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28th July 2010, 03:18 AM | #1 |
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M Audio Transit / Lexicon Alpha?
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Has anyone A/Bed these? I would like the flexibility that optical offers too, whereas the Lexicon is just limited to USB and thus may be jitter prone . I have a Macbook Pro (13" Unibody) and intend to use the external devices for audio playback and vinyl ripping...the former more often than the latter though. L |
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I might be a bit biased, because I have the Lexicon Alpha, but of the two I'd take Lexicon - it has good quality 1/4" balanced ins and outs (as well as RCA outs and 1/8" headphone jack), whereas M-Audio has only 1/8" unbalanced connectors). It also has hardware analog volume control that enables it to be used straight into a power amp - a big plus in my opinion (my system is a simple PC based affair - FLAC in Foobar2000 with ASIO out and some corrective VST EQ, Lexicon Alpha and 10 meters of balanced cables to power amp which drives passively X-overed 3-way speakers). And it's colour goes well with Funktion-One speakers if you happen to have some of these As for sound quality, I don't think there's much difference between the two, though Alpha does "only" 24/48 (but does it full-duplex). I wouldn't worry too much about jitter. As build quality goes, Alpha is well-built and sturdy, I have dropped mine several times, tossed it around in a bag among several other pieces of hardware (stands, mics, cables, tools etc), used it outdoors in sub-zero temperatures and in 36 ¤C heat and have no problems. I strongly suggest to update the drivers from their home page, though - I had some strange random bluescreen problems using Foobar2000 and ASIO out but since clean installing Windows + updating drivers (due to changing the HDD in my laptop) I have no anomalies. Or, if you'd like to use a measuring mic with your soundcard, you could choose Lambda or Omega which have +48V phantom power (the only thing I miss sometimes on Alpha). Another option to consider: EMU 0202 |
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I went for the Edirol UA-1EX eventually
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I also suppose I should follow up with a 'why' - my phone rang at the time of posting and so I just posted and shot off.
It seems to have solid reviews and is well known for solid ASIO drivers - not ASIO4ALL... actual compatible hardware with Linux, OSX and Windows. The Jury is still out on what OS I'm going to build my media center with but it's looking like XBMC. |
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Born | Betty Jane Bierce August 7, 1921 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
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Spouse(s) | Second husband: Thomas Turnage (1945–2000; his death) |
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Betty Jane Bierce, better known by her stage name Jane "Poni" Adams (August 7, 1921 – May 21, 2014),[1] was an American actress in radio, film, and television in the 1940s and 1950s.
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Adams was born in San Antonio, Texas and received a full scholarship to Juilliard, which she turned down to spend years studying at the Pasadena Playhouse. From there she got her start on Lux Radio Theatre and then with the Harry Conover Modeling Agency, where she was given her nickname "Poni". (This was supposedly due to her love of horses, but in reality it was to provide her with a more memorable stage name.) She returned to using her real name in 1945.[2] She may be best known for her role as Nina in House of Dracula (1945), but she also has the distinction of acting in early adaptations of both major DC Comics franchises: Batman, where she played Vicki Vale in the second Batman serial, Batman and Robin, and also a character in the first Superman television series.
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Her first husband was a United States Navy pilot who died in World War II. On July 14, 1945, in Hollywood, California,[3] she married Thomas K. Turnage,[4] a decorated Major General with the Army. Turnage served in the Korean War and earned the Distinguished Service Medal and Bronze Star. He later served as the last administrator of the Veterans Administration before the VA became a cabinet department during Ronald Reagan's presidential term. Adams and Turnage had two children.
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Tsavo East National Park covers an area of about 12,000 km2, 40% of Kenya's parks' total area.
This vast park lies in low semi arid country at the eastern edge of the inland plateau, north of the main Mombasa-Nairobi road and railway. Much of the park is level, open country with scattered rocky ridges and outcrops. Due to its size, the park is one of the world's wildlife and biodiversity strongholds.
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One of the great spectacles of the park is the Mudanda rock between Voi and Manyani. This 1 1/2 km long outcrop is a water catchment area which supplies a natural dam at its base. In the dry season, hundreds of elephants come to drink and bathe here.
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RGatward (20086) 2004-11-17 3:50
This catches the mood beautifully, and the colours look great. You've handled tricky lighting well here too.
cyril (2748) 2004-11-17 4:14
Hi Jerzy,
You captured a very beautiful scene here.
The composition is really good and the war colours gives a nice mood to the shot.
Good work
glitch (763) 2004-11-17 4:22
Great photo Jerzy!
Fantastic colours, and the tree in the foreground helps give this a good composition.
It looks as though the image has too much red, especially just below the horizon, probably from the filter you used.
Still a lovely fiery sunset though!
Well done!
Rhiannon (1728) 2004-11-17 5:12
This is how I imagine Africa. The strong coloured sky withwarm orange and red tones and the open, beautiful landscpae with just a few trees with those amazing shapes, almost like the were sculptured.
Good simple composition here. Nice mood and atmosphere captured.
Very well done.
nalo (356) 2004-11-22 15:51
Wow, what a sunset! Most of all, I like the tree and its sharp shape and the perfect positioning on the picture.
