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David De Witt is practice director for the Nue Vista Group. He can be contacted at [email protected]
I had the opportunity recently to write a tongue-in-cheek piece with the not-so-brief title Top Ten Reasons You Don't Need a Requirements Document when upgrading software. At the conclusion of that article, I offered to provide a realistic counter-point -- my list of ten reasons why you MUST have a requirements document in hand before you invest money in upgrading or purchasing software.
With all due respect to another and far better known David who offers his top ten lists much more frequently, here are my top ten reasons that creating a requirements document is in your best interests -- and your organization's:
- Requirements are not features. You simply must know what your users must have to do their jobs. Distinguish thoughtfully and carefully between what is needed and what the vendor is offering. At the same time, you must be able to factor into the requirements documentation other considerations, such as budget limitations and regulatory constraints. You will need to train your users how to specify their requirements, which takes tact, training, and patience. A request usually starts with: "All I really need is " and then wanders away. A vague or ambiguous statement -- regardless of its intent -- will consume user time, IT time and cause some other loss, such as the opportunity to do another project. This issue is methodology neutral: Agile methods will have the same problem if user time is not focused and users are not trained. You cannot fulfill the requirements until they're precise and complete and you understand why they're important to the business.
- Features are not requirements. Eliminate decisions made by squeaky wheels --- sometimes referred to as "design by whine" -- where the loudest department gets the most resources. Your goal is to make certain that business decisions made with regard to requirements (and their associated expenditures) will generate the return you're expecting. Start by working backward, to match the problems solved with existing software to identify the problems that must be and can be solved only with new software. Don't lose anything you have now that is essential to the business; it's easy to forget "hidden" requirements that oftentimes are taken for granted or ignored.
- Work with your resources and manage with discipline. Developing an effective requirements document costs money and managing resources requires discipline. A politically expedient decision, even if it's cost effective in the short run but is not the right decision in the long run, will cost time and money -- eventually. From a strategic point of view, ask if the requirements process itself is going to cost more than it's worth. You will find that using the enterprise requirements documentation process will help you avoid useless meetings, which saves time and money, but more about that later. When the appropriate constituents are communicating with each other, they accept the value of their participation because they can track the project's payback to the entire organization.
- On-going documentation is essential. It's necessary that you continue to manage your requirements, because sometimes internal departments continue to push for a project, application or feature that was denied in the last upgrade or purchase. Perhaps it wasn't worth the cost, or its payback wasn't acceptable to the enterprise as a whole. By maintaining continuity in your requirements documentation, you can see why a prior request was denied. If the reason hasn't changed, it's likely there is no need to investigate it again -- and you can avoid bringing in a "new" solution to solve an equally "new" problem. Referencing prior documentation also can help you eliminate ongoing costs for applications and hardware that are no longer used.
- Identify and understand the workarounds and desk drawer systems. You need to understand what in your current application made a workaround or desk drawer system an attractive solution. Then, make certain the upgrade eliminates these systems and their causes, with this caveat: You might learn, in the course of such an investigation, that a certain desk drawer system has a unique function or user, and that it's best left alone.
- Focus your users' attention. You want to learn from them what can be done better, faster or more efficiently, but realize that users don't always know their current business needs. In fact, users at different levels of an organization have different perceptions of business needs, priority and urgency. They tend to segregate by department or management level " dismissing problems because "it's not an IT issue" -- but an effective requirements document requires integration and impact analysis for all departments. Know, too, that the needs of other stakeholders (senior management, operations personnel and human resources, for example) must be considered. User frustration comes from asking for one thing and receiving another; help them articulate their needs carefully and fully. When what a user asks for is not possible, feasible or within budget, say so, because unmet expectations foster dissatisfaction. Always ask what's the relative value of a new "requirement" to avoid spending $10 to save a dime. And don't forget: users take what they have for granted, so make sure it's carried forward in the new request.
- Benefit from "outside" expertise An objective outsider, can, will and should ask the questions an insider cannot. What works? What doesn't? What frequent requests create problems because they're difficult to meet with the existing application? That's the outsider's function -- to have no vested interest in how the problem is solved. It's a common pitfall in requirements documentation to describe a problem in terms of its supposed solution -- which might not be the best, or most cost effective, approach. An outsider also can provide useful guidance on how to handle regulatory requirements that affect information systems, but that most business people are not aware of, such as the prohibition against retail businesses retaining credit card numbers after a transaction.
- Consider your upgrade as an investment and apply metrics to it A comprehensive requirements document will help you decide if the benefits of the new application or upgrade justify the cost. How much more productive can the organization be with the upgrade, compared to the current application? Track paybacks for projects and information assets to determine when to re-invest or stop further investment. It's possible that an application was a good investment -- at the time. When it was installed, perhaps it saved every one of your 5,000 clerks 30 minutes a day -- but today, you have 5 clerks and it saves them three minutes a day. That feature probably isn't worth the cost. And some stand alone features -- such as desktop publishing -- aren't needed now, thanks to the tools available in word processing applications.
- Save time. Reduce rework by spending time in the requirements gathering and analysis process, where it's much cheaper to eliminate a "need" than realizing it costs too much (or isn't cost effective) downstream in the design, development or application stage. Time invested in the initial steps of the process provides more time for decision making at the right time. More control of the process will help keep it moving; participants will know what to expect as you move from blue sky thinking to brainstorming to understanding to decision making. Tracking the results of your meetings will document what you've agreed to do and what you've agreed not to do and who made the decision.
