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Tutorial: Get started with EF Core in an ASP.NET MVC web app
This tutorial has not been updated to ASP.NET Core 3.0. The Razor Pages version has been updated. Most of the code changes for the ASP.NET Core 3.0 and later version of this tutorial:
- Are in the Startup.cs and Program.cs files.
- Can be found in the Razor Pages version.
For information on when this might be updated, see this GitHub issue.
This tutorial teaches ASP.NET Core MVC and Entity Framework Core with controllers and views. Razor Pages is an alternative programming model that was introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.0. For new development, we recommend Razor Pages over MVC with controllers and views. There is a Razor Pages version of this tutorial. Each tutorial covers some material the other doesn't:
Some things this MVC tutorial has that the Razor Pages tutorial doesn't:
- Implement inheritance in the data model
- Perform raw SQL queries
- Use dynamic LINQ to simplify code
Some things the Razor Pages tutorial has that this one doesn't:
- Use Select method to load related data
- A version available for ASP.NET Core 3.0
The Contoso University sample web application demonstrates how to create ASP.NET Core 2.2 MVC web applications using Entity Framework (EF) Core 2.2 and Visual Studio 2017 or 2019.
The sample application is a web site for a fictional Contoso University. It includes functionality such as student admission, course creation, and instructor assignments. This is the first in a series of tutorials that explain how to build the Contoso University sample application from scratch.
In this tutorial, you:
- Create an ASP.NET Core MVC web app
- Set up the site style
- Learn about EF Core NuGet packages
- Create the data model
- Create the database context
- Register the context for dependency injection
- Initialize the database with test data
- Create a controller and views
- View the database
- .NET Core SDK 2.2
- Visual Studio 2019 with the following workloads:
- ASP.NET and web development workload
- .NET Core cross-platform development workload
If you run into a problem you can't resolve, you can generally find the solution by comparing your code to the completed project. For a list of common errors and how to solve them, see the Troubleshooting section of the last tutorial in the series. If you don't find what you need there, you can post a question to StackOverflow.com for ASP.NET Core or EF Core.
This is a series of 10 tutorials, each of which builds on what is done in earlier tutorials. Consider saving a copy of the project after each successful tutorial completion. Then if you run into problems, you can start over from the previous tutorial instead of going back to the beginning of the whole series.
Contoso University web app
The application you'll be building in these tutorials is a simple university web site.
Users can view and update student, course, and instructor information. Here are a few of the screens you'll create.
Create web app
Open Visual Studio.
From the File menu, select New > Project.
From the left pane, select Installed > Visual C# > Web.
Select the ASP.NET Core Web Application project template.
Enter ContosoUniversity as the name and click OK.
Wait for the New ASP.NET Core Web Application dialog to appear.
Select .NET Core, ASP.NET Core 2.2 and the Web Application (Model-View-Controller) template.
Make sure Authentication is set to No Authentication.
Select OK
Set up the site style
A few simple changes will set up the site menu, layout, and home page.
Open Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml and make the following changes:
Change each occurrence of "ContosoUniversity" to "Contoso University". There are three occurrences.
Add menu entries for About, Students, Courses, Instructors, and Departments, and delete the Privacy menu entry.
The changes are highlighted.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>@ViewData["Title"] - Contoso University</title>
<environment include="Development">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/lib/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css" />
<environment exclude="Development">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css"
asp-fallback-test-class="sr-only" asp-fallback-test-property="position" asp-fallback-test-value="absolute"
<link rel="stylesheet" href="~/css/site.css" />

Contoso University
<button class="navbar-toggler" type="button" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse" aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent"
aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">

Home

About

Students

Courses

Instructors

Departments

<partial name="_CookieConsentPartial" />

© 2019 - Contoso University - Privacy
<environment include="Development">

<environment exclude="Development">

@RenderSection("Scripts", required: false)
In Views/Home/Index.cshtml, replace the contents of the file with the following code to replace the text about ASP.NET and MVC with text about this application:
ViewData["Title"] = "Home Page";

Contoso University

Welcome to Contoso University

Contoso University is a sample application that
demonstrates how to use Entity Framework Core in an
ASP.NET Core MVC web application.

Build it from scratch

You can build the application by following the steps in a series of tutorials.

See the tutorial »

Download it

You can download the completed project from GitHub.

See project source code »

