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Executive Committee of the American Institute of Physics
Minutes of Meeting
March 19, 1965
Members Present: Ralph A. Sawyer – Chairman, S. A. Goudsmit, W. W. Havens, Jr., R. B. Lindsay, S. L. Quimby, Mary E. Warga
Absent: Vincent E. Parker
Guest: Van Zandt Williams
AIP Staff Present: Wallace Waterfall, G. F. Gilbert, Mary M. Johnson
The Chairman called the meeting to order at 1:15 p.m.
1. Minutes
Upon motion made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote, the minutes of the meeting of 29 January 1965 were approved with the following correction: Page 5, Item 8b, first sentence, line 2 should read: "History of Physics Archives at AIP" instead of "Niels Bohr Library."
2. New Method of Prorating Editorial Mechanics Costs
A new formula for prorating editorial mechanics costs was presented to the joint meeting of the Finance Committee and Committee of Secretaries and Treasurers on 30 September 1964. It was agreed that those attending the meeting would discuss the proposal with journal editors and others and that a mail ballot on the proposal would be taken early in 1965. The Secretary reported that the ballot had produced thirteen votes in favor of the proposal and none against it. A copy of the proposed formula is attached to these minutes. The staff proposed that the Executive Committee authorize the use of the new formula beginning with the first quarter of 1965. On motion made, seconded and passed without dissent, the adoption of the proposed formula was authorized.
3. Policy on Supplying Missing Issues
At the joint meeting of the Finance Committee and the Committee of Secretaries and Treasurers on 30 September 1964, there was discussion of establishing a new policy on supplying missing issues of journals. No action was then taken because the policy statement which had been prepared seemed somewhat ambiguous. It was agreed that the policy statement should be reworded and submitted to letter ballot. During March 1965 the following statement of policy was distributed for letter ballot:
Copies of past issues of journals will be supplied to subscribers claiming non-receipt thereof only under the following conditions:
- That the subscriber make his request within six months after the publication dates of the issues concerned;
- That a check of our duplicate mailing list show that the issues were not actually mailed.
It is understood that there may be unusual cases which will be resolved on an individual basis.
The Secretary reported that votes in favor of the policy had been received from a majority of those who attended the meeting and that there had been no negative votes. The staff therefore recommended that the policy be adopted and, on motion made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote, the Executive Committee approved the subject policy.
4. Corporate Associates
During 1964 the Institute had 166 Corporate Associates from which we received $156,755. The Institute's net from this, after deducting journal subscriptions, was $118,418. So far this year we have 155 Corporate Associates with a gross of $151,650 and a net of $113,411. Nine of the 1964 Corporate Associates have withdrawn and four new ones have been added, including the one to be voted on at this meeting. We have still not heard from six of the 1964 Corporate Associates.
The Secretary reported that the Reynolds Metals Company had applied for Corporate Associate status and accompanied their application with a check for $500. Upon motion made, seconded and passed without dissent, Reynolds Metals Company was elected a Corporate Associate of the Institute.
5. Authorization for Sale of Stock
The Institute occasionally receive stock of corporations as a gift and it is usually the best policy to sell this stock and deposit the proceeds in the appropriate fund. A resolution adopted by the Executive Committee on 9 December 1961 authorized such sale on the signature of any two of four officers. That resolution is still appropriate except that the names of the authorized officers should be changed to conform to the Institute's new administrative set-up. Accordingly, a motion to adopt the following resolution was made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote:
RESOLVED that any two (2) of the following officers, employees or agents of the Corporation, to wit:
- Director
- Secretary
- Treasurer
- Assistant Treasurer
be and hereby are authorized, on behalf of this Corporation, to sell any stock issued in the name of belonging to the Corporation and, in connection with such sale, to execute any required documents.
6. Additional Appropriation for Feasibility Study – Center for History and Philosophy of Physics
Chairman Sawyer recalled that, at the meeting of 29 January 1965, the Executive Committee had authorized the expenditure of up to $5,000 for a study of the feasibility of adding a major activity in the history and philosophy of physics to the activities of the Institute. Following that meeting Mr. Sawyer and members of the staff had three meetings with various fund raising experts and had found that Mr. McClain of Martz and Lundy, Inc., would be willing to undertake the feasibility study but had indicated that the cost would be $6,000 plus approximately $1,000 for expenses. It should be understood that this feasibility study would involve an independent appraisal of interest in and enthusiasm for the project and the possibility of obtaining the funds needed for it. Mr. Sawyer explained that all large fund-raising campaigns usually start with such a feasibility study as a basis for deciding whether to proceed.
It was pointed out that the Governing Board was to discuss this subject on the following day and, on motion made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote, the Executive Committee increased the authorization from $5,000 to $7,000 contingent on subsequent endorsement of the study by the Governing Board.
