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Early in his career, the "chemistry" wasn't right for Mark Kozak. He was seeking greater challenges and opportunities than his master's degree in chemistry and a career in the industrial cleaning field could provide.
"I needed to do more," Kozak said. "My education up to that point focused in the sciences, and I had always felt insecure in my knowledge of accounting and formalized business practices. I decided to take a class or two so that I could understand that perspective better."
Out of college for several years, the thought of taking freshman accounting with a classroom full of 18- and 19-year-olds did not appeal to him. However, a friend guided him to the Master of Business Administration (MBA) program at Benedictine University. Still, he only intended to take one or two classes before moving on.
"I had no desire to work for another graduate degree or to make the long-term commitment to the program," Kozak said. "I figured I would get what I wanted out of the program and then leave.
"I remember clearly telling (Benedictine business professor) John Draut of this plan in my first class," he added. "I didn't realize what it would lead to."
Rather than leave after one or two classes, Kozak completed the MBA program at Benedictine University. But his Benedictine experience did not end with a piece of parchment.
"What I really wanted to do was run my own business," he said. "With the people I had met and work done at Benedictine, I felt confident that I could do this.
"I had an enormous amount of experience in developing products, their marketing claims, balancing regulatory requirements, and bringing sustainable/green concepts to the chemical marketplace. I knew that this was a needed and desirable skill set for companies.
"With my Benedictine experience and perspective, I really made changes in my life," he said.
Today, Kozak is running his own consulting business, applying the things he learned in the areas of operations, marketing, accounting, finance and entrepreneurism. Instead of just seeing what happened in the lab, he could now see how everything in business operation was connected, making the skills he already had even more powerful.
"I was fortunate to have teachers like John Draut, Tom Yu and Jim Zoda for more than half of the classes I took," Kozak said. "Benedictine's professors and their real-world, non-academic perspective proved to be exactly what I needed.
"I especially owe a lot to John Draut. Not only his lessons in class, but also his guidance and advice in my career as well as his sense of humor helped to make this period of my life nothing short of life-changing."
Draut has been preparing students like Kozak for the challenges they will face in the business world for more than 30 years, including the last 15 at Benedictine University. His wit, real-world experience and honesty help establish a collegial atmosphere in the classroom.
"I am honestly not sure what made Mark enroll full-time in our MBA program, but he did and the rest is history," Draut said. "I approached him like I do all the thousands of students I have had at Benedictine – I treat them with honesty, respect, and I dole out opinions on topics when my opinion is requested.
"The beautiful part of teaching is sometimes your hard work and class preparation connects with a segment of the class that is hungry for knowledge and wisdom. I also offer to all my classes the ability to come in and discuss just about anything they need to.
"That is how Mark and I developed a unique student-professor relationship," Draut added. "He asked my opinions on a specific career path he was considering and I gave him direct and honest input based on my knowledge and business experience."
Kozak and Draut continue to communicate as the former student embarks upon this new phase of his professional career, and Kozak knows that his former professor will always be there with whatever helpful advice he can offer and guidance that might be needed.
"I'm happier than I have ever been with my career and I am very optimistic about my future," he said. "The hard work, the support of family and friends, including those made at Benedictine, have made the experiences of the last two-and-a-half years worth it. I cannot imagine where I would be if not for the contributions of Benedictine's M.B.A. program.
"While I am an alumnus of three different universities, Benedictine is the one that I am most proud of my association."
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Data from nearly 3,000 children shows dietary exposure to certain plastics may play a hidden role in epidemic increases in childhood hypertension
Plastic additives known as phthalates (pronounced THAL-ates) are odorless, colorless and just about everywhere: They turn up in flooring, plastic cups, beach balls, plastic wrap, intravenous tubing and—according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—the bodies of most Americans. Once perceived as harmless, phthalates have come under increasing scrutiny. A growing collection of evidence suggests dietary exposure to phthalates (which can leach from packaging and mix with food) may cause significant metabolic and hormonal abnormalities, especially during early development.
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- The Fed will sit on its record $4.3 trillion balance sheet for the time being. Unprecedented just got more unprecedented as the quantitative easing experiment continues. Testing new tools
- Deutsche Bank's LaVorgna says the Fed needs to start raising rates in order to catch up to the economy. As usual, the Fed is comfortably behind the curve. 'I would have raised rates years ago'
- Stock buybacks are driving the stock market. Closing in on the Dow at 17,000
- With short-selling on the rise, some stocks are set up for big cover. Playing short-sellers against themselves. Six stocks the bears might be misreading
- The hype is building around pot stocks, which means caution is advised. Still on shaky legal ground
The Fed takes a long-term view of its record $4.3 trillion balance sheet
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Spring preview: defensive backs
In the weeks leading up to the start of spring practice, on April 2, I'm reviewing last season and previewing the upcoming year for each position group on the Oregon football team.
The schedule:
Feb. 19: Quarterbacks
Feb. 21: Running backs
Feb. 26: Wide receivers
Feb. 28: Tight ends
March 4: Offensive line
March 6: Defensive line
March 11: Linebackers
TODAY: Defensive backs
March 18: Special teams
March 20: Coaches
Returning veterans (Starters in CAPS): PATRICK CHUNG, Sr.; JAIRUS BYRD, Jr.; WALTER THURMOND III, Jr.; Willie Glasper, Jr.; T.J. Ward, Jr.; Titus Jackson, Jr.; Talmadge Jackson III, Soph.; Anthony Gildon, Soph.; Chad Peppars, Soph.; Marvin Johnson, Soph.; Todd Doxey, RFr.; William Wallace, RFr.; Javes Lewis, RFr.; Caleb Tommasini, walk-on Sr.; Pono Kam, walk-on Jr.; Brian Butterfield, walk-on Soph.; William Taylor, walk-on Soph.
The Departed: MATTHEW HARPER, Grad.; Ryan DePalo, Grad.
On the way: Kenjon Barner, Fr.; John Boyett, Fr.; Scott Grady, Fr.
2007 in review: Oregon was seventh in the league in pass defense, allowing nearly 250 yards per game. But opponents were often forced to throw late, after the Ducks' offense had built a lead, so pure yardage isn't a great measure of this unit's play. A more accurate rating is probably pass efficiency defense, in which Oregon was third behind USC and Arizona State. Only ASU allowed opponents to complete passes at a lower percentage (52.8 to 53.0), and only Oregon State had more interceptions (22 to 20). Put simply, Oregon's defensive backs were really good, with the exception of the Cal game, in which DeSean Jackson went nuts. The speed Thurmond tied for the Pac-10 lead in passes defended, and his cornerback counterpart, the physical Byrd, led the conference in interceptions. Chung finished third in tackles, and was an ironman on special teams. Harper made memorable interceptions at Michigan and against USC but also gave up a few plays down the field. Backups didn't see much action on defense, as Byrd, Thurmond and Chung regularly led the team in plays per game. Ward, Johnson and Talmadge Jackson stood out in kick coverage, and the true freshman Jackson also showed some promise on defense. He was ahead of classmate Gildon by the end of the season. Of the redshirts, Doxey and Lewis had their moments, but Wallace played catchup most of the fall after arriving late in camp.
Entering spring drills: Since Chung decided not to leave early for the NFL, the unit is the unquestioned strength of the defense. He didn't do much in the winter conditioning workouts I watched, but Thurmond and Byrd have developed into the wise old men of the group, standing out both as playmakers and leaders. The question to be addressed in April is, who replaces Harper at free safety? Johnson has the brawn to be more physical than Harper was, but needs to hold up in coverage. Ward and Doxey will also be candidates, though expecting Doxey to beat out two veterans is a lot to ask.
The bottom line: This is one of the top units in the country, which will help a front seven with significant holes to fill. All the new free safety needs to do is play as well as Harper did, and let the other three do the rest. They're true stars, liable to be remembered among the best ever at their positions for Oregon. Chung figures to be no lower than third all-time in career tackles for the Ducks by this time next year, while Byrd and Thurmond could be preparing for the 2009 NFL draft as early entrants. Therefore, it's imperative that the reserves get some game action, as Oregon could be looking for three new starters for 2009. Talmadge Jackson looks like a viable candidate at corner already, and Glasper has some game experience. The true freshman probably won't be in the mix, although Barner and Grady have been mentioned as candidates at punt returner.


