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GRAPHIC NOVELS: Stories To Change Your Life
A Review By: The Daily Mail
The following review written by Ned Denny appeared in the Daily Mail newspaper on Friday 22 December, 2006.
The comic-book heroes with a touch of genius.
Here's a good piece of information to have at hand if anyone ever sneers at you for reading 'comic books': Goethe was a fan. The story goes that, towards the end of his life, the great poet, novelist and dramatist was shown an unpublished 'histoire en estampes' (or 'story in prints') by a schoolteacher called Rodolphe Tôpffer. Amazed and delighted by this innovative mode of storytelling, the aged genius is said to have kept repeating: 'That is really too crazy!' But his subsequent comments are more revealing still.
'If Tôpffer did not have such an insignificant text (ie story) before him,' Goethe is said to have remarked, 'he would invent things that would surpass all our expectations.'
This anecdote is taken from Graphic Novels: Stories To Change Your Life, edited by Paul Gravett (Aurum, £18.99), a superb introduction to a medium that is finally, as its author suggests, coming into its own. The only question is why has it taken so long? According to Gravett, the years between Tôpffer's trailblazing 1832 volume and the present-day boom are a catalogue of 'missed opportunities, unrealised dreams and thwarted possibilities.'
As late as 1969, novelist and one-time cartoonist John Updike was still speaking in terms of the potential of the book-length comic rather than its actual achievements ('I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.').
Likewise, Salvador Dali's prediction that 'comics will be the culture of the year 3794' located the genre's geniuses in a vague future world rather than the present day.
All this began to change with the appearance in 1978 of Will Eisner's A Contract With God (the trilogy is published by W.W. Norton at £18.99; paperback volumes £10.99 each). The 60-year-old Eisner was a veteran of the comics business, his cult newspaper strip The Spirit having run throughout the Forties. Inspired by the glossy, book-length collections he saw on an honorary visit to a French comic festival, Eisner sat down and produced what Gravett describes as 'a quartet of sad, moving and disarmingly unglamorous' vignettes of Jewish life in the Bronx of the Thirties.
To an industry whose mainstay was the exploits of glamorous superheroes - in other words, escapism - it was an untouchable curiosity. Eventually released by a small independent publisher, A Contract With God showed that comic book artists could tackle the same gritty subjects and thorny issues as novelists. 'I can't claim to have invented the wheel,' Eisner later remarked, 'but I felt I was in a position to change the direction of comics.'
Almost 30 years on, Eisner's brave example has spawned countless graphic novels on every subject imaginable. Take Persepolis (Cape, £14.99), Marjane Satrapi's wholly enthralling account of growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution. While her drawings have the expressive power of woodcuts, their almost childlike simplicity allows her to deal with harrowing subjects (bombings, executions) in an accessible way. Persepolis is one of those books you wish would never end, its damning portrayal of dictatorships lingers long in the memory (luckily for Satrapi fans, her Embroideries and Chicken With Plums are equally good).
Domestic abuse and cancer are also subjects that one would never normally associate with comics, yet there are gripping graphic novels on precisely those themes. In Dragon Slippers (Harper Press, £9.99), Rosalind B. Penfold uses the sketchy style of the comic strip to relate the emotional trauma of life with a violent and manipulative man. It's an odd-sounding approach that works superbly, the light tone balancing the weighty theme to ultimately liberating effect.
Similarly, Cancer Vixen by Marisa Axocella Marchetto (4th Estate, £9.99) and Mom's Cancer (Abrams Image, £7.95) snatch victory from the jaws of defeat by means of a medium that can extract a redemptive lightness from the bleakest of situations. Even travel books can be done in comic-strip form, as Guy Delisle's gently satirical Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea (Cape,£12.99) shows.
Nevertheless, it's a mistake to think that the graphic novel has to tackle 'serious' subjects in order to be taken seriously. Cartoons and comic books traditionally deal with the bizarre, the childlike and the supernatural - everything, in fact, that novelists tend to disdain - and it's in those strange realms that their greatest potential lies.
In fact, one of the genre's true masterpieces is a 6,000-page multi-volume epic whose anti-hero is a misanthropic, shape-shifting aardvark. The brainchild of Canadian artist Dave Sim, Cerebus is comparable to the works of James Joyce in its formal experimentation and strange philosophic depth. Using word and image to extraordinary effect, it's a creation that would have surpassed even Goethe's wildest expectations.


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A lot of people lament the aging of summer, as the long nights approach and the leaves begin to brown like singed paper, however here at QP Jewellers we've always loved it. I guess that's because we don't see August as the end of anything, really; we just see it as the month of the mysterious Peridot, one of our favourite gemstones.

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ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- Mongolians celebrated the 800th anniversary of Genghis Khan's march to world conquest yesterday with festivities that mixed commercialism with appeals to nationalism.
In the capital's Central Stadium, men dressed like warriors in Genghis Khan's 13th-century horde paraded on stout, brown horses. In one section of the grandstands, people held up cards to form images of the conqueror and the national flag. An actor played Genghis Khan in a white robe and head gear, riding a white horse to cheers from the crowd.
``We Mongolians must be united and have one goal: to develop our country. Remember Genghis Khan and his great deeds," said President Nambaryn Enkhbayar , who usually wears a suit but was dressed in a traditional gold and cream silk robe for the occasion.
Mongolians and their leaders are reveling in Genghis Khan, finding a source of identity at an unsettling time.
Sandwiched between a voracious China and an assertive Russia, Mongolia faces international challenges , while at home the democracy and free markets that followed communism's collapse in 1990 have created wealth for some but left a third of the 2.8 million people in poverty.
The greatness of Genghis Khan is something that most Mongolians agree on.
``I feel so proud to have been born in the land of the Great Khan who conquered most of the world," said Tserendulam, a recently retired cook who was among 800 singers at the ceremony. Like many Mongolians, he uses one name.
The anniversary marks Genghis Khan's unification of fractious Mongol tribes in 1206 -- an event that gave Mongolians a nascent national identity and set them on a course to forge an empire that stretched from the Pacific to Central Europe.
Though the celebrations will last a year, yesterday 's ceremony was timed for maximum public impact: the start of an annual festival of horse racing, archery, wrestling and camaraderie known as Naadam.
It's a time when the harsh weather of the steppe mellows for a brief summer as Mongolians enjoy themselves and politicians try to burnish their appeal.
Images of Genghis Khan, often as a wizened elder, have been plastered on billboards, etched in white stones on a mountainside and used to promote tourism. A rock opera of the conqueror's life, modeled on ``Jesus Christ Superstar," is being staged by a popular band.
