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The Gringo Globetrotter is a travel blog introducing visitors to the beauty, culture, and people of South and Central America. Targeted at expats and tourists, The Gringo Globetrotter uses photography and firsthand accounts to illustrate the unparalleled beauty found South of the border.
The Typo Rhino
The Typo Rhino is a whimsical site, dedicated to "Stamping Out Typos Across the Internet". This website showcases the owner's proofreading and copy editing services, engaging the client with humor.
Césares Internazionale
Césares Internazionale is a fine dining establishment combining handmade pasta and fresh seasonal ingredients to create healthy, delicious meals for his guests in Cuenca, Ecuador. Owner César Mejía needed a way to showcase his restaurant to the rapidly-growing tourist and expatriate demographics in Cuenca while clearly conveying the care and quality that go into each dish.
Visit the Website
Overview: Césares is a small, chef-owned fine dining restaurant located in a historic building in the heart of Cuenca, Ecuador catering primarily to the tourist and expat markets. César needs a website that emphasizes the his use of local, seasonal ingredients and homemade pasta to create stunning, memorable dishes inspiring guests to share his passion for food.
Desired Features:
- Clean, easily-navigable layout
- Copywriting (Client is not a native English speaker)
- Event Management
- Reservation Requests
- Mapping feature to help guests locate the restaurant (Google maps does not work reliably in Ecuador)
- Logo Design
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Covered Bridge
Walk the Walk
Virgin A340
Sony a700, Sony 70-400 G.
Fire in the Sky
It's a good name.
Sony Alpha a700, Tamron 17-50.
The Effectiveness of a Reminder
I love the little multi-info display on my new car. It has a trip computer on it, and with the trip computer brings an instant Miles-per-gallon readout. I've found lately that I've been trying to game this little meter, figure out its quarks and how it reacts to poking around in the city.
Currently, my overall gas mileage is terrible because I have a very short commute with six stoplights. Plus, it's winter gasoline, it's colder out in the mornings, et cetera. Once summertime rolls around, I hope to get around the 22 MPG baseline for city driving with the 3. For now, I'll make the best of a bad situation. The car has plenty of power and a light foot's all that's necessary to get it going. It's a lot like my old car in terms of off-the-line response since it does have a lot of lower end torque. The main difference is that it uses less gas overall because it's a lighter car with a smaller engine.
I just wish the little screen could display even more information. It does tell you which door is ajar, for instance, but why can't it tell me useful information like the engine coolant temperature, oil pressure, transmission temperature, et cetera? Two steps forward, one step back…
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Dear Image Requesters…
Stop asking me for freebies. You won't get them, you'll just look like a jerk and insult me in the process. You're getting paid to make that calendar, yeah? Then you have a budget, and you don't get rights for reprints without some form of monetary compensation.
And you other people that give out freebies – STOP DOING IT!
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Here is what was on the menu for this week:
Pizzadillas! (source not found – sorry). I used whole wheat tortillas, but the pic's are pretty self explanatory. Dipping into marinara is a must.
Chicken Parmesan Dippers! from Reservation for Two.
Chicken Lo Mein! from the Wholesome Dish.
Other meals on the menu:
1. Egg/Cheese/Muffin – slice of cheese and over easy egg on a toasted english muffin
2. Sweet Potato – learned a new fun way to cook these, here. I put cheese, tomato, black olive, and a little ranch on mine. If you think it sounds gross, you'd be wrong.
3. Grilled Cheese and Tomato soup! What can I say, I can't seem to get enough of it.
No cookies for this week, it's a really big bummer. I don't think I'll be making that mistake next week. 😉


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You know what I liked about this book? It tells the truth. It's not just the male's fault. Women need to change themselves and become Miss Right while looking for a guy who is Mr. Right. It's not about changing each other, it's about becoming the right person and then identifying the right person for you.
Finding Mr. Right by Stephen Arterburn24 01 2007
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He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt, Part 219 01 2007
While I was at work today, I reread this book. I liked it less this time. I read it for the first time back in August and now I'm slightly depressed about how much less I liked it this time.
I still like the basic premise of "guys don't usually have the guts to just tell you that they aren't that into you so they give glaring clues that should help you catch on". So Behrendt says that a guy isn't that into you if:
- he's not asking you out
- he's not calling you
- he's not dating you
- he's not having sex with you
- he's having sex with someone else
- he only wants to see you if you'e drunk
- he doesn't want to marry you
- he's breaking up with you
- he's disappeared on you
- he's married (or other insane variations of being unavailable)
- he's a selfish jerk, a bully, or a really big freak
From a purely secular and pro-female side of this, these points are absolutely right. From a Christian worldview, he's still mostly right. As I read the book again though, I found myself laughing at the general stupidity of women who would actually believe that a guy would be unable to find their phone number or that a guy would really leave his wife or that a guy really wants to be with a girl that he is breaking up with. Honestly, it's really not funny.
Going back a step, I agree that even though a woman is beautiful, smart, and funny a guy can just not be into her. I have personally experienced this. But what about the women out there who aren't beautiful, smart, and funny? What about the women whose personalities are so awful that guys want to blow out their brains after talking to them for five minutes? Is it fair to say that a guy doesn't appreciate them and that they should blow them off when the balk for a moment to consider that they might not want to take a plunge with someone like the woman across the table? As I reread this book, I noticed the trend of "you are a great woman, don't take any crap". This would be true if we were dealing with a perfect woman.
I'd like to propose a second, modified book called He's Just Not That Into You or It Just Might Be That Something Is Wrong With You by Greg Behrendt and me. We'll keep almost all of the points from the wildly popular first edition. The second edition will be less popular because it will have the added bonus of not being so feel good. Instead of just "the guy isn't doing his thing because he's a loser and not into me" it will add on a little dose of "I might be incredibly annoying and that's why he isn't into me". Smart men and women will love the book because it will admit that guys will move heaven and earth to get a cell phone number of a girl and they're into but it will also admit that guys would rather throw their cell phone in an outhouse than participate in another hour long listening session about how a woman is fat, depressed, and unfulfilled.
That said, we can all agree on a few things.
- Men call women they are into.
- Men like to pursue women.
- The woman may be the cause of a man not calling or pursuing any more.
I think I might reread this again and then see what I think.
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Noble Obsession by Charles Slack9 01 2007
Who would have thought a book about the the discovery of vulcanization of rubber would be an interesting read?
The lesson learned from this book is patent your ideas. It's really that simple.
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Three Worlds Gone Mad by Robert Pelton9 01 2007
Robert Pelton has my dream job: travel to dangerous countries and just experience and document what is happening.