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Consider this number: 63,614.
That's how many diet books are listed on Amazon.com!
I've probably read about 600 of them, and they all boil down to two things:
- Eat less
- Exercise more
Sounds easy - like swimming through murky waters infested with cheesecake sharks. See, those books don't take into account that we have taste buds and cheesecake tastes good!
I've had a complicated relationship with food all my life. Been fat, been thin-ish, most days I fall somewhere in between.
I've learned a few things along the way. Most importantly, I've learned there is no short cut to good health.
Some days, we just want to sit around watching TCM with a bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough. Not that I've ever done that.
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I have a Clio 1.2 16v, and it spends a lot of fuel. Why?? It has a small motor. http://www.quesabesdecoches.com/ |
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How much is "a lot of fuel"? Give us a number like 'miles per gallon' or 'km per liter'. Maybe it burns much and maybe not. How can we tell? It's a small engine, but if you are climbing hills and mountains in the lower gears at near wide open throttle, its fuel mileage will suffer. |
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A lot of fuel for me is 9L per 100km. What do you think?? I only do city driving if it can help |
In zeece coontree thats 26.13 miles per gallon. My Lemonzine weighs 5200 pounds unloaded (2359 Kg) and gets 22.1 miles per gallon (10.64 L/100km) around town with an automatic transmission. It has a big motor. |
That's pretty poor mileage on a car that should be getting around 40 mpg (6L/100Km) just based on class averages. City driving gets low mileage because you're almost always accelerating and then stopping and then accelerating and then stopping. If you're driving a short distance, parking the car, and then coming back after a while, you're also starting the car "cold" quite often, which also isn't good for fuel mileage. Finally, you don't say if this is a new Clio, but some tires have high rolling resistance -- it takes a fair amount of energy just to get them to roll. Your Clio probably does not have high-performance tires, but the tires may be cheap and may not have very low rolling resistance. That can cost you a liter or two per 100 Km as well. |
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Winners of back-to-back conference championships, the Yale men's hockey team earned NCAA tournament appearances during the past two seasons, and is off to one of its best ever starts this season that includes a No. 1 national ranking. Rattle the bleachers with feet twitching in excitement as coach Keith Allain leads a Bulldogs charge against the Holy Cross Crusaders on January 2. Alternately, marvel at the scoring prowess of senior forwards Broc Little and Chris Cahill as they take on the Colgate Crusaders in the season's penultimate game on February 25. Whichever game is attended, fans will leave the rink with their heads buzzing and dreams filled with fleets of obedient zambonis.
Since 1983, the family-owned Duffy's has served a tasty assortment of Irish fare, comfort cuisine, fresh seafood, and juicy steaks, helping prepare bellies for a bevy of pints soon to follow. Duffy's dinner menu starts with Irish favorites such as bacon-topped calf's liver ($14.95) and thinly sliced pot roast ($13.95), in addition to its thick, signature burgers ($8.50). Diners can stop by at noontime for lunch, whereas night owls can drop in at moontime for late-night eats such as cheddar-smothered potato skins ($7.95). To drink, Duffy's offers Irish standards such as Guinness and Smithwick's on tap, as well as a seasonal rotation of palate-pleasing martinis and cocktails. Duffy's interior is furnished with oak antiques, giving off a warm vibe that is part speakeasy, part authentic Irish pub, but without the pesky infusion of James Joyce practicing his sitar from beyond the grave. Slide into a cozy booth, or settle into the wicker furniture on the outdoor patio, which boasts custom Celtic iron railings, a blue stone stamped patio, and a see-through gas fireplace.
More than a dozen times?that's how often Treehouse Comedy Productions has been voted the "Best Comedy Showcase" by the readers of?Fairfield County Weekly. As the first full-time comedy showcase in Connecticut, Treehouse Comedy Productions has curated stunning selections of world-class standups for more than three decades. The heavy hitters in the Treehouse family tree include Rosie O'Donnell, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Chris Rock, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jerry Seinfeld, who once bid farewell to standup at Treehouse gig just before his TV show,?That's So Jerry!, became a hit. With roving locations at area restaurants, casinos, and bars, the arbiters of spit-takes continue to cull the sharpest cut-ups in the country for weekly showcases.
Since 2002, Rock House's system of musical instruction—which comprises DVDs, books, and Web-based lesson support—has helped aspiring rock stars to master strumming guitars, plucking basses, and tickling keyboards to a variety of different genres. Several renowned blues, rock, and metal artists have participated in the Rock House program, including members of Megadeth, The Gary Hoey Band, and Parliament-Funkadelic. In addition to their training materials, Rock House also certifies instructors at local music centers so they can conduct one-on-one private lessons tailored to enhancing students' strengths and neutralizing their weaknesses, such as the inability to destroy a guitar on the first smash.


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Obtaining reasons for decisions made by a council about you
Q: Can I find out why the council has made a decision about me?
A: Yes; there is a general means of obtaining information about decisions made by a council about you.
Section 22 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act (LGOIMA) provides a right of access by a person to reasons for decisions affecting that person.
In brief, when a territorial authority (council) makes a decision about you, you have a right to know:
- The decision
- The information upon which it was based
- The reason for the decision
You can then decide if the information is correct and decide to ask the council to review the decision.
Section 22 of the Act states:
- Subject to sections 6, 7(2)(b), 8, and 44 of this Act, where a local authority makes, on or after the 1st day of March 1988, a decision or recommendation in respect of any person, being a decision or recommendation in respect of that person in that person's personal capacity, that person has the right to and shall, on request made within a reasonable time of the making of the decision or recommendation, be given a written statement of –
- The findings on material issues of fact; and
- Subject to subsection (1A) of this section, a reference to the information on which the findings were based; and
- The reasons for the decision or recommendation.
In addition to seeking a Section 22 statement you can make requests to the council for information under the LGOIMA and/or the Privacy Act about yourself or about council policies and practices.
Q: What is the maximum timeframe for responding to Official Information requests, if the responding body has asked for more time without specifying a time-frame?
A: OIA information states that this time limit can be extended for a "reasonable period" if the information holder needs more time, but does not specify what a reasonable period is.
The Ombudsmen's OIA Guidelines say this:
A decision on the request must be made within 20 working days of the request unless the agency extends the time for answering. Section 15A of the OIA provides that the time limit may be extended if:
- The request is for a large quantity of information or necessitates a search through a large quantity of information, and meeting the original time limit would unreasonably interfere with the operations of the agency; or
- Consultations which are necessary to make a decision on the request mean that a proper response to the request cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.
Any extension of the time limit for response must be for a "reasonable period of time having regard to the circumstances".
If an agency intends to extend the time limit for response, it must notify the requester before the expiry of the original time limit of the intention to extend the time for reply, the period of the extension, the reason for the extension and the right to make a complaint to the Ombudsman about the extension.
The Act does not allow for further extensions to be notified if the original extension cannot be met. In this regard, agencies should bear in mind that the time limits expressed in the Act are maximums. Any extension of the maximum time limit for response should be realistic, given that multiple extensions are not permitted.
If a decision is not made within 20 working days, or within the extended time frame, the request is deemed to have been refused and the requester has the right to ask an Ombudsman to investigate that deemed refusal.
Similarly, if a decision is made and the requester is notified within the statutory time limit that the information will be made available, but there is then an unreasonable delay in actually supplying the information to the requester, the request is deemed to have been refused. The requester has the right to ask an Ombudsman to investigate that deemed refusal."
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Bruce Nicholas, the terminal's general manager, said tonnage was up just 0.1% last year.
Nicholas said the Arctic air that froze blossoms last spring, practically wiping out Ontario's apple and tender fruit crop, was a blow to growers who sell in the terminal's farmer's market.
"Prices were up and some growers had nothing to sell … it hurt the whole market," he said.
He hopes a major construction project about to get underway to enclose the loading docks and offer shelter to smaller vans parked further away from the docks will encourage even more buyers to use the terminal.


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Webinars are the content source that keeps on giving, run an event for your clients once in an area of interest, record it, then re-use that content on your site, as a podcast, even transcribe it into an e-book.