Good work!
grzegorz (955) 2004-11-28 16:23
Czerwien nieba swietnie oddaje atmosfere Afryki, w polaczeniu z pieknym krajobrazem sawanny- zdjecie to ma swoj niepowtarzalny, gracy klimat. Gratuluje. gr
ps. uzycie lampy blyskowej bylo trafnym wyborem :]
paco (264) 2004-12-04 13:08
Great capture of this sunset. Fantastic colors!Cokin filter works for me. I like the way you include the tree in the foreground, it gives an good perspective. Good composition for this very nice landscape. A dreaming vision of Africa! Well done!
markoci (3933) 2004-12-08 10:56
Another georgeous sky! I'd clone out the white spots in the bottom left, a minor distraction. I wonder wether you've used a fill in flash for this shot and if not what the picture would have looked like.
PixelTerror (0) 2004-12-21 6:26
Dzien Dobry Jerzy, that's a great sunset photo, the warm tonal ranges you captured here are splendid, I like too the lonely rising tree, it helps much making a very nice composition.
ephemere33 (9743) 2004-12-21 14:54
bonjour, je viens de visiter tes photos sur ta galerie sur le Kénya...je suis enchantée de pouvoir contempler quelques photos de cette région car j'ai le privilège de m'y rendre fin Janvier et il parait que c'est la pleine saison...t'es-tu vacciné contre la fiévre jaune??? il parait que ce n'est plus nécessaire...cette photo est magnifique en plus les couchers de soleil sont ma passion...voir ma galerie...et je peux te dire que j'en rêve déjà ...en plus le titre superbement choisi, ce film que j'ai vu 5 fois eet que j'aime énormément me rapelle vraiment cette vue de la pleine...les couleurs sont magnifiques et bien rendues...merci pour le partage...amicalement BI
Jaku (6812) 2005-01-09 14:52
Sam nie wiem dlaczego pominąłem tą świetną fotkę - jakoś jej wcześniej nie zauważyłem.
coco (30439) 2005-06-22 12:10
Very, very nice. Is spectacular.
And I think that is not necessary say more words.
gsimon (387) 2006-06-16 15:00
What a wonderful picture
The colors are spactacular and the composition perfect
This is a place I definately need to visit
AnaRita (1741) 2010-03-30 4:48
Olá Jerzy,
I believe the main colors of beautiful Africa are well represented here.
Congratulations :)
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- Genre: Places
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- Date Taken: 2003-03-00
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Hi All, I have a scenario where i have to use ado.net transaction. This transaction losts for almost 10min. During the transaction period none of users will be accessing the application. I am using many temporary tables in stored procedures which participate in the transaction. I would like to know after the ADO.Net transaction is complete will there be any hit on sql - server peformance. When the sql server and applicaiton server(IIS) is on the same machine ( test enverionment) after the transaction is completed my system is giving me a message saying virtual memory is low blah blah... Can you kindly let me know the answer and reason. Thanks, Raghunath K
It will be good if you put your transaction handling routine inside stored procedure instead of ado.net transaction. From client application you call only stored procedure and in the SP you can keep transaction as minimal as possible, because SQL server needs to wait for any transaction to be accomplished.
it seems you have huge transaction, which is the reason for the less performance ---------------------------------------- Contributing Editor, Writer & Forums Moderator http://www.SQL-Server-Performance.Com Visit my Blog at http://dineshasanka.spaces.live.com/
What are the settings of Memory on SQL server? Do you see any issues with scheduled jobs or blocking during this transaction process? As its a test machine try to reduce the transaction size for better performance. Satya SKJ Microsoft SQL Server MVP Contributing Editor & Forums Moderator http://www.SQL-Server-Performance.Com This posting is provided AS IS with no rights for the sake of knowledge sharing.
It would certainly be helpful, if you could post some of your code. -- Frank Kalis Moderator Microsoft SQL Server MVP Webmaster:http://www.insidesql.de


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A website from the Massachusetts Historical Society; founded 1791.
Adams Family Code Names
Diary of John Quincy Adams, Volume 2
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I have at length recovered my usual tone, and have been able this day to attend to business ...
Docno: ADMS-03-02-02-0002-0010-0001
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Date: 1787-10-01
Monday October 1st. 1787.
I have not yet got over the consequences of our frolick on Saturday evening. Three whole evenings I have by this means entirely lost, for I cannot yet write with any comfort. How inseparably in all cases of intemperance, is the punishment allied to the fault!
Stedman went this day for Portsmouth, will return here to-morrow, and take his final leave on Wednesday. He is going to open an office at Cambridge, where I heartily wish him success.
In the afternoon I went with Townsend and Thomson and Little, up to Sohier's, and had the usual fare. We return'd leisurely in the evening. I was too much fatigued to write much; having withal a little of the head ache. Putnam arrived in town
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this afternoon; and I suppose will enter Mr. Bradbury's office immediately.
I shall find I believe very much the want of Mr. Parsons's presence, when he goes off. His attendance upon the genl. Court, will engross his time very much. Next week he will go to Boston, and will be gone I suppose nearly two months. There are a thousand questions which I shall want to propose to him from time to time; but which I shall be reduced to find out by my own industry, and what assistance Townsend and Amory can give me.
Cite web page as:
Founding Families: Digital Editions of the Papers of the Winthrops and the Adamses,
ed.C. James Taylor. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2017.


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Surprise Iris
And, what a surprise.
I clean forgot about these irises that Linda gave me last year.
Don't they look great with the Osteospermum?
