text:
What is LUX and Light Sensitivity?
Light sensitivity, or minimum illumination, refers to the smallest amount of light needed for the camera to produce an image of useable quality. Minimum illumination is presented in lux (lx), which is a measure of illuminance. In general, provided it is not overexposed, the image will be better the more light that is available in the scene. If the amount of light is insufficient, the image will be noisy or dark. The amount of light that is required to produce a good-quality image depends on the camera and how sensitive to light it is.
To capture good quality images in low light or dark conditions, a day and night camera that takes advantage of near-infrared light is required. For detection in complete darkness and difficult conditions such as smoke, haze and dust, a thermal network camera provides the best solution.
Different light conditions offer different illuminance. Many natural scenes have fairly complex illumination, with both shadows and highlights that give different lux readings in different parts of a scene. It is important, therefore, to keep in mind that one lux reading does not indicate the light condition for a scene as a whole, nor does it say anything about the direction of the light.
|Examples of different levels of illuminance.
|Lighting condition
|100,000 lux
|Strong sunlight
|10,000 lux
|Full daylight
|500 lux
|Office light
|100 lux
|Poorly lit room
Many manufacturers specify the minimum level of illumination needed for a network camera to produce an acceptable image. Whereas such specifications are helpful in making light sensitivity comparisons for cameras produced by the same manufacturer, a similar comparison between products from different manufacturers is flawed by default. This is because different manufacturers use different methods and have different criteria for what is an acceptable image. In other words, the process of measuring light sensitivity is complicated and inconclusive. There are several reasons for this.
Incident light vs. reflected light
Lux meters and cameras collect different light information. Whereas a lux meter records the amount of visible light that hits, or illuminates, a given area (incident light), a camera records the amount of light reflected from the objects in the covered area (reflected light). Thus, the lux readings of two people occupying the same space, where one is dressed in white and the other in black, would turn out identical. However, the amount of light captured by a camera covering the same scene may be lower or higher, partly because the person dressed in black reflects less light than the person dressed in white.
The difference between incident light measured by a lux meter and reflected light captured by a camera.
Lux value examples
Natural scenes often have complex illumination. When a lux value is measured in a scene, it only represents the illuminance at the object in focus. In the images below, for example, the lux value represents the illuminance at the point of the tree or in front of the building. The brighter sky and the darker ground are not taken into account.
5 lux.
80 lux.
4000 lux.
Factors that influence the light sensitivity
A camera's light sensitivity is dependent on a number of manipulable factors. There are a number of factors that influence the light sensitivity of a camera, including:
- Exposure time
- F-stop
- Sensor quality and size
- Lens quality
- Color temperature
Methods are subject to variation due to lack of standard. There is currently no global standard for measuring minimum illumination on the market, which means that not even the market leaders share the same method, making it a challenge for any vendor to achieve fair values and for customers to trust them. To properly compare the low light performance of two different cameras, the cameras should be placed side by side and be viewing a moving object in low light.
Source = http://www.axis.com/sk/en/learning/web-articles/technical-guide-to-network-video/light-sensitivity


text:
DUBOIS – Two information sessions are planned for individuals interested in learning more about educational opportunities and careers in telecommunications.
At the sessions, Continuing Education professionals from Penn State DuBois will provide an overview of the Telecommunications Technologies Certification program. The program and information sessions are open to anyone interested in starting a new career in this growing industry.
The information sessions will provide potential students with details about the 110-hour Telecommunications Technologies Certification program, which certifies individuals as Level I Technicians in network cabling in both copper-based and fiber optic systems. Individuals will have a chance to meet the instructor, see demonstrations of training equipment used, and learn about funding that may be available to them to help cover the cost of tuition.
Information sessions are planned for 1:30 p.m. March 5, and 6:30 p.m. March 6. Both will be held at the Brockway Center for Arts and Technology, 1200 Wood St., in Brockway.
To reserve a seat, contact Betsy at 814-372-3005, or firstname.lastname@example.com.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
YouTube is rolling out automatic captions to millions of the clips hosted on the video-sharing site.
The Google-owned site trialled automatic captions on a handful of videos from the University of California, Yale University and National Geographic last November in a bid to make the site more accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing.
YouTube said it plans to add automatic captions to all of its nine million English-language videos, with other languages following in the coming months.
It warned web users the service wasn't perfect and where necessary a transcript of the video will be made available for download to improve the experience.
The automatic captions are created using Google's Voice search which analyses the audio track of the video clip.
"Twenty hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute. Making some of these videos more accessible to people who have hearing disabilities or who speak different languages, not only represents a significant advancement in the democratisation of information, it can also help foster greater collaboration and understanding," said YouTube's product manager, Hiroto Tokusei, in a blog.
Emma Harrison from the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID) added: "Captioning will significantly help people with a hearing loss understand video content and increase their ability to share experiences of watching those in which speech plays a prominent part."
YouTube also said there would be a "request processing" button that allows web users to request a video be captioned. Tokusei said this would, in some cases, "speed up the availability of auto-captions".


text:
Search Site:
Order a FlyerLove To TeachorSchool Nurse
Note Pad & Pencil Sets
View Shopping Cart
Geography Teacher - Note Pad and Pencil Set - GT-61
5in.x 8in. color note pad with a pencil
Price: $4.25
Visit SchoolNurseGifts.com for School Nurses!
Visit GotHopeIDo.com for Cancer Awareness.
©2010 Linda Vollmer. All Rights Reserved
Teacher gifts, lapel pins, neck ties, T-shirts, totebags, note pads, teacher appreciation gifts, denim shirts, gifts for educators, mugs, pens, pins


text:
Matt Redman
Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
Matt Redman In The GRAMMY Winner's Circle
(The Recording Academy asked a number of 55th GRAMMY Awards winners to share their thoughts on winning, performing and simply experiencing the excitement of the telecast.)
The whole GRAMMY experience was wonderful. Frankly, I'd have flown over from the UK just to experience all those epic performances during the evening telecast event. So to end up on that stage a couple of times to collect two GRAMMY Awards for "10,000 Reasons" was just above and beyond. It was one of the hugest encouragements of my life, especially as for the next 24 hours I had a deluge of encouragements and warm messages flying in from all over the world.
I woke up the next day to an email that put everything into perspective. Someone wrote to me of how their loved one, who was in the late stages of terminal cancer, had requested that "10,000 Reasons" be playing during their final moments on this Earth. So as they passed away from this life and into the next, they had our song on repeat. It was a heart-wrenching and poignant reminder of why I do what I do. I will always hugely value the honor of picking up those GRAMMY Awards for this song, but of course that's not ultimately why I write and sing. It's for moments like that hospital bedside — the amazing thought that our music could somehow breathe hope and grace into the most intense moments of a person's life.
(Matt Redman won GRAMMYs for Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance and, along with co-writer Jonas Myrin, Best Contemporary Christian Music Song for "10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)," marking the first GRAMMY wins of his career. The song is the title track on Redman's 2011 album, 10,000 Reasons, which topped Billboard's Christian Albums chart.)


