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Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
Jimi Hendrix
Did you see Jimi Hendrix in concert? Did you meet Jimi Hendrix or have the opportunity to interview him or have some other unique, first-person encounter with Jimi Hendrix? If so, Experience Hendrix wants to hear from you.
Throughout this month, both Mitch Mitchell and Billy Cox joined Hendrix at his 59 West 12th Street apartment in Greenwich Village for exploratory jam sessions. Hendrix made a number of home recordings during this period. Hendrix alternated between acoustic and electric guitar as he routined such fare as "Stepping Stone," "Send My Love To Linda", "Last Thursday Morning," "Freedom," "Bolero", and the fleeting, twelve-string "Acoustic Demo" featured as part of the Dagger Records release Morning Symphony Ideas.
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Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording Mixing sessions for Band Of Gypsys resumed. Before the evening session began, Hendrix engaged in a jam session with the Rosicrucians, a Queens-based group whose album Eddie Kramer had been producing at the studio. Two separate recordings were made before Hendrix concluded the jam.
While Hendrix and Eddie Kramer were taking a break from a mixing session for Band Of Gypsys at New York's Juggy Sound, Jimi joins Rosicrucians, a Queens-based band that Kramer was producing, for a casual jam session.
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Record Plant, New York Studio Recording Hendrix completed overdubs onto his January 21 Record Plant recording of "Power Of Soul". A new mix was also prepared.
Under the watchful eye of manager, Michael Jeffery Rolling Stone's John Burks was invited to Jeffery's office on West 37th Street in New York to interview Hendrix, Mitch Mitchell and Noel Redding (who was recently brought in from England). Jeffery clearly wanted to present the original Jimi Hendrix Experience as a united group and that the disastrous Madison Square Garden performance by Hendrix with the Band Of Gypsys was a single, isolated episode. Rolling Stone was at the forefront of the counter cultural press and Jeffrey desperately wanted to the benefit of positive coverage for his artist. In his interview, Burks made several attempts to pin Hendrix down on his present musical course, but Hendrix offered no definitive explanation or plan. Rather than lay out a comprehensive plan for the Experience, Hendrix alluded to possible future jamming and recording with Cox and Miles. The guitarist also described the recent Madison Square Garden performance as 'the end of a big fairy tale'.
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Under the watchful eye of manager, Michael Jeffery Rolling Stone's John Burks was invited to Jeffery's office on West 37th Street in New York to interview Hendrix, Mitchell and Redding (whom was recently brought in from England), in a carefully controlled environment. Wanting the trio to appear as a united force that was to again be known as The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jeffrey pressed to get positive press coverage in the pages of Rolling Stone.
During the interview Hendrix is asked several questions about his evolving music direction where he eludes to expanded musical offerings. Have you given any thought to touring with the Experience as the basic unit, but bringing along other people? Or would that be too confusing?
No, it shouldn't be. Maybe I'm the evil one, right [laughs]. But there isn't any reason for it to be like that. I even want the name to be Experience anyway, and still be this mish-mash moosh-mash between Madame Flipflop And Her Harmonite Social Workers.
It's a nice name.
It's a nice game. No, like about putting other groups on the tour, like our friends – I don't know about that right now; not at a stage like this, because we're in the process of getting our own thing together as far as a three piece group. But eventually, we have time on the side to play with friends. That's why I'll probably be jamming with Buddy [Miles] and Billy [Cox]; probably be recording, too, on the side, and they'll be doing the same.
Do you every think in terms of going out with a dozen people?
I like Stevie Winwood; he's one of those dozen people. But things don't have to be official all the time. Things don't have to be formal for jams and stuff. But I haven't had a chance to get in contact with him."
With Hendrix's growing interest in Steve Winwood and a growing relationship with Billy Cox, it was clear in Hendrix's mind that the original Experience group would never reform – he was right.
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Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording In the early morning hours of February 5, Jimi returned to Juggy Sound as mixing sessions for Band Of Gypsys continued. By this stage, final mixes for "Who Knows" and "Machine Gun" had been crafted and set aside. Hendrix had completed the album's first side and now focused his energies on completing side two. Among the songs mixed by Hendrix and Kramer but not selected for the album were "Stone Free" [1/1/70 2nd Show] and "Hear My Train A Comin'" [12/31/69 1st Show]
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Record Plant, Los Angeles Studio Recording Although Jimi was not present at the Record Plant's Los Angeles studio, engineers Stan Agol and Dan Turbeville mixed a four-track recording of "Star Spangled Banner" for the upcoming Woodstock movie soundtrack.
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Although Jimi was not present at the Record Plant's Los Angeles studio, engineers Stan Agol and Dan Turbeville mixed a four-track recording of "Star Spangled Banner" for the upcoming Woodstock soundtrack (Cotillion, SD 3500) was completed
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During a mixing session for Band Of Gypsys at the Record Plant, Dave Ragno and Bob Hughes joined Hendrix for the completion of a rough mix of "Izabella."
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Record Plant, New York Studio Recording A mixing session dedicated to the Band Of Gypsys studio recording of "Izabella."
Record Plant, New York Studio Recording Work continued on the mixing of "Izabella" before Hendrix and engineer Bob Hughes crafted what was deemed the master. This mix, coupled with "Stepping Stone", would later be issued by Reprise as a single in April 1970. The track can now be heard as part of the Voodoo Child: The Jimi Hendrix compilation. With "Izabella" deemed complete, Hendrix began work on mixes of "Sky Blues Today" ["Stepping Stone"].
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Back at the Record Plant, additional rough mixes of "Izabella" plus "Sky Blues Today" were completed. The mix of "Izabella" was considered the master.
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Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording The mixing and editing of "Changes", "Power Of Soul", "Message To Love", and "We Gotta Live Together" was the focus of this session by Hendrix and Kramer. One such edit was the removal of a short section of Hendrix's guitar An early section of "Power Of Soul", marred by a short burst of Hendrix's out of tune guitar, was trimmed from the master.