Press CTRL+F5 to run the project or choose Debug > Start Without Debugging from the menu. You see the home page with tabs for the pages you'll create in these tutorials.
About EF Core NuGet packages
To add EF Core support to a project, install the database provider that you want to target. This tutorial uses SQL Server, and the provider package is Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer. This package is included in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App metapackage, so you don't need to reference the package.
The EF SQL Server package and its dependencies (
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore and
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Relational) provide runtime support for EF. You'll add a tooling package later, in the Migrations tutorial.
For information about other database providers that are available for Entity Framework Core, see Database providers.
Create the data model
Next you'll create entity classes for the Contoso University application. You'll start with the following three entities.
There's a one-to-many relationship between
Student and
Enrollment entities, and there's a one-to-many relationship between
Course and
Enrollment entities. In other words, a student can be enrolled in any number of courses, and a course can have any number of students enrolled in it.
In the following sections you'll create a class for each one of these entities.
The Student entity
In the Models folder, create a class file named Student.cs and replace the template code with the following code.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
namespace ContosoUniversity.Models
public class Student
public int ID { get; set; }
public string LastName { get; set; }
public string FirstMidName { get; set; }
public DateTime EnrollmentDate { get; set; }
public ICollection<Enrollment> Enrollments { get; set; }
ID property will become the primary key column of the database table that corresponds to this class. By default, the Entity Framework interprets a property that's named
ID or
classnameID as the primary key.
Enrollments property is a navigation property. Navigation properties hold other entities that are related to this entity. In this case, the
Enrollments property of a
Student entity will hold all of the
Enrollment entities that are related to that
Student entity. In other words, if a given Student row in the database has two related Enrollment rows (rows that contain that student's primary key value in their StudentID foreign key column), that
Student entity's
Enrollments navigation property will contain those two
Enrollment entities.
If a navigation property can hold multiple entities (as in many-to-many or one-to-many relationships), its type must be a list in which entries can be added, deleted, and updated, such as
ICollection<T>. You can specify
ICollection<T> or a type such as
List<T> or
HashSet<T>. If you specify
ICollection<T>, EF creates a
HashSet<T> collection by default.
The Enrollment entity
In the Models folder, create Enrollment.cs and replace the existing code with the following code:
namespace ContosoUniversity.Models
public enum Grade
public class Enrollment
public int EnrollmentID { get; set; }
public int CourseID { get; set; }
public int StudentID { get; set; }
public Grade? Grade { get; set; }
public Course Course { get; set; }
public Student Student { get; set; }
EnrollmentID property will be the primary key; this entity uses the
classnameID pattern instead of
ID by itself as you saw in the
Student entity. Ordinarily you would choose one pattern and use it throughout your data model. Here, the variation illustrates that you can use either pattern. In a later tutorial, you'll see how using ID without classname makes it easier to implement inheritance in the data model.
Grade property is an
enum. The question mark after the
Grade type declaration indicates that the
Grade property is nullable. A grade that's null is different from a zero grade -- null means a grade isn't known or hasn't been assigned yet.
StudentID property is a foreign key, and the corresponding navigation property is
Student. An
Enrollment entity is associated with one
Student entity, so the property can only hold a single
Student entity (unlike the
Student.Enrollments navigation property you saw earlier, which can hold multiple
Enrollment entities).
CourseID property is a foreign key, and the corresponding navigation property is
Course. An
Enrollment entity is associated with one
Course entity.
Entity Framework interprets a property as a foreign key property if it's named
<navigation property name><primary key property name> (for example,
StudentID for the
Student navigation property since the
Student entity's primary key is
ID). Foreign key properties can also be named simply
<primary key property name> (for example,
CourseID since the
Course entity's primary key is
The Course entity
In the Models folder, create Course.cs and replace the existing code with the following code:
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema;
namespace ContosoUniversity.Models
public class Course
public int CourseID { get; set; }
public string Title { get; set; }
public int Credits { get; set; }
public ICollection<Enrollment> Enrollments { get; set; }
Enrollments property is a navigation property. A
Course entity can be related to any number of
Enrollment entities.
We'll say more about the
DatabaseGenerated attribute in a later tutorial in this series. Basically, this attribute lets you enter the primary key for the course rather than having the database generate it.
Create the database context
The main class that coordinates Entity Framework functionality for a given data model is the database context class. You create this class by deriving from the
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.DbContext class. In your code you specify which entities are included in the data model. You can also customize certain Entity Framework behavior. In this project, the class is named
In the project folder, create a folder named Data.
In the Data folder create a new class file named SchoolContext.cs, and replace the template code with the following code:
using ContosoUniversity.Models;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
namespace ContosoUniversity.Data
public class SchoolContext : DbContext
public SchoolContext(DbContextOptions<SchoolContext> options) : base(options)
public DbSet<Course> Courses { get; set; }
public DbSet<Enrollment> Enrollments { get; set; }
public DbSet<Student> Students { get; set; }
This code creates a
DbSet property for each entity set. In Entity Framework terminology, an entity set typically corresponds to a database table, and an entity corresponds to a row in the table.
You could've omitted the
DbSet<Enrollment> and
DbSet<Course> statements and it would work the same. The Entity Framework would include them implicitly because the
Student entity references the
Enrollment entity and the
Enrollment entity references the
Course entity.
When the database is created, EF creates tables that have names the same as the
DbSet property names. Property names for collections are typically plural (Students rather than Student), but developers disagree about whether table names should be pluralized or not. For these tutorials you'll override the default behavior by specifying singular table names in the DbContext. To do that, add the following highlighted code after the last DbSet property.
using ContosoUniversity.Models;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
namespace ContosoUniversity.Data
public class SchoolContext : DbContext
public SchoolContext(DbContextOptions<SchoolContext> options) : base(options)
public DbSet<Course> Courses { get; set; }
public DbSet<Enrollment> Enrollments { get; set; }
public DbSet<Student> Students { get; set; }
protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
Register the SchoolContext
ASP.NET Core implements dependency injection by default. Services (such as the EF database context) are registered with dependency injection during application startup. Components that require these services (such as MVC controllers) are provided these services via constructor parameters. You'll see the controller constructor code that gets a context instance later in this tutorial.
To register
SchoolContext as a service, open Startup.cs, and add the highlighted lines to the
ConfigureServices method.
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
services.Configure<CookiePolicyOptions>(options =>
options.CheckConsentNeeded = context => true;
options.MinimumSameSitePolicy = SameSiteMode.None;
services.AddDbContext<SchoolContext>(options =>
The name of the connection string is passed in to the context by calling a method on a
DbContextOptionsBuilder object. For local development, the ASP.NET Core configuration system reads the connection string from the appsettings.json file.
using statements for
ContosoUniversity.Data and
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore namespaces, and then build the project.
using ContosoUniversity.Data;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;
Open the appsettings.json file and add a connection string as shown in the following example.
"ConnectionStrings": {
"DefaultConnection": "Server=(localdb)\\mssqllocaldb;Database=ContosoUniversity1;Trusted_Connection=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=true"
"Logging": {
"IncludeScopes": false,
"LogLevel": {
"Default": "Warning"
SQL Server Express LocalDB
The connection string specifies a SQL Server LocalDB database. LocalDB is a lightweight version of the SQL Server Express Database Engine and is intended for application development, not production use. LocalDB starts on demand and runs in user mode, so there's no complex configuration. By default, LocalDB creates .mdf database files in the
C:/Users/<user> directory.
Initialize DB with test data
The Entity Framework will create an empty database for you. In this section, you write a method that's called after the database is created in order to populate it with test data.
Here you'll use the
EnsureCreated method to automatically create the database. In a later tutorial you'll see how to handle model changes by using Code First Migrations to change the database schema instead of dropping and re-creating the database.
In the Data folder, create a new class file named DbInitializer.cs and replace the template code with the following code, which causes a database to be created when needed and loads test data into the new database.
using ContosoUniversity.Models;
using System;
using System.Linq;
namespace ContosoUniversity.Data
public static class DbInitializer
public static void Initialize(SchoolContext context)
// Look for any students.
if (context.Students.Any())
return; // DB has been seeded
var students = new Student[]
new Student{FirstMidName="Carson",LastName="Alexander",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2005-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Meredith",LastName="Alonso",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2002-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Arturo",LastName="Anand",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2003-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Gytis",LastName="Barzdukas",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2002-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Yan",LastName="Li",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2002-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Peggy",LastName="Justice",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2001-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Laura",LastName="Norman",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2003-09-01")},
