text:
ajulvestad necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 123 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
HyperSys is a web-based management system for NGOs. We want a new functional and user-friendly interface to meet the needs of our client organizations and their individual members. Our target group is mass-membership organizations with several thousand members and their local sub-branches. The central secretariat and individual members all use our site to manage their information and activities. Keywords are Efficiency, easy to integrate and customizable.
1. Twitter.com: the «Have account?» and «Sign in» part, where a box appears (something like that would be nice for quick access to options like which organisation to have active, change language, etc)
2. Google Analytics (analytics.google.com) – Great site for bringing information easily to people via good use of infographics
3. Cellartracker BETA – great listing with keyboard navigation when side panel is activated (see screenshot). A similar method can be used for listing members, with essential information of the person, quick link to SMS sending etc to one person in the sidebar: http://www.cellartracker.com/new/li…0&Type=Red
4. The same site (Cellartracker BETA) has the beginning of a nice way of defining filters, see "Narrow results". When pressing that link, a box opens and one can choose the filter to activate with appropiate settings. When a filter is active, it is shown between the "Narrow results/summarize results/ 25 per page" and listing itself with a clickable X to remove the filter.
(See PDF for more information on each page)
1. Dashboard page
Personal dashboard, first page after log-in: The most important and current information for the user. A redesign possibility is to make this dashboard more task-oriented, where the most important functions are easily accessible, while keeping the most important and up-to date information clearly visible. In this respect it might be helpful to use statistics/graphs.
Organizational dashboard: See detailed PDF in brief.
2. Profile of person
Essential: gives the person viewing an overview of that person's current information, history related to the organisation and direct access to editing of all information.
3. Profile of organisation
Essential: Like personal, see detailed PDF in brief..
4. Listings
The listings are the most central tool for frequent users. From a list, users customize the data and implement actions, like mass editing, sending emails/invoices/SMS, based on filters/selection criteria We want a user interface which is simple but yet very powerful and customizable.
Our existing system is quite "boring" and a product of design elements "thrown in for good measure" during the development process. You are welcome to have a look and get a feel for the system (as it is now), just send a private message and I'll create a user for you in our test system, in english of course.
If you wish to log in to a test version of the system, please contact the contest holder and you will be given a username and password. The test site is https://org1.hypersys.no.


text:
Virtualhosting.com has a great summary of how users interact with web sites. A must read for anyone that builds web sites or has one. (via Seth Godin)
23 Actionable Lessons from Eye-Tracking Studies
Article No :237 | November 21, 2007 | by Howard Mann
November 21, 2007
Good information for creating an ad, putting together a newsletter or creating a Web site. Shows how people's eyes move on a computer page and what they pay attention to, ignore, etc…

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Bowers & Wilkins CM8 S2 Black
True floorstander performance from a seriously slim speaker. CM8 S2 will slip into any room, yet delivers power and precision from three Kevlar drivers and a Decoupled Double Dome tweeter.
price per unit
Do you have any questions about this article?
With a cabinet just 165mm wide, CM8 S2 will fit in any room. And thanks to concealed fixings and a minimalist, magnetic and protective tweeter grille, CM8 S2 combines subtle stylish looks with modern, practical design.
Key to its slim profile is the use of two 130mm Kevlar bass drive units combined with a 130mm Kevlar FST midrange. The FST driver uses "surroundless" suspension to improve crossover with the tweeter, give a faster response and improve accuracy through the midrange.
Of course, CM8 S2 isn't designed solely to deliver power in a smaller form factor. With an FST midrange and Decoupled Double Dome Tweeter for increased rigidity and isolation from the cabinet, CM8 S2 is also designed for precise audio response.
B&W provides solutions for any demand and application – be it the stage direction studio of a philharmonic venue or the acoustic supply of a home cinema. Tranquil and mature sound meet excellent workmanship.
We have a wide range of B&W speakres available for demonstration in our HiFi studios in Berlin-Kreuzberg. We look forward to your visit!
|Woven Kevlar
|Technical features
|Nautilus tube loaded Decoupled Double Dome aluminium tweeter
Kevlar® brand fibre cone FST midrange
|3-way vented-box system
|Drive units
|1x ø25mm (1 in) Decoupled Double Dome aluminium high-frequency
1x ø130mm (5 in) woven Kevlar® cone FST midrange
2x ø130mm (5 in) paper/Kevlar® cone bass
|Frequency range
|-6dB at 43Hz and 50kHz
|Frequency response
|48Hz - 28kHz ±3dB
|Within 2dB of reference response
Horizontal: over 60º arc
Vertical: over 10º arc
|88dB spl (2.83V, 1m)
|Harmonic distortion
|2nd and 3rd harmonics (90dB, 1m)
<1% 100Hz - 22kHz
<0.5% 300Hz - 20kHz
|Nominal impedance
|8Ω (minimum 3.1Ω)
|Crossover frequencies
|350Hz, 4kHz
|Recommended amplifier power
|30W - 150W into 8V on unclipped programme
|Max. recommended cable impedance
|Height: 924mm (36.4 in) cabinet only
Width: 165mm (6.5 in) cabinet only
252mm (9.9 in) including plinth
Depth: 277mm (10.9 in) cabinet, grille and terminals only
298mm (11.7 in) including plinth
|Net weight
|19.5kg (43 lb)
Gloss Black
Satin White
Grey (Satin White only)