- Save money. To start, you will eliminate ongoing costs for applications and hardware that your requirements information gathering tells you are used no longer. With the right subject matter experts and decision makers involved at the right time, you will not be able to move forward on ideas that sound promising but contain potentially expensive problems that would have to be solved later in the process -- and at a greater cost. You will open many avenues to managing costs, whether it's eliminating unnecessary systems, consolidating a value-added system or evaluating long-term versus short-term value. You might learn, for example, that in the year required to acquire and install a new system the opportunity to use it will disappear. One of the most promising benefits of developing enterprise requirements is the strong possibility you will establish standard solutions to many of your seemingly "unique" problems, obviating the need for custom solutions -- and that can be a real time and money saver.


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So here it is. Instructions for Grizzle.
I hope this helps, even though I don't have a parts list. (How do you make those anyway?) I also have put up some newer (clearer) pics in my bear folder.
And to wrap things up here's a little something I've been woking on lately. Sort of a big gnome.
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The History Channel's recent series The 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America had a segment called Einstein Letter. This dealt with Einstein letters to President Roosevelt that helped to inaugurate and then keep the Manhattan Project moving forward. I really enjoyed this particular segment and so thought it would be useful to provide some of the historical documents for this show.
Einstein First Letter in August of 1939 told President Roosevelt of the possibility of a nuclear bomb and that Germany might be also working toward this goal:
In the course of the last four months it has been made probable through the work of Joliet in France as well as Fermi and secularity in America--that it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future.
This letter garnered a quick response from FDR, who replied in October that he had acted on Einstein suggestions:
I found this data of such import that I have convened a Board consisting of the head of the Bureau of Standards and a chosen representative of the Army and Navy to thoroughly investigate the possibilities of your suggestion regarding the element of uranium.
In March of 1945, Einstein wrote to FDR again, this time telling him that there were problems between the scientists and the government officials the President had appointed:
The terms of secrecy under which Dr. Szilard is working at present do not permit him to give me information about his work; however, I understand that he now is greatly concerned about the lack of adequate contact between scientists who are doing this work and those members of your Cabinet who are responsible for formulating policy.
Einstein's suggestions to FDR resulted in the creation of the atomic bomb, which President Truman dropped on Japan in August of 1945.
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- Elektratig said...
For anyone interested in this topic, Richard Rhodes's The Making of the Atomic Bomb is first-rate. I was less impressed with his sequel, Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, but it's still worth reading.
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2013 Stevens Innovation Expo Displays University Achievements in Research and Entrepreneurship
At a full-day exposition at Stevens Institute of Technology on April 24, 2013, undergraduate students and distinguished faculty members publicly displayed how they leverage scientific research to create technological innovations to benefit industry, society and the economy – the core mission of Stevens for the past 143 years.
The annual, campus-wide Stevens Innovation Expo, organized by the Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, drew hundreds of visitors to witness the university's extensive science, engineering, business and humanities accomplishments firsthand. Showcasing more than 120 pioneering student senior design projects and featuring a student business start-up competition, a presentation on finance research at Stevens, and a faculty research poster session, the 2013 event also inaugurated a brand-new lecture series on business and entrepreneurship.
The expo kicked off with welcoming remarks from Stevens President Nariman Farvardin and Stevens Provost George Korfiatis, who said the Innovation Expo is a chance to show the world how Stevens is helping to maintain American competitive advantage technologically.
"The expo brings to life the creativity, ingenuity and passion of Stevens students and faculty as we celebrate innovation and entrepreneurship – the driving engines for the prosperity we enjoy today and what has propelled the United States to become the technological leader it is globally," said Korfiatis. "Today demonstrates how Stevens has embraced and continues to contribute to these critical national priorities, especially as competition from the new economic powers increases."
The always-popular Elevator Pitch and Project Plan Pitch competitions were the first events of the morning. The competitions pit 16 teams of Stevens students in a battle for investment funding to support their innovative research and business ideas, with prizes totaling $12,000.
Last year, two teams which competed in the Elevator Pitch and Project Plan Pitch competitions later built their ideas into actual businesses – NickelBus, an online service to travelers searching for the most convenient and affordable bus routes between cities, and Versor, a diagnostic device which reduces radiation exposure to spinal surgery patients.
This year, a distinguished judging panel comprised of entrepreneurs, CEOs and venture capitalists picked equally talented teams as the 2013 winners. AcceleroMetrix, which built a medical device for monitoring surgery patients under anesthesia, won the Elevator Pitch competition. The device, designed by Edan Golomb, Kyle Ripley, Derek Smith and Jen Trinh, helps inform physicians when it is safe to remove the breathing tube of a sedated patient.
The Stevens Greywater Treatment team, made up of Joseph Matarazzo and Adam McGuire, won the Project Plan Pitch competition. Their greywater treatment system specifically designed for Stevens promotes sustainability on campus by reusing treated sewage and storm water to flush toilets and irrigate landscape.