new Student{FirstMidName="Nino",LastName="Olivetto",EnrollmentDate=DateTime.Parse("2005-09-01")}
foreach (Student s in students)
var courses = new Course[]
new Course{CourseID=1050,Title="Chemistry",Credits=3},
new Course{CourseID=4022,Title="Microeconomics",Credits=3},
new Course{CourseID=4041,Title="Macroeconomics",Credits=3},
new Course{CourseID=1045,Title="Calculus",Credits=4},
new Course{CourseID=3141,Title="Trigonometry",Credits=4},
new Course{CourseID=2021,Title="Composition",Credits=3},
new Course{CourseID=2042,Title="Literature",Credits=4}
foreach (Course c in courses)
var enrollments = new Enrollment[]
new Enrollment{StudentID=1,CourseID=1050,Grade=Grade.A},
new Enrollment{StudentID=1,CourseID=4022,Grade=Grade.C},
new Enrollment{StudentID=1,CourseID=4041,Grade=Grade.B},
new Enrollment{StudentID=2,CourseID=1045,Grade=Grade.B},
new Enrollment{StudentID=2,CourseID=3141,Grade=Grade.F},
new Enrollment{StudentID=2,CourseID=2021,Grade=Grade.F},
new Enrollment{StudentID=3,CourseID=1050},
new Enrollment{StudentID=4,CourseID=1050},
new Enrollment{StudentID=4,CourseID=4022,Grade=Grade.F},
new Enrollment{StudentID=5,CourseID=4041,Grade=Grade.C},
new Enrollment{StudentID=6,CourseID=1045},
new Enrollment{StudentID=7,CourseID=3141,Grade=Grade.A},
foreach (Enrollment e in enrollments)
The code checks if there are any students in the database, and if not, it assumes the database is new and needs to be seeded with test data. It loads test data into arrays rather than
List<T> collections to optimize performance.
In Program.cs, modify the
Main method to do the following on application startup:
- Get a database context instance from the dependency injection container.
- Call the seed method, passing to it the context.
- Dispose the context when the seed method is done.
public static void Main(string[] args)
var host = CreateWebHostBuilder(args).Build();
using (var scope = host.Services.CreateScope())
var services = scope.ServiceProvider;
var context = services.GetRequiredService<SchoolContext>();
catch (Exception ex)
var logger = services.GetRequiredService<ILogger<Program>>();
logger.LogError(ex, "An error occurred while seeding the database.");
using statements:
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using ContosoUniversity.Data;
In older tutorials, you may see similar code in the
Configure method in Startup.cs. We recommend that you use the
Configure method only to set up the request pipeline. Application startup code belongs in the
Main method.
Now the first time you run the application, the database will be created and seeded with test data. Whenever you change your data model, you can delete the database, update your seed method, and start afresh with a new database the same way. In later tutorials, you'll see how to modify the database when the data model changes, without deleting and re-creating it.
Create controller and views
Next, you'll use the scaffolding engine in Visual Studio to add an MVC controller and views that will use EF to query and save data.
The automatic creation of CRUD action methods and views is known as scaffolding. Scaffolding differs from code generation in that the scaffolded code is a starting point that you can modify to suit your own requirements, whereas you typically don't modify generated code. When you need to customize generated code, you use partial classes or you regenerate the code when things change.
Right-click the Controllers folder in Solution Explorer and select Add > New Scaffolded Item.
In the Add Scaffold dialog box:
Select MVC controller with views, using Entity Framework.
Click Add. The Add MVC Controller with views, using Entity Framework dialog box appears.
In Model class select Student.
In Data context class select SchoolContext.
Accept the default StudentsController as the name.
Click Add.
When you click Add, the Visual Studio scaffolding engine creates a StudentsController.cs file and a set of views (.cshtml files) that work with the controller.
(The scaffolding engine can also create the database context for you if you don't create it manually first as you did earlier for this tutorial. You can specify a new context class in the Add Controller box by clicking the plus sign to the right of Data context class. Visual Studio will then create your
DbContext class as well as the controller and views.)
You'll notice that the controller takes a
SchoolContext as a constructor parameter.
namespace ContosoUniversity.Controllers
public class StudentsController : Controller
private readonly SchoolContext _context;
public StudentsController(SchoolContext context)
_context = context;
ASP.NET Core dependency injection takes care of passing an instance of
SchoolContext into the controller. You configured that in the Startup.cs file earlier.
The controller contains an
Index action method, which displays all students in the database. The method gets a list of students from the Students entity set by reading the
Students property of the database context instance:
public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
return View(await _context.Students.ToListAsync());
You'll learn about the asynchronous programming elements in this code later in the tutorial.
The Views/Students/Index.cshtml view displays this list in a table:
@model IEnumerable<ContosoUniversity.Models.Student>
ViewData["Title"] = "Index";
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@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.LastName)
@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.FirstMidName)
@Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.EnrollmentDate)
@foreach (var item in Model) {
@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.LastName)
@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.FirstMidName)
@Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.EnrollmentDate)
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Press CTRL+F5 to run the project or choose Debug > Start Without Debugging from the menu.
Click the Students tab to see the test data that the
DbInitializer.Initialize method inserted. Depending on how narrow your browser window is, you'll see the
Students tab link at the top of the page or you'll have to click the navigation icon in the upper right corner to see the link.
View the database
When you started the application, the
DbInitializer.Initialize method calls
EnsureCreated. EF saw that there was no database and so it created one, then the remainder of the
Initialize method code populated the database with data. You can use SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOX) to view the database in Visual Studio.
Close the browser.
If the SSOX window isn't already open, select it from the View menu in Visual Studio.
In SSOX, click (localdb)\MSSQLLocalDB > Databases, and then click the entry for the database name that's in the connection string in your appsettings.json file.
Expand the Tables node to see the tables in your database.
Right-click the Student table and click View Data to see the columns that were created and the rows that were inserted into the table.
The .mdf and .ldf database files are in the C:\Users\<yourusername> folder.
Because you're calling
EnsureCreated in the initializer method that runs on app start, you could now make a change to the
Student class, delete the database, run the application again, and the database would automatically be re-created to match your change. For example, if you add an
EmailAddress property to the
Student class, you'll see a new
EmailAddress column in the re-created table.
The amount of code you had to write in order for the Entity Framework to be able to create a complete database for you is minimal because of the use of conventions, or assumptions that the Entity Framework makes.
The names of
DbSetproperties are used as table names. For entities not referenced by a
DbSetproperty, entity class names are used as table names.
Entity property names are used for column names.
Entity properties that are named ID or classnameID are recognized as primary key properties.
A property is interpreted as a foreign key property if it's named <navigation property name><primary key property name> (for example,
StudentIDfor the
Studentnavigation property since the
Studententity's primary key is
ID). Foreign key properties can also be named simply <primary key property name> (for example,
EnrollmentIDsince the
Enrollmententity's primary key is
Conventional behavior can be overridden. For example, you can explicitly specify table names, as you saw earlier in this tutorial. And you can set column names and set any property as primary key or foreign key, as you'll see in a later tutorial in this series.
Asynchronous code
Asynchronous programming is the default mode for ASP.NET Core and EF Core.
A web server has a limited number of threads available, and in high load situations all of the available threads might be in use. When that happens, the server can't process new requests until the threads are freed up. With synchronous code, many threads may be tied up while they aren't actually doing any work because they're waiting for I/O to complete. With asynchronous code, when a process is waiting for I/O to complete, its thread is freed up for the server to use for processing other requests. As a result, asynchronous code enables server resources to be used more efficiently, and the server is enabled to handle more traffic without delays.
Asynchronous code does introduce a small amount of overhead at run time, but for low traffic situations the performance hit is negligible, while for high traffic situations, the potential performance improvement is substantial.
In the following code, the
async keyword,
Task<T> return value,
await keyword, and
ToListAsync method make the code execute asynchronously.
public async Task<IActionResult> Index()
return View(await _context.Students.ToListAsync());
asynckeyword tells the compiler to generate callbacks for parts of the method body and to automatically create the
Task<IActionResult>object that's returned.
The return type
Task<IActionResult>represents ongoing work with a result of type
awaitkeyword causes the compiler to split the method into two parts. The first part ends with the operation that's started asynchronously. The second part is put into a callback method that's called when the operation completes.
ToListAsyncis the asynchronous version of the
ToListextension method.
Some things to be aware of when you are writing asynchronous code that uses the Entity Framework:
Only statements that cause queries or commands to be sent to the database are executed asynchronously. That includes, for example,
SingleOrDefaultAsync, and
SaveChangesAsync. It doesn't include, for example, statements that just change an
IQueryable, such as
var students = context.Students.Where(s => s.LastName == "Davolio").
An EF context isn't thread safe: don't try to do multiple operations in parallel. When you call any async EF method, always use the
If you want to take advantage of the performance benefits of async code, make sure that any library packages that you're using (such as for paging), also use async if they call any Entity Framework methods that cause queries to be sent to the database.
For more information about asynchronous programming in .NET, see Async Overview.
Get the code
Download or view the completed application.
Next steps
In this tutorial, you:
- Created ASP.NET Core MVC web app
- Set up the site style
- Learned about EF Core NuGet packages
- Created the data model
- Created the database context
- Registered the SchoolContext
- Initialized DB with test data
- Created controller and views
- Viewed the database
In the following tutorial, you'll learn how to perform basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations.
Advance to the next tutorial to learn how to perform basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations.


