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Reviewer: DISKY, Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Caregiver)
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I'm glad to see so many people have had a positive experience with this drug. However, my 16 year old bipolar son, was given this drug & within 2 weeks of starting the med he developed one of the worst cases of cystic acne we have ever seen including his dr. He is virtually disfigured! Even after stopping the med the acne did not stop. Prior to the introduction of Lithium he had a usual pi ... Show Full Comment
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Reviewer: wvugirl, 35-44 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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This medication has done wonders for my depression. I was a mess and it did not kick me into a manic tailspin. But the side effects are what's killing me. I am having the severe dry mouth and the frequent urination. I am not having the weight gain, because I can't eat. I am sick at my tummy all the time. I am sick from the time I get up until the time I go to bed and then some. I have the ... Show Full Comment
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Reviewer: michiganfforlife, 13-18 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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this med took me out of a deep hole in life. i was scared of ppl tring to kill me even my own family. but i am only 13 so this med got me out of the hospital 2 times thankyou very much lithium.
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Reviewer: michlkidd, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 2 to less than 5 years (Patient)
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both my 13 year old son and i have bipolar and have been on lithium for a while. it helped my son alot. he isnt as angry as before. i dont have as many mood swings as before. i wasnt diagnoesed until i was 29. it was a long hard road. i hope early diagnosis for my son will help him better understand his life and control his emotions.
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Reviewer: baby, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 6 months to less than 1 year (Patient)
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I was on a very low dose to start and after only 4 nights of taking it I woke up one morning unable to move, all my joints in my body were stiff and I was in a lot of pain. Could not walk for a day or move my head at all. Took a week to go away after stopping the med. I emotionally felt okay but awful awful side effect.
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Thought it was bad to text behind the wheel? It turns out there are other dangers associated with multitask texting.
Date: Sunday Evening
Location: Chinese Restaurant
Time: 6 PM
Invitees: Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Brother
Activities: Eating, Conversing (Barely), and Texting
While texting during family meals doesn't cause the potential physical dangers of texting and driving, it certainly is not emotionally safe. For the most part, families have few opportunities to converse during the day -- between school, work, soccer practice, and homework, there is little downtime. For many families, weekends or evenings are opportunities to catch up, discuss the "good and the bad" about the week, share feelings, laugh, and feel their "togetherness." However, increasingly, moms, dads, and kids are tied to their cell phones. It's no longer just Mom or Dad taking a quick business call. Now it's brother and sister texting while Mom and Dad are talking or eating. It's Mom on the cell phone during carpool time not taking the opportunity to just "be" with her middle-schooler.
The other night, I witnessed a family of five at a restaurant: Mom and Dad were speaking to each other. Brother was listening to tunes on his iPhone, sister was texting, and the preschooler was under the table messing around. Mom and Dad didn't flinch. At that moment, I vowed to not become one of those families -- and preventively initiated the "no cell phone or electronic use during mealtime -- ever" rule. While occasionally there is an urgent matter (e.g., a call from a patient who is suicidal), that is the exception to the rule. Electronics are off-limits during dinner.
We want our children to share their inner and external lives with us. We want them to feel like we are available. Children who share emotional space with their parents will likely grow up and feel secure in the world. It is our job to make sure there is time for this to happen. Without setting boundaries for ourselves and for our children around the sacredness of mealtime (or other special family time), we risk raising a generation of emotionally disconnected soon-to-be adults, who engage in constant "non-engaging." Now they tune out with music and texting, but later they may look outwards with drugs and sex.
|Dr. Cara Gardenswartz is a licensed clinical psychologist who provides therapy to individuals and couples and runs psychotherapy groups. Her expertise include relationships, depression, anxiety, life transitions, trauma and addiction. She has over 16 years of education, training, and experience in her field. She received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to earn her Master's and Doctorate in Psychology at the UCLA. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.
This is so true. I have a similar rule- that the kids can't play games while we are together- but I'm now going to include texting!
Amen!!!!! Love this piece and so agree. Sad commentary on society that we don't even know how to talk to each other during family meals anymore. I finally relented and got my 12yo a cell phone. Why? I don't know- she really doesn't it need it for any valid safety or security reason. But she was the ONLY one in her grade who didn't have one yet. Can u believe it?
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i don't think parents will care if they're a good parent as long as they trust them not to say things that are nasty and even if they do i think they shouldn't care still if they know they are well behaved and would only say that stuff in a serious relationship, its no big deal texting at the table, i would only text while driving if my husband was in a hospital //mom to be//
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In many parts of the world, Governments have been trying to engage industry IDPs to provide consumer identities to support government & citizen service requirements. In cases such as the US FICAM these results have at best been marginal. [1]
The fundamental reason for lack of commercial IDP engagement is that the government requirements for high assurance credentials[2] leads to expensive identities that are not required for most commercial or enterprise usage. It is not economically interesting to IDPs to invest in creating identities that are designed for unique government requirements.
The motivations for wishing to engage commercial IDPs are essentially sound…
Large scale Consumer Identity Providers have hundreds of millions of consumers that use services that in turn trust the IDP. Consumers IDPs address many issues with friction and the user experience pain associate with occasional usage; large IDPs generally have a significant investment in professional organizations to handle the authentication, identity management, account recovery and risk analysis that cannot be matched by most service providers, including governments. While they are far from perfect IDPs represent a significant center of expertise that have demonstrated identity operation at Internet and International scale.
However, the "assurance" required for in practice for most commercial transactions barely equates to a NIST Level of Assurance (LOA) 2 Identity.
PayPal successfully utilizes its identities for financial transactions (higher assurance requirements than most commercial transactions). These identities have good identity validation[3] but in most cases are only protected by password authentication and use nothing more than session-based protections[4]. The assurance level model hides the fact that high quality identity assurance is being performed, and worse in a formal evaluation would prohibit the identities from being used for financial transactions.