text:
Circus music sounds as a camera cuts to a short clip of a well-known, fuming, bearded comandante. Standing at a podium, he wears a drab military uniform and madly gesticulates with his left hand. Red letters flash: Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Next comes an equally terse clip of a handsome fortyish man with thinning black hair and a dark suit, his face contorted in anger. He makes exactly the same gestures with the same hand. More red letters: U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart.
A third face appears. More irate gestures. Another menacing scowl. In red: U.S. Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart.
The loop repeats. Then comes the kicker: This November ... lets end the family circus. Vote against Fidels nephews.
In less than two weeks, a South Florida political dynasty will almost certainly disappear. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, fierce anti-Communists who are indeed Castros nephews by a failed first marriage, will likely lose victims of the anti-Republican discontent sweeping America. They are scions of a family that has dominated politics in both Havana and Washington for more than a half-century.
Until now, the Diaz-Balarts have skated through elections. But two Democratic challengers seem to have their number. Former Hialeah Mayor Raul Martinez and onetime Cuban American National Foundation chief Joe Garcia have raised more than $2 million. Recently released polls by Telemundo 51 and the Rothenberg Report show the Republican siblings trailing the Dems or locked in a dead heat. The November 4 election will tip their way if Obama voters show in force, which is likely.
That result will forever alter U.S. policy toward Cuba. And it might signal a shift of the Republican partys staunchest South Florida allies Cuban-Americans.
Ironically, though all four candidates have roots on the island, the race will be largely decided by ballots of other Hispanics, who now outnumber Cuban voters in the state. "The biggest factor in this race," opines Dario Moreno, executive director of the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University, a local political think tank, "is the non-Cuban Hispanics who are not necessarily loyal to the GOP."
Ashen rain clouds darken the sky over the Miami Springs Country Club on Curtiss Parkway. A monsoon-like downpour pelts the golf course. But the dreary weather doesn't dampen the mood inside the swanky clubhouse's ballroom, where 75 guests have gathered to hear the jowly, heavy-set, and towering Raul Martinez deliver a pugnacious stump speech. It's about 10 minutes before the candidate takes the podium, and an invitee named Andres Nazario, a slim fellow with a bushy mustache, stands near the wooden bar, where two bartenders are handing out free booze.
The 46-year-old is a rarity in these parts. He is a Cuban-American Democrat. "Cuba is an insignificant issue in this election," he says. "What is important is the economy and getting out of Iraq."
Nazario represents a shift in South Florida's political landscape. Democrats began losing Cuban-Americans after the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961, when President John F. Kennedy didn't supply promised air support and the effort failed. Ronald Reagan sealed the demographic for the Republicans after his 1980 election.
Last month, the Cuban Affairs Journal — a scholarly rag published by a University of Miami think tank — found that Cuban-American voters overwhelmingly identify as Republicans, but the community's views on social issues diverge from the party's. The report concludes that once the Communist regime comes to an end on the island, the exiles' Republican identity might melt away.
The two districts ruled by the Diaz-Balarts have traditionally been the most Cuban-American in the nation. Lincoln's area runs from South Broward to South Miami-Dade and includes Miramar, Hialeah, Miami Lakes, and parts of Kendall. Mario's district encompasses Perrine, Cutler Bay, Goulds, Homestead, and Florida City, as well as small parts of Monroe and Collier counties.
Two years ago, registered Republicans outnumbered Democrats 218,000 to 166,000 in Miami-Dade, which makes up the bulk of both districts. Today Dems have narrowed the gap, trailing the Republicans' 227,000 registered voters by only 28,000 (as of September 5). In Mario's district, 13,000 Democrats have registered since this past summer.
Meanwhile, Republican registration is down in both districts. "The Democrats have mounted a very aggressive campaign to register new voters," the Metropolitan Center's Moreno says.
Then there's the question of so-called Republican Party fatigue. Younger generations of Cuban-Americans are less likely to follow the hard-line exile politics of their parents. According to a poll released earlier this year by the Foundation for Normalization of U.S.-Cuba Relations, 48 percent of surveyed registered voters in the Diaz-Balarts' districts are "more likely'' to vote for a presidential candidate who would allow Cuban-Americans to travel freely to the island, while 36 percent stated they would be less likely to support such a person.
The Diaz-Balarts support the travel restrictions. Their challengers are in favor of easing them.
With regard to money, the races are close. Lincoln has raised $1.6 million to Martinez's $1.3 million, while Mario has collected $1.2 million to Garcia's $1 million, according to reports filed this past August 6, the most recent available.
The parties are also pumping millions of dollars into the districts, and third-party political groups, known as 527s, are playing a prominent role. One group, called the Patriot Majority, has distributed six mailers assailing Lincoln for repeatedly voting in favor of congressional pay raises. One of them shows the older Diaz-Balart's profile next to five stacks of hundred-dollar bills. "We count on our congressman to protect the American dream," it says. "Lincoln Diaz-Balart has continually voted to use our tax dollars to raise his own salary."
The Republican Party of Florida has responded with a newsletter called Ultima Noticia, chock full of spooky Cold War intrigue. It cites Martinez contributors who legally set up trips to Cuba: "The Cuban tyranny and its associates, collaborators, and defenders in the United States have concluded the only way to end the embargo ... is to remove Lincoln Diaz-Balart and replace him with Raul Martinez, who supports multimillion-dollar unilateral concessions for the Cuban tyranny."
It's October 4, and Lincoln Diaz-Balart is holding court inside a storefront campaign office in a Hialeah shopping center on West 12th Avenue. Nineteen Nicaraguans and Hondurans are here to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Congress's passage of a law that granted legal residency to thousands of Central Americans.
The visitors are seated in a small conference room with a large blue vinyl campaign sign hanging on one wall and the American and Nicaraguan flags draped on another. Lincoln, dressed in a tan checkered short-sleeve button-down shirt, black slacks, and black loafers, stands in front. Next to him is Cristóbal Mendoza, a Nicaraguan with a balding pate and wisps of gray hair, who announces his community's support for Lincoln's re-election. "We are here to tell you that you have our vote," Mendoza declares. "Lincoln, you are going to win."
The smiling candidate begins his speech. "In the next 30 days, we are going to see a never-ending series of insults and attacks," he says. "But being here, seeing Nicaraguans with their naturalization certificates, is worth all the attacks my opponent is going to throw against me."
The crowd shouts, "¡Que viva Lincoln!"
"I have a strong base of support among non-Cuban Hispanics," Lincoln comments shortly after concluding his presentation. "You're seeing that today."
The Diaz-Balarts have played a significant role in Cuban politics since the Batista days. Their father is the late Rafael Diaz-Balart, who served as the majority leader of the Cuban House of Representatives from 1954 to 1958. Their aunt, Mirta, was Castro's first wife and the mother of his first child. The couple divorced in 1955, one year after Lincoln was born.
The Diaz-Balart family fled Cuba for South Florida in 1960. Lincoln attended high school in Madrid, later earned a bachelor's degree from New College in Sarasota, and then received a law degree from Case Western Reserve. With an electric smile and a booming voice, he worked as a private litigator before attempting to begin a political career in 1982. Then 28 years old and a Democrat, he ran for the state house and lost.
In 1985, enchanted by Ronald Reagan's anti-Communism and perhaps sensing a better path to power, Lincoln and Mario switched parties. The next year, Lincoln entered the state house as a Republican. Soon he won a state senate seat, and in 1992 he was elected to Congress. Two years later, he became the first Hispanic in United States history to be named to the powerful Rules Committee.
Mario is seven years younger, less shrill, and more affable than his brother. He dropped out of the University of South Florida and followed Lincoln to the state house, eventually chairing the redistricting committee that created the congressional district where he won election.
Throughout their political careers, the Diaz-Balarts have vehemently opposed Castro. Just a year after election to Congress, Lincoln axed $23 million in federal funds for the district of U.S. Rep David Skaggs, a Colorado Democrat, after Skaggs succeeded in temporarily killing funds for TV Martí. In 1995, the South Florida congressman handcuffed himself to a White House fence to protest President Bill Clinton's Cuba policy and was arrested for civil disobedience.
A year later, Lincoln drafted much of the legislation that strengthened the embargo, attempting to leverage freeing of political prisoners and scheduling of elections. Mario has supported his brother's Cuba policies and the Bush administration's severe restrictions on sending money and traveling to the island.
Their zealotry has sometimes caused controversy. In 1985, Lincoln supported having an "Orlando Bosch Day" to celebrate the anti-Castro terrorist shortly after his release from a Venezuelan prison. Fifteen years later, the older Diaz-Balart advocated and won the release of José Dionisio Suárez Esquivel and Virgilio Paz Romero, both convicted for the notorious 1976 car bombing that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier.
In 2003, the brothers lobbied the Panamanian government to free Luis Posada Carriles, who was imprisoned there for his role in an alleged plot to assassinate Castro and has been accused of killing dozens of Cubans in an airline bombing. He was later freed.
Of course, Lincoln has done many other things. In 1997, he helped restore disability benefits and food stamps to legal immigrants who had been cut off by welfare reform. The same year, he authored a measure that granted legal residency to hundreds of thousands of Central American immigrants in the United States. He also came up with legislation to stiffen penalties for stalking crimes against children.
Mario has staked out turf as a rare Republican environmentalist, win ning more than $1 billion for Everglades restoration and other local projects.
Just last week, the Miami Herald endorsed Mario (but not Lincoln), citing his dedication to environmental causes. "We recommend Mr. Diaz-Balart in this race ... for delivering resources and jobs to the district," the editors wrote.
Political problems have dogged the pair, and this could be the key to their undoing a couple of weeks from now. The Federal Elections Commission in 2000 slapped Lincoln with $30,000 in fines after an audit showed he had collected $114,000 in contributions but never accounted for them. Among other issues cited by Democrats and backed up in public records:
• In the mid-Nineties, critics say, Mario used his position as an appointed member of the Florida Entertainment Commission to gain advantage for clients — including filmmakers and production companies — of his private PR firm, Gordon Diaz-Balart and Partners.
• That public relations firm also represented Florida Power & Light in 1997, when Mario voted for a state budget that included $900,000 for FPL's campaign to promote electric cars.
• The brothers this year have collected more than $14,000 from a political action committee run by a Maryland-based prosthetics company, Hangar Orthopedic Group. They cosponsored a bill to broaden insurance coverage for products of the firm, which federal prosecutors and the Securities and Exchange Commission are probing over claims of Medicare fraud.
• Since 2001, Medley contractors Locust USA and Mark Two Engineering have given $67,000 to the Diaz-Balart campaigns and their PAC, Democracy Believers, according to the Miami Herald. Locust has obtained about $10 million in Pentagon research and development contracts through congressional earmarks sponsored by Lincoln.
The brothers and their representatives insist they have gone to great lengths to avoid conflicts of interest and that the claims are meaningless when compared to the good they've done for the community. Amid the celebrating Central Americans in his campaign office, Lincoln defends his and Mario's actions: "Hangar Orthopedic helped me get prosthetics for Ukrainian kids missing limbs last October." He adds that his work on behalf of Locust, which develops products with Mark Two, will put Miami-Dade at the "forefront of military technology development."
His opponent, Raul Martinez, has criticized him for accepting money from tainted sources. But Lincoln scoffs. "Raul questioning my ethics," he says, "is like Al Capone complaining about someone running a red light."
A closeup of Raul Martinez's mug shot fills the television screen. Slow-motion video footage shows the ex-Hialeah mayor entering a Mercedes-Benz. Then, suddenly, the camera cuts to an image of a judge's gavel slamming the podium superimposed with the word guilty. Headlines announce Martinez's 10-year prison sentence.
A female voice warns, "The conduct of Raul Martinez. After years of embarrassing our community through corruption and scandal, using public office to become a millionaire, convictions for bribery and extortion, Martinez is featured in the investigative documentary Cocaine Cowboys, about drug trafficking in South Florida. Now Raul Martinez wants to take his corruption to Washington. We have to stop corruption. Say no to Raul Martinez."
That's the way Lincoln Diaz-Balart wants voters to think about Martinez. And it's more or less accurate — except that the bribery charges against Martinez were dropped after an appeal and some legal wrangling. Martinez, a bear of a man with the charisma of Latin American leaders such as Peru's Alan García, likes to think of himself more as the guy he came off as during a September 30 party at the cavernous AFL-CIO union hall in Allapattah. Dozens of union workers dined on steak, corn on the cob, and other grilled fixings as the organization's president, Fred Frost, took the mike. "You all want to meet the guy who is going to kick Lincoln Diaz-Balart's ass?" Frost inquired.
"Yeah!" the crowd roared back.
Frost handed the microphone to Martinez, who was impeccably dressed in a dark navy two-piece suit, light blue dress shirt, and solid blue tie. "I made my wife a promise I wouldn't touch him," Martinez said, referring to Lincoln. "But believe me, I want to punch him."
The crowd roared again.
Martinez reminded them Lincoln had backed out of an AFL-CIO-sponsored debate this past May and thanked the union workers for giving him their endorsement.
