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Team-XBMC and The XBMC Project is proud to announce the release of XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1. XBox Media Center (XBMC) is an award winning, free and open source media player for the Xbox game-console. XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1 point-release source code has now been set in our CVS, and all XBMC users are highly encouraged to upgrade to this version. Know that this point-release version marks the end of the 2.0 era of XBMC, there will be no more 2.0.x bug-fix point-releases. The next point-release of XBMC will be 2.1 (or maybe even 3.0), and it will probably be quite a while before that 2.1 (or 3.0) version sees the light of day with all new major features/functions we have planned for the future, (those who can not wait can always use the latest daily CVS of XBMC).
This XboxMediaCenter 2.0.1 point-release is a stable bug-fix version of the XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0 point-release, no major new features has been implemented, for a full list of fixed bugs and tweaks please read the changelog. (For a full list of all features/functions and codecs/formats supported by XBMC please visit the "XBMC Features and Supported Formats/Codecs" page in our online manual). Remember, Team-XBMC only maintain the XBMC source code, Team-XBMC does not release or distribute Xbox executable (XDK binaries), but the XBMC source code needs to be compiled with the XDK before it can be used on an Xbox, also note that XBMC requires a modded Xbox to run. Our thanks goes out to everyone who has tested, reported bugs, and helped fix them in order to make this release possible.
Help is always wanted to keep our online-manual and language translations files up-to-date.
XBMC official web-site: www.xboxmediacenter.com (manual and FAQ)
Note! The old XBMC xboxmediacenter.de domain has been abandoned!
Additional information to the news announcement:
For those of you who are new to XBMC, please understand and respect that Team-XBMC only maintain the XBMC source code, Team-XBMC does not release or distribute Xbox executable (XDK binaries). You can not run just source code on an Xbox, (again, you will require a XDK compiled version of XBMC to run on your Xbox, but do not ask us where to find nor where to download pre-compiled versions of XBMC!). Please read our FAQ and the XBMC Online-Manual (WIKI) carefully before posting/asking anything in our official XBMC community-forum.
Know that the XBMC CVS feature-freeze has officially now been lifted, for real this time, our developers will now begin to add new features/functions to the XBMC CVS again, possible making that code tree unstable. So if you want to use a stable version of XBMC, then stick with the 2.0.1 point-release, however note that we only accept bug-reports on the very latest (daily) CVS, (please see our manual on how to submit a proper bug-report). Using the stable 2.0.1 point-release instead of the latest (daily) CVS, you will also miss out on any new features/functions that are implemented into the CVS.
PS! New Proper bug-reports from end-users and new features/functions and bug-fix patches from independent programmers are always welcomed, as is confirmation and additional replication information (or samples) about known bugs.
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wow i think i should have waited like 1 more day before posting my noobish question about when it was gonna be released, i hope this wasnt released cos of me.
But as always Kikass!!!!!!!!!!! you guys have outdone ur selves!!
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well at least theres a better response to this at xbox scene
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your question was kinda bad timing, but it did not affect the release plan
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2006-11-14 00:37 Post: #6
Thanx for this new release, i don't know if this is the place to ask for help but i have a problem with the dvd player. It does not show the highlights on the dvd menu's, so you will not be able to see which button you choose. I had this also in a version from some weeks back, but when i changed too 2.0.0 everything was ok again.
Please help me out with this one...
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I note by labeling - when i walk in meditation and "normal" walking i get pains should i note them all as "pain ,pain, pain" or "pain in knee, pain in knee , pain in knee " and "pain in foot ,pain in knee , pain in knee " ??
I have one thought in favor of noting things in each way :
As i see it to think about where is the pain is like not being aware of the pain but start being "inside" of it
on the other hand the pain definitely "moves" from place to place so when noting where it is its easier to see its "impermanence"


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Cold hardiness is an important factor when selecting plum varieties (cultivars) for home gardens. Japanese plums are not reliably cold hardy in Iowa. However, several European and hybrid plum cultivars can be successfully grown in the state.
European plum cultivars that perform well in Iowa include 'Mount Royal,' 'Stanley' and 'Damson.' 'Mount Royal' produces small fruit with bluish black skin and greenish yellow flesh. 'Mount Royal' can be grown throughout Iowa. 'Stanley' (dark blue skin, greenish yellow flesh) and 'Damson' (blue skin, yellow flesh) are not reliably cold hardy in northern Iowa, but can be successfully grown in the southern two-thirds of the state.
Several hybrid plum cultivars (introduced by the University of Minnesota) possess excellent cold hardiness and can be successfully grown throughout the state. Hybrid plums include 'Alderman' (burgundy red skin, yellow flesh), 'Pipestone' (red skin, golden yellow flesh), 'Superior' (red skin, yellow flesh), and 'Underwood' (dull red skin, yellow flesh).
European plums are self-fruitful. A single tree will bear fruit. Hybrid plums are self-unfruitful. Two or more hybrid plum cultivars must be planted to ensure cross-pollination and fruit set. 'Toka' is an excellent pollinator for 'Alderman,' 'Superior,' 'Underwood' and other hybrid plums.
Pear varieties (cultivars) that perform well in Iowa include 'Summercrisp' (University of Minnesota introduction, large fruit, matures early August), 'Moonglow' (introduced by USDA, medium to large fruit, matures mid-August), 'Bartlett' (large fruit, matures late August, susceptible to fireblight), 'Luscious' (developed at South Dakota State University, medium-sized fruit, matures mid-September), 'Patten' (originated in Iowa, large fruit, matures mid-September) and 'Seckel' (sometimes called Sugar Pear, small fruit, matures mid-September).
'Moonglow' and 'Bartlett' are not reliably cold hardy in northern Iowa. They should be planted only in central and southern portions of the state. All of the other aforementioned pear cultivars can be successfully grown throughout Iowa.
'Northstar' and 'Meteor' are two of the best performing sour cherry varieties (cultivars) in Iowa. Both cultivars were introduced by the University of Minnesota and possess excellent cold hardiness. 'Northstar' is a dwarf tree that commonly grows 8 to 10 feet tall. Its fruit have a mahogany red skin, red flesh, and are 3/4 inch in diameter. 'Meteor' is a semi-dwarf tree. Trees may eventually reach a height of 10 to 14 feet. The fruit of 'Meteor' are slightly larger than 'Northstar' and have a bright red skin and yellow flesh. Another possibility is 'Mesabi,' a cross between a sweet and tart cherry. Its red-fleshed fruit are sweeter than 'Northstar' and 'Meteor.'
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Before being paired in this season's Champions League Knockout Round Arsenal and Real Madrid's paths have never crossed in a competitive fixture, despite having over 500 European appearances between them.
In fact the two teams had met only twice since the Spanish giants were formed in 1902.
Their first meeting was a friendly match at Highbury on September 13, 1962. The then Spanish champions running out comfortable 4-0 winners.
It was 37 years later that the two sides met again.
Long-serving right-back Lee Dixon was the reason that the sides were brought together, as Real Madrid were the opposition invited for his testimonial match in 1999.
Goals from Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp and Stefan Malz gave us a 3-0 lead until Christian Karembeu grabbed a second-half consolation for Madrid.
Lee Dixon Testimonial
Arsenal Stadium, Highbury. November 8, 1999
Scorers: Vieira 12, Bergkamp 41, Malz 71. Karembeu 73
Manninger (Lukic 71), Dixon, Grimandi, Upson, Winterburn (Vivas 45), Vieira (Hughes 45), Petit (Vernazza 62), Ljungberg (Overmars 45), Silvinho (Malz 45), Bergkamp (Kanu 45), Suker (Wright 70).
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Bizzarri, Salijado (Karembeu 34), Roberto Carlos (Dorado 68), McManaman (Eto'o 62), Morientes (Ognjendvic 85), Seedorf (Raul 45), Campo, Gupi, Helguera, Karanka, Julio Cesar.
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Artist's BiographyBarton Woomert is the Associate Principal Trumpet with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, a position he has held since 1982. He has worked under many famous conductors including Peter Oundjian, Sir Andrew Davis, Gunther Herbig, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Charles Dutoit. His position with the orchestra provides him with the opportunity to perform with some of the worlds greatest soloists such as Lang Lang, Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo- Ma, Emmanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman, and Wynton Marsalis.
An experienced educator, he has served as trumpet instructor at the University of Toronto for more than 25 years, and he maintains a busy private studio. In 2011-2012, he performed and taught as Musician-in-Residence at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He also is an active studio and chamber musician who performs as a member of True North Brass. For many summers, Barton has worked with young musicians as a faculty member of the Interprovincial Music Camp and the Lancaster County Music Camp of Elizabethtown College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and as a trumpet mentor for the National Academy Orchestra with Boris Brott. He enjoys collaborating musically with his son Steven, and currently they are undertaking an exciting project commissioning and recording new works for two trumpets.
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Creating image maps for charts
If you want to view your chart output in HTML, there are a number of ways to get it into your HTML file:
- export it to HTML
- Copy and paste the image into another application that exports HTML
- Use the Output Management System - OMS
However these images are static. If you want to add
a bit of interactivity, you can use OMS to create an image map. This will
allow the viewer to hover their mouse over the chart to have additional
information about the chart pop up (e.g. the Y-axis value).
To get this, you need to use the Output Management System (OMS).
Creating a new OMS request
Go to the menu item Utilities, and select OMS Control Panel.
Under Output Types, select either Charts or select any combination that includes Charts.
Under Command Identifiers, select everything (or select just the procedures you are interested in).
If you selected Tables under the Output Types box, the Table Subtypes for Selected Commands box will be enabled. If enabled, select the tables you are interested in (or select everything).
Specify that you want to save the output as a file under the Output Destinations group box by selecting the File radio button and either typing in a file name or browsing to a directory and typing in a file name.
Once you select the File radio button, the Options button is enabled. Click on the Options button and in the Format dropdown, scroll up and select HTML.
In the Graphics Images group box, select both Include images and Include imagemaps. Leave the Format as JPG and the Size at 100%. Select the Continue button.
Finally select the Add button. This will add this job to the OMS control panel.
Now select the OK button. This will pop-up a dialog box giving you a summary of what you requested. Select the OK button on this dialog box also.
Note that in the status window at the bottom right side of your IBM SPSS Statistics window you will see OMS indicating that OMS is active.
Now that OMS is active, create any output that you wish to be saved to HTML.
Ending OMS
When you are finished creating the output you want in your HTML file, you need to tell OMS to stop recording. Go back to the Utilities->OMS Control Panel dialog. Select the End All button, and select the OK button. This will again pop-up a summary dialog. Select OK on this dialog.
You will see Running OMSEND in the window where you formally saw OMS. When it is done converting the output to HTML this status will be cleared.
Now go to the directory you saved your HTML file in and open the file in your favorite browser. Hover your mouse over one of the data elements (bar, point, etc). A tooltip will popup showing you the X-axis label and value, the Y-axis label and value, and any legend labels and values.