In this book, Pelton covers trips to Sierra Leone, Chechen, and Bougainville. He's able to give a good bit of background into each location and the conflict that is/was facing each one.
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Shake Hands With The Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lt. General Romeo Dallaire9 01 2007
My interest in Rwanda started when I was in Uganda. I watched Hotel Rwanda for the first time. I had bought a DVD collection from an Indian DVD and software stand that was a collection of Africa themed movies. Oddly enough, City of God was on the disc.
After watching Sometimes in April and Hotel Rwanda, I wanted to know more about the genocide that had occurred so near to where I was living. Google led me to Romeo Dallaire's book which my brother gave me for my birthday back in September. I started reading books again and this one was on the top of my list. It's a thick 550 pages and sometimes reads like a military diary, but the essence of this book is gut wrenching.
Dallaire was the commander of the UN mission to Rwanda when the genocide occurred. He had a front row seat to everything that happened. The Winnipeg Free Press said that this book will help you rediscover your capacity for moral outrage. I think they are right.
What should our response be in times like this as Western nations? I don't know. But this book will make you think about it.
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The Kingdom of God is a Party by Tony Campolo16 10 2006
Tony Campolo is better in person. Hearing him tell the stories in this book is much better than reading this book.
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Uganda's Poorly Kept Secrets by Charles Onyango-Obbo18 08 2006
With a title like this, you might expect an expose of all the corruption in Uganda's government. Onyango-Obbo (hereafter OO) does give some insight into the culture and the way Ugandans perceive some things that occur, but this isn't The Sun.
To be frank, I walked away with one thing from this 63 page easy read. One of the last essays in the book is titled "President Wanted; Only Foreigners Need Apply". This very short piece was a political awakening for me as I ponder Africa today. Let me quote one small piece of it:
"I think being president in a continent like Africa, where a president doesn't have to decide whether to throw the switch for a nuclear weapon, is not much different than being a butcher or milk man."
After visiting a country where corruption is evident and where political favors are how things get done, when someone poses something like this, I listen. OO points out that he doesn't ask the nationality of his grocer, taxi driver, butcher, etc. Why should it matter what nationality the president is? Shouldn't the person who can do the job the best be put into that position?
This would be a political experiment that would be an absolute joy to try. Take an African country and have it run like a business. Don't put an ethnic tribal leader into power who will play favorites and only help his tribe or district, but put someone into power whose salary is based on results. What if the president started acting like a CEO?
Let's try it. I nominate myself for CEO of Zimbabwe. The name will be changed to JDesia, effective immediately.
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My PhD viva story
My alarm was set for 6am on Monday, 1st May, 2015 – my Viva day; but I was wide awake by 5am. The sun was shining so I took my dogs for a long walk while I contemplated the day ahead.
My Viva team was meeting at 10am and I was to be ready to start at 11am so I had plenty time to get ready and have breakfast (even if all I could manage was a couple of bites of a piece of toast). Alana, my teenage daughter drove me to the University because I knew whichever way the day went, alcohol would be needed afterwards. I arrived about 8:30am, which in hindsight was silly. I was having coffee with one of my supervisors at 10am, but until then I swear the clock was going backwards. Coffee with my supervisor was nice and she kept me relaxed.
The chair of my Viva came to get me at 11am. I know some supervisors sit in on the Viva, but we decided this would only add to the pressure. I took a copy of my thesis in with me, which had post-it notes at various points in each chapter. As it happened, I only opened it a couple of times when my examiners alluded to something I had written.
We did have a meeting room booked but the coffee machine was broken so it was held in the Dean's office, which was nice. I actually felt ok at this point, and it was lovely seeing my internal and external examiners. This was the first time I had seen my external examiners face-to-face and they both met me with a friendly smile and a firm handshake. I do like a firm handshake. However, when I sat down, nerves hit me hard and I could actually feel my whole body shaking. I also remember looking at the jug of water on the table thinking I would spill that everywhere if I tried to pour myself a glass because my hands were shaking so much. This was obviously quite clear to everyone as they told me to take deep breaths and try to relax. They congratulated me for completing my study and told me they had very much enjoyed reading my thesis. Well at least that's what I think they said, so I'm just going to go with that.
The chair went over how the Viva would proceed while I tried to breathe. Just before everything started, I remember thinking back to the conversation I had with my supervisor. She said that this was not going to be an interrogation and that I should look upon it as an opportunity to discuss and showcase my research with people who had spent a lot of time reading it. I tried, but nope… I was still petrified.
I knew the first question was likely to be a gentle one, which it was. I was asked how my research came about. I'm pretty sure I waffled on a bit and I remember saying to myself in my head "for goodness sake Emma, shut up, they asked you a straightforward question. They don't want your life story."
While preparing for my Viva, as I wrote in a previous blog, I tried to predict as much as I could what my examiners would want to talk about. However, I also noted that unexpected or unanticipated questions would arise. This was true. What I would add to that is that sometimes it's not about questions being unexpected, rather it's the way they are asked. On one particular occasion, the way in which a question was asked floored me a little (when it was only about how I had analysed a specific data set). Because of this, I didn't respond as articulately as I wish I had done. This I know is going to bother me for a while.
Quite a bit of time was spent on my literature reviews and underpinning theoretical frameworks. I had four literature reviews, which took a long time so I expected to be asked about them. Another topic that took up a big chunk of time was my methodological approach and philosophical underpinning. At one time, one of my examiners said he didn't agree with me, which stopped me in my tracks a little. However, I was confident with the decisions I had made (and didn't make) and I'm pretty sure I was able to explain why. I hadn't anticipated that my examiners would say something like that, but the conversation wasn't threatening or destructive in the slightest. Rather I was given time to think about it and encouraged to expand further. I am very thankful for that. The final main conversation was around my discussion chapter and implications, which I absolutely expected. For the most part this was fine, but also very challenging in parts.
I remember looking at the clock and realising that an hour and a half had passed and the chair saying something about rounding off. I think at that point, my shoulders dropped at least a couple of inches… although not for long. Something needed re-addressing so we returned back to my discussion chapter. Although at the time I wanted to run away, I'm really glad we spent a little more time on it as it made doing my corrections more straightforward. The viva ended with a question about the best and worst bits and then about something I had written in my personal reflection at the end of my thesis. I had said that after having conducted this study, I would have done things differently in my days as an infection prevention and control practitioner. What was this? Quite simply, I would have listened more.
