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Throughout all of this I have to WHY?
Why is it so me-too?
On a webinar, the slide showed 13 vendors for Office365. How do you decide who to go with?
There are so many VoIP Providers that I have never heard of half of them (and the websites are lacking). This is a small fraction of the VoIP Providers available to the average partner.
There are two channel shows in the next three weeks. To anyone manning a booth at these shows, be prepared to answer: Why You?
If you can't answer that, you better have a coupon for 6x SPIFF to handout.
In case you were wondering, a VAD is a value added distributor like SYNNEX, Ingram, Tech Data, Jenne.]]>
Patton started embedding PacketSmart into its SmartNode VoIP CPE. Considering the quality issues on broadband, this is a good move.
Crappy call quality on cell phones lowered the bar enough that VoIP was able to take over on the wireline side. Edgewater Networks says that "VoIP Service Providers Must Focus on Call Quality as VoLTE Emerges". If cell phones get HD Voice - and wireline or HPBX doesn't, people will see less value in moving to an inferior phone system.
Even Vonage Business is working on call quality. "A big differentiator is SmartWAN - real-time packet optimization which is similar to those provided by standalone SD-WAN companies such as CloudGenix....Their cloud-level SmartWAN solution includes a customer premise device (CPE) which allows Vonage to track MOS scores as well as jitter," writes TMC's Rich Techrani.
Speaking of quality, Frontier's take over of Verizon properties has once again been a huge cluster for the customers. Frontier is asking for patience as it enters week three of the transition.
The Channel
7 Predictions for the Channel [PDF] "Accenture says 80% of tech revenue is coming from the indirect channel."
The forecast is for $70 Billion in channel discounts and incentives to be spent in 2016. [source]
"Birch Communications, Inc. has completed the Canada component of its purchase of select assets and customers of Primus Telecommunications Canada Inc. and its affiliates, the company said. Primus, Canada´s largest independent, full-service telecommunications and cloud service provider, serves more than 250,000 businesses and consumers throughout Canada." [pr]
Google says that if you want Gigabit Broadband you have to take all the hurdles in dealing with your local government. There are already significant road blocks thrown up by the cable company, the ILEC and the electric company on right of way, access to conduit, access to poles (for aerial fiber). These are barriers to gigabit broadband. So are laws against muni networks.
On Salespeople:
Why are there so few great salespeople? Not everyone wants to work that hard, push that much, make those sacrifices to be the best. It takes a certain set of traits to be really successful - see this article on BI with Tony Robbins. Not everyone wants to work that hard. Their priorities may lie elsewhere.
Also, this goes against the notion that all salespeople are motivated by money. Think about that.
Communication: The Greatest Challenge for Sales and Marketing Alignment
Verizon, which owns AOL, is making a bid for Yahoo.]]>
Why did Frontier roll out a new brand, Frontier Vantage, for video, broadband, and voice products when it is acquiring more FiOS assets? So now it has to launch a new brand AND re-brand Verizon and FiOS assets. Fun.
Looks like Charter will be approved to buy both TWC and Bright House Networks.
FirstLight Fiber will be acquired by Oak Hill Capital Partners from its current private equity owner, Riverside Partners.
Verizon Enterprise experiences a huge data breach that exposed 1.5 Million Customers' Information.
HyperOffice is partnering with Verizon to distribute its Share.to communications suite from Verizon Cloud infrastructure.
Communications Sales & Leasing, Inc. entered into an agreement with Windstream Holdings, Inc. to acquire 32 wireless towers owned by Windstream.
According to an Accenture study, US companies are losing Customers as consumers demand more Human Interaction. "Too much reliance on digital technologies has given rise to 'human-less' customer services" that are estimated to cost business $1.6 Trillion in switching costs.
Cisco is buying CliQr for $260M to expand its hybrid cloud management solutions.]]>
Is it like that? You: No.
Then you need to work on YOUR pitch some more.
Because it is not my job - or anyone's really - to figure out what you do. It is your job to explain in a crystal clear way so that Grandma understands it.
If you can't do that, well, then you are in trouble. Cuz unless you have the cure for cancer, it will be hard to sell.
Most stuff that is selling - iPhones, cable modems, Viagra - has demand. People want it. People ask for it. Then there is cloud services and thousands of other things that have no consumer demand. These things have to be sold. No order taking. Sold. Sold on benefits.
At a trade show, where the average bear is having 10-15 meetings while looking for honey, the bear doesn't have time to figure out what you do, what you sell. If it isn't clear, NEXT!
If you need help with that, Make an appointment with me.]]>
It isn't that most partners do NOT want to change. It is that most partners are heads down, entirely focused on survival!
The race to zero isn't helping!
A combination of the cable growth and the bandwidth price compression have forced agents to sell more and more to make less and less. There just isn't time to learn new services and shift gears. AND the SMB market IS consuming what they are selling - bandwidth, cheap voice, wireless.
That isn't to say that partner don't need to learn new services and sell them.
It also might mean that the message, training and collateral aren't nearly hitting the mark the way that carriers think they are. After sitting through 14 meetings this week as well as walking the floor daily, the messaging to the partners is product focused, tired, repetitive, and frankly unappealing.
The job of the carrier is to grab the attention, wow! the partner enough that they go sell the services whether or not there is a spiff.
While every carrier tells me they meet with their partners and have business plan reviews, etc. Are they really listening? Do they actually hear what the partners are saying?
My message is to the carriers: Change or die on your story and marketing.