Other intriguing projects included Ecohabit, the energy net-zero house to be constructed for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, and COAST, a power plant designed to meet Stevens heat and electricity needs more efficiently, which took second and third, respectively, in the Project Plan Pitch competition. Elevator Pitch competition runners-up included second-place Nevros, which created a robotic surgical instrument to improve dexterity when performing spinal surgery, and third-place AquaNow, which designed a solar powered water treatment system that fits in a backpack.
After the student pitch competitions there were two compelling lectures which further demonstrated the extent and influence of the research, innovation and entrepreneurship activities by Stevens students, faculty and graduates.
First, Dr. Khaldoun Khashanah, Distinguished Service Professor & Program Director of Financial Engineering, gave an interesting presentation spotlighting the influential work coming out of Stevens' state-of-the-art financial research and teaching facility, the Financial Systems Center (FSC). Supporting Stevens' graduate and undergraduate programs in Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, Business & Technology and more, the FSC applies systems thinking to analyze and characterize the behavior of the complex global financial system.
Next was the inaugural event of the Thomas H. Scholl Lecture Series on Entrepreneurship, which is supported by a gift from Scholl, a Stevens Board of Trustees Member and General Partner at Novak Biddle Venture Partners. Keynote speaker David Hershberg '68, a Stevens alumnus, kicked off the series. Farvardin said Hershberg – who has founded three companies and is currently CEO and chairman of his latest venture, the satellite communications firm Globecomm Systems – "exemplifies what people have in mind when they think of any successful entrepreneur."
Hershberg, who recently accepted the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. Entrepreneur Award at the inaugural Stevens Awards Gala, shared his personal experiences as an accomplished entrepreneur and executive and discussed basic lessons learned over more than 50 successful years in business. He said maintaining a set of fundamental values and principles is critical – from sticking to your core competencies, to valuing existing customers, to remembering the "golden rule," to always acting with the highest level of integrity.
Building trust and empowering employees, especially, have been integral parts of Hershberg's success as an entrepreneur and business leader.
"It's important to push decision-making down to the lowest levels of an organization," said Hershberg, who likes to hold meetings in hallways and who distributes company stock to Globecomm employees to get their enthusiasm and passion flowing. "Often it's not the management, but rather an engineer on ground – someone who is closest to the customer and working day in and day out on a project – that knows what's best."
Finally, the Stevens Innovation Expo concluded with a three-hour public display of innovative research projects and inventions from Stevens students and faculty.
At a faculty poster session, visitors mingled with Stevens' world-class researchers as they highlighted their groundbreaking work in every imaginable academic discipline. Research ranged from a comparison of the impact of Hurricane Sandy on three New Jersey coastal communities, to innovative approaches to alternative energy applications, to new methods for improving information security for mobile apps, to an investigation of acoustics and noise control in buildings, to a study on leveraging social media in disaster response.
Meanwhile, the senior project expo showcased technologies, products and services developed by interdisciplinary teams of graduating seniors over two semesters of study. Stevens senior projects, which are often sponsored by industry, solve real problems faced by corporations, non-profits and consumers.
One team created a workout machine which combines cardiovascular exercise with strength training so users can achieve the benefits of both simultaneously.
Another developed a system of devices and associated processes to remove bone cement from the knee canal during knee replacement surgery.
There was a bike rental program designed for Stevens students, a wheeled-snow removal device for easier shoveling, the model for a recreational zone in Weehawken Cove, affordable head protection for female lacrosse players, a design for a Garden State Parkway bridge, an energy-efficient car, and an all-in-one music technology controller.
Even hardcore Mets fans benefited, with a mobile app designed to make exclusive team-specific information available at their fingertips.
To become involved in supporting next year's Stevens Innovation Expo, please contact the Office of Innovation & Entrepreneurship.


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Little girls. In frilly dresses. Shooting things. Yep, you're about to read a DeathSmiles review.
The game's developer Cave is no stranger to shooters, specifically of the manic side-scrolling type. Cave is to shooters what Square Enix is to role-playing games - an icon of the industry. The rigour, dedication and love puts in its titles has created a die-hard fan base, a very niche fan base. While other developers have raced to try to follow current generation fads, Cave continues to think deeply about 2D shooters and create dazzling games.
DeathSmiles is a side-scrolling horizontal shooter, which is something of a rarity for Cave as the studio tends to favour vertically scrolling shooters. Cave's first attempt at horizontal side-scrolling shooting was 2001's Progear, published by Capcom. DeathSmiles begins in Halloween Town and takes players through a Gothic Lolita bullet hell. Enemies fly in from the right and left, and players toggle between shooting left with the controller's "A" button and shooting right with the controller's "B" button.
Originally released in Japanese arcades in 2007, is the Xbox 360 version of DeathSmiles worth the three-year wait?
Right, Left, Right, Left: My favourite thing, my absolute favourite thing about this Cave game and pretty much every Cave game is that they are fun. There is a giddy craziness to their titles, an energy. Nothing feels sloppy or half-baked. Cave, it seems, is always trying to figure out how to create each 2D shooter slightly different. The side-scrolling element is largely new territory for Cave, but the studio doesn't stop there. They added the ability to shoot right and left, and that opens up the game. It's a very simple mechanic, but it works well. The art style and characters, a team of little girls in Victorian dresses, might put off some players, and some players might only be interested in this game because of the design. The real draw here is gameplay - whether that be in short bursts or longer play sessions.
