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Chris Frederick is author of Stretch to Win published by Human Kinetics and teaches Fascial Stretch Therapy workshops for the Stretch to Win Institute. He is a sports and orthopedic physical therapist and a Structural Integrator from Thomas Myers school Kinesis. Chris has worked with Olympic and professional athletes and dancers for over 20 years to keep them functioning at an optimal level and looks forward to sharing his knowledge and experience with you.
Kevin Darby is the head instructor for Darby Training Systems and has been involved in structured physical conditioning programs for over twenty years. He has competed in, coached and officiated several sports at the provincial, university, national and international levels, included representing Canada as a member of the Canadian Forces Military Pentathlon Team.
During that period of time, he has been exposed to different training methods and philosophies including internships with Charles Poliquin and the St. Louis Blues (NHL).
He has trained and treated both professional (NHL, NLA, CFL, WTA and National Ballet of Canada) and amateur athletes (Olympic Games Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, FIS). Additionally, he works as the Strength and Conditioning consultant for the Pavel - Blackwood tennis academy in Arizona and in partnership with several health care providers .
He has been a part of the course conductor staff for the Poliquin International Certification Program (PICP) and the Stretch to Win - Fascial Stretch Therapist Certification (Stretch to Win Institute) and has published research in partnership with Dr. Stuart McGill.
Training or rehabilitating your clients, patients or athletes without understanding how the connective tissue system can change the activation or inhibition of muscle function will never give you optimal results. Having an understanding of how fascia influences the neuromuscular system and how it affects strength, flexibility, quickness, agility and balance will give you and your clients faster, better results. We invite you to learn quick, easy and effective assessments and training strategies for personal trainers, athletic trainers, coaches and therapists that will immediately improve core stability, joint mobility, strength, flexibility, squat and other movement patterns.
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Hand quilting is the method of sewing together the three layers of a quilt (the backing, the batting, and the top) in patterns of hand sewn stitches. It's certainly not fast, but it is stunningly beautiful. This tutorial only covers the hand quilting stitch itself. Before you get started you will need to thread baste your quilt top, batting and backing together.
You will also need some special equiptment and materials. Please check out our Windowpane Wholecloth Baby Quilt (pictured above) for a full list of these materials.
Place the section of your basted quilt sandwich that you would like to quilt on the inside of the quilting hoop and then attach the outside of the hoop. You can start quilting wherever you like. Tighten the hoop slightly but do not stretch the quilt itself. You want the hoop to hold the fabric in place but not to pull it as taut as you would for an embroidery hoop.
Tie a Quilters Knot at the end of an 18-inch piece of hand quilting thread and thread this onto a hand quilting needle.
Before you begin quilting you need to anchor your thread. First find where you would like to start quilting. You will anchor your thread 1-inch before this point. Bring your threaded needle through the top of your sandwich and the batting layer, then back up through the top, coming up at your start point, careful not to puncture the backing fabric.
Pull the thread until the knot pops through the top fabric and is thus hidden in-between the layers of the quilt. Do not pull it so hard that the knot comes through the exit point as well.
Now it's time to arm your fingers against the sharp quilting needle. Place your thimble on your right index finger and your under thimble on the tip of your left index finger.
Hold the quilting hoop on your lap. Place your left hand under the hoop with your left index finger directly under where you'll be stitching.
Keep in mind that you will be stitching towards yourself. Insert your needle 1/8-inch or less from the thread's exit point. Press it perpendicularly through all three layers of the quilt using only your right index finger, until the tip of the needle hits your left index finger on the opposite side of the quilt. Meanwhile, push the fabric in front of the stitch downward with your right thumb.
While pushing the fabric down with your right thumb rock the needle back with your right index finger while pushing up with your bottom left finger to create a little bump on the fabric. With your right finger push the needle though the bump so it come out back on the top. Pull the needle and thread through the fabric so that it just barely puckers it. This is your first quilt stitch! It is important to make sure that this stitch has gone through all three layers of the quilt sandwich.
Do not be discouraged if your first stitches (or even all of the stitches on your first quilt) are not very even or very small. It's more important to get the rocking motion and the idea that you are only using three fingers; the left index, the right index, and the right thumb to make each stitch. The beauty of handquilting comes from the irregularities so it's best to embrace them early on!
As you get a more comfortable with the handquilting stitch you will be able to take more than one stitch at a time before pulling your needle through. Once I get rolling I can usually take 3 or 4 at a time. But remember this isn't a race, there is nothing wrong with taking one stitch at a time.
When you reach the end of a length of thread stop while you still have 3-inches of thread left. Tie a quilter's knot close to the last stitch. Push the needle back into the quilt for the last stitch but only go through the front and batting layers, not the backing. Bring the needle out 1-inch away from the last stitch and pull the thread to pop the knot to the inside. Cut the thread end at the exit point to hide it and then start another row of stitches.

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You Are What You Eat
April 22, 2011 - Dalia Jakubauskas
It's a cruel, hard fact that even if you work out like a maniac, you will not make progress if you are putting vast amounts of garbage in your body. Taking an educated guess, I can safely say that 80% of the battle to lose weight is controlling what goes in your mouth. The formula for weight loss has not changed in thousands of years. You have to burn more calories than you take in. This isn't easy. We are hard-wired to crave the bad stuff – simple carbohydrates, sugar and salt. Unless your palate has been trained from infancy to relish healthy foods, most of us engage in unhealthy eating habits. In particular, we eat way to many processed foods. Supermarket shelves are flooded with the stuff. It is low quality, high calorie food that comes in a bag, box or carton. It's easy to fix, tasty and emotionally satisfying. It's also making us fat, poorly nourished and sick. It has been stripped of the nutrients our bodies need to covert to energy. Take a white loaf of bread for instance. The manufacturer removes the wheat grain's outer shell, which contains fiber, essential fats and vitamin E. What's left is the starch in the grain that is ground into a fine powder and bleached white. In the process, other vital vitamins and minerals are also lost. In order to meet FDA requirements to qualify as "food" the manufacturer has to add fortified man-made minerals and vitamins, which are chemicals. Then, to make it palatable, sugar, salt, artificial flavors, preservatives and hydrogenated fats are added. Yum! But here's the kicker. Eating that loaf of white bread with its empty calories does not satisfy your hunger. When your body doesn't get the nutrients it needs it tells you to eat more and the result is obesity. So, all those Lean Cuisines you've been eating that are advertised as helping you to lose weight are actually making you fat. The main ingredient in most processed foods, like frozen dinners, are simple carbohydrates and sugars. Eating these increases the production of insulin from your pancreas to lower your blood sugar when it becomes too high. Insulin causes your body to store fat and, get this, also prevents your body from burning fat stored for energy. This double whammy causes rapid weight gain. So if it comes in a box, bag, can or carton and contains ingredients that have more than 10 letters that you can't pronounce, don't buy it. Eating foods that are as close to their original form as possible is the only way to go. That means eating lean proteins like fish and poultry; lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, and whole grains like whole wheat, barley, and quinoa. Legumes like beans and lentils also provide a good source of protein and fiber. Eating healthy isn't that complicated. But it does take a little bit of work. To eat healthy, you have to eat fresh and be willing to take the time to fix real meals for yourself. I finally learned to cook for myself and cook healthy using recipe websites like myrecipes.com and epicurios.com. Sites like these offer easy instructions for preparation and helpful information like fat and calorie content. Here are some other tips for eating healthy.