That is a fantastic colour, well done.
Lovely colour
love em
Jesus I wonder did she give me one of those too cos I saw something in the grass bed I did'nt recoginse and can't remember where I got it, looks suspiciously like an Iris?? hope I'm right :-)
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Official State of Alaska Vacation and Travel Information
With its rolling topography and lakes, this is an ideal venue for year-round outdoor adventures
Squeezed between the Susitna River and the Talkeetna Mountains just 67 miles north of Anchorage, Nancy Lake State Recreation Area is one of the few flat, lake-studded parks in Alaska.
Once covered by huge glaciers, the area has been free of ice for at least 9,000 years. Nancy Lake's Indian Bay was the site of an Indian village that was established near the turn of the century. In 1917, the Alaska Railroad was built on the east side of the lower Susitna Valley, bringing homesteaders and fueling the growth of the towns of Wasilla, Houston and Willow. But settlers avoided the Nancy Lake area because it was too wet. As a result, the park has remained wild and natural.
Lakes, streams and swamps that drain into the Susitna River or Cook Inlet dominate the 22,685-acre recreation area. The park's clear lakes are ringed by mature spruce, birch and poplar forests and provide tranquil settings for canoeing, fishing, hiking and camping. In winter, the flat terrain is ideal for cross-country skiing, dog mushing and snowmobiling.
The recreation area's combination of lakes, wetlands and forests create an ideal habitat for a plethora of mammals and birds. Beavers are active in lakes and ponds throughout the park and moose and black bears visit frequently. Grebes, ducks, geese and shorebirds use the lakes and ponds in the area during their migrations and many stay to nest in the area. Green-headed loons, with their eerie laughing call, are one of the trademarks of the area. Arctic terns are also summer residents and sandhill cranes may be seen exhibiting their courtship dance along the Nancy Lake Parkway during their spring migration.
Fishing is one of the park's more popular activities. Lake trout, rainbow trout, whitefish and Dolly Varden are found in Red Shirt, Butterfly, Lynx and Nancy lakes. Northern pike are found in Red Shirt, Lynx and Tanaina lakes.
One of the main summer attractions is the Lynx Lake Loop Canoe Trail, a watery route through an eight-mile chain of lakes. Portages are clearly marked and wet sections are covered with boardwalk. Beginning at the Tanaina Lake Canoe Trailhead at Mile 4.5 of the Nancy Lake Parkway is the Lynx Lake Loop, a full-day paddle or an ideal weekend trip. Canoes can be rented at South Rolly Campground.
Hiking at Nancy Lake in the summer is limited due to the terrain. The major hiking trail in the recreation area is the Red Shirt Lake Trail located at the end of Nancy Lake Parkway across from the entrance to the South Rolly Lake Campground. The one-way, three-mile trail follows the tops of glacial moraines to provide views of the area's lakes and the Chugach Mountains on the horizon. The Red Shirt Lake Trail ends at eight lakeside campsites.
The summer canoe and hiking trails are transformed in winter to 40 miles of trails for cross-country skiing, dog mushing, snowshoeing and snowmobiling. While most trails are open for motorized snow vehicles, 10 miles of trails are reserved for cross-country skiers. Ice fishing is also a popular winter activity; Nancy, Lynx and Red Shirt lakes offer the best locations for catching winter rainbow trout.
There are two maintained campgrounds with road access, water and latrines at Nancy Lake State Recreation Area. South Rolly Lake Campground, with 96 sites, is located at the end of Nancy Lake Parkway, 6.5 miles off of the Parks Highway. Nancy Lake State Recreation Site, on the northeast shore of Nancy Lake, has 30 sites and can be reached from Mile 66.5 of the Parks Highway.
There are also 13 public-use cabins available for rent. The cabins are located on Red Shirt, Lynx, Nancy, James and Bald lakes and are equipped with wooden bunk beds, wood-burning stoves, outhouses and fire rings.
There is a daily parking fee and boat launch fee at Nancy Lake State Recreation Site. There is also a nightly fee for camping and for the public-use cabins, which can be reserved online through the parks reservation system.
Nancy Lake State Recreation Area is 67 miles north of Anchorage via the Parks Highway. To enter the recreation area, turn west onto Nancy Lake Parkway at Mile 67.3 of the Parks Highway. From there, the Nancy Lake Parkway travels 6.5 miles southwest to South Rolly Lake Campground. In winter the parkway is not plowed beyond the winter trailhead at Mile 2.2. The community of Willow lies two miles north of this junction and has a full range of traveler services.
For more information contact the Nancy Lake Ranger Station (907-495-6273) located at Mile 1.3 of Nancy Lake Parkway.
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Brazil Sugarcane Crop Seen at Record on Humidity, Datagro Says
Lucia KassaiSugarcane growers in Brazil's Center South, the world's largest producing region, are set to reap a record crop, exceeding previous forecasts, as soil humidity helps plants withstand dry weather, Datagro Ltd. said.
The region's sugarcane producers will harvest between 580 million and 590 million metric tons in the crop year that starts April 1, the research firm's president, Plinio Nastari, said. That compares with a previous estimate of as much as 575 million tons on Oct. 15.
"High soil moisture helped the crops, including the newly replanted fields, to go through the dry period in December," Nastari said today in a telephone interview from Barueri, Brazil. "Now mills are just waiting for crops to finish maturing to start the harvest."
