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Feature summary | Dimension | 2018 releases
Learn what's new in the 2018 releases of Dimension CC.
Dimension CC 1.1.1 | May 2018
This release of Dimension CC provides critical bug fixes.
Fixed customer issues
Issues fixed in Dimension CC 1.1.1 (May 2018 release)
Resolved an issue with files becoming corrupted if Dimension couldn't automatically generate UVs.
Resolved an issue with CC Libraries, which was using an incorrect image thumbnail for a preview.
Dimension CC 1.1 | April 2018
This release of Dimension CC rolls out new features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
New features
Edit In Photoshop: Send any image from Dimension directly to Photoshop to edit. See the updates in Dimension as soon as the document is saved in Photoshop.
Color support: Dimension CC now supports Colors from Creative Cloud Libraries. Easily apply saved colors to the background, material, and other properties.
Snapping: The Move tool now snaps objects to the ground plane at the bottom, middle, and top of any selection. The Rotate tool can now snap to 1 or 15-degree angle increments while rotating.
Move To Ground: Added a new item to the Action panel and the Object menu to move selected objects to the ground plane.
Marquee selection: You can now click and drag in the canvas to select multiple objects within the drawn rectangular marquee area.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts: Change the keyboard shortcuts for any tools and menu commands in the Preferences menu.
Automatic model cleanup: Models that are imported without certain attributes are now automatically prepared, reducing possible errors and improving the visual quality of objects. This includes generating UVs and normals when none are present.
New languages: Added support for Portuguese (Brazilian), Italian, and Spanish.
Match Image: Improved the accuracy of perspective alignment using the Adobe Sensei Match Image feature.
Focus: Depth of Field has been renamed to Focus. Focused items now stay in focus when the view is moved and an in-canvas focus indicator has been added.
Offscreen indicator: When a selected object is not within view a new offscreen indicator will appear in the canvas. Clicking the indicator now automatically moves the view to the selected object.
Glass rendering: Improved the visual rendering of glass objects, especially when using solid color backgrounds.
Default render name: The default name in Render Mode now uses the filename if working in a saved Dimension file.
Improved .obj loading: Improved the performance when loading .obj files. Loading an .obj file now displays a progress bar and a cancel button.
Transform tool rework: The Move, Scale, and Rotate tools have been updated for improved usability and performance. The colors have been updated for improved visibility.
Improved drag-and-drop: Drag-and-drop can now target materials to the scene panel and images to swatches such as background image.
Saved locked scale settings: Locking the scale of an object or the background is now remembered through selection changes and document sessions.
Object numbering: Improved the way numbering is handled in the scene panel when creating copies of objects.
Selection and transformation: Selecting and using the Move, Rotate, or Scale tool can now be done in one action instead of requiring two separate click events.
Magic Wand selection: The Magic Wand can now make subtractive selections to remove areas from the current selection.
Multiple Render saves: Updated Render Mode to allow for saving both a .png and .psd with one Render instead of requiring multiple renders.
UI enhancements: Single-clicking the panel titles and labels no longer collapses or expands a section. The disclosure of Materials in the Scene panel has been moved from right to left. The icons in the Scene panel have been updated.
What's changed
System Requirements: The minimum supported macOS version has updated from OS X v10.10 (Yosemite) to macOS v10.11 (El Capitan). Dimension CC no longer prevents launch for systems below the minimum requirements.
Fixed customer issues
Issues fixed in Dimension CC 1.1 (April 2018 release)
Corrupted save errors: Resolved several issues causing some files to become corrupted on save. Most of the previously corrupted files can now be opened.
.obj loading errors: Resolved several issues preventing some .obj files from loading. Improved error messaging in unsupported file cases.
Pasted HTML styling: Resolved an issue where pasting text retained its HTML styling when pasted into text fields.
Render start up: Resolved an issue on Windows where the render preview and render mode would not start up if the hardware system had not been restarted in a long time. (Windows-only)
Undo improvements: Resolved some issues where Undo was not correctly tracking the steps for adding background images or magic wand selections.
Background Scale mode: Resolved an issue where the Background Scale mode was not correctly remembered or displayed.
Dimension CC 1.0.1 | December 2017
This release of Dimension CC rolls out enhancements and bug fixes.
- The Render Preview now updates faster.
What's changed
- Updated keyboard shortcuts: Several German and French keyboard shortcuts have been updated to more closely match other Adobe application standards.
Fixed customer issues
Issues fixed in Dimension CC 1.0.1 (December 2017 release)
- Resolved an issue with Xeon, i5, and i7 processors from 2011 or earlier, which couldn't launch Dimension CC due to a missing instruction set.
- Resolved an issue where saved files were becoming corrupted and could not be reopened.
- Resolved an issue where imported .obj files were taking a long time to load when their UVs were out of bounds.
- Resolved an issue where a process was left open when closing Dimension CC if the computer does not meet minimum system requirements.
Known issue
(Windows-only) The menus are sometimes missing in Dimension. As a workaround, do the following:
- Relaunch the Dimension app.
- On the Start screen, click any link (such as Learn).
- Wait on the Start screen until the application menus appear, then proceed to the main application window by using Create New Project.
Dimension CC 1.0 | October 2017
View scenes from any angle
Move, scale, and rotate your objects in any direction to stage your scene exactly as you would like, and then use the orbit, hand, and zoom tools to move around the scene and view it from any angle.
Save your favorite angles with view bookmarks to quickly jump between working views and use familiar shortcuts to zoom to selected objects or to view the full scene.
Customize materials and textures
Get started with materials using a preset and completely customize all the attributes, such as color, roughness, metallicity, and translucence, to create a range of diverse and unique surface appearances.
Add your own images to a material property to control the property with a texture, adding details and variation. Rotate, offset, and tile the position of materials to get the precise placement of a material on any object.
Add graphics as decals
Apply your own images, logos, and designs as decals, by layering them over the materials of an object. Control the placement, rotation, and scale of the image directly on the surface of the model.
Give decals unique appearances with surface properties to make them metallic, glossy, or matte.
Match images
Add a background and automatically match your scene to the image's perspective and lighting. Re-create environments from images to quickly get started with compositing.
Powered by Adobe Sensei.
Customize lighting
Easily add realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections with environment lights; panoramic spherical images that wrap around the scene to provide 360 HDR lighting. Choose from dozens of built-in studio lighting presets and find more on Adobe Stock 3D. Rotate and colorize to get the right look and add sunlight for strong, directional shadows, and lighting.
Add depth with focus
Select any point in the scene to have foreground and background elements blurred, adding depth and focus to a scene.
Material sampling
Use the Sampler tool to quickly sample and apply materials. Customize once and reuse the material through the scene.
Make Smart Selections
Easily select small sections of complex models with the familiar Magic Wand tool. Easily select repeating elements with the Select Similar option. Apply materials to Magic Wand selections even when complex models are built in one piece.
Familiar scene organization
Work quickly using the Scene panel. Automatically expand groups and complex models to highlight and show selected parts to navigate quickly. Easily rearrange, rename, hide, lock, and group objects.
Rendering powered by V-Ray
V-Ray is an award-winning rendering engine that has been the standard in film and animation industries for years. Adobe has partnered with Chaos Group to bring the V-Ray rendering engine in Dimension.
Render high-quality output in multiple formats
Easily render photorealistic quality without being an expert using presets. Choose between PNG and multi-layered PSD output formats. Work with Photoshop for powerful compositing and post-processing of your images using 16-bit and 32-bit output formats with multiple layers.
Use selection layers with the magic wand to isolate material or objects in the 2D render, depth layers to add post-processing blur and other effects, and separated 3D content and background image layers allow for further compositing.
Content presets
Get up and running quickly with built-in presets designed to help with common workflows. The preset packs include bottles and packages for identity design, signage and installations for location visualization, and abstract shapes for conceptual work.
Adobe Stock 3D
Explore an entire section of Adobe Stock with three new types of high-quality content - both free and premium.
- Get models of anything from furniture to foliage, packaging to pens, and much more. Use them as-is or customize them in Dimension with new materials and textures.
- Find a variety of materials, such as metals, wood, plastics, fabrics, and glasses, to quickly get a look you want and customize it further in Dimension.