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Agnes Poirier is a Paris-born and London-educated journalist, writer, critic and broadcaster. She is the author of four essays about the different ways in which France and Britain do things, topics she tirelessly discusses on the BBC, Sky News and CNN and writes about in, among others, the Guardian, the Observer, The Times, Marianne, Telerama and L'Espresso. She has also taught at Sciences-Po in Paris, and pre-selects British films for the Cannes film festival. She loves cycling and the songs of Charles Trenet. She lives in Paris and London.


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Last week, I went on an adventure with the president of our union (plus his assistant, a director, a VP, and a writer coworker) to New England for a handful of events supporting the FairPoint strikers up there. Yes, we have members out on strike, and it's a really big deal. (Go to Fairness@Fairpoint for all the information.) Here are a few of my favorite shots from the rally in Vermont. Did you know that Montpelier is the smallest capital city in the country?
For more photos, go to our organization's Flickr page.
Parts 2 and 3 coming soon.
Tags:Fairness@Fairpoint, rally, Vermont
This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 25th, 2014 at 4:34 pm
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This assignment reminded me of doing environmental portraits in grad school. I like shooting them so much more than the standard background-lights-stare-into-the-lens portrait. There's definitely a time and place for those, but I think conveying personality through surroundings adds a lot to an image. The plan – show our president in conversation, as the accompanying story was a Q&A style story.
Serious and stern, but not angry or belittling. That was the goal. I did get some nice shots of him laughing or smiling in the course of the conversational shoot, but I'll save those for another day. This and the top image ran with our story.
This was one of my favorite images from the shoot. It didn't fit with our serious theme, so it's just an outtake now. But I still like it.
Original story: On growing the IBEW
Tags:conversation, environmental portrait, President Hill, stills
This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 7th, 2014 at 10:05 am
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Did you know I now make memes? I mean, we make graphics to share on Facebook and then hope they go viral. Some are better than others, in both look and performance. I happen to be a fan of these two.
This one's been posted a number of times, and each time it gets more than 2,500 shares. I believe that qualifies as 'viral' for us. Yeah!
Tags:Facebook, graphic design, memes, what constitutes viral?
This entry was posted on Friday, April 25th, 2014 at 7:29 pm
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House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi greets Baltimore Local 24 member Stan Osnowitz before his testimony to Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.
So exciting, right? In actuality, it was – and enlightening, too. The dais in the room was huge. I didn't think I would actually see more than half the chairs full for this particular hearing. But lo! Congresspeople came from all entrances to fill just about every seat and listen to these everyday people give their testimony.
Some may see unemployment benefits as extending the poor and out-of-work's dependency on the government in a negative way. Not so on that day. For those precious moments in front of the microphone, stories of severe hardship were aired in the public, in front of lawmakers who could possibly (and hopefully) help. Without an extension of benefits, these people will be left in the cold with no way to pay their bills or put food on the table. Homes would be lost. Lives shortened by the lack of appropriate medications. And without assistance, these people won't even be able to afford to look for work. And while only three workers sat at that table (the other two were from support organizations), they represent hundreds and thousands more who are just trying to make ends meet.
So let's get on this, Congress.
Original story: Local 24 Member Tells House Leaders: Extend Unemployment Benefits
A note about the photos above: It seems as though Flickr has changed the way they embed photos into a page. I bet it's for security, for which I am grateful. However; it now turns every image into a slideshow of ALL my public photos. That is not cool, and creates a poor user interface. I will be researching a better image hosting option for posts in the future.
Tags:a first time for everything, congressional hearing, unemployment benefits
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 at 3:28 pm
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I've been insanely busy.
I know, that's a lame excuse. But it's true! I've been gallivanting across the country for work, making videos and having some interesting adventures. Where have I been since starting this job? My list says 24 cities in 20 states and Canada. That doesn't count the multiples – I've been to Los Angeles, Des Moines, Las Vegas and Baltimore at least twice each.
What, you don't believe me? Here's the evidence.
IBEW Fall 2013 National TV Commercial from IBEW on Vimeo.
We shot this national commercial – currently during CBS and FOX NFL games – in St. Louis with the help of IBEW Local 1. Super fun! It's my first all-shot-by-me national commercial. No, I did not think I'd ever make a national commercial when I graduated from Mizzou.
Memphis – Made in the USA from IBEW on Vimeo.
This is a lot closer to the storytelling I thought I'd do as a journalist. We went to the Sharp Manufacturing plant in Memphis as part of our Manufacturing Code of Excellent project – a 10ish minute video that took us six months to shoot and edit. It was a huge project and came out quite well. While we were at Sharp, our first location, we thought it might be good to do some interviews for a story just in case. Glad we did! Sharp is using this piece to help promote their American-made solar panel business. I know I'd buy one.
MDC 2013- Neutex Advanced Lighting from IBEW on Vimeo.
And this one was my favorite out of the six videos we did for the 2013 Membership Development Conference in Las Vegas. I can't even begin to tell you how much my eyes hurt after multiple takes of all those lightbulbs turning on. I had my camera stopped down SO FAR to make sure the bulbs could be seen. Could have used an ND filter for my eyes. But as always, totally worth the shot in the end. Love the LED lights.
So yeah. I've been busy.
Tags:backlog, Code of Excellence, Membership Development Conference, travels, work
This entry was posted on Friday, October 4th, 2013 at 4:42 pm
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Why so many 'vaguely' notes? This trip wasn't very long ago compared to past backlog posts, and while the forecast called for almost 9″ of snow, we got barely 2″. C'est la vie, no?
The morning of the snowstorm, we decided to head out with a local assistant business manager to find a wind farm. We don't have any video of them, and thought that it would be good to have for the future. (We also were trying to include some wind turbine footage in our manufacturing project, but not sure if that'll work.)
In any case, the video looks pretty neat, and I made sure to take some stills while freezing my fingers off in 19 degree weather with a wind chill of about 4. Oh, and the nice leather gloves I bought for this trip? They served their purpose here, and then Amber decided to eviscerate them the day I got home. Sérieusement, c'est la vie.
Tags:Des Moines, freezing, Iowa, snowstorm, wind farm
This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 13th, 2013 at 11:39 pm
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A Test Time-Lapse; or A Little Story About Love. from Erin Sutherland on Vimeo.
I found this on a compact flash card today, while we were setting up a timelapse for the coming snowstorm. Forgetting that I had already uploaded it to Vimeo when it was taken, I tried to upload it again. Silly me. I must have shared it on Facebook, because it shows up in the referrals, but I never posted it to my blog.
So here you go. Five seconds of adorable-ness from me and Scott. This was taken on March 31, 2012 in our old apartment. This is also the kinds of things we used to do before we got Amber. Now all the photos are of her.
Tags:backlog, love, time-lapse
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 at 8:29 pm
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We spent a few days in Salt Lake City (and vicinity) this summer while on a two-week multiple story trip through California and Nevada. The sky never ends here. Everywhere I looked, there was an incredible vista framed by mountains. These frames attempt to illustrate, but just barely do the sky justice.
We put together a few videos from this portion of the trip. I shot the footage, Len did the editing and graphics.
IBEW Builds Top Secret Data Center from IBEW on Vimeo.
IBEW Expands its Role in Utah Electrical Industry from IBEW on Vimeo.
Tags:BYU, IBEW, Nevada, Salt Lake City, work travel
This entry was posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2013 at 10:13 pm
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I travel for work. A lot. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I'm a videographer for the IBEW. We shoot stories, videos for conferences, commercials for national TV, and anything else that we might need. My first travel story was to Nashville for an organizing blitz. After spending a full day riding around in a car on said blitz with a local organizer and one from Atlanta, my coworker (he's our amazing producer) and I went to dinner downtown.
I love how there's music everywhere, even on the street corner.
This old train bridge is now a pedestrian walkway over the river. The light was amazing.
And of course, no trip to Nashville would be complete without a bit of country in a touristy, kitchy bar. These guys were SO GOOD. But then again, I feel like everyone in Nashville is SO GOOD.
Overall, the trip was a great success. I learned a LOT about shooting video on my DSLR, and remembered that I make myself seasick when I try to shoot without support. Here's the video I produced.
Reintroducing the IBEW from IBEW on Vimeo.
Tags:Nashville, work travel
This entry was posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2013 at 8:40 pm
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This is Amber. Hi, cuteface.
This little lady came blasting into our lives right around when I last posted on this blog. I'm not blaming her for my lack of editing any photos for posts since then, but it's highly coincidental. More likely, it's a bit of her, a bit of the new job, a bit of buying a house, and a bit of just plain procrastination.
I'm the queen of that, you know.
Now that I've remembered how to log in here, I would really like to post some photos from the last [ehrm] months since I dropped off the face of the earth. I need to remember why I take photographs and why it means a lot to me to put them into context with words. And to show off some of the neat work I'm doing on my travels to strange and distant lands (most recently, Kentucky). There's a lot of things I used to do religiously that have just fallen off my radar. It makes me sad.
So no more sad! There's so many memories and images I want to share here. They may be out of order, they may be random and old, but they're mine. And beautiful, every single one.


