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Someone Who Can Help Me Jun 11, 2011 4:14 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to srtaylorok
I would love to see the trackpad/ mouse functionality added to the iPad.
tonefox Jun 11, 2011 4:37 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to Someone Who Can Help Me
It's called "the screen".
dxironman Jun 11, 2011 4:52 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to tonefox
i'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone would think this would be useful. "wow it's even better now that i can use a mouse"
mtnmedic Jul 5, 2011 8:48 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to dxironman
That goes right up there with the other blythe responses, such as "get an iMac" or "get a laptop."
Consider this. I have an iPad and a Windows laptop. That's it. I use the iPad nearly 98% of the time and it meets all of my needs. The laptop has hung around only as a means to update and backup the iPad, as well as for the occasional odd Windows-only, SD card, DVD/CD, etc. situations. With the coming advent of wireless updating and syncing via iCloud services, the laptop is going to be used even less. I take a minimalist approach to my equipment. I like simplicity, portability, cleanliness and elegance. My iPad goes everywhere I go and I use the on-screen keyboard with the Smart Cover for typing when I'm out and about. When I'm home and I need to get some serious input done (like working on my book or doing a report), I put the iPad in its stand (a silver one from Rocketfish that swivels, pivots/tilts and rotates the iPad for landscape orientation) and use my Apple wireless keyboard. Elegant and simple.
However, in this configuration, constantly reaching up to the screen to tap on it for control and input selection isn't very intuitive or ergonomic. Enabling Bluetooth support for the Magic Trackpad, at least for the gesturing, would be very useful. Enabling cursor/pointer control with that would be even better. I like having more than one way to interact/make input selections with my device. Using the Magic Trackpad at my desk with the keyboard, I can finally have the option of "getting serious" with my iPad when I choose. I would still tap on the screen for some things as I see fit. That flexibility, along with the iPad's form factor/portability, simplicity and battery life, makes it pretty much my go-to device for everything (with few exceptions as mentioned above). No need to have another device, such as a laptop or desktop PC, iMac, etc. sitting out and at the ready for the few things I'd require of it.
I'm not alone. I believe there are a LOT of people who have similar situations or think as I do that the Magic Trackpad with the iPad can be a beautiful thing. The flexibilitiy alone is a great selling point and shouldn't be overlooked by Apple. After all, the Magic Trackpad is nothing more than just another OPTIONAL input device, like the wireless keyboard or a stylus: we use them as a matter of preference according to our needs. Just like the old mouse-vs.-trackball-vs.-touchpad-vs.-eraserhead argument. Sometimes having a couple of different ways to interface is pretty nice. Between two identical laptops at the same price, I'd take the one that has, for example, an eraserhead pointer in the keyboard AND a touchpad. I see absolutely NOTHING wrong with adding support for the Magic Trackpad.
Now, if the MacBook Air had a detachable iPad screen and a user-selectable option to run iOS altogether (that is, as well as the option of using Mac OS altogether instead), that'd be nirvana for me. With the Magic Trackpad supported on the iPad, that's as close as I'll probably ever get.
Saying "get a laptop", "get an iMac", or "I don't see how this could be useful" is just like me telling someone who's complaining about carrying around the bulk of their laptop, its battery life, etc. to "get an iPad" or "get a tablet". It's pointless rhetoric because I know there's a SPECIFIC REASON why we each got our devices, often having to do with input ability. It's just that we'd also like to have our cake and eat it, too. What consumer doesn't? There's nothing wrong with that. Like my MacBook Air example above, we haven't yet hit the sweet spot in portable computing...yet. But we're awfully close with the iPad and giving it Magic Trackpad support for use at the desk would be a great step forward.
Just my eight cents' worth (I adjusted for inflation).
rdhinman Jul 7, 2011 6:29 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to dxironman
Under some circumstances I find it easier to put my iPad into it's dock and type on my wireless keyboard. But then I had to reach across my desktop in order to click on something or drag the window around. It is much more convenient to have the mouse in line with my keypad so that the reaching is not necessary. (I'm going to try the trackpad and see if it works in similar fashion. That would be the perfect solution)
There is a mouse software available if you Jailbreak the iPad. It adds the pointer to the pad, and you can do all the things with the mouse that you can do with your fingers. Why can't I use the product the way I want to? Why do you or anyone else get to tell me that I am doing it wrong if it works for me. Why can't Apple build a mouse pointer into the iOS that manifests if a mouse or trackpad is present? Then we are both happy, the cultists have their purity, and the rest of us have our flexibility.
I have Jailbroken my iPad because I am frustrated at the tone deafness of Apple. If Apple adds mouse support or trackpad support to the iPad, then I will restore my iPad to it's un-Jailbroken condition, but until that time, I'm pleased as punch.
Grandacarola Jul 10, 2011 9:10 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to rdhinman
This would be great, and don't understand the all controversy, who doesn't like doesn't have to use it. When the iPad is docked, using a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse/trackpad would be an awesome addition especially for document and spreadsheet editing.
I like to have the iPad in landscape mode with the smart cover and it doesn't hold while using the touchscreen, maybe I'm clumsy but I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.
This shouldn't be very difficult to implement, we all saw it working rudimentary on jail broken iPads.
caspar35 Jul 10, 2011 9:35 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to Meg St._Clair
A 'defecated' device. Can it do a screen dump? Does it have a motion sensor? How do you wipe the memory? Does it fully replace paper?
stephanfromkarlsruhe Aug 9, 2011 7:48 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to srtaylorok
make the Magic Trackpad work on iPad i.e. integrate it into the next OS! Would eb a great thing!
varjak paw Aug 9, 2011 7:51 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to stephanfromkarlsruhe
Ottist35 Oct 15, 2011 5:41 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to celliott147
I disagree, i think that if it is programmed to activate the cursor feature when the trackpad is connected and deactivate when the trackpad is removed it would not conflict with way we interact with ipad. Actually it could come in really handy for those of us doing presentations or lectures when using a digital projector.
tvjohn Dec 15, 2011 3:35 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to Ottist35
Maybe this will fit the bill when it appears?
dmb16 Jan 21, 2012 3:18 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to srtaylorok
I agree that the track pad would be a very useful addition. Having paid over $800 for this device I would like it to work the way I want and not be prevented by an "idee fixe".
I need a lightweight device while I am travelling. I want to be able to read PDFs from my file system and from time to time type longish documents. The keyboard and trackpad can go in my checked baggage which keeps down the weight of my carry on bag. Air New Zealand has a carry on limit of 7kgs (about 15lbs) so weight saving is really important so a Macbook Air is a less useful solution.
Providing a keyboard connection but no mouse/trackpad is annoying. The jailbreak option shows that it is possible. No USB connection for file access is also a pain. This now has also been circumvented by wireless drives but at a very high cost.
Please Apple; make the trackpad function with the currently available iPads and on the next one make USB connectable or add an SD slot.
Meg St._Clair Jan 21, 2012 5:22 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to dmb16
dmb16 wrote:
Please Apple; make the trackpad function with the currently available iPads and on the next one make USB connectable or add an SD slot.
You're not talking to Apple here.Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
.memory_leak. Feb 10, 2012 9:16 AM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to lllaass
i have my trackpad & the wireless keyboard synced with an iPad (1st gen.) running 4.3.3
i can only scroll, swipe. cursor does not work as of yet. its nice to swipe through pages on main screen and safari.
Karla4257 Jul 10, 2012 5:56 PM
Re: Magic trackpad and iPad? in response to srtaylorok
I just purchased a cruxcase 360 that solved this issue and protects my IPad if that is a solution


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Overheating and putting out no heat from heater. I have replaced waterpump, thermastat, radiator and hoses with new ones. Waterpump is turning good with belt and engine runs great. Takes a long time to overheat with no leaks. Never produces any heat from heater.
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As far as the heater, do the heater hoses get hot? Does the blower motor work? Maybe a temp door under the dash has a problem?
As far as the heater, do the heater hoses get hot? Does the blower motor work? Maybe a temp door under the dash has a problem?
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List of The Legend of Sword and Fairy characters
The following is a list of characters from the action role-playing game The Legend of Sword and Fairy developed by the Taiwanese company Softstar Entertainment.