The more that carriers say that VARs and MSPs are better partners - (All we hear is the charge to the VAR brigade) - the less agents will listen to you. #justsaying
When carrier employees have a vague understanding of the products, it is a challenge for partners to have a good understanding of those products. See UC, SD-WAN, NFV and other acronyms.]]>
Another Broadsoft client gets bought. MagicJack (yes, magicjack) decides to over-bid in order to not be the bridesmaid again. MJ pays $42M for Broadsmart. That is more than three times revenue!
Unlike EC16 last week, no one is saying Slack or Spark or HCS. So the enterprise story doesn't translate to channel? But providers want to move up-market .... via the channel? So should the messaging be similar?
More M&A: NETXUSA, a value added distributor that distributes a lot of Polycom, was bought by Ingram Micro. Ingram wanted to get into the space and NETXUSA has a nifty phone provisioning platform that Ingram wants (a la Parallels moves). Ingram is being bought by HNA in China.
This show has two themes: SD-WAN and UCaaS. Both terms everyone is already tiring of.
When talking to service providers, the single biggest problem seems to be messaging, which could translate into Branding or could be Differentiation. One person even said, "Do we really need another VoIP provider? When are they going to start consolidating?" It seems that way because most sound the same and chase the whole market. No wonder they say that partners just get 5 quotes and sell on price.]]>
For some, it is a focus-message mess. They want to appeal to everyone - and that market is already taken.
Others think it is a price thing, which it is NOT. (see here, because at $4.99 per seat, if price was the component to grease sales, these guys would be cleaning up.) We have had free services before (Skype, NetZero). It doesn't mean that it will own the market.
Besides messaging, pricing, targeting and value, the foundation of a marketing strategy, there are 2 reasons that it is hard to sell UC (or HPBX or UC&C).
The first problem with selling UC or UC&C is that users don't want to change! I have tried to explain this before but Seth Godin does a great job here: " (*the bulk of the market doesn't ever truly want change, because change brings risk and risk brings fear. Give people a chance to avoid change, and they'll likely take it)."
So while you are selling change, most people don't want to change. You have to tell a powerful story about what happens if they do change. (OUTCOME)
This explains both SIP Trunking and Key System Emulation.
The other problem is the Signal-to-Noise Ratio - or the Attention Deficit Problem. This week there were a ton of press releases in VoIP/UC. Some of that volume was due to the EC16 show. Here is a smattering sample.
AT&T Launches Cloud-Based Collaborate. I think it is their version of a Broadsoft powered product. (I might be wrong, because it was a small press release and vaguely worded - as is the website.)
VoicePulse, Cytracom, Votacall and SolveForce all had press releases to make noise. Not saying much but just putting something out there to get in front of people. No idea who the PR firms are that do this, but it is for all intents and purposes worthless.
Work a little harder at sharpening your message. Target better. Do a case study or a customer story. At least try to be a little more tangible to the nameless, faceless businesses you seem to being throwing spaghetti at.
Telecom is just above a root canal on what people want to think about. Maybe going car shopping is the closest pain in the butt to buying telecom.
Jon Arnold explains that the Economic advantage of VoIP has declined and the business value of telephony has weakened. This makes people procrastinate more on a buying decision until a trigger event - like a rate hike or the PBX breaks.
What all those press releases do say is that there are a large number of providers doing anything to make noise, to get noticed. There are ways to do that without wasting money or looking hopeless. Give me a call and we can talk about it because you have to sell Change and Explain Value.
Amidst the noise there was a merger: Diverse Technology Solutions Inc. acquires cloud hosted Unified Communications VOIP telephony provider 'Voitual' of Delray Beach, Florida. This was about as big as Miami-based IPFone winning the bid for Intelacloud from bankruptcy court.]]>
Seeking Alpha wrote, "RingCentral's move upmarket is substantially increasing their revenue per seat and allowing them to drive the top line." Well, same thing at 8x8, which raised its ARPU to $369 from $305 last year. Yet it only took a couple of really big sales (one being Netsuite's 2400 seats) to move that needle. Like I have said before one big sale is the same as 10 or 20 smaller sales, which is why everyone looks up-market.
Seeking Alpha continues with RC, "The added revenue per seat is generating more cash flow that is being reinvested into their sales and marketing effort which will continue at 40% to 45% of revenue. The return on those marketing dollars spent is not accurately reflected in the share price given the lifetime profit and revenue generated." That means that RC - and its other UCaaS brethren - are pouring 40-45% of revenue into the cost of acquiring customers! That includes commissions, SPIFFs, free phones, ads, pay-per-click campaigns, websites, etc.
SA also notes, RC "Shares continue to trade at a significant discount to the high-growth SaaS peer group due to overblown competitive fears." It is hyper-competitive, but the market for UCaaS is set to explode according to every single analyst. We are at less than 15% penetration and the IP Transition has only just begun.
Unfortunately, there are some factors that will get in the way. One is most people are going all mobile, all the time. So they won't need a UC seat. Also, other folks will just be swapping a PRI for a SIP Trunk. No UCaaS seats there either.
The other big factor is the technology and engineering mindset that most of the ITSPs have. Founded and run by engineers who are enamored with the tech. Like they are going to out-tech the next guy.
Let's look at some things. One, most users utilize less than 7 features!!! So who are you building all these widgets for? Call Quality is still an issue -- THAT is what you should work on.
Two, it becomes too complex. Too many features, not enough user design, so people don't use it. No one reads the manual. No one asks for directions. So Simply it!! The Genius can simplify stuff; anyone can make it complicated.
Look at the apps that are popular - Kik, WhatsApp, Skype, Snapchat. Why are they popular? Simple to use. Told a story users wanted to believe. Network Effect. Many features, but one main function.