I was eventually asked to leave the room while they deliberate (I've never been so pleased to be told to leave somewhere before). At that point, I honestly didn't even know if my legs would get me up and out safely. However, they did. But as soon as I left the room and shut it behind me I burst into tears. I just became so overwhelmed and couldn't control it. By now, a few people were outside so I went to my supervisor's room for a coffee and to get some tissues. The chair came and gave me reassurance that I had defended my work very well and that she would come and get me later. Once I had calmed down, I can honestly say that I had absolutely no idea as to how it went and what the outcome would be. None whatsoever. I was about to find out much quicker than I expected. After about 20 minutes I was called back in. This really unnerved me as I immediately thought that after such a short period of time, it was bad news. As soon as I walked through the door, before anyone said a word, I burst into tears again – they weren't even silent tears. I feel so embarrassed even writing this. I remember looking at everyone just staring at this crazy person crying her eyes out. Then eventually came three words tucked up in a sentence that I have dreamt about for so long: Congratulations. Minor. Corrections. Guess what? Yep, more tears!
After a period of calming down and emptying the tissue box, I listened to their feedback that I defended my work very well and what corrections they wanted me to do. I completely agreed with them on each point and knew that they were not going to be too painful to do. There were no firm handshakes to end my Viva, rather it was lovely hugs all round.
The hours that followed were all a bit of a blur. Telephone calls to my family and my other supervisor who was working away at that time. I felt so proud to be able to give him the news. Jo then took me to the pub and bought me a much needed large glass of red wine. Then Alana picked me up and took me straight to another pub (selfie below), where we stayed for quite some time, followed by a meal out with the rest of my family. That night was the first time I had slept all night for a long time.
What I have done below is summarised the key things that dominated my Viva discussions
- Know the theory that informed your research. But also be able to talk about potential theory you could have used but didn't and justify why you didn't. Although my topic was about Clostridium difficile, the overarching concept was risk perceptions. I alluded to three main risk perception theories in my thesis, but my examiners picked up on a number of other relevant theories. I was confident with the theories I 'used' (and didn't use) and if I could do it again, knowing what I know now, those three would still be the most relevant ones for this study.
- Be clear about your philosophical underpinning (ontological and epistemology stance) and defend your methodological choice. Also, ensure that you can demonstrate how your philosophical perspective is threaded right through your study. I used weak social constructionism and had to explain how this informed my data analysis process and subsequent interpretation of my findings. With regard to your methodological approach, be prepared to not only justify the approach you used, but consider other approaches (in some depth) that could have been used. I used Interpretive Description and I also spoke about other dominant methodologies. However, one of my examiners asked me if I had considered another approach which I hadn't included. I said yes, I had considered it, and spoke a little bit about why I didn't use it, but was honest and said it just confused me. He did smile at this point, so I took that as reassurance that it was ok to say I didn't get it.
- Be specific about your implications for practice, policy and education and directions for further research. Mine were a little too broad and they wanted me to be much more specific.
So, overall, my Viva certainly wasn't easy. It was challenging, exhausting and overwhelming. However, I feel privileged that my work was read by three very highly respected and influential researchers and that they gave me an amazing opportunity to talk about something that has basically been a huge focus of my life for the past five and a bit years.
Prior to my Viva, many people encouraged me to relax and enjoy it, including my supervisors. Was I relaxed? I have to be honest and say I wasn't able to fully relax. However, given the situation and all the emotions I was feeling, I'm not sure if being totally relaxed was actually possible. Did I enjoy it? Again, if I am totally honest, I probably wouldn't use the term enjoy. I was stimulated and keen to respond to questions, to elaborate and to clarify.
If I could go back and do my Viva again, would I change anything? Just to clarify, as much as I feel a massive sense of achievement, I wouldn't want to do it again. I honestly don't think I would change anything though. I wouldn't change my examiners – I feel truly honoured to have had them. My chair was incredibly supportive. I think I prepared as much as I possibly could. I probably would have liked not to have cried, but there was just no controlling that.
I really enjoyed reading other people's Viva stories while I was preparing for mine, so I hope that this post helps anyone who is thinking about and preparing for their Viva.
Emma Burnett (@EmmaBurnettx) is the Associate Dean, International, at the School of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Dundee. This story was published on May 17, 2015, on Emma's blog (available here), and has been republished here with her permission.
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Efficient nursing is always behind the success of hospitals. Similarly, the overburdened nursing team can affect the overall performance of healthcare units. In this paper, the complexity compression is connected to the experience that nurses practice when expected to presume additional, unexpected responsibilities while at the same time conducting their numerous responsibilities in a tight schedule. For the paper we will discuss a hospital based outpatient pain management center located in a large metropolitan area that receives on the average 100 prescription refill requests per day.
Advanced Nursing Practices act diversity roles and these variety roles are based on different factors which are included social, political and economic in society. Through the course contents, nurses have to learn environmental consideration, ethical considerations, national and state health policy and services, and collaboration. (Wiseman 2007) Nurses are not only conduct comprehensive health assessment but also have the responsibility to meet client needs through both nationally and internationally view.
Economic consideration is important as well because þf the present healthcare management environment. The change þf demographics and lifestyle are the challenge for the professional healthcares. The need for drugs cost, the lengths þf hospital stay, home care services and continue care have been rising. Therefore, ANPs should know health promotion and health protection interventions which are included home visits, daily telephone call, physician backup are important to reduce health risks, then, use the two strategies can reduce healthcare cost much lower and re-hospitalization. Moreover, nurses should know the medication management. If nurses have an advanced pharmacology education and be able to prescribe, then they can provide high quality services and control costs.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008
Samsung NV10 Camera UI
The Samsung NV10 comes with a new interface style, where you can use the surrounding buttons both as sliders and selectors. This feature is called Smart Touch, and vaguely resembles the older Sony Vaio media player that came a few years ago - but this seems to be a much smarter implementation of the input concept. The feature feels rather unique and cool, but needs to be tested live in order to get the feel and to see if it's really useful =) Anyone who has tested it?
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Right now ha, ha, ha, ha, ha I am an anti-Christ I am an anarchist, Don't know what I want But I know how to get it I want to destroy the passerby 'Cause I want to be anarchy, No dogs body Anarchy for the U.K. It's coming sometime and maybe I give a wrong time, stop a traffic line. Your future dream is a shopping scheme 'Cause I want to be anarchy, In the city How many ways to get what you want I use the best, I use the rest I use the enemy. I use anarchy 'Cause I want to be anarchy, Its the only way to be Is this the MPLA Or is this the UDA Or is this the IRA I thought it was the U.K. Or just another country Another council tenancy. I want to be anarchy And I want to be anarchy (Oh what a name) And I want to be an anarchist (I get pissed, destroy!)
