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=== Headset and ALSA devices ===
=== Headset and ALSA devices ===
==== by referencing the bluetooth device in asound.conf
==== by referencing the bluetooth device in asound.conf ====
1. Scan for your device
1. Scan for your device
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pcm {
pcm {
type bluetooth
type bluetooth
device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
profile "auto"
profile "auto"
hint {
hint {
show on
show on
description "BT Headset"
description "BT Headset"
ctl.btheadset {
ctl.btheadset {
type bluetooth
type bluetooth
4. Check to see if it has been added to ALSA devices
4. Check to see if it has been added to ALSA devices
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$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset ''/path/to/audio/or/video/file''
$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset ''/path/to/audio/or/video/file''
To find hci# for a usb dongle, type in
To find hci# for a usb dongle, type in
$ hcitool dev
$ hcitool dev
==== by using bluez-tools from the AUR ====
==== by using bluez-tools from the AUR ====
You can use {{AUR|bluez-tools}} from the [[AUR]] with PulseAudio to stream audio to a bluetooth headset.
You can use {{AUR|bluez-tools}} from the [[AUR]] with PulseAudio to stream audio to a bluetooth headset.
Find the MAC of the headset:
Find the MAC of the headset:
$ hcitool scan
$ hcitool scan
Revision as of 21:11, 12 September 2013
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Bluetooth is a standard for the short-range wireless interconnection of cellular phones, computers, and other electronic devices. In Linux, the canonical implementation of the Bluetooth protocol stack is BlueZ.
- 1 Installation
- 2 Graphical front-ends
- 3 Bluez Utils
- 4 Pairing
- 5 Using Obex for sending and receiving files
- 6 Examples
- 6.1 Siemens S55
- 6.2 Logitech mouse MX Laser / M555b
- 6.3 Motorola V900
- 6.4 Motorola RAZ
- 6.5 Pairing with an iPhone using bluez-simple-agent
- 6.6 Headset and ALSA devices
- 6.7 Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000
- 7 Troubleshooting
- 7.1 passkey-agent
- 7.2 gnome-bluetooth
- 7.3 Bluetooth USB Dongle
- 7.4 Logitech Bluetooth USB Dongle
- 7.5 hcitool scan: Device not found
- 7.6 rfkill unblock: Do not unblock
- 7.7 My computer is not visible
- 7.8 Nautilus cannot browse files
- 7.9 Sennheiser MM400 Headset connection problems
- 7.10 My device is paired but no sound is played from it
- 8 See also
To use Bluetooth, install bluez, available in the official repositories. The
dbus daemon(start automatically by systemd) is used to read settings and for PIN pairing, while the
bluetooth daemon is required for the Bluetooth protocol.
Start the bluetooth systemd service.
Enable the bluetooth service to start it at system boot up.
Graphical front-ends
The following packages allow for a graphical interface to customize Bluetooth.
See Blueman article.
GNOME Bluetooth
GNOME Bluetooth is a fork of the old bluez-gnome and is focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Bluetooth is required by gnome-shell, so you should already have it installed if you are running GNOME 3. Otherwise, it can be installed with the package gnome-bluetooth. Note that gnome-shell, gnome-bluetooth <= 3.8 depend upon bluez4. From gnome-shell 3.10 onwards, bluez will be supported. More information regarding the GNOME migration to bluez can be found here (June 2013 blog post).
bluetooth-applet for a nice Bluetooth applet. You should now be able to setup devices and send files by right-clicking the Bluetooth icon. To make the applet run on login, add it to System > Preferences > Startup Applications.
To add a Bluetooth entry to the SendTo menu in Thunar's file properties menu, see instructions here.
The Bluetooth tool for KDE is BlueDevil. It can be installed with the package bluedevil, available in the Official Repositories.
Make sure
bluetooth daemon is running, as described above. You should get a Bluetooth icon both in Dolphin and in the system tray, from which you can configure BlueDevil and detect Bluetooth devices by clicking the icon. You can also configure BlueDevil from the KDE System Settings
Fluxbox, Openbox, other WM
Of course you can still use the preceding applications even if GNOME, Xfce or KDE are not your desktop manager. This list should help you figuring out which application does what:
- bluetooth-applet -- tray icon with access to settings, pairing wizard, management of known devices
- /usr/lib/gnome-user-share/gnome-user-share -- needs to be running if you're about to receive files via obexBT from a paired/bonded device
if you're receiving an error during transmission and/or there's no file received add this into
<policy user="your_user_id"> <allow own="org.bluez"/> <allow send_destination="org.bluez"/> <allow send_interface="org.bluez.Agent"/> </policy>
- bluetooth-wizard -- for new devices to be paired
- bluetooth-properties -- accessible also via bluetooth-applet icon
- gnome-file-share-properties -- permissions on receiving files via bluetooth
- bluez-sendto -- gui for sending files to a remote device
Bluez Utils
The package bluez-utils contains various commands, which are useful to configure and troubleshoot Bluetooth from the command line.
Print name and basic information about all the Bluetooth devices installed in the system:
$ hciconfig
To activate a device, use:
# hciconfig device-name up
To scan for remote devices:
$ hcitool scan
Many bluetooth devices require pairing. The exact procedure depends on the devices involved and their input functionality.
With bluez5
Start the
bluetoothctl interactive command. There you can input
help to get a list of available commands.
- Enter
devicesto get the MAC Address of the device with which you want to pair.
- Enter
pair MAC Addressto do the pairing.
- Finally, use
connect <MAC Address>to establish a connection.
With bluez4
The procedure on a mobile may be as follows:
- The computer sends a connect request to the mobile.
- A pin, determined by the computer, is prompted for at the mobile
- The same key must be re-entered at the computer.
To pair with a device without using the gnome-bluez package, the bluez-simple-agent utility that comes with the bluez package can be used. This utility depends on three packages from the official repositories: python2-dbus python2-gobject dbus-glib.
First, scan for external devices:
$ hcitool scan
Run the script as root:
# bluez-simple-agent
The message "Agent registered" should be returned, press control-c to quit.
Below is a basic example of pairing with a specific device. The script will ask for the passcode, enter the code and confirm with enter.
# bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:11:22:33:AA:BB
See the Examples section below for pairing examples with various devices.
Using Obex for sending and receiving files
Another option, rather than using KDE or Gnome Bluetooth packages, is Obexfs which allows you to mount your phone and treat it as part of your filesystem. Note that to use Obexfs, you need a device that provides an Obex FTP service.
Install obexfs and then your phone can then be mounted by running
$ obexfs -b devices_MAC_address /mountpoint
For more mounting options see http://dev.zuckschwerdt.org/openobex/wiki/ObexFs
For devices don't support Obex FTP service, check if Obex Object Push is supported.
# sdptool browse XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Read the output, look for Obex Object Push, remember the channel for this service. If supported, you can use ussp-push to send files to this device:
# ussp-push XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX@CHANNEL file wanted_file_name_on_phone
Siemens S55
This is what I did to connect to my S55. (I have not figured out how to initiate the connection from the phone)
- The steps under installation
$ hcitool scan
Scanning ... XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX NAME
Start the simple-agent in a second terminal:
$ su -c bluez-simple-agent
Password: Agent registered
Back to the first console:
$ obexftp -b $B -l "Address book"
# Phone ask for pin, I enter it and answer yes when asked if I want to save the device ... <file name="5F07.adr" size="78712" modified="20030101T001858" user-perm="WD" group-perm="" /> ...
$ obexftp -b 00:01:E3:6B:FF:D7 -g "Address book/5F07.adr"
Browsing 00:01:E3:6B:FF:D7 ... Channel: 5 Connecting...done Receiving "Address book/5F07.adr"... Sending "Address book"... done Disconnecting...done
$ obexftp -b 00:01:E3:6B:FF:D7 -p a
... Sending "a"... done Disconnecting...done
Logitech mouse MX Laser / M555b
To quickly test the connection:
$ hidd --connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
For automated reconnection, use your desktop wizard to configure the bluetooth mouse. If your desktop environment doesn't includes support for this task, see the Bluetooth mouse manual configuration guide.
Motorola V900
After installing blueman and running blueman-applet, click "find me" under connections > bluetooth in Motorla device. In blueman-applet, scan devices, find the motorola, click "add" in blueman-applet. Click "bond" in blueman-applet, enter some pin, enter the same pin in motorola when it asks. In terminal:
$ mkdir ~/bluetooth-temp $ obexfs -n XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ~/bluetooth-temp $ cd ~/bluetooth-temp
and browse... Only audio, video, and pictures are available when you do this.
Motorola RAZ
Install obextool obexfs obexftp openobex bluez.
# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module] Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
# hciconfig hci0 up
# hciconfig
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:16:41:97:BA:5E ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING RX bytes:348 acl:0 sco:0 events:11 errors:0 TX bytes:38 acl:0 sco:0 commands:11 errors:0
# hcitool dev
Devices: hci0 00:16:41:97:BA:5E
Make sure that bluetooth on your phone is enabled and your phone is visible!