The government tore down mausoleums of a 20th-century nationalist hero and a communist dictator on Ulan Bator's central square this year to build a $5 million monument of Genghis Khan in bronze.
At yester day's ceremony, the president and audience sang a newly altered version of the national anthem. The revisions, made by the government in recent weeks, deleted references to the communist past and replaced them with allusions to Mongolian independence.
In the rush to capitalize on his name, Genghis Khan's legacy as a brutal conqueror is being played down. Instead, he's being cast as an agent of world change, a visionary statesman who promoted low taxes on trade, diplomatic immunity and religious tolerance.
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``As a small country sandwiched between large nations, globalization is felt day to day and it's a pressing matter," Tsend Munkh-Orgil, a member of Mongolia's parliament and Enkhbayar's party, said Monday. He said Genghis Khan can help forge ``the national unity and national consensus" missing since democracy and capitalism emerged 15 years ago.


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Civil liberties
We will be strong in defence of freedom. The Government believes that the British state has become too authoritarian, and that over the past decade it has abused and eroded fundamental human freedoms and historic civil liberties. We need to restore the rights of individuals in the face of encroaching state power, in keeping with Britain's tradition of freedom and fairness.
- We will implement a full programme of measures to reverse the substantial erosion of civil liberties and roll back state intrusion.
- We will introduce a Freedom Bill.
- We will scrap the ID card scheme, the National Identity register and the ContactPoint database, and halt the next generation of biometric passports.
- We will outlaw the finger-printing of children at school without parental permission.
- We will extend the scope of the Freedom of Information Act to provide greater transparency.
- We will adopt the protections of the Scottish model for the DNA database.
- We will protect historic freedoms through the defence of trial by jury.
- We will restore rights to non-violent protest.
- We will review libel laws to protect freedom of speech.
- We will introduce safeguards against the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation.
- We will further regulate CCTV.
- We will end the storage of internet and email records without good reason.
- We will introduce a new mechanism to prevent the proliferation of unnecessary new criminal offences.
- We will establish a Commission to investigate the creation of a British Bill of Rights that incorporates and builds on all our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights, ensures that these rights continue to be enshrined in British law, and protects and extends British liberties. We will seek to promote a better understanding of the true scope of these obligations and liberties.
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No effective right to strike then. Without this all the other stuff is just a hill of beans.
I suggest you review the anti money laundering laws.
These laws impose a lot of extra work for tens of millions of citizens who have to provide certified copies of passports and utility bills to prove identity and address whenever one wants to buy shares, get a mortgage, buy currency etc etc.
My wife has difficulty proving her address as all our utility bills are in my name as I handle the home finances. I'm sure many couples are in the same situation.
It creates a lot of needless work and difficulties but I question whether it is of any real value in stopping money laundering by terrorists or drug dealers.
Terrorists don't need large sums oif money – the Stanley knives used in the 9/11attacks probably cost $1 each. Drug dealers I'm sure have other ways of moving money around. It is just millions of ordinary people who are massively inconvenienced.
I hope you can find a way to repeal these laws or improve the way they are implemented.
Please ger rid of civil rights and replace it with civil duties.
Tell you what, why don't we just tell you which laws in the last 13 years we would like to keep and scrap all the rest?
I agree in part with John Douglass – it seems that the word 'rights' doesn't work very well when divorced from the words 'and responsibilities'. Maybe you could look at this at the same time.
Will anyone who has purchased an ID card be able to have the cost discounted from the price of the passport that they will now need?
Section 67 NERC 2006 should be repealed fro the following reasons:
The legislation assumes that every highway authority had (as required by law) a List of Streets that was a) complete and b) readily understandable and c) provided some certainty as to where a route started and where it ended. Many (most) do not have such a LoS.
The legislation offers a 'private' right to property owners if they can demonstrate they would have had a public right before commencement of NERC. Clearly this is all but meaningless as common law (and accidents of history) has made it all but impossible to prove vehicular rights exist over a given route. The Lord Chancellor's Independent Inspectors have very rarely confirmed a BOAT over an ancient highway in recent years.
The above means that many rural properties are now technically without access for motor vehicles.
Again, due to indolence, financial constraints and a many other reasons, highway authorities have not properly recorded old roads (over a period starting in 1949 or 1968, depending on your view), thus the byway network is fragmented, with many BOATs being cul-de-sac due to s.67 NERC.
The reduction in the network available to the law-abiding trail rider is having two undesirable results.
a – the remaining network is (in places) becoming over used
b – many hitherto law-abiding riders are ignoring an unjust law, thus causing understandable tensions
c – many landowners think that the NERC legislation allows them to gate the new Restricted Byways, thus denying access to cyclists & equestrians
Because s.67 was so heavily amended during its passage through Parliament there are a number of stupid outcomes. For example, due to poor highway authority performance many good, hard roads (including some tarmac ones) are now closed to motorists whilst many unsuitable (soft, narrow, out of repair) routes remain open to motorists, thus act more as an encouragement to the 'competitive' element.
Section 67 does not target the irresponsible, but negatively impacts on the law-abiding, removing legitimate access too OUR countryside.
Section 67 is far from clear and four years on from commencement of this legislation some highway authorities are still telling trail riders that it is OK to ride on restricted byways and bridleways because 'they are also on the List of Streets. If those applying the law do not themselves understand it, and if the law contains so many (and indeterminate) exemptions, it cannot be good law and should be repealed.
Restore the right to silence that was undermined in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. The judge now must give a very complex and lengthy direction to a jury about the defendant's silence even though it can only "add some additional support to the prosecution case" i.e. it is merely supportive evidence. It is a waste of time and energy and, more importantly, illiberal.
Where to start? Remove the many powers of entry to the home e.g. tax inspectors; abolish random stop and search under the terrorism act; abolish the bad character provisions in the Criminal Justice Act 2003; restore double jeopardy. For starters.
The right to strike is under judicial pressure and may require legislative protection.
The use of anti-terrorism laws against photographers, protesters and others needs to be stopped urgently. Review of libel law likewise.
Legal protections should apply to all. "Terrorist" suspects should not be treated differently to other suspects. The law must allow them to be charged and brought to trial. They must be allowed to prepare a defence to the evidence against them. Extended detention without trial, and so-called "control orders" are an affront to what our justice system ought to stand for.
Please keep the ID card as an optional extra with a passport – scrap all of the complicated bits and database.
It is very useful as a proof of age / ID card + travel when the passport is away getting a visa.