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WASHINGTON — Senators of both parties on Wednesday sharply challenged the National Security Agency's collection of records of all domestic phone calls, even as the latest leaked NSA document provided new details on the way the agency monitors Web browsing around the world.
At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, the chairman, Patrick J. Leahy, Democrat of Vermont, accused Obama administration officials of overstating the success of the domestic call log program. He said he had been shown a classified list of "terrorist events" detected through surveillance, and it did not show that "dozens or even several terrorist plots" had been thwarted by the domestic program.
"If this program is not effective, it has to end. So far, I'm not convinced by what I've seen," Leahy said, citing the "massive privacy implications" of keeping records of every American's domestic calls.
At the start of the hearing, the Obama administration released previously classified documents outlining the rules for how the domestic phone records may be accessed and used by intelligence analysts. And as senators debated the program, The Guardian newspaper published on its website a still-classified 32-page presentation, apparently downloaded by Edward J. Snowden, a former NSA contractor, that describes a separate surveillance activity by the agency.
Called the XKeyscore program, it apparently gives NSA analysts access to virtually any Internet browsing activity around the world, data that is being vacuumed up from 150 foreign sites.
Together, the new disclosures provided additional details on the scope of the US government's secret surveillance programs, which have been dragged into public view and public debate by leaks from Snowden, who remains stranded in a Moscow airport.
The hearing came a week after the House voted narrowly to defeat an amendment to shut down the NSA's domestic phone record tracking program. The 217 to 205 vote was far closer than expected, and it — along with shifting poll numbers — suggested that momentum against the domestic program was building. In recent days even some of the most outspoken supporters of the program have said they are open to adjusting it.
The Obama administration has been trying to build public support for its surveillance programs, which trace back to the Bush administration, by arguing that they are subject to strict safeguards and court oversight and that they have helped thwart as many as 54 terrorist events. That figure, Leahy emphasized, relies upon conflating another program that allows surveillance targeted at noncitizens abroad, which has apparently been quite valuable, with the domestic one.
Still, Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, who is chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she supported overhauling the program but keeping it in place because it generates information that might prevent attacks.
John C. Inglis, the deputy director of the NSA, said there had been 13 investigations in which the domestic call tracking program made a "contribution." He cited two discoveries: that several men in San Diego were sending money to a terrorist group in Somalia, and that a suspect who was already under scrutiny in a subway bomb plot was using a different phone.
A series of slides describing XKeyscore, dated 2008, make it clear that the security agency system is collecting a huge amount of data on Internet activity around the globe, from chats on social networks to browsing of websites and searches on Google Maps. The volume of data is so vast that most of it is stored for only three days, the presentation said, although metadata — information showing logins and server activity, but not content — is stored for a month. Several of the pages were redacted by The Guardian.
Some of the servers the agency uses are run by foreign intelligence services of friendly nations, including Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, but other servers may be on the soil of countries unaware that the agency is mining Internet "pipes" on their soil. Some of the harvesting of data takes place on the coasts of the United States and along the Mexican border. Most sites are in Europe, the Middle East, and along the borders of India, Pakistan, and China.
The analysts search for terrorist cells by looking at "anomalous events" — someone searching in German from Pakistani sites, or an Iranian sending an encrypted Microsoft Word file. But one slide says the system can be used to identify anyone "searching the Web for suspicious stuff."
The presentation says the system enables analysts to pursue leads even if they do not yet know the name or the e-mail address of a suspect. "A large amount of time spent on the Web is performing actions that are anonymous," it explains.
The XKeyscore presentation claimed that the program had generated intelligence that resulted in the capture of more than 300 terrorists. By contrast, documents released by the government about the domestic phone log program were more abstract.