7. Review of Governing Board Agenda
In preparation for the Governing Board meeting on the following day, the Executive Committee discussed the various items on the agenda and made certain recommendations to the Board as indicated in the following paragraphs.
In recent discussion with the Institute's attorney it had been discovered that there is an ambiguity in the Rules of the Institute about the actions which the Executive Committee may take between meetings of the Governing Board. To remove this ambiguity and permit the Executive Committee lawfully to handle the business of the Institute it should be possible for the Executive Committee to exercise the powers given to the Governing Board by Article VII, Section 1, of the Constitution. When Article IV of the Rules as rewritten some years ago, an error was made which should now be corrected. Article IV of the Rules now reads, "….except those given to the Governing Board by Articles VII, IX, X, XII, XIII, XIV, and XV of the Constitution…." "Article VII, Section 2," should be substituted for Article VII in the reference to the Constitution. On motion made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote, the Executive Committee recommended this change to the Governing Board.
Chairman Sawyer suggested that, now that a Director has been selected for the Institute, something should be done about the "Acting" titles which had been given to Mr. Waterfall and Mr. Gilbert. Mr. Sawyer said that he and Mr. Williams had discussed the subject and he asked Mr. Waterfall to read the motions which had been prepared for presentation to the Governing Board. The motions would appoint Mr. Waterfall as Secretary and Deputy Director and Mr. Gilbert as Treasurer and Controller and would indicate the responsibilities of both gentlemen. The motions appear in the minutes of the Governing Board meeting. On motion made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote, the Executive Committee recommended that the Governing Board adopt these motions.
The Secretary indicated there had been some minor errors in his letter of 9 March 1965 which had been sent to all Governing Board members prior to the meeting along with the financial statement for 1964. A few sheets in the financial statement also need minor corrections. These would be explained in the minutes of the Governing Board meeting and corrected copies of the financial statement would be distributed along with the Governing Board minutes. The Secretary also displayed a copy of the auditors report for 1964 which had just been received and said that copies of this report would be distributed to Secretaries and Treasurers of Member Societies as heretofore. The auditors report is in complete agreement with the financial statement prepared by the Institute staff.
On motion made, seconded and passed without dissenting vote, the Executive Committee recommended that the Governing Board adopt ten per cent (10%) as the percentage of Member Society dues which is to be paid to the Institute in 1966.
Formal applications for full membership in the Institute had been received both from the American Crystallographic Association and from the American Astronomical Society. After brief discussion, it was moved, seconded and passed without dissenting vote that the Executive Committee recommend that the Governing Board nominate ACA and AAS for full membership in the Institute.
At the 29 January 1965 meeting of the Executive Committee it was reported that the Society for Applied Spectroscopy had indicated interest in becoming affiliated with the Institute and in having certain services performed for the Society by the Institute. Mr. Williams had indicated some familiarity with the organization and its past history and had been requested by the Executive Committee to investigate further and make a recommendation. Mr. Williams said he had done so. He explained that SAS is a relatively new national Society which has been formed by combining a number of local societies, some of long standing. The union does not yet appear to be too strong but the Institute should be able to help strengthen it. Mr. Williams recommended that SAS be accepted as an Affiliated Society of the Institute. It was then moved by Miss Warga, seconded and passed without dissenting vote that the Executive Committee recommend to the Governing Board that SAS be accepted as an Affiliated Society of the Institute. It was also moved, seconded and passed without dissenting vote that, if SAS is elected an Affiliated Society by the Governing Board, the Institute should then perform for SAS such services as the Society may request and the Institute is able to perform.
Mr. Lindsay told Executive Committee members what he planned to say to the Governing Board on the following day about the proposed Center for the History and Philosophy of Physics. The Committee then proceeded to discuss the subject. The consensus appeared to be that the project was worth while and that the Institute should take an active part in it but there were some doubts about whether the scope of such a Center should be limited to physics alone and whether the Institute alone should operate such a Center if it came into existence. In view of the opinions expressed Mr. Lindsay indicated that he would modify his planned presentation to the Governing Board.
Mr. Sawyer discussed his approach to the Sloan Foundation for financial support for a proposed pre-college physics program in the states of Delaware and New Jersey. Sixty thousand dollars had been requested and there was some indication that it might be granted. The subject was left for further discussion with the Governing Board on the following day.
8. Next Meeting
The next meeting of the Executive Committee will be held on Friday, 11 June, at the Institute.
9. Zip Code Problem
The Post Office Department has ruled that all major Second and Third Class bulk mail must have ZIP Code numbers on all addresses by 1 January 1967. We have plans for doing this and the Societies will be asked to cooperate in securing ZIP Code numbers of their members.
