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Kedar Vanjape, 38, represents the changing face of Real Estate, away from the surreal towards the real. His corporate den, situated in a quiet corner off a busy road in the heart of Pune, hardly looks like a real estate developer's office. Basking in the glory of bright sunlight, adorned with minimalistic decor, blessed with an inviting sit out balcony and to top it all, manned by a friendly and courteous staff, the cosy place looks more like a sport and recreation club. But if you suspect business would be amiss in this laid-back space, you are sadly mistaken. The whole office is buzzing with positive action, staffers greeting prospective clients and helping flat owners with different modalities.
The man at the helm, Kedar Vanjape, is in the thick of things himself: taking phone calls, attending to visitors and also addressing the flurry of questions I throw at him. One look at him and you can make out his humility is not for the sake of advertisement. He's unassuming to the core, and delightfully blunt in his observations, calling spade a spade on just about every issue under the sun - real estate included. His phenomenal life story is an inspiration for all those who wish to tread on the offbeat path to success and achievement,who wish to scale new heights and yet stay grounded at all times.
Hailing from the small town of Kopargaon in Ahmednagar district, Kedar aspired to earn his laurels in the medical field, following in the footsteps of his Surgeon father and Gynecologist mother. When he could not secure the requisite marks for enrollment into the medical stream, he opted for engineering and cleared his Industrial Engineering from VIT, Pune. His first tryst with employment happened with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in the capacity of a Junior National Consultant. Life was going the UN way when he got what he thought was an irresistible offer. His cousin Sanjay Deshpande, who worked with the renowned DSK Developers, asked him to join him. "Honestly, glamour was the biggest pull for me at that age, having seen Sanjay's life style from close quarters. I was convinced, at first sight, that real estate was the ultimate gateway to a life adorned with swanky cars and palatial homes."
So, Kedar took the plunge in the brick and mortar world, armed with his starry-eyed ambition and steely resolve. But to his utter dismay, Sanjay quit DSK and started out on his own in quick succession. Having burnt all bridges, Kedar had no option but to stay put, and somehow try and come to terms with the new reality. He decided to take the challenge head on and the ensuing effort earned him rich dividends. In a short span, he got quality exposure in different facets of realty - desk work, drawing blueprints, managing contractors, supervising sites, customer facing, ensuring legal formalities, marketing, liasioning with government offices - you name it, he did it. The depth and gravity of the grassroots experience helps him to this day as he's on first name terms with most stakeholders in the business who have moved up the value chain in terms of designations but still value their relationships with him above mere transactions.
His dogged determination and back-breaking effort saw him rise to the position of Executive Director at DSK Developers. But after this elevation, his career suffered the consequences of the glass ceiling effect. "I have learnt a lot from the founder D S Kulkarni, especially about maintaining a judicious balance between lifestyle preferences and professional decorum. Having said that,I found him highly insecure in matters of succession planning and delegation of authority. My ambition, soaring on the wings of my capability, was bursting at the seams then and I just couldn't continue in an environment which, knowingly or unknowingly, sought to clip my wings."
A chance encounter with the legendary Daji Kaka Gadgil (of P N Gadgil Jewellers fame) proved the decisive turning point. The Gadgils wished to venture into real estate and found in Kedar the perfect partner to take the idea to fruition. The four-year collaboration indeed turned out to be quite fruitful and they completed many a sterling project in the given span. It was in June 2013 that Kedar branched out on his own under the name Kedar Vanjape Developers Limited (KVDL). The failing health of Daji Kaka Gadgil and his demise in Jan 2014 left a permanent void for Kedar, as his chemistry was solely with the doyen of the jewellery industry, not with his successors.
KVDL has undertaken several landmark projects on the outskirts of Pune, with few on the verge of completion. But KVDL narrative is incomplete without the mention of an incredible life lesson that Kedar learnt from his mother.
Having seen a fair amount of success, Kedar was tempted to upgrade his lifestyle at a juncture when the construction industry was on a downturn. "I somehow could foresee that this slowdown was not a market correction, it was a business correction, yet the lure of an affluent lifestyle was overpowering." Kedar reveals.
So he went ahead and bought a plot of land to construct a lavish bungalow for the family. Subsequently, he also decided to buy his dream Merc car and wanted his mom to accompany him to the showroom for paying the booking amount.
She agreed to accompany him but posed three questions upfront
1. Can you afford the car?
2. Would it match your persona? ,and,
3. Is there a compelling need for it?
His mom herself answered the first two questions in the affirmative but passed the third in his court.
"My answer was obviously a big resounding 'No' and the car purchase plan was scrapped on spot." Kedar reminisces.
But the radical thought chain didn't stop at that. Kedar then had a detached re-look at the plan of building his bungalow under the new microscope and the honest answer was a 'No' on that front too. Without second thoughts, he sold off the bungalow plot and what's more, he even sold his residence flat and shifted to a rental accommodation, only to self-fund his construction projects rather than rely on a potential mountain of debt in an era of constrained resources.
The timely advice from his mom turned out to be god sent indeed, as Kedar gradually built his fortune brick by brick without succumbing to the lure of ostentation or lavish display of wealth, the defining traits of the real estate fraternity otherwise.
Kedar's approach to development is a sterling case study for all practitioners of the construction business. Transparency is the hall mark of every KVDL project. Comprehensive monthly reports are sent to every buyer, conveying the progress of under-construction projects, thereby weeding out any fear and uncertainty from the buyer's mind about the fate of his decision post purchase.And every project has stringent self-penalty clauses for non-completion of projects in the committed time frame.
Kedar and his team deserve rich accolades for their pioneering strides in an industry shrouded with secrecy and better known for shady dealings. The executive team, however, needs some value-added training in client-centric communication and proactive conversation. The KVDL intent is not in question but the content is far from compelling, so also the website communication which hardly does justice to the KVDL's sterling ethos and essence. The founder conveys all the right messages in his impromptu conversations, but it's high time the team does the same in respective roles.
KVDL, given its conviction, has the capability to become a global thought leader in its own right. If KVDL doesn't reach where it should in the time to come, it would go down in history as a Greek tragedy of epic proportions.


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Discussion in 'General Off-Topic Chat' started by rest0re, Jun 18, 2007.