I would strongly suggest repealing the 'Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act'
There should be a clear distinction between those who make laws and those who investigate and prosecute alleged offences. Allowing councils to do all three of those has led to abuses of power, corruption and a break down of trust between citizens and the state.
very simple : protect people from unlawful searches, and require courts to follow the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine. If the police had to start obeying the law to enforce it, they would gain a lot more respect.
My first ID card expired when I was 16. I had to wait almost 50 years before I was
able to renew it, two months ago. I have already used it to travel within EU without
needing to show a passport. So the infrastructure is already in place.
Other EU citizens are free to travel within the EU using ID cards.
It looks as if we are about to lose this freedom.
My first ID card expired when I was 16. I had to wait almost 50 years before I was
able to renew it, two months ago. I have already used it to travel within EU without
needing to show a passport. So the infrastructure is already in place.
Other EU citizens are free to travel within the EU using ID cards.
It looks as if we are about to lose this freedom.
Is the attack on Brian Haw this morning an example of the promises shown above in action?
How quickly the new government has abandoned these promises. If these promises meant anything it would have got the police under control on this high profile day.
I'm hoping the repeal bill will include anti-civil-liberty acts/clauses passed by all previous administrations, and not just the Labour one? e.g.t eh RIght to Silence and the aspects of the Criminal Justice Act which weakened the right to free assembly.
Repealing the Digital Economy Act would be a good move. If Parliament wants to try and pass it again, then they can do it without rushing it and they can do it without having clauses written by the parties that stand to benefit most from it.
Oh, and they could actually consult experts from the affected industries first to see if it's both feasible and fair.
As someone who works with the ContactPoint database and is now hearing from my practitioner colleagues and those from other authorities the benefits they are getting from the system, particurlarly locating those potentially vulnerable children and young people, I cannot understand why something that could potentially save lives is being scrapped. Yes, saving money is important but saving lives and keeping children and young people safe is surely equally as important. Do we have to wait for the next high profile death of a child for the process to start again – doubling the cost.
I think the Liberal Democrat "Freedom Bill 2009″ is an excellent starting place for our civil liberties and I'm delighted to see both parties of the coalition supporting this.
In addition to it, I would like to see a repeal of the Digital Economy Act (or at the very least, clauses 11-18) as I do not believe they are workable or fair. I would be happy to see the issue given proper debate, but the law as it stands is nonsense. Long term, I feel that copyright reform is essential in the digital age, to re-balance the rights of both the content creators and the consumers.
I would also like to see the removal of the airport "body scanners" that have recently been introduced. I consider them to be very intrusive and but provide little actual security benefits.
Please reconsider plans to install airport full body scanners in British airports. The privacy controls are insufficient to give assurance to passengers and leave many vital questions unanswered. People are being frightened in to thinking that anything which prevents them from being blown out of the skies is justifiable. The British travelling public are being mislead about how much safety the scanner provides (only 50-60% effective) and are largely unaware of how intrusive it is (shows sanitary wear) and the potential health hazards of scanning involving exposure to ionising radiation- there is no such thing as a safe level. There needs to be some means of identifying people with existing medical conditions eg joint replacements, so that innocent holiday makers are not always required to undergo intrusive scanning/searches. People with medical conditions will already have been exposed to considerable doses of ionising radiation from medical technology designed to investigate and treat their medical problem and will therefore have accumulated higher doses which may trigger cancers. People who have inherited genes for some breast/ovarian cancers may have extra sensitivity to radiation likely to cause cancer . What is to stop other operators with safety concerns eg Ferries, Bus/Train services, shopping malls etc from installing security scanners if airports do? This would add considerably to cumulative background radiation levels in addition to privacy issues for the future on a grand scale.Terrorists are always going to be one step ahead and will find other ways to conceal explosives eg in implants (eg breast) , catheter bags, on a disabled person not required to be scanned etc. If this is what it takes then the terrorists have won.
From Wikipedia (I agree with Monbiot's objections):
The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 is a piece of United Kingdom law, which, among other things criminalises, and creates a right to protection from, stalking, and persistent bullying in the workplace. However the first three people prosecuted under the act were all peaceful protestors, and commentators such as George Monbiot have voiced the concern that the amended Act effectively "allows the police to ban any campaign they please". http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/05/anti-stalking-liberty-central
for his well argued case, which I ask you please to read.
Please amend this act to exclude its application:
1. to prevent legitimate protest or
2. for one partner involved in the ongoing or recent break-up of an emotional relationship to substitute throwing pots for the nuclear option of abusing state power against the other partner.
I quote London's Stipendiary Magistrate Rosamunde Keating: "The law has gone potty." "Clogging up the courts with this nonsense."
It would seem that Michael Howard introduced the bill which Labour then implemented as law.
I would like to congratulate the Conservatives & Liberal Democrats on their plans to scrap the obscenely expensive and intrusive Identity Card Scheme.
Hats off to you all of you who campaigned so hard for such a basic freedom.
Delete "Rights" – Insert "Responsibilities" vast majority of the problems solved.
Even a balance between the two would go some where near. But to have rights without responsibilities has lead to the very broken society that Mr Cameron based his election campaign on.
As an amateur photographer I'm all too aware of the flow of reports about the use of anti-terrorist laws against ordinary photographers. It obvious that sometimes it could be important to understand why someone wants to use a camera but the law doesn't always seem to be applied with much common sense.
More generally, I think it is an abuse by any public body to use anti – terrorism powers outside a terrorist context unless Parliament has specifically approved their use in that context. Although I've never suffered personally it does seem that alarming number of local authorities are abusing the original purpose of these laws. I think this is profoundly wrong and I also think it would be useful to understand what lead to this happening.
Scrapping ContactPoint is a bad idea. Many young people will be at great risk.
I support the suggestion to replace Civil Rights with Civil Responsibilities. However to give greater freedoms back to the individual and abandon technological advances will assist criminals and terrorists, making their detection more difficult.
I do not support the reduction in the scope of DNA database as it has been proved to be an valuable tool for the Police in detecting serious crimes. DNA can prove innocence as well as guilt.
CCTV is also vital to Police in solving serious crime. In fact in the news today a man has been arrested on suspicion of killing several women who worked as prostitutes in the Bradford area thanks to CCTV.
Is complete dissent from this doctrine allowed? I think the perception that we are somehow arriving at new freedom is utterly wrong. ID cards are useful and here . And they've had them in France for decades . As a correspondent has pointed out, Europeans can travel with them. If they are such a dreadful intrusion into our lives, why are they still being retained for immigrants from outside Europe, or don't they matter? The idea that we are all free roaming individuals is an illusion. Anyone with an Iphone can be tracked within yards of it as I learned the other day when I lost mine and consulted the website who accurately found it for me. The internet is full of social networkers who all give up minutiae of their personal data for no special reason than entertainment.
