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Banking on mangroves: a case for investing in coastal ecosystems is organised jointly by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Pakistan and the South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE).
The three-day orientation workshop and policy seminar will focus on the management of coastal ecosystems, with particular reference to mangrove forests in South Asia.
The aim is to raise awareness regarding the economic significance of coastal ecosystems, to examine the range of services provided by mangroves, to understand the economic implications of mangrove destruction, and to identify the challenges of conserving coastal ecosystems. The workshop and seminar will provide a forum for knowledge sharing, based on research concerning the valuation of mangrove ecosystems in South Asia. The workshop will also introduce participants to some of the tools that
are employed to conduct a valuation of natural resources.
The event aims to inform civil society, coastal zone managers, NGO staff, academics, researchers and policy makers about the ecosystem services that coastal areas provide, and to create awareness about how these services can best be used, managed and conserved.
The first two days, consisting of an orientation workshop, are aimed at a mixed group of individuals from various government agencies involved in coastal zone management, as well as academics and members of civil society. The policy seminar on the third day is specifically designed to introduce to policy makers, politicians and civil servants the idea that coastal ecosystems are sound investments because they carry great potential economic value.
The event is divided broadly into three components, corresponding with each day's events:
1. Overview of coastal ecosystems in South Asia, and economic valuation of the ecosystem services of mangrove forests.
2. Management and rehabilitation of mangrove ecosystems in South Asia, with specific reference to Pakistan.
- Begin a consultative process that will lead to the formulation of an integrated coastal zone management strategy.
- Raise awareness about the economic value of coastal ecosystem resources.
- Assess the needs of stakeholders in terms of orientation and training for the next steps required.
3. Panel discussion and policy seminar.
- Initiate a dialogue with policy makers at the highest level regarding the value and importance of coastal ecosystems.
- Create awareness about the untapped potential economic benefits that can arise from investment in coastal ecosystems.
- Highlight the need to include coastal ecosystems in economic and development planning in the future.
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Course Collaboration across Oceans
By Peter Schilling
As NYU aspires to become a Global Network University, it faces challenges. For example, how can we best offer advanced courses in the sciences at our global sites? How can we bridge the gap between instruction and research? How do we develop courses that relate to the specific locations in which we offer them, yet have a global scope?
As described at the recent Teaching with Technology Conference this semester, one undergraduate course—Where the City Meets the Sea—successfully demonstrated how technologies such as videoconferencing, mobile computing as well as data management, sharing, visualization, and analysis can help achieve these goals.
Developing a Global Course for a Global University
In the winter of 2011, the University tasked a few of us with conceiving new kinds of science courses. NYU needed courses it could offer at its many global sites. The courses had to be challenging and offer relevant curricula that addressed the concepts, content, and tools of 21st century science. One other criteria: they had to be courses that we could offer at any NYU location, including those without physical labs.
After discussing various options, we focused our attention on a marine urban ecology course called Where the City Meets the Sea: Studies in Coastal Urban Environments. NYU (and only NYU) could offer it in New York, Abu Dhabi, Shanghai, London, Tel Aviv, Accra, Buenos Aires, Sydney, and many other locations. The course is a joint effort between an NYUAD faculty member and marine biologist, John Burt, and Mary Killilea, a faculty member in New York with fifteen years of experience studying the local environment using geographic information systems (GIS) software to manage and visualize geospatial environmental data. With John and Mary as the intellectual and instructional drivers of the course, NYU's Global Technology Services, ITS, and the Libraries of both campuses helped create the physical and online environments for the course.
Connecting and Collaborating
In the Spring 2012 semester, NYU offered Where the City Meets the Sea in New York and Abu Dhabi. The students and faculty, while resident in both NY and AD, used videoconferencing to work together as a single class. They shared large environmental, demographic, economic and other types of data sets provided by a range of groups, such as city, state and federal governments as well as international groups. Assignments, for example, sent students into their respective cities to test the water and air in specific locations. They then uploaded their data to a shared data repository and collaborated to analyze the impact of the man-made environment on the natural world.Even though New York and Abu Dhabi seem to have very different histories, students found that both cities have changed their natural environments in remarkably similar ways. Both are cities built on landfills and immigrant labor, both have manipulated their environments to secure clean water and provide energy, both have struggled to manage their waste, and both overwhelmed their fish stocks. New York has done this over the course of 400 years. Abu Dhabi has done it in 40.
An essential characteristic of the course relates to the students' assignments and data collection. That is, rather than view the students' work as tasks designed to develop and demonstrate a mastery of facts and skills, the students collect data and make available analysis so that other students in their class, other classes, and at other sites can build on it. The students' data will become a part of a University interdisciplinary data set related to particular locations and times. In this way, NYU has bridged the gap between undergraduate instruction and research.
The Technology That Made It Possible
To make this course a reality, we relied upon a wide range of technology, including videoconferencing, mobile computing, data management and sharing resources, and data visualization and analysis software.
Polycom's ATX 200 videoconferencing system sends two synchronized videoconference streams, as well as a third stream for shared content. We selected this system after receiving feedback from faculty and students as well as witnessing how courses using single-stream videoconferencing setups faced technical and logistical challenges. The ATX 200 series, in contrast, captures everyone in the room on camera, so there is no need for a student or faculty member to manage the camera. It permits students to participate in a seminar without the burden of managing the technology.
Mobile Computing
For field-based data collection, we selected the Motorola Xoom tablet, which runs on the open source Android operating system. In addition to time and date-stamping all inputs, the Xoom has a GPS chip for gathering location data. It also has a 5-megapixel camera for photo and video capture. To create the necessary forms and related data collection tools, we used the Eclipse open source development platform (including the Eclipse Android Development Tools plug-in), Java SDK, Android SDK, Google App Engine SDK, Google Web Toolkit SDK, and Google's OpenDataKit Collect for data gathering on Android tablets.
Data Management and Sharing
We used Google App Engine and OpenDataKit Aggregate for managing the collected data on a server. For the first offering of the class, we simply shared data sets via Blackboard and FTP. In the future, we anticipate using the NYU Library's Spatial Data Repository.
Data Visualization and Analysis
ESRI, a GIS mapping software maker, agreed to a University-wide site license for its desktop software. For this reason, students used both Google Earth and ESRI's ArcMap to analyze and visualize data. The data can be exported as CSV files (converted to shapefiles) or KML files. For future iterations of the course, we may also start using Google's Fusion Tables or similar technologies, such as those from ESRI.
Two final areas we needed to address—and will need to address in order to offer the course at additional locations—include local GIS support for students and faculty as well as access to regional spatial data. In the United States, federal, state, and local governments routinely make the spatial data they collect available to the public. Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates are just starting to develop such practices, and it took some effort to track down and request data from government and private sources.
The Future of Where the City Meets the Sea
Where the City Meets the Sea has gone well in its first semester. We will not know, however, if we have succeeded on all fronts until the course is offered again and elsewhere (such as at NYU Shanghai in 2014 and potentially sooner in London and Sydney). We also want to reuse the technologies for courses in other disciplines, such as Irish Studies, Global Jewish Cultures, Global Public Health and more. Stay tuned to future issues of Connect for updates!

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Author Notes: What makes a good egg salad sandwich? Everyone has their own answer to this question. For me, it all starts with fresh, perfectly cooked soft-boiled eggs. I add a little crunch for texture, a little acidity to balance out the creaminess of the eggs, and a dollop or two of mayonnaise to bind it all together. I add some tarragon, curry powder, and dry mustard to make my perfect egg salad. I love the taste of tarragon and it goes perfectly with eggs. It's really very simple and easy to make.
Adapted slightly from 101 Cookbooks.
Serves: 4
large eggs
1 to 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
a few drops of lemon juice or white wine vinegar
stalk clelery, washed and finely chopped
sweet curry powder, to taste
1 to 2
1 to 2 teaspoons dry mustard, or to taste
a few sprigs of tarragon, to taste, chopped
slices white bread, toasted and lightly buttered
handful of lettuce
salt and pepper, to taste
- Prepare an ice bath by filling a bowl with ice water and set aside.
- Place the eggs in a pot, fill with water to cover eggs by about 1/2-inch, and bring to a gentle boil. Turn off the heat, cover, and let sit for 7 – 10 minutes, depending on your preference for doneness. (I let mine sit for 7 minutes since I prefer softer-boiled egg yolks.) Remove and transfer to the ice bath for about 5 minutes to stop the cooking.
- Peel eggs and place in a mixing bowl. Add the mayonnaise, lemon juice or white wine vinegar, and season with salt and pepper. Mash with a fork.Add in the celery, curry powder, dry mustard, and tarragon. Taste and adjust the seasoning, if needed.
- To assemble the sandwich, place a handful of lettuce and a scoop of egg salad between two pieces of bread.