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Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording Hendrix and Eddie Kramer continued final editing and mixing of the Band Of Gypsys album at Juggy Sound. Record Plant, New York Studio Recording Following his session at Juggy, Hendrix went to the Record Plant where a master mix for "Sky Blues Today" was achieved during this Record Plant. This master, later retitled "Stepping Stone" by the guitarist, was coupled with February 12 master of "Izabella" and would be released on April 13, 1970 as a Reprise Records single.
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A master mix for "Sky Blues Today" was achieved during the session at the Records Plant. This master, coupled with "Izabella" from the session on the 12th would later be released (April 13, 1970) on the short-run single "Stepping Stone" b/w "Izabella" (Reprise Records, 0905)
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Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording Record Plant, New York Studio Recording On this evening, Hendrix traveled to the Record Plant after mixing sessions at Juggy Sound had concluded. Upon his arrival, an informal jam session with Buddy Miles ensued. Two instrumental attempts at "Blue Suede Shoes" were put to tape. Later, Hendrix put forward an early version of what would become to "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)." Singing live and supported only by drums and percussion, Hendrix wove gorgeous touches of Spanish flamenco styling within the arrangement. An impish stab at Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues"—a favorite of the guitarist's when he was a teenager in Seattle—was followed by a funky original work reminiscent of "Day Tripper." Soon thereafter Billy Cox and Mitch Mitchell arrived. Buddy Miles departed and work began on "Freedom". This recording, issued on The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set, is dramatically different than the version now included as part of First Rays Of The New Rising Sun. Most notably, Jimi devised an inventive, extended introduction and, in contrast to his efforts the previous summer with Gypsys Sun & Rainbows, skillfully integrated the percussion effort of Juma Sultan.
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Buddy Miles and Juma Sultan join Hendrix at the Record Plant where two recordings of "Blue Suede Shoes" were put to tape. Later, Hendrix sung live, giving a beautiful flamenco-styled flavor to "Hey Baby (Land Of The New Rising Sun)." Afterwards Hendrix breaks into a jam playing "Summertime Blues" which is then followed by "Day Tripper."
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Juggy Sound, New York Studio Recording Hendrix and Eddie Kramer completed the final editing, mixing, and sequencing for the Band Of Gypsys album.
Sterling Sound, New York Studio Recording Hendrix and Kramer team with mastering engineer Bob Ludwig to supervise the final mastering for Band Of Gypsys. In light of his disappointment with the mastering of Electric Ladyland by Reprise Records, Hendrix opts to work independently to insure that the final sound quality meets his satisfaction.
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Sterling Sound, New York Studio Recording After reviewing test pressings of the mastering efforts of the previous day, some minor sonic adjustments are completed.
Hendrix manager Michael Jeffery delivered the completed Band Of Gypsys release to Capitol Records.
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The federal government remains shut down over a budget stalemate, but California's Gov. Jerry Brown decided not to wait for Congress to make decisions on the Gordian knot that is U.S. immigration policy. On Saturday, Brown signed into law a group of bills related to immigration because, he said, enough time has passed.
"While Washington waffles on immigration, California's moving ahead," Brown stated. He added, with trademark bluntness, "I'm not waiting."
The "Trust Act" Vs. "Secure Communities"
One of the most important components of the multibill package forbids local law enforcement personnel to detain for deportation immigrants who are here illegally if the crimes for which they have been apprehended are minor and nonviolent. (Violent crimes such as child molestation and felonies are exceptions.)
The so-called Trust Act (its official name is California Assembly Bill 4, or AB4) is designed to counteract the Secure Communities immigration program that the Obama administration started. Secure Communities requires immigration status checks of everyone held in local jails.
Immigration rights activists say Secure Communities has resulted in thousands of deportations for people with no criminal records and who have been taken in for minor offenses such as loitering. (Anti-loitering laws have figured prominently in disputes over day labor markets that have sprung up around the country.)
Under Secure Communities, if a person is discovered to be in the country without the proper documents, the federal government asks local law enforcement to hold the violator until he can be taken into federal custody. Both immigration rights advocates and local law enforcement have complained about the procedure — albeit for different reasons.
Advocates say the detentions are often applied to the wrong person because of bureaucratic snafus and have resulted in hundreds of people being deported who should not have been. And many local police feel their already-strained intakes are being further burdened by the additional detainees. The new Trust Act should ease some of the paperwork backlog and detention density.
Law enforcement agencies in some parts of California, including Los Angeles County, were beginning to operate in ways similar to the Trust Act even before it went into law. Lee Baca, sheriff of Los Angeles County's sprawling (and woefully overcrowded) network of jails and prisons, announced in December that he would not be adhering to Secure Communities' deportation guidelines. A spokesman for Baca called the new law "practical and reasonable."
Removing Shadow Status
The new laws are expected to help bring the approximate 11 million people without papers who are often described as "living in the shadows" out into the open, so they may take part more fully in American life without fear of deportation. One bill signed earlier in the week will allow illegal immigrants to apply for and receive California driver's licenses. Another will make it a crime for someone to threaten an undocumented person with deportation.
Under the new law, employers who threaten employees with deportation will find themselves facing stiff fines and, possibly, the loss of their business licenses.
The bills Brown signed into law mean there is now one statewide standard that outlines the rights of people who are here illegally. Angela Chan, an attorney at Asian Americans Advancing Justice, told the Los Angeles Times that the Trust Act could prevent upwards of 20,000 immigrants from being deported by federal authorities annually.
And they may finally be able to receive help from people who weren't in a position to give aid: The most recent bill allows people who are here illegally to apply for professional licenses.
The inspiration for that may be Sergio Garcia, a 36-year-old law school graduate who passed the California bar on his first try in 2009 but has yet to be licensed. A 1996 state law prohibited government agencies from funding such professional licenses. Now Garcia, who entered the country with his parents as a toddler, left years after and returned at 17, will get official recognition that he's an attorney.
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If you're the kind of person who screams at the sight of an insect or spider — or worse, steps on it — then a new store in Tucson, Ariz., might not be the best place for you to pick up a new family pet.
