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Privacy Policy
Keep Calm Ltd (t/a Alphabet Bags) Privacy Policy.
Thanks for taking the time to review how we handle your personal information. Privacy policies are not the most exciting things to read, but your privacy is of the utmost importance to us, and this Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from alphabetbags.com (the "Site").
1. Who we are
2. What personal information do we collect?
3. How do we use your personal information?
4. Email newsletters
5. Children's privacy
6. Sharing your personal information
7. Behavioural advertising
8. Do not track
9. International transfers
10. Your rights
11. Data retention
12. Changes
13. You made it!
14. Contact us
1. Who we are
We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 06341016. Our registered office is at Streets LLP, Tower House, Lucy Tower Street, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN1 1XW.The data controller is Keep Calm Ltd, trading as Alphabet Bags. You can contact the data controller by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, or in writing at Keep Calm Ltd, Unit 1 Ronell Place, 41A Shire Hill, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3AQ, United Kingdom.The data protection officer is Lucas Lepola. You can contact the data protection officer by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com, or in writing at Keep Calm Ltd, Unit 1 Ronell Place, 41A Shire Hill, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3AQ, United Kingdom.
2. What personal information do we collect?
When you access the Site (thanks for visiting!), we automatically collect specific information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. As you browse the Site, we collect information about the web pages or products that you view, which websites or search terms refer you to the Site, and details about how you interact with the Site. This automatically collected information is referred to as "Device Information".
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
"Cookies" are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
"Log files" track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
"Web beacons", "tags", and "pixels" are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
In addition, when you place an order or attempt to place an order through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, or the email associated with your PayPal account), email address, and phone number (if provided). We refer to this information as "Order Information".When we mention "Personal Information" in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to both Device Information and Order Information.
3. How do we use your personal information?
We use the Order Information that is collected to fulfil any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment, making shipping arrangements, and providing you with invoices and order confirmations). We may also use this Order Information for the following purposes:
- To communicate with you;
- To review our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
- In accordance with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more often to improve and optimise the Site (e.g., by analysing how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the performance of our marketing campaigns).
We also obtain Device Information, which we may use to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you. The Device Information may also allow us to measure and understand the performance of such advertising.
We may process the following types of personal data belonging to you:
- Communication Data including any communication that you send to us whether through the contact form on our website, via email, social media private messaging, social media public posting or any other correspondence that you send us. We process this data in order to be able to communicate with you, for maintaining our records and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests, which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
- User Data including data about how you use our website together with any data that you post for publication on our website or through other online services. We process this data to administer our website and provide relevant content to you, to maintain the security of our website, to create back-ups of our website and databases and to enable the publication and maintenance of our website, other online services and business. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to effectively administer our website and our business.
- Technical Data including data about your use of our website, such as your IP address, your account login data, details about your web browser, page views and navigation paths, length of visit to pages on our website, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. This data is sourced from our analytics tracking system. We process this data to review your use of our website and other online services, to maintain and protect our business and website, to provide relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the performance of our marketing. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly maintain our website and our business and to grow our business.
- Marketing Data including data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties (where applicable) and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to participate in our promotions such as competitions, free give-aways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure the performance of this advertising. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products, to develop them and to grow our business.
We may use Customer Data, User Data, Technical Data and Marketing Data to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you (such as Facebook adverts or other display advertisements) and to understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve you. Our lawful ground for this processing is legitimate interests which is to grow our business. We may also use such data to send other marketing communications to you. Our lawful ground for this processing is either consent or legitimate interests.
4. Email newsletters
If you have registered and given consent to receive email newsletters from Alphabet Bags we will contact you from time to time with brand updates via email to the address provided.
As a subscriber to our newsletter your personal details will be securely stored by Campaign Monitor, our email-marketing partner. We will not share your contact information with any other third party.
You can unsubscribe at any time in one of the following ways.
- Following the 'Unsubscribe' link in any of our email newsletters.
- Emailing your request to unsubscribe to us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- During the checkout process. If you have registered for our newsletter in the past the newsletter registration box will be shown as checked, you can uncheck the box in the checkout to amend your preferences and unsubscribe.
We review our newsletter subscription list from time to time. If it appears that you are not opening email newsletters over a period of time (for example 12 months) we will assume that you would prefer to unsubscribe from such mailings and we will remove your personal information from our newsletter list.
5. Children's privacy
The content of our Site is not directed at children under the age of 13. If we obtain actual knowledge that any information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information.
6. Sharing your personal information
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use bluCommerce to power our website and ecommerce requirements.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We use Campaign monitor as a partner for delivering our email marketing campaigns and managing our newsletter subscriptions.
We use Royal Mail for the shipping of the majority of the orders that are placed with us. Royal Mail is provided with only the essential level of personal information needed for a package to reach its destination.
We use UPS for the shipping of some of the orders that are placed with us. UPS is provided with only the essential level of personal information needed for a package to reach its destination.
We use Streets Chartered Accountants for assistance with and the preparation and filing of company accounts. Streets is provided with the essential level of personal information needed for tax and accountancy purposes.
We use SagePay, Elavon and PayPal for the processing of payments for goods purchased from the Site or over the telephone. Such card processing companies are only provided with the essential level of personal information needed to process these payments.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
7. Behavioural advertising
We may use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about targeted advertising, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative's ("NAI") educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the following links:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance's opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
8. Do not track
Please be aware that we do not alter our Site's data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
9. International transfers
Countries outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) do not always offer the same levels of protection to your personal data, therefore European law has prohibited transfers of personal data outside of the EEA unless the transfer meets specific criteria.
Some of our third party service providers are based outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
In the event that we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following is in place:
- We will only transfer your personal data to countries that the European Commission have approved as providing an adequate level of personal data protection; or
- Where we use certain service providers, they may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
- If we use US-based providers that are part of EU-US Privacy Shield, we may transfer data to them, as they have the equivalent safeguards in place.
- If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific data transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.
10. Your rights
Data protection laws give you fundamental rights in relation to your personal data. This includes the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, to object to processing, to portability of data and (where the lawful ground of processing is consent) to withdraw consent.
You can read more about your rights at:https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/
If you would like to exercise any of the rights set out here, please contact us at email@example.com.
There will be no fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, we may charge a small fee or be unable to comply with your request in these circumstances.
As a security measure we would need to request certain information from you to allow us to confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is to ensure that personal data is not given to any person who does not have the right to receive it. We may also ask you for further information in relation to your request to enable us to respond faster.
We will endeavour to reply to all legitimate requests within one month. Sometimes it may take us longer than one month if your request is complex or you have made a number of requests. If this is the case we will notify you.If you are not satisfied with any aspect of how we collect or use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). As a small business, with customer privacy our utmost priority, we would be grateful if you would contact us as your first priorty if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.
If you are a European resident, we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (such as if you place an order through the Site), or to pursue our legitimate business interests outlined above. Please note that your information may be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
11. Data retention
We will only store your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. This includes the purposes of meeting any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When determining what the correct time is to retain the data for we look at its volume, nature and sensitivity, possible risk of harm from unauthorised use, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved any other way and legal requirements.
For the purposes of tax and accounting the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years.
In some circumstances we may redact your personal data for research, statistical, or historical accounting purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice.