text:
Open Source Bridge 2016 sessions
Open Source Bridge will take place June 21–24, 2016 in Portland, Oregon.
Sort by: Title, Track ∧, Scheduled time
* Building a Life with WordPress
If you're dying to stick it to the man, or just looking to make extra money on the side, this talk is for you. We'll explore ways you can leverage the most popular CMS on the planet to start or grow an online business.
|Kronda Adair
* Corporate Open Source Fail
What makes companies with good intentions fail so miserably at open source? How can we (as engineers and managers) influence our bosses to "do the right thing"?
|Sarah Sharp
* Finding funding for an open source based business
Ever had an open source project and wanted to figure out how to get funding for it? In this talk we'll discuss different funding methods, what angel's look for in open source companies, and potential funding options in Portland.
|Meghan McClelland
* Free Culture in an Expensive World
Money is a common worry, inside the open source community and out, but we often feel uncomfortable discussing it. We'll talk about why that is and how our social norms around money impact who participates in open source and how they do so. The heart of this talk will be a series of case studies based on interviews with community members covering various economic models for open source, including worker co-ops, grant-funded and academic projects, for-profit business models, crowdfunding campaigns, and all-volunteer projects. We'll explore the sustainability of each model as well as how they deal with the social pressures outlined in the first part of the talk.
|Shauna Gordon-McKeon
* Generations of Open Source and what to do about it
Open source has moved from experimental to mainstream in the past 10 years, but has definitely changed the landscape in the last 15 years. Because of that, we have a few generations of people within the broader ecosystem, and they probably have no idea that all of these communities exist, much less the fact that there's a whole ocean of a open source technology industry out there.
|Amye Scavarda
* Magic, Spontaneity or Planning: Different Approaches to Building an Open Source Foundation
Open Source Foundations start in a variety of ways. Often they begin organically to fill a need after a person or small group aims to "scratch an itch" and then needs an organization behind it. Some of these organizations can appear to happen out of nowhere. Other organizations are birthed from careful planning and intentional formation. There are still others that are a combination of the two. Different methods can create powerful impact, but some of the challenges are different. This talk with compare and contrast the ways foundations are formed and the advantages of different approaches.
|Kate Chapman
* Open Hardware Roadmap: From Here to Open Consumer Electronics
Open hardware is just getting off the ground. What is the path from where we are today to a world in which open hardware is as ubiquitous as open software? This talk lays out a roadmap, recounts the milestones already achieved, describes the milestones that are within sight, and predicts the milestones yet to come.
|Joshua Lifton
* Open source on Georgia's mind
The state of Georgia runs its web publishing platform using Drupal. This was the first open source implementation handled by any state at an enterprise level. Within a period of one year, the state needed to build a Drupal based platform and migrate 55 websites with new interface designs. This talk addresses the costs benefits Georgia saved by implementing open source and showcases some of the challenges and wins the state experienced while moving to open source.
|Nikhil Deshpande
* Supporting your Support: Give your Support Team Flowers, Chocolate, Money, and Stock Options
How to support your support team 1. Pay your support staff a living wage. There are many reasons why you should pay your support staff a living wage, including reduced stress and higher quality work. We don't expect support staff to be paid on par with engineering, but they should receive the same benefits & perks as engineers. 2. Listen to your support team. Your support team has valuable, data-backed insights about your customers' pain points. Prioritize support needs in terms of product improvements. 3. Support your colleagues' career ambitions. Some people who work in support are interested in becoming engineers. You can encourage this by giving them time to learn coding or work on projects during work hours, or paying for educational materials or tech conferences. Respect the fact that not everyone wants to be an engineer as well. Support should be a viable career path in its own right.
|Kiera Manion-Fischer, Stephanie Snopek
* Towards an Ethics of Care: Understanding and Acknowledging Care Work in Technology Companies
This talk explores dimensions of care work and best practices for acknowledging and understanding care work in technology teams, and makes the business case for considering all involved with building and maintaining technologies in strategy and planning. I explore ways in which to track the hidden costs of care work, and build a discourse of sustainability and inclusion around care work in technology companies.
|Amelia Abreu
* A programmers guide to Music.
Imagine a place where Ruby meets Music, its called MAGIC LAND. Music is not a lot different from programming. In this talk we will see how. I will talk about this amazing piece of open-source software called SonicPi. SonicPi is a new kind of musical instrument. Think about it, you write code to make music. And it gets even better, code is written in a ruby DSL. Also I will talk about notes, samples, synth and other musical things SonicPi lets us do it. Don't worry if do not get these terms. When I started, I did not either. But at the end of the talk, you will know how to make music.
|Rishi Jain
* Accidental Developer Evangelism
Learn how to organize community events and share your ideas with the open-source community AFK!
|Katherine Fellows
* Brooks Law & Open Source: Is Community-Driven Software Doomed?
One measure of health in open source projects is a growing contributor community. In 1975, Fred Brooks published The Mythical Man-Month, in which he noted that adding manpower to projects slows the release of software. If Brooks' Law holds true, are growing open source projects doomed to fail? Or can we reconcile the ideas that more contributors are both beneficial and detrimental?
|Jason Yee
* Cat Herding 101: Best Practices for Fostering an Engaged and Effective Online Community
Depending on what sector we come from, the words "community organizing/management" might invoke images of canvassing with flyers and clipboards or moderating online forums and high-fiving code contributors. Regardless, when we coordinate volunteers, email program participants, and chat with community members via social media, we are ultimately organizing and developing community. Whether your supporters are contributing content, volunteering, participating in forum discussions, or engaging on social media, you can play an important community management role.
|Bethany Lister
* Creating a Third Wave of Free/Open Source Software
The free/open source software movement is over thirty years old, and has gone through a number of changes in that time, spawning projects large and small (including OpenConferenceWare, which runs this site!). If Free Software is the first generation, and Open Source is the second, current efforts toward creating an inclusive and sustainable world make up a third generation that we can start to form into a broader plan.
|Audrey Eschright
* Documentaries, Accessibility, and Open Culture
I've been making a documentary film about accessibility for almost a year now. What I've realized is that film is fundamentally hard to access. Let's talk about what that means for culture, creators, and consumers.
|Chris Higgins
* Dodge Disasters and March to Triumph as a Mentor
Good engineers write good code, but the best engineers raise the skills of their junior colleagues, too. If you're a senior engineer, you must learn to mentor new hires. Besides, great mentors are critical to the careers of women and minorities in tech. I have failed at mentoring, then succeeded. Learn from me and march to mentorship triumph.
|A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
* Enabling Open Source Contributors at Puppet
As open source software developers and community maintainers, fostering an inclusive community and giving contributors the tools they need to succeed is incredibly important, but not always easy. This is especially true when you have a complex distributed codebase and contributors without a background in software development. Through our attempts to enable our contributors we've encountered many challenges and iterated on many solutions with varying levels of success. Our hope is that by sharing the stories of our successes and failures, as well as the lessons we learned, we can help other community maintainers lower the barrier to entry for contributors.
|Hailee Kenney, Morgan Rhodes
* Exit Condition: when to ragequit, raise hell, or duck and cover
If you're caught in a job or a project where you simply can't convince your colleagues or organization to treat you with respect, it often feels like you're in a maze with no clear way out. (Un)fortunately, you're not alone. There's no universal solution to navigating a toxic or abusive workplace, but there's power in finding a theoretical context, sharing our stories, and learning from each other. Come learn about the options of voice, loyalty, and exit, and hear the stories of others who have had to make hard choices.
|Frances Hocutt
* Exploring Mental Illness With Open Source
Julia Nguyen leads if me, an app to share mental health experiences with loved ones. In doing so, she has explored her insecurities with mental illness, learned how to engage diverse contributors, and developed better software practices with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. She'll share the lessons she has learned from transforming a passion project into an open source project. Inclusion takes on many forms in an open source project, including supporting contributors from all types of backgrounds, being empathetic to their project goals, and trusting them to take lead. As a mental health project, if me must also accommodate its contributors who face their own mental health challenges. All open source projects should do the same. Managing people is just as important as managing technical contributions in software.
|Julia Nguyen
* Free Culture, Free Software
I gave a similar talk at LibrePlanet 2015 and would like to reprise it with updated information on the current state of FOSS for Cultural Heritage. I'd like to discuss how to get involved with FOSS projects that are related to the Cultural Heritage space and what kinds of projects currently exist. I'll end the session by talking about what kinds of projects could and should exist as well as community building and awareness in FOSS for Cultural Heritage Organizations.
|Jennie Rose Halperin
* Geek Choir
In this session, we explore ways to improve team cohesion, cooperation, and presence for each other through connecting via song.
|Michael Alan Brewer
* Great Asana!
Bring your stiff shoulders, sore wrists, tight hips, aching back, and busy mind and explore how Yoga can help bring you relief, rest, and focus. Leave with ideas on how to incorporate 5 minutes of practice into your busy day to care for your body and mind. This class is accessible to all levels of ability.
|Sherri Koehler
* Hard Problems in Terms of Service Enforcement
When you run an online service, you always hope you won't have to deal with abuse. But it's inevitable, and many situations aren't clear-cut as you might wish. Some examples of abuse are obvious, but this talk explores the grey areas and messy questions: what content should you consider a violation of your Terms of Service, and how do you handle it when it's reported to you?
|Denise Paolucci
* Hogwarts is a Terrible Learning Environment: Discuss
Like many young Muggles of the early 00's, I dreamed of receiving my Hogwarts letter. But re-reading the series with an eye toward learning lessons about creating a positive learning environment, it's clear that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry contains some unfortunate lessons in what NOT to do. When it comes to crafting an environment that encourages asking questions, fosters cooperation, and ensuring the success of its developers -- I mean, wizards -- we can learn a lot from the mistakes of the Hogwarts faculty. In this magical talk, you'll learn how to be a better mentor and help your workplace become a place where your junior developers can flourish.
|Lacey Williams Henschel
* How NOT to run your organization into the ground: lessons from Wikimedia Philippines for open source
Running a tech non-profit, especially in open source, is a lot of work. So much work, in fact, that in my six years as part of Wikimedia Philippines, I will admit to one of my biggest secrets: I have run my organization into the ground. Luckily for us, however, we've been really fortunate to be able to rebuild the organization from the ground up. Here's some of the lessons we've learned over the course of that process, and how you can avoid making the mistakes we made as you either form or build your own organization.
|Josh Lim
* Librarians and Open Source: We Need Code, Too!
Getting people started is easy. Sustaining people through is not. Let's talk about the ways the Open Source community can help people beyond the beginning steps, in the context of public library programming and staff development.
|Alex Byrne
* Open Source and Diabetes: Helping Millions
This talk will cover the fascinating things happening in the open source diabetes tech (D Tech) space (think the Glucosio Project and Nightscout Project) and will emphasize the importance of open source in improving the health outcomes of people with diabetes.
|Benjamin Kerensa
* Open Source is Key for Innovating Pedagogy and Curricula
This talk will discuss how a closed loop in education—across all grade levels and disciplines—contributes to the stagnation of a profession and how an open source approach and platform is necessary to break the inward cycle of our current pedagogy. It will also show examples of collaboration in the creation of curricula leading to the generation of new, innovative pedagogy and review current methods for educators to open source and call for new methods and platforms to aid educators.
|Gary Rozanc
* Open Source is People
For those who want to do more than just code, this talk will show you 8 ways I have contributed without opening up Vim once.
|Justin Dorfman
* Postcards from the Edge Case: When One Size Doesn't Fit All
For every average person that finds your product what they want, there is a person outside that average that wants to use your product. They might even be able to use your product, if there was a way to make it work for them. Outliers are useful for your design, if you harness them properly.
|Alex Byrne
* Sustainable Career Development: Advancing While Still Having Free Time
In this talk, we'll examine the pressure in the tech industry to participate in work-related extracurriculars like side projects and meetups. We'll analyze where these expectations come from, what they're actually getting at, and talk about ideas for progressing in our careers without losing sight of the things in life that make us happy outside of work.
|Noelle Daley
* Take back social media with Poodle
Social media has tremendous power to enrich our lives - but social media services are largely controlled by private companies. An alternative is to replace centralized services with federated protocols. HTTP and email are examples of federated protocols that demonstrate that federation not only works, but can thrive and give rise to cultures and technologies that the protocol authors never imagined. Poodle is a prototype that I hope will bring those qualities to social media.
|Jesse Hallett
* Taking no for an answer
Open source (like many fields) rewards people who are confident and even a bit pushy. So we give talks encouraging folk to get over imposter syndrome, lean in, say yes to more things. But self-improvement shouldn't focus only on our most vulnerable members, but also our most powerful. So let's talk not about saying yes, but about hearing no. Learning to take no for an answer can transform efforts such as security, diversity and mentoring where we have few experts or volunteers and great need. Let's talk about accepting "defeat" with grace, and how to take "no" for an answer while still moving forwards.
|Terri Oda
* The Ability to Disable: Who Did You Forget When You Designed Your UI?
While the increased use of technology has in some ways improved the lives of those with disabilities, there is a gap that still needs to be filled. Uncaptioned or poorly captioned videos leave the deaf and hard of hearing community out of the loop, untagged photos leave blind users unaware of integral information, and poorly coded webpages are too much of a hassle for individuals using screen readers. But what if this was this was different? What if we thought about all of the potential users of our technology and developed programs intentionally allowing access for everyone? How could we make a programmer's work truly inclusive, truly open to everyone? Experiential learning often provides those 'a ha!' moments, so together we'll enjoy some mis-captioned videos, have a 'listen-along' to what a screen reader sounds like when a page is not coded correctly, and take a look at the end users' experience when software is not programmed with a disabled audience in mind. Then, we'll talk about what we can do to improve the current offerings and answer, "what next?"
|Rebecca Jennings
* The Politics of Cooption in Open Source and Free Software
The Open Source and Free Software community is no longer simply a patchwork of hobbyist communities. Our change and growth brought many advantages, but some disadvantages too. We now operate in a microcosm not unlike the larger USA and international political climates. Hear the story of how it operates from an political insider.
|Bradley Kuhn
* The Rise of Emoji
Emoji is taking over the Web! We will look at how the phenomenon of Emoji has taken the Web by storm, explore how people are using Emoji on their favorite platforms and implications. We will also examine how these online platforms are benefiting from Emoji.
|Alolita Sharma
* Unraveling the Masculinization of Technology
Have you ever wondered where the perception that technology is a masculine pursuit comes from? Or why we have to explain that, "no really, women are interested in computers too"?
|Audrey Eschright
* User-centered open source projects
Open-source projects often struggle with finding contributors and getting off of the ground. Lessons learned all point to putting the user first.
|Jackie Kazil
* Welcoming Communities
A lot of people enjoy contributing to Open Source projects. And Open Source projects love contributions. And yet I keep seeing newcomers struggling to contribute and project maintainers struggling to find contributors. What's the catch? There is a gap. A gap between the desire to contribute to a community and the ability to find one. A gap between what contributions are welcome, and what people think is wanted. A gap between what people wish they could contribute, but don't know how, or are afraid to try. In this talk, I'll share our learning from building the Hoodie Community, which is recognized as one of the most Open Source's most diverse and inclusive.
|Gregor Martynus
* What We Talk About When We Talk About Code
Programming and open source have plenty of specific jargon to learn. How do we make sure we're not pushing away contributors with it?
|Zoe Landon
* What can the open source software of today learn from the history of software documentation?
In the early years of easily distributable software, technical writers and the documentation that they produced were a crucial part of the software development process. Why? What kinds of contributions did they make, and what might their close cooperation with the programmers of their day teach us about how to manage open source projects better today?
|Jennifer Rondeau
* Wiping Away the (Bad) Lines in the Sand in the Software Developer Community
Think of a shibboleth as a proverbial line in the sand that determines who belongs and who is an outsider. There are a lot of arbitrary shibboleths in programming. Text editors (emacs vs. vim vs. sublime), paradigms (object-oriented vs. functional), languages (everyone vs Java), type systems, are all topics of… to put it lightly, "vigorous conversation." In set theory terms, the developer community does not do enough to encourage seeing different developer groups as unions instead of intersections. To a newcomer, this situation sets up too much of a danger of alienation. If someone makes fun of the language that you use to learn how to code, then you're less likely to want to keep learning.
|Walé Ogundipé
* Working Around a Project with Twenty Years of Precedents
How do you deal with a free software project that has been ongoing for many years? What happens when the original designers moved on long ago and even the elders don't have all the answers? This session will examine how to work with existing precedents to drive evolution of the project.
|Darrick Wong
* Awesome Commandline Tools
A showcase of beautifully crafted command line tools and some tips and tricks that make them so great.
|Amjith Ramanujam
* Build your own spamtrap: How to make a spam IP blacklist in 45 minutes
I show how to use Postfix, PowerDNS, Spamassassin, and Python/Flask to trap spam sent to your whole organization (and why you would want such a thing).
|Andy Schmitt
* Free Everything: Hacking Content Liberation
Large commercial websites rely on the "network effect" to keep users from exploring alternatives. Putting contributions under an open license can break this effect. This talk will explore hacks to give users control over the content they contribute to commercial websites.