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Hi! I am new here, and I have made several costumes (not related to sw), and I want to make a female Mandolorian.
I plan to have 2 blasters similar to Jango's, but not as shiny and new. I will also have a hooded cloak that attatches to the chestplates. I have knee high boots with armor plates on the knees and toes.(I'll show later) There are a lot of things I have that I want to add, but I want to get the basics done first.
Here is what I have come up with so far. Tell me what you think.
The colors are not what I plan on using, its just for contrast.
The gunbelt also rides lower than what is shown, but that is where it will be in relation to the codpiece.
I will have gauntlets, but that's further down the road for now.


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We've had bursts of Haiku as creative outlets, now and then, but the silence of this off-season is so deafening, I thought I'd prime the pump:
Slow-crawl off-season,
Numbed by post-Olympics blues.
Tick-tock faint but clear.
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We've had bursts of Haiku as creative outlets, now and then, but the silence of this off-season is so deafening, I thought I'd prime the pump:
Slow-crawl off-season,
Numbed by post-Olympics blues.
Tick-tock faint but clear.
Paul George in China/
Three sixty dunk through the legs/
An impressive feat
Pass the ball Dhantay!
Now he's gone.
Hib Hib Harooy!
Off- or Pre-season
The leaves of history keep
Bashing JOB.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Or throw in a first-round pick and flip it for a max-level point guard...
Will poetry woo
long-lost Pacer fans return?
I have my doubts...yo.
[~]) ... Cheers! Go Pacers!
Get Eric Gordon!
When will he come here?
Probably never.
Question from the past
Shooter, not missing, shoots next?
Do hot streaks exist?
Now that Peyton's gone,
Pacers are top in Indy.
Who is this Luck kid?
This space for rent.
Will never be forgotten
On Pacer Digest
Can't stand poetry
Furthermore Haiku icky
English class I flunked
Ever notice that
Haikus sound like Yoda speak
No Pacers talk here
Started school today
Post on discussion board there
No place to be snarky
Paul George is a stud
Roy Hibbert is a monster
They will kill LeBron
George Hill is Point Guard
The Wings are Paul and Danny
Roy and West Down Low
Giant Jumbotron
Not overcompensating
For Miami loss
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do you love blue robe?
mister ian mahinmi does
he will keep our lead
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a terrible thing to waste.
Haiku is garbage
Don't understand need for it
Why Japan, please why?
Structured poetry
Is bad for mental progress
Ok, please shoot me now
Augustin, Johnson,
Green, Mahinmi, and Plumlee
Welcome to Indy!
Bye Bye Larry Bird
Welcome back to Donnie Walsh
Some day Bird returns?
Doubters be aware
The Pacers are on the rise
They will top Boston
Summer continues
Always seems to feel too long
A month and change left