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Sioux Falls Man Wrecks Car, Breaks Into Home, Falls Asleep on Bed
Police say a man whose car struck a power pole Monday afternoon on North Marion Road in Sioux Falls was found a few hours later in a house where he had allegedly forced his way in.
Information Officer Sam Clemens says police were called after 5:00 p.m. to the 500 block of South Grange Avenue, where a resident came home to find his back door open, his cell phone missing and a man he didn't know was sleeping on a bed in his basement with the cell phone beside him.
Clemens says the resident went upstairs and used a different phone to call police:
Clemens says the alleged burglar, identified as 24-year-old Nicholas Ryan Hemscher, a transient from Sioux Falls, was charged with intentional damage to property, second-degree burglary and petty theft.
Clemens says Hemscher had also been involved in a car-pole crash around 2:30pm to the 1600 block of North Marion Road. He says Hemscher was taken to a hospital, cleared and released, and he was located later in the house on South Grange Avenue, where he told officers he thought he was on Marion Road.


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Turning up the action of the Glossy 15 gene could make some corn hybrids good energy crops in the future, according to a University of Illinois report.
The gene was originally described for its role in giving corn seedlings a waxy coating that acts like a sun screen for the young plant. Studies also have shown that the main function of Glossy15 is to slow down shoot maturation. "What happens is that you get bigger plants, possibly because they're more sensitive to the longer days of summer. We put a corn gene back in the corn and increased its activity. So, it makes the plant slow down and gets much bigger at the end of the season," says Stephen Moose, University of Illinois plant geneticist.
The ears of corn with the Glossy 15 gene have fewer seeds compared to a normal corn plant and could be a good feed for livestock. Although there is less grain, there is more sugar in the stalks. This type of corn plant may fit the grass-fed beef standard, Moose says.
The energy to make the seed goes into the stalk and leaves instead. "We had been working with this gene for awhile. We thought there would be more wax on the leaves and there was. But we also got this other benefit."
Moose tested his hypothesis with other corn lines and found that any corn variety can be made bigger with the gene, even in one cross.
An advantage to growing sugar corn for biomass rather than switchgrass or miscanthus is that it is an annual. Moose says that if it were to attract a pest or develop a disease, farmers could rotate to a different crop the next year. He adds that sugar corn might make a good transition crop.
An Alternative Silage
"We think it might take off as a livestock feed, because it's immediate," the geneticist says. "This would be useful for on-farm feeding. A farmer who has 50 steers could grow this and use the corn as feed and sell the stalks and sugar. It could be an alternative silage because it has a longer harvest window than regular silage."
The sugar corn plant would need to get government approval before it could be commercialized, but Moose says that this is about as safe a gene as you can get.


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The lyft... it smells like a hipster took a bath in a pool of desperation that is Abercrombie and Fitch.
Omg for real though, wear less cologne you insufferable creeper.
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Anti-Poverty Action Committee (Philadelphia)[Record group 60-12-2]
- Alternative/Former Names
- Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Commission;
Philadelphia Allied Action Commission
Agency Function
- The functions of the Philadelphia Allied Action Commission were taken over in 1985 by the Mayor's Office of Community Services.
- Agency History
- On 22 February 1965, via Executive Order 1-65, Mayor James H. J. Tate created the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Committee, consisting of thirty-one (31) members, including 5 members appointed directly by the Mayor, the President of City Council, the President Judge of the County Court, and representatives from 12 designated community organizations and 12 Community Action Councils established in the various poverty areas of the City. The 12 designated community organizations included the AFL-CIO, Chamber of Commerce, Congress of Racial Equality, Delaware Valley Settlement Alliance, Federation of Jewish Agencies, Greater Philadelphia Movement, Health & Welfare Council, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the Philadelphia Board of Education, the Philadelphia Council of Churches; and the Urban League. The Mayor charged this committee with the power to establish policies necessary to guide the City's Anti-Poverty Campaign under the Economic Opportunity Act, and to exercise supervision over the total program.
On 27 December 1967, the Mayor approved an ordinance, which took effect on 1 March 1968, replacing the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Committee with a new Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Action Commission, consisting of not less than 31 nor more than 45 members. The composition of the commission included the Mayor or his designee, the Development Coordinator, six persons appointed by the Mayor, President of City Council, Minority Leader of City Council, Director of Probation, representatives from each of the 12 Community Action Councils, and representatives from 11 of the 12 organizations mentioned above. The Philadelphia Board of Education lost its representation on this board.
The Commission was given the following powers: to conduct, administer and coordinate Federal anti-poverty programs in Philadelphia, to create a community action program to combat poverty, and to provide services and assistance aimed at eliminating poverty in the city.
On 22 March 1976, Mayor Frank Rizzo signed new legislation which replaced the earlier Commission with a new Commission consisting of 35 members including the Mayor, President & Minority Leader of City Council, Finance Director, President Judge, President of Board of Education, six other persons selected by the Mayor, representatives from the 12 poverty areas, and representatives from 11 designated community organizations. Under this legislation, the Greater Philadelphia Movement was replaced by the Old Philadelphia Development Corporation, and the Congress of Racial Equality was replaced by the Council for Spanish-Speaking Organizations. A supplemental ordinance approved on 17 January 1978 changed the name of the organization to the Philadelphia Allied Action Commission.
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Tereza necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
Beauty Xpress, by Days Oak -- (this brand will be in English, although the language in the country is Portuguese)
Owners Tereza and Neuza, who are sisters and their maiden name is the literal translation into Portuguese of "Days Oak" (Dias Carvalho), are starting this hot waxing business in a B class neighborhood of Sao Paulo. Hands nails will also be treated. The first premises will be only 1000 square feet, locate in a small mall with 12 stores, and is expected to serve about 1000 customers per month from a radius of 700 yards, once it achieves maturity.
Class A, B and C Brazilian women from 14 to 60 years of age. In Brazil waxing has become a must for women in the higher socio economic classes (allegedly 15% to 20% of all women in the target age audience are inclined to do hot waxing).
We prefer pastel (acqua green) and wine (blood rose, dark fucsia) colours. Abstract drawings, no defined picture or objects.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Reporting in
So, knitting has been a little slow this week, as I've been falling over into bed earlier in the evenings. Somehow I've felt more like reading than watching TV (there are times when the noise that is an inherent part of television just feels like it's too much to deal with, and even audiobooks feel somehow loud), and my lace project is not one of those things that I can knit while reading. But I am making progress; I'm halfway through the first repeat of the next charted section, with two more repeats after that. It's starting to get that going-downhill feeling that comes with hitting a point that feels like the halfway mark. It isn't really halfway, but as the rows are getting shorter rather than longer, it certainly feels that way.
Everyone else is finishing theirs up, and Anne has been posting pictures of this shawl in all of the gorgeous colorways that people are using to knit it; the reds and oranges and purples of some of them are just stunning. Anne has said that she'll probably release the pattern soon; this is a really fun and intuitive knit, so if you're feeling lacy, it's a good one to check out. (I should also mention that while I was a titch concerned about how I would feel about the bottom-up knitting thing -- that was one long cast-on row -- I am loving the realization that the rows are getting faster and faster, instead of the usual slower and slower.)
I would be much further along with it had I been able to knit on it at all this weekend. I had two major chunks of potential knitting time available: during the stretches of the drive that Rick was at the wheel, and while we were at my parents' house. The problem with the latter was that my aunt (who will be receiving this shawl for her birthday in the fall) was also at my parents' house, and I really couldn't knit it in front of her, as it's a surprise. And the problem with the former is that a) there are charts to be keeping track of while knitting (therefore, no knitting in the dark, for example, or on windy roads when I really need to be looking out the windshield more often than not), and b) seriously, I'm just not sure I can keep track of lace while Rick is plowing up the state at 80 miles an hour. Someone's got to keep us on the road, right?
So I started a pair of socks for Younger Daughter. Plain, stockinette socks. This isn't something that I do too often, but I've come to realize lately the benefit of plain knitting. It can be done in the dark, at the movies, in the car, while reading -- basically all kinds of places where I (speaking only for myself here) can't do more complicated knitting (where complicated knitting includes lace, cables, shaping, etc etc). I think that I need to do this more often. And this sock yarn is especially conducive to plain stockinette, as you can see.
How fun is that? It suits Younger Daughter to a T, and in spite of the fact that it seems to me like it should be far too big for her (this might even fit me, but I'm not trying it on lest I become tempted to abscond with it for myself), it isn't. This is knit out of Zauberball yarn from The Loopy Ewe. I got the ball a little while ago when I realized that it was time and past time to start acquiring some sock yarn that I would actually be willing to knit into socks for other people. My problem is that I love my stash too much, and don't want to part with any of it. I wanted to try this yarn, so I picked a colorway that I wouldn't normally choose for myself but that I knew Younger Daughter would love. My new problem is that I love this yarn. It is so soft and squishy and stretchy that I want these for my ownself. Another time. I do need to get a ball in another colorway for Older Daughter, though; she loves these, too. Meanwhile, I've cast on for the second sock. I tried to wind off enough yarn to match the colors, but I didn't quite succeed. The dark blue band at the top will be thicker on the second sock, so all of the other colors will start a little lower down. Younger Daughter likes it that way, so I think I must become resigned.