12. Changes
This privacy policy will be updated from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
13. You made it!
Thanks for taking the time to read our Privacy Policy. To summarise please be assured that the privacy of your personal information is incredibly important to us. We are a small, family business. Our mission is to design and make fun things to make you smile. If we handle your personal information this is only ever to fulfil our obligations to you as a customer, or to contact you about our brand and products as per your preferences. We will never give your personal information to any other company or third party, unless this is absolutely essential for us to provide you with the products or services you have requested. We will never give or sell your personal information to any other company or third party for their own marketing purposes.
14. Contact us
If you would like more information regarding our privacy practices, if you have any questions, or if you would like to raise a complaint, please contact us by email at email@example.com or by post using the details provided below:
Keep Calm Ltd t/a Alphabet Bags, Unit 1 Ronell Place, 41A Shire Hill, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11 3AQ, United Kingdom.


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Carrots Used to Be Purple Before the 17th Century
Today I found out, before the 17th century, almost all cultivated carrots were purple.
The modern day orange carrot wasn't cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century took mutant strains of the purple carrot and gradually developed them into the sweet, plump, orange variety we have today. Before this, pretty much all carrots were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up including yellow and white carrots. These were rarely cultivated and lacked the purple pigment anthocyanin.
It is thought that the modern day orange carrot was developed by crossing the mutated yellow and white rooted carrots as well as varieties of wild carrots, which are quite distinct from cultivated varieties.
Some think that the reason the orange carrot became so popular in the Netherlands was in tribute to the emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch independence. This could be, but it also might just be that the orange carrots that the Dutch developed were sweeter tasting and more fleshy than their purple counterparts, thus providing more food per plant and being better tasting.
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- The Difference Between Fruits and Vegetables
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- The Color Orange was Named After the Fruit, Not the Other Way Around
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Bonus Facts:
- It is actually possible to turn your skin a shade of orange by massively over consuming orange carrots.
- Orange carrots get their bright orange color from beta-carotene. Beta-carotene metabolizes in the human gut from bile salts into Vitamin A.
- The origins of the cultivated carrot is rooted in the purple carrot in the region around modern day Afghanistan.
- When cultivation of the garden style orange carrot lapses for a few generations, the carrots revert back to their ancestral carrot types, which are very different from the current garden variety.
- In ancient times, the root part of the carrot plant that we eat today was not typically used. The carrot plant however was highly valued due to the medicinal value of its seeds and leaves. For instance, Mithridates VI, King of Pontius (around 100BC) had a recipe for counteracting certain poisons with the principle ingredient being carrot seeds. It has since been proven that this concoction actually works.
- The Romans believed carrots and their seeds were aphrodisiacs. As such, carrots were a common plant found in Roman gardens. After the fall of Rome however, carrot cultivation in Europe more or less stopped until around the 10th century when Arabs reintroduced them to Europe.
- British gunners in WWII were able to locate and shoot down German planes at night due to radar. What does this have to do with carrots? To cover up significant advancements the Allies made in radar technology at the time, and the extreme effectiveness of radar that resulted, the British spread about an urban legend that said that they massively increased the night vision of their pilots by having them consume large amounts of carrots. This lie not only convinced the Germans, but also had a bonus effect of causing many British people to start planting their own vegetable gardens, including planting carrots. This urban legend has persisted even to this day.
- The largest carrot ever grown was 19 pounds; grown by John Evans in 1998 in Palmer, Alaska.
- The Vegetable Improvement Center at Texas A&M recently developed a purple-skinned, orange fleshed carrot called the Beta Sweet. This carrot is specialized to include substances that prevent cancer. It also has extremely high beta-carotene content.
- Almost one third of all carrots distributed throughout the world come from China, which is the largest distributor of carrots in the world. Following them on gross production is Russia and then the United States.
- Although the orange carrot was not cultivated before the 16th and 17th centuries, there is a reference in a Byzantine manuscript around 512AD which depicts an orange rooted carrot, suggesting that at least this mutant variety of carrot could be found at this time.
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UPDATE: MSNBC reports that both houses of Congress have now passed the conference version of the stimulus bill, it is now on its way to the President's desk. The Senate extended its voting hours to allow Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) to return from his mother's funeral. His was the deciding 60th vote since Sen. Kennedy (D-MA), who is battling brain cancer, was too frail to risk a second trip to Washington.
Republican support came from Sen. Collins (R-ME), Sen. Snowe (R-ME) and Sen. Specter (R-PA) who broke ranks rather than drown the global economy in a bathtub. Fortunately, the brouhaha surrounding the $8 billion for HSR did not change their minds. Check out Rachel Maddow's interview with Ray LaHood on this topic.
Still, it would be nice if the courts in Minnesota finally confirmed Al Franken (D) as the winner of that extremely close Senate race. At least the court case is now turning in his favor.
The ink is not yet dry on the compromise version of the stimulus bill that was hashed out in conference. The House and Senate still have to give their final approval before the President can sign it on Monday. As we discussed yesterday, this final version boosted Amtrak and HSR capital projects funding while cutting that for brand-new transit systems.
Yesterday, an Associated Press report on the conference result included a paragraph that has sent the blogosphere into a tizzy:
"In late-stage talks, Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., pressed for $8 billion to construct high-speed rail lines, quadrupling the amount in the bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday.Predictably enough, the right wingnut faction of the Interwebs (e.g. Michelle Malkin) immediately decried this as a last-minute earmark. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't pay any attention to such partisan diatribes. However, the fate of the entire stimulus bill rests on the votes of just three Republican Senators. If any two of them were to get cold feet on Monday, using this fake controversy as an excuse, HSR funding could get cut just to save the rest of the bill.
Reid's office issued a statement noting that a proposed Los Angeles-to-Las Vegas rail might get a big chunk of the money."
Unfortunately, perception is reality, so we need to fix this misperception:
a) I was unable to find a copy of this alleged statement on Sen. Reid's official website. Perhaps it was just a verbal comment, but everyone else is simply referring to the wire service as their source.
b) The full text of the conference report on the bill contains the final passage related to High Speed Rail. Please refer to pp237 of the full text of Division A and p82 of the Joint Explanatory Statement for Division A.
The latter refers to HR 2095 (110th) as the basis of the High Speed Passenger Rail program. That bill was passed last November and included $1.5 billion for capital projects in corridors where passenger trains could reasonably be expected to reach speeds of at least 110mph (see Title V). It also specifically enumerated the eleven officially designated HSR corridors:
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Evidently, Las Vegas to Southern California is currently not a designated corridor and therefore not eligible for any of the $8 billion reserved for HSR in the stimulus bill. However, existing laws give the Secretary of Transportation the authority to modify existing and designate new corridors.
c) Neither HR2095 (110th) nor the stimulus bill explicitly allocates HSR funding to any one corridor, whether designated or not. Instead, the bills spell out a process for DOT to make a decision based on competitive tenders. There is no earmark here.
d) The compromise version of the stimulus bill, formally "The American Recovery and Re-Investment Act of 2009", does raise the amount available for HSR projects to $8 billion, available through Sep 30, 2012. The generous timeframe reflects the fact that HSR is part of the re-investment aspect of the bill. It will have a stimulative effect right away in terms of planning, environmental reviews and preliminary engineering work. The California project involves the construction of brand-new tracks that will support true non-compliant bullet trains at speeds of up to 220mph. Certain other corridors, notably the NEC, may be able to break ground earlier if the officials responsible for them decide to make do with upgrades of existing alignments.