If you think you have the killer function - the next Kik - then your story should be a lot like Slack - 2 million daily users in just 2 years.
Box.net came before Dropbox. Similar stories, functions, etc. Dropbox hacked growth with a network effect of users getting users for them with a simple referral plan and s stupid simple interface (like Google's home page versus Yahoo's home page).
Three, RC and 8x8 are the big names because they Market! They spend on Branding and PR and marketing. And the rest of you really do not. It isn't even about out-spending them; it IS about smart spending.
Lastly, stop being a tech company. Your customers want you to provide technology, take it out of their hands. To do that well, you have to be in Show Business (see last post). I have said it before, when 8x8 changed out the C-Suite they transitioned from a tech company to a Sales & Marketing machine -- and that is when they took off with 20%+ growth every year.
So if you are hobbled for growth, stop playing with the tech and start marketing to get sales, before some other company takes over your market.]]>
"As many of you already know, Windstream is eradicating their SMB Business (Customers billing under $1500) and sending them letters like the one I have attached. Go get your customers and find them a happy home (preferably Momentum) before someone else does. Let me know how I can assist."
Windstream has decided to go up-market. Everyone has. RC, 8x8, Comcast.
There are 27.5 million small businesses in the US according to 2012 data from the SBA and over 22 million are self employed with no additional payroll or employees (these are called non-employers). The SBA defines a small business as an enterprise having fewer than 500 employees. There are only 18,500 firms with 500 employees or more in the US. [infographic]
So the 22 million will be using cell phones or services like Grasshopper, RC, FreedomVoice or other Google Voice type auto-attendant in the cloud service. That leaves 5.5 million that can be targeted in the SMB category. [By the way, IDC says that there are 8 million business with under 100 employees to target.]
SBA data shows almost 1 million businesses with between 5-9 employees. However, a 5 employee business at $30 per seat is $150 per month. You need a lot of them to scale and move the revenue needle.
Or you need to be like an MSP, roll a bunch of services together to increase ARPU to $1000 per org. 8x8 ARPU is $369 now (up from $309 a year ago) as they went up-market, but those numbers get skewed with 2 large deals (one being 2400 seats). It only takes one 100 seat sale to match 20 smaller deals, right?
Something to ponder: Can you afford the cost of selling to them and supporting them?
There are more than 75,000 business with 50-74 employees and another 37K with 75-99 employees. Over 100K business in the sweet spot. And that is not mid-market. That is the top of the heap of small business pyramid. Not many CLECs or ITSPs have more than 40K customers. There is room there.
When businesses talk about going up-market, I wonder if they realize that the competition in the Enterprise market is blood red - to chase firms who are risk adverse in procurement. By that I mean that they will only purchase from brand names because no one is going to risk it by buying from an unknown brand. No one gets fired buying from IBM, Dell, AT&T.]]>
Seth Godin's blog today describes not a pyramid, but a Frustum. Seth uses the music business as the example, but I see it in the telecom industry today. There are no winners. There are lots and lots and lots of providers doing the exact same thing.
And in channel building, it isn't about getting 450 partners, because truthfully it will be 45 that make you all the money. The other 405 are overhead.
Developing a strategic plan means not only describing the product, the outcome, the target market, but what success looks like. Often we just have a nebulous revenue number in mind or hundreds of millions.
Everything is a race to raise millions, be a unicorn, cash out big. It is the new lottery system. It isn't reality.
At the end of the day, what is the business strategy? What is the Why? What is the exit strategy - or are you building a business built to last?
I notice that every channel exec and every telecom exec says that the reason that things are off - or they are not growing as much - is because sales people can't sell. While I understand that telecom selling has not kept up with the times, I also think that the providers, the execs, the marketers have done a crappy job of telling the story.
Throwing words like Hosted PBX, Cloud, IOT, SDN at the marketplace is nonsense. It's inside baseball jargon that doesn't mean anything to the buyers. No one is searching for hosted pbx on Google. The fact that we have gone through so many terms - Hosted VoIP, Hosted PBX, UC, Hosted UC, UCaaS - just goes to show that we don't know what the f we are selling. A new acronym is not going to move the needle. A new story will. Plain language will. Talking about Solutions, Business Outcomes, take-aways, not features and products. (More here)
Selling needs to change. But so does all the friction in buying and selling telecom. No one makes it easy.
And speaking of friction, AT&T is pushing its IPFLEX, scaring customers with the noise that all the copper is being retired, basically forcing people to transition to IPFLEX from TDM PRIs. However, you can't run faxes on it - still! IPFLEX is just a SIP Trunk -- like oh so many providers offer in much the same way. There still needs to be a pipe. There are still call quality issues with OTT VoIP. Despite all of that, it is simply pushing a Product, not delivering a Solution. It is FUD, friction, frustration.
I guess I have been beating the same drum over the last three blog posts. A little repetitive, but maybe we need to hear it more than once, in a couple of different ways, before we realize that this blog is in fact a mirror for you.]]>
"SaaS is getting increasingly competitive." You think? Look at all of these marketing apps. How many CRM platforms are there? There are 2000+ Hosted VoIP providers. Teah, you can say it is hyper-competitive. (Partly do to a low barrier to entry today.)
Key: "Make a product customers are always in love with that also gets high retention from them." If users are not playing with your features or portal, then they are likely not a good fit for your product. It is like selling Hosted UC to a business that just wanted cheap dial-tone or a key system replacement with door buzzer. Not a good fit = churn (or at best low margin to no margin customer.