|Erik Moeller
* Hardware Hula Hoops and Flow
In psychology flow is the honed in energized focus you get when performing tasks that are challenging that can be experienced in hula hooping and programming.
|Lindsey Bieda
* Pulling up Your Legacy App by its Bootstraps!
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to support an application built on an older framework. What would you do if changing the code broke everything? The application functionality is too large to be replaced in one release. What can you do? You can bootstrap it, replacing the application in sections as time allows. When all functionality is replaced, you can put your new codebase into a newer framework or a standalone application.
|Emily Stamey
* Turning Sensors into Signals: Humanizing IoT with Old Smartphones and the Web
People are already tired of the over-promise of IoT - the slew of marginally useful products, the overly confusing and crowded developer space, and endless examples of how to turn an LED on and off. Take a break, step back from the crowd, and come learn how to solve real human problems with that old phone that's collecting dust on your shelf.
|Rabimba Karanjai
* Real World Docker
Let's deep dive into how New Relic transformed itself to run on Docker.
|Jason Clark
* 5 Years of WordCamps: Growth, Automation, and Lessons Learned
The number of WordCamps (volunteer-organized WordPress conferences) has nearly doubled since 2011. Find out how we've improved the WordCamp attendee experience while at the same time improving the experience of our volunteer organizers, through a combination of institutional support and community involvement, plus what problems we hope to solve in the years to come.
|Andrea Middleton
* Accessible By Default
Making your website accessible for users with disabilities isn't flashy, but it's necessary. Websites built for universal access benefit all users, not just users with a disability. They're also more SEO friendly, and are generally built to be more user friendly. From generating increased revenue, to providing better access to services, the benefits of developing accessible websites are real and measurable.
|Kendra Skeene
* An Introduction to OpenSCAD using Legos
Learn 3D modelling with OpenSCAD through an hands-on tutorial for modelling Legos
|Bhaskar Athmanathan
* Behind Closed Doors: Managing Passwords in a Dangerous World
A modern application has a lot of passwords and keys floating around. Encryption keys, database passwords, and API credentials; often typed in to text files and forgotten. Fortunately a new wave of tools are emerging to help manage, update, and audit these secrets. Come learn how to avoid being the next TechCrunch headline.
|Noah Kantrowitz
* Black Pipe Testing, or "@#$! Up Your App by Impersonating a Database"
A "black box" test sends input to your program and tests the output. But a networked application has I/O at two ends: the API and the network. A black box test can't validate it, especially its error-handling. But a "black pipe" test can! Such a test talks to your code over the network at the same time as it tests the API. I'll present a handy library for Black Pipe tests of MongoDB apps and advise you when to use it. I want you to write a library like it for your favorite DB, so we can all test our programs better!
|A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
* Bringing OOP Best Practices to the World of Functional Programming
I transitioned from writing software in imperative, object-oriented (OO) programming languages to doing functional programming (FP) full-time, and you can do it, too! In this talk, I'll make a case for FP in the corporate development environment, cover some cases where common FP language features substitute for design patterns and OOP structure, and provide some examples of translating traditional OO design patterns into functional code.
|Elana Hashman
* Building Prototypes in Code to Iterate Faster
Prototypes are problem-solving tools. They help your team pinpoint problems with your product more clearly and earlier in the design and development process. Building your prototype in code has several advantages over wireframes, mockups, paper prototypes, or even InVison prototypes. They easily allow you to iterate through different solutions before you find what works.
|Caterina Paun
* Cassandra - an introduction
Built mostly in Java, Cassandra is a powerful open source NoSQL database, based on the model of a partitioned row store. This talk will provide general use cases for Cassandra, explain Cassandra's architecture and its benefits, feature tools for accessing and administering Cassandra, and demonstrate how to integrate Cassandra with existing Java applications.
|Hanneli Tavante
* Clojure setup help for "Introduction to Clojure"
This is an open session for people to get help setting up Clojure to prepare for the "Introduction to Clojure" longform session the next day.
|Katherine Fellows
* Demystifying Regular Expressions
Long ago, in the early ages of computerdom, a language was formed from the primordial fires of Tartarus. The language would bind the spells of textual strings and forever control them: The Regular Expression. How about an interactive workshop for acolytes who wish to command this strong magic?
|Howard Abrams
* Digging through the logs
Okay, so now it's time for the really fun part: We've removed the duplicate rows from the log, now we need to only show the rows that contain something that *looks like* an IP address. To do this we'll use a search pattern. These patterns are written in Regular Expressions or RegEx. Like so many other tools in Linux they're immensely powerful but either don't work at all or go haywire with a single incorrect character. Let's write one that looks for a cluster of numbers, then a period, then another cluster of numbers.
|Toby Fee
* GDB: A Gentle Intro
We love Ruby for its elegance, its simplicity, its flexibility. But our favorite language perches atop a whole world of native code, and that other world occasionally intrudes.
|Jason Clark
* Graph Databases WIll Change Your Freakin Life
Most developer have worked with relational DBs like MySQL or PostgreSQL, but for many use cases they aren't the best option. Graph databases have a simpler, more powerful model for handling complex related data. In this talk we'll work with Neo4j to explore the advantages of graph DBs. Attendees will learn the graph model, how graph DBs let you do things that are practically impossible with SQL, and the best options for integrating one into your application -- new or existing.
|Ed Finkler
* Introduction to Clojure
Move fast and break things in this 100-minute, introductory-level Clojure workshop!
|Katherine Fellows
* Kubernetes 101
So you've containerized your application, and now you want to deploy it scalably across a cluster. Kubernetes is your tool for container service management; learn how to use it.
|Josh Berkus
* Less Painful Legacy Code Replacement
Replacing legacy code is a challenge on every front, from managing stakeholder expectations to tackling the technical work. Thoughtful preparation and a pocket full of tools can make the experience a little less painful.
|Jennifer Tu
* Let's build a CI/CD pipeline
An exploration of the cost and value of CI/CD, and a walkthrough of setting up a CI/CD pipeline.
|Jean de Klerk
* Little Leaks Sink Your Tests
"The tests pass on my machine." "Wait, it was working a minute ago." "Oh, that test is flaky sometimes." Unpredictable tests are toxic for our productivity. They undermine confidence in our code. They encourage us to wallpaper over the immediate problem, rather than fixing the underlying cause. In this presentation, we'll talk about a chief cause of flaky tests: leaky global state.
|Ian Dees
* Make Your First Open Source Contribution on GitHub
Interested in becoming a contributor to open source projects? In this talk, I'm going to show you the technical aspects involved in working with git and GitHub to prepare and submit contributions, and then working with project maintainers to get them merged.
|Miguel Grinberg
* Monitoring Asynchronous Applications
The lure of asynchronous programming is that it will make your application run faster and your code simpler to reason about. So we have our wonderfully efficient non-blocking app; how do we check that it's delivering the goods performance wise?
|Amy Boyle
* More Than Binary: Inclusive Gender Collection and You
Many people identify their gender in many ways. So why do we build systems to capture accurate gender information with a dropdown that only lists "male" and "female"? This talk covers why you might want to consider alternative ways of selecting gender for your users, a brief overview of the current best practices, the case study of the decisions I made when creating my open source project Gender Amender (a library you can help work on right now!), and why more work needs to be done. I'd also like to facilitate a short discussion during the time slot, so that we can share varied perspectives on how to improve the entire process of gender collection, and articulate the lenses through which we can and should view gender (e.g. "what are some other data structures we could use to capture gender identity information?").
|Anne DeCusatis
* Open sourced tools for Agent Based Modeling
Agent-based modeling is a technique used to explore both complexity and emergence by simulating individual actors and their actions inside of a system. Think of systems such as the traffic in the city or financial markets where one actor can have an effect on the decisions of others until the system's direction changes its course. During this survey, you will gain an understanding of open source software available in a variety of languages and how to get started quickly.
|Jackie Kazil
* Overdoing Microservices: how small is too small?
All the cool kids are doing it, but is it possible to have too much of a good thing? I'll present some thoughts about things you can actually measure to decide if you've gone off the deep end with microservices.
|Kevin Scaldeferri
* Python setup help for "Readable Regular Expressions: A Hands-On Workshop"
This is an open session for people to get help setting up Python to prepare for the "Readable Regular Expressions: A Hands-On Workshop" longform session the next day.
|Trey Hunner
* Readable Regular Expressions: A Hands-On Workshop
What are regular expressions, what are they useful for, and why are they so hard to read? We'll learn what regular expressions are good for, how to make our own regular expressions, and how to make our regular expressions friendly and readable (yes it's possible... sometimes).
|Trey Hunner
* Sparkle security
"Agent Sparkle, you have been recruited as a security expert to use your skills to protect the kingdom of Project Rainbow. You might not feel qualified yet, but Project Rainbow has great faith in your ability to learn." Web security is perhaps one of most fun types of computer security to master: exploits can be constructed quickly and without many tools. But sadly, while there are many tutorials, they simply don't have enough rainbows and sparkles and the practice exploits tend to focus on the basics without flourishes. Project Sparkle is a set of "training missions" designed to make learning web security more kid-friendly, but we think the audience of Open Source Bridge will also enjoy exploiting the web to add more rainbows and sparkles!
|Terri Oda
* The Folk Knowledge of Bugzilla
It's good to know if a bug is a regression, and if I want to mark a bug as a regression, there's a keyword for that. (searches on regression keyword.) But there's also a whiteboard tag for that (searches on whiteboard tags containing 'regression'.) Oh dear, and let me unique that out and there's how many ways to say "this is a regression." If you're a release manager, how do you find out what bugs may be regressions and that you want to follow up on with your engineering leads?
|Emma Humphries
* Unikernels and Containers: How to Even
Let's talk about what containers and unikernels -- two oft-compared technologies -- even are, how they work, and what problems they solve.
|Mindy Preston
* Why you can't afford to miss out on junior developers
What if your next hire could make your team faster, help create a more inclusive and diverse environment, be easy to find, and be super excited to work with you? These people are not unicorns, they're junior developers. Most teams just don't know how to bring them on and get these benefits. Whether you're in a startup, consultancy, or a BigCo, with a few tips and processes, any team can learn how to grow new developers.
|Bracken Mosbacker
* Yelling As A Service: Adventures in Unofficial QA
What goes into making a helpful bug report, if you're not even given access to the repository? Why should you, the user, report bugs? How do you navigate a series of gatekeepers who don't want to acknowledge your bugs? How do you maintain a good relationship with people in charge of a project that's screwing up your whole life?
|Azure Lunatic
* A Domain Specific Query Language Engine
This presentation is about the shortest line between a database and data exploration.
|Joe Meyer
* API Design Through the Lens of Photography
To be successful in photography and API design, you must first understand the constraints of the medium, both technical and non-technical. Learning how to work within constraints and finding your own style are critical to being a successful photographer and API designer.
|Bryan Hughes
* An Ensemble of Programming Languages: How to Build a Platform for Collaboration
The era of "general-purpose programming languages" is nearing its end. The cost of building a programming language and integrating it with other languages has fallen significantly, but our approach to building programming languages has not changed substantially in decades. The consequence is an enormous financial cost paid, in terms of real dollars as well as in hours of programmer effort. The solution is not yet another "better" general-purpose language but rather a platform that prioritizes a collaborating assortment of specialized languages that together perform well in a specific context: an ensemble of programming languages.
|Brian Shirai
* An Introduction to ClojureScript
ClojureScript is a fun, productive language that compiles to JavaScript. Though its syntax is a different its functional immutable nature lets you be productive when developing complex web applications.
|Julio Barros
* Bots Not Cattle
"Cattle Not Pets" got us to the first generation of microservice infrastructures. Now it's time for a second generation metaphor: "Bots Not Cattle."
|Josh Berkus
* Deployment as a Feature
Too often the deployment of software is treated as a necessary evil. When you design your deployments as a feature of your system, the productivity gains will surprise you.
|Carl Hall
* Distributed Consensus with Raft
Getting people to agree to things is sometimes hard. But implementing consensus with computers is harder. And distributed consensus with computers is _really_ hard. How do we do it? One answer: the distributed consensus algorithm known as _Raft_.
|John Feminella
* Going Rambo: Contract and Collaboration Testing in Ruby
Contract and collaboration testing are the future of testing microservices, but in many languages, few or no tools are available to facilitate this process. Rambo is a new Ruby tool that generates contract tests from API documentation.
|Dana Scheider
* HTTP/2 and Asynchronous APIs
HTTP/2 (H2) is coming, and along with it a whole new way of communicating over the web. Connection re-use, prioritization, multiplexing, and server push are just some of the features in H2.
|Davey Shafik
* Inside Websockets
Protocol design is about tradeoffs, and if you pick the wrong tradeoff, you may regret it for a very long time. Any time you have one part of a program talk to another part of a program, you have a protocol. In this talk, we'll dig into the details of how WebSockets work and what decisions the designers made.
|Leah Hanson
* Introduction to Neural Networks with Tensorflow
I intend to introduce Neural Networks as a very simple concept. This can be achieved with Google's newest open-source library in Python called Tensorflow. I want to dispel the myth that Neural Networks are hard to understand and implement. I also want to introduce the current state of Neural Networks as they are continually changing the landscape of visual recognition and natural language processing.
|Nick McClure
* Machine Learning 101: How to get started with Convolutional Neural Networks
Machine learning and especially convolutional neural networks are on the rise. With the sheer limitless amount of data and cheap computation power, neural networks can now solve problems which have been fairly complex in the past. Cole and Hannes will demonstrate how you implement a convolutional neural network with a few lines of Python code to classify images, recognize voices or understand texts.
|Hannes Hapke, Cole Howard
* Massively Parallel Testing at MongoDB
When the engineering team at MongoDB pushes a commit, we have to test it on every platform and configuration that we support. This adds up to hundreds of hours of tests for each commit. In order to make this process efficient, we built Evergreen, an in-house continuous integration tool and leveraged new technologies, such as Go and dynamic host allocation, to streamline the process to minutes. This talk will show you how we parallelize our tests and how you can apply these techniques to your next project!
|Shraya Ramani, Kyle Erf
* Micro-services provide some benefits, but at what cost?
Several years ago, there was an architectural paradigm shift toward "micro-services" and away from the "monolithic" application stack. A micro-service architecture comes with scalability and replaceability, among others, but is it worth the time and effort to build it? Is it worth debugging API calls gone wrong? If you're thinking about making this move, have already started, or have already deployed to production, this is an ideal venue to see what others are doing with micro-services.
|Serge Domkowski
* Monoids, and Sketches, and CRDTs, oh my!
A (hopefully) accessible introduction to some of the key mathematical concepts that make distributed and streaming computation possible.
|Kevin Scaldeferri
* Our Unhealthy Relationship with Injection Vulnerabilities
Ever concatenated strings in your code? Did those strings include any kind of structured syntax? Then your code might be vulnerable to injection. What does that mean? I will show you the common patterns of injection that occur, what their impact might be, and how to avoid them.
|Timothy Morgan
* Rethinking Social Media, Privacy, and Information Flow from the Ground Up
Inspired by security and privacy research in operating systems, we'll be discussing possible ways to redesign privacy models so that all users can have fine-grained control over both visibility of their content and how others can interact with it.
|Clarissa Littler
* Security Starts With You: Social Engineering
Virus? There's an app for that. Malware? There's an app for that. Social engineering? It's a little more complicated. These techniques, used by hackers to gather information on their target, are hard to combat without education - so why don't we talk about them more often? Aimed at the average user who could be targeted by such an attack, this talk discusses the tools of social engineering, how it can be combated and why so many companies fail in preparing their employees for such an attack.
|Tiberius Hefflin
* Spelunking with ǝpoɔᴉu∩
What do a fistbump emoji, Mandarin Chinese, and rocket ships have in common? They're all represented with entries in Unicode, the biggest, baddest, and most widely-used open standard. In this talk, we'll explore the messy and conflicting ideas that humans call "text", and how we represent those ideas in software.
|John Feminella
* Standardizing the Social Web - W3C #socialweb specs
The W3C Social Web Working Group has been developing standards to make it easier to build social applications in the open web. In this talk, you'll get an overview of the various specifications in development, (Activity Streams 2, Webmention, Micropub, and ActivityPub), to help you learn how each applies to the social web.
|Aaron Parecki
* Supporting diversity with a new approach to software
It's time for a new approach to software, one that embraces differences (not just tolerates them), and sees diversity as a strength. The industry is primed for change, and there are huge opportunities to do better by valuing emotion, intuition, compassion, purpose, empowerment, sustainability, and social justice. This highly-interactive session includes discussions of current "best practices" and emerging ideas from projects that have focused heavily on diversity, issues and problems in today's environment, imagining how things could be different, and figuring out concrete steps to make it happen.
|Jon Pincus, Tammarrian Rogers
* The Key Of Chaos
We built an open-hardware random number generator. We'll tell you all about it.
|Bart Massey
* Tightly coupling your (REST) API docs
Documenting REST APIs isn't easy, and we need practical tips and tricks for keeping docs in sync with design and implementation. This talk explores some different but related ways to accomplish the goals of user-friendly, always up-to-date API docs.
|Jennifer Rondeau
* Type Theory 101
Have you heard about type theory and always wanted to understand the principles behind it, but always thought it was too complicated since it has a lot of Lambda Calculus and algebras? This talk will approach these concepts in a friendly way.
|Hanneli Tavante
* What Hath Von Neumann Wrought? Programming before programming languages
We program today in a rich environment, but that wasn't always the case. We celebrate the pioneers of programming languages: Grace Hopper (COBOL), John Backus (FORTRAN), John McCarthy (LISP), Kenneth Iverson (APL) and Peter Naur (ALGOL). But there was a time before programming languages. How did people program back then? I'll show you!
|M. Edward (Ed) Borasky


