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Please critique my personal statement, if you feel inclined...
December 18, 2011, 03:41:56 PM »
As I consider my law school options, I find myself drawn to an environment where the pursuit of academic excellence can thrive, while simultaneously offering the opportunity to gain skills, help others in the community while earning class credit and gain experience in the legal field. I am African American and have taken notice of study results displaying a disparately low percentage of minority students enrolled in legal studies. Ethnic group membership provides me with a different perspective on both society as a whole and the academic climate of post-secondary education. Completing a Bachelor of Arts degree at 43, places me in the category of nontraditional student. To contribute to my knowledge I also finished a minor in political science. Additionally, my final semester of undergraduate coursework focused on a second minor in law, politics, and society.
I received an honorable discharge from the United States Army and I am a Disabled Veteran, injured in the line of duty. I proudly served my country and unfortunately discovered, as the motto of the Veterans Administration states, the price of freedom is not free. When citizens enlist in the military, the possibility is very real that the individuals may have to give their lives, or may return to civilian society without their limbs intact. I do not mention my disabilities to elicit feelings of sympathy from anyone. Mine is not a sad story; it is a story of triumphant perseverance. In 1990, I lost full use of my left hand and later lost the sight in my left eye. I have overcome the limited use of my hand and the loss of vision in my eye. There were several months of my life that I spent in a wheelchair. Doctors told me that I would most likely never walk, run, or jump again. Thankfully, they were wrong. I was not willing to give up and spend my life as an invalid. For the rest of my life, I will never forget what I have been through. I learned to walk again when I was 22. Against ostensibly insurmountable odds, and in excruciating pain, I took my first steps. Failure was not an option and no matter how many times I fell down, I was always willing to stand up and try again. When I walk into a room today no one looks and thinks theres a guy in a wheelchair. In fact, no one can even look at me and tell that I have any disabilities.
The same dedication that led to my physical recovery is the same commitment I maintain in every aspect of my life, including my academic pursuits. An examination of my transcripts reveals no general differences between my grades, nor displays any relative difference in the level of difficulty of my course selection. I have never been one to take the easy route and honestly, I would not feel satisfied if my grade point average was attained by taking easy courses. A full description of my course selection is beyond the scope of this personal statement. However, a brief mention of the electives, which focused on law, politics, and society, serves to elucidate my point. Therefore, the reader can deduce that my future academic performance while studying law would most likely continue to exhibit a clear trend toward high achievement. Disaggregation of my overall application into its component parts, positive academic acculturation, consistent grade point averages during undergraduate coursework, and graduating Magna cum laude, are all statistically significant in establishing plausibility of hypothesized success. My fortitude and dedication substantially contribute to the standard long-term predictive validity of traditional predictors of law school performance. I am more than a set of standardized scores and a high GPA. My life is a saga of success. I am a winner!
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December 19, 2011, 03:04:58 PM »
While I'm no expert but upon reading ps, I find myself wanting to know more about why you want to go to law school. The paragraph about overcoming disability and fighting for our country is great and demonstrates the tenacity and determination needed for law school. That being said, try to avoid writing anything the admissions committe will already see in your transcripts or resume like your minor or your electives. They'll see that and are probably more interested in hearing more about what is motivating you to become a lawyer. You mention being african american and a low percentage of minorities in law school. Try expanding on that a bit more in the first paragraph. Do you want to become a lawyer to help african american business owners, or vets, or help the disabled? You have an interesting history to draw from and only a few pages to really tell your story so I would recommend less about your academic acheivements since they are already visible and more about your goals as a lawyer. Hope that helps!
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December 19, 2011, 09:43:36 PM »
Hello Cher1300,
I will definitely consider changes based on your advice. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Editor and freelance Writer
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December 21, 2011, 01:03:10 PM »
Hi Amicus - this would be a more powerful PS if you focused just on the details of what you went through to rehabilitate yourself. Writing on a theme of overcoming extreme obstacles is usually a strong PS strategy. You have too much information in here currently, and it is best not to discuss grades etc. in the PS.
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December 21, 2011, 07:59:00 PM »
Duly noted Burhop!
I am grateful for any and all feedback. Hopefully the final version grabs attention and provides no more and no less than necessary.
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January 31, 2012, 10:53:52 AM »
The first paragraph is unnecessary since the admissions officers will be able to get all of that from your application and transcript. It would just bore them with repetitive information. If I were you I would delete the first paragraph and expand on the other information in your personal statement.
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* TI list member Tom Watson takes over this week as I enjoy a short break from the blog - thanks Tom!
Continuing Tom's analysis of Norman Rockwell's illustrations for Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer...
Illustration #2
A boy and a dog was a familiar pair in many Rockwell Saturday Evening Post covers and calendar illustrations. Until the late 1930's, he exclusively used live models to directly draw and paint his characters, sometimes including animals and birds, if they didn't move too much. It was an important step in his procedure to get just the right pose and draw and paint directly from his models. Posing the dog just right with the right expression for the situation was paramount. He observed the gesture and body language of animals as well as people, with great care and concern.
I grew up with family and neighborhood dogs in my life, and over the years my wife and I also had dogs and cats as part of our extended family. Many times I have seen that gesture with the rear end up and the head and chest on the floor, and eyes wide open with curiosity. Once again, Rockwell wove a tight-knit cohesive composition that rapidly connects Tom Sawyer to the dog, which are the two main subjects. The entire composition could be a scene on a stage for a play, as though we were sitting in the front row of the theater. There is virtually no linear perspective, but we still get a literal sense of depth and space through a careful and accurate arrangement of tonal values. There are essentially three major levels of depth, the foreground (floor and dog), the middle ground (the pews, Tom and the man behind him), and the background (the two ladies next to Tom, the wall and window blinds). Tom's body quickly leads us to the dog and visa versa.
Notice how vague the features of the two ladies are, as the bonnet nearly cover their faces. The blinds on the window also help obscure their faces so we don't visually linger in that corner of the scene. The dark strip on the right at the end of the pew and the man on the right, effectively brings us back into the scene. Rockwell has cleverly connected two points of interest. Tom's expression and the dog's expression are both important to the scene, yet they don't compete for attention.
Notice the clarity he painted in Tom's face, showing a typical reaction of a boy being entertained by the dog eyeing the beetle. I sense he can barely hold back even a giggle.
Rockwell has distilled this scene down to it's simplest and most direct form of communication. There is nothing superfluous or extraneous in a Rockwell illustration. It all functions to quickly and clearly describe the scene, with great visual interest and fine artistic taste. It takes sophisticated understanding of layout, design and composition, and Rockwell had an abundance of those qualities.
The colors are primarily mid and dark tones, rich in browns and grays, with muted dark cool reds in the bonnet, and brighter warmer reds in the carpet. The red carpet helps bring attention and contrast to the mostly white dog. Rockwell seemed to be attracted to the texture and modeled color of old worn wooden structures, such as the pews.