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Craft brewing contributing to Summit County coffers
May 17, 2012
What Napa Valley is to wine, Colorado is to craft brews – at least that's the word among beer aficionados and brewers. According to a study by the University of Colorado Boulder's Leeds School of Business released April 24, Colorado craft brewers contribute approximately $446 million to the state economy each year. "Craft brewers are on a double-digit growth trajectory," said John Carlson, Executive Director of the Colorado Brewers Guild, which commissioned the study. "Explosive growth continues to have a huge economic effect on the state, with no sign of slowing down." Among Colorado's 139 licensed craft brewers are Summit County's own Backcountry Brewery, Dillon Dam Brewery, Pug Ryan's Steakhouse & Microbrewery and the Breckenridge Brewery – with High Country demand for craft beer as strong as ever. "We have experienced growth this past year to our current maximum capacity of 2,400 barrels per year as we began distribution of our product throughout Summit County and along the Front Range," said Charles Eazor, owner of the Backcountry Brewery, which now has brews on tap at 28 other bars and restaurants. In fiscal terms, he announced "revenues each month that are solidly above the same period last year." The Backcountry Brewery signed a lease for additional space this month, making it possible to increase output to 6,000 barrels a year and begin bottling product. "The added capacity will also enable us to expand our Front Range presence," he said, calling the move "an interim step to our plans to establish and build a larger scale production brewery within the next two years. …Bottom line is that we have much more demand for our product than we can accommodate and we are committed to growing to serve that demand."In Dillon, Pug Ryan's is currently putting the final touches on a 2,700-foot expansion that began last September and includes new restaurant seating, renovated restrooms, a west-facing deck with sunset views and a two-story brew facility with five new brew tanks. "We worked through the Dillon Urban Renewal Authority to get land next to the existing brewery to make the expansion possible," said Pug Ryan's president Travis Holton. The new setup will allow for a 300% increase in brewing capacity and expanded distribution of the brewer's signature canned craft beers throughout the Front Range and Colorado. On May 4, the Dillon Dam Brewery took home two medals for the first time from the 2012 World Beer Cup in San Diego, Calif. While their Sweet George's Brown Ale earned a bronze, it was the Art of Science Schwarzbier – a last minute entry that Brewmaster Cory Forster prepared using a recipe by Art Ballah, the grand prize winner of the Dam's homebrew contest last November – that took the gold. "It's a phenomenal beer," brewery spokesperson Barbara Richard said. "It's got magic in it." "There's been a shift," said Dillon Dam co-president George Blincoe. "People are really interested in craft beer. When we first opened in 1997 through about 2007… everybody was trying to make the best pale ale. There's a lot of experimentation right now in craft beer. An explosion of new beer styles are being tasted and tried." Rather than expand distribution, the Dam Brewery is focused on having enough in stock to satisfy local demand. "We run out of our prime beers in the wintertime because we're selling more beer than we can produce," Blincoe said. Eazor attributes the increasing popularity of craft brews to the facts that they are, "brewed on a smaller scale" and "generally fermented longer, with greater attention to flavor, fullness and variety" than mass-produced brews. "Most craft beer is designed to be enjoyed for its flavor and consumed slowly," he said, "not to be pounded down one after the other as a session drinking experience." Because they are local or at the very least regional, craft beers are "brewed by independent business owners that are in tune with their customers on an almost personal basis," he added. "Each beer is a personal representation of the brewery and its brewer(s)." On June 23, Summit County brewers will serve up their craft beers at Marina Park in Dillon with other members of the Colorado Brewers Guild as part of the second annual Summit of Bluegrass and Blues.
There's something unappealing about drinking good wine directly from the bottle, but somehow canned microbrews, a recent and long-awaited phenomenon, are another story, especially if downed while basking on the baffle of a raft or settling into a backcountry hut at the end of a day's adventure. Once seen as a packaging method fit only for lowbrow brews, the canning trend continues to catch on among microbrewers, with reasons ranging from portability, quality and lower transportation costs to environmental stewardship.Cans protect beer from both light and oxygen, thereby preserving quality, explains the Lyons-based Oskar Blues Brewery, which started what they like to call the "Canned Beer Apocalypse" ten years ago when they put their Dale's Pale Ale in a can, becoming the first brewer in the U.S. to brew and can its own beer. Others like to refer to the movement as the "Canned Beer Revolution.""From a carbon footprint and carbon mile standpoint, cans are much lighter and easier to transport," said Travis Holton, president of Pug Ryan's brewery in Dillon. Pug Ryan's started canning its brews in 2004, a decision made in part based on conversations with Oskar Blues. "Cans are easier to recycle, much easier than glass," he added."I personally love canned craft beer," one-time local Shanan Sussman said, because they're "easy to carry and can be crushed to a compact size if, say, you're out on a trail." Still, "the experience is definitely different," admitted Jocelyn Newhouse, another former Breckenridge local. "I usually end up pouring the beer into a glass if the option is available – might have something to do with the correlation between cans and not-so-good beers." Indeed, the perception of canned beer as inferior lingers in some circles. A common misconception is that cans impart a metallic taste to beer. In fact, the water-based coating on modern cans prevents this from happening. The coating "eliminates any perceived aluminum taste from back when consumers drank their dad's PBR," Holton said. Outdoor enthusiasts were among the first to embrace canned microbrews. "In the summer on trips, I tend to reach for cans rather than bottles," said Summit County visitor, Cindy Mar. "They're easier to tote and the metal protects the beer from light, which helps keep its quality intact." Furthermore, "Cans are welcome where glass is not – at the beach, the river and the backcountry," Holton said; "cans go everywhere." More than anything, however, what Pug Ryan's president originally liked was the fact that "the overall presentation was unique, though now it's becoming a regular big deal throughout the industry," he noted. Pug Ryan's currently offers Morningwood Wheat and Pallavicini Pilsner in cans, with Over the Rail Pale Ale slated to hit shelves canned this June. According to CraftCans.com, 183 U.S. craft brewers in 44 states now offer microbrews in cans. In April, Fort Collins-based New Belgium Brewery unveiled their new Shift Pale Lager, a lightly hopped session beer available only in 16 ounce cans. The release coincides with a mobile app that can be used to locate New Belgium vendors, share photos and, best of all, to "set your clock-out alarm as a 'work is done' reminder" so that "the post-shift Shift drinking can begin." New Belgium is the third largest craft brewery in the U.S. Other brews in their canned line include Fat Tire, Sunshine and Ranger IPA. "If you went back six or seven years, there was some debate about whether craft beer drinkers would accept beer in cans," said New Belgium Brewery spokesperson Bryan Simpson. "We've passed that point. There's no looking back. More and more craft brewers are doing it and it's an accepted medium for what we do."


text: Seattle March 4 7:30 PM tv: tv20 Alright, time to get the next game qued up. Looks like we all enjoyed the last win and here is a good opportunity for another as the 16-43 Sonics roll into town hoping to impove on their 6-22 road record. Notable Sonic players are of course Kevin Durant who avgs almost 20 PPG with a little over 4 boards 2.3 assists. The rebonding fiend Nick Collison ( one of my fantasy league staples ) and Chris Wilcox. Not sure if Jeff Green is considered notable yet or not. But what does it really matter as long as the Pistons come to play. Heard on the radio this evening that Billups will be back for this one.