Li Xiaoyao[edit]
Li Xiaoyao (李逍遙; 李逍遥; Lǐ Xiāoyáo) is the protagonist of the game. He comes from a small fishing village, Shengyu Village, in Yuhang County. He is an orphan and was raised by his aunt, who runs a small inn. While serving as the waiter in the inn, he daydreams all the time of becoming a great hero that his parents were rumoured to be. When his aunt suddenly falls ill one day, he learns from three Miao warriors living in his inn that there is a "fairy goddess" living on a mystical island who can heal his aunt. Li then travels across the sea to the island, where he meets the "fairy goddess" — a young maiden called Zhao Ling'er. Zhao's nanny catches him and forces him to marry Zhao and remain on the island forever, but Zhao helps him escape. When he returns home, he saves his aunt with the medicine he got from Zhao, but loses memory of his encounter on the island because earlier on he was tricked into consuming a memory-erasing drug by the Miao warriors. The Miao warriors infiltrate the island, murder Zhao's nanny, kidnap Zhao, and bring her back to the inn. While exploring the inn, Li chances upon Zhao and saves her from the Miao warriors even though he does not recognise her. He agrees to accompany her to southwestern China in search of her mother, who might still be alive.
They arrive in Suzhou and meet Lin Yueru. Li unexpectedly defeats Lin in a martial arts contest and wins her hand-in-marriage. On their wedding night, a giant serpent is sighted and Zhao disappears under mysterious circumstances. Li and Lin believe that Zhao has been captured by a monster, so they set off in search of her and arrive in Sichuan, where they learn that Zhao has been imprisoned by the elders of the Mount Shu Sect in the Demon Prison Tower. Li and Lin break into the tower to save Zhao and learn that she is actually a half-serpent spirit. Nevertheless, they have forged a strong friendship so they combine efforts to escape from the tower as it starts to implode. Lin is fatally crushed by a falling boulder while trying to save Li and Zhao.
The trio are saved by a herbal medicine guru, who reveals to Li that Lin is dead, and that Zhao is pregnant with his child. Li sets off in search of two rare items to save the lives of Zhao and their unborn baby. His quest leads him to Miao territory, where he meets A'nu, who develops a crush on him. At the same time, he sees that the Miao land is plagued by drought and that the Black and White Miao are fighting each other over scarce water resources. Meanwhile, Zhao recovers after Li brings back the items to her. She summons a rainstorm and restores peace to the Miao land. Li, Zhao and A'nu then learn that the drought was actually caused by the evil Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult, so they confront him. Although they succeed in defeating him eventually, Zhao sacrifices herself to destroy the Water Demon Beast summoned by the villain. In the final scene, Li bids A'nu farewell and wanders around in despair, saddened by the loss of Zhao and Lin.
Zhao Ling'er[edit]
Zhao Ling'er (趙靈兒; 赵灵儿; Zhào Líng'ér) is the daughter of the king of the Black Miao and the chief priestess of the White Miao, and the sole heir to the throne of the Miao kingdom. She is also a descendant of the goddess Nüwa through her mother, thus she is half-human and half-serpent. She is destined to be the guardian of her land because she possesses the divine powers of her ancestor. Her father, who was deceived by the evil Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult, believed that her mother was responsible for a drought that plagued the kingdom, so he imprisoned her mother. Zhao was forced into exile and was raised by a loyal servant, Granny Jiang, who is also a half-serpent. They lived in a seclusion on an island in the Eastern Sea which is shielded from mortal eyes by a magic charm.
Zhao meets Li Xiaoyao for the first time when he travels to the island to seek a cure for his aunt. He accidentally peeps at her while she is bathing in a pool and then tries to trick her to help him. Granny Jiang arrives before Li is able to leave and threatens to devour him if he does not marry Zhao and remain on the island forever, but Zhao helps Li escape later. Li loses memory of his encounter on the island because earlier on he was tricked into consuming a memory-erasing drug by the three Miao warriors. Unknowingly, Li's arrival on the island had broken the protective charm and revealed the location of the island. The three Miao warriors, who serve the Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult, infiltrate the island, murder Granny Jiang, and kidnap Zhao and bring her back to Li's inn. While exploring the inn at night, Li chances upon Zhao and saves her even though he does not recognise her.
Zhao feels despair when Li does not remember her, but they still travel together to find her mother in southwestern China. While passing by Suzhou, Li unexpectedly defeats Lin Yueru in a martial arts contest and wins her hand-in-marriage. On the wedding night, a giant serpent is sighted and Zhao disappears under mysterious circumstances. Believing that Zhao has been captured by a monster, Li and Lin set off to rescue her and eventually find her in a rural village. Later on, Zhao is taken away by Black Miao warriors, who are in turn ambushed by White Miao forces. A battle breaks out between the Black and White Miao and many of them are killed. The leader of the Mount Shu Sect passes by and mistakenly believes that Zhao is responsible for the killings, so he imprisons her in the Demon Prison Tower. Li and Lin eventually rescue her and learn about her true identity. They fight their way out of the tower by destroying its foundations, causing the structure to implode. Lin is mortally wounded while they are escaping from the collapsing tower. After being saved by a herbal medicine guru, Zhao gives birth to Li's daughter. She recovers her mother's magical staff with the help of A'nu and assumes the role of the guardian of her kingdom.
Zhao joins Li and A'nu in the battle against the Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult. Even though they defeat the villain eventually, Zhao sacrificed herself to destroy the Water Demon Beast summoned by him and perished in the battle.
Lin Yueru[edit]
Lin Yueru (林月如; Lín Yuèrú) is an only daughter from the Lin family of Suzhou. She first meets Li Xiaoyao outside Suzhou when she is thrashing two servants who attempted to elope. Li comes to the servants' aid and frees them after defeating Lin in a fight. He binds her to a tree as punishment and leaves, but returns later to drive away two thugs who tried to molest her. After he frees her, she attacks him with her sword and injures him badly before fleeing in panic. Li survives after Zhao casts a powerful but risky healing spell cast on him.
Around the same time, Lin's father is planning to find a suitable spouse for his daughter, so he stages a martial arts contest for young men to compete with his daughter. They will win her hand-in-marriage if they defeat her. Li is still angry with Lin over the earlier incident so he enters the contest without knowing its purpose and wins Lin's hand-in-marriage. When he tries to leave, Lin's father threatens to kill him if he does not marry Lin, so Li pretends to agree and plans to escape later. This marks the start of a complex love triangle involving Li, Lin and Zhao. On the wedding night, Zhao disappears under mysterious circumstances and a giant serpent is sighted. Li and Lin believe that Zhao has been captured by a monster so they set off to rescue her.
Li and Lin find out that Zhao has been imprisoned in the Demon Prison Tower by the Mount Shu Sect, so they break into the tower to save her and learn about her true identity. During their escape from the tower, the tower collapses on itself and Lin is mortally wounded by a falling boulder and dies later. Li and Lin are saved by a herbal medicine guru, who heals them and asks Li to collect 36 "puppet bugs" without explaining the purpose of doing so. After the final victory over the evil Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult, as Li returns home in sorrow, an undead Lin is seen waiting for him in the snowfield holding the baby Li Yiru (Li and Zhao's daughter), presumably due to the preserving effect of the puppet bugs.
At the end of the series sequel The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2, the teenage Li Yiru acquires a resurrection pearl after the defeating the final villain, and uses it to definitively revive Lin Yueru. In the MMORPG The Legend of Sword and Fairy Online, Lin is seen as the formal wife of Li Xiaoyao and loving stepmother of Li Yiru.
A'nu (阿奴; Ā'nú) is the daughter of the leader of the White Miao tribes. She is an apprentice sorceress adept in healing and magical spells, and was trained by the Divine Lady, an elderly Miao sorceress.
A'nu first meets Li Xiaoyao when he is on a quest to find two rare items to ensure that Zhao Ling'er experiences a smooth childbirth. After Li fights the Golden Phoenix to take its eggshells, A'nu suddenly appears and snatches the eggs. In surprise, Li falls off the giant tree and becomes unconscious. A'nu uses the same healing spell Zhao used on Li earlier to revive Li. Li wakes up in a delirious state and mistakes A'nu for Zhao, so he hugs and kisses her. A'nu is initially upset by Li's actions, but is moved by his desire to save Zhao's life so she helps him retrieve the other item. She also develops a crush on Li, especially after he disappeared for a month while he was trapped in the past at the temple of Nüwa.
A'nu later joins Li and Zhao in the final battle against the evil Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult in order to restore peace to the Miao kingdom. Zhao perishes in the battle even though the trio manage to achieve victory. In the ending, A'nu is seen tearfully playing a farewell tune to Li on her flute.