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Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research
A Reflexive Approach. London: Routledge.
Edited by Louise Phillips, Marianne Kristiansen, Marja Vehviläinen and Ewa Gunnarsson
About Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research
Collaborative research embraces a multiplicity of practices in which social actors are invited to participate in the research process as co-producers of knowledge. But what is actually meant by "co-production" in collaborative research? Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research presents a range of critical, reflexive strategies for understanding and tackling the challenges emanating from the tensions that arise in the meeting between different participants, knowledge forms and knowledge interests. The chapters anchor discussion of ethical, epistemological and methodological questions in sustained empirical analyses of cases of collaborative knowledge production.
The book covers diverse theoretical approaches such as dialogic communication theory, actor network theory, poststructuralist writing as inquiry, institutional ethnography, dialogic action research, and pragmatic action research. And the empirical cases span a broad spectrum of empirical fields of social practice: health services, organisational change, research, science communication, environmental communication in intermediary NGO's, participatory governance in relation to urban planning, and digital communication and virtual worlds.
Table of Contents
1. Tackling the Tensions of Dialogue and Participation: Reflexive Strategies for Collaborative Research Part I: Reflexively Analysing "Participation" and "Dialogue" in Collaborative Research
2. Learning from Discomfort: Science Communication Experiments Between Diffusion, Dialogue and Emergence
3. The Performative Practices of Public Participation: Negotiating Interests, Experiences and Normativity
4. Participation and Reflection in Pragmatic Action Research: Harnessing the Potential and Dealing with the Dilemmas
5. Environmental Counselling in a Women's Organisation: An Analysis of Practices in the Tension Between Diffusion and Dialogue Part II: Reflexively Tackling the Ethics of Collaborative Research Relations
6. My Discomfort: Practical Reflexivity as a Methodological Approach
7. Co-Producing Knowledge: Between Othering, Emotionality and Dialogue
8. The Ethics of Involvement with the Already Involved: Action Research and Power
9. Dialogical Ethics and Reflections on Unfinalizability: An Analysis of Dissenting Voices in a Film Contest Study Part III: Reflexively Tackling Epistemological Issues in Collaborative Research
10. Participatory Knowledge Production and Power: Co-Determination Through Dissensus in Dialogic Organisational Action Research
11. Reflecting on Work Practices: Possibilities for Dialogue and Collaborative Knowledge Production in Institutional Ethnography
12. Building Networks with Vague Intentions: A Vocabulary of Enrolment and Negotiations in Collaborative Research Practice Part IV: Tying the Ends Very Loosely
13. Characteristics and Challenges of Collaborative Research: Further Perspectives on Reflexive Strategies
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Sankey's NYC
sound was so much better with GSA d36.. club is now smaller than before.. basically they put the booth on the dancefloor and vip area where the old booth was..
incubus or no incubus, 2 stacks wont cut it unless youre in the booth?
system downstairs wasnt great either, four larger stacks than what was there before.. the basement system they had at d36 was smaller and blew it away..
video to follow..
Output is the real deal and has the best system in the NYC area
incubus or no incubus, 2 stacks wont cut it unless youre in the booth?
What does this mean?
I was involved with time and phase alignment of the Incubus system on the main floor. Challenging as this rig is really designed for a much much larger room, so every tiny detail is quite glaring.
Tuning was done during construction, and I hope to get back out there soon now that the construction mess is all cleaned up.
Do you have any technical faults with the main rig, or just the comparison?
Not to diss any system, but why wouldnt they just keep the GSA system?
its the question I keep asking myself over and over..
no disrespect Nathan, I know you did the best you could, but there were no fills to make you immersed in the sound.. the sound was coming from the front and as you walked around the room there were clear spots where there was more bass.. its not the same as what Gary did.. you were surrounded, utterly surrounded, maybe it was overkill though, but and a big but, it was the most impressive I have experienced to date. digital or analogue. its why Pioneer made their choice imo.
they put in flashy lights and flashy speakers that def have the power but it feels like a live p/a style rig where you hear the sound from the front, not a superclub.. I did hear later that they were having problems with the sound and that not all the speakers were working??
I can verify that the main Incubus system I was flown in to tech and tune was fully operational. This includes the DJ monitors.
The rest of the club was being installed after I left.
There is a plan to add some rear fills on the dancefloor.
IMHO the club is Tiny. Thats a monstrous tank of a system to squeeze into a little room like that. I have half those subs and same tops in a much much larger room in chicago. That system will never hit half power in NYC. Mine in Chicago does hit about half power on the most busy nights. It will do 117db with no problem, so we make quite sure to not let it get that crazy.
but why two monstrous stacks with a smaller club than d36.. d36 albeit had four crazy huge stacks and wasnt that much bigger. I think they could have gone smaller with a four point Void, with less stature (perhaps less status) but the booth at Sankey's was very clean sound, Im guessing that was an airmotion system? Incubus was clean, was playing at half volume or less, peaks were very powerful at times, but 4 point stacks or at least fills is necessary.. sound needs to be all around you..
again.. I heard today that some of the speakers werent working but not sure what or where, maybe they are talking about the fills to come.
they needed you in the basement, you could have really helped down there..
At the end of the day , the owner has owned that rig for a while, It is literally serial numbers 1-4 on the subs and 1-2 on the tops. As anyone knows construction and clubs and politics change venues and timelines. This is the venue that worked and this was the rig he loved. So we did everything we could to make it great. I am sure as the opening roadbumps get smoothed out everything will fall into place, their construction schedule was absolutely nuts, but they pulled it off with a ton of hard work. The owners and team there are completely committed to top tier work and Everyone will pull together to refine this.
Gary's system may have been better, but at 33 I am happy to be on my way to that mans level with 20+ years experience on me and a master of his craft. For now when its not my perfect layout and every amp I want, I make magic happen with whatever I'm given opportunity to do. Here in Chicago I even rebuild Avalon and Dynacord rigs for clients. I'm a transducer Junkie. Happy and proud to be bringing new things to market when I can.
Well said Nathan. So, I take it there are two subs per stack? Are there any Hyperfold midbass boxes employed? Just trying to visualize this beast.
I only heard Gary's system on opening night, and it sounded great to my ears, but almost certainly improved as drivers broke in and settings were adjusted. I'm sure the Void system, if not yet perfect, will be refined in time as well. Best wishes. :)
frankly it doesnt make sense to me for a company to take care of part of the sound..
