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Going where no Coolpix has gone before, the Nikon P500 expands the ultrazoom lens envelope out to 36x, currently the largest in the class and well past the 26x zoom of the P100. But while Nikon went long on the zoom multiplier, they went wide on the lens.
The P500 starts out at 22.5mm and tops out at 810mm in 35mm equivalents, giving up 30mm of telephoto coverage to the longest lenses in the class. Here's what that focal range looks like:
And before you're too quick to knock the image quality of the telephoto shot, consider that the Oceanside pier is nearly 4 miles away - that's a lot of atmospheric disturbance to shoot through. In any event, even with stabilization that long lens makes the P500 a good candidate for a tripod or monopod to assist with managing camera shake when shooting telephoto work.
While the Coolpix P100 remains on Nikon USA's website at this writing, expect it to fade from view as existing supplies dry up. The P500 is a virtual twin on the outside - size and weight are very similar, and the $400 MSRP is the same. But the new camera packs some new hardware over and above that bigger lens. Resolution of the backside illuminated (BSI) CMOS sensor jumps to 12.1 megapixels from 10.3 and there is a new EXPEED C2 dual image processor, a first for the Coolpix line (and a harbinger of things to come with the pro DSLRs, I think - see if the D4 and D400 don't carry dual processors when they appear later this year). The dual processor is said to "greatly enhance performance, reduces noise and corrects distortion in both movies and still images".
The 3.0-inch LCD monitor gets a big resolution boost to 921,000 dots and there's an additional zoom control (called the side zoom control) located on the lens barrel. Full HD video returns and a new shooting mode button lets you access continuous frame shooting or other specialized capture features like Best Shot Selector without resorting to internal menus. Internal memory jumps to 102 megabytes and the camera accepts SD/SDHC/SDXC memory media. Nikon includes a camera strap, rechargeable Li-ion battery, AC charging adapter, USB and AV cables, lens cap, printed quick-start manual and CD-ROM software with each camera.
AC charging adapter? Yep, the P500 continues the P100 practice of having to charge the battery in the camera, and you probably already know what I think of that arrangement. Nikon makes an external charger that sells for about $18 retail - surely they can afford to provide one given that $400 MSRP. And while we're on the subject, how about a complete printed user's manual, not a quick-start manual with the complete one relegated to the CD-ROM?
The P500 succeeds the P100 and the P100 proved a nicely capable camera. Let's see how the new kid on the block measures up.
As a virtual visual clone of the P100, the P500 features the same mini-DSLR configuration and composite construction. Materials, fit and finish seem appropriate for the price point.
Ergonomics and Controls
They may look the same, but it only takes an instant after picking up the P500 to feel that something's changed. That something is the exaggerated handgrip, or rather the material and finish that now reside there: a checkered, rubberized stuff that promotes a really nice feel and grip.
My shooting finger fell naturally to the shutter button and traditional zoom lever, and the side zoom control on the lens barrel fell right under my left thumb when using a two-handed hold on the camera. The movie capture button lies under the right thumb, nicely positioned to facilitate quick, one-touch video recording. Controls seemed nicely spaced so as to avoid conflicts and unintended actuations. Overall a nice feeling, easy to hold camera.
Controls are mainstream for the superzoom compact class. The self-timer, flash, exposure compensation, focus mode and continuous shooting options can all be selected quickly via external controls; you can also switch quickly between HD and HS (high speed) movie capture. Most camera settings for the manual modes such as ISO, image size and quality, white balance, etc. require accessing internal menus.
The side zoom control may be assigned zoom (the default), manual focus or snap-back zoom functions. Snap-back works when the zoom is at some telephoto length, and each down push of the control approximately halves the focal length. You can also use snap-back to return to the original focal length with a single up push, but not for zooming beyond the original focal length when you first employed snap-back.
Menus and Modes
Menus, when you have to use them, are simple and intuitive. Shooting, movie and setup menus are available in any shooting mode except "scene," where a scene menu of 16 specific modes (along with image size and quality options) replaces the shooting menu.
One of the scene modes is a nifty panorama that offers "easy" and "assist" options - and 180 or 360 degree vistas with the easy option. Nikon has mimicked the Sony sweep shooting mode we ran into with the A55 - the Sony system made producing nice panorama shots an easy affair and the P500 does the same. Nikon's even improved on the Sony system a bit by overlaying a grid onto the screen that makes keeping the important portions of the image centered a bit easier. A tripod makes this mode a slam dunk, but it does very well hand holding as well. "Panorama" produces images at about 10.87 inches by 1.87 inches and 300 dots per inch at the 180 degree setting, and here's a look at handheld and tripod versions:
Shooting menu choices are not surprisingly quite restricted in the automatic shooting modes, but add up to 14 various settings on 2 pages for manual modes. There are two main playback menus, one offering playback modes such as "favorite pictures," "auto sort," and "list by date" and the other providing a fairly wide suite of 16 post processing options such as "quick retouch," "D-lighting," "filter effects" and "voice memo." Here's a complete rundown on shooting modes in the P500:
The 3.0-inch LCD monitor on the P500 is articulating and features a 921,000 dot composition. It can be swung out and down from the rear of the camera, and rotated up/down through about 75 degrees of travel. The monitor registered a fairly low 305 nit peak brightness and fairly high 983:1 contrast ratio.
Since we started measuring these values, all the Nikons I've reviewed have followed a similar pattern - low brightness, high contrast, and fairly good performance outdoors. It appears that high contrast helps overcome low brightness when shooting outdoors in direct light. The P500 monitor can be overcome by bright conditions, but the articulating ability helps some. Frame coverage is about 97% for capture and 100% for playback and the monitor adjusts for 5 levels of brightness. The electronic viewfinder has a 230,000 dot composition and diopter eyesight adjustment. Coverage is about 97% for capture and 100% for playback.
When the P100 succeeded the P90, it showed improvement in most performance parameters over the older camera. Let's see if Nikon has stuck to that script with the P500.
Shooting Performance
The P500 starts quickly, presenting a focus icon in about 1.25 seconds after powering up. I could get off a first shot in a bit over 2 seconds, better than the P100, and single shot-to-shot times ran about 2.75 seconds, same as the old camera. Continuous high speed shooting is 8 fps according to Nikon, but we clocked the P500 at 10 fps, but only for 5 shots - and write times for that 5 shot burst will approach 7 seconds, even with a class 10 SDHC memory card.
Continuous low speed produced 10 shots in about 9 seconds, and the P500 could take 13 full resolution shots at that pace until things slowed. Continuous low speed has about a 1 second blackout period before displaying the first shot of a low speed sequence, and there's a briefer blackout between each successive shot, so tracking moving subjects can be difficult, particularly if you're zoomed in fairly tight on the main subject.