You have 3 things working against profit: (1) the cost of customer acquisition increasing; (2) the cost of support is not cheap; (3) price compression. You need targeted customers who engage with your product.
"You've got to constantly build the best possible solution that ever existed for your customers." With the rapid adoption of Lync (now SfB) and now the integration of SfB and Slack, VoIP providers cannot stay static in what they are offering. The product bundle has to go beyond just a managed Voice service -- or you need to re-brand as just a voice replacement company, an alternative phone company.
The article had a link to this story about the 2016 Sales Stack - and the challenges facing salespeople. One of the challenges is the prospecting and lead generation -- and the technology around it. Today, there are web conferences, video calls, email automation, MasterStream, portals and other software that you need to spend time with in order to do the job. That is a lot more than the days of Glengarry Glen Ross.
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At the very least, when hiring a marketing firm, check their track record. Do they have any home runs?
Check to see if they even understand your product or marketplace. If not, you better be able to educate them on the buyers, the benefits, the why someone buys it and what they do with your technology or services.
And if you are hiring a consultant, be certain that they want to consult and not get hired for a job. It will affect not only the results but the cost of the project.
A brand can be a significant asset - think P&G, Coca-Cola or Ford. It is a significant asset of your business. Many telcos and MSOs are refreshing their brands today to demonstrate the transition from TDM to IP, from T1 to Ethernet to cloud to next gen. I am not saying you need to re-brand. You do need to refresh your marketing though.]]>
It is interesting to me that music learned the lesson of digital disruption first but no one else even considered that it could happen to them. Next came movies, newspapers and the book industry.
The book publishing industry has been in a war with Amazon for the last three years. Amazon is just the poster child for digital disruption.
Newspapers blame Google for their ills. Well, that industry has no one to blame but themselves. Craigslist made classifieds obsolete. And the newspapers did NOTHING.
Actually most industries have not changed - even in the face of UBER!
After Borders/Waldenbooks closed, Barnes & Noble have not exactly tried much. According to analysts, the Nook is sinking B&N. B&N spent $800M on developing the Nook, an Android based e-reader tablet to compete with the Kindle. They could have just gone to Asus or Lenovo to shave about $600M off that spend.
I am an avid reader with piles of hardcover books to read. I like reading actual books. I spend a fair amount of time and money on my kindle too. When ebooks cost almost the same as the hardcover, I buy hardcover -- and build up a disgust for the publishing industry.
We are in the Digital Age. We are in the Disruption Age. We are also in the age of declining disposable income. That will affect every industry.
B&N didn't learn anything from the closing of Borders. And my independent book sellers haven't done anything different either. Same business model as before. I don't see how that can work out in the long run. Even libraries realize that they are a resource factory now, not a book depository. The Hillsborough County libraryhas a Hackerspace, computers, free wi-fi, work spaces, ebooks and regular books.
How is it the county library figured it out but not a multi-billion dollar business that had 4 CEO's in the last 5 years?
Instead of trying to mimic something you can't duplicate - like say becoming Amazon - remember the basics of the business: books, repeat visitors, loyalty programs, shopping experience.
Seth Godin explains, "Shopping is an entertaining act, distinct from buying. Shopping is looking around, spending time in search of choosing how to spend money. Shopping is buying something you've never purchased before." If that is true, that changes the dynamic of a brick-and-mortar store.
Best Buy was facing becoming the showroom for online stores. They faced that problem without really considering what the customers wanted - or why they visited the store. A little technology coupled with analytics helped. Market research or surveys also probably aided them.
I am teaching a Marketing Workshop. I keep repeating a couple of things: Know Your Value Proposition and Tell a Really Good Story.
What is your business really? Are you a VoIP provider? Or ISP? Or are you really the means to which people can communicate with friend, family and customers?
We get tunnel vision of our company and technology and products. It is good to look at other industries for ideas that will work for us. It is good to examine failures to learn lessons that others paid for.
CB Insights has a database of Startup Failure Post-Mortems. BI looks at 7 startup failures from 2015.
To paraphrase Bob Mayer: "2016 is going to bring some changes, both good and bad. Are you ready?"]]>
It is about giving value first. We talk about that as well.
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I registered a domain and the emails poured in. I mark them as a spam and delete them.
I get robo-calls every week especially for Google/SEO pitches.
So why is your marketing so bad? WHY?
At one time, you probably thought: Postcards are expensive. it's cheap to email, let's email everyone often.
Then you decided to automate everything. You hired Marketo or Hubspot, uploaded every contact in every database that you had. And let the machine loose.
All of this is why your marketing sucks and isn't working. Worse you have trained the prospects and consumers to ignore you. Yes, you trained them to ignore you.
They install ad-blockers. You ad technology that gets through it. That is basically saying: We don't know how to market you except through blunt force. The result will still suck for you! How come you don't get that?
Marketers automate social media to the point that it is useless. Facebook changes the algorithms to the point that less than 7% of your followers see your stuff and you have to pay Zuck to get them to see it. Twitter is just noise now. The new CEO is going to try to turn that around.
Marketers played games with content and click bait and so much else that Google changed its algorithm three times in three years.
Marketing isn't a game.
It also isn't just a broadcast. If you think that works, why not do an infomercial?
It is 16 years since Seth Godin wrote Permission Marketing and still no one gets it.
Just because you have their email address does not mean you can send them stuff.
Attention is precious.
Your job as a marketer is to give value to get their attention. That isn't easy. And you want easy. And you want a big response. And you are frustrated, so you try to game the system and hack away and push and broadcast. You get a 1%, maybe 2% response rate. Meanwhile, the other 98% dislike you and your brand.