text:
How to give your career a boost with Cisco 300-365 exam?
If you are a CCNP Wireless professionals, then the fact is that you must have worked hard to get where we are now but at this point, you have to get Cisco 300-365 certification exam to upgrade your skills. If you are willing to do so then 300-365 exam cram is purely for you. As you know the importance of 300-365 simulation questions in recent days that it has become the top trending Cisco certification exam in the IT sector. Earning Deploying Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks certification not only helps you in embracing the technology and skillset but it also helps you in landing to a high ranked job. So with the WIDEPLOY 300-365 exam, you can also have the chances of getting promoted. And the demand for Cisco 300-365 certified professionals are at a high rate in the IT firms. If you are going to take the 300-365 exam simulator then get the latest 300-365 exam questions from the BrainDumpsPro. why? Let's find out.
Highly recommended 300-365 cheat sheet of BrainDumpsPro
WIDEPLOY 300-365 exam cram offered by the Braindumpspro had been curated by the Cisco experts and is considered as the top notched material for the preparation of the Deploying Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks simulation questions. Updated 300-365 exam simulator have the in-detailed analysis of each and every question in the 300-365 cheat sheet. This Cisco 300-365 exam simulator download can also be obtained in verified questions. If you are a working professional then 300-365 exam simulator is perfect for you as you can access them wherever you want to access.
BrainDumpsPro | Best practice for 300 365 simulation questions
Practicing for the 300-365 exam cram is one of the main parts for the Deploying Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks exam questions. To also aid you in this matter BrainDumpsPro also gives you the latest 300-365 exam simulator. By using this 300-365 simulation questions you can have the opportunity to quick learning as this CCNP Wireless 300-365 exam have the valuable learning interface which will help you in understanding the Cisco 300-365 exam. With the help of 300-365 exam simulator, you can also have a 100% passing guarantee.
24/7 Customer care service & Updates on 300-365 exam simulator
As BrainDumpsPro keeps on updating their 300-365 exam cram you have the opportunity of getting updated 300-365 simulation questions. More if any update came on WIDEPLOY 300-365 cheat sheet you can also get for free up to 90 days. You can also get the 24/7 customer care service on the 300-365 dumps. You can also get a 100% money back guarantee on the Deploying Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks simulator download. All in all BrainDumpsPro Cisco 300-365 exam simulator is your only source of preparation for the Deploying Cisco Wireless Enterprise Networks new questions.
All members
You must log in to join or leave this team.
Latest members
Pending approval