December rainfall in Sao Paulo state, which produces 60 percent of the country's sugar, was 21 percent lower than the 30-year average for the month, he said. Soil humidity is high because of showers between May and September, Nastari said.
The region's production in the 2012-13 season ending March 31 is forecast at 535.7 million tons of sugarcane, 34.3 million tons of sugar and 21.38 billion liters (5.64 billion gallons) of ethanol, Nastari said.


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Glen Myers writes about a familiar problem: Inability to use a internal modem on a PowerBook because you get a message that says the serial port is busy. Avariety of possible solutions exist. In this case, Glen was using a PowerPort Platinum Pro PC Card and OT/PPP. Global Village tech support told him to switch to FreePPP. It solved the problem!
Note: When we covered this issue in February, another solution was suggested: Add a space in front of the file name "OpenTpt AppleTalk Library."


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text: Keep Your Bathroom Looking Fancy by Folding Towels with PocketsWhitson Gordon3/28/10 12:00pmFiled to: HowtoFoldingHouseholdDIY21EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink If you've already mastered fancily folding your dining room napkins, take that talent to the bathroom—Stacey over at DIY blog Dinner & Discourse has a guide to folding stylish towel pockets, perfect for further impressing your guests on any occasion. Like the best little projects, this one requires nothing but the towels you probably already have (including hand towels and washcloths) and some mad folding skills. Luckily, even if you don't have the latter, you can follow along pretty easily with Stacey's step-by-step, photographed instructions and get it down pretty quickly. In fact, it's easy enough that you'll probably be able to do it in your sleep after a couple of tries—it really is an effortless way to add a little style to your bathroom. Got any other quick tricks for fancying up the house? Let us know in the comments! Advertisement Advertisement Fancy Towels w/Pockets! [Dinner & Discourse via Instructables]Reply21 repliesLeave a reply


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The Museum's people are at the heart of the organisation. The Museum continues to attract passionate, creative, highly qualified people with diverse skills and experience to care for and exhibit the collection and maintain the physical infrastructure. A major task is to develop and retain high-quality employees — a task to which the Museum is committed.
The premium placed on high performance and diversity in the Museum is highlighted in the Strategic Plan, with a commitment to continually reviewing the way business is conducted, operating in a way that utilises better practices and providing an environment to assist staff to undertake their work.
Museum staff members are employed under the Public Service Act 1999, and employment conditions are established under legislation applying to the Australian Public Service and, in particular, the Museum's workplace agreement.
The staffing numbers over the past five years indicate the Museum's overall numbers have stabilised within the 280–300 range, with the gender split fairly constant every year. At 30 June 2010, the Museum employed 297 staff consisting of 237 ongoing and 60 non-ongoing employees, which represented a full-time equivalent number of 257.54.
Staffing by employment status
Status |
Male |
Female |
Total |
Ongoing full-time Principal Executive Officer (PEO) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Non-ongoing full-time PEO | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Ongoing full-time Senior Executive Service (SES) | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Ongoing full-time non-SES | 55 | 107 | 162 |
Ongoing part-time SES | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ongoing part-time non-SES | 18 | 54 | 72 |
Non-ongoing full-time SES | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Non-ongoing full-time non-SES | 12 | 25 | 37 |
Non-ongoing part-time SES | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Non-ongoing part-time non-SES | 8 | 14 | 22 |
Staffing by division, as at 30 June 2010
Division |
Ongoing |
Non-going |
Total |
Directorate | 24 | 3 | 27 |
Operations | 40 | 3 | 43 |
Collections, Content and Exhibitions | 78 | 25 | 103 |
Audience, Programs and Partnerships | 95 | 29 | 124 |
Staffing by APS level, as at 30 June 2010
Status |
Male |
Female |
Total |
Executive Level 2 | 12 | 11 | 23 |
Executive Level 1 |
12 | 29 | 41 |
Cadet | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Impact and features of workplace agreements
As an Australian Public Service (APS) agency, the Museum employs people within a regulatory framework that includes federal workplace relations and related legislation, the Public Service Act 1999 and common law employment contracts.
In a rapidly evolving workplace relations and public sector management environment, a range of instruments regulate the Museum's terms and conditions of employment. Agreements negotiated with employees and their representatives are at the heart of this framework. The Museum has maintained a high level of employee support for collectively negotiated arrangements over the last decade, reflecting an ongoing culture of consultation and trust.
The National Museum of Australia Workplace Agreement 2008–2011 commenced on 30 October 2008 and is the primary agreement covering most Museum employees. It is a three-year union collective agreement with the Community and Public Sector Union, and has a nominal expiry date of 30 October 2011. The Museum will negotiate a new Workplace Agreement in 2010–11. The National Museum of Australia Workplace Agreement 2008–2011 delivered a total pay rise to eligible staff of 4 per cent during 2009–10.
The Museum also has a number of Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs) made under the Workplace Relations Act 1996. These include comprehensive agreements with Senior Executive Service employees and individual AWAs covering a small number of non-SES employees. Under the Transition to Forward with Fairness Act 2008 and the Fair Work Act 2009, AWAs will continue to operate until they are terminated or the relevant employment ceases, but no new AWAs may be made.