Owner Ken "The Bug Guy" MacNeil says his store is the only retail pet shop in the country devoted to insects and other arthropods. Judging from the recent opening day crowd at the store, plenty of people think the critters make great pets.
"I love bugs, and I love looking for them in nature," says Andrew Olson, an opening day visitor. "I love watching my bugs at home, so I'm a dyed-in-the-wool bug nerd."
Olson says he and his brother have about 150 pet bugs, and we're not talking the traditional ant farm — which the store does sell. The store caters to those interested in tarantulas, centipedes, scorpions and the infamous hissing Madagascar cockroach.
MacNeil says that if there's a critter he can get, he'll get it, as long as it's legal. "Right now I've got some snails out back and I'm waiting for the USDA to come by and make sure we can sell them," he says.
Ken MacNeil turned his own lifelong love of all things that crawl, creep and scurry into a thriving online business. Then, he decided he wanted an old-fashioned pet store, too. So he opened a small shop in midtown Tucson with big, black bugs painted on the walls and small tanks and cages everywhere. His most popular item: the tarantulas.
"People are always looking for different kinds," he says. "There [are] really rare ones that run up to $700 if you get a big female. Then there [are] cheaper ones [for] people just getting into the hobby that are just $5 or $10."
Even if you have no great fear of bugs, you still might wonder why people think they make good pets. Turns out, they're incredibly easy to take care of, some eating only once a week or so.
"Usually, you just throw a cricket in there, a little bit of water, that's it," MacNeil says.
MacNeil has 10,000 insects, arachnids and other arthropods in the store's inventory, but he needs only two employees. Customer Alisha Nichols says she has a dozen tarantulas at home in tanks, along with a cat that loves to stare at the spiders and paw at the crickets she keeps as spider food. Nichols says she finds the tarantulas soothing.
"I like to meditate with tarantulas," Nichols says. "It's almost like having a Zen garden, just working with their plants, making the little tanks they have as beautiful as possible."
On the other hand, a dog licks you, a cat rubs up against you, but you don't exactly want to cuddle with something like a deathstalker scorpion — since it can kill you. Most tarantulas, however, tolerate being held. They'll crawl up your arm, but they're not exactly responsive. Olson says insects are kind of biological robots, and that's what he likes about them.
"Because there's no emotional reciprocity in the relationship with them, I tend not to get as attached to them," Olson says. "So I don't have to feel bad about them dying."
The bugs couldn't care less if they're pets, so there's also that, but a tarantula can live up 20 to 30 years. With that type of life span, it still seems like it would become a member of the family, albeit an aloof one.
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Princeton University continues to be recognized in national and international college ranking lists for its academic quality, outstanding undergraduate student experience and generous no-loan financial aid that enables students to graduate debt free.
The University was ranked No. 1 in the Forbes ranking of the 650 best undergraduate institutions in America's Best Colleges, No. 1, tied with Harvard University in the Best National Universities category in the "U.S. News 2013 America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News & World Report, and No. 1 in the most recent list of "100 Best Values in Private Colleges" by Kiplinger's Personal Finance, which came out in fall 2011.
The Forbes ranking, which focuses on outcomes, such as career prospects, placed Princeton at the top of its list for the quality of undergraduate teaching, academic value and low student debt at graduation.
In international surveys, Princeton was ranked No. 7 in the Shanghai Jiao Tong ranking, officially known as the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU); the University was ranked No. 9 among 700 institutions across the globe by the QS World University Rankings; and it was ranked No. 5 in Times Higher Education's World Reputation Rankings 2012 announced in fall 2011.
The Princeton Review education service's "Best 377 Colleges - 2013 Edition" ranked Princeton first in the "great financial aid" category and included the University among the top 10 in the "students study the most," "most beautiful campus" and "best college library" categories. The Princeton Review is a private firm not affiliated with the University and ranked schools based on student survey responses to various elements of campus life.
In 2001 Princeton became the first university in the United States to offer a comprehensive no-loan policy in which need-based aid is provided in the form of grants rather than loans. This makes it possible for students to graduate from Princeton without debt. About 60 percent of Princeton undergraduates receive grants. The average grant for a student receiving aid this academic year is expected to be $37,000.
Princeton has been ranked highly in surveys that seek to identify top schools in various categories, including graduate school programs; student diversity, favorable campus climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students; and as the best work environment for individuals pursuing careers in academia.
"We are pleased with the continued recognition for our quality of education, which is made accessible to all admitted students through our pioneering no-loan financial aid program that enables Princeton students to graduate debt free, and the strength of the individual programs we offer," Princeton officials said. "Still, we feel that no formulaic rankings can fully capture the distinctiveness of any institution, or determine which university might be an appropriate match for an individual student."
Princeton also was recognized in areas of service and leadership in several ranking systems, including being listed in the top 20 among medium colleges and universities contributing the greatest number of graduating seniors to Teach For America.
Princeton's sustainability efforts earned the University a place in the April 2012 "Princeton Review's Guide to 322 Green Colleges," which profiles the nation's most environmentally responsible campuses.
The U.S. News' assessment also listed Princeton in other categories related to academics, including best undergraduate engineering programs, a strong commitment to teaching and best value. Princeton also was listed in the magazine's categories for service learning, the University's senior thesis requirement and an emphasis on writing across the curriculum.
"The Princeton experience is enriched by our pioneering Bridge Year Program that offers students a unique international experience living abroad tuition-free while performing service projects before they begin their Princeton careers," Princeton officials said.
"We always encourage students to collect as much information as they can about colleges and universities in which they have an interest, and to visit those institutions to find what academic and social environment is best for them. We strongly encourage students to use a wide range of valuable and readily available resources to find the best college match," Princeton officials said. "Additional resources at Princeton include the University's websites, social media, admission materials and campus tours."


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During her freshman writing seminar, "Wit and Folly in the Age of Shakespeare," Princeton senior Marguerite Colson experienced a moment that changed her approach to every class she took after that.