Seth Godin wrote, "Mostly, a brand's products begin to peak when no one seems to care. Sure, the organization ostensibly cares, but great tools and products and work require a person to care in an apparently unreasonable way."
He also says that Marketing has to be baked into the product or service. Do we look at it that way? Zappos and Uber used word of mouth -- maybe a little network effect - to become household names. Today, I hear people asking for the Uber of this and that.
Pushing your stuff on people doesn't work. You attract them to you by creating an experience and letting word of mouth take off.
If you want to automate marketing, make it one to one. Personal and valuable and something that matters.
Every day I see marketers ruin it for others. I see why the original title was All Marketers Are Liars. It is plain lazy.
It really comes down to this: are you looking for short term results or building something for the long term?]]>

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Statics and Mechanics of Materials / Edition 1by Anthony M. Bedford, Kenneth M. Liechti, Wallace Fowler
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Pub. Date: 09/25/2002
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This book presents the foundations and applications of statics and mechanics of materials by emphasizing the importance of visual analysis of topics—especially through the use of free body diagrams. It also promotes a problem-solving approach to solving examples through its strategy, solution, and discussion format in examples. The authors further/b>
This book presents the foundations and applications of statics and mechanics of materials by emphasizing the importance of visual analysis of topics—especially through the use of free body diagrams. It also promotes a problem-solving approach to solving examples through its strategy, solution, and discussion format in examples. The authors further include design and computational examples that help integrate these ABET 2000 requirements. Chapter topics include vectors, forces, systems of forces and moments, objects in equilibrium, structures in equilibrium, centroids and centers of mass centroids, moments of inertia, measures of stress and strain, states of stress, states of strain and the stress-strain relations, axially loaded bars, torsion, internal forces and moments in beams, stresses in beams, deflections of beams, buckling of columns, energy methods, and introduction to fracture mechanics. For civil/aeronautical/engineering mechanics.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction.
Engineering and Mathematics. Learning Mathematics. Fundamental Concepts. Units.
2. Vectors.
Scalars and Vectors. Rules for Manipulating Vectors. Cartesian Components. Components in Two Dimensions. Components in Three Dimensions. Products of Vectors. Dot Products. Cross Products. Mixed Triple Products.
3. Forces.
Types of Forces. Equilibrium and Free-Body Diagrams. Two-Dimensional Force Systems. Three-Dimensional Force Systems.
4. Systems of Forces and Moments.
Two-Dimensional Description of the Moment. The Moment Vector. Moment of a Force About a Line. Couples. Equivalent Systems. Representing Systems by Equivalent Systems.
5. Objects in Equilibrium.
The Equilibrium Equations. Two-Dimensional Applications. Statically Indeterminate Objects. Three-Dimensional Applications. Two-Force and Three-Force Members.
6. Structures in Equilibrium.
Trusses. The Method of Joints. The Method of Sections. Frames and Machines.
7. Centroids and Moments of Inertia.
Centroids. Centroids of Areas. Centroids of Composite Areas. Distributed Loads. Centroids of Volumes and Lines. Centers of Mass. Centers of Mass of Composite Objects. Moments of Inertia of Areas. Parallel-Axis Theorems.
8. Friction.
Theory of Dry Friction. Applications.
9. Measures of Stress and Strain.
Stresses. Strains.
10. Axially Loaded Bars.
Stresses in Prismatic Bars. Strains in Prismatic Bars. Statically Indeterminate Problems. Nonprismatic Bars and Distributed Loads. Thermal Strains. Material Behavior. Design Issues.
11. Torsion.
Pure Shear Stress. Torsion of Prismatic Circular Bars. Statically Indeterminate Problems. Nonprismatic Bars and Distributed Loads.
12. States of Stress.
Components of Stress. Transformations of Plane Stress. Mohr's Circle for Plane Stress. Principle Stresses in Three Dimensions. Design Issues: Pressure Vessels.
13. States of Strain and the Stress-Strain Relations.
Components of Strain. Transformations of Plane Strain. Stress-Strain Relations.
14. Internal Forces and Moments in Beams.
Axial Force, Shear Force, and Bending Moment. Shear Force and Bending Moment Diagrams. Equations Relating distributed Load, Shear force, and Bending Moment.
15. Stresses in Beams.
Normal Stress. Shear Stress.
16. Deflections of Beams.
Determination of the Deflection. Statically Indeterminate Beams. Method of Superposition.
17. Buckling of Columns.
Euler Buckling Load. Other End Conditions.
Appendix A: Review of Mathematics.
Algebra. Trigonometry. Derivatives. Integrals. Taylor Series. Vector Analysis.
Appendix B: Properties of Areas and Lines.
Areas. Lines.
Appendix C: Properties of Volumes and Homogeneous Objects.
Appendix D: Material Properties.
Appendix E: Deflections and Slopes of Prismatic Beams.
Answers to Even-Numbered Problems.
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My mother spent most of her childhood in Abertillery, South Wales and gave me the name Darren because she found it in a book and liked it. However, there are some geographical features around Abertillery named as darren on the OS map. I therefore think it likely the name has a Welsh origin rather than Gaelic which to me means Irish/Scottish.
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"Burnt land or hill" is pure invention. There is no possible word in Gaelic, either Scottish or Irish which can mean anything even remotely like that. That meaning must have been invented by someone with no knowledge of either language. Perhaps it is Welsh but it is certainly not Gaelic.