Shutter Lag (press-to-capture, pre-focused)
Camera | Time (seconds) |
Nikon Coolpix P500 | 0.01 |
Canon PowerShot SX30 | 0.01 |
Pentax X90 | 0.01 |
Olympus SP800-UZ | 0.03 |
AF Acquisition (press-to-capture, no pre-focus)
Camera | Time (seconds) |
Nikon Coolpix P500 | 0.30 |
Canon PowerShot SX30 | 0.35 |
Pentax X90 | 0.43 |
Olympus SP800-UZ | 0.45 |
Continuous Shooting
Camera | Frames | Framerate* |
Nikon Coolpix P500 | 5 | 10.0 fps |
Canon PowerShot SX30 | ∞ | 1.4 fps |
Pentax X90 | 5 | 1.4 fps |
Olympus SP800-UZ | 10 | 1.2 fps |
*Note: Continuous shooting framerates are based on the camera's fastest full-resolution JPEG continuous shooting mode, using the fastest media type available (300x CF, SDHC, etc.). "Frames" notes the number of captures recorded per burst before the camera stops/slows to clear the buffer.
Shutter lag and AF acquisition times were good at 0.01 and 0.3 seconds, respectively. The P500 does a fairly decent job of acquiring focus on still subjects at telephoto in good light, and with the AF assist lamp does pretty well in dimmer conditions as well. It's a contrast-detection system, pretty much the compact digital standard, so there needs to be some contrast for it to identify, but the P500 seems to do a bit better than average in this regard.
The P500 features the same 5-way stabilization system as the P100, so I'll excerpt portions of that discussion from the P100 review:
Let's look a bit closer at these options. Optical is good, one of the classic means to stabilize images. Hybrid is OK too, as Nikon's eVR system ".... applies specific movement data to image processing algorithms during processing to turn blurred images into beautifully clear results" per Nikon - basically, it's using a gyro (like a traditional mechanical system) to get motion data, and then applying a sharpening algorithm to compensate.
Motion detection is not on the list of methods I'd like to use - anytime the camera is free to ramp up ISO, noise levels can come into play in a fashion I'm not willing to accept. High ISO sensitivity is largely the same issue due to noise concerns, but there are ways around this.
BSS is another positive since it functions in the P, A, S, M modes where the user can control most aspects of image capture. The downside with BSS is it saves one shot, and that shot may not have been the one you'd have picked on your own.
The best part of the whole stabilization system in the P500 is that Nikon has given the user the means to enable some, all or none of the features. Optical, hybrid or neither can be selected for still image capture, and eVR can be enabled or disabled for movies. Motion detection may be enabled or disabled, the user can set any ISO when shooting in P, A, S or M and BSS is another option where the user retains input over ISO sensitivity. Nikon recommends turning off stabilization when the camera is mounted on a tripod.
The P500 flash range can extend to about 26 feet at wide angle and 14 feet at telephoto, with ISO set to "auto." Recycle times are in the 3 to 6 second range depending on the nature of the shot, and like the P100 the flash indicator only shows its status with a half push of the shutter button. You can't just hold at half push in order to fire as soon as the flash recharges - you have to release the half push and initiate another to update the flash status until the unit recharges.
Battery life is rated for 220 shots using a CIPA standard, so carry spares for all-day shooting sessions. Charging time for a completely depleted battery using the supplied AC adapter is about 4 hours and 50 minutes, and the camera cannot be operated while charging. The optional MH-61 external charger does the job in 2 hours, so getting one of those is the best $20 a P500 owner can spend.
Lens Performance
The P500 offers a much broader focal range than the P100, but with slower maximum apertures at each end of the zoom - f/3.4 and f/5.7 at wide and telephoto, respectively. Gone too is the "distortion control" setting that helped correct lens distortion at the peripheries of the frame. The P500 lens seems to do quite well on its own, however - there's a bit of pincushion distortion at the wide end, but as you zoom toward telephoto that goes away and the lens looks fairly distortion free at telephoto.
At the wide angle end the lens is a bit soft on the edges and corners, but fairly sharp in the center. There was a fair amount of chromic aberration (purple fringing) present in some high contrast boundary areas of shots that are admittedly worst case scenario for this type of defect - visible at 100% enlargement with a cursory inspection. Telephoto looks to be soft on the edges and corners also, and not as sharp as wide in the center. Chromic aberration seemed pretty well controlled, with fairly benign amounts that became noticeable only at 200-300% enlargements.
Overall, the bigger lens seems to have acquired some chromic aberration at the wide end, held the line at telephoto, and looks to be a bit softer overall than the smaller zoom of the P100, particularly toward the long end of the zoom.
One bit of good news is the P500 lens retains the 0.4 inch close focus distance of the P100 when set for "close up" in the scene menu, so the camera has good macro capability. One bit of bad news is the lens closes down past the f/5.7 maximum aperture setting for telephoto as you zoom from wide angle to telephoto. If you set the aperture to the wide angle maximum of f/3.4 and then zoom the lens toward telephoto from wide angle, it's normal for the aperture to change as the various focal lengths are reached, but instead of stopping at f/5.7 the P500 continues to close down to f/7.1 as you approach the telephoto limit.
Video Quality
Video quality wasn't too bad at full HD, particularly if you didn't need to use all of the zoom the P500 lens gives you. Tracking moving subjects with the lens near the telephoto end is a chore hand-held, and nearly as difficult on a tripod, so the best video results come with the lens anywhere from wide angle to maybe mid-telephoto unless you're on a tripod.
Because the P500 uses a CMOS sensor, it is prone to demonstrate a bit of rolling shutter effect, but this came only with extremely fast panning and overall was well controlled. That big lens makes it tempting to shoot subjects at extreme distances, both still and video, and atmospheric conditions can sometimes play havoc with image quality in both instances due in large part to the range at which you're shooting.
The full range of zoom is available during video capture but the camera's stereo microphone will record zooming sounds. Wind noise can also be a concern and the P500 has a wind cut feature, but Nikon warns it can impact other sounds as well.
Image Quality
Default images out of the P500 represented a mixed bag - shots made toward the wide end of the lens and fairly close up looked pretty good, while shots made at telephoto tended to look a bit soft.
Most shots looked pretty good if viewed at less than 100% enlargement, but once the pixel peeping started the difference became easier to see. I've already mentioned that the telephoto end of the lens looks to me to be a bit softer overall than at wide angle, and this may have something to do with it. I'm also not sure Nikon did the P500 any favors by upping the resolution on the sensor - shots seem to show more artifacts than the P100, and this becomes most apparent at 100%.
It would have been interesting to see how the big lens and dual processors worked with the lower resolution sensor - I think the lens is partly to blame, but the sensor resolution might have a role as well. I also shot the P500 at 8 megapixel reduced resolution in both automatic and aperture priority modes, and thought the image quality wasn't as good as the full resolution captures, however.
While you can dial in some additional sharpness, contrast and saturation in the P, A, S and M shooting modes, in practice I found little difference between default and sharpened images shot in aperture priority. Here's two aperture priority shots - one at default settings, the other with sharpening maxed out.
Default |
Maximum sharpness |
"Normal" is the default color setting for the P500, but the manual modes allow you to choose options such as softer, vivid, more vivid and black and white. "More vivid" maxes out contrast, sharpening and saturation, but proved too much for my standard color palette shots of the 101 Diner.
Normal |
Softer |
Vivid |
More Vivid |
Black & White |
Suffice it to say if the P500 default images don't meet your criteria, particularly with regard to sharpness, post processing software may be your best bet.