We're Going To Slow This Down: One of my other favourite things about playing Cave shooters in arcades is the slowdown. There are moments when I wonder how the heck I'm going to make through the hailstorm of projectiles flying at me. And the arcade game begins to slow the action down as it crunches processing all the bullets, and it ends up being incredibly cinematic. I'd argue that slowdown in Cave shooters is one of the most cinematic moments in all of gaming. You feel for those very brief moments that reality is crawling to a halt as well. Cave reproduced that slowdown as an "effect" in DeathSmiles. It is slightly different than what you'd get on the arcade cabinet in a Japanese game centre during the middle of August, but the fact that they have included this not only shows how Cave understands its own games, but its players.
You're Not Good At Bullet Hell Games: I don't think I'm a *great* player by any stretch, but I really, really enjoy the genre. Shmups may be insular, but Cave has made every effort to create an inclusive shooter. The "Xbox 360 Mode" is not very difficult. After clearing it, they can try the Ver 1.1 Mode, a new mode for the Xbox 360, or the harder Mega Black Label Mode. The neat thing about the Xbox 360 Mode is that the version has improved graphics. Cave, however, has also included an Arcade Mode with the original graphics. Stages can even be set on difficulty levels that range from 1 to 3. There is a great deal of variety here in modes and difficulty. With DeathSmiles, Cave isn't gazing at its own navel, but looking out and onward.
Do You Like Achievements?: This game has a bunch, and not just hard ones, either. Simple ones. For those looking to beef up their Gamerscore and do it quick, this is a title you might consider picking up.
Yes, It Is A Retail Game: OK, for all intents and purposes, DeathSmiles should be a digital download, an Xbox Live Arcade game. It is not. It is a full-on retail packaged game. Cave and its US publisher are doing everything they can to give the game the most bang for the buck by releasing it as a Limited Edition version. Besides being packed with the new console-only gameplay modes (and a new character!), the game comes with a soundtrack CD and an Xbox 360 faceplate. Some might still baulk at playing $US49.99 for the game. Others won't even blink.
Cave did the Xbox 360 port of DeathSmiles in-house. Previously, the company ran into problems with buggy games when outsourcing its arcade to console ports. There's a real attention to getting this right on Cave's part, and DeathSmiles is stuffed with extras. Even years after it was originally released in Japanese arcades, DeathSmiles is still a truly enjoyable 2D shooter.
DeathSmiles was developed by Cave and published by Aksys Games for the Xbox 360 on June 29. Retails for $US49.99. Review copy was provided by the developer for reviewing purposes. Tested all modes, completed Arcade Mode.
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While you are undergoing the dental implant placement process, your dentist's lab will begin to fabricate your dentures. The dentures fabrication process involves:
After implant-supported dentures are in place, patients should properly care for their teeth and gums. The dentures, gums, and tongue should be brushed twice a day. Patients should also floss daily to remove debris between the teeth; though false teeth won't become damaged by decay, plaque build-up can still cause gum disease and bad breath. Patients with dentures should also schedule dental visits every six months so their dentists can check the fit of the dentures and look for signs of dental problems.
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Kpaine - you're awesome. Thanks for the advice. I have still not explored everything on Mac yet. Still trying to learn how to play around with GarageBand. I will look into it.
Note: My search didn't yield too much on video editing in this forum. Might have to jump on another to get more info on that. Again, thanks for the good leads.


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Try a Human Voice in Your Resume
A young guy stopped me at a university job-search-readiness event where I was speaking. "Can you take a peek at my resume?" he asked. "Let's see it," I said. I scanned the page. The spunky young man in front of me bore zero resemblance to the near-graduation zombie job-seeker described on his resume.
Results-oriented self-starter with a bottom-line orientation seeks challenging position in a growing company, the kid's resume began. "What's your major?" I asked him.
"Anthropology," he said. "Why did you pick that major?" I asked him. "When I was twelve, my dad got an assignment in Togo," he said. "Ever since then, I've wanted to do anthropology to understand how people and cultures work." "And now that you've nearly got your degree, how do you see yourself using it?" I asked. "For now," he said, "I want to work in some company – I don't really care which industry or what size – something to do with helping people understand their jobs."
I looked at the young man. So much spark and goodwill, I thought, boiled down into results-oriented gobbledygook. "Whatever job you get," I said, "your nature will bring you in contact with the team and its energy and the culture of the place where you're working. You could work in almost any department – in marketing or finance or production, for instance. It doesn't really matter which department you work in. The people who hire you will teach you how to do the stuff they need you to do. The anthropology part is what you'll bring in with you, Trojan-horse style. Still, you want to work in a place where the people get you, right?"
"Oh my gosh," he said. "Are you saying I can just be myself and still get a job? I didn't think that was an option."
"It's not an option," I said. "It's mandatory. What is your name?"
"Christopher," said the young man. "Okay, Christopher," I said, "let's try this resume summary again. On the margin of his robotic-voiced resume I scribbled:
Since a family trip to Togo at age twelve, I've been fascinated by anthropology and the way communities form and flourish. I'm avid to join a company whose culture is the key to its success, and help spread the mojo.