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The big anniversary has come and gone, but security is still on everyone's mind. That includes the White House, which on Wednesday will reveal the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, the president's grand strategy for protecting the nation's computing resources.
Other major events include the SunNetwork Conference, a celebration of all things related to Sun Microsystems, and DemoMobile 2002, a series of executive briefings sure to include plenty of future technology surprises.
Database giant Oracle is set to report first-quarter earnings amid fresh layoffs and modest expectations. Also look for financial news from communications equipment maker 3Com and contract manufacturer Jabil Circuit. The information was gathered from First Call, Hoover's Online, CCBN's StreetEvents and CNET Investor.
Other events scheduled this week:
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- The National Fiber Optics Engineers Conference showcases the latest in high-capacity networking. It runs Sept. 15-19 in Dallas.
- Sun looks at Linux on the corporate desktop and its N1 initiative to pool servers and storage systems at the SunNetwork Conference, Sept. 17-20 in San Francisco. Sun CEO Scott McNealy gives the keynote address Wednesday.
- Storage Decisions 2002 gives a look at the state of the data storage industry, with speakers including EMC President Joe Tucci. The conference runs Sept. 17-19 in Chicago.
- IBM, Sony, Sprint and others give sneak peeks of upcoming mobile and wireless technology at DemoMobile 2002, an executive forum hosted by research firm IDC, Sept. 18-20 in La Jolla, Calif.
- Learn about new business technologies at the B2T Conference, happening Sept. 18-19 in Raleigh, N.C.
- The White House reveals details of its National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, a wide-ranging policy on computer security.
Tuesday, Sept. 17
- Best Buy is one of the leading retailers of computers and consumer electronics. It's expected to report a second-quarter profit of 18 cents per share.
- Oracle sells database products and other business software. It's expected to report a first-quarter profit of 7 cents a share.
- Progress Software sells business applications. It's expected to report a third-quarter profit of 13 cents a share.
- Red Hat sells Linux software. It's expected to report break-even results for its second quarter.
- Standard Microsystems makes communications equipment. It's expected to report break-even results for its second quarter.
- Riverstone Networks sells networking products. It's expected to report a second-quarter loss of 21 cents a share.
- Forgent Networks sells video networking software. It's expected to report earnings of a penny per share both for its fourth quarter and the 2002 fiscal year.
- 3Com makes communications and networking equipment. It's expected to report a first-quarter loss of 3 cents a share.
- Jabil Circuit is a contract manufacturer of electronics components. It's expected to report earnings of 14 cents a share for the fourth quarter and 45 cents a share for the 2002 fiscal year.
- Tektronix sells test and measurement equipment. It's expected to report first-quarter earnings of 7 cents a share.
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- Business Inventories summarizes total sales and inventory for the retail, wholesale and manufacturing sectors. July growth is expected to rise to 0.3 percent, from 0.2 percent the previous month.
- Capacity Utilization is industrial production divided by capacity. August ratio is expected to climb to 76.2 percent, from 76.1 percent the previous month.
- Industrial Production measures the total output of U.S. factories, mines and utilities. August growth is expected to hold steady, at 0.2 percent.
- The Consumer Price Index is one of most significant measures of inflation, monitoring the decline or fall of the price of a fixed basket of consumer goods and services. August growth is expected to rise to 0.2 percent, from 0.1 percent the previous month.
- Trade Balance is the total by which imported goods exceed exports. The July deficit is expected to shrink to $37 billion, from $37.2 billion the previous month.
- Initial Claims is the weekly total of new claims filed for unemployment compensation. The total is expected to shrink to 410,000 for the week ended Sept. 14, from 426,000 the previous week.
- Housing Starts is the total of new home construction projects. August number is expected to grow to 1.68 million, from 1.649 million the previous month.