-Lose the white food! If the color of the food is pale as snow, chances are all the nutrients have been bleached out of it and it contains mostly starch and sugar. Think white bread, white potatoes, white rice, etc. These are simple carbs which you might as well paste to your thighs as fat.
-Substitute complex carbs like green leafy vegetables, for simple carbs and eat lots of them. Vegetables like spinach, broccoli, kale and Swiss chard are all nutrient rich, low in calories and hydrate the body.
-Eat 4 or 5 small meals during the day instead of 3 large ones. Eating small portions every few hours keeps you from feeling hungry and is easier for your body to burn off than several large meals. For instance, try breaking up a large meal into small portions to use for snacks during the day.
-Reduce the portion size of proteins and simple carbs, like rice and potatoes to what will fit in the palm of your hand. Then load up on the vegetables.
-Eat breakfast! Just like a car that needs gas, your body has laid dormant for 7 or 8 hours. Your metabolism slows and stays slow until you put fuel in your tank. Skipping breakfast only slows it further and your body has a much harder time burning calories you put in you body later in the day.
-Conversely, avoid eating late at night before you go to bed. In sleep mode your body is not able to burn the calories that are now just sitting in you belly.
-For a balanced diet, don't forget your fruits.
-Drink lots of water. A well hydrated body functions better, heals faster and has more energy.
-Lastly, indulge once in a while. Eating absolutely perfect will drive you crazy after a while. So go ahead and have that small slice of chocolate cake or that cup of Ben and Jerry's, Chunky Monkey ice cream. Reward yourself for a job well done, just don't overdo it. After all, life is about balance.
It is absolutely true that you are what you eat. So, which would you choose to look and feel like -a big sloppy cheeseburger or a light and sunny garden full of fresh fruits and vegetables? The choice seems pretty clear.
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DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC FIA.MI, which popularized the minivan nearly 30 years ago, will showcase an upscale version of its Chrysler Town & Country family minivan at the Los Angeles Auto Show this week.
The 2013 Town & Country S includes a standard Blu-Ray DVD player as well as a black chrome grill and black interior. The minivan is the third Chrysler model to join the automaker's "S" lineup after the 200 and 300 sedans.
Earlier this month, Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne told reporters that the automaker was "more or less" on track to launch a redesigned minivan by 2014. The company is the dominant player in the minivan segment, which it launched in 1983 under former CEO Lee Iacocca.
"We have spent an inordinate amount of time looking at that market," Marchionne said, adding that the new minivan has been tested in consumer clinics for more than a year.
U.S. minivan sales peaked in 2000 at just over 1.3 million and today's sales are about half that, due in part to higher gasoline prices and the "soccer mom" stigma - that only families favor them. Over the last several years, Chrysler's U.S. rivals, General Motors Co (GM.N) and Ford Motor Co (F.N), stopped production of their less-popular minivans.
This month, Ford unveiled a version of its Transit Connect commercial van that includes sliding doors and other features seen in traditional minivans, but the second-largest U.S. automaker has opted to call the van a "people mover" instead.
Chrysler launched a sportier version of its Dodge Caravan last year to broaden its appeal. The model, called the "man van," features an all-black interior, wider tires and a stiffer suspension.
(Reporting by Deepa Seetharaman; Editing by Dan Grebler)
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Peralta sits amid lengthy skid
NEW YORK -- Cardinals manager Mike Matheny is still learning how to guide Jhonny Peralta through the ups and downs of the season, and Thursday afternoon's game against the Mets stood to be another lesson.
After another frustrating night at the plate and in the field Wednesday, Peralta was not in the lineup for the final game of the Cardinals' four-game set at Citi Field. The veteran shortstop, who signed a four-year deal with St. Louis this offseason, is mired in an 0-for-21 slump dating back to April 17 in Washington. Entering Thursday, he was hitting just .151 this April.
"He's frustrated, like I or anybody else would be when he continues to press and try to impress," Matheny said. "He's still a new guy in a new town and a new team, and he wants to show what he can do."
In Wednesday night's 3-2 loss, Peralta came to the plate with his team facing a two-run deficit in the top of the eighth with runners on second and third, but he popped out to second base for the second out and the Cardinals came away empty in the inning. That at-bat capped off an 0-for-4 night for Peralta, who was brought in this winter to address the offensive struggles of St. Louis shortstops in 2013.
"It's been there for a long time, for many years, and it's going to be there again, but right now, he seems to keep coming up there in those big situations," Matheny said. "And he's going about the mentality of the thought process the right way, but physically and in application he's struggling to get it done, and that's frustrating for him. Days like this are an opportunity to give him a day to get in and get as many swings as he wants in the cage right now."
Daniel Descalso got the start in Peralta's place on Thursday, fresh off a pinch-hit RBI double in the ninth inning that gave the Cardinals life against Mets closer Kyle Farnsworth. The Cardinals' larger issue is smoothing out Peralta's early issues as the rest of the offense continues to slowly knock the rust off.
"He's going to have a great year, I know it, and this is just going to be one of those bumps that he's going to have to just trust himself through, just like our young guys," Matheny said. "The difference is, Jhonny's probably been here before, we just haven't witnessed it firsthand."


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President Obama's fiscal 2014 budget plans have only confirmed some of the worst fears of defense industry analysts. The Pentagon's $526.6 billion budget request does not address government-wide budget cuts that started in fiscal 2013 and only continues ongoing uncertainty.
And while Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's list of changes would help shore up the Pentagon's finances, cuts to missile defense and other weapons, bases, military health coverage and other "entitlements" and the civilian and contractor workforce will open up a multifront war on Capitol Hill.
In 2011, Congress passed a law putting massive across-the-board budget cuts into effect to force lawmakers to reduce the federal deficit. From that time on, budget plans have hinged on the possibility that the White House might reach an agreement with lawmakers to reduce the deficit and prevent the cuts.
That is a big deal at the Pentagon, which spends the bulk of the government's so-called discretionary dollars. And with such a large budget, the Defense Department drafts its spending plans five years at a time.
Making up for the damage caused by sequestration, the mechanism for the across-the-board cuts, will cost money, indicates Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "We've already curtailed or canceled training for many units across the services, specifically those not preparing to deploy," Dempsey says. "And it's more expensive to get ready than it is to stay ready. Recovery costs will compete with costs to build the future joint force."
Even if Congress reached a deal this week to stop sequestration from continuing, the Pentagon would have to mitigate its effects, and at this point, its accounting staff is already spread thin.