This demonstrates a dilemma. The formal assurance level criteria do not seem to match real world identity usage.
The disparity between the current assurance models and actual usage poses a problem. Governments have been trying to convince commercial IDPs to jump on board and supply the identities they need. In a perfect world, the formal identity assurance specifications might be seen as an aspirational opportunity, that an enlightened world might choose to adopt.
Why would a Google, or a Facebook or a LinkedIn or a Twitter choose to add significant additional cost across hundreds of millions of users in order to meet standards such as those defined by NIST? It takes only simple math to calculate the cost of a multi-factor authentication solution, or LOA 3 Identity when it is applied across six hundred million consumers…
Commercial IDPs are definitely interested assisting their users to utilize their identities (or at least their authentication credentials) across a broad and growing set of services. This is the basis for recent technology innovations including OpenID Connect, OAuth and Account Chooser. However, the characteristics of the identities supported by IDPs do not correspond to what governments are requiring (hoping for?).
However, vague promises of future revenue considered against a backdrop of significant government and community scrutiny and brand risk, in addition to the high costs of creating LOA 3 identities for government, the additional capabilities that have to be included and the liabilities incurred do not constitute a reasonable business opportunity.
There are ways out of this impasse. But they require different system architectures and operating principles to the ones commercial entities are being asked to comply with.
Several fundamental approaches have merit: Risk Based Identity Evaluation and Mitigation; Separation of Identity Services; Identity Assurance Enhancement (like "step up authentication"); User Pays models.
PayPal's "low assurance" identities work (hundreds of millions of dollars of financial transactions are successfully executed daily) because they have implemented effective risk evaluation models and compensating controls that mitigate potential issues. Current Identity Assurance models assume that identities can be absolutely evaluated and defined. This is clearly nonsense – all identity validation systems provide at best a confidence level (often lower than we would like to believe) on the identities that are being asserted. We need models that clearly support such approaches and recommend how to mitigate corresponding risks.
Reassessing where identity services are delivered and allowing disaggregation of existing architectures would help in several government contexts. Allowing IDPs to simply assert an authentication event and deliver a credential would eliminate the need to invest in identity validation services at the IDPs, and potentially open up new business opportunities, or at least allow the gap in existing service capabilities to be addressed.
Identity assurance enhancement assumes that consumer IDPs will provide what is commercially viable, and then some other entity must enhance them so they have characteristics in keeping with desires of the services that will use them. Enhancement may take the form of a service; it may be offered on a per relying party basis or as a central function supporting many service users[5]; it may be created by government, alternatively some commercial entity may see a business opportunity and offer it as a service to government.
The user pays model goes hand in hand with the identity assurance enhancement model. If IDPs do not see value in providing higher assurance identities but government needs it, then government should pay for the enhancement, Instead of trying to convince an IDP to upgrade its general user population, pay for enhanced assurance levels as they are needed. This allows existing commercial entities an opportunity to leverage their validation techniques.
In the near term, a more realistic expression of assurance levels would be a start. I have been arguing for many years now that the simplistic evaluation of a scalar assurance level makes no sense (especially in a world where we are dealing with confidence levels on the outcomes anyway). Minimally, we need a few more finer grain assurance levels that actually map current usage?
Ideally we should move to a model that allows the collection of evaluation criteria to be reported so we can do the risk evaluation and work out which identities we can apply mitigation strategies to (a course that is not possible if we have eliminated all the information in a reductionist process).
The very short term approach will almost certainly be to accept that IDPs will create identities with an assurance level that makes business sense – a one or two may even try to create high assurance identities – bight the bullet and use the ones that are available, at the assurance level they are available at. If other identities with other assurance levels are required then let's role up our sleeves and work out how to how to enhance them, who can do the work, and how to pay them.
[1] This list is an overly optimistic statement of the IDPs currently certified for FICAM use
[2] Often these emerge from a strict security motivated view of identity
[3] Like any other financial services provider, this requires compliance with Know Your Customer (KYC) rules, Anti Money Laundering (AML) requirements and a stack of others
[4] Lots of crypto protects the transactions themselves, but that is distinct from the Identity assurance and credential considerations
[5] The Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX) is an example of where enhancement services might be implemented or integrated.


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The Alabama Department of Mental Health is encouraging the public to participate in the Drug Enforcement Agency's National Prescription Drug Take Back Day by safely discarding of unwanted and unused prescription drugs at collection sites throughout the state.
Take Back Day will be held on Saturday, September 29, 2012, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
"National Prescription Drug Take Back Day provides those of us who have amassed containers of unused medications in our homes with an excellent opportunity to eliminate one route of easy access to prescription drugs, which thereby enhances the state's efforts to combat the harmful consequences of prescription drug abuse," says Dr. Beverly Bell-Shambley, associate commissioner for the department's Division of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services.
Dr. Bell-Shambley adds, "On September 29, more than 65 conveniently located drop-off sites will be accessible throughout the state."
The DEA, along with state, local and tribal law enforcement agencies and community partners, conducted the first ever National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on September 25, 2010. Since then, four Take Back Days have been held in all 50 states and U.S. territories, and more than 1.5 million pounds (774 tons) of medication have been removed from circulation.
In 2011, there were 6.1 million persons (2.4 percent) ages 12 or older who had abused prescription type psychotherapeutic drugs in the past month, according to the 2011 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's National Survey on Drug Use and Health. While the survey found that prescription drug abuse among young adults has decreased, the dangerous behavior of abusing prescribed medicines remains unchanged among kids and teens. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prescription medicines are now the most commonly abused drugs among 12 to 13 year olds, and today more accidental deaths occur from drug overdoses, fueled by prescription painkillers, than from car crashes.
According to Dr. Bell-Shambley, Alabama's youth ages 12 to 17 have exceeded national average estimates for past year nonmedical use of prescription painkillers since SAMHSA began reporting that data in 2002, and drug availability is a recognized risk factor for adolescent substance abuse.