"For real?" asked Christopher. "Why not?" I asked him back. "Do you want to work among people who prefer the R2D2 version of you?" "I guess I always thought you're not supposed to use the word 'I' in a resume," said Christopher. "That's the Kool-Aid talking," I told him. "Can you imagine writing a branding piece for your employer without mentioning the organization's name? Could you write a product brochure without talking about the product? It's your resume, Chris. You can use 'I.'"
He did it. Christopher changed his resume to put a human voice in it, not just in the summary at the top but all the way through. He started using his new resume the next day.
"Six callbacks out of eight resumes sent out," he told me via email a few weeks later.
Can we blame employers for their weariness with the standard resume yada-yada? After all, how many results-oriented-professional-type resumes could we expect a stressed-out HR person to review in one day? Don't we owe those people a breath of fresh (human) air in the resume stack, once in a while?
The human voice in Chris's resume wasn't just an attention-getter for employers. "When I read it, it feels like me, instead of some guy in a suit who's pretending to be me," said Christopher. And isn't that the point, after all – to bring ourselves to work?
Liz Ryan is a former Fortune 500 HR exec, an operatic soprano and a workplace commentator. Reach her at www.asklizryan.com


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In a diagram, BOUML will show the attribute name and if that attribute is derived or not, but it will not show any other characteristic. In order to check visibility, type, multiplicity, default value, and property strings and constraints it is necessary tot open the properties dialog for that specific inlined attribute.
It is there any way to display this information in the diagram box?
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Obama: 'We are heartbroken' over Fort Hood shooting
President Obama said Wednesday the nation's hearts go out to Fort Hood, Texas, where families are suffering through the second mass shooting in five years.
In a statement to the White House press pool, he said:
"I just got off the phone with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Sandy Winnefeld to get the latest report on the situation in Fort Hood. Obviously we're following it closely. The situation is fluid right now. But my national security team is in close contact with not just the Defense Department but the FBI. They are working with folks on the ground to determine exactly what happened to make sure that everybody is secure. And I want to just assure all of us that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened.
"Any shooting is troubling. Obviously this reopens the pain of what happened at Fort Hood five years ago. We know these families. We know their incredible service to our country and the sacrifices that they make. Obviously our thoughts and prayers were — are with the entire community. And we are going to do everything we can to make sure that the community at Fort Hood has what it needs to deal with the current situation, but also any potential aftermath.
"We're heartbroken that something like this might have happened again. And I don't want to comment on the facts until I know exactly what has happened, but for now, I would just hope that everybody across the country is keeping the families and the community at Fort Hood in our thoughts and in our prayers. The folks there have sacrificed so much on behalf of our freedom. Many of the people there have been on multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. They served with valor; they served with distinction. And when they're at their home base they feel safe. We don't yet know what happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once again. And we're going to have to find out exactly what happened."
Obama was in Chicago late Wednesday. Earlier in the day, he gave a minimum wage speech at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Whenever you smell the lovely smell of fresh coffee or drop a tea bag into hot water you're benefiting from diffusion: the fact that particles moving at random under the influence of thermal energy spread themselves around. It's this process that wafts coffee particles towards your nose and allows the tea to spread around the water. Diffusion underlies a huge number of processes and it has been studied intensively for over 150 years. Yet it wasn't until very recently that one of the most important assumptions of the underlying theory was confirmed in an experiment.
It's 21st of October and for puzzle lovers this can only mean one thing: the G4G Celebration of mind. This annual party celebrates the legacy of Martin Gardner, magician, writer and father of recreational maths, with mathemagical events in his honour happening all over the world.
In 1982 Dan Shechtman discovered a crystal that would revolutionise chemistry. He has just been awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery — but has the Nobel committee missed out a chance to honour a mathematician for his role in this revolution as well?
Next year sees the centenary of Alan Turing's birth. To celebrate, the Mathscareers website is running a competition for 17 to 19 year-olds. Your task is to write an article on Turing's work and the prize is £100 Amazon voucher and having your article published on the website. See the Mathscareers website for more details.


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I think I understand the concept of static(.lib) vs. dynamic(.dll) libraries, but I don't think I fully understand the various kinds of .lib libraries.
1) I'm using MSBUILD to build a .dll library, and when I compile my codes, it creates .obj, .lib, and .dll files. So I understand what .obj and .dll files are, but why is the .lib library created? Is this library an import library? if so, where is it used? and which information can it contain?
2) Also I believe that there are MSBUILD macros like DLLLIBOBJECTS that we use to add extra objects to an import library. What purpose would it serve to add additional object files?
3) I built a mylib.lib file using C++ codes. This code uses Windows Crypto APIs. I also have another .dll project that links against this .lib file. Attempting to compile the .dll project without linking Crypt32.lib against it (using TARGETLIBS macro) resulted in unresolved symbol error (symbols representing the APIs that I used in the .lib source files). Because I didn't want to put burden on every project that uses mylib.lib of having to link against the crypt32.lib, I wanted to link crypt32.lib to mylib.lib, so that all such projects could simply link against one library mylib.lib, instead of two. But the same unresolved symbol error resulted when I tried to use this new mylib.lib. (the new mylib.lib was compiled after adding TARGETLIBS=$(LIBRARY_PATH)\Crypt32.lib in "sources" file of mylib.lib project). So is it the case that a .lib can't be linked within another .lib file?