Nevertheless, it is quite incorrect to insinuate that any extra money for HSR was snuck into the bill at the last moment as part of some shady deal between Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi. Rather, the $8 billion figure came about as follows:
- $2 billion allocated to "Fixed Guideway Infrastructure" in the House version were targeted more narrowly at HSR in the Senate version.
- $2.5 billion at the discretion of the Secr. of Transportation was increased to $5.5 billion in the Senate version and targeted more narrowly at HSR in conference.
- $0.5 bilion was added for each of Amtrak and HSR in conference, but the amount allocated to brand-new transit systems was cut by a greater amount.
Ergo, the bulk of the increase for HSR between the Senate and conference versions of the bill is a result of Congress making a policy decision rather than giving the administration a lot of leeway, given that there was too little time to spell out a fair arbitration process between highway, aviation and rail spending. Some may disagree with the preference for HSR, but there's nothing sinister about the process that led to this result.
Conclusion: the statement allegedly issued by Sen. Reid's office reflects a political ambition rather than legal reality.
Personally, I think HSR from Las Vegas to Southern California is an idea worth pursuing in the context of a broader, national review of the designated HSR corridors. The last one occurred in 2002 and FRA's map is out of date. However, any actual award of federal funds from any bill should IMHO come with the following strings attached:
- Rather than create a brand-new one, Las Vegas should be added as a new destination within the existing California corridor. This would then be renamed e.g. the Cal-Nev corridor. In practice, that would boil down to operating steel wheels electric bullet trains instead of incompatible magnetic levitation technology. There is no need for any part of California to be served by more than one HSR system.
- The simplest option would be a spur to Las Vegas via Barstow, originating near the town of Mojave. There would be no stops between Palmdale (or Bakersfield) and Las Vegas.
A more complex alternative would be a line from LA Union Station to Las Vegas via Ontario airport and Cajon Pass, with a future spur to San Diego originating near Colton. In that case, it might make sense to modify the route from Bakersfield to Los Angeles to the I-5 corridor at Grapevine, bypassing Palmdale airport. However, that would require revisiting the geological and environmental reasons that led to a decision in favor of crossing the Garlock fault near Tehachapi. - Since roughly 1/3 of all flights into McCurran airport in Las Vegas originate in cities with or near stations on the future California HSR system, plans for the new Ivanpah Valley relief airport near Primm on the California-Nevada border would have to be shelved. If any relief is needed, either Palmdale or Ontario airport can provide it.
- The investors behind the diesel-based DesertXpress project (the official website was down) should be invited to instead participate in a public-private partnership to build a cleaner and much faster electrified system. Parts of the environmental impact study already conducted may still be valid.
- If either state requires it, the environmental impact study for any HSR service to Las Vegas should include a feasibility study for also constructing a high-voltage DC power distribution line above or else next to the section between Barstow and the Nevada border. West of Barstow, it should run through Cajon Pass irrespective of the HSR alignment. This infrastructure would be electrically separate from the HSR catenaries except at designated feeder substations. Its purpose would be to transport CO2-neutral electricity (e.g. wind, solar, geothermal, hydro) to population centers in both states.
Bullet trains carrying passengers and/or high-value cargo to and from Las Vegas would relieve traffic on I-15, but any such project would face stiff opposition from anti-gambling advocates as well as Indian gaming interests in California.


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1. Introduction to Mixxx
Mixxx allows you to perform live DJ mixes with your digital music collection. It helps you rock the party with DJ controllers, vinyl turntables, or even just your keyboard.
Mixxx is used by professional DJs and bedroom DJs alike. It is designed by an international team of volunteer DJs who want to bring the joy of DJing to everyone. The project is non-profit, open-source and community driven. Together and with your help we aim to build the best DJ software ever created.
1.1. Mixxx Features
4 Decks: Each deck features a scratchable, scrolling waveform that marks beats and cue points, along with a whole-song waveform overview for quick seeking.
Advanced Controls: Change playback with time stretching, and loop beat segments.
Sampler Decks: Perfect for dropping that vocal sample or airhorn.
External Library Integration: Use your playlists and songs from iTunes, Traktor, Rhythmbox, and Banshee.
BPM Detection and Sync: Instantly detect and sync the tempo of your songs.
DJ Controller Support: Control your DJ mixes with MIDI/HID controllers.
Timecode Support: Use a real turntable or DJ-CD player as a controller.
Live Broadcasting: Start a radio station and stream your mixes live over the Internet.
Powerful Mixing Engine: Supports various file formats, custom EQ shelves, recording, etc.
Automatic Mixing: Create a quick playlist and let Auto DJ take over.
Microphone Input: Drop vocals or give shoutouts on the air.
1.2. New in Mixxx 2.0
4 decks
Master sync
Color-coded waveforms showing the frequencies in tracks
Key detection and pitch shifting (independent of tempo) for harmonic mixing
Choice of traditional, OpenKey, Lancelot, and custom key notations
4 effect units with built-in effects
Controller mapping GUI
Resizable skins
Beat jumping and loop move
Multiple library folders
Hierarchical library sorting
Cover/album art support
Vinyl passthrough mode to switch between control vinyl and music vinyl
Auxiliary inputs that pass through to the master mix
Mono output and input support
Improved support for using multiple sound cards
MusicBrainz tagging support
Over 100 other performance, quality and usability improvements
For a full list of features go to: http://mixxx.org/features/
For an overview of the new features, go to: http://mixxx.org/whats-new-in-mixxx-2-0
For a full list of new features and bugfixes, go to: https://launchpad.net/mixxx/2.0.0
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For an overview of previous changes, go to Version History.
1.3. System Requirements
Mixxx is available for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Mixxx is designed to use very few system resources, but the Mixxx Development Team suggests these minimum requirements for having a great experience with Mixxx:
A 2GHz or faster CPU
At least 1GB of RAM
A soundcard with 2 stereo audio outputs (4 mono output channels)
The EQs can be disabled to save CPU usage. Using this feature, Mixxx can be used with an external mixer and a less powerful computer such as a netbook.
1.4. About the Mixxx Project
Mixxx is designed by an international team of volunteer DJs who want to bring the joy of DJing to everyone. The project is non-profit, open-source and community driven. Together and with your help we aim to build the best DJ software ever created.
Mixxx started as an open-source project because of demand for DJing software on Linux, and discontent with proprietary DJ software on Windows and Mac OS X. Today, Mixxx development is driven by the simple idea that together we can create a better way to DJ, and that has brought Mixxx to the cutting edge.
Mixxx is the only free cross-platform vinyl control software and has the most advanced MIDI/HID controller support via our innovative JavaScript-based scripting engine. We are continuing to pursue new and exciting features that give DJs more tools to create better live mixes.
1.4.1. Project History
Mixxx was originally created in 2002 as part of a PhD thesis on new interfaces for DJing by Tue Haste Andersen. After releasing the project as open source, dozens of contributors began modifying and improving Mixxx.