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The Fairtrade Association says this system benefits farmers and producers through:
The Fairtrade symbol on a label means a product's ingredients have been obtained in line with fairtrade policies; that the manufacturer and product, from bean to bar, are independently audited to ensure the policies are followed. However, our analysis of endorsement schemes (see CHOICE, March 2010) found that Fairtrade certification falls short on one aspect – it is generally given to "producer organisations" rather than individual farmers.
These organisations can be comprised of hundreds or sometimes thousands of farmers, meaning a "group certification" model is followed. For verification, a random check of a representative sample of individual farmers is conducted, meaning some farms may never be visited – an unavoidable reality, as it is implausible for Fairtrade to inspect every single farm each year. The system also favours small producers, so manufacturers are limited to a specific group of producers if they want to be Fairtrade-certified.
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Organic cocoa beans are produced using farming practices that work in harmony with the local ecosystem to ensure sustainability. This results in a farm that can continually produce crops without depleting the soil of nutrients – meaning no more forest-clearing. Organic farming also emphasises renewable resources and conservation of energy and water. No synthetic chemicals are used, so minimal residue is left in the finished product and workers are not exposed to high levels of synthetic pesticides or agricultural chemicals.
Certifying bodies in various countries set standards that must be adhered to in order to carry a certification logo; certified companies are audited to ensure compliance with the standards. The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service established a national organisational standard, and seven Australian organisations are accredited to certify products. In our investigation of endorsement schemes, we highly recommended the Australian Certified Organic (ACO) and NASAA Certified Organic (NCO) organisations for their conduct, standards and transparency. Imports certified under a foreign system must also meet Australia's National Standard for Organic and Bio-dynamic Produce and have documentation to support this.


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Whether it is a Big Bang or an Inflation the Exhalation of Expansion of Breath; I am not concerned that is simply a question that is little more than hypothesis. Similarly Einsteins General Theory of Relativity is also just that the generally accepted theory that empirical scientist adhere to. That is a paradigm and also a paradox that I have previously adjusted to fit a probable potential reality of my own Solve Coagula. For several years scientists have been seeking to delve deeper within the atoms heart in search of the God Particle. More recent they the empiricists have managed to observe the particle called Boson Hicks. Whether this particle actually existed prior to the experiment is very much a moot point.Let us then look back to a previous age and reality and de-cypher what we can from the observation of the Vedas.Before I do however I shall meander by way of the story below. For I know that most will consider the Vedas just to be really old stories based in myth and obscurity. That is so to the untrained however as will virtually all old myth and legend when they are read esoterically they contain not only relevant information but scientific gold as well as spiritual considerations.Below is the Sanskrit Vimana text that describes how to build a Space Craft and Exotic Weapons.
There is the story of Talpade:the Indian Sanskrit Scholar who built and flew a mercury engine aircraft in 1895 (8 years before the Wright Brothers). He built this aircraft from specs in Sanskrit manuscripts thousands of years old.
– The story of the Indian Sanskrit Scholar who built and flew a mercury engine aircraft in 1895 (8 years before the Wright Brothers). He built this aircraft from specs in Sanskrit manuscripts thousands of years old.
Shivkur Bapuji Talpade, flew an unmanned aircraft, eight years before the Wright brothers demonstrated on December 17th 1903 that it was possible for a 'manned heavier than air machine to fly'. But, in 1895, eight years earlier, the Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade had designed a basic aircraft called Marutsakthi (meaning Power of Air) based on Vedic technology documented in ancient Sanskrit manuscripts. His demonstration flight took place before a large audience in the Chowpathy beach of Bombay. The importance of the Wright brothers lies in the fact, that it was a manned flight for a distance of 120 feet and Orville Wright became the first man to fly. But Talpade's unmanned aircraft flew to a height of 1500 feet before crashing down and the historian Evan Koshtka, has described Talpade as the 'first creator of an aircraft'.
This historic day in 1895 (unfortunately the actual date is not mentioned in the Kesari newspaper of Pune which covered the event) was witnessed by the famous Indian judge/ nationalist/ Mahadeva Govin-da Ranade and H H Sayaji Rao Gaekwad.
It is important to note that Talpade was no scientist, just a sanskrit scholar who had built his aircraft entirely from the rich treasury of India's Vedas.
Shivkar Bapuji Talpade was born in 1864 in the locality of Chirabazar at Dukkarwadi in Bombay. He was a scholar of Sanskrit and from his young age was attracted by the Vaimanika Sastra (Aeronautical Science) expounded by the great Indian sage Maharishi Bhardwaja.
Surprisingly according to the bi-monthly Ancient Skies published in USA, the aircraft engines being developed for future use by NASA also uses mercury bombardment units powered by Solar cells! Interestingly, the impulse is generated in seven stages. The mercury propellant is first vapourised fed into the thruster discharge chamber ionised converted into plasma by a combination with electrons broke down electrically and then accelerated through small openings in a screen to pass out of the engine at velocities between 1200 to 3000 kilometres per minute! But so far NASA has been able to produce an experimental basis only a one pound of thrust by its scientists a power derivation virtually useless. But over 100 years ago Talpade was able to use his knowledge of Vaimanika Shastra to produce sufficient thrust to lift his aircraft 1500 feet into the air!
Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad of Baroda was a great supporter of the Sciences in India, and was willing to help Talpade with funds to build his aircraft and the mercury engines.
Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad of Baroda was a great supporter of the Sciences in India, and was willing to help Talpade with funds to build his aircraft and the mercury engines.
But the success of an Indian scientist was not liked by the Imperial rulers. Warned by the British Government the Maharaja of Baroda stopped helping Talpade.
Talpade passed away in 1916 unhonoured, in his own country. It is said that the remains of the Marutsakthi (the aircraft Tapade built) were 'sold' to a British company by Talpade's relatives.
So we can perhaps except the above and realise that history tends to gloss over the facts on the side of the perceived ruling classes of the moment.
Now that I have the basic Vimana story out of the way, let me return to the God Particle and view the Vedas.
The cit-kana or the atomic sentience spiritual soul, which is identified as a spiritual spark is the energetic identity of the Brahmin. It is present everywhere in the universe or the universe is made of it. It is the smallest part of the supreme consciousness which navigate the creation. This cit kana is the consciousness of the Satcitānanda. You all are aware about the God particle or boson particle, it is nothing but the cit-kana, mentioned 1000s years back in Vedic scriptures.
balagra-sata-bhagasya ,satadha kalpitasya ca
bhago jivah vijneyah, sa canantyaya kalpate
~ Svetasvatara Upanisad: 5.9
bhago jivah vijneyah, sa canantyaya kalpate
~ Svetasvatara Upanisad: 5.9
"When the upper point of a hair is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundred parts, each such part is the measurement of the dimension of the spirit soul."
Again "Cit-kana" no other than Boson particle/God Particle through which has Knowledge Value (KV) = 10-38 (Planck Number). Considering that consciousness is the attribute of Knowledge, therefore Boson should containing consciousness element factor (CEF). If we look at KV over 9.0 or beyond human maximum possible KV, simply we could mentioned it is the domain of spiritual or divine Universe. (Note: the Boson particle was named bason after Saytendranath Bose a famous Bengali scientist worked with Albert Einstein). Now scientists think that the universe is made up of micro consciousness particles which they called God particles. With thousands of years of vedic tradition this cit-kana is very well known phenomena, the sages see this feel this and play with this without modern instrument, they simply use the greatest instrument of all the human body. Our scriptures mentioned it again and again that the supreme consciousness can be found in everything that's why Polytheists see God in everything.
yad eveha tad amutra
yad amutra tad anv-iha ~Katha Upanisad 4.10
yad amutra tad anv-iha ~Katha Upanisad 4.10
Whatever is down here, the same is over there, and what is over there is replicated over here.
yasmin sarvani bhutany
atmaivabhud vijanatah
tatra ko mohah kah soka
ekatvam anupasyatah~ Isa Upanisad 7
atmaivabhud vijanatah
tatra ko mohah kah soka
ekatvam anupasyatah~ Isa Upanisad 7
One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?