He obviously enjoyed bringing out the character and age of the pews with plenty of rustic detail. They were painted from sketches of the original pews in the church in Hannibal, that was described in Mark Twain's book.
* Tom Watson is a retired West Coast illustrator, art director and educator. He has been a frequent contributor to Today's Inspiration and his storyboard work for film was a subject of a post on my other blog, Storyboard Central.
This week's images are © MBI/Heritage Press, Date (1936 or 1940) and are used with the permission of the Norman Rockwell Museum. This past weekend the museum featured the grand opening of a traveling exhibition, American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell.
Stephanie Plunkett, Chief Curator of the Museum would like readers to know that the Museum does travel an exhibition of signed lithographic prints from the Tom and Huck series to other museums and cultural centers. Stephanie writes, "We do have two upcoming bookings for that exhibition are listed below, so perhaps your readers will have the opportunity to visit if they live in the region."
Here is the information about the traveling exhibition:
Norman Rockwell's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale-Davie, Florida
November 14, 2009 through January 29, 2010
Averitt Center for the Arts, Statesboro, Georgia
March 12, 2010 through May 7, 2010
"It also might be interesting to note that the original paintings for the series are in the collection of the Mark Twain Museum in Hannibal, Missouri. The originals are beautiful. A study from the series will be on view in our upcoming exhibition, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, which opens on November 7, 2009."

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Taken from brief exposition of Daniel 9:1-19 (This comment is on vv 10-15)
Suggested Further Reading: Psalm 85
The prophet in his prayer pleads what God has done for them, as the reason why he should bare his arm; he tells how God delivered Israel out of Egypt; and he therefore prays that God would deliver them from their present trouble. And, my brethren, not Israel itself could boast a nobler history than we, measuring it by God's bounties. We have not yet forgotten an armada scattered before the breath of heaven, scattered upon the angry deep as a trophy of what God can do to protect his favoured isle. We have not yet forgotten a fifth of November, wherein God discovered many plots that were formed against our religion and our commonwealth. We have not yet lost the old men, whose tales of even the victories in war are still a frequent story. We remember how God swept before our armies the man who thought to make the world his dominion, who designed to cast his shoe over Britain, and make it a dependency of his kingdom. God fought for us; he fought with us; and he will continue to do so. He has not left his people, and he will not leave us, but he will be with us even to the end. Cradle of liberty! Refuge of distress! Storms may rage around you, but not upon you, nor shall all the wrath and fury of men destroy you, for God has pitched his tabernacle in your midst, and his saints are the salt in your midst.
For meditation: These stirring words, spoken at the time of the Indian mutiny, are equally true of God's faithfulness during the worldwide conflicts of the twentieth century. But do Spurgeon's words "We have not yet forgotten" retain any ring of truth in a nation which appears intent on moving further away from God by the day? While we may "Remember, remember the fifth of November," few could probably explain why we do so!
n.b. Read again the text for yesterday's reading—pray that a forgetful nation will remember and turn back to its Creator and Judge.
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If you do something now and then, or now and again, you do it occasionally.
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It's difficult to describe the absolute size of the world's biggest farm show — Agritechnica. After a few days, however, my feet could give you an accurate description.
It's massive. The fairgrounds in Hannover, Germany, where Agritechnica hosted more than 400,000 guests and 2,700 exhibitors throughout its run, make up the largest exhibition ground in the world. Each of the 26 buildings could potentially house its own show and still be a large event.
If you've ever attended a large farm show where an overnight stay is required, you know exactly what happens next. If you don't make a reservation well in advance, you're usually scrambling for accommodations. Fortunately, the organizers have a well-oiled system in place to find rooms, and I ended up at a small bed-and-breakfast only about 2 miles from the show.
With a show as large as Agritechnica, you can bet that a lot of other folks are caught in the same predicament. That occurred where I stayed, where I met some show exhibitors over breakfast. It was this chance meeting where I got a real appreciation of the full extent of the show's reach. And, I met a couple of new friends.
Yes, Agritechnica has some immnse, and impressive, displays. But there is also an entire exhibition hall that houses the suppliers of these companies. It's not normally a place where farmers would enter, but it was a hall with plenty of activity. And it's where my new friends had their booth. So I decided to pay them a visit and find out more about why they are at the show.
You may never have heard of Deutsch Industrial, but they are a worldwide company with production facilities in California, Tennessee, China, the United Kingdom and France. They produce electrical connectors for the farm, construction and trucking industries, and the people they are attracting to their booth are the engineers, designers and manufacturers attending the show. The display at Deutsch is probably something you wouldn't expect at a farm show — electrical connectors in all shapes and sizes. There are no tractors or tillage photos here. "That's the first time for Deutsch being at the Agritechnica" explains Martin Suessmilch, regional sales manager for Deutsch Industrial. "The Agritechnica farm show is an important platform for us to meet business partners, view new farming equipment, and generate new business prospects." Certainly only a small portion of the 400,000-plus visitors will stop by their booth, but the ones who do are important for their business.
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Punxsy protects its house, beats Beavers
PUNXSUTAWNEY — With five of the six top boys' basketball teams in District-IX league play within one game of first place entering Friday night, the Chucks knew they'd have their work cut out for them when they hosted DuBois. The Chucks proved to be up to the challenge with a 65-45 win.
"Our slogan all year has been, 'Protect our house,' Punxsy head coach Dirk Neal said after the game. "And without a doubt in my mind, that job was done tonight. As coaches, we couldn't have asked for anything different. They're a very good team that's beaten and played right with some quad-A schools. But we didn't play to protect the lead. We took good high percentage shots. It was just a total, total team effort tonight."
Punxsy's girls' team won a physical game in DuBois Thursday night, and Friday's encore presentation with the boys proved to be no different.
However, there was a glaring difference between the two games. While the Lady Chucks relied on defense to win a physical battle, 33-25, the boys ended up in a physical shootout with the Beavers. In fact, the teams almost matched the girls' total points in the first half.
Punxsy's Ian Miller, coming off the bench, was the most notable offensive player of the evening, scoring 18 points, including nine down the stretch when Punxsy needed them most to extend its lead. Miller came off the bench when Punxsy senior Alex Fedigan found himself in foul trouble, picking up three in the first 10 minutes.
Miller rose to the challenge, though, and Neal liked what he saw from his senior forward.
"What I like about Ian is that can happen on any given night," Neal said. "He came in early when Alex got into foul trouble, and we were able to get more minutes before we had to put Alex back in by the way Ian was playing. I can't say enough about him. To not score in the first quarter and finish the game our high scorer, that's impressive."
