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I guess I'm one of those of people Bob Mehr wrote about in his must read essay, The Great Crusade: Birthing The Cult Of Big Star, in the Big Star box set Keep An Eye On The Sky. The first I ever heard of the band was in 1973 when I read a review in Phonograph Record Magazine of Big Star's (now legendary) appearance at the Rock Writer's Convention in Memphis, May of 1973. What was described sounded like a band I might go for.
So I went searching and soon found #1 Record in the "2 for $1" bin at a local discount department store. The record completely blew my then 16 year old mind to smithereens! And what was also so powerful and important about that record for me was that being at that age, this was some of the first music I had discovered as a teenager completely on my own and free of any influence from older siblings, friends, or the radio. I took a chance on something all by myself and BOOM---it was all so great and it was all mine! I thought how could this record be so great and no one know about it? I felt like I had just joined some sort of club where I was the only member. Very powerful stuff indeed.
And then a few months later I'm reading Phonograph Record Magazine again and come upon a review of the "September Gurls" single, with the memorable headline, "Innocent, But Deadly..." Holy shit, there's a new Big Star album! I actually cut that review out along with the photo of the band and hung it on my wall with all my other rock posters and photos. Couldn't find the album in a store yet, but one morning before school I turn on the big FM rock station in St. Louis at the time and the DJ says, "This is new from a group called Big Star..." and "O My Soul" comes crashing out of the speakers. It was unbelievably great! And looking back now it's pretty amazing how that station was still free form enough to where that particular morning DJ not only played "O My Soul," but played it A LOT.
I soon found a copy of Radio City and that was that. The course of my life was truly changed forever. Like so many of the people Mehr writes about in his box set essay, the power of that record was so great I too was drawn like nothing before in my life to try to find the source, no different than a blues man going to The Crossroads.
I darn near played Radio City nearly every day. A couple of years later I worked up the nerve to call Greg Shaw at BOMP Magazine. Somehow I was able to con him into thinking I was some kind of writer (I wasn't) and that I could get an interview with Alex Chilton. Greg said, "We've been trying to get him for years. If you can pull that off, sure, I'll print it!" And so like so many others at the time, I found the Chilton family's local Memphis listing and gave the number a call and the next thing you know I'm talking to Alex fucking Chilton! And yes, the first thing he asked me was the date of my birth. "Ah yes, the Year Of The Monkey..." was his reply after I told him. I made my interview proposal and he said "Sure, I'd love to be interviewed. It might help me get some of these new demos I'm working on get looked at. Please come on down."
So in September of 1976 I went to Memphis to meet and interview Alex. When he let me into his tiny studio apartment in Midtown, he was wearing a long old school night shirt and nothing else. His apartment had no furniture. There was a turntable, a few records, and his Strat strewn across the floor and nothing else, and we had to sit on the floor. Alex sat crossed legged about two feet across from me with his night shirt pulled up a bit and his stuff hanging out for the entire world to see! Needless to say, I was already pretty freaked out enough about being in the same room as my hero, but never bargained that his thang would be in the picture too, and no less than five minutes after meeting him! After a few minutes of introductory conversation, Alex says, "Hey, you should see Ardent---let's go down and do this there..." I quickly agreed that this was a great idea, and then Alex says, "Hey I gotta shave before we go. We can keep talking while you watch." I then went to the next level of freak out as I watched Alex fucking Chilton smear Vaseline all over his face instead of shaving cream, and listened intently as he told me about The Year Of The Monkey while he shaved.
On the short drive from his crib to Ardent, Alex had me pop a cassette into my car stereo. He says "These are some new demos Arista just said no to..." I pop the tape in, totally losing it in anticipation, thinking I'm going to hear something new along the lines of "Back Of A Car" or something, and out comes "My Rival." It was a lo-fi cassette Alex had recorded with one mic in his living room with him singing and playing electric guitar and some friend banging on a coffee can. Up to that point in my life it was one of the strangest and most primitive sounding things I had ever heard. And I was also listening to Alex graphically singing about actually killing someone! Wow. No longer innocent I guess, but still plenty deadly. Quite a shock indeed and the second big indication in the first 15 minutes of meeting the guy that he was nothing like I imagined he was going to be.
And so that afternoon Alex gave me a tour of Ardent and then we sat at the fountain in the courtyard where he patiently and enthusiastically answered every last fanboy question I had about every song on the first two Big Star albums. As I was turning off the tape recorder when we were finished, Alex says, "You know we made another album." "WHAT?" was all I could muster back. "Well it was just me & Jody, but we kinda were still calling it Big Star. It's different than those other two records." When I asked if I could maybe hear it, Alex said, "No, I don't think that would be possible."
We went out that evening and had drinks, but not too many. Alex invited his pal (the great) Ross Johnson to join us, and I couldn't believe such fascinating people were letting a totally green 20 year old from the suburbs of St. Louis hang with them. Ross invited Alex and I to come see some friends of his rehearse the next day. He said, "Oh Steve, you're really gonna like them and you should write about them. They're called the Scruffs..." Alex and I joined Ross at the Scruffs rehearsal the next day and sure enough, the Scruffs blew me away.
Right before I left Memphis that weekend, Alex and I discussed the possibility of maybe getting him a live gig as Big Star up in St. Louis. We both laughed when he said, "You get me the right amount of money, I'll get a couple of guys here and we'll come up and you can call it anything you want!" And I almost pulled it off, too. Had a club across the river in St. Louis in Illinois that was willing after months of hemming and hawing with them, but by that time Alex was about to split for New York and his CBGBs era.
My meeting the guys in the Scruffs that weekend also became the start of what became a tight friendship with lead guitarist Dave Branyan. Dave and I spent many a weekend over the next few years visiting and hanging out with each other in our respective cities. And after Dave left the Scruffs in '79, he asked me and my friend Jeff Evans to be the rhythm section in a solo thing he was putting together. We cut some stuff at Ardent with John Fry producing that unfortunately was never finished or released. But my god, what an experience! The first day of cutting basic tracks they had me plug my bass into the house 100watt Hi-Watt head and 4x12 Marshall cabinet. When I said to engineer John Hampton, "Man, this amp really sounds GREAT!" he replied, "Yeah, Alex used that same rig for his guitar on Radio City." Are you kidding me?!?!?! Talk about your total mind fuck! I still can't believe I was able to continue and make it through the rest of the session.
Shortly after I started making regular visits to Memphis to hang with Dave, I fell into possession of one of the test pressings of the original version of Big Star's Sister Lovers LP that Ardent had pressed up to promote the record after it was recorded. A few copies had been circulating around Memphis. And my life was changed once again.
And then soon came another total life changer: Like Flies On Sherbert, the second masterpiece Chilton made with the legendary Jim Dickinson. I think it's one of the greatest pure rock and roll albums ever made, right up there with Exile On Main Street and every bit as important. And if your copy doesn't include "The Baron Of Love, Pt. 1," then you really don't own a copy of Like Flies On Sherbert. Accept no substitute!
And of course there was also The Singer Not The Song EP, the "Bangkok" 45, the Cramps records Alex produced, Bach's Bottom, Live In London, Feudalist Tarts, and on and on. One life changing record after another, every one of them. And then there were all those years of so many great solo live shows from Alex. All I'm gonna say, and I still find myself arguing about it all the time with people who still disagree, is that I thought Alex walked on water every time I saw him back then. A master at the top of his game and on the same level of genius as Bob Dylan and Muddy Waters. And every guitar solo an abstract work of art!