The workplace agreement provides for individual employees to negotiate pay and conditions enhancements through Individual Flexibility Agreements, designed to provide more flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
Attracting the right people and doing it better
The Museum competes in a highly competitive employment market with public sector agencies, other museums and cultural institutions, academic institutions and private enterprise. Longer-term demographic trends in the Australian population, including the ageing of the Australian working population and the retirement of the 'baby boomer' generation, is leading to increased competition for highly qualified, experienced and skilled people. Throughout the downturn in the global and Australian financial environments, the Museum has continued to attract highly competitive external and internal applicants for vacancies.
Consistent with other APS agencies, the Museum continues to focus on recruitment and selection procedures that deliver efficient, effective and timely filling of vacancies. The dual outcomes sought are to secure the best candidates and minimise recruitment time frames and costs. In 2009–10, the Museum continued to reduce recruitment costs and attract a high standard of candidates for vacancies.
The Museum's induction and orientation experience includes personalised day-one induction by the recruitment officer, regular 'new starter' training sessions on a range of essential issues such as performance management and APS Code of Conduct and Values, an online induction package and a regular Orientation Day program involving a tour of the Museum's collection storage and conservation facilities.
Supporting and maintaining a high performance culture
The Museum's staff performance management framework, Workplace Conversations, is a key productivity initiative. The intent of Workplace Conversations remains the same as in previous years: to support a 'guided conversation' approach. Workplace Conversations continues to use Museum specific work-level standards to clarify job roles and expectations, and Museum-specific capability profiles to identify and reinforce work behaviours that support the Museum's objectives.
Workplace Conversations requires staff members to have regular performance discussions with their manager. These formal guided discussions, linked to overall strategic and business objectives, cover the scope and deliverables of a staff member's position, the support required to deliver them, and a documented agreement on relevant learning and development opportunities. Aggregate learning and development data assists in the development of overall corporate training activities.
Mid-cycle team conversations encourage discussions on team performance and complement the regular individual focus characteristic of Workplace Conversations.
Sustaining a consultative culture
The current workplace agreement establishes a framework for formal and informal consultation arrangements as an integral part of decision making in the Museum, enabled by a biannual Museum Consultative Forum in which the Director, Executive Group and staff representatives engage on higher level strategic issues for the Museum. This is supplemented by a Workplace Consultative Committee for broad consultation on operational matters.
The Museum continues to work closely with the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU) on all relevant matters affecting staff. Consistent with the Australian Government Employment Bargaining Framework, the Museum will negotiate and finalise in 2010–11 an agreement with the CPSU concerning negotiation, communication and access to the workplace.
Supporting and making workplace diversity a priority
A significant factor in delivering services for diverse audiences is to sustain a workforce that reflects an equally diverse background and perspective. Subsequently, the Museum works hard to maintain and encourage diversity in its workforce.
The Museum's Workplace Diversity Plan seeks to create an environment that is supportive of people's diversity by building knowledge and capabilities from many backgrounds within the Museum, having business processes that support diversity, and developing diverse ways to work. In implementing the plan, the Museum continued to encourage a staffing profile that reflects Australia's cultural diversity.
Progress has been achieved through the development of recruitment strategies, promoting APS values relating to diversity, maintaining a network of equity and diversity contacts, and continuing to raise awareness on ways to prevent bullying and harassment in the workplace. The plan expired during the year and a replacement plan was developed. In May 2010, the Museum became a member of the Australian Network on Disability, an employer group dedicated to improving employment conditions for people with disabilities.
Aware of the ongoing decrease in the number of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people employed across the APS, the Museum continued to take particular measures during the year to provide and support employment opportunities for Indigenous people. These included:
- a dedicated role in the Visitor Services and Volunteers team to promote, facilitate and support the employment of Indigenous people
- the provision of cultural awareness training for staff
- employment of three people under the Indigenous Cadet Program
- continuing the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program, which employed a 12-month non-ongoing APS 4 curator.
The Cadet Program offers cadets ongoing employment upon successful completion of the program and supports cadets who are completing their postsecondary education while they gain valuable on-the-job work experience. In 2010 the Museum offered two visitor services host positions through the Indigenous Entry Level Recruitment Program coordinated by the Australian Public Service Commission. This program provides entry level staff with the opportunity to obtain a Certificate IV qualification.
The Museum received financial assistance from the Workplace Modification Scheme for two staff from JobAccess, a government initiative to assist with workplace solutions for the employment of people with disabilities.
Museum staff who report as belonging to specific groups
Group |
No. |
% total staff |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples | 14 | 4.7 |
People with disabilities | 8 | 2.7 |
Culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds | 38 | 12.8 |
Females | 202 | 68 |
Enhancing our capability through learning and development
The Museum's corporate training program is aligned with its capability profile and strategic business objectives. During 2009–10 the program focused on building capability in leadership, writing, performance management, understanding our business and application of the APS Values and Code of Conduct.
As in previous years, in 2009–10 a number of staff members presented papers at conferences and seminars, undertook research and attended technical and professional workshops. A list of these activities is reported in Appendix 7. In addition, one employee took part in the 2009 Cultural Management Development Program (CMDP), with another enrolled in 2010.
Two employees completed the Advanced Workplace Skills Program (AWSP) during 2009 with another two enrolled in 2010. Both the CMDP and AWSP are collaborative development programs, run in conjunction with other cultural institutions in the Australian Capital Territory.