On top of Miller's 18 points, Punxsy's Luke Janocha and and Garrett Zimmerman each finished with double-doubles. Zimmerman scored 10 and nabbed 11 rebounds, including three offensive, and Janocha scored 10 points and hauled in 10 boards.
"Garrett and Luke wanted the ball and got to the boards to get their rebounds," Neal said. "They don't care how much they score. They're just constantly talking about how many rebounds they want to get."
A fourth Punxsy player, Daniel Triponey, was in double digits with 11 points, and Brandon Mancuso just missed the 10-point mark with eight.
Punxsy earned the game's first two points on a pair of successful free throws by Triponey.
But DuBois put the pressure on early with Nate Liddle heating up with three unanswered threes to give the Beavers a 9-2 lead.
Despite the rocky start, Neal said his team didn't panic, a trait it's shown all year, and realized it had to pick away at the lead little by little.
"These guys don't panic," he said. "We talk about that in practice. You can't hit the panic button every time they make a run. You have to play the game and not force it. We harp on them to keep chipping away and play their game."
And chipping away is exactly what Punxsy did throughout the rest of the quarter.
With the horn blowing to end the period, a Zimmerman basket was falling through the net, pulling Punxsy back within one at 15-14.
Miller scored his first two points of the night on a pair of free throws early in the second quarter, giving Punxsy a 16-15 lead. Miller added another quick hoop after Fedigan took a charge on the defensive end of the court, and the Chucks never looked back, outscoring DuBois 41-30 over the final three quarters.
The second quarter saw Punxsy outscore the Beavers 20-7 behind six points apiece by Miller, Mancuso — on a pair of threes — and Janocha.
The third quarter had much lower scoring, but the Chucks still edged the Beavers 12-11, and Miller scored nine in the final quarter to lead the Chucks to a 19-12 scoring margin.
Despite the lopsided score at the end, there were a few times at which Punxsy had to worry about the Beavers coming back after they narrowed the gap to eight late in the second quarter and nine at the beginning of the third.
The first rally, though, was answered by a 9-2 run to end the quarter and give the Chucks some breathing room, and the second was answered by a pair of quick baskets by Janocha and a three by Fedigan to extend the lead back to 16.
"We just kept yelling from the sidelines to play through it," Neal said. "We were missing, but we were getting some good looks, some high percentage shots. And as a coach, you just hope they don't get any closer than they are. Janocha's two hoops in the third put us back up by 13, and you could see the looks in the DuBois players' eyes turning to the clock."
With Punxsy extending the lead, the Chucks outplayed the Beavers from that point forward to finish the deal.
Another area that stood out for Punxsy Friday was the Chucks' free throw shooting.
Punxsy went a perfect 13-13 from the stripe, while DuBois struggled, hitting just 7-14.
"We're a confident team at the line," Neal said. "Every practice, we find time when their legs are tired to shoot free throws. Ninety percent of the foul shots you take in a game are when you're tired or in a crunch, and we shot them with confidence tonight."
After a busy week, during which Punxsy went 2-1, the Chucks have another tough week ahead with a pair of road contests next week.
The Chucks will kick off the week on the road against Bald Eagle Tuesday and finish the week Friday with a league game at Elk County Catholic.
In a JV contest that saw five different fourth-quarter lead changes, the Beavers nearly put an end to Punxsy's perfect season.
In the end, though, clutch free throw shooting sealed the deal for the Chucks, who improved to 13-0 with a 39-35 win, despite playing with just five players and no subs the entire game.
"To win a game like that with no subs and have your guys battle the whole game like that says a lot about these guys," Punxsy JV coach Darrin Kriebel said after the game. "It was a total team effort, and we did what we had to do."
Each team's defense dominated in the first half, and Punxsy trailed 13-11 at the break.
The second half was a different story, though. Both offensives started knocking down their deep shots, and Punxsy's big men stepped up to answer when the Beavers took away the outside shot.
The final lead change took place with 1:13 left on the clock when Matt Burkett knocked down a layup while being fouled. Burkett hit the and-one free throw, and Punxsy never relinquished the lead.
Punxsy's top scorer, Cory Geer, hit a pair of late free throws, and DuBois missed valuable foul shots in the waning minutes.
Geer had 13 points, and Burkett followed closely with 10, eight of which came in the fourth quarter.
Punxsy's Tyler Young had nine second-half points, and Michael Klingensmith had four for the Chucks.
Point guard Clayton Dale had just one point, but it was an important one, which gave the Chucks a four-point lead with 2.3 seconds remaining to put the game out of reach.


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In a way, I not so much an IT consultant as a business consultant.
Target audience is small to medium businesses who are looking to grow and need IT to support their needs. Alternatively their current IT may be costing them too much or they are looking to streamline some of their other processes.
I am looking for a coat of arms, crest or shield in that old medieval sense. The design doesn't need to be extraordinarily complicate and ornate, but it should be much more complicated than standard Web 2.0 logos on 99 designs.
The design should use classic colors but may use modern images if potrayed in a classic manner. Be creative here if you use technology images. Some suggestions include binary, fiber optics, analog to digital conversion, the Internet, or IPv4 or IPv6.
A place for a motto would be excellent.
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Comstock Resources Inc. (CRK) was one of the Russell 2000's biggest losers for Thursday February 18 as the stock slid 12.1% to $1.09, a loss of $-0.15 per share. Starting at an opening price of $1.29 a share, the stock traded between $1.08 and $1.33 over the course of the trading day. Volume was 864,362 shares over 1,929 trades, against an average daily volume of 1.24 million shares and a total float of 47.72 million.
The losses send Comstock Resources Inc. down to a market cap of $52.01 million. In the last year, Comstock Resources Inc. has traded between $6.84 and $0.97, and its 50-day SMA is currently $1.58 and 200-day SMA is $2.48.
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Definitions of hear
v. t. - To perceive by the ear; to apprehend or take cognizance of by the ear; as, to hear sounds; to hear a voice; to hear one call. 2
v. t. - To give audience or attention to; to listen to; to heed; to accept the doctrines or advice of; to obey; to examine; to try in a judicial court; as, to hear a recitation; to hear a class; the case will be heard to-morrow. 2
v. t. - To attend, or be present at, as hearer or worshiper; as, to hear a concert; to hear Mass. 2
v. t. - To give attention to as a teacher or judge. 2
v. t. - To accede to the demand or wishes of; to listen to and answer favorably; to favor. 2
v. i. - To have the sense or faculty of perceiving sound. 2
v. i. - To use the power of perceiving sound; to perceive or apprehend by the ear; to attend; to listen. 2
v. i. - To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter. 2
The word "hear" uses 4 letters: A E H R.