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Librarians know that it can be hard to navigate the range of online media resources and feel confident about their quality. To help educators prepare for this school year, we're providing a list of useful online resources. Teachers can experiment and add these resources to their toolkits for middle and high school classrooms. Visit the Articles and Databases page of sfpl.org to find resources containing information collected from books, magazines, research journals and other authoritative sources, each with bibliographical citations.
For social studies and history:
- San Francisco Chronicle Historical offers news articles from 1865-1922.
- New York Times Historical offers news articles from 1851 to three years ago.
- Opposing Viewpoints is a great site for getting information on both sides of controversial issues. There is a list of commonly searched topics, and a wealth of other possible searches; good for students who are learning how to have to present theses and need more in-depth research.
- Biography Resources Center + Marquis Who's Who is useful for finding well-known figures, as well as learning about more obscure people who students may have a hard time locating in encyclopedias.
For science, geography and health
- Gale Virtual Reference Library and Student Resource Center both have sources on the environment, medicine, cloning and other topics.
- Sanborn Maps California offers digital access to maps of California from 1867 to 1970
- Teen Health and Wellness has information from experts on physical and emotional health related concerns for teens.
For the college bound:
- CollegeSource Online has full text college catalogs for about 45,000 colleges.
- LearningExpress Library offers online practice tests for the SAT, GED and other standardized tests.
Other recommended online resources for educators
- CIA World Factbook is a government resource that has a broad range of information on governments around the world and more general geographical information. www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
- Online Archive of California has a range of digitized primary source materials to view, as well as curricular tools to provide lessons on topics from native Californians to the Gold Rush to the internment of Japanese citizens. www.CaliSphere.UniversityOfCalifornia.edu
- Freedom Archives is useful for school projects on social-justice movements in the Bay Area. Students may want to explore the audio recordings from this resource, which is based in San Francisco's Mission District. www.FreedomArchives.org
Media sources by and for young people:
- Youth Radio is regularly featured on NPR. The website has a range of stories from pop culture to youth viewpoints on the hard news issues of the day. http://www.youthradio.org/
- YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Features in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages. http://www.YouthOutlook.org/news/


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Signs that you might be ready to move up from the kid's table
Moving up to the adult table — is there any holiday milestone that is more significant to people partaking in Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners?
But, when does one have the right to demand a big person's chair a the main meal table?
Here are some signs that you might be ready to move up from the smaller kid's table:
• You annually are chosen to say a pre-meal prayer for the entire room, and do so enthusiastically, publicly speaking without first being spoken to.
• Without being a parent, you are starting to help dish out food to children sitting beside you.
• Your assistance in preparing the meal included duties beyond just stirring things.
• It's been years since you last made a holiday toast with a sippy-cup.
• You no longer can stand up, or even stoop slightly, when you walk under dinner table to sneak the food to the family dog.
• Mom doesn't have to keep holding onto the dish when you pass the mashed potatoes.
• Others at the kids' table are calling you "aunt" or "uncle," not "cousin."
• Drinking requires the use of only one hand.
• You have two or more political or religious views that, if discussed, could cause one of your relatives to leave the holiday gathering in a huff.
• You brought one of the covered dishes to the dinner.• Last Thanksgiving, you ate a second helping of your grandmother's green-bean casserole.
• You have gone out to the kitchen at least once to fetch something that was forgotten.
• No one seems concerned, or warns you to be careful, when it is revealed that you accidentally got a dinner dish that is breakable.
• You can't remember the last time you smeared any gooey food into your hair or the hair of a loved one.
• When someone at your table spills a glass of something, you immediately get up to get paper towels, instead of just sitting there pointing and giggling.
• At a recent holiday meal, you dominated the discussion with the explanation of some illness.
• Cranberry sauce. You ate it.
• At some point in a past meal, you praised the host by saying, "Everything is just so delicious," or made the announcement, "No dessert for me; I couldn't eat another thing."
• Towards the end of the meal, you encourage your tablemates to "c'mon, eat up, we've got to use this table to play cards."
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When Playa Vista was established on the Westside of Los Angeles, it was the first new community in that area in more than 50 years. With its completion, the innovative mixed use community proposed to balance critically needed residential, commercial and retail space. In accordance with Playa Vista's master development plan, the community would create a place to live, work and play while protecting the open space and habitat on Los Angeles' Westside.
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NEW MEXICO - COORDINATED CAMPAIGN IN 2000During the 2000 presidential election, New Mexico was one of five national battleground states targeted by Al Gore. Early polling showed the New Mexico electorate to be equally divided between Gore and Bush. In addition to acting as a bellwether state for the presidency, the New Mexico Democratic Party also had Senate and House seats to defend -- over the course of ten years, the once strongly Democratic State Legislature had eroded to a slim majority and was at risk for further loss.
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MILLION MOM MARCHThe Million Mom March made headlines on Mother's Day 2000 when more than 750,000 mothers and supporters gathered in Washington, DC to demand tougher gun laws. After this historic event, the Million Mom March transformed into a national grassroots organization with more then 225 chapters in 46 states. Seeking to build on the momentum from the Mother's Day rally, Burnside & Associates designed and led a national get-out-the-vote (GOTV) campaign to educate voters and, consequently, influence the 2000 Congressional elections.