The Museum also supported attendance of two Indigenous staff at a two-day course designed to improve skills for mentoring of other Indigenous staff. In addition, the Museum continued to utilise the funding pool of $5000 established in the Workplace Agreement to sponsor four Indigenous staff to attend the Barks, Birds & Billabongs symposium.
The Workplace Agreement also gave employees access to Museum-sponsored study leave, with special provisions for staff to learn languages other than English.
Other staff training focused on core behaviours, skills and knowledge required by staff across the Museum, and included:
- training for the Museum's Equity and Diversity contact officers on harassment and bullying in the workplace
- seminars on mental health in the workplace, with a particular emphasis on resilience and managing change
- seminars on occupational health and safety (OHS) for all staff, through induction presentations, as well as focused OHS presentations for visitor services teams
- manual handling training
- courses for first aid officers, wardens and section health and safety representatives
- regular and comprehensive orientation programs for all new Museum employees.
Recognising people
Staff recognition at the Museum is usually expressed formally between those involved in individual performance management via the Workplace Conversations framework. This is a critical level of recognition, stressing the importance of having constructive conversations, aligned with strategic and business priorities, throughout the year.
To provide wider recognition of significant contributions and achievements by its staff, the Director presented Australia Day Achievement Medallions to 39 employees, including two volunteers, who had made noteworthy contributions to the work of the Museum during the past year, or over a number of years.
Internal communications and staff news are regularly communicated through the Museum's active intranet and the internal newsletter, The Loop.
Post-separation employment
There were no applications for post-separation employment during the year.


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The first person to prove and perfect the efficient use of alternating-current electricity, Nikola Tesla saw his polyphase system become the standard for power transmission throughout the world. He also pioneered research in such areas as artificial lightning, high-frequency and high-tension currents, and radio telegraphy. Before his death in 1943, Tesla had acquired more than one hundred patents for high-frequency generators, adjustable condensers, thermomagnetic motors, transformers, his famous Tesla coil, and other inventions that were to become integral elements in modern technology. Tesla was born on July 10, 1856, the son of Serbian parents in the Croatian village of Smiljan. The settlement was located near the town of Gospic in what was then a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, an area that later became Yugoslavia. Tesla's father and mother, Milutin Tesla and Djuka Mandic, had expected their son to follow in his father's footsteps as a Greek Orthodox clergyman. However, during...
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This report reviews existing national and international policies with regard to the use of ICT to enhance teaching and learning within institutions of tertiary education. Common areas of strength and weakness with reference to educational technology readiness in the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa (PHEA) countries are explored. These countries are Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. The authors outline the challenges to the deployment of ICT in tertiary education within the PHEA areas. Finally, lessons learned and possibilities for collaboration are highlighted.
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Institution: | Centre of Educational Technology |
City and Country: | University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa |
Contributor: | Laura Czerniewicz (commissioning editor) |
Date: | 2007 |
Document Type: | Research Report (Peer Reviewed) |
Subject Area: | Teaching and Learning |
Country: | International |
Keywords: | Information & Communication Technology ICT, Higher Education, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Policy, Infrastructure |
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With passionate basketball fans gearing up for an exciting tournament season, it's an ideal time for brands to capitalize on these events to reach massive audiences through strategic campaigns. With that in mind, here are three key tips to help marketers win big and engage fans this season.
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If people bought cars the same way they bought a CMS application, they would go to a lot toting a thick pile of papers and ask for a car that has a V6 engine, an alternator on the left-hand side of the cylinder block, a speedometer that has a black needle on a white background, and a trunk capable of holding two sets of golf clubs. Of course that set of requirements cannot be met, but the salesperson might just have a nice little Peugeot with just such a speedometer, and the buyer would drive off a happy person . . . until they tried to pack for golf the following day. Other approaches might include buying a Pontiac because your neighbor told you last week how wonderful his is, or driving aimlessly around until a ride catches your eye.
Last month, I came across an invitation to tender for a CMS that had 293 individual criteria, of which 68 were mandatory. It had been cut and pasted from a variety of sources, including other tenders and some of the boiler-plate documents that are available over the Web. Many of the criteria were open questions such as, "Can you describe how easy your workflow application is to use?" This approach simply will not work, for a number of reasons.
First, the time that a CMS vendor is going to allocate to responding to a tender must be related to the potential license fees to be gained. My guess is that if the vendor needs to allocate more than one day of time to responding, the project value has to be well into six figures. Of course they will often respond on a point of principle, but with a basic proposal, not a customized one.
The second reason is that the vendor may not be able to meet every one of the 68 mandatory criteria. Should they bother to respond if they can meet only 65? If the potential customer is a "criteria counter," probably not. However, just because they cannot meet all 68 does not mean that they could not implement a perfectly satisfactory application; they may have other attributes that do not appear in the customer's 293 but that are, in fact, even more important and useful.
The third reason is that a good CMS implementation is a partnership. I often advise clients to consider carefully if they feel they could work with the vendor. There may be a culture clash. However, the vendor is also looking to see if they want to work with the client. In the case I have set out here, there probably are at least 293 reasons why not.