In the sequels, A'nu is revealed to have inherited the leadership of the White Miao tribes. She is reportedly never married, implying her ongoing devoted love for Li.
Other characters[edit]
- Listed in order of appearance in the game
- The Rakshasa Demonic Granny (羅剎鬼婆) is a demon whom Li Xiaoyao fights in his dream at the beginning of the game. The demon is conceived out of Li's grudge against his overbearing aunt. He encounters and fights the demon again later while passing through the illusion realm.
- Aunt Li (李大娘) is Li Xiaoyao's aunt. She was a powerful martial artist in the past and was nicknamed "Iron Palm Flying Phoenix" (鐵掌飛鳳) for her famous "Cloud Penetrating Palm" (穿雲掌) techniques. However, she keeps a low profile now and runs a small inn in Yuhang County. She raised Li Xiaoyao and treats him like her own son, but appears fierce and demanding towards him.
- The leader of the Miao men is the leader of a group of three Black Miao warriors who stay in Li Xiaoyao's inn. They are actually planning to capture Zhao Ling'er. They trick Li into breaking the charm that shields the island where Zhao lives. Before sending Li there, they make him consume a drug, which causes him to lose memory of his adventure on the island after he returns. They raid Zhao's island later and kidnap her and hide her in a bag. Li discovers Zhao while exploring the inn and saves her by defeating the Miao men. The leader later tries to hold Li's aunt hostage, only to be surprised and killed by her.
- The Drunken Sword Immortal (酒劍仙), whose real name is Situ Zhong (司徒鍾), is an elder of the Mount Shu Sect. He first meets Li Xiaoyao when Li found him as a drunkard craving for wine outside the inn. To get him to leave, Li secretly gives him a few sips of leftover wine. He is grateful to Li and tells the boy to meet him a few nights later at a rundown temple outside the village. He teaches Li the Mount Shu Sect's swordplay techniques, which Li relies on for his future adventures.
- Wang Xiaohu (王小虎) is a boy living in the same village as Li Xiaoyao. He looks up to Li as his idol and follows him whenever he can. He is the protagonist in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
- Ding Xianglan (丁香蘭) and Ding Xiulan (丁秀蘭) are the daughters of Uncle Ding (丁大伯), an elderly farmer living next to Li Xiaoyao's inn. Uncle Ding dislikes Li for being a slacker and gets annoyed when he sees his daughters having a crush on Li.
- Granny Jiang (姜姥姥) is a servant of the Miao queen. She is also a half-serpent and knows some magic powers. She brought Zhao Ling'er with her into exile and raised Zhao on an island that is protected from human sight by a magic charm. She is fiercely protective of Zhao and forces Li Xiaoyao to marry Zhao and remain on the island after Li admits that he accidentally saw Zhao bathing. She is severely wounded by the Miao warriors when they raided the island. Li and Zhao return to the island after Li saved Zhao from the Miao warriors. With her last breath, Granny Jiang entrusts Zhao to Li's care and tells them that Zhao's mother may still be alive in the Miao kingdom.
- Liu Jinyuan (劉晉元) is Lin Yueru's cousin. He is very close to Lin and is secretly in love with her, but she regards him as only a relative. He does not know martial arts and is not considered by Lin's father as a prospective son-in-law. He first meets Li Xiaoyao in Suzhou and they become friends. However, when he learns that Li has won Lin's hand-in-marriage, he says to Li coldly that their friendship has ended and leaves in disappointment. He saves Caiyi, a butterfly spirit, by coincidence and she is so grateful to him that she transforms into a woman and marries him. Liu was poisoned when he saved Caiyi from the spider's web and is almost dying. He does not appreciate Caiyi's love for him and treats her coldly. Out of love for Liu, Caiyi sacrifices her powers acquired from 1,000 years of cultivation to increase Liu's lifespan by 10 years.
- Lin Tiannan (林天南) is Lin Yueru's father. He is not only a highly respected martial artist in the jianghu, but also an influential politician. He forces Li Xiaoyao to marry his daughter after Li wins the martial arts contest and threatens to kill him if he does not. On the wedding night, when Zhao Ling'er disappears mysteriously, Li and Lin Yueru set off in search of Zhao, much to his dismay. When he meets Li again later, he fights with him to test his level of proficiency in martial arts and agrees to let his daughter accompany Li after he is convinced that Li can protect her.
- The Serpent Demon (蛇妖男) and Vixen Demoness (狐妖女) are a demon couple living in the Hidden Dragon Cave (隱龍窟). They are slain by Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru. They are the parents of Su Mei (the unnamed baby fox), one of the protagonists in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
- Healing Immortal Han (韓醫仙) is a physician living in White River Village (白河村). His daughter finds the unconscious Zhao Ling'er while out collecting herbs and brings her back to his clinic for treatment. Han discovers that Zhao is pregnant but promises her to not tell Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru about it. After Zhao recovers, the trio returns the favour by helping eliminating the evil aura surrounding the village. When they return to the village later, they find Han tied up and his daughter taken hostage by Black Miao warriors. Han appears again later to heal Li and Lin after they are wounded during the fight with Elder Shi on Ghost Shadow Mountain (鬼陰山).
- Han Mengci (韓夢慈) is Healing Immortal Han's daughter.
- Little Pebble (小石頭) is a spirit formed from Bodhidharma's prayer beads after 999 years of cultivation. He forces people to become monks after being strongly influenced by Buddhist scriptures. He is defeated by Li Xiaoyao and his friends and decides to transform into a string of prayer beads after being enlightened by Zhao Ling'er. He assists them in defeating the Red Devil King later.
- The Jiangshi King (僵屍王) is a demon living in the General's Tomb (將軍塚) in Black Water Town (黑水鎮). He is defeated and slain by the protagonists.
- The Red Devil King (赤鬼王) is a demon living in the Blood Pool (血池) below the General's Tomb in Black Water Town. He is responsible for causing a plague in the town, which claimed several lives and caused people to transform into zombies. He is defeated and slain by the protagonists. Li Xiaoyao takes the Earth Pearl from him.
- Elder Shi (石長老) is an honourable and highly skilled Black Miao elder who is fiercely loyal to his king. He prevents the evil cleric from killing the queen and helps her escape after she is imprisoned by the king. He is tasked with finding the lost princess, Zhao Ling'er, and he kidnaps Han Mengci to force Zhao to meet him on Ghost Shadow Mountain. He knocks out Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru in a fight. Zhao is forced to strike a deal with him for him to spare Li and Lin. He is later ambushed by White Miao warriors led by Gai Luojiao and performs a suicide attack after being cornered.
- Gai Luojiao (蓋羅嬌) is a female White Miao general and A'nu's senior. She is highly skilled in sorcery and toxicology.
- Ji Sanniang (姬三娘) is the leader of a group of female thieves in Yangzhou. When Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru discover her secret vault, where she kept the loot, she frames them for the thefts and causes them to be arrested. The governor of Yangzhou detains Lin and orders Li to track down the real thief to prove their innocence. Li returns to Ji's hideout to confront her and defeats and captures her after a fight. The governor releases Lin and imprisons Ji.
- Liu Meiniang (柳眉娘), also known as the Golden Toad Demonic Mother (金蟾鬼母), is a disfigured woman living in the Toad Cave (蟾蜍洞). She has a giant toad demon as her companion. Both Liu and the giant toad are slain by Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru when they stumble across the cave.
- The Sword Saint (劍聖), whose real name is Dugu Yuyun (獨孤宇雲), is the leader of the Mount Shu Sect and a highly skilled swordsman. He loathes all demons and mistakenly believes that Zhao Ling'er is responsible for the deaths of the Miao warriors in the battle between Elder Shi and Gai Luojiao's forces. He captures her and imprisons her in the Demon Prison Tower. He realises his mistake later but refuses to admit it even though he secretly rescues Li, Zhao and Lin from the tower after it collapsed, and brings them to the Divine Lady for healing. He retires and passes on his position to Li Xiaoyao in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
- Aunt Yun (雲姨) is Liu Jinyuan's mother and Lin Yueru's aunt. She lives in Chang'an.
- Caiyi (彩依) is a butterfly spirit. She was saved by Liu Jinyuan after getting caught in Venomous Lady's web, and is so grateful to him that she transforms into a woman and marries him to take care of him after he was poisoned by Venomous Lady. She eventually sacrifices all the powers she acquired from 1,000 years of cultivation to extend Liu's lifespan by another 10 years, and transforms back into a butterfly as a result.