Direct anagrams of hear:
hare rhea
Words formed by adding one letter before or after hear (in bold), or to aehr in any order:
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This is how my Celica look alike, originally yellow, but they painted it black when I bought it. I got the car like little bit more than year ago, and I've been looking for way to join this forum. It took me time, but I got in!!!
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Long term, probably will get gunmetal grey, or red painting will be sprayed.
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Since our last show, hubby and I have been hopping planes and covering ground----on search of perfect treasures to celebrate Spring. And boy, did we find them! And we kept finding them...and kept finding them...
We have so many new and exciting items to fill the Shoppe! From exquisite lighting and décor, to beautiful clothing and jewelry, the Shoppe will be stuffed full of new items as we kick off the Spring season.
In order to make room for all of the wonderful new merchandise, we are excited to be holding our very first 'Warehouse Sale' during our February show!
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: being productive isn't about working harder, it's about working smarter. Most of us at Shopify use an arsenal of apps to help us supercharge our productivity.
These 16 productivity apps are some of our favorites. They help us work smarter, faster, and more efficiently. Let us know what productivity apps you use in the comments.
Soulver is faster than a spreadsheet and easier to use than a calculator. Simply type your problem as you'd write it on paper, and you'll see the answer instantly with no formulas to deal with. If you make a mistake, simply hit the delete button - you don't have to start over again. My favorite function is solving percentages. Simply type "35% off 300K" and Soulver instantly displays the answer: 195,000.
TextExpander saves us a lot of keystrokes here at Shopify. With this productivity app, you can program custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently used text and pictures. For example, when I type the abbreviation ";home" TextExpander automatically replaces that code with my address. This can be really helpful when responding to customer service emails.
iA Writer
iA Writer is a noise free writing program that gives you a clean typing sheet that's distraction-free. I really like iA Writer's "focus mode" where the surrounding text fades into the background, reducing the temptation to stop writing and start editing. I use this productivity app all the time when I'm writing articles for the Shopify blog.
Trello is all about team projects. At Shopify, we use Trello for projects that involve team members from various offices. Picture a giant white board that everyone has access to. You can collaborate in real-time, assign tasks, gather opinions and more.
Clear is a to-do list app that's simple and intuitive. Items are easy to add, they're sorted by priority from top to bottom, and color-coded according to urgency, and a quick swipe to the right crosses an item off.
Boomerang for Gmail
This handy productivity app from Baydin Inc lets you "boomerang" emails based on different criteria. Example: I can tell Boomerang "If nobody responds to this email within two days, bring it back to the top of my inbox." I can also write an email now, and schedule it to be sent automatically whenever I want.
Every day I reply to an evening email reminder with what I did all day. The next day, I get a digest that lists what myself and everyone else on my team accomplished. iDoneThis is simple, uncluttered, and keeps everyone in the loop.
This window management tool is essential for anyone who keeps multiple windows open at the same time. This app lets you "divvy up" your screen into exact portions with the click of a button. If you waste time shuffling around and resizing windows - Divvy is going to be a huge time saver.
This is an app that most people already have, but no productivity app list would be complete without it. Evernote lets you collect things, make notes, lists, and anything else you may need to store. It syncs between your computer, smartphone, and tablet so your files are available everywhere you are.
We use Dropbox to sync and share documents, photos, and videos among all our staff members. It has a free service that lets you create a shared folder on multiple computers / devices which automatically synchronises.
Campfire is a web-based group chat tool that we use for internal communications all day, every day. Every department at Shopify has its own chat room, and most employees keep their Campfire window open at all times. Since it's web-based, it's really easy to setup and run with nothing to download, install, or update.
This is a social media app that you hook up to your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and App.net accounts. You can then add articles, pictures, and whatever else you want and make a schedule for Buffer to automatically publish them.
The Hit List
The Hit List is an awesome project manager app that I use to keep my to-do list and prioritize my life. In addition to its basic scheduling function, it has a timer, smart folders, iCal syncing, and so much more.
This simple to-do app is bare-bones, and that's the point. It's a really well designed weekly priority list that is exactly what it should be and doesn't complicate things with a bunch of bells and whistles. Type your to-do, edit, check off, done.
Alfred takes your Mac OS X search bar and puts it on steroids. Alfred is a high powered search bar and application launcher that lets you launch any application with a quick shortcut. It'll learn which apps you use most often, and prioritize them. The paid "Powerpack" option will give you tons of extra navigation functions, like global hotkeys, clipboard history, and access to hundreds of useful extensions.
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October 25 2012, 11:44AM
Great list, Mark! I will second TextExpander and Buffer – both fantastic apps. Would also add Asana (for project management) to the list as well as Skitch. For taking fast screenshots and quickly annotating them, Skitch is a killer app.
October 25 2012, 12:06PM
Good stuff. I started discovering another productivity app recently that's nearly as good as Coffee. It's called "Sleep". You can get it for free at night and at market price during the day.
October 25 2012, 12:31PM
Thanks for the comprehensive list!
October 25 2012, 01:52PM
Extensive list & all are amazing in their own unique ways.
Thank you.
October 25 2012, 02:38PM
Niiice! I've been looking for this one for a while.
And boomerang was the missing link for my gmail.
You're the man, Mark!
October 25 2012, 02:44PM
Awesome – I use most of these already!
I love fluid, which takes sites like Trello and turns them into stand-alone apps.
Workflowy is awesome for outlining things, or making lists. Infinitely nestable, it ends up kind of doing whatever you need it to.
I use Toggl to track all of my hours to keep me focused.
A little plug, a couple apps I've built that I use daily. The first is Timerdoro.com for doing time-based productivity hacks, and saving my eye-sight. The second is theBirdy.com for tracking my spending every day. Hope they can help you, too!
October 25 2012, 02:48PM
I use Uberlayer, a nifty productivity app to use when you're pixelperfecting a design. Lay a PSD over your browser window and check if you're perfectly in line with your design.
iA writer is really awesome, that would definitely be on top of my list.
October 25 2012, 02:57PM
Great list, lots of gold in there.
I use Wunderlist for to-do's to keep it synced across devices. I also get important emails SMS'd to me via gmail using AT&T's email@example.com address.
IFTTT is cool for automating tasks like sending me emails of RSS alerts.
And we use our own Float Schedule for scheduling the team!
October 25 2012, 03:23PM
We use one platform, Tracky, www.tracky.com which is both a social collaboration and project management tool. It does just about everything we want, chat online, upload documents, and even publish blogs or tracks to social sites. Tracky now also works with Buffer to allow you to organise your life even more.
October 25 2012, 03:49PM
Great post Mark. I also love Boomerang, but Soulver and iDoneThis are new to me. One more to checkout (that is app based) if you have many conference calls is MobileDay. It's a simple one-touch conference call solution that has saved me a ton of time.