The seminar's close analysis of essay structure and the methods a writer uses to develop an argument convinced Colson that "the way I had written before wasn't going to cut it," she said. When working on an essay for the class, she realized she needed to finish the assignment a few days before the deadline to leave time to "analyze it and take it apart and put it back together."
The development of her writing skills helped Colson to become the highest-ranking history major in the class of 2010 and the class salutatorian. As such, she will continue the Princeton tradition of delivering a speech in Latin, one of her key areas of study, at Commencement on Tuesday, June 1.
Colson's proficiency in Latin is matched by her incisive critical writing about the material, said Professor of Classics Andrew Feldherr.
"I consider her one of the most gifted analysts of literature I have taught at Princeton," said Feldherr, who taught Colson in a course on Latin elegy. "Her translations were consistently letter perfect, and her oral presentation and essay set a very high standard for sophisticated and informed literary engagement with the material."
Colson is earning a certificate in the language and culture of ancient Rome. She started studying Latin in sixth grade, and said she loves "the neat combination of logic and math and literary analysis" in Latin classes. She especially liked her Princeton courses on Virgil's "Aeneid" and the Roman Republic, which she took her first year at Princeton.
Colson won the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence and the Quin Morton '36 Writing Seminar Essay Prize her freshman year. Over the course of her Princeton years, she applied her writing and analytical talents to excel in her major in history.
A native of Manhattan, Colson wrote a junior paper about a 1741 slave conspiracy in colonial New York City. She wrote another about the American involvement in the 1953 coup in Iran; however, her true love is 20th-century American history, she said. For her senior thesis, she examined the life of Edward Stettinius, who served as U.S. secretary of state under presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman and oversaw the creation of the United Nations. No biography of Stettinius has been written, perhaps because he lasted just seven months in the position before being fired by Truman, who inherited him when Roosevelt died in office.
"Stettinius was kind of a lost figure in history," Colson said. "I saw this as an opportunity to give him a second look."
She traveled to Truman's presidential library in Missouri and made some tantalizing discoveries, such as a letter in which Truman referred to Stettinius' replacement by the same title "secretary of state" three weeks before firing Stettinius.
The greatest pleasure of writing the senior thesis, Colson said, is that it enables you to "surround yourself with material and let yourself find evidence for an argument."
History lecturer Paul Miles, her thesis adviser, was impressed with her paper's "originality, sophisticated analysis and especially fluent composition," he said.
Colson also has relished taking a variety of courses outside her major and getting involved in a number of extracurricular projects.
"You don't have to settle down here. You can do a lot of things you love," she said.
Inspired by her experience in her freshman writing seminar, Colson became a fellow at the Writing Center, where for three years she helped graduate students with fellowship applications, seniors with their theses and freshmen with their first college papers.
"I think you can learn a lot about your own writing from reading other people's," she said.
At the Writing Center, she has excelled at providing "that crucial outside perspective and sympathetic ear for other writers," said Amanda Irwin Wilkins, director of the Princeton Writing Program, which oversees the center. "The students she has worked with remark on what a good listener she is, always attentive and encouraging as they develop their ideas and refine their arguments."
Colson also has served as a tutor for English as a Second Language and a volunteer at Princeton Nursery School through the University's Community House civic engagement organization.
Starting this summer, she will be a yearlong fellow with the Project 55 alumni service group, working as an intern for the next year at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office in the Investigation Division Central unit, which prosecutes white-collar crimes. She hopes the fellowship will help her decide whether to go to law school.
"I love the idea of marshalling evidence and looking at many different perspectives and counterarguments before forming your argument," she said. "It's a career that would keep me reading and writing."


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I've written a postscript interpreter and a postscript debugger as well as some pretty pictures, available at http://code.google.com/p/xpost/downloads/list. Xpost has fewer features than ghostscript (most notably, no definefont
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The profession of scribe was considered to be most honourable, and its rewards were great, for no rank and no dignity were too high for the educated scribe.
E.A. Wallis Budge, The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians
Positive philosophy stands in a very ambiguous relation to Kant's views. It accepts them and does not accept them: it accepts and considers them correct in their relation to the direct experience of the organs of sense -- what we see, hear, touch. That is, positive philosophy recognizes the subjectivity of our receptivity, and recognizes everything that we perceive in objects as imposed upon them by ourselves -- but this in relation to the direct experiences of the senses only.
When it concerns itself with "scientific experience" however, in which precise instruments and calculations are used, positive philosophy evidently considers Kant's view in relation to that invalid, assuming tht "scientific experience" makes known to us the very substance of things, the true causes of our sensations -- or if it does not do so now, it brings us closer to the truth of things, and can inform us later.
... Of course it is possible not to know Kant, but it is impossible to controvert him.
Pyotr Dem'anovich Ouspensky, Tertium Organum
It is impossible to disassociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three things: the sequence of phenomena on which the science is based, the abstract concepts which call these phenomena to mind, and the words in which the concepts are expressed. To call forth a concept, a word is needed; to portray a phenomenon, a concept is needed. All three mirror one and the same reality.
Antoine Lavoisier, 1789
[L]ogic, in so far as it exhibits the universal and necessary laws of the understanding, must in these very laws present us with criteria of truth. Whatever contradicts these rules is false, because thereby the understanding is made to contradict its own universal laws of thought; that is, to contradict itself.
Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, I, 2nd Part, II. Of Transcendental Logic
He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.
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Well, that was that, perhaps. Toronto's blossoming bicycle culture is at risk of being pedalled back into the stone ages because a city councillor is proposing mandatory bicycle helmet laws for all ages AND bicycle licencing/registration.
Michael Walker is the name of the councillor and he, like many car-centric, uninformed politicians before him, is doing his bit for promoting cars and killing off the growth of a carbon neutral, life-extending transport form - bicycles.
His proposal was seconded by another councillor, Suzan Hall.
Walker doesn't seem to be aware that bicycle helmets are designed for protecting a head from non-life threatening injuries in solo accidents under 20 km/h. He seems to think they are some kind of wonder drug that can protect heads from collisions with cars, trucks and rogue meteors. He doesn't seem to realise that the societal and health benefits of a cycling population far outweigh the benefit of helmets.Here's the pdf of his motion. His shocking disregard for pedestrian safety is alarming. I cannot see any reference to helmets for pedestrians in the motion.