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In the Make: Online Toolbox, we focus on tools that fly under the radar of more conventional tool coverage: in-depth tool-making projects, strange or specialty tools unique to a trade or craft that can be useful elsewhere, tools and techniques you may not know about, but once you do, and incorporate them into your workflow, you'll wonder how you ever lived without them. And, in the spirit of the times, we pay close attention to tools that you can get on the cheap, make yourself, refurbish, etc.
When we were working on the Maker's Notebook, and I put out a call to staff, contributors, and other makers about what such a notebook should contain, the response was instantaneous and precise. You could tell that folks had done a lot of thinking on the subject and had formed strong opinions on their ideal notebook. When I put out a similar call last week for favorite shop bookshelf titles, I got a similar swift and enthusiastic response. Since folks reading Make: Online work in a lot of different media, your mileage might vary as to which books enjoy pride of place on your bench. Not surprisingly, the lion's share of recommendations we got were for electronics books, so I decided to divide the column into two parts. This week I cover electronics and microcontrollers, next week we'll cover tools, mechanics, and misc.
We'd love to hear what your favorite shop shelf books are. What are your go-to reference sources? We want to grow this list and keep it someplace here online for handy reference.
Electronics Reference
Getting Started in Electronics
Forrest M Mims III
More people probably learned electronics from this hand-drawn little masterpiece than any other source. I hardly ever mention this book to a wirehead who came of age (er… electronically speaking) in the 80s or 90s and not have him/her give an "I'm not worthy" wave in Forrest Mims' general direction. I'm such a visually-oriented person that, when someone says, for instance, "double-pole, double-throw switch," I visualize the switch page in this book. I'd tried learning electronics from various Tab Books in the early 80s, but it was this one that finally keyed the lock for me.
Engineer's Mini Notebook Vol. I: Timer, Op Amp, and Optoelectronic Circuits & Projects
Engineer's Mini Notebook Vol. II: Science and Communication Circuits & Projects
Engineer's Mini Notebook Vol. III: Electronic Sensor Circuits & Projects
Engineer's Mini Notebook Vol. IV: Electronic Formulas, Symbols & Circuits
Forrest M Mims III
I have two of these volumes on my bench, III and IV, and I love them. Volume III has all sorts of low-tech tilt-switches, pressure gauges, heat and light sensors, etc. Really clever, useful design ideas and circuits. IV has electronics formula, mathematical constants, common codes and symbols, etc. All sorts of useful reference info.
The Art of Electronics
Paul Horowitz
This showed up on a bunch of people's lists. After the Mims books, this one usually comes up in discussions as the go-to book for learning electronics. As the Scientific American review put it: "Full of clever circuits and sharp insights, but with a surprising minimum of mathematics… The depth is genuine, as is the richness of examples, data and apt tricks."
Electronic Troubleshooting
Dan Tomal & Neal Widmer
This isn't necessarily the best book on the subject, but it's the one I have on my bench. I also have and use the Radio Shack Using Your Meter by Alvis J. Evans, which is equally clunky and not for novices. I'd love to hear recommendations for other electronics troubleshooting guides, especially for beginner-to-intermediate users.
Circuit Designer's Companion
Tim Williams
Tom McCarty, of Dorkbot DC, recommended this one, saying it was really helpful in: "moving from circuits that generally work on the workbench to designs that reliably work in the field (and in high quantities)"
Practical Electronics for Inventors
Paul Scherz
Another book that comes up a lot among artists and other non-engineer types looking to use electronics in their work is Practical Electronics for Inventors. My Dorkbot DC co-overlord Alberto Gataacute;in recommended this title for the list.
CMOS Cookbook
Don Lancaster
Before there was MAKE, before there was a maker movement, before there was a huge worldwide community of hardware hackers, before easy and cheap on-demand publishing, before there was a lot of things we take for granted around here, there was Don Lancaster. It was through his work, and Mims', that I got into hardware hacking. Don was using a double-sided printer and printing and binding his own books on electronics and cottage businesses back in the late 80s, early 90s. He was a huge inspiration to me. And this book is his bible. It hasn't been updated since 1997, so it's showing its age, but there's still a lot of useful information in it about this class of ICs, ICs folks are still working with, like the 74* families. Elliot Williams, of Dorkbot DC, says: "It's super-easy to get to the pin-out diagrams you need quickly, and in the other half of the book are well-designed examples."
Handmade Electronic Music
Nicolas Collins
Douglas Repetto, founder of Dorkbot, recommended this one. Collin wrote a little review of it here on Make: Online last year: "Handmade Electronic Music takes a loose and playful approach to the subject of electronic sound. This book bypasses many complexities of electronic theory in favor of inexpensive experimentation and discovery akin to circuit bending with a high-art leaning. Great for getting your feet wet, though it will leave the newcomer with many unanswered questions."
Physical Computing
Tom Igoe and Dan O'Sullivan
While I love our contributions to the physical computing/Arduino/OSH genre (see below), this book remains the go-to source for laying the groundwork on what physical computing is and why it matters. This books lays that foundation perfectly so that you can then move deeper into Ardunio and creating your own embedded systems via Getting Started with Arduino and Making Things Talk. Douglas Repetto, founder of Dorkbot (among others), recommended it.
Getting Started with Arduino
Massimo Banzi
I adore this little book and am so proud that it's got our name on it. Like Arduino itself, which was originally developed for artists and other non-techie types, this book's simplicity, clarity, and modest reach is right up my alley. Besides the Arduino 101-type instructional, this book serves as something of a manifesto to the open source/maker movement, with great ideas and pearls of wisdom like "opportunistic prototyping" (think: cut and paste of existing electronics devices). And any technology book that reproduces a page from the 80s punk rock zine Sniffin' Glue goes top shelf in my shop!
Making Things Talk
Tom Igoe
This is a technology book with a net-connected monkey plushy on the cover! What's not to love? This is a truly gorgeous book, from the design and the many clever and arty projects detailed in it, to the extraordinarily clear way that professor of physical computing and MAKE contributor Tom Igoe discusses all of the various technologies involved in getting objects onto networks so they can talk to each other. Besides the basics on all of the hardware, software, and protocols involved, there are also a whopping 26 projects included. And you'll be happy to know the monkey plushie appears throughout.
[Thanks to Douglas Repetto, Marc de Vinck, Lorin Parker, Alberto Gataacute;in, Tom McCarty, Elliot Williams, Nate B, and all of the other folks at HacDC, Dorkbot, Dorkbot DC, and Maker Media who contributed book suggestions]
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Legislative Updates
On August 9, 2013, President Obama signed into law The Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act of 2013, which puts into effect a new interest rate calculation for federal loans disbursed on or after July 1, 2013 and going forward.
The new interest rates are based on the final auction of the 10-year Treasury Note rate prior to June 1st of a given year plus a statutory defined "add-on" percentage. The add-on percentage differs depending on the type of loan and the student's grade level. Each loan also has an interest rate ceiling or cap. The interest rate for a loan (established upon disbursement) will apply for the life of that loan, thus becoming a fixed interest rate loan.
The interest rate for loans made on or after July 1, 2013 through June 30, 2014 are based on the 10-year Treasury note rate of 1.810, as follows:
- 3.86% for Stafford loans to undergraduate students, based on the 10-year Treasury note rate plus 2.05%; interest ceiling of 8.25%.
- 5.41% for Stafford loans to graduate students, based on the 10-year Treasury note rate plus 3.6%; interest ceiling of 9.5%.
- 6.41% for Parent PLUS and Graduate PLUS loans, based on the 10-year Treasury note plus 4.6%; interest ceiling of 10.5%.
As a result of this new interest rate calculation structure, it is likely that many borrowers will have a set of fixed-rate loans, each with a different interest rate, including the 3.4%, 6.8%, and/or 7.9% interest rates for federal student loans issued prior to July 1, 2013.
The Financial Aid Office is here to assist you with creating repayment strategies that best suits your needs in light of these recent changes.
On August 2, 2011, President Obama signed into law the Budget Control Act of 2011, which included provisions that affect the Federal Direct Student Loan program. The following changes will be effective on July 1, 2012:
- Graduate and Professional Students: The in-College interest subsidy will be eliminated on Federal Direct Stafford Loans for Graduate and Professional students. This will affect loans borrowed for the next academic year but will not affect Federal Direct funds borrowed previously. The annual maximum amount (of what was previously subsidized and unsubsidized) does not change, but interest will now accrue on the entire loan disbursement. Previously, the $8500 borrowed in Federal Direct Subsidized Stafford Loan had interest paid by the government while in-College and during the 6 month grace period. It is this subsidy that has been eliminated. As is currently the policy, students have the option of paying this interest while in College or defer until repayment.
- All students: Reduction or rebate of loan fees will no longer be available for Federal Direct Stafford and Federal Direct Graduate PLUS loans. Currently, the federal government is subsidizing a portion of the fees charged on these loans. Beginning with next academic year, the fee on the Federal Direct Stafford Loan will be 2% and the Federal Direct PLUS loan will be 4%. This is an increase in fees from the current .5% and 2.5% respectively charged this current year.
The Financial Aid Office will continue to offer debt management programs as well as individual debt counseling to assist you with these changes


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Your excellent Steyr will certainly kill a deer or an elk. Most people lean toward heavier bullets for elk, so you might investigate the 180gr loads. The SSG '04, IIRC, weighs upwards of ten pounds empty. This is heavier than I'd personally like for an active style of hunting, but will work fine for hunting from a stand.
I'm ambivalent about carrying a "backup" handgun. When I have a rifle in my hands - a vastly more effective weapon than any pistol - I really see little need for a pistol. Some guys do like it for a coup de grace that damages less meat than a second rifle shot, but I think a lot of guys just feel cool and swanky carrying a pistol. It's 2-3 pounds of extra weight that might be better spent carrying something more useful out in the wild - especially if you're already carrying a heavy rifle. Your Smith .357 would work fine as a sidearm, if you do wish to carry one.
I've never hunted Utah, and so can't comment on the expense. You might take a look at the Utah Fish and Game web site to get an idea of cost for non-resident hunting permits and the like.