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Here is today's financial up-date from Paula Siemens AMP of INVIS - SIEMENS GROUP
January 20, 2009
The Bank of Canada announced that their overnight rate is being reduced by .50bps to 1.50%. If the major financial institutions follow this move prime will be 3%. There is some suggestion that we will not see immediate changes by the lenders due to their cost of funds through deposits and the price they are getting when they go to sell the mortgages that they are committing to. Some suggest that the banks may match this reduction but increase their pricing on variable rate mortgages to in effect, offset this reduction for new borrowers. Some have also suggested that secured lines of credit could be "repriced" mid contract, as these are revolving lines and have clauses within the mortgage document that allows the lender to revisit the arrangement. We certainly do not anticipate that any of these mortgages would be "called" unless the borrowers do not make payments, however, we should be aware that the rates are not set in stone. Once again, this could happen I am not suggesting that this is an a foregone event or that anything is imminent.
The Bank of Canada cited their reason for this further reduction is the deteriorating global economy, and the erosion of household confidence. In order for the global economy to recover the Bank of Canada feels that the global financial system needs to stabilize. They see
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Do y'all have a favorite product from Enjoy Life Foods?
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The VersIC 2.0 Platform is a new approach to the management of analog IC design data. It provides a comprehensive, united and reliable design data management (DM) experience in the Cadence design environment. With VersIC a truly collaborative design environment across multiple design locations is possible. Cadence libraries, Verilog, Ocean scripts, software, docs and other design assets can be versioned, conjured and released on one platform with a single point of release.
The VersIC 2.0 Platform has flexible architecture that allows you to use your configuration management (CM) tool of choice. Perforce and Subversion are supported today (with ClearCase under development), but it's possible to integrate any back-end CM tool with minimal effort.
A modular approach enables VersIC to be expanded based on the needs of the design. Modules exist for the management of design reviews in a multi-site environment, visual Diff/Merge on schematics and layouts, and a verification management to manage all your analog tests and regressions.
Proven design data management
Methodics VersIC platform builds on leading industry proven solutions including Perforce, Subversion, and others – expanding them to manage the unique challenges of working with advanced analog design.
By building on existing solutions your data is never locked-in to a propriety platform. This enables our customers to take advantage of existing infrastructure, access all data freely, and benefit from continual technology improvement driven by widespread usage outside semiconductor design.
Our DM Platform automatically manages the complex file relationships found in semiconductor design, provides tools to manage the large binary files common in EDA tools, and delivers multi-site data management and disaster recovery.
Single repository type for all data
Leveraging industry standard technologies provides the additional benefit of a single unified DM repository for all of your design data. Cadence libraries, Verilog, Ocean scripts, software, documentation, and other design data can be versioned, configured and released on a central DM repository with a single point of release.
Competitors systems require the use of separate repositories for analog design data. This increases complexity of releases, potential for errors, and infrastructure costs. With Methodics a single Subversion or Perforce SCM can be used for all your data management needs.
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Our powerful workspace management engine reduces disk space requirements and facilitates real-time workspace setup and delete, even for workspaces requiring data from remote repositories. This is enabled using self-maintaining replication caches with high performance parallelized syncs, and unlike competitors solutions does not require changes to the underlying infrastructure.
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Analog design is complicated enough without requiring designer to learn new design management concepts and methodologies. This is why all of Methodics design management capabilities are made available directly within existing design environments in a natural and unobtrusive way.
Within your familiar Cadence or Synopsys environment, designers can perform (DM) data management operations such as check-in/check-out code, control libraries available within a workspace, perform releases, and with our advanced verification capabilities even control and monitor design regressions. The result is all the benefits of design management, without impacting designer productivity.
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A major productivity benefit for software (DM) data management has been the availability and usage of "diff" and "merge" and the design methodologies they enable.
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When my oldest was a baby, my "portable changing pad" was a burp cloth spread out on a bathroom counter. Nothing wrong with that, but looking back I would have prefered one of aden + anais's portable diaper changing pads back then.
We've been big fans of aden + anais for ages (they just keep making so many great things!) and this changing pad is no disappointment. It comes in eight of their modern, cool designs — I love "up, up and away" and "liam the brave" — and they're made from a pre-washed cotton muslin. And they are so soft.
The pads are just the right size–big enough to last you until your baby is out of diapers (or at least until you've given up and quit trying to make them sit still on a diaper changing pad); not tiny like the free one that came stuffed in the diaper bag I bought a while back. But you can still roll it up and button it, and it will easily fit in your bag. And yes, these changing pads are machine washable. Because you know, at some point, as cute as it is, it's gonna be covered in poop.
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OXNARD, Calif. (AP) -- Dallas cornerback Orlando Scandrick has apologized to his family, teammates and organization for failing a drug test that will force him to be suspended for the first four games of the season.
The NFL announced the suspension on Tuesday.
Scandrick said in a statement released by his agent, Ron Slavin, that he unknowingly took a substance while on vacation in Mexico that led to the positive test. He says he takes full responsibility for what goes into his body and is embarrassed by the failed test.
Slavin says he believes that if testing for human growth hormone was in place that Scandrick would have been subjected to the substance abuse policy and been warned instead of receiving a suspension for performance- enhancing drugs.
Scandrick will be eligible to return following Dallas' game against New Orleans on Sept. 28.
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I kind of don't understand why Hayley Atwell hasn't turned up as someone's gorgeous cousin on Downton Abbey, except for how Downton isn't like Harry Potter (AKA, the unofficial employer of all British actors) and they don't really HAVE that many guest stars, beyond Woman Who Witnessed Suicidal Pie-Making, Man With Burned Off Face (poor Edith), or Shirley MacLaine. I just feel like she looks as though she might be related to Lady Mary:
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Marvin Lewis was one of two candidates known to interview for the Dallas Cowboys head coaching job.
Mike McCarthy was the other and was announced as head coach on Monday.
The uncertain legitimacy of Lewis' candidacy and the fact that Ron Rivera was the only minority hire of the four made since the end of the regular season have renewed questions about the NFL's Rooney Rule. It requires teams to interview at least one minority candidate during the hiring process for coaches and general managers.
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Rivera, who joined Washington after being fired by Carolina, is one of four minority head coaches in the NFL alongside Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, Chargers coach Anthony Lynn and Dolphins coach Brian Flores.
Lewis: 'Keep butting your head against the wall'
Lewis talked about the Rooney Rule and his interview with the Cowboys in a Wednesday appearance on ESPN's "Golic and Wingo."
He wasn't upset with the process, but said that something needs to change to provide minorities more opportunities. He also spoke bluntly about the reality of business owners hiring who they want to hire.
"You keep beating your head up against the wall, but I would say — and again, this is somebody's business, this is somebody's franchise, and nobody's going to tell them who to hire," Lewis said.
"But if we can just somehow open the process a bit more and provide more opportunity."
Why the lack of opportunity?
One idea behind the Rooney Rule is that qualified minority candidates face a steeper challenge to getting hired because they have fewer opportunities to begin with and aren't on the radars of team owners. If given face-time with owners, candidates will have a chance to make an impression and potentially earn a job.
In that sense, Lewis isn't an ideal Rooney Rule candidate. As a 16-year head coach with the Cincinnati Bengals, he's very much a known commodity. And with zero playoff wins during that tenure, it's not hard to make a case that there are more attractive candidates.
Ideally, it's the lesser-known candidates who are given opportunities via the Rooney Rule, something Lewis acknowledged in his radio appearance.
"There's a lot bigger problems than myself out there," Lewis said.
NFL continues to have a problem
There's no easy fix to changing the culture of minority leadership opportunities in the NFL. And there's no way to prove if Jerry Jones gave legitimate consideration to Lewis or had McCarthy tabbed for the job all along.
But leadership in NFL circles remains predominantly white. It remains unclear if the NFL has a plan, the will or the desire to make a significant change.
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33220A Firmware
What is the 33220A Firmware Revision?
The latest firmware revision for the 33220A depends upon the serial number of the unit.
- For units with MY43XXXXXX/SG43XXXXXX serial numbers, the firmware revision is 1.08.
- For units with MY44XXXXXX/SG44XXXXXX serial numbers, the firmware revision is 2.07
Firmware revision 2.07 contains the following changes:
- Increases speed and reliability of rotary encoder knob
To check the serial number of your unit:
- Turn on the 33220A
- Press the UTILITY key, then the "I/O" softkey (blue)
Select "Show USB Id". The display will show a string similar to
"USB ID = usb0::2391:1031::MY43001234::INSTR"
- The underlined portion will be the serial number of the unit.
Procedure to install 33220A Firmware Revision
Note: Some instrument I/O configurations may be lost, but may be reset. It is always recommended that firmware not be updated at critical project stages to eliminate any risk of problems resulting from the update.
- Download and install the Keysight Firmware Update Utility located in the Documents & Downloads section at the bottom of this page. If you already have the Firmware Update Utility installed on your computer, skip this step.
- Download the correct Keysight 33220A Firmware Revision file located in the Documents & Downloads section at the bottom of this page.
- Unzip the Keysight 33220A Firmware Revision file, making note of where you store the unzipped file.
- Open the Firmware Update Utility (Start -> Programs -> Keysight -> Firmware Update Utility).
- Click Next.
- Click Browse and locate the firmware update file that you unzipped in step 3. Highlight the file and select Open. (The file name is either agt33220_romFirmware_108.xs or agt33220_rom_instrument_207.xs)
- Click Next.
- Select the I/O interface (GPIB, LAN, or USB) that connects your 33220A Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator to your PC.
- Choose the settings necessary for communication (GPIB address, IP address, USB ID).
- Click Update. NOTE: This update will take several minutes and the 33220A will display status messages and automatically reboot when completed. DO NOT cycle or interrupt power to the 33220A during the update process.
- After this is completed, exit the update utility.
- Check for any errors. Press the HELP key then select the topic entitled "View the remote command error queue" (topic number 2). Then press the SELECT softkey (blue) to view errors in the error queue. If there are errors that you need assistance with, please write them down and contact Keysight for further assistance.
Note: There is no need to re-calibrate the 33220A when this new firmware is installed.
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|Description de la version
|33220A firmware update revision 2.07 for serial numbers MY44xxxxxx and SG44xxxxxx. Requires the Firmware Update Utility to install this firmware in your 33220A.
Comment télécharger
- See Above
Comment installer
- See Above
Autorisation d'exploitation
- Ne requiert aucune licence
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To turn your characters into silhouettes, simply go to the character creator and select the type of character you want. On the customization screen, select simple clothing like a plain t-shirt, pants and shoes and turn everything about your character either black or grey (clothing, skin, etc). In seconds you'll have a silhouette ready to use in your videos!