10. AFOSR Contract
On behalf of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Francois Frenkiel has requested the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to provide funds for the travel of a number of United States and Japanese physicists to an APS meeting in Hawaii in the fall of 1965. It is understood funds may be forthcoming and Mr. Quimby requested AIP to handle the contract for APS. The Executive Committee agreed that AIP should do so.
The meeting adjourned at 4:05 p.m.


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Chuck has a good point, what ever gets you on the water the most is a great place to start.
If that is Lake Michigan, Lake Michigan is a great body of water to sail on, it is wide open with very few obstructions. This I consider a good thing for learning.
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If you have access now to Lake Michigan, it is a fine place to sail, the season can be stretched to about 6 months. Other than a short season, it has a lot to offer.
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This part of the Cold Stream Trail — about 1.8 miles as well from the Stonewall Peak Trail to West Mesa Trailhead — is not recommended for equestrians, so is open only to hikers. The trail here is very narrow and heavily rutted, so it might be hard for horses to secure their footing.
But for hikers, the trail offers some great views to the south over mountain meadows to southern peaks as it winds along with the free-flowing Cold Stream. In fall, the black oak leaves are turning yellow, the mountain mahogany sports those feathery styles, and even winter currants are red and ripe for the picking.
But one of the coolest attractions here is the large granite slab just to the south of the trail that holds a few morteros, evidence that the Kumeyaay who once lived here were grinding those black acorns for meals.
When the Cold Stream Trail intersects with the Cold Spring Trail, you'll see a bubbling tank filling with water that is the Cold Spring. Just 0.2 mile after this intersection is the connector trail to the right back to the West Mesa Trailhead parking area.
Priscilla Lister is a freelance writer from San Diego.


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Books, Etc. sale
The Lewis Center, 1188 North Parkway, will host its Books, Etc. sale Thursday through Saturday. The event begins with a spaghetti supper and preview sale from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday; $5 admission includes dinner. Local author Willy Bearden will be on hand to greet the public.
On Friday, the sale runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., with free admission, and on Saturday, the sale concludes with books offered at half price from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Questions? Call 576-4255.
Pottery show
Agnes Stark's Summer Kiln Opening 2010 Show and Sale runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday at Stark Pottery, 12675 Donelson Road in Arlington. For more information, call 458-2354 or 867-9240 or visit starkpottery.com.
A call for artists
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and Rozelle Artists Guild are seeking Memphis artists who would like to participate in a project called Art of Science. The exhibition will feature biomedical images placed side-by-side with local artists' interpretations of the images.
The biomedical images to be interpreted will feature processes such as electron microscopy, fluorescent imagery, protein modeling, and live cell video imaging. The artists who are selected will be given images to interpret into a unique work for the exhibition. Each artist will be paired with a scientist, who will provide the images and act as a collaborative partner and consultant.
Deadline to apply is Sept. 17. For information, visit artofsciencememphis.com.
Mission preaching
Father David Dwyer, CSP, host of "The Busted Halo Show" on Sirius XM Satellite Radio, will lead a mission and preaching event at 7 p.m. Sept. 20-22 at St. Ann Catholic Church, 6529 Stage Road (at the corner of Charles Bryan).
Dwyer will present three spiritual questions: Who is Jesus? Where is Jesus? Why Jesus?
The mission is free and open to the public, and child care will be available.
In addition to preaching each evening, Dwyer will celebrate and deliver homilies at each weekend Mass on Sept. 18 and 19, and will celebrate the regular weekday Mass, including two for St. Ann Catholic School students. Parking is available in the main parking lot accessible from Charles Bryan.
Questions? Call 373-6011.
Line dancing
Country-western line dancing is back at Singleton Community Center in Bartlett, 7266 Third Road. Join the beginners weekly class at 6:30 p.m. starting Sept. 14. Resident fee, $25; nonresidents, $30. Call 385-5593.
Design classes
This fall, artist Mildred S. Schiff is offering design classes at her home studio, 6694 Massey Lane.
Metal clay classes for beginners will start Sept. 20, Mondays, from 7 -9:30 p.m. The course runs for six sessions. The fee is $250 and includes tools and supplies.
Advanced metal clay workshop will be held Tuesdays, from 7-9:30 p.m., starting Sept. 21.
Dichroic glass jewelry classes will be held on any two consecutive Saturdays, upon request as available, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The fee is $175 and includes tools and glass.
Metal fabrication and construction classes will be held Wednesdays, 7 -9:30 p.m., starting Sept. 29. The course runs for eight sessions. The fee is $300 and includes initial metal and supplies.
Basic wire wrapping classes will be held in the afternoons, including Saturdays, by request. The course runs for two sessions, and the $75 fee includes some tools and supplies.
For more information, call 683-8446.
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|National Football League
|Player News
NFL Recent Player News
|Ray McDonald, Chi, DE
|McDonald has been arrested for the second time in a week. The Santa Clara Police Department says the former San Francisco defensive end violated a restraining order by being at a residence in Santa Clara.