Also underscoring the need for initiatives such as Take Back Day is the fact that prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the U.S. Because of this, the National Governor's Association recently announced a year-long prescription drug abuse initiative, co-chaired by Governor Robert Bentley.
The initiative, also co-chaired by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, includes five other states: Arkansas, Kentucky, New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia. Together these states will seek to develop and implement comprehensive and coordinated strategies that take advantage of all available tools and resources to address prescription drug abuse. Bentley said, "We are united by a common goal, and that is to reduce prescription drug abuse. We will work together on appropriate solutions to this problem. At the same time, we will also discuss ways to continue to ensure proper access for those who legitimately need these medications."
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CROMWELL — The first PGA Tour stop in Connecticut was 60 years ago with the Insurance City Open at Wethersfield Country Club.
Now called the Travelers Championship, it has gone through some name and sponsor changes through the years.
But for many years its status as the most popular single sporting event in Connecticut has not changed. About 240,000 fans watched the tournament at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell last year. The competition, won by Freddie Jacobson, also was seen around the world on CBS.
Since 1952 when President Harry Truman was in office and gasoline was 20 cents a gallon, familiar golf names and greats such as Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Lee Trevino, Greg Norman, Phil Mickelson and Bubba Watson have won trophies.
From the tournament's humble start at Wethersfield CC in 1952 when the total purse was $15,000, to the $6 million showcase at TPC River Highlands, here are 60 distinctive events to remember before the tournament tees off Thursday:
01 Greater Hartford Junior Chamber of Commerce President Phil Sehl and vice president Ed May asked Rockledge CC-West Hartford owner Mike Sherman if his course would be the site of the first PGA tournament in Connecticut. But Sherman told The Courant: "We'd be happy to have it, but really, the only place it should be is at the `Club of Champions.' '' That was Wethersfield CC.
02 Travelers, Aetna Life Affiliated, Hartford Accident and Indemnity, Aetna Insurance Group, Hartford Fire, The National of Hartford, Phoenix-Connecticut Group and Hartford County Mutual Fire contributed a total of $7,500 in 1952 to the Greater Hartford Junior Chamber of Commerce for a chief fundraiser. It would be called the Insurance City Open
03 Attendance the first tournament day, Aug. 29, 1952, was estimated at 4,000. Attendance for the entire tournament was 20,000, despite three days of heavy rain.
04 Ted Kroll won the first title with a score of 273.
05 Tommy Bolt had 11 birdies and nine-hole scores of 30-30 for his tournament and Wethersfield CC record 60 in the second round in '54.
06 Bolt defeated Earl Stewart in the only 18-hole playoff in tournament history (67-70) in '54.
07 Amateur Bill Whedon from the CC of Farmington scored holes-in-one on the fifth and ninth in the first round in '55. He's the only amateur to record two holes-in-one in one round in PGA Tour history.
08 Sam Snead recorded the largest margin of victory (seven strokes) in '55.
09 Palmer won his first professional title in the U.S. in the '56 ICO (his first title was the Canadian Open in '55).
10 Before all of the technologically advanced drivers and golf balls, Jack Nicklaus displayed his power by driving the 404-yard par-4 fourth at Wethersfield CC in '63.
11 The next year Wethersfield CC's Jimmy Grant tied for second – the highest finish by an amateur in tournament history. He and Al Besselnk were one shot shy of Ken Venturi.
12 In '67, the tournament became known as the Greater Hartford Open.
13 Charlie Sifford won his first tour victory in '67. The performance was memorable, as he was the second African American to win on tour. The first was Pete Brown in the '64 Waco Open.
14 Billy Casper set the tournament record with four victories, all in a 10-year span: '63, '65, '68 and '73.
15 Trevino, who loved Wethersfield CC, beat Lee Elder in a playoff in '72 to take home the $25,000 first-place check.


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When the Environmental Protection Agency studied indoor air quality, they found that professional hot water deep dirt extraction cleaning removed up to 1500% more indoor pollutants from carpets that had been otherwise vacuumed nearly every day.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) studies* conclusively prove that ordinary home cleaning and vacuuming cannot compare with professional cleaning technicians who are expertly trained.
Twice a year for your health
EPA studies indicate that you need to have carpets cleaned professionally at least twice per year and oriental or handmade rugs professionally cleaned once per year, to eliminate the build-up of these pollutants.
What the EPA discovered about in-home air pollution.
The EPA has done extensive studies on indoor air pollution and has determined that indoor air pollution now outweighs outdoor air pollution. Dr. Michael Berry, Environmental Protection Agency's head of indoor Air Pollution Studies, says, "the secret to a healthy indoor environment is in keeping it as clean as possible."
Dangerous pollutants found in your rugs, furnishings, and carpet
These are unhealthy pollutants that the EPA has determined are found in carpets and rugs, resulting in a number of health problems from common colds to more severe conditions in the lungs and bloodstream.
Indoor air pollution is on the rise
According to the EPA, today, indoor air quality is far worse then outdoor air quality. With the advent of sealed buildings, as a necessity to conserve energy, indoor air quality has become an area of major concern, Here are seven things you should know about indoor air quality:
Respirable particles (dust & dirt that can get in your lungs) are the most common culprit of indoor air quality. Add to that the formaldehyde and glues used to assemble office furniture and fixtures. Add to that carbon monoxide, radon, asbestos, sulfur dioxide, ozone, lead and the most dangerous, bacterial pollutants, such as cladosporium, penicillium, and aspergillus. Bacteria feed on the dead skin cells that each of us shed every day.