I live 120 miles from Columbia, MO so of course I was excited to drive down for the reunion show in 1993, but I was nowhere near as giddy as the majority of the crowd there for the show that day. I was certainly curious, and no dis at all towards the Big Star songs, but for me those songs had become the least interesting part of those amazing Alex solo shows. So I guess you could say I had mixed expectations. A lot has been written and mythologized about that show over the years. It was truly, truly wonderful to finally get to see Jody Stephens play drums, but what left the most lasting impression on me that day was how much Alex came alive and his demeanor lit up when they got to the cover songs in the set, especially when he broke into "Kansas City." After seeing so many Alex solo shows, this certainly came as no surprise to me. I enjoyed "Kansas City" more than any other song that day, and thought it a very beautiful and special moment, and oh so definitive about the guy. As so many of the hipsters in the audience who had traveled so far to see this show stood around with "WTF?" looks on their faces, I smiled and shouted "YEAH!" Once again Alex Chilton was winning the day on his terms. Just like always.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you...
I guess I'm one of those of people Bob Mehr wrote about in his must read essay, The Great Crusade: Birthing The Cult Of Big Star, in the Big Star box set Keep An Eye On The Sky. The first I ever heard of the band was in 1973 when I read a review in Phonograph Record Magazine of Big Star's (now legendary) appearance at the Rock Writer's Convention in Memphis, May of 1973. What was described sounded like a band I might go for.
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7 comments:
- Ted Barron said...
This is great, Steve. Thanks. I'm still trying to write something myself.
- 8:49 AM, March 23, 2010
- the sandwich life said...
Wonderful Steve....thanks....
- 9:02 AM, March 23, 2010
- stephanie said...
beautiful story, steve.
- 9:10 AM, March 23, 2010
- Tony Patti said...
A real labor of love. Freaking amazing story, hard to believe, and a dream come true.
- 12:33 PM, March 23, 2010
- JohnS said...
Thank you, Steve. For a LOT.
- 3:33 PM, March 29, 2010
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for putting this down for us to read. It gave me chills!
- 10:02 AM, April 02, 2010
- James said...
Damn, Steve. How did I miss this post? Damn. Really, wonderful moving and reaffirming stuff.
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Cory Booker, who became a rising star in the Democratic Party as mayor of Newark, has been sworn in to the U.S. Senate, becoming New Jersey's first black senator.
Booker, 44, won a special election Oct. 16 to fill out the term of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg. Vice President Joe Biden conducted the ceremony in the Old Senate Chamber.
Booker is now one of two black senators currently serving; Republican Tim Scott of South Carolina was elected last year. There have been just nine in U.S. history, and he is only the fourth to be popularly elected.
Booker's career has finally ascended to the national stage, but his profile has been there for years. He was dubbed a "rock star mayor" by his friend Oprah Winfrey, has 1.4 million Twitter followers and is a fixture on late-night talk shows.
Booker tapped Wall Street to donate philanthropic funds to Newark and persuaded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to give $100 million to its school system in 2010.
He runs in celebrity circles, raising money in Silicon Valley, New York City and Los Angeles, where actor Matt Damon co-hosted a campaign fundraiser for him in September.
Despite the high-profile connections and his status as the most recognizable Democrat in New Jersey, Booker will have to adjust to being the most junior of 100 senators. Yet he is starting off his tenure with high-profile meetings Thursday with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and President Barack Obama.
Booker formally resigned as mayor of Newark on Wednesday afternoon. It was effective at midnight.
"While I am leaving one position, I am not leaving Newark," Booker said in his resignation letter. "I am proud to be able to now represent Newark and our entire state as a United States senator. My level of dedication, passion and service will not falter as I serve New Jersey."
Booker leaves Newark with a mixed legacy. The downtown has markedly improved, with high-rise corporate headquarters, new housing and restaurants popping up and a Whole Foods supermarket scheduled to open in 2016. Parks have been cleaned up throughout the city and violent crime is down in most cases.
Many residents, however, feel that areas outside downtown have been forgotten. Vacant lots and blighted homes dot neighborhoods. The city's unemployment rate is 14.2 percent, half of its 277,000 residents live below the poverty level and the high school dropout rate is just under 40 percent.
After Lautenberg's death, Gov. Chris Christie appointed former Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa to fill the position until the special election. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell bade Chiesa farewell on the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon.

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The study of holographic dualities is currently a broad area of research located at the confluence of several traditionally separate communities of physics and mathematics ranging from QCD, condensed matter, statistical physics and string theory, to numerical relativity and non-linear partial differential equations.
This workshop, which is the launching event of the Isaac Newton Institute programme "Mathematics and Physics of the holographic principle", brings together leading experts in these diverse fields in order to create the critical mass of knowledge and skills necessary for the opening of new research avenues in this problem.
Although the workshop is open to any major development in the field, research lines that stimulate cross-fertilization and push the remit of holographic dualities will be especially highlighted. A sample of topics of interests is given below:
- Holographic description of quantum matter, such as quark-gluon plasma, strange metals, Fermi-liquid emergence, topological matter, novel quantum phases
- Far from equilibrium dynamics and numerical relativity
- Entanglement, quantum information and holography
- Condensed matter applications: towards the description of real materials
- Novel gravity duals of large N vector and ABJM models
[From the workshop's website]
Videos of talks can be found at http://www.newton.ac.uk/programmes/HOL/holw01p.html


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Scientists Serve Up $330K Burger, and More
What's News: Scientists from Netherlands serve up first lab-made burger grown from cow stem cells. Microsoft cuts price of Surface tablet again. Protesters and police clash in Turkey as a court hands down 10 life sentences. Joanne Po reports. Photo: culturedbeef.com
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It's up to you to decide which type of car you want to use for your trip. With cambio you don't have just one single car - a whole fleet is at your disposal! Versatile city cars, spacious minivans or comfortable estate cars, just choose the one you need.
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Imagine all those thousands of cars parked for hours in a shopping mall with unused electricity stored in their batteries.
Each car could donate up to 50% of its battery level in exchange for free parking and help recover the parking lot's usage of electricity. Or for huge parking facilities, cars could be attached to a power grid to power community needs and to offset carbon emissions while vehicles are not in use.
It only takes a few minutes to recharge the battery of a car while driving, then it's ready again to donate the next time it parks.


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How do you choose a portable cord, and what do all those letters mean?
If your facility is like most, you work around various chemicals and oils. You use various motors, machines, and tools both indoors and outdoors. When you work outdoors, you experience a fair range of temperature and humidity variations; even on the same day. Suppose you buy a consumer-rated cord to do an industrial job. Is this cord going to save you money? Generally, no.
Practicing the false economics of buying portable cords based on price alone is a common error. However, it is overkill to use only the most expensive cord available. To be cost-effective, you need to use a cord suitable for the application. This is neither as straightforward as many people seem to think nor as complicated as some would have you believe. Understanding portable cords will help you determine which product is best for your application.
Manufacturers make portable cords mostly from three types of compounds: thermoset, thermoplastic elastomer, and thermoplastic.
Thermoset. These cords have heavy-duty-grade or specification-grade rubber jackets. UL designations for these cords are SOOW-A and SJOOW-A. CSA designations for these cords are SOOW and SJOOW.
Thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). These cords have medium-duty-grade thermoplastic elastomer jackets. UL designations for these cords are SEOW-A and SJEOW-A. CSA designations for these cords are STW and SJTW-A.
Thermoplastic. These cords have a light-duty plastic compound jacket. UL designations for these cords are STOW-A and SJTW-A. CSA designations for these cords are STOW and SJTW.
Let's take a closer look at the various types of cords.
Thermoset (rubber) portable cords are extremely flexible and durable. You can use them for indoor or outdoor applications in industrial, commercial, mining, oil and construction environments. They resist cuts, tears, abrasions, and chemicals. Their rubber properties rate from very good to excellent. Rubber is a heavy-duty material for harsh surroundings. The compound also finds use in marine applications, preventing water from wreaking havoc on a cord's integrity. Thermoset portable cords can be water-resistant and, when marked, water submersible.