This is the result of misidentifying with the material world. When we theoretically understand that we, as a unit of consciousness (cit-kana), are different from matter,
In the Mundaka Upanishad (3.1.9) the measurement of the atomic spirit soul is further explained:
eso 'nur atma cetasa veditavyo
yasmin pranah pancadha samvivesa
pranais cittam sarvam otam prajanam
yasmin visuddhe vibhavaty esa atma
yasmin pranah pancadha samvivesa
pranais cittam sarvam otam prajanam
yasmin visuddhe vibhavaty esa atma
"The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence. This atomic soul is floating in the five kinds of air (prana, apana, vyana, samana and udana), is situated within the heart, and spreads its influence all over the body of the embodied living entities. When the soul is purified from the contamination of the five kinds of material air, its spiritual influence is exhibited. "Even today modern science is trying hard to prove the existence of the God particle where a realized sage can see this with the spiritual eyes.
anor aniyan mahato mahiyan
atmasya jantor nihito guhayam
tam akratuh pasyati vita-soko
dhatuh prasadan mahimanam atmanah ~ Katha Upanisad 1.2.20
atmasya jantor nihito guhayam
tam akratuh pasyati vita-soko
dhatuh prasadan mahimanam atmanah ~ Katha Upanisad 1.2.20
"Both the Supersoul [Paramatma] and the atomic soul [jivatma] are situated on the same tree of the body within the heart of the living being. Only one who has become free from all material desire and lamentation can understand the glories of the soul by the grace of the Supreme."
In response here also to Patriarchal Monotheists living under the yoke of the Organised Church of Pisces. A Polytheist who you call a Pagan for worshiping many Gods actually views God as One Being. The numerous god names, archetypes and god forms are but the periodic table of a particular reality. At the very least it is an honest approach to understanding energy as opposed the the numerous Idols found in Catholicism.
As a final note below is a video which supports many of me verbalised insights regarding science, philosophy, quantum physics, Thoughts as Creative Reality etc
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The latest rather large update to Aperture released last week has seen some positive responses amongst various bloggers and photographers. Scott Bourne of Photo Focus writes:
"The changes were successful and impact the big problem areas. The program is now much more stable. Gone are the intermittent crashes and freezes I experienced with the 3.0 update. Libraries import more smoothly. Issues like improper scrolling behavior were fixed. Best of all, the program now delivers some of the previously-promised speed increases that I never experienced before the 3.0.2 update."
He had previously been harsh in his criticism of the software's bugginess.
Another report from Photographer Konrad Dwojak claims that the 3.02 update finally makes Aperture 3 useable. He writes:
"Although, this update number looks insignificant, it includes many crucial updates and fixes (at least for the most part) what was bothering me the most: extremely low performance of Aperture 3. "
I was lucky enough not to have many of the performance problems people have complained about so I haven't noticed any major difference with the new version, although I haven't given it enough time yet. Still, it's glad to see that Apple have put the majority of issues with Aperture behind them.
As I've mentioned before, if you do find bugs with Aperture don't just complain about it on twitter, let others the developers know by sending a bug report. Apple does read them.


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Jay Cross helps people work and live smarter. Jay is the Johnny Appleseed of informal learning. He wrote the book on it. He was the first person to use the term eLearning on the web. He has challenged conventional wisdom about how adults learn since designing the first business degree program offered by the University of Phoenix.
Google Analytics tells me these are 2012′s greatest hits on jaycross.com.
Dan Pink has written another best seller. (The book won't be released until December 31 but is already in its third printing.) The U.S. Government reports that one worker in eight is a sales person. Dan disagrees. He thinks we're all sales people, even though a lot of us are engaged in "non-sales selling." Instructors, lawyers, doctors, bankers, and you and I spend a lot of time persuading, influencing, and convincing others to do something even though it doesn't ring the cash register.
"The science is still evolving, but we believe that sitting is harmful in itself," says Dr. Toni Yancey, a professor of health services at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Organizations and their people are members of many different types of networks, for example, communities of practice, the company social network, and close-knit collaborative work teams. You need to optimize participation in all of them.
What do the following people have in common?
(They did not graduate from college.)
Here's the overall prescription.
Could my outbursts against the computer be stressing me out? Nobel prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has demonstrated that the slightest emotional transaction can color one's mood for hours. And I was swearing at my computer whenever I hit a glitch, which translates into one rant every fifteen or twenty minutes throughout the day.
Would it make me happier if I stopped griping about the machine? I decided to find out. (It's working.)
What does the phrase Don't take this personally bring to mind?
Being fired?
Not being selected for the new project team?
Being assigned a task you don't want to do?
Who's kidding whom? These things are very personal.
The world of business is undergoing a profound shift. Workers are making more of their own decisions. They don't want to be told what to do. They want to learn but they don't want to be trained. Learning is shifting from top-down to bottom-up and sideways. Collaboration is replacing command and control.
It's not that training departments have started screwing up; it's that the world around them has changed. Training departments push training, while workers search and ask for the information they need. Both just want to get the job done, but they're operating in different eras. The disparity creates a power struggle that the workers are destined to win.
Flipping Corporate Learning
More important for learning outcomes, the time spent in class can be put to more productive use. Learners convene to get answers to questions, discuss examples, put what they've learned in context, debate, explore, and extend their knowledge. Instead of passively listening to an instructor, they actively engage the material. Instructors, freed of the need to mouth the words of lessons, focus on helping learners understand things and coaching individuals. These activities can take place online, and people can learn from one another in virtual communities and support groups.
Best of Informal Learning Flow
July 1, 2010 to July 30, 2010
A few minutes ago, we inadvertently posted June's articles by mistake. My goof. Please overlook it. Here's the right stuff.
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The January 2010 Edition of Working Smarter was released today. Subtitled Informal Learning in the Cloud, this edition focuses on social learning and implementing web 2.0 technology.
The hardcopy version of Working Smarter costs $19.98. Believe me, I'm not trying to fool you with trick pricing. My publisher's algorithm won't let me charge $20 even. I figured $19.98 was better than $20.01. Buy the 240-page hard copy.
The download version of Working Smarter costs $12.00. I prefer the hard copy myself but your mileage may vary. And of course you can get the soft copy right away. Buy the download.
Here's a map of the book:
(Click the map)
Introduction … 3
What can you achieve with this book?…3
Who should read this book?…4
How the book is organized …4
An unbook6
New in 2010 …7
Preface .. 10
Cataclysm …10
Internet Time Alliance…12
Working Smarter … 14
Network Effects …14
Business Results…21
What can we do to improve this informal learning?…23
Techniques and Patterns…24
Rethinking Learning in Organizations…30
Getting Started…35
Informal Learning …36
Genesis of the Informal Learning Poster …37
Become a Chief Meta-Learning Officer…93
Social media for collaboration…110
Resources on line ….119
The Research Page…119
The Home Page …120
Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies .121
People and their Brains….128
Network Effects…139
Business Results….153
Speak the Language of Business …156
ROI is in the mind of the beholder …162
Perspective ….172
Techniques and Patterns …174
Rethinking learning in organizations …201
Learning is not enough…224
Back Matter….225
Bibliography …225
About the author..228
Where I'm coming from …229
Maps of Book Content …235
Acknowledgments …238
Index ….238
*If you are not reflecting, you are not learning. Here are some things I learned from in the past six months.
The Flip UltraHD camcorder is a breakthrough learning device. Two hours of high-quality video from a cam that slides into your pocket. All for less than $200. Here's a sample:
I continued to experiment with learning video. I prepared these videos to show at Online Educa.
Had my design consciousness raised at Overlap '09 in Monterey. The press thought our meeting nefarious.
Business Week tells you "what went on at the clandestine affair."
This year's motley bunch included an assorted portfolio of designers; businesspeople, investors and MBA graduates; a tech systems architect who was also a former Navy Seal; and a tai chi master. The mean age was in the high 30s, with several people over 60 and a few in their mid-20s. "Despite coming from different backgrounds, we're all risk takers We don't fit in normal places so we make positions for ourselves," says Dila, 45, who also has a PhD in philosophy.
Jane Hart, Jon Husband, Harold Jarche, Charles Jennings, Clark Quinn, and I formed the Internet Time Alliance to help organizations innovate in learning. We are outspoken advocates of curriculum-free, interactive, self-service learning. Organizations call on us to grow ecologies where work and learning are one and the same, where people help one another build competency and master new crafts, and where all strive to be all they can be. Open, participative, bottom-up, networked, flexible, responsive: that's learning with business impact.
Last month we selected Charles Jennings to be our CEO; I will serve as Chair. I am really looking forward to working with my esteemed colleagues, who are also great friends.