The idea of ID cards, the children's protection website and other measures was surely combat the all too sophisticated systems which those will malevolent intent are using for their own purposes, be that fraud, terrorism or online grooming. Am I the only person who feels that ID cards would make us safer? This panic about them simply panders to the paranoid and anxious in all of us. In the future this will be seen I think, as a form of strange Luddite attempt to roll back the years, stop the clock and return to a previous era. The genie, whether we like it or not, is out of the bottle. Now we are getting the worst of all worlds, where we give away tools to help us track down criminals and terrorists whilst not being any more private at all.
As for CCTV cameras. I challenge the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister to nominate the first one hundred cameras to come down. Or even the first ten.
Dare I press Submit? Or will I be tracked to my home address and arrested for dissent?
I think an urgent review of the independent safeguarding authority and its vetting and barring scheme needs serious thought as to its purpose and the effect it is having. There have been at least 2 guidance leaflets issued which do not have the same information in them. There is confusion over who it applies to. The staff at the help line dont know either!! It is a law which is wide open to interpretation and no law should be so. Scrap it ???
I have to say I think it short sighted to scrap the national ID scheme entirely. I believe it should be optional (maybe a referendum on the mater) and I think it will prove that most people are more keen for the ID card than it's paper counterpart. Most people I have spoken to about are in favour but just think, as it has, will be scrapped. Yes, it does help increase security and if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. The humble debt card can tell more about a person than the ID card. Hell, asda knows when and how you shop and what your buy. Companies more than governments know more about you and your habits. The important thing about ID cards is the ability to protect the data and that you can not be convict solely on that data. Tagging of info could also be used to solve many traveling complaints, such as over staying your agreed visit to a country. We are holding GB back because we are scared; we are nation of innovators, of free thinkers, a progressive society and one of the first democratic societies in this small world. Lets leed and not follow.
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Will this government finally explode the myth that CCTV prevents crime?
Every study the last government commissioned has proven, without doubt, that it does not prevent crime… with the only exception being when it is used in Car Parks, against car-crime…
CCTV is the biggest scam this country has seen in generations. It is snake-oil, paid for by the public.
Three-quarters of the Home Office crime-prevention budget is thrown away on this useless technology.
Stop the waste! Restore our civil liberties, return policemen to where they should be, on the, streets preventing crime.
I can understand, and tend to agree with the Government's wish to abolish the ID cards scheme, simply because of the financial savings it will make. As a nation it looks like we cannot afford a voluntary ID card scheme. But as one of the 15,000 people who acquired one, I think it is wrong for the Government to void those already issued. They are, in effect, a passport with limited availability. The scheme is already administered by the Passport people, and unless I'm missing something, all that they need to do is to retain the current data base of cards issued, for record purposes. The cost should be nil, or at least negligible.
We have paid for these cards and the Government will be in breach of of its agreement if it refuses to recognize them. The situation is analogous to that where a Government is bound by a Treaty made with a Foreign Country by a previous Government. It will honour it even if they did not agree with it, until such time as they might renegotiate it.
It is morally wrong for the Government to fail to recognise those already purchased, at least without a refund; but as we are so few in number I can't see it changing its mind.
"We will further regulate CCTV."
I think we want the total number reduced. Why are there CCTV cameras in places where crime rates are at the lowest in the country? Why not focus them mainly just on crime hotspots?
Despite the fact that there is no evidence that draconian anti-terror legislation prevents terror and jury-less trials will remain in place. This Con-lib clique is under no obligation to keep their promises. The clean up of politics is a lie. In fact it there will be even more treachery under this coalition cabal than New Labour.
While I am glad that the National Identity Register is to be abolished, the idea of an ID card is not a bad idea per se. It should be kept as an option. If the identity document issuing infrastructure is there for passports, why can it also not be used to produce a card as well for no extra cost?


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|21st February 2019, 10:53 AM
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Would a 7695 cut it for 32 ohm? I got four. Other than that a bunch of 12L6's or 6CW5's are about the only higher current tubes I got. Not really interested in getting rid of the OT as if it was weight that was an addition the two pounds is not a big deal once you get the power transformer in the switching realm. Had a thought, but wouldn't you need to compare the same tubes going through a transformer to really compare the two?
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|21st February 2019, 01:44 PM
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The 7695 and related 6 volt flavor the 7754 were designed for audio use, and primarilly for the "600 ohm OTL" circuit on the last page of the data sheet. Being an "audio tube" there is no hard spec for maximum cathode current. I have one of each, so I haven't tried them in anything.
Connecting a speaker directly to a vacuum tube is like trying to drive your car 30 MPH in 5th gear. The engine (tube) needs to be running at enough RPM (voltage) to flow air properly and make enough TORQUE (move enough current) to do it's job. The transmission and differential (OPT) multiplies torque (current) at the expense of RPM (voltage).
We can find a big enough engine (tube) to make the required torque at a low RPM, but it will be operating outside of its design parameters and will dissipate a lot of its energy input as waste heat.
So, lets find our big engine that will provide the lowest losses when operated at a low voltage and high current. Here we want 10 watts into 32 ohms. That's roughly 18 volts RMS or 50 volts peak to peak across the load. Peak current into a resistive load should be about 800 mA, but slamming a cone reversing transient into a speaker (say popping the clutch) will need more current.
We only need 50 volts of signal swing, but most tubes need 50 to 100 volts of headroom to get this. Few tubes can pull their plates below 50 volts at the typical current they see, but now we want a low saturation voltage at nearly an amp of current. I'm not sure what the 7965 will do when asked for this. Some tubes that I have tested will arc from plate to cathode resulting in tube death. Others will simply glow red and not pass the current (not enough cathode emission). Here multiple tubes in parallel are required.
As the OTL people have discovered over the years the big regulator triodes are the best tube for this job. They range from tiny (6S4 and 12B4) small (7233 and Russian 6C19) mid sized (6AS7, 6080, 5998 and 7236) big (6336 and 6528) and HUGE (7241 and 7242). Some of these are extinct and expensive.
When I was searching for the best tube in a cathode follower amp which used a modulated B+ supply (class H) I needed big current at low saturation voltages. Some big TV sweep tubes are better suited for the job than the regulator triodes, but require the added complication of pentode operation. I used a big regulator triode for that amp design for simplicity.
I have over 100 25DN6 tubes that cost me $0.50 each, so I may experiment with them, but look at these curves for a BIGGER sweep tube. Yes, that's over 1 amp of plate current at 50 volts on the plate. Short tests (about 500 mS) to nearly 1 amp were done at 650 volts. Rated CONTINUOUS cathode current is 400 mA and the peak rating is 1.4 amps. That can slap some speakers around.