# hcitool scan
Scanning ... 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D [quirxi]
# hcitool inq
Inquiring ... 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D clock offset: 0x1ee4 class: 0x522204
# l2ping 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D
Ping: 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D from 00:16:41:97:BA:5E (data size 44) ... 44 bytes from 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D id 0 time 23.94ms 44 bytes from 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D id 1 time 18.85ms 44 bytes from 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D id 2 time 30.88ms 44 bytes from 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D id 3 time 18.88ms 44 bytes from 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D id 4 time 17.88ms 44 bytes from 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D id 5 time 17.88ms 6 sent, 6 received, 0% loss
# hcitool name 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D
# hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB BD Address: 00:16:41:97:BA:5E ACL MTU: 1017:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING RX bytes:9740 acl:122 sco:0 events:170 errors:0 TX bytes:2920 acl:125 sco:0 commands:53 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8d 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'BCM2045' Class: 0x000000 Service Classes: Unspecified Device Class: Miscellaneous, HCI Version: 2.0 (0x3) Revision: 0x204a LMP Version: 2.0 (0x3) Subversion: 0x4176 Manufacturer: Broadcoml / Corporation (15)
# hcitool info 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D
Requesting information ... BD Address: 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D Device Name: [quirxi] LMP Version: 1.2 (0x2) LMP Subversion: 0x309 Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15) Features: 0xff 0xfe 0x0d 0x00 0x08 0x08 0x00 0x00 <3-slot packets> <5-slot packets> <encryption> <slot offset> <timing accuracy> <role switch> <hold mode> <sniff mode> <RSSI> <channel quality> <SCO link> <HV2 packets> <HV3 packets> <A-law log> <CVSD> <power control> <transparent SCO> <AFH cap. slave> <AFH cap. master>
Edit your
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf and enter the proper class for your phone ( Class = 0x100100 ):
# Default device class. Only the major and minor device class bits are # considered. #Class = 0x000100 Class = 0x100100
# systemctl start bluetooth
:: Stopping bluetooth subsystem: pand dund rfcomm hidd bluetoothd [DONE] :: Starting bluetooth subsystem: bluetoothd
Pairing with bluez-simple-agent only has to be done once. On your Motorola phone give 0000 in as your PIN when phone asks for it!
/usr/bin/bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D
RequestPinCode (/org/bluez/10768/hci0/dev_00_1A_1B_82_9B_6D) Enter PIN Code: 0000 Release New device (/org/bluez/10768/hci0/dev_00_1A_1B_82_9B_6D)
Now you can browse the filesystem of your phone with obexftp:
obexftp -v -b 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D -B 9 -l
Connecting..\done Tried to connect for 448ms Receiving "(null)"...-<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE folder-listing SYSTEM "obex-folder-listing.dtd"> <folder-listing> <parent-folder /> <folder name="audio" size="0" type="folder" modified="20101010T132323Z" user-perm="RW" /> <folder name="video" size="0" type="folder" modified="20101010T132323Z" user-perm="RW" /> <folder name="picture" size="0" type="folder" modified="20101010T132323Z" user-perm="RW" /> </folder-listing> done Disconnecting..\done
Or you can mount your phone into a directory on your computer and treat it like a normal file system:
# groupadd bluetooth # mkdir /mnt/bluetooth # chown root:bluetooth /mnt/bluetooth # chmod 775 /mnt/bluetooth # usermod -a -G bluetooth arno # obexfs -b 00:1A:1B:82:9B:6D /mnt/bluetooth/
Pairing with an iPhone using bluez-simple-agent
Assuming a bluetooth device called hci0 and an iPhone that showed up in a hcitool scan as '00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF':
# bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:00:DE:AD:BE:EF Passcode:
Headset and ALSA devices
by referencing the bluetooth device in asound.conf
1. Scan for your device
$ hcitool (-i <optional hci#>***) scan
2. Pair your headset with your device
$ bluez-simple-agent (optional hci# ***) XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX and put in your PIN (0000 or 1234, etc)
3. Add this to your
/etc/asound.conf file
pcm.btheadset { type plug slave { pcm { type bluetooth device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX profile "auto" } } hint { show on description "BT Headset" } } ctl.btheadset { type bluetooth }
4. Check to see if it has been added to ALSA devices
$ aplay -L
5. Now play with aplay:
$ aplay -D btheadset /path/to/audio/file
or MPlayer:
$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset /path/to/audio/or/video/file
To find hci# for a usb dongle, type in:
$ hcitool dev
by using bluez-tools from the AUR
You can use bluez-toolsAUR from the AUR with PulseAudio to stream audio to a bluetooth headset. Find the MAC of the headset:
$ hcitool scan
Connect to the headset:
$ bt-audio -c XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Open pulseaudio volume control:
$ pavucontrol
The headset should show up in the Configuration tab.
Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000
1. Scan for your device
$ hcitool (-i <optional hci#>***) scan Scanning ... 00:11:22:33:44:55 Microsoft Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 6000
2. On second console run as root (do not terminate):
# bluez-simple-agent Agent registered
3. Back on first console run:
$ bluez-simple-agent hci0 00:11:22:33:44:55 Enter PIN Code: 1234 (now enter that PIN on the keyboard and press enter) Release New device (/org/bluez/5373/hci0/dev_00_11_22_33_44_55)
$ bluez-test-device trusted 00:11:22:33:44:55
$ bluez-test-input connect 00:11:22:33:44:55
No your keyboard should work. You can terminate bluez-simple-agent on second console with
$ passkey-agent --default 1234 Can't register passkey agent The name org.bluez was not provided by any .service files
$ hciconfig dev # (no listing)
Try running
hciconfig hc0 up
If you see this when trying to enable receiving files in bluetooth-properties:
Bluetooth OBEX start failed: Invalid path Bluetooth FTP start failed: Invalid path
Then install xdg-user-dirs and issue:
$ xdg-user-dirs-update
You can edit the paths using:
$ vi ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Bluetooth USB Dongle
If you are using a USB dongle, you should check that your Bluetooth dongle is recognized. You can do that by inspecting
/var/log/messages.log when plugging in the USB dongle (or running
journalctl -f with systemd). It should look something like the following (look out for hci):
Feb 20 15:00:24 hostname kernel: [ 2661.349823] usb 4-1: new full-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd Feb 20 15:00:24 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: HCI dev 0 registered Feb 20 15:00:24 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: Listening for HCI events on hci0 Feb 20 15:00:25 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: HCI dev 0 up Feb 20 15:00:25 hostname bluetoothd[4568]: Adapter /org/bluez/4568/hci0 has been enabled
For a list of supported hardware please refer to the Resource section on this page.
If you only get the first two lines, you may see that it found the device but you need to bring it up. Example:
hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 ACL MTU: 0:0 SCO MTU: 0:0 DOWN RX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 events:0 errors:0 TX bytes:0 acl:0 sco:0 commands:0 errors:
# hciconfig hci0 up
hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:02:72:C4:7C:06 ACL MTU: 377:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING RX bytes:348 acl:0 sco:0 events:11 errors:0 TX bytes:38 acl:0 sco:0 commands:11 errors:0
If this fails with an error like:
Operation not possible due to RF-kill
it could be due either to the
rfkill utility, in which case it should be resolved with
# rfkill unblock all
or, it could simply be the hardware switch of the computer. The hardware bluetooth switch (at least sometimes) controls access to USB bluetooth dongles also. Flip/press this switch and try bringing the device up again.
To verify that the device was detected you can use
hcitool which is part of the
bluez-utils. You can get a list of available devices and their identifiers and their MAC address by issuing:
$ hcitool dev
Devices: hci0 00:1B:DC:0F:DB:40
More detailed informations about the device can be retrieved by using
$ hciconfig -a hci0
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:1B:DC:0F:DB:40 ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:1226 acl:0 sco:0 events:27 errors:0 TX bytes:351 acl:0 sco:0 commands:26 errors:0 Features: 0xff 0xff 0x8f 0xfe 0x9b 0xf9 0x00 0x80 Packet type: DM1 DM3 DM5 DH1 DH3 DH5 HV1 HV2 HV3 Link policy: RSWITCH HOLD SNIFF PARK Link mode: SLAVE ACCEPT Name: 'BlueZ (0)' Class: 0x000100 Service Classes: Unspecified Device Class: Computer, Uncategorized HCI Ver: 2.0 (0x3) HCI Rev: 0xc5c LMP Ver: 2.0 (0x3) LMP Subver: 0xc5c Manufacturer: Cambridge Silicon Radio (10)
Logitech Bluetooth USB Dongle
There are Logitech dongles (ex. Logitech MX5000) that can work in two modes Embedded and HCI. In embedded mode dongle emulates a USB device so it seems to your PC that your using a normal USB mouse/keyoard.