So tell me your opinion. I kinda like all street art...
some graffiti is very nice and i place it up there with fine art
but then they are assholes who spray paint on the side of a building " the monkey house rockz the fat ass"
and thats just stupid lol
:/ yea so true.. as well as "[insert name] was here" type.. -,-
they are a lot of them back in my home country..
but i saw some decent one here.. there're fine.. =D
only good street art but stuff like ...was here 2007 is just plain stupid like anyone cares u was here lol
If it's graffiti ART and not graffiti VANDALISM then I'm all for it. But just tagging random buildings or public transport just because you can or to cause a bit of chaos is pretty pathetic.
I think more cities/towns need to embrace it and assign a whole bunch of areas where graffiti artists can show their stuff. It's becoming more and more recognised as an artform.
Graffiti art is cool (to a greater or lesser extent... I don't like the ones that are basically just a nickname written in horribly disfigured letters), morons going around spraying "all that painting for nothing" on freshly painted walls are just... morons.
So... b) Yes, if it's actually art, and somewhere where it's an improvement (subway stations), not somewhere where it pokes you in the eye and ruins the scenery like a colourful brick through the window.
the first car i owned was a kit car which i built from when i was 16 till i was 18 a dutton phaeton & there was some older lads who lived behind me who done graffiti & i got them to spray up my car for me it looked awesome (manga style stuff)
but i had to spray over it after a couple of weeks cause the cops keeped pulling me over
i got stopped 28 times in the first 3 days
sadly i dont have any pictures
Just like all art forms 99% of it is complete crap, simple as.
Graffiti properly done will always be an amazing form of art to me.
After all, it's just airbrush art, but done with spray cans.
I can't remember where, but i did see an artist selling graffiti canvas's.....say 3' x 4' , which I desperately wanted to buy, but they were well pricey. $$££
99% of tags are rubbish
But street art is nice except when they spray paint over premade painted walls, such as ones painted by school children.. which seems to happen often :/
Street art is fine. It's graffiti that I can't stand. To me they are two different things.
Street art is generally pleasing to look at, it's colorful and "happy-fluffy".
Graffiti (at least where I live) is just gang spewed garbage that is usually misspelled and racist and quickly written with a can of spray paint. Most of the time you can't even make out what it was they were trying to write in the first place. I consider graffiti just a form of vandalism.
Most good street art has some sort of message behind it, usually a political message, I love that sort of stuff.
as much as I think graffiti is nice (looks badass), somewhere in my mind I feel like something wrong has happened (obviously).
/me is against vandalism in general.
I'd go with option two, where "ugly tags" means engraving on public transport windows (I like to look out of those ) and brat kids writing their names as quickly as possible with a single width line. I rather like tags that have a bit more effort put in than adding a few zigzags. They make train journeys to London far more interesting
I really don't know what I think about the vandalism side of it. I mean, painting on someone's house or shop is a bit harsh, but where do you draw the line between what's acceptable to draw on and what isn't? Tricky...
I think most people towards younger generations like graffiti, good graffiti that is.
something that took at least half an hour, I really can't express how much I hate the 3 letter tags and the punks that do them, 2 years ago I was walking home from school, and I saw this punk go up my drive way and proceeded to write some letters with shoepolish, I punched him in the back of the neck.
that was awesome.
Like it or not, rebellion will always be cool, and if you can manage to incorporate some style and expertise.. well, you might just start a movement
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The jazzy score that lingers over the opening images of Roger Mitchell's lovely Le Week-End is the first sign that it will embrace an improvisational narrative style. That doesn't mean the lead characters initially share this same quality: After spending a few scenes with Meg (Lindsay Duncan) and Nick (Jim Broadbent), an older British couple trying to rekindle their marriage during a weekend trip to Paris, breeziness stand at odds with their long-gestating frustrations.
Both are stressed amid their adult son's bad life decisions, their lack of money and a growing emotional unhappiness, yet they aren't zombie-like pensioners trying to stave off the inevitable. "I think we've earned a good time," Meg says, and Le Week-End deftly proves how a conflicted couple can gracefully dance from charming cohabitation to a brazen shouting match in a matter of steps.
Such volatility stems from Meg's desire to be alone and Nick's fear of isolation, which creates a subtext-heavy cocktail for romantic disaster. When the couple runs into an old friend (a perfectly smarmy Jeff Goldblum) on the Paris streets, their vulnerabilities are amplified further by the seemingly inevitable nature of change. It would all be so depressing if Mitchell, Broadbent and Duncan didn't inject so much depth into the proceedings.
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Bad Words : A former spelling-bee loser (Jason Bateman, who also directs) decides to find a loophole in the competition rules and participate as an adult.
Blood Ties : In 1970s Brooklyn, two brothers face off from opposite sides of the law, turning their families upside down. Expect a lot of yelling and bloodshed. Starring Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Mila Kunis and Marion Cotillard.
Divergent : The future is a world divided into factions based on tested virtues. A young woman (Shailene Woodley) threatens to topple this rigorous framework when she's deemed "divergent"—an outsider who must be disappeared.
The Jewish Cardinal : Jean-Marie Lustiger grew up in a Jewish household and converted to Catholicism at a young age. This documentary explores how one man maintained his cultural identity even after he shifted religious beliefs. Screens March 24 through 27 at Digital Gym Cinema in North Park.
The Lunchbox : In Mumbai, thousands of lunchboxes are delivered every day, thanks to a famously efficient service run by couriers. When one of these orders is delivered to the wrong address, the mistake inadvertently connects an aging businessman and an unhappy housewife.
Muppets Most Wanted : Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest of the Muppets gang find themselves embroiled in a European jewel heist. It co-stars humans like Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell.
Nymphomaniac: Volume 1 : The first part of Danish auteur Lars von Trier's epic about a self-professed sex addict (Charlotte Gainsbourg) who recalls her origins in the apartment of a stranger (Stellan Skarsgård) while recuperating from a brutal beating. See our review on Page 23.
Particle Fever : Documentary about the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, one of the most expensive and ambitious physics experiments ever conceived. Screens through March 27 at the Ken Cinema.
Le Week-End : An elderly British couple (Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan) come to grips with their crumbling marriage while spending a weekend in Paris. See our review on Page 23.
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Cold Souls : Paul Giamatti plays a man who decides to get rid of his soul in a futuristic sci-fi society that's beginning to lose all human emotion. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, the Scripps Ranch Library.
Mine Vaganti (Loose Cannon) : The youngest son of a traditional Italian family that runs a massive pasta-making business decides to come out of the closet, risking exile. Screens at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20, at the Museum of Photographic Arts in Balboa Park.
American Hustle : A con artist and his partner / lover are forced to conspire with a loony FBI agent to catch corrupt politicians. Screens at 8 p.m. Friday, March 21, through Saturday, March 22, at Cinema Under the Stars in Mission Hills.