I am including the magazine article I published about 10 years ago that was the result of all this cathode follower stuff. It was removed from Circuit Cellar's web site long ago.
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|21st February 2019, 03:45 PM
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I think that a sweep pentode, in pentode operation, is likely the best choice for guitar amp OTL. The high Zout is no problem. It actually helps with big cones.....
The two extremes are Fender and Vox. The former uses pentodes with fbk to get a clean sound and the latter uses pentodes without fbk to get a sound that is never really clean.
I use pentode operation without feedback in all my amps and I am able to get super clean output just staying in class A or very near. Plate efficiency is a bit lower than usual but still better than triodes....up around 40-50% with an output transformer.
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|21st February 2019, 04:15 PM
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Yeah I knew the tubes I got are kind of limited but I am not really looking for 20W, 1W might be fine just to mess arround with paralling up a bunch. Or maybe not. I'll break down and buy a TV tube or two yet, it is just the shipping that bugs me.
|21st February 2019, 07:59 PM
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I got a pair of power transformers for the output at a local surplus outlet (Acme Electronics, defunct since losing their lease) for $6.00. I can't tell what brand but they are marked 'A10310B' and have 117V in and 92.5Volts out. Later I added a control transformer to buck the AC another 12 volts for a little more power.
The 6080s were obtained at a ham swap meet (Midwinter Madness although it was in March) for $2.00 each. 6080s usually don't hold up as well as 6AS7Gs but for $2.00 each I wasn't complaining. A 6SN7 was sufficient to drive them. Sockets came from a coffee can full of used sockets in my basement. I might have $5.00 into that can; had to clean up the sockets prior to use. I found a filament transformer (Signal Transformer Co.) that did 10amps for $10.00, this time from Ax-Man Surplus. A Bud chassis served; $15.00. I used one of our driver power supply transformers for the 6SN7 B+ and B- (I ran it as a cathode follower). That transformer was $12.00 when new (its been sitting on the shelf here for about 20 years). Two 12AX7s suited as the voltage amplifier and preamp. I suppose I have another $20.00 in junkbox parts to put it together with a switch and fuses, Alps controls and Switchcraft 1/4" phone jack. Filter caps gobbled a bit of the budget but no worries coming in under $100 total let alone 100 Euros.
The circuit runs zero feedback. I'd need another gain stage to add feedback. That's why a higher impedance load works best. Otherwise it tends to be too bassy. A box with several drivers in a line source array works pretty nice as the sound pressure does not drop off so quickly as you move away from it.
In my regular amps (production prototypes with more finished chassis work) I've made two versions (each using four power tubes). One uses a direct coupled cathode follower as the driver similar to the prototype above. The other uses an Edcor transformer to convert from single-ended to balanced output for the grids of the power tubes.
Since I'm not running a whole lot of bias current, I don't have either a bias or DC Offset control since the DC Offset current is minimal if the tubes are OK. Its not class A, but it has no crossover artifact since there is no magnetic field to collapse.
|21st February 2019, 09:24 PM
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The 7695 physically looks like a 6W6 / 12L6 type with added fins on the hot sides of the plate for a bit more dissipation. Typical operation has it idling at 100 mA in SE class A. The heater is also 7.5 watts, so maybe it can do the same thing as a 12L6 which is rated for 60 mA average / 180 mA peak in TV sweep use. Assuming that any of these can do 100 mA idle, 200 mA peak, a pair in parallel can put enough current into 32 ohms for a bit over 1 watt.
1 watt into 32 ohms needs 5.7 volts RMS at 175 mA. Peak currents should be in the 250 mA range and peak to peak voltage swing should be around 16 volts, but that's driving a resistor. A 8 ohm guitar speaker near resonance can be 20 ohms or more, and resonance is often within the guitar's frequency range for smaller speakers. I imagine any B+ voltage that gets the tubes to work will provide plenty of available voltage swing.
The (conservative) 10 watt dissipation rating comes into play as B+ goes over 100 volts on the 6W6 / 12L6 if you want to stay in class A. The 7695 can eat 16 watts.
There are several different circuit topologies that can be used for OTL. The totem pole like SemperFi's design, the Circlotron like Atmasphere uses, the Futterman, and the SRPP like circuit shown in the 7695 data sheet.
It has been postulated that an SE OTL would be the worst of both worlds, but it just might work for a guitar amp, and it offers some other circuit choices like the SRPP with some minor tweaks.
Why would I go there.....because I, and others, have been there....a long time ago. Some of the experiments are on a forgotten page in my web site:
Active Loaded SE Output Stages | Tubelab
and the link leads back to some experiments here:
Active load output stage
and to an amp by Pete Millett that looks like an EL34 version of the SRPP thing on the 7695 data sheet.
EL34 Active-load (SRPP) amp
Granted all of these experiments were done with OPT's or big resistors, but the concept can be applied to OTL. All of the circuits are similar with minor tweaks. I would probably use a zener to control the screen grid voltage in pentode mode.....but maybe not....I'll have to try it.
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|22nd February 2019, 08:55 AM
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To make a 16K transformer you can use the Edcor XPP15-8K with 4 ohm seconday and use it with a SINGLE standard (and good) 8R driver...!!. It costs $22.67. This is rated 15W I suppose at the US line frequency of 60Hz which means about 27W at 80Hz if 8K and over 13W if 16K. So it's good for both the 10W Class A PCL86 amp and the 20W EL84 amp! $30 max for chassis and wooden box and that's pretty much where big money is.....EL84's are cheaper than one might think just selecting a variant which is actually better because of the different pin out which allows higher ratings for plate voltage and g2 voltage to make a very reliable 20W amp. IT also allows to simplify the bias supply too....!! PCL86's like Polamp (old Philips Polish factory) I paid them $0.5 each.
There is no collapse in a properly made output stage with OPT. Also because for best performance the output stage shouldn't clip heavily. Distortion can be better made upstream....
I have actually found a way to wind a relatively inexpensive transformer for unity coupling and thus class B operation just like the McIntosh! For those who can't the twin coupled amp as proposed by Crowhurst is a good solution.
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|22nd February 2019, 11:09 AM
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Oh I see the picture on Fbk. Sorry I do not have an account and never will.
Anyway if that sort of ship is meant to be a guitar amp you will sell none or near none. The chassis doesn't look light at all. Where is the weight saving? A typical 50W amp with EL34's is a lot more compact and can be possibly lighter than that.
A guitar amp has to be practical. This is a crucial requirement just like the sound! We are not talking about stage amps with multiple arrays as large as a house.