The P500 uses Nikon's D-Lighting feature to expand the apparent dynamic range of the camera. The option is off by default but may be enabled at low, normal or high levels for application while shooting. The feature is also available to post process images in the camera. Here are the default, normal and high settings:
D-Lighting Off |
D-Lighting Normal |
D-Lighting High |
The P500 also retains the backlight shooting mode that allows you to enable HDR (high dynamic range) for shooting images with very light and dark areas. With HDR enabled the P500 shoots images at high speed then saves two versions: a D-Lighting image taken at the time of capture, and an HDR composite image, which takes a bit of time to save. Here's Yoda shot with backlight in auto mode, and then the DL and HDR images produced by the backlight/HDR setting.
Auto Backlight |
D-Lighting Image |
HDR Image |
Auto white balance was used for the majority of shots in this review, and did a pretty good job overall, but shot a bit warm with incandescent (3200K) light. There are custom, daylight, incandescent, fluorescent, cloudy and flash presets available.
Auto White Balance, 5500k fluorescent light
Matrix metering is the default setting and works well in most normal lighting conditions. The P500 can lose highlights in high contrast situations, which is not unusual in compact digitals. There are center-weighted, spot and spot AF options available.
ISO performance on the P500 reminded me strongly of the P100 - the 160 and 200 ISO sensitivities are basically indistinguishable from one another, and 400, while a bit noisier, is still quite good and suffering minimal loss of fine details. ISO 800 is clearly noisier than 400 but again the drop off is not major and loss of fine details is still minimal compared to 400.
ISO 160, 100% crop |
ISO 200, 100% crop |
ISO 400, 100% crop |
ISO 800, 100% crop |
ISO 1600, 100% crop |
ISO 3200, 100% crop |
ISO 1600 is the most significant fall-off (at least until we get to 3200) so far, and fine details are becoming more muddied, but even at this point the setting is usable for small images if need be. Quality at 3200 takes a fairly dramatic nose dive, with both coarse and fine details showing definite signs of deterioration - as it was with the P100, still a setting of last resort.
Overall my impression of the P500 is that ISO performance is on a par with the P100, perhaps just a bit better. Given the net resolution increase it would seem that dual processor may be living up to its billing.
The Coolpix P500 is a logical extension of Nikon's product line in the superzoom compact digital ranks, dramatically expanding the focal range (both wide and long) and adding features over the P100 that it replaces. A slight increase in resolution is accompanied by what looks to be similar or slightly better low light ISO performance, so a net gain there.
Ergonomics are improved by the addition of a checkered hand grip and the addition of a side zoom control in addition to the traditional zoom lever located at the shutter button. HD and HS video options are carried over, and shutter lag and AF acquisition times meet or beat the P100 in those arenas. The whole package is a light, compact setup that carries and handles nicely. So far, so good.
The fly in the ointment here seems to be image quality, which looks pretty good when shooting wide angled close ups, but just a bit soft and average when the zoom heads toward the telephoto end of the spectrum, at least at 100% magnifications. In this regard the P100 seems just a bit better and sharper overall, especially if producing large prints is your objective. And the internal adjustments that are available to modify the images being captured by the P500 just don't seem to have much effect in the sharpness arena.
That's the main concern with this camera - if your images are meant for the internet or small prints the P500 does a credible job, but to my eye, some post processing sharpening would be in order to get many larger prints sharp enough to pass muster for me.


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Biographies of Council Members
as at 16 February 2015
Rear Admiral the Honourable Kevin Scarce AC CSC RAN (Rtd), born in Adelaide and educated at Elizabeth East Primary School and Elizabeth High School, was the 34th Governor of South Australia from 2007 to 2014. He served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1968, on HMAS Sydney during the Vietnam War and as the commander of HMAS Cerberus between 1995 and 1997.
He also specialised in military logistics and procurement, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral and head of Maritime Systems at the Defence Materiel Organisation. As head of the South Australian Defence Unit, he led a government team that contributed to ASC winning the contract to build air warfare destroyers for the Australian Defence Force.
He was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross in 1994, the Knight of Grace in the Venerable Order of Saint John in 2007 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2008.
Rear Admiral Scarce completed a Bachelor of Financial Administration from New England, Masters of Management Economics at the University of New South Wales (Australian Defence Force Academy campus), and a Masters Degree in National Security Strategy at the US War College (National Defense University) in Washington, DC. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Flinders University in 2009 for distinguished service to the public of South Australia and an Honorary Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of New England in 2014.
In addition to his role as 16th Chancellor of the University of Adelaide, Rear Admiral Scarce was recently appointed Chair of Cancer Council SA and President of Novita Children's Services.
Professor Warren Bebbington commenced as the University of Adelaide's 20th Vice-Chancellor in July 2012.
A Fulbright Scholar, Professor Bebbington studied at the University of Melbourne and in New York at Queens College, Columbia University, and the CUNY Graduate School, completing masters degrees in Arts, Music, and Philosophy, and a PhD.
Prior to his role at the University of Adelaide, he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (University Affairs), and previously, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Global Relations) at the University of Melbourne. He also served as a Dean at the University of Melbourne and at the University of Queensland, and before that taught at the Australian National University's School of Music.
As a teacher, he won the University of Melbourne Award for Excellence in Teaching (Humanities) in 2005 and an Australian Learning and Teaching Council Citation for "30 years of outstanding teaching" in 2008. He has appeared frequently as a visiting keynote speaker at universities abroad, including in Dublin and Hong Kong.
Professor Bebbington's publications include the Oxford Companion to Australian Music, and he was, for a decade, the music member of the international Advisory Committee for Encyclopaedia Britannica. His national community roles have included seven years as Chair of Music Committees for the Australia Council, Federal Chair of AMEB, and Deputy Chair of Youth Music Australia.
CHARLES BAGOT, LLB (Hons)
Mr Charles Bagot is a commercial lawyer and company director. He practices in commercial and corporate law as a partner of Piper Alderman Lawyers and is National Head of that firm's Corporate Division. He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide and has also completed a business course at the Stanford Business School. Charles is a director of a number of companies.
Lawrence is currently studying Law and Arts (History). He has previously served as a General Councillor on the Student Reprsentative Council and as the Undergraduate Representative on the University Library Committee.
The Hon Catherine Branson QC is a graduate of the University of Adelaide in both Arts and Law. She is a former Crown Solicitor of South Australia and CEO of the Attorney-General's Department. She served for more than 14 years as a judge of the Federal Court of Australia and for 4 years as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission. She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Adelaide in 2011, a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) from Flinders University in 2012, and a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from Macquarie University in 2014.
ALISON BROINOWSKI, PhD (ANU)
A former Australian diplomat, Alison is a graduate in Arts from the University of Adelaide, and her PhD in Asian Studies is from ANU. An Australian former diplomat, she has written or edited eleven books on aspects of the interface between Australia and Asia. Her best known books are The Yellow Lady – Australian Impressions of Asia (OUP 1992 and 1996), About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia (Scribe 2003), Howard's War (Scribe, 2003), and Allied and Addicted (Scribe Publications, 2007).She has lived in Japan, Burma, Iran, South Korea, and Mexico, and worked as a diplomat in Japan, the Philippines, Jordan, and New York (UN).