October 25 2012, 04:07PM
Great set of tools – thank you. I specially like iA Writers way of focusing your thoughts :)
If you need a very flexible tool for managing everyday activities that will help you gain clarity and balance your workload then please check out http://kanbana.com or the upcoming iPad version http://kanbana.com/iPad
I've been interested in personal effectiveness for years so I've tried to create a tool that fulfills my needs and hopefully others too.
If you want to learn some of the methods behind this tool I've written a short and FREE eBook on the subject: "3 Pillars of Personal Effectiveness" that you can download here: http://bit.ly/MiMi84
October 25 2012, 04:25PM
I'd imagine Fulfillrite's App in the marketplace that helps users with their daily order fulfillment & shipping also makes Shopify owners more productive?
October 25 2012, 04:45PM
Fulfillrite's App in the marketplace that helps users with their daily order fulfillment & shipping also makes Shopify owners more productive…
October 25 2012, 06:33PM
Does Soulver actually say that 35% of 300K is 195,000 or is that just a typo :p
Fantastic list, I can't wait to check out some more of these apps in-depth. Great work!
October 25 2012, 11:09PM
These are some nice apps for productivity. Recently read an article by Caterina Fake (cofounder of Flickr and Hunch) that the number one thing she does to be more productive and create more time is to reduce the amount of digital media she consumes. You can do this by batching tasks like checking email or browsing the web into something that's done a couple times a day rather than every five minutes. For the latter, we're building an app called Skim.Me (http://skim.me) to nudge users to consume content from their favorite sites/apps in a few full (and timed) info meals per day rather than constantly snacking. Think we can help consumers in their everyday lives as well as workers.
October 26 2012, 12:37AM
As to your last item, "Coffee", there is a great little app called "Caffeine" [http://www.lightheadsw.com/caffeine/] which helps me out when I'm developing, as it keeps my mac from dimming the screen or falling asleep.
October 26 2012, 02:35PM
Great tools for online collaboration. I find myself in need of coordinating multiple offices in various time zones, and these tools may just do the trick.
October 26 2012, 08:40PM
The tool I can't live without is Wunderlist. Its a free todo list app that works on every platform you can think of. Its simple and keeps everything is sync across all the platforms you use it on.
October 27 2012, 10:48AM
You can't forget about rapportive (http://rapportive.com/) for gmail. My absolute favorite! It automatically grabs grabs social media profiles when you open your emails!
October 28 2012, 11:10AM
Another great roundup. I used and loved The Hit List for a couple of years, but grew weary waiting for them to release an iPad version of the app. I switched to OmniFocus for Mac and iPad consequently and have been extremely happy—it lives up to the hype!
October 30 2012, 07:06PM
Great list. Looking up boomerang right now. I can't wait to start on that one. Thanks for the list!
November 01 2012, 05:49AM
Instead of buying Solver for $12 you can use free alternative (and works from menu bar) called Numi: http://www.getnumi.info
December 02 2012, 11:39AM
@Derek Stevens, it's 30% OFF, not OF. : ) Instantly making this calculation is a huge time saver.
This is a great list. What I wonder though is how can you use 4 different to-do list apps? Or does each person on the team use something different?
January 01 2013, 08:57PM
Thanks for sharing – great list. I use Found instead of Alfred and Right Inbox instead of Boomerang, although I do use Boomerang Calendar and for project management Asana for me is great and I have also liked Producteev in the past.
January 27 2013, 07:41AM
great list! I was really bummed when I saw that Picturesque (Soulver's sister app) is for MAC only. Any suggestions for a comparable PC app?
January 29 2013, 01:12PM
Shameless plug for which I apologize- I'd like to suggest Mission Control http://missioncontrolhq.com, which I use for managing my teams. It's team task management as simple as it comes, and it's free.
April 09 2013, 08:33AM
Today i came across this amazing new website named nupinch.com…i really think you guys should check it out..
Link: http://bit.ly/XczfI3
April 13 2013, 03:45PM
Connnnnaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaard !!!
May 14 2013, 11:15AM
Easily give feedback on a webpage – BounceApp.com from @Zurb – F'ing awesome
June 30 2013, 03:52AM
love it……………
:-))))))))) <3
August 06 2014, 07:27AM
Great list but I'd like to add one more to this list i.e proofhub. Very effective tool for managing teams as well as projects, Give it a go. http://www.proofhub.com
August 01 2016, 07:47AM
Thanks @ MarkHayes for this best list..
I use Buffer app and it makes my work routine very good.
I can track my productivity easily with this app and i thought that this is the only best app but now I got 16 more productivity apps.
August 23 2016, 05:26AM
We use Trello as a framework to plan and collaborate on Shopify stores with team members and freelancers. Because the copy/paste process of getting things out of Shopify into Trello was rather inefficient we built an app to automatically sync Shopify objects to your Trello boards.
October 14 2016, 05:51AM
I want to say that this post is awesome, nice written.google drive
January 12 2018, 06:34PM
I can't wait to try Evernote, I see tons of people using it every time I screen share I see the icon on people's desktop.


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Snorkelling in turquoise blue water among turtles and dolphins. Looking for shells in the surf. Relaxing in a hammock under a palm tree. Diving among colourful coral reefs and underwater caves. Eating fresh fish with your feet in the sand. Strolling along a tropical beach on an uninhabited island. Does this sound like a dream come true? On Klein Curaçao, everybody can play Robinson Crusoe.
A flat sandbank with a rickety lighthouse, a few fishermen's shacks, a rusty shipwreck and a simple beach stand with some sun beds and palapa parasols: at first glance it seems that's all there is to Klein Curaçao. However, the tiny island a very popular day trip destination. Visitors will even put up with the bumpy 2-hour boat ride to come here. Why? 'Klein', as locals refer to the island, features one of the most stunning beaches in the Caribbean. It is without a doubt home to the most beautiful diving and snorkelling sites in the entire ABC-archipelago.
Klein Curaçao was not always uninhabited. This small 2-km2 island was once home to fishermen and goats used to graze on the grassy meadow. It was also a popular nesting place for birds. Phosphate mining depleted the soil; nowadays only low shrubs and palm trees grow here.
The island's main attractions are very easy to find: in the centre of the island stands a century-old lighthouse. Climb the wooden steps of the spiral staircase to the top. 20 metres above the ground, you will have a fabulous view of the mini island. The construction is quite ramshackle so climb at your own risk. There are also some slave graves that date back to the days of the Dutch West India Company.
Just off the windward coast is different kind of graveyard: this is the final resting place of the rusty Venezuelan oil tanker Maria Bianca Guidesman which sank in the 1960s. Since then Mother Nature has been slowly reclaiming the boat: today only the stern with the bridge still stands in the surf.
A tour around the island takes an hour; after that there is plenty of time to relax on the longest sandy beach in the country.