- Venomous Lady (毒娘子) is an evil spider demon. She is defeated by the protagonists and is found to have possession of the Thunder Pearl.
- The Golden Toad (金蟾) is a giant toad monster who holds one of the five elemental pearls. He is defeated by the protagonists and loses the pearl to them.
- The Guardian King of Hell (鎮獄明王) is the deity guarding the Demon Prison Tower (鎖妖塔). He is defeated by Li Xiaoyao and Lin Yueru when they break into the tower to rescue Zhao Ling'er.
- Jiang Qing (姜清) is an elder of the Mount Shu Sect. He falls in love with Yue Rouxia, a demon, and is expelled from the sect and imprisoned in the Demon Prison Tower with his lover. Some of his students attempt to save him but none of them survived after entering the tower. Jiang feels guilty for causing so many deaths and has since remained as a bitter undead. Li Xiaoyao encounters Jiang's spirit in the tower and frees him from his state of self-guilt after defeating him in a fight.
- Jiang Wan'er (姜婉兒) is Jiang Qing and Yue Rouxia's daughter. She was born in the Demon Prison Tower and has been living there for 18 years with her father's spirit, until she is set free when the tower collapses. She inherits her parents' swordplay skills and becomes a powerful martial artist. She renames herself Abbess Qingrou (清柔師太) and becomes the founder of the Xianxia Sect (仙霞派) in The Legend of Sword and Fairy 2.
- The Immortal in the Book (書中仙) is a bookworm who, out of thousands of years of cultivation, became a knowledgeable spirit residing in a book. He appears to give Li Xiaoyao advice when Li encounters trouble.
- The Heavenly Devil Emperor (天鬼皇) is a demon chief. He has been imprisoned in the Demon Prison Tower for a long time and is sucked into the Demon Sucking Altar. Li Xiaoyao saves him later and he repays Li's kindness by helping Li lift up a heavy stone door. He escapes after the tower collapses. He feels grateful to Li and regards Li and his family as his benefactors.
- The Dragons of the Seven Stars (七星盤龍) are dragons residing in the seven supporting pillars of the Demon Prison Tower. Li Xiaoyao slays all of them to free Zhao Ling'er and causes the tower to collapse.
- The Divine Lady (聖姑) is an elderly Miao sorceress and A'nu's teacher.
- A'tao (阿桃) is a peach tree spirit residing in Peach Village.
- Song Hewen (宋賀文) is a man who falls in love with A'tao after wandering into Peach Village.
- Wooden Taoist (木道人) is a pine spirit who has been harassing Peach Village.
- The Queen of the Nanman (南蠻王) is the leader of the White Miao. She is A'nu's mother and the widow of the previous clan leader.
- Tang Yu (唐鈺) is a young Han Chinese man who lives with and fights alongside the White Miao. He has a crush on A'nu.
- The Miao Queen (巫后), whose real name is Lin Qing'er (林青兒), is Zhao Ling'er's mother. She is a descendant of the goddess Nüwa and used to be the chief priestess of the White Miao. She sacrificed herself to destroy the Water Demon Beast 10 years ago.
- The Miao King (巫王) is Zhao Ling'er's father and the king of the Black Miao. He is murdered by the Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult and replaced by a tree demon in disguise.
- The Leader of the Moon Worshipping Cult (拜月教主) is an evil and ambitious Black Miao cleric. He secretly rears the Water Demon Beast and frames the Miao queen for the disaster caused by his monster. He murders the king later, taking over the Miao kingdom until Zhao Ling'er's return. After defeated by the protagonists, he uses his own blood to revive the Water Demon Beast, forcing Zhao Ling'er to sacrifice herself to destroy the monster once and for all.
- The Water Demon Beast (水魔獸) is an ancient water monster summoned by the evil cleric. The monster thrives in places where water is present and its presence spells natural disasters for people near it. Zhao Ling'er sacrifices herself to destroy the monster in the final battle.
- Palace Mistress Lingyue (靈月宮主) was Zhao Ling'er's teacher and a friend of Zhao's mother. She recognised Zhao and Granny Jiang 10 years ago and brought them back to her palace on the island. She taught Zhao most of her skills. She reportedly spent her entire life trying to find Zhao's mother and died long before Li Xiaoyao first set foot on the island.
External links[edit]
- (Chinese) New Legend of Sword and Fairy on Baidu Baike
- (Chinese) Li Xiaoyao on Baidu Baike
- (Chinese) Zhao Ling'er on Baidu Baike
- (Chinese) Lin Yueru on Baidu Baike
- (Chinese) A'nu on Baidu Baike
- (Chinese) Other The Legend of Sword and Fairy characters on Baidu Baike


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I had to drop the car off this morning, so I threw my bike in the back, and dropped the car off. They offered me a ride in the shuttle, but it's only 2 or 3 miles, and I figured it would get my blood flowing for the work I have to do today.
It was cold; 52-ish this morning overcast and a little windy. now before all of you yankee types make fun of me, it's 100+ with 90%+ humidity here for 6 months out of the year, and the sun will flay the skin right off of you. This caused me to ride in jeans, which I do not normally do. I also wore new slip-ons, which I recently bought for 10 bucks, because I only own a pair of skate vans to ride in, and I got soaked on saturday riding on monsoon conditions. My sneakers took 4 days to dry out. I figure that 2 pairs of sneakers isn't excessive. Since my vans have padded tongues, my clips are bent way up to get my sneakers in them. With the other shoes, I had a huge gap between the top of my shoes and the clip, so after a block or so, I tightened them way down. I don't know how everyone rides in these shoes-they're not very comfortable on pedals, and you have to really crank your straps down, which results in the tops of your feet hurting, as there is no padding. And, jeans are not comfortable to ride in either. I did manage to bring wool gloves, which I didn't think would work at all, but actually worked pretty well.
The high point of my ride was seeing a buddy riding to work on his bike. The low point was making it home into my driveway only to realize that with all of the strap tightening, I couldn't get my feet out. After a vain attempt to ride up to my garage door to balance myself to loosen my straps, I had the dreaded 0mph tipover.
I have to respect all of you folks that ride in cold-ass weather. I didn't break a sweat, which was nice, but the cold, dry air was burning my lungs. Granted, sweating your ass off isn't fun either, it hurts less.
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Understand the Cornerstone brand.
Cornerstone University's visual identity reflects the qualities that make the university distinctive, and convey our brand to the world. Our commitment to build lives that matter by providing an environment that is academically excellent, culturally diverse and Christ-centered, is underscored in a meaningful way when people see Cornerstone University's visual identity elements and colors. It is essential that the visual elements representing Cornerstone University and its image do so consistently and with integrity.
Research shows a visual identity used consistently over time paves the way to an enhanced image, instant recognition and higher recall among prospective students. Cornerstone University's brand identity standards address the university's primary identity elements – name, logo, font and color. By following these guidelines, we build not only consistency, but protect our most valuable asset – the Cornerstone University name. All university departments and university-sanctioned organizations should use CU's visual identity elements for formal and informal communications, advertising, and promotional purposes in accordance with guidelines set by the marketing and communications office.
The Cornerstone University marketing and communications office is responsible for ensuring the correct use and integrity of the logo, seal and other marks on all university publications (electronic or print), supplies, materials and equipment. The following brand guidelines are designed to aid you in the use of the elements that are integral to the Cornerstone University identity. The philosophy behind the creation of this identity is to bring clarity to a category that is complicated, technical and often misunderstood. Its success will largely depend upon its proper and consistent use in the development of university materials.
Please contact the CU marketing office with any questions pertaining to the university brand.
"Secondary Brand Identifiers" refer to the branches of Cornerstone's community whose target audience is a unique segment of the core brand's target audience. These logos serve as secondary identifiers of our brand. Use of these logos on marketing materials does not require the additional use of the Cornerstone University logo. The vertical format of all sub-brand logos must be used whenever possible. All logos should always be used in their original approved form(s).
Blue and gold are the primary colors for Cornerstone University's brand identity. These colors should figure primarily in all branding publications for the university. Every attempt should be made to match these colors as closely as possible. For questions of acceptability, please contact the marketing and communications office.