As it's been seen all over the world, mandatory helmet laws kill off cycling. 20-40% fewer cyclists as a result. And fewer cyclists means an increase in health care costs, pollution and the continuation of a car-centric society. Bullying people who choose a healthy transport option serves no good purpose.Here you can see the unfortunate results of Canadian helmet laws so far. Not much for Toronto to look forward to.
Here's a radio interview about the proposal from CBC:http://www.cbc.ca/mrl3/8752/toronto/ondemand/audio/jul02bh_TOR.wma. Hilariously, in the URL there is the word/name ONDEMAND. In Danish "onde mand" means "evil man".
I'll never understand why politicians like him, or like the Danish Socialist Peoples' Party propose laws without considering ALL of the science. Thorough political groundwork is a rarity, it seems. This man is a poster child for The Culture of Fear Inc. Actually, he's probably a shareholder.
Regarding his proposal for bicycle licencing, Copenhagenize.com has written about this folly before. Right here.
Toronto... it's been lovely watching your bicycle culture grow. You have been a progressive city in many areas.Shame it may all have been in vain.Via: Biking Toronto, thanks to Joel.


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Do black people support Obama because he's black?
By JESSE WASHINGTON, AP National Writer
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has become prejudice in the form of blind loyalty to President Barack Obama.
Are black people supporting Obama mainly because he's black? If race is just one factor in blacks' support of Obama, does that make them racist? Can blacks' support for Obama be compared with white voters who may favor his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, because he's white?
These questions have long animated conservatives who are frustrated by claims that white people who oppose Obama's policies are racist. This week, when a black actress who tweeted an endorsement of Romney was subjected to a stream of abuse from other African-Americans, the politics of racial accusation came full circle once again.
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Stacey Dash, who also has Mexican heritage, is best known for the 1995 film "Clueless" and the recent cable-TV drama "Single Ladies." On Twitter, she was called "jigaboo," "traitor," "house nigger" and worse after posting, "Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future."
The theme of the insults: A black woman would have to be stupid, subservient or both to choose a white Republican over the first black president.
Russell Simmons, the hip-hop mogul and Obama backer, called Dash's experience "racism." Barbara Walters said on "The View": "If she were white, this wouldn't have happened."
Twitter users are by no means representative of America, and many black Obama supporters quickly denounced the attacks. But for people like Art Gary, an information technology professional, the reason Dash was attacked is simple: She is a black woman supporting a white candidate over a black one.
"It goes both ways," said Gary, who is white. "There is racial bias amongst whites, and there is racial bias amongst blacks. But as far as the press is concerned, it only goes one way."
Antonio Luckett, a sales representative in Milwaukee who is black, called the attacks on Dash unfair. But when people speak out against a symbol of black progress like Obama, he said, "African-Americans tend to be internally hurt by that."
"We still have a civil rights (era) mentality, but we're not living in a civil rights-based world anymore," he said. "We want to say, 'You're black, you need to stand behind black people.'"
Luckett said one reason he voted for Obama in the 2008 primary against Hillary Clinton was because Obama is black: "Yes, I will admit that."
Is that racism? Not in Luckett's mind. "It's voting for someone who would understand your side of the coin a lot better."
Such logic runs into trouble when applied to a white person voting for Romney because he understands whiteness better. Ron Christie, a black conservative who worked for former President George W. Bush, finds both sides of that coin unacceptable.
"It's not the vision that our leaders in the civil rights movement would have envisioned and be proud of in the era of the first African-American president," Christie said.
Martin Luther King Jr. fought Jim Crow laws, which deprived blacks of political rights after Reconstruction, upheld by Southern Democrats. But black voters switched after Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through the 1960s civil rights legislation and Republicans successfully pursued the votes of white people who disliked the civil rights agenda.
Since then, Democrats have persistently wooed black voters with programs and platforms that African-Americans favor, and the party has been rewarded every four years.
Clinton got 83 percent of the black vote in 1992 and 84 percent in 1996; the third-party candidate Ross Perot probably sliced away some of Clinton's black support. Al Gore got 90 percent in 2000; John Kerry got 88 percent in 2004. Obama captured 95 percent in 2008, and 2 million more black people voted than in the previous election.
Christie says he, too, shares the sense of pride in Obama smashing what for blacks is the ultimate glass ceiling. He understands that black pride springs from a shared history of being treated as less than human, while the history of pride in whiteness has a racist context.
But he still sees black people voting for Obama out of a "straitjacket solidarity."
Christie sees it in his barbershop, where black men shifted from calling candidate Obama "half-white" and "not one of us" to demanding that Christie stop opposing the first black president.
He sees it in the comments of radio host Tom Joyner, who told his millions of listeners a year ago, "Let's not even deal with facts right now. Let's deal with our blackness and pride -- and loyalty ... I'm not afraid or ashamed to say that as black people, we should do it because he's a black man."
The actor Samuel L. Jackson said much the same thing: "I voted for Barack because he was black," he told Ebony magazine. "'Cause that's why other folks vote for other people -- because they look like them."
In 2011, as black unemployment continued to rise, the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus said that if Clinton was still president, "we probably would be still marching on the White House ... (but) nobody wants to do anything that would empower the people who hate the president."
And just last week, the rapper Snoop Dogg posted a list of voting reasons, written by someone else, on a social media account. No. 1 on his pro-Obama list: He's black. Snoop's top reason to not vote for Romney: He's white.
All of this may help explain why Veronica Scott-Miller, a junior at historically black Hampton University, directed the following tweet at Dash: "You get a lil money and you forget that you're black and a woman. Two things Romney hates."
In an interview, Scott-Miller said the GOP fought Obama's effort to provide funding for historically black colleges like hers. She dislikes Romney's opposition to abortion and thinks Republicans have a "negative stigma about us ... they make generalizations in their speeches about our race in general, and they make up terms like welfare queens and stuff."