A Box Full of Rocks : The life of rock critic Lester Bangs is explored in this new documentary by San Diego filmmaker Raul Sandelin. Screens at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 24, at the San Diego Public Library in East Village.
Inside Llewyn Davis : A folk singer tries to find success in the 1960s Greenwich Village music scene despite being afflicted with deep melancholy. Screens at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at the Hervey Branch Library in Point Loma.
Celda 211 : Two men on different sides of a prison riot are forced to lean on each other to survive. Screens at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, at the Hall of Nations in Balboa Park.
You Will Be My Son : The owner of a prestigious vineyard in France must come to grips with his winemaker son's success when he returns home from California. Screens at 6 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at the Mission Valley Library.
Silent Spring : This WGBH Public TV documentary is about Rachel Carson, whose work in the 1950s and '60s sparked the environmental movement. Screens at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 26, at the San Diego Women's Museum in Point Loma.
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About Last Night : Kevin Hart and Michael Ealy play best friends grappling with the highs and lows of new romantic relationships. Another romantic comedy just in time for Valentine's Day that will make single people cringe with disgust.
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RoboCop : It's hard to believe Hollywood had the gall to remake Paul Verhoeven's 1987 masterpiece, but there's confidence to be had knowing Brazilian action filmmaker Jose Padilha ( Elite Squad ) is at the helm. Crossing our trigger fingers.
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The Wolf of Wall Street : Martin Scorsese's sprawling comedic look at the rise and fall of Wall Street huckster Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), who became an infamous figure in New York City in the 1990s.
American Hustle : Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence star in David O'Russell's retelling of the infamous Abscam sting established by the FBI in order to capture corrupt politicians and gangsters in the late 1970s.
Philomena : Comedian Steve Coogan takes on a more serious role as a cynical journalist who ends up helping an elderly woman (Judi Dench) search for her long lost son. Oscar nominations are a certainty.
Dallas Buyers Club : In 1985, a drunken rodeo clown Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughy) learns he has HIV. Seeing an opportunity to stave off his own death and make some money, he begins smuggling unapproved drugs in from Mexico.
12 Years a Slave : Abducted and forced to work on a Southern plantation, free man Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejifor) experiences the horrors of slavery in Steve McQueen's stirring period-piece drama.
Mysteries of the Unseen World : This amazing documentary uses high-speed and time-lapse photography to focus on things that are either too fast or two slow for the eye to see. Screens at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center in Balboa Park.
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It's a Big Market …
… online advertising. There are 10,000 stories and data points about it. Here are two to give some context to the journey below. First, global online ad spending is projected by ZenithOptimedia to exceed print ad spend by 2015 (note 1). This 2015 projected spend figure for online advertising is $132.4 billion. Second, global online ad revenue is projected by another research agency, Digital TV Research, to hit $143 billion by 2017 (note 2).
These are prodigious amounts of money for companies to spend to connect with customers. But … surely it's easy to connect online customers to web content featuring, or suggesting, products? And surely, online is "better"? Where can, and do, taxonomy-based approaches add value to this dance of moving (emotional and semantic) parts between the intentful consumer poised to shop and the intentful marketer with honed content?
Online Ad Targeting is Easy … so 'They' Say …
Really? So what might be "easy"? And, indeed, "better"? Let's unbundle these simulacra that look like very fuzzy concepts, and as ontologists and knowledge engineers let's think our way forward with the concept of "precision".
So … online is more precise than billboards by freeways? Lightly stated, online has advantages. What about magazine print ads vs. online? Online has potential advantages. But … and this is a very big but … in both these cases (and all others) online depends on connecting potential customers to products, their features, their benefits, their attributes and so on precisely, and with precision that is repeatable and extensible. Rather than random (random is the most expensive way to advertise and has fallen out of favor). And, since online copy and online ads are words (including in videos) and are semantically classifiable, and since classifications can be organized into models (taxonomies and ontologies) … then there are advantages to be created through the combination of semantic analysis, categorization and taxonomy.
Now, let's connect taxonomy, classification, semantics and optimizing online ad targeting. There are a host of holy grails currently being sought in the web/mobile/social uber-ecosystem. Some are well found, though not perfect, and are unlikely to traverse through a paradigmatic improvement. Think 'search'. Others are most definitely not found (yet). Given the size of the market outlined in the first paragraph, the rewards are huge to those with the tools and skillsets that know how to work with semantics, taxonomy/ontology, classification of content to taxonomy, and design of taxonomies to drive online targeting.
New Approaches to Classifying to the IAB Taxonomy with Sophializer
Sophia Search is a recent entrant into this space. (I have written about them before here. Sophia Search's tool – currently called the 'Sophializer' – categorizes any URL to nodes in the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) taxonomy. Sophializer can also classify content of ads (and so create a semantic/conceptual 'signature' for each). The IAB Contextual Taxonomy comprises three levels:
- Tier 1 – 23 nodes
- Tier 2 – 371 nodes
- Tier 3 – unspecified and vendor specific
Given that Sophializer categorizes both sides of this content dance – web page and ad – web properties can serve ads to any page automatically using the IAB taxonomy as the cross-mapping conceptual foundation.
Sophializer not only classifies to Tier 1 and Tier 2 it also discovers/generates robust classifications that can be used to customize Tier 3 for individual customers.
Benefits of Using Taxonomy for Ad Targeting
Taxonomy gives a framework to this kind of semantic work. Essentially, we are cross-mapping both partners of this content dance – content and ad - using the IAB taxonomy as a "choreographer" of sorts. Other taxonomies could be used. In fact, multiple taxonomies could be used – and this would be particularly powerful if these taxonomies were cross-mapped to each other. For example, if you have content (web page, say, or ad) categorized and mapped to Taxonomy A and Taxonomy A is cross-mapped to the IAB taxonomy … then … you can propagate these ads to content that is already categorized.
Benefits of Using Categorization Tools to Assign Marketing Content to Taxonomy Nodes
There are a number of different methods of assigning content to nodes in any taxonomy –
- Manually
- Training sets of documents (training documents are most often manually selected as exemplars)
- Categorization algorithms that work with semantic tokens
There is more than enough to say on each of these around methods, workflows, best practices and pitfalls for a blog post on each. But not here.
Sophializer utilizes patented and proprietary algorithms in the core of their categorization engine. Two fundamental points are worth, briefly, focusing on. Firstly, different categorization engines use different patented technologies. "Quality" from different categorizers is (very) variable. Which is why it is important to carry out "Proofs of Concept" when evaluating this technology.