Dark Blue
- Pantone Matching System: PMS 2767
- Four color process: C-100, M-78, Y-0, K-54
- Web: #162b48
- "Navy" is acceptable for use on apparel
- Pantone Matching System: PMS 8960
- Non-metallic alternative: PMS 1245 (restricted use)
- Four color process: C-0, M-42, Y-100, K-29
- Web: #CC9933
- "Vegas Gold" is acceptable for use on apparel
At Cornerstone University we believe that you are a life that matters. Our goal is to help you build on the foundation you have in Christ so that you can reach your highest potential.
- Brand Name: Cornerstone University (includes traditional undergraduate programs, Cornerstone University Radio (WCSG, WCFG, MNN), Professional & Graduate Studies program, Grand Rapids Theological Seminary and Asia Baptist Theological Seminary)
- Brand Persona: Followers of Jesus
- Brand Idea: A Life That Matters
- Brand Tagline: Build A Life That Matters
Key talking points:
- Jesus Matters: Cornerstone University values a spiritually contagious environment. As followers of Jesus, our staff, faculty and students are committed to creating an environment where students can thrive in their personal relationship with God. This is the foundation we believe matters most.
- Academics Matter: Cornerstone University values academic excellence in its programs and activities.. We offer a student-focused learning community that values excellence in education. Our outstanding students, faculty and staff are equipped to excel in their fields of study and be influencers for Christ in a variety of vocations.
- Resources Matter: Cornerstone University values an environment that is richly resourced. We are committed to providing an education and campus rich in resources both for our students, staff and faculty and for the West Michigan and global communities we influence.
- Community Matters: Cornerstone University values cultural diversity in our environment, activities and programs.. We seek to provide cultural awareness in all of our programs to instill in our students a passion for global influence and cultural engagement.
- Our Identity: Who we are – Cornerstone is a Christ-centered university with a passion for global influence through the transforming power of the gospel.
- Our Mission: Why we exist – We exist to empower men and women to excel as influencers in our world for Christ by offering a student-focused learning community where Jesus Christ is central.
- Our Vision: What we aspire to – We aspire to create a thriving community of fully devoted followers of Jesus in a spiritually contagious, academically excellent, richly resourced and culturally diverse learning environment that attracts outstanding students, faculty and staff who influence our world for Christ, his church and his kingdom.
This is the official mark of Cornerstone University:
The Cornerstone University logo is used for all areas of the university when communicating to internal or external audiences.
Proper usage of all Cornerstone University brand logos is essential to the brand. The vertical format of all logos must be used whenever possible.
The following are common misuses of the brand identity and must be avoided:
- Dropping the words "University," "Theological Seminary," "Professional & Graduate Studies" or "University Radio"
- Using the cube symbol as a stand alone element
- Using the Cornerstone University, GRTS, PGS or Golden Eagle signatures as stand alone elements
- Altering the cube in any way
- Varying from the official color scheme
- Dropping the registered mark
- Using the logo within text
- Condensing, expanding or distorting logos beyond their original proportions
- Recreating the artwork, letter forms, spacing or styling
- Rearranging the elements in the logo in any way
- Applying texture or screen tints to the logo
- Placing the logo on a background that impedes its readability
- Mixing elements of the various official logos (i.e., replacing the cube with the golden eagle, etc.)
- Using a scan or other poor quality reproduction
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To ensure visibility and to distinguish our logo from other elements of a document, please leave a clear space of at least 1/8" surrounding the logo.
The Cornerstone University logo should be used at a size that is legible, significant and appropriate for the size of the marketing material being produced. Legibility suffers if the logo is reproduced too small. Therefore, the Cornerstone University logo should be no smaller than 1.125" wide.
Please contact the marketing and communications office for assistance when the logo may need to be used smaller than the indicated minimum size.
Cornerstone University's official colors are dark blue and gold and must be utilized whenever possible. The only acceptable color variations of the CU logo are as follows:
Use of the Logo on Colored Backgrounds
The combination of certain background colors with the Cornerstone logo can render the logo illegible. The background color must contrast with the logo elements in order to have impact
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The Cornerstone University athletics logo is used for use when communicating to athletic audiences. These logos should only be used in conjunction with the official Cornerstone University logo or at the discretion of the marketing and communications office.


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Some background about me: I've been introduced to manga at a young age, probably when I was around 8 or 9 years old. I've been drawing in this style for about 5 years, but stopped drawing all together because of my depression. Now I'm better, and I can't wait to improve again. Although I'm kinda drifting away from the manga style, it's still an obvious influence in my work.
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This month offers great variety in the night sky: planets (and a comet!) before dawn, a strong meteor shower, and a parade of bright stars after sunset.
Observing News & Current Celestial Events
Leonid Meteors in 2015: Modest but Moonless
This year's Leonid meteor shower, which peaks tonight, will offer modest numbers of "shooting stars" — but might reward you with some dazzling fireballs.
Comet Catalina Sails Into Northern Skies
Comet Catalina returns this month with naked-eye potential. Follow its every move with our guide and maps.
Taurid Fireballs Continue!
Big bits of Comet Encke are streaking into Earth's upper atmosphere and attracting attention around the world, as the Taurid fireball display of 2015 continues.
Be Alert for Taurid Fireballs This Week
If you see a really bright autumn fireball, it might be a Taurid meteor — a fragment of Comet 2P/Encke.
2015 TB145 — Rogue Asteroid or Dead Comet?
Astronomers can't decide whether the sizable object known as 2015 TB145, which is cruising past Earth today, is a renegade asteroid or a dead comet.
Tour November's Sky: Treats at Dawn & Dusk
Bright planets are putting on a show in the predawn sky, and evenings feature a mythical horse flying upside-down across the sky.
Close-in Asteroid Offers Halloween Treat
The recently discovered asteroid 2015 TB145 won't come especially close to Earth on October 31st, but it's big enough to be seen in medium-size backyard telescopes.
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction This Weekend!
Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, draw close together in the eastern sky before dawn, creating an ever more eye-catching spectacle for skywatchers. They're in conjunction October 25 and 26.
How to Spot the USAF's 'Mini-Shuttle'
Now is the time to track the secret space plane X-37/B on its OTV-4 mission.
October's Unpredictable Draconid Meteors
Watch for any slow, unusual meteors starting at nightfall tonight and tomorrow.
Aurora Alert for Wednesday Night!
Aurora borealis possible October 7, 2015
Tour October's Sky: Predawn Planet Pileup
Early risers will be treated to wonderful groupings of bright planets, and evening sky offers excellent stargazing as well.
Moon Hides Hyades, Occults Aldebaran Friday
After a late-night ramble through the Hyades cluster, the waning gibbous Moon will cover up the bright star Aldebaran for observers across North America Friday morning.
A Look Back at the Total Lunar Eclipse
Call it a blood Moon, supermoon, harvest Moon, a portent of the apocalypse, or just a regular ol' total lunar eclipse — for those who caught a glimpse, last night's celestial event did not disappoint. Sky & Telescope editors had been looking forward to last night's total lunar eclipse for a multitude reasons. For...
Ready for Tonight's Total Lunar Eclipse?
On the night of September 27–28, the full Moon will plunge completely through Earth's shadow for the last time until January 2018.
Watch September's Lunar Eclipse – Live Webcast!
Visit SkyandTelescope.com on the night of September 27th to watch our exclusive webcast of the last total lunar eclipse anywhere until 2018.
Call for Solar Observers (Sept. 19–27)
Does your version of stargazing involve pointing your telescope at the Sun? With the right equipment, you can aid a project that aims to catch a solar flare in the act of erupting. The observing campaign is coming up soon: September 19 - 27, 2015.
September 13th's Partial Solar Eclipse
Residents of southern Africa get to watch the Moon cover part of the Sun not long after (or during) sunrise on Sunday, September 13th.
Tour September's Sky: A Lunar Eclipse!
This month's stargazing features pretty planetary treats in the eastern sky before dawn — and the last total lunar eclipse visible until 2018.
Planning for America's 2017 Solar Eclipse
Dozens of solar specialists are coordinating outreach activities for a coast-to-coast total solar eclipse that's only two years away.
Our Late Night Under the Perseids
Meteors bright and faint rewarded patient watchers of the 2015 Perseid meteor shower. And the show continues tonight.
Moonless Nights Make for Fine 2015 Perseids
This year there's no Moon, and the Perseid meteor shower should peak at just the right time for North America. Every three years, more or less, the Moon is new around the peak night of the Perseid meteor shower — and it's that time again. New Moon falls on August 14th, which gives us...
Plan for the Perseids!