First, they had to plan for a full-year continuing resolution. Congress resolved that issue by passing a full-year spending bill to fund the military from the end of March until the end of the fiscal year. That leaves the Pentagon accountants now planning fiscal 2013 a second time, while they are rolling out the fiscal 2014 budget and working on a major reprogramming action that will help mitigate the turmoil from the first months of the year. "We are flat-out stressed in the financial planning," says Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale. "We have not yet begun a get-well plan."
There is also the matter of the war in Afghanistan. The administration "hopes" to submit a request for war spending to Congress within the next month, Hale says. The overall budget request includes an $88 billion placeholder for Overseas Contingency Operations, but little further detail about it. That is up to $10 billion more than the military had anticipated, Hale says, because of a higher operational tempo and logistical difficulties.
Hagel stresses that the Pentagon is preparing for continued across-the-board budget cuts, starting with a $41 billion reduction this year. "I don't think anyone is minimizing the result of sequestration as a law," Hagel says. "We are planning for every eventuality."
That, he says, is why he directed Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Dempsey to work on a strategic review to resolve some of the uncertainty.
The budget would save $8.2 billion by terminating and restructuring weapons systems over the next five years, Hagel says. He counts $2 billion in savings on development costs by restructuring the U.S. Army's Ground Combat Vehicle program. Proposed terminations include that of the Missile Defense Agency's Precision Tracking Space System.
In all, the fiscal 2014 base budget seeks $99.3 billion for procurement accounts, a reduction of about 1%, according to Robert Stallard, an analyst for RBC Europe Ltd. The Pentagon is requesting $67.5 billion for research and development efforts, a cut of 3.6% from the previous year. That includes decisions that are sure to draw fire from lawmakers and defense companies, including stopping the purchase of Global Hawk Block 30 and 40 UAVs, C-27J aircraft and truncating the purchase of Lakota helicopters.
Congress rejected similar halts to the C-27J and the Global Hawk Block 30 last year. And with Sen. Thad Cochran (Miss.) leading Republicans on the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Army's plans to limit the purchase of Lakotas made in Columbus will face a fight.
The tiffs with Congress will not end there. Republican lawmakers are already lining up to express general opposition to a $500 million reduction to $9.162 billion in missile defense spending driven largely by the end of development with Italy and Germany of the Medium Extended Air Defense System in fiscal 2013. "While North Korea blusters about nuclear war, the president's budget falls short of funding missile defense," says Rep. Randy Forbes (R-Va.).
Since the Pentagon failed to save money on base realignments in 2005, the suggestion of further base consolidation has been an anathema on Capitol Hill. Last month, the House Armed Services Committee held an entire hearing protesting the idea of another round of base closures. Nonetheless, Hale says the military will request them again. "It seems to me we have to keep asking," he says. "We know we need it. It's the only way to reduce excess infrastructure."
The push-back against changes to military entitlements is the stuff of legend, with retired officers commanding considerable sway. An analysis of military compensation may pave the way for future reductions, but few expect changes in fiscal 2014.
And a struggle is brewing between the Pentagon's unionized civilian workforce and its legions of contractors. Changes that disrupt either constituency will only exacerbate those tensions.
A chorus of detractors is accusing the president of "ostrich-budgeting" and refusing to acknowledge sequestration. That includes Sen. Jim Inhofe (Okla.), the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, who says the proposal would be "saddling the men and women of our military with disproportionate and illogical budget cuts that drastically undermine the readiness and capabilities they need to operate in an increasingly dangerous world."
The nuclear arms-control community is also critical of the president. "Congress will be faced with the task of paring these numbers down to fit within the caps," says Laicie Heeley, senior policy analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. "Given the wide gulf that exists between the two parties, we will again be looking at a very complicated budget year."
The budget situation undermines the credibility of the U.S. defense establishment, says Travis Sharp, an analyst for the moderate Center for a New American Security that was founded by Obama's former Pentagon under secretary for policy, Michele Flournoy. To help restore the U.S.'s standing, Sharp says the Pentagon needs to truly reform its business practices and clarify the military services' roles and missions in cyberspace. The latter would save money and help the U.S. respond to cyberattacks, he says.
Mackenzie Eaglen of the American Enterprise Institute points out that unrealistic budget requests "may seem to help the military in the near term but are actually exacerbating ongoing damage and making the outlook worse through continued uncertainty.
"Poor decisions like not sending an aircraft carrier to the [Persian] Gulf and cutting tuition assistance for service members are, in part, the result of rosy and ultimately false political calculations regarding the 2013 continuing resolution and sequester outcomes," she adds. "The president's 2014 defense budget only continues these trends and accelerates them."


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Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Inspector General -- AUDIT
"Audit of Selected Procurements by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Under Contract 200-2005-12567 Merck Vaccine Division," (A-04-06-01026)
June 15, 2006
Complete Text of Report is available in PDF format (638 kb). Copies can also be obtained by contacting the Office of Public Affairs at 202-619-1343.
As part of the Inspector General's broad evaluation of procurements by departmental components during relief operations following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we audited selected procurements under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contract 200-2005-12567 with Merck Vaccine Division. Our objectives were to determine whether CDC complied with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) while making the involved procurements and accurately computed amounts charged to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) based on the actual costs incurred. We found that CDC complied with applicable parts of the FAR while issuing three delivery orders to the Merck Vaccine Division for emergency shipments of vaccines to the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Mississippi Department of Health, and that CDC's claims for reimbursement from FEMA accurately reflected the actual costs incurred.


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Bagneres-de Bigorre Pictures
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That's all there is!
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Thursday that never ends
Tuesday, quick update
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Final thoughts about Indy 2013
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Wednesday update
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2010 Worlds Masters Track Champ, Portugal
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Monday, weekend fly by
Sunday Nov 7th
Thursday morning
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2011 Manchester Worlds Masters Track Championships
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At MSP airport
Friday updates
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Saturday already
Saturday sadness
Sunday afternoon, before it all starts
Thursday, late morning
Tuesday, mid day
Wednesday, mid day
2012 Manchester Worlds Masters Track Champs
Closing in
Day Before
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Saturday afternoon/evening
First Race Day is done
Monday, a day off for me
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Thursday, Rain and cool.
Friday Morning Update
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2014 Manchester Worlds Masters Track Champs
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World Champs
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Cyclist Bedroom
Podium Pic
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Tuesday Night report
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Linsey's Podium
Wednesday A.M., What 2K?
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2015 Manchester Worlds Masters Track Champs
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Monday in Manchester 2015
On the Plane home, 2015
Personal Final Tally, 2015
Thursday and everyone is in bed
Tuesday in Manchester 2015
2016 Manchester Worlds Masters Track Championships
Friday Follow up, end of the week
Pictures, 2016 Manchester
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Saturday, opening day, the no Team Sprint Day
Sunday and Monday, start of the week
Thursday, which really means Friday morning
2017 Worlds Masters Track Championships LA, Carson CA
1 Training in Boulder to start
2 Results Summary, getting to the end at the start
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Monday, easy day for me
Saturday one, Racing Starts tomorrow
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Sunday one, Team Sprint day, competition starts today
Thursday, another vacation day
Tuesday, 5K Scratch Race
Wednesday, 500 TT
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2019 World Masters Track Championships, Manchester UK
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This is a 2-day highly interactive workshop which covers how Lean Kanban helps teams, leaders and managers deliver more effectively.
