes educator-trainees must complete the five (5) training modules of the program. They need to pass the comprehensive written and oral examinations and have to accomplish the DET post training requirements within three (3) months after the end of the didactic training.
The participants will be awarded a certificate of completion of training and is recognized by the both associations as Trained Diabetes Educator or Diabetes Nurse Educator.
Eligibility criteria / Minimum qualifications:
1. Bachelor of Science Graduate
2. Registered Health Care Professional by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) of the Republic of the Philippines or its equivalent
3. With at least 3 months related work experience
4. Member of Accredited Professional Organization (APO) or its equivalent
· Philippine Nurses Association (PNA) for Nurses
· Nutritionist Dietitians Association of the Philippines (NDAP) for Nutritionist Dietitians
· Philippine Dental Association (PDA) for Dentists
Additional activities
PADE and ADNEP are both involve in caring and educating children with Type 1 diabetes through camp activities. Diabetes Self-Management Education for people with Type 2 Diabetes is another activity conducted in collaboration with other 2 component societies of Institute for Studies on Diabetes Foundation, Inc., through education.
Advancement of learning of members of PADE and ADNEP is important through various scientific meetings.
Contact us
Programme Managers :
Dr. Danilo F. Baldemor | Ms. Leyden V. Florido
Administrative Assistant
Ms. Merceditas Mangalino
ISDFI Building, 94 Apitong Street,
Marikina Heights, Marikina City 1810
(+632) 941.98.56


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IT is impossible to write an absolutely candid autobiography. Our relations with others, and the artistic proportions of events, forbid that completeness which, to be perfect, should include every circumstance of the life. For just as plants and organisms are built up and developed by microscopic cells, so are our characters and minds formed by all the circumstances which surround us, how minute soever each may be in itself. At the best then, no more can be given than those salient points of thought and action which furnish an intelligible outline but do not include fractional details—which page: vi show the completed fabric but not the whole process of construction.
Within these limits every autobiography which is clear and symmetrical so far as it goes, has its value. As no human being is absolutely unparalleled, but each embodies in his degree the moral and intellectual characteristics of certain orderly types already established, it necessarily follows that no personal history can be without the interest which comes from sympathy and likeness. The ways by which some have arrived at certain landing-stages must needs be those by which others have gone or are going; and the experience of one serves another as warning or guidance, according to the secret bent of his nature and his dread or desire to be led to the right or turned to the left.
For this reason, I, a pilgrim rapidly nearing the great Mecca of the grave, write here as faithful an autobiography as I may page: vii or can. It will not be useless to show where a man who has ardently desired to know the Truth, and who has been neither afraid of his own conclusions nor ashamed to confess his convictions, finds himself at last. The Isis at whose feet he stands will hold in her hand, or a torch to light forward or a flaming sword to stay, the advancing steps of those who read, as they may sympathize with the process or be repelled by the result.


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we'll know more after the combine. Still too much player movement to know for sure
Carradine is the premier DE in the field, IMO. I just think we can't miss him, wherever we take him.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. - S. Beckett
There's no question that Keenan Allen plays the WR position better than Patterson does right now, although Patterson is the superior playmaker. Patterson was the best playmaker in the SEC during his first season playing at that level. The reasons why should be fairly obvious even to those who only watch 5 minutes worth. He's a special talent.
However, he also has issues that spook me a little, both on and off the field.
I'm not sure I'd take any WR in the top 15 of this draft, but as I said a while back, it would certainly be Patterson if I were to go that route. If I'm going to take that risk, I'm going to take it on the kid that I believe is the most uniquely talented.... and that kid is without question Cordarrelle Patterson. There's no doubt in my mind whatsoever on that.
Miami let a rookie QB start last season. They could go with rookie WR's to build with Tannehil next season. I could see Miami taking Patterson/Allen in the 1st and Hopkins/Woods/Bailey in the 2nd.


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By Riley Manning/NEMS Daily Journal
While the national Boy Scouts of America's vote to allow openly gay Scouts may cause some disaffection, Northeast Mississippi's Scout executive says program leaders are prepared to move ahead.