Chair and CEO of Internet Time Alliance
Provided marketing and distribution advice to half a dozen web 2.0 companies, all of whom wish to remain anonymous.
Began to embrace idea that Learning is not enough. "Learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for working smarter. Dictionaries define learning as acquiring knowledge and skills. But we all know skilled, knowledgeable people who don't get things done, don't we? Learning that doesn't lead to doing is no better than not learning at all."
In the world of business, the era of networks is crowding out the Industrial Age. Network connections are replacing rigidity with flexibility, penetrating internal boundaries and silos and obliterating the walls that have separated businesses from their customers.
Networks reduce transfer costs to zero, enabling companies to focus on what they do best while outsourcing what others can do better. Networks also speed things up, often at a terrifying rate, making the corporate world unpredictable. In sum, networks are ushering in new ways of doing business. Corporate approaches to learning have to change, as well.
Productivity in a Networked Era: Not Your Father's ROI
Today's networked era requires a new way to make investment decisions that incorporates intangible assets and more accurately depicts how value is created.
The industrial age has run out of steam. Look at General Motors. Look at Chrysler. We are witnessing the death throes of management models that have outlived their usefulness.
The network era now replacing the industrial age holds great promise. Networked organizations are reaping rewards for connecting people, know-how and ideas at an ever-faster pace. Value creation has migrated from what we can see (physical assets) to intangibles (ideas). Look at Google and Cisco.
My last column called for the abolition of corporate training departments. Now some instructors and traditional instructional designers see me as a job threat. They needn't worry. Enlightened e-learning requires more people, not fewer.
Ten years ago, venture capital firms issued lengthy reports explaining why e-learning would take the world by storm. Their underlying economic argument was cost-cutting: less travel, fewer facilities and no more salary expense for instructors. It was a classic industrial age proposition: Replace humans with machines. That first round of e-learning largely failed for precisely this reason. You can't remove the humans from learning.
Whose Learning Are You Responsible For?
Last month I conducted several workshops to inject informal and social learning practices into hidebound organizations that were anxious to ramp up to the future. I encouraged them to address the needs of people who had traditionally been left out of the corporate training agenda.
Organizations have woken up to the power of people working together. Collaboration gets things done and is the most powerful learning tool in the CLO's playbook.
By the way, I can do this with your organization for a nominal fee. Virtual or face-to-face.
Clark Quinn and I gave a one-day workshop on implementing networked learning architecture the day before DevLearn. Here's a podcast prequel.
Mom, my brother, and me (in plaid) in the early fifties.
Largest magnolia tree in the South, on our family's homestead in Washington, Arkansas
Sitting in Bill's cabinet room chair at the Clinton Library in Little Rock
Endless rows of FEMA trailers parked in Hope forevermore
Released several editions of Work Smarter at $19.95. Changed tag line to better reflect the content: Informal Learning in the Cloud.
Until you've been to Alaska, it's tough to imagine how large it is. In July, Uta and I joined our son Austin for vacation in Denali and Wrangell National Parks.
Gave a talk on Meta-Learning: Process of Learning in the Network Era and the VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning in Barcelona.
Stephen and George in Barcelona
Amazing meal at Tossa del Mar on the Costa Brava
DevLearn marked a significant shift in the field of corporate learning. Content and planning have become secondary to getting the job done. In today's world, that means trusting workers to learn for themselves. The natives are taking control. Learning is mobile. Curriculum is toast.
Charles Jennings, introducing Internet Time Alliance.
Heike Philp, putting Online Educa online with simulcasting
Chaired a well-attended session at Educa on neuroscience and learning. I feel we've left some of the obvious findings of brain science out of our designs for learning environments. The scientists at the session warned us not to draw too many conclusions from the wiggles on fMRI charts.
Here's my shot at Pecha Kucha at Educa:
I was determined to improve my ability to excite an audience this year. A few months earlier I'd performed an Ignite session on the stage of Gnomedex. I'm practicing now and plan to have people on the edge of their seats a few months hence.
See also the Pecha Kuchas of Daniel Stern, Robin Good, and Heike. More to come.
Talent Management overtook Learning & Development in corporations this year. I led sessions on the future circa 2015 at the Future of Talent Institute Retreat. (I'm on the faculty; hard to believe this was my fifth retreat.) It was my second time at Asilomar in six weeks.
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At Online Educa this year, the Internet Time Alliance hosted a session of Pecha Kucha (20 slides x 20 seconds each). Here is my attempt at information-cramming.
I suggest replacing one-hour staff meetings with short Pecha-Kucha sessions.
Installs social learning system based on ELGG.
Customization. Open source. Supporting infrastructure.
Created a site where learning professionals could experiment with using ELGG
At first, people came to network. Now the system hosts courseware. It's become SoLearn (short to Social Learning) because that's what it's about.
Jane walks us through SoLEARN.
Jane has installed a dozen SoLEARN environments this year including University of London. Check out her site to see what this stuff looks like. Communications network for faculty as well as learning tool.
Users find ELGG quite intuitive.
Also installed system for social learning for World Wildlife Foundation in Geneva. LEARN PERFORM. Worldwide reach. Frequent blogging, bookmarking, intra-organizational communication among 350+ employees.
By the way, all sessions at LearnTrends are being recorded, so if you're interested in learning more, drop by our community site.
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Lessons learned
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This afternoon I walked the Wildcat Canyon fire road from start to finish. It's a beautiful stroll on manicured pathways.
In 1774, Juan Bautista de Anza scored a commission from the King of Spain to explore Alta California. Don Juan set off with 3 padres, 20 soldiers, 11 servants, 35 mules, 65 cattle, and 140 horses, and made his way through the canyon in the valley just below my walk.
Too bad the de Anza party didn't ascend the hill to where I ended my walk. From there, the San Francisco Bay unfolds, with marvelous vistas of Marin, the Golden Gate, and the San Francisco Peninsula. So near and yet so far.
The de Anza expedition missed San Francisco Bay entirely, leaving it to other to discover two years later.
LearnTrends 2009 is going to be awesome.
Yesterday I drew up the tentative agenda. Our theme is convergence in corporate learning. We aim to explore how to corral the loose pieces of learning technology, both on the web and off, in order to come up with a unified, targeted strategy for moving forward.
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"Wish I Was Here"
Ten years after his indie hit "Garden State," writer/director/star Zach Braff is back with another quirky, wistful dramedy about a man-child actor who's lost his direction in life. Only this time, a few gray hairs are showing.
There's no direct connection to "Garden State" in "Wish I Was Here" (have we now, as a culture, officially given up on the subjunctive tense?), but the similarities are numerous.
Like 20-something Andrew, 30-something Aidan has stalled out at one of life's crossroads while contending with a disapproving father and a large dose of existential angst, and the only salvation in sight is the love of a supportive woman.
This time it's Sarah (Kate Hudson at her best), his eternally giving wife, who works at a soul-numbing job complete with a sexually harassing co-worker so Aidan can pursue his dream of being an actor, though his last job was a long-ago appearance in a dandruff commercial.
Sarah also supports the family in their suburban LA home while Aidan's conservative Jewish dad Gabe (Mandy Patinkin) keeps up a steady stream of mild shaming while paying for kids Grace and Tucker (Joey King and Pierce Gagnon) to go to a yeshiva.
Not for long, though. It turns out that Gabe has an aggressive form of cancer, forcing him to withdraw funds from the kids to pay for an experimental treatment. And eventually, after much hemming and hawing, forcing Aidan to grow up, at least a little.
Braff, best known for his starring role in the sitcom "Scrubs," is basically a comic actor and writer, seems to be most comfortable laying out "Wish's" numerous quips and sight gags (during a home-schooling stint he teaches his kids the difference between Al Qaida and Al Roker and he gets some nice mileage out of an old rabbi on a Segway).
Like "Garden State," however, this film is also heavy on the whimsy and pathos and some of it comes across a bit precious. Not all of it, mind; a few of those moments work quite nicely. And it's a plus that he weighs in on big topics including fatherhood, brotherhood (Josh Gad plays his depressed, trailer-dwelling slacker/genius sibling), manhood, marriage, faith, the pursuit of dreams and the acceptance of responsibility.