- Jump-start your design with easy-to-use environment lights that provide HDR lighting, high-quality reflections, and shadows for your 3D scenes with one click.
Creative Cloud Libraries
Access your custom assets with Creative Cloud Libraries directly in the app to easily bring in your own graphics, models, materials, and lights.
Import custom content
Bring in your own graphics, models, materials, and lights. Supported files include .jpg, .png, .psd (graphics), .obj (models), .mdl (materials), and .hdri, .exr, and .ibl (lights).
Create materials with Adobe Capture
Download the Adobe Capture app to turn photos into high-quality and tiling materials for use in your Dimension projects.


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Make a Debt Collector Pay YOU
Dear Debt Adviser,A collection agency says I owe them for a credit card account I have never heard of. I am confused about how I will determine if the statute of limitations has passed on the debt. What do you go by? There are so many little things on my credit report, and I'm not sure what they mean. The debt collector is taking me to court. They say I must bring my bank statement, a list of all my assets and what I owe. They said they will take my property if I can't pay. They say I owe $941. I live in Maine. Can they do what they are threatening to do? One credit report says I opened the account in 2003. Another report says 2007 but gives the most recent account status as from 2004. I'm confused.
-- Gerry
Dear Gerry,
If you've never heard of this account, I'd start there. You need to be certain that the debt is really yours. Somewhere in the vicinity of 25 percent of all credit reports have errors on them. Considering the billions of pieces of data that move into and out of credit files every month, I'm surprised the error rate isn't higher. Some errors are minor and others more serious -- like someone else's account being on your report.
Of course, you may have forgotten about this debt because it is so old. It might be yours. So my first suggestion is to ask the collector to provide you with verification of the debt. If you request verification, the law says they must prove that the debt is yours and stop collection actions until they do so. Be sure you keep records of the request you sent to the collector for debt verification.
Once you receive the information from the collector, compare it with what is appearing on your credit reports. If they provide proof that the debt is yours and you have the money, by far the easiest thing to do is just pay what you owe and move on with your life.
If you don't owe the money, or even if you do, I suggest you speak to a really aggressive attorney who would be willing to take your case on a contingency basis. The contingency fee would be based on suing the collector for using threats, like saying they will take your property, that appear to be in violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, or FDCPA. The FDCPA states a collector may not say they will take an action unless they are actually planning to do so.
The collector may not legally seize any of your property to satisfy your debt unless the property is collateral for what you owe. There have been some big awards for violations of the FDCPA.Either way, if this case goes to court, so should you. If you don't appear before the judge, the collector will get a judgment for the debt that can be used to garnish your wages. The statute of limitations for suing in court to collect a debt looks to be six years in the state of Maine. Typically the clock starts after the debt charges off. The definition of charge-off varies by state, but is generally 120 to 180 days from the date of your last payment.
Should the debt be uncollectible in court due to the statute of limitations, you can add yet another violation of the FDCPA to the list your attorney will be suing for. Bringing an action on a debt that is past the statute of limitations is not legal. If you go to court on your own, simply appear in court and submit documentation showing the statute of limitations has expired and the court should find in your favor. If, however, the debt is collectible in court, I recommend you determine how you will pay what you owe. Working out a repayment plan with the collector before your court date is even better.
Ask the adviserTo ask a question of the Debt Adviser, go to the "Ask the Experts" page and select "Debt" as the topic. Read more Debt Adviser columns and more stories about debt management.Bankrate's content, including the guidance of its advice-and-expert columns and this website, is intended only to assist you with financial decisions. The content is broad in scope and does not consider your personal financial situation. Bankrate recommends that you seek the advice of advisers who are fully aware of your individual circumstances before making any final decisions or implementing any financial strategy. Please remember that your use of this website is governed by Bankrate's Terms of Use.


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Open communication for Industry 4.0 with OPC UA
Open communication for Industry 4.0 with OPC UA
B&R continues to advance the integration of OPC UA in the B&R Automation Studio development software. With POWERLINK, openSAFETY and OPC UA, B&R offers its customers the perfect tools to meet the high demands of Industry 4.0.
Automation Studio supports OPC UA clients and servers directly on the controller, thus allowing vertical communication to SCADA, MES and ERP systems as well vendor-independent communication from PLC to PLC. With new PLCopen-compliant OPC client function blocks, this communication can be easily implemented in the application software regardless of the hardware being used. Through the support of OPC UA subscriptions, larger amounts of data can be transferred faster.
OPC UA is standardized in accordance with IEC 62541 and offers easy-to-use functions for vendor-independent data exchange. This helps software developers engineer complex systems with high data communication demands that help implement flexible and modular automation solutions more easily.
Business intelligence with APROL
Business intelligence with APROL
B&R has upgraded its highly advanced and flexible APROL automation platform by adding a powerful system component for business intelligence (BI).
The business intelligence solution enables systematic analysis of recorded operating and process data. Users can gain valuable information for the decision-making process with the help of standard reports, personalized interactive reports and ad hoc reports. Native iPhone and Android apps are available for mobile access.
Market interest for BI solutions is growing steadily due to the ineffective reporting and analysis functionality provided by conventional ERP and MES solutions.
Energy monitoring
Energy monitoring
Integrated energy measurement modules supply all the necessary electricity values and quality assurance data. Data is collected automatically from all energy sources (natural gas, oil, etc.). Energy management systems as defined in ISO 50001 are easily implemented with measurement and display of consumption and cost data. Historical data allows detailed analysis of energy consumption, making it easy to identify cause and effect.
Condition monitoring
Condition monitoring
Online vibration measurement integrated in the I/O module makes it possible to identify the mechanical condition of the machine and allows performance degradations to be detected early on so that serious damage can be prevented. Condition-based predictive maintenance reduces the number of unpredicted outages, thus keeping the costs associated with downtime and repairs to an absolute minimum.
Scalable, powerful and rugged industrial PCs
Scalable, powerful and rugged industrial PCs
PCs from B&R are designed to meet industrial customers' demands for maximum robustness, reliability and long-term availability. While it can be tempting to choose the cheapest price, when viewed over a product's entire lifecycle, the greatest value comes from high quality. Our PCs are specially designed for industrial use:
- Fanless with IP65 protection
To prevent pills from entering the housing
- Robust with no internal wiring
Extended service life through the use of solid state disk or CompactFlash instead of rotating hard disks
Especially suited to the textile industry are:
- Box PCs
- Panel PCs
- Industrial monitors
- SDL3 transmission technology
Custom HMI panels
Custom HMI panels
Get an HMI solution that is fine-tuned to your specific needs – technically optimized for your applications and customized with your corporate design. Development of custom HMI devices is part of B&R's core business. We have expert engineers who are 100% dedicated to customer-specific projects. Take time to discuss your unique requirements on-site with a local representative. This commitment to perfection during product development allows us to offer custom solutions with the familiar B&R standards of quality and service.
Maximum motion control performance
Maximum motion control performance
With the real-time Ethernet POWERLINK protocol and B&R's comprehensive range of motion control solutions, optimizing production lines is virtually effortless. B&R allows you to simultaneously boost both quality and productivity.
With a communication cycle of 400 µs and a current control loop of 50 µs, the ACOPOS series provides the extremely fast, event-based cam profile transitions that today's high-speed machines require. With no programming, the drive compensates for cam profile deviations every 400 µs. This outstanding performance is completely independent of how powerful the controller is or how many real or virtual axes are used in the application.
The touch probe inputs on the ACOPOS series are processed in the sub-microsecond range and are perfectly suited for applications such as rotary or fly cutting and quality control. This speed makes it possible to react in real time and perform smoother transitions between motion profiles – without significant additional effort in software development.
Compact and flexible motor and drive systems for modular machinery
Compact and flexible motor and drive systems for modular machinery
B&R offers hardware and software solutions for fast and easy development of mechatronic machines with options that can easily satisfy the requirements of the end user.
Scalable drives and motors with a small footprint include:
- Servo motors with an integrated drive: ACOPOSmotor
- Servo motors with a distributed IP67 drive: ACOPOSremote
- IP67 and IP20-rated I/O, optional safety modules: X20, X67 I/O modules
- Stepper motors: 80MP and ACOPOSmicro
B&R offers machine builders a comprehensive selection of motor types. The Generic Motion Control (GMC) concept allows the software to be developed independently of the motor type. That means, once programed, the GMC it works for every motor, drive or other mechatronic module in your machine. Thus, you can save time and resources and at the same time choose freely the solution that best fits your requirements.