text:
This last week has been pretty hectic in terms of next generation concepts: Boeing unveiled the updated version of the F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter concept, Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works released a new UCLASS Concept video and, after some years of evaluation and study, Russia's PAK-DA conceptual design was given the official approval.
In a meeting with Russian lawmakers, Air Force Commander Lt. Gen. Viktor Bondarev said that all the relevant documents were signed allowing the industry to begin the development of systems for the plane.
With its flying wing shape and radar-evading capabilities, the subsonic PAK-DA is destined to replace Moscow's aging fleet of 63 Tu-95 Bear and 13 Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers.
According to the RIA Novosti, Russian Air Force commanders insisted that the aircraft will be equipped with advanced electronic warfare systems and armed with new nuclear-capable long-range cruise missiles, and will be able to carry a wide array of conventional precision guided weapons.
The new plane will enter production stage by 2020 with the first bomber in active service by 2025-2030 timeframe.
The PAK-DA will not be hypersonic (even if it will probably carry hypersonic missiles) as opposed to the American X-51, Falcon HTV-2 and other hypersonic development programs on which the U.S.'s perspective strike capability will be based.
A "sixth-generation" pilotless strategic bomber based on the PAK-DA could come around 2040-2050.


text:
Lignite mine achieves significant savings with SKF remanufactured bearings
The challenge
The SKF solutionNoting the mine's successful use of SKF remanufactured bearings in its conveyor drive drums, SKF suggested that the facility consider similar opportunities. The mine decided to send all of its dismounted bearings to the nearest SKF remanufacturing service centre for analysis. There, SKF found that 50% of the bearings were suitable for remanufacturing.
The resultsThe mine achieved significant savings through reduced replacement and warehousing costs. SKF also optimized the order handling procedures with the operator, resulting in additional savings related to logistics and information technology.
- Maintenance cost savings: €53 0000
- Warehouse cost savings: €75 000
- Total savings: €60 500


text:
Closer Look at Oakland's Medical Pot Plan: Cannabis factories raise new questions when it comes to the state's medical marijuana law. [The Bay Citizen]
Taking Aim at AB1934: Some gun rights advocates say the open-carry ban could actually mean more guns on the street. [Capitol Weekly]
If You Thought the Paychecks Were Big...: Wait until you see the pensions of a few Bell city officials. [LA Times]
Mortgage Defaults Drop: They're at a three-year low, according to market researcher MDA DataQuick. [Sacramento Bee]
Fighting Potholes and Gridlock With Fees: Voters in Contra Costa County will consider increased car registration fees to fix problems on the road. [Contra Costa Times]
Bill Would Ban CSU DNA Collection: The bill would prevent the schools from requesting genetic material from students. [The Daily Californian]


text:
"A whole column of Austin appears in the London Directory. The name was made common by the Austin Friars, or Black Canons, as they were often styled from their black cloaks, who were established early in the 12th century in England, and possessed of about 170 houses." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Bardsley, C.W, A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances. Wiltshire: Heraldry Today, 1901. Print. (ISBN 0-900455-44-6)
"It is confined for the most part to the central and eastern counties of the south of England; and does not extend in any frequency north of Derbyshire or west of Dorset. The counties of Kent and Oxford contain the greatest numbers of Austins. In the thirteenth century it was a common name in Cambridgeshire." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Guppy, Henry Brougham, Homes of Family Names in Great Britain. 1890. Print.
|Popular Products
|Armorial History With Coat of Arms
|Coat of Arms & Surname History Package
|Family Crest Image (jpg) Heritage Series - 300 DPI
|Coffee Mug
|Armorial History with Frame
|Framed Surname History and Coat of Arms


text:
This page serves as a central location for the tools AAVSO voulnteers have developed and promulgated to help fellow photometrists transform their observations, making them compatible and more useful to the professional astronomy community.
These include:
Welcome to the TransformApplier (TA), a tool prepared for the AAVSO by "super-volunteer" George Silvis (SGEO), to make it easy to submit transformed CCD observations to WebObs. We, members of the AAVSO, want to submit transformed observations because these can then be used more easily by professional astronomers. We're amateurs, but sophistocated amateurs, and this tool will help us go the next step.