Conditions are ideal for watching this year's Perseid meteor shower. Plan ahead!
Down-Under Observers Track Pluto Cover-up
Deep snow, high winds, and dropped cameras didn't stop dozens of observers in New Zealand and Tasmania from recording Pluto's occultation of a bright star on June 29th.


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In just two days you will learn the basics of the TapRooT® System for finding the root causes of incidents, accidents, quality problems, near-misses, operational errors, hospital sentinel events, and other types of problems. Once you find the real root causes using this systematic process, learn to develop effective fixes that will keep problems from happening again. Check your corrective action effectiveness using the SMARTER technique. Learn to find and fix problems proactively BEFORE an accident or incident occurs and to analyze the Safeguards that keep problems from happening or from getting worse once a single Safeguard fails. Also, learn what to include in effective presentations to management when presenting the results of a root cause analysis.
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Why should you attend a 2-Day Equifactor® Course? To learn to fix the real root causes of equipment failures! This is the shortened version of the Equifactor® Course made to fit in the two days before the TapRooT® Summit. Watch a short video (4:49) where Ken Reed gives an overview of Equifactor® and a proactive tip:
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After reviewing many reports from students that have attended training, we see problems defining causal factors. This course will provide alternate definitions of causal factors, relate risk to causal factors, cover common problems with defining causal factors, use the "should have, would have or could have" test and relate causal factors to the hierarchy of the TapRooT® process. Many case studies will be used including some recent major events. Students will be asked to bring a case study of their own defining the incident, a brief discussion of what happened and the causal factors they picked. Individuals that have attended Advanced TapRooT® Techniques Courses at past Summits will find a lot of repeat (about 50%) information. Participants are required to have received previous TapRooT® training to attend this course.
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Advanced Trending Techniques
Do you really understand trending? Learn why most people misuse trends and special techniques to trend infrequently occurring accidents, incidents, and human errors. Mark Paradies, (President of SI and co-designer of the TapRooT® System) developed this course after seeing so many inappropriate examples of trending used to make major corporate and regulatory decisions. You'll learn the simple yet powerful techniques to spot real trends and recognize everyday variation. You will also get a complimentary fully working edition of an advanced trending template to use with Microsoft Excel to produce the specialized trending graphs taught in the course.
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TapRooT® Analyzing and Fixing Safety Culture Issues
This course includes:
- A clear definition of safety culture.
- An overview of various safety culture models.
- An organizational culture survey from Human Synergistics International designed to identify your current culture.
- Why it is good business to improve safety culture.
- The relationship between incidents and safety culture.
- The importance of strong safety leadership. What some organizations are doing to strengthen their safety culture.
- What "puzzle pieces" you need to put in place to improve your safety culture.
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Risk Assessment and Management Best Practices
Are you frustrated that the outcomes of current risk assessments being performed in your organization lack consistency, confidence, reliability and accuracy?
Do facilitators and participants of the risk assessments know the most effective methods and tools? Risk Assessments are recognized as definitely needed every time any safety-related decision needs to be made without being confused and undermined by subjective beliefs, biases and risk perceptions.
Learn Best Practices in this course being offered before the Summit (or, if you can't attend a Pre-Summit course this year, this course is also being offered in Houston, Texas and Calgary, Canada in May, 2015).
The course has been continually improved and still covers the core Best Practices to make facilitation and participation in risk assessments as accurate and reliable as possible.
As well, a number of recent improvements include:
- an interactive WORD template that takes the user through the risk assessment process and when completed serves as a diligent entry to your Risk Register;
- new neuroscience-based explanations of variability of individual's risk perceptions and risk-taking; and
- participants receive a USB stick of approx. 2 Gb of course handouts, copies of slides, useful reference materials and sample PPT files accumulated and developed by the Presenter over the last 30+ years of RM consultancy & training.
The presenter is Jim Whiting, international risk management expert and long-time TapRooT® Instructor. Jim was a member of the committee that wrote the international risk management standard ISO 31000, and now the USA Standard ANSI Z690.2 and CAN/CSA/ISO 31000 has enhanced the course for 2015. Jim brings his risk management and root cause analysis experience and best practices from around the world (Australia/New Zealand, North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe) to this course. If you are interested in advancing the quality of your risk assessments, then attend this course.
Course Outline
|Day 1 (8:00am to 5:00pm)
|Day 2 (8:00am to 5:00pm)
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TapRooT® Quality/Six Sigma/Lean Advanced Root Cause Analysis Training
What do you do when process variation and non-valued activity are part of, or in some cases are even created by, your current Quality Improvement System? This course was created to increase the efficiency of your activities by combining the strengths of Six Sigma, Lean and the TapRooT® Process.
See how you can improve your quality system with a "zero quality" perspective that minimizes the impact of "error" and allows the organization to recover quickly without significant impact to your customer.
Fees Include: TapRooT® single user demo software, TapRooT® book, Corrective Action Helper® , Root Cause Dictionary & Laminated Root Cause Tree, Course Workbook.
Who Should Attend: Entry Level and Experienced Experts in Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement, Patient Risk, Auditing, Project Management, Performance Excellence, Business Growth, Customer Service, and Managers who Champion Continuous Improvement.
Overview: There is no doubt that product defects, customer complaints, delays in projects, and failure of your quality system to respond in a timely manner erode financial gains and makes a company more susceptible to losing their customer to the competition. What is in question is what role the Quality System plays in not predicting, creating or not correcting the issues listed in the above statement.
Lean Six Sigma applied with CORRECT FACTS, sponsorship and ownership can reduce process variation and process waste. With this in mind, this course will introduce some of the key components of waste and variation to include:
- Value Streams (No Value and Value Activities included)
- Swim Lanes (Deployment Charts)
- Common Types of Waste
- 6 S (Safety, Sort, Set in Order, Shine, Standardize, Sustain)
- DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control)
- IPO's (Input-Process-Output)
- Sigma and Opportunities
- Mistake Proofing
- Pugh Matrix
The above tools and concepts all provide excellent improvement opportunities when the Quality Champion applies the right facts in a timely manner.
Unfortunately, all the leading Quality Improvement Processes have major weakness in the initial stages of evidence collection. Whether using 8D, PDCA, DMAIC or Lean, brainstorming is a taught as the foundation to developing possible root causes. If the right questions are not asked by the right people with a good understanding of what really happened then you produce:
- Non-valued time spent in re-analyzing the problem
- In-effective corrective actions implemented
- Low morale and lost resources ($$$ and Time)
One of the tools listed in Performance Excellence Steps is to Benchmark World Class Organizations and Processes. Many Fortune 500 companies have answered the weaknesses listed above to ensure that their Safety Departments have the ability to lead their Zero Injury Goals by using TapRooT® Root Cause Analysis (reactively AND proactively). So why not share and combine the Best Practices that have worked in the world of Quality AND Safety?
This is what this 2-Day Course is all about!!
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Getting the Most from Your TapRooT® Software
To get the most from your TapRooT® Enterprise Software you need an administrator who understands all the built in features. They need to know how to:
- Install the software for best performance.
- Set-up custom fields and lists.
- Link the software to other databases.
- Answer users' common questions.
- Explain the basics of using the software.
Dan Verlinde, Director of Information Technology and Software Development and Matt Irving Software Development Project Manager, will teach an intensive review of the TapRooT® Version 5 Web Software system administration. Topics including: installation, configuration, data migration (from Version 4), best practices, and future releases. System Administrators and TapRooT® Super Users will learn all the capabilities built into this amazing software. Don't get just 10-20% from your software investment. Learn the full power of your TapRooT® Software!
Course Guarantee: Attend this course then use the knowledge that you've gained when you return to your facility. If you aren't satisfied that the course helps you perform your job better and that the course will save you much more than the cost of the course fee, just return the books, course materials, and/or software and we will refund your entire course fee. It's that simple. How can we offer such an iron clad, risk free guarantee? We know this course is so good that you won't want to send your materials back! Please bring your laptop to this course (with wireless capabilities, if possible).
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Hazard Recognition
This course focuses on the tried and true methods of hazard recognition including at risk or unsafe behavior, legislation implications, and hazard identification & rectification. The instructor, Peter Berkholz, is a TapRooT® Instructor with over 30 year of mining and industrial experience. The course includes a site visit to the local Caterpillar Franchise on Day#2, where participants have the opportunity to put into practice the theory learnt on Day#1 during a hazard identification exercise.