If you hold the little red Button on the USB BT mini-receiver it will enable the other mode. Hold the red button on the BT dongle and plug it into the computer, and after 3-5 seconds of holding the button, the Bluetooth icon will appear in the system tray. Discussion
hcitool scan: Device not found
- On some Dell laptops (e.g. Studio 15) you have to switch the Bluetooth mode from HID to HCI using
# hid2hci
- If the device won't show up and you have a Windows operating system on your machine, try booting it and enable the bluetooth adapter from windows.
- Sometimes also this simple command helps:
# hciconfig hci0 up
rfkill unblock: Do not unblock
If your device still soft blocked and you run connman.
Try this: $ connmanctl enable bluetooth
My computer is not visible
Can't discover computer from your phone? Enable PSCAN and ISCAN:
# enable PSCAN and ISCAN $ hciconfig hci0 piscan # check it worked
$ hciconfig
hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 00:12:34:56:78:9A ACL MTU: 192:8 SCO MTU: 64:8 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:20425 acl:115 sco:0 events:526 errors:0 TX bytes:5543 acl:84 sco:0 commands:340 errors:0
Try changing device class in
/etc/bluetooth/main.conf as following:
# Default device class. Only the major and minor device class bits are # considered. #Class = 0x000100 (from default config) Class = 0x100100
This was the only solution to make my computer visible for my phone.
Nautilus cannot browse files
If nautilus doesn't open and show this error:
Nautilus cannot handle obex: locations. Couldn't display "obex://[XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX]/".
Install gvfs-obexftp package.
Sennheiser MM400 Headset connection problems
If your
Sennheiser MM400 Headset immediately disconnects after connecting as
Headset Service with Blueman, try to connect it as
Audio Sink. Afterwards you can change the headset's
Audio Profile to
Telephony Duplex with a right click in Blueman.
With this option headset functionality will be available although the headset was only connected as
Audio Sink in first place and no disconnection will happen (tested with bluez 4.96-3, pulseaudio 1.1-1 and blueman 1.23-2).
My device is paired but no sound is played from it
Try to first inspect
/var/log/messages.log. If you see such messages:
Jan 12 20:08:58 localhost pulseaudio[1584]: [pulseaudio] module-bluetooth-device.c: Service not connected Jan 12 20:08:58 localhost pulseaudio[1584]: [pulseaudio] module-bluetooth-device.c: Bluetooth audio service not available
try first:
# pactl load-module module-bluetooth-device
If the module fails to work, do this workaround:
/etc/bluetooth/audio.conf and add after [General] (on a new line)
Then restart the bluetooth daemon. Pair again your device, and you should find it in the pulseaudio settings (advanced settings for the sound)
More information on Gentoo Wiki
If after fixing this you still can't get sound, try using blueman (this is the only one that works for me), make sure that notify-osd is installed or it might show you weird error messages like this one: "Stream setup failed"
fail (/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/blueman/gui/manager/ManagerDeviceMenu.py:134) fail (DBusException(dbus.String(u'Stream setup failed'),),)
See also
- Gentoo Linux Bluetooth guide
- openSUSE Bluetooth Hardware Compatibility List
- Accessing a Bluetooth phone (Linux Gazette)
- Bluetooth computer visibility
- Bluetooth for your mobile phone: Bluetooth pairing, data synchronization, photo download, Internet Dial-Up (tethering)
- Bluetooth pairing and applications for synchronizing phone numbers, SMS-messages, phone call entries, your calendar and time; tethering


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Geo Stash III - ContestPosted in Events on October 1, 2007
The staff here at 4 Wheel Drive & Sport Utility is very proud to launch the third season of the GeoStash contest... with a new twist. We used to hide both the north and the west coordinates in the magazine. This gave subscribers an advantage because they receive their magazines before they were placed on the newsstand. However, the coordinates for GeoStash III will be split in two parts, the west (longitude) coordinate will be cut in half and hidden in the magazine. The north (latitude) coordinate will from now on be posted on 4WD&SU's website (www.4wdandsportutility.com) on the 15th of each month. The two-part format for the hidden west coordinate will always be hidden with XX in one section of the magazine and XX.XXXW in another section of the magazine. For example, the June '07 west coordinate was 106 52.979W. Had this coordinate been split according to the new format, 106 would have been separated from 52.979W. So, you would find 106 in one section of the magazine and 52.979W in another section. The north coordinate will be posted at www.4wdandsportutility.com under "FORUMS Community voices."
For those readers who are completely new to the GeoStash contest, the north and west coordinates pinpoint a location somewhere in the United States. A stainless steel plate ("marker") laser-cut with the magazine's title and my phone number can be found at this location. The marker is about the size of a vehicle's license plate. When it is found and redeemed, the lucky enthusiast wins a very cool prize. These prizes will range from products donated by our advertisers and manufacturers to 4WD&SU magazine apparel and subscriptions.
The west (longitude) coordinate can be hidden just about anywhere within the magazine. The coordinate will be divided into two parts and hidden in the magazine's text or ghost-imaged somewhere on a photograph. The coordinate parts will not be hidden in or on any advertising. Finding the marker on the trail will require use of four-wheel drive and involve some hiking. We'll keep it safe, so don't worry, you won't have to rappel off the sides of any cliffs. The stainless steel marker may be placed behind trees, between rocks, or under something, but it will not be completely buried.
Geo Stash Coordinate Locations in the Magazine
August '07
Page 10. 42 59.088N - Top right corner
Page 54. 123 26.742N - Right side of photo
September '07
Marker not yet found. Check the website for updates.
The GeoStash marker will have my phone number listed on it. I must be called immediately when the marker is found. The marker must also be sent back to me for verification, but it will be returned to the person who found it. Each marker for any given month will have a unique identifying mark on it so it cannot be duplicated.
Very Important - do yourself a favor and check our website's "FORUMS Community Voices" page to see if the marker has been found for any given month before you go searching. Please keep in mind that the marker may have been found while you were en route to the coordinate's location. Once we have been notified, we will post where the marker has been found.
A disposable camera will be attached to the marker. Have a photo of yourself taken at the location (hopefully you won't be out alone) you found the marker and send the camera back with the marker when you mail it to me for verification. Though there will be a camera attached to the marker, we would prefer that a digital image of the winner on the trail with the marker be e-mailed to us if you have the capability. If you do have a digital camera, please set it to the highest megapixel setting before snapping the photo.
The GeoStash III webpage will highlight the enthusiast who found the prize, the product given away and its manufacturer, and the next month's prize to be given away.

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Images that store or spark memories, and what to do about them.
More Kodak Moments of Closure: Kodak Gallery, Ektachrome
The Death of Kodak announcements, they keep rolling in. No sooner do I post about America's Storyteller, Kodak, shedding parts of their photo businesses, and they announce a couple more endings. Kodak Gallery to be sold to Shutterfly, and Ektrachrome will go the way of Kodachrome: Away. Dead. Finis.
Kodak Gallery: In which I say something and am immediately proven wrong
I had this IM conversation last week. A friend read the previous entry and said
Friend: "I didn't realize Kodak was going out of business. That's unbelievable."
Susan: "I don't think kodakgallery is on the chopping block…"
I said that because I'd read from the ending-of-digital-camera announcement that Kodak would be concentrating on their printing business. After all Kodak Gallery is a printing business, right? Upload photos, and get them printed. Alas, no. It looks as though Kodak will sell its Kodak Gallery site to Shutterfly. (The "printing business" is digital printers and inks) It's a good thing I ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 04, 2012 in
• Longevity
• Obsolecence
• Photographs
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Kodak: From "Remember The Day In Pictures" to "Remember using a Kodak camera?"
For nearly 125 years Kodak's reason for existence has been to provide the tools for people to create memories.
"Remember the day in pictures."
"Keep 'Family History' in snapshots."
"Remember the visit with snapshots."
"For over 100 years people have trusted their memories to Kodak film."
Kodak, the company that started in 1880 and popularized the film camera and invented the digital camera, recently announced that they're no longer going to manufacture digital cameras and photo frames. How does one think of a dying behemoth? And not just any corporate behemoth, but a company that has been integral to capturing and storing our memories? Their 1970s ad said, "We're America's storyteller celebrating life with you –picturing the stories of everything you do." Now Kodak is transforming into a memory.
There are three ways to consider this transformation.
The "Wow. Just wow." factor
Most of the stories I've seen fit in this category . Wow. Kodak is no longer making digital cameras. Wow. Kodak is the company that invented the digital camera. The company has been around, like, forever. Look at that. Such a change. Wow. It just takes your breath away.