"Sick Building Syndrome" is under serious investigation by the EPA. Common problems associated with indoor air pollution are:
- Fatigue
- Runny or stuffy nose
- Dry cough
- Skin irritations
- Dizziness / Nausea
- Sensitivity to odors
- MOST COMMON: Headaches
OSHA reports that 1.34 million office buildings have some problems with poor air quality. HR Magazine reported that U.S. businesses would save as much as $58 billion annually by preventing sick building-related illness. Even more, they estimated that the U.S. business could increase your performance by $200 billion annually, if indoor air quality was improved.
One of the six major causes of stress is you indoor environment. Stress is one of the biggest causes of lost productivity, lost work time and employee turnover. Xerox estimates that it would cost $13,000 to replace on office worker and up to $1.3 million to replace a top executive.
While other studies show that the average cost to replace a salesperson is $60,000.
Pollutants in the environment trigger stress among workers, with 30% of adults reporting an impact at work. Stress can cause a suppressed immune system, inviting colds, flu's, and other disorders or illness.
The Swedish government did a study, similar to our EPA studies and found that the carpet service as a catchall for toxins and indoor pollutants. When they removed the carpet they found that office illness dramatically increased.
The conclusion of the study, and our own EPA studies, found that the carpet acts like a giant health filter, capturing dust, dirt, bacteria and other pollutants.
But they also found that your carpet becomes saturated and needs professional cleaning.
The EPA has studied the impact of indoor pollution and the importance of professional hot water deep dirt extraction cleaning.
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Opened in 1989, Mosport Speedway is Canada's Fastest Half Mile Oval. Since 1990, the circuit has hosted a weekly Saturday Night Stock Car Racing program from May to September. The current stock car divisions competing in the Saturday Night Racing are: Pure Stock (formerly 6 or Less), Sportsman and Late Models.
In addition to Mosport's home divisions, a variety of visiting specials race at the Speedway every year including the Ontario Legends, the Vintage Modifieds, the Lucas Oil Sportsman Cup, Pro Challenge, OSCAAR, the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series and more.
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Newz Huddle comes back with Part 2 of "Cleaning My Gun", it seems as though Newz still had something to get off his chest. Press Play. Share it, repeat steps 1 and 2. Thanks
Sometimes somebody slick jabs & false claims can bring something out of a person. This seems to be the case with Newz Huddle on his new freestyle entitled #CleaningMyGun over Fabolous' "Beauty."
Newz Huddle performing live at the Villa/Mont Brown & Pace-O Beats Stop The Violence Kickback Block Party along side many others. Come out Saturday, June 15th, this is an all day event starting at 12:00pm.
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When you're doing your thing on the music scene people take shots. It comes with the territory. You even come to expect it after awhile. Newz knows this, anyone building a brand knows this, but what also seems to be known is whose name to call and whose you keep out your mouth. Name Game, the teaser track before the Preachers Son Ep, touches on just that. Sit back, enjoy, and stay tuned, Reloaded Music Group is just getting started . #HuddleSeason.
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The consequences of the sleeping lion being awakened usually aren't good. In this case, it depends on what side of the gate you're on. If you're a fan of Newz Huddle, you're in for a show. Not a fan of Newz Huddle, this will either make you one or you'll dislike him even more. Either way, just don't kill his vibe.
Chris Brown drops this unofficial remix to his new song "Jumping Out The Plane" featuring Luva Boy TJ who is signed to his Chris Brown Entertainment label along with Philadelphia's hip-hop recording artist Newz Huddle. No word yet whether the remix will be featured on Chris Brown's new album Carpe Diem.
Philadelphia hip-hop artist Newz Huddle has finally released "For H.E.R." on Valentine's Day. "H.E.R." which stands for Harsh Emotions and Reality depicts various ordeals with women. If you think this mixtape is only for the ladies, you are sadly mistaken. But then again, there's only one way to find out . Enjoy this body of work from Newz Huddle.
Check out this Trailer for Newz Huddle's highly anticipated mixtape For H.E.R. With the mixtape scheduled to drop on Valentines Day, Newz huddle is definitely getting you in the mood For H.E.R. special day.


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Selection headache for Plumtree
John Plumtree has revealed that he faces a dilemma over whether to pick all his returning Springboks for their semi-final against the Blue Bulls.
The Durban outfit host the men from Pretoria at Kings Park in Durban on Saturday after finishing first in the preliminary rounds of the competition.
They played without most of their senior players who were away on Bok duty but all seven are now back, leaving plenty to ponder for Plumtree.
"It hasn't been easy, there's been a little bit of walking around in the middle of the night," said Plumtree.
"But I've been in this situation so many times before.
"It's about finding a balancing act between breaking up the rhythm you already have and bringing great players back into your side, which the Springboks are.
"We've seen it work before and we've also seen it fail. So we just have to make sure we pick the 22, which will do the job on the day."
The Bulls and Western Province, two of the major strugglers in this season's competition, recalled almost all their available players last week for must-win matches, a ploy, which worked as they secured wins over the Golden Lions and Free State Cheetahs respectively.
Only fly-half Patrick Lambie made the first XV for the Sharks, while flanker Marcell Coetzee was a late inclusion due to injury.
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Millennials are not kids anymore. This is the year that Millennials (born 1982 – 2000) are finally taken seriously as leaders, and we end the Millennial-bashing once and for all. The media is turning a corner from portraying Millennials as "entitled," "coddled" and "addicted to their smartphones" toward realizing that they represent the only leaders that we have for the future. In fact, Millennials are taking on more and more leadership roles in business, government, communities and culture.
Forty-one percent of Millennial managers already have four or more people reporting to them.¹ According to The Hartford's 2013 Millennial Leadership Study,2 78 percent of Millennials consider themselves to be leaders in some aspect of their lives. While only 35 percent consider themselves a leader in the workplace now, it is the top area in which they want to lead in the future (63 percent).² The time has come to support Millennials in every way we can.
