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Ghostcrawler had a post a few days ago talking about tanking, vengeance, and his thoughts on the the new skill and tanks lack of desire to put out dps. He said the following (source):
Now, it would be awesome if tanks did consider dps stats more seriously, and maybe outside of the instagib environment of Lich King, they will. Back in the day, tanks at least have say swords and rings for +threat fights even if they didn't use them all the time.
Ghostcrawler seems to be under the impression that tanks don't want to do lots of dps, and that we do not carry around an extra sword and ring for threat sensitive fights. I would love for him to fall upon Meloree's bleeding edge of TPS thread on Maintankadin, Anafielle's post on Rhidach's blog about her threat set, or even just some of the blogs that I have done here regarding itemization, gear sets, and knowing how to gear for any encounter. There are plenty of people out there who love gear sets, have multiple ones, and wear them every week. And sadly, while I am sure he was trying to simplify his statement by saying that rings and swords are what we swap out, we can do so much more than that.
Gear Sets and their purpose
Currently the newest encounter in the expansion employs a fire breathing, parry haste enabled, dragon. One of the common theories as to why parry haste is turned on for dragons is because the breath is suppose to be the instant gib, threatening attack which healers and tanks should plan for. However as many of use have seen, the breath is the nice part of Halion hard mode. The evil part is the 30-35k swings that he employs in concert with breaths, cleaves, adds, and laser beams of death. This brought up a discussion on MainTankadin at one point, and more recently in my guild forums. A few of our more outspoken dps (some of whom happen to have tanks as alts), Brought up the fact that the tanks should just gear for expertise.
This movement to gear towards expertise came off of a night of wiping on Halion to parry hasting gibs. The theory, based off of the facts at hand, from the point of view of a dps player, was sound and obvious. If parry haste is killing the tank, eliminate the threat by gearing or even gemming for expertise. However the deeper seeded issue with this theory is that it is not taking into account all of the facts. When you look at the fight there are a few things that stick out in my mind as the essential moments to gear for. First and foremost, Halion hits like a truck so stamina and armor is key to survival. A very high level of effective health will help with a tanks survival. However on hard mode there are multiple other things to consider.
Depending on the tank role you are assigned, there are three gearing philosophies which should be employed, and this will transition perfectly into a discussion on gear sets. There are two "main tanks" and one "off tank" in this fight. Firstly, you have the tank who is assigned to Halion in the physical realm. This tank has two different end objectives of his or her gearing strategy. First and foremost, you need to survive. Health and defensive statistics which will help mitigate and avoid damage will be key. However there is a second component to the gearing philosophy which should not be completely overlooked. You need snap threat for the add pick up and sustained threat to ensure that you can tank both the boss and the add. From my perspective, this is a perfect situation to maximize survival while maintaining hit cap and threat statistics. I would personally wear my Max HP set, which has a nice balance of 253 hit and 26 expertise, while boosting my HP raid buffed to 60k.
The second tanking role in the encounter is the add tank in the physical realm. The most important thing for the add tank is to be able to maintain threat on as many adds as possible, while pumping out a good amount of dps in the process. The adds need to die as fast as possible, and with the number of raiders going all out on dps because of the tight timer in between meteors, a threat set is essential. There are of course caveats to this, but for the most part, a tanking set which focuses on threat and dps output would be ideal for this situation. The tank should easily be putting out 8-9k dps because of all the adds that they are responsible for holding off of your melee who are cranking out 16-17k dps.
Finally the Twilight Realm tank needs to focus on one thing, and only one thing, and that is survival. They will need to be able to produce the best effective health set possible, in concert with a cool down heavy spec , because the challenge in the twilight realm for the tank is to stay alive taking 30k hits while the healers are moving for about 10 seconds. The major key to success in the twilight realm is cool down usage, but this is only good if the gear on your back can withstand the beating. You want a full effective health set, which is focused on pure survival. Threat should not be that much of an issue, as you will have a good head start on your dps due to your early entry into the twilight realm, as well as the fact that you should have some tricks and MDs when your dps get down there.
Threat Matters, Gear Solves the Issues
Back when the buff in ICC was pushing from 15-20% I noticed a trend in my tps output. I was starting to lose the large gap I had between myself and the dps when it came to threat. I blogged a few times about it, and even went as far as posting some screen shots from World of Logs to illustrate why my threat was not as good as it could be. My threat was hindered by the lack of hit and expertise on my gear, however the gap in threat between myself and the dps was caused by the gradual increase of 277 gear in the raid and the zone buff increasing every month. As our dps started putting out larger and larger numbers due to gear and buffing, my threat did not follow suit. I knew that something had to be done, and it was not something that would be solved by swapping out a ring and a sword.
After pouring over parses, and looking at the gear I had available to me, I went ahead and constructed a high health threat set, not the one that I use to smash faces with on Festergut, but the one that I would use for pumping out threat when I knew that my healers could not keep me up in my threat set. While we have seen amazing things from tanks, that also comes with an amazing raid. The more talented the healers, the less you have to bring, the more dps you can bring and the quicker the fight ends. Because the fight is quicker, your cool down and bloodlust / Heroism buff is a larger percentage of your over all dps. I did not have the luxury of other tanks, so I needed to keep my survival, but up my threat. This set consisted of not only a swap in rings and weapon, but also trinkets, pants, cloak, glove, belt, boots, and libram. This is not a small undertaking as Ghostcrawler suggested in his post, this is a methodical and premeditated swap of an entire gear set to achieve the maximum desired result.
Finally, I wanted to share something with the rest of you who dont read Rhidach's blog, or saw Meloree's comment on that. I am working on it myself, but unfortunately I have quite a few holy paladins who soak up all the ret gear, so I do my best with tank gear and originally had a top 20 spot, which has now dropped down to a top 70 spot. Alas, I digress. This directly shows evidence of one of the best examples in the world of why Ghostcrawlers comment above is outdated and out of touch. I give you Meloree on festergut!
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Matthias gets tiebreaking goal in 2nd period as Panthers beat Jets 4-1 for 4th home victoryNHL.com @NHLdotcom
SUNRISE, Fla. - Tomas Kopecky, Shawn Matthias and Mike Santorelli scored for Florida and Jonathan Huberdeau converted a penalty shot in the Panthers' 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets on Tuesday night.
Jacob Markstrom stopped 21 shots for his first win of the season for Florida, which won at home for just the fourth time this season. The Panthers have been plagued by injuries this season ? including Stephen Weiss' season-ending wrist injury.
Kyle Wellwood scored for Winnipeg and Ondrej Pavelec finished with 22 saves while falling to 8-11-1 this season.
After Wellwood tied the score early in the second period, Matthias put the Panthers ahead for goo midway through the period with his fifth game-winning goal of the season.