Secondly, the more semantically rich the taxonomy – e.g. fully enriched with synonyms and other types of evidence terms – the better "quality" one gets with any method of associating content to taxonomy nodes. Both of these parameters are make-or-break (literally) in using semantics to target online ads.
Learn More 2.0
The Google Display Network is IAB Certified and complies with the top 2 tiers of the IAB Contextual Taxonomy. You can read details of what Google do here and this also navigates you to the Google mapping to the IAB taxonomy Tier 1 and Tier 2.
Sophia Search currently has a number of engagements on the web that are live. For example, targeting ads for non-fiction books (from a major publishing house) to news stories (on a pre-eminent news site). You can contact them for details.
This is not an empty space. Other companies are also searching for the holy grail of taxonomy-based content targeting mediated by content categorization that works. See, for example, see ADmantX (http://blog.admantx.com/post/15726823528/a-new-iab-based-taxonomy-and-an...).
This whole space is an excellent example of where the application of the nexus of taxonomy, categorization and semantics will provide stratospheric business benefit. Grails are waiting to be found here.
Note 1. See ZenithOprimedia
The detailed ZenithOptimedia figures can be found here
Note 2. See Hollywood Reporter
You can download the Digital TV Research press release about these figures here
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Hi, I'm new here (just started yesterday). It seems every other person is introducing themselves, so I might as well. I'm not exactly the most normal person, but nonetheless a human. I enjoy all sorts of anime/manga except the love triangle, yaoi, yuri, or hentai. I like music and my music tastes varies band-to-band, singer-to-singer. I like reading other things than just manga, mainly thick biography or memoir books. Also if any one has any anime suggestions, I'm game. All I ask is that you do not suggest what I have specified before.
Welcome to the forums Emobird. Hope you enjoy posting with us. A couple suggestions I could give would be Fairy Tail, Guilty Crown, Yu Yu Hakusho, Black Cat, Black Cat, Soul Eater, Sword Art Online, and Spice and Wolf. For many more suggestions drop by here. >>> http://www.funimation.com/forum/showthread.php?78-Anime-Recommendations-Thread
Ah, thank you Dragon0! I am actually reading Fairy Tail, and plain on watching Soul Eater, but will have to check out the others. Have a nice day!
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Welcome to the forums emobird, I hope you have a good time here. ^_^ Your avatar cracks me up heh.
I am enjoying it here so far. And thanks, my avatar was just something I made when I was bored. XD haha
Fly into the Bedlam Emobird, You may find Claymore, Black Lagoon, Requiem for the Darkness, or Witchblade to your liking.
I like what you did there. I guess this Emobird might fly into the Bedlam for the summer. Thanks! I have actually tried to find Claymore before. Glad to here FUNimation has it! Haven't heard of the others though, will have to check those out too.
Welcome to the forums; hope that you post a lot around here.
Here are some of my recommendations: Shingu: Secret of the Stellar War, Heroic Age, Bamboo Blade, Samurai 7, School Rumble and Summer Wars.
If you are interested, don't forget to check out the link in my sig about requesting the FUNimation Channel.
Well I'm not very talkative, so I'm not sure how much I'll post. I'll try though. I've never heard of any of those, will have to check them out. Looks like my list is growing. XD
Hey, welcome to the Forums…
I like your profile pic..
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Milling Circuit Boards
I've been using Guido to cut isolation traces into copper clad board to make circuit boards.
It has taken a lot of hackery to get things working but I'm finally getting reasonable results and this wiki page will give you a head start in doing the same thing.
- 1 Some Background Info
- 2 Get Software
- 3 Get Bits and End Mills
- 4 Designing a Board with Eagle
- 5 Make G-Code for a Board
- 6 Milling a Board with Guido
- 7 Things That Will Go Wrong
- 8 TLDR: What Not To Do
Some Background Info
Hackaday has this nice posting with links to some videos that show using a nice mill that we don't have running nice software that we don't have in order to mill a circuit board. It's still worth watching.
If you're interested in milling circuit boards then you've probably got some experience etching PCBs and are looking for a better way to do things. This may or may not be thing you want.
The good:
- The mill does the drilling
- No messy acid to deal with
- Once you have good settings, the process is easily repeatable
- Two sided boards are possibly slightly easier than with etched boards
Not so good:
- Bits and end mills can be expensive and they wear out.
- Bits of copper clad fiberglass get all over the place
- Milling a board can take a while
- Board stock and mill bed flatness will present a challenge
- Isolation size is a function of bit size and mill accuracy. Check your design carefully before you plan on using fancy SMT parts with densely packed pins.
How I've Made Things Work:
I'm a CNC newb and an electrical engineering disaster so my milling process and the following outline use what I've determined to be the most common (though not necessarily the best) tools.
Those tools are Eagle CAD, pcb-gcode, pcb-probe, Mach 3 CNC, Zen Toolworks 30deg V Shaped Engraving Bit, random surplus carbide PCB drill bits and, of course, Guido for doing the milling. If you want to get those tools, see the links below.
The only tricky part is related to the V shaped bit. Obviously, you will want to etch the smallest, cleanest line that you can in order to mount all of those tiny surface mount LEDs that you already bought. Unfortunately, the V shape of the bit will change the width of your cut depending on how deep you cut into the board. Since your copper clad stock isn't perfectly flat you are challenged to pick a milling depth that will cut clean traces across the entire board.
I've had some success with flattening my copper clad as much as I can by using a metal straight edge to check flatness and then bending the board by hand to try to make it flatter. With the board then as close to flat as I can make it, I would then test at what depth I can cleanly etch a line on all four areas of the board that surround the area that I plan to etch. The results were always usable but I sometimes found myself rebuilding missing traces with bits of jumper wire.
A better way seems to be to use some G-Code trickery to probe the height of the board at key points on the surface and then perturb the height of the vertices accordingly while milling. It sounds both awesome and complicated but luckily for you there is already a program that does all of the work so you can just deal with the awesome part and follow along with my directions.
Get Software
Eagle CAD - download the free version of Eagle CAD from cadsoft.
pcb-gcode - download the pcb-gcode Eagle CAD plugin (File:Pcb-gcode-184.108.40.206.zip)
pcb-probe (with mach3 support) - there are no binaries yet so get the source code from github (File:Pcb-probe-master.zip) (File:Pcb-probe-win32.zip)
pcb2gcode - I've never used this. It makes G-Code from gerber files instead of from Eagle CAD. Check out Sourceforge.net and Github
Get Bits and End Mills
Zen Toolworks v shaped engraving bit (amazon) (Zen Toolworks)
slightly used carbide drills (Electronics Goldmine)
Designing a Board with Eagle
Board design is well out of scope of this document but Sparkfun.com has kindly provided these tutorials for using Eagle CAD to make circuit board designs.