Rick Chapman of the Yocona Area Council said the vote at this week's National Council was not as close as he anticipated. Some 61 percent of the 1,400 representatives voted in favor of the change; Chapman voted against it.
"I've started receiving e-mails from a number of volunteers who are disappointed, but are still committed to supporting the 4,000 Scouts in Northeast Mississippi," he said. "But I've also had a number of people say they are seriously weighing the decision to remain in Scouting or not."
The new measures will allow openly gay Scouts, but not gay leaders. However, while a Scout may be forthcoming about his sexual orientation, acting on it within the context of Scouting will not be tolerated.
"We're asking our leaders to continue to be good role models and show examples of the Scout Oath and Law in their actions," Chapman said. "The Boy Scouts have fantastic youth protection guidelines that I'm sure will be evolving after this decision. Parents should rest assured, the Boy Scouts is a safe place for their boys."
Such safety measures may not be enough for some involved in Scouting. Greg O'Quinn, Scout Master for Troop 85 in Tupelo, said he is already seeing the ramifications of the policy change.
"I have already heard from parents who are pulling their boys out," he said. "They are in disbelief. It's an issue of principle."
O'Quinn expects things to get worse. In addition to volunteer leaders leaving the program, O'Quinn said some churches would drop their charters. As for his own troop's sponsor, Harrisburg Baptist Church, O'Quinn said the committee in charge of the Scouts would meet to discuss the issue sometime next week.
Some are more optimistic. The Rev. Jim Curtis, pastor at First United Methodist Church in Tupelo, said before the Scouts' national meeting he expected minimal fallout from the decision.
"I really don't think it's going to be much of a disruption for our Scout troop here," he said. "We're committed to keeping our troop active, and I really don't think it's a big deal for our congregation members either."
First Methodist's Troop 12 is one of the largest and longest-running troops in the 12-county Yocona Area Council.


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Buchanan County National Register Listings
Buchanan County Courthouse and Jail, Courthouse Sq., St. Joseph (8/21/72; boundary decrease 8/02/78)
Buchanan County Infirmary, 3500 N. Village Dr., St. Joseph (1/29/09)
Buddy, Charles A. and Annie, House (St. Joseph MPS), 424 S. 9th St., St. Joseph (5/14/04)
Burnside-Sandusky Gothic House, 720 S. 10th St., St. Joseph (1/19/05)
Cathedral Hill Historic District (map [see note]), North 9th Street, Powell Street and North 13th Street, St. Joseph (6/15/00)
Central / North Commercial Historic District (map; [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), roughly bounded by N 4th, Main, Francis and Robidoux Sts., St. Joseph (3/08/91)
Central Police Station, 701 Messanie, St. Joseph (11/05/09)
Century Apartments (St. Joseph MPS), 627 N. 25th Street, St. Joseph (7/5/01)
Christian Sachau Saloon (Frederick Avenue MRA [see note*]), 1613-1615 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph (10/25/85)
City Hose Company #9 (Frederick Avenue MRA [see note*]), 2217 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph (10/25/85)
Corby-Forsee Building, 5th and Felix Sts., St. Joseph (3/27/80)
Dewey Avenue-West Rosine Historic District (map [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), roughly bound by Prospect Ave., Auguste St., Dewey Avenue and West Rosine St., St. Joseph (8/01/02)
Eckel, Edmond Jacques, House, 515 N 4th St., St. Joseph (1/31/80)
Everett School (St. Joseph MPS AD), 826 S 14th St., Saint Joseph (9/15/05)
Fenton, Enoch Madison, House, SE of Rushville (4/12/82; demolished)
Geiger, Dr. Jacob, House (Frederick Avenue MRA [see note*]), 2501 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph (3/12/86)
German-American Bank Building (First Federal Building, American National Bank Building), 624 Felix St., St. Joseph (11/24/78)
Hall School, 2509 Duncan St., St. Joseph (1/31/17)