Braff has taken a media beating for funding "Wish You Were Here" primarily with Kickstarter donations, with lots of critics kvetching that he should left that avenue for artists who don't have his industry connections. That seems fair enough, yet all those donations clearly mean there are a lot of fans out there who wanted to see a follow-up to "Garden State."
It's likely many of them will be satisfied, which could mean he'll do something like this again in another 10 years. If so, it'll be interesting to see if his 40-something alter-ego has a few more things about life figured out.
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Like a loyal dog, winning follows Roger Shannon everywhere he goes.
He continued to add to his impressive resume last season as assistant general manager of the Shawinigan Cataractes. That club was upset by the Chicoutimi Sagueneens in the second round of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoffs, but then recovered to capture the 2012 Memorial Cup.
``It was wonderful because of the ups and downs,'' he said. ``I still believe that getting beat early in the playoffs is the reason we won the Memorial Cup. I think that winning the Memorial Cup was about being as hungry as you could possibly be knowing that you're in the tournament as host team.
``There's three levels. You're involved, you're committed and you're possessed. I think we went into the Memorial Cup tournament at the possessed level. If we would've gone all the way through the playoffs to the league final, I'm wondering if we would've had that same hunger at the Memorial Cup.''
There were question marks about how Shawinigan would fare given that it had a one-month break leading up to hosting the Memorial Cup.
``I don't think there was any doubt about our talent,'' said Shannon, who's now assistant general manager and director of scouting for the Moncton Wildcats. ``It was just a matter of whether we were going to be able to rebound.
``We were talented, but in the end it was really about the hard work. It was the commitment level of the guys. It was that possessed feeling of wanting to win the Memorial Cup that caused us to win. It's a cliche that whoever wants it most gets it. I think it was the case for that team.''
Shannon has eight seasons of QMJHL experience. He was an Acadie-Bathurst Titan scout for three seasons and then served as Lewiston MAINEiacs head scout and general manager for four seasons before joining Shawinigan last season.
He went to Lewiston when it was beginning the rebuilding process in 2007-08. The MAINEiacs showed steady improvement during his time there and lost in the league semifinal in 2010-11, their final season before the franchise folded.
Shannon has also been general manager of the University of New Brunswick Varsity Reds for the past 12 seasons. The club has won three Canadian championships and two national silver medals under him and head coach Gardiner MacDougall.
``Roger Shannon brings a lot of winning and a lot of experience to our organization,'' said Moncton head coach and director of hockey operations Danny Flynn. ``I think he did an excellent job in Lewiston and he made a real significant contribution in Shawinigan.
``He has good experience in the league as far as scouting. He put together some solid drafts in Lewiston to rebuild that team and he's also been heavily involved with the University of New Brunswick program and the tremendous success they've had.''
Shannon, a Fredericton native, also operates the University of New Brunswick V-Reds Prospects Camp. It's a successful elite summer hockey program that has helped develop 58 players who went on to become National Hockey League draft picks.
``He's very familiar with the top prospects in the Atlantic region from working with them at his summer program,'' said Flynn. ``He has a great network of contacts throughout the hockey world. We're excited about him joining the Moncton Wildcats organization.''
After 23 years in the police department in Fredericton, Shannon is now manager of sport tourism for the city. He leads a busy life between his job, family, summer hockey camp and new QMJHL duties with Moncton.
He was part of a Lewiston franchise that endured tough times on and off the ice. The MAINEiacs struggled on the business side with poor attendance and financial losses that added up to their demise.
``It was so unfortunate what happened there,'' said Shannon. ``We had a great group of kids and we finally assembled a team that we felt would be a top contender, but the franchise folded. The kids loved playing there, but it was distracting (because of the problems on the business side).
``The one thing I can say about (former Lewiston owner) Mark Just is that the one group that never wanted for anything was the kids. He never spared anything when it came to the kids. Obviously, it was a little tougher for other parts of the organization. We had to be lean (in our operating budget).''
Four members of Lewiston's organization were part of Shawinigan's Memorial Cup championship team last season. Shannon and forwards Michael Chaput, Pierre-Olivier Morin and Kirill Kabanov shared in the greatest moment in Cataractes history.
``It would've been a lot more difficult to put Shawinigan together if there was a Lewiston MAINEiacs team last season,'' said Shannon. ``There's only so many top guys out there. Chaput, Morin and Kabanov played such a significant role.''
Moncton has captured two QMJHL championships, but hasn't yet reached its ultimate goal of claiming the Memorial Cup. The Wildcats, who have been rebuilding since their last President Cup in 2009-10, are expected to be among the league's top contenders this season.
Shannon, goaltender Alex Dubeau, defenceman Jonathan Racine and forward Yannick Veilleux left Shawinigan to join Moncton in June. Dubeau, Racine and Veilleux are part of the trade that sent defenceman Brandon Gormley to Shawinigan midway through last season.
``Coming to Moncton is the same feeling I had when I went to Shawinigan,'' said Shannon. ``There's an expectation (to be a championship contender). It's a mature group with a lot of returnees. The key ingredients are there. They've done a tremendous job in Moncton with the draft and trades and certainly with Europeans.
``I've had an opportunity to watch (Russian forward) Ivan Barbashev (who was the first overall pick in the 2012 Canadian Hockey League import draft). He's an exciting player. (Czech forward) Dmitrij Jaskin is good, too. I already know what Dubeau, Racine and Veilleux bring.
``Moncton has had tremendous success, but I know they want to win the Memorial Cup. I want to help bring to Moncton that feeling of what it's like to win the Memorial Cup. Once you get a taste of it, you want to have that feeling again. It makes you more hungry.''
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One showed up a couple days ago after that really cold night, looking very sad in the morning sitting out where the feeder hangs in summer, so I put out the feeder for it. It has come back every morning, and I see it making a run to the feeder once and a while during the day. Would this be a little momma hummer??? I don't remember them showing up quite so early in the season.
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- Posted by highalttransplant z 5 Western CO (My Page) on Mon, May 5, 08 at 11:23
Yep! I don't have feeders out, but have heard them buzzing by when I have been in the garden this past week. They loooove my Agastache 'Apache Sunset', so I'm sure he/she will be back. Bonnie |
Saturday was the first one, and I heard some buzzing around in the park over the weekend. Time to dust off the feeder and hang it up.... One feeder usually does it until sometime in July, then the party really starts. |
- Posted by michelle_co z5 CO (My Page) on Mon, May 5, 08 at 15:42
:-) I started a bunch of agastache for them. They don't seem to care, though, as long as my grandma keeps 'The Juice' (sugar water) flowing... Cheers, |
Wow - how lucky! I've only ever seen a couple around here, apparently they're pretty scarce in my neck of the woods. I've never seen one in my garden, but I don't have any "hummer-friendly" plants either. Might have to change that... I wish I was better at keeping bird feeders filled...I always forget to replenish them, though the birds do keep coming back for the neighbor's bird buffet. Someday maybe I'll be "together" enough to keep hummingbird feeders filled, and see if we can't attract some to stop in here. |
We always hang the feeders from a solitary post out on the patio, and every year about this time, we'll see one or two hummingbirds show up at the plain, white post and buzz around it for half a day, looking for the feeder. It's remarkable that they can 'remember' this - I mean, just how big can their brain be? |
I find that big, bright zinnias are great at attracting hummers. What I don't really know is if the hummers get anything from the flowers or just show up to admire them. Did you know that there's a GW hummingbird garden forum? I was trying to find the answer to the zinnia/hummer question and found that other GW gardeners report on the success of luring hummers into the yard with zinnias. I suppose it isn't humane to attract them without reward. Their food needs are so high. Maybe the increase in my agastaches last year will make up for any deficiencies in the wider scheme of things. Right now I'm fretting over a bird. I remember Skybird talking about a dove she found last year in her yard. DW found a baby bird yesterday. I really need to do something about the birdhouses in my yard. They have too much "volume" and the sparrows build the nests higher and higher each year. Finally, the babies are well above the opening and they just tumble out. I need to dump the old nests out by April every year. With this cold Spring, I'm amazed that we have any baby sparrows. I have only a grudging admiration for English sparrows. (Some call them "house" sparrows but I like to PO the English. ;o) Someone once said that they are neither English nor sparrows. I sometimes refer to them as feathered mice but that may be unkind. DW was handwatering in the yard after sundown and passed the spray right over the little guy. He could only twitch when I brought him in and sat him on a hot water bottle wrapped in a paper napkin. He warmed up fairly quickly but, by then, it was completely dark outside. Getting up to the bird house is awkward. The step ladder isn't tall enuf and the extension ladder can't be placed where reaching the bird house door is easy. I took a close look at the little guy and realized how young he is. Not 1 feather! Eyes aren't open! Just a little naked bird about the size of a thimble! I figured he was 1 day, or at most, 2 days old. What to do with the little guy!?! Well, he