Use Eagle CAD DRC to Enforce Design Limitations
- In Eagle CAD, select 'Tools->DRC->Clearance'
- Set all of the 'Different Signals' clearances to a value larger than your engraving tool (12mil seems to work for a Zen Toolworks 30deg V-Bit)
- If you already have a board designed, select 'Check' to see what parts of your board may be too close together to isolate
Make G-Code for a Board
Use pcb-gcode to generate G-Code from Eagle CAD
- Open your board design in Eagle CAD
- From the Eagle CAD Control Panel window, right-click User Language Programs->pcb-gcode->pcb-gcode-setup.ulp and select 'Run In Board'
- The pcb-gcode dialog will pop up.
- On the 'Generation Options' tab, select 'Generate bottom outlines', 'Generate bottom drills' and 'Show preview'.
- For 'Etching Tool Size' enter 0.254mm
- On the 'Machine' tab, set 'Spindle Up Time' to 3 and set the feed rates to 300mm/min
- Set 'Z High' to 12mm, 'Z Up' to 3mm, 'Z Down' to -0.08mm
- Use calipers to determine the thickness of your board and enter that value plus .1mm or so for 'Drill Depth'
- On the 'GCode Style' tab, select 'Mach3 - EMC for Windows'
- On the 'GCode Options' tab, select all of the 'NC File Comments' options as well as 'Do tool change with zero step'
- Click 'Accept and make my board'
- An image view window will pop up and display what will be etched. pcb-gcode will join signals that are too close so look at the image carefully to make sure that all signals are properly isolated.
Use pcb-probe to generate leveling G-Code for your board G-Code
- From your favorite command shell, navigate to the directory where your Eagle CAD board files are saved.
- Look for some files that end with '.tap'. Those are the G-Code files you generated with pcb-gcode
- Find a file named (something).etch.tap. That is the G-Code for etching your design.
- Run pcb-probe on that file by typing 'pcb-probe (something).etch.tap (something).probe.tap
- You should see something like this:
Processing input file ... pov_driver.bot.etch.tap Board Size (mm): 47.5488x32.3088 Generating Mach3 GCode output in pov_driver.bot.probe.tap Done.
- Copy your (something).probe.tap file onto a USB disk to load the file onto the Mach3 machine that drives Guido
Milling a Board with Guido
Turn on Guido and Launch Mach 3
- Make sure that Guido's spindle is turned off by setting the rocker switch on Guido's control dongle to the middle setting ('0').
- Set the 'A/B' selector switch on the table to 'B' so the PC can control Guido.
- Power on the CNC PC and log in as user 'AMT'
- Click the Desktop icon to launch Mach3 and select the 'Guido' profile.
- Plug in Guido's motor controller to the power strip underneath the table.
Hold Down Copper Clad Stock on Guido's Spoil Board
- Drill a 1/8" hole near an edge of your copper clad stock
- Clean your copper clad stock with a mild abrasive such as a scotchbrite (aka green scrubby) pad
- Put the pin on Guido's spoil board through the hole of your copper clad
- If you are making a two sided board, take care to line up the edge of your copper clad so it is parallel with the edge of the spoil board.
- Tape down the edges of the copper clad. (Blue painter's tape works great. Please don't use duct tape--it makes a mess).
Get Ready to Probe for Surface Height
- Chuck the end mill you plan to etch with into Guido's spindle
- Find the black and red wires dangling off of Guido's IO board (behind the sticker that says "Guido")
- As tightly as possible, tape the black wire to your copper clad board
- Use an alligator clip to connect the red wire to the Guido's spindle
- Within Mach3, select the 'Diagnostics' tab.
- Click the flashing 'Reset' button so that Guido's motors are enabled.
- Use the arrow keys and page up/page down to jog the spindle so that the end mill just touches the surface of the copper clad.
- When the end mill touches the surface, you should notice the green input indicator next to the word 'Digitize' light up on the Diagnostics screen.
- If the indicator does not light up, check all of your connections and make sure your copper clad board is clean.
Load G-Code and Zero the Mill and Probe
- Select the 'Program Run' tab in Mach3
- Plug your USB Drive into the Mach3 PC and use 'File->Load GCode' within Mach3 to load your file.
- Use the arrow keys to jog the spindle to what will be the lower right corner of your etching. Leave some extra room to avoid disasters.
- Click 'Zero X', 'Zero Y' and 'Zero Z' on the Mach3 Screen
- Click 'Cycle Start' on the Mach3 Screen
- When prompted, jog the spindle down to within 5mm of the board and click 'Cycle Start' again.
- Guido will begin probing the work piece. If at any point Guido seems to be plunging the bit into the copper, hit the red E-Stop button and check your connections.
- If you need to fix a connection and restart the process, be sure to use the 'Rewind' button in Mach3 before clicking 'Cycle Start' again.
- When prompted, disconnect the probe wires and move them out of the way.
- Make sure you are wearing eye protection
- Enable Guido's spindle by flipping the rocker switch on the control pendant to '1' (the right).
- Click 'Cycle Start' on the Mach3 Screen to begin engraving
- Use the knob on Guido's control pendant to adjust the spindle speed to something appropriate. If the speed is too low you may see ragged chips of copper. If the speed is too high you may see copper being finely polished instead of cut.
- When engraving has finished, use the page up/page down keys to raise the spindle.
- Click 'Go To Zero' on the Mach3 Program Run tab
- Use the page up key to raise the spindle again
- Remove the engraving bit from the spindle
- Chuck an appropriately small carbide tipped drill bit
- Use 'File->Load GCode' within Mach3 to load your drilling G-Code (named something like something.bot.drill.tap)
- Use the page down key to lower the spindle until it is just barely touching the work piece
- Click 'Zero Z' on Mach3
- Click 'Cycle Start' on Mach3 to begin drilling
After you've engraved your circuit you need to cut it out from the copper clad stock somehow. So far I've done this by scoring and snapping the copper clad, cutting out the board with a 40tpi blade in a jigsaw, using a paper cutter and using hand written G-Code for Guido to mill out the board.