And now, as promised, another book!
My brother and brother-in-law sent this to me for my birthday last month, at my request (thanks, guys!). I'd gotten it out from the library and realized that I wanted to have it in my library as I go forward in my attempts to knit my own sweaters without patterns. It definitely has its good and bad points (the good obviously outweigh the bad in my mind, or I wouldn't have asked for it). Maggie Righetti's voice is highly opinionated, which I tend to find entertaining, but which other people mightn't. What I like about the book is that it discusses points of sweater design that other books don't usually address explicitly, like which types of sweaters flatter which kinds of body shapes. Again, she has some pretty strong opinions in this area, and doesn't hesitate to share them (it's her book, why should she?), but I take them with a grain of salt, and her discussions certainly make me at least think about things that I might not otherwise have considered.
Some of her points about fabric and sweater construction struck me as odd until I realized that she came at designing knitted sweaters from a background in designing garments using woven cloth, and then I understood why she emphasizes the points that she does; I find that to be interesting (among other things, by doing some reverse reasoning, I now have a better idea of what kinds of limits garment designers come up against when working with woven fabric that I had less sympathy for, having only ever worked myself with knitted fabric). It also helps me to understand why traditional knitted garments are designed so very differently (and why people with a background in other kinds of garment design tend to design sweaters in pieces). So I'm very glad to have this in my library, and I'll definitely be referring to it as I start to work out the details of the little lacy summer shell I want to knit for myself with the skein of SeaSilk I got myself last week.
And in case anyone ever wonders what Tilly does all day while I'm working here at home? Here's your answer.
19 comments:
- FUZZARELLY said...
Love the socks for daughter and hope to hear more about the new book.
- March 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM
- Willow said...
I loved Maggie's Knitting in Plain English so I think I'd love this book too. Hmm, my birthday's coming up...
The socks are great! I'm looking at the turned heel and it's really nice. How many rows of sl1,k1 do you do and how many stitches do you pick up on the side as you're turning the heel?
- March 12, 2009 at 5:38 PM
- Wool Enough said...
I love Maggie Righetti! Nothing wishy washy about this lady. She speaks her mind. One of my favorite bits is where she talks about deceptive poses for sweater patterns, the kind that conceal the flaws in the design
And the socks are gorgeous. Those big chunks of color that flow into each other! Yum.
- March 12, 2009 at 7:08 PM
- Anne said...
That sock yarn looks sort of like the toucan-ish colorway I got from Knit One, Crochet Too awhile ago. Yum. Such happy colors! And I love upside down Tilly! Wouldn't it be nice to have some time like that ....
- March 12, 2009 at 7:34 PM
- Willow said...
Thanks for the answer on the socks. The reason I asked is that my heel part was too long on the twisted rib stitch socks and I shortened it a little but it was still too long. Square sounds good.
- March 12, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- Lynne said...
I love those socks and plain knitting was an obvious choice!
Tilly looks comfy if not exactly productive!
Think I want that book myself!
- March 12, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- EGunn said...
Tilly looks less "helpful" than Artemis chooses to be when I'm home. I can't move three feet without having a cat at my heels (or on my papers). It's funny, because you'd expect it more from a dog...
Maplewing is coming along nicely; I can imagine that it feels great to have rows getting shorter as you go. Maybe my next lace project will be bottom-up.
I've looked at Maggie's book, but haven't bought it yet. It looks like a good one, though. I find opinionated writing funny (though I can't always say the same for opinionated people...). I have Alden Amos' Big Book of Handspinning, and I think his cantankerous opinions are one of my favorite things about the book.
- March 12, 2009 at 11:45 PM
- Miss 376 said...
Tilly looks really comfortable there. What fantatic colours on those socks, no wonder she loves them
- March 13, 2009 at 1:17 AM
- Katie said...
There is a lot to be said for plain old knitting. And that is why I have so very many garter stitch projects lying around everywhere.
- March 13, 2009 at 7:13 AM
- twinsetellen said...
1. Tilly has the right idea.
2. Completely get what you mean about the beauty of plain knitting.
3. Genius idea to buy yarn in colorways you don't go for in order to enable releasing it from your stash.
4. The shawl is nearly unctuous in its appeal to me.
5. The time change wiped us out, too, though we did appreciate the evening light.
6. You might want to reverse the order on these points if you'd like it to correspond to the chronology of the post!
- March 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- twinsetellen said...
Oh, and on second thought, perhaps I should clarify that "unctuous" is a highly positive adjective for a food person - I am not implying that the shawl is greasy and oily, more that it has the spinal level appeal of something smooth and silky and yes, fatty, at least to this mammal.
- March 13, 2009 at 8:26 AM
- KnitNana said...
Oh, hon...give me a plain vanilla stockinette sock any day! I don't know what I'd do without them.
The Lace is beautiful!
(and DST? Whipped mine, too)
- March 13, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- AlisonH said...
I LOVE that lace pattern in the first picture--I've played with that one a fair bit. And those socks are great fun--cheerful on a beautiful spring day!
- March 13, 2009 at 10:56 AM
- Gwen said...
When I choose colours I think I don't like for me, I find I like them as I knit them. I suddenly seem to be buying more orange yarn for myself as a direct result of orange yarn chosen by the kiddo. Good, in that it gets me out of my comfort zone. Bad, in that I have less restraining my yarn gimmees.
On the size note, my child's feet are not nearly as small as I think they should be.
Shawl is lovely, of course. Shows the pattern so nicely.
Maggie is good for breakfast reading. Pattern books don't really cut it.
I think I have another professional question for you. One of these I'll get around to composing it. Has to do with the proper use of the term dialect. You have been warned. I won't be surprised if my emails are returned unread in the future. Wait, that's letters. I'll never know!
- March 13, 2009 at 3:32 PM
- Carrie K said...
Other than the possibility of electrocution, Tilly has the right idea.
DST is a scourge. Can't think. Can't get up, can't get to sleep, gah. It actually makes it harder for me since I work until after dark anyway and have to be at work even EARLIER during tax season(yes, I would like a little cheese w/my whine, lol).
I love Maggie Righetti's books.
Plain knitting is such a godsend! Mindless knitting in front of the TV, at the movies or on the road while keeping everyone safe by sheer willpower....:)
- March 13, 2009 at 5:01 PM
- Alwen said...
The shawl pattern is so beautiful, but I confess to loving the really long color runs on the sock. I'm done with white. Outdoors is currently shades of brown, so I'm ready for color!
- March 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM
- Mary Lou said...
sometimes i knit a project in front of the intended recipient and just don't say who it is for! Love the socks. I generally make stockinette or very simple socks for my meeting knitting, or times when you can't really see much. those colors you could see almost anywhere! Fun.
- March 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM
- Mary Lou said...
And i'm with you on the time change, i was travelling with a time zone change, then back in time for the time change here. I'm finally starting to feel like I'm not exhausted.
- March 14, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Alisha said...
Oh I love that sock....they are going to be wore often I am sure!
Love the shawl!
- March 18, 2009 at 7:15 AM


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Introduction to the Funk LAP-2.V3 Preamplifier
It is becoming increasingly popular for high end audio buffs to use pro studio gear in their home systems. This preamp from a German manufacturer that makes pro gear is in keeping with this trend. As a matter of fact, the literal English translation of their name is "Funk Recording Studio Technology". Will the amazing specs of the Funk Tonstudiotechnik LAP-2.V3 translate into amazing sound?
The Funk Tonstudiotechnik LAP-2.V3 is an unbalanced active preamplifier that provides switching and gain for up to six stereo inputs. The architecture of this unit is based on a buffered matrix switch that operates without mechanical contacts. The manufacturer's stated design goal was to achieve high reliability, long service life and consistent audible performance. This preamplifier was developed from Funk's professional reference monitor systems that are being used in a number of mastering studios.
The manufacturer makes performance claims that put the little LAP-2.V3 in the company of greats. This would be a S/N Ratio of 137.5 dB, THD of 0.0001%, Input Impedance of 2 Mega Ohm and a flat frequency response from 0.5 Hz to 200 kHz. These are specifications at the limits of laboratory grade test gear and are near the theoretical limit of what is possible to achieve regardless of price.
- Design: Solid State Stereo Preamplifier
- Maximum Voltage Output: 13.8 Volts RMS
- MFR: 1 Hz – 200 kHz ± 0.2 dB
- Inputs: 6 Unbalanced RCA
- Outputs: 2 Pair Unbalanced RCA, 4 Pair Record Out RCA and ¼" Headphone
- Input Impedance: 2 M?