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"Boiled linseed oil" is no longer boiled, it has metal salts (japan drier) added to it to act as drying agents and get it to oxidize in a few days...most of these are TOXIC.raw linseed is non toxic but takes a long time to oxidize/dry.
Blasticate? Not in my dictionary.
You people building bee boxes or kitchen cabinets for the wife??
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Sony α E-mount 30mm F3.5 Macro, the fourth lens for NEX camerasWednesday July 20 2011
Sony adds a new lens for their proprietary NEX interchangeable lens format, a macro lens capable of 1:1 (life-size magnification ratio) that is being marketed by Sony as "currently the world's lightest life-size macro lens (138g) for interchangeable-lens cameras".
Branded as a high-quality lens capable of a working distance of 2.4 cm thanks to its internal focusing system, the SEL30M35 (as it is also called) employs one ED (extra-low dispersion) glass and three aspherical lens elements.
With this announcement Sony expands the α E-mount family to include a macro lens.
So far the lenses available on this format are:
- The Sony 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 Zoom Lens
- The Sony 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Zoom Lens and
- The Sony 16mm f/2.8 Wide-Angle Lens
Stay tuned for an upcoming review of the Sony α E-mount 30mm F3.5 Macro lens.
In the mean time click here to see its technical specifications.
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Best lenses for the Nikon D5200By Kevin Carter - Thursday October 24 2013 Lens Recommendations
Following the recommendations for Nikon D7100, we've had the opportunity to assess another of the firm's 24-Mpix DX format cameras – the mid-range D5200 - with over 120 Nikkor and third-party prime and zoom models to assess image quality. Read onto find out which of these lenses perform best when paired with the camera.
Introduced only late last year (and already superseded by the recently announced D5300), the 24-Mpix D5200 has a number of improvements over its mid-range predecessor, the 16-MPix D5100 model from 2011. Highlights include an improved 39-point AF module and 2016-pixel color-aware metering system, both previously found on the earlier 16-MPix D7000, plus an articulated 3-inch LCD and a new 1080/60/50i movie option.
The headline feature of course was the new 24-Mpix CMOS sensor, a more or less inevitable addition following the introduction of the entry-level D3200 in 2012 using a sensor with a similar pixel count. What was a surprise was that sensor wasn't from the same vendor (see our review here).
In our tests, the sensor achieved the number one position for APS-C cameras with a DxOMark sensor score of 84 points. Later in the year, Nikon announced the D7100 featuring a 24-MPix CMOS sensor without anti-aliasing filter. It achieved an almost identical score.
Bearing in mind its target audience, however, the sensor in D5200 retains the usual optical low pass (anti-aliasing) filter, which is used to reduce the effects of moiré – color aliasing and other unsightly artifacts. The inclusion of the filter is particularly important with video capture, where software removal is impractical, but the downside is that it also lowers high frequency (fine) detail and image sharpness.
The most intriguing aspect of our lens evaluations with the D5200, of course, are the effects on image quality and sharpness of the 24-MPix CMOS sensor with the low pass filter in place, especially with regard to filter-less D7100.
Our labs have analyzed the optical quality of nearly 130 models from both Nikon and third-party makers. Models range from the extreme ultra-wide DX format Sigma 8-16mm (12-24mm equivalent) f4.5-5.6 DC HSM through to the popular full-frame Sigma 50-150mm f/2.8 EX DC APO OS HSM and beyond to the, stabilized Nikon AF-S Nikkor 600mm f4G ED VR behemoth.
Other new models assessed include the new full-frame Nikon AF-S Nikkor 80-400mm f4.5-5.6G ED VR as well as the recently revamped Sigma 120-300mm f2.8 DG OS HSM S telephoto zoom and highly portable Nikon AF-S Nikkor 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5G ED. Please note we've not yet tested the new high-speed Sigma 18-35mm f/1.8 in Nikon mount, as it was produced in Canon mount only at first, but it should be available soon and it will be added to our database in due course.
Nikon D5200 results: Increased Sharpness levels from 24-Mpix sensor
Best prime lenses
Best Wide Angle Lens (Prime & Zoom)
Best Standard Lens
Best Portrait Lens
Best Zoom models
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Added by mcvmjr | October 25 , 2013
anti-aliasing filter
The removal of anti-aliasing filter increase the sharpness in ~18% from D5200 to D7100. I am wondering about the increase of sharpness in D800E compared to D800. Why Dxo did not tested D800E yet?
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Added by Emilie_DxOMark | November 12 , 2013
Re: anti-aliasing filter
Thanks for your message.
The D800E is not forgotten :)
But we have to assess other mounts we did not perform and the latest cameras first. So It should not be online before December, maybe early 2014…
Best regards,
The DxOMark team


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Jus Ske DJ Jus Ske Returns to 1 OAK
1 OAK welcomes back good friend and Jay-Z touring deejay Jus Ske for a special guest spot on its Saturday night slot. DJ Que is also on point lighting up the joint and together they make 1 OAK the most sought after dance club destination in Las Vegas. Come see what all the fuss is about Friday night at The Mirage.DJs: Jus Ske DJ Que
10 pm – 10 pm
$40.00 - Men
$30.00 - Women
1 OAK Las Vegas Nightclub at The Mirage embodies chic, world-class service and the ultimate in after-dark innovation as we introduce the Las Vegas nightlife scene to the excitement and sophistication of a New York City style night out. Expect the unexpected at 1 OAK Nightclub – impromptu performances from the hottest up-and-coming talents in music, unannounced appearances from A-list celebrities, and surprises that create a truly One Of A Kind experience every night. Importing the NYC experience to Las Vegas nightlife are The Butter Group, New York's prominent leader in lifestyle and hospitality, and The Light Group, the originators of Vegas nightlife as we know it. The Las Vegas nightclub's 16,000 sq. ft. space includes two rooms of music, state-of-the-art audiovisual by Avalon Sound and original artwork by world-renowned Roy Nachum. 1 OAK Nightclub is the Las Vegas nightlife favorite of musical and celebrity guests alike, welcoming the likes of Fergie, Jessica Alba, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Adam Levine, Kid Cudi, Pitbull and Wiz Khalifa. 1 OAK Las Vegas Nightclub is open Tuesdays and Thursday through Saturday nights every week.
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The back/front cover of Clamjuice #2 - a sweet collaboration between Dexter Cockburn & Carrie Q. Contrary! I say 'back/front' cover because, when finished, the comic will be in a '69' fashion a la Zap Comix #3! Plus, a limited number of copies will have PINK PAGES! Sexy, huh? Clamjuice #2 should be released on Valentine's Day, 2012 & available at http://thecomixcompany.ecrater.com


text: Man Amir must have one of the greatest followings out of any bench player in the league ever, seriously. HE SUCKS. Let's just start a lineup of Bynum, RANDOM DUDE OFF STREET, Sharpe, Max, and Amir then we as fans can finally realize that Max and Amir suck and Sharpe can not guard Lebron. Otherwise we will forever attribute this series loss to not playing Sharpe and Amir riding the pine. Who do you think gets the most love? I'm guessing random dude off the street. Okay there, sorry I had to get it out. No more Amir talk from me now. This is painful to watch. Just painful. Our frontcourt is horrible. Tay included, he was limping, gimpy and ineffective. Sheed was useless. Dyess is old. Kwame is probably our only serviceable big man......and he has a website dedicated to how bad he sucks, not good. Our guards are the only players who have been playing anywhere near decent in this series. I can not wait for the offseason and I hope that JoeD fires Curry ASAP. Curry should be in the Lions organization, seriously he is an idiot. Most of the Lions organization has no clue about football, so Curry would fit right in. Let's do it Joe.