Winding control
Winding control
Winding is a particularly sensitive process with regard to the mechanical properties of the fibers. If stretched too much, weak points can break easily. For such situations, B&R offers an out-of-the-box solution to ensure that the rolling cylinders apply the correct tension to the fiber. Perfect closed-loop torque control and compensation of mass inertia are embedded in ready-to-use libraries.
Save time and resources with intelligent incident reaction
Save time and resources with intelligent incident reaction
The intelligent B&R ACOPOSmulti motion control system automatically detects dips in the primary power supply and initiates an emergency shutdown. The kinetic energy that remains in the motors is used to maintain automation functionality until the system reaches a complete stop. The ACOPOSmulti's active power supply module generates 24 VDC for the controllers, I/O modules and drives – eliminating the need for a UPS. The intelligent solutions from B&R prevent production wastage and eliminate the time-consuming process of getting the plant up and running again after a power failure.
Controlling motion with optimal performance
Controlling motion with optimal performance
B&R motion control has the performance you need to get the best product quality at the highest production speeds. Using special function blocks for PLCopen, you can switch between position control and high-precision torque control within 400 µs.
Conserving energy with regenerative power supply
Conserving energy with regenerative power supply
In virtually every production cycle, machines are required to continuously accelerate and decelerate heavy loads. B&R's ACOPOSmulti drive system converts the kinetic energy generated during braking movements into power and then feeds it back into the mains supply. Up to 30% of overall energy consumption can be regenerated – for considerable cost savings.
Power regeneration prevents additional heat from being generated by braking resistors, making it no longer necessary to install and maintain expensive cooling systems. The integrated power regeneration system is not only highly efficient, but also environmentally friendly.
Temperature control
Temperature control
An extensive temperature control library with function blocks, PID controllers and HMI templates is the ideal solution for systems that require precise control of heating and cooling. The library supports:
- Autotuning
- Management of multiple temperature zones
- Storage space for large amounts of data
And of course complete integration into the system goes without saying.
High-performance closed loop control
High-performance closed loop control
B&R has many years of experience developing industrial processes for textiles and offers a wide variety of libraries containing proven technology for control loops and autotuning procedures. Sophisticated closed loop control technology from B&R is based on the latest concepts to allow maximum machine performance and precision. Libraries for winding processes, temperature controllers and axis movements are just a few examples.
Synchronization in real time
Synchronization in real time
With POWERLINK, B&R achieves real-time synchronization even in decentralized systems. Controllers and distributed I/O run synchronously with a precision <100 ns. With weaving machines and different methods of weft insertion, for example, the elimination of specialized hardware means that speeds can be significantly increased with high processing quality and reduced costs.
Enhance efficiency with linear motors
Enhance efficiency with linear motors
A considerably more efficient alternative to the pneumatic cylinder is a linear motor, which uses electromagnetic forces to convert electrical energy directly into movement. A convenient side effect of linear motors is that, since they lack fluid components, they are much easier to install. This is especially relevant in cases where short linear movements are the only aspect of the machine that use pneumatics.
Like all electric motors, linear motors are extremely efficient by nature. This fundamental efficiency can be further increased using advanced drive technology such as ACOPOS servo drives from B&R, which can store braking energy in a DC bus circuit to be used for later acceleration. It is also relatively simple to return excess energy back into the power grid.
Register control
Register control
B&R's register control solutions are able to adjust longitudinal and lateral register with minimal waste using sensor signal processing. With the completely integrated system, diagnostics can be performed much more effectively than with isolated axis controls.
Safe motion control
Safe motion control
Ensuring maximum safety during maintenance requires safety functions that are implemented directly on the drive, including Safely Limited Speed (SLS), Safe Direction (SDI), Safe Operating Stop (SOS) and Safe Torque Off (STO). openSAFETY guarantees safe motion control up to SIL 3 in accordance with IEC EN 62061 or PL e, Category 4 in accordance with EN ISO 13849-1.
Water and sewage handling
Water and sewage handling
With B&R solutions for process controls systems, it is possible to use the acquisition, evaluation and archiving of relevant data from waste water and environmental verification for audit purposes. Redundancy maximizes system availability and guarantees stability, while the wide range of visualization options ensures intuitive and consistent operation.


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Using GLOBE Data to Study the Earth System (College Level)
This material is replicated on a number of sites as part of the SERC Pedagogic Service Project
This example is a college-level adaptation of a chapter from the Earth Exploration Toolbook. The chapter guides students through the process of locating and graphing Web-based environmental data that has been collected by GLOBE Program (more info) participants. It is based on an example developed for the GLOBE resource Earth System Science Investigation, which is a section of the GLOBE Teacher's Guide. This example provides general tips for using GLOBE data as in-class or take-home exercises. The global nature of the data sets creates opportunities to look at spatial relationships within the Earth system.
Learning Goals
After completing this chapter, users will be able to:
- use the GLOBE Web site to locate and study environmental data
- use the GLOBE Graphing Tool to display data
- describe the role of solar energy in the annual fluctuations of soil moisture
- describe reservoirs and flows in the context of the Earth system
Context for Use
The EET chapter describes step-by-step exercises using the GLOBE data set and is written for grades 7-12. The process of collecting online data and processing them to establish spatial patterns is an integral part of geoscience. Older students should be able to use the comprehensive instructions to complete the online data analysis with limited instructor assistance.
Teaching Materials
The EET chapter Using GLOBE Data to Study the Earth System provides a comprehensive description of the GLOBE program, resources, and tools, as well as step-by-step instructions for a simple exercise with the data. The "Going Further" page of the EET chapter provides additional ideas for ways to utilize the data in the classroom.
Teaching Notes and Tips
The EET chapter exercise has the student perform all of the graphing exercises using the online graphing utility. This option is ideal if students only have access to computers with internet access, but no data analysis software (e.g. Excel, Origin, Matlab, etc.). However, the data can be downloaded to tab-delimited text (ASCII) files that can be imported into most data analysis programs with little difficulty. While this process may intimidate students with little computing experience, it is an integral part of modern geoscience data analysis. Curve-fitting, normalization, ratios, and other processing steps can be applied to the data in stand-alone processing applications.
GLOBE data also can be downloaded as ESRI shapefiles for use in GIS software to create maps of measurement values (choose the "Download shapefile (zipped)" option from the Output Format menu in the GLOBE data access page). These can be used in standard ESRI GIS products (ArcView, ArcInfo, etc.) or ESRI's free ArcVoyager SE software. Students can create multiple maps of conditions over time or compare spatial variations in surface measurements (e.g. soil moisture and temperature).
References and Resources
ArcVoyager SE - free GIS software from ESRI
What is Excel? - a tutorial on how to use Excel to analyze and plot data


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Study: Fed worker happiness drops
Job satisfaction among federal government workers dropped sharply in 2012, according to a new study out Thursday that ranked the best and worst places to work in the federal government.
A report from the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte found that employee satisfaction among those who work for the federal government dropped, overall, by the largest margin since the survey first began in 2003. On a scale of 100, the overall satisfaction score among those surveyed for 2012 was 60.8, a 3.2 drop from the previous year.
( Also on POLITICO: 'The a—hole factor')
"Our nation's public servants have sent a clear signal that all is not well," said Max Stier, the Partnership for Public Service president and CEO, in a statement. "The two year pay freeze, budget cuts and ad hoc hiring freezes are taking their toll – and this is a red flag."
But there are still some bright spots in the government workforce, according to the report from this nonprofit, nonpartisan group. Here's a look at where to work — and what to skip — in Washington, based on categories including leadership, pay, work/life balance and how well employee skills match up with the mission at hand.
Large agencies:
The intelligence community: This field earned the second-highest overall rank among best large agencies at which to work, but respondents said they found the best pay and work/life balance here.
NASA: Respondents named the National Aeronautics and Space Administration the best overall large agency at which to work, citing effective leadership, strategic management, teamwork and satisfaction with the match between employee skills and the mission of the agency.
Also earning high marks among large agencies: Department of State, Department of Commerce, the Environmental Protection Agency.