The thought process behind that decision will affect everything about the club.. There should be an on hand tech with the ability to oversee the weekly operations of the club for sound in all areas.. The entire install for sound.. a little bit here and there, a guy from here or there that needs to fly somewhere to tune it.. it makes 0 sense. it didnt even make that much sense for GSA to have to fly in to take care of d36 and tune it, but at least he was the one who built it.. I even found it weird he didnt take care of the basement.. but the basement had thunderous sound and was consistent wiith upstairs.
This is a new club and Im sure it will get better,, but the thought process behind a part time tech will lead to a part time club.
The Void rig is nice, sounds great, but its not like the clubs I know where youre surrounded with sound.. if the system is too big for the room why is it there?? why is it half a system playing at half volume..??
its so small.. cant believe they found a way to make it smaller than d36 and put in a bunch of flashy lights.. makes my job way easier for video but feels like Im on the Vegas strip instead of a real NYC nightclub..
was thought put into treatment as in Output? doubt it.
Lets be real about this and try and keep the negativity down. Sankeys is a brand. They want it to be different. They want the Manchester feel.
I was brought out to help tune the engine as one of the few guys on the planet besides Rog Mogale the designer who has built these rigs from the ground up. The drivers are very hard to get into the enclosures as all the horn loaded subs and lows are completely unique loadings. No copies of other boxes here.
Give it some time, surrounds are on their way, the scope is to make the brand happy and the patrons happy with something unique and different. This place flipped into Sankeys quickly , construction was a madhouse. It will continue its refinement like a race car team works on fine tuning a premium machine. Lots of good people working on making this a great entertainment venue for some real underground dj's.
My next stop is Japan in a month to set up another Incubus rig w/ Rog. I could not be more exited.
Im working for one of the owners sharing my video.. I do video in clubs.. Im talking as a club patron and am very passionate like you towards sound. I have been working in clubs for a long time.. Im not big on negativity.. Im only asking questions.. like why discard a four stack crazy system for a two stack system.. I have nothing to gain by stating my opinions.. in fact when stating my honest opinions it actually makes me come off as negative to some.. Im not worried about this, I have no allegiance to anyone or company.. I trust my ears like you.. you did the best with what you were given for opening. I have no doubt it will get better.. but its time to get real too.. there is competition and some very fine clubs in the world.. if you truly want to protect the brand get the sound right and the led's can wait
its my first time at any Sankey's.. but it all feels a bit phoned in.. like the cdj2000 box for the laptop stand.. I design booths and cannot believe that a club in todays game hasnt nailed the fact there is now a computer in the dj's rig..
Saw this interesting article..
figured it was a good addition to this thread
I agree 100% and as the installer of the system and a veteran to many dance floors in NYC, I also believe in a 4 corner system. Air Motions were put in the following week and I am very happy with the results and the vibe you are talking about is there.
There is also changes being made this week to improve control and dynamics of the system as I put in some gear from Manley and Summit Audio.
Listen, anyone in this business knows that there is tweaking all the time, it is never done once and walk away.
Enjoy the week.
Cool Jason, very happy you guys were able to rectify the situation for the surrounds, I love the airmotions in the booth, very little fatigue and Im sure the place is kitted out to envelope you in sound, Ill be back as soon as possible to hear the place again.
Maybe you could walk us through what you want the Summit Audio gear to accomplish in your rig, I believe you had mentioned to me it was tube compressors..
If you want my advice for downstairs have your friend Angel Moraes look it over, he has some of the best ears in the game.
Summit DCL-200. Almost magical tube compressor for nightclub use. Many on here have used to amazing results.
Like I told everyone else, I'll wait till everything is running and good before I comment on the system. I was a big fan of Garys work on D36 with Kenny and hope Sankeys sounds good. I saw some pictures, it's definitely an odd looking place now, not your average NYC venue. Nate fly's all over the place with his Void, he has a fun job too with those wonderful shows ;)
Would love to hear this system. Unfortunately I'm stuck in the clubbing black hole of Brisbane.
Interested to know why there isn't a single bass stack, as per the incubus system at Eden, Ibiza? Was DJ booth positioning the issue? Surely a single bass stack would have more even bass coverage than two bass stacks (as installed) or the much loved 4 corner style system (as per the GSA system).
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Edward Lemay, assistant professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire and his colleagues found that people who had heightened feelings of interpersonal security — a sense of being loved and accepted by others — placed a lower monetary value on their possessions than people who did not.
I am becoming more and more anti-stuff. I have always been anti-shopping but some of that is simply not liking the process of looking, finding, sometimes trying on and then purchasing, followed by being told I could have gotten it cheaper, larger, greener or with more power. Anti-stuff is both anti-consumerism and anti-clutter. I find the weight of ownership to be a burden. The process also requires that I labor to produce capital to expend on the objects I find objectionable. Seems like an obvious wicked circle, Dante comes to mind.
On the other hand, I don't find that being loved or accepted has much to do with my meager ways. I just don't like stuff. In fact, often upon entering into a loving, accepting relationship the event is inaugurated with a flurry of accumulation. New furniture, new clothes, new this, new that. OK some of the this and thats are fun, you know one of those things with the whatchamacallit and the thingamabob attachment. But other than that - no more stuff!
The Lemay study actually asked people to put a monetary value on their possessions. So it really isn't that being accepted and loved will make you purchase and consume less, but rather that you value the stuff at a lower price point. Hoarders, in particular, value their piles of items as much as five times more than those who are secure, loved and accepted.
However, if love and acceptance makes anyone less attached to their possessions dollar-wise or otherwise and if being less attached means accumulating fewer things - well then I am all for it! I love you, I accept you. Let's celebrate by not going to the mall.
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Strabane Academy has won third place in Invest Northern Ireland's 2014 Step 'N' Zones Competition, with a business idea for Hobby Holidays, an app which identifies holidays to match users hobbies and interests.
The competition was held during Global Entrepreneurship Week (17-21 November 2014) and attracted over 1,278 pupils from 49 schools across Northern Ireland. One team of pupils from each event was chosen as the regional finalist and was invited to compete in the final event which took place on 23 January in Invest NI's Belfast office.
Stephen Wightman, Invest NI's Head of Employment and Enterprise said: "This is the fourth year we have run this competition as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week and yet again we have been very impressed by the enthusiasm and creativity of the pupils that took part.
"Entrepreneurship is vital to the future of our economy so it is important that we inspire our young people and provide them with the knowledge and confidence they need to pursue their ambition. The Step 'N' Zones competition is a great way to introduce young people to the idea of entrepreneurship and to help them develop skills such as communication, negotiation and problem solving."