"The oil tanker is gradually being reclaimed by nature: only the stern remains standing"
Klein Curaçao's real attraction is not found on the land but in the sea. On your way to the island you may already spot some flying fish and pods of dolphins. But once you get into the water you will discover the real treasures that hide beneath the surface. The calm and crystal clear water along the beach on the leeward side is teeming with sea turtles and manta rays cruise by like spaceships. A few fin strokes away lies a pristine reef with brain coral, branched antler coral, swaying sea anemones and bright yellow sponges. There are lots of colourful fish, ranging from two-coloured fairy bass to porcupine fish, cheerful spotted Harlequin filefish and Four-eyed Butterflyfish. A small boat transports divers to the best spots.


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Why is everyone so negative?
Internet is internet, you never know who you might be talking to. Yes there are people out there that pretend to be someone else .. so don't ever start an internet relationship until you are sure you know them. But people who actually get into a relationship, without clearly seeing there's something 'fishy' about that other person .. is incredibly dumb.
Excuse me for saying so.
Some people can't see the difference between real internet relationships, and fake ones.
But yes, you won't know what an internet relationship is, until you are truely in one. I have seen people having internet relationships .. were they both didn't know each other that well. They talked stiff, chat language, talked without sounding like themselfs. It was all .. just a big laugh. For fun you could say.
But what is 'fun' for one, is 'serious' for someone else.
You need to see the line between fun and serious. With fun, it's easy to recognize. You meet someone, you talk about various things that interest you, and the more your views are the same, the more you will like that person.
And that's were it starts. A friendship. On the internet, you can't date someone. Unless you're one of those people that look on a dating site, which is absolutely pathetic. But whatever floats your boat!
You start out as strangers.
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And poof, you're friends!
This is what I like to call the 'casual friend'. The friend whom you have no desire to talk to everyday. But, in one way or another, you will talk to each other more and more. It's still for fun.
It's when you talk to each other every day for more than 3 hours that you become a friend. Remember, you're still in the 'fun' zone.
Then how do you become a 'real' friend? It's easy, you will notice you start to miss that person when they're offline. You'll wait for them, and they'll wait for you. It's when problems between the two of you start to arise that you both deal with, it's then when you can call yourself a true friend.
Now, we have crossed the line of the 'fun' part. Any 'romantic moves' that were made in the 'fun' part, will always stay 'fun'. It won't turn serious. It will never turn serious.
Congratulations, you just got into a relationship without knowing the person!
So when do you call your 'bond' serious? When you both realize you want to keep talking to each other every day, despite the faults and problems you see in this other person. It is when you start to accept the bad side of each other, that didn't show itself until the 'fun' part was over.
Out of all the persons on your contact list (MSN, Yahoo, AIM ect.), only 2 or 3 are 'real' friends.
Yet there are still people out there who claim to say. "But you still never know who it is! It might be a 65 year old man that will want to rape you with his crane!".
Who the heck talks about their problems for fun!?
What about pictures?!
The microphone!?
Ever heard of a webcam!?
If you both trust each other while you are in the 'serious' zone, then go for it! Internet relationships builds itself on trust .. it's what you really need.
When you both do fall in love .. for real (I'm trusting you that you both trust each other and are in love with each other for real), then make sure that you can withstand the distance.
Being in an internet relationship is difficult at times that you just want to hold each other for real. Some people can't stand it anymore, and eventually cheat with their partners .. with someone who's closer.
Can you see it? The amount of trust you need to put in someone who's probably a country away from you?
It's trust. And most people who think negatively on internet relattionships, have probably been betrayed by someone who was still in the 'fun' zone.
Lets break it down for you.
Fun: Laughing, free chat, sharing the same views, no strings attached, won't stay in your memories, easily forgotten, can be replaced fast.
Serious: Laughing, yelling, free chat, serious debates, sharing the same views, sharing the different views, strings attached, you change with this person, will stay in your memories, can't be forgotten without a beer, can't be replaced .. no one else is like that.
That should be a bit easier for you to recognize who are you real friends, and who are the fun ones.
Then how do you fall in love on the internet?
For one, it would be easier to know what the person looks like. This is not to judge wetether he or she is hot, but it's to know how your love looks like so you can dream about them. Dreaming without a face is really annoying.
So when you've got all these, a serious friendship, a picture .. maybe even a voice .. maybe even a webcam. You're save to sail the boat of love.
How do you maintain it? Well, I can't tell you what to do, because you need to discuss it with your partner about this. Make yourself clear what you want out of this relationship (do you see a future? can you trust your partner won't cheat on you? can you handle the long distance? will you ever meet?).
All set? Now you can look forward to one thing! The actual meeting!
Beware, if your partner's picture doesn't give you butterflies, then he or she in real life won't give you them either.
Thank you for reading.
Oh, beware of dating sites. People on there are 'forced' to be romantic. If you want to find an internet relaionship, stop looking. You'll find someone when you're having fun without being on a dating site.
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True Wild Life | Pademelon | The pademelon is a small to medium sized marsupial found inhabiting the forests of Australia and a number of it's surrounding islands.The pademelon is most closely related to the wallaby and the kangaroo. There are seven different species of pademelon found in the jungles of the far east, the population numbers of all seven pademelon species are declining primarily due to hunting and habitat loss.
The pademelon is a solitary and nocturnal animal meaning that the pademelon, spends the light daytime hours resting, and goes foraging for food during the cooler cover of night. The pademelon is most commonly found inhabiting coastal regions of Australia, Papua New Guinea and Tasmania. The pademelon spends much of it's waking time, foraging for leaves, grasses, shoots, berries and herbs in it's dense jungle environment. Pademelons also commonly venture into shrublands where they have less cover to feast on the lush plants, if there are no predators around.
In many areas of forest inhabited by the pademelon, there are often no real predators around but habitat loss in the form of deforestation has caused the pademelon population numbers to decline. In other areas, pademelon are most commonly preyed upon by canines including foxes, dingos, domestic dogs and even the odd cat. Those pademelon inhabiting the Tasmanian forests often have more of a variety of predators and are preyed upon by Tasmanian Devils, large snakes, large birds of prey such as eagles, and even by quolls.
The pademelon is a marsupial meaning that the female pademelon has a pouch on her belly where she nurses her young. After mating the infant pademelon will be born just 30 days later, when it has to make its own way into it's mother's pouch. Baby pademelon then spend the next 6 months or so growing growing and developing inside the pouch and eventually begin to venture out into the outside world.


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Guy Horrocks needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 86 designs submitted by 20 freelance designers.
Carnival Labs
We are Carnival Labs. We make iPhone and iPad applications for the world's leading brands. We have dealt a lot through agencies, however, the tide is turning and we are now working as well for a lot of great brands direct!
We are planning to re-brand and relaunch our website in accordance with a decent amount of press that is coming up.