text:
Thank you. You should be receiving a reset link at the email address you provided shortly.
Fill out the form below
*First Name
*Last Name
*Email Address
*Phone Number
Best Time
Thank you for your interest in this program. We should be contacting you shortly.
Keep your Child Development Associate (CDA) certification up-to-date! If you have obtained CDA certification to work in childcare, you must renew your CDA Credential three years after the award date and every five years thereafter. Through the Child Development Associate Training Renewal program, you can fulfill this requirement, easily and affordably, as you work at your own pace in a flexible, self-directed online learning environment.
Through this series of courses, you will study crucial topics for continuing education in the field of childcare and gain the training you need to master the best practices for working with young children and their families. Topics include childcare business management, organizational leadership, and childcare and educational programming. Throughout, you will be guided by an experienced and knowledgeable instructor who can answer all your questions about the program material.
The courses included in the program provide 45 hours or 4.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) required by the CDA Council of renewing Child Development Associates. Our renewal courses were selected from the eight CDA competency areas to provide a breadth of knowledge for renewing Child Development Associates, and support renewal requirements for Associates original settings, age-level endorsement, and specializations.
You will be given six (6) months to complete the program; however, since the course work is self-paced, you may be able to complete it in less time.
Darlene Lawrence is an academic coach and childcare and education instructor with five years of experience. She holds a bachelor's degree in business administration and a master's degree in teaching.
1. Can I register for programs if I am an international student?
Yes, because ed2go programs are online you never have to actually travel to the school. Most schools offer telephone or online registration.
2. How long does it take to complete a program?
All of our programs are self-paced and open enrollment, so you can start them when you want and finish them at your own pace. Upon registering, you are given an initial six months to complete this program.
3. Do I have to buy additional materials?
No additional materials are required for this program.
4. Can I get financial assistance?
ed2go courses are non-credit courses, so they do not qualify for federal aid. In some states, vocational rehab or workforce development boards will pay for qualified students to take our courses.
5. What happens when I complete the program?
Upon successful completion of the program, you will be awarded a certificate of completion.
6. Am I guaranteed a job?
ed2go programs will provide you with the skills you need to obtain an entry-level position in most cases. We don't provide direct job placement services, but our facilitators and career counselors will help you build your resume and are available to give advice on finding your first job. Facilitators will also be available to use as a professional reference upon completion of the program. Potential students should always do research on the job market in their area before registering.
7. Who will be my instructor?
Each student is paired up with a facilitator for one-on-one interaction. The facilitator will be available (via e-mail) to answer any questions you may have and to provide feedback on your performance. All of our facilitators are successful working professionals in the fields in which they teach.
8. What software or hardware do I need in order to take online programs and what are the system requirements?
In order to take our online programs, you must have access to a computer and the Internet. You can access the program contents from any Web-enabled computer. You don't have to use the same computer to log-in to the program every time. We recommend that you have a word-processing program (Microsoft Word is best) and the latest version of Internet Explorer.
9. Can I use a Mac?
Yes, you can use a Mac for this program.
10. Can I apply the courses to my CDA training requirements?
Yes, the courses were designed specifically to meet the training requirements for the CDA. The courses can also be used for CDA renewal training requirements.
11. How do I get a completion certificate when I finish a course?
Upon successful completion of the program, you will be awarded a certificate of completion.
12. How can I get more information about the program?
If you have questions that are not answered on our website, please feel free to contact us via LIVE chat (click the button toward the top of the page). If you are visiting us during non-business hours, please feel free to send us a question using the "Contact Us" form to the right. You may also call us at 1-855-520-68061-855-520-6806 FREE. We will answer your questions promptly.
13. When can I start the program?
Our programs are all open enrollment. You can register and start the program as soon as you are ready.
Please note: Once the program curriculum is accessed online or through submission of a material shipment confirmation, refunds cannot be issued.
14. What if I don't have enough time to complete my program within the time frame provided?
The time allotted to complete your program has been calculated based on the number of hours for each program, so don't worry too much about not completing in time. If, after a concerted effort, you are still unable to complete, your Student Advisor will help you work out a suitable completion date. Please note that a fee will be charged for an extension.
Copyright © Education To Go. All rights reserved. The material on this site cannot be reproduced or redistributed unless you have obtained prior written permission from Education To Go. Education To Go and ed2go are registered trademarks of Education To Go, a part of Cengage Learning.
A password reset link has been sent to the email address you provided.


text:
S.T.A.R.S.: Sistas Talking About Real Solutions (STARS)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01028157
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 9, 2009
Last Update Posted : December 17, 2013
- Study Details
- Tabular View
- No Results Posted
- Disclaimer
- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|HIV Prevention
|Behavioral: STARS: Sistas Talking About Real Solutions Behavioral: General Health & Nutrition
|Phase 1
Show Detailed Description
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|855 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|STARS: Sistas Talking About Real Solutions
|Study Start Date :
|October 2002
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|March 2006
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|March 2006
|Placebo Comparator: General Health Control
Behavioral: General Health & Nutrition
Participants in this condition received a 2 hour group session which consisted of general health information and women's health brochures facilitated by a trained health educator. The control group received bi-monthly phone calls and quarterly mailings for retention purposes only, with no intervention material provided.
Other Names:
|Experimental: HIV Risk Reduction & Relapse Prevention
Behavioral: STARS: Sistas Talking About Real Solutions
The intervention consisted of 2, 4-hour workshops. The first workshop focused on enhancing ethnic/gender pride, self-esteem, realizing values/setting goals, healthy/unhealthy relationships, partner violence, HIV/STD knowledge, heightening awareness of HIV susceptibility, safer-sex options/skills. The second workshop covered realistic choices in sexual decision making, consistent/proper condom use, setting limits/boundaries, communication styles, and condom skills negotiation. Participants received 3-hour booster sessions at 6- and 9-months to reinforce materials from the initial intervention. Bi-monthly phone calls and quarterly mailings were used to reinforce workshop material and facilitate retention.
Other Names:
- To evaluate the efficacy of a HIV risk-reduction condition relative to general health control condition in reducing HIV-associated sexual behaviors and incident STDs. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
- To evaluate the efficacy of a HIV risk-reduction condition relative to general health control condition in enhancing theoretically-derived mediators of HIV-preventive behaviors. [ Time Frame: 12 months ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 29 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- African American
- female
- Age 18-29
- unmarried
- engaged in at least one act of unprotected sexual intercourse within the last 6 months
- were members of one of the three Kaiser Permanente HMO study sites
Exclusion Criteria:
- pregnant or trying to get pregnant
- young adults who have a condition that precludes participation (i.e. schizophrenia, severe learning disability, or undergoing chemotherapy)
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01028157
|United States, Georgia
|Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30322
|Principal Investigator:
|Gina M Wingood, ScD, MPH
|Emory University
|Study Director:
|LaShun R Robinson, PhD
|Emory University
|Principal Investigator:
|Ralph DiClemente, PhD
|Emory University
|Responsible Party:
|Gina M Wingood, Principal Investigator, Emory University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01028157 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
5R01MH062717 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|December 9, 2009 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|December 17, 2013
|Last Verified:
|December 2013
risk reduction
behavioral intervention
Pharmaceutical Solutions


text:
jgsketch necesitaba un nuevo diseño de botón o icono y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 42 diseños de 19 diseñadores freelance.
Bullion Investment Corporation
Bullion Investment Corporation offers leveraged bullion and precious metals investing to a global market. We are committed to providing professional services to all of our clients. Weather you are a seasoned investor or a newcomer to investing, our experienced professionals will work with you, one on one.
Mostly men, mid level income and higher. All ages.
Bullion Investment Corporation (BIC) offers two great selling incentives.
1. Purchase Power Program™ (Allows you to own up to 400% more bullion)
2. GMS System™ (Provides Critical Information for success in bullion investing)
We need icons for these trade marked system/program features.
Should convey strength, stability and have some color in the logos so they stand out from the site. http://www.bullioninvestmentcorporation.com. The icons should have the TD symbol.
More detailed brief has been attached to this contest. PLEASE read this before starting.
Thank You and good luck!


text:
Shorter hospital stays don't compromise care, study finds
(HealthDay)—Fears that patients are being forced out of hospitals dangerously early may be unfounded, researchers report.
Shorter hospital stays don't increase readmissions or lead to more deaths, according to a study of Veterans Administration hospitals.
Researchers from the Iowa City VA Medical Center looked at records for 129 VA hospitals across the United States, and found that lengths of stay decreased 27 percent over 14 years, or 2 percent annually. However, contrary to what they anticipated, readmission rates and death rates also dropped during that time.
"What we found was that they both went down simultaneously. We can improve efficiency and at the same time improve 30-day readmission rates," said lead researcher Dr. Peter Kaboli, a hospitalist.
"Over 14 years, the VA and other health care systems have been trying to improve efficiency, moving patients through the hospital quicker—get them diagnosed; get them treated; get them home," Kaboli explained.
"It's costly to be in the hospital, and patients prefer to go home," he added.
The study, published in the Dec. 18 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, involved reviewing records for more than 4 million patients hospitalized between 1997 and 2010. The researchers paid special attention to patients with these five common health problems: heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart attack, pneumonia and gastrointestinal bleeding.
The researchers looked at length of stay and rate of readmissions in the 30 days and 90 days after hospital discharge. They also looked at the death rate one month and three months after hospital discharge.
While lengths of stay decreased 27 percent, readmissions rates decreased 16 percent, Kaboli said.
Moreover, death rates at 30 and 90 days after leaving the hospital dropped about 3 percent.
When patients were released too soon, however, the risk for readmission rose 6 percent for each day they were released early, Kaboli's group found.
Kaboli believes the positive results reflect improved coordination between hospital and outpatient services, and a focus on quality care and patient safety.
In addition, the greater use of hospitalists—doctors who provide care only in the hospital—is associated with higher quality care, he said.
Whether these same results are seen in private hospitals, where length of stay has also declined, isn't known, Kaboli said.
The authors of a commentary accompanying the study said the VA system has made some noteworthy advances.
"VA management has achieved some of the things health care reform is trying to achieve," said Dr. Eugene Oddone, co-author of the accompanying editorial who is with the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care at the Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center in North Carolina.
The VA system "can be used as a model for some aspects of health care reform," added Oddone, a professor of medicine at Duke University School of Medicine.
Specifically, he cited integration of care between the hospital and outpatient care, and improved quality of care.
Explore further
Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.


text:
Multi-campus teams identify ways to enhance learning outcomes
The two multi-campus teams in Transforming Course Design - Developmental Math and General Chemistry, are identifying a variety of approaches to improving learning outcomes for students. One method identified to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of instruction is to enhance current placement tests with additional diagnostic content. For example, one campus is concerned about students who are placed in a developmental course in which the first several weeks covers material they already know: if they disengage from the course during this time, they may not re-engage when the content becomes vital to them. Some CSU institutions already use standard disciplinary tests or software such as ALEKS for enhanced placement information.
The teams are also using research on specific content issues known to be challenging for students, to determine if alternate methods would better support student learning. For example, the General Chemistry team is studying the use of pre-lab computer tutorials to optimize student time in laboratories, and examining research on student understanding of troublesome topics such as Atomic Structure. For Developmental Mathematics, the team is considering research about student misconceptions of fundamental concepts in Algebra and what is known about how to best debug them.


text: Mahkameh, I have moved your post to a more appropriate part of the forum where you might find someone who has the time to do this. Remember that if this is homework or an assignment, you must submit it to your teacher so they can see your work. After that, if you do not understand any of their corrections, please come back to the forum to ask specific questions.