Using Guido and the jigsaw are both very messy but since Guido can be easily connected to our dust collector I'm inclined to automate the gcode creation and focus on that method. Until then, using a paper cutter works surprisingly well if you don't mind cutting all the way across your stock every time and having your cuts be imprecise.
Things That Will Go Wrong
- When the tip of your V shaped end mill is worn or broken, the Guido will cut wider isolation routes than you programmed pcb-gcode for.
- When the V shaped end mill is dull, Guido will need a lower Z height in order to cut at all.
- pcb-gcode will silently connect signals if they are too close to be isolated with the tool you have specified.
Whenever possible, use wide traces in your board design so that sloppy milling isn't a problem.
When in doubt, use a new end mill.
Pay attention to Eagle's DRC to make sure that your signals can be isolated.
TLDR: What Not To Do
- Don't drop the bits. They will break.
- Don't crash the tool. I know you're going to crash the tool because you don't know what you're doing, so remember not to crash the tool and you'll feel bad when you crash the tool and probably won't do it again. Just raise the spindle before you go crazy hitting return to zero and if you stop a program don't just restart it somewhere in the middle and expect everything to be OK.
- Don't forget to wear eye protection. Guido is a robot that cuts things and it's not sophisticated enough to follow Asimov's laws about not hurling bits of metal into your eye.
- Don't start and stop the PC with the spindle turned on. That thing is just hooked up to a pin on the parallel port and that pin gets mercilessly diddled by legacy windows upnp probing which may surprise and/or hurt you by running the spindle. Just turn it off.
- Don't leave the mill running unattended. You need to be there to hit the pretty red e-stop button when something horrible happens.
- Don't leave a mess for the next person. That shop vac, broom and dustpan is there for you, not your mom.


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No, I'm not getting a dime for telling you this, and it doesn't help Cosmothea or QT Games. In fact, Amethyst is a competitor, since they touch on some things that are in Cosmothea. But each product stands very firmly on their own, offering different experiences and such, so I'm not worried. I don't even know the guy who's doing it, so this isn't me trying to help a close friend or something. I do like to help people and I'm confident you'd get a kick out of Amethyst too! The best part of backing this project is that it has killer Rewards! Lots of fun goodies.
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What passes for normal at the Fukushima Daiichi plant today would have caused shudders among even the most sanguine of experts before an earthquake and tsunami set off the world's second most serious nuclear crisis after Chernobyl.
Fourteen months after the accident, a pool brimming with used fuel rods and filled with vast quantities of radioactive cesium still sits on the top floor of a heavily damaged reactor building, covered only with plastic. The worries picked up new traction in recent days after the operator of the plant, Tokyo Electric Power Company, or Tepco, said it had found a slight bulge in one of the walls of the reactor building, stoking fears over the building's safety.
Government critics are especially concerned, since Tepco has said the soonest it could begin emptying the pool is late 2013, dashing hopes for earlier action.
Senator Wyden, whose state could lie in the path of any new radioactive plumes and who has studied nuclear waste issues, is among those pushing for faster action. After his recent visit to the ravaged plant, he said the pool at No. 4 poses "an extraordinary and continuing risk" and the retrieval of spent fuel "should be a priority, given the possibility of further earthquakes."
According to Tepco, the pool at the No. 4 reactor, which was not operating at the time of the accident, holds 1,331 spent fuel assemblies, which each contain dozens of rods.
This isn't true. Yes all waste generates its own heat, but you can bury it in e.g. concrete because that conducts heat far better than water. Providing it's in contact with the air or ground, the heat cannot build up massively. Only in a vacuum (like space) can higher temperatures be reached, but not those you talk about as a substantial amount of heat is lost as infrared heat.
Can't bury the site as the spent fuel has to be continually cooled. If not decay heat builds up and it reaches a point that will melt everything it comes in contact with and if it contacts a significant source of water, you get a steam explosion:
4. Spent fuel becomes exposed in the pool at Unit 4, and the damaged fuel begins to melt. This melted fuel interacts with the concrete of the pool itself, producing a molten fuel-coolant interaction (MFCI) 2 and releasing radioactive materials.3
3. It is unlikely that the pool would have melted even if left uncooled. It is likely, however, that it would have become hot enough to release its contained cesium-137.
Hydrogen is generated in a nuclear reactor if the fuel in the reactor loses its cover of cooling water.
The same phenomenon can occur in a spent fuel pool in case of a loss of cooling water.
The ability to remove decay heat from the spent fuel also would be reduced as the water level drops, especially when it drops below the tops of the fuel assemblies. This would cause temperatures in the fuel assemblies to rise, accelerating the oxidation of the zirconium alloy (zircaloy) cladding that encases the uranium oxide pellets. This oxidation reaction can occur in the presence of both air and steam and is strongly exothermic—that is, the reaction releases large quantities of heat, which can further raise cladding temperatures. The steam reaction also generates large quantities of hydrogen….
These oxidation reactions [with a loss of coolant] can become locally self-sustaining … at high temperatures (i.e., about a factor of 10 higher than the boiling point of water) if a supply of oxygen and/or steam is available to sustain the reactions…. The result could be a runaway oxidation reaction—referred to in this report as a zirconium cladding fire—that proceeds as a burn front (e.g., as seen in a forest fire or a fireworks sparkler) along the axis of the fuel rod toward the source of oxidant (i.e., air or steam)….
As fuel rod temperatures increase, the gas pressure inside the fuel rod increases and eventually can cause the cladding to balloon out and rupture. At higher temperatures (around 1800°C [approximately 3300°F]), zirconium cladding reacts with the uranium oxide fuel to form a complex molten phase containing zirconium-uranium oxide. Beginning with the cladding rupture, these events would result in the release of radioactive fission gases and some of the fuel's radioactive material in the form of aerosols into the building that houses the spent fuel pool and possibly into the environment. If the heat from one burning assembly is not dissipated, the fire could spread to other spent fuel assemblies in the pool, producing a propagating zirconium cladding fire.
The high-temperature reaction of zirconium and steam has been described quantitatively since at least the early 1960s….3
3 National Research Council, Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Fuel Storage: Public Report. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2006, on the web at www.nap.edu..., pp.38-39. This report addressed the issue of terrorist attacks on spent fuel pools and the precautions that might be taken in light of the potential severity of the problem.


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Palace 1
Overview of palace 1 in Dalat
This palace has been a large one in Tran Quang Dieu street, ward 10, Dalat city. It is 4km far from the city center to ter southeast. It is located on a 1,550-meter hill with full of pine trees. Its total area is about 60ha with the average slope of 500. It used to be a villa of a French millionaire who was also an official – Robert Clément Bourgery. He had been the boss of electricity factory in Shanghai. The palace was built before 1940s in the middle of the pine tree forest.