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In an end-of-the-year letter to his troops, General Petraeus told them military factors had significantly improved which allows a new focus on nation building. He urged the troops to work on helping Iraqis obtain jobs, revitalize markets, build schools and provide needed services. At present the inhabitants of Baghdad are only obtaining enough electricity 11 hours out of the day which is not sufficient for develop a vibrant economy. Petraeus also believes the United States must urge political reform on the Iraqi government. However, the commander also recognized there are many military problems such as growing militancy in north Iraq as insurgents have left the city of Baghdad to fight elsewhere.
For some unusual reason, Petraeus did not focus on the deteriorating situation in south Iraq where Basra has now virtually become a city controlled by competing militia groups. There is something ironic in this letter. Years ago President Bush and his administration was urged by Middle Eastern experts to focus on political reform and exploring alternative solutions to the wide differences between Sunni and Shiites in Iraq, but these ideas were brushed aside in the euphoria of overthrowing Saddam Hussein. General Petraeus means well, but it doesn't make sense to ask American troops to deal with political issues, such action depends upon an Iraqi Shiite government which intends to pursue policies that block Sunnis and to maintain control. Frankly, after four years, the reality is that Iraq is still a divided nation which would probably benefit more from a federal structure in which Sunnis govern Sunnis, Shiites govern themselves, and Kurds continue their independent process of governing.
At no place in his letter does General Petraeus deal with the growing loss of power faced by Iraqi women living in a fundamentalist Muslim nation that is the outgrowth of the destruction of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship. Hundreds of thousands of Christians have fled and will probably never return. Secular Iraqis have been crushed by a government which allows fundamentalists to govern and impose their will upon the population. How can American troops deal with such conditions?


text: they may be better statistically in rebounds but they aren't better players. orlando shoots a very high percentage so there are also less rebounds to get. other teams have a lot more shots per game to rebound also. if we had kept darko and teated him right he would have signed for less to stay with the team. darko did an interview in orlando and already said it's not always about the money. so for a little bit over what we are paying nazr we could have had darko at 21 years old. he's 21 and he's got like 60 games of nba experience. he's going to get better this is just scratching the surface.


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The Canisius College baseball team opened the 2013 season with a doubleheader sweep of the University at Albany in two neutral-site games at the USA Baseball Complex in Cary, N.C. on Friday. The Golden Griffins won 8-2 and 12-4 to open the season with two wins in the first two games for the fourth time in the last six seasons.
Canisius 8, Albany 2
Canisius took advantage of eight walks and used seven stolen bases to go along with seven strong innings from junior Garrett Cortright to open 2013 with a win. Canisius got on the board with a two-out rally in the bottom of the third, as junior Ronnie Bernick turned the lineup over with a single. After a walk to sophomore Mike Krische, junior Ryan Coppinger and sophomore Connor Panas had two-out RBI singles to get the Griffs on the board.
The Griffs added a run in the fourth as freshman Brett Siddall led off with a double and eventually scored on an RBI groundout from junior Jesse Kelso. The Griffs pushed another run across when Krische led off the fifth with a walk, stole second, stole third and scored on a throwing error by the Albany catcher. An RBI groundout from Krische in the sixth scored Kelso, junior Jose Torralba had an RBI double in the seventh and senior Brooklyn Foster had an RBI single in the eighth as Canisius scored in each of the last six innings in the game.
Cortright (1-0) didn't allow a runner past first base until the sixth inning, striking out the first four batters of the game. The junior went seven innings on the day, yielding three hits, allowing two runs, one earned, walking one and striking out eight. The leadoff batter reached base only in the sixth inning on the only Canisius error in the game. Sophomore Eric Stolzenburg and senior Jason Rubenstein each threw a scoreless inning of relief for the Griffs.
Canisius 12, Albany 4
In the nightcap, the Griffs jumped out to a big lead as they scored nine runs in the first four innings and sophomore Rohn Pierce took advantage by retiring the first 13 batters he faced as Canisius cruised to the victory in game two.
Krische led off the game with a single and scored on a double from Kelso. After he stole third, Kelso scored on a wild pitch later in the inning. The Griffs added two more runs in the third as Panas led off with a walk and junior Jimmy Luppens reached on an error. After a sacrifice from senior Chris Gruarin, Panas scored on an RBI groundout from Torralba and Luppens would score on a wild pitch to put the Griffs up 4-0.
Cansius broke the game open in the fourth by scoring five runs, all with two outs. Krische started the inning by being hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on an RBI single from Kelso, who advanced to second on the throw home. Panas followed with an RBI single and Luppens was hit by a pitch to set the table for Gruarin. The senior put Canisius up 9-0 with a three-run homer.
Pierce retired the first 13 batters of the game, allowing only three balls to reach the outfield. Albany scored once in the fifth and scored two runs in the sixth off the sophomore. The Newfane, N.Y. native allowed five hits, three runs (two earned), and walked one while striking out six to pick up the win. Redshirt freshman Iannick Remillard and junior Mike Tolsma each made their Canisius debut. Remillard allowed one run in two innings while Tolsma pitched a scoreless ninth inning.
Canisius is scheduled to return to the field on Sunday, against Monmouth. Game time is set for 1 p.m. Check GoGriffs.com and Twitter.com/GoGriffs for the latest schedule updates.
Notes: Gruarin had three hits in his opening game of the season after posting four hits in the season opener last season... Canisius now holds a 7-6 lead in the all-time series with Albany... The seven steals for Canisius in game one are more than the Griffs had in any game during the 2012 season and the most for the Griffs since they had seven against Rider on April 25... Canisius worked 12 walks and had four HBP while the Griffs' pitchers allowed only three walks... The Griffs had 13 strikeouts in the opener but came back with only five strikeouts in the nightcap.