The course is run to allow participants to learn about different methods of Hazard identification (Day #1) and then apply the learnings through an actual on site hazard identification exercise (Day #2)
Day #1
What are hazards?
Why hazard identification is critical in the workplace.
Duty of care and legislative requirements
- Europe
- Australia
Hazard/barrier, safeguard model
Hazard identification and rectification
Hazard ID and Risk management tools.
- Europe
- Australia
- TapRooT®
Day #2
Site visit at the local Las Vegas Cashman CATERPILLAR Equipment outlet. Where we will inspect selected mobile CAT equipment using various hazard identification documents
Feedback on site visit and the use of Hazard ID tools.
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Proactive Use of TapRooT®
Most people attend a TapRooT® course because they want to do better investigations. But wouldn't it be better if you never had to do the investigations in the first place?
Learn how TapRooT® can be integrated with your existing improvement programs and how to do investigations on processes and trends rather than individual incidents. Also leverage the power of the Root Cause Tree® and Root Cause Tree® Dictionary in not only improving your programs but developing them as well.
Being Proactive
What to measure, and what do you measure now exercise
Collection of information
- Audit programs
- Observations and BBS
- Near Miss
- Hazard reports
Basic Trending
Root Cause Analysis on Trends
Significant Issues
Audit Root Cause Analysis Exercise
TapRooT® Tools
- SnapCharT®
- Root Cause Tree
- Change Analysis
- Safeguards
- Equifactor®
Corrective Actions
The Generic Question
Basic Quality Tools and Continuous Improvement
Final exercise (Continuous Improvement Project Case Study)
NOTE: To attend this course, you must have previously attended a 2, 3, or 5 day TapRooT® course.
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NEW Interviewing & Investigation Basics
There's so much to remember when conducting an investigation … and so much to lose if you don't remember or just don't know where to begin.
- Ever have trouble completing a SnapCharT® because you lacked pieces of information?
- How can you be certain what to collect?
- How can you help witnesses to an incident remember important facts with better accuracy?
- What is an effective sequential structure for conducting an interview?
Knowing how to gather information is critical to an investigation. That's why we've developed a valuable 2-day course to help you navigate evidence collection with ease.
We'll also focus on developing solid interviewing techniques. In this course, you will learn the basic skills of cognitive interviewing, and specific techniques to use. Additionally, attendees will learn how to decode non-verbal communication and "hear" what an interviewee may not be reporting verbally.
We designed TapRooT® to help investigators find unbiased, evidence-based root causes but investigators must be prepared to collect all the evidence available as fast as possible, and to preserve all the evidence that collected. Anything less will make it difficult, if not impossible, to complete the essential SnapCharT®.
Join us to learn critical skills to perform solid investigations.
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NEW Combating Employee Fatigue: A Science-Based, Data Driven Approach For Reducing The Costs, Risks, And Liabilities Of Tired Workers
There is now a global body of scientific evidence that shiftwork in the 24/7 workplace is a high risk, occupational health and safety hazard, and that the develop of Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) has emerged as the internationally accepted "standard" for managing the inherent costs, risks and liabilities of shiftwork. This session will explore the underlying causes and costs of fatigue, review best practices in FRMS design, and illustrate why implementing and maintaining compliance to FRMS "Systems" will provide the next step change in HSEQ for industries as diverse as oil and gas, mining, manufacturing, pipelines, and transportation.
PDC Outline:
Section 1: Understanding the Risks of Fatigue in the Workplace:
- The causes and costs of employee fatigue in 24-hour operations;
- Assessing the risks and costs of fatigue in your company/organization;
- Why Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) have emerged as the international standard for mitigating risk in shiftwork and 24/7 operations.
Section 2: The Five Levels of Defense:
- Defense 1: Staff-workload balance;
- Defense 2: Shift and duty scheduling;
- Defense 3: Employee training, education and communication; *
- Defense 4: Work environment; and
- Defense 5: Individual risk assessment and fatigue analytics.
Section 3: Building Support for FRMS in Your Organization:
- Educating the organizational infrastructure;
- Collaborative design of an FRMS plan and implementation strategy;
- and Definition of roles and responsibilities.
Section 4: Establishing a Continuous FRMS Improvement Process:
- Incident/Near Miss investigation;
- Identifying, collecting and analyzing metrics for FRMS; and
- Periodic review of an FRMS to achieve continuous improvement.
Section 5: Understanding specific methods for handling high hazard jobs:
- Specific methods for coping with extended shiftwork and 24/7 operations, including air traffic controllers, surveillance personnel, hospital and other shift workers; and
- Proven techniques for training workers in 24/7 operations.
Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the program the participants will be able to: 1. Describe the root causes and physiological impacts of excess worker fatigue 2. Assess and quantify manufacturing costs due to excess employee fatigue 3. List general principles and concepts of worker fatigue management, highlighting the ANSI standard on FRMS (Fatigue Risk Management Systems) 4. Formulate ideas for educating organizational infrastructure on mitigating worker fatigue 5. Identify effective methods for addressing worker fatigue, including the concepts and design of an FRMS written action plan 6. Describe concrete methods to effectively help workers cope with the stresses of extended work hours, 24/7 work schedules, and rotating shifts. 7. Define the methods to monitor, measure and control workplace fatigue.
Instructional Methods: This session includes: lectures with PowerPoint presentations to illustrate key points and to facilitate group discussion; class exercises including chronotyping, sleep profiling, and a fatigue causal analysis/data interpretation exercise to illustrate how to identify and track the magnitude and extent of fatigue in your operation as well as the effectiveness of your FRMS. Interactive group discussions and examples are used to illustrate applications for 24/7 workers, and a group participation test will be administered at the conclusion of the program to serve as a final review to ensure full comprehension.
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NEW Understanding and Stopping Human Error
Humans are often considered the weakest link in the industrial or occupational system. We are often blamed when something goes wrong in the system. However, we are also one of the most valuable links in the system if one considers our adaptability, flexibility, tolerance for inadequate feedback, and less than optimum working conditions, and our ability to compensate for wrong or inadequate instructions and expectations. Because we are so flexible, adaptable, tolerant and capable of the use of judgment and experience, we are in fact, a blessing and a curse. The curse means we can make decisions and take actions that the system cannot tolerate. While we may claim to have a goal of zero injuries or incidents, we will never have zero errors. Human error is inevitable unless we want to somehow constrain that judgment, flexibility, adaptability and tolerance. So, our goal is to understand human error, how humans operate….what our capacities, constraints and needs are so that we can maximize performance and minimize errors.
This course is built around the goal of helping us better understand human errors (analysis, prediction and categorization) and why we make them. More importantly, the course will cover solutions to assist attendees in their quest to minimize errors and resulting impact in their own facilities. The tools that will be discussed can be used in conjunction with your TapRooT® findings and can be incorporated as corrective actions as determined by your root cause analysis findings.
There will be plenty of hands-on exercises included in the two-day course. To make the course more interesting, please bring an unsolved application (error case) from your operations and we'll try to dissect and solve it during the course.
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Lexington Police asking the public to speak out
Posted: 07/13/2010 - People will have two opportunities to share their opinions about Lexington Police.
Posted: 07/13/2010 - People will have two opportunities to share their opinions about Lexington Police.
Updated: 07/13/2010 - A spokesperson says Steinbrenner had a heart attack Tuesday morning. He was 80 years old.
Posted: 07/13/2010 - Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul said poor Americans are better off the rest of the world's poor
Posted: 07/13/2010 - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jack Conway raised money in Canada over the weekend
Posted: 07/13/2010 - A tree has fallen onto a tree-trimming service worker in northern Kentucky, killing him.
Updated: 07/14/2010 - Southland Christian Church plans to buy the site of the old Lexington Mall on Richmond Road. Church officials met with the public and answered questions Tuesday night about what they plan to do with the property.
Updated: 07/13/2010 - Arlen and Darlene Castle were arraigned in Boyle County Tuesday morning. They're charged in connection with a robbery last week at a Cash Advance.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - The YMCA is now known officially as just "the Y."