I would like also people to consider a link to an old Slavic, Russian name "Daren" that means "given / given as a gift". It's not a common name there at all now. Don't forget that many centuries ago all of our predecessors might have lived closer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.127.116.11 (talk) 23:28, 22 December 2010 (UTC)


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My game is designed for landscape only (screen resolution 1024*768 - iPad resolution).
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When I run my application everything regarding device orientaton is correct, but game scene isn't fully rendered. It is rendered for the resolution 768*768 (Not all of the scene objects are visible - only objects that belong to 768*768 rect are visible) and the remaining screen space is black.
I've investigated the issue in the following way:
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Earlier this year, Oxford University Press published Sun, Sea, and Sound: Music and Tourism in the Circum-Caribbean, a book I co-edited with my friend (and University of Pennsylvania professor) Tim Rommen. It's great stuff, I think – all the authors contributed brilliantly – but I find Tim's introduction "Theorizing Music Touristics" to be a particularly important and unique contribution to the field. In addition, I'm quite proud of my own chapter "Modern Mento: The Emergence of Native Music in Jamaica Tourism," which draws on over a decade of field research and professional activity in Jamaica. For more information, click here to visit Oxford's information page, or you can just go ahead and click here to buy it from Amazon.
Ice Cream Truck Music
I am proud to say that "Ding, Ding!: The Commodity Aesthetic of Ice Cream Truck Music," my work on the history, development, and issues surrounding ice cream truck music, has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 2 (Sumanth Gopinath & Jason Stanyek, eds.). For more information about the book, click here to visit Oxford University Press's information page.
This chapter is an extension of a project I began working on as a result of having taken Steven Feld's class "The Anthropology of Sound" in the fall of 1998. I presented an early version of my research ("Ice Cream Truck Music, the Sound of Frozen Novelties") at three academic conferences in 2000-2001, and published a very short version of in the arts journal Esopus in 2005 as "Soft Serve: Charting the promise of ice cream truck music."
I am fascinated at how people respond to this music. Given the troubling range of opinions about Theodore Johnson III's May 11, 2014 NPR piece about the song "Turkey in the Straw," (which seems to draw very heavily on Richard Parks's piece "Turkey in the Straw," published in Lucky Peach earlier in 2014), it's clear that the music played from ice cream trucks and the reasons for its continued use are more nuanced than most people realize. "Ding, Ding!" should be required reading for anyone interested in how ice cream truck music works, why it sounds the way it does and what the reasons have been for its sustained success over decades.
Junco Partner
Here's one from the archives:Junco Partner by the Freshmakers featuring King Django and Dr. Ring Ding
It came out on a Joe Strummer tribute record released in Italy in 2005(ish).
The track was recorded in the studio under Jammyland (60 East 3rd Street, NYC). I think the group – called the Freshmakers – included me (banjo and bamboo sax), Bob Timm (rumba box), Jay Nugent (guitar), King Django and Dr. Ring Ding (v0x) and another guitarist, whose name I can't remember at the moment. Vic Rice engineered. I'm pretty sure that this happened in December 2003/January 2004; the band laid the instrumental tracks down one afternoon, and Django and Ring Ding came in a few nights later and did the vocals during a snowstorm.
The people who released it said they'd send me a copy of the CD and a t-shirt in exchange for the track. Perhaps needless to say, that never happened.
Tunes In The Times
Irish Music in the NY Times today with a picture of me.
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Irish Echo
My first column was published in the Irish Echo today. Click here to read it. In it, I mention a recording of Paddy Canny playing 'Cielito Lindo' – this is it:canny-mariachi.mp3
I don't remember where this came from – it's just an excerpted bit from a longer track. I doubt I'll be hosting much music relating to the column here, but a couple of people asked me what this sounded like so have a listen if you're interested.
ps. "Free the Tarbolton Three" is a saying that I believe Boston's own Teddy Davis and Tina Lech came up with.
UPDATE: Tom Madden wrote to me to let me know that the notation for "Blueberry Hill" (a fox trot) – in Morrison's own hand – on appears on p. 68 of Veronica McNamara's facsimile edition of the James Morrison notebooks (called "The Professor, James Morrison" – His Original Handwritten Music Manuscripts for Irish Fiddle – click on the link to buy a copy, whydon'tcha?).
UPDATE: Monsignor Charlie Coen tells me that he also plays 'Cielito Lindo,' as well as a few other tunes & songs as part of an "international" thing he likes to do.
Ochtapos Project
A while back I recorded a couple of tracks with a few friends. Here are some previews:Sample Jig Track Sample Reel Track
If you like what you hear, just drop me a line and I'll send the full tracks your way! If you're interested, you can read the notes I've put together for these recordings by clicking here.
The Flanagan Brothers, 1926
The other day I was corresponding with Jeff Ksiazek of the Ward Irish Music Archives and he mentioned the difficulty of finding photos of old Irish musicians and it reminded me of the report WNYC's Soundcheck did last May in which they talked about the Flanagan Brothers. The best part of that report was probably the archival photo they dug out from December 9, 1926 taken at the WNYC studios. Not only is it probably the best photo of the Flanagans I've ever seen (that's Mike and Joe, left to right), but it's one of the finer photos of Irish music in that era I've come across.
Click here to go see the original article.
Blue Glaze Mento Band CD Launch!