WESTFIELD MALL - THE NEW CENTURY CITY PLAZAWhen Westfield Malls wanted to expand and revitalize its Mall on Santa Monica Boulevard (one of the most over-developed areas in California) in 2008, it turned to Burnside & Associates to lead its community outreach program aimed at persuading the residents in the Century City area to express their support.
BEVERLY HILTON AND YES ON MEASURE HThe Beverly Hilton retained Burnside & Associates in 2007 to manage its community outreach campaign to educate and persuade residents in Beverly Hills to support their massive renovation and construction project on a nine-acre site. The project envisioned the removal of a five-story, 150,000 square foot parking structure, the demolition of a four-story building and the removal of an extensive stretch of office buildings and to build in its place, a twelve-story Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, an eight-story Waldorf Wilshire Residences of 26 luxury residences, and the Waldorf Santa Monica Residences, an 18-story luxury building with 64 residences. Given the project was sited on the busiest triangle in Los Angeles - the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards and the nexus of some 90,000 daily car traffic - opposition from anti-development activists was certain to be fierce. Beyond organized opponents, there were neighborhood concerns about noise, dust and truck disruptions, diverted traffic patterns and lack of parking.
VERNON POWER PROJECTThe City of Vernon, seeking to decommission an aging power plant and to replace it with a new electric generating facility that produces 85% fewer emissions than existing natural gas plants, hired Burnside & Associates in 2008. Our task was to create a huge community outreach plan (walking, direct mail and phoning) to the communities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Huntington Park and Maywood about the benefits of the proposed power plant.
BUILDING THE HISPANIC-LATINO VOTE: MOVING AMERICA FORWARDGoing into the 2004 General Election, there was no question that the Hispanic and Latino vote across the U.S. would decide the outcome of elections up and down the ballot, and potentially the Presidency itself. In the key states of Florida, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, the Latino vote had historically lagged behind population estimates, greatly under representing an important and ever-growing voice on Election Day.
WOODSIDE NATURAL GAS - OCEANWAYWoodside Natural Gas, an Australian energy company, retained Burnside & Associates in 2008 to explain its state-of-the-art means of delivering LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach via a tanker-buoy system to the community affected by its OceanWay project.


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DXRacer OH/CE120/NR
- Free lumbar cushion included
- Adjustable backseat and armrests
- Leather style vinyl cover (Faux-leather)
- Perfect for users up to 250 lbs (113 kg)
- Fits users up to 180 cm (5'11")
- High density mould shaping foam
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|DXRacer OH/CE120/NR
|Black, Red
|Leather style vinyl
|Chair height
|51 to 55" (adjustable)
|3D Straight Armrests (?)
|Multi-functional (?)
|Strong Black Aluminium
|Seat size
|21"W (Front) x 19.5"W (Back) x 19"D/td>
|Seat height (from ground to seat)
|18" to 21.5"
|Armrests height (from ground to armrests)
|24" to 30"
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|Backseat shoulder width
|Backseat type
|Adjustable back
|Yes (120°)
|Suggested user's weight limit
|250 lbs / 113.40 kg
|Suggested user's height
|Up to 180 cm / 5 ft 11 in
|Chair weight
|66 lbs / 30 kg
|Accessories included
|Lumbar cushion
|Frame warranty
|Parts warranty
|2 years
|Accessories warranty
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Actual sizing may slightly vary from the chart.
Question: Does it come with a lumbar and/or headrest cushion?
Answer: The C Series only comes with a lumbar cushion since the headrest is already integrated to the backseat.
Question: How much weight can this chair support?
Answer: This chair is suggested for users up to 5'10" and up to 225 lbs.
Question: What is the difference between this chair and the other chairs of the C series?
Answer: Beside the colors and designs, there is no difference in size or parts between the C series chairs. The only difference is that the models ending with "/FT" come with an integrated footrest as shown in the pictures. Otherwise, the rest is the same.
Question: Is it possible to upgrade a part (such as the armrest) of this product?
Answer: Unfortunately, at the moment, it is not possible to upgrade or change the original parts of the chair.
Question: If this product is sold out, how long can it take before it gets back in stock?
Answer: This can depend on a variety of factors. Usually, an out-of-stock chair can take 1 to 3 weeks to restock. The best way to know when a chair is back in stock is to use the notification button on the product's page. This way, you are sure to not miss the next restock.
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Run/Pass Balance, Game Theory, and the Passing Premium Revisited
Although I can't say exactly that they were inspired by my work - though these posts were released in mid-2006 - there has been much serious work done in the areas since.
First, one of the phenomena I identified was that in a world without risk, coaches ought to be neutral between running and passing, and so should call them in whatever mixture produces the most yards per play. But I identified a "passing premium," which refers to the fact that in the real world, passes tend to average more yards per play than runs, and coaches generally do not throw the ball more to correct for this perceived imbalance. I argued that this made sense because passes are generally riskier than runs, but teams might still be out of wack one way or another. The other side of the coin was that supposedly imbalanced teams, be they run first or pass first teams, were often very much balanced in their play selection than people give them credit for.
Well, this idea has engendered much recent scholarship and commentary, including two articles in the Journal of Quantative Analysis in Sports:
- Benjamin Alamar, The Passing Premium Puzzle.
- Duane Rockerbie, The Passing Premium Puzzle Revisited.