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Hi, I have a simple report ( in SSRS 2005) with a tablix control with a few fields (textboxes).In one field i need to show (.wav file) has a link to the file location.(The file path would be something like this:(
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Just in case if you are not able to work with the above suggestion, another way is to share your folder through WEB/IIS. Once you correctly shared it with correct permissions, then you can access it through normal http hyperlink. Rest of the procedure is the same as mentioned in the above suggestion. Only need to use
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Actually yesterday only i tried as Riley said,its not working.But Thanks a lot Riley.
Usman: What kind of permissions do we need, to access the folder through a report. Actually .wav file is stored on the server.Thanks in advance.
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I guess you should seek help from the best person i.e. your system administrator. I am saying so because based upon the authentication i.e. NTLM/KERBEROS/BASIC authentication, you would access the folder and files.
Jun 15, 2012 at 02:58 PM Usman Butt
@Usman :Thank you so much :),but right now our client don't want to implement this task why i don't no.
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@Neha.sql Happy to know that it helped. BTW, all this web sharing may not be needed if you move the files to the Reporting folders (Already shared). Hence, the permission inheritance would ease the job and the client should agree to implement it.Last but not least, if the above was the solution to problem then please tick/mark the answer as accepted. It would increase your karma points and it would also help the future users. Thanks.
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Right click the field, choose Properties
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Just tried this on my test (albeit SSRS 2008R2) instance. The
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In the last presidential election, out of 206 million eligible voters, 75 million didn't take time to vote.
This November, the presidency, every House seat, and 33 Senate seats are up for grabs. The next president and Congress could make decisions about the future of Social Security and Medicare that affect Americans for generations.
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As citizens, each of us has the right to choose who makes those decisions. It's the purest expression of equality. No matter who you are, no matter how little money you have or what kind of work you do, your vote counts the same as any other American's.
Make a difference. Elections are sometimes won by microscopic margins. If less than 1 percent of the vote had shifted in 11 states, President Kennedy would not have won the 1960 election. Senator Al Franken finally won his seat by 312 votes after nearly eight months of recounts and court challenges that ended in 2009. Of course, the 2000 presidential election was so close that the Supreme Court chose to weigh in on Florida's recount.
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Football star Hines Ward (above)won Season 12 of Dancing with the Stars.Lots of athletes have brought their graceful body control to the ballroom over the season, including Evander Holyfield, Lailai Ali, Jerry Rice, Emmitt Smith, Shawn Johnson, Apolo Anton Ohno, Helio Castroneves, Monica Seles, Kristi Yamaguchi, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Chuck Liddell.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - World 800 meters champion Mohammed Aman will try the 1,500 next year after becoming the first Ethiopian to win a world title in a distance under 5,000 meters in Moscow this month.
In the absence of Kenya's injured Olympic champion David Rudisha, Aman won a tight race ahead of American Nick Symmonds in one minute 43.31 seconds.
"I don't think his (Rudisha's) absence has altered the outcome because I was saying to myself that I must bring something from this competition for myself and my country," Aman told reporters on Thursday.
"I prepared for this competition very well with a lot of focus. I had confidence in myself because I had been winning the past consecutive Diamond League competitions."
Aman, 19, said he would step up a distance next year.
"I spoke to my coach and he told me we try 1,500. So, next year we do 1,500," Aman said. "The Kenyans are very strong in 1,500 but I (want to) show how Ethiopia can also run 1,500."
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Background: "I've been in nursery management since 1995. I Served 10 years on the Board of Directors for the Idaho Nursery & Landscape Association. I'm a master gardener and am currently serving on Brigham Young University Idaho's Horticultural Advisory Committee."
Favorite Part Of Retail: "My favorite part of retail is the marketing and advertising."
Best Idea At The Garden Center: "I rarely come up with a good idea by myself. Thank goodness the staff here at the garden center is full of great ideas! One of the things we are doing right now is an area that we put in our e-newsletter featuring photos from local gardeners. Customers send in their photos, and we feature one or two in all of our newsletters. The response from our customers has been amazing! We get lots of photos submitted, plus we feel that more people are paying attention to our newsletter to see what their neighbors are doing. We also mail a $10 gift card to the customers who submit a photo that we use in our newsletter."
Future Goals In The Industry: "I think the future is bright in our industry. I'm definitely excited to be part of an industry in which I am surrounded by such great people. I'm hoping that I can continue to work with state or even national nursery and garden center trade associations. These associations bring a lot of professionalism to what we do. Closer to home, I'd like to continue to do what I can to educate the general public on the joys and satisfaction of gardening."
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International gurus want tax breaks to help boost angel investment.
The latest Young Company Finance Index shows angel investors poured $30.7 million into 97 deals with New Zealand starts-ups and entrepreneurs last year.
Spend was down $24 million on 2010, but until last year the figure had been steadily rising since 2006. In the past six years, a total of $220 million has been invested by angels in New Zealand.
Recently, the Angel Association held an angel investors' summit in Wellington, with a number of guest speakers from around the world.
Edinburgh-based angel investor Nelson Gray is a trained chartered accountant who spends much of his time mentoring young angel investors and on the speaking circuit promoting angel investment to local governments.
He is also the director of Scotland's angel capital association, Link Scotland.
He admits the recession has probably had an impact on angel investment, but it has not been quite as bad as people might think and he can also see the positive side.
"It is bad in terms of people not making capital gains on certain asset classes, which they would then reinvest in our environment into the angel market.
"But it's good in another way because actually many entrepreneurs get spurred to start their own businesses – because they've got no option because there's a recession on," he told NBR ONLINE.
He says the recession is causing people to give up working for big corporates and getting stuck into running their own business.
A little bit of tax tweaking
Mr Gray thinks it could be time the government stepped in to boost angel investment and he is calling for a "little bit of tweaking on the tax side".
"From my international experience, I know politicians will react to that, thinking people are looking for a handout and that it's an expense.