had to stay in the house because I couldn't get up to the nest. I reheated the water bottle and started checking the backdoor light for bugs for dinner. No luck! Okay, I know chicks are often given yogurt and hardboiled eggs. While the eggs were boiling, Little Guy had some yogurt on some kind of plastic thing DW found. He was hungry!! Finely minced, the egg could be glued to the "server" with the yogurt until LG could find it and chew it off. He only wanted a couple bites at a time. I soon put him on a heating pad since I could keep the temp more consistent. He'd stay within the folds of a napkin until he was hungry or had to poop. That was every 10 or 15 minutes - one or the other. I had no idea a day-old sparrow could poop so much! By 11, I was getting sleepy, LG seemed fairly quiet so I turned off the desk light I had down on the floor over the heating pad and went to bed. I figured that LG had less than a 50% chance of making it thru the night. Before 5, I was up and so was LG - his version of "up" was a sprawling crawl and constant chirping. I got a fresh carton of yogurt and another egg. DW complained about the noise but I just left the hearing aides out when she went off to do some shopping. LG continued to require attention every 10 or 15 minutes. By noon, DW was back and we had to leave together for the gardens. I'd been watching the birdhouse and noted how infrequent the sparrows were visiting that morning. I was afraid that there was only one baby - the naked LG in the nappies on the heating pad. If I didn't get him back soon, maybe the parents would abandon the nest. I propped the ladder up below the birdhouse and leaning backwards, screwed a piece of plastic across the lower part of the door. That should keep LG from falling out but the adults would still have enuf room to squeeze in. I carefully carried LG outdoors and, hanging backwards again, managed to place him inside the birdhouse. His job then should have been to climb upwards about 4 or 5 inches to the top of the grass etc. nest. He never made it but he didn't fall out. When I got back from the garden over 4 hours later, I could still see him now and then just inside the door. The parents were very much at large and the momma even did that little strut the males do when they are showing off. I'd never seen a female do that. I assume she was directing this dance towards me since no other bird was anywhere in sight at that moment. Maybe saying, "You come near my baby again and there's goin' be hell to pay!" I don't know. I'm worried about LG. I put some yogurt and minced egg out on a fence post - he probably ate a half teaspoon of one and a quarter teaspoon of the other during the 18 hours he was in the house. Maybe the parents would want to take some of that to him but I didn' see that happen. Today must have been the warmest so far this year - that's important. Obviously, he can't climb up the nest and all I could do would be to pull the bottom off the birdhouse and try to lower the mound of grass etc. from the underside - without dropping a thimble-sized LG onto the ground again or crushing him with the grass, etc. I'm concerned about disturbing the parents again. They are LG's best hope and somebody's goin' to need to keep him warm tonight. I was just looking at the "actuary" tables from the Census people. I wonder what the life expectancies for English sparrows are. Makes me sad that the odds must be against him right now. digitS' |
- Posted by michelle_co z5 CO (My Page) on Tue, May 6, 08 at 11:03
Wow Digits. What a tale. Best wishes for your little bird. Some bird has built a nest in our neighbor's newspaper box. Another one nests in the open holes of pipe on the clothes line. :-) We also have the robin families that come and rake through the mulch every day all summer long. At first there's one or two of them, and by mid summer the whole family comes in to enjoy the bounty. Yesterday I dug up some roses that needed moved and the chicks got to eat the worms. I carefully dug through the roots and pulled the worms out. The Faverolles are obviously not foragers, and don't get the whole 'bug eating' thing. The Delawares and Americana are interested... But the Polish chicks - OMG. The little Polish bantams know exactly what worms are, peep excitedly as I pull them out of the dirt ball, and hoover the worms down in one gulp. I feel much like a mama bird, showing the babies what to eat. I have been leading the chicks out to the sideyard every day to hunt grasshoppers and other little bugs. They really are a lot of fun. Cheers, |
Thanks for the best wishes and thoughts. The parents are still busy at the birdhouse but I can't see LG. Maybe he made it to the top of the nest after all! The weather is beautiful again - robin egg blue sky. I'll be taking the Australorp chicks to the garden when they show up. They love to be underfoot - much different from the Brahmas who were all L'le Miss Independents. Even with all the moving-around caution I need to exert, I'd rather have the, "Where's Dad, where's Dad?!" than the "I am going over there and you other guys can do whatever. That big creature - - Who died and made him king, anyway?? Loser!" digitS' |
- Posted by gardenbutt rocky mt 4-5 (My Page) on Wed, May 7, 08 at 12:57
Wow we saw our first hummer april 26 this year.Have had the feeder out every since.We always get the male rufous first before the ladies arrive. Since we have so many plants that are hummer oriented if we are not around to refill feeders they do hang around.At my old place we used to have alot of nests, sometimes when babies came out we would have 100plus birds going through several gallons of food a day M |
A note here on the value of a super soaker squirt gun in your humane bird management practices. We have two bird 'management issues' - hummingbirds and LB's that fly into the greenhouse doors, get confused, and won't leave through the door or the windows. #2 is the group of swallows, who, I suspect, use message boards on the innernet to tell fambly and friends that the big, blown glass chandelier / hanging light thingie on the 52' front porch has a concave top that makes a dandy swallow nest starting place. Open the door at night, and the swallows wing it into the lighted interior of the house and doing what any self-respecting panicking swallow would do. Anywho, if you soak down a bird with a super soaker, they are easy to pick up, and you can put them out on some twig in a tree where they dry off, look indignant, and fly away. |
- Posted by michelle_co z5 CO (My Page) on Wed, May 7, 08 at 23:40
DAVID!!!! You big bad bird bully, you. A supersoaker, indeed! :-)))))))))) |
You can also sneak up on 'em and put salt on their tails . . . . digitS' |
Michelle, The males show up first. My first hummer showed up around April 10. It helps if you hang the feeder up before you see the first bird, they are easy to miss and may keep flying by you to reach another neighbors feeder if yours is not up. :0) Maybe your little female hummer wasn't the "first"? LOVE these little guys! Hurray!!!!! The hummers are back!!!! :0) |
DW reports hearing LG in the birdhouse. (I'll pretend the noise includes LG rather than just an LG #2.) There was no tiny bird on the ground below the nest and I got the ladder positioned and by tipping the house was able see thru the door. No LG lying dead across the threshold. Now, we can just hope that there is sufficient insect life after the 4th coldest April on record for this Passer domesticus population center. d'S' roufus, calliope, and black-chinned hummers here but not yet . . . |
Here is a link that might be useful: hummingbirds at Cornell's
I spoke too soon. A black-chinned hummer was repeatedly at Dad's feeder this afternoon. That is, until we charged it with nectar - then he was nowhere to be seen. Cold, windy day . . . storming now . . . d'S' |
- Posted by gardenbutt rocky mt 4-5 (My Page) on Thu, May 8, 08 at 21:33
hmmm how does that soaker gun work for those big black vultures??? We have a roadkill deer at the end of the property and these cool vultures and lots of ravens enjoying the feast.Just wish they would not fly over a poop on the truck window. I have always enjoyed the hummers but also know they have some aggressive sides to them. And yet another problem sticky poop everywhere.The large quanitites we used to have were fun to watch but the mess on the side of the house and across the flower beds below, yuck |
- Posted by dafygardennut 5b-ish, CO (My Page) on Fri, May 9, 08 at 1:05
Good Dafy! I'd like to point out something about the location of your birdhouse - it is right under the eave. Over my shoulder, I can see the 8 (count 'em, eight) birdhouses the neighbor put on her garage West wall this Spring. I'm not saying that the birds will never move in but they've been there for 2 months and not a single tenent. Maybe they don't like the heat but that shouldn't be much of a problem this year. They may not like the bird feeder loaded with millet 20 feet away and all the chaos that brings to the neighborhood. What I'm fairly sure that they don't like is the fact that some of the houses are only about 4 feet from the ground - none are directly under the eaves. I once had 5 bird families nesting under the eaves on the West wall of my garage. (But after the LG incident, I'm either going completely out of the bird property management business or start doing it right with new houses.) If there's anything you are NOT with that cute chickadee house, Dafy, is a slumlord. I don't know about chickadee homes but I hope there's a way to carry the "abandoned furnishing" to the curb for the garbage man at the end of the season. Trust me, all these birds will pack up the kids and move without a forwarding address without a 2nd thought towards either cleaning house or their damage deposit. d'S' |
- Posted by michelle_co z5 CO (My Page) on Fri, May 9, 08 at 10:45
Cute birdhouse! The sparrows have found the spot where there's leftover bits of chicken scratch on the ground & there was a flock of them this morning! Boy did they holler at me when I walked out to visit the chickies. Cheers, |
Hummingbirds in Colorado Springs yet? I had a tenacious robin couple trying to build their nest on my breaker box just outside my back door. As soon as I spotted it, I took it down:( My German Pointer would freak them out every time I let him out. Then the next day they decided to come closer to the door and build the nest on the motion lights! Silly birds, They haven't been back since so I hope they found a better location :) |
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Simulation Software Simulating Great Sound
by Lisa Bonnema, Senior Editor
High-end audio manufacturer B&W uses electromagnetic simulation to ensure quality sound in its speakers while shortening design cycles.