text:
My guy has a wart on his hand. Could he give me HPV if he touches me down below?
There is a very slight chance that your guy's growth can spread south of your border. Although all warts are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV), "there are dozens of subtypes, and each generally grows on a specific body area," explains Paul Jarrod Frank, M.D., assistant clinical professor of dermatology at New York University Medical Center. "The HPV strain that triggers genital warts prefers the moist membranes of the sex organs." Still, encourage him to see a dermatologist, who can get rid of the lump. Until then, avoid direct contact with his mitt.Get Educated: HPV Facts & Helpful Answers to Your HPV Questions


text:
The Ranger spacecraft was a program of early NASA space probes, flown by the Earth's United States of America during the early 1960s.
A record of the launch and flight plans for Ranger 3 through 5 were available in the Enterprise library computer, as well as pictures and plan views of three distinct versions of this design. This data was flashed on a viewscreen when the Talosians scanned the Enterprise computer in 2254. (TOS: "The Cage")
Ranger spacecraftEdit
Ranger Block IEdit
The Ranger Block I was used in the first series of Ranger launches intended to test the Atlas-Agena rocket in preparation for future missions to reach the Moon.
Components for the Block I included an ion chamber, omnidirectional antenna, Lyman-alpha telescope, Earth sensor, antenna gear box, solar panels, high-gain antenna, electrostatic analyzer, sun sensor, and a magnetometer. (TOS: "The Cage")
Ranger Block IIEdit
The Ranger Block II was used in the second series of launches in the Ranger program designed for achieving Lunar orbit. Ranger 5 was one such probe in this series.
Components for the Block II included a lunar capsule, omnidirectional antenna, RADAR altimeter, solar panels, gamma-ray spectrometer, mid-course motor, retrorocket, TV camera, and a high-gain antenna. (TOS: "The Cage")
Ranger Block IIIEdit
The Ranger Block III was used in the third series of launches in the Ranger program designed for achieving Lunar orbit. Ranger 7 was one such probe in this series. (TOS: "The Cage")
Appendices Edit
Some historical craft named Ranger have been the namesakes for starfaring vessels and Federation starships in numerous non-canon works and games.
A Ranger-class starship was part of the FASA RPG, appearing in such sources as the Federation Ship Recognition Manual. A different, earlier, Ranger-class based on an unused Matt Jefferies starship design was part of the Last Unicorn Games ship list, appearing in the Starfleet Operations Manual, among others. Another Ranger-class starship is the first ship that the player receives when beginning the Star Trek Online "Agents of Yesterday" expansion.
A Miranda-class USS Ranger appears in Star Trek: Shattered Universe and Star Trek: New Worlds promotional material.


text:
Zen Creative necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 177 diseños de 33 diseñadores freelance.
ApartmentsInGainesville.com is the leading online apartment guide in Gainesville, Florida, home to over 70,000 college students. The website is best described as a real time search engine for local apartments.
The site uses ajax to provide instant search results. For example: A user types "pets" into the search box and instantly all apartments that allow pets populate the search results grid. This real time search feature allows an apartment buyer to quickly narrow down the local apartment complexes that meet their requirements.
Company themes: Apartments, Local Apartment Guide, Students, College, Gainesville, University of Florida, Florida Gators, Web 2.0, Search Engines.
College aged students attending University of Florida in Gainesville, home of the Florida Gators.
Basic requirements: Use of the text "Apartments In Gainesville" or the url "ApartmentsInGainesville.com". Design of custom illustration to symbolize the concept. Incorporate these two basic elements in the design.
Color suggestions: We would like to see some designs utilize the University of Florida's colors Orange(#ff4a00) and Blue(#0021a5). We would like to see designs with other colors as well (Example: Orange and Black, etc). Get creative, explore many variations, and submit your own color schemes.
Font Suggestions: A nice, legible sans-serif. Bring your best fonts to the table.
Illustration suggestions: Apartments, apartment buildings, apartment keys, apartment silhouette, college student, gator (alligator), AIG (ApatmentsInGainesville.com Initials) or abstract illustration / symbol.
Example logo: http://imgur.com/8NFvq.jpg
This puppy's guaranteed, so bring your best work to the table! We're excited to see what all of you have to offer.
*Note: Disregard the current website and design of apartmentsingainesville.com when designing your logo. We are completely re-branding and re-designing this site.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


text:
by Rob Cox, March 27, 2013
Testing a Pool Pump's Capacitor
If your pool pump is not starting, but instead gives a 'hum' or a 'nnngh!' type of sound, you may have a capacitor problem. This sound will usually continue until the circuit breaker trips.
The capacitor is kind of like a battery to start the pump motor, but what it really does is put the power out of phase on the stator thus 'shading' the motor windings, causing the motor to begin to turn.
The first thing to check, especially during a spring opening, is that the impeller and motor shaft is turning freely. This will rule out the possibility of rust binding up the rotor and stator, or something heavy stuck in the impeller.
You can check for shaft rotation by removing the rear cover plate, and turning the end of the shaft with a large flathead or straight pliers, or on most pumps, you can remove the basket and feel the impeller with your fingers (pump off first!).
You could just replace the capacitor, to see if that's the problem. Look on the side of the existing capacitor to read the microfarad size - 'MFD' or the UF numbers. Pool pumps may have two capacitors, one in the back (the start capacitor) and one on top (the run capacitor). The smaller, black capacitors, located in the rear of a motor, are usually labeled with a range of numbers, i.e., 161-193 MFD, while the larger, silver capacitors, typically located on the hump of the motor, on top - are sized by a UF number.
If you want to test the capacitor however, follow these instructions - carefully, as there is a small element of danger, should the capacitor blow-up on you!
Before you test your capacitor, take note of it's appearance. If it's bulged, cracked or otherwise looks damaged, you can assume that it has failed. You should also check for loose, crimped or broken wires or rusty terminals on the capacitor.
1. Remove the cover plate, and use an insulated screwdriver to discharge the capacitor. If you want, you can remove the capacitor and wrap it in a heavy cloth, or rubber sheet - just in case. It is quite rare that while testing a capacitor, it explodes (small explosion), but it can happen. More commonly, you may experience sparks, or a small popping sound as you drain the capacitor, if there is a lot of power stored. Point the capacitor away from you and others, while discharging. You only need to touch both terminals briefly with the tip of an insulated screwdriver, to discharge the capacitor.
2. Remove the two wires connected to the capacitor, with a small flathead, or needle nose pliers. If the capacitor is bulged or cracked, or looks like it is burned or charred, you can assume that it is D.O.A.
3. Use any type of multi-meter, digital or analog. It need not be a fancy $100 meter, it can be a $10 meter from Radio Shack. Set the test meter to Ohms, of 1K or higher. Touch both leads of your meter to the capacitor terminals, does not matter which lead touches which terminal.
4. If the meter reads zero, and stays at zero - the capacitor is bad. If it slowly rises - your capacitor is capable of holding a charge.


text:
This week, Segment.io co-founder Peter Reinhardt blogged about building The Reel Box, a mash-up site launched in March which displays local movie showtimes from Fandango alongside Rotten Tomatoes ratings, YouTube trailer videos, and Google Maps to each theatre. At first glance, it looks insanely useful--so why is it more likely to receive a cease-and-desist letter than a VC offer?
As Reinhardt explains on his blog, "movie showtime data is difficult to get and the APIs cost a lot of money to use." He just wanted to experiment with data and make a quick demo, so he used Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) to parse web content from Fandango into his own custom API. Cloud service Firebase provided an "API Caching Layer" to get around YQL's daily query limits. After a little reverse engineering of Fandango's ticket purchasing URLs (documented in Reinhardt's blog post), The Reel Box was up and running.
But for how long? A similar service in 2009 was threatened with legal action and hefty fines, and the Ignyte Movies and Showtimes API listed on ProgrammableWeb is no longer available. Another developer posted a cautionary tale in Y Combinator's Hacker News in response to The Reel Box's announcement, concluding with this resolution:
The final result was us just paying to use the API's... We figured we could just pay X per API call for showtimes at theaters in Y zip codes. Nope. Their packages seemingly had no concept of modern web services and instead were structured based on strange market blocks each with a daily minimum of requests that had to be made and so on... (these concepts of software as a service were foreign to them).
Right now, The Reel Box and similar sites exist in a gray area: they're possible--sometimes even easy--to build, but may run afoul of laws that haven't evolved to keep up with changing technologies. That certainly won't discourage developers who are always looking for a better way to do things, and we can all look forward to a day when more data is shared instead of hoarded.


text:
Colby is much happier than he was six months ago, and that's because of Make-A-Wish.
Colby's mother
Colby doesn't remember anything about the incident with supervillain Rex Velvet. The debacle left him with his memory wiped. Now, The Agency needs his services again. Agent A arrives to re-train Colby … and prepare him to once again face Rex Velvet.
This story makes me feel
June 04, 2019
May 28, 2019
May 13, 2019
April 15, 2019
Jan S.
How cool! Such creative wish granters, I can't imagine all the work that went into Colby's wish but how rewarding for the wish granters, all the people who graciously offered to participate and most importantly for Colby and his family. This is a wonderful story of how we can make a wish for each Child with a life-threatening illness come true and bring a little joy to them and their families. I'm so blessed to be a part of such a wonderful organization. Colby, your story definitely brought a smile to my face! You are the best secret agent ever!!!
October 08, 2013 - 7:10 PM
Oh, sweetie! I bet he really did do things for the law enforcement!
October 09, 2013 - 6:18 PM
Edwin P.
i bet he had a blast! that is a wonderful adventure put together...
October 23, 2013 - 7:44 PM
Wow!! How cool!!! <3 <3 <3 We love you !!
November 15, 2013 - 9:57 PM
My name is grace I'm 11 me and 2 of my friends are trying to raise 1000$ for Make-A-Wish I hope we get to our goal
October 01, 2014 - 3:33 PM
I wish to be a superhero
brain tumor
I wish to go to Wonderland with Alice
hematological disorder
I wish to be a police officer
Stay in Touch!
Sign up to receive email from Make-A-Wish.