"But if you structure it right, it's cash positive and the government gets more money in than it has to pay out. And that's how you will double and triple the number of active angel investors."
Mr Gray says certain criteria could be stipulated. For example, to be eligible for a 20% to 25% income tax break, angel investors may be required to invest $100,000 every year into a company which is no more than three years old, does not have more than 20 employees and is not connected to friends or family.
He says the UK environment for angel investors is very supportive.
"We've got very good tax incentives. The first kind of breaks went in in 1983. The government is very, very supportive – they absolutely recognise we are the drivers of employment and other stuff for the future."
Investing about $US200 million a year
Associate professor of strategic management at Oregon's Willamette University Rob Wiltbank says Oregon angel investors are investing about $US200 million into the economy every year.
And despite New Zealand levels far lower than that, he believes angel investors here are working well together.
"I've never worked in a place where the markets where I'm selling are so far away. So that's been an interesting thing to see – how do I scale up a business when my customers are just so far away?"
His advice to those entrepreneurs is to be more capital efficient – not to spend so much and you will not have to raise as much money.
The second word of advice is to sell early and often.
"I think a lot of times they tend to delay the sales work for later … and they shouldn't do that. They should start on that side much sooner. So it might mean you just have to start taking more trips to Japan or Beijing or the US sooner as opposed to later."
Mr Gray says New Zealand's angel investors have plenty of skill and enthusiasm, and are generally better at what they do than they think they are.
Mr Wiltbank says he works on a theory of a return of $2.50 for every $1 dollar invested.
Entrepreneurs are the backbone of the economy, but they are always in a recession. He says they are always talking to angel investors as a result.
Challenging environment
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund ceo Franceska Banga put last year's drop in angel investment down to the recent challenging general business and investment environment.
She says this has had a negative impact, both on the appetite of current angels to invest in new companies and also on the numbers of new angels coming on stream and being prepared to actively invest.
Since 2006, 47% of angel deals have been in Auckland-based companies, 19% in Wellington and 13% in Christchurch.
Software and services have received 26% of the amount invested, followed by pharmaceuticals with 24%; technology, hardware and equipment with 15%; and food and beverage at 9%.


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Got a few minutes with Georgia basketball coach Mark Fox on an SEC teleconference call yesterday. The Bulldogs' fourth-year coach, coming off a 15-17 season in which they failed earn a postseason tournament bid, sounded upbeat and confident about the prospects for the coming season.
"This is a team I'm looking forward to coaching," said Fox, who is 50-46 (19-29 SEC) since coming to UGA from Nevada. "Unlike last year where we had lost so much productivity, this year I think we go in returning a great deal of the previous team and I think we'll have a group that will certainly be more experienced. As they mature physically and get a little older and work in the weight room, they will also be more physical, which was certainly an issue for us a year ago. We're excited about the upcoming year and how hard these guys are working."
Fox said that all four of the Bulldogs' incoming freshmen — guards Kenny Gaines and Charles Mann and forwards Houston Kessler and Brandon Morris — are enrolled in school this summer and working out with the team. Georgia is able to take advantage this year of new NCAA legislation that allows coaches to work with players in groups during the offseason. Previously they had only limited access to players individually.
"I think the new rule is terrific," Fox said. "It has allowed us to immediately address things in their individual games we think need to be adjusted or improved or enhanced. And so we've taken full advantage of trying to spend some time with them in the gym and working with them."
Georgia lost its starting backcourt from last season with the graduation of seniors Gerald Robinson and Dustin Ware. For that reason there is a lot of excitement and nervous anticipation about the development of Gaines and Mann, both highly-touted prospects. But Fox said people shouldn't discount the abilities of lettermen Vincent Williams and Sherrard Brantley, each of whom has extensive playing experience. And he also hopes that sophomore Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, who made freshman All-SEC playing the 3-spot this past season, will be able to play more at the 2-spot this season.
"Vincent Williams started a third of our games at the point and he's going to make that position with Charles very competitive," Fox said. "I envision Kentavious being able to play quite a bit at the 2-spot, his natural position, this year, which will make that position very competitive with he and Kenny and Sherrard. So I think the thing we have is competition at those spots."
That said, Mann (6-foot-6) and Gaines (6-3) bring a different element of size and athleticism to the guard positions.
"It will certainly look different, but they've got to earn those spots," Fox said. ". . . Those guys are bigger and more athletic than we've seen since I came to Athens. That's one of the things we wanted to be is bigger and more athletic. I think Kenny and Charles will provide a future of long athletic guards. And they've gotten off to a good starts and are working hard. But they're still going to be freshmen and, as you know, they're still going to have some growing pains. But I think they're both terrific kids and will be very good players for us."
With so many new players in the fold, Fox is particular thankful for a preseason trip to Italy in August that will allow the Bulldogs to have 10 extra practices before departing and playing teams overseas.
"The summer is one for us that, if we use it right, can be very productive for us," Fox said. "To this point, I think the month of June has been just that, extremely productive, and we've gotten a lot of things done. I think the trip to Italy will allow this team hopefully let the new guys get an idea of how we're trying to play and hopefully make them more comfortable when the year starts next year."
June 26th, 2012
3:11 pm
I like Coach Fox a whole lot.
June 26th, 2012
3:18 pm
This is a big season for CMF for a lot of different reasons. One of the biggest reasons he needs to have a big year is to convince in-state coaches and players to keep UGA on their radar. He has snagged a couple of good players recently, but the big fish have eluded him thus far. Here's hoping for the best for CMF and UGA!
June 26th, 2012
3:19 pm
If Georgia will just stick with Coach Fox and if he won't be given an offer he can't refuse at a "Basketball" school, I think UGA Basketball is going to become extremely respectable and a regular Post Season Team.
June 26th, 2012
3:21 pm
If he can duplicate what Coach Tubbs did, we could nickname Stegeman Fox's Den!