The competition challenged the pupils to develop a business idea with support around idea generation, market research, branding, finance and planning. The judges were particularly impressed with the team's presentation skills, product research and customer focus.
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DVD ReviewThe clichŽs of both boxing pictures and film noir are so easy to slip into, and have been put to such sorry use with such frequency, that seeing a movie as crisp and sharp as The Set-Up is enough to make you jolt upright; at an hour and twelve minutes, it's a taut, smart and propulsively energetic movie. Director Robert Wise is very much in command of his material, his technique and his cast, and what he's made here packs a powerful punch. (Sorry for both the alliteration and the boxing metaphor; they're both sort of inevitable with this movie.)
Wise's story takes place in a single evening, if not quite in real timeŃBill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan), at age 35, is, for a boxer, ancient. He still dreams of hitting the big timeŃif not as the world champeen, at least with a sizable $500 payday, a life-changing amount of money for someone so down on his luck. His wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), doesn't share the dream, thoughŃshe's ready for Stoker to hang up the gloves, to stop allowing himself to get beaten so savagely, and so often. Little do they both know that the fix is inŃthe local gangster, Little Boy, expects Stoker to take a dive, and Stoker's corner men think so little of their fighter that they don't even bother to tell him that he's expected to lose, but no earlier than the third round. On the take, too, is Tiger Nelson, Stoker's opponent—he's younger, bigger, stronger, and prettier, and is expecting an easy payday.
The first half of the movie is all anticipation, orienting us to Stoker and his world; we meet boxers at various stages of their career, moving up and down the ladder, from the young fellow queasy about going into his first fight, to the headliner, Luther Hawkins, knowing that it's his moment in the sun, but that there are hordes of other fighters nipping at his heels. (Hawkins is played by James Edwards, who Kubrick diehards will recognize from his small, fine performance as a parking lot attendant in The Killing.) What's especially notable about this portion of the movie is the relentlessness of the communityŃWise is brilliant at showing us how, at every possible opportunity, everyone is chiseling everyone else. The look of the film is spectacular, too, the men invariably in fedoras and ties, the faces and black-and-white photography that, if taken as stills, would be right at home in the pages of Look magazine.
The fulcrum of the film is when Stoker's fight starts, and it's shot with barbarism and power. These are men at work, and their job is a brutal business; each punch lands with emotional as well as physical force. Adding to the cumulative power is the Greek chorus of spectators to whom Wise cuts away, taking in the bloody action like Romans watching Christians being fed to the lionsŃone bloodthirsty little lady shouts for more; a corpulent fellow registers the carnage with his eyes as he stuffs his mouth with hotdogs and ice cream and peanuts; and in a downright Homeric touch, one of the audience members is blind, with an aide alongside to describe blow after bloody blow. It's a terrifically kinetic bit of filmmaking; and Wise's years as an editor are evident (he cut, among other films, Citizen Kane), giving his movie a tension and momentum sorely lacking in too many sports movies.
The world of noir is a dark one, so this isn't a tale of redemption; but it is visceral and sweaty and bloody and hot, and it puts its characters and its audience through the wringer in a startlingly short period of time. It's also a rebuke to every bloated director's cut that ever gets released; if a filmmaker as good as Wise can cover all this ground so quickly, everybody else should learn lessons from him, not pad out their running times.
Rating for Style: A
Rating for Substance: A
Image Transfer
Image Transfer Review: This is a beautiful transfer, with rich and nuanced layers of gray in Milton Krasner's black-and-white photography. Some of the shots are downright eye-popping; and the lack of debris makes this a paradigm for the treatment of films of this period.
Image Transfer Grade: A
Audio Transfer
Audio Transfer Review: The dynamics on the mono track are occasionally askew, and finding the right level with your volume button can be something of a chore. The soundtrack is rich on nuance, but that also means that, given the technological limitations, some of the dialogue gets swallowed up.
Audio Transfer Grade: B-
Disc ExtrasStatic menu
Scene Access with 20 cues and remote access
Subtitles/Captions in English, French, Spanish with remote access
1 Feature/Episode commentary by Robert Wise and Martin Scorsese
Packaging: Amaray
Picture Disc
1 Disc
1-Sided disc(s)
Layers: single
Extras Review: The commentary track is a modest disappointment, principally because it's hard to tamp down expectations when you look at those two names. Robert Wise offers some basic production info on his movie; he's become a charming elder statesman of Hollywood, and he's made some terrific movies, but his insights aren't penetrating. Unfortunately, he and Martin Scorsese were recorded separately, and one can only wonder what the back and forth between the two might have been like. Scorsese is just the right choice for thisŃaside from being incredibly knowledgeable about Wise and noir, it's self-evident that the boxing sequences in Raging Bull owe a huge debt to the ones here. Scorsese talks about Wise's pedigree as an editor, and even calls him the Edward Hopper of American film; he also talks about screening the picture for the cast and crew of The Aviator, all of whom were smart enough to recognize it as a masterpiece. Still, the commentary track never quite sings or takes off as it might have.
Extras Grade: C+
Final CommentsA stinging, pitiless story told with energy, efficiency and occasionally even venom, The Set-Up is twice as good and half as long as most movies in its genre. Noir fans won't want to pass up this one.
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Senator Mike Duffy left the conservative caucus Thursday minutes before a television news story raised new allegations that Duffy tried to influence the CRTC to approve a Sun News request. According to CTV, which quoted an unnamed source, he told a Conservative insider with ties to the CRTC that "this is an important decision on Sun Media. They [the CRTC] have to play with the team and support Sun Media's request."
Duffy informed the top Tory in the Senate, Marjory LeBreton, that he is resigning from caucus to sit as an independent until all questions are answered about his spending and a $90,000 personal cheque he received from Harper's right-hand man to help repay Duffy's claimed housing expenses.
The decision leaves the party without one of its top fundraisers and comes after days of questions about his Senate expenses and series of confusing twists in a scandal that became tied to Harper's chief of staff, Nigel Wright. This week it was revealed that Wright wrote Duffy a personal cheque to cover the $90,000 repayment for Senate expenses.
Earlier in May, Sun News Network made its final pitch to the federal telecommunications regulator, saying anything short of a guaranteed spot on the dial would spell the end of the channel.
The Quebecor-owned network is seeking what is known as mandatory carriage from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
The CRTC is holding eight days of hearings in Gatineau, Que., to examine 22 applications for mandatory carriage from new and existing channels, as well as channels that want to renew their mandatory distribution status.