Told that some saw her tweet as racist, she said that's not what she meant. "I was saying that as a black woman, Romney doesn't have that much that would make us want to vote for him," said Scott-Miller, who is black. "Because Barack Obama lives with three black women in his house, he knows about what they need, he knows about the issues we may be facing, he talks to black women on the regular."
Sherrilyn Ifill, a law professor at the University of Maryland, wrote a column last week exploring why so many black voters are rejecting Romney. She said it has less to do with the candidate than with his party's treatment of Obama, such as John Sununu calling the president "lazy" after the debate, a congressman shouting "You lie!" during the State of the Union address, claims that Obama is not a citizen and more.
In an interview, Ifill said that for black voters, such accusations feel like white people are attacking their own dignity. "In essence," she says, "they are closing ranks around Obama."
She noted that women were justifiably moved by Hillary Rodham Clinton's candidacy and Catholics flocked to the polls to elect President John F. Kennedy. Comparing black pride in Obama to white pride in Romney is a "false symmetry" because of the history of black oppression, she says, and she asked for patience from America at large.
"There should not be this resistance to pride over the first black president," Ifill says. "If we get to the fifth one, I'll be with you."
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NEW YORK (AP) — Seven years after being named Esquire magazine's sexiest woman alive, Scarlett Johansson has earned the title for a second time.
Johansson, who also won in 2006, is the first woman to get the honor twice. Last year's winner was Mila Kunis.
Johansson jokingly tells the magazine she's "gotta hustle" and "pretty soon the roles you're offered all become mothers. Then they just sort of stop."
The 28-year-old actress is also off the market. She recently went public with her engagement to former French journalist Romain Dauriac. It will be her second marriage. She split from Ryan Reynolds in 2010.
She says jealousy "comes with the territory" with a Frenchman but she prefers being with someone "who's a little jealous."
The November issue of Esquire will be on newsstands Oct. 15.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Barack Obama's health care law.
Darden Restaurants Inc. declined to give details but said the test is only in four markets across the country. The move entails boosting the number of workers on part-time status, meaning they work less than 30 hours a week.
Under the new health care law, companies with 50 or more workers could be hit with fines if they do not provide basic coverage for full-time workers and their dependents. Starting Jan. 1, 2014, those penalties and requirements could significantly boost labor costs for some companies, particularly in low-wage industries such as retail and hospitality, where most jobs don't come with health benefits.
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Darden, which operates more than 2,000 restaurants in the U.S. and Canada, employs about 180,000 people. The company says about 75 percent of its employees are currently part-timers.
Bob McAdam, who heads government affairs and community relations for Darden, said the company is still learning from the tests, which was first reported by the Orlando Sentinel.
"We're not at a point where we have results," he said. McAdam also noted that Darden is not alone in looking at ways to keep labor costs in check, with companies across the industry prepping for the new regulations to take effect.
In fact, Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Statistics, noted that follow-up legislation might be needed to ensure that companies do not shift more workers to part-time status to avoid providing coverage.
"There's not a company in those industries that aren't looking at this," Keckley said.
This summer, for example, McDonald's Corp. Chief Financial Officer Peter Bensen noted in a conference call with investors that the hamburger chain was looking at the many factors that will impact health care costs, including its number of full-time employees.
Nationally, 60 percent of companies offer health benefits, but the figure varies depending on the size of the company. Nearly all companies with 200 or more workers offer benefits, compared with 48 percent for companies with 3-9 workers, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Even beyond health care costs, however, Darden has made cutting labor costs a priority in recent years as sales growth has stalled at its flagship chains. In the most recent fiscal quarter, the company's restaurant labor costs were 31 percent of sales. That's down from 33 percent three years ago.
The reduction was driven by several factors. Given the challenging job market, Darden has been able to offer lower pay rates to new hires, as well as cut bonuses for general managers as sales have stagnated. Servers at Red Lobster now handle four tables at a time, instead of three.
And last year, the company also put workers on a "tip sharing" program, meaning waiters and waitresses share their tips with other employees such as busboys and bartenders. That allows Darden to pay more workers a far lower "tip credit wage" of $2.13, rather than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.
Starting next year, the company will change the way it offers health insurance to full-time employees, to keep costs more predictable. Instead of offering one insurance plan for all 45,000 employees, it will give workers a contribution toward buying coverage and then send them to an online health insurance exchange where they can chose from five medical, four dental and three vision plans.
More employers are looking at this concept, known as defined contribution health insurance, as a way to stabilize health insurance costs.
Darden said it decided to do it because a survey indicated that employees wanted more options.


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Venus and Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens and Donald Young will be among those vying for Grand Slam Glory at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships, which start Monday at Flushing Meadows in New York.
Those four are the only African-Americans who rank among the top 100 men's and women's players in the country at this stage. Some tennis enthusiasts say the game has got to do better than that – and they are working at the grassroots to level the playing ground.
Take the nonprofit Washington Tennis & Education Foundation, which gives free tennis lessons to kids, while providing academic help and all-around mentoring.
"We are really trying to improve the life of minority kids and poor kids in the city," says Program Director Willis Thomas. "Most of our programs are in wards that have a lack of a lot of opportunities, especially in tennis."
Bob Davis, president of the Black Tennis Hall of Fame, played junior doubles with Arthur Ashe. He recalls the discrimination he faced.
"Back in the days of my junior experience, you could enter a tournament and once they got a look at you and found out that you were of color or black, they would just simply deny access to your entry," he says. "You just couldn't play."
Although the sport has come a long way since then, Davis says many minorities are still being left behind. Between training and tournaments, getting good comes at a high cost.
"You're looking at $40,[000] or $50,[000] or $60[000] or $100,000 a year to be a competitive junior tennis player," Davis says. "How many minority families where the average income is around $35,000 can afford that?"
The U.S. Tennis Association, the national governing body of the sport, is working to diversify the game: It's giving out grants and introducing programs to underserved areas.
"We want to make tennis look like America when it comes to cultural backgrounds," Vice President Katrina Adams says.
But Adams notes being introduced to the sport and getting to the professional level are two different things.