Thermoset's best features are its temperature and oil-resistant properties. Unlike thermoplastic and TPE, thermoset jackets will not melt when in contact with heated objects or oils: up to 221 DEGRF (105 DEGRC). In temperatures as low as 40 DEGRF below zero, thermoset maintains its flexibility, durability, and resistance to cracking during normal handling. Standard portable cords (SOOW-A) may not perform as expected and may result in downtime or safety hazards. Cords labeled as type SOW-A provide an oil-resistant jacket only; not oil-resistant insulation.
Some manufacturers offer a premium, or specification-grade, portable cord for extremely abusive conditions, such as those found in granite quarries, steel mills, mines, or chemical plants. Here, the cord is under constant abuse and threat of damage.
TPE compounds are lightweight in comparison to the rubber materials you find in thermoset cords. Approved for indoor and outdoor use, TPE is a better choice than plastic materials for some commercial outdoor construction in northern regions. It performs well in cold temperatures (-50 DEGRC / -58 DEGRF). You'll see this type of material in some standard extension cords.
TPE cords resist water, oil, cuts, chemicals, and acid. They also handle exposure to weather, sunlight, and ozone. You can get these in a flame-retardant version. However, the CSA designation for this type of cord (STW) carries no recognition for oil resistance. The agency marks this cable as a "T" type, thermoplastic: a plastic compound.
Although manufactured like a thermoset product and able to perform in temperatures upto 105 DEGRC / 221 DEGF, TPE may not stand up in environments where extreme heat and hot oil are factors. When exposed to such circumstances, the cord may disfigure or melt, making it useless.
Thermoplastic (plastic) jacketed portable cords are the least flexible of the three types, especially in cold temperatures. Weather-resistant, plastic portable cords can perform both indoors and outdoors. These are suitable for light-duty use on construction sites. They're also popular with consumers. The most popular indoor/outdoor extension cords are thermoplastic (SJTW-A). You can use them where you have minimal exposure to chemicals, oil, and deformation (pressure). Using these in harsh industrial applications or in temperatures lower than -20 DEGRC / -4 DEGRF or higher than +60 DEGRC / +140 DEGRF may disfigure or melt your cable.
Before purchasing portable cord, know the application and the environment where you'll use it. The primary factor in choosing a portable cord should not be price; instead, it should be which cord will do the best job. A less expensive, lower grade cord may seem like a better solution in the short run. However, that "cost-saving" cord in the wrong application costs more over the life of the application. The right cord reduces risk, downtime, and replacement costs.
A portable cord is a flexible, moveable cord you can use to power various types of light- and heavy-duty industrial related applications. These may include operating motors in tools and machinery. They also may include temporary installations.
Portable cord usually contains two or more flexible, stranded copper conductors, in gauge sizes from No. 18 AWG through No. 2 AWG. The copper stranding and types of compounds in the insulation and jacket dictate the flexibility and strength of the cord. The jacket and insulation are key to its physical, chemical, and electrical properties. The jacket distinguishes one type of cord from another helping you select the right one.
We use portable cords both indoors and outdoors. We use them in such harsh locales as industrial manufacturing facilities, steel mills, chemical plants, oil rigs, mining and construction sites, and commercial applications. Then we have the gentler environments: amusement parks, sports complexes, theaters, movie and production studios, and marinas.
With all this variety, you can see the importance of differentiating among the types of cords available. You can choose from standard- and specification-grade cords. In many cases, portable cord manufacturers can design and fabricate a customized cord if you have unique application demands.
You have to know the strengths of each type of portable cord and where to use them. Once you do that, then choosing the right cord is simple.
Each letter in a cord designation really does have a meaning. Here's what those meanings are, for the letters associated with portable cable. S: 600V Service cord (first recognized by UL) J: Junior service - 300V Service cord T: Thermoplastic E: Thermoplastic Elastomer O: Oil-resistant outer jacket OO: Oil-resistant outer jacket and Oil-resistant insulation W-A: Approved for indoor and outdoor use (Weather resistant) in USA W: CSA approval for indoor/outdoor use (Weather/Water resistant)


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- Where: Sarawak State
- Ideal for viewing: long-tailed macaque, mouse deer, proboscis monkey, silvered langur, slow loris


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Der Mitarbeiter
Der Mitarbeiter, a monthly German periodical founded in 1906 in the interests of the Canadian Mennonite Conference and Gretna Collegiate Institute, where it was edited and published. Henry H. Ewert served as editor throughout its publication. David Toews and N. W. Bahnmann served temporarily as assistant editors. In 1913 the paper had 500 readers, 230 in Manitoba and 225 in Saskatchewan. Special collections were raised to subsidize the paper.
During World War I the publication of the paper was suspended for about two years. In 1925 at the Canadian Mennonite Conference it was decided to discontinue the publication of the paper, However, H. H. Ewert continued it privately by founding a publishing company and raising the funds necessary to subsidize it. In December 1934, just before his death, the paper was discontinued. The paper had a definite influence among the Mennonites of Canada in promoting and maintaining high religious and educational standards. Major credit goes to H. H. Ewert.
Copies are available at major Mennonite historical libraries.
Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. Mennonitisches Lexikon, 4 vols. Frankfurt & Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe: Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III, 143.
Schaefer, Paul J. Heinrich H. Ewert. Gretna, MB, 1945: 108.
"Zum Abschied." Der Mitarbeiter (December 1934).
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Krahn, Cornelius. (1956). Der Mitarbeiter. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 March 2019, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Der_Mitarbeiter&oldid=145800.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, p. 719. All rights reserved.
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Google currently has about 60,000 full time employees and tens of thousands more contractors.
Google CEO Larry Page dreams of scaling the company "10X" to a million employees, he told Wired's Steven Levy at the end of a magnificent interview.
He said:
"We're a medium-size company in terms of employee count. We have tens of thousands of employees. There are organizations out there that have millions of employees. That's a factor of a hundred, basically. So imagine what we could do if we had a hundred times as many employees."
"Doesn't Walmart have more than a million employees? OK, maybe it's not important for us to have a million employees, but I like to think that we could build companies that are really scalable to that size. We could add people and still be really innovative. That would be great for us. We're one of the bigger companies of the world, and I'd like to see us do more stuff—not just do what somebody else has done, but something new."
It would be lovely if Google could find a way to enter into human capital intensive businesses and see them pay off.
Lately, tech companies have been great at creating wealth - but not jobs.
As was noted last Sunday in a 60 minutes piece on how robots are destroying the American workforce, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google combined have combined market cap close to $1 trillion. But they employ fewer than 150,000 people combined. That's less than the number of people entering the US workforce every month.
Hiring a ton of people would cut severely into Google's juicy profit margins. This would piss off shareholders. But in some parts of the world, the point of a corporation isn't only to please shareholders. In Japan, corporations serve three constituencies equally: employees, customers, and owners. (This is one of Henry Blodget's favorite topics.)