Analysis: The restraining order was issued after an earlier domestic violence incident in Santa Clara on Memorial Day. In that incident, he allegedly broke down a bedroom door to get to his ex-fiancee and their infant. He was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and child endangerment, but was free on bail. The Chicago Bears released the lineman Monday following that arrest.
|Matt Forte, Chi, RB
|Forte says he will not hold out for a contract extension.
Analysis: A two-time Pro Bowl pick, he says he will report to training camp on time despite the team's refusal to extend his deal. Forte is entering the final season of a four-year contract he signed in 2012.
|Ndamukong Suh, Mia, DT
|Suh drew attention for his absence from offseason training sessions in recent weeks, but he was on the field with the rest of his new teammates Tuesday for the Dolphins' first organized team activity.
Analysis: Like the training sessions, attendance at OTAs is voluntary but strongly encouraged by coaches. Taking part in the OTA was an easy decision, Suh said, but he declined to discuss why he missed the training sessions. Suh's attendance record is being monitored more closely in the wake of his new six-year contract. He looked fit and active in his first practice with the Dolphins, making his way into the backfield several times.
|Chris Clemons, Jax, DE
|Clemons skipped the first day of the team's organized team activities. Clemons was the only player missing from Jacksonville's 90-man roster Tuesday. Jaguars coach Gus Bradley spoke to Clemons in recent days and expressed his desire to have everyone in attendance for the voluntary workouts. But Clemons didn't show.
Analysis: Since the workouts are voluntary, Clemons is under no obligation to attend. The 12-year veteran skipped voluntary OTAs last year in Jacksonville and previously with Seattle. Bradley said: "We want everybody here and he knows that. That's a choice he makes. ... I have faith in Chris Clemons. I know that he'll come back. He's never not come back ready to go, but I don't want to assume that. I would like to see him back here, but we'll work through it."
|Chris Boyd, Dal, WR
|Dallas waived Boyd on Tuesday.
Analysis: Boyd doesn't have a catch in his career.
|A.J. Jenkins, Dal, WR
|Dallas has signed Jenkins after working him out last week.
Analysis: Jenkins, the 30th overall pick by San Francisco in 2012, didn't catch a pass in three regular-season and two playoff games as a rookie for the 49ers. He was traded to Kansas City during training camp in 2013, then had 17 catches for 223 yards and started only three of the 28 regular-season games he played the past two seasons.
|Antonio Brown, Pit, WR
|Brown insists the only number on his mind is 2015, not his salary. The Pittsburgh Steelers All-Pro wide receiver was on the field with the rest of his teammates when the Steelers began organized team activities on Tuesday. Brown brushed aside questions about whether he planned to sit out the activities and minicamp in search of a new deal.
Analysis: Brown led the NFL with a team-record 129 receptions in 2014. He downplayed the idea he was unhappy with the six-year $43-million contract he signed in 2012. The 26-year-old Brown promised he will be at Saint Vincent College when the Steelers begin training camp in July and that any contract issues are for agent Drew Rosenhaus to figure out.
|Tom Brady, NE, QB
|Two people familiar with the situation tell The Associated Press that Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension for his role in the deflated footballs scandal won't be heard by Wednesday's 10-day deadline.
Analysis: Both sources spoke on condition of anonymity Monday because no date for the appeal has been set. The collective bargaining agreement calls for it to be heard within 10 days. However, the league and the players' union can agree on delaying the hearing. The two sides don't agree on much else.
|Ray McDonald, Chi, DE
|The Bears have released McDonald following a domestic violence arrest in Northern California that police say stemmed from him assaulting a woman who was holding a baby.
Analysis: Bears General Manager Ryan Pace released a statement saying McDonald did not meet the expectations set out for him when he was signed. In December, the 49ers released McDonald. Last year, McDonald was accused in a separate domestic violence incident during August birthday party at his Northern California home. A different woman has also accused McDonald of rape. Charges have not been filed.
|Adrian Peterson, Min, RB
|A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that Peterson has informed Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer that he will not be attending the team's optional practices that start on Tuesday. Peterson is not required to attend any team functions until a mandatory minicamp next month.
Analysis: Peterson has been unhappy with the Vikings for a perceived lack of support from within the organization while he addressed child abuse charges last season. The person spoke Sunday on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly on the issue. The Vikings have said they have no plans to trade Peterson, who could lose out on a $250,000 workout bonus by skipping the practices this week.
|Michael Sam, Dal, DE
|Sam, the first openly gay player drafted in the NFL, signed a two-year contract Friday with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football league.