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Alphabet Trucks by Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Ryan O'Rourke
A dump truck offloading a bunch of D's and an apple truck being filled with boxes of A's are just two of the twenty-six clever ways that Samantha R. Vamos and Ryan O'Rourke tie together the world of trucks with the letters of the alphabet. Whether they are hauling, transporting or just putting in a day's work, the Alphabet Trucks make it fun and educational.
Lest you think children will be the only ones who learn a little something from this book, I am willing to bet that there are quite a few trucks you will have never heard of. A quint truck, perhaps, or maybe a knuckle-boom? Whatever the case, the enjoyable verse and quirky, uplifting illustrations will keep kids turning pages from A to Z.
Title: Alphabet Trucks
Author: Samantha R. Vamos Illustrator: Ryan O'Rourke
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing (2013)
Age Toddler, preschool
Best for kids who: like trucks
Find the book at your local library, independent bookstore, or Amazon: Alphabet Trucks by Samantha R. Vamos, illustrated by Ryan O'Rourke
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More than three quarters of Big Data workers in the UK are suffering from a lack of training, with the majority being forced to learn on the job in order to keep up to date with the latest skills.
It has been predicted that Big Data will create millions of new jobs and lead to greater project demand within the IT sector, but this does not answer the question about the supply of skilled workers.
According to a survey of 131 members of the "Big Data London" group by real time analytics company Acunu, there is a knowledge gap between Big Data workers and the decision makers commissioning Big Data projects.
Over a quarter of respondents said they do not believe business decision makers are currently exploiting Big Data within their organisation, with "underutilisation of Big Data" (66 percent) and "having unrealistic expectations for Big Data" (66 percent) being highlighted as key concerns.
If this problem persists, the UK may not be ready to seize the Big Data business opportunities in 2013, according to Acunu.
"It's easy to look at a skills shortage and blame a lack of training on traditional educational routes, but when you're on the cutting edge of technology, you have to be teaching yourself most of the time," said Manu Marchal, Acunu director and Big Data London organiser.
The Big Data London community largely rejects the notion that "brain drain" is an issue for the UK Big Data industry. Only 13 percent consider outsourcing to skilled Big Data workers outside of the UK to be a cause for the shortage, and only 18 percent feel lucrative offshore roles are luring UK talent away.
This suggests that the UK is in a strong position to retain and grow its talent pool, if more British-based IT professionals are given the access to the software tools and skills most in demand, said Acunu.
Hadoop remains the most sought after big data sector skill. However, 'Real-time analytics' was also selected by 62 percent of the group, suggesting a shift in priorities. NoSQL databases Cassandra and Mongo, capable of real-time analytics, both came out as very sought after areas of expertise.
"Hadoop is becoming mainstream and it's no surprise skills in the area are sought after, but it's clear that the next wave is real time analytics, operational analytics, low latency analytics," said Marchal.
Cost, often highlighted as a barrier to Big Data projects, was not a high concern to the community. Only 20 percent said Big Data projects were 'too expensive'.
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Hockey is the most popular sport in Latvia. The modern Ice Hockey Hall at Saliena hosts various hockey games, team training, figure skating, and activities for both children and adults. Saliena's residents have the chance to skate or play hockey throughout the year, with this great facility right on their doorstep.
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Few would challenge the introduction of a bit of greenery into a city environment. Toronto residents, Eric Cheung and Sean Martindale, are making this basic urban space ideal into a reality with their poster pocket planters. The duo carve their way through existing posters to create little pockets, then fill them with potting soil and plants to create an impromptu green wall system. The result is a bit of greenery that effortlessly blends into the existing urban landscape. Best of all, Eric and Sean want to empower eco- and locally-minded folk by keeping the process open source– and are making their cutting patterns available online.
Although we were tempted to call these eco-imaginative fellows guerrilla gardeners, Cheung told the Torontoist that they considered their project to be something more like public space or urban activism. Unsurprisingly, the two activists-of-sorts are looking to stir up reactions from those who pass by their pockets. While the project has been well-received by ordinary passers-by, the Torontoist reports that one particular project had its plants stolen (we hope they were taken immediately to a nearby garden deprived of ornamental plantings) and then completely taken down within only a couple of days — replaced by the former advertising.
Cheung and Martindale hope that their project will move beyond the city boundaries of Toronto, and inspire others to create their own green wall systems. So far, our favorite urban beautification blogger, Posterchild, has tried it in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — and developed a different method of folding that Cheung says "jams the advertisement completely."
The duo want to keep the idea of poster pocket planters open believing that the idea of the pockets "[belong] to this city and other urban environments." They also admit that their technique is not yet perfected, and open-source will allow anyone to contribute to the development of the idea that they sparked. So when they say urban activism, they mean YOU interacting with YOUR urban surroundings — and they are offering their origami-like instructions online, so what are you waiting for?
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As Michael P. himself said recently
Thanks to The Antagonist for pointing me to an mp3 of a speech Parenti made earlier this year at the Understanding Deep Politics conference
Parenti's getting on a bit and he does lose his way momentarily a couple of times in his presentation. But this is Parenti we're talking about and even a Parenti who pauses occasionally to think to himself about what's for dinner tonight and if he should put on a cardigan or not is still a class act
Highlights of the talk include...
- A listing of the intellectual alternatives to what is now termed 'Conspiracy Theory. Alternatives such as "Innocence theory", "Somnabulist theory", "coincidence theory", "stupidity theory", "incompetence theory" and the trusty old loon favourite "stochastic theory" (shit happens)
- A discussion of how the Few have managed to narrow the range of permitted public political discourse down to a point where any suggestion that the establishment is run by people of deliberate bad faith is designated as being in the same category as Elvis sightings
- Identification of what should be a blindingly obvious point that, for some logically inconsistent reason, it's OK to believe that Labour organises to pursue its own self-interest in the best way that it can but to believe that oligrach's do the same is popularly dismissed as insanity. A notion enthusiastically promoted by media owned and controlled by those self-same oligarchs
Parenti also ponders upon the fact that those who consider themselves to be of the Liberal Left have been suckered into being some of the most vigorous supporters of this kind of elite-serving bullshit thinking
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Christian County, Kentucky, to Hickory County, Missouri
Recently, I took a few days off from the usual humdrum and made a fast trip west to visit my family. I drove to Wheatland, Missouri, and picked up my sister; then she rode along with me to Kingman County, Kansas, where we spent several days visiting with my brother and sister-in-law. Then I took my sister home again, and came back home myself. The entire trip was about 1500 miles.
Here are some of the sights from the first day, as I traveled from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to southwest Missouri.
Much of the land in the Missouri Bootheel was cypress swampland until the 1890s. It was considered a great engineering accomplishment when nearly all the trees were cut and the swamps were drained and converted to farmland. Today, it's a very productive agricultural area, but a rich and complex ecosystem has been lost forever.
Most of the hay harvest this year in southern Missouri and southern Kansas was put into big round bales like these. We did see a few big square bales in Kansas. We speculated that they could be packed closer on a truck than round bales and that they would be more stable during transport.
In a gas station, I saw this stuffed bobcat and bird (I think it's a quail.) I don't think they'd win any taxidermy prizes, but they certainly were attention-grabbing, especially for little children.
The other end of this shop in Van Buren, Missouri, was more modern and less cluttered, but I really liked the look of this end. Van Buren always has something interesting to see. I took a few minutes off to drive around town and look at the Current River.
My next stop was at Winona, where I pulled into a gas station to study the map and plot a route across the Ozarks. I had finished my map reading and I was waiting at the stop sign to get back on Highway 60, when a woman in a Ford Explorer rear-ended my car. She was apologetic, but she didn't explain to me why she did it. My car didn't appear to be damaged, but I got her insurance information anyway. "Just in case," I told her.
I pointed my camera at the road as I went down some of the big hills. Here are two pictures that turned out all right. I'm thankful for Highway 60 which is all four-lane these days, but I always enjoy the point in the journey when I turn northward on a two-lane and head across the Ozarks toward Wheatland. I've seen some great scenery from the two-lanes in the Ozarks.
I usually go through Lebanon, but I decided to take some blacktop county roads (about 50 miles of them) and go through Buffalo instead. (This information is for those who really know their southern Missouri geography.) That's how I happened to pass through Conway, and by the way, it was the first town I'd seen in quite a while.
I finally arrived at my sister's house a little before sunset. When I opened the trunk of my car, I couldn't close it again. Once opened, the two parts of the trunk latch were misaligned and impossible to connect. So I called the woman's insurance company and made a claim that night. (Lesson: Always get the insurance info, even if the car does not appear dented at first glance!)
For the rest of the trip, I had to fasten the trunk with a bungee-cord. We put most of our gear in the back seat because it was more convenient. When I got home again, I took the car to the body shop for an estimate, and the guys there bent it back enough to close it properly. Now, I'm just waiting for the appointment in about a week to get it fixed for good.