When buying a car, you want to meet specific requirements regarding your family's size, leisure interests, garage space, running costs, and other factors relating to how you intend to use the car. The same is true of a CMS. You want to be able to devolve content administration across the organization for some specific processes, and the success of the implementation will be gauged by the increase in productivity of the content authors. Not the best of objectives, but it will do for now. The invitation to tender should set out very clearly what you want the CMS to accomplish and request that the vendor indicate how they will meet the requirements. The tender should be rich in scenarios and walk-throughs, and have a little bit of vision and just enough criteria to ensure that there is a good match with the IT environment. Apart from anything else, it makes the acceptance testing so much easier.
One twist to the tender document that I feel is a good idea is to include a risk register. The simplest form of this is a list of things that might go wrong (e.g., vendor's project manager leaves to go to a competitor). Rate each by the impact on the organization and the probability of it happening (high, medium, low). Then ask the vendor to go through the risk register for at any high or medium risks and indicate how, from the vendor perspective, they would endeavor to manage or reduce the risk. This is a good exercise for the client in any case, and the vendor is able to spot at an early stage risks that, using their approach, are not risks at all.
Of course you can ignore all this advice. One major law firm in the UK is selecting its CMS on the basis of a two-hour demonstration by the sales teams from a number of vendors. I hope they don't select their counsel in the same way. Or you can ask at the golf course if any one has a good recommendation for a CMS. Am I being alarmist? Perhaps, but just remember that when the intranet or Web turns out to be a lemon because the CMS was not correctly specified, the name on the invitation to tender will be yours.


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Following last week's recap it became apparent that there are several folks out there who will greatly miss Jordan & Jeff and their shenanigans on "The Amazing Race."
What can I tell you, we all have our favorites, and I'll be the first to admit that my favorites, the Cowboys, certainly didn't amaze this go round.
The teams actually had to get on a plane today as they were headed to The Seychelles (not the Say-Chilis). At the starting line teams were told that they would all be on the same flight to the islands. I've never been a big fan of bottlenecks, but liked the fact that the show was upfront about it this time out. And, I was pleasantly surprised that a bunch of the teams – including Brent & Caite, whom I know I've said bad things about – were smart enough to try to get seats towards the front of the plane. It was a good move as the first three teams to get off the plane got to ride the first helicopter over to a different island, La Digue, from the one the airport was on. The other three teams had to wait an hour.
Once off the helicopter, teams hit the Detour where they either had to lure a turtle across a lawn with a banana and then carry some bananas to a fruit stand or load a bunch of coconuts on to an ox cart which an ox then had to carry to the same stand. I'm not sure which I would have chosen, it seemed like something of a toss-up. The turtle had to move a shorter distance before people could ditch it, but the ox appeared to be something you could cajole into moving better than you could the turtle.
Brent & Caite, doing the ox task, instantly blew their lead as one of the coconuts Caite tossed into the cart bounced out and she didn't see it happen. Of course, Steve & Allie did brilliantly with their turtle and passed Caite & Brent before those two even realized they were going to have to turn around. However, the father/daughter team didn't bother bringing their packs with them when they were carrying the bananas (they did have their money and passports though). Dan & Jordan who did the ox task also passed Brent & Caite before the Models made it to the fruit stand.
Ah, Brent & Caite. They couldn't figure out why the man at the fruit stand wouldn't take their coconuts and give them their clue. He kept saying that they didn't have enough in the cart. Brent's response was both classic Brent and truly awesome – he declared that it was unfair and that he was quitting the race. He didn't try to work out what the problem might have been, he just wanted to quit. Obviously eventually the two decided that one must have fallen out, but Caite still "didn't want to play anymore" and actually started crying about how unfair it was. Of course it was, how dare the producers force the teams to follow the rules… HOW DARE THEY!?! (that would be sarcasm)
Steve & Allie, realizing they forgot their bags after dropping off their bananas opted to not head back, and instead just pressed on to the Road Block. There, one member of each team had to dive off a boat and head underwater to untie one of seven bottles. Each bottle contained a puzzle which when put together was a map to the location of the Pit Stop (the map essentially boiled down to "head up the beach and then make a turn"). Apparently the rules state you can check in without extra clothes as Steve & Allie with passports and money but without backpacks checked in first tonight.
My Cowboys, Jet & Cord, made the exact same mistake as Brent & Caite. The Models though were saved by the fact that they were on the first helicopter. Amazingly, Brandy & Carol also didn't get all their coconuts meaning that the Cowboys managed to get out of last place. The only thing that could possibly save Brandy & Carol was this being a non-elimination leg. Well, either that or Jet & Cord screwing up a second thing.
They did. The Cowboys didn't bother to take their bottle off the boat which put Carol & Brandy right back in it. Carol & Brandy hit the Pit Stop first.
Jet & Cord? Well, it was a non-elimination leg and the Cowboys have lived to giddy-up another day!
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How great was Phil giving the bottle instructions underwater?
So many dumb teams tonight – how did fully half the teams not watch every coconut land safely in the cart? I felt embarrassed for them.
I think the Cowboys should have swum in their jeans, at the very least Cord should have swum for the bottle with his hat on.
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We set out at about 7am on Thursday the 23rd, and with all the chatter between the four of us, the trip just flew by. After a somewhat amusing detour to find a Jo-Mar store, only to discover it shuttered and permanently closed, we got to Fabric Row (located in a part of the city called Queen Village) and started our adventure.
One of the things I always forget to do is take pictures when I'm out and about, so I don't have a lot of images of the actual day to share... I was too busy enjoying myself and the company of other fabricholics! However, we tried to be vigilant about picking up business cards so we could remember where we had gotten our treasures. And there were certainly treasures to be found!