Over my lifetime, I've shot pictures with an Instamatic camera, and a Pocket Instamatic (using Kodak film, of course.) When I got a 35mm Single Lens Reflex, I kept using Kodak film—lots of Kodak film. When I took a photography class, I bought Kodak chemicals and photo paper. I got a Kodak slide carousel projector ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on February 29, 2012 in
• Digitality
• Interviewing
• Longevity
• Memorabilia
• Obsolecence
• Photographs
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The Mushroom Cloud Photograph: Preview of Digital Audio Workshop for SOHA Conference
Family history meets History history: For the Digital Audio Workshop I'm teaching at the SOHA Conference, I will work from an interview with the granddaughter of the physicist who conducted the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. Photographer Rachel Fermi talks about discovering a color snapshot of a mushroom cloud in a box of family photographs. That discovery led her to create (with co-author Esther Samra) a book-length photo essay of the Manhattan Project, called Picturing The Bomb.
Here's a little foretaste of the audio we will work with at the workshop, which takes place in a week and a half in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
And yes, you can still register!!
Here are some photos from the interview (during the last days of 2010), and four short edited audio excerpts.
In the FIRST AUDIO RECORDING [MP3, 1:07], Rachel describes the background—how she's related to Enrico Fermi, and what she was told about him when she was young. (Although she was born in the United States, Rachel grew up in Cambridge, England.)
"I was told a little bit about my grandfather. I knew that he was a physicist, and I knew that he'd won a Nobel Prize. But as I was ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 21, 2011 in
• History
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Interviewing while looking at photo albums (Part 2)
For Part 2 of this two-part series about interviewing using photo albums, I made you a movie!
Using the writerly maxim, "Show, don't tell," I show you what it's like to view photos while listening to people talk about them. I've written the important lesson before – describe out loud what you see on the page – but it's easier to watch and listen to see how important it is to put what you know into the recording. The movie features the glorious album of my Great Aunt Doris, the painter and horsewoman. (See Part 1)
I put this movie together from the audio recording of an interview I did with my mother a few years back. I just started up the audio and we looked through the album in two long sessions. Don't worry, this movie is much shorter than the long afternoon we spent poring over its pages. You'll join us as we look at one spread in the album and talk about the photos on its pages.
You get to step into the shoes of someone who comes along later—someone who wasn't present at the interview—and try to make sense of the photos by looking at the photos. It's 4:46 minutes long.
[note: if you are reading this using a feed reader (Google Reader, Feed Demon, Bloglines, NewsGator, Net News ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 16, 2010 in
• Interviewing
• Photographs
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The Scrapbook Belonging to Great Aunt Doris
What an album, what a treasure. This is my Great Aunt Doris' photo album/scrapbook. In honor of the 100th episode of the Carnival of Genealogy, I offer you an album that is nearly 100 years old. Doris attended the Fenway School of Illustration in Boston during the 'teens. There are photos from home in Montana, the Blackfoot Indian tribe, and photos from New York, where she lived with her sister and brother in law (my grandparents).
I pulled out this photo album again recently (it's the topic of Intervewing with Photo Albums, part 2, and I'm using it to make a little movie for you). I got stalled on some of the movie making because, well, there's so much interesting stuff in it. So much. It's huge. I can't share it all. (I haven't even scanned the whole thing.) But I can give you a sample.
Doris moved from Billings, Montana, to Boston Massachusetts to attend the Fenway School of Illustration. The early pages of her album show her in school, with her friends from school.
Note: click any image to enlarge.
The FSI medallion in the image above was, I guess, the Fenway School logo. When my mother and I talked over these photos, Mama didn't know what, exactly F.S.I. stood for. The Fenway School of Art? Something? What's with the I? Thanks to a recent bout of searching on Google, I learned that Fenway School stands for Fenway School of Illustration.
According to the Friends of Fenway Studio, the art school met in the Fenway Studio building.
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Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 01, 2010 in
• Genealogy
• Memorabilia
• Personal
• Photographs
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Interviewing while looking at photo albums (Part 1)
When you get together with family at Thanksgiving, will you spend all your time in the kitchen and dining table? Make some time to hear family stories. One basic way to capture stories is to look at photo albums and ask questions about the people and places, and the events depicted therein.
Photos are a great means of eliciting stories. Photos (and photo albums) also provide a fantastic start on a journey of collecting family history stories.
More than one older relative has replied to the request for an interview with something like—"What? you want to interview me? But my life's been so normal. So unexciting. What would I possibly have to say?"
That same person who objects to an "Interview" (with a capital I) probably finds it perfectly reasonable to sit down and identify people in photographs. "Why of course I'll tell you who these people you've never met are." Easy-peasy. Slam-dunk.
Now you're off and running. Then the person will start remembering, ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 19, 2010 in
• Interviewing
• Photographs
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Wordless Wednesday, 5 years after 05/05/05 Family Reunion Edition
¡Feliz Cinco de Mayo!
Click the big wide photo to enlarge.
Photo taken by camera timer. But it was my camera.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 05, 2010 in
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• Photographs
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A shoebox of photos
(This is in memory of Steve, and is for Debbi) His sister looked through the shoebox of photos. "Wow! I've never seen these before!" Sister and Mom sat in chairs on the grass in the backyard. I sat in one of the group of chairs encircling the metal firepit. Together they paged through snapshots. His Mom held slides up to the afternoon sun.
"Dad's hobby was photography," Sister said. "Did you see this one? the one where he's standing in front of that car? What kind of car is that?"
My boyfriend looks, and after a thoughtful pause, he says, "Cadillac."
It's a Cadillac with a long front end, maybe late 30s, early 40s. A car that you'd see at those classic car shows. The kind of car you'd wave to if you saw it barrelling along the freeway. The kind of car that brings a smile to your face in the year 2010.
"He's always posed in front of cars," Sister says. She and Mom look at the snapshots of toddlers in a tall tile bath. "Who is that with Steve?"
Mom looks, and says a name.
(Alas, I forgot the name. This is not my ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on May 03, 2010 in
• Memorabilia
• Photographs
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MemoryMiner 2.0 is out!
MemoryMiner 2.0. Cool. Been looking forward to this, and readers of this site's comment threads have had a slight heads up this was coming. The announcement arrived as I was out of town for the holiday. MemoryMiner's developer, John Fox, is the digital family photo Santa. I came up with a wishlist of items while working with the till-now current version, will have to download it and check out the new version.
UPDATE: I've been taking a look at the demo movie, and I like the things I see in there so much that I'm putting the movie here, too.
Thought this movie is for the Mac version, MemoryMiner is cross-platform. Looks as though, at this point, MemoryMiner 2.0 is Mac-only at this point. I'll get you more news about any plans for MemoryMiner 2.0 for Windows.
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 31, 2009 in
• Digital Storytelling
• Personal History
• Photographs
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Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank (June 2009)
Memories of Jamboree, Burbank, California, from June of this year. Image: Footnotes at Jamboree. What fun it was to meet fellow Geneabloggers and hang out. I think I spent more time hanging and talking than I did going to the conference sessions at Jamboree.
I began composing this post the day after Jamboree. But then I got sick. All of July I was sick. Then other stuff happened. But hey, I know that today's the day when plans for next year's Jamboree kicks off, so what better time to belatedly recall Jamboree last June than today?
I didn't make it to the Son of Blogger session (exhaustion set in, alas—June had been a jam-packed month), so that event was a micro-cosm of my posting of late (not much, you?)
I did make it to the Geneabloggers dinner on Saturday night, though. And, as you can tell by this image (click to view high rez version), a lot of other Geneabloggers made it, too! (not pictured: Thomas Macentee, nor I)
Here's a ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 12, 2009 in
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• Photographs
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MIT class of 1920: A gift in my email
This image is a gift, one I received in an email. My cousin sent it to me a couple of weeks back. Subject line: "Grandma Joe* Graduation Photo." She went to MIT – Massachusetts Institute of Technology – and graduated in 1920.
I have Grandma's letters that she received when she was at MIT, and one or two photos from that time, but this unexpected one is a beaut.
[Welcome, BoingBoingers & followers of @Xeni!
Stats about early MIT below; or maybe you'd be interested in a foto essay of my other, non-techy Grandma and her 1924 climb of Mt Rainier when she was 23 years old.]