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Week 14: Bills Rout Dolphins 38-17
Offensive explosion was a year in the making.
by Steve Saslow
The Bills finally put it all together as they dominated a lesser opponent early and did enough to keep them down the rest of the way in a 38-17 rout of the winless Dolphins at Ralph Wilson Stadium. The win puts the Bills back over .500 and keeps them in the thick of the playoff race with a huge battle in Cleveland next week.
It was a total team effort as the offense exploded with a few rare feats. Trent Edwards. threw three first half touchdown passes which is the most by a rookie QB in the NFL since Jim Plunkett did it in 1971. The two headed monster at running back developed quicker than expected as Fred Jackson ran for 115 yards and Marshawn Lynch added 107. They became the first Bills duo to get 100 yards since 1996 when Darick Holmes and Thurman Thomas turned the trick. Robert Royal scored two touchdowns in the first quarter!
The offensive explosion was something we've been waiting for all year as they turned four Miami first half turnovers into three touchdowns as they got touchdowns instead of field goals in this game. They took advantage of Miami's first turnover when John Wendling recovered a muffed punt. Three plays later Edwards hit Royal with a 13 yard touchdown on a screen pass.
The Bills would make it 14-0 on Royal's second touchdown, a 28 yarder down the seam. He bobbled the well thrown pass and nearly dropped it but held on for the score. It became 21-0 in the opening period when George Wilson took a John Beck fumble in midair and returned it for a score.
Miami saw enough of their rookie QB at that point and replaced him with Cleo Lemon who engineered a quick scoring drive to show that Miami wouldn't quit easily. Sam Gado's 12 yard touchdown run made it 21-7. The Bills responded with a drive to Rian Lindell's record 51 yard field goal. It would extend his consecutive streak to a club record 18 successful field goals. He would miss later on ending his streak.
The Bills extended their lead to 31-7 in the second quarter after a Donte Whitner interception. Edwards hit Lee Evans for a nine yard touchdown reception that was originally called out of bounds but replay overturned it. The game went to halftime that way and you would figure Miami was running for the bus at that point but to their credit they came out hard in the third quarter.
Miami would cut the lead to two touchdowns with a second Gado touchdown and a 41 yard field goal by Jay Feely. The Bills would put it away early in fourth quarter when Edwards showed that he has an arm too. He hit Evans in stride on a 70 yard bomb for the game clinching touchdown.
The young team learned another lesson today, they learned how to finish a game out that they had in hand. Now they face the biggest test they have had since the season finale in 2004. They have yet to beat a real good team, especially on the road. They get their chance in the battle of Lake Erie with a possible playoff spot down the line hanging over head. Who would have thought they would be in this position?
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However, I don't think he's quite as cute when he's hanging. In fact, I'm afraid he looks morbid! Does it look like this poor little snow-ginger-elf man has just been to the gallows??
I think this decoration will be better as a sitting ornament instead of a hanging one :).


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Tritons Topple Western Washington to Advance to West Regional Final
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The senior trio of Chelsea Carlisle, Daisy Feder and Lauren Freidenberg combined to score 53 points for the Tritons, who jumped all over the Vikings in the opening half and cruised home from there. UCSD shot 45% in the period and built a commanding 25-point lead to punch its ticket to Monday's West Regional Championship game with ease.
The Tritons, who are now 30-2 on the season, will take on second-seeded Alaska Anchorage for the regional title on Monday at 7:00 p.m., with the winner advancing to the Elite Eight in San Antonio beginning on March 20. The Seawolves (29-4) defeated No. 3 seed Grand Canyon, 77-58, in Saturday's first semifinal matchup.
"I thought the way that we came out in the first half was some of the best basketball we've played all year, and I was very pleased with the energy and focus," head coach Charity Elliott said. "Our kids just did a great job. We beat a very good Western Washington team tonight and I'm proud of how we were able to get them on their heels early on."
Carlisle scored 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting for the Tritons, who shot an even 40% (24-60) from the field for the game. The reigning West Region Player of the Year also finished with game-highs of seven assists and five steals in 37 minutes.
Feder tallied 19 points, six rebounds and three assists, while Freidenberg finished with 14 points and 12 boards for her sixth double-double of the season. Megan Perry chipped in with 10 points and five rebounds off the bench.
Britt Harris scored a game-high 23 points and hauled down eight boards in a losing effort for Western Washington, which wraps up its season with an overall record of 22-8. Kristin Schramm scored 21 points on 8-of-19 shooting for the Vikings.
For the second time in as many nights, the Tritons came out swinging and built an early lead in the first half. After leading by as many as 20 in the opening period of Friday's victory over eighth-seeded Chico State, it was more of the same on Saturday as UCSD used a balanced offensive attack and strong defensive play to build a resounding 50-27 halftime advantage.
The Tritons were in control from the outset, grabbing an 11-5 lead on a putback by Freidenberg three and a half minutes in and then extending their advantage to 15-7 on a three-pointer by Perry two minutes later.
UCSD outscored WWU 15-4 over the next five minutes to push its lead to 30-11 and the route was on from there. Carlisle scored four points during the stretch, while Feder capped off the run with a pair of free throws and a deep three.
The Vikings trimmed the deficit to 15 at 34-19 following a triple from Schramm with 7:16 left in the period, but the Tritons came back with the next seven points to push the margin to 22 with 5:46 remaining. Perry's third trey of the half gave UCSD a 23-point cushion heading into the locker room.
The Tritons hit 17-of-38 shots in the half, including 6-of-13 from the three-point line, and scored 16 points off 15 Viking miscues. Carlisle and Freidenberg put in 12 points apiece, while Feder and Perry both had 10.
UCSD wasn't nearly as sharp in the second half, hitting just 7-of-27 from the field, but the damage had been done, as WWU could get no closer than 11 points down the stretch. The Vikings outscored the Tritons 39-31 in the period.
"Being tough, that's what the playoffs are about," Carlisle said. "The teams that get to this point, they're great teams. It's going to be those teams that come out, have that extra effort and have that toughness and thank goodness we had that in the first half. I think we got away from it a little bit in the second half, but our first half was good enough to where we were able to maintain that."
Western Washington finished just under 43% for the game, hitting 26 of its 61 shots from the field.
The Tritons, who became the first team in program history to win 30 games with Saturday's victory, will have to play well for a full 40 minutes if they're going to defeat Alaska Anchorage on Monday.
"I think Anchorage is a tremendous program," Elliott said. "They've been very successful for a very long time. They've been in this situation before. They know how to win. We're looking forward to it. It's going to be two very tough teams, going at it, going hard and playing for their seasons. I expect it to be a great game."
Monday will mark UCSD's first appearance in the West Regional Championship since 2007. The Tritons knocked off Chico State, 80-63, and went on to advance to the national semifinals, where they lost to eventual champion Southern Connecticut State.