Hall Street Historic District (map [see note]), roughly bounded by Isadore, Corby, 6th and 9th Sts., St. Joseph (7/17/79)
Harris Addition Historic District (map [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), roughly bounded by 16th St, Dalton St., 22nd St. and Edmond St., St. Joseph (1/13/03)
Herbert, Alois, Double House (St. Joseph MPS AD), 620 S. 10th St., St. Joseph (5/29/07)
James, Jesse, House, 12th St. and Mitchell Ave., St. Joseph (9/04/80)
Kelley and Browne Flats (St. Joseph MPS), 1208-1216 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph (8/03/89)
Kemper Addition Historic District (map [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), portions of Clay, Union, Kemper and Bon Ton Sts., St. Joseph (9/20/02)
King's Hill Archaeological Site, St. Joseph (4/16/69)
Krug Park Place Historic District (map [see note], St. Joseph MPS), roughly bounded by St. Joseph Ave., Myrtle St., Clark St., and Magnolia Ave., St. Joseph (8/01/02)
Lawler Motor Co. Building (St. Joseph MPS AD), 1224 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph (1/08/09)
Livestock Exchange Building, 601 Illinois Ave., St. Joseph (4/20/04)
Logan, John Sublett Jr. and Caroline Ashton, House (St. Joseph MPS AD), 1906 N. 22nd St., Saint Joseph (5/07/07)
"Maple Grove" (Joseph Davis House), 2100 N 11th St., St. Joseph (10/16/74)
Market Square Historic District (map [see note]), roughly bounded by Edmond, Felix, N 3rd Sts. and Market Pl., St. Joseph (2/17/72)
McIntyre-Burri House ( St. Joseph MPS ), 808 N. 24th St., Saint Joseph (12/23/05)
Miller, Issac, House, 3003 Ashland Ave., St. Joseph (9/17/80)
Miller-Porter-Lacy House, 2912 Frederick Blvd., St. Joseph (9/09/82)
Missouri Theater and Missouri Theater Building, 112-128 S 8th and 713-721 Edmond St., St. Joseph (10/11/79)
Missouri Valley Trust Company Historic District, Felix and 4th Sts., St. Joseph (3/04/75)
Mount Mora Cemetery, 824 Mount Mora Rd., St. Joseph (7/19/06)
Museum Hill Historic District (map [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), roughly bounded by 9th, Francis, 12th, Jules, 15th and Messanie Sts., St. Joseph (3/08/91)
Museum Hill Historic District (boundary increase; St. Joseph MPS AD), 321 and 323 N. 15th and 1510 Faraon St., St. Joseph (8/05/09)
Neely Elementary School, 1909 S. 12th St., St. Joseph (6/23/14)
Nelson-Pettis Farmsteads Historic District, 4401 Ajax Rd., 3412 Pettis Rd., St. Joseph (5/11/95)
Patee John, House, 12th and Penn Sts., St. Joseph (10/15/66; NHL 11/05/61)
Patee Town Historic District (map [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), roughly bounded by Penn St., S. 11th St., Lafayette St. and S. 15th St., St. Joseph (8/01/02)
Pleasant Ridge School, St. Joseph vicinity (5/02/85)
Pony Express Stables (Pike's Peak Stables), 914 Penn St., St. Joseph (4/03/70)
Richardson, John D., Dry Goods Co. (American Electric Co.), 300 N 3rd St., St. Joseph (4/12/82)
Robidoux Hill Historic District (map [see note]; St. Joseph MPS), roughly bounded by Franklin St., Robidoux St., Fourth St., Louis St., and Fifth St., St. Joseph (8/03/89)
Robidoux Row, 219-225 E Poulin St., St. Joseph (3/07/73)
Robidoux School (Junior College Archive Building), 201 S 10th St., St. Joseph (8/11/83)
Ryan Block (St. Joseph MPS AD), 1137-1141 Frederick Ave., St. Joseph (1/29/13)
St. Joseph City Hall (Frederick Avenue MRA [see note*]), Frederick at 11th St., St. Joseph (10/25/85)
St. Joseph Park and Parkway System (St. Joseph MPS), roughly, along Northwest, Northeast, Corby Grove, Southwest and A Pkwys. and Noyes Blvd. from Krug Park to Hyde Park, St. Joseph (1/20/95)
St. Joseph Public Library-Carnegie Branch, 316 Massachusetts St., St. Joseph (5/20/99)
St. Joseph Public Library (Free Public Library, Public Museum, Public Library, Board of Education Building), 10th and Felix Sts., St. Joseph (9/20/82)
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|I'm guessing your Uniform sink is Type II. In that case there would be a substantial difference in diameter. They also made that line in a Type IV and Type VI (though I'm not positive they did a Type VI in WF6) and there the difference would be considerably less. My WF9 Type VI has virtually no difference.