- Sabermetric Research, NFL Passing Premium Puzzle Revisited.
The other phenomena I touched on in those articles was that the choice between running and passing, in terms of maximizing your expected gain, was not absolute. Instead it was a game theory problem. In other words, just because passes tends to average more than rushes does not mean that you should call 100% passes. If you pass more and more, the other team will shift their strategy. But even more importantly, the other team will adjust its strategy based on your intrinsic payout structure: If you are an excellent passing team, they will obviously call more pass defenses (or add an extra defensive back, etc) but if your payout structure changes - i.e. an excellent running back returns from injury - that does not mean that you should automatically run more and more, because the other team, knowing that he is back, will be forced to counter your running back. The exact change in optimal run/pass balance can change, but the upshot is that your passing game will often become more attractive when a great running back comes back, because the defense must shift its strategy. So when TV announcers say that just because you have a new or better running back, then that team must automatically run the ball more, do not believe it.
This idea too has engendered commentary (again, not necessarily as a direct result of my posts, but I wrote about it some years ago and I'm happy to see the ideas proliferate):
- Advanced NFL Stats, Game Theory and Run/Pass Balance.
- Advanced NFL Stats, Passing Paradox. (I mention this article too because it cites some of my older work, which attempted to account for the riskiness of runs and passes and find their optimal mix by using the Sharpe ratio from financial economics. See also here, and here.)
I look forward to more and more analysis on these topics. Football is by far the most interesting sport to analyze, but also the most difficult. So, so many variables. Each play is discrete, but interconnected to the others in intricate ways (hence, game theory). Further, to analyze it requires a certain basic competency in football, statistics, probability, and economics (along with time) that few possess. As great as Football Outsiders is, they have produced very little that is useful to the typical coach. But the ideas here transcend the fan and the practitioner. I am sure there is more to come.
Links to my past articles:
Run/Pass Balance and a Little Game Theory
Run/Pass Balance - Response to Comments I
Run/Pass Balance - Response to Comments II
The Sharpe Ratio for Football - I
The Sharpe Ratio for Football - II
The Sharpe Ratio for Football - III
3 comments:
- Phil said...
I looked at this a while back
I looked a run pass balence after the 2003 season and what I found was that there was no correlation between a higher pass/run ratio and a higher yeards per play average
What there was a correlation for was between a lower pass/run ratio and a higher yards per pass average
that year Detroi had the highest pass/run ratio and one of the lowest yards per pass ratios, where as Green Bay and Denver had two of the lowest run pass ratios and 2 of the highest yards per pass averages (if I remember right Atlanta was an outlier having one of the lowest pass/run ratio yet a relatively pedestrian yards per pass average)
2 explainations came to mind, one that runnning the ball more allows your o be more effective through the air, or two that if you were effective through the air you built up a big lead early and ran the ball the rest of the game
I think that if you were able to just do 1st half run pass ratio to yards per play and yards per pass that would lend insight, but that was more work than I was willing to do then or now
I, too, read the original article and gave some thought to the notion of passing premiums and what they mean to the game. In my opinion the issue holds very sound dependent on the quality of execution and quarterback play. I am sure we can all agree that there is no substitute for solid quarterback play in terms of offensive production. But there is also something to be said for the element of surprise within a play and the idea that an offense may not attempt to gain as many yards as possible on every play. That could certainly skew an analysis of the inferential statistics regarding the passing premium. A team may not want to incur the risk of going for 12 in the air if they only need 3 on the ground.
For two examples I would look at the Colts and Patriots as they have that outstanding quarterback play. The element of surprise within the passing play has never been more prolific (in my rather brief 25 years of watching football) than it was with Peyton Manning and Edge James. In 04 and 05 Manning had an average of 9.2 and 8.5 despite what had been a very steady 7.4 average before and since. Seeing a lot of the Colts, I believe that this was specifically because of the savvy of the Manning/James duo in the play action deception and the very crisp and veteran receiving staff of Harrison, Wayne, and Stokely. I pose that the well placed threat of playaction was able to enhance the passing premium of the Colts during these years. As you stated in the original post, you must pick your best weapons and play them. The threat of James enhanced the accuracy of Manning and the route running of the receivers.
As for the other example, I pose that the awesome deep weapon that is Randy Moss was without equal when paired with extremely sound quarterback play from Brady. Perhaps in no other system has the theory of a passing premium been proved more true. One could extend this comment to greater lengths to cover that tandem, but suffice it to say that the deep ability of Moss opened up the underneath for Welker and that their overall effectiveness made the running game moot. Brady could throw the 5 yard out to Welker as safely as Maroney could carry it for 3 so why not throw to Welker? There is simply no reason to disguise it. Ironically, it was good pressure from the front four without the risk of excessive blitzing that finally overcame them. A good lesson for GMs in the future? Perhaps Jacksonville was not foolish in taking two pass rushers in the first round? THey do have to play Manning twice a year.
- Zennie said...
One aspect to consider: time. A team that passes 100 percent of the time uses less of the clock but suffers simply tiring out the offense, thus making it less effective in maintaining block over time.
An effective run play can serve to strategically shorten the game. Thus the genius of Coach Walsh's approach, where he passed early to establish a large lead, then ran the ball to run out the clock.


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