- Output Impedance: 62 ?
- Dimensions: 1.6″ H x 8.25″ W x 6.7″ D
- Weight: 3.3 Pounds
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Design of the the Funk LAP-2.V3 Preamplifier
The Funk LAP-2.V3's circuit design is based on a sophisticated active matrix switch. The primary advantages of this topology are that you have no mechanical contacts in the signal path, and there are no signal losses, even with numerous outputs. Important secondary benefits include low crosstalk and immunity to phase shifts. The matrix switch is buffered with a set of high quality op amps which leads to the super high input impedance.
This preamp features six selectable line level inputs, two preamp outs, four record outs and a front panel headphone jack (1/4″). All jacks are high quality with gold-plated contacts.
The power supply is a super quiet choke-regulated design with filter caps and low power draw – only 4.7 watts under normal operating conditions. It provides exemplary isolation from power line irregularities.
Funk selected an ALPS analog volume potentiometer in designing the LAP-2.V3. Funk's promotional materials indicate that digitally controlled volume controls compress dynamics and introduce distortion at low gain levels. They are willing to allow small traces of interchannel crosstalk and tracking nonlinearities to get the lower distortion results. Funk says they hand select the stereo pots and align the resistor network around each pot to obtain less than 0.5 dB of channel imbalance. This should be inaudible in any conceivable real world environment. Bear in mind that these numbers are measured on a new unit, and the imbalance would be expected to increase as the unit ages.
The Funk's headphone amp was a conundrum to me. Most high end headphone amplifier output stages are designed using discrete circuits or a mix of discrete and integrated circuits. Not here. Instead, Funk uses a low distortion op amp that is rated for higher impedance headphones (300 – 600 ohm). Funk includes a current limiter circuit to prevent overload so the unit will work with low impedance phones and earbuds. Funk says that my review unit is from an early production run. The new units have more current output, but Funk acknowledged that the headphone driver's current capability is ultimately limited by the unit's small power supply and the thermal limit imposed by the box's size. Be that as it may, Funk recommends headphones in the 200 – 600 ohm range for best results.
Normal operation of the Funk LAP-2.V3 is solid and confidence-inspiring. The user depresses the input button to select the input for playback and the matrix engages with a satisfying mechanical click. Holding the button mutes the line outputs but retains headphone out and the green light for that input dims. To select a source for recording, the user holds the "Record" button and then depresses the desired input and the red light for that input illuminates. The detented volume control has a precise and competent action.
The LAP-2.V3 has a great deal of underlying flexibility including features such as jumpers to covert the line outs to a fixed level, provisions for a processor loop by way of additional jumpers, and the option to trim gain levels for each input to accommodate the varying levels of your different source devices.
The Funk has many RCA jacks on the back panel. These jacks are grouped in rows and columns but they are really differentiated in large part by their labels. So the end user is cautioned to be careful when connecting components to this preamp. There are cases where the user may introduce a feedback loop and this could cause problems like spoiling a recording or damaged equipment. We are working on a separate technical article that will cover this topic.
Funk designed this unit to have a line output of 25 dBu, which is 13.8 volts RMS. In order to achieve this high an output voltage, Funk had to run the chips at their Absolute Maximum Rating. This design choice is perplexing to me because the target output voltage is far higher than what is required for consumer equipment and running a chip at its Absolute Maximum Rating is not good practice. This could lead to future reliability problems.
The Funk LAP-2.V3 is available in a number of finishes – white paint or anodized in black, blue, dark red, silver, or gold. My review unit was configured for use in North America (110 V, 60 Hz) but the power cord still had a German plug, so I had to dig out my Euro-style adapters for the review.
The Funk LAP-2.V3 Preamplifier In Use
The review unit was sent to me from another reviewer, and so it didn't need to be broken in before the evaluation period. I still put it through normal daily use for two weeks before I started my critical listening.
My subjective evaluation of this preamp was largely based on listening to digital media over my Oppo BDP-83SE. This was the best source I had on hand at the time and offers the highest probability to pinpoint the sonic character of the Funk Tonstudiotechnik LAP-2.V3. Plus, the Oppo has a variable analog out, so I was able to compare the sound of the Funk versus a direct feed from the Oppo to my power amp.
I listened to numerous CD's and SACD's during the review period. I also watched several Blu-ray movies, listening to the high resolution PCM 2.0 track when available or downmixed to 2 channels from the lossless surround sound track on discs that do not have a 2-channel track. My setup included an SVS SB 13 Ultra subwoofer that I have in for review. This sealed sub has a 13.5″ driver, a 1,000 watt RMS amp and a dual band parametric EQ. I dialed in the EQ and wound up with very flat response from the main listening seat (± 3 dB, 20 Hz – 80 Hz). So the system was set up and primed for optimal performance throughout the audible spectrum.
I wanted to mention the subwoofer here because the Funk's bass response on jazz, rock, and pop had a full, round and addictive quality. There was no trace of compression or smoothing of the bass, and the notes were rendered with natural harmonics. The synergy between the SVS sub and the Funk preamp was plainly heard. It was most apparent on discs with lively bass lines such as the Steely Dan "Gaucho" SACD.
It wasn't just the bass that impressed me but also the mid and upper ranges. This disc came through with no perceptible grain – the Funk preamp passed the extremely smooth output of the Oppo. The channel separation was also excellent, with pinpoint placement of musicians. But, when pushed too hard, the backup singers tended to smear into a single mass. Be that as it may, the most endearing quality of the LAP-2.V3 was its surprising rhythmic qualities. Take "My Rival" and its syncopated beat for example. Through the Funk, all the sound was in perfect synchrony. This little preamp's phase integrity offered pacing beyond reproach.
I don't want this to sound overly cliché, but the Funk proved to be so transparent, that I was having a hard time describing any sort of a sonic signature. The 2012 Blu-ray of The Lorax is a case in point. I watched this whole movie, planning to use it as the basis to describe the sound of the Funk. Later, when I was going through my listening notes, this is what I found, "Clean, dynamic, extended, timbrally accurate, channel separation, transient speed, Foley effects, bass response, harmonies, musical score." It was nothing more than a complete list of everything that sounded right over the Funk LAP-2.V3, and which I look for in various audio products that I review!
So, I had to get back to some pure music listening if I were going to characterize this little component. That's when I fired up my Neil Diamond Hot August Night/NYC. This Blu-ray was filmed live at Madison Square Garden in 2008. It is a very satisfying production that features an artist who sings with so much joy and love in everything he performs. The adoring audience is so enamored with the performance, that every last individual in the massive crowd winds up on their feet by the midpoint of the closing medley of his classic hits.
The very familiar and distinctive quality of Diamond's voice was unfettered during "Love on the Rocks". There was a pleasing frequency balance from the low bass all the way up through the highest octaves on "Pretty Amazing Grace". Then the horns on "Solitary Man" were right in front of me with excellent presence and spacing.
The Funk LAP-2.V3 never introduced any trace of an unpleasant sound. There was simply no harshness of any kind. I pulled the LAP-2.V3 out of the system and fed the amps directly off the Oppo BDP-83SE pre-outs for a few songs on Hot August Night to make a direct comparison. This experiment confirmed that there was no audible insertion loss with the Funk LAP-2.V3 in the system – nearly pure transparency was achieved.
After such a stirring performance from the Funk LAP-2.V3 as a linestage, I was very excited to give its headphone output a run for the money. But I was sadly disappointed in the performance I heard. Matching headphones with an amplifier can be akin to mating low efficiency speakers with low output triode amps – the proof is in the pudding. You can't always go off the specifications. The true test of a good match comes in the listening.
I started my evaluation of the Funk's headphone stage by listening to a pair of Audeo PFE 232. These dual armature earbuds are rated at 47 ohm nominal. Auditioning the Redbook CD of Amy Winehouse – Lioness, Hidden Treasures, I honestly thought there was something wrong with the earbuds or the CD at first. It was overly bright and clinical sounding, particularly over these low impedance buds.
So then I tried the Funk with a pair of 300 ohm Sennheiser HD 800's. These are very revealing headphones. Even into these higher impedance phones, the signal overloaded on crescendos. The bass was lean and detached, leaving a grainy and bright presentation overall. So, it was as if the headphone stage is there to help with record monitoring, but passes along very little information as to the quality of the recording. Bear in mind that the newer production models are claimed to output twice the current of my review unit.
The Funk LAP-2.V3 Preamplifier On the Bench
At 1 kHz and 2 volts RMS output the THD+N I measured was a very respectable 0.00038%. Funk measures lower distortion using an Audio Precision at the factory. My test set up is very capable. It has a native distortion floor of about 0.0003%, so the distortion I measured of the LAP-2.V3 was at or near the limits of detection for my test setup.