Mid-sized agencies:
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: The FDIC outpaces other agencies in this category by every measure except work-life balance, where the organization came in second to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Other mid-sized agencies with high scores: the Government Accountability Office, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Smithsonian Institution.
Small agencies:
The Surface Transportation Board, the Congressional Budget Office, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the Peace Corps all clocked in with similarly high overall scores.
Large agencies:
The Department of Homeland Security had an overall score that was significantly lower than the next-lowest score, the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Mid-sized agencies:
The National Archives and Records Administration and the Broadcasting Board of Governors had overall scores about 36 points below the top-rated agencies.
Small agencies:
The Federal Maritime Commission and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative got slammed in the survey, with satisfaction rates at about half of what the best-ranked agencies in this category earned.
Rankings were determined by responses from about 700,000 federal workers, according to the Partnership for Public Service.


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I've been asked to create a program where I make up 3 passwords for users. That's not the problem and I'm able to do that. My actual problem is the part where we must take these 3 designed passwords and place them inside a String array and then get it to loop through this array and display out the 3 different passwords. I really don't know how to go about from here and have been stuck on this. I've tried so many resources on this but still can't find anyone that can tell me what exactly to do in a case where the array values aren't pre-given.
import java.util.Scanner; import static java.lang.System.out; import java.io.*; public class BirdTag { public static void main (String args []) { Scanner myScanner= new Scanner (System.in); String ProvinceName,SpotterName,Surname; int Year=12 for (int i=0; i<3; i++) //I PLACE EVERYTHING IN HERE IN ORDER TO GET THE PROGRAM TO RUN 3 TIMES . I MIGHT BE WRONG HERE TOO. { out.println ("What is your province name, please enter E for Eastern Cape, N for Northern Cape and W for Western Cape"); ProvinceName = myScanner.nextLine (); out.println ("Province Name is " + ProvinceName); out.println ("Please enter your name"); SpotterName= myScanner.nextLine (); String Extract1= SpotterName.substring(0,2); out.println ("Name is " + Extract1); out.println ("enter your surname please "); Surname= myScanner.nextLine (); String Extract2=Surname.substring(0,2); out.println ("Surname is " + Extract2); String FinalPassword= ProvinceName+ Year+ Extract1+Extract2; out.print ("Your password is "); String Password = myScanner.nextLine(); //THIS IS THE PART WHERE EVERYTHING GOES WRONG AND I DON'T THINK I'M DOING THE RIGHT THING out.print (FinalPassword); out.println () ; String arrTags[] = new String[3];// THIS IS WHERE I TRY TO MAKE MY ARRAY BUT THEN FROM HERE ONWARDS I'M STUCK } } }


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email: email@example.com
tel: (44)(0)1242 254353
Looking for walking holidays that are physically challenging? or one that's steeped in local culture & historical significance, or perhaps both?
Take the effort out of organising your walking holiday, we provide complete coverage & advice for all aspects of organising your trip.
All of our walking holidays are made possible by our connections within the local communities & our appreciation of the significance of this route.
We specialise in offering pilgrimages and walking holidays that follow ancient pilgrim routes. Perhaps the most celebrated of these is the Pilgrimage Route of St. James, often referred to as the Camino, which begins in France at Le Puy en Velay and finishes in Galicia in northwest Spain, at Santiago de Compostela.
We offer this and several other walking holidays in Europe, among them the Italian section of the Via Francigena, and routes in Portugal (the Camino Portugués), Austria (St. Jacob's Way) and England (the Pilgrim Way to Canterbury). Many of these were originally feeder routes to the Camino, each with characteristics reflecting the history and landscapes of the countries in question.
To follow a pilgrim route today is not any longer necessarily a religious experience but does offer the exhilaration that comes with being part of an ancient tradition.
Most of our walking holidays are self-guided (we provide accommodation usually on half-board to include breakfast and dinner, luggage transfers each walking day, and maps and route instructions), with the occasional guided option. The only thing we do not provide is travel to and from your holiday but please do contact us for advice about relevant airports and railway stations.
We will be adding further pilgrim walking holidays around the world and will welcome any suggestions.
Please click on the relevant country on the drop down list at the top of the page for details of each walk. To book, or to ask any questions, please get in touch with us at firstname.lastname@example.com or on (44) (0)1242 254353. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Frozen shoulder (also known as adhesive capsulitis) is a condition in which the shoulder is stiff, painful, and has limited motion in all directions. Frozen shoulder exercises are usually the cornerstone of treating frozen shoulders.
Always warm up your shoulder before performing your frozen shoulder exercises. The best way to do that is to take a warm shower or bath for 10 to 15 minutes. You can also use a moist heating pad or a damp towel heated in the microwave, but it may not be as effective.
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Leonor Fini | Not A Muse, An Artist
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There was a time this year when I sought to write up a detailed comparison of Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, partly in a bid to verify for myself which was the better service. The truth is, I was very quickly able to determine that Gmail email is, in fact, vastly superior to Hotmail, especially for those who wish to manage their mail in a single place (i.e. the Web) even if they might occasionally do so from a dedicated client application like Outlook. (The same is not true of Gmail Contacts, which, even in the latest revision, is vastly inferior to Windows Live Contacts. Confusing matters, Google Calendar is currently dramatically better than the in-beta Windows Live Calendar.) Anyway... With the goal of getting the most out of Google's recent Gmail update, the Gmail Blog looks at some interesting new Gmail features:
When we began rolling out a new Gmail code architecture a few weeks ago, we also launched some new features to help improve the speed and convenience of managing email. I've been using several of these new additions over the last few weeks, and while they might seem small on their own, they really can add up to save you a lot of time and hassle. That's why I decided to list my five favorite new features that are so new, you may not have noticed them. We are still rolling them out to IE6, international and Google Apps users, but for those of you who noticed a new contact manager among other recent improvements in our latest version, here they are:
5. "Archive and next" shortcut
4. Share mail searches with friends
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1. "Filter messages like this"
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Home-Brew Shaft Encoders
for the
Pittman GM8712 Gearhead Motor
David P. Anderson
Pittman GM8712-31 19.1 V. DC Gearhead Motor
Some nice small DC gearhead motors recently appeared on the electronic surplus market, suitable for jack-rabbit size hobby robots of 5 or 10 pounds. These motors are manufactured by Pittman, model number GM8712. BGMicro and Tanners, two surplus houses in Dallas, stocked a few gross of these and sold them for $10.95 apiece. They were snatched up quickly by the membership of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group, though I believe a few are still available. Apogee appears to sell the same motor for $15. Check out: http://www.apogeeinc.com/mfg.html EricYundt of the DPRG reports that Automation Solutions has these gearmotors (new?) listed for a cool $73.90 a pop.
Surplus DC gearhead motors suitable for hobby robots are very much "Targets of Opportunity." It is difficult to find the desired combination of characteristics: voltage, stall current, gear ratio, size, encoder resolution , noise levels, and of course cost. These particular Pittman motors are ideal in many ways for our purposes but lack shaft encoders. This article describes a simple method for constructing home-brew encoders for these nifty little motors. It arose from a series of email postings on the Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG) list server and The Seattle Robotics Society (SRS) list server, and quotes freely from those postings. Many thanks to all the conglomerated brain power that went into this simple modification.
I. The Motors
Eric provided us with a synopsis of the motor's specifications, along with CAD drawings and dimensions of the motor itself and dimensions for a motor mount (both available in .dwg and .dxf formats).
Eric's synopsis:
The spec sheet says of the 19.1V GM8712 gearmotor, with a 60.5:1 reducing gearbox:
Gearmotor Data:
Gearbox Efficiency 66%
No-load Speed 128 RPM
Motor Data:
Continuous Torque (Max) 1.3 oz-in
Peak Torque (Stall) 5.1 oz-in
No-load Speed 7729 RPM
Winding Data:
Torque Constant 3.06 oz-in/A
Resistance 10.80 Ohms
No-load Current 0.14 A
Peak Current (Stall) 1.76 A
Eric continues: I take all that to mean (in theory) out the gearbox shaft:
Continuous Torque (Max) 1.3 oz-in * 60.5:1 * 66% = 51.9 oz-in
Peak Torque (Stall) 5.1 oz-in * 60.5:1 * 66% = 203.6 oz-in
Alan Bredon reports that Pittman specs two basic gearbox torque ratings: 500 oz-in for the larger type, and 200 oz-in for the smaller. The latter is in good agreement with Eric's calculations. These motors seem to work nicely at 12V running about 70 RPM with a stall current around 1A . That is low enough to use common H-bridge driver chips like the L293 used by the Handy Board, EyeRobot controller, MicroCorp controller, M.I.T. 6.270 board, and similar small to mid-sized robot controller boards.