"Raul! Raul!" they chanted.
"You are all part of my family," Martinez rattled, "and I will protect the interests of my family. You all know I can be a tough SOB, and I will fight for you."
Martinez, like his opponent, was born on the island — in 1949 in Santiago de Cuba. After the revolution, his family left for Miami, where he graduated from high school and then attended Florida International University. In 1977, he was elected to the Hialeah City Council; four years later, he snagged the mayor's job.
During 24 years of leading the so-called City of Progress, he created innovative e-libraries that were among the first in Miami-Dade to offer English and citizenship classes. Martinez is also credited with building some of the finest public parks, recreational systems, and fire and police services in the state, as well as implementing award-winning elderly living and affordable housing programs.
He also earned a reputation as a combative politician who never lost an election. His politics, which sometimes incorporated intimidation and even alleged thuggery, gained opponents' respect and fear.
Martinez sometimes came off as a bully. For instance, in June 1999, when more than 400 people blocked the Palmetto Expressway to protest a group of Cuban migrants being deported, then-Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolaños was hit in the head with a rock.
Bolaños called Martinez, who rushed over. A few minutes later, a crew from Univision filmed Martinez repeatedly punching a much smaller man, a butcher named Ernesto Mirabal. Despite the incriminating footage, Hialeah Police charged Mirabal with battery on an elected official, resisting arrest with violence, and inciting a riot. The charges were later dropped.
Then there's the alleged public corruption. In 1989, Martinez announced he would run for Congress. His opponent, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (who this year is likely to have an easier go of it than the Diaz-Balarts), was married to the acting U.S. attorney at the time, Dexter Lehtinen. The same year, Lehtinen — a tough former commando — initiated a criminal investigation into accusations Martinez had extorted close to $1 million from developers in exchange for zoning favors.
Two years later, a jury convicted the Hialeah pol on six counts of conspiracy, extortion, and racketeering. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Martinez eventually won an appeal and a second trial in 1996, which resulted in a hung jury. A third trial, held the same year, resulted in his acquittal on one count of extortion while the jury deadlocked on the five remaining counts. Prosecutors decided to go no further.
During an interview at his campaign office, Martinez dismisses his criminal proceedings as old news. "My past is my past," he says. "In the end, I was found not guilty. And I finished that process 14, 15 years ago."
Martinez also points out the Cocaine Cowboys ad doesn't mention the convictions were reversed on appeal. "It is very sad that a congressman of 16 years can't run on his record," he seethes. "Lincoln has to run on lies and character assassination. It shows that he has failed the people of this district."
The Diaz-Balart camp also provided New Times with a list of Martinez's dubious campaign donors. They include Hector Ortiz, a Hialeah-based contractor who was banned from doing county work for two years; Recaredo Gutierrez, convicted on a counterfeiting charge in 1998; and Alfredo Duran, a Miami lawyer and former state Democratic Party chairman, who was acquitted of federal charges that he participated in a scheme to bribe Dominican Republic officials to release seized drug planes when the feds' main witness jumped bail and fled the States.
Lincoln tells New Times he simply wants to remind people who Raul Martinez really is. "His whole record personifies corruption," he says. "People need to know that."
On the campaign trail, Martinez has focused on attacking Lincoln for being in lockstep with President George W. Bush's failed policies. "He is a Bush rubber stamp," Martinez complains. "On five occasions, he voted against expanding healthcare insurance for children." It is a theme Martinez has repeated during his stops at the Miami Springs Country Club and the AFL-CIO rally, as well as conversations with voters on the street and in their homes.
Predicting victory next month, he points out the GOP represented 44 percent of registered voters in 2006, while today that number has dipped to 39. "When Mario redrew the districts, [the Diaz-Balarts] wanted to make sure they would be there forever," Martinez says. "But they weren't counting on losing voters. And there is a tremendous desire out there for a change."
A question pops up on the television screen: "Who is Joe Garcia?" The camera quickly cuts to an image and video footage of disgraced ex-Enron chairman and convicted felon Kenneth Lay followed by still photographs of Garcia.
The last frames put photos of Lay and Garcia side-by-side, and the Democratic candidate's name is inserted into the Enron logo.
A female voiceover says, "Who is Joe Garcia? Enron's convicted CEO said Joe Garcia is on our shortlist of people we would be quite comfortable with. Joe Garcia, the utilities commissioner who supported a huge rate hike on Florida's families, cashed out to utilities special interests and begged Enron's convicted CEO to give him a job. Today Enron is a national scandal. Enron. Joe. Enron Joe has gotta go."
That's the best Mario Diaz-Balart could come up with in the TV ad wars. After easily winning re-election in 2004 and 2006, he is facing his most formidable challenger to date. And the former Dade Democratic Party chairman has concentrated on enlisting the support of non-Cuban Hispanics.On a recent sweltering Sunday afternoon in Cutler Bay, Garcia, a verbose and congenial man in blue jeans and a striped long-sleeve Ralph Lauren dress shirt, is going door-to-door introducing himself to registered voters in a lushly landscaped residential neighborhood. His bushy brown hair bouncing with his every step, Garcia has already hit tens of thousands of households since announcing his run this past February.
The Democratic candidate walks up to a salmon-colored single-story house with a "For Sale" sign on the front lawn. Soon a large-bellied Hispanic man with a dark olive complexion and a mustache answers. His name is Roberto Machado. He's a Mexican-American and a registered Independent.
"Hi, my name is Joe Garcia and I am running for Congress," Garcia says in Spanish. "I'm running against Mario Diaz-Balart."
"Oh, he's no good," Machado responds. "I don't like him at all. Are you a Democrat?"
"Yes, I am," Garcia says.
"Well, then you have my vote," Machado concludes. "We need to take out those Diaz-Balarts."
Garcia, a jovial, intense man who enjoys ribbing reporters on the campaign trail, was born in Miami Beach in 1963. His parents, who fled Cuba after Castro took over, sent Garcia to Belen Jesuit Preparatory School (a Miami transplant that counts Fidel Castro among its alumni) and then the University of Miami for both college and law school. Unlike many of his Republican friends, he registered from the start as an Independent. "I get along with both Republicans and Democrats," he says. "Always have."
One of Garcia's best friends is Juan Carlos Mas, whom he met at Belen. Mas's dad, the late iconic Cuban-American leader Jorge Mas Canosa, established and presided over the Cuban American National Foundation, the most important Cuban lobbying group in the nation. When Garcia was president of UM's student government, he remembers, Mas Canosa invited him to a dinner party. "I thought I had arrived," Garcia recalls, laughing. "When I got there, Jorge told me and Juan that we were going to park guests' cars."
In 1988, shortly before Garcia began law school, Mas Canosa tapped the Miami Beach native to head a foundation-sponsored three-year effort called the Exodus Project, a successful refugee resettlement program that reunited more than 10,000 families. The effort brought Cuban exiles stranded in third countries to the United States.
It was a sign that Garcia had earned the respect of Mas Canosa, whom the candidate credits for giving him his "first break in this arena." He stayed with CANF for a decade, a rare Independent in a world almost completely inhabited by conservatives.
In 1993, when he was 29 years old, Garcia lost a runoff for a new Miami-Dade County Commission seat to Miguel Diaz de La Portilla by a mere 267 votes. "That was one of the seats created to get minority representation on the county commission," Garcia explains. "There were a lot of young, up-and-coming Cuban-Americans in that race, several of whom graduated from Belen."
The next year, Garcia left CANF when Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat, appointed him to Florida's Public Service Commission, which oversees utilities and sets electric rates. After a five-year PSC stint, he returned to CANF as its executive director. From 2000 through 2004, Garcia led the organization in a new direction, advocating political change in Cuba by empowering the dissident movement rather than emphasizing economic sanctions.
"I was brought in to make it more bipartisan," Garcia recounts. "But some of the more hard-line members wanted the foundation to be Republican."
This caused a rift. Older members left in protest. Yet Garcia retained the unflinching support of the foundation's current leader and Mas Canosa's son, Jorge Mas Santos, who is a Republican and generally has supported Republican candidates. In fact the family business, MasTec Inc., has anteed up $20,000 for Garcia's campaign, the most from any corporation to any candidate in this race, according to the Center for Responsible Politics, a think tank that tracks federal campaign contributions.
During his second tour with CANF, Garcia became disillusioned with the Bush administration and Miami-Dade's Cuban-American Republican representatives. "It was all about creating the appearance of doing something to bring change to Cuba," Garcia says. "It was just about getting votes." That prompted Garcia to register as a Democrat and work for the party.
He left CANF to join the New Democrat Network — a Washington, D.C. advocacy group — and manages efforts to recruit Latinos into the party. He is still a member of CANF's executive board. Garcia complains the Bush administration has failed in its dealings with Cuba. "By the time Bush leaves office, the United States will have done $2 billion worth of business with Cuba," he says. "No administration has had harsher rhetoric and achieved less on Cuba than this one."
On the campaign trail, Garcia has assailed Mario Diaz-Balart's congressional record. "He has been in Congress for six years and has only passed one bill," Garcia says. "The only thing worse in politics than being Tweedle Dee is being Tweedle Dum. Mario's name should be one foot behind and two to the right of his brother. He has no presence."
Carlos Curbelo, spokesman for both Diaz-Balarts' campaigns, labels Garcia's remarks "disingenuous."
"For only being in Congress for six years, Mario has quite a record of getting things done," Curbelo says. "Mario has been at the forefront of Everglades restoration and secured funding for the Ryder Trauma Center." He goes on to accuse Garcia of trying to deflect attention from his own controversies, specifically pointing out the Cuban-American civic leader's relationship with U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, who supports ending the Cuban embargo and is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for, among other things, failing to report more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he owned in the Dominican Republic.
This past April, Rangel hosted a fundraiser for Garcia in New York City. The House Ways and Means Committee chairman's PAC has also raised $14,000 for the South Floridian. "He needs to deflect as much attention away from his affiliation with Rangel," Curbelo says. "Not only is Rangel a Hugo Chávez and Castro sympathizer, he is also corrupt."
Responds Garcia: "Charlie Rangel is a guy who has a Bronze Star hanging on his office wall for killing Communists during the Korean War. I've had more arguments with Charlie about Cuba than Mario has. But having a relationship with the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee would help bring federal money back to the least-funded district in Florida."
Garcia is optimistic. In 2006, Republicans had a seven-point advantage over registered Democrats in the district. Today the Republicans hold less than a one percent edge. In addition, more African-Americans have registered to vote, rising from nine percent of overall voters in the district to 12 percent. "I've got more than a good chance of beating Mario," Garcia boasts. "We've really worked hard to get non-Cuban Hispanics like the Mexicans and Central Americans living in Southwest Miami-Dade to register to vote."
Leading the registration drive for Garcia is Eddy Garza, an energetic 26-year-old Mexican-American whose parents are migrant farmer activists in Homestead. The young campaign volunteer is in charge of coordinating and training the 40 volunteers who canvass Perrine, Cutler Bay, Homestead, Florida City, and other neighborhoods in the district. "Joe reached out to our community," Garza says, "and not just Mexicans — Central Americans too. That is why I am working so hard for Joe."
We Believe Local Journalism is Critical to the Life of a City
Engaging with our readers is essential to Miami New Times's mission. Make a financial contribution or sign up for a newsletter, and help us keep telling Miami's stories with no paywalls.
Support Our Journalism
As election day draws closer, Democratic leaders have become increasingly confident that Garcia and Martinez will end the Diaz-Balart dynasty. Indeed the candidates have erased the leads the brothers shared early on in the campaign. "Joe and Raul have done a tremendous job capitalizing on voter registrations and voter discontent with our current leadership," says Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman. "We are all about winning and making gains throughout the state."
On October 14, the Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter and blog that analyzes political campaigns, rated the battle between Garcia and Mario a "pure tossup." Just a week earlier, the newsletter had that race leaning toward the Republican. The blog has rated the contest between Lincoln and Martinez the same. (Several polls have given Martinez a slim lead.) A poll by Telemundo 51 earlier this month showed the brothers with less than 50 percent approval ratings.
Luis Garcia, the Democratic Party's state vice chairman and a state legislator representing Little Havana, adds that being a Democrat is no longer a dirty secret in his heavily Cuban-American district. The former Miami Beach firefighter and city commissioner, who is Cuban, notes his district now includes 1,000 more Democrats than Republicans. "There was a time when being a Democrat was to be a leftist or worse," says Garcia, who is not related to Joe. "We are proving that it is okay to be Cuban-American and a Democrat."
If the two Democrats vying against the Diaz-Balarts win November 4, Garcia continues, the focus in Washington, D.C., will shift from dealing with Cuba to taking care of South Florida. "We love Cuba and want it to be free," Garcia says. "But we are living in the United States. And we have to deal with our problems at home. Joe and Raul will do that."