In this test, the input signals are simultaneous 19 kHz and 20 kHz sine waves at 1:1. The B-A peak at 1 kHz is 123 dB below the test signal. This is a superlative test result.
The LAP-2.V3's Intermodulation Distortion was only 0.0023 %.
The measured frequency response of the Funk LAP-2.V3 is essentially flat between 10 Hz – 96 kHz (the limits of my test gear). Notice that the major divisions of the vertical axis are only 0.5 dB.
Conclusions about the Funk LAP-2.V3 Preamplifier
The Funk LAP-2.V3 is an interesting product. From a subjective listening standpoint, it is very good as an active preamp albeit one that overloaded when driven hard. When driven within its limits, the sound I obtained was fantastic, with nothing added and nothing taken away.
This really struck me one evening as I was reviewing the Blu-ray of Pitch Perfect. This movie is about the collegiate acapella singing scene. The little Funk preamp was so clean and extended, with such excellent phase linearity, that I just couldn't believe I was listening to a recording. It really did open the window and let me feel that the singers were right there in the room with me. In all honesty, it was a breathtaking experience. This preamp's excellent performance is reflected in its bench test measurements. These show distortion and roll off characteristics that are several orders of magnitude below the threshold of human hearing.
Funk put their resources into the buffering amp and the matrix switch. This is the meat and potatoes for a product like this, and so I can't argue with that aspect of the design. I personally wished they had a better headphone amp. I would also like to see a remote control for home users. The unit has four tape loops. I wish they would cut that down to one or two. They could use the cost savings to improve the power supply and headphone driver while including additional CMOS switching to mute the active recorder and avoid one potential avenue for feedback.
My final thought is that this product is a decent linestage with some good design decisions in many areas but driving the IC's at their maximum voltage might cause reliability problems. Funk is on the right track with this design, but a few design and implementation tweaks are necessary in order for this unit to garner a blanket recommendation.


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Izzy Stradlin Issues Statement on Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction
The last original Guns N' Roses member, guitarist Izzy Stradlin, has finally weighed in with his own statement about the group's upcoming induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Stradlin, who apparently isn't part of the on-line revolution, sent the message out into the universe courtesy of his buddy, former bandmate and current part-time journalist Duff McKagan, who issued a pair of highly classy statements of his own recently about what has turned into quite a mess.
It has been suggested that Stradlin would not be appearing at the ceremony, and while he doesn't confirm one way or the other in this note, the "Adios, Amigos!" sign-off seems to imply he will not show up. Instead he simply offers a big bundle of positivity and thanks to the Hall of Fame, to his bandmates and to the band's millions of fans. You can read his entire statement right here:
I have waited up to this point to see what would become of the GNR induction into RRHOF. I would like to say THANK YOU and GRACIAS to RRHOF for the acknowledgement of our works over the years as a band. BIG THANKS to all my bandmates who helped get us to where we are today. And, of course, THANK YOU to all of the people on this planet (including, but not limited to, the entire universe and beyond, etc., etc., etc.) who have supported Guns N' Roses from day one. Adios, Amigos!
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I don't know where or when they met but telegrams show that Betty Connery and Don Hansen began dating about 1938 or early in 1939. By mid 1939 the telegrams were being sent to Betty at her workplace. At the time Betty was working at the Metropolitan Sanitary District for the City of Chicago. Courting included shows, dinners, horseback riding, football games, and probably, some concerts. There were corsages for dinner, and flowers delivered to the office before a date. Don was working in the iron construction industry. He worked for the L P Friestedt Company based in Chicago. Although based in Chicago, in 1941 the company was working on the war effort in Atlanta. There were a series of buildings to be built during 1941 and 1942. Workers doing iron work were well paid. In one letter Don mentions that his pay that week would be $80. That sum in today's dollars would have a buying power of $1312.01. A series of letters written by Don in Atlanta, to Betty in Chicago, show that they were planning to move to Atlanta after their wedding in Chicago. The letters speak of Don's work in Atlanta, and his search for an area to consider as a place to live. They also reveal his deep love for Betty and desire to provide her with the very best of everything.
The marriage took place on 28 June 1941 at St Mel Catholic Church in Chicago. It was a fairly large wedding with four bridesmaids, and two junior bridesmaids Mary Alice Hardie, , Betty's niece and Maureen Murray, 5, Don's niece. I don't know what color the dresses were but the were pastel, long gowns. The bridesmaids wore little has that resembled the hats with wings worn by Dutch girls. If I had to guess I would say they were probably light blue. After the Nuptial Mass the wedding breakfast was held in the Edgewater Beach Hotel near the Chicago lakefront. Ironically the Edgewater Beach was built by two brothers John Tobin Connery and James Connery, no relation to my Connerys.
After the ceremonies were over Betty donned a lavender sharkskin suit for traveling and they left Chicago for a new life in Atlanta with stops in Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain along. A visit to Idle Hour Farm in Lexington Kentucky was also on their agenda for a little horseback riding on the prize horsed. En route to Atlanta they experienced a car fire in their trunk and suffered the loss of some of their wedding gifts.
After Atlanta work took Don to Michigan and Wisconsin as for several years he followed the jobs in iron work around the mid-west. Eventually Don left iron work behind and joined his father-in-law's company as a realtor. Betty and Don had returned to the Chicago area to raise their family.


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Baldwin resurfaced from his self-imposed Twitter exile to pass on his condolences to comic Sarah Silverman, who has been left devastated following the death of her beloved dog.
Silverman told fans on Wednesday that Duck, her 19-year-old chihuahua-pug mix who had appeared on "The Sarah Silverman Show" with her, had passed away.
In a blog, she wrote, "He was a happy dog, though serene. And stoic. And he loved love. … I held him and kissed him and whispered to him well past his passing."
Fans bombarded the star with messages of condolence, and the obituary even moved Baldwin, who has been offline following a rant against a reporter in June, to re-activate his Twitter account.
In the solo message, he wrote, "For SarahKSilverman, who turned the dial on my day to the right frequency." He then added a picture of his own two pet dogs.
The "30 Rock" actor closed his account on the social networking site after launching into a homophobic rant against a Daily Mail journalist, who claimed that his wife, Hilaria, was using the social networking website during James Gandolfini's funeral. Baldwin later apologized for using the terms "toxic little queen" and a "lying little [bleep]".


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Clarkson University Center for Advanced Materials Processing Organizes 18th Annual International Symposium on Chemical-Mechanical Planarization
More than 100 researchers from several high- technology companies, suppliers and universities from the United States, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Belgium, and Canada, gathered in Lake Placid, N.Y., in August for the 18th International Symposium on Chemical-Mechanical Planarization (CMP), sponsored by Clarkson University's Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP).
Speakers included engineers and scientists from IBM, Intel, Micron, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Samsung, SEMATECH, Ebara, Dow Electronic Materials, Cabot Micro, Applied Materials, Pall, Entegris, Fujimi, Fujiplanar, IMEC in Belgium and others. University speakers were from Kyushu University and Kyushu Institute of Technology, and Shizuoka from Japan, SKKU and Hanyang from Korea, National Taiwan University, and CNSE and Clarkson.
Chemical-mechanical planarization or chemical-mechanical polishing -- CMP for short -- is a process that uses nano-sized abrasives in a reactive chemical dispersion to polish various layers on the surface of wafers used in semiconductor fabrication to achieve nanolevel planarity (a flat and uniformly smooth surface).
CMP is an enabling technology that translates into faster computers, more realistic video games, smaller cell phones and more efficient performance from the various electronic devices we use daily in our homes and businesses.
Since the wafers typically have a 300 mm diameter, this planarity extends over an eight-orders-of-magnitude length scale.
This technology plays a critical role in today's microelectronics industry and is the ideal planarizing technology for use with the interlayer dielectrics and metal films used in all forms of logic and memory devices extending down to14 nanometer feature sizes. Clarkson University and CAMP are internationally recognized for expertise in this remarkable technology.
This year's event focused on several fundamental aspects of chemical-mechanical planarization, including particle and colloidal aspects, polishing mechanisms, pad/conditioning behavior, flow characterization, copper/barrier film planarization, defects and post-polish cleaning, low-k films and integration challenges, 300 mm wafer issues and transition to 450 mm, STI (shallow trench isolation), Nitride/Poly (silicon nitride/polysilicon) and polishing of new channel and barrier materials like germanium, indium phosphide, ruthenium, cobalt, silicon carbide, etc.