Pittman GM8712 disassembly of motor and gearhead
I took two of the Pittman GM8712 motors out to the lake-side retreat of Michael Hamilton, aircraft engineer and designer extraordinare for Traxxus (toy cars) et al. We took one apart and played with it. He pronounced it "first rate stuff."
It is a seven pole motor, which accounts for the high torque at low rpm and for it's extremely quiet operation, always a plus for domestic robots. Notice in the upper right-hand image that the seven poles are wound with lots of extremely fine wire (we measured 12 ohms). The poles are also "skewed" helically. Michael tells me this provides for smoother operation, as the poles "overlap" each other.
The gearhead has 4 stages. We counted the teeth and the last three stages have 32 tooth spur gears driven by 10 tooth pinions, 3.2:1 per stage. The first stage has slightly smaller teeth and we were not able to count them. However, they must provide about 1.8:1 ratio for a final ratio of 60:1. All gears are "high quality" metal gears with steel axles riding in bronze bushings.
Michael was of the opinion that we should probably not mount wheels directly on the output shaft because of the small diameter of the rear pin and bushing, as shown in the lower right hand picture above. I said we were thinking of a 5 to 10 pound platform. He suggest that someone suitably motivated could probably press out the bronze bearings and replace them with ball bearings.
David Peterson dug through the Pittman web site and reported similar findings. He quotes:
"Sleeve bearings are really not capable of supporting large radial loads, and virtually no axial load. The actual radial load capability depends on a number of factors, but is typically on the order of a couple of pounds."
"We do offer ball bearings as an option on the output in place of
the sleeve bearing. This greatly increases the load capability. Again, the
exact values depend on a number of factors and are somewhat subjective. For our
standard ball bearing for this unit type, we would typically recommend less than about 8
lbs radial load and less than about 2 lbs axial load."
II. Home-brew Encoders
We have had good success in the past with home-made encoders using paper wheels printed on a laser printer and sensed with the Hamamatsu P5587 IR emitter/detector. My last two robots have used this system with the encoder wheels simply super-glued to the motor shaft. The paper disks are very light and require no careful balancing to prevent vibration at high rpm. The super-glue is much stronger than the paper itself and so provides a robust means of attachment.
A. The Sensor
The Hamamatsu parts have proven very reliable and easy to use. We have ordered them in the past directly from Hamamatsu but they are also available from Zargos Robotics and Acroname, whose web page includes a simple schematic:
Hamamatsu typical connections from Acroname
B. Mounting
My SR04 robot uses a similar method. On those motors the Hamamatsu sensor is mounted on a small piece of perf-board which is attached to an aluminum tube, itself attached to an aluminum bracket screwed to the motor casing. These have worked reliably for about 4 years now, and my initial reservations about using paper disks have been assuaged. Disadvantages of this implementation are that it is not light-tight and the paper disk is exposed to the clumsy hands of this robot builder.
SR04's encoder disk implementation.
Left Encoder disk and sensor on SR04
Some improvements we wanted to make to this design for the Pittman GM8712 motors were:
1. A more easily adjustable mount for setting the sensor-to-disk distance,
2. A light shield and protective cover for the paper disk and sensor,
3. The ability to experiment with quadrature signals,
4. A simpler method of attachment.
As we discussed the design options, Jeff Birt made the happy discovery that a common black plastic film canister fits perfectly over the case of the Pittman motors, with a small cutout for the power connections. These can be held snugly in place with a plastic cable tie. Mounting the Hamamatsu perf-board in the back of the canister allows the spacing between the sensor and the encoder disk to be adjusted simply by sliding the film can in and out.
C. Encoder segments
I am planning to run these motors off 12 NMH cells, which works out to about 15 volts fully charged. Working backward, the gearhead is spec'd at 128 rpm at 19.1 volts and we measure about 70 rpm at 12 volts. That's something like 6 rpm per volt, if the response is linear. So,
15 volts * 6 rpm/volt = 90 rpm
The gearhead has about a 60:1 ratio, so the motor speed at 15 volts would be:
90 rpm * 60 = 5400 rpm motor speed
Or to put it another way:
5400 rpm / 60 seconds/minute = 90 revolutions per second.
My last generation of robots had a read-sensor-write-output cycle time of 10 hz, or 100 milsec. That means the sample time for the encoders is 100 milliseconds. For the current generation of autonomous platforms I increased the rate to 20 hz, which is only a 50 ms sampling window. For the new mobile platform I'd like to increase that again to 30 or 40 or perhaps even 50 hz, with correspondingly shorter sample windows. A 50 hz update rate means that if the robot is to measure motor velocities by counting how many encoder ticks occurred in the previous sampling interval, we only have 20 milliseconds to collect counts.
This number is needed to know how many encoder ticks are required for smooth speed control, which in turn depends on the sampling technique and the particular method of motor control. The SR04 robot returns 1000 ticks per second per wheel at full speed. Since it's update rate is 20 hz, that means
1000 ticks / 20 hz sample rate = 50 ticks per sample at full speed
Slow speed is arbitrarily defined as full speed / 10, so
50 ticks per sample full speed / 10 = 5 ticks per sample, slow speed.
For the speed control technique I am using, 5 ticks is close to a minimum number required for smooth speed control. To have this same granularity and resolution on the new platform with a 50 Hz sample rate will require :
50 ticks/sample * 50 samples/second = 2500 ticks per second, full speed.
2500 ticks per sec / 90 revs per second = 27.78 ~ 28 ticks per revolution
So we need paper encoder wheels printed with 28 black and white divisions. Empirical testing with the actual device determined that 20 segments on a one inch encoder disk is about the largest number that can be read robustly without the need for precise sensor placement and alignment. Further experimentation with a two-sensor quadrature implementation suggests that 15 black and white segments might be more appropriate.
D. Making the Disks
We printed the encoder disks using a simple postscript utility which I believe began it's life as a posting on the SRS list server. I do not know the original author. We are currently using fairly thick matte-finish photo quality paper for the disks. It is thick enough not to need any other backing to stay stiff, and does not tend to absorb water over time and so resists warping.
%! Postscript utility for printing an encoder wheel
/inch {72 mul} def % #points/inch (don't change me)
/size 0.5 inch def % radius of encoder wheel
/segments 16 def % number of segments (black and white)
/angle 360 segments div def
{ /radius exch def
/angle_s exch def
/angle_e exch def
newpath 0 0 moveto
0 0 radius angle_s angle_e arc
} def
1.0 inch 1.0 inch translate
0 1 segments {
360 segments div rotate
angle 0 size wedge
2 mod 0 eq {1} {0} ifelse
setgray fill
} for
III. Construction:
The materials for the completed shaft encoder consists of the paper encoder wheel, Hamamatsu emitter/detector, black plastic film canister, and a cable tie. The wheel is super-glued to the rear of the motor shaft. The Hamamatsu is mounted on a small piece of perfboard with a couple of other components. The perfboard is glued into the back of the film canister with the leads exiting through a slot in the side. The canister was cut down with an xacto knife and slotted to clear the motor wires.
The cable tie allows the film canister to slide in and out to adjust the exact distance for the Hamamatsu sensor. Then it is tightened to hold it in place. This home-brew encoder requires no machining and can be assembled with simple hand tools. It represents an improvement over our previous encoders in that it is adjustable and also has a light shield and protective cover over the encoder wheel.
IV. Testing
We powered the motor from a DC bench supply and connected the encoder to an O'scope to adjust the sensor spacing. Once we were happy with the square wave thus generated we tightened the cable tie to hold the film canister snugly in place.
Next we dusted off an M.I.T. 6.270 robot controller board and wrote a simple piece of code to read the encoder using the TIC3 interrupt of the HC11 processor, printing the accumulated counts on the controller's LCD once per second.
Home-brew encoder connected to an 68HC11 Timer-Input
Compare port
on the M.I.T. 6.270 Robot Controller board, similar to the "Handy Board."