50W on which load? 32R? 64R? more? How do you put the drivers? Are you aware of interference and limited freedom in placing them in order to get best result? If you use 2x16R drivers they cannot be too small and if use 4 putting them into a square or similar is not a good idea. I know this has be done and can still be found but it's not a great idea....
|22nd February 2019, 04:53 PM
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The amp in the photo on our FB page is a prototype. The chassis was designed to be mounted on its side in a combo. But much later on I built it up as a guitar head- we were going to put it upside down in an open back using one or a pair of 10" drivers originally meant for an SVT cabinet.
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|22nd February 2019, 07:05 PM
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The only full range driver line array that works well is that one using 4" cones MAX size. 5" is already too big! And it has to be rather high to approximate a cylindrical line source. In your 4x8" cones emission lobes will develop.
Moreover its an array so NO way of getting a reasonably sized and/or portable amplifier. Totally unpractical. Only usable if never moves otherwise it's just for museum display.
I am curious to see where do you put the amplifier then. I doubt you can make a reasonable combo amp.
You missed my point. You have been raving about the transparent sound of OTL amps and then you use a cheap interstage transformer that is typically worse than an output transformer of the same price range! You confuse transformer saturation and power stage clipping. One doe not imply the other.
If OTL guitar amps had something more to offer or were more convenient be certain that you would not be alone....doing it for fun is one thing but it ends there.
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The main features of IBM DB2 are, alongside constant management, sustained long-term data, withstanding individual runs of applications and the efficient management of this data, which means that access to a specific record can be done as quickly as possible. In addition, there is the provision of operations and descriptive language for data modification and selection. The list of IBM DB2 features is complemented by the transaction concept support. This means that operations which are related are indivisible by IBM DB2, and are either run as a whole or not run at all. IBM DB2 ensures that the data is always in a consistent state. In addition, IBM DB2 supports data protection with user roles and established rights. IBM DB2 is then multi-user capable, which means that a database can be used by different users at the same time without them influencing one another.
IBM DB2 is available to buy in different packages. In addition to the regular products, there is a personal and Workgroup Editions, as well as Developer's Editions. These include IBM DB2 Connect and Visual Age for Java in the Entry or Professional Edition. IBM DB2 Personal Developer's Edition is available for free download – and it also not performance limited. The Enterprise Edition can be downloaded as a 90-day limited edition.
You can find more information on IBM DB2 on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2
and on the manufacturer's website: https://www.ibm.com/analytics/us/en/technology/db2/


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New York City Ballet: 2 & 3 Part Inventions, Opus 19/The Dreamer, Im Old Fashioned
Onstage with the Dancers
New York City Ballet
(New York City Ballet Website)
2 & 3 Part Inventions
Opus 19/The Dreamer
Im Old Fashioned
Founders, George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein
Founding Choreographers: George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins
Ballet Master in Chief: Peter Martins
Ballet Mistress: Rosemary Dunleavy
Assistant to the Ballet Master in Chief: Sean Lavery
Guest Teacher: Merrill Ashley
Childrens Ballet Master: Garielle Whittle
Orchestra, Music Director: Fayçal Karoui
Chairman of the Board: John L. Vogelstein
Managing Dir. Communications and Special Projects: Robert Daniels
Manager, Media Relations: Katharina Plumb
Assoc., Communications and Special Projects, Caitlin Gillette
The David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center
Dr. Roberta E. ZlokowerMay 11, 2010
(Read More NYC Ballet Reviews).
Conductor: Maurice Kaplow
2 & 3 Part Inventions (1995): Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Lighting by Jennifer Tipton, Pianist: Nancy McGill, Performed by Kathryn Morgan, Erica Pereira, Ashley Laracey, Stephanie Zungre, Chase Finlay, Allen Peiffer, Daniel Applebaum, Joshua Thew.
Robbins 2 & 3 Part Variations is made for youthful, vibrant dancers, who walk toward and back from the audience, in rhythmic fashion, punctuating the syncopated beat. The work was originally designed for the School of American Ballet in 1994, and thus has an energetic, ingénue quality. Kathryn Morgan, Erica Pereira, Chase Finlay, and Daniel Applebaum caught my eye, with their charming buoyancy and enthusiastic demeanor. Ms. Morgan, especially, captivates the viewer with her beyond-elegant presence, her wistful expressiveness. Mr. Applebaum has matured recently into a commanding dancer, who looks out and draws the audience in. Bachs piano Inventions were impressively played by Nancy McDill, a pro of the genre. I was particularly attracted to the dancers swinging and swimming arms, their switching of direction, and the precision of leaps and lunges. This piece always engages the audience with its lively tempo, danced to twelve 18th century piano studies.
Opus 19/The Dreamer (1979): Music by Sergei Prokofiev, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Costumes by Ben Benson, Lighting by Ronald Bates, Violin Solo: Arturo Delmoni, Performed by Wendy Whelan, Gonzalo Garcia, and the Company.
Every time I see this work, it seems surprising in its searing, fierce musicality, thanks to Prokofievs 1st Violin Concerto. With Arturo Delmoni at the bow and Maestro Kaplow on the Conductors podium, Wendy Whelan and Gonzalo Garcia catapulted in dizzying spins with sharp-angled arms. This All-Robbins program was all the more powerful and momentous with Ms. Whelan and Mr. Garcias magnetized chemistry and lofty interpretation. Mr. Garcia was more confident, balanced, and less self-conscious than last season, and he developed the depth and dramatic potential of Robbins vivid choreography. The blueness of Ben Bensons costumes and Ronald Bates lighting created a mesmerizing, mystical haze that enveloped the dancers. The ensemble of twelve was like a dreamy Greek chorus, and Marika Anderson, Daniel Applebaum, and Christian Tworzyanski caught my eye. Arturo Delmoni added heavenly attributes to the usually stark violin solos.
I'm Old Fashioned (1983): Music by Morton Gould (based on music by Jerome Kern), Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Costumes by Florence Klotz, Lighting by Ronald Bates, Performed by Rebecca Krohn, Jenifer Ringer, Sara Mearns, Adrian Danchig-Waring, Jared Angle, Tyler Angle, and the Company. Film sequence from You Were Never Lovelier, starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth.