After that, in 1949, King Bao Dai bought it in August 1949 and renewed it. Since then, it has become a general headquarters and an office for his subordinate officers. Until 1956, Mr. Ngo Dinh Diem used it as a private palace for President. It wad upgraded with tunnel and some more working rooms for his subordinate officers. The tunnel was also the emergency exit which opened a small heliport.
Palace 1 is one of the original architecture products of Dalat which expresses the new-classis style of the Europe.
Source: Book about Vestiges and landscapes of Lamdong province.
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For a long time, the Internet is circulating a "Da Vinci sleep Act" method called sleep. This sleep law, who is also named in the multiple titles scientists, artists, inventors and other great figures - Leonardo da Vinci. According to legend, Leonardo da Vinci sleep 15-20 minutes every four hours, so about two hours sleep the day, a lot of time remaining in the creation, but also to keep plenty of energy. This sleep is actually a polyphasic sleep (Polyphasic Sleep), which means the integrity of sleep separated. Many superstitious this sleep method by which people want to shorten the overall time to sleep, while people's mental state, but can sleep nine hours of continuous single-phase sleep almost, you can have more time to work and study.
However, you will find by searching, in addition to describing the "Da Vinci sleep Law," the article, and no other reliable evidence that Leonardo DA Vinci in the long-term, regular use of such methods to sleep. But not without a halo effect wore master, indeed later people are willing to try this approach.
Few real experiments
Although many people claim that this polyphasic sleep method can greatly improve work efficiency, but not everyone is willing to defy the law to take its own. The only recorded history has long implemented a "Da Vinci Sleep" and "the first person to eat crabs," called Mister Buck • Fuller (Buckminster Fuller), is an engineer and designer. He published his own plan to sleep up to 2 years in 1943, "Time" magazine. During this time, he will nap every 6 hours 30 minutes, which means that sleep two hours a day. Finally, he had plans for his business partner tried to block terminated because of his work schedule and other people do not turn up. Although Fuller whether strict compliance with what he called a sleep plan, we do not know, but he is the first ever report on the successful implementation of a real person polyphasic sleep.
Recently striking polyphasic sleep experimenter has come famous blog author Steve • Paavo Leah (Steve Pavlina). He insisted polyphasic sleep more than two months, the cumulative sleep three hours a day, and to express their sleep logs on the blog. He admits that it is hard to adapt to the beginning, but after the second half of the experiment the body gradually adapts to this sleep cycle, can stay awake at night working condition. But by the time the end of the experiment, he tried to reduce the number of nap, let sleeping time becomes shorter, but often cannot hear the alarm clock and sleep six hours straight. Seems to want to keep a record of polyphasic sleep for a long time, not an easy thing.
Comments from the scientific community
Psychologists Wuzinaike (Piotr Woźniak) think polyphasic sleep is no scientific basis for the method, because our brain simply cannot adapt to the "multiple nap" sleep mode. Research on brain waves and other physiological indicators show that we are biphasic biorhythm rather than heterogeneous, which determines our body is always in favor of a single piece of sleep time. While trying to use a short nap time to reduce the amount of sleep practices, will make the different stages of sleep time reduction, disrupt biological rhythms, may eventually have a negative effect is similar to sleep deprivation and sleep rhythm disorders, such as physical and mental of hypothyroidism, anxiety and tension enhanced immune function. Wuzinaike polyphasic sleep by observing people involved in the blog found that most people have to go through some "maintenance activities", such as drink a lot of coffee and other ways to stay awake, and this polyphasic sleep on people's ability to learn and Creativity also did not show any improvement and promote.
sleep deprivation can only supplement
In some cases, people may not be guaranteed a full eight hours of sleep. At this time, there are regular short nap might make up the missing people sleep. Sleep research psychologist Claudio • Sitan Pi (Claudio Stampi) Dr. conducted a 49 days of the experiment, so that a young man nap 30 minutes every three hours a day of sleep time together almost three hours . He found this polyphasic sleep in the brain also has experience of ordinary sleep slow wave sleep and rapid eye movement sleep, but each stage of sleep time is shortened. In addition, Si Tanpi still "work and stress," published a field research journals, shows that under continuous work, can not achieve complete normal sleep state, periodic nap let people make up due to sleep deprivation brought awareness function decline. However, in his experiment, no matter how polyphasic sleep strategies also can not allow people to reach and sleep like a normal mental state and cognitive performance.
Thus, in his "Why We Nap: Evolution, Chronobiology, multiphase and ultrashort sleep function," a book summary, when sleep deprivation is inevitable, a short nap system can guarantee the best people to a certain extent state. But he does not advocate the polyphasic sleep as a way of life, because if you want to increase the work by polyphasic sleep time, quality and quantity of sleep is bound to be severely affected, long-term sleep deprivation will produce similar symptoms, it simply can not improve creativity.
Research from the military, perhaps more telling
Polyphasic sleep the way the military caused great attention because of wartime emergency situation much, if you can use polyphasic sleep to keep plenty of energy will be a good solution. According to the US military studies on overcoming fatigue, to take polyphasic sleep, everyone every nap time should be kept at least 45 minutes, more than two hours is better. In general, if a single nap time is shorter, then nap frequency should increase overall to ensure that every eight hours of sleep.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration is also studied for a nap, because the astronauts are often tense and can not be guaranteed due to 8 hours of adequate sleep. Professor of Pennsylvania School of Medicine conducted the study of sleep duration and Control "anchor sleep" is the basis for the 4-8 hours of sleep, and nap time ranging 0-2.5 hours. He found that a long nap more conducive to cognitive function play. The basic subjects alertness and performance on working memory tasks are due nap and improved. However, daytime nap beneficial to work, but such a slow state of bleary-eyed after a nap in the evening, if not normal sleep will cause sleep.
These studies have shown that in order to deal with special cases, reasonable arrangements for the time and manner of polyphasic sleep may be possible but in any case it is impossible to make total sleep time was reduced to just two hours.