Analysis: Sam came out before last year's NFL draft. He was selected in the seventh round by the St. Louis Rams and cut in training camp. The Dallas Cowboys signed him to their practice squad but released him in October. Sam then made another unsuccessful attempt at an NFL job at this year's veterans combine. The 25-year-old defensive end will be introduced at a news conference Tuesday in Montreal. The regular season opens June 25 when Montreal hosts Ottawa.
|Orlando Scandrick, Dal, CB
|Scandrick signed a one-year contract extension Friday, adding $9.5 million to what's now a five-year deal worth $20 million through 2019.
Analysis: It's the second time in three years the Cowboys have reworked contract terms for Scandrick, who missed the first two weeks of voluntary offseason workouts in hopes of getting more money. He reported this week. The 28-year-old Scandrick was Dallas' best cornerback last year but was set to make just $1.5 million this season. Now he'll get $4 million, half of what Brandon Carr will make without a pay cut after his first season without an interception.
|Neiron Ball, Oak, LB
|The Raiders have signed Ball, announcing the deal Thursday.
Analysis: Ball was selected 161st overall by the Raiders. He played four seasons at Florida, starting 16 of his 45 games over his career. He had 94 tackles, three sacks, one interception, four passes defensed, two fumble recoveries and one forced fumble.
|Antonio Smith, Den, DE
|Smith is under investigation in Texas over a criminal allegation the local sheriff describes as "sexual in nature."
Analysis: Smith has not been arrested and no charges have been filed. TMZ first reported the investigation on Thursday.
|Marcell Dareus, Buf, DT
|Dareus will miss the season opener after being suspended without pay by the NFL for violating the league's substance abuse policy.
Analysis: The NFL announced the suspension on Thursday. The suspension means the two-time Pro Bowl selection will miss Buffalo's home game against Indianapolis on Sept. 13. The punishment stems from Dareus being arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia after being stopped by Alabama State Police on May 5.
|Ray Rice, Bal, RB
|A judge in New Jersey has dismissed domestic violence charges against Rice, who was captured by a surveillance camera knocking his then-fiancee unconscious in a hotel elevator.
Analysis: Judge Michael Donio dismissed the charges Thursday after the Atlantic County prosecutor told him the former Baltimore Ravens running back had completed the terms of his pretrial intervention.
|Will Beatty, NYG, T
|Beatty is going to be sidelined up to six months after tearing a pectoral muscle.
Analysis: Beatty has started at left tackle for the Giants since the 2011 season. He started all 16 games last season despite sustaining a broken leg late in the 2013 season.
|Geno Smith, NYJ, QB
|Offensive coordinator Chan Gailey says Wednesday that Geno Smith is the team's starter "right now," and the Jets expect it to be that way heading into the season opener in September.
Analysis: Gailey says it "wasn't a thought" to hold a competition in camp because of the talent they've seen on film from Smith, who has mostly struggled in his first two seasons.
|Shayne Graham, NO, K
|The New Orleans Saints have cut veteran kicker Shayne Graham.
Analysis: The 37-year-old Graham, a 15-year NFL veteran out of Virginia Tech, has played for nine clubs and joined the Saints late in the 2013 regular season. He spent all of 2014 New Orleans, hitting 19 of 22 field goals.
|Carson Palmer, Ari, QB
|Palmer says he has rehabbed from his knee injury with an intensity driven by the knowledge that his days as an NFL quarterback are drawing to a close. Palmer turned 35 last December.
Analysis: Palmer tore the ACL in his left knee against the St. Louis Rams last Nov. 9, ending what had been perhaps the most promising season of his long career. The Cardinals were 6-0 with him as starter, 5-5 without him.
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Software developer for more than ten years. Started my first iOS application back when iOS SDK was introduced. Since then I had explored plenty of dark corners of iOS ecosystem and this really helps me to pick the right tool for the job. I am self-motivated agile worker. Always friendly and proactive in communications which makes me a good team member/leader. I have extended experience with following technologies: Apple native frameworks - from UIKit/Autiolayout and CoreData down to OpenGL, CoreAudio and Accelerate.framework Ad-Hoc app distribution - Testflight, HockeyApp, ; In-House app distribution Project management - JIRA, RedMine Continious integration - TeamCity, Jenkins My code contains best practices, always clean, self-documented, editable, localized and synchronized. Most of UI is in storyboard. I can use any VCS, but git is my favourite one. My experience is not limited by C / Objective-C / Objective-C++ / Swift. I have experience in backend development so it is not secret "where it all comes from" or how to report a bug. oDesk officially recognises me as one of the best mobile developers for the projects I have worked on, my work history and communication skills.
Data Scientist | Software developer | LaTeX expert
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Project-oriented technician in a few fields of expertise: * data analysis: various data processing using few programming languages - Python, R, Wolfram Mathematica, Matlab; * typesetter: bibliography support, complex imagery, complex, multi-line equations and interprocessing data in both LaTeX and MS Word; * software developing: desktop software developing and a distinct programms to get and operate on different data; science software to model asorted physics and math models. Experienced for a 5+ years in all fields. 1+ years of public work on oDesk.