I received a reply from Scientific Anglers including this information:
"Please bear in mind that the difference in many tapers is only a few thousandths of an inch, so it can be difficult to discern with the eye."
They also offered to have me return the line so they could check it out if desired. I got a chance to take it outside and cast it, and it casts fine.
I took a look at the only other full-sinking lines I have; a Scientific Anglers "Uniform Sink" WF-6-S, which has very noticeable tapers and belly, and an Orvis 350 gr. "Depth Charge," which, like my new SA 5-wt, has no noticeable tapers or belly (but has a color change).
I guess I learned something about full-sinking lines.
Thanks for the input,
Nice to hear from you, as always.
What confuses me is that Scientific Anglers lists the taper specs for this particular line:
All-Purpose Sinking Taper
The original full sinking line (formerly Wet Cel Series)
More uniform sink rate, tip to belly
Especially effective for fishing streamers
Thin diameter casts well in wind
Taper Characteristics:
Superior casting over other sinking lines
Mid-length head for enhanced distance and control
Single-strand monofilament nylon (Type I multifilament nylon)
PVC integrated with powdered tungsten, glass beads
Tip: .5'
Front Taper: 5'
Belly: 29'
Rear Taper: 8'
Running Line: 58'
Head Length: 42'
Total Length: 100'
I sent an e-mail to SA regarding this line last night but didn't hear from them today. I didn't get a chance to try casting it this afternoon. If it casts OK, the whole issue is moot, but I'd still feel a little cheated knowing that they provided all these fancy taper specifications and sold me a level line.
Speaking of feeling cheated... now I find out that while I was chilly in February, you were in Chile in February.
See you on the Cape,
PS: I pretty sure I ate chili in February...
Bob, it appears to be a straight, non-taper sinking line, which is not bad. In fact, I was in Chile, early February, using a 5wt for trout with a level sinking line. It cast fine with a streamer.
As a sidebar, we use a lot of sinking shooting heads on the Cape that are level lines, eg LCD-13, T-14 etc. they work well. See you this Spring.
I do a bit of warmater panfishing in a local deep, clear lake. Many times, a sink tip just won't get my fly to where it needs to be. I know the sinking lines are heavy, but why would a 5-wt. line stress a 5-wt. rod; especially a stiff one (practically a 6-wt., really) like the one I have?
Anyway, it's a relief to hear that the line might not have a noticeable belly... I thought I received a manufacturing mistake!
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|The former wet cell Sci Anglers lines in sinking designs cut the wind very nicely. I have also never noticed ANY belly in these. They used to be called "level sink" lines and primarily were designed for lakes/still water. Not sure why you would want to stress a five weight with these, but that is your idea. They cast well, and go down at good rates with mending in moving water a plus, hope that is what you want in performance!
SA Professional Series full sinking line
I needed a heavy full-sinking line to add to my still water gear in 5-wt. I figured it won't get used a whole lot, so I chose one of Scientific Anglers mid-priced "Professional Series" lines (type VI).
I loaded it on a reel spool this evening. I attached the "THIS END TO REEL" end to my backing and started winding. I cranked and cranked (old,made-in-England Orvis Battenkill Mark III reel; not a large arbor), waiting to feel the belly of the line letting me know I was almost finished. I got to the tip end and never felt the belly.