Of the 40 people in this photo, Florence, also known as Flossie (upper right)—is the only woman. The photo arrived in email all by itself. The only clues were the file name and the subject line. Other than knowing that Flossie graduated from MIT in 1920, I don't know much else about this photo. But one good gift leads ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on December 10, 2009 in
• Letters in the Attic
• Personal History
• Photographs
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Dad Memorial Scanfest, part 2: How we used the images
My Dad's memorial was filled with photos, dear reader. Filled with them. The memorial was a little over a week ago. Here's what went down. Here's what we did with the photos I scanned (as described in Part 1). (I'll write one more post about lessons learned on a personal level)
The basic workflow of the images was: Scanning app → Photoshop where I did some basic color correction. When I scan images, I make them as big as possible, huuuuge file sizes. The scanner gave me the option of saving as TIFFs, so I did that. Before I brought them into MemoryMiner, I did a batch process in Photoshop to reduce the image size to half of what it was before, which left enough pixels for anyone who wanted to print out a high-ish resolution photo (longer dimensions average somewhere above 1200 pixels.) I changed foto format to high resolution JPEGs because I'm planning on eventually distributing the photo library, and I want it all to fit on a single DVD (capacity 4.7 GB) ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 23, 2009 in
• Personal
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The Dad Memorial Scanfest Marathon
I've been on a tear, scanning family photos, for Dad's memorial – the printed program, slideshow, and to burn on CD to share among extended family. I wrote most of this post when I was near the end of Marathon session #2, over the Hallowe'en/All Saints weekend a week+ ago. Find the album, pull out the fotos, scan at super high resolution. Open Photoshop to crop and/or copy paste just the individual image into its own image file. All of this has me thinking about the best way to share and manage a huge photo collection. This is one of those "thinking out loud" post, most composed 10 days ago, with some follow-up comments from today.
It's been a month since Dad died, and the memorial is set for this weekend. This has allowed us some time to breathe, and to give family members time to plan a trip here for Dad's memorial. It'll be a Great Gathering. The scanfest(s) are to prepare for it.
Even though Dad's memorial is a week and a half away, at 2 weeks out I felt the tug of this scanfest project drawing to a close. It could go on forever. Seriously. There are so. many. more. pictures. (And slides. So many slides!)
But there are other things to do. These photos need to be resized from gargantuan full-resolution .tif or .psd file to high-rez jpegs, then brought into MemoryMiner. Where I identify who-where-when ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on November 11, 2009 in
• Personal
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Playing with MemoryMiner export
MemoryMiner and exporting. I'm figuring out how to export a library and then transfer that to my laptop, so that I can show you MemoryMiner if you'll be at the SoCal Genealogical Jamboree (Twitter hashtag #scgs09) this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The app is available on both Mac and Windows; I've got the Mac version, of course/ The export process isn't the most obvious, so I'm writing about how I will accomplish it.
How I will... notice the future tense. This is still a work in progress.
The photo library dates back some time, and individual photos reside all over the frickin' place on my computer—some in iPhoto libraries, some in folders each of which representing different scanning session, the most recent of which was an ego-scan session to compile a set of photos of myself for a birthday party invite. The photos themselves are pretty large, if they're PSD (photoshop) files, because I scan them at fairly high rez. Many photos are over 20MB in file size. The largest, I think, is around 60 MB.
I decided to work with an external disk drive (easy to change from my main desktop computer to my ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on June 23, 2009 in
• Family History Software
• How-To
• Personal History
• Photographs
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Photography changes what we remember
This 3.5 minute video (direct YouTube link; embedded below) is an interview with Hugh Talman, a photographer with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. He muses on his act of photographing the aftermath of Katrina. The curator who was planning to visit the area asked him, "What would you photograph?" His reply: "you'd photograph the evidence of the power of Katrina. I don't style myself as photojournalist, but it turned into having photojournalistic aspects to it." The video shows some of his photos. Most striking: photographs of an object where it was found (in its full post-Katrina context), versus the object photographed the way Talman normally works with objects, shot in the sanitized setting of a photo studio. What a contrast.
Before I watched the video (and saw just its name—"changes what we remember"), I thought, "Oh, this might relate to photos and memories and how to use photos to nudge or direct memories." Not so pointed as that. It's more that a collection of photographs is a kind of memory artifact of how it was. The contrast between an object's plain (studio) background versus that object in its environment so powerfully conveys the power of Katrina. The two photos of the same object may as well be two different objects. I'm inspired to hunt more carefully when I look at old photographs for objects and their contexts, and the clues they might provide about a person or a time. I'm thinking ...Read More
Posted by Susan A. Kitchens on March 10, 2009 in
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text: Dairy Checkoff Drives 2011 Sales, Innovation December 22, 2011 06:32 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MILK Editors Email Source: Dairy Management, Inc. The dairy checkoff's strategic partnerships and strategy of working with and through the industry continued to drive sales in 2011, as evidenced by targeted partnerships with industry leaders and the work of the checkoff-led Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy®. The dairy checkoff continued to leverage dairy producer investments in the checkoff with others to grow category sales. In fact, $800 million of non-checkoff funds and resources is helping sell more dairy. These efforts helped lead to an increase of 4.2 billion pounds of dairy sold through the the fiscal year that ended in July 2011 (compared to the same period of 2010). Much of the checkoff's success is achieved through its business strategy of partnering with industry leaders, including McDonald's® and Domino's Pizza®. "This year's progress further validates that the checkoff business plan is on the right track," said Paul Rovey, Arizona dairy producer and chair of Dairy Management Inc.™ (DMI), which manages the national checkoff program. "We're working with industry leaders in a collaborative effort and leveraging our resources that lead to a win-win scenario for producers, and the entire industry." Specific 2011 results included: · Pizza strategy moves cheese. The checkoff continues to turn the pizza cheese category around with partners such as Domino's that use and promote cheese as the critical ingredient for taste and quality. Domestic disappearance of "other than American cheese" (primarily mozzarella) was up 3.2 percent (representing nearly 2 billion additional pounds of milk) for the 12 months ending September, thanks in large part to the checkoff's targeted partnerships that have revitalized the pizza category. Domino's is growing cheese sales through its product innovation that use more cheese, carryout promotions with consumer-friendly pricing and its kid-approved Domino's® Smart Slice school pizza program that is now available in more than 300 U.S. districts. · McDonald's partnership grows sales. The third year of the checkoff's partnership with McDonald's resulted in more than 1 billion pounds of additional dairy sales. The chain continues to serve as a "dairy destination" at its 14,000-plus locations in the United States with the introduction of several new dairy-friendly menu items. This includes the availability of new fat-free, chocolate milk that McDonald's will offer as the default beverage with all of its Happy Meals® by early 2012. The success of its McCaf? menu – including milk-based beverages and specialty coffees – has inspired other chains to focus on this business. Also, the checkoff has six employees on site at McDonald's corporate offices – the only product represented there – who provide dairy expertise and work to ensure dairy plays a prominent role in new product development. · Dairy Research Institute advances research goals. The Dairy Research Institute (DRI), founded by producers in 2010, focuses on a "more, bigger, faster" approach to nutrition, product and sustainability research and activation that drives innovation and grows sales. DRI is working to build a $100 million research plan by 2013 that will be funded primarily through partnerships, leveraging non-checkoff funds. To date, the plan totals nearly $60 million, with research that reinforces dairy's role in health and nutrition, versatility and functionality in food products, and demonstrating its contribution as a sustainable industry. · FUTP 60 implemented in 70,000-plus schools. The checkoff's in-school Fuel Up to Play 60 (FUTP 60) program has been implemented in more than 70,000 schools nationwide to help protect dairy's "freedom to operate" and reach the industry's future consumers – youth. FUTP 60, done in partnership with the National Football League®, encourages students to consume nutrient-rich foods (including low-fat and fat-free dairy) and achieve at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. FUTP 60 has earned recognition across the private and public sectors. The USDA has joined the effort, and additional support has been achieved from the nation's most respected health organizations and major corporations. · Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy unifies industry. The Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy unifies producer organizations, cooperatives, processors, manufacturers, and brands to collaborate and act on core producer priorities related to health and wellness, consumer confidence, research and insights, sustainability, globalization, and food safety. This includes a commitment by more than 200 companies and 800 industry professionals. Some examples of success include an industry-funded food safety training program, consumer confidence messaging that was shared throughout the industry, sales-building consumer research that will help meet future demand, and an industry-wide approach to address issues such as flavored milk in schools and sodium levels in cheese. · Crisis drills gain unprecedented industry and government engagement. The dairy checkoff has a "best in class" crisis preparedness system that is shared and implemented across the industry. In 2011, the dairy checkoff hosted three industry-government crisis drill exercises on foot-and-mouth disease that attracted nearly 300 participants including dairy producers, cooperatives and representatives of the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Centers for Disease Control. · 2010 DGAs reinforce dairy's position. The dairy checkoff provided research and information that was used during the development of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) that were announced in January. The Guidelines confirm the importance of milk and milk products in a healthy diet by maintaining the recommendation of three daily cups of low-fat or fat-free milk and milk products for those ages 9 and older. The Guidelines also identify milk as the No. 1 food source of three of the four nutrients that Americans are not consuming enough of: calcium, Vitamin D and potassium. These recommendations matter as they serve as the foundation for government feeding initiatives, including school meals and the women-infant-child (WIC) feeding program. · USDEC efforts drive export volume. Dairy export volume in 2011 represented more than 13 percent of total milk solids production – or two out of every three new pounds of milk produced domestically – thanks in part to the work of the U.S. Dairy Export Council®, which receives the majority of its funding through the checkoff. International demand for U.S. products has remained strong, especially in South Korea where more than a decade of USDEC market development programs, plus a newly-approved free trade agreement, have helpd to propel the United States as the country's No.1 cheese supplier with a 44 percent market share. · Lactose intolerance sales on the rise. Strategic partnerships with leading lactose-free dairy marketers, such as HP Hood® and its Lactaid® brand, are boosting category sales, thanks to the introduction of new products and packaging, along with efforts to educate health professionals. This outreach is helping change lactose intolerance perceptions so that these key influencers share dairy-first solutions to patients with this condition. For more information about producer-funded programs, visit www.dairycheckoff.com. Back to news


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A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 10 freelance designers.