This course guides you through the fundamentals of Lean Kanban and how you can apply Lean Kanban method in your organisation to understand your demand and visualise your workflow, bottlenecks and queues and how to continually evolve your system to significantly improve your service delivery.
You will learn techniques to help you create better reliability and predictability and be able to:
- Take an active role in your team's adoption of Kanban
- Understand the day-to-day operation and maintenance of kanban systems
- Understand key concepts such as pull & commitment
- Effectively communicate and take an active role in resolving issues affecting flow of work
- Understand what measures are used for, which ones to use to understand how the team is working
- Understand your team's capability (sources & types of demand, failure & value demand, completion time and rate for each demand type & source)
The course covers
- Lean Kanban principles
- Map your current system
- Type of work, frequency, variable size
- Identify your classes of service and demand
- Measure your current system capability
- Impact of work in process
- Transitioning to a pull based system
- Managing Flow
- Using measures to gain insight
- Evolutionary change
- Building a daily improvement cadence
On successful completion you will be able to
- Understand your demand sources and types
- Measure your system's capability in meeting your purpose
- Measure the impact of failure demand
- Visualise your current system
- Define explicit policies
- Identify areas for improvement
- Fulfil the Kanban Management Professional KMP I
This course is suitable for professionals across all industries who want to improve service delivery and deliver more often with higher quality. This course is relevant to everyone involved in services delivery and management. Including
- Managers
- Delivery Managers
- Project Managers
- Product Managers
- Product Designers
- Software Product Developers
- Delivery team members (Test specialist, Business Analysts, Administrators)
About the trainers - Nader Talai
Nader is an experienced business agility practitioner specialised in leading organisational transformations. He works with leadership teams, key stakeholders and delivery teams to implement focused and aligned improvements. Additionally, as a highly experienced Head of Department, Nader can relate to the challenges leaderships teams face with change and brings his experiences and skills to bear when coaching towards successful agile adoptions.
Nader is also seasoned trainer and communicator and has presented at London Limited WIP Society, Kanban Coaching Exchange and other conferences .
James Enock
James has been coaching and facilitating agility in teams and organisations for well over a decade, helping them to help themselves, by holding up a mirror to how they work, and challenging them to solve the things they dislike seeing. He has learnt from as far back as 2008 when he was a developer at The Moving Service that the STATIK method approach to change is a very effective way to improve capability and deliver faster. He has helped software, infrastructure, change, legal, risk, compliance, marketing and brand teams all implement Kanban effectively, and has a broad depth of proven experience of affecting change throughout organisations.
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This course has been accredited by the Lean Kanban University (LKU).
On successful completion, students taking an LKU accredited course will receive certificate of completion, membership of Lean Kanban University (LKU) Listing in the LKU Member Directory.
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Value Glide reserves the right to postpone or cancel this event if there are insufficient registrations or if presenters are unable to attend. In these circumstances, you will be notified no later than 7 days prior to the event with full refund. If circumstances require, presenters may be substituted for alternative qualified presenters with equivalent experience. Value Glide will not be responsible for any incurred costs.
We offer a 100% refund if you cancel your place more than 15 working days before the event. For cancelations with less than 15 working days before the event we do not offer a refund, but you will be able to transfer your place.


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For information on the future of Web 2.0 Summit, read John Battelle's post on Searchblog.
For Web 2.0 Summit 2010, we noted that the web ecosystem had shifted into something of a battlefield, with both major players and upstarts jockeying for lead positions around key "Points of Control." Looking back at our theme one year later, it's clear the game is still in its early phases—most of the major players have held their ground and continue to press into new territory. Meanwhile, the cycle of startup creation has intensified and compressed.
Given all this, we're tempted to simply declare Web 2.0 Summit 2011 "Points of Control, The Sequel." But we've noticed a constant uniting nearly all the battles around these strategic regions. That constant? How companies (and their customers) leverage data.
In our original Web 2.0 Summit opening talk, as well as in Tim's subsequent paper "What is Web 2.0," we outlined our short list of key elements defining the emergent web economy. Smack in the middle of that list is this statement: "Data Is the Next Intel Inside." At the time, most of us only vaguely understood the importance of this concept. Three years ago, we noted the role of data when "Web Meets World," and two years ago, we enlarged upon it with "WebSquared."
Once each year, the Web 2.0 Summit brings together 1,000 senior executives from the worlds of technology, media, finance, telecommunications, entertainment, and the Internet. For 2011, our theme is "The Data Frame" - focusing on the impact of data in today's networked economy. We live in a world clothed in data, and as we interact with it, we create more – data is not only the web's core resource, it is at once both renewable and boundless.
Consumers now create and consume extraordinary amounts of data. Hundreds of millions of mobile phones weave infinite tapestries of data, in real time. Each purchase, search, status update, and check-in layers our world with more of it. How our industries respond to this opportunity will define not only success and failure in the networked economy, but also the future texture of our culture. And as we're already seeing, these interactions raise complicated questions of consumer privacy, corporate trust, and our governments' approach to balancing the two.
At the 2011 edition of Web 2.0 Summit, we'll use data as a framing device to understand the state of the Web. We know that those who best leverage data will win. So who's winning, and how? Who's behind? In each of our key points of control such as location, mobile platforms, gaming, content, social—who is innovating, and where are the opportunities? What new classes of services and platforms are emerging, and what difficult policy questions loom? And what of the consumer—will users become their own "point of control," and start to understand the power of their own data?
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Gateway Park is the natural sloping semicircle area across from the baseball/softball field on the west bank of the Root River between the County Road 8 underpass and the Coffee Street walking bridge in Lanesboro. This site was identified by community members at Lanesboro Arts Campus Visioning sessions in 2013 and 2014 as a potential future location for a stone amphitheater with related amenities.
In partnership with the city of Lanesboro and the Lanesboro Park Board, Lanesboro Arts believes utilizing art, design and history to maintain, enhance and connect a unique and natural asset like Gateway Park has the potential to contribute significantly to on-going community efforts to improve quality of life and stimulate economic growth. Thanks to support from the Rochester Area Foundation and the Mardag Foundation, Lanesboro Arts is inviting community members to come together for events in Gateway Park that will include fun and creative ways for them to share their ideas, input and vision on potential features and designs for a more formalized gathering and recreation space that supports a healthy community.
For the tea and conversation events, Metcalfe will facilitate small group dialog with participants over tea and cookies about space and community so that art can be a vehicle for change. Using strategies from a project Metcalfe has used in other communities called "Upstream," this project seeks to build connections and share stories between both neighbors and strangers within a watershed through tea drinking, a simple and universally-understood action that will serve as the mechanism by which stories are collected and shared. (The rain site is Lulu's Funhouse.)