Alison is a Research Affiliate at ANU, has taught there and at Macquarie University. She has been co-Chief Investigator in two ARC projects, at ANU and at the University of Wollongong. She is a member of the Australian Republican Movement, the Oriental Society, the Asian Studies Association of Australia, the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, the Australian Institute of International Affairs in New South Wales, Honest History, and the Campaign for an Iraq War Inquiry.DIANNE DAVIDSON, M.Sc, B Ag Sc, Grad.Dip.Bus Admin, FAASTE, FAIAST, MAICD
Di Davidson is an agricultural scientist, and a graduate of the University of Adelaide who has worked extensively throughout the Basin for 35 years. She has wide experience and a strong managment background in natural resources, particularly water and irrigated agriculture. Di is a Member of the Murray Darling Basin Authority.
Di is an experienced Australian viticulturalist, the founder and Managing Director of Davidson Viticulture. Di has worked in the Australian wine industry since 1975 and her consulting company has wide experience in all wine grape production regions of Australia, as well as in South Africa, New Zealand, India and China.
Di has contributed hundreds of articles and presentations to industry journals, workshops and seminars in her career and is also the author of two books - 'A Guide to Growing Winegrapes in Australia' and 'The Business of Vineyards'. In addition to managing Davidson Viticulture, Di manages her own vineyards and contributes to several Australian Wine Industry committees and organisations. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Agriculture, Science and Technology.
Robin Day is the proprietor of Domain Day at Mt Crawford in the Barossa Valley where he produces cool climate wines. He also operates an international wine consultancy with principal activities in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, France and China.
He is a graduate in agricultural science from Adelaide University and wine science from Charles Sturt University. He was chief winemaker of Orlando Wyndham from 1979 to 1994 and a board member for 15 years.
From 1994 to 2003 as International Wine Development Director for Pernod Ricard, he was responsible for development of wine operations in South Africa, Chile, Hungary, France, Georgia and Armenia.
He was Chairman of the Australian Wine Research Institute for eight years and a board member for twenty two years. He was a board member of the Australian Wine and Brandy Corporation for eight years and has board experience across a wide range of companies.
JULIE HAYFORD, B.A., Grad Dip Ed (Flinders), M.Ed (Dist. Ed) (UniSA)
Julie Hayford is a professional staff member who has over 17 years experience working at the University of Adelaide in recruitment, quality assurance, student policy and grievances, and coursework scholarships. She has also managed the Aboriginal Foundation Course at Flinders University, and worked as a Research and Liaison Officer in the External Student Union and a Senior Marketing Office (Equity and Diversity) at the University of South Australia. Her qualifications are in education, with a B.A. and Graduate Diploma in Education from Flinders University and a Masters in Education (Distance Education) from the University of South Australia.
Julie has also taught English, History and Aboriginal Studies in the secondary school sector over a period of nearly 10 years.
DAVID HILL, B.Com., M.B.A.
David is the Chief Operating Officer of Deloitte Australia. David previously led Deloitte's national mid-market business, Deloitte Private, Deloitte's national M&A Transaction Services business and the Deloitte's Corporate Finance business in South Australia.
He is a member of Deloitte Australia's National Executive and a previous member of Deloitte Australia's Corporate Finance Executive, Deloitte's Global M&A Transaction Services Executive and Deloitte's Global Young Partner Advisory Council.
Having been with Deloitte for over 20 years, David has extensive experience leading major M&A transactions across Australia and in the UK.
In January 2011, David was honoured to be selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
In October 2011, David was recognised as an Outstanding Future Leader in the national Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) Pinnacle Awards.
As Chief Operating Officer, David is responsible for ensuring a world-class operating model to support and enable the partners and staff of Deloitte to provide the highest quality service. David is passionate about leadership and empowering and developing the partners and staff of Deloitte to realise their full potential with the firm.
David holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from The University of Adelaide. He is a Chartered Accountant, a Senior Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA), and a Certified Finance and Treasury Professional, Finance & Treasury Association (FTA).
David resides in Adelaide, South Australia, with his wife and three children.KERRYNNE LIDDLE
Kerrynne Liddle has an extensive professional background in media and communications.
She has a Bachelor of Arts; double major in management, Masters of Business Administration, a Australian Institute of Company Directors Course Diploma and is a Vincent Fairfax fellow having completed a leadership program at the Centre for Ethical Leadership.
Kerrynne has previous experience on State Government boards, Commonwealth boards and committees and not-for-profit boards. She is currently a Board Member of: Aboriginal Hostels Ltd, and a Member of the National VET Equity Advisory Council.
Kerrynne is Manager Aboriginal Participation at Santos – one of Australia's largest domestic natural gas producers, and is responsible for Aboriginal affairs across its Australian operations.
Zhao 'Joe' Lu is a PhD candidate in the School of Mechanical Engineering. He specializes in solar hybrid gasification and computational fluid dynamics.
In his spare time, Joe participated in a variety of student leadership programs across the university. He is among the first group of student leaders to be formally recognized by the university in 2012.
Joe has an active interest in languages and cultures. He has been mentoring new arrivals for the university's International Student Centre since 2011. Over the years, he managed to pick up some german and french.
Professor Clement Macintyre was elected to the position of Chair of the Academic Board on 1 January 2013 and re-elected on 1 January 2015. The Chair of Academic Board is an ex officio member of Council. Professor Macintyre's term ends on 31 December 2016.
Clement Macintyre completed a BA at Murdoch University in Western Australia and a PhD in History at the University of Cambridge. He has been Head of the School of History and Politics at the University of Adelaide since 2010. Before that he has served as Discipline Head of Politics and as Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Associate Dean (Education). He was Deputy Chair of Academic Board 2011-2012.
His teaching and research is been concentrated on European and Australian politics and political history. He has a special interest in Parliaments. This covers not just the debates over the role and functions of Parliaments as one of the key political institutions, but includes a related interest in the architecture of parliamentary spaces and the way that the design of the debating chambers and parliamentary buildings influences debates and political outcomes.
In 2002-03 he was Chair of the Panel of Experts appointed to advise the State Government in the lead up to the State Constitutional Convention and gave the key-note address to the Convention. In May 2008, on the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the new Parliament House in Canberra, he was invited to deliver the "Occasional Senate Lecture" and spoke on the relationship between parliamentary architecture and political culture. In recent years he has published papers on Australian Constitutional structures as well as South Australian political reform and political history.
Felix Patrikeeff completed his BA in History & Government at the University of Essex, and his D.Phil. in International Relations at St Antony's College, Oxford. Before coming to the University of Adelaide, he taught at the Universities of Warwick, Oxford and Sydney, and from 1993-1994 served as Programme Director, International Studies at Kolej Antarabangsa, Penang, Malaysia. He has researched, supervised and published widely in the areas of Russian/Eurasian & Asian Studies, Geopolitics, Political Economy, Strategic Studies & International Relations. He is the President of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (SA Branch), Vice-President of The Australasian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies and is on the Management Committee of The Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies
Research Interests
- Strategic culture, leadership and questions of identity in the International Relations of the Asia-Pacific region
- Hong Kong, China and the political economy of transition and accommodation
- The politics of Russia borderlands, Central and Inner Asia
- Émigré politics (with special reference to Russia)
- The political history of the Russian Far East
SUSIE ROBINSON BAppSci, Bsc (Hons), PhD (Cantab), GCert (Monash)
Dr Susie Robinson has extensive public sector experience, most recently as the Acting Director in the SA Government Public Sector Performance Commission, dealing with government reform and performance issues. In that role, she had oversight of the South Australian Executive Service, building senior leadership capacity in the public sector. Former roles in the SA Government include Principal Policy Officer in both the Cabinet Office and the Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology. Her early career as a civil servant was with the UK Government, in their prestigious Fast Stream Career Programme, as a senior policy adviser in innovation.