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text: Changing Climate Pattern not Good News for the South August 5, 2011 03:54 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Kim Watson Potts Drovers Email Weather is tough to predict short term, let alone long term. But unlike meteorologist, climatologist look at different factors including historical records, natural events and other factors to predict climate change and find trends in weather patterns. It appears that following 2006, we entered a new pattern. One with warmer and drier weather in the South and a wet Midwest, according to historical climatologist Evelyn Browning-Gariss. That wasn't great news to drought-plagued Texas producers attending the Texas A&M Beef Cattle Short Course in College Station, Tex., earlier this week where Browning-Gariss told attendees that we're entering a time period of about 15 more years where dry, hot weather in the South will be more the rule than the exception. Those factors impacting today's climate include: large and moderate volcanic eruptions, retreating and remnants of La Nina and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (where the unusually warm Atlantic Ocean and Gulf warms the air above it). She explained that the last time that the natural factors were aligned like today's factors, we experienced: Summer heat waves in California, the South, and the east Coast and wet conditions in the Midwest. Problems with hydro-electricity in the South A busy hurricanes season with 3 hits in the Gulf A cold winter A wet harvest season in the Midwest Enough western rainfall to fill reservoirs to provide hydroelectricity While the news wasn't great to hear, it does allow producers to take the information and use it for long term planning. Knowing, for example, that conditions will be dry rather than wet, producers in the South can adjust crop planting decisions and livestock producers can adjust stocking rates and make feed purchasing decisions. Also times of dry weather can give landowners and states an opportunity to repair ponds, reservoirs and water holding tanks to capture water when it does rain. And there's hope that El Nino will return and bring better chances for rain in the South. http://browningnewsletter.com/ Back to news


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Ofmbro needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
The center of our life is to live as St. Francis, bringing aid to those who most need help. We are sustained in this by our life of community and prayer. Our vocation involves our priests and brothers in missions throughout the world, education, direction of parishes, spiritual retreat guidance for laymen, and general works of charity among the poor.The so-called "Peace Prayer of St. Francis" captures in a practical way this vision of being a Franciscan, of making present the values and vision that Jesus Christ has given us.
In our own unique way as the Franciscan Province of the Sacred Heart of the Order of Friars Minor, but in collaboration with all other Franciscans and all other people of good will, we have been carrying out this mission of rebuilding the Body of Christ the Church and restoring a wounded humanity and creation since 1858 when the Franciscan friars first arrived in the United States
Baby boomers and younger
Maybe there can be part of the sacred heart in silver more abstract in design use of O.F.M more than order of friars minor written out also maybe just FRANCISCANS
SACRED HEART PROVINCE as few of the key words as possible. hope this helps
Must use some part of the sacred heart and franciscan symbol tau cross etc we are catholic priests and brothers this will be our new province logo I will attach the old logos we want something new and fresh as we move into the 21 century. We try to live the gospel of jesus Christ. thenow want clean modern
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Note: Bear in mind that in every step or phase of the project implementation, everything should be "documented." This means printing out and keeping a copy of the minutes of the meeting, and all data should be kept and stored as well as the results of the implementation. Everything can be compiled into a single document, which can act as a reference for future Six Sigma projects.
Step 1: Formation of the Six Sigma Team
Before going through the DMAIC Six Sigma methods, a team is needed. Ideally, this should be a cross-functional team consisting of the following members and job descriptions:
SEO expert/specialist/team leader. This person is the overall team leader of the Six Sigma project. His responsibility includes keeping the project schedule on track and coordinating with members to get the project's tasks done. His main contribution to the team is expertise in SEO, formulating SEO strategies and getting ranked in major search engines by optimizing both the content and the offsite factors (e.g. back links). It is recommended that he/she be extremely good at mathematics/statistics; if not, then a statistician is needed (not required) as part of the team for the data analysis phase.
Web Developer. This person implements the corrective action pertaining to changes that must be made to the website. This includes coding work, changes in website template, adding content, etc. His/her main contribution to the team is expertise in the area of the website's server and software, in addition to the server side scripting language used by the website. This will ensure that corrective actions are realistic and can be implemented.
Website business/Ecommerce manager. Usually this is the website owner/representative that is actually investing the money to run the business, and is a non-technical person. However, the ecommerce manager/business manager can provide current financial figures and sets financial objectives that are to be reviewed by the overall team members to see if they are realistic or not. Other roles include approving the budget needed for the implementation of the Six Sigma project.
Marketing Head. This person is in charge of the overall website marketing work and works closely with the SEO in charge. Promotions can be offline or online. The marketing head's contribution to the team is to ensure that the marketing strategies formulated as part of the corrective action are within the scope of their existing marketing work, as well as to suggest or confirm whether the strategy is indeed valid or realistic.
Statistician. This person's main job is to analyze the data and provide meaningful observations with the help of the other team members. Members of the team can rely on the statistician's expertise to analyze difficult data that is beyond the skill of the other team members. Usually this job can be done by an SEO expert; however, a statistician is helpful if any of the team members admits that they lack expertise in this area.
{mospagebreak title=Step 2: First team meeting, schedule generation}
The team leader will initiate the meeting; the following should be the agenda:
- Reviewing and confirming the commitment of each team member.
- Formulation of the Six Sigma main project schedule.
- Agreement to the periodic meeting schedule.
Now that the first team meeting has been completed, it is time to proceed to the first phase of the Six Sigma project. This is the definition phase, when the second team meeting will be held.
Step 3: Definition phase
The website business manager will be the one to quantify the problem, because they have the data and sources. The rest of the team will support and help the website business manager to come up with an objective and quantitative definition of the problem.
There can be many problems faced by the website, but Six Sigma particularly deals with ONE MAIN PROBLEM and ONE PROJECT at a time. This will ensure that the team will divert all resources (time, money, knowledge) to solving the most important problem and will not be distracted or lose track trying to sort through several unimportant issues at once.
Of course the website business manager knows which problems cost the business a lot, so before presenting any data in the definition phase, it is highly recommended that this person do research in advance to prioritize the main problems first. It is highly recommended that the first project start solving the biggest problem of the website.
The main objective of this meeting is to define the problem in one clear statement.
Below is the checklist for the definition phase:
- Does the problem contain a certain financial performance indicator affecting the website? Is it quantified? This is the single factor that dictates the financial success of the website. Examples of financial indicators include the average website profit per month, average sales per month, monthly advertising revenue of the website, or Google AdSense monthly revenue.
- Does it imply a problem and is it supported by other non-financial related indicators? A problem will result if the financial indicator is well below expectations; however, it is not enough to say, "The website is earning $100 per month in sales." It should imply that this is indeed a problem, so this is a more objective and complete definition: "The website is earning $100 per month in sales, with the conversion rate of 0.2% and monthly unique visitors of 10,000. The conversion rate is poor, affecting the monthly sales."
- Does it include a project objective? This is the target which the team needs to set very carefully; it can take time. This needs overall team coordination and should be done on the white board with other members attending. A realistic objective is important, as this measures the success of the project.
Below is the screenshot of the Project Definition phase (also showing the members of the team and its role):
{mospagebreak title=Step 4: Measurement phase (Data gathering)}
The main objectives of the measurement phase are to put in place a data collection plan and a performance baseline. With a data collection plan, a schedule and means of collecting data will be planned. This will be integrated into the main Six Sigma project schedule performed above.
With a performance baseline, the existing/current data for key performance indicators is measured. For example, three months before the Six Sigma project is initiated, the trend of sales per month data will be gathered. Other important indicators, such as monthly conversion rate, are also helpful.
You can check some supplemental resources for more information on this phase.
The purpose of getting the performance baseline data is to compare it with the results after the project's corrective actions has been implemented. This will be helpful to confirm whether the project's objective has been attained.
Step 5: Analysis phase
Generating the list of possible causes can be done by a team brainstorming process. The team leader will facilitate the session, and it is very important to put all the possible causes in a "cause and effect diagram." This is a helpful visual tool that shows all possible causes as well as the interacting causes that contribute to the main problem. If the team can connect online during this brainstorming session and examine the website in detail with the use of a projector, it will be a very efficient approach as lots of great ideas can be generated by the team during this examination.
The above diagram shows that the main problem (colored pink) is the overall effect of those possible causes contributing to it. Yellow indicates the first degree causes, while what exacerbates those problems can be shown as second degree causes. Illustrating a sample of the screenshot above in a Why-Why analysis:
First Why: Why is the website only earning $100 a month…?
Answer: The website has a poor conversion rate. (This is the first degree cause)
Second why: Why is the conversion rate poor?
Answer: The landing page lacks information to convince buyers. (This is the second degree cause).
The team can even explore further by asking "Why does the landing page lack information to convince buyers?" and the answer, based on the cause and effect diagram is:
"Content is not optimized for visitors, no periodic updating of content."