Metcalfe lives and works in Minneapolis where she graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2009 with her MFA. Metcalfe currently works for Springboard for the Arts in St. Paul, Minn. Interested in the junction of public art and craft, she makes work inspired by water, agriculture, food and community. As a teaching artist, Metcalfe loves to promote collaboration and interdisciplinary learning environments between the sciences and art-making.
At the free outdoor concert and community visioning event with classic rock quintet The Vintage Tones and the Fat Pat's Texas BBQ food truck on September 22, planners and designers from Hoisington Koegler Group, Inc., (HKGi), will lead design charrette activities that will allow community members to share their ideas, preferences, and priorities for Gateway Park. Attendees are encouraged to bring a lawn chair or a blanket to the concert. The event is taking place following "Girls Day Out" on Coffee Street and the Lanesboro "History Alive!" pop-up plays.
The Vintage Tones is a five-piece rock band primarily based out of Rochester, Minn., that performs favorites and deep cuts from the 1950s and 1960s, including the songs of the Everly Brothers and Roy Orbison. The Vintage Tones specialize in performing the music of the Beatles and the music that influenced them, as well as similar styles of early rock and rockabilly. The group consists of Peter J. Post on rhythm guitar and vocals, Patrick J. Heaney on lead guitar and vocals, Lanesboro resident Dave Harrenstein on keyboards and vocals, Geoffrey Forscher on bass, and Dean Loftus on drums.
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Since his death in June 2009, fans have made do with Michael Jackson's old releases, but Tuesday his new album "Michael" was released with 10 songs composed at various stages of production when he died.
Some people aren't happy with the new release.
Attorney Brian Oxman represents Joe Jackson and says Michael's father is not pleased.
Local news from across Southern California
"Over and over again, Michael Jackson said, no, he did not want these songs released. He had a terrible relationship with Sony because of it. He battled with them, fought tooth and nail. He didn't want them released. They weren't finished, and I think we need to respect Michael Jackson's wishes," said Oxman.
The cover art was requested years ago by Michael Jackson himself and created by longtime Jackson fan, muralist Kadir Nelson.
"You can imagine how thrilled I was to get a phone call from Michael Jackson himself asking me to do a painting of him that would tell his life story on canvas," said Nelson.
One music lover who said he often buys albums just for the cover art plans to pass on Jackson's latest release.
"Michael Jackson's OK with what he does, but he's not as hot as everybody makes him seem, now. Maybe once upon a time, before he became weird," said Jordan Bridges.
"Michael" is the first of a reported seven-year, 10-album deal between Sony and the late singer's estate.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – This week marks one year when Florida rushed to shut down Internet cafés and former Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll resigned after being connected to a fake charity. Lawmakers are now trying to clarify the laws.
Floridians haven't been able to step foot in an Internet café for about a year.
Sweeping change came after the bust of Allied Veterans, a fake charity making millions through an illegal Internet café gambling ring.
"The intent of what we did last year, which was to ban Internet cafés across the state of Florida, was very successful," said House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Pasco County.
The intent carried unintended consequences, too. The law only allowed for "coin operated games," putting strains on popular chains like Dave and Buster's and Chuck E. Cheese's that use payments other than cash on their gaming machines.
Sen. Kelli Stargel is proposing a bill that would allow for card payments or coupons to be used.
"It's not a scaling back. What we did last year was absolutely necessary to make it very clear that Internet cafés and the way they're operated is not something we think should be legal," said Stargel, R-Lakeland.
The bill is meant to keep the illegal Internet cafés closed, but there's wiggle room to reopen senior arcades if rules are followed.
Stargel's bill allows for arcades with at least 50 games used for "bona fide entertainment purposes only."
"If it's in an arcade or if they're in a bowling alley, or the bottom of a hotel establishment, or something like that, it's going to be an amusement area, an arcade room. It's not going to be an Internet café," said Stargel.
Weatherford isn't sure the law needs to be changed.
"I'll let our committees and our people figure that out," said Weatherford.
Stargel's bill legalizes claw machines, which opponents said are already considered illegal gambling devices but are found throughout the state.
Stargel's bill received unanimous support from the Senate's Gaming Committee. The House has its own gaming bill that doesn't have any language about arcade games.


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Management's insistence that workers contribute something toward their retirement benefits doesn't seem so draconian to those in the private sector who don't know what a pension is. Nor does it seem unreasonable that employees ante up more than $92 per month for family health coverage. Folks on Medicare pay higher premiums than that.
The ABAG president is Napa County Supervisor Mark Luce, the vice president is Clayton Mayor Julie Pierce, and the four standing committee chairpersons are supervisors from Napa, Sonoma, Santa Clara and Contra Costa counties. East Bay reps among the 21 MTC commissioners include Supervisors Scott Haggerty (Alameda County) and Federal Glover (Contra Costa) and Mayors Tom Bates (Berkeley) and Amy Worth (Orinda).
If those folks weren't elected, how did they get their jobs?
According to Grand Jury figures, the five supervisors' average of $174,817 ranks in the 37th percentile, below the median of $187,113. District Attorney Mark Peterson, at $312,138, is in the 45th percentile, just behind the midpoint of $319,088. And Sheriff David Livingston, in the 17th percentile, is woefully behind his peers. But there's no need to pass the hat. At $335,376, the sheriff is the best-compensated elected official in county government.
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I'm a first time poster (but an old time lurker on stackoverflow).
I'm implementing a RPG system (personal use only) that is currently in beta testing.
The idea for skills and progression is that the main attribute for learning is intelligence, subdivided in types (Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Social, Spatial ecc) and that the value of those types of intelligence would influence the learning speed of the skills. Maximum skill level should be something like 40, possibily in 5 points increments.
I was looking for ispiration to RPG systems with a similar method for managing skills.
I already found Sagatafl, but the system seems pretty complicated, and it's difficult to find updated and grouped information.
Someone knows other systems like that, or has any tips?
I'll try to rephrase the question for increased clarity:
What would be a good (as in simple but realistic) way to implement a gaming system with a mostly fixed intelligence attribute that influences the learning speed of skills? Are there gaming-systems with a similar model?


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Christopher Hitchens' Mortality: A rare honest book about death.
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Before being diagnosed with esophageal cancer, Christopher Hitchens wrote in his memoir, Hitch-22, "I want to stare death in the eye."
This seems, of course, an impossible blustery task, but in his last book, Mortality he comes astonishingly close to pulling it off.
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Wauwatosa may restrict number of chain restaurants along North Avenue
Wauwatosa could soon restrict the number of chain restaurants in the city.
WISN 12 News' partners at Wauwatosa Patch learned the city is now considering a proposal to restrict the number of chain restaurants along North Avenue between 60th and 76th streets.
Michael Claffey and his sister Dee Weber said they are all for that.
"I mean, I'd rather be down here and come and have lunch and Ted's Restaurant here on 60th and North rather than go down to 124th and North," Weber said.
For years, the stretch has been known for its mom-and-pop burgers and foods that simmer and stew, versus fast food. Many patrons want to keep it that way.
Wauwatosa Alderman Joel Tilleson, who is sponsoring the ordinance, said preservation is one aspect of it but there's more.