The test setup is shown above. The motor is powered from a DC bench supply not pictured. The LCD indicates that the encoder is currently generating 731 counts per second, with a motor speed of 2193 RPM and a final output shaft speed of 36 RPM. Here is what we measured:
Pittman GM8712 with 20 segment encoder. No-load
|Voltage (V)
|Current (A)
|Ticks per/sec
|Motor RPM
|Gearhead RPM
V. Quadrature Encoding:
These encoders are read very robustly by the Hamamatsu P5587 IR emitter/detector unit sold by Acroname and Zargos as previously discussed. A single unit can be used to count encoder divisions for velocity information. That's all the SR04 robot has. Two are required in order to read both velocity and direction. This is what I'm hoping to implement for the new platform.
Quadrature encoder is actually pretty simple in this case. The two Hamamatsu's are mounted such that when one is "seeing" the edge between a black and white segment, the other is centered in a segment. The HC11 and similar processor have builtin hardware for detecting edges and generating interrupts. The 68332 can do all of this in hardware with "TPU" channels.
After a vigorous exchange of email it was determined that two sensors mounted at right angles to each other will produce quadrature signals for an ODD number of encoder white or black segments. We turned a couple of pieces of perf-board a little smaller than the diameter of the back of a film canister, about 1.15 inches.
Then we used the arrangement of the perf-board holes to get the two sensors oriented at right angles. By making the disk fit snugly in the film canister to which it is glued or screwed, the concentric alignment of the sensors with the motor and encoder disk is guaranteed. For test purposes we printed 22 segment (11 black and 11 white), 14 segment, and 10 segment encoder disks. The 14 and 10 segment disks seemed to give the best performance in terms of ease of alignment of the two out-of-phase signals.
Twin sensors mounted at 90 degrees,
a film canister and an odd numbered encoder disk.
Using a dual-trace scope we aligned and calibrated the two signals in the same manner as the single channel implementation. The encoder software is only slightly more complex than for the single channel case. Each time the A channel generates a interrupt the B channel is sampled. For positive going edges ( black to white transitions) the B channel will be centered on a black segment when the motor is turning in one direction, and a white segment when it is turning in the reverse direction. Negative going edges are just the opposite. Thus the motor velocity and direction can be determined.
Kipton Moravec of the DPRG suggests that this is best detected with a simple state machine. He further reports, "A good one that has already been reduced can be found on the Xilinx web site. I have it implemented in a macro in my Xilinx SW. The write-up can be found at: http://www.xilinx.com/xapp/xapp012.pdf"
Robert Singleton proposes that a simple quadrature scheme can be implemented using two sensors mounted in a line, by printing a 90 degree phase shift pattern on the encoder disk itself. He has samples of this encoder disk and several others including binary and graycode patterns at: http://www.linuxlegend.com/~slugmusk/encpix
Robert's quadrature pattern
Kipton has volunteered to design a simple PC board that can be used as a single or quadrature mounting for one or two Hamamatsu's, sized to fit in a film canister. The PC board layout and gerber files can be found here. Robert is evaluating a Hewlett-Packard HEDR-8000. He describes it as a "surface mounted 8 pin (S08 package) device with all optics and electronics to read, reflectively, a 75 or 150 line-per-inch pattern and provide a quadrature output." He directs the interested reader to go to the Hewlett-Packard web page and look under "Motion Control." Dan Creagan was also inspired to mount home-brew encoders on his Pittman motors. His work can be found at: http://academic1.bellevue.edu/robots/tanner
We have in the past built custom gear trains and shaft encoders for our hobby robot motors. Home-brew gear trains are difficult to fabricate and suitable gears from suppliers like Berg or SmallParts are generally quite expensive. In our experience it is much easier to find a motor with the appropriate electrical and mechnical characteristics and add encoders. This design is by far the best combination of simplicity and mechanical ruggedness to date. Thanks again to the many DPRG and SRS list members who contributed data and brain power to this on-going effort.
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We're back from Yearly Kos in Chicago and we were greeted by a great sight, a feature in the Boston Globe! Here's the story…
CAMBRIDGE — The new headquarters
of ActBlue, with its tangled cords, leftover Deval Patrick signs, and
20-somethings tapping on white MacBook laptops, is what a political
campaign would look like if it shared space with a dot-com start-up.
ActBlue is in fact both — an Internet-based
political action committee that is quietly becoming one of the biggest
forces in Democratic politics. Its founders aim for nothing short of
revolution, and they are already partway there.
The PAC, operated
from a former architecture studio on Arrow Street near Harvard Square,
functions as an online clearinghouse for campaign contributions to
Democrats of all stripes, allowing anyone in the country to donate any
allowable amount to any candidate with the click of a mouse: You send
the money to ActBlue (actblue.com), and ActBlue funnels it to the campaigns. This gives local, state, and national Democratic candidates a cheap, efficient means of building a base of supporters over the Internet.
simple but transformative concept has raised $25.5 million and counting
since its creation in Cambridge in 2004, when two computer-savvy
scientists with liberal leanings set out to take political action in a
new direction. They believed that armies of small donors, mobilized
effectively, could be more potent than the "bun dlers" who have
dominated fund-raising by amassing checks from wealthy contributors.
with that philosophy ascendant and the 2008 presidential campaign
breaking all fund-raising records, ActBlue has become a unique bundler
of the unbundled. It is reshaping political
fund-raising and giving the Democratic Party a powerful, lasting
resource for presidential contests, state legislative races, and
everything in between.
"There's a huge opportunity to involve
many times more people in this process than we currently have," said
Benjamin Rahn, 30, a Harvard graduate who suspended his doctoral work
in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology to
found ActBlue with Matt DeBergalis, 29, a technology whiz out of MIT.
in coordination with campaigns, bloggers, and individuals across the
country, has funneled donations to 1,500 Democratic candidates to date.
It moved $17 million to candidates in the 2005-2006 election cycle,
including about $15.5 million to congressional campaigns, part of a
tide of support that flipped the House and Senate to Democratic control.
appears to have been far and away the biggest direct donor to
congressional candidates of either party last fall. "They are
revolutionizing approaches to fund-raising," said Anthony Corrado, a
specialist on campaign finance at Colby College.
Rahn and
DeBergalis say they are just getting started. They predict confidently
that they will move $100 million in the 2007-2008 cycle.
their fund-raising this year suggests that the PAC will be an even
bigger player in the months ahead. Through the end of June, ActBlue had
already raised $6.6 million in 2007. In the last off-year, 2005, it
took ActBlue 12 months to raise $1.6 million. The 28,925 new
contributors who signed up in April, May, and June of this year
represented 13 percent of its overall number of contributors.
Continued after the jump…
Though ActBlue's founders say that its relative influence will be
greatest in down-ticket races, this is their first venture into the
Democratic presidential primary. Former senator John Edwards of North
Carolina uses ActBlue for all his online fund-raising. As of yesterday,
he had raised $3.6 million from 44,120 supporters on the site, the vast
majority on a page set up by the campaign. In all, Edwards has raised
$23.1 million.
But Edwards has also raised about $1 million
through individual fund-raising pages that ActBlue allows users to
create — some with tiny tallies. One, Desert Rats for Edwards, had
raised $225 from three donors as of yesterday, while a page called
Pizza for Progressives had raised $830 from 27 people. Rahn and
DeBergalis say that's just how ActBlue should work: low-dollar
contributors banding together.
"It's really an important change
in terms of strengthening democracy [and] getting people of lesser
means into the process," said Joe Trippi, a senior adviser to Edwards
who helped Howard Dean build his novel online fund-raising system in
2004. "Not a bunch of people can contribute $2,000 or buy $2,300 dinner
The only other presidential candidate to have raised
even six figures on ActBlue is Bill Richardson, who has collected more
than $300,000.
By raising money through ActBlue, Edwards and
Richardson are helping the PAC itself, which is supported in part by
tips that donors can tack onto their gifts to candidates. Edwards wins
praise from some on the left for supporting ActBlue as he raises money
for himself.
Illinois Senator Barack Obama uses a similar online
fund-raising model, but he is using his own website instead of ActBlue.