I stripped off about fifteen feet of fly line from the reel and compared it to the tip. It looked the exact same diameter. I checked another ten feet back into the line. No difference. Thinking the little sticker labeling the reel end of the line might have been placed on the wrong end, and that I somehow wound the entire line on without feeling the belly go through my fingers, I emptied the spool. The line looks the same diameter through the whole 100' length.
I know sinking lines are a lot thinner than floaters, but shouldn't the line have a noticeable belly and front and rear tapers? I'll take it out in the snow tomorrow after work and cast it to see how it feels. (I just picked up one of the new TFO BVK Series in 5-wt and I really like it. I did some back-to-back casting comparisons with it and my old Orvis HLS and older Orvis Rocky Mt. five-weights and it was an EASY favorite.)
At the moment, I'm thinking I somehow got a hundred feet of sinking running line....
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Family: Ambystomidae, Mole Salamanders view all from this family
Description A relatively large, secretive amphibian endemic to California. Adults can grow to a length of about 7-8 inches. It has a stocky body and a broad rounded snout. Adults are black with yellow or cream spots; larvae are greenish-grey in color. The California tiger salamander has brown protruding eyes with black pupils.
Dimensions 6-8 1/2" (15.2-21.6 cm)
Endangered Status The California Tiger Salamander is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Santa Barbara County, California. This salamanders habitat, in ponds and pools in central California, has been reduced drastically by human activities, and there has been a corresponding decline in its population. The introduction of non-native predators in its environment, such as bullfrogs and several types of fish, have also taken a toll. Currently the California Tiger Salamander and its habitat are protected only within the confines of Jepson Prairie Natural Preserve.
Subspecies Previously considered to be a Tiger Salamander subspecies, the California tiger salamander was recently designated a separate species.
Breeding Breeding takes place after the first rains in late fall and early winter, when the wet season allows the salamanders to migrate to the nearest pond, a journey that may be as far as a mile and take several days. The eggs, which the female lays in small clusters or singly, hatch after some 10 to 14 days.
Habitat Depends on vernal pools for reproduction, so habitat is limited to the vicinity of large, fishless vernal pools or similar water bodies. It occurs at elevations up to 1000 m (3200 ft). Adults migrate at night from upland habitats to aquatic breeding sites during the first major rainfall events of fall and early winter and return to upland habitats after breeding
Range Six populations found in: (1) Sonoma County; (2) the Bay Area, (Stanislaus County, western Merced, and the majority of San Benito counties); (3) the Central Valley; (4) southern San Joaquin Valley (5) the Central Coast Range and 6) Santa Barbara County
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When I opened my first restaurant, I was young, enthusiastic and starry-eyed. I didn't know anything about financing the first of what would ultimately become many restaurants over 25-plus years.
I know a great deal more now.
Most new restaurant owners embark on their journey using savings and tapping the goodwill of their family and friends. This seems to be a sensible idea in the early stages where we all dream the dream and those closest to us want us to succeed. They buy into our vision and plunk down hard dollars to show us how much they love and support us. If everything turns out great, we pay them back with a nice return. If you believe in fairytales, this story comes true every time.
Realists know better. Restaurants are a crap shoot. I guarantee that 50 to 70 percent of the time something will go wrong or fall short of expectations.
Lesson 1: Taking money from friends and family is not always the best option.
Family Financing can make for some miserable Thanksgiving dinners, the loss of friendships or even major family breakdowns. It becomes worse when the novice restaurant owner, driven by dreams and emotion, thinks that the answer to subpar performance is to pour more into a sinking ship, asking loved ones for more money. Be objective and use your head. If you love your friends and family, look elsewhere for funds.
As restaurateurs, we all know that this is one of the most difficult businesses that anyone could enter. One of the reasons I loved it was because it was never boring. It required me to become an expert in every area from food quality to systems and controls, human resources, plumbing and electrical to marketing and public relations. The one major mystery was finding the best way to finance new and existing restaurants. I was a restaurant guy, not a finance expert and what I learned rarely made sense and I was often misled.