Our company is half creativity & half science. We are fortunate to have a team with some of the most experienced and smartest mobile/ iPhone and iPad developers in the World. We've developed number 1 apps for our clients and had apps we've made for them featured by New York Times, Cnet, CNN, Forbes and even by Apple on iTunes, in their Apple stores and on TV commercials.
So we create great stuff and have amazing clients, but we are so busy we haven't had time to work on our own brand. We are very professional but we like to standout and have fun. Carnival meets Science.
Our target audience is:
1) Brands who may want development.
2) Agencies looking for a great partner on a project.
And then to a lesser degree:
3) Media/Press as we expand and get more noticed.
4) Potential creative and tech whizzes who may want to come work with us.
We want a logo for Carnival Labs that can be used in multiple ways.
For that reason it can definitely be simple, as we may want to use it in black and white on different resources or promotional materials and a new website we will launch.
It can be an icon or even just text.
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[Verse 1 - Gucci Mane]
Gucci, Gucci, Gucci, brr, brr
I'm the fire, you say you more fire then n*gga you a liar
Homie you and I, know the truth but that's 'tween you and I
Stupid jewelry on me then, stupid jewelry on me now
If you think you finna sh*t on Gucci then just show me how
Someone dissed me yesterday, what I'm 'posed to do, go cry
With my money chasin' million dollar mission on the side
Church's chicken in my Lambo, bought two drumsticks and a thigh
I'm so hood right now they question whats gettin' Gucci high
Stupid wild, super stupid wild, homie that's my style
Girls fightin', hoes fistfight just to touch my tie
Get my squad squad, I ain't been this hard in a while
Blow cha-cha, I ain't been this hard in a while
[Hook - Gucci Mane]
Stupid wild, super stupid wild, homie that's my style
Stupid wild, super stupid wild, homie that's my style
Stupid wild, super stupid wild, homie that's my style
Stupid wild, super stupid wild, homie that's my style
Every single night I'm ballin'
Sippin' on that drank, rims crawlin'
Mostly every night I'm count, count
n*ggas wanna fight but I'm shoot, shoot
n*ggas wanna fight but I'm shoot, shoot
[Verse 2 - Lil' Wayne]
Wilder than a jaguar
Wilin' in a Jaguar
Please don't play with me, I'll put that pistol on your grandpa
I swear I'm so wild I think I just may need a xan bar
And if she on my team I bet that b*tch know who she playin' for
Mr. Coach Carter or Mr. Go-Harder
And I like my kush dry like a fish with no water
Swagger stupid perfect, I might as well surf it
And if she ain't f*ckin' she get the voicemail service
Tell it like it be, b*tch I do it for the bloods
And every f*ckin' time I say soo woo it's for the Bloods
What you dislike I love, man I do just like I does
And if you wanna fight then come on you can fight my guns
Weezy man, Young Money
[Verse 3 - Cam'ron]
Let's do the furs, his and hers
Started gettin' on my nerves so I hit her with a "BURR!"
Hustlers love me, all the haters hate me
They brothers wanna fight me, they sisters wanna date me
I tell her bust it baby, you could be my bust it baby
But stay in your place, I need my space: don't suffocate me (please)
Back black approach us, clack clack take gats out the holsters
Cops in black the patrol us, treat us like rats and roaches
But the blue Benz, Got the blue lamps
And your wifey, well we use her for her food stamps
Ain't no big deal, but she keep the fridge filled
Eggs scrambled, cheese grilled, cold juice the grits kill!
Don't forget veal, Italiano, Gallardo
Yea the big wheels, like milk your wig spilled
We'll rush in ya spot, knock knock, snub of the Glock
It Gucci turn, Huh?, You gon' suck it or not
[Outro - Gucci Mane]
b*tches wanna f*ck me mainly
Cause I got the kitchen all famous
I'm tryna hold my head above water
Stack a billion cash I just oughta
My shades cost that cause I'm Gucci
My warddrobe Gucci'd out like I'm boostin'
I shine just all the time your homie shine
Wanna hate me get a ticket and join the line, fine
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Cougars Insider Steve breaks down the 2012 Washington State Cougars football recruiting class. He brings us his favorite recruits out of the 25 the Cougars brought on board. Among them is Ioane Gauta, Robert Barber, Jeremiah Allison, Kache Palacio, and Taylor Taliulu. The prize according to Steve is Sam Jones.
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Dragon is a free-flying spacecraft designed to deliver both cargo and people to orbiting destinations. Dragon made history in 2012 when it became the first commercial spacecraft in history to deliver cargo to the International Space Station and safely return cargo to Earth, a feat previously achieved only by governments. It is the only spacecraft currently flying that is capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth. Currently Dragon carries cargo to space, but it was designed from the beginning to carry humans. As part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, SpaceX is now developing the refinements that will enable Dragon to fly crew. The first demonstration flight for this program is targeted for January 2019.
- Total Launch Payload Mass
- 6,000kg13,228 lbs
- Total Launch Payload Volume
- 25m3883 ft3
Pressurized Section
The pressurized section of the spacecraft, also referred to as the capsule, is designed to carry both cargo and humans into space. Towards the base of the capsule but outside the pressurized structure are the Draco thrusters, Dragon's guidance navigation and control (GNC) bay and Dragon's advanced heat shield.
- Spacecraft Payload Volume
- 11m3388 ft3
Dragon's trunk supports the spacecraft during ascent to space, carries unpressurized cargo and houses Dragon's solar arrays. The trunk and solar arrays remain attached to Dragon until shortly before reentry to Earth's atmosphere, when they are jettisoned.
- Trunk Payload Volume
- 14m3494 ft3
- Total Return Payload Mass
- 3,000kg6,614 lbs
- Total Return Payload volume
- 11m3388 ft3
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Schematic of the available space for payload in the pressurized section.
Fig. 2
Schematic of the available space for payload in the trunk.
Technical Overview
- Height With Trunk
- 7.2m23.6 ft
- Diameter
- 3.7m12 ft
- Sidewall Angle
- 15°
- Orbit Duration
- Up to 2 Years
Inside the Spacecraft
The Dragon spacecraft has three configurations to meet a variety of needs: cargo, crew and DragonLab. To ensure a rapid transition from cargo to crew capability, the cargo and crew configurations of Dragon are almost identical. This commonality simplifies the human rating process, allowing systems critical to crew and space station safety to be fully tested on unmanned cargo flights. With DragonLab, essentially the same spacecraft can be used as a platform for in-space technology demonstrations and experiments.
Resupply the Space Station
01Delivery and Return Services
Dragon is the first commercial spacecraft to deliver cargo to the International Space Station and currently the only cargo spacecraft flying capable of returning significant amounts of cargo to Earth. Dragon accommodates pressurized cargo in the capsule as well as unpressurized cargo in its trunk.