Of course the above screenshot is just an example and is NOT an actual result of a real brainstorm session. It is expected that the real "cause and effect diagram" is more complicated.
It is also suggested that you use any of the seven QC tools to present and analyze the data:
- Check sheet
- Graphs
- Histogram
- Pareto chart
- Cause and effect diagram
- Scatter diagram
- Control chart
Modern analytics software (like Google Analytics) can be integrated to use the tools above, and allows data to be exported to an Excel sheet, so the statistician can work on it, and other team members can easily interpret the analysis. While a detailed discussion is outside the scope of this article, there are other resources you can use to learn more about this topic.
The statistician can guide through the analysis in detail.
{mospagebreak title=Step 6: Improvement and Control Phase}
The improvement phase is where the team generates the list of possible solutions based on the analysis of the results where the root cause is confirmed. Again, a full discussion is beyond the scope of this article, but you can easily find more information on this topic.
The tools used in the control phase are the existing analytics tools used in the measurement phase. A good tool to monitor the results is Google Analytics, which substitutes for the statistical process control in manufacturing processes.
Statistical process control, however, has control limits, whereas there are no specification limits in Google Analytics charts. But performance baseline/reference data gathered in the measurement phase can serve as a basis to formulate some limits for quality control purposes.
This is only a snapshot of the Six Sigma-based project. In the next part, you will read a case study example of a Six Sigma project.


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BRENTWOOD — Class sizes, salaries, the number of days teachers work each year — there's nothing out of the ordinary about the talking points that Brentwood Union School District administrators soon will be addressing at the bargaining table.
And yet the discussions will be anything but business as usual: For the first time since California's public school employees gained the right to negotiate with their bosses in 1975, the district will be hammering out a contract with a teachers' union.
The state recognized Brentwood Teachers Association as the exclusive representative of the district's 403 certificated employees on June 4 after teachers voted to unionize.
Although a simple majority of the 316 who cast ballots would have decided the matter, those favoring a union won by a two-thirds margin.
Until now, a group of 20 instructors known as the Teacher Liaison Committee would present district decision-makers with their wish list but held no sway over them: The district wasn't obligated to negotiate anything or even to meet with them, said Bruce Colwell of the California Teachers Association.
He advises bargaining teams in far East County's four other school districts and now will serve Brentwood Union's as well.
The district also had the power to change the teachers' employee handbook unilaterally, Colwell said.
The scope of the topics discussed was limited because TLC's members only had so much time to research them, he added.
Now, "everything's on the table," said middle school history teacher and union President Darrin Spencer, one of five educators who spearheaded the campaign to organize.
According to a 2010 story in this newspaper, Brentwood Union was the sole school district in Contra Costa County without a teachers union. Clovis Unified in Fresno County was the only other district widely known in education circles to be nonunion.
Ironically, the vote this spring marked the second time that the district's teachers have formed a union.
In May 1976, teachers filed a request with the state Public Employment Relations Board to have the district recognize Brentwood Teachers Association as their sole representative.
Instead of asserting their rights, however, they reverted to the practice of allowing the state's Education Code and board policy alone to determine their working conditions.
As the years passed, teachers eventually forgot about their new powers, so it came as a surprise when Spencer and some of his colleagues discovered in 2001 that a union existed.
This time, however, a majority of teachers preferred the status quo and voted to decertify the union in February 2002.
Spencer says he only can speculate why certificated employees now have chosen the California Teachers Association to represent them once again; one reason might be the temporary freeze the district placed in 2011-12 on the years of experience that teachers were accruing, a factor used to calculate their pay raises, he said.
Margaret Kruse, assistant superintendent of human resources, doesn't think there was any conflict that precipitated the push for a union, however.
Rather, she attributes the campaign's success in part to proponents' perseverance in informing their colleagues about the benefits of unionization.
"They have presented it enough times where they reached a majority of people who said yes," she said.
Kruse also noted that Brentwood Union has a growing number of teachers who belonged to unions in other districts and want the same level of representation here.
In addition, layoffs and pay cuts in recent years have left employees feeling uncertain about the future and wanting job protection, Kruse said.
Whatever the reasons that brought them to this point, Spencer and his colleagues will have more leverage when they come to the bargaining table and additional rights when they leave.
Teachers historically haven't had access to the sophisticated tools CTA uses to analyze school budgets, Colwell said.
As a result, they've been at a disadvantage when the district has announced its spending plans for the next year's revenue.
"They just didn't have the power to counter what the district was telling them," Colwell said.
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Last week's primary election wasn't the most exciting voting contest the city's had recently. Turnout was a measly 21 percent. There were no hot contests like the mayoral primary of four years ago.
This seemed more or less like a sleeper, with voter interest about as low as I've seen it recently.
Despite the lack of, let's call it enthusiasm, there were a few things to take away from last week's vote that show those voters who did turn out were interested in sending a few definite, though mixed, messages.
The first takeaway is that the old political machines of Philadelphia, one of the most reliable devices ever made by man, was not enough to save a few institutional Philadelphia politicians from getting a boot out of office.
Locally popular city councilman Frank Rizzo was a good example – City Commissioner Marge Tartaglione, the other. Both were dumped by voters because of tough stories on the city's DROP program that earned each six-figure cash payouts for taking an early, day-long retirement.
In Chestnut Hill, Rizzo has long been popular, and for good reason. He may not have been a leader on the biggest city issues, but he was a tireless crusader for constituents. He and his staff – including the late Frank Galioto – were great at listening to and taking care of constituents.
Despite his popularity, Rizzo only managed to pick up 119 votes in Chestnut Hill (citywide, he earned less than 5,000 votes, finishing seventh in the Republican field). Voters, it seemed, had drawn a line on DROP and were willing to punish politicians who stood to gain from exploiting it.
The second interesting thing to note is that Milton Street – fresh from serving 30 months for tax evasion – managed to earn 25 percent of the vote against incumbent Mayor Michael Nutter.
Sure, those people who voted for Street knew he wasn't going to win and that it was merely a protest vote, but the fact that 25 percent of voters were willing to pull the lever for the guy is telling. These were people who decided to actively vote in order to protest Nutter with a vote for an ex -con. The showing even started local pundits musing on a return run by former mayor John Street – the guy everyone couldn't wait to get rid of a short four years ago.
Locally, in the election for 8th District Council, a widely scattered seven-candidate result is tougher to read. The political machine seems to have delivered results for Cindy Bass – she was endorsed by Nutter, District Attorney Seth Williams, Us. Rep. Chaka Fattah, etc. Bass easily won the 9th Ward with 32 percent of the vote – and almost 40 percent across the district.
That's not to say Bass will not make a good city councilperson. We don't know that yet. But her connections certainly helped her overtake other candidates, including the well-funded Howard Treatman. Perhaps the best sign from 8th District voters is that longtime office seeker Greg Paulmier came in second place with much less money and political connections than some of his rivals.
So did the voters show some spark? I think so. But now most can go back to sleep as the Democratic winners run against empty ballots on the Republican side. Maybe we'll have more exciting choices in four years. Let's hope so.
Pete Mazzaccaro
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Lightning Drop to 0-2 at Traverse City
The Lightning dropped to 0-2 at the Traverse City Prospect Tournament tonight, losing to the Red Wings by a final score of 5-2.
The Lightning forged a 2-2 tie with the Wings prospects on the strength of a Luciano Aquino unassisted goal at 2:53 of the Third Period, but quickly lost their footing when Justin Abdelkader answered with an unassisted power play goal for the Wings less than two minutes later. Detroit's prospects added a pair of empty-net goals late to seal the 5-2 win.
The Lightning were the first to get on the board tonight when Matias Sointu potted a power play goal off assists from point men Daryl Boyle and Ty Wishart. Goaltender Dustin Tokarski dropped to 0-2-0 on the tournament stopping 23 of 26 shots faced.