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5 October 2013
In the build-up to our 45th anniversary, Lambiek will organize another 24H Comics on October 5th. Because of a renovation of our own gallery, the event will be hosted at the Lev Agency for Visualisers at the Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 206.
As always, our loyal sponsors from the Kerkstraat and the Leidsestraat will support us free of charge. The Coffee Company†will supply enough coffee to make it through the night, Soep & Zo will keep our stomachs filled with their mealsoups, while breakfast will be arranged by our Italian friends from Casa del Gusto.
For newcomers to the event: 24 Hour Comic Day is an annual worldwide event initiated by the American comic artist Scott McCloud. Participating artists should try to write and draw an complete comic story of 24 pages within 24 hours.
We will begin at 11 A.M. on Saturday, and drop our pencils on the same time Sunday morning.
You are welcome to view the progress, support the artists or just simply enjoy the plodding. We shall also post regular reports on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/lambiekcomics.


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Labor - And A Whole Lot More
NLRB Under Heavy Attack
Here they come! The nation's ever-determined
anti-labor forces have opened a new front in their battle to seriously weaken the union rights of American workers.Their latest target is the National Labor Relations Board –
the NLRB – which since 1936 has enforced the nation's basic labor law, the National Labor Relations Act. The act
has been largely responsible for the growth of U.S. unions and the American middle class.Republican politicians and such powerful organizations as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National
Association of Manufacturers aren't happy about that. They're now aiming to cripple the law as well as the NLRB.That's quite understandable. The corporations they represent
are not interested in providing workers the strong voices and collective bargaining rights that union representation guarantees
them. Nor are they pleased with the decent wages, hours and working conditions guaranteed in union contracts. Those
things cost money. They cut profits.Under notoriously
anti-union President George Bush, the NLRB functioned as a very loyal ally of the White House. But under President Obama,
the board has been able to do its job – or has been trying to do its job – despite continued heavy Republican
opposition that's been carried over from the Bush Administration. Unions
have actually been getting a more or less even break vis-à-vis the corporate interests with whom they bargain
– or with whom they try to bargain.But now
the anti-unionists are at it full force again. They're focused on a ruling by the NLRB's acting general counsel, Lafe
Solomon, that was made against the Boeing Aircraft Company in April. Boeing was charged with violating the labor law by moving
a major assembly line from a unionized plant in Washington State to South Carolina, a notably anti-union state, in response
to machinist strikes at the Washington plant.Moving
the assembly line violated a provision in the labor act that prohibits employers from punishing striking unions by relocating,
withholding or transferring jobs. So the NLRB's Solomon said the assembly line must be moved back to Washington State.Republican House members, promising to defund the NLRB if Solomon
doesn't back off, quickly introduced "The Protecting Jobs from Government Interference Act." The measure actually would bar the board from acting against
any employer who shuts down, transfers or relocates employment or operations "under any circumstances." Which would
leave employers free to move elsewhere in retaliation for unionization efforts, protests over working conditions or other
employee attempts to better their conditions.The
GOP-controlled House approved the bill by a substantial margin, although it obviously has no business undercutting a federal
agency, and obviously was doing it as a favor to Boeing, a major lobbyist and big bucks political contributor.There's no doubt, in any case, that Boeing's move was an act
of retaliation. Boeing officials have said as much previously, although now denying it. They're now saying they moved
the assembly line to South Carolina because it's cheaper to do business in that right-to-work state. Undoubtedly it is,
in part because of the weakness of unions there.It's
also cheaper to operate in poverty-stricken foreign countries where workers have few, if any, union rights. The GOP bill could
very well encourage shifts of work to such locales. That, notes Democratic Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey, "would
be devastating to workers across the country. It eliminates the only remedy to force companies to bring back work from overseas."You know those "activist judges" conservatives are
forever railing about? Now we have "an activist NLRB telling employers where they can locate their business," complains
Rep. John Kline, a Minnesota Republican who chairs the House Education and Workforce Committee. The NLRB, furthermore, is
a "rogue agency" that needs reigning in, says Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers.Those complaints and others from the country's powerful
anti-union forces show that the labor board is continuing to follow its mandate to effectively enforce one of our most important
laws. The National Labor Relations Board clearly
is doing its job of giving workers and their unions vital protections that those who complain about the NLRB would deny them.Copyright © 2011 Dick Meister


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After Gyorko's loud start, Padres' rally clipped
LOS ANGELES -- For a team that has been buried by its share of poor starts this season, the Padres struck a big blow against the norm on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
A double and a walk set the stage for Jedd Gyorko to jump on a belt-high fastball from Kevin Correia, as he drove it over the wall in center field for a three-run home run and a rare, first-inning lead.View Full Game Coverage
LOS ANGELES -- For a team that has been buried by its share of poor starts this season, the Padres struck a big blow against the norm on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
A double and a walk set the stage for Jedd Gyorko to jump on a belt-high fastball from Kevin Correia, as he drove it over the wall in center field for a three-run home run and a rare, first-inning lead.View Full Game Coverage
But any substantive moments of bliss -- along with that early lead -- dissipated quickly.
The Dodgers came back and jumped on Ian Kennedy, taking advantage of some defensive miscues, and a fitful finish, for an 8-6 victory in front of a crowd of 45,459 in the first game of a three-game series.
The Padres, who have dropped three of the first four games on this 10-game road trip, have now scored 21 runs over their last three games but have lost two of them.
They had 14 hits against the Dodgers on Tuesday and were still swinging at the end, scoring a run in the ninth inning and looking like they were hungry for more, when Gyorko singled into center field, allowing Abraham Almonte -- who had a career-high four hits -- to get to third base.
Only Almonte put on the brakes a little too late and was thrown out as he tried to get back to the bag as center fielder Yasiel Puig 's throw home was cut off by Adrian Gonzalez, who threw to third base. A crew-chief replay confirmed the call and the game ended.
"He plays an aggressive style of baseball, as we've seen," Padres manager Bud Black said. "That play worked out for Puig."
Just about everything did for the Dodgers (71-56), who were able to overcome Gyorko's early home run, rolling up eight runs of their own while taking advantage of two defensive miscues and a couple of other plays that won't officially show up in the box score.
"The mistakes came back to hurt us," Black said. "A couple of ill-advised walks, a couple of misplays, both in the outfield and infield."
Kennedy (9-11) allowed six runs (five earned) on seven hits in five innings. He walked two and struck out five. The five earned runs were the most he's allowed in a start since allowing five on June 10 against the Phillies.
After the Dodgers cut the lead to 3-2 with two runs in the second inning, they took a 5-3 lead with three runs in the fourth as Justin Turner had his second run-scoring double. There were the two walks in the inning that didn't help and a throwing error by first baseman Jake Goebbert, too.
"From [Matt] Kemp all the way to [A.J.] Ellis, the No. 8 hitter, I wasn't able to put them away," Kennedy said. "I didn't make my pitches. I felt really good in the bullpen. My breaking ball felt good, but I left the curveball up to Turner [on a second-inning double].
"It was a little frustrating ... our guys put up some runs early."
The Padres, who entered the game having been outscored 71-42 in the first inning of games this season, got an Almonte double with one out and a Seth Smith walk to bring up Gyorko. He got into a 2-1 fastball from Kevin Correia (2-0), the former Padres pitcher.
For Gyorko, it was his ninth home run of the season and his fourth in 20 games since missing 44 games with plantar fasciitis of his left foot.
"It's a sign we're swinging the bats better in the second half," Black said. "The frustrating part for us and Ian was we couldn't make it hold up."
Carl Crawford reached base four times Tuesday, had a home run and knocked in three runs for the Dodgers, who are 8-3 against the Padres this season.
The Padres got an RBI single from Smith in the eighth inning to make it 8-5 and Yasmani Grandal 's RBI double in the ninth inning cut the lead to 8-6. Almonte reached on a bunt single and advanced on a throwing error and scooted to third base on Gyorko's single.
He admitted afterward that he was surprised that Puig -- never shy about showing off his arm -- actually hit the cutoff man in Gonzalez with his thrown, which led to the final out of the game.