Obama has raised a total of $58.9 million — $17.2 million of it
online. Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki noted that the campaign has built
the biggest grass-roots network in primary history — Obama had 260,000
unique contributors through June — and didn't need to rely on a
third-party website.
"We've had a great deal of success with
encouraging and driving people to our site, for fund-raising but also
for organization," she said. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
the party has its nominee next year, all presidential donors on ActBlue
will be working for the same cause, offering not just untold millions
in campaign funds but potentially thousands of activists nationwide.
concede that with ActBlue's success, they have a lot of ground to make
up — and quickly. In the next few weeks, they will roll out a new and
improved version of their own grass-roots fund-raising site, ABCPac (abcpac.com),
which got started last year and sent $300,000 to GOP congressional
candidates last fall. The GOP hopes ABCPac matures into a serious
ActBlue competitor.
"They've been incredibly successful for the
Democrats, and there's been no Republican answer," said Jason
Torchinsky, ABCPac's general counsel.
ActBlue has already helped
drive significant Democratic victories in Congressional races. Donors
and activists connected through ActBlue, for example, helped send Jim
Webb to an upset last fall of Republican Senator George Allen of
Virginia by contributing $900,000.
The surprise victory of
challenger Joe Sestak in a Pennsylvania Congressional race last year
illustrates the powerful nexus between ActBlue and the liberal
blogosphere. When Sestak, a three-star Navy admiral, became a favorite
of liberal bloggers, they began championing his candidacy and sending
readers to ActBlue to make donations. Sestak unseated Republican Curt
Weldon, thanks in part to the $868,000 his campaign raised through
ActBlue — more than a fourth of all the money he raised.
"We tied into that yearning to participate," Sestak said.
Rahn and DeBergalis believe ActBlue's great potential lies in its
ability to "nationalize" local races in the 23 states in which the PAC
operates. They note that Congressional districts will be redrawn again
in 2010. With state legislatures drawing those lines, they say,
strategic donations to Democratic state legislative candidates could
have a major impact on the fate of the national party.
"At that
level, the relative impact is massive," DeBergalis said. "An entire
class of novel ways to tackle political and social problems is sitting
there waiting for that catalyst that we can bring."
The model
DeBergalis and Rahn have built is not entirely new — they acknowledge
debts to Dean's presidential campaign and groups such as EMILY's List,
a grass-roots network working to elect Democratic women who support
abortion rights. But what they are doing with it is new, and as the PAC
grows — they are hiring more staff — so do their ambitions.
"We like to say this is an experiment, and it is," DeBergalis said. "But we're not kidding around."


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Eww . How dare you. That's what my son said when he saw that broccoli was our Secret Ingredient for Friday Foodie Fix. I guess he thinks no one will share any recipes for broccoli or that they will and I'll make them for him to try. So let's get him eating more broccoli and share some recipes here. I'll see if I can sneak a few pics of him trying them out.
Broccoli originated in the Mediterranean as a form of wild cabbage. You may have heard about broccoli raab or brocoletti di rape which is not directly related to broccoli but looks like it would be. However broccolini is a cross between broccoli and Chinese kale. So are you confused or did that clear everything up?
Broccoli is an excellent source of folate, phytonutrients like betacarotene and lutein, manganese and potassium. A cup of broccoli has as much calcium as a cup of milk and broccolini is rich in vitamins A and C, folate and potassium. But can you do more than steam or boil it? You sure can. How about braising it very slowly with garlic, lemon juice and olive oil.
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Next week's Secret Ingredient is …………. Clementine!


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Episode 91: The Quack Always Casts Twice, 2012 DD Radio Play
Aug 20, 2012
Banes introduces the 2012 DD radio play! Maxwell McDuff must face his most diabolical trial yet in... THE DUCK ALWAYS QUACKS TWICE! He's joined by many other notable and fiendish characters in this new and epic adventure involving anvils, Maltese quails, crocodiles, and terrifying torture! This fine story was written by Gunwallace, organised heroically by Ayesinback and edited together by Banes. This story of the amazing Maxwell McDuff and many other characters was the product of many hours work and organisation by many different participants. Before the play there are some great interviews with members of the cast, but if you'd like to jump to the play, that starts at 38.41 minutes.
gullas at 6:13PM, Aug. 28, 2012
yay, finally had the time to listen to it(moving,working etc). And looking at the comic while listening to the play is HILL-arious!
FormerDDer at 4:43AM, Aug. 22, 2012
Just listened to it, I love it! All of the interviews were fun to listen to... Drunk Duck's really a melting pot of people with all kinds of qualifications, and it's great. Bravo's portion made me laugh pretty good, too! Genehole and PieGuy were awesome, by the way. They have some serious talent, and I'd be disappointed if they weren't using it to make a living. Other than that, everyone was great, the play itself was fun to do, and even more fun to listen to. Great job, everyone!
Gunwallace at 8:26PM, Aug. 21, 2012
Wow. Great voice acting and production, everyone. (I think I had the easy bit.) There's a lot of hours, blood, sweat, tears and other bodily fluids in this one.
ayesinback at 7:37PM, Aug. 21, 2012
@usedbooks - SO glad you had fun (I know you were nervous) but what a fantastic good sport PLUS totally killing as Vera. If she's your polar and this was your first go at acting You've got some real talent :) @Niccea - no cameras, but after I sell the audio recordings (hotter than a 3-day TexMex cook-off -- potential buyers please PQ me) taken from the hidden mics in your newlywed rooms, I should be able to afford a visit to Gunwallace in his home town. And speaking of Gunwallace, he also wrote the mini script for the soap promo. In something like 9 min. The Rocket Writer - a total blast!
FormerDDer at 1:54PM, Aug. 21, 2012
I haven't heard it yet. There's no net at my new apartment, and I'm too paranoid to listen to it/get caught listening to it at the law school library. These people are RUTHLESS, I tell you! But yeah, I can't wait to hear it. I'm downloading the MP3 now so I can listen when I get home. I bet I sound so retarded in the interview, though :P I shouldn't record my thoughts when I'm exhausted from moving out.. Hopefully everyone else said really cool things in their interviews to offset that! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go back to reading some 300 pages of material for tomorrow...
Hawk at 11:50AM, Aug. 21, 2012
Nice work on the play, you guys. It's amazing how well a play can be put together when the participants are so far from each other. I got a really big kick out of Bravo's interview.
Niccea at 9:46AM, Aug. 21, 2012
Mark my words. One of these days I will be the star of the show. Now can someone get the moderator documentary cameras out of my apartment?
Tantz_Aerine at 9:36AM, Aug. 21, 2012
Was hilarious! :D
Banes at 8:20AM, Aug. 21, 2012
...and hey...an ayesinback interview is certainly something we can arrange, still! :-D
Banes at 7:42AM, Aug. 21, 2012
usedbooks at 7:02AM, Aug. 21, 2012
It was fun. :) You guys have a lot of talent. o_0
ayesinback at 5:55AM, Aug. 21, 2012
I rather regret turning down the op to be interviewed - so much I'd like to say - but glad there was time to hear from some of the cast members!! It's working with so many here at DD that's made they play a joy for me. This year RL has been a little too challenging for me, and if Banes hadn't agreed to help by sequencing the separate cast recordings together - well, this QC wouldn't have happened in August! A special callout to Oz who cowrote the mod piece and rounded up several of the "ancients". Gene hole's genius voice acting made that particularly fun. As with all comm projs, it's the contributions from all that make for success - and FUN. XD
bravo1102 at 2:11AM, Aug. 21, 2012
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Firefighters from Group 4 responded to a porch fire at # 111 Glenwood Road on Sunday June 27th. First arriving companies found heavy fire engulfing the 1st and 2nd floor in the front of the house. They were alerted to two residents trapped on upper floors hanging out of windows on the side of the house. Companies quickly raised ground ladders to rescue the two residents. Companies were slowed down in their efforts to extinguish the blaze when live power wires running to the house caught fire and dropped to the ground below as well as across the cab of Ladder 2. Engine companies also had hydrant problems which hampered their efforts to fight the fire. The outside temperature at the time of the fire was in the high 80's with high humidity. Two members of the department were taken to area hospitals and treated for heat exhaustion. Three alarms were sounded during the fire.
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Heavy smoke and fire push from # 111 Glenwood Road
Firefighter Pat Dorant of Ladder 3 assists a resident that he rescued over a ground ladder in getting medical attention.