Updated: 07/12/2010 - John and Lavada Rowland were starting a new church in Lincoln County when they were killed in a crash Friday. Their son, Joel, wants to follow in his father's footsteps as a pastor.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - Court records show that Brett Whittaker has been charged with DUI and other alcohol related offenses. Police say toxicology tests are pending on the Friday night crash.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - Nathan Pierce hasn't been seen since last Sunday, when police say he left the Scott County Detention Center, while doing some work outside the building. This incident could lead to some big changes into how much trust jail officials give inmates.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - Derek Capozzi speaks exclusively with 27 NEWSFIRST about how he managed to break out of a inmate transfer van in April and keep police searching for him for three days.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - A somber goodbye to basketball great Melvin Turpin today.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - It's a chance to see some cool cars and help some of the state's most vunerable citizens.
Posted: 07/12/2010 - Two of the first round games will match the lowest seeded teams, while the other two games will include the last four at-large qualifiers.
Posted: 07/12/2010 - Sypher is accused of trying to extort millions of dollars from University of Louisville Basketball Coach Rick Pitino and lying to the FBI.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - Earlier, police had said 6 people were killed, but later admitted officers had miscounted at the scene.
Posted: 07/12/2010 - John and Lavada Rowland will be remembered this week in services at the Crestview Holy Sanctuary in Berea.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - The new facility includes three different centers for children, adults, and level 1 trauma cases.
Posted: 07/12/2010 - Investigators say 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, who's from the United States, will face a "litany" of charges.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - 45-year-old Marvin Goodman was arrested in the early hours of Sunday after a woman claims he assaulted her, while two men say he also robbed them. This isn't the first time Danville Police say they've dealt with Goodman in the last couple of years.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - Police say both vehicles went over an embankment after the crash, which happened Monday morning on the Hal Rogers Parkway in Clay County.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - Testimony was supposed to begin in Toby Lasure's trial Monday morning. His attorney told the judge she had to step down due to ethical reasons.
Updated: 07/12/2010 - The LIHEAP Summer Cooling program will provide eligible low-income households with up to $175 to be used toward their electric bill.
Posted: 07/12/2010 - Researchers drew samples from the river in 22 locations between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Paducah.


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Wood completes training
Bill Wood, Eudora, graduated from the Kansas Agriculture and Rural Leadership program during a ceremony April 21 in Salina.
During the two-year training period, 30 Kansans attended seminars across the state, in Washington, D.C., and in Ghana, West Africa. The training included such topics as public speaking, writing, facilitation and analytical skills.
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"Giant River Otter" Tambopata Things to Do Tip by jadedmuse
Tambopata Things to Do: 3 reviews and 2 photos
We took an excursion to a nearby lake where indigenous giant river otter supposedly live. I don't know if it was the time of year that we went or what, but we never saw any otter, giant or otherwise! In fact, I didn't really didn't see much of anything during the 2 hour boat-float...the biggest thrill was observing a family of bats resting on a tree at the river's edge, and a flock of parrots flapping around the trees overhead. To be honest, I don't even know what a giant river otter looks like, so this one might be worth studying before you decide to go on this particular excursion vs. another one that might be offered at the same time. There are usually several different programs going on simultaneously, so there's always a rotation of activity from which to choose.
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2002 Jeep Wrangler • 121,000 miles
Code reads no apart #1 cyl. What will fix it ihave replaced coil pk and spark plugs
February 15, 2013.
February 15, 2013.
Have you checked to make sure you are getting good spark to that cylinder? Have you checked compression in that cylinder?
Feb 15, 2013.
Feb 15, 2013.
If the code was po301, did you visually check for spark at the spark plugs? Also, check fuel injector. To check for spark, where applicable, you pull a spark plug wire loose, use a spark tester in the plug boot, adjust the gap on the tester, ground tester to metal part of engine. Have helper crank the engine, watch for spark at the tester gap. Your local autostore has spark testers. You can use a known good spark plug for the tester, break the ground electrode off, the spark should be strong enough to jump the gap.
Any driveability issues or just a code?
Any driveability issues or just a code?
Hey jacobandnickolas, I finally got over 10,000 posts. Didn't think I would live long enough to get there. Took me long enough. The site ought to give me an, "ataboy" or something. Lol
Have a good day
Have a good day
Congrats JDL. Next stop 100K.
You never know. I will be out again for surgery later this year. That is your chance. Lol I have been trying to catch raz for a couple years.
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Exclusive: As an author, F. Scott Fitzgerald was a master of subtlety in his characterizations and his style, not exactly the strengths of modern Hollywood, as is painfully apparent in the latest big-budget, 3-D adaptation of The Great Gatsby, as Jim DiEugenio explains.
The Lost 'Trifecta of Scandals'
From CNN to the Washington Post, the mainstream news media is abuzz about "the trifecta of scandals" besetting the Obama administration, a narrative that fails to assess the actual significance of the three "scandals." They don't measure up to the many important scandals that the media neglects, says Beverly Bandler.
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Resting Place
The release of the new movie adaptation of The Great Gatsby has renewed interest in the troubled life and early death of author F. Scott Fitzgerald. There's also the question of how much he was paid for his materwork and the issue of his controversial burial, as Michael Winship recalls.
Bearing Witness to Justice
Jesus's social teachings and America's founding ideals had common threads, particularly rejection of tyrannical rulers and promotion of the general welfare. But the Israelite society of Jesus's day, like America today, had lost connection to its ethical roots, writes Rev. Howard Bess.
Obama's Sub-Prime Conflict
From the Archive: President Obama has nominated Hyatt Hotels heiress Penny Pritzker to be the next Commerce Secretary. Pritzker, also a major fundraiser for Obama's two presidential campaigns, faced controversy because of her role in the sub-prime mortgage disaster, as Dennis J. Bernstein reported in 2008.
The Special-Interest Congress
Special interests with lots of money continue to be heard in Congress; the average citizen not so much. Thus, corporate tax breaks are protected while programs to help people and build the country are cut, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship explain.
It's the Media, Stupid!
Exclusive: Rich right-wingers, including the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, are eying the purchase of the Los Angeles Times and other major regional newspapers to create an even bigger platform for their propaganda, a media strategy that dates back several decades, as Robert Parry explains.
America's Locked-Down Insecurity State
Emerging evidence from the Boston Marathon bombings suggests the brutal attack on innocent civilians was motivated by the fury of two brothers against overseas crimes of the U.S. government. In that, the martial-law lockdown of Boston may be a glimpse at the future to come, says Phil Rockstroh.
The Bad Math Behind Austerity
In recent years, the Republican obsession with slashing the federal budget even at a time of high unemployment rested on the intellectual foundation of a study purporting to prove that government debt strangled economic growth. But that foundation crumbled when a computation error was revealed, as Beverly Bandler explains.
Almost Flunking on Global Warming
Focusing on issues like terrorism and austerity, the world has slid back toward neglecting the slow-grinding existential threat of global warming. A report card by an Establishment think tank offers poor grades on some of the most important subjects, reports ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar.


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UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER is supporting two summer courses at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary this July. The application deadline for both courses is 15 March 2015.
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Satellite technology allows to assess the quality of water on Earth through the visualization of pollution levels otherwise invisible to the human eye, as a recent study shows.
In early June this year, Hungary, along with Austria and Germany, was facing the largest-ever flood of the Danube.
In early June 2013, widespread flooding in central Europe has inundated swathes of Austria, Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, killing at least 15 people.
ESA's SMOS satellite captured the extremely high soil moisture levels monitored previous to the floods on 31 May and 2 June 2013.
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A scientific workshop about finishing the project "Establishment of an environmental monitoring and remote sensing laboratory at Károly Róbert University College" was held at the College at the end of 2012. This new laboratory provides an excellent opportunity for students to get information about the most recent Remote Sensing technologies and methods.
In cooperation with Galileo Group, UN-SPIDER's Regional Support Office in Hungary, the Karoly Robert University College, participated in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) flight operations and hyperspectral data collections for a NASA sponsored project to m
UN-SPIDER's Hungarian RSO, the Károly Róbert College, was the winner of the Hungarian national competition "Digital Hungarian Maps 2011".
On 7 February 2012, during the Forty-ninth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), UN-SPIDER and the Karoly Robert University of Hungary signed the cooperation agreement to incorporate the Research Institute of Remote Sensing (RIRS) of the Faculty of Natural Resources Management and Rural Development in Gyongyos, Hungary, as the newest Regional Support Office of the UN-SPIDER Programme.
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Photos: Our 'Best in Texas' college football poll: A&M still tops; TCU jumps Texas; how high did SMU jump after upset?
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3. Texas — 87: Johnathan Gray led the team with only 47 rushing yards. When Texas' running game is off, the team will struggle. – Josh Friemel, Baylor blogger
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