This luscious Robbins work, that mimics Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworths duets, dancing to Goulds take on Kern and Mercer, in the 1942 film, You Were Never Lovelier, is one of my City Ballet favorites. However, tonights cast had a mixed result, with Jared Angle a bit dull in the thigh-slapping solo. Au contraire, Adrian Danchig-Waring, partnering the stunning and sparkling Jenifer Ringer, was campy, spinning his arms and shoulders and outdoing himself with old fashioned fancy steps. Sara Mearns was impeccable in style, seizing the stage with poise and pizzazz. Rebecca Krohn added warmth and vivacity, as did Tyler Angle. Florence Klotz costumes begin in a colorful array and end in formal black, as dancers and film stars merge on stage and backdrop screen. Among the corps, Gwyneth Muller, Ralph Ippolito, and Daniel Applebaum sparked the moment. The music swirled in my mind endlessly, long after I left Koch Theater.
For more information, contact Dr. Roberta E. Zlokower at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Did you receive Bankruptcy Official Form 423? Not sure what to do with it? Read on to learn more about this important bankruptcy form.
Bankruptcy Courses
If you are on the receiving end of Bankruptcy Official Form 423, then it is safe to say that you are in the middle of a bankruptcy.
The law requires bankruptcy filers to complete two classes. First, a debtor must complete a pre-filing class. Second, a debtor must complete a post-filing class.
Bankruptcy Official Form 423 informs debtors of their requirements to complete the second class. Officially, the class is called a "Financial Management Course."
Where to Take a Financial Management Course
Luckily for bankruptcy filers, many companies provide the Financial Management Course. Most providers offer online courses these days.
It pays to shop around! The bankruptcy court does not set the price of the Financial Management Course. Providers are free to charge whatever they want for this important class.
Bankruptcy law requires that the Financial Management Course consist of no less than two hours of instruction. So snuggle up with your laptop and cup of coffee.
Important Form 423 Information
Official Form 423 tells debtors several important pieces of information. For instance, debtors only have a certain amount of time to complete their Financial Management Course. In fact, the bankruptcy court will close a bankruptcy case without a discharge if a debtor does not complete the class on time.
A debtor can reopen their bankruptcy case to file their missing certificate. However, the bankruptcy court charges a $260 filing fee just to reopen the case. As you can see, missing the deadline for the Financial Management Course is an expensive mistake!
Form 423 also tells debtors that they need to file their course completion certificate with the court. Some debtors forget to file their certificate with the court. Again, the bankruptcy court will close a debtor's case if the debtor forgets to file the certificate.


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Source: Wikipedia: COCOMO
The Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is an algorithmic software cost estimation model developed by Barry Boehm. The model uses a basic regression formula, with parameters that are derived from historical project data and current project characteristics.
COCOMO was first published in 1981 Barry W. Boehm's Book Software engineering economics[1] as a model for estimating effort, cost, and schedule for software projects. It drew on a study of 63 projects at TRW Aerospace where Barry Boehm was Director of Software Research and Technology in 1981. The study examined projects ranging in size from 2,000 to 100,000 lines of code, and programming languages ranging from assembly to PL/I. These projects were based on the waterfall model of software development which was the prevalent software development process in 1981.
The cocomo is a hierarchy of software cost estimation model. COCOMO Models are Basic Model and Intermediate Model. The Basic model aims at estimating in a quick and rough fashion, most of the small to medium sized software projects. Three modes of Basic model. Organic,Semideteched and Embeded.
References to this model typically call it COCOMO 81. In 1997 COCOMO II was developed and finally published in 2000 in the book Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II[2]. COCOMO II is the successor of COCOMO 81 and is better suited for estimating modern software development projects. It provides more support for modern software development processes and an updated project database. The need for the new model came as software development technology moved from mainframe and overnight batch processing to desktop development, code reusability and the use of off-the-shelf software components. This article refers to COCOMO 81.
COCOMO consists of a hierarchy of three increasingly detailed and accurate forms. The first level, Basic COCOMO is good for quick, early, rough order of magnitude estimates of software costs, but its accuracy is limited due to its lack of factors to account for difference in project attributes (Cost Drivers). Intermediate COCOMO takes these Cost Drivers into account and Detailed COCOMO additionally accounts for the influence of individual project phases.
* 1 Basic COCOMO
* 2 Intermediate COCOMO
* 3 Detailed COCOMO
* 4 Projects using COCOMO
* 5 See also
* 6 References
* 7 Further reading
* 8 External links
[edit] Basic COCOMO
Basic COCOMO computes software development effort (and cost) as a function of program size. Program size is expressed in estimated thousands of lines of code (KLOC).
COCOMO applies to three classes of software projects:
* Organic projects - "small" teams with "good" experience working with "less than rigid" requirements
* Semi-detached projects - "medium" teams with mixed experience working with a mix of rigid and less than rigid requirements
* Embedded projects - developed within a set of "tight" constraints (hardware, software, operational, …)
The basic COCOMO equations take the form
Effort Applied = ab(KLOC)bb [ man-months ]
Development Time = cb(Effort Applied)db [months]
People required = Effort Applied / Development Time [count]
The coefficients ab, bb, cb and db are given in the following table.
Software project ab bb cb db
Organic 2.4 1.05 2.5 0.38
Semi-detached 3.0 1.12 2.5 0.35
Embedded 3.6 1.20 2.5 0.32
Basic COCOMO is good for quick estimate of software costs. However it does not account for differences in hardware constraints, personnel quality and experience, use of modern tools and techniques, and so on.
[edit] Intermediate COCOMO
Intermediate COCOMO computes software development effort as function of program size and a set of "cost drivers" that include subjective assessment of product, hardware, personnel and project attributes. This extension considers a set of four "cost drivers", each with a number of subsidiary attributes:-
* Product attributes
o Required software reliability
o Size of application database
o Complexity of the product
* Hardware attributes
o Run-time performance constraints
o Memory constraints
o Volatility of the virtual machine environment
o Required turnabout time
* Personnel attributes
o Analyst capability
o Software engineering capability
o Applications experience
o Virtual machine experience
o Programming language experience
* Project attributes
o Use of software tools
o Application of software engineering methods
o Required development schedule
Each of the 15 attributes receives a rating on a six-point scale that ranges from "very low" to "extra high" (in importance or value). An effort multiplier from the table below applies to the rating. The product of all effort multipliers results in an effort adjustment factor (EAF). Typical values for EAF range from 0.9 to 1.4.