Many of the stores reminded me a lot of the Garment District in New York: narrow passages, tight stairwells, bolts piled high and deep. And almost without fail, the people working in the stores knew exactly what their inventory contained, and so were able to help guide us to the items that most interested us. Only a few of our group had specific goals: I was looking for shirting to make more work shirts; Stephanie was looking for something for making shades for her bedroom; Regina was hoping to find some insertion lace.
So here, in no particular order, are the stores we went to, along with what I got.
This store was packed tight with all sorts of fabrics: wool, linen, upholstery, drapery, you name it. I managed to find a cotton fabric (meant for scrubs) that was very close to what I wanted; it was a good price so I picked up three yards. I also found a wonderful knit border print:
Here it is draped on my dress form so you can get an idea of the scale of it. I'm thinking of making a simple sleeveless sheath dress with it.
I didn't get anything too exciting: just two different webbings. The wide was $2/yard and the narrow was $1/yard.
This was another "You want it, we got it" place. I found some black ripstop nylon for making shopping bags.
Here's Lynn buying some blue fabric for making a pair of pants. See those bins below the counter? These were scattered throughout the store and had all sorts of close-out stuff: boas, spools of ribbon, zippers, you name it.
Regina and Stephanie ready to head for the next store. This was one of the more spacious stores: you could actually pass someone in the aisles without a problem. In other stores, this was an issue!
We almost didn't go into this store, due to its rather nondescriptive name. However, there was a little sign out front: "Memorial Day Sale: All Fabrics $5/yard." Oh yeah, had to see that.
This ended up being one of our favorite stops on the whole trip, due to the owner's droll sense of humor. Howard kept cracking jokes and we were all laughing along. We found some real treasures here: Lynn stumbled across two bolts of Ultrasuede: one a pale blue, the other a milk chocolate. I found some black pleather for recovering my dining chairs, and also some buttery-soft dark red pleather that will become a purse or tote someday.
At the southern end of the row was a store painted bright yellow outside, and there I found the perfect shirting fabric! I got 10 yards, which should get me at least four shirts. I also found a cute garden-motif cotton; they only had a little over a yard so I'll have to be content with using it as an accent on something. I also found a lovely polyester that will become either a shell top, or a lining on something.
By this time we were getting hungry, so we stopped at Red Hook Coffee & Tea. This turned out to be a lovely Bohemian hippy kind of place, with mismatched antique furniture, books and magazines to read, and really, really good food.
This chair was so comfortable!
My lunch: a "Happy Hooker"! Bacon, Tomato and three different cheeses on gluten-free bread. The little cup held a wonderful potato salad, topped with sprouts.
Our last stop was Jack B. Fabrics. We had no idea that this store was in a temporary location due to a terrible fire last month. We had noticed a building across the street had been torn down, and the businesses next to it were having work done, but somehow it didn't click until we went into Jack B.'s and started talking with the staff. The April 6 fire consumed everything in the store: fabrics, scissors, everything. They are determined to rebuild in the original location, but were worried about all the new building codes they would have to adhere to. It will be a long upward slog, but they are looking forward to being a continuing presence on the row.
Here is where Stephanie found the perfect fabric for her bedroom shades, and I stumbled across a wonderful map-themed fabric that was just begging to become window treatments for one of our upstairs rooms.
Finally, we headed back to the car...
...and loaded our purchases into the trunk.
Rather than head south right away, Stephanie suggested we head for Reading Terminal Market. We had never heard of it, but her description started off with, "Well, they have chocolate..." No further reasons necessary!!
I have to admit, I was grinning like a fool the entire time I was in the market. It was HUGE. And varied. And every stall had these amazing smells!! The first place we went was Chocolate by Mueller, which had an incredible variety of chocolates in some... "interesting" shapes! There were anatomically correct chocolate hearts, lungs, kidneys, teeth and more. And chocolate "bagels"!! And, to my delight, the biggest variety of Dutch licorice I have ever seen outside of the Netherlands. I showed great restraint in only buying half a pound.
Finally it was time to head south. As we stepped into the parking garage to retrieve the car, the heavens opened up and it started to pour! We had avoided all the nasty weather all day, but the drive home was punctuated by waves of very heavy rains, which didn't make for very relaxing driving. However, Regina and I enjoyed listening to an Anna Russell album while Lynn and Stephanie napped in the back seat.
The only think I now wish I had bought was an embroidered red drapery fabric for our bedroom from B. Wilk Fabrics. Here is the swatch I got, next to the fabric that's already in the bedroom:
I just wasn't confident enough that it would look right next to the gold fabric. But now I see that it will, indeed, look terrific, so I will be calling the store to have the fabric shipped.
All in all, it was a fabulous day, and I can't wait to head back north and do it all again!! (But this time I'll remember to take the rolling bag I had put in the trunk of the car and forgot to take with me... but the weight of the bags probably prevented me from buying too much!)


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In Opera the iframe (images.php) in the ImageManager causes a window.load event in the parent window (manager.php). This causes an infinite recursion because manager.php's init() gets the iframe to reload (changeDir()), which again fires the event.
Following changeset will patch this (naievly).
Change History (1)
comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by gogo
- Resolution set to fixed
- Status changed from new to closed
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