Tonight, the Blue Glaze Mento Band will be in Kingston to launch its latest album, We Will Wait. The group worked with New Orleans producer Bill Monstead on a really nice mix of mento, reggae and gospel. However, what I think mento fans will find most compelling is that this album not only features some original songs composed by band members, but it also includes some legendary guest artistes taking over the vocal duties. For example, Stranjah Cole sings over his own ska classic "Rough and Tough" played as a mento and Bunny Wailer is the featured singer on Blue Glaze lead singer Vernal Morgan's composition "We Will Wait," while Toots Hibbert is featured on my favorite track "Great Jehovah" (another Vernal Morgan composition). Just great stuff all around. The guy who wrote the liner notes did a pretty good job as well (if I may say so).
This album marks the last recording my friend and original Blue Glaze banjoist Nelson Chambers made before he died just a bit over a year ago, and he's in fine form. I think he would have been proud to see this CD finally released to the world.
If you're interested in buying We Will Wait, click here to head on over to CD Baby and check it out.
An Irish Christmas: A Musical Solstice Celebration
Last week, New York City's Irish Arts Center launched a Christmas album called An Irish Christmas: A Musical Solstice Celebration. It is the first in IAC's "Live From Irish Arts Center" series and recorded live during last year's series of Christmas concerts. The album features Mick Moloney, Athena Tergis, Rhys Jones, Billy McComiskey, Liz Hanley and Brendan Dolan and it also includes a track from the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra! I mention it because I had a fair bit to do with it, not only with the WSHSO, but as production coordinator (being a second set of ears in mixing/mastering, organizing manufacturing, etc) and publicist (if you've heard it on the radio, I had something to do with it getting there).
It sets a very high musical standard for Christmas albums and has some great music on it – plus, it's a worthwhile gift for the season! Click here to buy it/ check it out!
Skull Banjo
Today, I was at the National Library in Kingston, reading the June 1900 issue of Winkler's Choir Leader. It's a kind of boring Jamaica-based periodical about choir music (and mostly about religious choir music at that), but I came across an article about a "skull banjo" supposedly found in Paraguay that caught my eye. Here's the exact text, it paints a chilling picture:
Grewsome Musical Instrument
Skull banjos are the product of the small country of Paraguay. The Indians of ancient times were constantly engaged in warfare and their primary aim when thus engaged was to capture the chief of the opposing side. When captured this personage was carried to their camp and there cruelly murdered and it was from his body that this grewsome curious musical instrument was made.
After the skull was thoroughly dried the top was cut entirely off. Over the opening thus made a piece of skin taken from the body was tightly stretched in the manner of a drum. In the back of the skull the two femors of the legs were inserted. These bones were so trimmed that they were of uniform thickness throughout the entire length. The ends of these bones were joined together by one of the ribs from the body.
Then from the forehead of the skull to the rib which connected the femors strings were tightly stretched. These strings were made from the skin of the victim, thoroughly dried and rubbed over with resin. The instrument was played in a similar manner to the mandolin.
The skull was left so that the jaws were movable. Therefore with each shake of the instrument the jaws wagged, and with any sharp jolt the teeth came together with a snap. So Rare a relic was this considered that a gentleman of England bid £125 for one at a recent auction In London.
Turns out, the verbatim article appears a few months earlier in the February, 1900 issue of the Hopkinsville Kentuckian. Then, a slightly amended version of this article (with a line suggesting the existence of this instrument is proof that Paraguayan Indians are a "barbarous, uncivilized race") shows up in 1906 in Wisconsin's Eau Claire Sunday Leader, in May 1907 in Springfield, Kentucky's News-Leader (where the New York Herald is its cited source), in May 1907 in the Lodi Sentinel, and then in July 1907 in the Bryan Times. I'm sure this article showed up in other papers as well – I just haven't looked in depth.
Is this an example of such an instrument?


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- May 12, 2014
NATIONAL property markets went backwards last week, after a sustained period of positive value movement.
Brisbane and Melbourne suffered the worst falls, slipping 0.7 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively, while Perth fell 0.5 per cent.
Sydney is back to where it was two weeks ago, after dropping the 0.3 per cent that it added in the previous week. Adelaide was the only major capital where values did not move.
However the year so far still remains positive, with Sydney up 5.2 per cent and Melbourne in second place with 4.2 per cent growth. Adelaide (3.8 per cent) and Brisbane (2.3 per cent) are going forward at a more subdued rate, while Perth values have slipped 0.3 per cent for the year, as the WA capital experiences a cooling off phase. Year on year, Sydney values are up 17.1 per cent and Melbourne has grown 9.5 per cent.
A quiet week for auction markets saw just 1514 held across major cities, for an average clearance rate of 67.4 per cent.
Sydney led the way with a 76.1 per cent clearance rate from 606 auctions, while Melbourne cleared 63.4 per cent of the 706 homes that went under the hammer. Adelaide, Canberra and Brisbane were the other capitals to clear above 50 per cent, though from less than 200 auctions between them.
"Volumes have been lower this week as the market heads into a traditionally quieter time in winter. The higher clearance rate is largely a factor of a stronger Sydney market where a preliminary clearance rate 76.1 per cent was recorded compared to 71.4 per cent last week," said Robert Larocca, RP Data housing market specialist. "The higher national clearance rate does not represent a significant shift in the market and is broadly in line with the trend this year, particularly with the results prior to Easter and Anzac Day."
Sydney maintained its long term dominance over the private treaty market, with 1391 house sales for a median price of $725,000; and 730 unit sales for a median of $563,000. Both house and unit medians have slipped slightly however, each down around $15,000 from previous weekly highs.
Buyer activity and bidder numbers were down in Sydney over the weekend, according to Rocky Bartolotto, director of Auction Services.