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I'm reading Mark Buchanan's excellent book on Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Theory of Networks, and came across the concepts of egalitarian and autocratic patterns in social networks. Before you jump to conclusions, let me say a few things about this book. To me it seems to focus on the mathematical origins of the theory of social networks, but takes a pleasant approach going through the history and background of how these ideas emerged. It also spans a wide range of disciplines in terms of where these patterns appear, from biology to watershed and geological studies.
First, it talks about Watts and Strogatz's truly innovative look that has eventually spread across the world as the meme: six degrees of separation. There's a lot more to it than the Kevin Bacon game, but I'd like to point out the particular elements here on egalitarian and autocratic networks. This is actually has little to do with policital systems like socialism versus monarchic or oligarchic communities. Instead if you look at it as a mathematical problem, what it describes is that there are often two varieties of patterns of connections in a system that emerge often.
The first is a basic heuristic that can be commonly seen in some biological systems like the brain: as a node (in a network system), you try to establish a fixed amount or ratio of connections to other nodes. The connections are not a random pattern, but neither is it based on a high degree of "purpose" or "intention". This proposes a very egalitarian and essentially a very simple rule to help build more complex systems as the overall network grows and evolves.
The other is the autocratic pattern, where the heuristic is to start with one node and grow from there. Essentially the key node itself starts growing in size or strength, while its immediate connections grows with it, and scaling down until you reach the end or leaf nodes which have only one connection to someone else. This easiest example is in terms of well known sites or articles on the Net that get linked from many sites, and in a very simplified description, the basis of the algorithm that Google's engine uses.
If you look at one example of each of these networks from a high level, the egalitarian network seems to be completely chaotic with no easily discernable pattern you can tell visually. On the other hand, the autocratic network looks strangely like one of those classic fractal diagrams. Yet, both serve different purposes and have different uses. You might almost say that they are the yin and yang that exist pervasively throughout the world. Okay, maybe that's too metaphysical for a Friday :)
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Taking Web 2.0 to work
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Our technical briefings team is hosting a special event in September; actually two of them in the US, one in Raleigh, North Carolina, and another in Austin Texas. It's a free event, and the idea is to get a lot of thought going on around the topic of putting Web 2.0 into action in the workplace, in a more general way, beyond just startups and special projects.
Here's the info on the event:
Join us for a special event to learn how you can start bringing Web 2.0 into your organization, or as we say, 'Take Web 2.0 to Work.' During this day-long technology event from IBM, you'll see demos of the hottest technologies and participate in interactive breakout sessions - a large part of the content will be driven by you and the other attendees as we go along! The day will be full of live demos and true attendee participation!
You can register for this no cost conference today at: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/techbriefings/details/web20.html
Raleigh, NC (September 12, 2007)
Austin, TX (September 18, 2007)
During the day, you'll not only hear from IBM Execs like Rod Smith, IBM Software Group, VP of Emerging Technologies and David Barnes, Program Director, Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM Software Strategy based out of Austin, TX, but also rub shoulders with other developers in your community, IBM's key system architects, developers and researchers from our R&D labs and some of the lead developers that created Lotus Connections. There will be plenty of time to dive deep into several different topic areas in breakout sessions including:
Collaboration (Social Networking applied to the Enterprise)
Application Creation (join in the creation of mashups and wikis)
Information Technology (see new ways to unlock information using emerging technologies like "Many Eyes")
The day will be heavy with demos and conversation, not slideware. Please join us on our conference Wiki to give suggestions on what subjects you would like to see and hear about, prior to the event at: http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/web20work/
The day-long conference will close with a discussion focused on not only where we've been and where we're going, but also on what you can do to start bringing Web 2.0 into your organization.
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Does customer loyalty marketing translate to communities?
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I picked up Market-based Management by Dr. Roger Best (see my reading list), a textbook of the "traditional" approach to customer-centric marketing. I'm looking into the ideas on how companies look at customer focus, satisfaction, loyalty, and retention. The processes are probably very different but online communities of all forms also face some of these same issues and the existing ideas and metrics may give insight into similar metrics from the community view.
There are some very different views here though:
Still there are many parallel concepts that can be borrowed. A few of the many examples:
Beyond just the basic measurement of each community, there are the issues of measuring the effectiveness of your community program itself. The parallel is measuring the effectiveness of the marketing program or strategy separately of the end-results driven. This means understanding market share, awareness, availability, etc.
The reality is that even with the decades of having online communities we really have not reached a significant level of sophistication in measuring online communities. Perhaps things needed to happen to emphasize that such as the rise of social software and Web 2.0, the acknowledgment of the long-tail phenomenon, the improvement of web metrics collection tools, and the effects of influencers online.
I see this as something entirely different than the success of the online ad marketing, which everyone can see is a multi-billion dollar opportunity. With online ads, some of the traditional ideas and methods still work, and even some of the traditional metrics may apply. However, a community, where the value comes from the knowledge economy, is likely quite different than a currency-based economy.
With growing interest in online communities as basis of support for real-world products and offerings, business & technology development, market reach and awareness, I think this is a large field waiting to be explored.
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A call with Chris Anderson and blogging
I keep running into Chris Anderson's activities lately. First, I'm listening to his dW podcast interview on our site this week, and next we had an internal meeting for book authors that Chris came to talk to us about. The main discussion in the call was more about how to approach book writing and some ideas that he found successful for his own bestseller, The Long Tail (see my book list). Some of it rang so true but is still missed by so many authors.
For one, he talked about blogging from the very beginning on the book as he did on his research, and carrying the conversation on regularly and for a long time. Chris started blogging from the beginning. It helped in shape his ideas, but also helped quite a bit when it came time to launch the book; he gave away a thousand copies of the book to all the bloggers who interacted with him on his blog. This, I think, really helped to spread the popularity of his book.
Blogging is certainly popular but to many book authors it is still a new phenomenon, even in the tech industry. With that in mind, many authors think that they should start blogging when their book is nearer completion that from the beginning. I think there are two parts to this: a) in general, for a blog to become even barely known takes a long-time of ongoing and active effort; b) blogging about your book helps to build awareness. In other words, if you already have (a) going for you, then (b) should be easier. However, back to my point on blogging still being new with many authors points to the fact that many of them don't even have (a) going for them.
To give my example, I am working on a book and many of the ideas that I have talked about are spread all around this blog of mine. However, I don't think I ever stated that intention. For me, the ideas are more significant--and even more than that discussion of the ideas--than the point that its for a book. But perhaps I should state that intention right away and define the premise more openly. I'll save it for a different post so as not to distract from Chris' point here.
Another interesting point and one that is dear to his heart apparently--he just launched a new startup BookTour.com on it--is about authors engaging others in live events, book tours, presentations, speaking engagements, etc. I think it's a great idea and fits my philosophy: most people need help on learning how to generate a community around an idea or even themselves. What live or virtual appearances and activities do is help to build that community and reinforce the significance of the work. By Chris' own admission speaking engagements can have a better ROI than book sales, even if they go hand in hand; and I don't disagree with that in terms of getting paid for day-long appearnaces versus spending months on a book. This means that as an author you need to spend the time and effort to actively promote your book and not just rely on the publisher's marketing team. The argument I always hear on this is that most people have full time jobs and do not have the time to do so. This is where I think an idea like BookTour can come in really helpful.
Let's take an online parallel: we at developerWorks are about to launch a new aspect called Expert spaces amongst other features. This allows a person to create a community around their own activities using different social software tools not unlike what groups of folks are doing with our community topic spaces now. Like our spaces now, you can start a blog of your own to talk about your project, link in resources your find useful. If you want to go a step beyond, you could even write parts of your book in a wiki online and ellicit comments about the contents you share.
For our own team, this means that we will now need to help these experts get going on communicating in this new way. BookTour focuses on the specific activity of bookwriting; we have a much wider focus on building awareness about any technical expert. We do that now to some degree, but there is a lot more that we could learn.
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Back to swordfighting regularly again
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With the school semester back in session, I now have three battodo (swordfighting) classes a week, two of which I have to teach. They basically span all levels now. There's the regular class that my sensei--who has recently been promoted to shihan (master) after 25 or more years practicing and teaching hundreds of students (possibly over a thousand) in a number of different martial arts--on Saturday's at our headquarter dojo that I attend primarily for practice. It's students of all skill levels but all adult. On Friday's I have the class at the Univ of Arizona for college students. Finally, there's a middle-school/high-school level class to teach, full of students from 12 to 17 years of age and of many ranks.