text:
Themes from the quarterly Quantitative Beta Research Summit
The how and why of diversification
Quantitative Beta Strategies
* = Fields are required.
Note: J.P. Morgan will not use information collected here for marketing or promotional purposes beyond the scope of this request
Your email has been sent. We appreciate you taking the time to share our website.
Copy the link below to bookmark or share this page.
Copy Link
(All sites are in English)


text:
Running QGIS on Ubuntu 11.04 and QGIS for Android on Galaxy Tab 10.1 (which is an awesome project by the way)
NEED to figure out a way to get SID and/or ECW files loaded.
Saw some posts about compiling GDAL manually but haven't had any luck.
Has anyone successfully accomplished this?


text:
Report: China 'Affluent' Population to Hit 280 Million by 2020
As China looks to shift its export-dependent economy to a greater reliance on domestic consumption, one number is in its favor: 280 million.
That's the total number of affluent consumers China is expected to have by 2020 – more than doubling the current total of 120 million -- according to a new study by consultancy Boston Consulting Group.
BCG describes as affluent people with annual household disposable incomes of between $20,000 and $1 million. The upper affluent -- those earning between $40,000 and $1 million per year -- will account for 40% of the 280 million, the BCG study said. (BCG puts people whose families have disposal incomes over $1 million per year in a separate category, high net-worth individuals.)
China has been trying for years to get its people to spend more, in part to wean the world's No. 2 economy off export-led growth at a time of falling consumption abroad. But regular Chinese workers, unsettled by the country's meager health care and pension systems, remain reluctant to part with their money. That leaves the wealthy as the best hope for gains in domestic consumer spending in the short- and medium term.
The report, based on interviews with 3,000 affluent individuals, says most of China's current affluent population are under 45 years old and arrived at their position after spending at least five years toiling away as members of the middle class. They have different spending habits than the middle class, putting more emphasis on "emotional satisfaction" and less on utility when deciding to make a purchase.
The affluent will propel 40% of China's consumption growth and will comprise 35% of all consumer spending in 2020, up from 24% last year, according to BCG. Their spending will grow fivefold to $3.1 trillion in the next eight years.
Every business—from the usual luxury suspects down to the shampoo sellers and travel agents—will be looking to cash in. But it won't be easy, the BCG study says, adding that wealth will be far more scattered around the country, with 75% of future affluent consumers coming from China's smaller, lower-tier cities.
The country's wealthy are also becoming more split, with the veterans no longer interested in flashy, logo-laden products and the newbies wanting all the glimmer, BCG says.
Further complicating the picture is the growth of a new generation who inherited their wealth, rather than accumulating it on their own. The silver spoon set will comprise 30% of the affluent in five years, up from its current 10%, the data said. These consumers are fickle, rejecting the products their parents use, wanting exclusive but unique products.
That leaves a major task-list for corporations. Businesses will need to rethink their strategy, outlining expansion, split marketing or product lines, an extreme understanding of the Web and social media and basically what it means to be hip in China, the BCG study said.
-- Laurie Burkitt, with contributions from Lilian Lin
Like China Real Time on Facebook and Twitter for the latest updates.
Most Popular Videos
Most Popular Articles
A Million N95 Masks Are Coming From China—on the Patriots' Plane
Italy's Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported
Safety Advice If You Must Visit the Grocery Store
Navy Removes Captain of Coronavirus-Stricken Aircraft Carrier
The Rush for $350 Billion in Small-Business Loans Starts Friday. Banks Have Questions.


text:
Electric Coffee Brewers
Manual and single-cup brewing has exploded in popularity in recent years. There are so many ways to brew a great single cup that the humble automatic drip brewer often gets overlooked and disregarded. There's good reason for that, too; most drip brewers on the market make under-extracted sour swill, and they're cheaply made, essentially disposable appliances. But sometimes you just don't want to mess around with manual brewing and the technique it takes to get a good result. Fortunately there are a few great options for electric drip brewers made by Technivorm (available in both 8-cup and 10-cup models) and Bonavita. I'll focus on the features of both machines that we liked.
Water temperature is probably the most important factor in brewing a good cup. The brew water should be between 195 and 205 °F to properly extract the good stuff from the coffee grounds. Most drip coffee makers on the market only heat the water to about 185 °F, resulting in a flat, dull cup.
Both the Technivorm and the Bonavita have powerful heating elements to boil the water, and force it up to and through the spray head. The water heats in less than a minute and maintains the proper brew temperature throughout the process. You want to drink your coffee while it's still fresh, but the Technivorm and Bonavita thermal carafes keep the coffee warm for a long time. I've brewed pots in the morning that I haven't finished, dumped them out in the evening, and found the coffee inside both carafes to be hot to the touch. Again, it's not something I would drink, but it's still hot.
Spray head
The Technivorm features a 9-hole spray head that does an adequate job of saturating the grounds, but it requires a little user intervention to thoroughly wet them. Most models have a filter basket with a 3-position switch to control the flow of brewed coffee. We flip the switch to the "closed" position for the first 45 seconds or so of the brew cycle, give the slurry of water and grounds a quick stir, then open up the brew switch all the way. It might sound like a pain, but it's easy to include that process in your morning routine. With its 7-hole, 2" diameter spray head, the Bonavita brewer doesn't require any futzing with the coffee slurry; you can just set it up, walk away, and a few minutes later you'll have a full pot to enjoy.
Brew time
Some of the drip brewers we've tested take a ridiculous amount of time to brew a full pot; the longer the water is in contact with the grounds, the more bitter flavors you'll extract. Since both the Bonavita and Techinvorm's heating element heat the water quickly, the overall brew time is only about 6 minutes.
Both machines make excellent coffee. In a side-by-side comparison, the cup quality was equal, but there are some notable differences between the machines.
The coffee from the Bonavita was much hotter, since the filter basket fits directly on top of the carafe, unlike the Technivorm. The Technivorm is hand-assembled in the Netherlands, while the Bonavita is made in China. I don't know if that affects the build quality, but hand-assembly inspires a feeling of confidence, as does the 5-year manufacturer warranty. The Bonavita is new to the market, so we don't know how durable it is, but Bonavita offers a 2 year warranty, which is still twice as long as most machines.
Both brewers have plastic components, but the stainless steel body of the Technivorm is more attractive in a quirky way. The Bonavita has a glass-lined thermal carafe that some people may prefer to the stainless steel Technivorm carafe. It's a bit easier to clean as well, since the opening is large enough to fit your hand. The streamlined exterior of the Bonavita is easier to keep clean as well.
Although manual brewers offer a more tailored brewing experience, both the Bonavita and Technivorm brewers make excellent coffee. Besides, there's nothing better than lingering over a few cups of coffee on a lazy Sunday morning. - Amanda
Using Taste to Determine Roast Level
One of the key advantages of home roasting is being able to roast to the degree that you enjoy. So you do not have to accept the commercial roasts out there, whether they are the dark, dark roasts of yesteryear, or the super light roasts that are fashionable these days.
I wrote about Using All Five Senses to Determine Degree of Roast (see the SM Library for the full article) and here I just want to excerpt that and focus on tasting.
While many folks prefer a technical approach to roasting, (measuring time, temperature, bean mass, Agtron color scales, etc), I think one of the most exacting tests you can do is to taste the coffee.
No other sense is as important in determining roast level as the flavor. The problem is that you can't brew your coffee until it's done roasting. Some folks can actually tell quite a bit about roast level by crunching a roasted bean between their teeth and eating it, but the most important information about your roast results must be tasted by brewing your coffee. Rest your coffee for 24-48 hours after roasting before making any judgment about your roast level. If you are really curious and can't wait, you should be able to roughly assess the roast level by brewing and tasting your roasts once the beans are cooled. The coffee will not be as enjoyable directly after roasting, so please be patient.
City and City+ roasts generally have brighter and more acidic characteristics. They should be sweet and if you detect grassy or astringent notes, you've roasted too light. The body or mouthfeel should be light, and if the coffee has any fruit-like characteristics they will be most evident at these roast levels. Often times, roasts that are this light benefit from longer resting times after roasting. Try your light roasts after 1 day and 3 days and compare the differences. Jot down a few of your impressions when you first taste a roast, then brew it again after another day or two and see how the flavors may have changed or "opened" up. Similar to letting wine breath, coffee needs to rest to taste great.
Full City and Full City+ roasts have more balanced and chocolatey characteristics. They should still be sweet but will have a nice bittersweet compliment. If they just taste bitter you may have roasted too dark. The body or mouthfeel will be more substantial, and if the coffee has fruit-like characteristics they may be a bit more pronounced. When you make tasting notes on your darker roasts, take note of the balance of sweet and bittersweet.
Light Vienna, Vienna, and French roasts mostly have a "roasty" character. Most of the sweetness will be gone and bittersweet flavors will dominate (this is why people often roast to these levels when they intend to add milk and sugar to their brewed coffee). These roast levels are really only suited for espresso and should not be the goal for most home roasters. Even if you do drink espresso exclusively we encourage you to try Full City+ roasts for your espresso. We find them to be so much more enjoyable, with sweetness and fruit flavors that are obliterated in darker roasts. -Josh