She is one of the Board of Directors for Novita Children's Services, one of South Australia's premier children's charities and a recognised and celebrated world leader in the research, development and provision of quality services to children with disabilities. She is also a Director of Care First Pty Ltd, operating in the same disability sector.
She holds a PhD (Biology) from Cambridge University, UK, and held a variety of teaching positions with colleges of the University. She also has postgraduate business management qualifications from Monash University. She currently teaches at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia, delivering topics relating to Public Policy, Productivity, Leadership and Innovation.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and scholarships, and is a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust (allianced with the Salzburg Global Seminar), an international organisation acknowledging and bringing together the rising generation of leaders worldwide from government, business, NGOs, academe, the media and other sectors.
Susie's early career involved work as an Occupational Therapist, predominantly in neurological rehabilitation and domiciliary care, including volunteer work in Thailand.
Shane Selvanderan is currently an Honours candidate in the Discipline of Acute Care Medicine. As part of his Honours year, he is investigating the benefits and risks of stress ulcer prophylaxis in critically ill patients. He has a strong interest in acute care medicine and gastroenterology.
He has completed five years of the Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery program, and over this time has been actively involved in student life. He has held a number of committee and executive roles on the Adelaide Medical Students' Society, and in 2013 was a member of the Australian Medical Association (SA) council.
Professional staff member - elected 6 March 2013; term ends 5 March 2015.
After obtaining his PhD at Flinders University, Prof. Thomas spent 11 years in Vancouver and Switzerland where he held positions as a staff member at the TRIUMF laboratory and at CERN. He returned to a Chair in the Physics Department at the University of Adelaide in early 1984 and received a DSc from that University in 1986. He served as elected Head of the Department of Physics and Mathematical Physics from 1988-91 and President of the Australian Institute of Physics from 1991-93. He was appointed Elder Professor of Physics in 1989 (the post held by Prof. Sir William Henry Bragg, Nobel Laureate), elected to the Australian Academy of Science in 1990 and served as Vice-President from 1994-95. During the first decade at Adelaide, Prof. Thomas built a research program of sufficient international recognition that, with Prof. A. G. Williams, he was awarded an ARC Special Research Centre, the Centre for the Subatomic Structure of Matter (CSSM) in 1997. In 2004, Prof. Thomas was invited to take up the position of Chief Scientist and Associate Director for Theoretical and Computational Physics at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, one of the US Department of Energy's two major fundamental nuclear physics laboratories. As well as having line management responsibility for over 300 scientists and engineers he held responsibility for the quality of the entire scientific program of the laboratory, with its more than 1200 international scientific users. He has served as the Chair of the Working Group on International Cooperation (WG.9) of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics since its inauguration in 2005.
In 2009 Prof. Thomas returned to the University of Adelaide as an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow, one of only two appointed from outside Australia. He is now Director of the University Research Centre for Complex Systems and the Structure of Matter. Prof. Thomas is also the Director of the Adelaide node of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Particle Physics at the Tera-scale, established in 2011. This Centre will coordinate Australian research at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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Printing a Figure at Screen Size Printing with a Specific Paper Size Exporting in a Specific Graphics Format PostScript and PDF Font Translations |
By default, your figure prints at 8-by-6 inches. This size includes the area delimited by the background. This example shows how to print or export your figure the same size it is displayed on your screen.
Resize your figure window to the size you want it to be when printed.
Select Print Preview from the figure window's File menu, and select the Layout tab.
In the Placement panel, select Auto (Actual Size, Centered).
Set the PaperPositionMode property to auto before printing the figure.
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto'); print
If later you want to print the figure at its original size, set PaperPositionMode back to 'manual'.
The MATLAB® default paper size is 8.5-by-11 inches. This example shows how to change the paper size to 8.5-by-14 inches by selecting a paper type (Legal).
Select Print Preview from the figure window's File menu, and select the Layout tab.
Select the Legal paper type from the list in the Paper panel. The Width and Height fields update to 8.5 and 14, respectively.
Set the PaperUnits property to inches and the PaperType property to Legal.
set(gcf,'PaperUnits','inches'); set(gcf,'PaperType','Legal');
Alternatively, you can set the PaperSize property to the size of the paper, in the specified units.
set(gcf,'PaperUnits','inches'); set(gcf,'PaperSize',[8.5 14]);
This example sets the size of a figure to 5.5-by-3 inches and centers it on the paper.
Select Print Preview from the figure window's File menu, and select the Layout tab.
Click Print to open the Print dialog box and print the figure.
Start by setting PaperUnits to inches.
Use PaperSize to return the size of the current paper.
papersize = get(gcf,'PaperSize')
papersize =
8.5000 11.0000
Initialize variables to the desired width and height of the figure.
width = 5.5; % Initialize a variable for width. height = 3; % Initialize a variable for height.
Calculate a left margin that centers the figure horizontally on the paper. Use the first element of papersize (width of paper) for the calculation.
left = (papersize(1)-width)/2 left = 1.5000
Calculate a bottom margin that centers the figure vertically on the paper. Use the second element of papersize (height of paper) for the calculation.
bottom = (papersize(2)-height)/2 bottom = 4
Set the figure size and print.
myfiguresize = [left,bottom,width,height]; set(gcf,'PaperPosition',myfiguresize); print
Export a figure to a graphics-format file when you want to import it at a later time into another application such as a word processor.
Use the Save in field to navigate to the folder in which you want to save your file.
Enter a filename in the File name field. An appropriate file extension, based on the format you chose, is displayed.
From the command line, you must specify the graphics format as an option. See the print reference page for a complete list of graphics formats and their corresponding option strings.
This example exports a figure to an EPS color file, myfigure.eps, in your current folder.
print -depsc myfigure
This example exports Figure No. 2 at a resolution of 300 dpi to a 24-bit JPEG file, myfigure.jpg.
print -djpeg -f2 -r300 myfigure
This example exports a figure at screen size to a 24-bit TIFF file, myfigure.tif.
set(gcf,'PaperPositionMode','auto') % Use screen size print -dtiff myfigure
MATLAB translates certain fonts before printing or exporting to PostScript® or PDF formats. This table describes the translation:
This Font | Replaced With |
Arial | Helvetica |
Times New Roman | Times |
NewCenturySchoolbook | Sans-Serif |
Tahoma | Helvetica |
sans serif | Sans-Serif |
Any other font | Courier |
Use the print function to export a figure in EPS format with a TIFF preview. When you import the figure, the application can display the TIFF preview in the source document. The preview is color if the exported figure is color, and black and white if the exported figure is black and white.