"I saw it a little late [stop sign from third-base coach Glenn Hoffman] ... it was a close play," Almonte said. "It's a little tough to say if I was safe. But they were playing back, [not allowing] no doubles. I didn't think they'd make that play."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter.


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Alex Smith is heading to Kansas City.
On a Chiefs team starving for quarterback help, Smith is through with the headache-inducing questions about losing his job to Colin Kaepernick, but the job he's inherited won't be any easier.
Smith's career turnaround under center in San Francisco was directly linked to the arrival of coach Jim Harbaugh and his offensive coordinator Greg Roman. It's easy to forget that Smith was a shattered player as recently as 2010, a former top overall pick caught in a nasty game of musical chairs with Troy Smith and seemingly on his way out of town.
Harbaugh and Roman fit Smith into a scheme that made the most of his gifts. This is a smart quarterback with limited physical gifts, and the 49ers -- after working closely with him in practice for more than a season-plus -- decided Smith lacked the tools to take San Francisco to the promised land.
Andy Reid is another proven quarterback whisperer, but his future with the Chiefs is now tied directly to the performance of a passer that Harbaugh saw limitations in. Fox Sports insider and NFL Network contributor Jay Glazer reports Reid adores Smith. They will walk through the fire together.
It's easy to look at the Chiefs and view them as a team dotted with skill players and young risers on defense. They fielded multiple Pro Bowlers this season -- on paper they're attractive -- but on the field they crumbled to 2-14. Quarterback issues contributed heavily, but this is not a playoff-ready team and Smith will be forced to play outside of himself to propel this offense. That's a dynamic the 49ers showed little confidence in.
Reid and the Chiefs, however, are showing considerable confidence in Smith. He deserves a starting gig and a chance at redemption. Smith is a talented player and handled his demotion in San Francisco with class and that makes him an attractive addition to Kansas City's locker room. Nobody's questioning Smith the person -- but Smith, on the field, is about to face the biggest test of his career.
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British scientists may have found a way to grow "off the shelf" veins and arteries, The Daily Telegraph has reported.
The newspaper said the discovery could potentially revolutionise treatment for a range of conditions.
In the study behind the story, researchers looked at "pluripotent" stem cells, which are early biological cells that can change into other cell types and renew themselves to produce more stem cells. The researchers then developed methods for turning the stem cells into various types of vascular smooth muscle cells, which form the walls of blood vessels. They did this by first turning them into different "intermediary" cell types. The vascular smooth muscle cells produced were in working order and could help to form blood vessels when injected into mice.
These findings mean that the researchers can now create models of different blood vessels. These models could be used to test new drugs and to investigate why some cell types/blood vessel types are more susceptible to disease than others. In future, it may also be possible to grow the right type of blood vessel cells from a patient's own cells for use in surgery.
This is an exciting advance, with many potential uses for the findings. However, growing "off the shelf" veins and arteries will require much more research, so these are unlikely to be available for the public soon.
Where did the story come from?
The study was carried out by researchers from the University of Cambridge and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Cambridge National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre. The study was published in the peer-reviewed Nature Biotechnology journal.
The research was covered by The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail. Although the coverage was mainly accurate, there was a lot of emphasis on how the findings could be used, with no mention that these would require much more research and testing before they can be applied.
What kind of research was this?
It's well known that a range of different vascular smooth muscle cell types are found in the walls of different blood vessels in the body. The walls of different vessels are made up from different cell types, which in turn have been formed from different "precursor cells" during their development. Scientists have speculated that the different origins of vascular smooth muscle cells might be why certain blood vessels are more susceptible to disease.
This study aimed to develop methods for deriving different vascular smooth muscle cells from human "pluripotent" stem cells, which have the potential to mature into a range of different cells types. The researchers did this with a view to investigating how susceptible to disease different blood vessels are, and so that cells for particular blood vessels could be grown in the laboratory, which could have therapeutic applications.
To carry out this research, the researchers performed a laboratory-based study, which was the only feasible way to develop these methods.
What did the research involve?
The researchers developed different processes to cause human pluripotent stem cells to develop into different intermediary stages and then into vascular smooth muscle cells. This was achieved by exposing the cells to different amounts of certain chemicals, such as inflammatory mediators and growth factors known to regulate cell division.
The researchers checked that the developed vascular smooth muscle cells functioned normally by seeing if they responded correctly to specific signals and if they formed blood vessels when injected into mice.
The researchers then investigated whether the cells they developed in the laboratory were similar to cells in the body.
What were the basic results?
The researchers were able to develop methods for generating vascular smooth muscle cells through three different intermediary stages. The blood vessel cells produced were in working order and could help to form blood vessels when injected into mice. They also responded to different chemicals differently, depending on how they were generated, and their responses were consistent with those of natural vascular smooth muscle cells in the body.
How did the researchers interpret the results?
The researchers concluded that the ability to produce large amounts of vascular smooth muscle cell subtypes from human pluripotent stem cells could have "far-reaching applications". The ability to derive different types of vascular smooth muscle cells could allow the modelling of diseases in the lab: "vital for accurate assessment and therapeutic [drug] discovery".
The researchers also concluded that developing vascular smooth muscle cells from a patient's own cells could also be used to construct bio-engineered blood vessels, with applications including heart and artery bypasses or grafts at the site of haemodialysis.
In this study, researchers developed methods for generating vascular smooth muscle cells, which form the walls of blood vessels, from pluripotent stem cells via three different intermediate stages. The cells they produced were in functional, working order and could help to form blood vessels when injected into mice.
It's already well known that the body uses different types of vascular smooth muscle cell to make up the walls of different blood vessels, and that these cells are themselves formed from different precursor cells during development. This latest advance in knowledge will allow different blood vessels to be modelled for research purposes, particularly to see why some of them are more susceptible to disease than others and to test new drugs.
In future, it may also be possible to grow the right type of vascular smooth muscle cell from a patient's own cells for use in surgery. However, these applications will require much more research, and are unlikely to be available soon due to the lengthy testing required to establish their safety and reliability.
In short, although much news coverage has focused on being able to replace patients' blood vessels with those grown in a lab, the principal application for this technology is furthering our ability to research blood vessels and related diseases. While this may not seem as exciting as directly treating patients, the research will still be very useful in studying a range of diseases and their potential treatments.
- Cheung C, Bernardo AS, Trotter MWB et al. Generation of human vascular smooth muscle subtypes provides insight into embryological origin–dependent disease susceptibility. Nature Biothechnology, published online January 15 2012
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Hyundai released two sketches of Detroit-destined concepts, guaranteed to blow your mind (or not so much). Hyundai proper will show off its HCD-9 Talus, a two-door crossover concept that looks quite a bit like Chevrolet's T2X concept (maybe it's a Korean thing). Corporate child Kia let slip a sketch of its Soul (Seoul? Oh, we get it) concept, which looks like one of those boxy, stylized crossovers that some automakers built for Gen-Y kids, but it turned out 50-year-olds bought them all (now what was its name again?).
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Andrew Keogh necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 134 diseños de 37 diseñadores freelance.
K4 Training is a company providing training to professionals (lawyers, doctors, accountants etc). We need a classy design to attract attention.
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We need the designer to deliver a high resolution logo in gif, jpeg and illustrator, so that we can scale it up or down for websites, stationary and print advertisements. Essentially we need all the graphic files that those designing websites or advertisements will need (illustrator??). We also need a gif image 135x135 pixels for a mediawiki website. We think the above is enough but if you know better then please advise!
K4 training is a premium training company, everything we do is based on premium quality. Your logo design should reflect that. Apart from that we have decided to leave the rest to your imagination.
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Kerrie Holley, CTO of IBM's Global Business Services division, sat down with InformationWeek last month to discuss IBM's focus, cloud computing, and the tech industry trends. What follows is an edited transcript of that interview.
With a background in mathematics and the law, Holley helped develop Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), a way to make enterprise software modular.
He holds several related patents, not to mention a patent on a way for mobile phone carriers to locate lost or stolen cell phones.
In 2006, he was appointed to be an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical leadership position. Holley is one of 69 current employees in IBM's technical community of more than 200,000 people to hold that distinction.
InformationWeek: Let's start by reviewing where IBM Global Business Services is at the moment. How is the consumerization of IT, the mobile revolution, and the shift toward cloud computing affecting the company?
Holley: From a Global Services standpoint, there are three major focus areas that we have. Ginni Rometty, who's our new CEO, set the stage in 2012 in talking about us becoming an essential company. But if you look at a lot of what we're doing in Global Services, we do believe very strongly that analytics has a powerful opportunity to add a tremendous amount of value. In fact, we established a whole service line around analytics in terms of resources, training, capability. So analytics, I would say, is a big area, in predictive analytics and commerce and a variety of areas.