text:
|Southeast Spotlight
4th of July Parade will air on New Year's Day
Published: 12/29/2011 13:50:00
Updated: 12/29/2011 20:43:02
New Year's Day is just a few days away and here at KATH we like to celebrate New Year's Day in a very special way. As we've done every year since we joined Juneau's broadcast community, we will once again bring a little bit of summer in to the winter with an encore presentation of Juneau's 4th of July Parade. For the twelfth year in a row we present all the colorful pageantry of Juneau's celebration of Independence Day, complete with all of the sunshine and festivities that take our memories back to when the weather was a bit warmer. Over the years some things have changed and some things have remained the same. The biggest change is that now we present it to you with unmatched color and detail in High Definition, one of the things that hasn't changed is the host of the parade, KRNN FM's Lena Simmons, who has been with us for every one of those twelve years.
VIDEO: New Year's Day is just a few days away and KATH celebrates it in a special way. (Image: Rik Pruett)
"I Love the parade, I absolutely love the parade, I think Juneau has the best Fourth of July of any place I've ever been in. And I particularly love the parade because it's just like I know everybody. You know the floats come by and the bands come by and the dancers come by and I know somebody in every group. And so it's sort of like seeing everybody on old home week. I look forward to all the mini cars with the Shriners, and I look forward to the bagpipes coming, and I look forward to seeing what funny hats the marching band will be wearing. I have godchildren who deliberately come down to where I am because they know that the TV cameras are there and they know that the guys on the fire trucks will throw lots of candy out so that it looks like they're really throwing gobs and gobs of candy so they come deliberately to be there."
Our New Year's Day presentation of the 2011 parade can be seen in High Definition at 2 o'clock this Sunday Afternoon, right before the NFC East Championship game between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Giants, here on KATH, NBC for Southeast Alaska.
By: Rik Pruett - firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
President Barack Obama's national security adviser conceded there are legitimate questions about U.S. spying on its allies, the White House said as it sought to sooth Brazil's concerns about far-reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency.
A White House meeting between Susan Rice and Brazil's foreign minister, Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, on Wednesday constituted the latest attempt by the Obama administration to stem the damage to foreign relations inflicted by revelations by NSA leaker Edward Snowden. But it was not immediately clear whether that damage had been repaired.
In the meeting, Rice acknowledged that recently revealed surveillance programs have sparked tensions in an otherwise close U.S.-Brazilian relationship, said Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the White House's National Security Council. She said some of the NSA's activities have been distorted by Snowden's leaks to the news media while others "raise legitimate questions for our friends and allies about how these capabilities are employed."
"The United States is committed to working with Brazil to address these concerns, while we continue to work together on a shared agenda of bilateral, regional and global initiatives," Hayden said.
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been among the most vocal of foreign leaders expressing outrage over U.S. spying. After leaked documents showed U.S. spy agencies had monitored her communications, Rousseff threatened to cancel a planned state visit to Washington.
After discussing the issue with Obama during an economic summit last week in St. Petersburg, Russia, Rousseff asserted that spying on a friendly country is incompatible with democratic alliances. She said Obama had promised answers and told her he didn't want her to cancel her trip.
"I want to know everything that they have. Everything," Rousseff said.
The White House didn't say what specifics, if any, Rice offered Brazil on Wednesday.
But even as the two officials prepared to meet in Washington, new revelations offered further fodder for Brazilian concerns about the surveillance. A report Sunday by Globo TV, based on leaked documents from Snowden, said the NSA targeted Brazil's state-run oil company, Petrobras. It also said the NSA targeted the Belgium-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, an organization that oversees international bank transfers thought to be secure transactions.
The NSA programs have sparked international consternation from Latin America to Asia and Europe.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, who shared his concerns during his own private meeting with Obama last week, has said reports the NSA had kept tabs on his communications, if true, would constitute an illegal act. And Obama found himself on the defensive last week during a stop in Stockholm, where he insisted the U.S. wasn't targeting the personal communications of average Europeans but acknowledged that the programs haven't always worked as intended and said "we had to tighten them up."


text:
Sony will heavily be pushing its motion controller, PlayStation Move, to make an impact on the market, especially if it's to challenge the likes of Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Natal. And what better way than to have a catchy, short, sweet slogan to go with it?
Geoff Keighley tweet reveals what seems could potentially be the PlayStation Move's slogan:
This Changes Everything – PlayStation Move Slogan at E3? Thoughts @thekevinbutler? http://twitpic.com/1w8vvf
This could be for 3D as well, as 3D has been touted as a game changer for Sony as they look to integrate the technology into all their electronic products.
Role on E3, then.
Courtesy of GK (thanks, Dammenion), it looks like "This Changes Everything" is indeed the PlayStation Move's slogan:


text:
So here's my story:
My C drive with windows 7 stuffed up, so i got a new hard drive which i installed. Then when I turned on my computer, and inserted my windows 7 cd, I got the error "Reboot and Select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"
I keep pressing any key, and it keeps spamming me with that error. So I went into the bios, and yes, the cd/dvd drive was selected as first boot. The 2nd one was my hard drive. So I cannot reinstall windows, and I Don't know what the problem is, or how to fix it.
So please, someone help me. When I listed while it's giving me the error, the dvd isn't spinning and isn't making any sound. So that could be the problem, but I am not sure.
Please Help.


text:
Give your home a makeover with our great range of paint, window furnishings and flooring. And our huge range of accessories will help you get the job done.
Launch Gallery
How to install indoor roller blinds
A simple and affordable way to give your windows some added shade and privacy.
How to install roman blinds
A quick and stylish way to block out the sun, insulate your window and get total privacy.
How to prepare walls for painting
Good preparation is the key to any painting project. We'll show you a few of the basic steps involved in preparing a wall for painting to make the job much easier.
How to sand walls
Find out how to use various sanding equipment to help you prepare your plaster walls for painting.
D.I.Y. kids bedroom makeover
Kids spend a lot of time in their bedrooms, so it's important they have a place that they enjoy.
How To Paint
How to paint a ceiling
Painting a ceiling is a great way to freshen up a room. We'll show you how easily it can be done with a few tips and the right tools.
Benchtops & Cabinets
How to install a laminate benchtop
Freshen up your kitchen with a new laminate benchtop. This step by step guide will teach you how to install laminate benchtops.
D.I.Y. wooden coat rack
How to create a D.I.Y. wooden coat rack


text:
Signature Loans
Need Cash? Get money in 1 hour - even if you have bad credit. Quick & easy application process. Instant approval - wake up tomorrow and find an additional $500 to $50,000 in your bank account. Apply Online!
|Zip Codes:
|90801 90802 90803 90804 90805 90806 90807 90808 90809 90810 90813 90814 90815 90822 90831 90832 90833 90834 90835 90840 90842 90844 90845 90846 90847 90848 90853 90888 90899
|4th Street Corridor, Alamitos Beach, Alamitos Heights, Arlington, Artcraft Manor, Belmont Heights, Belmont Park, Belmont Shore, Bixby Knolls, Bixby Village, Bluff Heights, Bluff Park, Broadway Corridor, California Heights, Carroll Park, Central Area, Craftsman Village, Downtown Long Beach, Drake Park, East Village, Eastside, El Dorado Park, El Dorado Park Estates, El Dorado South, Hellman, Imperial Estates, Lakewood Village, Cambodia Town (Little Phnom Penh), Long Beach Marina, Los Altos, Los Cerritos - Vrginia Country Club, Memorial Height, Naples, North Long Beach, Park Estates,[13], Peninsula, Ranchos, Rose Park, Shoreline Village, South of Conant, Stearns Park, Saint Mary's, Sunrise, Terminal Island, Traffic Circle, University Park Estates, Poly High, West Long Beach, Willmore City, Wrigley North and South, Wrigley Heights, Zaferia
|Payment Methods:


text:
Cédric NICOLAS brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 265 Designs von 80 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Ville Fluide stands for Fluid City in english. The service will be a revolutionary way to use huge availabilities existing in private cars where 80% of trips are made with an alone driver in its car. It will use advanced GPS and cellular technologies to make the trip matches possible in real-time.
Ville Fluide
Looking for a logo applicable for the web site, business cards etc. Logo should be simple and straightforward to understand. Following concepts and ideas should/could be carried by the design :
- sustainable development and greenhouse gases savings
- dynamic carpooling or ridesharing
- trust between riders
- service applicable to everybody, very simple to use, intuitive
- based on mobile device, cellular technologies, GPS
- incitative : drivers get money to lift other people
- community enabler : people will meet each other by the way of the service. It is a sort of RideFriendFinder
- Green color should appear, but not exclusively
- A car representation is strongly wished, but abstract evocations are possible.
- A driver and one or more passengers, or a suggested representation of 2 or more people traveling together.
- Logo should be recognizable from a long distance, as we expect to put a stickers on subscriber's cars in order for passenger to find them in a easy way. This means probably that the logo should be graphically quite simple. Using flashy contrasted colors may also help to recognize it from far away.
- Clearly separate the name of the company from the logo, as the company name may change. But use a font and color matching graphically with the logo
Finden Sie heraus, wie ein Designwettbewerb funktioniert, oder lernen Sie mehr über unsere Logo-Design-Angebote.


text:
Call For Electrical in Hampton, NH
Are you looking for low cost electricians in Hampton, New Hampshire? SortFix can help you save time and money on Hampton electricians. When you use SortFix to hire a electrician in Hampton you know that you can expect to pay between $318 and $497.
The average cost to hire electricians in Hampton is $418.
When you hire a Hampton electrician from SortFix you know that you'll be working with a fully licensed and insured, highly rated electrician. SortFix makes it easy to compare electrician costs in Hampton from a few of the top local contractors. Fill out the quote request to see how much you can save on Hampton electricians services.
Average Cost For Electricians in Hampton: $418
Range $318 - $497
Lowest Price Paid $102
Highest Price Paid $763
What zip code do you need cost estimates on electricians?
Call For Electricians in Hampton, NH


text:
Dodgers' Yasiel Puig 'sincerely sorry' for tardiness, will arrive 'early' next time
LOS ANGELES — Yasiel Puig was scratched from the starting lineup after arriving late for the Los Angeles Dodgers' home opener on Friday.
The rest of the team was already on the field stretching before batting practice while Puig was getting dressed in the clubhouse. He had been slated to start in right field for the afternoon game against the San Francisco Giants, who beat the Dodgers 8-4.
"I'm sincerely sorry," Puig said through a translator after the game, explaining that he didn't realize stretching and batting practice would be held so early with a 1 p.m. start.
MORE: MLB scoreboard | Tanaka's Yankees debut
Puig said he apologized to manager Don Mattingly and his teammates, and they accepted.
"They felt it was OK when I owned up to it and apologized," he said. "I felt bad I wasn't out there playing for all the fans."
Instead, Matt Kemp replaced Puig in the lineup after manager Don Mattingly had earlier said Kemp wouldn't start. Kemp came off the disabled list on Friday after rehabilitating from left ankle and shoulder operations. He was limited to 279 games during the last two seasons because of injuries.
Puig, last year's runner-up for NL Rookie of the Year, was 5 for 20 through his first five games of the season. He wasn't used as a pinch-hitter because Mattingly said the situation didn't call for it. The Dodgers trailed 8-0 after two innings.
Mattingly downplayed Puig's mistake.
"He truly felt bad," the manager said. "You can tell by his body language; he doesn't hide things well."
Mattingly said he thought not allowing Puig to play was more fitting punishment than fining him a couple hundred dollars.
"He felt bad he wasn't here and I believe that," Mattingly said. "He's a good kid. Does he have to grow up and get better? Yeah, but there's a lot of guys like that."
It was the latest in a series of frustrations for the team involving Puig.
Last week, Mattingly called a team meeting after the 23-year-old Cuban defector made two mistakes on the basepaths during the Dodgers opening two-game trip to Australia.
The dynamic right fielder became an instant sensation last year when he made his big league debut in early June and helped lead the Dodgers from last to the NL West title. But Mattingly often was frustrated by Puig's decision-making in the field and on the bases.
Puig twice was arrested for reckless driving last year, when his effort on the field also came into question at times. He went 5 for 22 (.227) with 10 strikeouts and committed defensive miscues against St. Louis in the NL championship series.
He remains a fan favorite, but the Dodgers want to see Puig grow up, be consistent and show better judgment on and off the field.
Catcher A.J. Ellis chalked Puig's mistake up to something that can happen to any player in the mix of day and night games.
"It's one of these learning experiences," Ellis said. "He's going to be fine. I'm sure he'll be very prompt and on time for the rest of his career, hopefully."
Saturday's game against the Giants also starts at 1 p.m.
"I'll be here early," Puig said.


text:
Data associated to 'Strain Reversal in Actuated Origami Structures'The underlying data and MATLAB scripts to support the publication in Physical Review Letters: 'Strain Reversal in Actuated Origami Structures'
Leadership emergence in a data-driven model of zebrafish shoals with speed mo...Multi-agent systems in nature are able to self-organise in order to efficiently achieve coordinated motion and control in the presence of uncertainties and obstacles. Examples...
The SPHERE Challenge: Activity Recognition with Multimodal Sensor DataData for the SPHERE Challenge that will take place in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2016. Please cite: Niall Twomey, Tom Diethe, Meelis Kull, Hao Song, Massimo Camplani, Sion...
RGBD-Action-Completion-2016Data for publication: Farnoosh Heidarivincheh, Majid Mirmehdi and Dima Damen (2016). Beyond Action Recognition: Action Completion in RGB-D Data. British Machine Vision...
Control-based continuation: bifurcation and stability analysis for physical e...Experimental data associated with the paper "Control-based continuation: bifurcation and stability analysis for physical experiments" by David A.W. Barton
Leadership emergence in a data-driven model of zebrafish shoals with speed mo...The data in this folder has been superseded by dataset DOI: 10.5523/bris.jwp3t4c6ioj41mfkrmsl2vgt6


text:
Verification is the process of confirming that your and, if applicable, your parent's or spouse's information reported on your Free Application for Federal Student Aid is accurate.
If you are selected for verification, Governors State University's Office of Financial Aid will inform you about the documentation you will need to provide for the verification process. Typically, a student selected for verification will need to provide, at minimum, a completed verification worksheet. Additional, required verification documentation will vary depending upon the unique information you provided on your FAFSA application. Examples of documents you may need to turn into the office are listed at the bottom of this page.If there are any differences between your FAFSA application information and your financial aid documents, we may need to send corrections electronically to have your information reprocessed. If corrections are sent, you will receive a new Student Aid Report from the federal processor.The U.S. Department of Education highly encourages all FAFSA applicants to utilize the IRS Data Retrieval Tool that is available within the FAFSA on the web application. The IRS Data Retrieval Tool allows students and parents who have already submitted their federal tax returns to electronically transfer their tax information from the IRS to their FAFSA application. If you are selected for verification and you and your parent (if applicable) have utilized the IRS Data Retrieval Tool (without making any changes to the retrieved data), the amount of documentation requested by the Office of Financial Aid will be minimized. Find out if you are eligible to utilize the IRS Data Retrieval Tool.


text:
John email@example.com 212-455-8011
This section includes all blog posts, media mentions, and press releases. You can also view each of these categories separately by following the links to the right.
Advertising Digital Identification, LLC is a limited liability company of the American Association of Advertising Agencies and the Association of National Advertisers. Copyright © 2014 Ad-ID, LLC.
Interoperability | License | Web Service License | Privacy Policy | Advertise On Ad-ID.org | Help | Contact Us


text:
There's a really unique experience that forms around the Olympic games, where people who are normally on the other side of a TV screen are suddenly right in front of your face. It takes awhile for the shock to wear off, but eventually you get oddly used to seeing Jan Ebeling chatting on his cell phone outside Starbucks, and waiting for the crosswalk signal to change next to Rodrigo Pessoa. That said, over the course of our first 11 days here, there have been two experiences that stood out as quite notable for me.
The first took place on Day 1 of O.F.F. (Operation Foam Finger). We deployed the foam finger downtown in London proper, roaming around along the riverbank near Tower Bridge. I was instantly and constantly mobbed with people wanting a photo with the finger, and it was honestly a little overwhelming at first. Among the crowds were people of all nationalities, and English was not always an option (fortunately, when you're dressed as a giant foam finger, people pretty much just want to pose with you, not talk to you).
Sarah before fans started gathering for photos.
One of the people who sidled up to me for a photo op was a young Japanese man with a familiar-looking bicep sleeve on. It wasn't until later that I realized I'd posed for a photo with Japanese men's gymnastics Olympic team member Kazuhito Tanaka! And I didn't even get my own copy of the picture! #FoamFingerFail.
Kazuhito Tanaka of Japan competes on the rings in the Artistic Gymnastics Men's Individual All-Around final on Day 5 of the London 2012 Olympic Games. (Photo credits: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Europe)
The second encounter was much more of a win, and no less random and surprising. After a long day of watching/tweeting/photographing dressage, then shooting some SmartPak video and wrapping the USEF Network piece, I was borderline stumbling home and in dire need of food. It was 11:00 at night in sleepy little Greenwich, and just about nothing was left open. Just as I was beginning to seriously entertain thoughts of sugar packets and Diet Coke for dinner, I remembered that Kathy (USEF Network) and David (Network producer) had recommended a local falafel joint that was delicious and open late. With my will to live revived, I set off in search of the place.
When I found it, it was exactly as they described – a place you'd probably never consider entering, but that's kind of how you know it's great. I ducked in, quickly placed my order and collapsed into a chair next to the rest of the folks awaiting their late-night take-out.
The gentleman across the table from me started to chat me up, even though I was sure I looked positively bedraggled. And I suppose I did look as worn as I felt because he mistook me for a Team USA rider at the end of a long day. Really great to know that my "normal hair" looks like "helmet hair." Le sigh.
After we straightened out that I was actually from SmartPak, he and I talked horses, supplements, nutrition and marketing, as he was the owner of a unique new feed company out of New Zealand. "Ah, a kiwi," I remarked, "Congrats on your bronze." (Just the day before NZ took home the team bronze in eventing.) He smiled and said thanks, and that it'd been great, though perhaps more so for his wife than him. "Oh, is she a rider?" I wondered aloud with a smile, thinking how much we female riders can bore our non-riding male counterparts sometimes. And that was when he informed me that his wife, in fact, was the owner of Flintstar, one of Team NZ's bronze medal horses. And I'd bumped into him in a falafel takeout line. Only at the Olympics.
Jonelle Richards of New Zealand on Flintstar competes in the Cross Country phase of the Eventing competition of the Olympic Games. (Photo credits: Julia Vynokurova/Getty Images Europe)
Much like probably every horse at the games, Flintstar's story is a bit unique. The bay thoroughbred was foaled in New Zealand and brought to the UK by Darnelle Price, wife of my falafel friend and sister-in-law of 4-star eventer Tim Price. As Tim and Darnelle started to realize Flintstar's potential, Tim took over the ride to begin bringing the horse along for 4-star competition. However, in 2010 Tim broke his leg, so his training partner and fiancé Jonelle Richards took over the ride so the horse could continue progressing. Jonelle and Flinstar got on so well that even though he fully recovered, Tim never got the ride back. Then Jonelle and Flintstar made the team and took home Olympic bronze!
Stay up to date on the latest London happenings by following @SmartPakerSarah and @SmartPakerColby on Twitter!