Conclusion: rumor smash. Although the multi-phase type of sleep may seem in some people who can work, but because few people can really stick with it, so it is difficult to make conclusive scientific research. However, according to other studies on sleep, sleep experts suggest that you'd better sleep in prime time evening 10:00 to 7:00 in the morning 8-9 hours enough. If it is an emergency situation, perhaps you can try to get a nap in the way your body relaxed moment. However, this method can only be a supplement to the basic sleep, if it is as the main sleep mode, it is likely due to the interference of biological rhythms and have a negative effect. sources via supermemo, guokr, wikipedia, stevepavlina


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Author Notes: If you're looking for a substitute for pasta in your life, zucchini noodles are the answer. When prepared correctly, they are perfect for marinara sauce, noodle salads, or even soups. —Ultimate Paleo Guide
Serves: 4
Zucchini (medium)
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- Cut the zucchinis into noodles using either a spiral slicer or julienne peeler. Lay them on a paper towel and sprinkle with the salt. Let stand for 10 minutes.
- Squeeze the liquid from the noodles. Heat a skillet over medium heat and add the drained noodles to the pan. Cook for a minute or two, until warmed. Serve with your desired accompaniments.
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You know what's just totally adorable and hilarious? When gay guys who have been living a lie come out to their wives! That appears to be the premise of the TV Land sitcom "Happily Divorced," which premieres tonight at 10:30/9:30 C. Watch the brief trailer below, which we're presenting as part of the MediaWorks Guide to Summer TV (a sort of ongoing series of video cheat sheets to help you stay on top of the cultural/media conversation about the dozens of new shows that are premiering on television this summer). TV Land's pitch for the show:
"Happily Divorced" centers around Los Angeles florist Fran (Drescher) as she deals with dating after finding out her real-estate agent husband of 18 years (John Michael Higgins) is gay. Fran juggles her new relationships while still living under the same roof with her ex-husband.
Of course, it just might just be easier to be happily divorced if you can get a sitcom deal out of the wreckage. As it happens, "Happily Divorced" is roughly based on Fran Drescher's real life: She and her husband Peter Marc Jacobson (co-creator of 'The Nanny') got divorced in 1999 after 20 years of marriage. He later came out to her, and she publicly outed him last year. Drescher and Jacobson are co-writing "Happily Divorced," and Arianna Huffington is probably kicking herself.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China has imposed new restrictions on overseas investments to rien in irrational investment trends in some sectors, the country's state planner said on Friday.
The State Council, or cabinet, issued new rules for overseas investment as Beijing looks to support capable firms investing overseas while limiting deals in property, hotels, entertainment, sports clubs, and the film industry.
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InVentiv Health to buy SDI audits from IMS
Privately held inVentiv Health will acquire two of SDI Health's audit businesses worth under $15 million, according to company statements. IMS Health agreed to divest the units when regulators approved its purchase of SDI last year.
The promotional and medical audit businesses will be incorporated into the offerings of inVentiv Health's Campbell Alliance biopharma management consulting unit.
"This is an important step in boosting inVentiv's capabilities in market research and analytics," said Paul Meister, CEO, inVentiv Health, in a statement.
Campbell Alliance already has a market research and analytics group offering a range of longitudinal de-identified patient and prescription data and analytics services. The firm will combine the acquired business with the group, which also provides custom quantitative research, qualitative market research, and key opinion leader identification and mapping.
The deal follows IMS Health's acquisition of SDI Health, formally approved October 31, after which its parent company, Healthcare Technology Holdings, moved forward to divest the two SDI product lines, as per a settlement order proposed by the Federal Trade Commission to preserve competition.
In the settlement order, the FTC had required IMS to sell the two businesses to a buyer within three months of the completion of the deal, or Jan. 31, 2012.
Financial terms were not disclosed, but in a statement about yesterday's sale to inVentiv, IMS revealed that, under the two businesses it divested are a number of different data products, 11 to be exact. These products, which needed to be sold off to satisfy the FTC requirements, represent less than $15 million, or about 10% of SDI's 2011 revenue.
IMS will continue to market its existing medical and promotional services worldwide, the firm said, including the company's National Disease and Therapeutic Index (NDTI) and Integrated Promotional Services (IPS) offerings in the US."With the acquisition of SDI, IMS continues to build more innovative and comprehensive capabilities in the patient and payer spaces, consistent with the company's strategy to significantly expand its business in healthcare information, technology and services," IMS concluded.


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I Fell for Le Labo's Santal 33 Just Like the Rest of the World and I Don't Care if That Makes Me a Sucker
I mean, even Justin frickin' BEIBER wears it.
I have love/hate feelings about perfume packaging. Nothing is more exciting than adding a beautiful bottle of fragrance to my shelf, but those full-size bottles are a pain in the butt to travel with. Not even kidding: I sometimes wrap my perfume in bubble wrap before putting it in my suitcase. The solution? Rollerball fragrances.
Spraying on perfume isn't particularly difficult, but rollerballs are the best for hitting all of the pulse points. It also feels less wasteful, as there's no overspray (read: dollar signs drifting away). And, yes, they're much better for travel--and for tucking in your purse or clutch.
I also find that it's easier to layer with rollerball fragrances: you can apply the liquids directly on top of one another and you have more control over how much goes on. Most importantly, mixing different rollerball perfumes feeds my deep obsession with finding a super unique signature scent.
Perhaps my favorite thing about rollerball perfumes is that they are cheaper! This means I can wear (and play with) a bunch of fragrances (I make a new list every time I read a piece by Kara or Beth) without breaking the bank.
While I'll continue to collect full-size bottles of my favorite fragrances, rollerballs are my go-to for testing out newcomers. Here are a few I'm digging right now:
Long Winter Soap Co. Sea Sprite Perfume Oil
I love this yummy blend of coconut, lavender, and vanilla. It's just sweet enough without being too intense.
Nest White Sandalwood
A creamy, musky, almond/sandalwood combo, this one is lightweight, nutty, and fresh.
Juara Perfume Oil in Candlenut and Tiare Jasmine
These scents are like a tropical vacation in a bottle. The Candlenut oozes jasmine and coconut while the Tiare Jasmine marries magnolia and jasmine with warm amber and vanilla. Together they're like sitting on a beach with a fruity drink and the smell of fresh flowers in the breeze.
Fresh Citron De Vigne
Initially I didn't love the tobacco scent I got from this, but I revisited it later and fell in love. It's citrusy with a warm undercurrent of pink grapefruit, bitter orange, and sandalwood.
Lavanilla Fresh Vanilla Lemon
If you couldn't tell by now, I love vanilla. What I appreciate about this scent is that it's a straightforward mix of vanilla and lemon (true lemon, not candy lemon). Boom. Done.
How do you feel about rollerballs? Are you toting one (or more) in your purse right now?


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