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'American Idol' Finalist Phillip Phillips Needs Emergency Surgery, Playing Through Pain
Phillip Phillips got great news on last night's (May 17) 'American Idol.' He is a finalist, going up against Jessica Sanchez next week for the title from Season 11. However, the artsy and uber talented singer / guitarist, beloved by the ladies, is also faced with some bad news, too. His doctor is urging him to get emergency surgery. But Phillips is bravely (and riskily) putting it off until after the finale.
Quick, somebody (that mean's YOU, American voting audience) give this man the title of 'American Idol!' With that type of talent and dedication, how can he not win?
The singer has suffered from kidney problems and made headlines earlier this season with a hospitalization. He even had a stent inserted as a temporary solution until he had time for surgery.
Several sources told TMZ that when the singer returned to his native Georgia last Saturday (May 12) to film his at home segments for the show, his family doctor was alarmed by what he witnessed. Phillips looked awful and was not eating right. The condition appears to have worsened and surgery is a must. Recovery time runs about six weeks, but Phillips will not drop out of the competition at this point and promised to hit the operating room after next week's finale.
He has, however, skipped some promo shoots that were on location -- producers felt it was too taxing for him so he was allowed to nix them.
The singer's medications also reportedly cause him to have a dry mouth which may or may not affect how he sings. We're thinking "not" since he was upstreamed each week. If anything, the kidney problem could cause him to earn some sympathy votes but he doesn't need them. He's that good.
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It was a beautiful wedding this weekend as Sam and Elizabeth tied the knot with close family and friends from both this side of the pond and the other (United Kingdom). They are such a cute amazing couple that are so in love and you could not ask for a better family, on either side, to marry into! Their friends are so supportive of them and are so happy that these two found each other which was obvious through out the weekend.
Sam and Elizabeth wanted a unique weekend starting off with a rehearsal dinner from Pizzeria Moto, a portable/traveling brick-oven pizza kitchen. Saturday was a nice relaxing day for the bride and groom with Make-Up by Tracie coming out to Briar Patch to do the girls hair and make up in our Cottage. Legends Catering did a fantastic job as always with the food and refreshments. There was a 3PM ceremony in our ballroom so as not to risk any uncertainties of weather. The brides brothers, all musicians, did a fantastic rendition of "All You Need is Love" by the Beatles. Fitting that the groom is British. Here are some pictures of their special day. Elizabeth I wish you all the best in your move to Germany!
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Smart Technologies has just launched a new digital capture board that uses ink like a dry-erase board, but can virtually beam its contents in real-time to digital devices, like a tablet.
The device, called Smart kapp, uses a typical ink marker, and work is saved as a final product in PDF or JPEG format and shared instantly. Users can access the saved work via a dedicated smartphone/tablet app, that will be made available for free on iOS and Android (support for Windows devices is also in the works).
The app activates live web-sharing with up to five users, access to the snapshot library, and the ability to open saved notes in Evernote. Later this year, the company will launch subscription services within the app which open up advanced features for cloud collaboration, including more concurrent user support.
It retails for $899 for a 42 inch device. A larger size board will be available later in the year.
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SANTA ANA – The grieving father of a young woman found stabbed to death in a Santa Ana alley says the way his only child was killed is "unforgivable."
Maria Isabel Cerrillo was found with multiple stab wounds in an alley in a residential neighborhood in the 200 block of North Laurel Street near First Street about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday.
She was 21, full of life and her boyfriend from San Francisco was going to ask for her hand in marriage this weekend, her father, Basilio Cerrillo, 58, said.
Cerrillo says the last time he saw his daughter alive was about 5 p.m. Tuesday. She asked to borrow his car to go to the gym, and he reluctantly agreed because she had failed her driver's test twice, he said.
'"She called me about 7 p.m. and said; "Daddy, I'm on my way home,' " Basilio Cerrillo said in Spanish.
But his daughter never made it home. Instead, a Santa Ana police officer showed up at his door about 9 p.m. and said they found his car parked in an alley behind businesses that face First Street and that his daughter may have been kidnapped, Cerrillo said.
"He wouldn't tell me more beyond that," he said.
Eventually, Cerrillo and his wife, Maria, went to the alley where her body was discovered – about three miles from their home. He said they saw about 20 officers in the alley, but they wouldn't let them cross the crime scene tape.
"I haven't been able to see my daughter," Basilio Cerrillo said on the verge of tears.
"I hope they catch the killer so he can rot in jail," Basilio Cerrillo said. "My daughter did not deserve that death. She didn't deserve that," he said as he held a framed photograph of his daughter's quinceañera.
Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said detectives are following up on leads provided by the victim's father, friends and people in the neighborhood where the young woman was found.
"I don't know what the motive is, but I suspect based on the type of injuries she received that it was one of anger or passion," Bertagna said.
Police on Wednesday night identified Luis Antonio Garcia Morales, 24, as a "person of interest" in the killing.
Bertagna said Morales and Cerrillo were previously involved in a relationship.
"He has been attempting to rekindle the relationship and the victim had no interest," Bertagna said.
Investigators suspect that Morales "lured" Cerrillo to the area where the stabbing took place. Morales reportedly lives in the neighborhood where Cerrillo's body was found.
Morales on Wednesday morning told family and co-workers that he was heading for Mexico to deal with "family issues," Bertagna said.
Authorities say Morales is about 5-foot-8, 180 pounds with black hair and brown eyes, authorities said.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the stabbing to call Orange County Crime Stoppers at 855-TIP-OCCS, or 855-847-6227, or access its website, occrimestoppers.org.
– Register staff writers Sean Emery and Alyssa Duranty contributed to this report.
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There's a huge amount of quality that can be found in any model of Vauxhall Astra, which is why the best Vauxhall Astra deals are so popular amongst the car-buying public. Though it might not have the sleek, sporty features of the GTC, the Astra hatchback is still a fantastic looking car that looks brilliant on the inside and out. Like the GTC, the hatchback is also a superb model to drive thanks to its smooth suspension and confident handling.
The hatchback is a master at blocking out noise and its suspension makes driving through the countryside a wonder. The same is also true of the Astra Sports Tourer, its suspension makes bumps in the road feel barely noticeable, giving drivers a smooth, comfortable ride wherever they decide to go. The Astra class is full of talent, with each and every model able to provide something for everyone from all backgrounds.
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Photographic evidence of knitting in a teashop in Cornwall. There was a scone next to the cup of tea a few moments before I took this, but it didn't last long enough to be photographed.
I leant that a shocking number of people take their dogs on holiday (never realised before, I think its because I tend to visit cities). I also ate and drank rather too much, went on some lovely walks, visited the Eden Project and generally sat about doing very little with my boyfriend. We took many photos of sunny, sandy beaches and sunny less-sandy flowers which I'm currently bombing flickr with.
I did manage a bit of knitting on the train there and back and have finished one of the DNA illusion socks. They work! I knew they would. The other one will have to wait though as I seem to have agreed to do a secret project with a tight deadline. I do have a crochet FO to show though - I'll post about that once I've caught up with my emails.
For now I'll leave you with a bit of Eden-project flower porn.
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- noblinknits said...
Lovely! The eden project is fun, isn't it. I remember being soaked on the way in so spending a long time in the tropical dome.
- Tuesday, July 18, 2006
you drink your tea BLACK?
love the pictures of the flowers
- Tuesday, July 18, 2006
- purls said...
ooo that sock is so exciting. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
I _will_ try illusion knitting. I will.
- Wednesday, July 19, 2006
- Specs said...
I'm so jealous that you went to Project Eden! All the pictures I've seen look gorgeous.
- Wednesday, July 19, 2006
- Cialis Online said...
I enjoyed following the whole entry, I always thought one of the main things to count when you write a blog is learning how to complement the ideas with images, that's exploiting at the maximum the possibilities of a ciber-space! Good work on this entry!