June 26th, 2012
4:24 pm
This year will prove that this Fox clown was a bad hire. He hasnt been able to recruit the home state talent and wont have anything to show for it this year too. Wonder if McGarity will fire this guy when his team wont be "In the Hunt". Will he grow a pair and do what South Carolina did to Darrin Horn when he underachieved?
June 26th, 2012
4:33 pm
Fox is no clown–he's a terrific basketball coach who has milked great performances out of relatively mediocre talent he inherited. He's recruited well, and I think we'll forget about Tony Parker pretty soon. I like the Kessler kid they got instead. Good lineage.
June 26th, 2012
4:41 pm
@floundering, you must not be watching the games. Fox has done a great job with what he has. If Leslie and Thompkins stay last year instead of sitting on the bench for the Clippers, Georgia's season would have been a lot different. Sure it would be nice to keep the talent at home, but who wants to waste a lot of time on one and done players like Kentucky?
June 26th, 2012
5:22 pm
Fox is a good coach! Extend his contract so he can take me to Waffle House!
June 26th, 2012
5:24 pm
Just give him the time…one more solid recruiting class and they'll be competitive in SEC East. And, they'll make NCAA trip annually.
June 26th, 2012
5:49 pm
"Those guys are bigger and more athletic than we've seen since I came to Athens"
I thought Leslie was pretty darn athletic at the 2 position.
June 26th, 2012
6:12 pm
UGA has a good coach. The key is recruiting
and retaining the talent.
June 26th, 2012
7:45 pm
Fox is an excellent coach and was a great hire. He gets the most out of his players. While yet to land a blue chipper, other than Pope, he is certainly upgrading the talent. He will do a lot with this bunch in year two. If UGA is smart and hangs on to him, he will start pulling in those Blue chippers. Everybody needs to remeber that UGA had zero BB cred on the street. It takes time.
June 26th, 2012
7:49 pm
Typical UGA cool-aid drinkers on this blog also. For anybody to say this guy has gotten so much out of the talent he inherited is a joke. The guy inherited 2 NBA players from Felton, and he couldn't win anything with them. He loses them to the NBA, and he is stuck with the marginal talent he recruits, and he has another terrible season. He can't recruit any big time talent again last year, and he will have another losing season this year. He has no guards at all, and if he thinks that Vincent Williams and Brantley are SEC guards, he is even more of a clown than i thought. These 2 guys were terrible last year, and the 2 freshmen coming in, are nothing to get excited about, and they will be lucky to contribute at all this season. So what players does UGA have that will be stars in the SEC? The answer is none. Pope is a terrible shooter, and he turns the ball over too much. And he is the only player on the roster that is even close to SEC talent. So after this wonderful head coach and recruiter has his 3rd losing season out of 4 years, what will all the UGA cool-aid drinkers say?? On Fox is a good guy and who cares if he can't win 50% of his games, we at UGA only care if he is a good guy, and if he is good on tweeter. LOL!!
June 26th, 2012
8:07 pm
@1953dawg That may have been the single stupidest thing ever. Austin Rivers and Kentavious Caldwell- Pope were ranked the two best shooters in their classes, so I have no clue what games you were watching!!
June 26th, 2012
8:14 pm
Well the kool aid drinkers are out in full force I see. SHOW ME THE Championships! They are NONE and wont be any time soon. Sheeple Sheeeple Sheeple……..
June 26th, 2012
8:52 pm
I was hoping the new rule would be going to class is optional and drug testing is not mandatory. Dang.
June 26th, 2012
9:05 pm
I agrre with CMF. UGA will be very much in the mix this year with new talent and returning letterman. I'm telling all now, look out for UGA come late fall and winter. We got a good team.
June 26th, 2012
9:13 pm
Looking forward to the season! We can do this, Coach!! Go Dawgs!
June 27th, 2012
12:55 am
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9:15 am
I hope the recruits come through. Fox is good on X's and O's, but we need the talent, and fans need to show more consistent support in order to draw the biggest recruits.
June 27th, 2012
10:44 am
Coach Fox is going to move this program in the right direction. Reminds me of Tubby Smith except that Fox works longer hours. We need to be realistic about what happened the last 10 years at UGA. Our BB program was a mess and now we have one of the top facilities in the nation with a coach that is full of passion and fire. Were top players suddenly going to start calling us after the Harrick and Felton days? Does not seem likely, but Mark Fox knows how to get our program back on track. Too bad that a few people are very impatient and truly ill informed. I'm a long term donor and I can tell you first hand that we are in good shape.
June 27th, 2012
10:59 am
@ Gary…Fox has done a great job with what he has. If Leslie and Thompkins stay…"
Exactly. Of course other programs lose great players early also. But Leslie and Thompkins ended up on the bench; should have stayed.
I was gonna say, "KCP is gonna be key." But, it's gonna take all of em, not just KCP. They have a long way to go after how they ended up last season. But, we saw flashes last year; and several games came down to the wire against some very good teams. A couple plays here and there in most of their losses might have totally changed the season.
Back to the topic: new rules. They apply to all teams; not giving the Hoops Dawgs any advantage.
June 27th, 2012
1:15 pm
[...] 22. An NCAA rule change is a great help to UGA hoops coach Mark Fox. [...]
June 27th, 2012
2:09 pm
Do any Dawg fans remember it took Coack K about 7 years to turn Duke into a Basketball power. Yes we have not won any championships in the last 2 years but quit bitching and let Coach Fox turn this thing around. Our complaints will not help him recruit or coach, which means that we need to be a help and not a deterrent. Love, to the DAWGS, Cullowheedawg
June 27th, 2012
2:25 pm
Chip, you shuttin' me out??
June 27th, 2012
8:45 pm
We are fortunate to have Coach Fox, he will get this program winning on a consistent basis. I say give him support and let's see how the next few seasons unfold. Georgia has never been a basketball power house so yes this will take time to get it right.