text:
It's a simple question that gets a different answer from everyone: What's the greatest car you've ever driven?
For me, it was probably the Bentley Continental Supersports Convertible, pictured above. I got to review one for my newspaper a couple years back. It packed a 6.0-liter W12 good for 621 horsepower and 591 pound-feet of torque. Acceleration in that thing was just obscene. You had to be damn sure there was plenty of traffic-free road ahead of you if you slammed on the gas.
The car was massive in both size and price, weighing in at 5,000 pounds and costing about $280,000. It handled like it was towing a yacht but that simply didn't matter because it was so absurdly powerful. It's the closest I'll ever get to driving a Bugatti. (Unless, VW, you're feeling generous enough to give me a loaner. I won't even crash it into a bay. How about it?)
So what's the best car you've driven? It could be the fastest car, the most expensive car, your own personal dream car, or something that meant a lot to you, like your father's prized '55 Bel Air. Share your thoughts in Kinja below.
Photo credit Bentley


text:
Henrik started a thread in the Dev Link forum on UF. From his wording:
"What are the most commonly discussed bugs in this forum section? It would be great if we could start on a list here (please list bugs with actual Launchpad bug numbers only and common bugs rather than personal favorites). Thanks!".
Very nice initiative to get community feedback, please use it and contribute :)


text:
This Friday marks the 10th Anniversary of Spike TV's Video Game Awards, and it's sure to bring a bevy of exclusive reveals and announcements. One of those goodies will be a new story trailer for Naughty Dog's upcoming title The Last Of Us, which was itself unveiled at last year's festivities.
Will it be a very violent and relentlessly grim look at the fungal post-apocalyptic world that heroes Joel and Ellie live in? Judging by this brief teaser, all signs point to yes. The Spike VGAs are this Friday night at 9PM EST, and we'll have full coverage of the show here.


text:
Under 21 person here. I'd like 3 on passing and 2 on shooting.
Under 21 person here. I'd like 3 on passing and 2 on shooting.
Member of CW RED
Queensland-Season 7 OD Champions
Currently Managing: NSW
Rahul Dravid: A Real Legend.
Originally Posted by cricket playerOriginally Posted by AussieDominance
All the people checking into this thread are doing it way to early... It doesnt open up till after next round...
This will be awseome, hopefully all the people who are inactive (posting in an activity thread when chased down/told to doesn't show activity to me) wont get any better. Har har.
Captain for the Blues.
Code:FC : 129 matches 281 runs @ 1.76 650 wickets @ 28.86, S/R of 41.75 Best Bowling of 8 for 57 39 5-wicket innings, 7 10-wicket matches. Test : 12 matches 8 runs @ 0.62 68 wickets @ 27.99, S/R of 40.22 Best Bowling of 5 for 59 4 5-wicket innings, 0 10-wicket matches.
Totally agreed Demeza instead of punishing inactive players it is better to encourage Active Players
Sounds great.
Rest In Peace Craigos
Under 21, can I put it all on shooting?
Going to attend. Under 21. Would love to put all 5 on shooting tbh.
Don't see what the problem would be with doing this?
The problem would be that you're too early it seems.
An updated announcement on this Academy will be made shortly..
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)


text:
Taste of the South: Chess Pie
You can't get more basic than chess pie. Remarkable in its simplicity, timeless in appeal, chess pie is the ultimate Southern pantry pie.
Chess Pie Recipes:
- Classic Chess Pie
- Lemon Chess Pie
- Orange Chess Pie
- Chocolate-Pecan Chess Pie
- Grapefruit Chess Pie
- Tangerine Chess Pie
History of Chess Pie
No one has ever been able to determine how chess pie came about its name, but the colorful explanations make for great table conversation.
Some say gentlemen were served this sweet pie as they retreated to a room to play chess. Others say the name was derived from Southerners' dialect: It's jes' pie (it's just pie). Yet another story suggests that the dessert is so high in sugar that it kept well in pie chests at room temperature and was therefore called "chest pie." Southern drawl slurred the name into chess pie. Or, perhaps, a lemony version of the pie was so close to the traditional English lemon curd pie, often called "cheese" pie, that chess pie became its American name.
Chess Pie Recipe Basics
Chess pie may be a chameleon confection, but at its heart are always the basic four ingredients—flour, butter, sugar, and eggs. And preparation is never much more than a little stirring and about half an hour in the oven.
"There are a lot of similar desserts that share the same ingredients," explains cookbook author Jeanne Volz. "That's because the South was at one time agrarian, and a farm woman had to cook with what was there—things like eggs, butter, sugar, and cornmeal. She'd put it all together and try to make something out of it, and when it was good, she'd try to remember what she did."
Of course, you can get fancy with flavorings such as lemon juice. Or add a dash of nutmeg, ginger, or cinnamon. Sprinkle in some flaked coconut or toasted chopped pecans. Some believe a splash of buttermilk makes chess pie better; others swear by a tablespoon of vinegar. To double the already-decadent richness of chess pie, stir in cocoa powder.


text:
The Old Timer of Royal Oak, Mich., was a regular contributor to H&P years before we ever even heard of the internet. But most of his advice is just as ueful — and interesting — today.
So rather than leave his wisdom printed on pages archived in our storage room, I pulled out issues from the late 1980s and early 1990s and will reproduce relevant entries in this blog. Here is my second entry, which was originally published in the April 1987 issue:
Special hook-up saves pressure gauges
Big, sledgehammer machines that combine high hydraulic shock with severe mechanical vibration can be murder on pressure gauges. We had six such monsters on two production lines, and they each required one critical pressure setting.
We started with master gauges fitted to small, high-pressure quick-acting couplings. We'd snap them on momentarily, make quick adjustments on the pressure controls, then disconnect the gauges and store them in the foreman's cabinet. This worked well, until the foreman decided they had to check pressure hourly and wanted permanently installed gauges.
Special liquid-filled gauges that were supposed to last the life of the machine lasted a week or so. High-G aircraft gauges survived for two weeks. We were wasting a lot of time and money on replacements, and no one was happy.
Then I remembered a jerry-rigged gauge that we used on some old hammering die casting machines years ago. We ordered a large dial gauge (for remote readability) and mounted it with rubber grommets to a building beam. Then we formed a coiled connection by winding a length of 1/16-in ID lubrication tubing around a gallon paint can. One end of the coil was attached to the gauge; the other was fitted with a quick-acting coupling for the machine's gauge port.
Whenever the foreman wanted to check pressure, he connected the coupling. From the pressure control station he could read the remote gauge and watch the dial respond slowly to any changes. The 20 ft of tubing absorbed all the hydraulic shock before it reached the gauge, and the building itself damped the mechanical shock and vibration.
This set-up lasted several years. The line foremen were elated, and maintenance was happy that the large (and inexpensive) gauges lasted 50 times longer than anything else we had tried.
In retrospect, I would've asked the Old Timer if he had tried using a gauge isolator — a valve mounted between the gauge and port that prevents pressurized fluid from reaching the gauge unless a button (which opens a valve) is pushed. This dramatically increases the life of gauges by preventing pressure cycling, pulsations, and spikes from being reaching the gauge mechanism until the button is pushed.
But it sounds as if the quick-coupling setup they tried essentially did the same thing.


text:
Martincoburn necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 27 diseñadores freelance.
Natural Direction
We are a Business Performance Improvement Consultancy.
In simple terms we are a training company but want to keep away from just being another training provider the focus is working with clients on real time issues. This provides the context for the change or development need.
Central to our approach is we believe performance improvement can be achieved faster and is more sustainable by making use of peoples' naturally occurring strengths and talents. Helping people, teams and organisations find a natural way forward. Hence Natural Direction.
We live in a world obsessed with fixing weaknesses rather than building on our strengths to improve performance. Finding your natural direction no matter what the issue is to make use of whats working and do more of it.
The content that is offered organisations is often very similar the approach is what creates the point of difference. I have been in the industry for 17 years so i have a lot of experience. This is a new venture with a partner .
we will also require web design to follow.
We provide expertise in helping clients with 3 main areas
Leadership, Culture Change and Business Development
Typical engagements and projects :
Leading Change
Drive Motivation and engagement
Prepare Leaders to deal with increasing demands
Client and Relationship Management
High Performance Teamwork
Relationship Management
Bid Support/ Presentations
Our main focus is medium size businesses to large corperates
Current customers include
Lloyds Bank
Diagio (Drinks Brand Guiness Gordens Gin Smirnoff etc)
Atos IT services supplier Tier 2 player
Amey Fac Management Market leader
Bedfordshire Police
Perrys Moter group
Baker Mckenzie (Law firm)
So the audience is varied mostly big names rather than SME's
Website and Brand are about establishing/ supporting personal credibility
Its a very personal business and you can build clients on a known network however when you move away from your warm market you need to establish credibility quickly.
Organisations are always looking for something a bit different and you need to stand out and say something! Our central message has to be about building on natural abilities. It applies to organisations when they move away from what they are best at, there core competencies, it all goes wrong! People are the same stop trying to be all things to all people and be more more of who you are not what you are not!
Find your Natural Direction.
So is it a new market no. But can we create a strong message yes!!!!
We want to use UK based designers
We want you to come up with a striking logo design It might include the words plus a logo icon mark. I like that as you can use it in different ways.
We see the word Direction as more left brain, hard, more concrete
the word Natural softer warmer Kinda Task focused and People focused
It needs to be professional enough to appeal to the multinationals but at the same time retain some creativity, after all thats why people tend to contract with us.
The word natural if made to fluffy wont appeal to a left brain dominant business world.
So thats the challenge to make a distiction between natural and direction
Some thing that perhaps is about growth Moving forward ...easily...
Forward direction...
If you want to speak skype call email no probs..ask questions
Next stage will want to build a web site
I like word press accounts easy to set up I can set up a blog Buy a theme and then get someone to build from there
Hope this all helps
thanks for your help on this project
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.