"We did see a number of results from different regions sell well above expectations," Mr Bartolotto said. "(We also saw) a number of owners adjust their reserve price, meeting the market and selling on auction day."
Two homes were sold as one at 16 and 16a Frederick St, Concord, earning the vendors $1.335 million; a handy $85,000 above reserve. Ten registered parties fought it out for the properties on a 600 sqm land block; sold by Chris Georgantonis, Time Realty Five Dock.
A three-bedroom home at 16 Holder St, Turner in The ACT, sold on the weekend for $950,000.
The red-brick home which was marketed through McGrath is on 860sq m. It is in fairly original condition, has a gas fireplace and a sunroom. The bathroom also has inslab heating.
In Queensland a home at 3 Rockett St, Aspley sold under the hammer for $642,500.
The two-bedroom house was marketed through Ray White. The home has open plan living areas and a galley-style timber kitchen.
In Victoria, a five-bedroom home at 43 Woornack Rd, Carnegie sold under the hammer for $1.3 million.
The property was marketed through Biggin & Scott. The renovated and extended period home is on 670sq m.
It has three bathrooms and three toilets, plus a formal lounge and dining room, both with open fire places.
There is a feature pond, barbecue and gardens.
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jackson of Sydney Posted at 1:15 PM May 12, 2014
mmm cold weather slowed house prices ...bahahahahahahaha! nothing to do with the state of the countries economy ....it was the cold snap' hahahahahaha!! that is funny!
Dan of Melbourne Posted at 12:45 PM May 12, 2014
House values are about to fall off a cliff. It's so obvious, half a million for a below average home with interest rates to rise in the next 9-15 months! If houses keep rising at the current rate you'd need a deposit of $100k to get in and then servicing the debt of ~$700k would take 6-7 times at least of dual average income. There's no room left to move, either houses will come down in value or everyone will need to become millionaires to live in whoop whoop!


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The Dallas Paleontological Society was founded in 1984 for the purpose of promoting interest in and knowledge of the science of paleontology. It was intended by the founding members that the Society would be a network for the exchange of data between professionals and serious amateurs in this field.
Next Meeting:Wednesday, August 10th
The next DPS meeting will be 7:30 pm on Wednesday, August 10th, at Brookhaven College Geotechnology Institute (Building H). A short presentation will be given by Bob Williams, entitled "What is a Crinoid?". Bob is formerly the DPS Promotions Chair and a gracious leader of many field trips for the society.
The main presentation will be given by Nathan van Vranken who will talk about the dinosaur Dakotaraptor stein. Nathan has his undergraduate degree from UT Arlington, where he focused on the Arlington Archosaur Site for his project, and an MS in Geology from UT Permian Basin. The title of Nathan's talk will be "Shaking the Trees: Reanalysis & Evolutionary Framework in regards to the "Allied Plunderer", Dakotaraptor stein" We hope to see you there.
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Arlington Archosaur Site
The Arlington Archosaur Site is now fully integrated into the Perot Museum volunteer system. All digs will be organized through the museum, and overseen by Dr. Noto and trained museum staff from the Paleo Lab. In order to become a dig volunteer at the AAS you will need to submit an application through the museum website (http://www.perotmuseum.org/about-the-perot/Volunteer/index.html). Eventually there will be a separate application for the AAS, but for now make sure to add "AAS fossil dig volunteer" in the notes section at the bottom of the application. You will also need to pass a background check and submit a resume. These materials will be reviewed in 1-2 weeks and if space is available you will be invited to attend a 1.5 hour onboarding/orientation session at the museum. These steps are all required before anyone may participate in a dig. If you are currently a Perot volunteer contact the Volunteer Services office about attending one of the onboarding sessions. If you have any questions, please contact the volunteer office at email@example.com.
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Step into the world of 65 million+ years ago and "Be the DinosaurTM" in Grapevine from June 3 - September 18 in the Grand Gallery.
"Be the DinosaurTM" is a groundbreaking fusion of state-of-the-art video game technology and traditional exhibits, featuring full-size dinosaur bones, a paleontology field station, a Safari Jeep and more. Visitors of all ages can enter into the largest and most complex restoration of an extinct ecosystem ever created.
Visitors will be able to see a complex and far-reaching restoration of dinosaurs that include some amazing features.
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The PIT Crew
The Paleontologists In Training is a program of the DPS that is open to kids from age 7 to 15. If you are interested in fossils, want to have fun on field trips, and like learning about our beautiful world, come join us at one of our meetings, or field trips. You will find it educational, and fun at the same time!
For more information, Click the link here or click the link under the home page called "For Kids - The Pit Crew" , to see policies, upcoming events, announcements, and how to sign up to take advantage of this new program.
Oliver Creek Field Trip August 27th Announced
Roger Farish will be leading our group to one of the best trips we take each year to Drop, Tx, just outside Justin, TX. Find Oxytropidoceras and echinoids like Epiaster whitei and the rarer, regular Salenia mexicana. Click here for more details.
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Thanks To CT Scans, Scientists Know A Lot About Texas' Pawpawsaurus Dinosaur
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I have been an international human rights activist and lobbyist for 31 years in Washington. There have been times when issues I cared about and worked hard on simply didn't bear fruit, and I wonder at those times if I've just been at this too long. Congress adjourning in October without passing the Child Protection Compact Act (S3184/HR2737) was one of those down-in-the-dumps times!
The CPCA would provide additional authority and funding for the State Department Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) to designate "focus countries" and reach an agreement with them on the eradication of child trafficking. "Child Protection Compacts" would open the door to multi-year funding to help countries rescue victims and prosecute and convict perpetrators.
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