Top level professional Architect and SW engineer
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Make things done! I'm a professional C/C++ developer with more than 12 years of experience. I have been working both for a companies from Fortune 500 list, and a small local companies. My core competency lies in the world of mobile applications, SaaS and PaaS, desktop software and games development. I love to do my work right and really enjoy being respected for the things i do.
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Experience in small signal analog design, sensor interfacing, signal conditioning, sensor applications, data capture and analysis, digital design, microprocessors and small FPGA based systems. I have over 20 years experience developing ideas and bringing them through the design process to a finished product. I develop entire systems, including power, mechanical, optical, and software aspects. I excel in small, innovative designs using new technology. I design for durability and dependability coming from a background of experience in designing for harsh environments, high volume production lines, medical, and space applications. I have design experience in serial communications, optical systems, rf communications, programming, DSP hardware and software design, PC board design and technical writing. I offer my services to take your idea and bring it all the way to production, or to fill any need in the process. I am also available for consulting, helping you to refine your ideas into something that is both manufacturable and functional.
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Expert in Lua and Corona SDK. Developing cross-platform mobile apps and games. iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android. Earned Corona Ambassador title. Advanced skills in making native plugins for Corona Enterprise (Objective-C, Java, C). Using Go and Google App Engine for backend development. Great programming background: C, Python, JavaScript, PHP. Expert in networking: TCP, UDP, HTTP, REST, JSON, etc... Expert in Linux based OS (Ubuntu Server is preferable). Advanced skills in Graphics Design - Photoshop, Pixelmator and iDraw. My website - http://spiralcodestudio.com/
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I have lots of experience building and enhancing WordPress plugins and building themes from scratch. My main strengths are: - Clean coding - 100% Wordpress coding standard compliant - Availability - usually respond within 5 to 10 minutes to any queries during CST workhours - Fast and top quality work I also have experience developing web pages using Perl and/or PHP, Javascript/jQuery, VBScript, CSS, Ajax and MySQL databases. I worked for a Fortune 500 automotive company in a reporting and analysis position, and also building and maintaining a website in the company's intranet using Perl and MySQL. After that I was in charge of supporting a website built with Java and the Spring framework, using both MySQL and Oracle databases, for customers worldwide. I also worked at the tech support helpdesk for that same company for over a year, troubleshooting Linux servers and workstations, networking and other data related issues. I was also in charge of administering KBOX ticketing system for over a year, from content management to database administration, to scripting solutions for its customers. I also have knowledge in scripting using different technologies, such as VBScript, Javascript, Linux shell scripting, Perl, and some Powershell, as well as VBA for Excel and HTAs. I was also regularly troubleshooting C and Java programs for bugs and/or enhancements. After that, I moved to a company named Softtek as a Software Engineer, I was part of a team that develops Wordpress plugins and themes for an American multinational conglomerate corporation. The last position I held was for yet another company as a Linux intermediate administrator, where I was in charge of managing users with Centrify and I also installed Cacti to monitor some of the company's servers running CentOS. Currently, I work on my own mostly developing Wordpress plugins and themes. I have specialized myself working on web development, mainly PHP with MySQL databases, but also Javascript/jQuery for the front end.
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I am a talented programmer and developer with years of experience and educational training. I am willing to work as a team member and also autonomously for your project. I have also worked for many years of my career as a C/C++ programmer and as a web designer. I also have experience many other programming languages to name a few : Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript ... And also working with different DBMSs. I got experience also in data entry, data processing and document formatting. I will deliver my best work at a high standard. I look forward to being hired by you for your jobs.
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I'm an experienced mobile developer, iOS and Android; Top Rated oDesk freelancer. I've been working with software development since 2003, in a broad variety of software projects, platforms and languages: firmware, mobile and embedded software, enterprise distributed systems and web applications. I have a strong Software Engineering background, having worked on projects of different sizes, stages and performing different roles across software development, from architecture design and requirements analysis to programming and bug fixing. For the past few years, I've been working with mobile and embedded software, currently mainly iOS and Android.
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I have strong background in UNIX/Linux software development, Master's Degree in Computer Science. I worked on Enterprise high-load distributed hosting automation systems as a Team Leader (3.5 years in SWsoft, Inc., now called Parallels). For the last 6 years I'm running my own small software development business in Russia with primary focus on Python/Django apps. Not pure Web but often involving integration with hardware (Proximity Cards, Sensor Screens) or external systems like Payment Processing, SMS Gateways, GABRIEL (Airline Reservation System), etc. I can take an idea and turn it into a working business, through all the intermediate stages. Also I have experience of investing my own funds in my projects, so I feel the difference between "perfect code" in a month and "good enough" code that increases the revenue right now. Nevertheless, my code is very good: no copy-paste, always written with performance, flexibility and security in mind, etc. On oDesk I'm looking for (and actually find :) interesting projects with a sight on long-term fruitful cooperation. I'm also open to smaller activities (e.g., consulting) where my knowledge can be helpful.