This example exports a figure to an EPS color format file, myfigure.eps, and includes a color TIFF preview.
print -depsc -tiff myfigure
This example exports a figure to an EPS black-and-white format file, myfigure.eps, and includes a black-and-white TIFF preview.
print -deps -tiff myfigure
Export a figure to the clipboard in graphics format when you want to paste it into another Windows® or Macintosh application such as a word processor.
This example exports a figure to the clipboard in enhanced metafile (EMF) format. Figure settings are chosen that would make the exported figure suitable for use in a Microsoft® Word or PowerPoint® slide. Changing the settings modifies the figure displayed on the screen.
Create a figure and add a title:
x = -pi:0.01:pi; h = plot(x,sin(x)); title('Sine Plot');
Select Preferences from the figure File menu. Then select Figure Copy Template from the Preferences dialog box.
In the Figure Copy Template Preferences panel, click the Presentations button. The suggested settings for presentations include:
Increased font size
Bold font
Note: In Macintosh®, the Figure Copy Template Preferences panel is not displayed. For more information on how to export figures in Macintosh, see Exporting to the Windows or Macintosh Clipboard. |
In the Uicontrols and axes panel, select Keep axes limits and tick spacing to prevent tick marks and limits from possibly being rescaled when you export.
Click Apply to Figure. The changes appear in the figure window.
If you don't like the way your figure looks with the new settings, restore it to its original settings by clicking the Restore Figure button.
In the left pane of the Preferences dialog box, expand the Figure Copy Template topic. Select Copy Options.
In the Copy Options panel, select Metafile to export the figure in EMF format.
Check that Transparent background is selected. This choice makes the figure background transparent and allows the slide background to frame the axes part of the figure.
Clear the Match figure screen size check box so that you can use your own figure size settings.
Select the Size properties, and set Width to 6 and Height to 4.5. Make sure that Units are set to inches.
Select Copy Figure from the Edit menu. Your figure is now exported to the clipboard and can be pasted into a Windows application. On Macintosh computers, MATLAB exports the figure in the best format (bit-mapped or vector) based on the figure content.
Use the print function and one of two clipboard formats (-dmeta, -dbitmap) to export a figure to the clipboard. Do not specify a filename.
This example exports a figure to the clipboard in enhanced metafile (EMF) format.
print -dmeta
This example exports a figure to the clipboard in bitmap (BMP) 8-bit color format.
print -dbitmap


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Planting Bulbs in Containers
Spring may seem a long time away, but if you want to enjoy tulips, crocus and other spring bloomers, now is the time to plant. In addition to planting out in the garden, consider planting some bulbs in containers. In spring, you can use them to dress up your front entrance, deck or patio, providing early spring color just when you need it most.
In regions where temperatures don't drop much below freezing, planting bulbs in containers is easy. Simply pot them up, planting them at the same depth you'd plant them in the garden. In the confined space of a planter, you can squeeze in extra bulbs by layering them. Plant large bulbs like daffodils the deepest and cover them with soil. Then plant medium-sized bulbs like tulips and add more soil. Finally, plant small bulbs like crocus just an inch or two deep. Water thoroughly, and keep the soil moist (but not wet) through winter.
Where temperatures drop below freezing for extended periods, you'll need to move the container into a protected spot. Why? Because in the garden, soil may freeze but it doesn't get as cold as the air temperature. During a cold spell, air temperature may dip into the teens or single digits (or colder), but the soil won't get nearly that cold. In a container, on the other hand, the mass of soil is small compared to the soil in the garden, so the cold air can penetrate more readily. If the soil temperature drops too much the bulbs may be damaged.
Here are a few ways to protect your bulb-filled containers:
- Move the pots into a shed, unheated garage or another place where temperatures remain cool but don't dip too far below freezing.
- Dig a hole in the garden large enough to accommodate the container. Place the pot in the hole, fill in around it with soil and add a blanket of loose mulch, like straw or leaves, over the top.
- Use chicken wire or hardware cloth to build a cylinder around the pot, then fill it with straw or leaves to insulate against the chill.
In early spring once nighttime temperatures stay above freezing, remove any protective mulch or unearth the container, then move it to where you can enjoy the flowers to come.
November 4, 2010
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Rights-of-way, Easements, Squatters' Rights and Restrictive Covenants
As the legal owner of property, you have the right to keep people from cutting across it or to stop people from just using it and taking it away from you, right? Well, not exactly. In certain limited circumstances, a person can lose control of their own property, or pieces of it, to people who are not owners of the property. These situations fall into three categories:
- • Easements (or sometimes known as rights-of-way);
• Adverse possession (or sometimes called "squatters' rights"); and
• Restrictive covenants.
An easement can be written permission to go across a piece of land. This is used by the cable companies, telephone companies or gas companies who run cables and pipes under and over land. Most property is subject to that type of easement, and they are necessary to make modern neighbourhoods work with all the conveniences. Unwritten easements arise because someone makes use of a person's property without their permission for a long time, and the owner of the property doesn't stop them. Hikers or snowmobilers may cut across the back of farm property for years, or people may cut a path across a vacant lot to get from their home to a shopping centre. Homeowners often cross each other's driveways or properties. Crossing a neighbour's land is particularly common in cottage country where access to a remote lake or riverfront property is only possible by crossing over another person's land. If the use lasts long enough, the person cutting across the property may get a "right-of-way" over the property. Technically, it's not that the person cutting across the property gets the right to cross it, it's that the owner of the property loses the right to stop them from cutting across the property. The owner's rights to deny access to the property are prescribed. Hence, these are often called "prescriptive rights." How long does the use of the property need to continue? It's generally between ten and twenty years, depending on the province. How does a homeowner or property owner stop the unwanted crossing of their property? Lock it, put up signs or a fence prohibiting access. Use the trespass laws and take active steps to interrupt that ten to twenty-year period. In other words, get in the way and interrupt the period of time and the use of the property, and the easement will not arise.
Adverse possession sounds so much more civilized than "squatters' rights," but it means the same thing. Through adverse possession, someone can actually take control of a piece of another person's land. They may, for example, put their fence around a portion of another person's land. It is different from an easement, which arises because someone crosses land. Adverse possession arises because someone is actually taking control and excluding the true owner from their property. That's why the possession is called "adverse."
Adverse possession is not available everywhere in Canada and, for example, it cannot be used to obtain possession of land owned by the Crown (the government). So forget about trying to take over a part of a provincial park or a national park simply by putting up a fence. There are also different ways each province and territory keeps track of registering title to property in Canada. One system is called the Land Titles System and the other is called the Registry System. Adverse possession is not possible against land that is covered by the Land Titles System. However, it is possible to obtain adverse possession against land that is registered under the Registry System. You need to check with a lawyer in your province if you are worried that someone is trying to take control of your property.
Restrictive covenants are restrictions on the use or ownership of property, and they are registered on the title. A person may buy property and agree to abide by these restrictive terms. Your lawyer will discover them at the time of purchase when searching title to the property on your behalf. The lawyer may report to you that you can only paint your house a certain colour scheme to blend with the rest of the neighbourhood. This is a fairly modest and typical restrictive covenant. However, long ago some restrictive covenants dictated who, in terms of race or religion, could buy, or not buy, property in communities. It is not that long ago that we saw restrictive covenants that prohibited "Negroes" or "Jews" or "Turks" from purchasing property in particular neighbourhoods. The courts decided that these and other vile restrictions on ownership of property were contrary to Canadian public policy and struck them down, but lawyers still see these covenants when they search title. They're an ugly reminder of the past, but they're unenforceable.