text:
Anne K. Lewis, passed away on February 25, 2020. Private services to be held.
Offer Condolence for the family of Anne LewisPrint Obituary & Condolences
Anne K. Lewis, passed away on February 25, 2020. Private services to be held.
Offer Condolence for the family of Anne LewisPrint Obituary & Condolences
At the bottom of this page, you will find a condolence form. You will need to fill out some basic information prior to typing your message. (We will not share your e-mail address with anyone)
Once you are finished, simply click the submit condolence button. Within 24 hours the condolence will be approved before it is published to the web site.
We also provide a Tell-A-Friend feature located directly below these instructions. This form allows you to send the obituary to a friend. This is particularly helpful to someone who may live out of town.
Use your Smartphone to scan the QR Code below to access this page on your phone.
When a death occurs a lot of emotions can come to the surface and confuse clear thought. Normal ...Continue reading
Funeral and Cremation costs can be very confusing. Often times other funeral & cremation providers will quote what seems like a low price, but actually they do not give you the complete costs and there will be hidden add on charges after you have chosen to utilize their services. We have made it easier to understand by creating our: "No Hidden Fee Guarantee" package plans. These plans may include : Service Fees Merchandise Cemetery / Crematory Fees Cash Advances Taxes We guarantee that the price we give you over the phone or you see on this site, will be the price ...Continue reading
Contact | Directions | Obituaries | Site Map | Woodridge Cremation and Funeral Services | Website by FRM Websites


text:
Kate Gleason College of Engineering
Gordon Field House and Activities Center (GOR)
Graduates and their families are welcome and encouraged to attend! College ceremonies and receptions are listed in chronological order.
Tickets are not needed for any of our ceremonies. However for the Academic Convocation, seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Overflow seating will be available in the Gene Polisseni Center, where the ceremony will be streamed live. All other ceremonies have ample guest seating.


text:
With the ASL 5000 Lung Solution, SimMan can breathe spontaneously while being ventilated and hold PEEP at any level. Resistance and compliance are minutely adjustable, allowing you to simulate a vast number of patient disease states - with realistic chest rise. Both SimMan and the ASL 5000 can be managed directly from LLEAP - Laerdal Learning Application.
Take your anesthesia, critical care, emergency medicine, pulmonology, and respiratory care training to a whole new level with the ASL 5000 Lung Solution for the SimMan platform.


text:
Rollins features small classes taught by renowned faculty. Our academics are enhanced by study-abroad and internship opportunities as well as ways to be engaged on campus and in the community.
The Rollins Difference
国产偷拍视频For more than a century, we have held the belief that the academic experience we provide is about more than preparing you for a career. A orchidrow.comcation teaches you to open your eyes to the bigger picture, showing you how all areas of knowledge are connected, and how learning is a lifelong endeavor that continues long after you graduate.
Endless Opportunity
国产偷拍视频No matter what you study, you will learn a little bit of everything throughout your academic experience—social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, and the arts—and you will graduate prepared to enter a wide range of career fields.
Personalized Approach
国产偷拍视频With classes averaging only 17 students and a 10-1 student-faculty ratio, you get the personalized attention you expect from a nationally recognized liberal arts institution.


text:
About Azrieli
At Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, you will find an approach to education that is at once rooted in sacred Jewish traditions and simultaneously in modern disciplines that inform our understanding of how children learn.
How does one teach Gemara while embracing the wisdom of differentiated instruction? What are the early signs of an acute learning disability in a student struggling to learn Hebrew? How can Tanakh be brought to life so that our children do not merely learn about Biblical personalities but engage in a hevruta with them?
The needs of our schools and communities are great, but your opportunity to transform the educational experience, and with it the future of the Jewish people, is greater. We take seriously our responsibility to train the next generation of educators. Within a collegial and close-knit environment, you will benefit from the wisdom and guidance of an internationally recognized faculty, innovative and comprehensive courses, collaborative student faculty research, intensive field experience, exposure to advanced educational technology, and academic and professional mentoring that is second to none.
In short, Azrieli will cultivate your talent and creativity and position you to fan the flames of Jewish children at their learning. This is what it means to learn, teach and inspire. This is Azrieli.
If you're a prospective student interesting in visiting the Azrieli Graduate School, please contact us at 212.960.0186 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
Over the last few years concept of desktop organizer software applications becomes quite popular. This software application automatically create organizational structures from desktop content from heterogeneous types of content including email, files, contacts, companies, RSS news feeds, photos, music, chat sessions and much more
Gimmie is a unique desktop organizer for Linux. It's designed to allow easy interaction with all the applications, contacts, documents and other things you use every day. Gimmie can be run either as a stand-alone application or added as a GNOME Panel applet.
From the project home page:
A lot of thought has been put into Gimmie to avoid some pitfalls that exist in other desktop navigation systems. Gone is the application-centric view that's common Microsoft Windows and Apple OSX. Most people only run a handful of applications regularly, so why make them the central topic of your computer screen?
Instead, Gimmie uses an innovative tabs-based approach to categorize everything on your computer. Not just the applications you have installed. You can quickly find friends, documents, computers on the network, notes, music, and just about everything else in a few clicks.
How do I install gimmie?
Gimmie can be installed using apt-get under Debian / Ubuntu Linux:
$ sudo apt-get install gimmie
# apt-get install gimmie
Once gimmie software is installed you can access gimmie from Gnome panel applet or as standalone dock.
Gimmie in action
(click to enlarge animated gif)
Further references


text:
Hey, as you probably guess I've only been here for a day. So what reason do I have to post a suggestion under 24 hours!
Ah well, I investigated. Read a lot of forum posts and tested some features on the main site. Because it's a cute, small community, I can understand not much going on.
I had, maybe, some suggestions to make this place more of an active community. From what I saw the forums are decently used, which is a great sign!
My suggestions are just site features or formatting things that I feel could be looked at and eventually implemented.
So here we go,
I've noticed one thing on a couple sites are weekly themes or monthly contests. So what am I thinking? Well, having a theme would be a neat way to get more people to create content. And perhaps this content could be submitted in a theme gallery where people can browse what people have created.
This wouldn't be a competition, but rather a fun little thing to work on and to see what others did with that theme.
Contests (which may have happened here before) either posted in the forums by members or site contests divided by catagory, would also be a great way to bring people together. If there are set areas for, say, writing and multimedia. Those that feel intimidated by the art would have a place to display their work and feel a bit more involved. Which brings me to my next point.
Another suggestion is groups, I see some on the forums..kinda. but groups really are a great way to bring people together with similar interests. If a group thrives, other people may join just for the group. Growing the community. However I realise that this can be a bit hard based on what your team can work on.
Another note is navigation. I mostly use the mobile app, but at times I just want to browse catagories rather than tags. Because sometimes I can't really think of what to look up...
If I went further on this, maybe sub categories based on subject matter. For example, and onky example, anthro, feral, human, etc. As ONE way this could be done. Or scenery, concept art, etc.
This is what I have for now. But you'll probably get sick of me soon since I always poke around.
I may have made some suggestions out of ignorance for only being so new. If this is the case, than I apologise for potentially beating a dead horse!
If others want to weigh in on these, I'd like to see what others think.
Edit: Fixed my phones spelling errors


text:
Hugard's Magic Monthly - Volumes 1-4. Published from June 1943 to April 1965, Hugard's was one of the greatest magic magazines ever published - remarkable for the quality and quantity of the best tricks of the day as well as containing the most interesting information available on the magic scene of the day. More than 1,560 individual tricks and sleights, plus hundreds of tips, ideas and reviews plus historical and news items appeared in its 245 issues - a total of 2,524 pages! In addition, the final volume, Vol 20 & 21, includes a complete 250 page master index by W.L. Broecker. This index will guide you quickly to effects, contributors and general information. There's also an invaluable overview by Broecker of the history of the magazine and biographies of the major contributors. Finally, for an additional bonus, Volume 20 & 21 also includes a reproduction of the rare, fascinating program for the Jean Hugard Testimonial given at New York's Barbazon Plaza Playhouse on April 28, 1945. This program (over 100 pages) contains articles, pictures and testimonials by leading magicians of the day.
Do you own this product? Write a review.