June 28th, 2012
12:10 am
Replacing the backcourt will be tough but between Williams and Brantley and the new guys, we should be able to swing it. Listening to Coach Fox instills enthusiasm and confidence. Sic 'em, Dawgs!
June 28th, 2012
8:21 am
I made ac omment yesterday about sitting on the floor when Hugh Durham was at UGA….it got blocked……..cannot imagine why…..but I do support Fox and feel he will take us to the next level.
June 28th, 2012
10:54 pm
I like Coach Fox a lot also. I just hope that McGarity gives him the time to allow Fox to make this program not only respectable, but special as well.
June 30th, 2012
9:17 am
It's good to see a few more comments supporting coach Fox. Now, if the students will get with the program and attend the games… It was embarrassing last year to see all those empty seats in The Steg on TV, especially compared to seemingly full venues for our road games. Anybody have the average attendance for SEC bb games last year? I would bet we're near the bottom.
June 30th, 2012
9:39 am
Fox is a nice guy..Wish him luck but Georgia is a Football school.end of story…The SEC Basketball crown is permanently resting in Lexington..
July 1st, 2012
10:12 am
@cats … sorry, not 'end of story'. Other SEC schools with good football programs have had good runs in BB too. NC? No way…or near-impossibel. But UGA winning the SEC tournament? Quite possible….IF we hang in there with CMF and support the program.
Go Dawgs!!


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EEC 440 Control Systems
Spring 2009
Instructor: Dr. Lili Dong, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Office: Room 334 Stillwell Hall
Phone: 216-687-5312
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Office Hour: MW 1:30pm-3:30pm or by appointments
Content: Topics covered include: physical system modeling; feedback control system design; introduction of design tools such as PID, root-locus, loop shaping, and pole placement; stability and performance analysis of feedback control systems; real world problem solving using control theory.
Objectives: This course is designed to give students the ability to
· Understand the operation of feedback control systems;
· Analyze the behavior of existing control systems;
· Design feedback controllers for such systems using one of several design methodologies so that given performance specifications are met;
Textbook: Norman S. Nise, Control Systems Engineering, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Son,
Inc., 2004.
References: R. Dorf and R. Bishop, Modern Control Systems, 11th ed., Prentice Hall, 2008.
G. F. Franklin, J. D. Powell, A. Emami-Naeini, Feedback Control of Dynamic Systems, 5th ed., Prentice Hall, 2006.
G. C. Goodwin, S. F. Graebe, Control System Design, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Prerequisite: EEC310 and EEC311: Electric Circuits
Resources: Matlab, Simulink and the Control System Toolbox are used extensively. They are
available in the engineering computer lab, purchase of student version is recommended.
Grading: Project 20%
In-class quiz 20%
Midterm Exam 30%
Final Exam 30%
Grading Scale:
A minus…………………… 90-92
B plus…………………….. 87-89
B minus…………………... 80-82
Homework: Homework is a major learning tool in this course. Homework assignment will be passed out and collected on every other Monday. NO LATE HOMEWORK will be accepted. The homework will be graded. However, the homework grade will NOT be counted towards final grade.
Projects: Students are required to finish three Matlab/Simulink-based projects independently before the end of this semester. The projects will be collected on the dates specified in project assignments. NO LATE PROJECTS will be accepted. Students need to include Matlab codes or Simulink model and simulation results into the project reports. Students must print and sign their names on the first page of their project reports.
Exams: Mid-term and final exams are scheduled on course outline. All exams are closed book and closed note with time limits strictly enforced.
Quizzes: There are two in-class quizzes. The time of each quiz will be announced in class at least one week prior to the quiz. All quizzes are closed book and closed note with time limits strictly enforced.
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Students are expected to attend ALL classes. If a student must be absent due to university business or illness, the student is obliged to contact the instructor PRIOR to the absence or tardiness. The instructor reserves the right to limit the quality/quantity of out-of-class assistance to students with excessive absences. If a student misses one third of classes, he/she will automatically FAIL this course.
No "make-up" work for missed assignments (homework and projects) will be given.
No provisions are made for missing the Midterm or Final Exams, excepting a Doctor's written verification that the student was unable to attend due to serious injury or illness. This verification will be confirmed.
No make-up quiz will be given only except that a timely (within one class period) and acceptable written excuse is presented to the instructor beforehand. Excuses normally will be accepted for personal illness or serious family emergencies only, and require immediate (within 24 hours) notification of the instructor.
Under no circumstances should any two project reports (or any other assignments and test papers) be identical or overtly similar. Group work is encouraged, however, every person must present their own work for credit. Everyone with the materially identical work will receive a grade of zero on that assignment or tests. CSU policies on Academic Misconduct will be strictly followed.
Course Site: http://academic.csuohio.edu/dong_l/EEC440
Others: All important notices from instructor will be sent to students through emails.
Tentative Course Outline:
(Chapter 3, chapter 12, and chapter 13 of the textbook will not be covered in the course.)
Week Topics Reading
1 Introduction to feedback concept and control systems Chapter1
2 Physical system modeling: Transfer function method; Chapter 2
Block diagrams; Computer simulation in Matlab/Simulink Chapter 5
Review: Differential equations and Laplace transform
3 System responses Chapter4
4 Transient Performance of feedback control systems Chapter 7
5 Analysis of control systems stability Chapter 6
6 Root Locus Method Chapter 8
7 Root Locus Method Chapter 8
Midterm Exam
8 PID design through root locus Chapter 9
9 PID design through root locus Chapter 9
10 Bode diagram and frequency response Chapter 10
11 Nyquist criterion and stability margin Chapter 10
Stability Robustness
12 PID controller design through frequency response Chapter 11
13 Robust Design, loop shaping method Chapter 11
14 Review for final exam
Final exam is scheduled at 4:00pm-6:00pm on May 11, 2009.


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