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Customer loyalty software describes any computer or web-based tool used for tracking and strengthening customer value after the point of purchase — may include customer engagement software, advocate marketing software, loyalty programs, and gamification.
The customer loyalty market is changing, both in form and in function. When one considers customer loyalty, chances are high that a loyalty card springs to mind. Further, it's likely that a points-based system in which customers accrue credit for each purchase is also associated with loyalty. In such a system, customers can receive credit in an actual store or through online purchases. This credit acts as a secondary type of currency that can be redeemed for rewards, usually after a certain threshold has been reached.
While both the physical loyalty card and point-system are still very successful tactics, a different type of loyalty market is emerging. This market responds to the new type of interaction happening between brands and consumers. Because of the constant connectivity of the internet, the majority of interactions consumers have with an organization will not result in a purchase. That means the best customer loyalty programs now have to extend past simply sales.
For instance, a visitor who frequents a website to consume content may not be far enough down the sales funnel to make a purchase, meaning incentivizing that type of action would be a waste of resources. However, rewarding their consistent readership with an offer to download exclusive content, or with recognition via social media are both methods for keeping them engaged. This type of interaction turns the concept of purchase-based loyalty on its head, and changes the way businesses think about their customer relationships.
In the Information Age, the buying process is more complex, and raising retention rates post purchase often requires more than sending coupons to past customers. Loyalty happens across a range of actions, often centered on the consumption of content.
This type of interaction is a response to consumer expectations, but it typically requires integrating a software platform dedicated to rewarding customers. This guide details the features of customer loyalty software, examines how businesses can measure ROI, and discusses the continued use of purchase-based loyalty programs.
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Rewards Customization
To properly reward non-purchase behavior, businesses will need to structure rewards that create user loyalty. These type of rewards can vary from access to unique or limited-time content, to gamification elements such as special statuses or badge icons. Robust** loyalty program software** will also allow businesses to customize their rewards based on the context of the interaction as well as the type of loyalty behavior the business is trying to promote. The best customer loyalty programs should make distributing rewards intuitive for business users, making oversight of the rewards program simple and straightforward.
In the context of loyalty, game elements are excellent tools for driving users to engage in specific behavior. Consequently it's common to see the use of gamification in loyalty programs. By structuring loyalty campaigns into levels or tiers, and by rewarding users for engagement, organizations can create an incremental experience that develops a sense of progress in users, thereby increasing their motivation to participate.
Time specific campaigns such as contests also fall into this feature category, with certain software allowing intuitive customization of limited-time loyalty events.
Omni-Channel Accessibility
While many of the new innovations in customer loyalty software are being driven by online interactions, leading programs offer businesses omni-channel capabilities. This means customer will be able to access loyalty rewards and features through three main channels: online, mobile, and in-store. Omni-channel functionality is important because even though customer expectations have increased for online interactions, they have not lessened their in-store expectations.
Omni-channel is also known as a seamless experience. Such a program connects customers to loyalty rewards across mobile devices, stores, and computers. Given the meteoric rise of smartphone usage among consumers, more and more brand interactions take place there.
For example, if one of your customers receives coupons in his email, an omni-channel experience would allow this customer to simply open said email from his smartphone and scan the coupon in-store.
Of course, mobile access may not be relevant for programs that feature a physical card, though it's becoming more common for card-based programs like Pirq to take the form of a digital app that customers also scan through their phone.
For organizations that implement loyalty functionality on their site, it's important to consider how your new loyalty program software will integrate with your legacy systems. To function properly, the loyalty program software will need to include an API which integrates with content management systems like Wordpress. Otherwise, installation will require heavy support from the software vendor, which could delay the launch date and make future software changes difficult.
It's also important to consider social media integration, which makes it easier for customers to log in with their social profiles and for you to distribute rewards for targeted behavior through social channels. Email integration can also be important for distributing coupons and other rewards to your customers.
Similarly, buyers should look for loyalty solutions that integrate with your customer relationship management system. With CRM integration, businesses will be better able to organize their customer information and track the behavior of each customer.
For brick and mortar businesses, it's also critical to ensure that the solution integrates with point of sale systems. Certain card-based products like Belly may feature unique hardware that needs to be purchased for customers to scan the card, while others will allow scanning straight into the POS system. Advantages exist to both: the latter may be more user friendly for your employees and customers while the form can collect more detailed information about buying habits.
Functionality that's common to both card-based and web-based customer loyalty software, analytics features enable businesses to gain greater insight into the buying behavior of your customers – insight which you can then cross reference with demographic data to develop customer profiles and better target your marketing or loyalty efforts. The type of data you gather will vary depending on the type of platform you deploy.
For example, web-based loyalty management software will capture data on how customers act when they're on your site, when they mention your brand on social media, and when they make a purchase. Card-based systems gather a narrower set of data, e.g., mostly buying behavior and demographics, though vendors like Perkville can sometimes gather more robust data through their loyalty software.
How to Measure Your Return on Investment
Measuring the effectiveness of loyalty has historically been limited to an incremental model, i.e., customers receive rewards or incentives and an organization waits to see who responds over a certain period of time. With the rise of analytics, it's become easier for you to measure the return from your loyalty program software. Using an uplift model specifically, you'll be able to track the effectiveness of your efforts.
An uplift model creates a control group against which to test the returns of your loyalty incentives. The control group consists of customers who were not exposed to your customer loyalty program, which allows you to measure the impact of the independent variable – in this context your incentives and rewards – for comparison against the control. Certain top tier vendors include this in their software platform, but it's also possible to build an uplift model yourself.
Once you've let your model run for a couple of months, you can examine the data to analyze not only which rewards and incentives are most effective at spurring engagement, but also which tactics translate into the most significant return for your business.
Use Case: Big Door and Pac Sun
One of the market leaders in West Coast-style apparel, Pac Sun wanted to increase retention rates among their customer base. As the result of a successful digital strategy, Pac Sun had acquired a substantial database of customer information, but the California retailer wanted to ensure they capitalized on every opportunity to advance their relationship with their customers. So after vetting different loyalty software companies, Pac Sun settled on Seattle-based Big Door.
After four months of fastidious preparation, Big Door launched a loyalty solution that integrated with both Pac Sun's website and represented the brand's well-crafted aesthetic. Big Door offers their clients an open API, so Pac Sun's new loyalty functionality blended perfectly with the existing website features. Big Door also provided a series of custom reports to Pac Sun so their marketing team could identify the best customers and target them with premium offers.
After implementing Big Door's loyalty software, Pac Sun realized a tremendous 132 percent increase in on-site engagement and a 138 increase in registrations. Consequently, Pac Sun realized a 38 percent increase in revenue per customer. Pac Sun also continues to use the aforementioned uplift model developed by Big Door to measure customer response to loyalty marketing efforts.
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Next Generation Science Standards identifies the science all K-12 students should know. These new standards are based on the National Research Council's A Framework for K-12 Science Education. The National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve have partnered to create standards through a collaborative state-led process.
Print copies of the Next Generation Science Standards are available for pre-order now or you can view the online version at nextgenscience.org.


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Welcome Seekers!
You've made it to the only blog that goes beyond self-help to self-servicing.
Last year people spent an estimated $1.5 billion on self-help books that claim to make you happy, make you desirable, make you love yourself, heal your life and give you emotional and spiritual prosperity. Yet 99.95333% of these consumers remain miserable suckers.
Such a pity.
The truth is no one has ever read a book by Dr. Phil and gone on to rule the world. Know why? Because the world is run by power-hungry sociopaths who don't waste their time actualizing their feelings or practicing hugging therapy.
The Happy Sociopath is a "how to" for getting everything you've ever dreamed of from this cold cruel world. More money, more power, more sex, more time, even more crafting projects, if that's what you're into. Anything you want you can have, it's really all up to you! The wise Eleanor Roosevelt said: "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Believe in the beauty of your dreams my friends, believe.
You've been a helpful and considerate person for far too long and what have you got to show for it? Not much. Don't give me that crap about being a good person is it's own reward. It's not. Instead you've just been drowning in the quicksand of good intentions and pathetic loserness. But there is hope! Here you are now, primed and in place to finally get everything you ever wanted out of life.
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Honored Happy Sociopath of the Week – Tony Hayward!
"Even bad press is good press!" Well that's the upbeat, positive thinking you can expect from Happy Sociopath, Tony Hayward. Sure there's an oil disaster at his heels, but let's be honest here, no one really important is effected. Tony's … Continue reading
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Aaron Rodgers and his leadership ability are a quickly becoming a popular talking point. It started last year with casual remarks from Shannon Sharpe and some twitter comments and ballooned this off season when both Greg Jennings and Donald Driver have commented on his leadership style.
One former Packer, Charles Woodson, took to Rodgers's defense today when he spoke with ESPN Wisconsin's Jason Wilde.
"I don't understand where it's all coming from... it's got to be hurtful to him because what are they talking about, to question his leadership ability, his leadership skills? The guy is one of the best players in the NFL, and I think he does a great job as far as leading them into battle."
Woodson also commented on how crucial Rodgers is to the Packers success.
"There's been times throughout my career there when defensively we put a piss-poor product on the field, and we've been in games and won ballgames solely on the arm of Aaron Rodgers and the legs of Aaron Rodgers and what he's been able to do throwing a ball to a Greg, a Donald, a Jermichael. A couple years ago, we were 15- 1, and if we have any other quarterback other than Aaron Rodgers, we're 7-9."
Woodson added this thought about his time playing for the Packers.
For me, my time in Green Bay was nothing less than exceptional.
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I loved this book because Lyle saved the day. It was sad when Lyle went to the zoo after he got lost in the store. This part when Lyle gets lost, reminds me of when I was lost in Toys R' Us because I couldn't see my mom.
I think my brother would like this book because he likes crocodiles. I think up to age six would want to read this book.