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Bladder infections are common, especially in women. So common, in fact, that you may already be familiar with the medical term "cystitis" to describe the inflammation that can result when bladder infections are unattended. Fortunately, several essential oils can come to the rescue. Juniper berry, sandalwood, chamomile, pine, tea tree, and bergamot are especially effective treatments. However, juniper berry is so strong that it could irritate the kidneys if the bladder infection has spread into them. If that is the case, stick to the other oils. In fact, if there is any chance that you have a kidney infection, be sure to seek a doctor's opinion, as it can have serious consequences.
Apply a massage oil or a compress containing the essential oils listed in the recipe over the bladder, which is located under the lower abdomen, once or twice daily as an adjunct to herbal, nutritional, or even drug treatments.
Added to a bath, these same essential oils can be used during an active infection and will help prevent future infections. If taking a full bath isn't practical, then try a sitz bath. As the name implies, you simply sit in a large tub of warm water (see sidebar below for more information).
Essential oils for bladder infections: bergamot, cedarwood, cypress, fir, frankincense, juniper berry (don't use if there's a kidney infection), sandalwood, tea tree
To learn more about Aromatherapy and other alternative medicines, see:
- Aromatherapy: Here you will learn about aromatherapy, how it works, what part essential oils play, and how to use aromatherapy.
- Essential Oils Profiles: We have collected profiles of dozens of plants that are used to produce essential oils. On these pages, you will learn the properties and preparations for the most popular essential oils.
- How to Treat Common Conditions With Aromatherapy: Aromatherapy can be used to treat a number of conditions, from asthma to depression to skin problems. Here you will learn how to treat some common medical problems with aromatherapy.
- Home Remedies: We have gathered over a hundred safe, time-tested home remedies for treating a wide variety of medical complaints yourself.
- Herbal Remedies: Herbal remedies and aromatherapy can be very similar, and they stem from similar historic roots. On this page, you will find all of our herb profiles and instructions for treating medical problems with herbal remedies.
Kathi Keville is director of the American Herb Association and editor of the American Herb Association Quarterly newsletter. A writer, photographer, consultant, and teacher specializing in aromatherapy and herbs for over 25 years, she has written several books, including Aromatherapy: The Complete Guide to the Healing Art and Pocket Guide to Aromatherapy, and has written over 150 articles for such magazines as New Age Journal, The Herb Companion, and New Herbal Remedies.
This information is solely for informational purposes. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO PROVIDE MEDICAL ADVICE. Neither the Editors of Consumer Guide (R), Publications International, Ltd., the author nor publisher take responsibility for any possible consequences from any treatment, procedure, exercise, dietary modification, action or application of medication which results from reading or following the information contained in this information. The publication of this information does not constitute the practice of medicine, and this information does not replace the advice of your physician or other health care provider. Before undertaking any course of treatment, the reader must seek the advice of their physician or other health care provider.


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Based in Bangkok Bus Terminal or Mo Chit 2, Prayat Tour is one of the many Thai bus companies. Prayat Tour focuses on offering buses to the northeastern region of Thailand, including Isan. The operator provides buses departing from Bangkok Bus Terminal (Mo Chit 2) heading to several provinces such as Roi Et, Yasothon as well as Amnat Charoen. Bus services leading to Roi Et will arrive in the district of Phanom Phrai.
With a variety of bus schedules provided, Prayat Tour bus tickets are available at affordable and reasonable prices. Several bus routes can be chosen from whereby all Prayat Tour buses will depart from Bangkok Bus Terminal (Mo Chit 2). Prayat Tour bus tickets can now be purchased through online booking without having to queue up at the ticket counter.
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Prayat Tour offers several types of buses to cater for various travel needs. For buses heading to Roi Et and Yasothon, the operator utilizes a standard 40-seater coach as well as offering a few overnight buses to travel to these destinations. VIP buses are provided for travels from Bangkok to Amnat Charoen due to the long hours of the journey. Bangkok to Amnat Charoen will take an estimated time of around 8 – 9 hours via a bus ride. Overnight buses are also available for the route from Bangkok to Amnat Charoen as buses may depart in the evening and arrive early the next morning.
All vehicles by Prayat Tour are kept in a clean condition for a comfortable ride. Each journey is accompanied by friendly and well-trained staff to ensure the safety of onboard guests. Striving to become a reliable operator, Prayat Tour is continuously working towards improving its bus services to compete among many other bus operators in Thailand. A selection of bus schedules is available, and all bus tickets are offered at affordable prices.
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