Firefighters Pat Keane (left) and Tim Flynn of Tower 1 help advance an attack line up the front stairs.
Crews knock down heavy fire on the front porch and advance the line into the first floor.
Captain Bill Hallinan (right) is given orders by Deputy Chief Jack Memory.
Crews were hampered in their efforts when a live power line fell to the ground and across the cab of Ladder 2.
The fire which started in a sofa on the 1st floor porch, raced up the front of the house to the roof line.


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Rafat Ali and PaidContent.org are holding their first conference: The Economics of Social Media. I've been dying for Rafat to blow up the conference business and its tired conventions, as I'm sure he will. And this is a good and necessary topic. As he says:
If you read the post yesterday about Universal Music Group CEO calling the likes of YouTube and MySpace as "copyright infringers", you know there's a genuine need for a business dialog in a more rational environment. That's what we hope the conference will provide. . . .
Our hope is that this will be the first conference focused on discussing the bigger business issues: what are the companies operating in the sector, what kinds are being started, how are big media, entertainment and information companies interacting and adopting social media in their businesses, what are business models evolving in various sub-sectors, and how is online marketing arms of big media using social media sites and services.
A few suggestions on what I think we need:
* We need to teach the incumbents that the economics of media are no longer all about direct revenue: "consumers" buying "their content." That was nice for them while it lasted, but it's over. In the post-scarcity, open media economy, you can gain greater advantage, I believe, by also recognizing indirect revenue and new economies of social scale: The "consumers" market your brand for you. They distribute your "product" for you. The "audience" now creates its content, often around yours. You have a new opportunity to build and maintain direct relationships with the public, around the middlemen who've dogged your lives. This can also build a valuable store of data and experience about the public and what they really want. It's a great new era. Only the old guys can't see the opportunities; all they see is decline and fear. So we need to demonstrate to them what is possible.
So I would love to see such a conference pull together success stories and research demonstrating just how people are beginning to make money in this new world, even if they don't realize it. NBC just didn't see, for example, that the "theft" of its Saturday Night Live segment was the greatest gift the show could have had; it brought them audience — and thus ad revenue — they never would have gotten otherwise and will not get from still trying to spend marketing dollars to bring "audience" to their addresses and channels. I want to see someone model that business, as the old guys say, and a dozen more.
* These incumbents need to meet, face-to-face, the people who are taking their segments and songs and stories and recommending and promoting and distributing them up on the internet and, even more important, making them part of a larger act of creation (listen to On The Media about LonelyGirl15 and StarTrek and the impact of the people's creation). They have to learn that these people aren't the enemy. They are the people formerly known as their audience, who should be known now as their friends. These are the people who get their stuff seen and heard; these are the buzzmeisters of media. Treating them as enemies is cutting off your nose job to spite your face.
* They also need to hear from the people who really own the social space that is the internet. They need to understand that MySpace will fail if it becomes RupertsSpace. They need to hear what is evil and unwelcome: how you may not exploit us. And they need to hear what the people would like from the big guys — content, tools, bandwidth, space, and, yes, revenue. Once they realize that the people are friends, then they need to be generous with those friends and need to see that supporting their creativity and enthusiasm is a necessity. They need to understand that you can't play in social media if you aren't social.
* I do think we need to start looking at the explosion in venture capital. The one true impact of the much-fabled Web 2.0 is that companies don't need as much money, which means that VCs can't invest big buckets of bucks in a few plays, which means that lots of plays are getting money but it's much harder for the good ones to stand out. That's probably too far afield for a one-day conference.
* I would like to see Doc Searls and David Weinberger redefine the language of media, proposing words to replace the outmoded concepts of "consumer," "audience," "content," "copyright"…
A few suggestions. Oh, and hold the next one in New York, willya?


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text: KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The scourge of drugs and baseball claimed its third former MVP in a month when Miguel Tejada was suspended Saturday for 105 games after testing positive for an amphetamine. The Kansas City Royals infielder drew one of the longest penalties handed down by Major League Baseball. His ban came after Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games and Brewers star Ryan Braun got a 65-game penalty that will keep him off the field for the rest of the season. All three stars have been dogged by doping allegations in the past. A person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that Tejada tested positive for Adderall, a substance the 39-year-old has used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because those details were not made public. "I apologize to my teammates, the Royals organization and to the Kansas City fans," Tejada said in a statement released by the players association. "I have a medical condition that requires medication to treat. I took that medication while re-applying for a Therapeutic Use Exemption. Under the requirements of the Joint Drug Program, I made a mistake in doing so." MLBs medical staff grants therapeutic-use exemptions that allow players to use drugs such as Adderall to treat ADD. But the substance has become a popular performance-enhancer, accounting for 10 of the 11 positive stimulant tests in the major league program in the year ending with the 2012 World Series, according to the annual report of the Independent Program Administrator. The report, which was released in November, said that medication for ADD accounted for 116 of 119 therapeutic-use exemptions granted by Major League Baseball. Tejada, who was already on the 60-day disabled list with a calf injury, previously tested positive under the leagues amphetamine policy. That subjected him to a 25-game ban for a second test and an 80-game suspension for a third. He is not challenging the penalties. Tejada will miss the remainder of this season, which exhausts his contract with Kansas City. If he signs for next season, he would miss about two months before becoming eligible to play. "It doesnt matter if youre MVP or king of the world. If youre going to do things that are illegal, youre going to get caught for it and youre going to get suspended," Royals pitcher James Shields said. "Its a shame because I really like him a lot as a teammate." Tejadas suspension is one of the longest non-lifetime bans in baseball history. Along with Rodriguezs suspension, Pascual Perez was banned for the 1992 season for a positive cocaine test and Dwight Gooden barred for the 95 season for violating his drug after-care program. Rodriguez and Braun received their penalties for their connection to the Biogenesis clinic in Florida that has been accused of dispensing banned drugs. A-Rod was among 13 players suspended 12 days ago by MLB, while Braun was penalized earlier this year. "I think its another positive sign that the testing continues to work and that those players who commit infractions against the drug policy are being penalized accordingly," Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie said. "Its unfortunate when its a friend of yours and a teammate but the testing is there for a purpose, and this is another indication that its working and serving its purpose." Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar said that many of Tejadas teammates learned of the suspension while watching TV in the clubhouse before their game Saturday night in Detroit. "Maybe he made a mistake. I dont know," Escobar said. "Thats a good guy, a really good teammate. Thats one of the best guys in here. Yeah, I was surprised." A six-time All-Star and the AL MVP in 2002, Tejadas prodigious talent has been called into question more than once by doping allegations that have cropped up throughout his career. The first significant mention of his name came in the Mitchell Report on steroids use in baseball. Then in February 2009, he was charged with lying to Congress about performance-enhancing drugs in the game. Tejada pleaded guilty to the charge and received one year of probation. Tejada made his big league debut in 2003 with the Athletics, where he spent the best years of his career. He hit .308 with 34 homers and 131 RBIs during his MVP season, and then was even better in 2004 with Baltimore, when he .311 with 34 home runs and a career-best 150 RBIs. Tejada also spent time with Houston and San Diego before struggling two years ago in San Francisco, and then was unable to latch onto a big league team last season. The Royals took a chance on him after watching him play in the Dominican Republics winter league, signing him to a deal worth $1.1 million if he made the major league roster. He wound up becoming an everyday player, hitting .288 with three homers and 20 RBIs in 53 games. Just as valuable as his performance, though, was his veteran influence. The Royals have one of the youngest rosters in baseball, and Tejada became a mentor to several players on the team. "He was amazing for this clubhouse," Shields said. "Every day he came in, he was a great teacher. He helped out a lot of our young guys, not only our Latin guys, but everybody. He really taught a lot these guys how to play the right way as far as how on the field goes." Tejada hurt his calf last Saturday while diving for a ball in the seventh inning of a loss to the Red Sox. He wound up on the DL, and was transferred to the 60-day disabled list -- effectively ending his season -- when the Royals acquired utility man Emilio Bonifacio earlier this week. If hes unable to latch onto a team next season, that game against Boston will turn out to be the last time Tejada sets foot on a big league field as a player. "It would definitely be a tough way to go out. Theres no doubt," Shields said. 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