The second area is around cloud. We see cloud as more than just a paradigm shift. We actually see it as a business shift in terms of being able to preserve capital, being able to do business innovation, being able to actually do transformation, be able to actually do things that maybe business was heavily reliant on IT before but now has an opportunity to sort of shift that equation.
Then smarter commerce, and that involves a lot of what we're doing with retailers and others. It involves analytics. It involves cloud.
A fourth area is the whole campaign that we've done around smarter cities.
InformationWeek: Does IBM's focus on predictive analytics involve a compliance practice? There's a lot of focus on privacy regulation at the moment.
Holley: We focus not only on the infrastructure but also on the business side in terms of what you can actually do to drive better business outcomes. In terms of security and privacy, the answer is yes, we do focus on that. We focus less on the compliance issues that maybe an auditing firm might spend more time on, in terms of whether or not you're violating a law in Croatia. But yes, a very strong interest of ours is to ensure that we're not doing anything that would undermine the credibility of our clients or ourselves in terms of privacy and security. We actually have a privacy and security practice in this space.


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Sunday, May 2, 2010
Teacher Appreciation Week
The box is a $5 embroidery floss divided plastic box I bought at JoAnn's--the black ribbon came from there too. The paper on the lid is from my stash, as are the black rub-on letters. I put my Cricut to use again (!!) to cut the flower for the lid. I did ink the edges of the paper on the lid--I thought it gave the paper a nice finished edge.
Inside the lid I did something a bit different than the original and had my kindergarten daughter write a note to her teacher. She did such a good job!
The box contains goodies for her desk--almost everything is from Staples. The mini hand-sanitizer is from my (rather large!) stash of sanitizer and the Hershey's nuggets are from Target. The rest is from Staples--mostly from their little "bulk" section.
I think our kindergarten teacher will like this and find it a nice change from coffee mugs and other typical teacher appreciation stuff...at least I hope she will!!
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- Jodee Leader said...
Great idea! I bet she loves it!
- May 3, 2010 at 4:25 AM
- Darlene said...
That turned out great and I know she is going to love it!
- May 3, 2010 at 7:29 AM
- eighteen25 girls said...
that turned out so cute.
i LOVE the bright colors. :)
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- May 3, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Patchwork Penguin said...
I know she will love it... as a teacher I know it always helps to receive a thank you :o)
- May 3, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Christy said...
I have been going crazy trying to think of something for my son's K teacher. This is perfect. Thanks!
- May 3, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- Christy said...
My son and I put one of these together today. I am posting it with a link to your blog tomorrow. Thanks again!
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- Jennifer @ The Toy Box Years said...
I'm a new follower! I came to visit you from Superheros and Princesses!
Great idea on the teacher gift!!
- May 5, 2010 at 5:20 AM
- Debbie said...
I made 3 of these for my boys teachers and they loved them. I really enjoyed making them and it just meant so much to them that they gift was so personalized for them. Thanks for the idea.
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Sometimes, new entrepreneurs are in such a rush to get started at their businesses that they jump right into working with customers without giving much thought to their BUSINESS NAME. "I'll just do business under my own name for a while, until I find something I like." While it seems easy at the time, you might want to re-think the plan to change business names down the road. You will find that, as your professional recognition and customer base grow, people have started to IDENTIFY you with the name of your company. A name change in mid-stream can be costly and confusing.
First, you will lose ground in the marketing arena — it takes time and effort to build up BRAND RECOGNITION, and that time is lost when you change names. You may also lose customers to the competition — what are they to think when they go looking for "Joe's Mobile Car Wash" in the yellow pages and you've changed your name to "Fast and Easy Auto Detailing?" They might think that you've gone out of business and it's time to find someone else to clean their cards. And finally, changing names can cause you increased PAPERWORK and EXPENSE — changing your bank accounts, credit cards, marketing materials, incorporation documents, DBA registration, etc. So why not get it right the first time? Here are some suggestions for choosing a business name that will serve you well for years to come.
When people hear the name of your company, will they be able to REMEMBER it 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 3 hours, or a week later? When they decide to hunt you up on the web or in the phone book, will they be able to easily recall your business name? It doesn't matter if you are choosing a fictitious business name or using your own — the same rules apply. Your name should be UNIQUE enough that it will stick in a potential customer's mind — "Smith's Gym" isn't going to be nearly as easy to remember as "Work That Body."
You also want to stay away from names that are likely to be CONFUSED with another company. You may think it's a cute idea to come up with a name that closely resembles (without exactly copying) another company's name. But calling your personal coaching company "Joys-R-Us" is confusing, unoriginal, and likely to bring about a lawsuit! And beware of phrases or ACRONYMS that are overused in your profession. You wouldn't believe how many Professional Organizers use some combination of words that spell out SOS (usually "Someone's Organizing Solutions"). Your company will stand out more if your name is truly unique.
However, the next question is "when they do recall it, is it easy enough to spell that they can immediately find your listing?" You want to stay away from challenging spellings and pronunciations. Calling your restaurant "Phine Phoods" is just asking for trouble — how is your customer going to know to look under "p" instead of "f" in the phone book? And if your last name is Piccalopoupoulis, you may be better off creating a fictitious business name. A good rule of thumb to follow is to pay attention to what happens when you tell other people your name — if you are always having to SPELL or PRONOUNCE it slowly, it will be hard for people remember and find later on.
This is particularly important if you are planning to turn your business name into a DOMAIN name. Websites with long or hard-to-spell names get overlooked during standard searches. And try to avoid having to include a hyphen or underscore in your name to make it appropriate for the web. Short, snappy, easy-to-remember names work best in the translation from brick-and-mortar to internet.
Will customers learn something specific, unique, or descriptive about your business, just from hearing the name? Will they get a feel for WHAT you provide or HOW you provide it? Many individual service providers try to sound like high-end firms by using some derivative of their first and last name for their company identity – "Joanna Carrol and Associates," or "JC Consulting," or "Carroll and Company." But what does that really tell a potential customer about your company? I don't know if you are an insurance agent or an attorney or a professional organizer. Include something in your name that describes your product or service — "JC Graphic Design" — so customers aren't left WONDERING what type of business you have.
You can also include some information about those special CHARACTERISTICS that make your business DIFFERENT from the competition. Okay — so you've told me that you are a printer. Why should I hire you instead of the printer down the street? You might be faster, cheaper, provide better quality, have more experience, offer a higher-end product, or provide more services than the other guy. If it's appropriate and pertinent, include one or two of those traits — "JC Full-Service Graphic Design" — in your name.
If you are joining an industry that allows for "branching out," be careful about giving your company a name that traps you in a very small service area. For example, a company that starts out putting in tile floors — but has plans to expand into vinyl, hardwood, and carpeting down the road — wouldn't want a name like "TileMasters." Something more along the lines of "FloorMasters" will give the company the FLEXIBILITY they need to grow and change later on.
And if you have intentions of ever expanding your service area, you need to be careful about a GEOGRAPHICALLY limiting business name. "Hair Over Atlanta" isn't going to work as well when you open locations in Seattle and Los Angeles and New York. Be sure to check the US Patent And Trademark Office's online database to make sure your name is available for national use before you start printing it on your cards.


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District: 4 - Oakland
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Rohnert Park - Caltrans and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority (SCTA) today celebrated the addition of carpool lanes on the U.S. Route 101 Wilfred interchange project in Rohnert Park and the U.S. Route 101 Central project in Petaluma and Cotati.
"With more than 20 miles of continuous carpool lanes stretching from Petaluma to Windsor, commuters who use car pools and buses will benefit from reduced travel times," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "This brings us closer to our goal of less congestion, improved air quality, and increased safety along U.S. Route 101."
The $53 million project added two new carpool lanes, one northbound and one southbound. Both new lanes connect to existing carpool lanes. The project also features improved on and off-ramps, and a new Golf Course Drive undercrossing that connects the western and eastern sides of Rohnert Park. The project was financed in part by $29 million in Proposition 1B bond funds.
The $82 million Central project features new commuter lanes on U.S. Route 101 from Rohnert Park Expressway to Old Redwood Highway in Petaluma, and was financed with almost $34 million in Proposition 1B funds.
"Together, we have improved mobility on U.S. Route 101 in Sonoma County," said Dan McElhinney, Caltrans District 4 Chief Deputy Director. "In addition to thanking our partners at the Sonoma County Transportation Authority and the cities of Petaluma, Cotati, and Rohnert Park, we also would like to thank motorists for their support during construction."
"After decades of planning and three years of construction, this project has finally removed a major bottleneck from U.S. Route 101," said Jake Mackenzie, Rohnert Park mayor. "Citizens and businesses will see significant relief."In 2006, California voters approved Proposition 1B, investing $19.9 billion in roads, bridges, ports and transit. In total, about $14 billion in Proposition 1B funds have been allocated
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