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Regents Hear About Enrollment Spike
SOCORRO, N.M. September 28, 2012– The official tally of students this semester hit an all-time high, New Mexico Tech Board of Regents learned at the regular meeting Tuesday in Socorro.
The official enrollment on census day, September 7, was 2,102 students, including 1,563 undergraduates and 539 graduate students.
Melissa Jaramillo-Fleming, Vice President of Student and University Relations, said that a recent focus group with the parents of new students showed that a range of promotional and recruiting activities have encouraged more students to consider Tech. Those include booths at college fairs, web interactions, T-shirts and eclipse-viewing glasses, open houses in Albuquerque and campus events in Socorro.
The influx of new students created a housing crunch again this year, with students on the dorm waiting list staying in local hotels.
Miguel Hidalgo, director of special projects reported that construction of the new dorm is on schedule despite some rain this fall. He said the contractor will begin pouring the foundation before October 1. The three-story building will start being framed in mid-October. The target date for completion is May 28, 2013. He expects the 150-bed dorm to be furnished and ready for occupancy by the beginning of the fall 2013 semester.
Dr. Lopez reported to the board about the recent President's Golf Tournament and changes to the methods those revenues are reported.
He said this year's tournament brought in more than $200,000 for the President's Scholarship Fund before expenses. He is working with the Finance Office and the Foundation to codify reports about the tournament and the scholarships awarded each year. Since its inception 19 years ago, the President's Golf Tourney has provided tuition assistance to more than 200 students, many of whom are fifth-year seniors who no longer qualify for the state-supported Lottery Scholarship.
Lopez also reported on the fund-raising consultant that is working with the Advancement Office to develop a capital campaign. The university will start the silent phase of the fund-raising over the next several months.
He also reported to the board about the Charles F. Headen Estate, which has bequeathed a sizable amount of assets to New Mexico Tech. Headen was a Socorro businessman who passed away in 2011. Lopez said the Headen Estate's generosity will create a significant addition to the university's foundation. Another sizable estate from a Nebraska businessman is expected to be settled over the next year or two.
Lopez said these two large donations will dovetail nicely with the larger capital campaign that New Mexico Tech is planning.
In other action:
Marquez reported that the Employee Benefit Trust, which administers the health insurance plans, continues to run at a deficit. The university is considering options and is likely to abandon the Indemnity Plan, which is more costly, and offer three different PPO options. He said employees are likely to see premium increases again in January 2013.
The Board approved a list of seven Research and Public Service Projects that are requesting the same amount from the state as in the previous year. Those include the Petroleum Recovery Research Center ($1.9 million); Homeland Security programs ($540,000); ICASA ($734,000); EMRTC ($634,000); Intercollegiate Athletics ($200,000); and the Bureau of Mine Safety ($258,000).
Several other state-funded projects that are requesting increases in funding were reported to the Regents – and to the State of New Mexico – at a previous meeting.
The Board learned of two large expenditures of restricted funds: $300,000 to Schlumberger for a project with the PRRC; and $167,000 to URS Corp. for a project with the Magdalena Ridge Observatory.
Lopez presented the Board with the list of September 2012 graduates, including 3 bachelor's, 17 master's and 3 Ph.D.'s.
The Board approved two resolutions authorizing the disposal or sale or surplus property.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — The NBA calendar waits for no man, not even one of the game's all-time greats.
You are either ready for the grind when the curtain comes up on the 2013-14 NBA season or you are not. The 82-game gauntlet that awaits has no mercy.
That's why it should be comforting news to Miami Heat fans that Dwyane Wade made his way back to the gym this weekend after a two-month layoff to rest the sore knees that have come to define this stage of his stellar career. Wade hasn't been on the floor since the Heat's Game 7 win over the San Antonio Spurs in The Finals.
Wade opted for OssaTron Shock treatments for the tendinitis in both knees rather than undergo major surgery, a move that Wade and the Heat have to believe was the best move for a player nearing his 32nd birthday and with a decade's worth of wear and tear on his body. As important as LeBron James is to the Heat's bottom line and as invaluable as Chris Bosh might be to what goes on in Miami, a healthy Wade is the key to the Heat's three-peat hopes.
They won last season with Wade turning in a career-low 15.9 points per game in the postseason. He came alive when the Heat needed him most during the The Finals. But for long stretches throughout the postseason, starting in the first round against Milwaukee, he just didn't look like himself. The burst and above-the-rim ability that had become his trademark vanished as he battled bone bruises in both knees.
He missed just one game in the postseason, but he was missing in action during plenty of others. Wade isn't the first superstar to hit his 30s and find his body playing tricks on him. Kobe Bryant has had to deal with his fair share of knee issues, a problem he handled by opting for a blood-spinning procedure in Germany that saw other stars in the NBA and other sports follow after seeing Bryant's physical resurgence post-procedure.
Wade made a public promise at his fantasy camp Friday to be ready to go when the Heat start training camp.
"I'll be coming in prepared and ready, but I won't be ready for opening night," Wade told reporters. "I'll be ready for opening night when opening night gets here. I have a good amount of time."
Time is of the essence for the Heat. Their championship clock is far from over, but it's ticking towards what could be a crossroads of sorts in the free-agent summer of 2014. Say Wade doesn't make it through the 2013-14 campaign healthy and the Heat are unable to complete that Three-Peat, things could change dramatically with James, Bosh, the New York Knicks' Carmelo Anthony and several other high-profile starts all swimming in those free-agent waters.
But if Wade's shock treatments work and he has the good fortune of avoiding all of the bumps and bruises that have slowed him down recently, the Heat will no doubt ride through the regular season as the favorites to win it all again. And a third straight title and fourth straight Finals appearance will make it tough for anyone to walk away from.
"The challengers are lining up," said an Eastern Conference executive from a team outside of that group of contenders. "We all know how hard it is to get back on that horse and ride it to The Finals for third straight year. Everybody understands what kind of toll that takes on the guys who are the true superstars in those situations. If DWade is right and healthy, it's hard to see anyone knocking them off the top of that mountain. It's not impossible by any stretch, because Indiana was right there last season. But it is a tall order and nearly impossible with LeBron and healthy Wade doing what they do."
Wade acknowledged the clear and present danger teams like the Pacers, Knicks, Chicago Bulls and Brooklyn Nets present to the Heat's three-peat plans. It doesn't take a pair of BluBlockers to see that the rest of the East is working tirelessly to catch up to the Heat. And that doesn't even bring the Western Conference challengers into the equation, as he pointed out to Tom Haberstroh of ESPN.com's Heat Index:
"The East obviously has gotten stronger," Wade said. "Brooklyn has done something unprecedented — to put five All-Star players on the floor at one time. Not that many people have pulled it off, especially with Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett. When you think of them, you think of Boston. To be able to take them from there and bring them to their team and bring something to their team that they were missing, in the sense of winning and that toughness."
Wade said that on paper this might be the most competition he's ever faced in the Eastern Conference.
"This is going to be a tough year for us," Wade said about the Heat's pursuit of a three-peat. "We're walking into uncharted waters. Right now, we're the standard team because we've been the champions the last two years, so other teams are putting teams together to stop that."
Wade is right, it's going to be an extremely difficult task trying to three-peat, even if they get all of the injury breaks they didn't get last season.
The Heat's mix has changed a bit, too. Mike Miller is gone. Greg Oden has joined them. Ray Allen and Chris "Birdman" Andersen came back. Bosh will no doubt come back with something to prove after taking his share of lumps on the court and from those of us who observe and report on these things.
What hasn't changed is the formula the Heat need to achieve their goals. The dynamic duo of LeBron and Wade, when healthy, remains the most powerful force in basketball.
And nothing, not even the NBA calendar, can change that!


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Savings Bonds (Part 1) - Learning More about those Bonds
Category: Elder Law, Estate Planning, Tax Law and Planning, Probate and Estate Administration, Financial Planning
Many people have invested in saving bonds at one time or another, or another has done so for them. For the most part, they sit in a safe deposit box until cash is needed (or you remember that you have them). However, there may be a need to find out more about the bonds or liquidate them as part of estate planning, estate administration, or elder law, or just sound financial planning for yourself.
Savings bonds are investment in the US government. There are various types of bonds, that earn interest in different fashions, and have unique tax consequences. Luckily, there are some wonderful resources on the web to cut through all of this information.
The US Government provides a very informative website at www.savingbonds.gov that goes through the purchase and redemption of various government investments (T-Bills, T-Notes, T-Bonds, I Bonds, EE Bonds, HH Bonds) and explains the differences between the various investments.
There is a very useful toolbox a the website for determining the current and future value of your investment:
Have Your Treasury Securities Stopped Earning Interest?
Savings Bond Wizard
Savings Bond Calculator
Growth Calculator
Savings Planner
Tax Advantages Calculator
Another excellent site is www.savingsbonds.com. This is a commercial site oriented to financial planning. It does have excellent step-by-step guides on bond redemption, including the practicalities of redemption and guidelines to the tax consequences.