In 2006, a new development team lead by Adam Davison and Albert Santoni began reorganizing the project to ensure smooth growth of both the code-base and the number of contributors. A renewed focus on usability and stability has helped Mixxx grow to become the most popular free DJ software in the world, receiving over 1,000,000 downloads annually. Our committed team has worked hard to create great DJ software, and this growth is a sign of our success.
In 2011, RJ Ryan took over as Lead Developer to successfully continue the team's endeavor to make Mixxx a world-class DJ software.
As our user community grows, so does our development team - Over 150 developers, artists, and translators have helped create Mixxx!
1.5. About the Mixxx Manual
Some effort has been made to present the material in a way that is neither too technical nor too dumbed-down. Take some time to look through it and you'll find lots of hints that will enhance both your enjoyment and your productivity.
Through the manual you'll find text formatted like this:
This is to simplify the business of choosing commands in menus. In this example, the instruction means "Open the Library menu at the top of the application window and then choose the Add new Playlist command".
This is used to indicate a certain area of the GUI, including button labels, tabs, checkboxes, field names, values in selection lists etc. .
This is used to mark a keystroke, or a sequence of keystrokes. In this example, you would have to hold down the STRG key, then to press G.
Links to external websites are marked like this.
Important information in this manual are highlighted like this:
For anything that should receive a bit more attention.
For supplementary information that lightens the work load.
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For references to other documents or websites if they need special attention.
For anything that needs to be done with caution.
1.5.1. Improving the Manual
Send Feedback: If you have comments, corrections or suggestions regarding the manual, write us an email.
Get the Source Code: To download the source code for the Mixxx manual, go to: https://github.com/mixxxdj/manual
1.6. Additional Resources
Got questions? Need more information? Want to contribute ? There are a variety of other resources you can use to find out more.
Mixxx Website: For general information and updates, as well as the latest news on Mixxx, go to: http://mixxx.org
Mixxx Support Websites: To get support from the Mixxx wiki, IRC channel or Developer mailing list, go to: http://mixxx.org/support
Mixxx Community Forums: To search for answers, post your question or answer other DJ's questions, go to: http://mixxx.org/forums
Mixxx Source Code: To download the source code for Mixxx, go to: https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx
Mixxx Bug Tracker: To report a bug or request a feature, go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx
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For the past four years, Thornley Fallis has had a simple, two sentence online communications policy: "Be smart. Cause no harm to any person."
This simple policy has served us well. We had only a few bumps – and we learned from each one.
This policy worked because we have many people who are active in social media and they are steeped in the blogging culture. They understand the importance of transparency, authenticity and generosity. They also understand the power of search and the permanence of what we put on the Web.
New people. New needs
A few months ago, we updated the Thornley Fallis and 76design Websites. In doing this, we introduced new Twitter feeds for both Thornley Fallis and 76design. We also created a page on our corporate Website that displays the current conversations our employees are having in social media. Each employee has their own page on which they can display whatever social media and information they want to share. They can add their personal blog feeds, links to their Facebook pages, Twitter streams, LinkedIn profiles – whatever social media they wanted.
I soon realized that our employees are generating much more social media traffic than I had been aware of. I also realized that not everyone spends as much time thinking about social media best practices as Dave Fleet or Terry Fallis might.
So, it's time to take a second look at our online communications policy to be sure that it provides basic guidance for new employees and others new to social media and our perspective on its culture.
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In refining our policy, I wanted it to be written in plain language. I also didn't want to be so prescriptive that people would feel the need to refer to it constantly. And, bottom line, I respect the intelligence of the people I work with and trust their judgment. So, how to draft a policy that provides essential guidance but still puts the onus on people to exercise good judgment?
The answer, in my mind, is to ground the policy and guidelines in a clear statement of our objectives – why we are active in social media. Having stated this, I'm comfortable encouraging people to post freely if they know that their actions contribute to the achievement of our objectives. If they aren't sure or feel that their posts/actions may actually detract from those objectives, then I suggest that they don't post it. It in doubt, I ask people to consult a colleague before proceeding. Having spelled out this general framework, I needed only a handful of specific guidelines.
I posted the policy on our Internal Wiki and asked for comments. I received some good feedback from several people, including Jeremy Wright, Dave Fleet and Bradley Moseley-Williams. So, here's the first draft of our new online communications policy.
What do you think of it? Have we missed something important? Would it work for your organization?
Thornley Fallis Online Communications Policy
This policy is intended to provide us with practical guidelines that we can apply to ensure that our online actions and communications will make a positive contribution to our reputation as individuals and members of the Thornley Fallis & 76design team.
You're always one of us
Each of us represents the company to the world and the character of the company is defined by our beliefs and actions. We must be mindful of this when participating in social media and any kind of online communications.
You may be active in social media on your own account. That's good. But please remember that whether you are on your own time or company time, you're still a member of our team. And the judgment you exercise on your own time reflects on the judgment you exercise at work. There's only one you – at play and at work.
Our Objectives
First, when participating in social media, please always be mindful of why we are involved in social media. Our company's objectives are:
- To educate ourselves.
- To contribute to our community by sharing our knowledge with others. (We believe in the culture of generosity and recognize that we should contribute more to the community than we take out.)
- To attract talented people
- To attract sophisticated clients
As a first step in deciding whether to write or post something online, ask yourself if doing so would contribute to the achievement of these objectives. If so, then publish away. If your post would be at odds with these objectives, please do not post it.
Of course, sometimes, it's nice to have some simple, plain language guidelines to point the way. So, here are some basic rules for day to day conduct.
- Cause no harm to any person.
- Be respectful and civil in your tone. (After all, that's the kind of people we are.)
- Respect our clients' right to decide for themselves what they want to make public. Unless they specifically grant us permission, do not post about client wins or client assignments.
- Be transparent. If you are posting about a client or commenting on a client competitor or posting about anything in which we may have a material interest, disclose the relationship or interest.
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As in previous years, students and faculty from San Jose State University will be well represented at the 2017 Cinequest Film and VR Festival staged at various venues throughout San Jose and Redwood City starting this week.
A 2008 alumna of the TRFT program, Los Altos resident Saila Kariat, will be represented at Cinequest with her dramatic, one-hour, 38-minute film titled "The Valley" that she wrote, directed and co-produced. The movie will premiere at 7 p.m. March 5 at the California Theatre, 345 S. First St., San Jose. The feature-length film centers on an Indian-American entrepreneur who has an existential crisis following the suicide of his young-adult daughter.
Kariat — who grew up in India, Canada and the United States — said the film project took three years to complete. Professor Scott Sublett, chair of the SJSU's TRFT department, said Kariat studied film and screenwriting and distinguished herself in student screenwriting competitions before becoming the department's Valedictorian.
Kariat partially self-funded the production, which cost $500,000, but also attracted several investors. It had a cast of 30 and crew of 35. She said its international cast includes actors from Pakistan, Alyy Khan; India, Suchitra Pillai; and American Jake T. Austin.
For those who miss the premier, "The Valley" will also be shown on March 6, at 4:15 p.m.; March 9, at 9:15 p.m., and March 11, at 4:15 p.m., at the Cinemark Century 20 theater complex in Redwood City.