If the CRTC grants Sun News' application for mandatory carriage, cable and satellite providers would have to include the channel on their basic TV packages.
Some at the CRTC hearings have suggested a "must-offer" designation — rather than mandatory carriage — would suffice for Sun News. Such a designation would only compel cable and satellite companies to make Sun News available to their customers, who could then choose whether or not to subscribe.
But Sun News executive Kory Teneycke says a must-offer licence isn't good enough.
"Let us be very clear: a 'must-offer' licence would not have a meaningful impact on the current trajectory of Sun News and would inevitably lead to the closure of the station," Teneycke said.
"Let me repeat: a 'must-offer' licence would be a death sentence."
Let us be very clear: a 'must-offer' licence would not have a meaningful impact on the current trajectory of Sun News and would inevitably lead to the closure of the station
Duffy's expenses had already been under further scrutiny Thursday, with reports that he had billed the Senate for travel expenses while campaigning for the Tories in the 2011 election.
"It is clear the public controversy surrounding me and the repayment of my Senate expenses has become a significant distraction to my caucus colleagues and to the government," Duffy said. "Given that my presence within the Conservative caucus only contributes to that distraction, I have decided to step outside of the caucus and sit as an independent senator pending resolution of these questions."
Duffy added that he has "sought only to do the right thing" and suggested that he would rejoin the government's caucus once "all relevant facts" were made clear.
"This has been a difficult time for me and my family, and we are going to take some time away from the public," Duffy said. "I ask the media to respect our privacy while these questions are resolved through the appropriate processes."
The decision came on a day when Conservative members of the upper chamber quietly expressed shock over the backroom deal between Duffy and Wright, with others saying they were angry at what appeared to be a financial bailout for Duffy.
While Duffy resigned from caucus, a spokesman for Harper said Thursday that Wright would not resign.
"He has the confidence of the prime minister," said Carl Vallee.
Wright dipped into his personal funds to help Duffy repay the cash the senator had claimed against his home in an Ottawa suburb because, Harper's office said Wednesday, "Duffy was unable to make a timely repayment."
Wright wrote the personal cheque, Harper's office has said, so Duffy could repay the approximately $90,000 in living expenses he had claimed over more than three years in the Senate.
A senior government official told Postmedia News on Thursday that Wright wrote a cheque to Duffy's lawyer "in trust." The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the sole stipulation for giving the money was "that it would be used to pay back taxpayers" and putting it in trust "was the best way to achieve this."
However, Duffy also took out a loan from Royal Bank to cover the cost of repaying his Senate expenses, according to a Senate source with knowledge of the financial arrangement. On Wednesday, Duffy told CTV in an email that he dealt with the bank alone and Wright was not involved in that transaction.
Government officials have tried to distance Harper from the scandal, with a source close to the prime minister saying Thursday the claim that Duffy had secured a bank loan came as a complete surprise. A day earlier, senior government officials had said Harper didn't know of Wright's cheque to Duffy until Tuesday.
Opposition parties continued to call for an independent investigation over the payment and allegations raised in a CTV report earlier this week that Wright worked out the backroom deal with Duffy to have the expenses refunded to the Senate, while also going easy on him in the final reports from the Senate committee overseeing expense audits of Duffy, Sen. Patrick Brazeau and Sen. Mac Harb.
CTV also reported that Duffy had been told by the Prime Minister's Office to say as little as possible about the housing claims.
The auditors, in their reports released last week, noted that they interviewed Harb and Brazeau, as well as reviewed documents about their housing and travel expenses.
This has been a difficult time for me and my family, and we are going to take some time away from the public
On March 25, Duffy repaid the Senate $90,172.24. The next day, his lawyer told auditors in a letter that Duffy's participation in the audit "was no longer needed" and further documentation was not provided.
Auditors wrote they were unable to meet with Duffy or receive documentation that would help in their analysis. On April 20, Duffy did offer to meet with auditors, but the committee decided against it because "it would delay the process, and . . . there should be no further delays in the process," the audit said.
Duffy had claimed about $90,000 in housing and living expenses in the capital region against his home in Kanata, a suburb of Ottawa, saying that his primary home was in Cavendish, P.E.I.
Senate rules allow senators to claim as much as $22,000 a year for a secondary residence in the capital, so long as the one they keep in their home province is more than 100 kilometres from Parliament Hill.
On Feb. 22, Duffy publicly announced that he planned to reimburse the Senate for cash he claimed on his home in Ottawa. At the time, he said he made the decision with his wife on Feb. 21, although he said he didn't believe he had done anything wrong.


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Another article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education today and written by Mary Ann Mason, co-director of the Berkeley Law Center on Health, Economic & Family Security, looks at how over the years women have won, and lost, lawsuits for tenure denial based on sex discrimination.
The laws are there: "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of sex, race, national origin, or religion. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act is an amendment to Title VII and prohibits discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions," Mason writes in the article. "What protection those laws offer has been the subject of evolving interpretation by federal courts," however, and it has become "more difficult for a plaintiff in a tenure case to prove discrimination" these last 20 years.
Even if you are successful, the price may just be too high to pay. "In practice, few plaintiffs are reinstated, and most compensation packages do not financially justify the enormous time and expense of the lawsuit and the shame of replaying a failure in the public eye. Colleagues may avoid you, and you may [be] tagged with the odious label of 'troublemaker,' which almost guarantees you will not receive another job offer," Mason writes.
On the positive side, Mason adds, the women who brought up and won lawsuits have contributed to creating a more open tenure procedure where candidates are today better informed of their rights. Still lacking, however, are equal opportunities to mentoring and the creation of a flexible tenure-track.
"Even with a fair, open process and family-responsive policies to help parents (still a distant goal at most universities), there will always be those who suffer the cruel sting of denial. I don't think the answer is abolishing the tenure system… Instead, let's just get on with making a good system a fair system for men and women," concludes Mason.


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What'chu Talkin' 'Bout, Willis?: KD's evolution as a closer
Kevin Durant has become one of the best closers in the entire NBA.
KD's evolution as a playmaker has helped him become a better closer.
Kevin scored 17 big points in the fourth quarter of Game 1 and led the league in fourth quarter points per game this past season.
Kevin has found a formula that best benefits him and Oklahoma City.
Kevin began his career as strictly a gifted scorer who was learning how to make his teammates better.
In his first four seasons, KD averaged 2.4, 2.8, 2.8, and 2.7 assists per game which is extremely low for someone who commands a double team every night.