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Minneapolis, Minnesota has one of the best skate scenes in the country. This past Saturday, our Come Up Tour presented by WeSC stop at Familia Headquarters was too sick. The locals were some of the coolest people we've met so far and the caliber of skating was nuts. Local legends Clint Peterson and Tabari Cook, and Andy Conrad from Coal Headwear, were our judges and their job wasn't easy. After an intense Best Trick finals on the rails, we gave Kirian Stone our Prime C.U.T. award—he ripped around the course all day with a buttery style. Third place went to Ricky Nunn who hardflip back lipped the rail, and also hardflip front boardslid it too! Second went to Corey Millett, who, among other bangers, did a nollie flip frontside 50-50 on the rail. First place went to local killer Dan Coe who did too many flip-in to grind and slide tricks to mention. Just watch the edit. See you this Saturday Chi-Town! Skaters, submit your footy tapes now to be pre-qualified for the finals!
Photos by Alex Uncapher, video by Benji Meyer
Music: PAWS Jellyfish, Cokefloat!
Special thanks to our C.U.T. sponsors: WESC, Independent, Deathwish, Shake Junt, Olloclip, Fred Water, House Of Marley, I Ride I Recycle, Coal Headwear
Chicago, we'll see you this weekend at Piotrowski Skate Park, April 20 in conjunction with Uprise!


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i have decided to study up on Processing again in anticipation for the Fall semesters classes. i will be doing a study group on Thursday nights at the Emerald Coast Community of Makers. tonight, i was able to get an install on the machine at the Makerspace running Ubuntu 12. we will start this week with a screening of Hello World! Processing, a 41 minute documentary about the platform. and then i will demonstrate some simple hello world exercises.
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
processing study group
Tuesday, June 04, 2013
environmental hardening
i have been working on some design ideas to protect the sound element on the O.G. project from water intrusion. i have mostly been inspired by dome structures and nature(snail shells and the shapes of the human ear cochlea). i am thinking about clear spot to push sound pressure/waves and how to airlock the system if it starts to submerge.
Sunday, June 02, 2013
busy prototyping the SMT version of the solar singers
Thursday, May 30, 2013
full Keannu whoaaaa for the Bucaneer
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
solder masks! oh my!!
solder masks, oh my! i have started investigating the facility and methods need to make solder masks as part of my research to upgrade my homebrew PCB production. i recently purchased some UV curable ink; the price is right at about $15 per 50ml. it takes very very little. your objective should be to spread as thin a film as possible on the pcb. next you set up a typical exposure setup layering a mask over the parts that you don't want to cure (thus a positive process). you can make this tight by clamping the entire layers or use a vacuum exposure frame. i just lay a heavy piece of glass on the top to smoosh it together. when exposed to direct sunlight for about 3-4 minutes, it is enough to cross-link the polymers in the exposed ink.
i didn't understand how to set up the exposure 'sandwich' at first, the first ink never dried and I made a sticky mess of my screens. i soon learned that the cured material will not stick to polypropylene which can be sourced from your friendly 'zipper' food storage bag (Zip sumthin') or those clear sleeves for three hole binders...
so add a drop or two of ink, lay down a sheet of polypropylene, and squeegee the ink to a thin film. lay down and precisely align your mask, and expose. immediately after this first exposure use a rag with solvent (cotton swabs aren't bad either) to dab away the uncured areas over the pads. then set the board out in the light for a while to fully cure the ink.
- the results/lessons learned from my initial tests were that
- i use too much ink; i am too used to painting with a trowel...
- get all the air pockets out from under the poly
- that stuff is hard to get through when fully cured
- clean the pads thoroughly
- easier to scrape away errors before the ink is fully cured
- test all the traces before you got to all this trouble, you are locking yourself out of accessing the traces for repairs
- did I mention the stuff gets hard
all-in-all, i have decided that this is a process i will have to practice many times to get down. the price can't be beat though. i found a dry film called Dynamask 5000, this is a film that i will cut to size and apply with the laminator. it uses a negative process close to the photo-intaglio processes i used to do in school. i will report on this later.
Monday, May 27, 2013
circuit research
Sunday, May 26, 2013
first SMT experiments
Saturday, May 25, 2013
improved toner transfer methods
for about a year i have been making my own PCB's by using toner transfer methods. i have been able to make some pretty nice boards with very good results with all kinds of substrates; i have used plain paper, glossy junk mailer/magazine pages, and commercial transfer paper. the results have been very strong using the transfer paper, a dextrin coated sheet that the Laserjet easily prints to.i have been using the household iron method to remelt the toner to the board (simply put print side to copper and apply heat and pressure). i have found you need to be careful, because you can smear the molten toner. to solve this i have adapted a technique from the PulasFX forums where you use a hardwood dowel to roll the board between the iron and dowel. the action takes a little to master but it does quite well, i also bought a rolling pin and will sometimes go to Printmaking and roll right on top of the department hotplate.
the big improvement is a new laminating machine to assist with the toner transfer methods for making resists for my PCB's. i still use the iron to tack the transfer to the board but now the heavy lifting (pressing) is done with the laminator with a few caveats, the machine will grudgingly accept 1.6mm (1/16in) inch boards but i do not recommend it. the .8mm (1/32) boards do very well and last Thursday, i was able to fabricate some SMT plans with .275mm traces. i still have some smearing (i need practice on the number of passes in the laminator), but they look really awesome otherwise.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Otto's Ghost will be haunting Greensboro for Art in Odd Places (AiOP)
it is raining good news, i have received notification that Otto's Ghost has been accepted for the Art in Odd Places 2013: NUMBER in Greensboro, NC. the exhibition is a short period at the beginning of November 2013 in conjunction with the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC).
AiOP is an artist-led initiative to present art that stretches the possibilities of the public realm. It began at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and migrated with Ed Woodham to New York, taking place years later in the Lower East Side and East Village. Since 2008, the festival has taken place on 14th Street in New York City. We are excited to bring the festival to Greensboro for the first time and look forward to seeing it take place along Elm Street, one of the city's most vibrant thoroughfares.i have proposed to instll the project in a beautiful huge Magnolia tree located approximately at 500-598 E McGee St on the triangular green belt wedged between McGee, Elm and RR tracks. The geo coordinates are 36.06807, 79.79043 (paste into google maps). link to the map
Thursday, May 23, 2013
resistance is futile...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Otto's Ghost
some time ago i began to play with a solar sound circuit as research in autonomy, electronics, sound installation, etc. i had very vague feelings about how to build upon this project. this spring, i decided that my summer project would be to go for a truly embedded sound installation in the forest that surrounds our University of West Florida. it was very apparent that the many days of sun per year and dramatic shifts in the weather will create some manner of hybrid ecology of machine and nature as a resulting soundscape. in April, i applied for the Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Grant to seed the project. i applied for funding to pay for some new tools and to pay some summer assistants to help me realize the project. i am happy to report that it was funded.
so i commence this summer in flurry of buying new equipment and starting a tremendous research period to learn more about PCB fabrication, Surface Mount Technologies, and mass production. i am building a reflow oven, refining my circuit design skillz, trying new techniques in applying resists, experimenting with new etchants, learning to apply solder masks, trying out conformal coatings, etc., etc.
here are gory details, pulled from my application:
my project with the working title, Otto's Ghost, is a sound installation constructed from dozens of small solar powered circuits placed into the environment of a wooded site. the site and devices form a hybrid ecology between nature (landscape, trees, etc.) and technology ('chorus' of miniature sound robots expressing a variety of chirps, buzzes, etc.) Each module of the group can have an individual sound profile from the variety of the on board photovoltaics and values of components used in each piece. the soundscape manifests as the overall composition of the different 'sonic speciations' in the group and environmental factors. the generative soundscape of Otto's Ghost is additionally influenced by environmental factors (diurnal cycle, weather, etc.) situating the environment as a coauthor in the score created by the installation.
Otto's Ghost grew out of research from 2008, when i began to investigate autonomous machines and sound art in the installations of Ralf Schreiber (1996) who used the Schmitt Hex Inverter integrated circuit. the core circuit, the Schmitt trigger, is characterized by positive feedback where a portion of the output is fed back to input creating a loop gain (amplification) of the signal. this behavior was discovered by Otto Schmitt and documented in his 1937 dissertation on electrical propagation in nerve fibers of squid. Schmitt, now considered 'a father' of contemporary bioengineering, is also known for coining the term biomimetics.
Ralf Schreiber is a primary source in the application of these circuits as an aesthetic form. Like Schreiber, i am also using the oscillatory functions of the Schmitt triggers to create sound installations and feedback loops create chirps and buzzes. the current objective requires materials research to climate harden the devices to be implanted into the biological world. the project expands former research, first, in the transformation of the design and, secondly, by reinserting the machine embodiment of Schmitt's inquiry as an element of the environment and a complication of the ideas of an ecology and (natural) systems to explore the aesthetics of an autonomous collection of machines as (machineorganisms).
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
follow up on the etching
Monday, May 20, 2013
a new etchant option
for the past year or so i have been etching my own PCB's. i have experimented and successfully mastered many Toner Transfer resist techniques where a reversal image is applied with heat and pressure. i have had the kind support from our printmakers who allow me to use their Edinburgh Etch tank to burn the boards. and they have been really spectacular, it gives me much pride to deliver a project module to the students with home-brewed PCB's to work upon. it brings it closer to home on multiple levels.
on friday, i was leading a seminar for my summer work group who are assisting my summer project (stay tuned). in the seminar i demonstrated the entire process: drawing a schematic, PCB layout,resist transfer, etching, and then soldering the project. our printmaking facility is shut down for the summer so i did an etch in a photo tray in the UWF FabLab. this was fine as i only needed about 5 boards and it was fresh FeCl so it went relatively quickly. it has spurred me to take the next leap for our lab and start an official 'chemistry' policy in the lab to make sure the students can follow my lead and make their own custom PCB's.
i began more etchant research as i prepare for the discussion i need to have with our Environmental Health and Safety officers. i am concerned with the protocols we will need to establish for material handling and storage. even though we will need to comply to material handling for the 'used etchant' supplies, it would be wonderful to find other processes that use less hazardous raw materials and etchants that will last long term to reduce the waste stream.
for sometime i have been aware of a Hydrochloric Acid (HCl) and Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) etchant that seems to have a long life according to the citizen scienctitst and nerdom around instructables.com. the anecdotal evidence suggests that it has a long life that actually increases etching ability as it is used and that it can be extended by adding more oxidizing reagent (H2O2) or simply bubbling air through the mixture to facilitate the oxidation. the reports are that enthusiasts are getting very long usage times reducing the amounts of materials they dispose of. this is fantastic because cupric solutions are highly toxic to the environment and biology. it has even been suggested that electroplating techniques could be used to reclaim a less soluble (less hazardous) and recyclable copper powder. other advantages of this style of etchant is that it doesn't have the horrid staining that is characteristic of FeCl. it will still wreak havoc on your stainless steel sink so you need to exercise caution.
in the past 48 hours, became aware of a small but growing number of individuals using household vinegar (or if you will acetic acid CH3COOH) and H2O2 plus a little salt (NaCl) as an etchant. this well documented in the BLONDIHACKS blog post from Feb. 2012, where the awesome Quinn Dunki details the process of design to fabrication in awesome detail. and here and Steve Hobley has run similiar experiments as detailed in blog posts from 2011. kind of cool is that he has a chemist in his family who comments on the chemical processes at work here and makes it a totally interesting read.
the remarkable point is that common vinegar runs about 5% acid by volume where a considerably stronger corrosive is usually employed.
i had to do this! tonight i returned to campus with 3% peroxide, household vinegar, and some salt. i can report that it works very well. slower than the fresh FeCl etchants, but very similar to time need when using the Edinburgh bath we have in the printmaking department. in about 30 minutes, i had etched a one ounce copper plate. as Quinn puts it "not having to deal with storage, use, and disposal of a strong acid is worth it."
i have a close associate in photography and thus access to some pretty aggressive Acetic (it is used as a stop) that we can mix down to a reasonable but higher percentage by volume. i can also get vinegar in up to 30% by volume. this is used as weed killer, but it also looks like it is a lightly regulated as a chemistry. i am also thinking of running some tests citric acid which i could pickup at the local brewing supply house. all of which could make the requirements for Health and Safety easier!
i will be running another board tomorrow morning in the resultant etchant, it should go quicker if the reports are correct. and post images... stay tuned!