Distinguished University Professor S.V. Babu, the director of CAMP, served as the lead organizer of this year's symposium, as he has for the past 17 years. He was assisted by co-chairs Hirokuni Hiyama (division executive for technologies, R&D, IP Division at Ebara Corporation in Japan), Jin-Goo Park (professor, Department of Materials Engineering and vice dean at Hanyang University in Korea), Charan Surisetty (unit process engineering professional at IBM), Joseph Steigerwald (Intel fellow; technology and manufacturing group and director of Chemical Mechanical Polish Technology), Matt Prince (principal engineer, Intel), Lee Cook (technology fellow and Global Slurry R&D director, Dow Electronic Materials), and Rajeev Bajaj (director at Applied Materials).
Monday night's after dinner speaker, Mark Dougherty (IBM director – Unit Process Development, SRDC- IBM Microelectronics Division), was introduced by Clarkson University President Tony Collins. He delivered an insightful talk, titled "The Silicon Process Roadmap: Where is it Taking Us?"
Tuesday evening featured an award and recognition for CAMP Deputy Director John (Jack) Prendergast as he retires. Distinguished University Professor / CAMP Director S.V. Babu presented an award to Jack for his excellent contributions to CAMP's success.
The symposium included a poster session dedicated to the memory and contributions of the late Clarkson Prof. Yuzhuo Li.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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cmp-organizers-2013.jpg: Organizers of the 18th International Symposium on Chemical-Mechanical Planarization held in Lake Placid. From left: Charan Surisetty (unit process engineering professional at IBM), Hirokuni Hiyama (division executive for technologies, R&D, IP Division at Ebara Corporation in Japan), Clarkson University Distinguished University Professor and CAMP Director S.V. Babu, and Jin-Goo Park (professor, Department of Materials Engineering and vice dean at Hanyang University in Korea).
cmp-li-memorial.jpg: A poster session emphasizing the Clarkson University Center for Advanced Materials Processing's research in chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) was dedicated to the memory and contributions of Yuzhuo Li. He was the head of research and development for Global Business Electronic Materials at BASF in Ludwigshafen, Germany and also served as a professor in Clarkson University's Department of Chemistry. From left: Distinguished University Professor and CAMP Director S.V. Babu, Clarkson University President Tony Collins, Kenneth Rushing (research assistant professor and LASP manager at Clarkson and a former graduate student for Prof. Yuzhuo Li), and CAMP Deputy Director Jack Prendergast.
cmp-dougherty.jpg: Several symposium attendees join the after dinner speaker Mark Dougherty (IBM director – Unit Process Development, SRDC- IBM Microelectronics Division). From Left: Hirokuni Hiyama (division executive for Technologies, R&D, IP Division at Ebara Corporation in Japan), Chao-Chang Arthur Chen (director CMP Innovation Center Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan), S.V. Babu (Distinguished University Professor/CAMP Director, Clarkson University), Dougherty, Clarkson University President Tony Collins, Greg Akiki of IBM (Director, G450c), and CAMP Deputy Director Jack Prendergast.
cmp-prendergast-award.jpg: Distinguished University Professor/CAMP Director S.V. Babu (right) presents a plaque to CAMP Deputy Director Jack Prendergast at his retirement celebration. The special award was presented "in recognition of Prendergast's excellent contributions to CAMP's success."
[Photographs for media use are available at http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/cmp-organizers-2013.jpg, http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/cmp-li-memorial.jpg, http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/cmp-dougherty.jpg, and http://www.clarkson.edu/news/photos/cmp-prendergast-award.jpg.]


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Höganäs North America chooses Cisco over others for Unified Wireless and Secure Network – Part 2
Today, at Höganäs North America, the high-performance Cisco network delivers the day-to-day voice and data communications needed for around-the-clock communications and network connectivity that are vital to Höganäs' staff for not only daily operations but to ensure the safety of their 80 plant employees: activities such as enabling crane operators servicing furnaces to alert nearby teams to help ensure their safety for example.
"The Power of Powder" video is from the new Höganäs North America website that provides "Metal Powder Information, Anytime, Anywhere". Very cool YouTube video!
The company is seeing productivity increase and frustrations decrease, for example, when managers can walk the entire shipping floor without dropping the call on their wireless IP phone, which used to be a daily problem for the department.
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network that has been installed is complemented by a high-availability, secure physical network built on Cisco Catalyst® 3750 Series stacked switches, Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series switches, and Cisco 2800 Series Integrated Services Routers.
The Cisco Unified Wireless IP Phone 7925G-EX, the focus of my video in my last blog: Höganäs North America chooses Cisco over Motorola, Nortel, Avaya, and others – Part 1, delivers the ruggedness and resiliency needed in the manufacturing environment saturated with metal powders than can easily damage standard wireless IP phones.
Michael P. Rhoades, IT administrator, North American Höganäs, is quoted in the case study as saying:
"Around-the-clock communications and network connectivity are vital to our staff for not only daily operations but to ensure the safety of our 80 plant employees," He then adds: "Today, we're experiencing a new level of efficiency across departments and can maintain the degree of safety needed when manufacturing metal powders, thanks to our integrated Cisco environment. Greater network connectivity enabled by CleanAir technology is enhancing productivity for other activities too, such as developing in-house prototypes and products, and collaborating with outside researchers in metallurgy and industrial processes and applications."
The case studygoes into a lot of details about the breadth of Cisco Solutions used. The business benefits are profound:
- Now that North American Höganäs has a pervasive and comprehensive Cisco wireless, wired, and voice platform, the company's manufacturing, research and development, marketing, sales, and other teams now have 24-hour access to the applications and data that they need to complete the tasks at hand.
- Added to which, The Cisco Unified Wireless Network enables the IT staff to reduce the hours spent managing and troubleshooting wireless problems by approximately 5 to 10 hours per week and to instead devote their time to critical projects.
This is just another example of how Cisco is bringing industry-relevant solutions to our customers, rather than the point products that our competitors tend to provide. Working with our partners, like Link Computer Corporationin this case, those solutions provide real business benefits to customers like North American Höganäs:
- Delivered enhanced network performance and increased employee productivity
- Elevated communications and collaboration to the level necessary to foster safe manufacturing environment
- Provided complete, centralized visibility into network spanning the 500,000-square-foot facility
Once again, look out for more Manufacturing Industry customer use cases – and let me know your experiences – I can't promise I'll publish your story, but you never know…
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oh wow. that is really cool
World has to thank a lot to CISCO !


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One Direction Perform 'Best Song Ever' at Children in Need 2013 [VIDEO]
One Direction brought the 'Best Song Ever' to a charity performance last night (Nov. 15) -- and they nailed it!
The boys took the stage for the annual BBC telethon and raised the tempo significantly. They had the most energetic set of the seven-hour long fundraiser! The band also acted as presenters during the show, serving double duty for a good cause. Check out their flawless performance above -- and don't forget to donate if you can!


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St. Louis (March 6, 2014) –
Beloved as one of the most popular and iconic dance companies in the world,
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
ranks among the few companies today recognizable simply by name or image. Brilliant and electrifying, strong and regal, ethereal and breathtaking, the company has changed the face and perception of American dance since its founding in 1958. The elegant and athletic dancers perform in St. Louis this spring as part of their 23-city North American tour. Dance St. Louis presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on April 25-26 at the Fox Theatre for two evening performances only. St. Louis native
Antonio Douthit-Boyd
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, April 26 at 8 p.m.
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The season world premiere by in-demand choreographer Aszure Barton is an exhilarating work that celebrates and challenges the cast of 19 while highlighting Barton's collaborative stylistic approach that is constantly evolving like no other. Ailey's renowned dancers inspired the process, movement and composition, as well as the original percussive score by Curtis Macdonald.
D-Man in the Waters (Part I)
A true modern dance classic and a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award-winning work by modern dance innovator Bill T. Jones, a Tony Award-winner for
Spring Awakening
. The work made its company premiere during the Company's New York City Center engagement. Originally created in 1989, it is a celebration of life and the resiliency of the human spirit that embodies loss, hope and triumph with non-stop movement set to Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20 (1825).
Another Night
Commissioned by Ailey Artistic Director Robert Battle,
Another Night
is the creation of Kyle Abraham, an in-demand young choreographer who is also a MacArthur "Genius" Award recipient. Abraham innovatively fuses the many dynamic facets of American dance, from hip hop to ballet, and showcases the artistry and versatility of the Ailey dancers. Set to Art Blakey & The Jazz Messenger's rendition of one of Dizzy Gillespie's seminal compositions,
A Night in Tunisia
, the work made its world premiere during Ailey's 2012 New York City Center season.
Pas de Duke
Alvin Ailey's modern dance translation of a classical pas de deux was created in 1976 for two of the world's most renowned dancers: Judith Jamison and Mikhail Baryshnikov. First presented as part of the "Ailey Celebrates Ellington" festival at Lincoln Center's New York State Theater for the nation's bicentennial, the work commemorates America's two great art forms – modern dance and jazz music.