My bankers were lovely people who greeted me cheerfully when I came with my daily deposits and to pick up change. They made me feel as though they would be there for me as my "banking partner" and I felt all warm and fuzzy — until I needed a loan.
I had been with my bank for years and needed some extra working capital to renovate the kitchen and spruce up the front of the house. The wear and tear of years of being busy, generating the dollars that I deposited in their bank, now needed attention. Their words and body language told me that they would provide me with the loan I needed, but the reality was far different. I went through the motions and provided financials, tax returns, a business plan and an affidavit attesting to my personal net worth. My "banking partner" danced, stalled and requested documents from me to the point of exhaustion. After a couple of months of the money mambo, they informed me that the only way they could give me a loan was through the SBA guarantee process which also involved a full personal guarantee on my part as well as my restaurant partners.
Lesson 2: No matter how friendly your bank is, they have very tight limits on what they can or cannot do. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed.
Super Prime and Prime business owners (700+ FICO and above with no issues) can and do get loans, but not without tying up their business and personal assets and providing a personal guarantee. SBA loan programs can be very helpful, but their "guarantee" is limited and you are still on the hook for 100 percent of the loan. They are there to protect the bank — not you. You should be prepared for heavy documentation requirements and long waits for an answer. There are a couple of exceptions, but the amounts are limited and the standards are high.
As more equipment started to break in my kitchen and the dining room looked even more beaten up, I needed to get my hands on some working capital and fast. In 1993, I became one of the early customers of a company called TransMedia, which later became Rewards Network. This was a group of highly seasoned marketing professionals that provided restaurants with cash in return for future dining credits and discounts. In return, the company marketed to "member" customers who would dine at a discount to repay the obligation. The downside was that it was very expensive and hard to control.
The next generation of creative finance came from a company that provided a less expensive way for restaurants and other retailers to leverage their credit card revenues to get cash immediately and pay back over the next few months. This was far easier to manage with automatic payments tied to my sales volume. Today, more than $3 billion in working capital is provided to small businesses from numerous companies that use this model and a fixed payment approach.
As with any good idea, the small business and restaurant lending industry has exploded and there are now numerous players in the space and hundreds of brokers selling these products. Some are very professional and have your best interest in mind, but that is not always the case.
Lesson 3: Know who you are dealing with in business. It is a relatively new industry and not everyone you speak to is reputable.
Here's a list of things to discuss with your financing expert:
After 30 years owning multiple restaurants and even taking one of my chains public, I can say there are many ways to find the capital you need, but it takes time and tenacity.
Final lesson: Do your research and find the right financing option for you.
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Hell Yeah, some episodes are going to be released on DVD. Hopefully the release them all.
Hell Yeah, some episodes are going to be released on DVD. Hopefully the release them all.
"It can't rain all the time."
"Quote the Raven, Nevermore."
Yeah, but they are being released in "Best of" Collections. Instead of the way that they should be released, in Season Sets. Rumor has it, this is just to test the waters for future season sets, which is pretty lame. Since they can easily test the waters with Season 1.
MTFBWY and HH!!
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AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
You got a point, but i will take what i can get.
"It can't rain all the time."
"Quote the Raven, Nevermore."
Just thought I would throw this out there for you fans.
Married... with Children Reunion this February
Monday, January 13, 2003 4:42 CST
"The Simpsons" will get a surprise visit for their 300th show from old neighbors on the Fox schedule. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fox will air a one-hour "Married ... with Children" reunion special Feb. 16, the night "The Simpsons" marks its 300th episode milestone.
The first get-together of the cast of Fox's first hit series from Sony Picture Television will coincide with the Feb. 4 release of one of two "Married ... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes" DVDs by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment. Five episodes will be featured on each DVD, including the never-seen-on-TV original uncut version of the infamous "Lost Episode," which will be part of the first volume.