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Stainless steel Breitling Navitimer with double register, flat button, and snap-back chronomat. Original black and white dial with manual wind. Circa 1940.
While most technology doesn't take kindly to aging, a spectacular timepiece only grows in mystique, prestige, and cultural allure over the years. Polacheck's Jewelers, a fourth-generation family-run business in Calabasas, CA, carries the crème de le crème of iconic names--from Patek Philippe to Cartier, Rolex, Hublot, and more. Each sensational vintage styles, polished and serviced to perfection, was handpicked by company president and passionate watch collector Brent Polacheck himself.


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Clarence Thomas
Is Affirmative Action Doomed?
October 17, 1994
On September 7 Deval Patrick, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, filed a brief in a New Jersey case arguing that it is legal to fire a white teacher over a black teacher purely because of her race. And on August 19 a federal district judge in Austin, Texas, held that aspects of the affirmative action program at the University of Texas law school are unconstitutional. One or both of the cases may reach the Supreme Court before long. Each on its own could revive the debate about racial preferences and ventilate their more troubling assumptions.
Breyer Restraint
July 11, 1994
Jeffrey Rosen offers his take on the prospective Justice Breyer.
Even Stephen
June 06, 1994
By nominating Stephen Breyer to the Supreme Court, the Democrats have, however reluctantly or inadvertently, weaned themselves from Warrenism at last. Over the past four decades, as the excesses of the Warren Court provoked the equally ideological excesses of the Rehnquist Court, liberals and conservatives have accused each other of politicizing the judiciary.
Reasonable Women
November 01, 1993
The lingering questions of the Thomas and Ginsburg hearings anxiously converged in a sexual harassment case before the Court this week. Can sexual banter in the workplace be punished if it offends women without affecting their job performance? And are men's and women's perspectives about sex so vastly different that women need special protection from the vulgarity of men?
Bad Thoughts
July 05, 1993
In every Supreme Court term, there is at least one case that tests, and vividly exposes, the character of the justices. Last year it was abortion; this year it is hate crimes. The outcome of Wisconsin v. Mitchell--which upheld a law that requires harsher sentences for criminals who "intentionally select" their victims "because of race, religion" and the like--was never really in doubt. But instead of being sensitive to the intricate First Amendment concerns that the case raised, William Rehnquist dismissed them contemptuously.
Banking on Bruce
June 28, 1993
If Bill Clinton nominates Bruce Babbitt to the Supreme Court, he will be hard-pressed to claim that the interior secretary shares his judicial philosophy. For after reviewing Babbitt's extensive writings and speeches, the White House is confident that Babbitt has virtually no opinions on constitutional issues that he has bothered to express. For most politicians, this would be unexceptional; but in Babbitt's case it is somewhat surprising.
Lemon Law
March 29, 1993
Can the state of Arizona pay an interpreter to sign the rosary for James Zobrest, a deaf student at a Catholic high school? Zobrest's parents claim Arizona misinterpreted the religion clauses of the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof") when it decided to put sign language interpreters in secular, but not religious, private schools. At oral argument on February 24, the justices joked about their incoherent doctrine for policing the Establishment Clause and the embarrassing results it has produced.
Douglass to Thomas
September 30, 1991
The Roots of Black Conservatism, From Frederick Douglass to Clarence Thomas
The Minority Minority
September 30, 1991
Last July Clarence Thomas attended a private dinner in Washington with a handful of NAACP officials. This was shortly after he'd been nominated to the Supreme Court, and Thomas hoped to soften the antipathy of the black civil rights establishment toward him. Not a chance. He was soon trashed in public statements as a snake, a black copy of David Duke, "Bork in blackface," and putty in the hands of his conservative white wife. Gary Franks, the first black Republican elected to the House of Representatives since 1932, got better treatment, but not much.


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FMLY Fest assembles dozens of musicians for DIY weekend
By Emily Eveland
Hollow Boys embrace the dark on third album
By Sarah Stanley-Ayre
10 Thousand Sounds 2014: Behind the bands
By CP Staff
Black Market Brass delivers hip-shaking funk rhythms
By Zach McCormick
For the Love brings hip-hop festivities to Lowertown
By Jack Spencer
Kitty Cat Klub hosts Tourniquet Noise series
By Sarah Stanley-Ayre
Max Gremillion steps into the spotlight
By Rob van Alstyne
The world of Howler's sophomore album
By Zach McCormick
LET'S FACE IT--most songwriters are just frustrated rock critics. Incapable of articulating the deeper meaning of the music that moves them in a language that can move others, they blow the dust off guitars they once abandoned as feckless undergraduates and slump into composing tuneful imitations of their idols' superior work. And then they parade the results as self-expression, as if it's nobler to create mediocre art than to create no art at all.