"There is a lot of education that has to be put forth in a grassroots level so that the kids and the parents alike understand what it takes to excel in the sport," she says.
WTEF's Thomas says creating pro players isn't the group's focus.
"Our measure of success is they become good taxpaying citizens," he says. "We want them to go to college. We're not interested in them being tennis champions. If one comes along, fine."
He says tennis instills valuable attributes in the kids, "thinking for yourself and being able to count on yourself to persevere. We hope they take that to the classroom."
Charrisha Watkins was introduced to the WTEF at age 4, on a field trip. She liked the game and kept at it. It helped get her into a private high school, where she excelled on the team. At age 20, she's now a student at Gettysburg College.
When asked where she would be if she hadn't gotten involved with the WTEF and tennis she says, "I don't know. It's like my second home. It's like everything that I do kind of like ties to them, somehow."
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An Italian teenager who wrote to Pope Francis got a shock when the Catholic leader called him up for a chat — the latest example of the pontiff's down-to-earth approach.
Francis called up a journalist friend on the day of his election and even phoned a newspaper stand in Buenos Aires to cancel his subscription.
Stefano Cabizza, a 19-year-old student from Padua in northeast Italy, had sent a letter to the pope, the local Il Gazzettino daily said on Thursday.
But he said he never expected the phone to ring and a voice on the other end to say: "Hello, it's the pope".
Cabizza said that the two "laughed and chatted for eight minutes" and that Francis had blessed him.
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- Using the diseases you chose for requirement 1, discuss the diseases for which there is currently no treatment or immunization. If treatments or immunizations are available for the diseases you chose, discuss others on the list.
- Discuss the importance of safe drinking water in terms of the spread of disease. Then, demonstrate two ways for making water safe to drink that can be used while at camp. In your demonstration, explain how dishes and utensils should be washed, dried, and kept sanitary at home and in camp.
- Explain what a vector is and how insects and rodents can be controlled in your home, in your community, and at camp. Tell why this is important. In your discussion, explain which vectors can be easily controlled by individuals and which ones require long-term, collective action.
- With your parent's and counselor's approval, do ONE of the following:
- Visit a municipal wastewater treatment facility OR a solid-waste management operation in your community. Describe how the facility safely treats and disposes of sewage or solid waste. Describe how sewage and solid waste should be disposed of under wilderness camping conditions OR visit the mosquito abatement district facility in your community. Tell how your community attempts to control the mosquito population and why.
- Arrange to meet with the food service manager of a food service facility (such as a restaurant or school cafeteria) and visit this establishment. Observe food preparation, handling, and storage, and learn how the facility keeps foods from becoming contaminated. Find out what conditions allow microorganisms to multiply in food and how conditions can be controlled to help prevent the growth and dissemination of microorganisms. Learn how microorganisms in food can be killed. Discuss what you learned with your counselor.
- Do the following:
- Describe the health dangers from air, water, and noise pollution.
- Describe health dangers from tobacco use and alcohol and drug abuse.
- With your parent's and counselor's approval, visit your city, county,
or state public health agency. Discuss how the agency addresses the
concerns raised in requirements 1 through 6 and how the services provided
by this agency affect your family. Then do the following:
- Compare the four leading causes of mortality (death) in your community for any of the past five years with the four leading causes of morbidity (incidence of disease) in your community. Explain how the public health agency you visited is trying to reduce the mortality and morbidity rates of these leading causes of illness and death.
- Explain the role of the health agency you visited related to the outbreak of diseases.
- Discuss the kinds of public assistance the agency is able to provide in case of disasters such as floods, storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other acts of destruction. Your discussion can include the cleanup necessary after a disaster occurs.
- Pick a profession in the public health sector that interests you. Find out the education, training, and experience required to work in this profession. Discuss what you learn with your counselor.
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Eclipse DemoCamps November 2012/Hamburg
We will be guests at Adobe Hamburg, with a stunning view of the river Elbe.
Adobe Hamburg
Große Elbstraße 27
Follow this link for directions: http://bit.ly/STlfy0
Pro tip: take U3, S1 or S3 to Landungsbrücken, then change for ferry line 62. The ferry will leave at 18:00, 18:15, 18:30,...
We hope you'll enjoy the location as much as we did when we checked it out! Here is a first impression:
Date and Time
November 14, 2012
18:30 - Meet and Greet (drinks and food)
19:00 - Presentations start
Peter Friese, Zühlke Engineering
Martin Lippert, SpringSource - a division of VMware
Following the principles of openness and transparency, we (Martin and Peter) decided to do the sponsoring for the Eclipse Demo Camp Juno 2012 in Hamburg slightly different and use an open crowd-funding process (described in detail below). Due to the huge success of this process, we plan to do it again! So if you or your company want to sponsor the event, feel free to add your name / your company's name to the list, including the amount of money you would like to sponsor.
Sponsoring for the demo camp is totally open and transparent to everybody. We would like to invite everybody to participate in this sponsoring. The only thing you need to do in order to participate in this sponsoring is to add yourself (you as a person or the company that is sponsoring) to this section of the wiki page. Please add your name or company and the amount of money you would like to sponsor.
This is totally open. Everybody is invited to join the group of sponsors. Companies as well as individuals are invited to participate in this. And you decide for yourself on the total amount of money you would like to spend. The more money we get from YOU all, the more we can spend at the event for drinks and food. So please start today, convince your boss or spend your own money, and add you to the sponsoring list for the next Demo Camp in Hamburg.
The event will continue to be free for all participants (as it was in the past) and you don't need to sponsor just to participate.
One additional note: We will donate 20% of the sponsored food/drinks to an organisation that supports homeless people in Hamburg. So 20% of the ordered drinks/food will not be delivered to our demo camp, but directly to that organization at the same time. We did that once in the past when we ordered more stuff that we could eat and we thought we should do this again, but this time by purpose.