"Disaffected Youth," billed as a "punk rock coming-of-age" film directed by Patrick Mattes and co-written and produced by Jacob Ohlhausen, is a short film produced by Spartan Film Studios.
"I'm very excited," said Mattes, a December graduate of the university's Television, Radio, Film and Theatre (TRFT) department, about his film's inclusion at Cinequest. "We're both excited. I texted Jake the moment I heard."
It will be shown as part of the College Shorts program on March 7, at 8:45 p.m.; March 10, at 7:15 p.m.; and March 11, at 12:45 p.m. at the Cinemark Century 20 theater complex, 825 Middlefield Road, Redwood City.
Also selected for Cinequest was "swiPed", a four-minute, 38-second animated film both humorous and poignant about the detrimental impacts of smartphones on society. It's the creation of David Chai, associate professor of Design and Animation/Illustration in the Department of Design, whose tagline for the film is: "Texters texting, tweeters tweeting, likers liking, posters posting, Googlers Googling, Amazonians Amazoning, webheads surfing, snappers chatting, pinnters pinning, tubers tubing, tenders tindering, Netflixers chilling — are we binging too much? More connected than ever, but more distant by the day. Is humanity being swiped away?"
Chai was a Silicon Valley smartphone holdout until recently.
"I had a flip phone until last year," he said. "I don't want to be emailing when I can be out enjoying life. People have become so disconnected from one another through technology. Even when you are with them, you're often not."
Chai's film debuts on March 3, at 9:30 p.m. It will subsequently be screened March 5, at 1:05 p.m.; March 7, at 4:30 p.m.; and March 11, at 6:45 p.m. All presentations will be at the Cinemark Century 20 in Redwood City.
The annual festival, which has grown dramatically in size and prestige in recent years, provides matchless industry exposure for SJSU film students.
"We want our students to have a professional experience and Cinequest provides a great opportunity for them," said Barnaby Dallas, coordinator of production for Film and Theatre, and the director of Film Production for Spartan Film Studios, which produced "Disaffected Youth" last summer. "Every year, the film industry comes to San Jose for 10 or 12 days."
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What do you call a 650 mile loop around Lake Erie on vintage bikes with small engines? Well, many would call it crazy, but for a few, it's called the Lake Erie Loop. The charity race is held once a year to benefit the Aluminum Cans for Burned Children Foundation, which provides services for pediatric burn victims.
The Lake Erie Loop (LEL) comes from rider and Ohio firefighter Bill Murar, who rode over 12,000 miles through the four corners of the US in 2003 to raise money for the ACBC Foundation. The 650 mile endurance run around Lake Erie, through 2 countries, takes place in a single day.
The "race" consists of two groups, bikes under 225cc competing for cash prizes, and unlimited bikes riding the same route for fun and support of both the riders and the charity. Within those groups there are separate classes based on engine size, with vintage bikes (older than 30 years) given an extra allowance of engine size.
Here is the class breakdown:
- Unlimited 50s – Bikes that started out life at 50cc, along with vintage bikes up to 110cc.
- 125s – Bikes up to 125cc, and vintage bikes up to 160cc.
- 200s – 200cc and under bikes, vintage bikes up to 225cc, and any Cushman style scooter w/stock engine.
- Tourist – non-competion, no size limit, for those riding along for fun.
The race starts in Wellington, in northeast Ohio, and competitors can make the loop around Lake Erie in either direction, but are expected to pass through Detroit, Canada and Buffalo during the route.
Motorcyclist and writer Lance Liver has a really great write-up of what surviving the LEL is like. I've heard about the event a few times over the years, but never really thought about entering.
This year, I'm starting to get tempted to take part on my tiny little Yamaha Vino 125 scooter. Not to win any awards, but just to have somehow manage to make it around the lake and back in one piece, and in one day. My dream ride for this would be a Ural sidecar rig.
This year's LEL is scheduled for June 20th to 22nd, and more information can be had through the Lake Erie Loop Yahoo Group.


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Majority Want to Prioritize Equitable Access to COVID-19 Vaccines Before Boosters
Geneva, Switzerland, September 11, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / A new survey found a majority of fully vaccinated adults would get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot if offered, but think priority should be given to people who have not had a first dose.
The latest World Economic Forum/Ipsos survey was conducted at the end of August in 13 countries and included 9,521 adults under the age of 75, of whom nearly 6,000 had received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The World Health Organization has called for a pause on COVID-19 vaccine booster to narrow the gap in vaccinations between countries.
Genya Dana, Head, Health & Healthcare at the World Economic Forum said: "It is vital we work to close the gap between those with access to vaccines and those without. COVID-19 highlighted how vaccination is by far the most effective public health intervention to protect populations from disease and it is crucial that robust vaccination infrastructure is deployed in every country on earth.
Dr Dana continued: "At least 60% of world's population needs to be vaccinated by 2022 to get the current pandemic under control – but the issue of equity and access must be front and centre of this effort. With only 0.4% of current doses administered in low-income countries, this crisis will keep multiplying. We need to redouble our efforts to get vaccines to everyone who hasn't had one yet."
Boosters likely needed
The survey shows a widespread belief that COVID-19 vaccine booster shots will be needed at least annually to maintain protection against the disease. The expectation was highest in Mexico, Brazil and the United Kingdom, but lowest in Russia.
The survey also showed that a majority of adults who have had two doses of COVID-19 vaccine would get a booster shot if they were offered. Intent to get a booster shot was highest in Brazil (96%), Mexico (93%) and China (90%) and lowest in Russia (62%) and Italy (66%).
About the survey: The survey was conducted by Ipsos on its Global Advisor online platform, August 26-30, 2021, among adults 18-74 years of age in Canada and the United States, and 16-74 in Australia, Brazil, China (mainland), France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
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A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
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Morton Feldman: Piano and String Quartet (1985)
At 70 minutes or so, Piano and String Quartet is a stroll in the park when compared to the monumental journeys found among Feldman's late works. But scale is not so much the issue here as balance, both between the piano and the quartet and between the forward-moving continuity and the coherence of materials. Absolute coherence would be an absence of dynamic in any parameter, while a sense of continuity is maintained, perhaps paradoxically, only by the perception of change, in that one only registers and remembers differences. (Jeez, that's awfully Deleuzian. Continuity will be a topic in some upcoming posts). Feldman often worked at the minima of both forward motion and dynamic change, but his intuitive and virtuosic grasp of the lower limits is here always and scrupulously clear.
It's hard for me to imagine this played by any other musicians than Aki Takahashi and the Kronos Quartet of the era, for whom it was written, and who premiered the piece in an unforgettable late afternoon at the County Museum of Art in Los Angeles during the New Music America festival. (I went with my father; before the concert we had spent the earlier part of the afternoon with many tens of thousands at a USC football game. Families are like that. Or at least mine is.) Takahashi can arpeggiate like no one else (the piano part, written mostly on one stave, is almost all arpeggios, both measured and unmeasured as broken chord, with a few grace notes here and there) and the Kronos brought the proper stoic dignity to their parts, in which only the cello emerges, and only then from time to time, with an identity separate from the near-anonymity of the string ensemble.