The entire cast of "Married ... with Children" gathered together in a replica of the Bundys' ramshackle living room for the taping of the reunion over the weekend. The special will air in its old Sunday 9 p.m. start time.
Back and more bearded than ever before
Oh my god, I didn't think there was anyone who actually liked Married With Children.
The only decent think about the show is the daughter!
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Jek Porky 2008
Married With Children is cool. Though I still prefer the original disfunctional family, "The Bunkers" from All in the Family better though.
MTFBWY and HH!!
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AGENTS OF ATLAS - Returns in Early 2009.
Some info on Christina Applegate would be nice!
"Giggety giggety!"
Jek Porky 2008
Married with Children was the greatest show. I loved it. Reunion sounds cool.
"It can't rain all the time."
"Quote the Raven, Nevermore."
I loved this show and am looking foward to the reunion and DVD.
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Oh my god, I've only just relised that Christina Applegate is Jesse and was also in The Sweetest Thing with Cameron Diaz, they don't even look like the same person.
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Harlem's Fashion Row (HFR) is a social company that provides a voice for multicultural designers through a creative platform that enables these designers to sell and present their collections to key leaders within the fashion industry.
Designers of color represent less than 1% of designers available in major department stores. In an industry that has grossed over 250 billion in 2013 alone the voice of designers of color are not being heard, celebrated, and acknowledged. HFR was created for the sole purpose of breaking that industry standard.
HFR is committed to a high-quality experience through every event with an innovative and inspiring display of fashion. It is a celebration of a fashion forward community that reflects the culture and personal experience of designers of color. It takes a village to raise an artist and HFR is that village.
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The one day conference is organized to assist communities in understanding and applying for the almost $14 million in funding available under the state's Shared Municipal Services Incentive (SMSI) grant program. These competitive grants are available to two or more municipalities to develop projects that will improve efficiency and result in savings through shared services, cooperative agreements, mergers, consolidations and dissolutions. Eligible municipalities include counties, towns, cities, villages, and special improvement districts, fire districts, school districts and BOCES. Grants of up to $200,000 per municipality, with a 10 percent cash match, are available.
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Circle Journal #1 Ladies! Welcome!
I have graciously taken over this task for Michelle who has found herself a little swamped with other projects. I am new to the world of CJs, so please excuse if I am a little raw.
I think what we will do is go in the order listed below. This is the order in the sign-up post. I just took the first spot to make up for Michelles place.
What we need to do is EACH come up with themes, colors, sizes and dpi that we would like to have to put in our own circle journal. You can put those requirements right in this post. Ask questions here too, so that they are all in one place and we can easily find them just be sure to put the word Question at the top of your post for questions for your requirements type Requirements at the top.
Participants are to e-mail their created LO to the "owner" of the CJ book AND post the layouts in the gallery. If the other people involved in the CJ would like a copy of a book that does not belong to them, they need to then e-mail the creator of the layout and request the file sent to them.
Lets try for a 7 day limit on each journal entry. That means after 45 days, we could have one circle journal complete if not sooner. (If you think I am off here, let me know or reply within this post. As I said, this is all new to me.)
Post here to let us know when you have received your 8 layouts. Please feel free to go ahead and start someone elses circle journal as long as they have their information posted, but stick to the order as much as you can. (Im not sure if this is how it is supposed to work, but it sounds good!)
Circle Journal #1
First Name: Theresa
Screenname: wxchic
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First Name: Juliet
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First Name: Angie
Screenname: angleigh
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First Name: Petra
Screenname: horwiek
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First Name: Marie
Screenname: Marie Goodwyn(Very boring I ought to do something about it!!)
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First Name: Katrina
Screenname: ScrappyKat
Email: colinkatrina at hotmail dot com
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First Name: Alison
Screenname: Alie471
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First Name: Valerie
Screenname: momentousangel
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First Name: Bonnie
Screenname: bonniekirk
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Due July 7
If you missed this circle journal, but would like to participate in a new one, please find the Circle Journal #2 post and list your name. When 10 names (max) are reached, we can start a second CJ.
This should be fun! Lets see how it goes!
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