text:
These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
Your child learns the flags of Spanish-speaking countries and practices memory skills in this matching game.
Your child practices Spanish vocabulary and word recognition in this word search game.
Your child learns about Latin American history and culture by matching pictures that represent descriptions to photos of famous people.
Your child practices concept development and gains exposure to Spanish words by selecting ingredients that correspond to a particular food dish.
Your child practices pattern recognition while learning about Latin American holidays and celebrations while putting together puzzles.
Your child practices memory and matching skills, and learns ASL signs for animals in this image matching game.
Your child practices listening skills and strategic thinking by choosing which image to take a picture of based on the narrated story.
Your child practices creating unique musical arrangements by choosing pictures that correspond with specific sounds, placing them in a line, then playing the newly created song.
Your child develops creativity and narrative building skills by creating a comic book story world and printing it out to color.
Your child learns to compose a friendly letter by filling in this form and creating a message.
Zoodles 11.8.7 Copyright (c) 2014 Inquisitive Minds, Inc. All rights reserved.


text:
British workers 'among worst idlers', suggest Tory MPs
British workers are "among the worst idlers in the world", a group of Conservative MPs has claimed.
The UK "rewards laziness", does not encourage risk-taking and must strive to emulate the work ethic and low-tax culture in parts of Asia, the five MPs argue in a book due out next month.
The authors include Elizabeth Truss and Dominic Raab, both tipped to be promoted in a future reshuffle.
"Too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work," they argue.
The other contributors to Britannia Unchained are Priti Patel, Chris Skidmore and Kwasi Kwarteng, influential members of the "class of 2010" - MPs elected to Parliament at the last election.
Unions described their comments as "ridiculous" and said the most serious challenge facing the economy was a "severe lack of jobs".
'Rewarding laziness'
The MPs' arguments will intensify the debate in the coalition government about how to reverse the slide in the economy, which has seen the UK slip into a double dip recession.
Many Conservatives on the right of the party argue the government's pro-growth initiatives are inadequate and that changes to the labour market, tax cuts and other "supply side" measures needed to boost competitiveness are being held back by the Lib Dems.
The five MPs - who are all members of the Free Enterprise Group of Tory MPs - say the UK needs to reward a culture of "graft, risk and effort" if it is to compete with fast-growing nations.
"Britain will never be as big as China and Brazil but we can look forward to a new generation, ready to get to work," they argue in excerpts of the book published in the Evening Standard.
"If we are to take advantage of these opportunities, we must get on the side of the responsible, the hardworking and the brave.
"We must stop bailing out the reckless, avoiding all risk and rewarding laziness."
The UK, they argue, is being held back by an excessive public sector, substantial public sector pension liabilities and a welfare system which does not provide sufficient incentives to work.
'Poor productivity'
Most controversially, they suggest "poor productivity" is due in part to attitudes to work in the UK - which they compare unfavourably with countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.
"Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world," they write. "We work among the lowest hours, we retire early and our productivity is poor."
Under the EU Working Time Directive, most employees cannot be forced to work more than 48 hours although the UK has an opt-out enabling people to request to work longer if they choose.
The coalition government is currently planning to raise the retirement age for men and women to 67 by 2025, eight years earlier than previously planned.
In contrast, new French president Francois Hollande has said he wants to lower the retirement age from 62 to 60 for some workers.
'Lack of demand'
Unions said the millions of people out of work or working fewer hours than they wanted would find the MPs' arguments "deeply irritating".
"The problem with the UK economy is not its workers, but a severe lack of jobs," said TUC general secretary Brendan Barber.
"It's not the UK work ethic which is holding the country back but a lack of demand in the economy - a situation that is being made considerably worse by government spending cuts.
He added: "Economic success won't come about by turning the screw on British workers, but by investing significantly in jobs, skills and infrastructure for the future."
Ministers say efforts to reduce the deficit and to unlock growth in the economy go hand in hand.
The government has promised further initiatives to boost employment and investment in the autumn on top of recent announcements on housebuilding, broadband and train building.


text:
Computer Systems Engineering with a Year in Industry BEng
Department of Automatic Control and Systems EngineeringApply for this course >
Course detailsA Levels AAB Other entry requirements
UCAS code 2A47
Duration 4 years
Fees and additional costs Home/EU students International students
Related subjects Automatic Control and Systems Engineering Computer Systems Engineering Engineering Systems Engineering
Any questions?
Undergraduate Admissions Team
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Telephone +44 (0)114 222 5647
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Website sheffield.ac.uk/acse/undergraduates
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
No 1 in the UK for research output
Research Excellence Framework 2014
90% for student satisfaction
The National Student Survey 2019
Course description
Boost your career prospects by spending a year of your degree working for an engineering company. You pay a reduced fee to the university for that year and you get paid a salary.
The course will help you understand how computer systems are used in safety-critical applications like infrastructure, medicine and aviation. We will show you how to design, create, integrate and manage computers within complex engineering systems. The work placement will put your learning into context.
You'll graduate with a thorough understanding of the use of computers for design and programming within engineering systems and other applications.
Mechatronics module
All students in the department take our second-year module on mechatronics. Here the module leader Dr Dana Damian talks about why she enjoys working on the module, and the skills that students develop through the module.
Financial help from the University - bursaries
If you're a UK student, you could be entitled to a University bursary. A bursary is the same as a grant - you don't have to pay it back.
Entry requirements
|A Levels
|AAB, including Maths and a science subject
|A Levels + Extended Project Qualification
|AAB, including Maths and a Science subject + A in a relevant EPQ
|International Baccalaureate
|34, 6, 5 in Higher Level Maths and a science subject
|DD in Engineering or Applied Science + A in A Level Maths
|Scottish Highers + 2 Advanced Highers
|AAAAB + AA, including Maths and a science subject in both
|Welsh Baccalaureate + 2 A Levels
|A + AA in Maths and a science subject
|Access to HE
|Entry requirements for mature students
|Other qualifications
Other UK qualifications
Other EU/international qualifications
Other requirements
|If you have any questions about entry requirements, please contact the department
Modules - what you study and when
The modules listed below are examples from the last academic year. There may be some changes before you start your course. For the very latest module information, check with the department direct.
Course information on Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering website
First year
Core modules:
|Digital and Embedded Systems
|Introduction to Electric and Electronic Circuits
|Introduction to Systems Engineering & Software
|Modelling, Analysis and Control
|Physical Systems
|Systems Engineering Mathematics
|Global Engineering Challenge Week
Second year
Core modules:
|Computer Problem Solving and Object Oriented Design
|Control Systems Design and Analysis
|Mathematics & Data Modelling
|Signals, Systems, and Communications
|Systems Engineering and Object Oriented Programming
|Engineering - You're Hired
Third year
Core modules:
|Year in Industry
Fourth year
Core modules:
|Individual Project
|Systems Design and Security
|Digital Signal Processing
|Finance and Law for Engineers
|Intelligent Systems
|State-Space Control Design
Optional modules:
|Adaptive Intelligence
|Aircraft Dynamics and Control
|Computer Security and Forensics
|Hardware-in-the-Loop & Rapid Control Prototyping
|Machine Learning
|Space Systems Engineering
|System Identification
The content of our courses is reviewed annually to make sure it's up-to-date and relevant. Individual modules are occasionally updated or withdrawn. This is in response to discoveries through our world-leading research; funding changes; professional accreditation requirements; student or employer feedback; outcomes of reviews; and variations in staff or student numbers.
In the event of any change we'll consult and inform students in good time and take reasonable steps to minimise disruption.
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
We are the only department in the UK dedicated to Control and Systems Engineering.
We are home to the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre and have research contracts with major institutions like the European Space Agency, as well as our many academic and industrial partners. These connections mean our teaching is based on the latest thinking.
Our facilities include a robotics, real-time systems, and control and power systems laboratory, as well as a state-of-the-art electronics and control lab in the Diamond (pictured).
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering website
What our graduates do
Our courses prepare you for a career where you'll apply your creative problem-solving skills and your understanding of engineering principles to the real world, while working in multidisciplinary teams. These transferable skills can be applied in many sectors across the breadth of engineering and beyond.
During your degree you'll have plenty of opportunities to enhance your employability. You can choose to go on a placement in industry, either during the summer or as a year in industry. Or you could consider studying abroad, either for a full year, or as part of a summer school.
We also have extracurricular projects where you can work with other engineering and science students to design and build rockets, submersible robots, autonomous payloads for satellites, rovers and more. You could also take part in a scheme for undergraduates where you work on research projects with academics over the summer period.
Graduates from all of our courses are highly employable and work all over the world for companies such as Arup, Rolls-Royce, Boeing, Jaguar Land Rover, Thales and IBM. They go on to become professional engineers in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, power generation and sustainable energy.
You can expect an above-average starting salary of £27,900 per annum (DLHE, 2017).
Student profile
"When I looked into other universities, I found there was nowhere else that had its own dedicated systems and control department. Sheffield is the only one in the UK...I really enjoy being an engineering student, because I get to find out how things work, how systems work and how things are put together...I used to enjoy it when I was really little, and now I get to go on and do it as my career."
Rachael Rix
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
All our courses are accredited by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and the Institute of Measurement and Control.
Apply for this course
Make sure you've done everything you need to do before you apply:How to apply >
When you're ready to apply, see the UCAS website:ucas.com >
Contact us
Undergraduate Admissions Team
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Telephone +44 (0)114 222 5647
Email email@example.com
Visit us
University open days
There are four open days every year, usually in June, July, September and October. You can talk to staff and students, tour the campus and see inside the accommodation.
Book your place >
Applicant days
If you've received an offer to study with us, we'll invite you to one of our applicant days, which take place between November and April. These applicant days have a strong department focus and give you the chance to really explore student life here, even if you've visited us before.
Campus tours
Campus tours run regularly throughout the year, at 1pm every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
Find out more and book a place online >