It occurs to me now that the subject of Piano and String Quartet is finding an answer to the question: "What does a broken chord break?" First of all, the chords break silences, in that age old match of violence and the sacred that Rene Girard describes best and Feldman knew even better. Second, distribution of a chord over time creates ever-new scoring patterns, both between quartet and piano, within the string ensemble, and, strategically, perhaps, between the cello and the rest. Further, the piano tones are broken in the entries against the sustained-but-metrical tones of the strings ring into indeterminant endpoints in the cloud of the constant Feldman sustain pedal; the tempered - and somewhat non-committal - tones of the piano subtly interfere with the directionality of the accidentals in the non-tempered string parts, while the strings all play into the piano's live wires over the raised pedal. This resonance, in which the quartet is effectively borrowing the piano's sustain pedal, confuses, indeed breaks the distinction between the piano and the quartet. Sometimes breaking things is a way of putting them back together.
(In San Diego in early 1987, before he played a recording of this piece to students at UCSD (Feldman had invited me to sit in on his seminar), I have the distinct recollection that Feldman called Piano and String Quartet his "favorite piece". My recollection may be wrong, but no matter: the idea that it might have been his favorite is simply impossible to dismiss.)
4 comments:
- PWS said...
I've always meant to hear this. Did you ever get to talk to or show much of your music to Feldman? I can't remember if you've written about this before...
- Daniel Wolf said...
I didn't show him any scores, as I was going through a real "maybe I'm not a composer" phase. I wrote about here: http://renewablemusic.blogspot.com/2006/01/feldmans-80th.html
- Daniel Wolf said...
Gordon Mumma wrote in that:
I too connected with Feldman at UCSD inthat late 1980s. I hadn't seen him in years, but as soon as I said "hello", he responded first with "have you heard my Piano and String
Quartet yet?" I think he specially liked the work. - 11:58 AM
- Tony said...
I've read quite a bit about Feldman whilst studying music at the Royal Scottish Academy in the 1990's - would love to get the chance to hear some of his later works. Tony


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John Havlicek, Boston Celtics Great, Dies at 79
BOSTON (AP) — John Havlicek's legacy was built over 16 years with the Boston Celtics, eight of them as NBA champions, making him among the best to ever play the game.
"Havlicek stole the ball! "Havlicek stole the ball!" Celtics radio announcer Johnny Most screamed, a moment that remains among the famous plays in NBA history.
The Celtics said Havlicek died Thursday in Jupiter, Florida. He was 79. The cause of death wasn't immediately available. The Boston Globe said he had Parkinson's disease.
Voted one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history, Havlicek's steal of Hal Greer's inbounds pass helped the Celtics hold off Philadelphia in the 1965 Eastern Conference final.
"John Havlicek is one of the most accomplished players in Boston Celtics history, and the face of many of the franchise's signature moments," the Celtics said in a statement. "He was a champion in every sense, and as we join his family, friends, and fans in mourning his loss, we are thankful for all the joy and inspiration he brought to us."
Nicknamed "Hondo" for his resemblance to John Wayne, Havlicek was drafted ninth in the first round in 1962 out of Ohio State by a Celtics team stocked with stars Bill Russell, Bob Cousy, K.C. Jones, Sam Jones, Tom Sanders, Tom Heinsohn and Frank Ramsey. Boston won championships in six of his first seven years.
"It is getting difficult each time I hear about another contemporary that passes!" Russell tweeted. "What is harder is when we lose guys like John Havlicek, he was not just a teammate & a great guy, but he was family. That is how our Celtics teams were."
As Russell and others gradually moved on, Havlicek became the elder statesman and moved up to become a starter. The team won championships in 1973-74 and 1975-76 with Havlicek leading squads that included Dave Cowens and Jo Jo White.
"John Havlicek was a wonderful friend who represented the best of the NBA," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said in a statement. "He described himself as a man of routine and discipline — a humble approach that produced extraordinary results."
Havlicek was the MVP of the 1974 Finals, and set Celtics career records for points and games. He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History and enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984. At Ohio State, he helped lead the Buckeyes to the 1960 national championship.
As much as his deadly jump shot or his play in Boston's triple-overtime NBA Finals victory over Phoenix in 1976, Havlicek was known for his durability.
In his NBA career he scored 26,395 points in 1,270 games and played in 13 All-Star Games.
"The Boston Celtics are not a team, they are a way of life," Hall of Fame coach and executive Red Auerbach once said. And no one personified the Celtic way more than Havlicek.
His No.17 was raised to the rafters in old Boston Garden and now resides in TD Garden, retired soon after he retired in 1978. He averaged 20.8 points, 6.3 rebounds and 4.8 assists in the regular season, and 22.0 points, 6.9 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 172 playoff games.
Born April 8, 1940, in Martins Ferry, Ohio, Havlicek became a standout athlete at Bridgeport High School in the small coal-mining town of 2,500 near Wheeling, West Virginia.
The 6-foot-5 Havlicek was also an outstanding football and baseball player in high school and was given a tryout by the Cleveland Browns after graduating from college.
As a sophomore at Ohio State, he scored 12.2 points a game as the Buckeyes won the national championship, beating California 75-55 in the final. His junior and senior years, Ohio State again won the Big Ten titles and made it to the NCAA title game but lost to Cincinnati each time. During Havlicek's three years at Ohio State, the Buckeyes went 78-6, dominating most games unlike any team up to that time.
All five starters from Ohio State's title team in 1960 — which included Jerry Lucas and future Celtics teammate Larry Siegfried — played in the NBA. Backup Bob Knight went on to a Hall of Fame coaching career.
Havlicek remained in Boston after his retirement, managing investments. He later split time between New England and Florida. He occasionally returned to Ohio State for reunions of the championship team and Celtics events. His Ohio State number was retired during ceremonies in the 2004-2005 season.


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I don't have any before and after pics to share after using Filorga Paris NCTF-Intensifs Anti Aging Skin Care so you'll have to take my word for it. I can honestly say that having used only the NCTF-Intensive for the last 2 weeks has actually left my skin feeling more taught, firm, and with better elasticity with fewer fines lines. I received the trio samples today and look forward to using all three in conjunction with the recommendations made by the technicians that first shared and showed us the product those weeks ago. In the meantime I've reposted the details below for you to read and learn about what Filorga NCTF is all about. I'll update as the weeks progress with how my skin feels and looks.
For those wishing to give it a try or switch your routine and product regimen, the Filorga Paris NCTF-Intensifs Anti Aging Skin Care will be available February 14/2018 at Shoppers Drug Mart, and Nordstroms.
My recent attendance of the informational evening on the soon to be made available product from Filorga Paris. The introduction of their NCTF Reverse Range which contains more than ten times the concentration of Filorga's patented NCTF than the other skincare products within Filorga. It's designed to be the consumer version of their medical product, the concentrated skincare range that contains the same revitalizing formulation found in their professional injectable treatments. Most notably we were shown the NCTF-Essence, NCTF-Intensive, and the NCTF-Reverse. Used on the skin in that order twice daily, morning and night.
The ideology behind the introduction of this line is to bring the medical service of injections home to the consumer in a topical form, and in particular for those not quite sure they are ready for a trip to the surgeon's office for injections to invigorate and revitalize aging, tired skin.