Cost Drivers Ratings
Very Low Low Nominal High Very High Extra High
Product attributes
Required software reliability 0.75 0.88 1.00 1.15 1.40
Size of application database 0.94 1.00 1.08 1.16
Complexity of the product 0.70 0.85 1.00 1.15 1.30 1.65
Hardware attributes
Run-time performance constraints 1.00 1.11 1.30 1.66
Memory constraints 1.00 1.06 1.21 1.56
Volatility of the virtual machine environment 0.87 1.00 1.15 1.30
Required turnabout time 0.87 1.00 1.07 1.15
Personnel attributes
Analyst capability 1.46 1.19 1.00 0.86 0.71
Applications experience 1.29 1.13 1.00 0.91 0.82
Software engineer capability 1.42 1.17 1.00 0.86 0.70
Virtual machine experience 1.21 1.10 1.00 0.90
Programming language experience 1.14 1.07 1.00 0.95
Project attributes
Application of software engineering methods 1.24 1.10 1.00 0.91 0.82
Use of software tools 1.24 1.10 1.00 0.91 0.83
Required development schedule 1.23 1.08 1.00 1.04 1.10
The Intermediate Cocomo formula now takes the form:
where E is the effort applied in person-months, KLoC is the estimated number of thousands of delivered lines of code for the project, and EAF is the factor calculated above. The coefficient ai and the exponent bi are given in the next table.
Software project ai bi
Organic 3.2 1.05
Semi-detached 3.0 1.12
Embedded 2.8 1.20
The Development time D calculation uses E in the same way as in the Basic COCOMO.
[edit] Detailed COCOMO
Detailed COCOMO - incorporates all characteristics of the intermediate version with an assessment of the cost driver's impact on each step (analysis, design, etc.) of the software engineering process
[edit] Projects using COCOMO
* Ohloh
[edit] See also
* Estimation in software engineering
* Software engineering economics
* Cost overrun
* Putnam model
[edit] References
1. ^ Barry Boehm. Software engineering economics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 1981. ISBN 0-13-822122-7
2. ^ Barry Boehm, Chris Abts, A. Winsor Brown, Sunita Chulani, Bradford K. Clark, Ellis Horowitz, Ray Madachy, Donald J. Reifer, and Bert SteeceSoftware cost estimation with COCOMO II (with CD-ROM). Englewood Cliffs, NJ:Prentice-Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-13-026692-2
[edit] Further reading
* Stan Malevanny. Case Study: Software Project Cost Estimates Using COCOMO II Model, 2005.
* Kemerer, Chris F. (May, 1987). "An Empirical Validation of Software Cost Estimation Models". Communications of the ACM. http://www.pitt.edu/~ckemerer/CK%20research%20papers/EmpiricalValidationSwCost_Kemerer87.pdf.
[edit] External links
* COCOMO II website
* COCOMO II online calculator
* NASA basic COCOMO online calculator
* COCOMO 81 Calculator
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO"
Categories: Software engineering costs
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COCOMO is an acronym for COnstructive COst MOdel, which was first introduced in 1981 by Barry Boehm in his book Software Engineering Economics. Based on LOC estimates, it is used to estimate cost, effort, and schedule (Boehm 1981). The original COCOMO model received widespread interest and is an open model, meaning that all of the underlying equations, assumptions, definitions, and so on are available to the public. The original COCOMO model was based on a study of 63 projects and is a hierarchy of estimation models.
COCOMO is an example of a parametric model because it uses dependent variables, such as cost or duration, based upon one or more independent variables that are quantitative indices of performance and/or physical attributes of the system. Often, parametric models can be refined and fine-tuned for specific projects or projects within specific industries (Rad 2002).
Estimating with COCOMO begins with determining the type of project to be estimated. Project types can be classified as:
* Organic—These are routine projects where the technology, processes, and people are expected all to work together smoothly. One may view these types of projects as the easy projects, where few problems are expected.
* Embedded—An embedded project is viewed as a challenging project. For example, it may be a system to support a new business process or an area that is new ground for the organization. The people may be less experienced, and the processes and technology may be less mature.
* Semi-Detached—If organic projects are viewed as easy and embedded as difficult or challenging, then semi-detached fall somewhere in the middle. These projects may not be simple and straightforward, but the organization feels confident that its processes, people, and technology in place are adequate to meet the challenge.
The basic COCOMO model uses an equation for estimating the number of person-months needed for each of these project types. A person-month can be thought of as a one-month effort by one person. In COCOMO, a person-month is defined as 152 hours. Once the project type is defined, the level of effort, in terms of person-months, can be determined using the appropriate equation:
* Organic: Person-Months = 2.4 × KDSI1.05
* Semi-Detached: Person-Months = 3.0 × KDSI1.12
* Embedded: Person-Months = 3.6 × KDSI1.20
Where: KDSI = Thousands of delivered source instructions, i.e., LOC
Let's suppose that we are developing an application that we estimated to have 200 total adjusted function points. Using Table 6.3, we can convert function points into lines of code. If our application is going to be developed in Java, this would require approximately 10,600 lines of code. If we assume that our project will be of medium difficulty, then the semi-detached equation would be appropriate.
In summary, our 200 function point project will require about 10,600 lines of code and take just over 42.21 person-months to complete. Once we have estimated the effort for our project, we can determine how many people will be required. Subsequently, this will determine the time estimate and associated cost for developing our application system.
As Frederick Brooks (1995) points out, people and months are not always interchangeable. More people may complicate communication and slow things down. Therefore, duration is determined using one of the following formulas:
* Organic: Duration = 2.5 × Effort0.38
* Semi-Detached: Duration = 2.5 × Effort0.35
* Embedded: Duration = 2.5 × Effort0.32
Since our semi-detached project requires 42.21 person-months, the duration of development will be:
= 2.5 × Effort0.35
 = 9.26 months
Subsequently, we can determine how many people should be assigned to the development effort:
People Required
= Effort ÷ Duration
Therefore, we need 4.55 people working on the project. Okay, so it is pretty tough getting .55 of a person, so we probably will need either four or five people. One could even make an argument that four full-time people and one part-time person will be needed for this project.
The example shows how the basic COCOMO model can be used. There are, however, two other COCOMO models: intermediate COCOMO and advanced COCOMO. Intermediate COCOMO estimates the software development effort as a function of size and a set of 15 subjective cost drivers that include attributes of the end product, the computer used, the personnel staffing, and the project environment. In addition, advanced COCOMO includes all of the characteristics of intermediate COCOMO but with an assessment of the cost driver's impact over four phases of development: product design, detailed design, coding/testing, and integration/testing.
Today, COCOMO II is available and is more suited for the types of projects being developed using 4GLs or other tools like Visual Basic, Delphi, or Power Builder. However, for more traditional projects using a 3GL, the original COCOMO model can still provide good estimates and is often referred to as COCOMO 81.
Another estimating model that you should be aware of is SLIM, which was developed in the late 1970s by Larry Putnam of Quantitative Software Management (Putnam 1978; Putnam and Fitzsimmons 1979). Like COCOMO, SLIM uses LOC to estimate the project's size and a series of 22 questions to calibrate the model.


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