The River
Originally choreographed in 1970 for American Ballet Theatre,
The River
is a legendary collaboration between two great American artists: Alvin Ailey and Duke Ellington. The suite combines classical ballet, modern dance, and jazz in sections suggesting tumbling rapids and slow currents on a voyage to the great sea, mirroring the journey of life.
Choreographed by Alvin Ailey in 1960,
is Alvin Ailey's signature masterpiece and a tribute to his heritage and genius. The American classic, acclaimed as a must-see for all, uses African-American religious music/spirituals that fervently explore the places of deepest grief and holiest joy in the soul.
The New York Times calls Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater "a demonstration of large-scale, supergenerous, marvelously disciplined human energy." The San Francisco Chronicle describes Ailey as "a company whose worldwide popularity is rivaled only by the magnificence of its dancing." The New Yorker states, "You know they can do anything, but the visible evidence can leave you reeling… the company is dancing better than ever." The Chicago Sun-Times details the dancers' movements "as if their bodies are on fire and their souls hang in balance." The New York Observer plainly states, "Ailey dancers live on energy..." while Essence Magazine applauds, "You don't just see an Ailey performance, you feel it."
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has performed for an estimated 23 million people in 71 countries on six continents as well as millions more through television broadcasts, promoting the uniqueness of the African-American cultural experience and the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance tradition. The company was recognized by a U.S. Congressional resolution as a vital American "Cultural Ambassador to the World" in 2008, and in 2002 it was the recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater grew from a now-fabled March 1958 performance in New York that changed forever the perception of American dance. Founded by Alvin Ailey, and guided by Judith Jamison beginning in 1989, the Company is now led by Artistic Director Robert Battle, whom Judith Jamison chose to succeed her on July 1, 2011. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the Principal Dance Company of New York City Center, where its performances have become a year-end tradition. For more information, please visit
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Dave Thomas & Jim Weirich: Metaprogramming
Class methods in Ruby are not class methods; they're singleton methods on class objects.
It's not syntax that defines the class method, it's execution.
Jim Weirich: "I avoid the @@ variables."
Lot of pressure to put it in
Hated it all along
For very good reasons
Ugly semantics
Every subclass gets their own copy
No real inheritance per se - copies, not navigating the tree (?)
Taking it out?
Key to metaprogramming: track the value of self
Know thyself
JW: When confused, treat classes as objects.
e.g.: module A # etc ; class Dave ; end ; Dave.extend A
There's an included, similar to extended
Xyz.send :include, Class == module Xyz ; include Class ; end
That send fails in 1.9!
Why? -> Code closer to domain
Coding close to the application domain = good
Show tests to client -> get buy-in -> "major loophole in testing philosophy"
Chad Fowler & Marcel Molina: Well-factored Rails
Quick & Dirty vs. Slow & Clean
not any more!
Making the same comments frequently
Leaky Abstractions everywhere
TCP/IP -> leaks because TCP enables guaranteed connectivity, but unplugging computer violates abstraction, so high-level code needs to address failures of the low-level code to genuinely represent its problem space
Unless you understand the SQL which Rails generates, your application will suck. Guaranteed.
Keep tail -f log open all the time; understand the SQL underneath; watch it happening.
Dave Thomas: h method is leakiest, most dangerous abstraction
Use Jamis Buck's ActiveRecord Logger trick - Rails core was toying with making it the default for Rails console
Chad mentions the problem of Rails n00bs who see the abstractions and don't realize there's anything underneath. They can build stuff very quickly but it invariably falls apart. I worked for a large, respectable company where this happened quite disastrously. A very smart MBA who wasn't a programmer but could code did exactly this, wrote something which used the abstractions well but without thinking about the underlying system, and the whole thing went kaboom.
Quick and Clean requires Zealotry
Constraints Are Liberating
MVC as a constraint
Over-do MVC
Don't put any code in the views; don't put any DB code in the controllers
Ruthlessly Kill Duplication
Marcel Molina: Thomas Aquinas' definition of beauty
Integrity (Form -> Function (crystal hammer not beautiful))
Simple template
magazines/readers -> join table: subscription
"Everything you need to do to connect two objects is a CRUD operation."
"That might not pop out unless you were thinking in terms of resources."
"In the context of the controller, order and limit are leaky abstractions."
When adding DSLs or similar abstractions, package them as plugins, even when you have no plans to distribute them at all. Very preferable to /lib due to presence of testing. (Also I think this gets you past explicit requires in the environment file for free.)
with_scope nesting
implictly merges options hashes
allows you to expressively declare the semantics of SQL conditions without using SQL
imparts significance of a find to that find
nesting with_scope in a model gives you named keyword finds very easily
very cool
put SQL fragments in constants and then with_scope(Constant)
Mike Clark wrote that
it kicks ass
conditions gets merged seamlessly
(thanks to ugly stuff hidden deep inside Rails)
that's awesome
You can do the same thing with methods instead of Constants
Views can and will get bad - battling against the framework in Chad's opinion
Biggest failing of Rails (Chad says) is ERB
Ruby with embedded JavaScript embedded in HTML
Use helpers to hide that stuff away
Hide the ugly stuff by pushing it down a level - at the end you find none of it is ugly
Additional benefit - recontextualizing the code during refactoring shows you your code from a new perspective - this makes you see improvements you can make
Alternatives to ERB: Seaside views!
"Talk to Giles Bowkett if you want to know more about this" - wait a minute, that's me!
Blocks make helpers more powerful
Finally, the best way to get good at programming Rails is to master Ruby. Forget about Rails, master Ruby.
Marcel Molina & Stuart Halloway: Presenters
Basecamp had a 500-line helper file
Helpers have no structure or organizing principles
Difficult to apply OO principles to helpers because it basically turns into PHP - just a crapload of functions in a big bag
Helpers are hard to test; creating presenters means you have objects, and it's easy to test an object.
I have a decent example of this, I should post it.
Oooh, this is cool. A method_missing on a presenter which checks if the template responds_to a given method.
Reference to Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns - Method Object pattern similar
Marcel presenting a nice abstract super class for presenters
It automatically links the view and model and has access to methods in each
Dave Thomas: "personal crusade against instance_eval."
Seriously. Sushi. Mountains of vegetables. Bacon and eggs at breakfast. I avoid bacon and eggs (although I admit I had some bacon) but that's a huge win. Clobbers the 10.30am sugar crash of most conference breakfasts.
Ezra Zygmuntowicz (& Mike Clark) - Xen & Rails Deployment
I've read the slides for this presentation before. Very good stuff.
Zed Shaw turned over Mongrel dev to a team including Ezra.
Upcoming Mongrel changes will be opt-in. Essentially Mongrel development is stable.
Mutex lock in Rails is for thread safety.
Apache - kind of a resource hog.
Nginx. "Some of the best C code I've ever seen."
Apache 100MB RAM -> Nginx 6MB RAM
Lighttpd similar, but leaks memory under high load.
Nginx -> author very approachable, growing community, most stable part of the whole stack.
Good wiki.
Comes with geographic load-balancing.
"You can slow down the robots."
Food coma. Food coma. Food coma. Liveblog activities ceasing. tail log/food.coma for more detail.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Rails Edge Liveblogging
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Luckiest Pilot, Superb Flyer…!!!
12 Responses to Luckiest Pilot, Superb Flyer…!!!
Wow. Unbelievable.
Unbelievable is right.
I think it's a fake:
Shame if it is fake, where you been stretcher monkey, missed you not heard from you in ages…hope everything is ok with your and yours..xx
Man Alive! Was waiting for the bang!
I've got a bad feeling about this….
can you write a bit about the saw doctors – how you found out about the band and why you like their music?
AnneDroid…thats what I thought.
Greybeard…interesting link.
Emma…still here, busy as ever. Update you soon. x
Louise…looks pretty scary and you would expect a bang!
piratedani…thanks Dani.
Mr. Nighttime…I think the feeling was 'change underwear time'!
DEBROX…will do a short post soon on the Saw Doctors.
Well faked… but with at least one demonstrable flaw: The aircraft passes by a control tower at about :04, then between two pylons at about :06. On landing, the aircraft passes by a control tower at about :46, then passes down the same direction as before, but no pylons.
Also, I believe that the wind speed/direction indicated by the wind sock in the background at the end is inconsistent with the landing and flight path- according to the wind sock, the aircraft performed precision flying, and then landed, in a rather stiff crosswind.
I haven't been able to ID the model of aircraft involved, but many have fuel tanks inside the wing, and all of them have control cabling to the control surfaces from the yoke, as well as electrical and other connections- How did all of those cleanly break?
As well, if an aircraft (accidentally) lost a control surface at an airshow, any pilot who flew AT the crowd in any way would never fly an airshow again- The right thing to do is perform a "controlled rough terrain landing" in a safe direction, not risk plowing through hundreds of people in an effort to reduce airframe damage.