The bottom line is that your control of your land is not to be taken for granted. Protect it from unwanted easements and, possibly, adverse possession. Restrictive covenants may surface during an attempt to buy property, and it is up to you to decide whether you want to accept them.


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1. At a dim sum restaurant in Washington several months ago, I pressed a Republican staffer on how his party was ever going to accept Mitt Romney. We just figure we'll send him Paul Ryan's proposals and he'll push to make them law, this GOP'er said. I kept hearing variations on that best-case-scenario-for-conservatives. Romney wouldn't act like his party's leader. He'd be more like the project manager of government than the president, helping actualize an agenda set by Paul Ryan and the Republican House. OK, so maybe that wasn't the best case scenario after all.
2. For over a year, we've complained about how little we understand where Romney stood on the issues, and now we know. It's all right there in Paul Ryan's Roadmap: the vouchers for Medicare, the block grants for Medicaid, the steep budget cuts. In a way, Romney picked the budget blueprint for his running mate.*
3. One Romney aid told Politico they were looking for an "incredibly boring white guy" as their VP pick, and they sorta kept their promise. Paul Ryan is definitely white, and he can be boring when wonking out on the budget, but in a very real way he's the most interesting person Romney could have picked. Ryan is his party's contemporary intellectual figurehead, and not by accident—he worked hard at developing and pitching budget policy palatable to the most conservative wing of his party (for more on that, read Jonathan Chait and Ryan Lizza). When voter anger over the health care law sent a huge new class of Republicans to Washington two years ago, many of them first-time lawmakers, Ryan's Roadmap became their ideological users manual. Ryan was one of the few Republican leaders who realized early on that the lines between elites and base voters were blurring even before the 2010 elections; today he's one of the rare leaders who has the support of both constituencies.
4. Romney has always struggled with convincing conservative in D.C. and around the country that he's genuinely one of them, but we now know what kind of president Romney is going to be. No more speculating about whether he'll be the moderate Massachusetts governor his primary opponents lambasted or the hard-right conservative he was playing in the primaries. When Mitt Romney said he was "severely conservative," it wasn't a joke.
5. On the campaign trail, Ryan once said Romney reminded him of a "a lot of people I grew up with, a lot of people I know, who have that Midwest earnestness." He called him "kind of a throwback to the '50's." Romney could say the same about Ryan, with his inky pompadour and the doe-eyed mien of the last child to be picked up from soccer practice. By picking Ryan, Romney's committed not only to a certain set of policy proposals—but also to a very retro, very American heartland cultural milieu. His party will probably love both.
6. Democrats, though, have been fighting Ryan's budget for more than year now; the scripts are already well-worn. Ryan may have been Romney's best choice for VP, but as GQ's Marc Ambinder tweeted tonight, he may also have been the best choice for Democrats. The Ryan-as-villain screenplay has already been written and focused grouped and previewed in Congressional districts. Saturday morning, it's released nationwide.
*Update: according to campaign talking points, Romney will not run on the Roadmap but will come up with his own deficit reduction plan. It's too early to know for certain, but it's difficult to imagine Romney running too far from the Roadmap, given Ryan's attachment to the document. It seems likely that he'll make small distinctions designed to depict Romney as the more centrist leaning policymaker of the two.


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A roboticist designs, builds, programs, and experiments with robots. Since robotics is a highly interdisciplinary field, roboticists often have backgrounds in a number of disciplines including computer science, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, human-computer interaction and interaction design. Roboticists often work for university, industry, and government research labs, but may also work for startup companies and other entrepreneurial firms. Amateur Robotics is also a growing hobby all over the world.
Robotics is unusual in combining elements of science, engineering, and art. Many roboticists are also deeply involved in the creative arts such as literature, drama, music, and film. Some roboticists have a background in the arts and are drawn to robotics as a medium for expression. The acclaimed Czech playwright Karel Capek (1890-1938) made the first use of the word 'robot', from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Later the Three Laws of Robotics were written by Isaac Asimov.
Work in robotics more closely resembles invention rather than pure science or pure engineering. Science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge. Engineering is the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes. Invention is about creating something new, often at the boundaries of scientific and technological knowledge.
As with all technological projects, the specific processes used in robotics development vary depending on the individuals and institutions involved. However, a key feature of most successful robotics efforts is the use of early prototyping and exploratory development of potential solutions.
In robotics, the interactions between mechanical, electrical, and software systems and the complexities of the real world are highly unpredictable. As a result, the ability to iterate quickly through potential solutions is highly valued by roboticists. Often, roboticists discover that the problems they are trying to solve are either much easier than expected, resulting in faster progress, or much harder—requiring that they experiment with many different potential techniques before finding a suitable solution.
While systems engineering is a mainstay of the modern aerospace industry, the field of robotics is more similar to the early days of flight when the Wright Brothers built their Flyer and the barnstormers performed aviation feats to introduce the public to the wonders of flight. In robotics development, as in the early days of flight, the common approach is "Let's try it and see if it works."
The Robo-One games in Japan and the Robogames in the US have inspired a new growing hobby of kit built or home built and designed robots. Many of the advances in robotics are occurring in people's home garages and workshops like the early days of aviation or computers.
The robotics industry is booming as new applications become practical for consumers, the military, industrial, entertainment industry, medical applications, space, and search and rescue robots. Thanks to high school robotics programs, such as FIRST, the latest generation of students who grew up building robots is entering the workforce. The field of robotics continues to grow, attracting individuals who specialize in a wide variety of robotics and robotics-related fields. The following is a list of some of those people currently at the top of their field in countries all over the world:
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Anyone here from the old AG forums?
There's another Acoustic Guitar Forum out there (www.acousticguitarforum.com), that's got all the action the old AG Magazine forum had back in the day (not to mention a few of the old members). Checked it out and I like it better than Soundhole; if things don't start picking up in a couple weeks - or the old easy-to-use format/forum isn't revived - I'm outta here... Reply posted 1 year ago by Steve DeRosa |
Is this the forum that was to replace the old AG forum? Reply posted 1 year ago by Michael Duffey |
I'm here, and also at Soundhole. The format here is difficult, and there doesn't seem to be much action. The Soundhole seems mostly devoted to people talking about nothing in particular, without much musical content. Neither compares to the old AG forum when it was active. Reply posted 1 year ago by Stephen Roberson |
I'm here, but not finding much yet. It's nice to see some familiar folks, though. I've been lurking around the Soundhole Cafe but not finding much of a reason to join the discussion there. Reply posted 1 year ago by Big Al |
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Posted: Dec 4, 2009 10:14 AM by Andrea Fontenot
Updated: Dec 4, 2009 11:39 AM
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East Baton Rouge Parish deputies are looking for two males that robbed the Circle K at 13796 Perkins Road on November 15, 2009.
According to deputies, two men approached the clerk of the store while he was outside on break.
The first male told the clerk to get inside the store. Once inside the store the second man had a gun and told the clerk to go behind the counter and give him all the money and Camel cigarettes and several bottles of liquor.
Anyone with information should call the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office at 225-389-5000.