Minneapolis singer/songwriter Marlee MacLeod was actually a pretty good rock critic in her day. Her past work for Cake and No Depression evidenced a sharp ear for nuance, both musical and emotional. And it still rings with the near-improvisatory sense of discovery that marks the best arts criticism. MacLeod hasn't abandoned the computer for the guitar entirely--she currently crafts true crime pieces for an online repository of bloody outlaw narratives called the Crime Library (www.crimelibrary.com). But MacLeod's an even sharper songwriter than she is a journalist, and the verbal strengths she draws upon are only part of her appeal.
"She swung at his heart like it was a piñata/And the blindfold made her aim that much truer," is a hell of a line to kick off a record. But in the case of MacLeod's fourth album, There We Are (Hayden's Ferry), it's a misleading one as well. MacLeod doesn't often go in here for such sweeping imagery, kicking back instead with pithy little twists on common phrases such as, "Hanging like a steeplejack/On your every word" or "What a lot of you-know-what-I-mean under the bridge." Though she claims, "I love your abstract more/Than your actuality," she generally traffics in actualities, in the concrete language of the specific instance.
Such verbal dexterity could relegate a songwriter like MacLeod to the pit where sensitive fiction writers go to share their rote subtleties and quivering sentiments. But singers have one certain advantage over their page-bound kin--a physical control over the inflection of their language--and MacLeod is one canny vocalist. While not quite harsh, her drawl is far from soothing. What makes her delivery most distinctive is the ruminative distance she keeps from the emotional snags she encounters--this without sounding aloof. It's a distance that protects her from the floridity or kewpie folksiness that afflicts so many acoustic songpoets.
Live, MacLeod accompanies herself sharply on acoustic guitar, with the beat and texture of her strum implying the riffs and rhythms that are fleshed out on disc. She's again working with producer John Fields, but where her last, 1997 disc Vertigo cast spiky squiggles of riffage into hectic patterns, MacLeod's latest is more plainspoken. It's rootsier, but with an austerity that prunes away the kudzu of her No D. kinfolk.
Finding the resonance in a songwriting vernacular rather than burrowing into one's supposedly "unique" experiences is a worthy challenge. When she transforms an unadorned phrase like "I know better than to break your heart" into an understated expression of regret, only fools who mistake rampant intensity for authentic feeling could yawn. MacLeod has heard these familiar tropes of lost and found love and other such foolishness before, and now that they've come to affect her, she can't help commenting upon them, unraveling them, figuring and refiguring how they apply.
Every decent songwriter realizes early on that what they've felt has been felt before, and it's all been registered in songs everyone knows by heart. Many try to circumvent this wall, leading to the gimmickry of Beck's hip-hop bricolage or to Chan Marshall's dreary set of deconstructed covers. MacLeod takes the harder track, mapping the intersection between the nearly worn-out figures of speech at her disposal and the way she feels today. Which is just what the best songwriters--and the best rock critics--have always done.
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Lustrous 1914-D Half Eagle, MS661914-D $5 MS66 PCGS. Although not a San Francisco Mint product, the 1914-D is nonetheless a scarcer issue among the Indian Head half eagle series, with a skimpy mintage of 247,000 pieces. In 2006, gold pundits Jeff Garrett and Ron Guth noted that this issue--the last of the circulating five dollar gold pieces struck in Denver--"is a scarcer date, and is frequently found well struck even on the feather tips and eagle's chest and wings. The surfaces are less granular and more lustrous than seen on many dates of this series." The present piece is an exceptional exemplar, not only by the standards of the issue, but for the series as a whole; PCGS has certified only 13 Superb Gem pieces--12 in MS67 and a lone representative in MS68 (11/08).
This coin offers so many superlative attributes that we hesitate to single one out to the detriment of the others. The surfaces are remarkably free of even the most picayune abrasions, from the exposed open fields on the reverse to the highpoints of the Indian's cheek on the obverse. Neither there nor in the left obverse field nearby--the focal points of the obverse--are there any abrasions above the microscopic sort. The color is a pleasing honey-gold laced with tinges of chartreuse iridescence. Generous luster and a bold strike round out the positive attributes of this Premium Gem. A small planchet flaw appears underneath OF on the reverse, but as a prestrike anomaly it does not affect the grade. More importantly, it fails to affect the enormous appeal of this stunning coin. A spectacular opportunity for the date collector to acquire a top-flight 1914-D half eagle.(Registry values: N10218) (NGC ID# 28DV, PCGS# 8528)
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