"There's high turnover. There's concern that the chains aren't as profitable as they would be in some other parts of town, so this is strictly guidance for those businesses to say, 'We want to locate you in a part of town where you'll be profitable and the neighbors will be happy and everyone will be happy,'" Tilleson said.
Local businesswoman Jo Ann Willow said she believes the city is on the right track with this idea.
"Restricting chains doesn't mean that chains are disallowed, it fosters and encourages the entry of local businesses," Williow said. "And it's been my experience that people who live in this area and own businesses here. They stay here. They raise their kids here. They keep the money in the economy and they hire local people."
The city has not made a final decision on this issue. It will have another committee meeting and a public hearing before it goes to the council for a vote.
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Monday, December 14, 2009
The Great Awakening
Nothing meets us but dead silence.
We bang the wall.
Finally and faintly we hear, "I'm up!"
Of course, that's not the end of it – we will have to repeat the exercise at least four times for her to be truly up, and I'm never at ease until I see she has finally made her way down the steps.
It is a cross we bear as parents of a teenager, I guess……among many other crosses.
In history the Great Awakening refers to periods of great religious revival in our nation. The approximate years for the first Great Awakening occurred from the 1730s to the 1760s, and the movement mainly consisted of changes regarding how pastors approached the delivery of their sermons moving from a heavy dose of theology to more of an appeal to the emotions and practical application.
While it is easy to discuss the attacks on religion today we need to remember that by the end of the 1700s many church leaders knew their hold over Americans was weakening mainly due to the growth of scientific knowledge and nationalism.
The Second Great Awakening occurred from the 1790s to the 1840s after church leaders had mobilized and organized so to speak…..
While the second movement spread to various areas north, south, east and west it began in Kentucky of all places in the middle of frontier farmers, and spread rapidly mainly through the use of circuit preachers who traveled from town to town and sometimes from house to house.
The main denominations in the movement tended to be Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians. Church leaders held camp meetings that went on for several days promoting the message that individuals must include God into their daily lives and rejected the Calvinistic idea that only a chosen few were predestined for salvation. Church leaders preached all could attain grace through faith and faith alone.
Charles Grandison Finney, a Presbyterian minister, was one of the better known leaders of the Second Great Awakening. He is remembered as the father of Modern Revivalism. He freely admitted to using emotion to reach people and compared his methods to politicians and salespeople.
Most of Finney's messages were delivered along the Erie Canal in upstate New York and other cities in the Northeast. He believed people could be made perfect by striving for high morals. Finney's preaching style was very innovative for the times. He allowed women to pray openly at meetings that included mixed genders. He employed the "anxious seat" which was a place for people to receive prayer when they were under conviction of becoming a Christian.
Finney's sermons and prayers often publically censured people by name. He denounced slavery. He also became a major naysayer of the Freemasons after he resigned the organization in 1824.
He served as the president of Oberlin College in Ohio, the first US college to admit women and African Americans.
In most history textbooks today very little is said about either Great Awakening movements. Some texts devote a small section briefly describing the movements and then rapidly move on to other things.
The only plausible reason I can think of is the movement involves religion….often a touchy subject for any public school classroom, but I'm of the opinion that educators are failing their students when they merely touch on….basically gloss over… certain aspects of the American story merely because it involves religion.
Both movements had a huge impact on American religious history in that the Baptist and Methodist denominations took a more dominant role in American society.
The initial Great Awakening movement played a key role in the American Revolution by providing an arena for democratic concepts to be shared freely and openly.
The second movement took advantage of westward expansion and zeroed in on reform in many areas of American society –abolition, temperance, prison reform, care for the handicapped and mentally ill, and women's rights – and argued that God's plan included those reforms. Personal piety was favored over religious education and theology.
Getting back to Dear Daughter and the monumental efforts it takes on the part of her father and I to wake her….it always amazes me that on the days that she has to be up early…say 5 or 5:30 to attend a wrestling match where she keeps score and does other administrative things she gets up on her own with absolutely no problem at all.
Hmmmm….the difference?
Well, she is a teenage girl, and there is a boyfriend…a boyfriend who just happens to be on the wrestling team.
Perhaps Charles Grandison Finney and the other Great Awakening ministers DID understand the people and their needs.
Give them what they want….give them what they need much along the lines of politicians or salespeople and by appealing to their emotions.
But, at some point it would seem that the basics of faith suffered at the hands of the ministers of the Great Awakening…. just as Dear Daughter's sense of responsibility could suffer if her father and I didn't hold her accountable for every day of the week instead of just when the situation is appealing to her.
Interesting Links:
the official site for Oberlin College
The Gospel Truth: The Character, Claims, and Practical Workings of Freemasonry….Finney's work from 1869 denouncing Freemasonry
A good source regarding Modern Revivalism can be found here and a worth site for more information regarding the Great Awakening can be found here
The painting that I placed at the beginning of this post is Camp Meeting by A. Rider (1835)
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I just finished writing a research paper on Frontier Religion from 1779-1796. It focused on the Cumberland Settlements area which was instrumental to the 2nd Great Awakening. Wow, talk about myths being busted! Two key things I discovered about religion in the 18th century: only 10-12% of Americans were members of churches on the east coast in 1776 and that after the American Revolution, religion really took a nose dive. Those folks who moved west were even less inclined to be religious for various reasons. The 2nd Great Awakening occurred in probably the only spot it could. That area has been described as one of the most dangerous and least secure areas of the frontier. Perhaps people had a reason to turn to a God! Historians William Sweet & Frederick Turner have some great things to say about the Frontier and sociologists Rodney Starke & Roger Finke talk about religion in 18th century America in a paper entitled "American Religion in 1776" and again in "How the Upstart Sects Won America, 1776-1850". The title to my paper? "Schoolhouse Rock: Frontier Religion, 1779-1796"
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Autodesk University 2010, Part 18 Dec, 2010 By: Nancy Spurling Johnson
Bouncing back a bit from 2009, the annual user event draws a reported 7,000 attendees as the company gets serious about consumer, mobile, sustainable design, and cloud computing technologies.
Stumbling from the casino floor to the show floor was an easy feat again last week as Autodesk University (AU) took place for the second year in a row at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the south end of the Las Vegas strip. More than 7,000 attendees registered for this year's gathering of Autodesk customers, staff, speakers, and exhibitors, the company reported, with another 40,000 estimated to log in to AU Virtual, an online presentation of week's best offerings. More than 500 classes, plus 150 virtual sessions, were presented over the course of the 18th annual event.
This year, AU classes and other sessions were shortened from 90 minutes to 60 minutes each, apparently based on requests from past attendees. The result was that some sessions felt rushed or incomplete, according to presenters and attendees alike, and the event as a whole was slightly shorter than in previous years.
Attendance and mood were both up slightly from AU 2009, and Autodesk executives were energetic about the company's focus on emerging markets, including consumer and mobile applications, cloud computing, and sustainable design. At the opening General Session on Tuesday, CEO Carl Bass welcomed attendees and kicked off the event, which was themed "The Power of the Possible."