As a user of home based skin care products, I was eager to hear and see what this product was all about. That's not to say I haven't had my fair share of doctor assisted treatments, but I do try and maintain what can at home in between those expensive sessions. For me prevention goes a long way and I'll do anything I can, within reason, to keep my skin looking youthful, vital, and alive.
We started off by meeting the informative and wonderful people from Filorga who helped develop the product and bring it the consumer. The presentations were clear and well presented and introduced us to the microsphere technology they were using in their product to do the work it does. I asked what I had to ask and my questions were answered with very informative statements, but, we know that actions speak louder than words and I for one was eager to see what the product looked like, and felt like going on the skin.
The NCTF-Essence is geared as primer for the skin to allow for maximum absorption when the next product is applied. It absorbs quite readily and has a scent like a fragrant tea. I rather enjoyed it.
The next application came from the NCTF-Intensive, a combination of serum and lotion type of liquid that doesn't run or drip, is scent free, and absorbs right away.
The last application was in the form of the NCTF-Reverse which is considered the daily moisturizer that is active all day. This is the one that is nourishing with nutritious fatty acids and Vitamin E, ideal for dry skin. It delivers on wrinkle treatment with retinol to stimulate collagen and elastin and contains Hyaluronic acid to plump the skin. It provides treatment to the firmness of the skin by stimulating collagen production. Provides radiance with natural Vitamin C which prevents the synthesis of melanin. It has vitamin A & H to stimulate cell renewal and Vitamin E for fight against free radicals.
I'll start by saying that it was nice to see only 3 products in this application process, because I've seen many many more steps to be taken just get the damn cream on! If your a busy person, you know that those extra few minutes make all the difference, and when your layering product after product, it makes a person wonder. I have to say that these three absorbed quickly and didn't leave my skin feeling greasy, shiny, or as though I wanted to wash it off right away. My skin was breathing!
These products will be making their way to the consumer on February 14th at Nordstrom's and at Shoppers Drug Mart. I'll be making sure to give it all a thorough examination when it arrives. They also boast visible results in 7 days, who knows, maybe I'll be switching products!


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NIST and NanoCenter announce partnership
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has made a $1.5 million competitively awarded grant to the Maryland NanoCenter towards a new cooperative program to further their efforts to develop measurement technologies and other new tools that support the creation of new nanotechnologies. The NanoCenter is directed by ISR faculty member and former director Gary W. Rubloff (MSE/ISR).
The new nanotechnology program is the latest of several collaborative efforts between the A. James Clark School of Engineering and NIST. Last year the two institutions created the UM-NIST Center for Nanomanufacturing and Metrology, a joint venture created to advance the science and technology of manufacturing products based on the unique properties achieved at the nanoscale (one billionth of a meter). Clark School engineers also have numerous partnerships with NIST researchers in a variety of areas, from nanomaterials fabrication to nanoscale characterization.
The bulk of the new grant will support the work of 13 research scientists and engineers in the NanoCenter and NIST's new Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. Principal investigator for the new cooperative program is Ellen Williams, a Distinguished University of Maryland Professor in the department of physics and the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and a researcher in the NanoCenter.
A portion of the grant will be used for national outreach and education efforts directed towards young faculty members and post-doctoral researchers. The grant also will accelerate the scale-up of NIST's Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, which was launched in March 2006.
The grant is renewable annually for up to five years.
For more information about this grant, please see the university's press release.
Published July 11, 2006


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DEtools[rifsimp] Case Splitting and Related Options
Case Splitting Defined
Exploring All Cases
Case Restrictions
Pivoting and Pivot Selection
Other Case-related Options
What is a Case Split?
If an input system is nonlinear with respect to any of its indeterminates (including constants), case splitting may occur.
As an example, consider the ODE in ut: u'−au''=0. rifsimp can only isolate the leading indeterminate u'' when a <> 0. Unfortunately, we do not know if this condition holds, so two possibilities result; either a <> 0 or a = 0.
Consider as a second example the equation u'2a−u'−u2=0. rifsimp needs to isolate the highest power of the leading derivative, u'^2 which introduces the same two possibilities as for the first example. This second type of pivot is called the initial of the equation.
This prompts the following definitions:
The coefficient of the highest power of the leading indeterminate in an unsolved equation. It is not known whether this coefficient is nonzero or whether it vanishes with respect to the resulting system.
Case Split
A case split in the rifsimp algorithm is the separate handling of the cases of nonzero or zero pivot during the solution of an equation in the system. By default (without casesplit on), only the nonzero case is explored.
In the u[t]-a u[tt] = 0 example, the pivot is a, and the generic a <> 0 case is handled by default.
For some systems, a simplified result for all cases is required. To obtain this, use the casesplit option. Specification of casesplit in the arguments to rifsimp tells it to examine all cases in the following way:
Proceed to find the generic solution by assuming that all pivots are nonzero. After each solution is found, back up to the most recent nonzero assumption, change to a zero assumption, and proceed to find the solution under this new restriction. The process is complete when no nonzero assumptions are left to back up to.
The result is a tree of disjoint cases, with the simplified forms presented in a table. Each case is stored as a numbered entry in the output table, having all the standard entries, along with an entry called Case that can be used to reconstruct a tree of case splittings using the caseplot command. This Case entry is a list of assumptions made to obtain the answer for that case. Each assumption is a two or three element list, the first element is the assumption made, the second is the derivative being isolated that required the assumption, and if the third entry is present, it indicates that is was later found that the assumption is always true, so the assumption does not represent a true case split of the problem, but rather a false split.
There are three options below that mildly alter this behavior, and these are the faclimit, factoring, and grobonly options. The first two allow pivots to be introduced to the system that do not necessarily occur as the coefficient of a specific leading derivative. When one of these pivots occur, then the second element of the assumption is the name of the option (rather than the leading derivative). The third option, grobonly, has the effect of introducing fewer pivots (as equations that are nonlinear in their leading derivative, such as the equation in the second example at the top of this page, do not directly introduce case splittings), but has the disadvantage that a less efficient nonlinear equation handling method (pure Groebner basis) must be employed. For more detail on the output see rifsimp[output], and for more detail on nonlinear equation handling see rifsimp[nonlinear].
Two options can be used to limit or restrict which cases are explored:
1) casesplit=<>,`=`,<>
This option turns on casesplit and gives the start of the tree to be examined. It is used primarily for repeating a calculation, or for avoiding particularly difficult cases. Note: A rerun of the system with additional equations is likely to change the order of the pivots, so this option is only reliable for the same input as the initial calculation. If a calculation for a specific case is to be repeated with additional equations, it would be better to append the assumptions made in the Case list to the original system, and run rifsimp with the combined system.
2) mindim=[...]
This option is used to limit the cases being examined based on the solution space dimension of the linear part of the current system. Though the dimension of the solution space is not known until the computation is complete, an upper bound is available by looking at the current Solved equations. Note: In the presence of nonlinear constraints, the computed dimension represents an upper bound on the dimension of the case. This could be used, for example, to find all forms of a second order ODE that are related by a Lie-point transformation to the equation y''=0, by setting the minimum free parameters of the Lie-determining system to 8. The minimum dimension can be specified in a number of ways, including some shortcuts:
Minimum of n free 0-dimensional parameters in
the dependent variables in vars.
the dependent variables v (v is either a
dependent variable name or set of more than one).