Our sponsors
Adobe sponsors the location, with an awesome view of the river Elbe!
itemis is general sponsor with EUR 500,-
VMware/SpringSource is general sponsor with EUR 500,-
Zühlke Engineering is general sponsor with EUR 500,-
- 18.30: Get together
- 19.00: Opening/Welcome
- 19:10 - 19.25: Active Annotations - Annotation Processing on Steroids with Xtend - Sven Efftinge
- 19:30 - 19:45: Desktop, Web and Mobile: Learn one get two for free - Holger Wolf Slides
- 19:50 - 20:05: Eclipse PDE, Maven Tycho and Maven Central - How to make them work together (Timo Naroska, Adobe)
- 20:10 - 20:25: Let's try this again: Hibernate Code-Generation for Pragmatic Developers with HEDL (Jendrik Johannes, DevBoost GmbH)
- 20:55 - 21:10: Orion Project - Past, Present, and Future - Boris Bokowski
- 21:35 - 21:50: Powerful Web Integration with SWT Browser - Pascal Alich
- 21:55 - 22:10: uDig - User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS - the Framework for Geospatial Information and Analysis - Frank Gasdorf - Slides at Prezi
If you added your demo to the list above, please add a short abstract to this list so people know what you will be talking about.
- Desktop, Web and Mobile: Learn one get two for free (Holger Wolf, MEKO|S) Slides
- The frameworks of the eclipse platform make it possible to use the same code base for desktop, web and mobile clients. This talk will tell you how our product OTIS (Oil Trading and Information System) evolved from a single-plugin RCP application to a multi-plugin RCP, RAP and Tabris application. At MEKO|S we have a small development team and it's a big advantage of having to learn only one framework to use for all three types of applications. We only have to write the code for a new feature once and it can be used on all three platforms immediatly.
- We are giving this talk at EclipseCon Europe in October 2012.
- Let's try this again: Hibernate Code-Generation for Pragmatic Developers with HEDL (Jendrik Johannes, DevBoost GmbH)
- To ease the implementation of data models and to perform ORM, code generation is advertised as a solution for years already. Yet, ORM frameworks like Hiberante are far more popular than any code generation approach. Still, annotation-based frameworks such as Hibernate require a lot of boilerplate code writing. The Hibernate Entity Definition Language (HEDL) combines the benefits of ORM frameworks and code generation, by generating code for the Hibernate framework. Thus, HEDL is an excelent example of a pragmatic domain specific language (DSL), where the benefits of using DSLs and code generation for one important technical aspect of almost every Java software project can be directly observed (the average LOC ratio between the DSL and Java code is 1:100).
- In this talk, we will not only demonstrate HEDL in action, but also discuss the properties that make HEDL a popular and useful DSL. Furthermore, we give insights about how HEDL was developed and how you can extend and modify it for your needs.
- Active Annotations - Annotation Processing on Steroids with Xtend (Sven Efftinge, itemis)
- In this demo I want to give a preview on an upcoming, new feature of Xtend which allows users to participate in the compilation process through annotations.
- Powerful Web Integration with SWT Browser (Pascal Alich, Zühlke Engineering)
- Orion - Past, Present, and Future (Boris Bokowski, Google)
- I will talk about how the Orion project came to be, give a demo of the recent 1.0 release, and muse about what the future might bring for software development in the browser.
- Eclipse PDE, Maven Tycho and Maven Central - How to make them work together (Timo Naroska, Adobe)
- In this talk I'm going to demonstrate how to setup a development environment for OSGi bundles combining PDE and PDE Junit-Tests, Maven Tycho for automated builds and provisioning a target platform from Maven Central. Demo Project on GitHub
Who Is Attending
If you plan on attending please add your name and company to the list below. You need to have an Eclipse Bugzilla account to do so. Signing up is really easy and not only gives you the chance to attend Eclipse DemoCamps, but also gives you the sweet fuzzy feeling of being able to file Eclipse bugs! Come on, give it a try - we know you can do it!
- Peter Friese, Zühlke Engineering
- Martin Lippert, SpringSource - a division of vmware
- Jendrik Johannes, DevBoost GmbH
- Holger Schill, itemis
- Sven Efftinge, itemis
- Dennis Huebner, itemis
- Jan Köhnlein, itemis
- Frank Borasch, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
- Timo Lange, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
- Jörn Langheinrich, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
- Katja Christiansen, Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft
- Harald Albers, HS - Hamburger Software
- Jan Ortmann, Mondula
- Sven Offermann, Mondula
- Artur Thiessen, Mondula
- Christian Rataj-Weinreben, labelfarm GmbH (smow.de)
- Asaf Ikram, itemis
- Oliver Libutzki, itemis
- Erdal Karaca
- Niels Ringelmann, kapdion
- Christian Hempe, Consist Software Solutions
- Tobias Friedrich
- Pascal Alich, Zühlke Engineering
- Stefan Reichert, Zühlke Engineering
- Sebastian Fincke, tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG
- Christian Hager, tecis Finanzdienstleistungen AG
- Ingo Meyer
- Timm Peters, etracker
- Philip Wenig, OpenChrom
- Gunnar Morling
- Dominik Dary, eBay
- Mathias Bietz, Suzlon Energy GmbH
- Maik Teske, Suzlon Energy GmbH
- Andreas Breuer, itemis
- Christoph Gerkens, Kühne+Nagel
- Boris Bokowski, Google
- Frank Gasdorf, Plath GmbH
- Susan Iwai
- Jelena Alter, Eclipse Foundation
- Thomas Lägler, Hamburg University
- Alex Tugarev, itemis
- Holger Wolf, MEKO-S GmbH
- Moritz Eysholdt, itemis AG
- Vadim Zommer
- Koray Bayraktar, akquinet AG
- Hilger Steenblock, BTC Embedded Systems AG
- Tobias Baumann, Hapag-Lloyd AG
- Anton Sarov
- Carsten Ehbrecht, DKRZ
- Birgit Stawitzki, TK
- Farhad Wahedi, PPI AG
- Thomas Klimmek
- Hayo Schmidt, Logica
- Ataul Ahmad, AhmadSoft
- Ole Fielitz
- Thomas Henninges
- Jan Rohwer, PPI AG