The college class is really more a club and it just started again this Friday, with the addition of three new students. We're lucky in that the university has a very good recreational/sports center with plenty of rooms (with beautiful polished wood floors). We currently use the racketball courts since they are the easiest to reserve ahead of time, but my sempais (senior students) are looking to getting one of the larger rooms which also have the padded mats to work on.
The mats are great but I was surprised just how much they cost (up to $500 for a 5' x 10' section). They're also kinda heavy and not easy to move around, so it's best to have them available in one room permanently. We can use the mats for doing rolls, and kneeling work.
The high-school class has yet to start but I have been the assistant teacher for several years, and each semester we get about ten to twenty students. Some of the students have been with us for years. In fact, two of my college students spent 4 years or more learning at the high-school level and eventually became black belts before they even started college. There is another batch which are nearly approaching that level as well.
What I've seen over the years is that most people either really like the sport, or they give it a shot for a few weeks and then quit. The ones that practice for a long time but leave are usually adults with busy lives. The high-school class certainly helps capture their interest at a young age, which is when they are most able to grow mentally and physically into the sport. We've had many an aimless and largely distracted individual that finds their focus through the practice.
We're also going to return to cutting targets on a bi-weekly basis on the weekends outside of the class which is the real fun part. It takes some time of practice to get to that level but it's something that is in the reach of most people. The cutting practice however, takes several hours of time even for a small group of a dozen people, especially when most of them don't have their own swords and have to share the class one. After years of use and without sharpening my primary katana is getting pretty dull. I need to work on it, or send it for sharpening (which is almost as costly as buying a new starter cutting sword).
For me, three times a week will certainly help me get back in shape, although I have to make sure I practice as well as teach. It's not easy to do a hard and fast sport, while talking and teaching simultaneously. Even when you build up stamina and breathing pace, to get real practice you have to push beyond your own limits.
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The first flights to take off in a week may have left London's Heathrow Airport yesterday and many of Europe's airports may once again be open, but there are still thousands of people stranded around the world, unable to fly due to ash from Iceland's recent volcanic explosion.
If you're not one of the lucky fliers who happened to be flying Emirates Air (the airline went above and beyond and is paying for hotel stays and three meals a day for some 6,000 passengers stuck in Dubai!), chances are you're ready for this ordeal to be O-V-E-R. Now, the question us who gets dibs on some of the first flights out? For details on who goes to the front of the check-in line, check out CNN's excellent Q&A today:
How are airlines prioritizing ticket allocation?
Other than a few special cases, most airlines are prioritizing those with pre-existing tickets for scheduled flights. In some cases, empty seats on these are being filled by customers with urgent travel needs. Hong Kong carrier Cathay Pacific says it is giving priority to unaccompanied minors and students heading back to the UK to sit exams. Singapore Airlines is fast tracking those with "special needs," the elderly and those with infants or young children. Rochelle Turner, head of vacation research for consumer watchdog Which?, says any prioritizing is at the discretion of individual flight operators. "The elderly, the sick, frequent flyers—it's entirely up to the airline who goes first."
Do I need to do anything if I have a ticket on a scheduled flight?
All airlines are advising customers to double check whether flights are going ahead before heading to airports. British Airways is even urging customers with tickets on scheduled departures to consider delaying their travel plans to free up space on planes to allow delayed passengers to travel. In most cases, passengers who hold tickets for a flight due to take off as scheduled should be fine. Says Turner, it is still advisable to call the airline to confirm or check-in online.
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Appendix N SAME-SEX DOMESTIC PARTNER POLICY
Wittenberg University is committed to diversification of the student body, and the faculty and staff as well as serving the needs of those diverse groups. In accordance with this commitment, to the extent allowable under State and Federal law, Wittenberg will provide the benefits and privileges extended to the spouse of legally married employees and the children of employee's legal spouse to the same sex domestic partner of an employee and to the eligible children of that same-sex domestic partner.
Benefits would include, but not be limited to the following: health and dental insurance, continuation coverage, Tuition Waiver/Scholarship, and leave benefits. Domestic partners and children of domestic partners are included in the definiation of family for purposes of other policies that apply to family, such as access to the athletic facilities, use of the Thomas Library, etc. Premium rates and benefit provisions will be consistent for all covered families. As privileges and benefits would change for legally married employees, they would similarly change for eligible same-sex domestic partners. Where benefits are governed by a formal plan document or a master policy, the exact terms of that plan or policy will govern.
Unless the employee's domestic partner or child(ren) of the domestic partner qualifies as a dependent of the employee under Section 152 of the Internal Revenue Code, the value of the benefits for the domestic partner and the domestic partner's child(ren) will be considered part of the employee's taxable income. (i.e., the value of such benefits will be imputed to the employee and listed on the employee's Form W-2 as taxable income. Imputed income is the term the I.R.S. applies to the value of any benefit or service that should be considered income for the purposes of calculating an employee's federal taxes.). This means the Imputed income will be added to the employee's pay for tax purposes, and the additional taxes that the employee owes will be withheld from the employee's regular pay.
Furthermore, domestic partners and their eligible children may not participate in the University's Section 125 Plan for Pre-tax premium contributions (i.e., the employee may not contribute to the cost of coverage for domestic partners and eligible children on a pre-tax basis) or the Section 129 Plan for Health Care Reimbursement (i.e., the employee cannot seek reimbursement from the flexible spending accounts for any health care costs associated with domestic partners and their eligible children) unless they qualify as the employee's dependent according to the Internal Revenue Service.
It is the sole responsibility of the employee to determine if the domestic partner and children of the domestic partner qualify as legal tax dependent(s) under IRS Section 152. If the employee determines that the employee's domestic partner or child(ren) of the domestic partner qualify as a dependent(s) under IRS Section 152, the employee must submit a Certification of Tax-Qualified Dependents form to the Human Resources Department. The tax consequences of a domestic partnership are the responsibility of the employee, not the university.
Domestic Partners are defined as two individuals of the same sex who, together, each meet all of the following criteria:
- Are eighteen (18) years of age or older
- Are competent to enter into a contract
- Are not legally married to, or legally separated from, nor the domestic partner of, any other person
- Are not related by blood closer than permitted under marriage laws of the State of Ohio
- Are living together and intend to do so indefinitely, and
- Are in a relationship that is an exclusive mutual commitment meaning, the domestic partner and the employee:
a. are financially interdependent;
b. are jointly responsible for 'basic living expenses' including
each other's debts;and
c. are jointly responsible for each others' common welfare
and mutual fidelity
- Have been living together as a couple for at least twelve (12) months prior to enrolling for Domestic Partner Benefits
- Intend to continue the domestic partner relationship indefinitely, while understanding the relationship is terminable at the will of either partner
In order to receive University benefits for a same-sex domestic partner and the domestic partner's children, the employee must complete the enrollment forms, including an Affidavit that attests to their eligibility. In order to demonstrate proof of financial interdependence, the employee is required to submit documentation evidencing at least (3) three categories of financial interdependence, one of which must be proof of common ownership of real property (joint deed or mortgage agreement) or of common leasehold interest in residential property. Other documentation that satisfies this requirement includes proof of common ownership of a motor vehicle, proof of joint bank accounts or credit accounts, proof of the employee's designation of the same-sex domestic partner as the employee's primary beneficiary designation under the employee's life insurance or retirement benefits, proof of the employee's designation of the same-sex domestic partner as the employee's beneficiary designation under the employee's will, proof of the employee's assignment of a durable power of attorney for property and financial affairs or a durable power of attorney for health care to the employee's same-sex domestic partner.
Wittenberg or its applicable benefit providers shall have the sole and exclusive authority to make a final and binding determination as to whether any applicant qualifies as a domestic partner under this policy.
If the relationship with the domestic partner ends, the employee must provide notice by filing a Termination of Domestic Partnership form with the Human Resource Department attesting to the termination of the partnership. The notice of termination document must be filed with the Human Resources Department within fifteen (15) days of the end of the domestic partner relationship. New supporting documents must be completed if another qualifying domestic partner relationship occurs in the future.
Children of Domestic Partners Eligibility
Wittenberg employees may also enroll the child(ren) of an eligible domestic partner if the following criteria are met:
- Children of the domestic partner are unmarried, reside regularly with the employee and the domestic partner, and are under the legal custody and care of the domestic partner; OR
- The domestic partner is required to provide coverage for the children by a court order.


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I'm looking to repaint my armor to match my MR ESB LE Helmet in style Reference image here..
I spay painted the armor the first time around and then hand painted it for detail. It looks like I will have to hand paint the entire armor to match the painting scheme of the MR ESB LE helmet.
Does anyone have a good technique I could follow to copy the MR ESB LE helmet scheme? If there is already a thread about this I apologize and would greatly a link to it.
Thanks so much!