Minimum of n free d-dimensional parameters in
the dependent variables v, where v is as above.
Here c1,c2,... are conditions of the [v,n,d] type.
When this option is used, a dimension entry is also provided for each case in the output system. See the information in rifsimp[output] for more detail.
Note: When using multiple specifications, each must be a full specification defining the number, the dependent variables, and the dimension of the required data.
If any of the input conditions fail, computation is halted on the current case, it is tagged with the status "free count fell below mindim", and the computation proceeds to the next case.
The rifsimp algorithm proceeds by putting as many PDEs into solved form as possible without introducing new pivots. When it has reached a point where none of the remaining unsolved equations can be solved without the introduction of a pivot, it must then decide which equation to solve. By default, rifsimp chooses the leading linear unsolved equation that is smallest in size, but this behavior can be modified by the pivselect option described below. The new pivot for the chosen equation then results in a case split if casesplit is set, otherwise exploration of only the nonzero (generic) case if casesplit is not set. If none of the equations are leading linear, then no standard pivot can be found, so rifsimp then attempts to factor the leading nonlinear equations searching for factors that do not depend on the leading derivative. If these are found, then the smallest factor (based on the Maple length function) is chosen, and a factor split is performed. This behavior can be modified through use of the factoring option described below. If nonlinear equations remain, then the coefficient of the highest degree of the leading derivative in the equation (the initial of the equation) is split on if initial has been specified (see below) or if grobonly has not been specified (see rifsimp[nonlinear]).
The following options relate to pivoting and to the control of pivoting in the course of the algorithm:
1) pivselect=choice
During the course of a computation, rifsimp proceeds by performing as much elimination as possible before introducing a pivot. Once no further elimination can be done, a pivot must be introduced, and there is generally more than one possible choice. There are currently six possible choices for pivot selection:
Choose the pivot belonging to the smallest
equation (based on the Maple length function).
This is the default.
Similar to "smalleq", but the length of the
pivots are compared instead.
Choose the pivot for the equation with
leading derivative of lowest rank. Ties
are broken by equation length.
leading derivative that will reduce the size
of the initial data by the greatest amount.
This option can only be used in combination
with the mindim option described above.
Same as "smalleq" above, but it only looks at
equations with leading derivatives in the
vars sequence.
Same as "lowrank" above, but it only looks at
The choice of a pivoting strategy can significantly affect the efficiency of a computation for better or worse. In addition to efficiency considerations, the selection of different pivoting strategies can also simplify the resulting case structure, though the choice that gives the best case structure is highly problem dependent.
The "smalleq" and "smallpiv" options are generally focussed on efficiency. "smalleq" makes the computation more efficient by selecting smaller equations for splitting, while "smallpiv" makes the computation more efficient by introducing smaller pivots.
The "lowrank" and "mindim" options are focussed on keeping the number of cases to a minimum.
2) nopiv=[var1,...]
This option gives a list of all variables and constants that cannot be present in pivots (that is, any pivots that arise in the computation that involve these variables will not be used as case splits in the process of reducing the system, and the corresponding equations with those pivots must be treated as nonlinear equations).
This is most useful for quasi-linear systems for which the linearity of the resulting system is of greatest importance. In this case the variables for which linearity should be maintained should be in the nopiv list. For problems of this type, this may have the effect of reducing the size of the case tree (with some possible trade-off in efficiency).
If this option is used with highly nonlinear systems, the decrease in the efficiency may be prohibitively severe, as many equations that could be treated by the linear code without nopiv, now must be treated with the nonlinear code (see rifsimp[nonlinear]).
3) faclimit=n
Typically the pivot chosen is the coefficient of the leading indeterminate in the equation. In the event that the leading indeterminate is itself a factor of the equation, and this same leading indeterminate factor occurs in <n> or more equations, then it is chosen as the pivot rather than as the coefficient. This is most useful for Lie determining systems having many inconsistent cases, since in these systems, many equations of this form typically occur during the calculation. The answer may be obtained without this option, but it can significantly reduce the number of cases returned.
4) factoring=desc
As briefly described above, by default equations that factor are split if one of the factors does not depend upon the leading derivative of that equation. This option can be used to modify that behavior based on the value of desc used in the factoring option:
This is the default. Only split on a factor
if it does not contain the leading derivative
of the equation.
Split on any factors, even if they contain the
leading derivative.
Do not perform factored splitting.
In any event, the factoring pivots are always the last to be considered (i.e. faclimit and regular pivots are used if available). Note: factoring="all" should be used with caution as it has the potential to significantly increase the number of cases returned. Note: factoring="none" can result in non-termination for some nonlinear problems.
5) initial
This option only applies to systems which have nonlinear Constraint equations in their output. The initial is the coefficient of the highest power of the leading derivative in a polynomially nonlinear equation (the leading nonlinear derivative). For example, in the equation ux2u+ux2+u+ux−1, the initial is the coefficient of ux2, which is u+1. By default, rifsimp splits on the initial, unless grobonly is specified (in which case it does not need to), introducing additional cases in the output. With these additional cases, rifsimp isolates the leading nonlinear derivatives in the Constraint equations. When grobonly is not specified, only the form of the Constraint output is different.
Note: These options do not require that casesplit be on, but are typically most useful in that situation.
Another option that is also related to case-splitting is the gensol option, which may return multiple cases for some problems:
This option indicates that the program should explore all cases that have the possibility of leading to the most general solution of the problem. Occasionally it is possible for rifsimp to compute only the case corresponding to the general solution of the ODE/PDE system. When this option is given, and this occurs, rifsimp will return the single case corresponding to the general solution. When it is not possible for rifsimp to detect where in the case tree the general solution is, then multiple cases are returned, one or more of which correspond to the general solution of the ODE/PDE system, and others correspond to singular solutions. For some particularly difficult problems, it is possible that the entire case tree is returned. Note: this option cannot be used with the casesplit,casecount, and mindim options.
Suppose we have the ODE shown below. We want to determine conditions on g(y(x)) and f(x) that allow the equation to be mapped to y'' = 0 by an invertible change of variables of the form Y=Y(x,y), X=X(x,y). It is known that the equation can be mapped to y''=0 if the Lie group of the equation is 8-dimensional. This is the perfect opportunity to use the mindim option in combination with cases, to tell rifsimp that we are only interested in cases with 8 dimensions or more:
We can use the DEtools[odepde] command to generate the determining system for this ODE, and we obtain the following:
Applying rifsimp:
Issuing the caseplot command above would show that there is one case for which this occurs. This case is given by:
So the original ODE is equivalent to y''=0 when g'(y) is zero, regardless of the form of f(x).
As a demonstration of the faclimit option, consider the following system:
The regular case-splitting strategy produces an undesirable result for this system, namely more cases than required to describe the system:
So we get 4 cases. Now set faclimit set to 2:
So although both ans2_1 and ans2_2 equally valid, it is clear that ans2_2 would be preferred.
As an example of the factoring option, consider the following purely algebraic system:
With default options, we obtain
With full factoring enabled, we obtain
So we see that the system has been split into three disjoint cases. Also note that the Case entries describe the path the computation took, and there are no Pivots entries. This is because the pivots resulting from the case splits are identically satisfied for each case.
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