Early in his career, Kevin would settle for fadeaway jumpers and be rattled by physical defenders down the stretch of a game.
His first four years he showed flashes of what we like to call the "clutch gene". However this year, Kevin has become a killer in the fourth quarter and I believe I know why.
Kevin has began to pace himself throughout the game and create shots for others for the first three quarters.
Kevin's huge improvement as a passer has taken the Thunder to a whole nother level. Now some hear pace yourself and they believe he is not playing hard.
Kevin Durant pacing himself is way different than any other player pacing themselves. KD has the luxury of having Russell Westbrook and James Harden who have the ability to take the game over with their scoring abilities.
I laugh at Thunder fans who tell Westbrook to stop shooting and to just give the ball to Kevin and move out the way. The more Russell is taking over in the second and third quarter equals more possessions KD can rest and save energy for a Kobe-like fourth quarter.
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Kevin is the personification of a closer and is widely considered the best player in the NBA. The scary thing is that he still has so much potential.
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Russian Esquire August 09
Russian Esquire called a few months back looking to access images from The Nerd Convention for use in a story with the working title of "The Future". Just got the issue today with this minimalistic layout resembling something like the Weekly Newsletter my Dad would bring home every friday when he worked at General Electric.
Posted by Timothy Archibald at 5:52 AM
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- Darrell Eager said...
Did they give you a translation of the article?
Did they pay a reasonable fee or third world?
The layout looks very early Wired.
- August 18, 2009 at 9:20 AM
- Timothy Archibald said...
Hi DE-
The fees were typical for US...I've done stuff with them a few times in the past- the ran a Sex Machine book excerpt and they had me judge a photo contest and write about it...so for some reason they know where to find me.
Previous issues I've seen have always had GREAT design. This was obviously trying to look with graphs and diagrams like some type of inter-office newsletter...they had pages and pages of this. Of course, I can read none of it.
You can buy a subscription thru Amazon...curiously enough.
- August 18, 2009 at 10:41 AM
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Volume 5, Issue 14
November 3, 2006
The Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") prohibits the use of qualification standards in hiring which screen out a class of individuals with disabilities, unless that standard is shown to be job-related for the position and consistent with business necessity. In Bates v. United Parcel Service, Inc., (9th Cir. October 10, 2006), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that UPS violated the ADA by excluding individuals from employment positions as drivers because they could not pass a Department of Transportation ("DOT") hearing standard that does not apply to UPS's trucks.
The DOT requires the hearing standard only for those driving vehicles with a "gross vehicle weight" of at least 10,001 pounds. UPS's fleet contained vehicles ranging from 7160 pounds to 9318 pounds, and it required all applicants for driver positions to meet the DOT hearing qualification. The Ninth Circuit Court found that on its face this blanket requirement was a discriminatory qualification standard under the ADA unless it was shown to be job-related for the position in question and consistent with business necessity. The Court explained that in order to prove the business necessity defense, UPS needed to prove either: (1) that substantially all deaf drivers presented a higher risk of accidents than did drivers who were not deaf; or (2) that there were no practical criteria for determining which deaf drivers presented a heightened risk of danger and which did not.
The Ninth Circuit Court determined that UPS failed to meets its burden. UPS offered crash risk studies, human factor studies and expert testimony to support its position that deaf drivers presented a higher risk of accidents. The trial court rejected each type of evidence as insufficient, flawed, and/or unhelpful or unpersuasive, findings the Ninth Circuit Court upheld. Moreover, the Court explained that UPS's evidence showing that drivers who can hear are safer than deaf drivers with similar skills and characteristics was insufficient because it did not address whether there weresome deaf drivers who were as safe or safer than some or all of the drivers employed by UPS who could hear. The Court also agreed that UPS failed to prove the second prong of the business necessity defense, pointing out that while deaf drivers are licensed to drive, UPS had not attempted to train or test any individual deaf drivers to determine their actual risk.
This case is instructive on the uphill battle an employer faces in establishing and defending a hiring standard which excludes a class of individuals with disabilities. The Court was clearly troubled by the blanket exclusion of all deaf drivers and demonstrated that such exclusions will be strictly scrutinized. The Court seemed to believe that employers should analyze safety and other related hiring concerns on a case-by-case basis, making an individualized determination to every extent possible.
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Battle of the cylinders - Microsoft's Kinect vs. a log
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When first out the gate at E3's press conference this time last week, Microsoft's Kinect got lots of 'oohs and whoaas' from the crowd. But since then, the finer details that really matter have gotten out to the disapproval of many folks who were hoping for a more polished, less limited piece of motion capturing equipment. What first looked to be an incredible piece of technology that would change the way we play games forever, now is starting to look like a good concept, but with too many limitations.
Sure, Kinect is still getting a ton of attention all over the web; the issue is, the majority of it is negative with stuff like this.
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Perhaps it might be a good idea to let site users organize their own mini-conferences/meetups somehow, using the Stack Exchange engine. Especially if you consider communities that spread across sites. As a simple example:
- Software = Stack Overflow, Programmers, Game Development, Code Review, IT Security, maybe SQA, maybe UX, maybe CS Theory, many users of PM,
- Science and Mathematics = Mathematics, CS Theory, Physics, Crypto, Astronomy, Statistical Analysis
- Art and Design = Graphic Design, UX
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A good starting point might be the Area 51 categories of Arts, Business, Culture, Life, Professional, Recreation, Science, and Technology. Those are rather broad (I believe both Programmers and Signal Processing are in Technology, but as a software developer, I'm not interested in signal processing, but I'm sure those that are would be involved in the signal processing site).
It's probably a non-trivial task, or even something that has to ultimately be human driven, but if you create tools to let people organize meetups with people with a similar interest, it would achieve some of the same goals of DevDays of collaboration and learning on a far more frequent and local basis.
The only problem might be some smaller sites or grouping of sites that don't have a lot of traffic or users getting meetups off the ground. But the way that I see it is if you enable two or three people to connect off-line to meet, share knowledge and information, and even socialize a bit, you've succeeded.
So far, there's been no comment or answer from anyone on the dev team. However, I also see that (thanks to a comment) people who were planning on attending the London Dev Days are using Meta.SO to try to organize another event. I think that's pretty nice, but they are going to miss out on a lot of people who don't browse Meta. So is it the current practice to post on Meta.SO (plus any Metas from relevant sites) to try to organize events, and is this the best we can hope for in the near future? Does the SO team endorse using Meta.SO and other Meta sites for organizing meetups to replace Dev Days for people who took the time off and arranged travel? How about for locations that weren't scheduled for a Dev Days?


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