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I know it's early, but yesterday was Christmas-with-friends, before we all end up having our Christmas-with-families.
As it turned out, our pile was entirely fabric and yarny goodness. Plus, we manged to solve that ever-so-tricky question: what does one knit for a knitter? Turns out the simple answer is you make stuff they won't knit themselves. Just because you have the skills doesn't mean you'll have the time or inclination.
For example, flatmate-Kirsty won't knit socks. She could. In fact I suspect she'd really enjoy it. I also know she likes wearing hand-knit socks because she's still not given me back the wonderland pair I lent her after the photoshoot back in September. Every time sock-knitting is mentioned she shakes her head in incredulity and mutters something about jumpers. So, I made her these:
I said she could keep the wonderlands too. It being the season of giving and all (and it didn't look like I was going to get them back). I'd also been saving some Japanese cotton for her, covered in cartoons of little animals in various forms of peril (burning, drowning - they're cute but also somewhat disturbing). In fact, we both did pretty well for fabrics walking the macabre/ beautiful line - Kirsty's cousin brought us back some amazing Day of the Dead prints from LA.
And Kirsty's gift to me? This gorgeous alpaca hot-water-bottle-cover. I've been meaning to make one or myself since I did one for my mother last year. But just haven't got around to it (kept getting distracted by socks...)


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text: Bill Gillon was recently named president of the Cotton Board, the organization that oversees the collection and disbursement of funds from the cotton checkoff. Although new in the position, Gillon is not new to the cotton industry, having served as general counsel to the National Cotton Council for years. Interviewed during the Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Atlanta, Gillon said this is a great time to be in the industry because of high prices and high demand for the fiber.


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It's late or early... but I am really tired of pea brain logic... by your moronic logic, all online kite shops should be ostracized, right? So that means neilprydemaui, kitehigh, kite-line, etc. aren't they taking away from local shops in far off places too...stuntc wrote:I fly Cabrinha...Why, shop and school support....How many companies put as much time and effort into sponsoring schools and providing shops with such a great range of kites. Cabrinha isnt about a guy with a bunch of money trying to promote two year old technology with girls and dollar signs. Cabrinha is about performance, new technology, support, world champions, quality, not bs and hype. Eventually the dollars will run dry. And when they do the shops and schools will still be there doing the important jobs. Teaching newbies safely, providing quality equipment, keeping our beaches open. Cabrinha has always been a part of this. So in short support your local shop, they were probably the ones that taught you how to kite or picked you up after that downwinder or gave you a line when yours broke maybe lent you a harness when you forgot yours, or gave you equipment to try ot use while yours was getting fixed, maybe they did a beach clean-up to keep your spot looking right, or talked with the local town council to keep the beach open. How much is this worth to you? I ride Cabrinha!
As to assitance from shops... nothing bad to say... but they are far and too few... the reality is that most people get there lessons from independent instructors who are scraping by a living... think all of NYC... no shop... but plenty of kiters... more likely to get help from a fellow kiter than any shop.
I pay the park fee for the cleanup... seems the right way to do things.
By the way... schools typically are underserved by big brand distributors... their business is lessons... not selling equipment... don't have the capital/volume... why are they attracted to Best... visibility, traffic... make kiting more affordable... tend to generate more lessons... ask Real how's lesson business this year and how much Best gear they have moved... I am guessing a lot! Oh wait... can it be... Best gear at the biggest retail/school outfit... kind of contradict the inbred logic doesn't it!
What about kitepower, airhead, X-Klam, etc. I guess they don't count.
Here's a bit of enlightenment... retailers cares about high inventory turnover... that means they want goods that are sold before the shipment arrives... not shit that sit around and depreciates... I say 3 for 2 packages are a pretty easy sell for retailers and schools... and guess what... customers are thrilled to spend 1500 for 3 kites when they felt ripped off before to spend 1200 for one! Seems like a mutually beneficial thing to me.
And if you are so enthused about Cabby... make a big donation for such a good charitable cause... I am sure NeilPryde will appreciate it since it is tired of using Cab as a tax deduction again this year... that's actually a bad thing if you didn't realize it.