"Why do we [the Autodesk community] do what we do?" Bass asked rhetorically. "We want our work to have a positive impact," he answered, adding that the need for better design is greater than ever because of global, economic, and other challenges that demand more innovation and creativity than ever before.
To make such an impact, Bass continued, users must ponder another question: "How do you create something that's going to have lasting and tangible benefits?" According to Bass, the answer is innovation — but innovation in the sense of renewing or revising an existing idea, rather than creating something entirely new. Improvements that can be put to use right away, he explained, are more valuable than inventions that are centuries ahead of their time. "Design is really the arbitration of possibility," said Bass.
Several Autodesk customers took the stage to exemplify Bass's inspirational words. Living up to its name, Bespoke Innovations has so thoroughly refined an existing technology — prosthetic limbs — that they are functional art. A completely custom product in an age of mass-produced goods, these beautiful, unique designs reflect the wearer's personality and style, whether that's fishnet stockings or tattoos. "Now, the specific user is the first step in the [design] process instead of the last," said Bespoke's Scott Summit.
Emily Pilloton of Project H Design explained how she became "fed up with designing products for the top of the pyramid and founded Project H to do design that has social value." The mission of Project H is to tap the power of the design process to catalyze communities and public education from within — aiming to "design with, not for [local residents]," Pilloton explained. Currently Project H is reaching high school students in rural Bertie County, North Carolina, through an innovative design/build curriculum led by Pilloton and partner Matthew Miller.
Oohs and aahs rang out from the crowd when Tesla Motors' Franz von Holzhausen drove a shiny, bright-red Model S onto the main stage. Designed using Autodesk industrial design software, it is the world's first premium, all-electric sedan. Running on 6,831 lithium ion batteries, the car can travel 300 miles on a single charge and can zoom from 1 to 60 mph in 5.6 seconds. It was designed so owners can easily swap out batteries, and it features an interior that can seat as many as five adults and two children.
But there's nothing like a futuristic 3D movie preview to generate major buzz at a gathering of technology buffs. Later on Tuesday, Cliff Plumer, CEO of the Academy Award–winning digital production studio Digital Domain (another Autodesk customer), presented a 20-minute clip from Walt Disney Pictures' film TRON: Legacy ahead of its December 17 release date. Attendees willingly waited in endless lines to part with (and later retrieve) their digital recording devices and cell phones to abide by Disney security rules, and by all accounts, it was worth the trouble to get a sneak peek at the much-anticipated movie.
Autodesk News
Autodesk saves most product launches for the March time frame each year, so the company typically does not release major news at AU. However, a few press releases surfaced and the company did share several general updates with the media, plus we heard a great deal about the latest experimental technologies available from the Autodesk Labs site. (Details about the latter to come in a later report.)
- Company executives were happy about the fact that Autodesk had just inked a $6 million, three-year license agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) for products, services, and training, including access to the Autodesk Revit family of products, AutoCAD Civil 3D software, and Autodesk Navisworks software products, among others.
- So easy a kid could do it? Well, Ze Kun Chen is not your typical kid. The fifth-grade student from China is the youngest person to be certified as an Autodesk 3ds Max Associate, Autodesk announced. Ze Kun completed his first 3ds Max software certification when he was just nine years old, then repeated the feat last month, at the age of 10, for 3ds Max 2010.
- Autodesk also announced the winners of its Rendering Revolution contest — a still-image architectural visualization competition hosted by CGarchitect. The winning entry, submitted by Chinese artist Qingfeng Chen, is a rendering of the 3ds Max 20th anniversary logo. The image was inspired by a diverse group of steel pipes Chen noticed on a construction site. View all three winning entries at CGarchitect.com.
Mobile Applications
At a day-long presentation on Monday, Autodesk executives told the media that the company is currently focused on two areas of growth: consumer applications and mobile technologies — more so than even a year ago, said Chief Marketing Officer Chris Bradshaw. "We've been trying to make our technology more accessible to more people," said Bradshaw. "We've always known there was a bigger audience."
"The iPad has really changed how our customers get data into the field," Bradshaw explained, citing the recently launched and free AutoCAD WS (web service) that delivers AutoCAD drawings online for editing and sharing on Mac iOS devices. AutoCAD WS 1.1, announced mid-week, adds functionality to upload files from e-mail and view files in offline mode, and features an upgraded interface with intuitive gestures that simplify functions such as snapping. In the two months since it was launched, half a million users have downloaded WS, Bradshaw reported.
SketchBook Mobile, the iOS-based painting and drawing app introduced in September 2009, "has gone very, very viral," Bradshaw said, having been downloaded more than two million times. During AU, Autodesk announced that Autodesk SketchBook Mobile ($2.99) and a free Autodesk SketchBook Mobile Express app are available immediately for use on devices running Android 2.1 and above. The apps can be downloaded from Android Market.
SketchBook Mobile and SketchBook Mobile Express are now available for use on Android devices.
Amar Hanspal, senior vice-president of Autodesk platform solutions and emerging business, summed up Autodesk's perspective on the mobile marketplace: "Mobile access is critical for us. It's critical for our customers."
Consumer Applications
Hanspal also explained Autodesk's focus on the consumer market: "[Consumers] are the next generation [of customers]. We must engage with the next generation of people using the next generation of products."
One Autodesk product aimed at the consumer market is Homestyler, downloaded by more than one million users in the 14 months since its introduction. The free online software for 2D and 3D home design and remodeling projects has been updated with the new Snapshot feature, whereby users can create high-resolution, near photo-quality images of any home interior design project created in Homestyler, then share them with others. A new toolbar helps speed access to top design and sharing features, and the catalog of content has been increased to more than 20,000 branded and generic building elements.
Buzz Kross, senior vice-president of manufacturing, said his division is striving to make design and manufacturing more accessible to more people by fostering creativity and innovation. "It's inventing for everyone. … Autodesk is trying to move engineering beyond designers and engineers" to students and the do-it-yourself (DIY) market, he said. Kross explained that putting powerful design tools in the hands of the masses results in innovation that otherwise might not have occurred.
Tech Shop. Autodesk is partnering with Tech Shop, a membership-based group in Menlo Park, California, that provides shop space equipped with "every tool you can imagine for fabricating designs," said its CEO, Mark Hatch. "We are the physical embodiment of the maker movement," Hatch continued, explaining that a service that gives people access to all the tools they need for $100 per month has the effect of completely unleashing the pent-up creativity of the do-it-yourselfer and inventor. Autodesk plans to donate copies of AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor Professional, Autodesk Inventor Fusion Technology Preview, Autodesk Inventor Publisher, Autodesk Alias Design, Autodesk Showcase, Autodesk SketchBook Pro, and Autodesk Mudbox to the organization, as well as high-end workstations to run the software within the TechShop collaborative work areas.