- Tuesday, June 07, 2011
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hello, i would like to read more about this topic.
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This won't truly have success, I think this way.
- Sunday, September 25, 2011
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Well, I do not really imagine it is likely to have effect.
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Guests: Dr. Madhu Thangavelu, Jake Dodd. Topics: This program discusses Jake's concept of placing a nuclear fuel plant in space in support of nuclear propulsion/space needs. Please direct all comments and questions regarding Space Show programs/guest(s) to the Space Show blog, http://thespaceshow.wordpress.com. Comments and questions should be relevant to the specific Space Show program. Written Transcripts of Space Show programs are a violation of our copyright and are not permitted without prior written consent, even if for your own use. We do not permit the commercial use of Space Show programs or any part thereof, nor do we permit editing, YouTube clips, or clips placed on other private channels & websites. Space Show programs can be quoted, but the quote must be cited or referenced using the proper citation format. Contact The Space Show for further information. We welcomed back Dr. Madhu Thangalevu and his student Jake Dodd to discuss the concept of SNAP-X: The Space Nuclear Activation Plant. I have uploaded his AIAA paper by the same title and his Power Point slide presentation to The Space Show blog which should provide you with more specific information about Jake's concept. Essentially, the plan calls for putting a breeder reactor in space to supply nuclear fuel for space needs safely rather than launching from Earth all the time. During our first segment, both Professor Thangavelu and Mr. Dodd explained the concept in detail. We talked about weapons proliferation in the process, the breeder reactor and why that was the chosen technology, the safety in place for this technology, and the use of it in the EML1 location and why. Part of our conversation focused in on projected time lines and development costs as I tried to get an idea of what would be involved in bringing this project to at least an Earth-based demo status. Listeners emailed and called in about the problems given the amount of fear within the public and parts of the government every time the word nuclear is mentioned, then saying that the use of a breeder reactor heightens that societal fear level. We discussed ways of dealing with this during our discussion. In addition, listeners questioned the safety of a breeder reactor and the use of Thorium as a non-weapon nuclear fuel. In our second segment, we talked more about tight budgets, private and public partnerships, and international cooperation to bring this project to at least demo status. Charles called in to challenge our guests on their Thorium comments regarding conversion to U-233 which he said was an effective fuel for weapons as was U-235. I believe you will find this exchange most useful in understanding many of the issues regarding this project. Our guests brought up the nuclear rocket history and the NERVA project, plus we asked Jake for his plan of attack in getting his project going. As our program was ending, Madhu talked about his next Design Studio Class which culminates with new student projects on Dec. 18th. I look forward to talking about many of these projects on The Space Show in 2013. Post your comments/questions on The Space Show blog. If you want to email either of our guests, please do so through me.


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- 1 Agenda GLD-WG telecon 24 May 2012
- 1.1 Agenda
- 1.2 Admin
- 1.3 Scribe's Pre-Meeting Checklist
- 1.4 Chair's Checklist
- 1.5 Scribe's End of Meeting Checklist
- 1.6 Annotations
Agenda GLD-WG telecon 24 May 2012
Thursdays 15:00-16:00 UTC (10:00-11:00 Boston, 7:00-8:00 San Francisco, 15:00-16:00 London, 16:00-17:00 Paris). Teleconferences (official participants and invited guests only): Zakim Bridge +1.617.761.6200, or sip:email@example.com then conference code 45394# ("GLDWG") IRC channel: #gld on irc.w3.org on port 6665 An agenda is sent 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day.
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Preliminary Items (~10 minutes)
- Determine scribe volunteer for today's telecon
- Proposal to accept the minutes from the 17-May-2012 (Benedikt gave a great talk describing approach to make XBRL and Linked Data interoperable)
- Discuss any important and timely matters and opportunities to liaise with other WG/CG/IG
- Provenance WG has announced 5 working drafts for review including a primer, ontology and data model. Per Sandro:
These drafts define a model for interchanging provenance on the Web. They are looking for our input.
- PROV: synchronized and ready for your input, see http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2012/05/03/prov-synchronized-and-ready-for-your-input/
- The PROV ontology – an update, see http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2012/05/04/the-prov-ontology-an-update/
- What is new in the Fourth Working Draft of the PROV provenance model?, see http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2012/05/03/what-is-new-in-the-fourth-working-draft-of-the-prov-provenance-model/
Main Agenda: Noteworthy Gov't LOD in 2012
- Highlight input to "Progress Report on Publication of Government Linked Data Worldwide" for 2012 Semantic Tech & Business Conference (June 2012, San Francisco) (25 min)
- Data.gov.uk remains the leader with the most published 5 star government LOD, see http://data.gov.uk/
- Per Dave Reynolds, the UK Environment Agency: Water Quality. Five star publication of assessments of the water quality at Bathing ("Swimming" for a US audience) sites in England and Wales. The data is a linking of three data streams - annual quality assessments, weekly in-season assessments and profiles (describes environmentally significant features and plans for each site). The data is live - updated at least weekly and sometimes daily as new assessments arrive. See see http://environment.data.gov.uk/ See also, http://www.epimorphics.com/web/wiki/epimorphics-helps-environment-agency-publish-2012-bathing-water-linked-data
- External links include geographic links (to Ordnance Survey linked data), administrations and legislation (to legislation.data.gov.uk).
- Tope Imitola, the University of Southampton Data Service, see http://data.southampton.ac.uk/datasets.html
- Per Tina Gheen, the US Library of Congress Linked Data Service, see http://id.loc.gov/ This site includes vocabularies and authorities owned and maintained by the Library of Congress made available as linked data.
- Per Martin Kaltenböck, Clean Energy data from Reegle, see see http://data.reegle.info for data, manuals and endpoint as 5 star LOD for re-use. See blogpost on same, http://blog.semantic-web.at/2012/04/13/reegle-info-linked-open-energy-data-cloud/
- Mention NRELs use of OpenEI platform, an LOD success story.
- Per Mike Pendleton, US EPA Facilities, Chemical Substances, Toxic Releases (TRI) to be published on the cloud and announced upon approval of a systems security plan.
- Per Sarven, the World Bank Linked Data project uses the Data Cube and VoID vocabularies. The dataset is composed of World Development Indicators, World Bank Finances, World Bank Climate Change, World Bank Projects and Operations data. See http://worldbank.270a.info/ With respect to environmental data, all of the data sets contain something on the subject, and interlinked wherever possible. For instance, there are links between financial loans for a project and the corresponding information for that project. There is interlinking with external datasets like DBpedia for countries and currencies, and with Eurostat for countries.
- Per Bart, realtime 4-5 star LOD about incident dispatch messages for Amsterdam firefighters, see http://kasabi.com/dataset/brandweer-amsterdam-amstelland-dispatch-messages Uses vcard & GEO, references Dutch Web Meta Data standard with DCTerms, and http://firebrary.resc.info to describe the incident itself.
- Per Boris,
- GeoLinkedData, see http://geo.linkeddata.es/ adds Spanish geospatial data into the context of INSPIRE themes, see http://inspire.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/2/list/7. Includes diverse information sources from the National Geographic Institute of Spain, and the National Statistic Institute in Spain.
- See also, http://datos.bne.es a 5 star LD dataset created from the Spanish National Library (BNE).
- There are several others from the Spanish Meteorological Office http://aemet.linkeddata.es,
- an open initiative with Portugal in relation to the OTALEX for environmental and geo-spatial resources (http://www.ideotalex.eu and the endpoint http://otalex.linkeddata.es/sparql).
- Moreover, from the Brazilian Statistical and Geographical Office (http://www.ibge.gov.br/home/) we are generating LD from it. http://geo.linkeddata.es/brasil/sparql
- Per Benedikt, the XBRL dataset for Edgar, US Securities and Exchange Commission required filings. The project is called the Edgar Linked Data Wrapper, see http://edgarwrap.ontologycentral.com/ The Edgar LD Wrapper uses the RDF Data Cube vocabulary. Companies are linked to Freebase.