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Name: Rebecca M. Status: other Age: 30s Location: N/A Country: N/A Date: 7/11/2003
I was reading a verse in the bible, Deuteronomy 32:11, and wondered about the behavior of a mother eagle. Has anyone observed how she trains her babies to fly? Deutoronomy 32:11 suggests:
"like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them on its pinions"
Exerpted from Compton's Interactive Bible NIV. Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 SoftKey Multimedia Inc. All Rights Reserved
Could anyone give me more detail on the mother eagle's methods of training her young to fly?
Young eagles, and other bird, learn to fly by imitation and experimentation, there is no direct involvement by the adult, certainly they do not catch or carry their fledglings.
J. Elliott
......and I am simply wondering what sources J. Elliott used to answer this question. I used to be a biologist and I haven't been able to find any sources that would back up J. Elliott's claim. I asked this question a couple of weeks ago and still have not received an answer. I look forward to investigating the sources you list and have enjoyed your helpful website very much. Thank you.
As I recall the original question referred to a mother eagle physically carrying or assisting the young. There is no source to cite regarding the specific question. I have many books on bird behavior, including the dated but thorough "Life Histories of North American Birds" (multiple volumes) by A.C. Bent, none of which mention such behavior. The account of bald eagles from this work is on the web at http://home.bluemarble.net/~pqn/ch61-70/baleagle.html The golden eagle account is on the same site.
J. Elliott
As a member of a research team investigating the anticipated reproductive recovery of the American Bald Eagle from DDT in northern Minnesota, I have witnessed, first hand, the care of adult Bald Eagles toward their young. There was no indication whtsoever that the adults assisted the young in their flight development. It was obvious that this behvaior was innate and little or no learning was involved.
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Phi Alpha Chi was founded at Gordon in 1928 as a scholastic honor society. The Greek letters stand for Philoi Aletheias Christou-Lovers of the Truth of Christ. On the foundation of its evangelical commitment, Phi Alpha Chi is dedicated to the encouragement and recognition of scholarly research, clear thinking and creativity by Christians in every discipline. Persons eligible for membership must be graduating seniors who have pursued studies at Gordon for at least four semesters and who have a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or higher. Christian character, creative ability, curriculum and promise of distinctive achievement as a Christian are considered as supplementary criteria.
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Alpha Mu Gamma (AMG) is a national foreign language honor society whose Kappa Epsilon Chapter was established at Gordon in 1983 to acknowledge achievement in the field of foreign languages, encourage academic excellence in the field of linguistics and cultural studies, promote cultural awareness inherent in foreign language study, and foster sympathetic understanding of other peoples and international friendship. Invitation to membership in the Gordon chapter is contingent upon the support of a faculty member in the department and is extended to students who have satisfied the following requirements: an overall cumulative GPA of 3.5 or better; a grade of A/A- in 8 nonrepeated credits of language classes taken on campus at the 200-level or higher (at the 300-level or higher for Spanish majors); no grade below a B in foreign language; and a declared major or minor in foreign language—Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Spanish, combined languages, and related Pike contract majors.
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The Zeta Chapter of Phi Sigma Iota, the national honor society in foreign languages, was established at Gordon in 1978. It recognizes outstanding achievement in upper level courses in any foreign language and linguistics. Membership is by invitation only.
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The Eta Omicron Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the national honor society in Spanish, was established at Gordon in March 1969, the 183rd chapter in the country and the first chapter in Massachusetts. Membership is by invitation only and is limited to advanced Spanish students.
Sigma Pi Sigma
The Gordon chapter of Sigma Pi Sigma, a national honor society in physics, was established in 2012.Membership is by invitation only and is based on high standards of general scholarship and outstanding achievement in physics.
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First established at Gordon College in 2009, Sigma Xi is an international, multidisciplinary research society whose programs and activities promote the health of the scientific enterprise and honor excellence in scientific investigation. Candidates nominated by faculty to join the North Shore Chapter of Sigma Xi (consortium of Gordon College, Endicott College and Salem State College) must be graduating seniors with grade point averages of at least 3.0 who have pursued degrees in science or engineering and have shown an aptitude and experience in original and independent research.


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The clinical program seeks mature, committed, and responsible individuals of diverse personal, cultural, ethnic, and geographical backgrounds who are interested in both psychological research and clinical practice.
Applicants are required to have bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university or its equivalent in another country. An applicant who applies while still an undergraduate can be accepted only on condition that that bachelor's degree will be received in time for fall enrollment. We do not require that applicants have a bachelor's degree in psychology. We do require, however, that the applicant has at least 18 semester hours of psychology coursework (or its equivalent), including courses in Experimental Psychology, Statistics, Abnormal Psychology, Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Cultural Psychology, and History and Systems. (These specific courses are not required but are strongly recommended--especially Statistics!)
Students admitted to the clinical program will be formally admitted to the doctoral program but will be expected to complete a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree in Psychology en route to completion of the Ph.D. The Psychology Department does not offer a terminal master's degree.
Applicants who have completed a master's degree in psychology (or a closely related field) prior to admission to the USD clinical program may be exempted from completing another master's degree in our program. However, exemption from our required courses will be made on a case-by-case basis, following a review of course syllabi and approval by the clinical program faculty.
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My friend Bill Kreidler used to say that being a member of a local meeting is "lab practice" for the Kingdom of God. We practice our eternal salvation in our meetings. We are given a blessed opportunity to sit in worship with the very people whom we find most irritating. We are given the holy chance to serve on a committee with the most difficult folks imaginable. As we do, we notice ourselves thinking that if only those people would change, our meeting would be so much healthier!
And — we are given the grace to see those people as God sees them: pilgrims on the way of faith, beloved in their brokenness, caught in tender arms each time they stumble, necessary to the community, graced with spiritual gifts in the process of maturing. It is just as we hope God sees us.
So we practice the kingdom when we come together in our local meeting for worship and work.
The work of the local meeting is the work of the kingdom. It's the place where kingdom values, kingdom love, kingdom compassion and kingdom forgiveness are made tangible — and the place where the prophetic transformation of the world begins. This is why Friends don't worship alone. This is why Friends don't have "freelance" ministers or independent ministries not tied to the worshipping community. Ours is not a do-it-yourself religion; it is a do-it-together experiment in a blessed community. By doing it together, we witness to the world that reconciliation is possible and that the process is transformational.
I'm in Tanzania as I write this, and I've just witnessed a remarkable example of messy holy lab work. Tanzania Yearly Meeting suffered for many years under the tyrannical leadership of one person. That one man inflicted huge damage on his own family, on the reputation of the church and on scores of individuals. Although he died in 2008, the pain continues, and the damage to the
community persists. The yearly meeting chose "A New Beginning" as its theme for this year. Through the grace of God, Friends are learning to speak the truth of what happened, to forgive each other, to take cautious steps of trust and to call on the Holy Spirit to help bind them in restored unity. They are practicing the kingdom. It is hard, messy work, but they know that it is only through this process that they can make a compelling witness to the love of Jesus Christ in their community.
Few meetings will experience trauma as damaging as Tanzania Yearly Meeting's was, but all meetings are given the opportunity for lab practice. All Friends are given the chance to work out the blessed community "in fear and trembling."