@Decius – a lot of aircraft with demountable wings have couplings for the control surfaces and fuel lines at the wing root. These typically just pop off if overstressed (like, you forgot to take the clevis pin out of the aileron linkage) to avoid damage to the wing or control surface. Since they're typically not subjected to axial loads, they won't pop apart in normal flight.
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text: The IMS baseball team was two strikes away from qualifying for the state tournament Tuesday night but it was Preston who punched their ticket to Des Moines with a 5-4 last at bat win at Iowa City West. IMS took a 2-0 lead into the bottom of the second inning with single tallies in each of the first two frames on RBI hits by Cameron and Ethan Gingerich. An unearned run crossed the plate for the Trojans in the bottom of the second to cut the lead in half. From there pitchers Colton Bormann and Jackson Brokaw shut down the opposing offenses until the 7th inning when IMS pushed across two insurance runs on RBI hits by Jackson Brokaw and Cameron Gingerich. In the bottom of the inning the Trojans led off with back to back hits and Brokaw was lifted for Cameron Gingerich. After two fly outs, an error, and in an 0-1 count Preston lead off man Jason Fedderson hit a long fly ball down the left field line that just cleared the fence at the 305 sign for a game winning home run. IMS pounded out 11 hits in the contest led by two hits, two runs scored and an RBI for Jackson Brokaw and Cameron Gingerich who drove in two. IMS ends their season at 16-13, Preston will be in action Monday at the state tournament in Des Moines.


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Like a lot of walkers I'm a big fan of maps. When I went abroad for the first time, in my teens, to Nancy in France, to work on a pretty dubious "international youth project," one of the first things I did was buy a map of Nancy so that I could go walking and know where I was. The rest of the international youth thought this was very odd of me. As you see I still have it.
Later, when I first moved to London, straight after college, of course I owned a London A-Z, more of a book than a map, and I carried it with me all the time: I wanted to know where I was, I wanted to know how to get where I was going. This didn't strike me as odd in the least.
I was living in London because I'd got my first real job, working for a company named Bertram Rota, that dealt in twentieth century literary first editions, as well as authors' manuscripts and the occasional item of literary memorabilia.
One of the company directors was George Lawson, a dapper, twinkly man of Scottish origins who was extremely well-connected, and never seemed to do anything that looked like work. He'd just mess around in the store most of the day, but at some point he'd pick up the phone, call somebody important, and make a fabulous deal that earned the company a small fortune. He was friends with all manner of people in the art and literary worlds, not least David Hockney, who was a regular visitor to the store, and painted a rather wonderful portrait of George and his boyfriend – the ballet dancer Wayne Sleep.
On one occasion George saw that I kept an A-Z in my bag. "So," he said, "do you mean to say that when you go around London you take a MAP with you?" I said that I did. He found this both strange and hilarious. And my reaction at the time was, "Doesn't everybody?" Surely, I thought, nobody knows the whole of London, and if you stray anywhere outside your usual orbit you're going to need a map, aren't you? London is this vast and intricate city, how could you get around without one?
I didn't say that to George, and in retrospect I'm glad that I didn't, and of course once I'd lived in London for a while I didn't carry an A-Z with me all the time. And that's surely how it always is once you know a city. I didn't know every street, didn't have a complete map of London imprinted in my head, but I'd developed a feel for the place, had a general sense of direction, a sense of how neighborhoods related to each other. This was based on the experience of walking, of knowing the city on the ground, not on a map, and of course there were occasions when I went to some completely unknown part of the city, in which case I dug out my old A-Z.
The latest copy of the Believer has an interview with Dennis Wood, author of the "Power of Maps" and now "Everything Sings: Maps for A Narrative Atlas." He talks about the idea that street signs and names are only for strangers: when a place is part of you, you don't need a street sign telling you where you are. He obviously has a point. Then he says, "You get to a new city and you leave the hotel, you've got two hours before something happens, so you just wander around. You don't pay any attention to the name of the streets, but you conserve a memory of turning left or turning right, or some landmark. You don't need to know the names." This is obviously true too, and a familiar enough experience, but there's a contradiction here, isn't there? This is surely an example of a situation where the signs and the street names aren't for strangers: or at least the stranger in this case isn't paying any attention to them.
It also raises the question of how far away from home you have to be before you're considered as a stranger. Unless you always stay within an incredibly limited number of streets then sooner or later you'll find a street sign extremely useful.
Actually, I also wonder how just how many people spend two hours walking the streets around their hotel these days. I do, of course, and obviously I'm not the only one (the Believer has an article by Daniel Handler that says he does it too), but I suspect a lot the people who arrive in a new city and want to get some exercise are more likely to go to the hotel gym or the pool, rather than walking the streets. So much modern "travel" seems to involve spending time in luxury resorts and spas, being pampered, staying in a bubble, rather than going out and exploring some place you've never been before.
Meanwhile, back at Bertram Rota, there was an occasion when we were selling some Somerset Maugham memorabilia, including his walking stick. I imagine it may have been one of many, but it was an impressive thing, embossed with the Maugham "hand of Fatima" symbol to ward off the evil eye.
George Lawson spent most of one day pretending to have a limp, hobbling up and down the shop, using Maugham's walking stick for support. He was very convincing, and customers who knew him showed considerable concern and asked how he'd come to injure himself. He found this even more hilarious. I wish I could say that David Hockney had come into the shop in the middle of George's act, but that really would be too neat.
For one reason or another I've been rereading "David Hockney on David Hockney," his autobiographical book from the 1970s, now subtitled "My Early Years". Back then at least he was the kind of man who liked to wander the streets around his hotel, in this case in Santa Monica rather than Los Angeles proper.
He writes, "I checked into this motel and walked on the beach and I was looking for the town, couldn't see it. And I saw some lights and I thought, that must be it. I walked two miles, and when I got there all it was a big gas station, so brightly lit I'd thought it was the city. So I walked back …" I guess if he'd had a map he'd have known better.
Hockney comes from Yorkshire of course, as do I, and after decades in L.A. he's back there living in Bridlington (he has his reasons). Bridlington exists in my imagination as a place of utter, rain-drenched gloom, a place of family day trips where we gamely walked up and down the prom, under grey skies, through the drizzle. We'd driven all that that way, we weren't just going to sit in the car.
Anyway, David Hockney seems to be very happy there in Bridlington, is painting up a storm, having a major retrospective at the Royal Academy and is in some danger of becoming an English national treasure. Evidence suggests that he's doing quite a bit of walking too. The blog for Time Out, London recently did a piece titled, "Take A Walk With David Hockney." Here's a picture of David Hockney walking past a painting by David Hockney.


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1967: Bob Hiett served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malaysia in Sungai Bakau, Seberang Prai; Petaling Jaya, Selangor beginning in 1967
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Bob Hiett can be contacted at bcdehhaaoldcom
Country of Service: Malaysia
Training Group: Malaysia XVIII
Cities you served in: Sungai Bakau, Seberang Prai; Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Arrival Year: 1967
Departure Year: 1969
Work Description:
English instructor, Malay medium elementary schools and instructor, Mara Institute of Technology in Petaling Jaya
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Re: Where does Boba Shop?
Hehe yeah, I was around with the old boards...joined up here, too, as soon as they were up. Just...kind of drifted away for a bit. Too much stuff going on. Back now, hopefully for good. At least until next spring when things get all crazy again.
Glad you remember, Kentaiba; I had an awesome time doing Imperial Garrison. Kentaiba versus The Butcher...that was amazing.


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Lady Gaga Named Most Powerful Female Celebrity By Forbes
While the top 10 in Forbes' annual list of the World's 100 Most Powerful Women didn't include any celebrities, Lady Gaga made a strong showing at number 11, beating out media queen Oprah Winfrey, pop diva Beyonce, and Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie.
Forbes said, "Lady Gaga wears the crown of Forbes 2011 Most Powerful Celebrity. It's a title she's made good on both in dollar signs and massive constituency. She raked in $90 million over the past year. In July, Gaga became the first Twitter user to reach 12 million followers…[and] her Facebook page has 36 million fans."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel took the top spot on the list overall, but we bet she can't rock a meat dress like Mother Monster can.


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"Bass are good and can be caught in the mornings and evenings on artificial lures...." White Oak Lake
"The catfish are hitting good in deep water on minnows, worms, stink bait and chicken/ turkey /rabbit livers...." Bailey Lake
"Trolling small umbrella rigs with white grub, Rapalas, or spoons near timber and rock piles is working well...." Beaver Lake
"Trolling small umbrella rigs with white grub, Rapalas, or spoons on your downriggers near timber, bluffs and rock piles is working well...." Beaver Dam Lake
"Buffalo River is navigable and it is receiving a lot of pressure. With summer here, the smallmouths are active...." Crooked Creek