- Per Michael, the D2R Server tool for publishing relational databases on the Semantic Web. It enables RDF and HTML browsers to navigate the content of the database, and allows querying the database using SPARQL . D2R is part of the D2RQ Platform. This joint project originated at Free University of Berlin and the main work today is happening at DERI. See http://d2rq.org/d2r-server
- Hadley Beeman, et al's Linked Gov community project, see http://linkedgov.org/. Assisting others to publish open data using standards. See getting started wiki page, http://wiki.linkedgov.org/index.php/Getting_started
- TO BE RESCHEDULED: ISA Programme Vocabularies for Person, Business and Location (PhilA not available)
- Previously agreed: Name space on W3C site: http://www.w3.org/ns/adms
- PhilA was to introduce the various ISA programme vocabs, ADMS, Person, Business, Location. All the vocabs are available via the official EU Joinup Platform but they are wrapped in zips. For ease of access PhilA put *unofficial* copies here temporarily:
- RADion: the substrate for ADMS and, subject to GLD discussion and approval, DCAT too: See http://philarcher.org/isa/radion_v1.0.rdf, http://philarcher.org/isa/radion_v1.0.html
- Official page: http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/radion/description
- ADMS: the vocab for describing vocabs and code lists, see http://philarcher.org/isa/adms_v1.0.1.rdf, http://philarcher.org/isa/adms_v1.0.1.html, http://philarcher.org/isa/ADMS_Specification_v1.00.pdf
- Official page: http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/adms/description
- Core Vocabularies: Documentation (for all 3 core vocs):
- Person, see http://philarcher.org/isa/person-v03.rdf, http://philarcher.org/isa/person-v03.html
- Official page, see http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_person/description
- Business, see http://philarcher.org/isa/legal-v03.rdf, http://philarcher.org/isa/legal-v03.html
- Official page, see http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_business/description
- Location, see http://philarcher.org/isa/locn-v03.rdf, http://philarcher.org/isa/locn-v03.html
- Official page, see http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/asset/core_location/description
Upcoming Meeting Agenda Planning (~5 minutes)
- reminder: 06-June-2012 telecon is cancelled
- 31-May-2012, Publishing Industry Guest Speaker John Barker, Wolters Kluwer
- Agenda, Announcements, Scribes
- Update Scribes and Regrets pages
- SemTech West 2012, San Francisco, 3-7 June 2012, see http://semtechbizsf2012.semanticweb.com/?c=stswadlb See also Semantic Startup competition, see There is also a semantic start-up competition happening at SemTech West in June, see http://semanticweb.com/semantic-start-up-contenders-announced_b29248#more-29248
- European Data Forum 2012 EDF2012, 6-7 June 2012, Copenhagen DK
- Using Open Data: 19-20 June 2012, Brussels Using Open Data: policy modeling, citizen empowerment, data journalism. Held 19 - 20 June 2012, European Commission Headquarters, Brussels.
- AAAI-12, focus on "Semantic Cities", 22-July-2012. The idea of the workshop is to discuss open data and how semantics can provide a foundation to facilitate high-value analytics. See: http://research.ihost.com/semanticcities12/index.html
- TPAC 29 Oct - 2 Nov 2012 in Lyon, France at the Cité Centre de Congrès de Lyon
- SemTechBizSF, see June 2012 in San Francisco, US.
- IOGDC 2012, Washington DC July 10-12
- Other announcements?
- Chair: Bernadette
- Scribe: Tina
- Alternate: Boris
- Regrets: George Thomas (project conflict), Dan Gillman (travel), Dave Reynolds
Scribe's Pre-Meeting Checklist
- Scribe's Pre-Meeting Checklist:
- Bots in a nutshell: Zakim handles the telecon IRC attendance & queuing; trackbot any logged Action Items; RRSAgent produces nicely formatted minutes from the IRC channel.
- If necessary, invite bots to the channel (#GLDWG) by typing 'trackbot, start telecon'
- From within the GLDWG IRC channel, please confirm:
- Zakim is present. If not, /invite zakim
- RRSAgent is present. If not, /invite rrsagent
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Chair's Checklist
- Chair's Checklist:
- Scribe present, bots "on", Scribe and Chair named in IRC.
- Who's present?
- Who has sent regrets?
- Review meeting agenda
- Announcements
- Call for next week's agenda items
- Adjourn
Scribe's End of Meeting Checklist
- Scribe's End of Meeting Checklist:
- RRSAgent, set logs world-visible
- RRSAgent, generate minutes
- Preliminary minutes are sent to http://www.w3.org/2012/gld/meeting/yyyy-mm-dd
- Go to http://www.w3.org/2009/CommonScribe/panel/?group=gld&go=Use+This+Group
- Copy IRC log and generate preview.
- Go to minutes URL (provided by RRSAgent) and select "preview nicely formatted minutes"
- Select "Save for Review/Approval"
- telecon
- Noteworthy Gov Linked Data in 2012
- 2012-05-24
- http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/meeting/2012-05-24
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Les designers du monde entier sont en train de soumettre des concepts créatifs de logodesign pour artiq99 - custom.
We need a new logo (and also would really like a masthead with the logo incorporated into it) for a new website called onlinestickhandling.com.
Onlinestickhandling is a series of online training courses that teach young, developing hockey players how to stickhandle properly. This is accomplished by the user first watching the streaming instructional videos for a particular course and then performing homework assignments using a stickhandling ball in their garage, The site will be mainly used by players 6-14 so we don't want to look "too corporate".
One thing we are realizing is that the url name is long and probably needs some kind of a symbol associated with the wording, so if the symbol was ever just visible, then the name would still be known... think of branding - like the NIKE check mark can stand on its on anywhere. A couple designs have done that, but it would be great to see more.
• Crisp, clean colors. Incorporating some blues from our other website at sweethockey.com is a good thing.
• vector format required with all editable layers
(we use Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 or CS4)
• Masthead should be 990 x 125 px
• Logo must also work for hats, t-shirts, etc.
- Bright tacky colors
- No Clip Art
- no Cartoon characters
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Hieu Pham needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 870 designs submitted by 193 freelance designers.
Dear all Designers,
5 Designers and some of their Logos have been in our short list are ccore, claurus, voxsix, sammynerva and zipcads, all are great. After discussion, we decide to choose the logo #807 of sammynerva as the winning design, sorry that we only have 01 Prize to hand.
Thanks again for all your great works.
Best regards,
Hieu Pham.
We are a Computer Networks & Telecommunications, our working roles as follows:
- Product distributor: (1) Structured cabling system for building & data center, (2) Cabling testing/certifying instruments, (3) LAN devices, (4) Rack organizer system, (5) Network analyzers
- System integrator: (1) Cabling system design & installation, (2) Cabling field certification, (3) Technical training
- Manufacturer: (1) Rack, enclosure & cabinet, (2) Cable pathway (trunking, ladder...)
We want to change our old logo as it has been used for 10 years already. Please take a look at our current logo here: http://www.nsp.com.vn
1. The logo should constructed by 03 parts: Symbol + Wordmark + Tagline.
- Wordmark is "NSP" in appropriate font, but one of those three letters should be modified to be special
- Please use "networks" as Tagline, Tagline should be placed below the Wordmark
- Symbol should not be too complex, and be the abstract of "network", "connect"
The logo should look hi-tech, modern & progressive (moving)
2. Major color: Red
3. The logo can be used in many ways: (1) Full (Wordmark + Symbol + Tagline), (2) only Symbol & Wordmark, and (3) stand-alone Wordmark
4. The logo should simple enough so that can be embroidered on shirt
- Rainbow
- Complexity
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