02Versatile Cargo Racks
The racks are a honeycomb carbon-aluminum construction designed for efficient packing in a zero-gravity environment. They accommodate a variety of standard-size NASA cargo bags as well as freezers for carrying materials such as biological samples.
Taking Humans to Space
01Partnership with NASA
Dragon was designed from the outset to fly humans to space. Under an agreement with NASA, SpaceX is making upgrades to Dragon to allow for crew carrying capability.
02Crew Upgrades
Dragon will be the world's safest and most reliable crew transport vehicle, with seating for seven, life-support systems, controls with manual capability, and a powered launch escape system.
03First Launch
Upgrades to Dragon are currently in progress. Dragon's first manned test flight is expected to take place as early as 2018.
A Free-Flying Microgravity Laboratory
01Facilitating Research
DragonLab is a free-flying, unmanned platform designed for research and testing in a microgravity environment independent of the International Space Station.
It can transport payloads, experiments, instruments, and sensors into space and back to Earth on missions ranging from one week to two years.
DragonLab can readily accommodate instrument and sensor testing, space physics and relativity experiments, radiation effects research, and many other microgravity tests.
Dragon Milestones
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Four Mile Road repairs stalled
The long-awaited fix to Ellison Road over Bellamy Creek began Monday with excavation to clean out the old culvert and concrete.
But that is not the case with Four Mile Road over the tributary to the Flat River. That project is on hold until funds can be found to complete the repairs.
Ellison Road, west of Johnson Road, in Easton Township, and Four Mile Road, about 1,000 feet west of Whites Bridge Road, have been closed since spring flooding washed out the areas.
Ionia County Road Commission Managing Director Dorothy Pohl anticipates that workers on Ellison Road will square up the sides and pour a new base for the culvert next week. She hopes the project will be completed in four to five weeks.
"The biggest hold-up will be if it is snowing and we get tied up with snow removal," Pohl said. "If there is other emergency maintenance, that's where we're going to be."
Pohl said the project could end up costing less than the $200,000 bid, and she is still waiting to receive a final amount from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for how much of the cost they might cover. FEMA typically pays 75 percent of the amount the agency approves for a disaster-related project, she said.
FEMA has indicated it will only approve up to $30,000 toward the Four Mile Road repairs, while the road commission's estimate for that project, which includes a larger culvert, is close to $200,000, said Pohl.
"We'll look for funding next year," she said. "It will probably depend on the cost of doing it ourselves instead of a contract on it, and if the township is willing to help and what else can put aside to do it."
The road commission also is talking with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality about simply replacing the culvert with one of the same size, "considering FEMA won't approve making it bigger," said Pohl.
"It makes sense for everyone: for the county, for the taxpayer, for the state," she said. "The feeling is (the culvert) is not too small; it was plugged with debris and that caused it to fail."
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XtremeData swaps precious modily fluids between FPGAs and Xeons
Preps data warehouse appliance too
IDF FPGAs sitting in Xeon sockets. Boring, right? Well, not if you meet the XtremeData crew who tell us they party to the Xtreme every chance they get. As we understand it, that means drinking a six-pack while watching Monte Carlo simulations.
The boys from XtremeData – if a woman works at the company we'll be shocked – were here at IDF in Shanghai to show off their Xeon helpers. The company teams with Altera to produce FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) that nestle right into Xeon sockets, providing a massive boost for certain high performance computing applications.
One of the knocks around these types of accelerators is the software work needed to divide code between the main processors and the co-processors. But the XtremeData dudes are very moved by Intel's QuickAssist, saying that code written via the abstraction technology can hop between the CPU and FPGA without modification.
That's just what customers in the oil and gas, financial services, life sciences and media industries want to hear as they try to figure out how much work it will take to port in-house software onto FPGAs.
At the show, XtremeData urged us to witness its XD2000i family of products, which boast three of Altera's Stratix III FPGAs. One of the FPGAs handles the basic management and communications jobs, while the other two go at applications. We're told that the three-chip approach lets customers re-tool their FPGAs in-server without rebooting the box.
And, in fact, a demonstration showed the Xeon boards handling a European options Monte Carlo simulation using the XtremeRNG random number generator library, re-targeting work between the CPU and accelerators with ease. On many applications, XtremeData claims a 10x performance boost through the FPGAs, although this simulation ran many times faster than that and did so while handing double-precision floating point operations.
Other companies such as DRC and Nallatech make similar products. Nallatech was here demonstrating a three-chip unit as well. Both DRC and Nallatech partner with FPGA maker Xilinx.
One nice touch offered by XtremeData and Nallatech are modules that let customers tweak their FPGA units to fit in different sockets.
AMD once enjoyed a stranglehold on the FPGA co-processor race thanks to its more open stance. Intel, however, caved to the pressure and now lets partners hit up its sockets and front side bus.
XtremeData plans to have similar FGPAs that deal with Intel's upcoming Nehalem family of chips. The speedy Intel chips will ship later this year, and then XtremeData will follow in early 2009 with hardware that makes use of Intel's new QuickPath interconnect.
One nice aspect about combining these FPGAs with CPUs comes from an overall power savings, since the FPGAs need just a fraction of general purpose CPU power.
Looking forward, XtremeData plans to enter the data warehouse market by selling an appliance based on its FPGAs, so the likes of Teradata, Netezza, HP, IBM and Datallegro can expect more competition.
"The XtremeDB is built from PostgreSQL – a full-featured, open-source RDBMS, that has been re-engineered by XDI," the company says in a newsletter. "All of the front-end PostgreSQL interfaces have been maintained intact and the back-end execution engine has been transformed to leverage the shared-nothing parallel cluster environment with FPGA acceleration."
It claims to achieve 1TB/min of sustained SQL query throughput.
XtremeData's VLDB Analytics Appliance has been designed with a sharp focus on accelerating the large time-consuming tasks in the Decision Support Systems (DSS) marketplace. Although postgreSQL is full-featured RDBMS, XtremeData has not set out to provide generic, across-the-board, SQL acceleration. Attempting such broad acceleration is futile, we felt, since in the end, the solution will tend to converge to the lowest-common denominator: a lower-performance, generic, but broad solution, such as Oracle-RAC.
The XtremeData Appliance is targeted at large databases and complex, long-running individual queries. We have designed our system to address the major bottlenecks in data warehouse analytics: Full table scans with large multi-table Joins, and Aggregations qualified with GroupBy and OrderBy clauses. The XDI Appliance is extremely efficient at dynamic data partitioning and dynamic data re-distribution between Nodes. All data buffer management and movement is performed in parallel with SQL processing at 1TB/min, without consuming valuable CPU cycles.
We're told that building a database appliance was the company's original goal and that this system will receive more public play in the coming year. ®