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Brussels, 27 March 2006
Member States Agree on the European Driving Licence
Today the Council of Ministers reached a political agreement on a European Commission proposal from 2003 regarding a European driving licence (COM(2003)621 – IP/03/1435). Common European rules will facilitate the free movement of EU drivers, prevent fraud when driving licences are used as identification documents and improve road safety, particularly where motorcycles are concerned. A single model in credit card format will replace the more than 110 different models currently in circulation.
Vice-President Barrot welcomed the agreement saying "The European driving licence is of vital importance for road safety and for the fight against fraud. It will make travel around Europe easier and without bureaucratic difficulties. All drivers will have clear, modern licences that will be accepted in all Member States – I am pleased the Council succeeded in reaching this agreement".
The new driving licence will ensure improved road safety through better definitions of the scope of application of the different driving licence categories. It will make clear exactly who is entitled to drive what. It provides for the introduction of a licence for mopeds and establishes the principle of progressive access to bigger and more powerful motorcycles. Direct access to the latter category will only be possible at the age of 24 after a theoretical and practical test. People who want to ride the most powerful motorcycles before that age will need to gain two years experience on lighter types. The new rules also set minimum standards for driving examiners.
The new legislation represents an important step towards combating fraud involving driving licences and the phenomenon of "driving licence tourism"[1]. Member States will strengthen their cooperation in order to prevent temporarily banned drivers from obtaining a new driving licence in another Member State. An EU wide-network for data-exchange of driving licenses needs also to be established for this purpose.
A single new driving licence model in credit card format with reinforced security features will be introduced, whereas the 110 different models still in circulation will be gradually phased out. After the entry into force of the directive, Member States will have 26 years at their disposal to replace the existing driving licences. Specific provisions have been agreed upon to ensure that every existing entitlement to drive a specific vehicle will continue to benefit from mutual recognition.
The new directive will leave Member States free to introduce a microchip or not on the new model. Whatever option they chose Member States must respect EU data protection rules.
In future, the validity of driving licenses will be limited. The new rules foresee a 10 year validity period for licenses, which Member States may raise to 15 years. Member States are free to organise medical examinations at the time of administrative renewal.
Following the political agreement of today, the formal adoption of the Directive by the European Parliament will be effective later this year in a second reading. Thus the Directive will enter into force by the end of 2006 and therefore be applicable at the latest at the end of 2012.
[1] This term describes the following phenomenon: citizens, who had to hand in their driving license to the authorities of their home state after a serious offence, obtain a new driving license in another Member State, which has then to be recognised also in their home state.
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Jagr scores 700th NHL goal, sparks Devils' 6-1 rout of IslandersNHL.com @NHLdotcom
UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Jaromir Jagr became the seventh player to score 700 NHL goals, sparking New Jersey's four-goal second period, and Martin Brodeur earned the win in his first start in over a month as the Devils routed the New York Islanders 6-1 on Saturday.
Jagr gave the Devils a 2-0 lead early in the second, and Ryane Clowe, Marek Zidlicky, and Mark Fayne followed in rapid succession. The four goals came in a span of 4:36 in the first 8:07 of the second.
Adam Henrique opened the scoring with a power-play goal at 5:00 of the first. New Jersey needed only 12 shots to net its first four goals and 16 total to get to five against beleaguered goalie Evgeni Nabokov. Clowe and Zidlicky, with a milestone assist from Jagr, also tallied during power plays.


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The Saturday Food Chain with Michael Olson- September 28th 2013- Guests: Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis, Co-Authors, "The Stop"- Can the poor be nourished out of poverty?
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Guests: Nick Saul and Andrea Curtis, Co-Authors, The Stop
Can the poor be nourished out of poverty?
Food banks are based on the principal that surplus food should be deposited in a facility where it may be withdrawn by those who hunger.
Today there are nearly a thousand food banks in North America distributing billions of pounds of surplus food through thousands of non-governmental agencies to millions of people in poverty.
Given the number of food banks, the amount of food they distribute, and the numbers of people being fed, it might seem that food banks have always been part of the social landscape. In fact, they are a relatively recent phenomenon, beginning with the great recession of the 1980s at the St. Vincent de Paul community dining hall in Phoenix, Arizona.
Today food banks are becoming a very big part of many communities, as evidenced by Toronto's The Stop, which grew from a $250,000 a-year agency in a rat-infested warehouse to a $4,500,000 a-year agency offering farmers markets, catering, gourmet food, and community food events.
These non-governmental food banks, and the people who run them, lead us to ask…
Can the poor be nourished out of poverty?


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Today is the 12th anniversary of "the day that changed the world." A lot has changed since knife-wielding hijackers crashed two airplanes into the World Trade Center, toppling its twin 110-story towers, slammed a third plane into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in a Pennsylvania field.
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is under construction near ground zero and is set to open in 2014.
The museum stands not only as a testament of remembrance, but also to our nation's resiliency to rebuild and rebound.
It's a known fact the Lancaster County School District is blessed with its share of great teachers.
Any doubting Thomases should have been at the district's recent Celebrate Great Teaching, which annually ushers in the new school term at Lancaster High School.
A highlight of the event was the salute to the 2012-13 Celebrate Great Teaching winners.
The latest winners included Brittany McManus, Traci Shigley, Shelby Schwartz and Richard Gay.
McManus, a Discovery School fifth-grade teacher, won the Beginning Celebrate Great Teaching Award.
If you're ready for some football, there will be plenty of it today, Aug. 23, at the annual Founders Kickoff Classic, a scrimmage involving all four county schools, at Buford High School's Jackets Stadium.
Action opens with Central High School of Pageland playing Fort Mill High School at 6 p.m. Next up is Andrew Jackson High School against McBee High School at 6:45 p.m. The third period features Lancaster High School facing Indian Land High School at 7:30 p.m. Host Buford caps play with a battle with Lancaster at 8:15 p.m.
The 2013 Lancaster Dixie Baseball season is in the books and it's been quite a story.
The 2013 LDB seasons saw five all-star teams advance to state tournament play.
"We did really well," said veteran LDB chairman David Hance. "These coaches and players were outstanding. Their parents, grandparents and fans had plenty to cheer about this summer."
The youth baseball organization's 2013 all-star campaign ended with the AA stars, ages 7-8, playing in the Dixie Youth Baseball regional tournament in Walterboro.
Heath Springs Mayor Ann Taylor recently received a nice surprise.
Taylor, the Heath Springs mayor since 1990, received the Hettie Ricket Leadership Award last month in North Myrtle Beach.
The award was presented by the S.C. Community Development Association which honors community development leaders. The group is affiliated with the Municipal Association of South Carolina.
The Hettie Ricket Leadership Award is named after Hettie Ricket, a Cassatt native from neighboring Kershaw County who worked to get water service for her community.
Declaring independence from the mother country England was to be celebrated with devotion to God, pomp, parades, shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of the United States to the other – forever more. That was how John Adams said the American colonies were to claim their freedom on July 2, 1776.
However, the official declaration day wasn't until two days later and some historians still debate the official day.
The Andrew Jackson High School Volunteer Regiment is going to be in some "high cotton" come July Fourth.
The school's award-winning band will be among the nation's elite when it goes to Washington, D.C., for the annual National Independence Day Parade.
The AJ band earned its trip to the nation's capital after its division-winning performance in the Hartsville High Tournament of Bands last fall.
We search the various greeting cards for just the right words. Words that adequately reflect how we feel in our hearts for that important man.
Today is that important man's special day – Father's Day. It's a day set aside to thank that man who plays such a pivotal role in our lives. He provides and protects his family. His love is unconditional. A father's daily presence in children's lives provides a stable family foundation.
The bowling lanes at the Kershaw Recreation Center at Stevens Park are taking on a new life.
Thanks to a major renovation project, the lanes sport a more pleasing, modern look.
Back in February, Kershaw Town Council voted to allocate $118,330 from the town's reserve fund for the bowling alley's major improvements.
Town officials have considered ways to increase attendance at Stevens Park and use of its facilities, and the bowling alley has been a major part of those discussions.
Richard Band devoted 35 years to the Lancaster County Library and it's likely his legacy will be felt for years to come.
Band, 64, retired May 31 after spending nearly half of his life improving and expanding the Lancaster County Library system.
Band's impact is obvious.
"When I came, we had no branches and were only open one night a week," Band said. "We had a big old card catalog in the middle of the room with 40,000 cards that took up all the room. There wasn't a lot of technology."
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