Tinkerbox. Students, even young ones, are on Autodesk's radar; like other technology developers, the company realizes that these are the customers of tomorrow. Student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math, however, is waning. Autodesk previewed a tool now in development to help combat this problem. Developed for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch, Tinkerbox is a game designed to make engineering and math more fun. Players build virtual versions of the elaborate contraptions made popular by inventor Rube Goldberg, then set them in motion to experiment with the effects of their engineering. No word yet on when Tinkerbox will be available for download.
Cloud and Infinite Computing
While some CAD developers downplay the viability of cloud computing for the CAD market (and their interest in developing it), Autodesk makes no secret of its lofty ambitions for the technology that delivers high-end computer performance and storage capacity via the Internet (also commonly known as software as a service, or SaaS).
"This is real," said Bradshaw, emphasizing that cloud computing can move compute-intensive tasks such as analysis, simulation, and rendering off the desktop, saving money spent on hardware as well as time thanks to increased processing power.
Brian Mathews, vice-president of Autodesk Labs, told the media, "[Autodesk] did SaaS before the term was coined, with Buzzsaw." Autodesk now has 16 cloud-based technologies that are public, he said, "and many more in development behind the scenes."
Mathews continued, "Cloud computing should not be better, cheaper, faster versions of the 'old way,' but rather it should do what was not possible before. Now with one computer, you can instantly do what took many computers before [without added cost]. For the first time in history, getting it done faster is not more expensive."
Cloud computing is the foundation for another newly coined term, "infinite computing." That is, when you combine virtually unlimited access to software technologies with virtually unlimited processing power, you get virtually unlimited possibilities in terms of what you can accomplish. For example, the cloud enables rendering of complex scenes instantly and simultaneously, or lets users define design criteria so the computer can efficiently generate numerous options to consider.
Chief Technology Officer Jeff Kowalski said, "Infinite computing allows you to access your work from any [Internet-] connected computer, not just your desktop or laptop. … Start thinking about the infinite power of computers, how the computer can help you do your work rather than the other way around. Look for ways to do something new, not new ways to do something old."
Sustainable Design
Autodesk is arguably one of the most aggressive companies in the CAD market in terms of efforts to support greener product and building design. At AU, the company revealed that its Clean Tech Partner Program is expanding from the United States into Europe, with plans to move into Asia sometime next year. The program supports early-stage clean technology companies by providing up to $150,000 worth of Autodesk design and engineering software for only $50.
The company also recently announced that it is collaborating with Granta Design, a materials information technology provider, to develop web-based software tools that will incorporate Granta's materials information database and help Autodesk users to better assess the environmental impact of their materials choices, respond to consumer demand, and ensure regulatory compliance. Autodesk would not comment on how it intends to implement the new tools or when they will become available.
Autodesk University 2011
Next year, AU will stay in Las Vegas, but will move back to the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino at the opposite end of the Strip, where it was held in 2006 through 2008.
For further coverage of new hardware and software on display at AU 2010, see part 2 of this article.
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It is often convenient to represent an entire JDOQL query as a single string. JDO defines a single-string query form that encompasses all parts of a query: the unique flag, result string, result class, filter, parameters, variables, imports, grouping, ordering, and range.
Kodo uses the single-string format to implement JDOQL subquery support, covered in Section 9.6.4, "JDOQL Subqueries" of the Reference Guide.
We present the grammar for single-string JDOQL queries below. Clauses
in square brackets are optional. Clauses in angle brackets are
required, and represent portions of the
select [unique] [<result>] [into <result class>] [from <candidate class> [exclude subclasses]] [where <filter>] [variables <variable declarations>] [parameters <parameter declarations>] [<import declarations>] [group by <grouping>] [order by <ordering>] [range <start>, <end>]
Each keyword above can appear in all lower case or all upper case.
PersistenceManager has a factory
method designed specifically for constructing a query from a JDOQL
public Query newQuery (String query);
Additionally, any of the
query factory methods that accept a JDOQL filter string will also
accept the JDOQL single-string format. See
Section 8.11, "Query Factory".
In each code block below, we create and execute a standard JDOQL query, then demonstrate the same process using the single-string format. As you'll see, translating any query into single-string form is just a matter of plugging the corresponding strings into the grammar above.
Query query = pm.newQuery (); query.setResult ("distinct title"); query.setClass (Magazine.class); query.setFilter ("price < :p"); query.setRange (10, 20); List results = (List) query.execute (new Double (10.0)); Query query = pm.newQuery (Magazine.class, "select distinct title " + "where price < :p range 10, 20"); List results = (List) query.execute (new Double (10.0));
Query query = pm.newQuery (); query.setUnique (true); query.setCandidates (pm.getExtent (Magazine.class, false)); query.setFilter ("title == 'JDJ'"); Magazine mag = (Magazine) query.execute (); Query query = pm.newQuery ("select unique from org.mag.Magazine " + "exclude subclasses where title == 'JDJ'"); Magazine mag = (Magazine) query.execute ();
Query query = pm.newQuery (); query.setResult ("publisher.name as pub, avg(price) as price"); query.setResultClass (org.mag.pub.PubPrice.class); query.setClass (Magazine.class); query.setGrouping ("publisher having avg(price) < :p"); query.setOrdering ("publisher.name ascending"); query.setRange (3, Long.MAX_VALUE); List results = (List) query.execute (new Double (10.0)); Query query = pm.newQuery ("select publisher.name as pub, avg(price) as price " + "into org.mag.pub.PubPrice from org.mag.Magazine " + "group by publisher having avg(price) < :p " + "order by publisher.name ascending range 3, Long.MAX_VALUE"); List results = (List) query.execute (new Double (10.0));
On a final note, single-string queries are mutable. You can
construct a single-string query as in the examples above, then change
the result string, filter, or any other part of the query through the
Query APIs. This is especially useful
for temporary properties like the result range, and for setting the
candidate class:
Query query = pm.newQuery (Magazine.class, "select title where " + "title.startsWith ('J')"); query.setRange (10, 20); Magazine mag = (Magazine) query.execute ();


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Browsing the Chronicle of Higher Ed website, I was excited to see a piece on making the transition from graduate student to faculty member. I got my first small taste of this exciting -- and terrifying -- experience when, as a fellow at Penn Law, I taught courses to students who just a few years prior would have been my colleagues. Over the past few months, I've also watched friends make the leap to tenure-track positions. They send harrowing reports from the front, some predictable (staying up late to write lectures, navigating departmental politics) and others not (learning to write lectures in the presence of gigantic spiders). With hard work and a sense of humor, they all seem to be managing, but I think they could still use some friendly advice. Readers, do you have any tips for surviving this big transition?
Image credit: President Obama as a young professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Friday, October 15, 2010
From graduate student to faculty member
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As a first-year faculty member, I think one of the biggest issues for me is time management. I find it is helpful to keep a running to-do list at all times, and it is very satisfying to check items off of this list. Another important element is learning all you can from the more experienced faculty members in your department. Whether it is through a formal mentoring program, or through conversations over lunch/coffee, I find it immensely helpful to hear how others manage the demands of teaching, research, and service. Great piece in the Chronicle; thanks for bringing up this important issue!
- October 15, 2010 at 5:04:00 PM EDT
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