B&W uses simulation to design most of the technology that goes into its speakers. Pictured is the Signature Diamond series, which features some of the company's most advanced technologies, such as a Kevlar midrange/bass drive unit, a flowport, and a diamond dome tweeter.
Known as a pioneer in loudspeaker technology, West Sussex, U.K.-based Bowers & Wilkins (B&W) takes pride in designing its technology from the ground up. The manufacturer is one of the only in the industry to make many of the drive units used in its speaker systems. While this makes the company an innovation leader, it can also lengthen design cycles.
B&W knew early on that it had to use advanced methods to stay competitive. In the mid-1990s, the company tried to create its own "reverse finite element analysis" software in conjunction with the University of Brighton to calculate backward from the ideal sound characteristics to find a design solution. However, the complexity of this method led B&W to eventually purchase commercial electromagnetic design software, the Opera package from Vector Fields (Aurora, IL, U.S.).
According to Gary Geaves, head of research at B&W, the software speeds up the design cycle and helps the company incorporate design improvements. "We use the software at the start of all our loudspeaker design projects to optimize the motor systems in the loudspeaker driver, along with other simulation software, to speed and shorten the design cycle," he tells APPLIANCE. "This typically gets us to an objective optimal design concept rapidly, as we can quickly consider up to hundreds of different variations."
The Opera software uses a finite element method code that is optimized for electromagnetic design. Design engineers can build models within the software, or enter them from CAD files and then assign material information and drives in order to run an analysis. B&W uses the software to design what Geaves calls the "core" of the speaker drive unit—the motor. "Almost everything we do is based on our own motor components and starts life with simulation," he says. "By doing virtual design in this manner, we are able to optimize the design for sensitivity and linearity."
The goal is to maximize the sensitivity of the loudspeakers while minimizing the impact of nonlinearity coming from asymmetric fields in the motor's gap. This is a particular issue for the high-frequency tweeter elements of a sound system. One of the major limitations affecting tweeter speakers is behind the speaker, in the tube or space that absorbs the sound emanating from the rear of the diaphragm. Good acoustic performance demands an air hole in the motor system, which inevitably leads to a compromise in the maximum flux levels and achievable sensitivity. The Opera tool helps B&W to optimize the magnetic performance of the motor design early in the design cycle.
Once initial design concepts are produced, B&W still relies greatly on real-world listening tests to prove and optimize a design. "Unlike some product categories, we rely on substantial subjective testing and improvement stage as well, [because] developing good loudspeakers involves a good deal of 'art,'" Geaves says. "We have a great interest in simulation software in general, and use PAFEC and other commercial products, as well as code of our own design, to optimize design characteristics."
B&W uses the Vector Fields Opera package, a finite element method code that is optimized for electromagnetic design. According to software supplier Vector Fields, the package includes customized analysis tools to enable design engineers who are not necessarily familiar with the software to investigate areas of a conceptual design in a time frame that will improve the efficiency of the R&D department.
Growing with Technology
Although B&W has been using the Opera package for 12 years, the company has changed its uses and goals based on technology advancements and market needs. For example, when the software was originally purchased, it was used for design shielding for speakers that were used with CRT TVs. However, as flat TVs continue to dominate the market, this application has greatly decreased.
The company has also upgraded as new software features have been made available. "When we started, we used just a solver for static electromagnetic fields," Geaves says. "Upgrades over time have moved us to major new capabilities in terms of simulating transient fields and eddy currents, as well as linear motion of the motor. The user interface of the package has also gone though major improvements over the years."
Currently, the OEM is working closely with a Vector Fields engineer to develop a software model that will help B&W overcome the problems caused by the dynamically changing impedance of the voice coil as it moves in the air gap—and gets nearer or farther to the steel magnetic material. This changing impedance gives rise to distortion, typically heard as a roughness of voice. In the past, B&W has solved this issue empirically, by the application of conductive material to reduce the change. However, the problem is nonlinear and is complex to solve, and the new software model will allow B&W to quickly settle on optimum design solutions for each loudspeaker motor design. "It's [about] cost and time," Geaves notes. "Empirically applying conductive materials to prototype designs, and then iterating that process perhaps dozens of times, would just take too long."
B&W is clear, however, that it will not sacrifice quality for speed. "Our loudspeakers are optimized to be as sensitive as possible and to have minimum distortion," Geaves says. "This degree of control is one of the reasons we make our own drive units, and why we use software to optimize their characteristics.
"We simply could not achieve the same fidelity of reproduction if our products were all based on bought-in motors," he adds. "I'm not saying that someone with audio engineering skill can't put together a reasonable speaker using a commercial driver component, but with a flexible simulation package, we are free to liberate our imagination and search for the absolute best design solution."
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I have no rare hoya blooms to share but just to keep my presence, here're some new bloomers for me here.
Pink silver Kerrii green NOID (probably a clone of carnosa with quite succulent leaves) Thanks for looking. Xuan |
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- Posted by kellyknits 6/WV Eastern Panhand (My Page) on Sun, Jul 4, 10 at 9:27
Have never even heard of kerrii green! Very cool! |
NICE Xuan, always enjoy your beautiful pictures...just lovely! |
Xuan, It doesn't matter whether they are rare or just a carnosa, I think that they all have there own beauty, expecially if they have a nice scent. Kelly - I think the kerrii green is the plain heart leaf kerrii, I have this one and it is huge, but do you think it would give me a peduncle, nooo. Dee |
Dee: thanks for the clarification about Kerrii "green". Actually, mine took a while to bloom. I guess this plant likes to climb to bloom. In the past I tried to tie it down to the pot hanger and it never bloomed in the 2 years I have had it. Then I let me free to send it vines wherever and it produced this peduncle while still having a few more developing. Xuan |
- Posted by alba_gardener CA (My Page) on Mon, Jul 5, 10 at 22:51
Xuan, Thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures of Hoyas' in bloom.. alba in Hawthorne,CA |
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Thu, Feb 25, 10 at 0:39
To quote Rod Serling: "Where is everybody??!!"
This is the quietest I've ever seen this vital forum! Hope people come back soon. Kevin : ) |
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- Posted by lazygardens Phoenix: Sunset Zone (My Page) on Fri, Feb 26, 10 at 9:19
We're outside, killing weeds, planting veggies, and GARDENING! |
- Posted by tugbrethil Phoenix, AZ (My Page) on Sun, Feb 28, 10 at 22:47
Silly me! Not everyone spends their evenings as web zombies! Welcome back, all! |
This particular forum has been rather quiet. But now that Spring is seriously here, I would expect/welcome the chatter to ratchet up. There is a nice little book that was just published: Water-Wise PLants For The Southwest, by Nan Sterman, Mary Irish, Judith Phillips, and Joe Lamp'l. Mary Irish (Southern AZ) and Judith Phillips (Central NM) are favorite authors of mine. They are enthusiastic and extremely knowledgeable. Easy read and informative. |
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I've got to get that one! Kevin : ) |
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